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THE WEST SIDE.'"'0 ihe ul.1trew in i. R, I. KU, ICHOR. -IWKO V- West Side Publishing Company SUBSCRIPTION RATES. CAVAHI K IN AUVANIH. On Ymf ..... P.tX Hlx M.Mitli !. Ttirva kinuth. J) All IMWf ' rtWIth milll llOt XOfll tn (lv lliti will lx tnrrtsl fVw. All vr flvttiiK will b i'hlv l (lv vl T lino. H.vl.l.t itlnttiarv mmliuluit. will li flmrxvj Um- i th rU' .li Av wiiu Hr Una. Ail tni t i.iitumU'tl.ii flir iulillKlln U T Wwrr Hie, ami mii nil wmHtmia payahU Ui ll IVlavvmmj l'ulill.lilim ttu. patty, Htltv. at Ilia INwUim In IiuWvti euii, Ontpm, a MAiutliw matt., fuuuy, Ai ursT a, ism DEMOCRATICjriCKET, For l'riwldoiit, CiROVKR CLKVKI.AND, Of New York. For Vloe Ptvaldout, A. K. PTKVF.NSOX, Ol IllUml. For l'rellenMtU F.Uvtow, W. M. Oilvljr, of Jurkx.ni. (loo. K. Nlil, f CIhIi. Holxrt A. Miller, ol Jnokiii. W. F. HulotiiT, of linker. Sixok liitfli Uxors are tryiug lo couviiu the country that thtw Iw the uVlithtful time of owiH'rity, lotlhom explain luuv it lmppens that the Northwest litut fuilwl to jjot its shni-e. "A nieu iue created equal," savstlie IHwltiration of ImlejHUitl- euce, Rut someway it ends there w ith most people now a days, for immediately after the creating pro- they are not considered equal by any manner of means. Jons J. 1st! vi.i.s's new version of the lines, "The land of 4li frtM and the home of the brave," is In coming quite popular, John puts it, "The land of the rich and the home of the slave." By the way, Injjalls is a good Republican. Tue SUiltmmiH is anxious far the Independence and Monmouth motor line to be extended to Salem, and Bays the people 'of that city would very materially assist the enter prise. Make a note of this, gentle men, and let 'a build that road. It would be A great thiag for the towu. Ik some kind-hearted Uepublican would itoiut out the coiwistoncy of building Jetties, and in every possti ble way improving our harto - as to m commerce in, wutie ai mo . . . , 1 M ... .1 . same time we pass tariff laws and build custom houses and man reve nne cutters to keep commerce out, we woujd be truly thankful. To ixdtcb men to think is the idea. We must get out of the habit of only looking at things from one standpoint Let us reason togeth er. and hear what others have to say. lieeause for generations w have been taught to believe that this or that is true or right, does not make it so. The Aristotelian philosophy was accepted as correct the world over, until Galileo proved it to to without foundation There can to no progress if all men believe as did their fathers before them. Here is a stubborn fact, fan anv Ki'Dublican answer it! In round nnmtors the Homestead management paid out monthly for wages fJO'J.OOO to asm) workmen The average monthly wHires are exactly $53.15 and a small fraction of a cent over. Now if some work men received much more than the above average amount, the cor re sponding ratio of decrease, inevit ably follow.and the irresistible con elusion is that some workmen get less than .'). 15 per month wages, Will our 'Republican friends tell the whole truth concerning the wages paid at the Homestead mills We pause for a reply. TirK state election held in Ala bama last Monday was overwhelm ingly Democratic, legislature ami all. The fusion ticket did not cut the figure io the Democratic votes that was so longingly desired by the Republican press, Stnmgo that either the associated prcs.su, or a few papers that pretend to give the news in a disinterested way, had nothing concerning the. election in the great state of Alabama except a little note. But when a little obscure state like Rhode Island went Republican the Ongonian and other papers bad head lines one fourth of the way down the column. Some papers give the news faith fully indeed. Rkcently several hundred men in Pennsylvania