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FRIDAY, JAN. 5, ISM.
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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
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$15.00 DINNER SET
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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
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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.
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Important Announce
ments. Watch it.
Wbiteaker Building, Main Street, Independence
EMTY-
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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
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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.
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Independence Stables.
Stylish Turnouts Alwavs In Readiness!
Having latvly inirchiwd the enliw interest in tho 8taj,lw 0 j x"
Jones, we uo now hotter iwimml Hum ever t,) tnect thfi donmrnls ot
lira ,Miiu no nvwn uuw uiUKiiiir (ntV DU'Dlir nor In mul.
sultHtttiilial, iuiprovfiKMit.s,
rmvollng men specialty.
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Water Colors
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