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JMTRONISE UOME INDUSTRY.
OREGON OITY. MAY IS), 1899.
An lineriain Internal Policy.
Frast -Public ow.ierehlp ot publh fr.tnohlsee.
The valuos croi'od by the community should be
Siiug to the cammuul'.y .
Sbcjond l)J8tr;i illon of criminal Iru.-ts. Ko
ltwviopjlizalion nf the national resources by law
Hew prlvnto combinations mire powerful tlinn
t-lie people's Bovorinn:ut.
Tmu-A gral'.nl jil lueiraaUx. Every olthmi
'to coalrlb'iitii tu tha sujipirt of His govariunuiit c
nirJiu ; to his in miis, n'.il n t ikmt Vuvj t hU ne
cessities. Fourth Elooti.m of senators by the people.
The intiale, now bccoinlUK the private property
njf corporations an J bosses, to be inaJe truly repre
sentative, mid ihet.ite legislatures to be redeemed
)from recurring soiiinliils.
Jimt Nutional, state and municipal Impr ve
vnottt of tlie publlo. utihool syxlom. As the duties
of oitlznusliip urn b it'i i(iieral and local , every
?iivonim botli g neral an I looil, should do
iltsshara toward fittl'ig evary Individual to per
form them.
Sixth 'Jurroncjr reform. All tha nation's
nouey to be Issned by the nation's goveniniTi t,
nnd Its supply to bj rejiilatod by the people and
mot by tbu b.inkM.
Why has the agitation for postal sav
Sngs bnlcs been dropped? Why did not
congress pass the postal savings bank
rbill? Was it becausb the bankers' lobby
Maid no?
It is no.v conoeeded that Win. J
Kryau will be the nominee for president
an 1900.' Of course be will be, and he
will be elects 1, toj in spite of the trust
boodle fund.
Binou the whitewashing of Dojs Quay,
of Pennsylvania, how can a thinking man
iongor doubt that the otirts of that
state are "hypnotized" by the g. o. p.
machine in the interest of the plunder
ers? Gn u tlie people of this nation the ini
tiative nud referendum and retire the
.professional ctook, otherwise known as
the politician, and conditions will in
stantly chance for the be'.terment of the
sraasHes of the people.
Tub great department stores of the
Wg cities that are fast driving tlie one
Jine merchants out of business and into
bankruptcy are a ipecios of trusts that
are more pittnt for evil than many peo-
)le are yet prepared to believe.
Tun gold standard means low wages
and a shrinkage in values. The free
coinage of silver means more money in
circulation, more woik and better wages
Jorthe workingmen and mire demand
at better prices for the products of the
farm, dairy, mills and workshops.
Which do you prefer, Mr. Workingman?
Wiikn some corporation that has sev
eral hundred slaves working for it at
"wages too low to decently starve a man,
say from three and one half to seven
'dollars a week, then raise these wagea
tfrom five to ten per cent, the gold-bug
;press begins to shout prosperity. Oh,
yes, here is an abundance of prosperity
in a rnihe of 35 centa a week.
Tub wealth producers of the United
vStates the laboring people, who pro--duceall
the wealth do not receive at
'the present time over lb" per cent of the
' wealth they annually produce. In 1840,
of the wealth produced by labor, out
t side of tho slave states, laboring people
received (10 per cent. Government sta
tistics prove this. How can there be
general prosperity in a country where a
laborer only receives Hi cents for each
"dollar's worth of wealth he produces?
iSome goldbug please answer.
EviiRY revolution that history reveals
or records sprang from an unjust cen
tralization of wealth and power in the
.hands of a greody few and never in the
history of the world was there such
vast concentration of stolen wealth as
there is today in the hands of a very
ifew people in the United States. Hut
ithis great evil can be remedied without
: bloody revolution of bullets it can be
'-remedied .by the ballots of the people,
provided it is done before the people are
deprived of the ballot .
