The West Shore.
VOL 4 No 1 ! U ImmmI, ynWIilm,
Portland, Oregon, Soptombor, 1878.
I'or Amtmii, ) Shtil ruiilra,
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THE WEST SHORE.
Willi this number we start our fourth
year, and comparing the present issue
with the first one published, even the
most careless reader will admit that we
have made immense improvements.
The paper hereafter, Including cover
and frontispiece, will he thirty-eight
pages and will be sent out, as this time,
neatly stitched and trimmed. Although
the expense of producing Tine Wkst
Shore in this form is greatly enlarged,
we have decided not to increase the
subscription price.
We say it without fear of contradic
tion, that there is not another publica
tion on the Pacific Coast that is kepi
as clean and pure as Tun VVus i Siiohk.
Even our advertising columns are care
fully guarded, so that nothing finds its
way to our leaders that even the .most
fastidious could possibly object to. In
this age of corruption, when nearly all
papen fairly bristle with sensational,
nauseating reading matter, and adver
tisements of quack doctors, swindling
astrologists, and pretending spiritual
istic mediums, what can lie more hon
orable than to assist in increasing the
circulation of a journal which carefully
excludes everything of that kind.
Nearly every one has it in their power
to swell our list by at least one, and
now, the commencement of our fourth
volume, is a proper time for our friends
to make an effort in our behalf, and In
duce their neighbors and acquaintances
to try our paper for one year. Birth,
day present! of this kind are always
appreciated.
WHETHER ARE WE DRIf 1 1 i
The blood spots from the hoy foteph
aie still distinctly distinguishable on
the Tlmd-strcct sidewalk, and a 1 read
the blood of another victim is spilled,
in broad daylight, on the most promi
nent business coiner in this citv. The
peaceable citizen naturally inquires,
whither are we drifting ? Is it no
longer safe to venture on our streets,
even in business bouts.- ,re the live
of our little ones to be jeopardised in
going to or returning from school?
And why' Simply because law ate
not enforced and every cowardly hood
lum is allowed to carry a pistol, which
he docs not at all hesitate to use, know
ing that we have in our midst a sickly
set of sentimental milk-sops, who make it
their business to get up sympathy, and
pardons, if necessary, for every criminal
who feels rcnimsc, (?) just after the
crime is committed. We shall not en
ter into the details ol this late diffi
culty we have but the unfortunate re
sult to deal with. A respected and
honorable gentleman hurried to an un
timely grave; a poor widow left without
a protector, and a man, who had noth
ing whatever to do with the dilliculty,
wounded, so as to deprive him of earn
ing his daily bread. I low much longer
shall this last ? Is peace and order, or
hoodlumism and crime, to hold sway in
Portland?
THE STATE As , ki msi i.l.i'.k.
It is a pity that Oregon, wealthy a
Statt' as she is, is unable to get along in
the world without engaging in the
whisky traffic. These are the relict -lions
which, naturally suggest them
selves to the isilor at the Capitol, in
Salem. A saloon employing two bar-
tenders is in full blast in the building.
We do not know whether the State
authorities are running this dramshop
or renting iteut,butitiseertalnlyAper-
tincnt question to ask, by what light
such business is carried on in the Cap
itol building. If our law-makers run
not possibly stand a two or three hour
session without whisky, then let tin in
carry pocket-flasks ; but they base no
light to disgrace the entire State by
countenancing the conversion of our
beautiful State-house into i whisky
saloon. Let the nniaanee be al st I
without further delay.
Sim i- the above was plated in print,
Mr. Joseph Acton, a member of the
House from this county, has iutrodm ed
s resolution to stop the whisky traffic
in the capitol building, but so far noth
ing definite has ln-en done about it.
Aimht two hundred thousand feet
of hardwood lumU-t go every month
from White Hirer, W. T la Ban
Francisco.
THE INDIAN.
Again by superior cunning has the
Indian bamboozled the while man and
Chief Moses undoubtedly laughed in his
sleeve after leaving the grounds of
the late pow wow with (ien. Howard,
Strange as it may seem, the words
uttered by Moses, such as, having a
good heart toward the whiles, and
numerous other lies, have already
been used hundreds of times by every
sneaking red cur w ho wanted a lot of
(iovernment blankets and rations for
approaching wittier. As long as the
(iovernment Heals Indians lis tribes
with chiefs, allowing litem to maintain
a kingdom inside of a republic, just ,i ,
long will it he necessary to maintain
expensive armies on the frontier, have
annual fall treaties and distributions of
free lunch and blankets towards winter.
Why not maintain out great army of
tramps 'al (iovernntenl espense just as
well as to maintain hordes of lazy
Indians ? This Moses, however, is cer
tainly possessed of the greatest amount
of metallic chuck of any Indian we
ever heard of the very selection ol
his reservation stamps him at ones to
thi close observer as fully able (o cop
with his white neighbors and all this
slobbering sympathy for ihe pool .)
Indian may us well be laid aside al
otne. On these lauds which Moses
wants for his kingdom several indus
trious w bile settlers have years ago made,
farms, arc cultivating them now, and
we hope that the (Jovcrnnien! will pro.
ted them ho that they shall not bo
compelled to leave their little all, sini
ply to gratify the peculiar whim ol
handful oi Indians, li Moses and his
band waul land let them dissolve their
tribal i l.ilion , I , mi , ,1,, ,,,, tiikr
up binds, obey lite laws of I he country,
ami no while man will dare to molest
them.
Jt;sn KiwAiti.it). I.. It. Ma
goon, K(., who formerly drove hack
for Corltt's Livery Stable, is now a
partner in one of the largest tiicrchot
dining establishments in Albany. W$
in pleased lo see Mr. Magoou pros
permgi M Im- Was always noted for
lieiin industriou , smnmjcil and
'Cotpmodatlngj