OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1899.
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OREGON OITY, APRIL 28, 1899.
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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
The following is given as one of the
letters of the French diplomat, Talley
rand, which was not to be published for
fifty year. afler his death, and shows
how we were judged by Europeans and
the similarity between their opinion oi
us and our opinion of the Philippines:
"Paris, November 25, 1872.
"Drar Friend: You have doubtless
heard of the arrival of Mr. John Adams,
who claims to be an envoy of the Amer
ican people, but is, of course, a mere
txl of that ambitious soldier of fortune,
Washington,
1 We are making history to day, and it
will record the disgraceful policy of the
novornment in completely abandoning
French sovereignty in the American col
onies, wrested by France from the grasp
of England. You will ask why the tri
umph of our army and nary, and not
least of all our diplomacy, should have
such a miserable result.
"First, this M. Adams, who to the
manners of a Cossack joins both rugged
talents and 'Yankee' (shrewdness, ap
peals to French honor. He claims that
M. de Lafayette assured the rebels that
his majesty would allow thorn to estab
lish their independence, nut merely of
England, hut of all governments such as
are recognised among civilized nations.
Such an assurance would be quite char
acteristic of the Quixo'.io marquis, but
he neither ullirms nor denies making it,
probably following soma one's advice,
(on croit qu'il suit un conseil)
"Then the envoy skillfully toucheB
tho chord of sentiment, especially when,
among his friends the deciples of Uous-
reau, he quotes from the 'Declcration of
Independence' that governments 'derive
their powers from the consent of the
Bovernod.'
"What madness to pretend to govern
with abstract ideas, rhetorical generali
ties, and incomplete notions of equality 1
(Quelle demence de pretender gouverner
par des abstra ctions etc.)
'These sophistries are always on the
lips of subverters of social order.
"Caloniio says that M. de Lafayette
considers chivalry a part of the law of
nations, ami we all know that such the
ories hold iii in posession of his wooden
head.
"But M. Adams reaches the climax of
impudence in asserting that the ragged
and half starved guerrillas under Wash'
ington, armed with rusty firelocks aud
pitchforks, except a small neelous
equipped by our liberality, overcame the
deciplined for ces of England. While
it seems to be true that the English
(with a view, doubtless, to render our
position harder made some important
surrenders to the rebels in the absence
of our forces, yot all was due to the in
tervention of France, and it was an act
of treachery to deny her sovereignty.
In fact, it has always existed, by virtue
of the discoveries of Cartier.
"But, in addition, the interests of hu
manity required that we take posession
and gu.tranteo to the ignorant and
tlisorderly population, so long in a
chronic state of rebellion, the blessings
of a stable govemmen. They aro widely
eeperated, dissimilar and discordant
communities, few of which could govern
themselves under any circumstances
and an independent nation composed of
Bitch element is an Utopian dream
If left to themselves they would degen
erate to the condition of the aborigines,
Illint Indians, but they will doubtless
full a prey to some nation not possessed
of the fantastic notions of honor which
isoem to inspire M. de Vergenues.
Faithfully yours,
M. Dk Talleyrand.
TO THE POINT.
The democratic party needs no advice
from KUi h renegades as Belmont, Croker,
lull, Uutterson or any ot the balance of
the little band of skulkers who assisted
in the election of McKinley.
Oh yes, no one doubts but the beef
was rotten but how about the in vet li
gation and the administration who ap-.
pointed them ? Have you heard of any
of the rich packers being prosecuted?
Well hardly I
Why is not a silver dollar coined by
the United States as good as a piece of
paper issued by the government, which
compels all the people to pay interest to
enrich a gang of non-Droducinz Darisites.
who buy up congress to legislate for
their benefit? Let some friend of the
gold buzzards please answer.
One of the most exacting of the many
robber trusts in this country, and ore
which many of the newspayers never
allude to, is the typi-fouuders trust,
which controls all the type founderies in
the United States as regards prices.
The price of type is more than double
what it ought to be compared with the
p ice of labor and material.