SlU "'ILI.IAM TiTT, Of England, OllfC
a!fi : "If tlie Americans adopt our bank
i'cjind ftsn'Hri)? i-ystein, their libertif s
ate gone." Well, the Americans didn't
adopt them, but the sell-outs in Chicago
did Tor the price they received.
Uncle Sam paid Spain that $20,000,000
Monday, with no discount for cash.
This recalls a little story. "Jobh," said
Mrs. Hayseed, "we must get something
i-r u iDy to cut Lus teeth on." "What's
the matter with givin' him that gold
brick I bought in New York last spring?
i cut tny teeth on it." Ex.
Wsgive you a quiet tip right now
thai trust-owned g. o. p. bosses will have
the unlimited gall to sail into the next
nati nal campaign on an anti-trust war
cry nd another international hi-metalic
agreement and the trusts will furnish
the hoodie to befuddle all the weak-
minded suckers that will swallow the
bait.
It is a Bhame to the people of this
conntry that the government paid Spain
M.OW.PO-) fir the privilege of wh'pping
the fenrvy little nation. It is bad
enough to fend her lousy, greasy sol
iers home free of charge. It is verv
evident that some unpatriotic American,
a latter-day copperhead, got a good rake
off. Merc trrv.
Tub Oanby Independent was closed
out Wednesday by creditors. There
was eome $500 due the paper, but col
lections were bad and the creditora
teppt'din. The plant is held by Miss
Olfen and the good will, subserintion
list, etc., goes to tho Courier Herald.
The populists ate now forced to fall
bark on the Courier-Herald. J, D. Ste
vens has furnished additional evidenue
that a populist paper will not be sup
ported in this county. Fitch paid for
the same experience. Press.
Goon people, let us remind you o f
this all-powerful fact, no matter what
political party you affiliate wiih just
so long as you elect fleecers to office,
just so long will you be fleced. The
fleecer is the fellow that has been a
standing candidate for any office, in any
party. And the majority of officials now
in office are from the ranks of the
fleecers.
Hon. W. J. BavAN gave those assist
ant republicans calling themselves gold
democrats a hard rap over the noin,
in a very poire way when he said in his
speech at the New York banquet that the
silver republicans who left the party at
St. Louis had not assumed to write
platfouns for the g. o. p. since leaving
1 it i .
ih. vuiuuei nryan nas a way oi saying
things that are both truthful and con
vincing.
CANHY PATER DIES.
Thr Canby Independent like Dun
can "After life's fitful fever it sleeps
well." ISro Stevens finds that run
mug a quarterly in Clackamas county
wont go. W ith Ave hundred dollars on
the books and no payments he has con
cluded discretion the better part of
valor, and will quit. His creditors came
down "like a wolf on the fold" and
closed the scene. Brother Stevens says,
like Hamlet, "the rest is silence."
The subscription list and good will
has been turned over to the Coubieb
Hbkald by the creditors, who recognize
the fact that the Courikr-Hkrald is the
only reform paper in Clackamas county
that can live. This paper will fill out
all paid up subscriptions and collect ail
accounts due, and subscribers that owe
are urgently requested to call and settle
as soon as possible as we need money to
run our paper as badly as Bro. Stevens.
To the Independent subectibers we
extend our hand and hope to merit a
continuance of your patronage. We will
continue to furnish the best paper in
Clackamas county at the same price you
pay for inferior papers, $1.50 per year,
and you will always find us advocating
reforms for the common people without
fear or favor. We have no axes to grind,
neither are we running for office. We
are publishing a newspaper on bus
iness principles while advocating our
principles. Our readers number over
twice that of any psper in the county,
and our advertising columns are more
liberally patronized than any other.
The paper speaks for itself
We have always felt charitably in
clined toward Bro. Stevens, and are
sorry that his newspaper venture was a
losing one. We could have told him so
at the outset, as we have been through
tlie mill ' and know the working there
of. Bro. Stevens did nobly and will, no
doubt, receive his reward in the next
world, but that would not pay his bills
in this world, and he was obliged to sub
mit to the inevitable. This also shows
that a reform paper has no politicians to
depend on or to "whack up" 'till next
election as the g. o. p. organs have. It
now behoves the reformers to unite for
principles rather than party, as "united
we stand, divided we fall."
