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WEST SHORE.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1891.
. Tlit fore bill require. a great deal of forcing,
Winter if not " Id it " this jretr in the northwest.
One (wallow may not make rammer, but Columbia river amelt art a
Tory good sign of iprlng,
The effort to create an Indian (care In tbe Okanogan country are not to
tucceuful a tome of the promoter detire.
The Putch were great trader, but they could not hold a candle to the
lekltlttor who have wagon road bill to pat.
It 1 about time Portland took some intereit In the Seven Devil minea,
one of the greatest mineral district on the continent.
Governor Pennoyer'. self confidence i Inspiring to all timid soul who
do not feet prompted to offer their service as general manager of lb universe,
Barrllla would disappear from the political firmament without either a
cataclysm or a sljh. Statesmen of hi data have been the curse of Central
America.
Friend of consolidation will do well to keep a dote watch at Salem.
Thing are not what they seem with torn of the honorable gentlemen in
power there.
A bill has been Introduced it Olympla to attend the constitutional limit
of sixty day for the session to 100 day. Some of the legislator must be
"loaded for bar "thi time.
Th charge of the light brigade was eclipsed at Salem Monday when
tli house adjourned after th committee had been announced. It take a
brave man to go to th legislature.
It may be all well enough to pass a law protecting the purchaser and
sellers of chattel property on the installment plan, but who is going to pro
tect tbe purchaser of real estate on the installment plan from men who have
no title to it ?
Some one who believes that the legislature can regulate all commercial
transactions should now introduce a bill fixing the amount of tinware a
peddler shall give for rags and the quantity of soft soap that shall be ex
changed for ashes.
The reverend gentleman who made himself offensive at Salem because
he was not one of those selected to open the sessions with prayer succeeded
in convincing the members that his omission, though entirely unintentional,
was most fortunate.
That bribery has been used in many senatorial elections la an open
scandal, and yet Washington has the honor of possessing the first legislator
to lay bis bribe money on tbe speaker's desk as an evidence of the fact, and
render a whitewashing committee necessary.
Those who feel that the opening of congress by the invocation of the
divine blessing upon that unregenerate body is a waste of time and talent
are assured that they are in error. It gives the members an opportunity
during the hush to think up new epithets to hurl at tbe speaker.
The re-election of John H. Mitchell, of Oregon, and Watson 0. Squire,
of Washington, maintain the integrity of the Pacific coast delegation in
the United States senate, and gives assurance that the efforts these gentle
men have made for the promotion of our interests will be continued.
Those Indian sympathizer who seek to throw discredit upon the Sev
enth cavalry for Its conduct at Wounded Knee by asserting that the squaws
were none of them armed, and that but few of the bucks had arms, will find
considerable difficulty in explaining how so many soldiers were killed or
wounded.
The Oregon legislature showed that it possessed enough sense not to
meddle with the affairs of others by refusing to pass a resolution requesting
the managers of the World' Columbian Exposition not to allow the sale of
liquor on the fair ground. The legislature is created to look after tbe inter
est of Oregon, and has its hands full of it legitimate business.
The who favor ballot reform, and this, It I hoped, embrace three
fourth, of th (let-tor of Oregon, should make their Infiwno felt at Salem,
or th hostile bones will smother th movement.
What sllect the death of King Kalakaua will hav upon th relations
of th United State to the Hawaiian kingdom it 1 Impossible to predict.
The tendency is in th direction of a closer relationship.
If th government can make and lend to the fanner all the money
they can use, why can it not make a little for poor newspaper men t They
need tome to stuff into broken window this cold weather.
Portland bank clearance last week war $2,004,000, being 1152 000
more than those of Seattle and Tacom iWblned, and yet one would 'not
expect it from a comparison of tbe Ui rolls of th three cltle.
I It not poasibl that the man who buy good on th Installment plan
needs as much protection as the selltrT Th old method of conducting the
swing machine business art not entirely oheolete in various lines of trad.
Congres should adopi torn rule that would permit it to attend to
builneiK, If private business were run s the legislative branch of Ui
government I we could not build penitentiaries and insane ssvlums fast
enough, '
Portland will now have another fine miblic buildino. the bill mnmnit.
ating $.'100,000 for a government building having passed both house of con
gres and been signed by the president. Two other buildings costing a like
amount are now under construction, the city hall and chamber of commerce,
and it will not be long before a fine court house will also be under way.
In the death of E. L. Eastham Oregon City loses it foremost citizen
and tbe state one of tbe most energetic and progressive of that class who
are promoting its advancement. Mr. Eastham caused the development of
th great water power at Oregon City, and started the building up of indus
tries that will progress even though the hand that drew them forth Is now
powerless In death.
Every session of the legislature some one comes forward with a bill to
regulate the amount of grist a fanner shall receive from a miller In exchange
for hi. grain, and already It hs. been started on its road to the grave at
iCi 7 T ?T Whjr the 1,w ,hould h0 " '"mer
should receive fo, hi. grain than how much a publisher .hould get for hi.
paper or a tailor for a suit of clothes.
In. ?'MbLintT,U", by """"WIti TO Providing for the brand
ng of packed salmon is a proper one. It taxes no industry or person for
M and sold for ust what It I. Every article of merchandise should Z
old upon It. merit., end not be permitted to fraudulently repnZn
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