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I’ lI A C T I I ’F. VM. I'K O F F S S IO X f.
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, M in­
THURSDAY, - DEC. 16, 1880. nesota, and Illinois were much
disturbed by the nightm are of a
A H A X .I I K H S I t l l . E .
j solid South during the late cam-
Under ii law of Congress passed . paign, never giving a thought to
in 1866, the Chirk of the lower their own solidity.
House exorcises u power inconsist­
O ur G overnm ent professes to
ent with tho liberties of the peo­ seek the greatest good of the
ple und tho rights of tho majority greatest num ber, and yet sustains
which may he returned to that a tariff which enriches the h u n d ­
body by the people. The law was reds at the expense of the millions.
enacted for tho basest und most
The Statesman and Bulletin,
ignoble of ends, and wo marvel
and wo believe all tho “ Protection­
that since Congress has been Dem­
ist papers in this State are printed
ocratic it has not l»een remedied.
on Scotch type. How’s this?
The purpose of the adoption of
The Oregonian, T he P ost , and
the rule was to keep a tw o-thirds
some other Free Trade papers, use
majority Republican in Congress,
American type?
and it was successfully wielded to
South Carolina deplores the
that end until, by u very stampode
practices
of New England factory
of the people, it was made hazard­
kings
in
compelling their opera­
ous io enforco it. The practical
effect of the new law is to make tives to vote the Republican ticket,
the Clerk of the old Congress while a pressure ju st as detestable
master o f the sit uation in the or ami no more so is brought to bear
ganization of the new one. Chief in that State in favor of the Demo­
Clerk McPherson set the example cratic ticket.
A
G A T IE
of
COUCE.
lin r n iH in g
OLD CORNER
ll« -n r X K ir y .
The Democratic Legislature of
About ten days ago, Mr. Talbot,
1878 ratified the outrageously p ar­ who, with his partner, has been S
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tial and u njust scale of allowances prospecting on Lost river, 70
for services, etc., in the Umatilla miles from Blackfoot, started out
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campaign against the Indians in with his dog (a shepherd) after
game.
He
traveled
a
mile
or
1877, wherein the official lazzaroni
A SA C A R M A N .
.
P r o p r ie t y
and campfollowing brigade were two, when he saw a fawn and shot
awarded, in most instances, the at and wounded it, net, however
full face of extortionate claims, so but that it could run, which it
THE VEIiV BEST BK XXD S OF
did.
Mr. Talbot and the dog
and the apparently very moderate
fo'lowed until they came to a
compensation asked for by the small thicket into which he had
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non-commissioned officers and p ri­ seen the fawn disappear. Push­
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vates was incontinently slashed ing the brush aside, he was about
down two-thirds. Two years later to plunge through when in a
an election takes place and the moment he was confronted by a
C ig a r s ,
State is swept from under that huge grizzly bear which struck
party by fourteen hundred major­ him a severe blow on the shoulder Constantly on hand and for Sab
ity, with a Legislature 2-to-l Re­ before he hardly knew unat it was.
publican. Served them right. He immediately tried to bring his
LIVER Y A N D
Private soldiers can vote, oven gun to bear on him, but in so
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• doing discharged it. The bear
hough they cannot be heard in then got the m an’s head partly in
tlie.r own behalf against a mam- his lnouth> cuttjng his ' foreiiead
cst injustice 111 the m atter of com- .terribly, but not breaking the
LOUIS KNAPP, PROPR.
peusation for a term of service skull. In a m om ent’s forethought
where all was sacrifice, fatigue and! he pushed his hand into the bear’s
personal hazard. The members m o u th and allowed him to chew it, P o rt O r fo r d ,
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of a Legislature capable of this thinking he would thus get an
It is not unuHuul to hear coun­ injustice and of creating a “ S ep a-o p p o rtu n ity to reload the gun
of the abuse of the rule, and now
try
m erchants bewailing their rate Suprem e C ourt” in the face of with his other hand.
the New York Times is in trepida­
tion lest Clerk Adams, in the or­ hard fate because of the large a positive Constitutional i n l i i b i -
1Ut’antime the dog had ;oo»l M u d d le H o r s e s t o L e t o n R e a
ganization of the new Congress in capital required to carry on a small tion may us well content them ­ been attacking the bearship in the
» u n a b le T e r m s .