were obliged to live on roots and wild berries for some daysjn order to keep from starving. At about the same time the Carnegie company tried to re duce wages because "over produc tion had reduced the price of steel," For the same reason the price of cotton, wheat, corn, wool, and al most everything else we use is de creasing, Before there can bo over production it appears to us that everyone must have everything necessary to comfort. How many of our readers would not get a new suit of clothes, or a new carpet, or a carriage, or furniture, or, now books, or build a belter house, or buy better farm machinery, or pat- ' V. tiuniHiMul dinereut ways, li they luul th money to do It wit It. Tlieu why talk of over production! XA J'VKA 1. OPWJirCXlTtK&, Several of our mider,' Itaitub beans as well us IHunwrutM, were not quite suiti of our induing lu the pantgmph rvferriug to ''natural opportunities" lu lust week's paper. Natural opportunities in clude everything in nature which will in auy way promot the com fort and happiness of human beluga. The earth is a vast storehouse, from which we trtke the things necessary to keep life in our bodies. There can tie no life without access to land. Now while the product of the saver mine are not, strictly speaking, essential to life, yet silver is a great couveuicn oe,aud its rarity and properties give it a value lieyoud that of many other metals. Mines are "natural opportunities' because they are uot created ortitt cially. So is any piece of ground natunvl opportunity. All that we claim is that for the privilege of using these natural opportunities to the exclusion of all others, those who use them should bo made, to pay the rest of the people a fair proportion of the profits, lu this way it would to impossible for any' one to keep laud out of use, for they would to obliged to pay the rest of the ihho1o the rental value of the land or mine whether they used it or uot, and It would hardly pay them to let it stand idle if they were taxed its full rental value coo year. All we wish for the Idaho mine is that the owner to forced to pay the state the full rental value of the mines each year. Ami this should to the case with all natural opportunities. It is clear that all cannot work silver mines, for there are not enouuh of them. It is equally clear that the owners of gtMst mine can make more money ( ban can to made in most auy other way. Now natural opisir (unities ought to tolotig to all alike, ami that all may get their proportion of the benefits, we pro pose to take the annual rental value for the benefit of the com inn uity. This fund would to ample to meet all expeusosofgoveniiueut and would leave us free to take all taxes off from personal property and from all forms of industry, nro OJ1JKCT UZSOXS. Most txxmle can rememtor when (.liui(.e ,Jfor1, a..0llnML When I ' the high tariff tax on it was re moved it was, selling for from 0 to f I an ounce. Now it sells at Ironi forty wuts to fifty couts an ounce retail. For ten cents a much qui uine can be bought now as was sold for 1 1 under Republican tax The "'protective" price of quinine at retail was .1,000 per ceut (ten times) higher than the present price under free trade. In the case of sugar, as in that of quiuiue, the reduction in the retail price has followed at once after the removal of the tax on the wholesale trade. The iucre.iso on the dollar's worth of sugar at re- taif is a notable one, but the price of sugar is still higher than would be were trudo in tablo sujar as free as it is in raw sugar. The tax of $10 a ton against the itnpor tation of table sugar has not pre scntcd a remarkable fall in price as a result of free trade in raw sugar. It is not liigu enoiign to allow the sugar trust to restore prices to the old limit and hold them 't here, but prevents the accu mulntion