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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1890)
9S6 WEST SHORE. . j 0 with us, thus closing our markets to thein while leav- ' I tC Ji'f&r ffl ing them open t0 comPetinS nation8 and relieving our JfjW own people from the burden of high prices that would PUBU.HED mRY Saturday. borne by them were the duty universal. There i8 - so much hard, business sense in this proposition that l samukl., Publisher, one wh0 desires to establish reciprocal relations with n w. S?SHdSVa0m0hi6 St.. I comMain stnsueSt.. other American nations and extend our foreign mar- .' , , IIMthrmink kets can not fail to give it his approval. It will, how- .r2MtaMm ' ever, take .ore than nominal trad, reciprocity to m. Tumc.ti. T.-.r.Mi, - terilly increase the amount of our product, .entto other American countries. Trade relations of the on. v..r, 4.oo i Thre .Month.. . closef,t kind have been formed by them with the lead six Months i.J l omgie topiei, -copi.. win i. no ... to .ub.crib.r. beyond th. term ing European nations, and the winning of them away p.idfor. Rejected m.niucript win not be returned unie.. tmp h.v. wjU be a work of years, to effect which many means bnMnttoiypotge. besides reciprocity blandishments will have to be re- The Wist Shori offers the Best Medium for Advertls- sorted to, important among which is the establishment ers of any publication on the Pacific Coast. q Bteamghip ine8 a8 contemplated in the subsidy bill Saturday, August o, 1890. that passed the senate and now slumbers in the house. It is going to be tne work ot years to get our goods J v www; HALL Brother Blaine be read out of the repub- into other American markets upon equal terms with . m ,i jn A.' J lil 1 lican party for heresy on the question oi 6imon tnose 01 European nations, anu unui we ao we can Dure high tariff doctrine? This is a question not expect to compete with them successfully. the rank and file of the party will probably de- cide, regardless of the wishes of Speaker Reed and Undoubtedly the moral 6ense of the nation -calls Chairman McKinley. Blaine has too strong a hold for the passage by congress of the bill now before it upon the people to be summarily disposed of by self- depriving lotteries of the national postal privileges, appointed party leaders. His Americanism is so Many people express surprise at the situation, it hav strong, so pronounced and so unswerving that even ing been generally understood that this object had if it carry him farther than he can persuade the coun- been accomplished. Previous legislation has not been try to follow, there is little danger of its carrying him sufficiently thorough to effect the desired end, and the beyond the pale of the party of which he is at once present bill is intended to remedy the defects. By it the greatest leader and most able supporter. Once a the mailing of lottery tickets and circulars will be a celebrated painter explained the superiority of his continuous offence from the place of posting to the pictures by saying that he mixed brains with his place of delivery; newspapers containing lottery adver colors, and though he did eo he was not ostracized by tisements,or lists of prizes will be excluded from the his fellow artists, much as it was a departure from mails, and all individuals or banks known to deal in the usual methods. Neither will Mr. Blaine be turned tickets or be agents of a lottery company will be denied out of the party of high tariff because he dares to mix the right to use the registry or money order systems, brains with his tariff colors, to the consternation of Such a law as this will do more than tons of news other leaders who do not. The trouble with Blaine's paper sermons to check the lottery craze. By far the most excellent ideas on the subject of reciprocity is most effective portion will be the prevention of publi that he proposes to impose a high tariff until such cation of drawings and advertisements. 'It is to be time as the nations with whom he would institute re- hoped that congress will not be too busy trying to ciprocal trade relations shall admit our products free, pass party legislation to enact this law. thus placing the whole matter in the hands of con- gress, whose action is always slow and uncertain, prac- If greenbacks were good enough for the men who tically defeating the object he would gain. It re- fought the battles of the war, they were good enough mains for a senator from one of the new states that for the troops who garrisoned the western forts; and if Nazareth from which nothing good was expected to Oregon and California made good the discount on come to propose a line of policy that leaves the mat- greenbacks to their volunteers, let them noi now still- tor in the hands of the administration and treaty-mak- tify their generosity and patriotism by whining about ing branch of the government, where it can be ban- it and asking the government to reimburse them. died in a practicable manner. The Pierce amend- ment gives the president power to impose duties on' A little war scare will do no harm if it teach us the products of such countries as refuse to reciprocate how utterly unprepared we are for war.