OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1899. ; OREGON CITY COURIER OREGON CITY HERALD CONSOLIDATED. A. V.CHENEY Publish Legal and Official Newspaper Of Clackamas County. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. K ils.i . In Oregon Oitypofitofflceas 2nd-claBS matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (ia In advance, per year .... 1 50 ix montbi 75 furee moulha'lrial 25 rfv1 uuuutco i uo time bu wuicn yuu uav fiaiu ADVERTISING BATES. Standing buslni w adrertUementa: Per month 1 Inch (1,2 iiit-hea Sl.fiO, 8 Inches II 75, Inches t'Z. 6 Inches I column) 12.25. 10 iiiohesf column) 4, 20 Inches (co uiuu) PS, jea'ly contract! 10 per vent 16MB. Transient advertisements: Per week 1 Inch fiOc. 2 Inches 75c, 8 Inches 11.4 Inches 1 26,8 incnes i.ihj, iu incnet riou, zu menu o Legal advertlnements: Her In h Brut Inser tion SI, tach additional Insertion 60c. AffllavUs or publication will not be furnlahtd until pub lication lees are paid. Local notices; Five cents per line per week per month 20c, PATRONIZE UOMK 1M)USTKT, OREGON OITY, MARCH 31, 1899. To Subscribers. The Oourier-Hkiuld lias put no ac counta in any aval's hands lor collec tion, but we uuderstand Mr Fitch has attempted to collect some of his back accounts in this way. We have nothing to do with these. " The date opposite your name on the paper represents the time to which you have paid. If any errors occur we are ever ready to correct them. It seems to cause we still p'atform. worry the Enterprise be Bland by the Chicago Tpb Couhier Herald has received from Ex-Secretary of State Kincaid a copy of his biennial report. It is bound in morocco (at the expense of the state) and includes much information. The rotten and embalmed beef still stinks, but as yet no move bis been made to call the big plutocrat packers to an accounting: for selling such vile stuff or obr soldiers to eat and what is more no such move will he made by the present administration. The beef trust war too liberal in their donations to Mr. Banna's campaign fund in 1898. . That's why. The tramp is one of the products of the"prntected"mlllionaire trust. Hence, in the large number of unemployed, such blisters as the lying "commercial agencies" of New York see unbounded prosperity in this country for (In trusts. But how about the prosperity of the Fmall manufacturer, the small shop keeper, the miner, the mechanic, and the day laborer, who are idle? i The Courier-Herald has this week moved its oilice to a larger building on the ground floor and added a new elec tric motor, new type and machinery, which was made necessary by the con tantly increasing Uwiness. The people appreciate a good county paper and we come nearer publishing it than any other. It don't cost any more to take the leading paper than it does an infe rior one and our advertising rates are as low as the small organs. It is a painful stu ly to note how aw fully awful generous some of the skin flints who aro so s'ingy that they almost deny themselves a square meal when they have to pay for the same them solves become when they are injected into some oilice where they are em powered with a vote to expend and appropriate public funds. They are then willing to be very generous indeed and more especially so if it is with some contractor who has "seen" them properly. atou this and you will that it is too true to be funny. see It is now given out that Hon. William Solzer, of New York, wi'l be the leader of the democrats in the next congress This would be a happy solution of the democratic muddle in New York and would mean that New York bimetalists were to, in future, ignore such false dic tators as Hill, Oroker, Sheean, Cleve- lanu, Belmont and all such auxiliary ciaiaers of the gold clique. And it might also mean that Congressman Sulzer would be the nominee on the democratic ticket for vice-president in 1900. Bryan and Sulzer would be a winning ticket in 1900, and don't you for get it. ' Hon. Albert Gallatin, who was secre tary of the national treasury under bo'h Jefferson and Madison, from 1801 to 1809, said, in speaking of the power the banks were even then striving to gain in this country: "The right of issuing paper money as currency like that of ..... . ... gold and silver, belongs exclusively to t ie nation " and Thomas Jefferson, hen president, agreed with Mr. G.lla- un, in tins expression: "Bank ramr must lie suppressed and the circulating medium restored to the nation to whom it belongs." But since Markie Hanna's president and