of foreign stocks . in the market. If there were no tax to keep out foreign tablo sugar, the cheapening of sugar would be as great as the cheapening of quiulno. The effect of a tax on trade In any article, no matter bow small the tax, is to increase the price of the article. If the trade in clothing were put on the same basis as the trade in sugar, the effects would to 'he same, A dollar would then buy what it takes at least $1.50 to buy now. With such object lessons as these, all must see the effect of high tar I II on trade. THE, SINGLE TAX. Comparatively few people know what the single tax on laud values is. The best answer is, It is simple justice, Single taxers do not bo lieve in taxing industry so long as sufficient amount of money to defray the expenses of government cin to raised from any other source, It is plain that a tax on industry- that is, labor tends to enhance' the price of everything taxed, and just in proportion as the price increases so , win consumption uocrease. Now if consumption decreases, the number of men employed will inevitably be less, and as fewer men find work, wages will go down, No one can gainsay so self-evident a proposition. Now land has a value that is due solely to the pros- sure ot population. As population increases so laud values grow. Until two men want the same pioce of land, it has no value; when two or more men want it, its value is measured by what it will produce when put to its best use. A farm in one of our remote mountain val- eyswill produce as much, other things being equal, as one that, adjoins this city, but its value is not so great, lieeause of the Increased cost or getting the crops to market nuUtdy, And lu some degree to the Inherent dislike of human beluga to tir In isolated place. Take the people away from hero and the land that is worth from $75 to f 100 per nor will be worth nothing. Then, as land is given Its value by alt the people, Its value should belong to all of them, and all taxes should to laid ott the value of the tore land, exclusive of improve menu of every kind. This would reduce tuxes in the country to a very low figure, and lu the larger cities naturally increase them. For Instance, a farm worth $50 an acre would probably in its wild state only to worth $-0 or $-5, or cveu loss. It Is the value of the wild land that we would tax, and i man's foiioos, houses, machinery, stock, household goods, etc., should not to taxed at all. The man who Improves his property uow is looked upou as a public enemy, It would seem, for at once up go his taxes, while he who uses bis laud aa a thistle patch Is regarded as a public toucfactor, and his taxes are only nominal. Our plan Is to reverse all this. We would do away with all these taxes on a mau's in dustry, and only tax that value which by right belong to the whole people, because it Is solely to their presence that it is due. Several Southern stutcs have exempted manufacturing industries from tax at ion for a term of yearn, and the result has been a phenomenal in crease In the number of factories. Thiuk what an iucreose woubl result if their products were for ever to remain untaxed, and thiuk, also, what great tonctlts Would to derive!, not only lu putting men to work, but In cheaper goods. WAGES AT IIOMKSTEA P, The OrrjosMis and the "me too" high-protection sheets throughout the country keep up their rldicu Ions stateiueuts stout $5 to $10 per day wages at Homestead These being highly protected lu dustrios, they seek to show the ton eflt of high tariff to the working men. r.veryone Knows, However, that no such wage are paid there, Mr. J. D. I n man, of this city, who recently came from Uie Fist, ana was tor a uumlier of years employed in the iron and steel works at Reaver Falls, Fa,, thirty miles from Pittsburgh, says "state menta that such wage as are men tionod