December, 18M1, may imitate his business, and the im possibility of selves to stay at home in the future. rear, and did such good work
that he finally let .Mr. Talbot go,
example. The modus operandi of | stocking up their stores with cor
McPherson was, to leave oil' the I tain lines (clothing for instance
Some of tho journals in Califor­ and made for the dog following
roll of the incoming Congress the because of the heavy aggregate in nia, seeing that none of their p re­ it throngh the brush. Exhausted
names of Hindi members as it was vestm ent, and then walk up to the dictions of disasters to follow and badly wounded, with blood
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treaming from his forehead, both
intimated to him would be advis­ polls with innocence “ child-likt the adoption of the New C onstitu­
knee joints nearly broken, and one
able to leave out, whereupon some and bland,’’ and vote for protcc tion are likely to bo verified by hand like a dish-rag, Talbot
person contesting such seat—al­ tion.
events, are making for themselves crawled out. and was soon joined
though defeated by the people by
The monopolies try to gull the an ignoble record by now and by his faithful dog. Tying his Cenerai Merchandist
thousands would take the seat people by the assertion that a tar again vouchsafing the inform a­ handkerchief around the dog’s
and vote until the trum ped up iff is levied in the interests of la­ tion that th isa n d th a t capitalist is neck he sent him back to camp,
contest was decided by the House bor! (Monopolies, be it known, qu ittin g ^Q ^M M ^. on account of and in a short time his partner
CLOTHlfcLC,
which was seldom done until near are greatly concerned for the the oppressions of the New Con­ and their cook who followed the
the end of that Congress, Tin* poor!) But look at Mexico. There stitution. Tho latest to shako the dog, were on the ground and as­
action was entirely arbitrary, and the highest scale of tariff known to dust of San Francisco off his feet, sisted him to camp, where he is
the end infamous; but the desired tariff methods is maintained, and according to their say, is Mr. now lying, but is getting along
first rate and in a short time wi]|
result was always attained, to wit: yet the laboring people of that ( has. Crocker, who lias gone
have fully recovered. He oweshjs
The defeat of the choice of tin* country are the most wretched to New Y’ork. But why does life to his companion the dog__
people. The new Congress will ami destitute of any on earth.
Crocker invest millions in C alifor­ Blackfoot (Idaho) Register.
boots and s h o e s ,
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have but a small Republican ma­
Nearly all monopolies are in fa­ nia real estate? Also Stanford. A n r le n t —-----
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jority at most, hence Clerk Adams, vor of a high tariff, yet, when any We note large transactions in city
in imitation of M cPherson, has it particular enterprise they are en­ property by both these capitalists
The work of glaciers, especially
G ro c e rie s ,
the p u t they have played in sculp­
in his power to so tlx the roll as to gaged in is getting squeezed by of late.
turing the face of the earth, is as
aduiit to their seats a majority of
1 rotcction, they set about se­
l’liero has been much conjecture yet but little understood, because
Democrats, w ho will organize by curing a remedy am, how curi-
HARDWARE & DRUGS
the election of a Democratic ou t m ve • ail to get it. W it­ and various conflicting statements they have so tew loving observers
willing
to
remain
with
them
long
S,a»aker and all other necessary ness tin- let up of the Government as to the popular vote in the late
enough to appreciate them. Wa­
officers. After this, tin* Congress on tin ami solder, in favor of the ’residential election, bu t an E ast­ ter rivers work opjnly where
J. B. TICHENOR,
so organized will proceed to try salmon canning interests of the ern dispatch gives the following people dwell, and so does the rain
I lie “ contests," and again follow­ Pacific ( ’oast. Ami let it be statement of m ajorities taken from the dew, ami the salt sea embrac­ N o t a r y P u b l i c
ing the example of the R epubli­ borne in mind that, in the can­ official returns said to be from ing all the world; and even the
cans, never reach a decision. ning industry, all tho pressure of every Sti.t» in the Union: G ar­ universal ocean of air, though
P o r t O r f o r d , C u r r y C o .. O r.
