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About The Independence west side. (Independence, Or.) 18??-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1894)
THE WEST SIDE. K. 0. Puttlakb, Wuvkgvr, 0, H. nutTUlHD.OMUlef, EWUKO BY Cat Ki Piilisity Ocpity UMCAimON RATKS. 0 Tor ?n MonlM hrss Months .00 All Kurnn and rtMth nntirat Bill titwMt hmflv Him will h imwrtnt ft-m, All vr r nnw will M ehantwt dv wnu per ltnk WM OtMIUM? TWMlllltolM Will I VllMlpid wuui rata of by ouu pr una. mk tha lNwLnrStia In lndAUn on, mguu, a mowimiw maiwr, FRIDAY, JAN. 5, ISM. potw ( to mooAifMTjf yniHii wo- tit poMW. AflutaM&w. TAr U but om wtjtqfobUtiHhig but- nmpvhlteHy; but on iy ttfobttiin TUB BVSIXESS DEPSmiQX. , On all sides we hear our people complain of hard times. From the farm and from the city come tales of suffering and vaut, and all thi? under one year of democratic rulo. You ask the West Side the reason, and it answers: Because of the policy of the domooratio party. The people roted for a change and they now have it; a change from prosperity to adversity. Had the republican party remained in power with its protection ideas, these troblons times would not lie upon os. Men would have been at work ; farmers making money, for wheat would have been double its present price. Our factories would have been in operation and our mine being worked. However, state ments do not prove anything, there fore we preseut some argtinieuU to prove our statements. Wheat is one of our principal items of agricultural exports, aud Bngar is one of onr principal im ports. We Bell wheat; we buy sugar. The policy of the republi can party is to export km wheal and to import leas sugar; the policy of the democratic party, as exempli tied in the Wilson bilt, is to exHrt more wheat aud import more sugar The republican party placed a bounty on sugar: the democratic party proposes taking it off. Let us see the effects of these op posiCe policies on our prosperity, and this particular feature of pol Hies should interest the farmer, for both wheat and sugar are farm products. In 1891 the United States sold 65,131,048 bashels of wheat to for elgn countries. That was the pro duct of about 2,000,000 acres of land. There are forty-four states and twelve territories in the Union, therefore, it would mean about 40, 000 acres to each state and territory. There are 2G55 counties in the forty four state, or an average of sixty to each state. Thus, there would be exported from each county only bout 700 bu. of wheat. If enough less wheat were raised so that we consumed it all at home, then the duty of 25 cents a bushel would protect our farmers and wheat would be worth say, 80 cents a bushel in Portland instead of 55 cents, as now. How did the republican party propose reducing the production ol wheat! By encouraging our farm era to plant their land in something tlse, and one of these items was sugar beets. The United States pays out millions of dollars every year for Bugar, aud every dollar might be kept at home. It was estimated that to manufac ture onr sugar from beets would re quire 700 sugar beet factories, each costing nearly half a million dol lars. Under the stimulous of a 2- ceut-a-ponnd bounty, 100,000,000 would have been spent for sugar factories. That would mean six teen factories building in each state Each factory requires about 2000 acres of beets, hence in the thirty oue counties in Oregon, each coun ty would have 1000 acres in beets, instead of now 700 bunlmlHof wheat for export. It would mean even more than that, for the labor to build the factories, the labor to op erate the factories, and the labor to till the acres of beets would in crease the consumption of bread, so that tho United states would be come an importer of wheat, instead of an exporter, uud onr farmers have the advantage of a protected home market, instead of sending their product abroad to cornpeU with the cheap labor of India, (an they are to have their wool to com pete with the cheap labor of Aus tralia), To those persons who seem to to do with our hard times, we pre scut the above mots for their eou sideratiou. Under the policy of tho republican party the farmer would have found it profitable to reduce his export of wheat, and fit couraged In using his land for pro ducing au article we pay Germany tunny million dollars to send us. The republican