Markie Hanna's Gage have control of the Ship of State, they, changed the combination.' BRYAN TO BELMONT. When asked at Chattanooga, Tenn., to state point blank if he would attend the Jeffersonian banquet in New York, William J. Bryan replied : "I will come to New York on the loth of April if it is made distinctly a Chicago platform banquet in honor of Jeffer son." The controversy between William J Bryan and Mr. Belmont, of New York, is growing warm. Mr. Brvan has iust written Mr. Belmont a spirited letter containing all of the correspondence re sulting from Mr. Bryan's letter declin ing to attend the Belmont banquet. Mr. Bryan expected Mr. Belmont to make this public, but he has failed to do so. On that account Bryan's last letter to Belmont was given out Monday night. Mr. Bryan said that he expected to attend the dollar banquet to be given in Ne-r York, if it is held about April 15 but that expensive banquets were injur ing the democratic party. Speaking of Belmont, he said: "It certainly requires a great deal of effrontery and gall for Mr. Belmont an those gentlemen who have always fought us, and who are still our enemies ene mies to our cause and principles to organize a banquet to celebaate the birthday of Thomas .Jefierson and to in vite distinguished democrats from all over the nation to be present and participate with 'them. I have all the respect in the world for those gentle men who have differed with us, but to those gentlemen who are attemptin such enterprises as this I have nothin; to say." SORE II R A D PORTER. The Enterprise last week devoted nearly all its editorial columns to th Courier-Herald. We are surprised to see the great editorial "we" and the jo'nt senator from Clackamas and Ma rion (Clackamas should be omitted as he was not elected in his own county) spend so much of his time and editorial columns in making himself ridiculous because he lost the county printing after having had a la v passed so he could control it. He claims we robbed the county by charging 20 cents for pub lishing the tax list when the last time the Enterprise printed it, it got 25 or 30 cents. We have had a bid on file in the county court records for several years in which we agreed to do all the printing for 25 per cent less than the prevaing rates. Wo are glad to see the county save $2,000 on the printing but th would not h ive happened had Bro, Porter received the job as he expected After the bids of the Press and Courier- Herald were opened, when he-knew 1 could not get it, he made an offer to do the printing for "5 per cent leBs than Chenev's bid." How silly. Just think of a lawyer making such a proposition as he did to the court. Millions of money, and the keenest villians of the lard are even now pledged, and at work, to capture the next national democratic convention in order that the "dead issue," the sil ver or money question may be suitably doctored to meet the approval of the gold clique. The only way to beat those hessians at their dastardly game is to be evorjalort. It is the duty of every loyal bimetalist to be ever vigilant. Com mence the great battle now by being ex acting in every political move, and see to it that no person be raised to a posi tion of trust by your voteB or your voices who was not an ardent surporter of the Chicago platform in ISM- Let no cry of distress from traitors in the camp draw your attention or sympathies from the just cause of the people to the aid of the worst enemy of mankind the gold usurers and national pawnbrokers. Tub Enterprise is making a great noise because a couple of mid llo-of-the- road populists stopped the Courier- Herald and took the Enterprise. Didn't the Enterprise support their ticket in the last campaign? If are- former of any kind can see more merit in Bupiorting a republican paper than a democratic or populist sheet he has a perfect light to do so. But. Mr. Enter prise, when we lose a mid-road sub scriber we gain half dozen independent republicans who can't stomach the or gan of the trusts and grafters. Mr. Porter makes a great bluff by saying he is willing to compare subscription lists with us. This is not a game of poker, Bro. Torter, a you should know by ex perience. If the Cocribr-Herald has'nt two subscribers for every one the Enter prise hat in the county it will quit. To the honest, loyal or concientious man a public office is a position of trust and a sacrifice to any ordinary business. That is, no man who has a fair business or a good situation can afford to assume the duties