above are paid, are toyond all reason. Workmen are paid at certain rates per ton of produtit, and rollers and puddlers, who are the best and highest paid men in the shops, only average $-S0 p r mouth. From these the pric s range down to the "brogan" work, which is doue by foreigner-!, most ly Bohemians, at ninety cents per day." Mr. Iuman is a life long Rcpub lican, but his cxijcricuce has proven to him that the tariff af fords no protection to the work- ingmau. The manufacturer is the only party protected or benefited thereby. There being uothing to prevent foreign lalwrers from com ing iu by the thousands, tluse are brought indirect competition with American labor, reducing labor to the starvation point Then just before the election day comes round the employers go through the shops talking of dull trade, and finally saying to the workmen, "it all depends on you whether we close the shops or not." By this means the men are bulldozed into voting for high tariff. llimburg JinHetc. XO IXEAXTllE XOXSEXSE, It is creditable to Mr. Cleve land that ho wishes to keep his wife and baby out of this canvass. He never wrote better letters than those touching on these two sub jects, and his position licsides being right will gain him instead of losing him votes. The "Baby McKce" nonsense has prejudiced thousands of voters against Presi dent Harrison. Hkkk is a budget of Mr. Richard Croker's views expressed to the Tammany committee of twenty- four: "Cleveland Is going to carry the country, and it won't do for us to lose this state. We have got to win." "I am convinced that Mr. Cleveland is stronger with the people than Mr. Hill would have A GRAND EXCURSION TO YflOUIfJfl FROM INDEPENDENCE V and return. Leaves Independence urday at 11.13 a.m., and returns on Monday, at 1149 p.m. ROUND TRIP, $3.25 Let Everybody Go. been." "I am convinced that Cleveland can carry the sialo by a larger majority than any presi dential candidate In a generation." Mr. Ilourke Cock ran Is assuring his congressional colleague that New York will give Mr. Clove laud T5, 000 majority, while Colonel Fellows la confident that it will uot to bus than f 0,(mh), Tammany Is nil right and Kcw York Is a pemocratlo state. Whim Boss Quay got to New York he failed to put up his $10,000 on Haul on when he found a Cleveland backer with $10,000 ready to put against It i tit. FuitTT years ago farmers owned five eighths of the nation's wealth. Thauksto the "protective" tariff they uow own less than ouctlflli. hi in i mi ii m . "TUK tost ending possible" will to the popular verdict In the Wib sou matter. He hanged himself, which Is probably the only good thing he ever did. Whkn the American tariff was at its lowest point, our merchant marine was the greatest in the world. Now that we have a high tariff, our shipping is all doue in Kuglish shlis. I. u ' '"I Tiik Fugllsh and tlerman hop crop is a failure, and as a conse quence higher prices are pre dicted for American bops this your. Whether or not the price of lioer will advance correspondingly Is uot stated. ItKCAt'HK Private lams . said "Hurrah for the assassin," lie was uot only barbarously mulshed but is also debarred front till the rights ofaeitUcu. He can now neither vote nor hold office iu Pennsyl vania. Young Americans will thiuk twice tofore they voluuta rlly Join an organisation lu which such extreme punishments ere inflicted for such trivial olleiim, IT PAYS T m rautktua In Um tlioli of iwnli eliio, M.tijr rt lnjurwl I7 Uyliin ti firrlWllllU llb rotnMitltll UHitlltIg Id Im IiIihkI iuHlWt, ti JirllH'lil MMHinuitfinJaiiua uf UU-b would rin to bo tlwlr 'VhcinoM.H Jlrinit liixlo up ol worlliloM, ihuuuli imt nlw) liiumlnw, lin;ri,l.ut, liny uf II 1 "i'hnp;" but, in Um d, llrojf ro U.r. Tb itt rvllnlila nttttlU'luv urn rtwtlj-, nail run Im rvtaitatt l mwl urate prlroa, only