VLA VKAMAS CO UXTX
HANTS.
tl'A ti
tle inty a pi'emiuinfor warrants.
It will be to your interest to act our
, price before wlUny.
i The Hank of Oregon City,
OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 191890.
bQClALI.SU CUM IS CI.
S. M. .lone', who was recently elected
mayor of To'edo, Ohio, on a socialist
platform over both republican and dem
ocrat candidates, in a recent interview
in New York, said :
"This public ownership will extend to
the state and nation, and 1 believe that
in 19-50 it will hardly be possible to find
a railroad in the country in piivate
hands. Tho telegraph will be the first
to pass into public control. The taxa
tion of the franchises is simply a make
shift compromise. , Development of.the
trusts is the most remarkable feature, in
my opinion, of the closing years of the
century. I don't regard them as bad in
so far as they do away with labor, which
they make useless, so that all can bene
fit, but they benefit only a few; their
organization snd labor-saving machinery
have not made the hours of labor shorter,
nor have they increase wages, and thev
have made it harder fur men to find
Viork."
mayor jones is very conseivaiive
HI 7 , "
when he gives us 50 years in which to
nationalize our public utilities. If he
had put it 30 years he would have been
walking on pretty safe ground.
There is no question before the public
today that is making such rapid growth
as that of public ownership, and all close
observers are well aware that it is not a
spasmodic growth that springs up like a
muehroo.-n and is cut down as easily.
The only thing that has kept it back so
long is the odium which the money
power has succeeded in attaching to tlie
word socialism and the fact that we have
so few men (comparatively) who are
brave enough to champion a cause until
il becomes popular.
Thus it is that the spirit of brother
hood (-ocialism) has been pent up in
the hearts of millions of men and wo
men like a smoldering volcano wailing
for a suitable iime to burst forth, and
the trust era has brought forth that
time.
As we have believed all along, the
giant trusts are blessings in disguise,
proving, as they do, two things:
First, that co-operation is practicable.
Sicond, that it is necessary for tlie
welfare of the human race.
The trusts prove that a few men, by
co-operating together instead of compet
ing against each other, can be mutually
benefitted in the Baving of cost, and in
some instances furnish their product at
a lower price than when in competition.
If this can be done by a few men co
operating, there is no good reason why
all the people cannot, by forming them
selves into a brotherhoo I, work to geth-
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er ior mutual oeneiu ana Happiness, in
stead of continuing this strife for private
wealth and place.
The fact that each week sees thous
ands of men and women turned out into
the streets by the closing of mills and
factories brought about by the organiza
tion of trusts and V e concentration of
capital, only to be added to the already
over-supplied labor maiket, is opening
the eyes of humanitarians as they never
have been opened before, and when they
cast about thein for a remedy, socialiem
(co operation) seems to be the only one
in sight.
The cause is embraced by such noble
and intelligent men and women as Prof.
George D. Herron, professor of applied
Christianity in Iowa College; Prof. Ely,
of Wisconsin University; Ridpath, the
great historian; Mayor Jones, of Toledo;
Governor Tingree, of Michigan; Bev.
Lyman Abbott, D. D., of New York ; B.
Fay Mills, the great Boston evangelist;
Mayor Quincy. of Boston ; Prof. Frank
Parsons, of Kansas Col'ege; Walter
Thomas Mills, of Chicago; Chief Justice
Walter Clark, of North Carolina; the
sainted Frances E. Willard ; Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Ella Wheeler Wilcox and
hundreds and thousands of the grand
est and best men and women of the
world.
None of the persons named are in any
sense politicians except Mayor Jones
and Governor Pingree, and they tower
head and shoulders above the average
politician.
When such men and women take up
and battle for a cause it means some
thing. Even some of the great daily newspa
pers are coming out squarely for social
istic principles. Among these are the
San Francisco Examiner, Ney York!