of a public office without making a sacrifice. It must oe men that the country is not overflowing with prosperity when there o ... (.ivowui, mini, btiere is such a madding rush tor public teats to suck a, there is at the present time, The president had the appointing of 101 appointing of 101 second lieutenants under the new army uiu, nu in lusa man mree week time there were over the 101 "yobs," OlVi annl!,i.il!.Ha V was mt patriotism, but want, caused by gold standard pros- parity, that was the rause of this great scramble for public pie. Who Says General Prosperity Has Not Arrived? Read the following from the San Francisco Examiner. Then, Mr. Farmer and Mr. Laborer, figure how much of these profits you have contributed, and how much is left for . Prosperity forjthe workers, that's different: Tlte Profits of the Monopolies for the Year 1898. Standard Oil Trust. .$103,000,000 New York Gas Com panies 40,000,000 Federal Sieel 20,000,000 Carnegie Co 10,000,000 Sugar Trust 9,000,000 Western Union Tele graph 7,000,000 Tobacco Trust 5,000,000 Pullman Palace Car Company 8,000,000 Bell Telephone Monop oly 5,000,900 Craker Trust 3,500 000 Rubber Trust 8,000,000 Leather Trust 3(4)0,000 General Electric 2.500,000 Tlie Profits of the Miilonaires for the year 1898. J. 1). Rockfeller $30,000,000 Cornelius Vanderbilt.. 20,000,000 W. K. Vanderbilt 20 000,000 Russell Sage 15,000,000 Hettv Green 15.000,000 Wdliam Rockfeller ... 10,000,000 Roswell P. Flower 10,000,000 J. Pierpont Morgan.... 10,000.000 Philip D. Armour...... 10,000000 George J.Gould 10,000,000 John Jacob Astor 10,000,000 D. O. Mills 5,000 000 Charles T. Yerkes 5,000,000 Wm. C. Whitney 5,900,000 H. C. Havenieyer 5 001,000 P. A. B. Widener 5.000,000 W. L. Elkins 5,000,000 Thomas il. Ryan 5 000.000 Anthony N. Brady 5.000 000 John W. Mackny 5,000,000 D. M. Flagler 5,000 000 Nelson Morris 3.500.000 Edwin Gould 3,500,000 Collis P. Huntington... 3,000,000 Ceorge Crocker 3,000.000 W. S. S'ratton 3,000,000 W.W. Astor 3.000,000 The Profits of the Big Railways of the United States..... National and state banks..... 8treet railways Gas companies outride of New York Electric light companies in the United Shipping Steel and iion outside of trusts Flour and feed milling industries. . .. Total TRUSTS. What must be the state of one's mind who has acted with the republican party during the last quarter of a century, when it is getting to be universal.y ad milted that the great trust octopus which has been built up under the fos tering care of the party of great moral ideas, bids fair at the present time to become stronger than the government itself. When we reflect that since the bloody shirt was abandoned, (he great republican party has bad but one issue and that was protection to our infant industries It does seem that anyone with ordinaly intelligence would have seen the unevitabie remit ot sucn a system, and republican leaders can not plead ignorance for this policy was opposed by some of the brightest mi nds in the country, and results at this time are exactly as predicted. The howl at this time by those who see, as did Bel- shazzer, the hand writing on the wall, should deceive no one, and the apparent conversion of some of our so called statesmen should be taken with a great deal of allowance. The irresistable tide of public opinhn is settng strongly against the trusts, and the unity ones are beginning to seek shelter from the c lining storm bv denouncing the trusts as a menace to our government. Our republican brethren should possess their souls in future. They have built up this gigantic oc'opus which will work their n in just as sure as night follows day. The great mass of common people will settle the trust question over the combined opposition of centralized capi tal and the midnight scheming of cor rupt politicians. It is, in leal, a vary unenviable position into which our re publican brethren have fallen, and it is presumed that they really did not know that the diminutive infant industry fowling piece which was loaded for for eign bear would eventually anihilate the party who pulled the trigger. 