policy made the farmer independent of forelgu markets. The democratic policy makes htm still more dependent. Under which do you think you are likely to prosper the moHt Under one wo had prosper ity; under the other we already see the signs of adversity. These facts stare us In the face. Are we going to eotluue supporting a party that advocates a policy so plaiuly against the farming interests. Itomers, wherein, are you benl- filed iu having free tradu in raw materials! If you are not benefited then why should you vote for itt u s are now entering the new year of 1SW. The West Side pledges Itself to drop all sectional animosities and that it will work tooth aud toe nail for the rights of the people, iu all sections of the county, and of the slate. To those that want to work with us, we ask your right hand of fellowship. Let us have pence, aud return to pros perity. The political pot is beginning to boil in Polk County. You will hear men say that polities should not cuter Into local elections, but our couutry is menaced by a policy that means disaster to the West, means dull times for Oregon, and every pntriotio citizen should vote bis political sentiments. If "the change' suits you, vote with the party that has brought it; other wise, vote agaiimt it aud bIiow your manhood. Lots of democratic or other papers on this count will fatten il the Wilson bill pusses. When the legs of about all the coast iiidrust ries are paralixed and scarcely one industry Is able to toe the mark of credit, advert ismeuts of slwrlnY sales iu all the papers will be thick er than huukkborrk in a bear pat ure. Klaiualh War. I'lCNtiKKiiKAMT, the murderer ol Mayor Carter Harrison, has been found guilty by a Chicago jury. and will hanir. This is s warning to dangerous cranks, who will find no voice of symputhy from tin American people. One thing badly needed hi Inde pendence u less individual differ ences and a general unity of action for the upbuilding of our muterial interest tn. Tug Midwinter fair at Ban Fran ciseo formally opens next Wednesday. The Wkht Bide is now the offi cial paper of Polk couuty, made so hrough no favoritism, but beeauw it has agreed to do the advertising of Polk county cheaper than any other paper. The bids for county printing were opened last Wednes day, and the contract awarded to West Side Publishing Co. people of every taction which it it de link that legislation has nothing ! sinned to affect have protested airainst AN UNEMPLOYED WORKMAN WBITE8 AN OPEN LETTER, Mr. Clmluul't Attention Callad to Indaa. trlM Ruined and Labor rauparlMd-DIr Remit! Muit Follow tho Adoption of the Cn-American Tariff BUI, To His Excellency G rover Cleveland, President of the United Statusi 8m As yonr excellency In an Amer ican president, Invented with the pow erful Influence of yonr high office and wielding that Influence to foros login Intton antagonistic) to tho lnteroeta of your country, if It la not too late, It It certainly not ont of place to aak yonr excellency whither you are drifting; If the varied internet" of that portion of the world' Inhabitants living within the territorial limits of the United Staetas and owing allegiance thereto are not large enough for your atewardnhipj whether yon are moving within the limns of national Democracy and for the Interests of the nation that placed yon at Its bead, or If yon have switohod off to the line of universal Democracy and taken the nations of the world un der your consideration to the neglect and material injury of yonr own? Whatever may be the object of yonr ambition, the one fact la established that your policy is destructive to the Interests of yonr own country. Within the first six months of yonr administration what la the condition of business 'under It? Tho money that maintained business has been withdrawn and Is stowed sway In the banks. The Industries that pros pered before you came have withered at your approach. The labor that was happy and contented Is becoming de mented from starvation, and yet while yonr policy has been condemned by sii of the leading industrial states and the it, while th. voln of starving Inhor hits swelled the ominous sound of dlmim teat, you seem imllffuront to a ootid! Hon that Is lner using in danger j that is a mwiaott to public tranquillity and may lead to a neeoenity fur meamirns that would Im abhorrent to