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COLOMBIA COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Canty Offleera,
Jodie ,
Clerk
Sheriff
Treasurer..
upt. of Schools. .
Surveyor
Ootht
Oosualaeloaats j '
...Joeepn B. Do, Rainier
.....Jutuon weed, vernoma
J. N. Mr. Claukau e
..X. M. Wnarton St. Helena
, J. 0. Watte, Bcappooee
Martin White, Qulucy
W. N. Meaerre, Helena
.Dr. A. P. McLaren. Rainier
.....P. A. Frakee, Scappojae
..n, u. retereou, suet
T. BELENS, wBEeO". '. 19,
0 inspiring (act about the repub
lic!, party is that it never yet took
hold of the government finances with
out iroprovinf them by wise regula
tion! and ample revenue.
SiHaTOK Dbtvck spoke the truth
when be taid "there it no differenee
between the holding up of a train and
robbing it and holding opalegiila-
tore and robbing the taxpayers."
Wbmm three or four selfish political
rogues and thirty or forty fools get to
gether in a legislature, the people may
expect to be ill-served. Whether this
remark- applies to the situation at
Salem each reader ean judge for him-
self. '
Tbi proceedings which have been
going on at Salem all these weeks
nothing short of a revolution, and
strikes at the very foundation oi gov
ernraent. If a minority can block tht
wheels of a state government they can
do the same with the national con
great, and who knows where such
precedent as that enacted by the revo
lutionists at Salem will end. It
nothing more nor leas than a band of
reckless adventurers holding np the
psople and " robbing them in broad
daylight. By carefully prepared fig
urea it is estimated that a failure to
organise the legislature will cost the
state 810,000.
Thb two weeks which Speaker Beed
and the other republican leaders of
the boast say is time enough for talk
on the new tariff bill seem short, and
yet intelligent discussion ean do much
in that time. The tariff is an old
question, and it is pretty well under
stood in its chief (eat area by many
democrats as well as republican con
gressmen. Bpeed is aa important
consideration in the treatment of the
tariff bill. It should be pat on the
stetats book at the earliest practicable
moment, in order to allow the indus
tries affected by it to adjust them
selves to it as soon as possible. Much
of the talk on great measures in con
greet is irrelevant, and is thus obstruct
ive in effect even when not intention
fly so. The speeches on the present
oecesion should all be short and
pointed. Unhappily, though this re
quirement can be enforced in a reason
able degree in the house, it can easily
be disregarded by the tenste.
Thb Review says that Senator Pat
terson "thought he was writing a pri
vate, confidential letter to a friend,
and not a communication to be pub
lished, etc." Nothing could be further
from the facts. Mr. Patterson was
informed of the fact that the people
of this county wished to know where
he stood upon many of the questions
embodied in the resolutions unani
mously adopted by the county con
vention, and that many men had de
clared they would not support him
unless he would abide by those reso
lutions. They demanded to know of
Mr. Patterson before baud what he
would do if elected, and the letter pub
lished in Thb Mist was written as a
guaranty to those people that be
would attempt to carry out their
wishes. It was sent here to be used
to farther Patterson's chances of elee
tlon, and upon the strength of that
letter Tbi Mist assured its readers of
ths candidate's good faith. The letter
was in no sense s confidential one
and was not so coniidered, for if so
bow could it have advanced the inter
ests of the candidate, for which pur
pose it wss intended? About sll there
is to a man is his word, and wbsn he
repudiates bis own handwriting hit
manhood has certainly depreciated.
BBSS ASS SOME FIGURES.
Salem Statesman : As the populists
are such great fellows to figure, the
following table of figures is compiled
from official figures in the office of the
secretary of state. They are taken
from the original tsi rolls of the sev
eral counties and show the total
amonnt of property on which seven
teen populists, including the three
nnion-bituetallio members-elect of the
legislature, pay taxes. Wlij should
these men who are holding np the
legislature care whether tares sre high
orlowf A failure of this legislature
to do its duty would throw sn expense
equal to six mills on every dollar of
the state's taxable property on the
people of ths state. But six mills
mors or less is nothing to them. Six
hundred mills would have no effect ou
them. Here are the figures represent
Ing the total taxable property of ths
members named for ths year 1897 on
the assessment made during 1896:
H. U. Berkley, Marlon tu.OOO
Thomas Bucknisn, Coot 225
0. B. Duatin, Grant 200
O.C. Emery, Yamhill................ JUO
John Gill, Yamhill 0,000
H. O. Guild, Yamhill 900
J.J. How.er, Jackson................ 0,000
John Whittker, Benton 300
I, H. Kruae, Clackamas.... 0,000
J. W. McAlister, Union... 0,000
T. M. Hunkers. Linn 865
G. F. Sshmidtlein, Jackson 1,747
J. 8. Smith. Linn , 330
N. J. Svlndseth, Clatsop 0,000
D. W. Yoakum, Baker 750
George Ogle. Clackamas.. 40
Total.. ......14.987
Here we have seventeen men paying
taxes annually oa an average assess-
ment of $293.35 each. In other words,
for ths support of ths state, county
and city governments and for schools,
roads, etc., these seventeen men esch
year pay a total tax of 1124.67, or an
average of S7.33 each. Is it any won
der these men should hold up legisla
tion, thereby piling op tens upon
hundreds of thousands of dollars of
expense to be paid by the people?