'Tis sad indeed, to contemplate that the most in teligent, the most patriotic, the most oyal, and the most progressive portion of our matchless American citizenship have met the enemy in their own house hold, and in the language of one of old, they are "his'n. How dearly our sweet-scented admin istration loves its soldiers 1 How much more it loves its soldiers than it does ahylock is shown by the fact that it issues bonds at the command of the lat ter to raise money to pay lor the war and other unnecessary extravagances and the bonds are all paid, principle and suu InU pav di interest in gold. But how different in ing soldiers! Of the three million dollars ju t shipped to Cuba to pay off j the Cuban soldiers, ONE million was in Rom ana me omer i u minions was ' ntm iiiiiil .f oil uup a ra a nil a nKoi .1 .1 silver coins and nickels ! But Mr. Roth- rhilds must have ALL his pay in gold, .Oh! consistency thou art a jew-ol in this gold-bug administration. Lead Trust... 2,000 000 Commercial Cable Company 2,000,000 Wire Nail Trust.... 1,500,000 Malting Trust 1,500,000 Cotton Oil Trust ... .1,500,000 Warehouse Trust ... 1,200,000 Consolidated Ice Trust 1,200,000 Westinghouse Elec tric 1.000 000 8pirits Trust. 1000,000 Starch Trust 600 000 Cordage Trust 500,000 Wall Paper Trust .... 250,000 Total....... $227,250,000 John T. Terry 3,000,000 James J. Hill 2 000,000 John G. Moore 2,0)0,000 James B. Keene 2,100,000 Marshall Field 2,000,(00 H. rl. Rogers'. 2,000 000 W. E. Conner 1,000,"00 H.M-K Twombly 1.000,000 Levi F. Morton 1,1100.000 Ohas. R. Flint 1 000,0)0 Louis Fitzgerald 1,000,000 Thomas A. Edison 1,000,000 August Belmont 1,000 000 O. H. P. Belmont 1,000,0.4) E. H. Harriman 1,000,000 The Seligman family... . 1,000,000 The Wormsei family... 1,000,000 James B. Duke 1,000,000 George Arent 1,000,000 Bravton Ives 500,000 Daniel Lamont 500,000 Emerson McMillin 600 000 Thomas C. Piatt 500,000 Henry Clews 500,000 Total ...$266,500,000 Industries in 1898. $460,000,000 400,000,000 200.000,000 15(1,000,000 States 75,000,000 . 75.000,000 70,000,000 50,000,000 $1,280,000,000 Oh 1 what a fearful change there has been in this great country since it fell into the hands of brigands and robber chiefs the agents of the heartless shy locks. In the year 1842 Charles Dickens visited the United States. He stopped for some time in Boston, and from that city wrote to a friend in London, an fol lows : "There is not a man in this town nor in this stile who has not a- blazing fire, and meat every day for dinner, nor would a flaming sword in the air attract more attention than a beggar in the stieet." Yes, indeed, there has been a change, a terrible change today there are thousands of beggars in the streets of Boston , and every other city in the land j and many thousands there are also with no blazing fires. This is the "progress" being made in this country since its laws are made lor the exclusive benefit of the usurous money loaning classes; and whose commerce is rapidly concentrat ing into the hands of unscrupulous cor porations and soulless trusts. In 184 J there whs no legislation to "strengthen the public credit" by killing off a part of our m n'-y and issuing gold int-rest-bearing bonds to loot the national treas ury with It must have been 'hat let ter of Charles Dickens that put the hum in hveanas on the scent that they have fol'ow-d up with such enormous profit to themselves and misery to mill ons of our people who today have no meat fordinner.no blazing fi'6 at home but are called tramps. What would you think of a farmer or J a merchant who had ten thousand dol lars in money in bank and who would let it lie there for the banker to specu late on or steal; and then borrow another ten thousand dollars to carry on hit business with? This would certainly show that the farmer or merchant had very little personal regard for bis own welfare or that of his family, would it not? Most assuredly it would. But this is precisely what our gold worship ing administration does when it issues bonds for the shy locks and vultures to loot the treasury with and when they Ignore the silver in the treasury and pay all bondholders with gold, which they iasue bonds to purchase Is it not about time to turn the rascals out and put honest men in charge of the affairs of this na'ion? Here's what "Honest Job. " man (as the republicans a i Sher to be proud to call him) says: I do not hesitate to state that this expansion business w ill ruin the Ameri can people, and that the extravagance of the administration will rivn the re publican party. Just think jf it! The debt of the country has b i n increased within the last two years two hundred million dollars. I had hoped to live o see the entire civil wa.' debt wiped out. I have no hone of that now. N. Y. Worii and Courier-Herali $1.85 The Silver Knight-Watchman gives some interesting figures in regard to the ection of 1896. It shows that : "Bryan's