So Mr. Hanna denies that he had a
finger in the rotten beef contracts. We
believe him. If he had had the deal to
make the soldiers would not have gotten
even embalmed beef. He would have
swiped the whole thing.
Tho appetites of the New York bank
ers has grown so ravenous on g-eed that
they have just "made anothur law" by
which they propose to skin all the vic
tims who do business with them, bv
charging a "pun tdient" for paying all
cheques or drafts from the corn buskers
of other states. This is another of the
'laws" made by the New York bankers
who aie getting moie and more raven
ous. In short, it is another trust.
If there yet be those folk who make a
pretense to be intelligent or progressive,
and still claim allegiance tothegrandf ?)
old republioan party; we desire to call
their attention to the fact that the bosses
of the g. o. p. no longer depend on the
intelligent voters for votes. The repub
lican leaders cater solely to the most
beastly ignorant foreigners and niggers.
For proof we reprint the headlines over
a column of gush and slobbers in a re
cent issue of the Saint Joseph, Missouri,
Herald, the lending republican newspa
per of north Missouri. It has no use for
the white man. H slobbers luciously
over the nigger though for his vote.
Here are the headlines: "A unit for the
ticket negro voters in mass meeting
assembled express themselves republi
can victory assured Large outpouring
oi Colored voters at Central Music Hall
last night and enthusiastic expressions
in favor of the election of the republican
aldermanic candidates," etc. But the
colored vote slipped a cog and democrats
earned the election.
It may be "just the thing" for reform
orators, candidates and would be candi
dates to attend and toot their bazoos at
luxurious and costly banquets, while
tlu y are at the same time aware of the
extreme misery that prevails in this
land, and of the thousands of poor peo
ple who would be glad to have the
crumbs that fall from the table of such
political love feasts. Yes, it may be just
the proper caper for the aristocracy;
but we are candidly of the opinion that
the honest reformer is sadly out of place
at these Belshazzar feasts.
Did you ever give the national bank
statements, which are published semi
occasionally, any attention? If not, do
so in future, and you will observe that
the banks in this country have about
Ave or six times as much money loaned
out, on which they are receiving in
terest, as there is in existence in this
country and this is not all; the greater
part of it belongs to their depositors
and tho latter get none of the interest.
Oh, this banking business is a finegratt,
the way it is now conducted and yet the
man is called an anarchist by the gold
bug press who denies the banker priv
ilege of issuing and controlling the vol
ume of money in circulation in the
United States.
A conservative estimate of the amount
the railroads of this country piy to our
law makers, to corporation attorneys
and to judges, lobbyists and political
wire-manipulators in the way of free
passes amounts to more than one bun-
1. . 1 tin lit
urea muuon uouars a year, Is it any
wonder that both passenger and freight
rates are kept so unreasonably high
And all this enormous sum. too. in ad
dition to the princely salaries paid their
attorneys and lobbyists in cash.
The sentiment against the imperialism
of the gold-grabbing administration is
growing very fast, even in the ranks of
the republican party. Many prominent
republicans being the most outspoke
against such an un-American policy.
The Id to 1 issue is gaining ground
every day. In his famous speech at the
lopeka, Kansas banquet on the 30th of
March, Hon. J. W. Bryan Baid: " fl
are not only holding our own, but we'
are getting back those democrats who
left us without fuily understanding the
nature of tho struggle." And in. addi
tion to those democrats, many republi
cans who were bacely deceived by the
international monetary confidence game
played on them by the present adminis
tration, are joining the ranks of the
only party that advocates an American
system of finance for the American people.
In all parts of t his country it is the
poorer c'ass, but pre-eminently the
most intelligent and loyal class of vo
ters who favor the restoratian of the
free coinage of silver. It is true, there
are many paupers who shout Wd and
long against the silver cause but they
are Ignorant of what they are doing
ignorant because they are partisan blind.