civilisation. Yon vet nurstMth.oou.rM that Great Uritain has laid down as the chart of American politics. Von have found tin tools In ths Wilson committal to shape your bill of destruction and seem lnmntint for Its completion to affli your slgnatnrs thereto. Vonr seal for this foreign msNiurt would be a mystery but for ths faet that you have the imlonwiueiit and approval of foreign countries. What we will Iom in productive values they will gain. Ths business which your tariff inform policy will sheriff out of ths couutry will us transferred to your foreign si lies England, Francs and Owritisny favored, If they did not materially aid In your election. They r now Increas ing their plants and oiling their swindles Iu anticipation of a snare in tlio tin peotive wreck of American industries. Vonr uitulHter (Bayard) at ths tUieffleld dlnuur ctitiid look with an ungrudging eye on ths growing ttrosmirity of Hhet- Held artbuma. while he could strike with a traitor's hand at ths law which assured ths prosperity of American workmen. This in Itself Is a trivial Incident and unworthy of notice, but In keeping with the foreign interest of yonr administration. This cloture it not overdrawn. It Is a facsimile from an American point of view, and from this point I again ask yonr excellency whither yon am drift ing f You are pursuing a destructive and dangerous course, la view of the condition resulting from your policy, the Increasing distrust and disturbing circumstances that are sore to follow and the emphatic ctinaein- nation by those tains people who one year ago were mislead to support It, you can no longer hid your purpose under the Chicago platform, if Judged on ths basis of Intelligence, that platform was never tenable. You are well aware of ths fact that a large proportltui of yonr votes wers rant by men who were reck less of eotuttxiueuees. Indifferent to ths public welfare and Incapahl of distill gulshtng In many caani W-tweon the tariff and Internal revenue, Ihey cer tainly did nut represent an intelligencs on which to base a justltleation for the enactment of a ruinous and, to them, d- strnctlve law, although they repreneiit mors than your majority multiplied by 10, and they did yell for Cleveland and a ohsap shirt Yet it would ill befit the honor, the justice or the Immunity of an ttlightond aud Christ Inn government to taks advantage of their tgnorancs. To err U human, I acknowledge it is noble, but to pursue adiwtrurtiviuvtii-wi where honorable retreat isowu is worse than Criminal. You are ths elected trustee and chief euatodtan of the ptMiplu of tho United Status, You have accepted the steward ship over ths Interest of industry aud ths millions of people whom that Indus try maintain, let if tho Industries that have beu scttvrd,tho homes that havs boon wrecked and the labor that has been pauperised by yonr foreign policy, and within ths first sis months of your administration could bs seen at one view, ths nation would be appalled. Ths walls of ths Whits IIou-m will not shield you for ths execration of a duped and plundered people. A WOKK1N0X4N. TOO HIGH A PRICE TO PAY, Ths "Ot0et Loeaoa" frenooed Would Ea tell Too Much Misery. The free trade members of ths wars and means committee havs now com pleted their work. There is a feeling aud disposition on the part of some manufacturers who favor protection, and who havs become so disgusted with the efforts of tho present free trade party.to overthrow and revolutionise the industrial and commercial prou-rena of the Unit -J Mates not to optssM what ever changes in the McKinley tariff may now ns oireml by the party in power. The idea of these gentlemen Is to let the free traders havs hill swing, that tho jieopls of ths United Ktates may learn to its full extent bow disastrous ths free trade policy would be to the conntry, and that trio "object lesson" mlulit be the greater. This, they think, would so effectually kill all advocacy of the fi-es trade theory that ths Industrial progress of ths United Htates would then become permanently established under a protective policy. Hacn reasoning Is wrong. Ths men who advocate It do not stop to consider What the etloct would tie. The Ameri can Economist has shown that the mere fear of fres trade has coat a loss of 15, 000,000,000 to business and labor since the present administration assumed office. What, then, would