vote in 1890 was 946,007 greater than Cleveland's vote in 1892, nd 1,326,817 greater thin Harrison's vote in that election. Mckinley re ceived 602,514 more votes than Bryan. The republican gain was in the states that are dominated by liic banks, cor porations and trusts. Hi.rn-oii'g plu rality over Clcvelan I v. 92 in thestate of New York. Pennsylvania, Massachu setts, New Jersey and- Connecticut amounted to only 21,988, while McKin- ley's vote in those five' states ex ceeded Bryan's by 975.043. Three of these five states gave their electoral votes to Cleveland in 1892, namely, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The vote cast for Bryan outside of New York, Pennsylvania and Connecti cut is larger than that cast for MiKinley McKinley's plurality over Bayan in the whole United States being only 603,514 while his plurality in these threa states foots up 6i7,837. The editor of the Courier-Herald has received an invitation to attend a ban quet under the auspices of the Jefferson ian democratic, club of Oregon at Port land on April 13th. in honor of the birthday of the immortal Jefferson. The Onward Mirch of the Trusts Although the severe weather in the East was calculated to interfere with or dinary business, the sleepless promoters and organizers have kept at work and as a result more trust movements can de recorded : A $2,000,000 print goods trust is form ing to destroy throat cutting. ibe American Kadiator company controlling 75 per cent of output, cap italized at $10,000,001. All threshing machine manufacturers combine with $5,000,000. Ninety-five per cent of paper bag man ufacturers combine; $21,000,000 capital Best lumber mills and timber lands of Maine consolidated by Boston capital ists . Shoe maUil leiy in'eresU in tin E i s combined ; capital, $15,000,000. Clothing manufacturers are planning a $150,000,000 combination. Million-dollar private watchman trust organizing in New York Chicago mdk trust gobbling the milk business in Milwaukee. , Southern Ohio and West Virginia brick manufacturere combine. Malt trust absorb eight independent concerns and strengthens its monopoly Fifty of the largest plumbers' supply manufacturers forming $50,000,000 trust - A new trust of agricultural imple ment manufacturers is1 bein j organized All the bridge builders of the country are forming a $40,0:10,000 trust. The Denver street railways have com bined. An electric ship company, with $10 000, 000 capital, forme 1 in N-iw Yo k The ribbon manufacturers of New Jersey have combined. . Besides these c imbinatio is others are forming in Cuban tobacco, soap, chem icals, groceries, oilcloth and linoleum duck suiting manufacturing, salmon fishing, steel ship building, steam engine building, and lighting and hea ing. Not only will the small independ'n concerns be forced out of exis'e nee, but at least one fif-h (about 75,03 )) of the selling agents have been displaced , and more are b'ing forced out 'daily, with the result that the hotel propriet ira are being pinched and the weaker ones driv.-n towards rain. The big item of advertising '8 be'ng retailed as the tru4s become stronger, and printing bosses say that tha future is not very bright. In other lines was'e is also dis appearing. Prosperity Notes. A coal miner's strike is on in th Indian Territory, and a coal famine is probable if the differences are not ad justed soon. By a new system intro l'ic td by the owners of the new Boston union depot one man will switch '750 trains daily. It is such silent revolutions that is re ducing the number of railway employes. The beef packing industry of the United States is to be consolidated. The Armours, Morris and Swift plants will be the main spring. The principal smelting companies of the country are to be consolidated with a capital of $.50, 000,000. At Baden, Switzerland, 1,000 metal workers are on a strike because the em ployers discharged the) secretary of the labor union without good reasons. The Chicago banks have recently adopted the policy of charging $1 a month to customers who keep a running deposit account of not more than $300. With a capital stock of $54,000,000 the Union Gas company has been organized to control the natural gas wells and plants in Ohio, Indiana, and Southern ' Illinois. Since Birmingham, England, has mi, una 1 taken over the gas works, in 1875, the municipality has received in net orofits the sum of $3,250,000, besides building a $200,000 art gallery and liquidating a tnAiv r.u u j sura of $1,4 000 of the borrowed