Journal and Chicago Record.
ben all the editors and preachers
who believe in it but lack the moral
courage to say bo, fall into line, as they
will, the little stream which started
from the fountain head of pure thought
in the mind of the lowly Nazirine 1900
years ago will swell and broaden and
deepen until it will sweep everything be
fore u.
So we need only watch, work and
wait. The leaven is working. "God's
in his heaven; all's well on earth."
Teople are reading and thinking and
cannot be deluded much longer by the
cry anarchy 1 anarchy I
People are beginning to know that so
cialism and anarchy are as far apart as
east and west.
Socialism means government of all the
people by all the people; anarchism
means no government at all. '
Socialism means harmony ; anarchism
means chaos. ,
Socialism would settle all deputes by
ai'Wira'i'-n ; anarchism would settle dis
putes by bloodshed.
In fact, when rightly understood, so
cialism means the brotherhood of hu
manity, the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Pray for it, work for it; wait for it. Al
bany Press.
Our Money System.
Written for the Courier-Herald by Argus.J
In thebe days of evolution? with our
college and university text books filled
with disproved and preposperous theo
ries regarding the ordinary forces of na
ture, but which are upheld for want of a
positive constructive science to replace
them, we should be careful how we ac
cept the so-called financial laws, and es
pecially the fierce dogmatism of the gold
standard.
While it is difficult to get an exact
definition of money and its functions,
we may yet easily understand the nature
and general use of money.
All money can be considered under
two divMons, which we may define as-
"real" and "representative," the essen
tial nature and difference of which must
be understood before we can have any
true conception of the science of money,
Real or aset money, or standard
money, is that metallic money selected
as a standard or measure of rallies. I
Various kinds of material, at different '
limaj l.Ui.a knur, l.o.wl tr.- .kin '
liiiico, iia.o ui,cii u-cu iui una pui pi'OC,
from the sea shells of the aborigines of
Africa to the coon skins of our back-
wood states, but gold and silver are so
much better adapted for this purpose
that their use has become universal.
A recognized ratio of value between
Ihe two nietais was established first by
custom and more recently by law, until
1873. After the adoption of the consti
tution by the United States, it was
found necessary to establish a money of
uniform value to supercede the widely
diversified monies of the different
states.
After elaborate inquiries, a double
standard at the rate of 15 ounces of silver
to one ounce of gold was selected as our
basis of measurement, which, with
slight changes, was in force until 1873,
when the single gold standard was sub
stituted. Representative money, token money,
or credit money, depends for its value
on two things :
1. The metallic rates on which it is
founded. ,
5. The ability of the government to
keep up the parity.
If I own real t state, say a farm, that
farm would be represented by a dud. '
The value of the deed fluctuates with the
value of the farm, but without the estate
behind it, a deed would be valueless.
... Fyc. , wauo iu rep.c-
odiii. iciu uiuiioy, or speu e, wincii may
l II.. . .1 1... . T I
ue caneu nie estate, ji i deposit money
with the bank, I can issue checks for
all or part. These checks may purchase
values and discharge debts, so long aa
the real money lasts, but wiih thetstate
of real money all gone, the checks would
be worthless. A man of large psses
tions of real estate might be allowed to
overrun his account, which would make
a charge on other estate, but this is not
considered good business, as it often
leads to financial difficulties which may
end in bankruptcy itself.
Of courso a large government like the
United Slates has such immense resour
ces in the taxable properties of the peo
ple that in ordinary times of peace its
paper or other representative of money
is never questioned, but as every note or
bond issued is an increased charge on
the taxable liabilities of the people, it is
wise for a government, as for an indi
vidual, to issue no more representative
money than is absolutely necessary with
out the metallic storage to back it.
It is astonishing how many otherwise
intelligent people see no difference be
tween real and representative money.
They look on the dollar and its frac
tional parts as purely abstract in its na
ture, a piece of monetary nomenclature
only, and argue that as the government
can put 57 cents value in a silver dollar,
it could equally put all the value in it.