Show them their duty, educate them in
patriotism to themselves, their families
and their country; and then they will
Bee their error and the cause of . their
poverty. Show them, that the single
gold e andard is a conspiracy that bene'
fiti none but the money speculators and
gamblers, who are the most wolfish en
emies and brutal oppressors of the hu
man race, and are absolutely void of
patriotism their whole aim and appe
tite is greed. Most men aie honest,
when once they understand the situa
tion. The recent munlcip.il elections have
shown encouraging and healthy demo
cratic gains especially in such republi
can strongholds as Ohio the earthly
home of King Hanna the first and his
puppet president. Surely the people are
awakeniug to the fact that g ild stand
ard, imperialistic, trust breeding repub
licanism must be suppressed if our
gove. nment is to survive .
There is a law in the United t.us
s tatutes which reads as follows : "Every
contract, combination in the form of
trusts or otherwise, or conspiracy in re
straint of trade or commerce among the
several states, or with foreign nations, is
hereby declared illegal. Any person who
shall engage in any contract or engage
in any such combination or conspiracy
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemean
or, and on conviction thereof shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000,
or by imprisonment not exceeding one
year, or by both of said punishments, at
the discretion of the court." But in the
very face of this "law," a goldized re
publican administration has been the
most prolific incubator of robber trusts
and combines the world has ever seen.
Since the advent of the advance agent
into the White House there has been
more than two billion dollars of capital
aggregated together into one hundred
and fifty Bix combinations that now con
trol most of the necessaries of life in this
country. What is the matter with the
United States Attorney General? Has
he ever caused any of these trust pro
motors to pay the fine or serve term of
imprisonment? Well, not that any one
has heard of.
EXPANSION'S DARK SIDE.
The Seattle, Wash., Argus, one of the
ablest and staunchest of the republican
lournals of the coast, prints the follow
ing editorial :
"The death of Captain George II. Fort-
son, which occurred Sunday in the fight
near Manila, will have the effect of mak
ing Seattleites think as they never
th.ou.jrht before on the subject of expansion.
"One is apt to pass with a sitrh the
death of a regular soldier one who un
dertakes the perilous duties of defendine
his country as an occupation. When
one of the brightest young men in the
state of Washington, a man who took uo
arms in the defense of his country in the
hour of need, leaving the bosom of his
family to go where duty called, falls in
an encounter with a horde of ignorant
cattle, the matter is presented in a dif
ferent light.
"For what did the Washington volun
teers enlist?
"Did these young men sacrifice every
thing, even, perchance, life itself, in or
der that this country might 'expand'
and give the capitalists and the trades
men greater opportunities for gain?
"JSo I The Stars and Strines. the flau
that every true Americanloves so dearly,
had been insulted, and it was to wipe
out this insult that they answered their
country's call.
"If Uncle Sam was not sreat enough
to hold the Philippines without calling
on volunteers to do the fighting, then
he had no business to undertake the
task."
Bho. Porter is crowing now because he
pays more tax on his newspaper plant
than the writer. His plant was assessed
for $800 when it had a mortgage on it
for nearly $4000' Some one either mis
represented the value of the plant to the
assessor or to the mortgages. There's
another thing also. The Enterprise has
an antiquated press that cost twice is
mnch as the Courier-Herald press and
will not do half the work. It has an
eight-horse power motor to furnish pow
er when we do more work with one. If
the plant of the senator from Marion
county had been assessed at 5 of what
different politicians had paid for it he
would pay more taxes than hedoesnow.
You'll find out sooner or later that it
does not pay to missrepresent things,
Bro. Porter.
Which One Shall it Be?
Editor Couribr-Herald.
From now until November, 1900, im
perialism and republicanism will wage
a hotter war against each other than
ever before in the world's history. The
United States will be the battlefield.