capi- tal. The price of gas has also been re- duccl 25 cents Der 1.000 Ue' and the men emploved have received an advance of wages all round, an t hV4 hit tin hours of labot reduced from 12 to eight per day. The case in which a non-union San Francisco printer secured $1,200 dam ages because he was forced out of a job will be carried up by the union. Labor pipers on the coast agree th.it if tha case U finally won by the scab plaintiff, unions might as well disband, for every organization can be proceeded against in a similar manner. Thj contest is a momentus one and is being watched with intense interest by laborer and capitalists alike. The city council of Danville, Va., decided to reduce the price of gas from $1.25 to $1.00 per 1,000, from April 1. next, and a reduction of 25 per cent will be given all consumers paying their bills on or before the fifth of eyery month. The city owns and operates the plants. Alexandria, in the same state, has been making its own gas ever since gas was first used in this country, having established one of the first plants. Serious Crisis in Jamaica. NEW YORK, March 29. Special dis patch to the Herald from Port Antanio, Jamaica, save: This island is passing through a severe crisis. The governor is afraid lo occupy his residence, and if anarchism does not break out it will be entirely due to the unequaled loyalty of the peoile. Though the island is taxed to its ut most capacity with a tariff of 60 per cent on necessaries, a weak government, in order to provide funds to prevent the teductionof its members' salaries, has actually introduced a higher tariff. The salaries of the Jamaica officials amount to nearly 50 per cent of the revenue col lectible. The people, while willing to cupport hese officials, have not the means to do it. The home government will not permit contervailing duties, and thus the sugar industry is crippled. Coffee can find no market owing to the enormous output of the world, and banana-growing is the only industry to which the people can look as 'a means of support. Dependence upon this article will soon be impossible. Jamaica wid then be driven by the British government to anarchism or, perhaps worse, rebellion. The island parliament is in session, and the people's representatives are fighting hard to throw out the tariff bills as a measure of relief, and as the government side is further strengthened by an additional four members to out vote the people, it will Bucceed. The whole country is aroused and indignant. The governor is afraid to remain at his residence. He is always traveling away from it, and today he is nn Icr the pro tection of the American Aug, being a guest of the president of the Boston Fruit Company, at this place. MARKET REPORTS. PORTLAND. (Corrected on Thursday.) Flour Best $2.903.20 ; graham $2.65. Wheat Walla Walla 5657c; valley 58c; bluestone 5960c.' Oats White 444-5c; gray41 43c. Barley Feed $22; brewing $22. Millstuffs Bran $17; middling $22; shorts $18; chop 16. , Hay Timothy $S9; clear $73; Oregon wild $6. Butter Fancy creamery 50c; sec onds 4045c; dairy, 3242c: store. 2027c. Eggf 13c. Poultry Mixed chbkins $44.50; hens $4 506; springs $45.50; geeae $68; ducks $'7; live turkeys 12 13e; dressed, 1416i. Che se Full cream 120 per pwnd; Young America loc. Potatoes Burbanks $1.S01.75 ; Early nose fi.zotgi.ou; Siveeta 2(g2o per pound. Vegetables Beets 90o; turnips 75o per sack; garlic 7c pr lb; cabbage $1.25 160 per 100 pounds ; cauliflower 7dc per dozen; parsuips 75c per sack; celery 707oc per dozen; asparagus 67c; peas 67c per pound. Onions 75cl. Apples $1.25$1.75. Dried fruit Apples evaporated 45J sun-dried sacks or boxes 33c ; peara sun and evaporated 56c ; pitless plumB 5Jic; Italian prunes 34c; extra. silver choice 56. OREGON CITY. Corrected on Thursday. Carrots, parsnips and beets are in brisk demand at lc per pound. There is also a lively demand for eggs. Wheat, wagon, 62c. Potatoes, $1.20 to $1.35. ' Eggs, U to 15c per dozen. Butter, 30 to 50c per roll. Onions, 70 to 90c per sack. Dried apples, 4 to 5c per pound. Dried prunes Italians, 3ic; petite and German, lc. Green apples, 85c to $1.25 per box. Two Mllllona a Tear. tivi . . U iun n.,n . V. .. . 1 i . ,t nX&ZltfUffi of the United States are now buying ! Cascarets Candy Cathartic at the rate of 1 fw ra,,h"n bo" a ?MJ " fill be lhree million before New Years. It j mean8 merit proved, that Caecareis are the most delightful bowel regulator for ' everybody the year round. All druw. 8'8ls 10' 50u box cnre guaranteed.