(Continued next week.)
The Enclyclopielia Britanica says:
"The theory of the intrinsic value of
money has been abandoned by the best
writers and speakers." Certainly it has.
No one but a knave or a tool of Sol
omon Iraac's adheres to the Jerusalem
theory of finance that is advocated by
the republican administration.
What good to humanity can reason
ably be expected to be taught in a col
lege that is endowed by some rich rob
berthat is supported by the money
stolen from laborers by some capalistic
king who allows his slaves to barely
earn enough to feed them and is
backed up in his greed and tyranny by
the state militia or soldiers of the reg
ular army should his slaves refuse to be
plundered? This is a fair question.
Wk have known of some people so bi
ased against free speech and free press
as to refuse to subscribe for or to adver
tise in a newspaper on account of the
views expressed by the editors. One of
the features many people who are only
not posted, object to is the advocating of
the free coinage of silver. Come,
gentlemen, this shows bad for you, for
you will have to take it in 1900, for its
coming aod when it does come it will
be a blessing to you.
A NTT-TRUST LAWS.
Texas has added the most drastic of
all anti-trust me istires to the statutes of
the year. The bill that, has now passed
both houses of the legislature, arid is
now in the hands of the governor, goas
even further tlmn the MUpouri and Ar
kansas laws, being thus described in
the dispatches 'rom the Texas capital :
"It absolutely debars any pool or
trust from doing business in the state
and prevents their goods from being
used in the state, for the reason lhat it
clearly specifies that goods bought from
any trust or corporation which may
prove to be a trust, need not be paid for.
It also provides that no corporation can
fix a price on its goods and force me"
chants to sell at such a price. It pro
vides further lhat pooling is strictly
prohibited and that any corporation
giving away its goods with a view of
crushing competition shall be adjudged
a member of a trust and shall be debar
red from doing business in the Btate."
The measure is apparency severe
enough to accomplish its purposes,,, but
experience witli previous anli-trnst leg
islation does not encourage the expecta
tion that it will turn out to be just wha.t
It seems at first glance. The trusts are
poweiful ; their lawyers are ing-nious
in getting about the legal restrictions,
and the inherent difficulties in the way
of determining what is a trust and what
is uot make it probib le that there will
have to bd a go id dial of experimenting
before the right remedy is found.
The experiments in the virions s tates
are worth close attention. Tlie trust
evil must be met, or the system of indi
vidualism is at an end. The govern
ment must control the trusts, or the
trusts will exercise
i " - i vi -"
people tint no modern government ditre
! attempt to exercise. It is the duty of
uongress and the state legislatures to
act within their respective spheres of in
fluence to surpress the vast combination s
that overshadiw all industry, and
threaten the pa iple an 1 theg)vernin ent
alike. Every step to this cm 1 is to b e
watched with eager interest. The mo st
pressing question of the day is
THE DESTRUCTION OF CRIMI
NAL TRUSTS.
The Bicycle Trust.
New York, May 16. R. L. Coleman,
president of tlie Western Wheel Works,
of Chicago, today rendered his option
lor the sale of tl.e bicycle plant to A. G.
Spalding. The combination being engi
neered by the Spahiings will, by the ac
Spalding, control a large percentage of
the output in tlie United Stat, s. It will
pos8esa facili;ie8 for maki ft lete
( bIcyce evory fiye Beconds,
working ten
1 hours a dav
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The company is financed
by the United States Mortgage and Trust
Company, of this city, and Lee, Higg:'n
son & Co., of Boston. The capital of
Ihe company is to be $35,000,000 pre
ferred stock and $45,000,000 common
stock. Within the next few days 106 of
the manufacturers upon whose plants
Mr Spalding has obtained options will
come here to make their transfers. Af
ter all the transfers have been made the
organization of the new company! will
v,an v i '
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To Albany and return for $1 on May
28. Turners' excursion.
A Good Thing
If you have a good thing the people want it.