lie the result of Its permanent establishment and en forcementf The Importation of hun dreds of millions of dollars' worth of for eign goods annually to take tho place of goods that havs recently, under pmtoo tion, been manufactured In American mills by American workingmim will Involve such an enormous loss in money circulation, such a terrible waste of American labor, such a vast amount of distress among the poor classes of our people, that Its effect is too terribly us founding to eon torn pi a . A policy of passive submission to the present ad ministration's froe trade recommenda tion would be far too high a price for the American people and the American nation to pay, American Economist, Tho Amsrlenn Protective Tariff Liiio. The American Protective Tariff league assembled in special session uud resolved "to continue ths work aggros sivcly." Why, certainly I Woneodnot sponk words of enuouragnmont to the league the skies have boon raining en couragement upon it. Ohio, Pennsyl vania, New York, Massachusutta, Iowa, New Jorsoy, have encouraged It. Deep bus been calling on deep in thunderous sounds of encouragement. The Ameri can Protective Turin league cannot but feol as "a giant refreshed with wine." Its patient and intelligent work has boon crowned by success. The peculiar virtue of the league is that it works Incessantly, Othor or ganizations are beneficially active in campaign times, but the league edu cates the people while their judgment Is In repose. Its documents reach the farmer, and the mechanic, mid the teach er, and the tradesman at times when thoy ore not predisposed to regard every appeal to their Intelligence as influenced by partisan ambition. It is In perpetual session for the education of tho people in political economy as taught by the chiefs of the American school. It would ba a calamity weregie league to oetyje mm bros. Want to Soo You at Tholr IK U Strut, I;:C3. fjn $15.00 DINNER SET ill I AWAY McHACIIHRN & SANDKRCOCK'S GROCERY STORE. nil. IIS 1 till, E aiioe Our Dimtr Sets, Get Our Prices. s Sold it Bedrock Prices at HcEachern &Sandercocks InijepenrJence McEachern & Sandercock will give, in thirty days, a Handsome Dinner Set, worth $15.00. As cash is in great demand, and earns Big Discounts, and buys Genuine Bargains, for each ONE-DOLLAR cash pur chase, the purchaser will be given ONE GUESS at the number of Coffee Grains in the bottle and the person coming the nearest the number will be entitled to the Present. PATTERSON BROS. The Druggists. PATTERSON BROS. The Jewelers. PATTERSON BROS. The Headquarters FOR GOLD and SILVER WATCHES Clear Tour Lai L. DAMON, INDElBraCiv OREGON, IS THE AGENT FOR THE GREAT 1 UCTID no ill LITTLE GIANT GRUBBER One of the Simplest, Lightest aud Strongest Grubbing Machines made. For terms and prices call on L. DAMON, m cash m. J. P. IRVINE, Proprietor. MtWMIIIMMNItili . This Space will be Used Important Announce ments. Watch it. Wbiteaker Building, Main Street, Independence EMTY- I MEN WANTED. ncue, a Ie;m of Service, Hears. Bt'quireinp.iits nre that thoy Blmll be able bodied, not too old, good monil character, aud be nblo to fiirntoh $1000 guaranteed fund. For further ptulieiilnrs ctill at tho Wkst Side office, or address F. Wiml, Koom 13, Cnl. nml Front streeta Suu FrimciHoo. in Prices O'DONNELL'S. Shelley, Alexander & Co., DRUGGISTS STATIONERS. Will make a specialty during December TMC AND Hi I may 1) ? ?? 3 c 1: VXall and See Their Elegant L'ne of Albums' at Prices to Suit All. (.lain Street - Independence, Oregon. Salem im WALDEMAR NELSON, Proprlstor. 133 Com.nn.cxcIal Stxoot. Fhilillsliisl In ism with iIih ,.f .11 li i ..1 , . . " """ ' vn'iiiiiiif nun iino linnet .fllklii l eh.ilw i,,yw. t r.i U. Ittnt.U. lH. Ktaniirls, Silk I'lHlorwrnr ..HIlklNlirilindM Huts ,IW. Uyl, UW ind ftaTLssvs Orders with Indspandsnce, Monmonih, and Fslls Cilvfiisrs Driw- srs. Or Send by Mall or Eimrsn. . Independence ROLLHR MILLS SKINNER A. CO., Proprietors, Wish to notify tho public that they are now Ready to Receive Groin in Exchange for Flour. We have also put la a New lmpi-oved Chuncr and will do a (leiioral Warehouse Hutine.sM on tho m-wi f irornhlo tortus. The highest market price p.iiJ for wheat at all times. UatOtlOXX a-UTfct4. mm Independence Stables. Stylish Turnouts Alwavs In Readiness! 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