tirn lh niiiu( iur Inj rtwitiUt tmnilla Ilia raw intrrUl Is larga ijuaoUllc. It I (M.unutujr, Hie rj(ut, , . To Use O . A Tuft arutt,'ltu. lb ruluablc atniunM at whwh an imported, bule, bf Ihs J. C. A jcr Co. from Uin rrKimn ahrra Mm artiekt an rtrhott lu ailk-iul prrrtiM, "It It a wonVr lo in thai aiijr elhvr Uuut Atn Soiuialla hu a Iw In lli avtrkvl. It poi'l'l iHHuullsil Itirir autt lu IvrMt, Xh'J uW RuTi-r UM anyollmf i lif It ! nut only lb btit, but, on uunt i'l lu Mrenuiil iiwtgta and uitir. It Ii thn MtMl tHwaHailral." Jutum If. I'tidj, I'tuj. gl.l, W'Ablntou it., l'tuUruri. H. 1. ir. A. I. Almond, lniKtl, I.lbtrly, V . rtirti "IX4JIHI ti)rltant In tlili clly pIVMrltM Ayer's Bartaparllla. I tit auld It fur iijlilwii Iar, and li Iho lilhrt rrgard lur lu ilMlInf UJlltlr." "Alltiouth Ui lurmula U known to tin) btulti, there can b na hiipwuIiiI UnlUtlon ol Aypfi SrHiwUi. Wltlwul having lli tnorinoua tarliaicat Um J. C. Aft Co., It It Innowibla lor other partlr t (ul tngnlhrr tuch valuabl Initcdivuu, at the low coil ol Ayefi Sarsaparilla tt ibuutt at Um bv4 o( all tlmllAr r'vl'' ttmu." Murk A. Junot, no yrt iiru(gll, W Cainbrlilo tt., K Cambrlilca, Mm. ram-AMD r Dr. J. C. AYER & CO., Lowell, Miss. Hold bjr all tlrul. I'riM SI j tli buUU..l. W. TAYLOR, GENERAL JOBBER. I do irnrdcnimr and house clean inc. and make a specially of clean Inir and layintr cariM-ls, window eanltig, whitewashing, etc. Leave orders at AV. "O. Cook's furniture store, Independence, Or. EUGENE. Nest aeminn txKinR on Monthly, the luin nay or istHHomber, isir.'. Tuition fne. Four (vnirmw: oIiihkiphI, aoiPiitiflo, lit ernrjr, unci a niiort iMigumi (Hiiinte, in which there is no LhImi, (truck, Kminh nor (IcrmHD. Too Kuulisli la iiro-emt urnitly a tmnineHH nomne. i'oi riililiiKiii's or otuur lurormiUKiu, iiilclrcnH, J, W. Johnson, rreniil(!ii(. to-morrow--Sat lams bus sued (ieucral Hnowdeii, Colonel Hawkins, and Colonel Htreutor, for $10,000. WlHUt we tollevetlmt weshoiild mUm lo politic during political tunes, as weglveHtteiitioii to grain during harvest time, yet weshouldj"keop our eyeon l'aieoj" or In other words, we should look to the general iuloreslN of build ing up our growing' town, The growth is already healthy, and while we do nut believe in precipi tating the growth of our city and surrounding country, we' should keep one shoulders to the wheels of progress which we huyg already put to turning. We have many enterprises here now, and wo should kIvo them our united sup port, and also inaugurate new ones. This Is a country of vast resources, aud let us keep up the effort to develop these same profitable re sources. ' Coins slid go to the ws ninth' to morrow, lUm the arest Mcumlon mti In tliamt, to-dtiy, . kmmmk I HriHi'n anv ui'Vaf) i rw iiu.ir-in n ir.i a" mv miioiMBss, mvkk rnvri.tnTrt.Mri iiriOArnr, colds, l'lll'l,, all SKI A mx-TlliM, s4 DlSEaftE ABIlSUfM a DIHORDEKRf) NTOHACU. r (;rnul, u. uin van it a u u i ymllow wrappjchs ruA PwimiU ttynaiun of A'lf. PKKHt.. SrC"JTO4 a OO. Aatma. Sjui faatKmaa, oi,n nv aix ivki'uuimtn i iwwrwa, i.Mih.. ik tit Ann sYmmm THE CITY RESTAURANT -J-uiot Opoaod- The hoi h l-u m-nlly nilhl llirnuifliimt. The Ishls will 1 aprwtd ttlih Ihn U-rt the iiiiifkcl nttunU. A tlmrw if your lnmi la rc-m-trully milii-u.l. srjd South Main Street, Independence, Or. ELLA FENNELL, Proprietress. Cents and Sense You, griN-erj you dry good merchant; you, pnictioil public, ought to kuow that quality fixes price in JKWKI.ltY as in the lines wllh which you are more familiar. And yet, when the notion store offers bracelets and ear lings and what not, at half the jewelers prices, you hesitate ami are ht! There is no line in which you are so bojM'lessly ignor ant of inlrinslevalueaslu rolled plutejewelry. l!uy of the seller who KNOWS the value of the goods be sells. We guanuileo our gxtds