Their scales of living is many degrees higher
than their fathers'; they want the necessities of
life to be as good as possible for the money.
MARR & MUIR gives the best groceries at
the lowest price. A penny saved is two earned
.QO TO
G. H.
run
DOORS, WINDOWS, MOULDING and BUILDING
MATERIAL.
LOWEST CASH PRICES EVER OFFERED FOR FIRST-CLASS GOODS. j
ouvp vppmii vong-revntlonal Chnroh, Main
Weekly Oregon
Oregon City Courier-Herald
Lctlcr to reunion Attorney.
.Following is a copy of a letter to
Washington pension attorney from a cli
cut in Clackamas county :
Mr. Stephens, May2'99"
Dear Sir:
Yours at hand you have done jU8t
to snte me we must foller them op
when our legislature makes laws that a
pension come shiner rejects I think they
ought to got put out. Mr. Stephens
they have a new bord of Docters at Ori
gon City I think they are good men and
are Republicans I hope they are better
men than Evans all he cares for is him.
self & the salery he gets lie is going to
hurt our party I now a man near me
that has left the party he sould get an
increas he is intitled to an increas as to
myself I have a very bad back one eid is
decaid fell away so that a person will
notice it through my vest it is no good
I try to work I have to I get tire out it,
the back have to go to bed as to my ail
ments goon shot wound Mi hand broken
nuckle piles rheumatism di-interry quite
frequent kidney truble up from 2 to 4
times a night all so have ba I veins I
think thev are called veracooae I have
had pile every since I cun.e out of the
army lain Doe'nrei, t,!l of the time for
piles h ive o keep a round bu my bark
bothers me most of all b'lt my Didneys
bother n.e a erate M,e (T havo to run
mak water or wet my pants I kan not
hold it) Mr. S I am not a fooling nor
trieing to get an injust pension god nows
I am strate about it I don my duty for
the government & stood up to the rack
A did not show any white feathers when
I was discharged I was o'erd a com
mishionment to went back after I visit
ed my folk & took It but my father was
an oald man he cried & stonk to me so
hard I coold not get back I was hit 3
times in one fight had my gun hit won
& our regtraen went through some hani
fights 1 had the name staing rite with
them I have been allwase sorry I did not
go back & take the comisliion then I
woold of got a pension increase all rite
Milo pleas see Mackinly I have herd
of lincon going to the pension com &
making him git I understand you was in
the war all so was Mackinlew'was there
all so I was there he woold talk to us if
urn I . ,i nnn I. .' p r
..u ..oiiv v.. nro mm oc i am neauing an
I ;nc,ea8 tne lord nows I am entitled to
il 1 wial1 1 had 8taid wit" the oald law I
' novv of ?e man that Kiting $24 Dol
iars inai is oetter than
i oe our oresi-
dent remarked before he was elected
that the oald soldiers ware not geting
here Just dies but I th'nk h"t s for
got I think I have riiten enough to
tucker y u out good by yours &o
Disease of San Jose Ssale.
The Oregon experiment station "has
succeeded in destroying the San Jose
scale by inocul tting it with a fungti3
disease. Pure cultures of this fungis
will be prepared and so far as possible
will be furnished free of charge to those
fruit growers who wish to test this
method of destroying the scale. Full
directions for carrying on the work will
be sent out with each sample of the dis
' Zn, a 7' 7 7 , 6 mateml8
should be made to the Oreeon exnnri-
mnnt nl.ll rfl 11" t
uiDut autiiun, ixirvauiM, ure.
Correct styles and popular prices in
all kinds of millinery. Miss Goldsmith.
BESTOW"
Htreet, Oregon City, Or.
R. L HOLM AN
Undertaker and Embalmei
Carries a complete line of caskets, coffins,
robes, etc. Superior goods, Superiof
services at most moderate prices. Nex'
door to' "straight s grocfRX
Oregon City - - Obmoi
ian and
FOR ONE YEAR
Two Dollars