WEISS BESP0NS1BIUTT BESTS.
Wbsn people writs falsehoods for
the pnblio prints they, ss a rule, pre
fer not to sign their real name. This
was the esse with the person who
signed "Minnie Haha" to an article in
the News last week. Too cowardly to
make himself known, he seeks to dis
grace the fair name of that pure and
noble historio maid of the forest, Min
nie Haha, by attaching her name to s
batch of falsehoods, and among other
things, says : "Out of the sixty mem
bers of the lower house, forty-four are
republicans." '
The above statement is either willful
snd malicious or the result of ignor
ance, for the republicans have not 44
or even 40 members of the house, and
consequently have not a quorum. The
table as compiled by the secretary of
state, which is official, a copy of which
before us, shows the house to be
made np as follows: Bepublicana, 38
(including Barkley); onion-bimetallic,
3 ; democrats, 4 ; populists, 15. Of this
number, Barkley, who is recorded as a
republican, deserted that party severs!
months ago and stumped the stats for
the populist national ticket, so that
in fact the republicans have but 37
aid the populists 16 members of the
bouse. Thus it will be seen that the
republicans are three short of the con
stitutional quorum of two-thirds.
"Minnie Haha" goes on to ssy that
"The populist members are neither
under moral or legal obligation to
lake np the quarrel in the interest of
either crowd, to the prejudice of the
other."
The above js very trne, yet that is
jnst what they have done, to the det
riment of the state. Tbey are, how
ever, under "moral and legal obliga
tion" to be in their seats st roll call
ready to proceed ' with -legislation,
which they have at all timet refused
to do. Tbey are not required or ex
pected to take np the quarrel of any
faction; but they are expected to take
the oath of office (which they have not
yet done) and enter upon their duties
as legislators. In conclusion we wish
to emphasize the fact that the entire
republican strength is less than a
quorum, and that there has been no
time since the beginning of the session
that the populists could not have
jompleted the organization of the
house by having themselves recorded
present On them, snd them slone,
must rest the burden of the blame.
having spent in his unsuccessful raos
lor the eenatorthtp. One admission
of his sounds quits comical When
asked if he had paid f 500 to a certain
representative, he replied that be had
not, but one of his campaign managers
bad. Asked what for, he said that's
what he'd like to know I the fellow
who got the money was now making a
tour of California. Squire further
testified that a leading populist had
promised to deliver him a pool of 20
populist votes for 15000.
A FATAL- FAILURE.
CoxuatsiA Citv, Feb. 16, 1807,
Ma. Kntroa: No political lailare eeuld
have been of more potent evil to that class
or ths peODle of Oregon, than hat devolved
at Salem by the Inaction of ths legislature
(or the hut month in net onraniainc. and
on the firat day of election re-elected Hon.
John H. Mitchell to lbs United SUtet sen
ate, fur ths reason that he bas had exper
ience in Washington for nearly a quarter
of a century, and further, he has always
proven himtelt to be one of the faithful
and able men of this country. Along with
Mr. Dolph, few in the senate ware regarded
as superior or mors successful to securing
appropriations for their respective states
than they were.
Mo one will say that Senator Mitchell has
not proven himtelt a faithful servant
Then, why should we, at this critical junct
ure discard a faithful servant Just to ap
pease Bcott's personal disliks, for a sup
posed injury merely, or pander to Simon's
personal political ambition evidently.
There is no logical or good reason for such
diabolical procedure. Never since the
children of Israel refuted the good offices
of Hoses, or the Jews crucified Christ, or
spurned the love of our Washington, bas so
bad faith been shown as is now on exhibi
tion by one misrepresentativee and hold
uppers at Salem. We, as voicing ths con
victions or the country people, put in our
protest against those with a ring In their
note, (as it were), led to the slaughter
house. If a man hat no moral individu
ality in this world, then he bas nothing
above and beyond everything else. One
should not surrender their manhood to a
pretender. If done it only shows lack of
intelligent design ia ail nature and is an
evidence of integration.
If we could support our actios! by evi
dence er facta, very well, or show a truer
way or acknowledge our incapacity. Any
thing we aright ssy or do is better than in
action. We see words are Impotent to
wire the problem. Well, as to the final
termination of this jingoism, ws will have
to appeal to chance or accident, not wisdom.
MATGER ITEMS.
J. W. Bo als made a trip to Portland last
Saturday.
Born To the wife of Jesse Sanborn, a
10-pound daughter.
. II. Boala made a business trip to
Rainier lest Friday.
8. K. Hudson, of Hudson, was visiting at
, W. Boats' this week.
Chester Metcalf, of Oak Point, is swamp
ing for Frank LUlard of this place.
Mrs. Johnson, of Portland, has taken the
piece of Mary Burgess st J. W. Boahv
Mrs. Mary Burgess and daughter, of this
place, returned to Portland last Monday.
Mrs. Michael Amato, who was sent to
the hospital last week, we hear is recover
ing.
Ben Smith, engineer in Dnzsn's shingle
mill at Kyser, wss seen in this vicinity last
week.
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