in knowledge cf their real woith, (Our stock of jewelry for the Holidays was Ixmght direct from the factory in the Kast last mouth. It will be the luigest assort ment ever in this city,) flie Oregon State Normal School A L iniif ,. I'm LrawJ The Leading Normal School of the ' Northwest. A diploma from tho nuhool antitles ono iu mi uiit Normal, Normal Advanced. HnHinoaa, Ailvntitauiia in Vocal nml liiHlniniciitnl Musiu, A year at aohool for 8 Ml), 't'nition rediuwd to 0.1r Normal, and Mi Hnt,,.nnn.i per term of too weeks. Board at Normal i noma, l per wwk. Board and IoiIbihk, tiful and beiilthfaJucatiou. No salooin. oatslouue uddreaa p. Or J. M, POWELL, A.M., Vine Praaidonl. Make No Ml8tak9 tt ymi d-M, from whtl f " lit tutrt or rxul uf "" U" Ukt Itu4' Maraafiartlla, da St bt MnetS la br nniwtlilni ! wlilch lali to l " alwul Ilia tmn" of "! w-" Uimumt mi VM Win twton fof . IS It you to nun-baM wi iubUtiit Is wJ mora imiBl ir bt tnaJa. rirwlr liidueMiwiUs and Intlrt l " wb.l y. Ud for, tUi StrMparlll Tbts rM "ill s ba l"'HmUt'il IUi arllrla, for lloud'i Siarllla U ' , TrM siul Tut. In mi tlora lb "M IfM W Mum lo buy Uwir own lil ' ll"n,, ' """l" nlla. Hul In could sol ittU on mt la ehtnsa, 1 told lilm 1 !' Kutaparilla Wat, I btd Uk II, M pf rwlly tall.llfd wllh It, and did not wl 't nlhtr." Mwa, Ki.fc A. U"". M Sliwt, ll.niim, Miii, o iV Ara All Tnblntf It. W Mld not bt wllbonl llood't " trllla. It la Ilia bm SH-dUln f kl Ut tba h...i. My ftmlly 'l '" It. Witt J. M, fttnaKS, Sua JoanW ab4 rioiuoiit Stfoutt, Rbkum, Ctk Hood's Sarsaparilla IM by SracaMa, fliiltfWSfc fmiiawdtaly k, 0. 1, IHMiU A CO,, AtKrtbwarwt. Uwtll. Hatt. IOO Dotot Ono Dollar E. L. KETCHUM, M.D. 0Hlit and rwitrnr,miirf llallruaul and AloiiiinHilli trwt, INOEPCNPCNCt.ORCaON. finuTiMTin I Vfiui VuTinV. Patterson Bros. Jewelers Independence. BOARD OF REGENTS: bonjimiin Seliofleld, PretMenti J, B, V. lintler,SHiretiiry. Ex olllolo: flit Ex. enlli y Oovnrnor rlylvealor 1'eunoyer: linn. KjJI. MoKlroy, Huperintnntlnt of 1'ntilio tnatruntioii; llon.U.W. MoBride, St'oriitnry of 8tnt! Hon. JsoobVoorheoa, linn. A. Nolttior, J, O. White, Hon. W. H. llolmea, Alfred Lnoy, Hon. V, W. Haloy, llou. J. J. D.ily. The Htiito Normnl ii a live school, rap idly Krowinu, and eoniinmilly adding to it CinilitliiK for the upeohil trainiUH of timelier. Ita rndiinto are iu dumaud to till ipmmI pimituina, A s in n ot eitjlity per ui-nt in ntlombinee wiih made laat ytiBr, An enrollment of 60tl ti sutieipsted for tne next your, jnw numibera nave beon added to the fiionlty, and additional nppftrntiiH bus been aupphed, to touch in any oonuty in the itate with fiiiminnuiin. Muhio. nml Art Dnnnrlmnnia. Bnn.-i Dining Hall, $M por weok; fnrnlshej private fmmliea, 3,fi0 perwot-k. Ueaa First term opena Hoptomber 20 For h. CAMPBELL. A. B PreaLlnnt OWffiUJ IRVIfJE Are headsuarttrt in Polk County for Trae. m Pimps. Biia llifiis, the Oliver Chilled ssd Steel Pb, ' . ajUB'nl Ibtca Ifodcr' Ub is! fc!si LOOKING AFTER THE DOLLARS. it It all rtahl ktl AITt lt tit alar, but If fm ixllj 4lrmu of aavlu Umn. jo. U1 aavrviM a lltll auMiatii aii4 tniy uar , Schcal Btoh, Tablets, Inks, and School Supplies. . SEWING UACHINES. OflBINS. AND PIANOS. mm. W. II. 'hrl-r. It pi.!, no tniihrt li 111 thai if yr k.4 after lit IUr nam, ibrf mil luufe alter yuii wltra )oo nd ili'ir aid. CONFECTIONERY AND TROPICAL FRUITS. W. H. WHEELER, Independence, O. Ml Tour attention to our line of clothing, which has been greatly reduced by our jS per cent reduction sale, but we are still able to satisfy our cus tomers in this line, as well as in Summer Dress Goods, lite Goods, Ginghams, Parasols, Underwear, Hosiery, etc., etc. en F. ANSTINE WALL PArEtt .... FURN'ltUR GOODS DELIVERED , . . . F. ANSTINE hS3$S? gSlS ST 8et8' wi p,eoe ,ttruUure' WB" paper riCTURE FltAMEM . . riUCIS RIGHT 1