\\ Idle we would regret to see such the tarill is felt by the monopolies, field, 4,439,415; Hancock, 4,436,- invisible, yet it speaks aloud in a
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tactics resorted to by men pretend­ sine«' the price of their products 614; Weaver, 505,729; Dow, 9,044; thousand voices, and explains
scattering,
1,793;
total,
9,192,595.
its
modes
of
working
ami
its
ing to honesty, the country would is wholly governed by the law of
A tto rn e y
at L a w ,
be compelled to recognize a si»e- impply and domain!. The cloth­ Garfield’s plurality over W. K | o ver. But glaciers, ‘ back in
e m p ir e c it y . *
. . . Garfield’s m inor-' t ie,r so h tu . s’ work "part from
cies of poetic justice in the mat­ ing wc wear ami the matches we Hancock, 3,401.
ity
of
the
popular
vote
of
the
Inen’
.
exerting
their
tremendous
ter. But chickcusure pm icrhiallv use, living necessities, are not so
-
.
.
Oregon
silcn™.,u,,i dwknes». Coos County,
said to come home to roost, and governed; if the tariff on woolens country is .imply irn m c n « -
hundred ..... #»„■„ ', ' ’l™ 1'1:■ ’ I’Tit-hk.-. they, brood
this possibility is w ha, seems to operated to reduce the profits of aln >u t five
J. M. SIGLIN,
! above the long predestined land«
d istu rb tho ei|uauim ty of the Re­ the m anufacturers as the tariff on thousand. __________ _
scapes, working 0.1 unwearied Attorney & Counselor at L um
publican louder* ju st now. Prior tin ami solder does to reduce the
Week after week the Oregon
1
’inin^ ’;ured ages, until,
,«> Mi Pherson's time the practice protit on salmon, such tariff would Statesman doses its readers w ith u in
h,llness o f ‘"»e, the moun-
C o o 4 Co« f r e g o n «
had rightly been to place upon the be speedily removed.
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t uns ami valleys and plains are
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'«•'mnm 1. fu.ro,v.-d Will Practice in the Courts of the 8»
'll all members having ccititl-
It :s Haiti that less stealing has
oim I Judicial District.
cati's, and then let the contestants
S.oteli type, th e r e f o r e this in-j the lakes and meadows and long
b»«en
perpetrated
d
u
ring
Hayes’
take car»» of tinnisci ves.
Adm inistration than his predeces­ consistency? If that paper pleads ! deep arms of the sea, soils spread
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that
Scotch
type
is
tin«
cheapest,
h
’r
the
forests
ni
«
1
the
fields-
then
On»» of the courts of California sors. Ami now comes Conkling
Counselor nt I.aw.& N otary Publii
shr n ; and vanish like
hating helil that a legal advertise­ and says tin» reason was, that it knocks the underpinning out of they
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its pro-tariff logic; for it pays an s,immer clouds.—John Muir in
ment published in a paper onlv Hayes* appointees were hedged in im port duty of 25 p er cent, ml va- “Ufornian tor He» ember
partly printed at home was net by a Democratic Senate which de­
I
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s
ltoown, of | Particular Attention paid to La..
legal, a mighty shucking of pat­ clined to confirm tie« worst thieves lore,,, ¡„ ,.„»1,.
Business.
dodge won t do as to the man- Georgia, will favor a law for uni-
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ent outsides took place. The in the lot.
acture of type. The E dinburg versa! national education. He
Suprem e Court overruled tie«
S c rip W a n t e d . •
A very large majority for repu- foundry pays its operative.
| eay. the G overnment, having ma»le
point, however, and now Carlos diati «n was given in Minnesota
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much as American foundries pay. the negroes voters, ought t » make
•V Lite is huppv.
Registered Currv Count; W.
Nov. 2d.
an«! for .some classes of work more, them capable voters.
by
A. J. Eosox.
FEED STABLE
A. D. Wolcott,
DRY G O O D S
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