802
WEST SHORE.
PUBLISHED VERY SATURDAY.
However hypocritical republican partisan papers
may claim were the motives actuating President Cleve
land, it is certain that more attention was paid to the
genuine spirit of civil service reform during his admin-
istration than has been the case since Harrison has
lu samukl, Publisher, occupied the executive chair. The spectacle of an of-
PORTLAND, ORECON, I SPOKANE FALLS, WASH., fl. 1 O0 1; 1 xU- mln,;iH nf thfl fldniiniRtratirm
N. W. Cor. Second A Yamhill Ste. I Corner Main Stevens Streets. HCial as hlgn in Me COUnCllS 01 ine administration
as Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson advocat-
Knteredln the Pott Offlce in Portland, Oregon, for tramnniuion through , . , .
th mail at cmid eiau ratei. mg partisan action on all occasions and m all elec-
subscription RATES...striotiy in Advance. tions, no matter how insignificant, was never witnessed
while Cleveland was president. However little it may
One Year, I4.00 1 Three Monthi, Si.aj . . , ., ., . , . , .,
sii Month . . - i.jS I single copiei, ... .10 have pleased them personally, it is certain that they
WCoplee will In no ceie be"le7t to lubicriberi beyond the term Understood that they must do OT Say nothing to C0U1-
piid for. Rejected mmuicript win not be returned unieu itampi have promise their chief in the position he had assumed as
a champion of civil service reform, and with few ex-
The Wist 8hori offers the Best Medium for Advents- ceptions they refrained from extreme partisan expres-
ers of any publication on the Pacific Coast. 8ionB an(1 actionfe Partisanship, blind, unthinking
Saturday, juruTaH, 1800. and slavishly loyal to leaders, be they good or bad, is
one of the worst evils of our political system. A firm
I ANDLOKDISM in America, especially upon the adherence to principles is commendable, for without it
I plan common to England and Ireland, is some- no reform can be accomplished ; but an equally firm
X thing no thoughtful man wants to see established adherence to party, when that party has ceased to rep
in America, yet it is gaining a rapid foothold, resent principles, is the root of many of our political
We have not only made our country " an asylum for evils. Upon this is based all the political iniquity of
the oppressed of all nations," but we have welcomed party leaders, and without it political bossism is im
with open arms the oppressor as well. With equal possible. It is no wonder that Mr. Clarkson, who rep
hospitality we have opened our arms to receive rent- resents that wing of the republican party that has
racked tenant and tho plethoric-pursed landlord; with maintained control by " political methods," should ad
this difference, however: In tho case of the tenant we vocate partisanship in its most odious form. It is one
have got the man, and in the case of the landlord we of the hopeful signs of the times that intelligent voters
have let his money get us. Having acquired title to, are yearly throwing off the galling yoke of party and
or possession of, thousands of acres of American land, demanding that some attention be paid to principles
tho English capitalist sits in his easy chair at home and the men who represent them. Party slavery holds
and draws the profits, without contributing to the sup- out no promise of progress to the nation, nor will party
port of the country more than the property is taxed slave drivers give us the many reforms in political and
for. Our liberality has been too great. It is time social conditions the great mass of thinking, patriotic
this universal refuge idea be abandoned, both as to people deen essential to the nation's future welfare.
immigrants and non-resident landlords. Not an inch
of American soil should bo owned in fee simple by one The power of the press was never better shown than
who is not a citizen and bound loyally to support the in the raid of the Chicago New, upon the gamblers of
government It ,s bad enough to have American that city. The mayor and the police department
landlords, too bad m many cases, but to have alien seemed to be so thoroughly in the hands of the sport-
ones ,s not only unendurable but unnecessary. In ing element, to which the mayor was indebted for his
he west, where great areas o country have been election, that they denied that there were any gam-
fenced in by corporations, much of it illegally, it is bling houses in the city, though their existence was a
unbearable to think that settlers are excluded for the matter of public notorio y. F nauy ZTZ17e
bene to subjects of a foreign power who have no in- matter in hand, swore out search warrants before an
terest in the country save for the income they may de- hono.t fln,i J ,VttlulB UC1UIW "
rive from their investments. I. view of t L ,d . ZMT "
lion or affairs a Warty support ought to bo given to load, ZT TT '""" T
th.UU now Wore oongro" providing ,l,t ,f d Z- 1 r ' l."PPJ"Ad
can seour. no hotter title in to Unite,! State, tha holt I f", -Tv8
kw for a term of five year,, and ocuVati th re Id K f, T "7. " " "J
property of ,11 alien land owner, who do not be Zl"' 7 ""'J8 taa
riliien. before the expiration of ten years. 1 "? ,1 M ""d mM not mterfe"
1 ' ia 'lrolcct r friends. Even the notorious Mike