All the civilized nations of the earth will
be interested spectators. The friends of
both political elements in the old coun
tries will, while watching this great
struggle, give every assistance that is in
their power to give. This coming cam
paign will be the greatest epoch of the
world's history, or the beginning of that
epoch. The spirit of popular rule that
has prevailed in our government up to
within a few years will be restored, or
hopelessly crushed during the next
twenty months struggle. If the repub
licans are successful in 1900, the money
power will be so strongly entrenched
that the common people will never have
the power to rid themselves of the prin
ciples of imperialism that will be in
fused into our body politic. A greater
crisis, a greater danger never confronted
a long suffering people. How will we
meet this danger? United we stand,
divided we fall.
The populists, the democrats, the
silver republicans all struggling for, pri
marily, the same economic principles,
and at the same time fighting one an
other. The three parties have been to
some extent excusable. The republican
party used to be the party of the people.
The democratic party, also, use 1 to be
for the people. The money power has
dominated both parties in the past.
While the money oligarchy was control
ing both ptrties, many goo 1 mau from
both old ptrties organized new parties.
The new parties were ridiculed, slan
dered and boycotted. When thesj
methods failed to break down the re
form element, traitors were paid to get
among them and sell out, or to incite
divisions and strife. The old greenback
party was broke down by traitors. The
prohibition party was taken control
of by the whiskey power. The union
labor party was disrupted by enemies of
the reform movement.
During all these years wealth was con
centrating into ths hands of a few men.
Poverty was spreading faster and faster.
Discontent was growing in both the old
parties. The populist party was organ
ized. Reformers rushed into it. Broken
hearted republicans, with shattered
fortunes and empty purses, tore them
selves away from old party associations
and joined the new party of the people.
Democrats, Lh swelling hearts and
shrinking fortunes, with many a sad
sigh, turned away from the grand old
party their fathers had taught them to
revere. They flocked in large nam
bers to the ponulist party. The money
power grasped the republican party,
It was, and is entirely dominated by the
imperial money power. The democral'e
party was not so entirely in the hands
of the money power. A mighty conflict
is going on in the grand old party of the
people. The new populist party is
growing rapidly, being fed by heteroge
neous elements from all the politica
schools. Before the contending ele
ments can adjust themselves to the new
associations, the greedy cormorant sees
his opportunity and hurries his emissa
ries inlo the ranks of the new formation,
and confusion immediately follows. De
feat is the inevitable result of confusion .
But the people have another army in
the field where a m!ghty battle is
raging; the grand old democratic party.
While hoary headed, crimson handed
imperialism is bending his energies to
subdue the new populist army, the old,
regular democratic army is gaining a
signal victory of driving the traitorous
usurpers from its ranks. A signal vic
tory, not a complete one, was gained,
and old glory was sesa waving once
more over the bulwarks of the venerable
old dtmocracy. Do our eyes deceive us ?
Where is the "stuffed prophet?" Be
hold, he is not there. Where is Shy
lock, demanding his pound of flesh?
He, too, has been driven out, but some
of lr.s lieutenants have been overlooked,
and they remain to breed dissensions.
Reinforcements from the populist ranks
are hurrying to join the forces of the re
formed democracy under the general
ship of the young and gallant boy orator.
The great "stuffed prophet" takes up
his headquarters off a little to one side
of the imperial army, calls his battered
cohorts around him, rends the air with
his curses, claws his bald head with his
wolverine nails, and sputters and splut
ters until he exhausts himself in his
frantic rage. The two mighty forces
meet iu mortal conflict. The political
and social earth reels and quakes under
charge and counter charge of the con
tending forces. They sway too and fro,
fierce and wild the battle storm rages ;
fiercer and wilder until, in a last effort,
terrible and awful in its exhausting
death throes, it becomes necessary to
retire in order to recuperate the wasted
energies of the exhausted forces. The
man of destiny(?), the advance agent of
prosperity (') has gained a temporary
victory. One mighty battle has been
fought. The storm clouds of another
mightier and more terrible are gather
ing. . What shall be the align
ment of the allied forces of the people?
Shall there be one, tw3, or three divis
ions of this great army? Shall one gen
eral, two generals, or three generals
command the forces of the people? Of
course only one is best. One general
commander, one general headquarters,
one united effort will accomplish muc h.
W.C.
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