OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 26 1899.
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PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY.
CITY, M I Y 20, 1899.
An American Internal Policy.
Fmsi Public ownership of publio franchises.
The values created Jiy the community hhould be
Joug to the caminunl'.y.
Skcosd Daslructlon of criminal trusts. No
Knopoll!'itlon of the national resources by law
Icse private combinations more powerful than
i'Slie people's governmsnt.
Thiu--. gralukted iiioinelax. Every oltizon
1 So coutiliMteto the suppirt of the governm mt ac--eonHni
to his m;ans, an) n H aojor Jlng t) lib ne
TOssltleg. Iouktii Klootlon of senators by the people.
Too senate, now becoming the private properly
Vt corporations aud bosses, to be made truly repre
sentative, ami the state legislatures to be redeemed
from recurring scandals,
flFrH Nutlonal, state and municipal Impr vc
eent of the publlo sehool system. As the duties
of citizenship are b t li general and local, every
jwernm nit, both gmeral and local, should do
Iteshare toward Bttl ig evjry Individual to per
form them.
SiXTiifiurrericy reform. All the nation's
Knney to bo issued by the nation's governuien t.
Hid Its supply to be reflated by the people and
lot by the banks.
Bad beef, bad whiskey, and bad po',i
lies are making iurouds on the popula
tion. The follow that talks the most ahout
''honest money" is neually the biggest
tax dodger,
The commonest enemy we know is
the fellow that is trying to deceive you
with promises.
Tim bunkers seem to think bank pa
per money a mighty good currency, but
government paper money, oh my I
Twenty million dollars for ten mil
lion people looks like a bargain-counter
price, but the Filipinos lire dear at that
price.
The men who "know all about fi
nance" simply copy the errors of the
past, I men use it is money in their pock
I'tB to do so.
A man mny possess the right to vote and
yet be au industrial slave. A man in
debt is a slave just to the extent of hia
indebtedness.
rtiiii.ic sentiment is in favor of the
lection of United States senators by the
people, but itdont seem to be exerting
itself very much.
The most prosperous period in the
history of this country was when there
was no gold or silver in circulation;
only paper money.
Tub United States has spent $;!00,000
000 on war in a little over 12 months
Just passed. The army has lost
more
men than it has killed.
Why dont they put salt on Agitinal
do's tail, if they want to catch him?
He's been "salted" twice with Spanish
gold, and might be caught again.
Gov, Pinukek makes a fine plea for
Ihe republican party to be good, but he
night as well plead with the devil. The
republican party thinks it is good now,
and it is to the corporations and trusts.
The JiiDanese language does not con
itin a single cuss word. That Is pretty
gold evidence that they have never vot
ed for a man like Cleveland, nor eaten
rmued army beef of American manufac
ture. Simultaneously with the increase of
wages of the employes of the tin trust
ten per cent, the price of its goods was
advanced 100 per cent. That uuy be
considered as a beautiful exampliflcation
of "preserving the equities," with
'downweight" in favor of the trust.
It is estimated that the Spanish war
Will cost us about $500,000,000. Suppose
we had paid out that amount in this
country to have good roads built. It
would have given employment to the
thousands of poor men aud put money
in circulation that woulp have leiulted
in some real prosperity. But, no, wo
must kill a few people and get Utile
glory.
Ir would he in'eresting ti know if Alger
ever taste 1 any of that army heef.
During the last six years the interest
ing debt of the U. 8. A. has jumped
from $585,000,000 to $1,200,000,000, and
the interest charge has increased $14,.
000!
Tub first fruits of imperialism a cen
sored cable to Manila to prevent the
American people from receiving any in
formation regarding conditions there,
and censored mails in the United States
to prevent Americans in the Philippines
learning the opinions of the people at
home,
me traveling salesmen wno were so
solicitous in 1896 to have money that
fill. - A li , .
was good all over the .world, but have
since lost their jobs on account of the
formation of trusts, would undoubtedly
rather have their j ibs back again and
take their pay in money that wag good
in this country. -
Some fellow who has a most delight
ful "pull," a lovely lead pipe cinch on
the administration, has a contract for
shipping wo xi to Cuba for l lie use of the
government, at flj a cord. Wood is
plentiful in Cuba and could be supplied
at i o' more than $2 per cord, but our
Uncle Sam is such a generous old cuss!
The average American workingtnan
is a gny bird. He gives more than half
the producis of his labor away in order
lat he may vote a straight ticket for
the grand old party, and the privilege of
working some more, lie's the softest
inp on two continents und so green
that the devil will hve to dry hirn a
thousand years before he will burn.
The board of iDquiry says :
"The beef was good."
"Eagan bought too much of an un
tried ration."
"Miles is a liar, Alger is an angel."
"The beef contractors were patriots."
"The soldiers were traitors to their
country for refusing to eat the beef."
We are in favor of tl.o initiative and
referendum first, last and all the time,
but we don't like the idea of being
turned ovei to the republicans because
they passed a constitutional amend
ment favoring such at the recent session
the state legislature to catch votes
and fool the fool people at the next elec
tion.
The average voter is a sort of a jase-
ack for the politicians to ride. Ha was
just as enthusiastic in supporting Cleve-
ind us he was McKinley, because the
politician was in the saddle and putting
ne spurs to iuuv. It all meant the same
thing to the politician office. The vo
er never reaches that part of the lane
where promises leave off and perform
ances begin, but he keeps pegging away
aim voting er Hiraiglll. Dully DOy, is
he.
The gold bug iaction of the g. o. p,
saem to be willing to waive every thing
they nave contended for if they can sue
ceed in gottinga law passed making all
contracts heretofore payable in money
payable in gold. Poor deluded lunatics,
know you not that if debts cm
ba made payable in one com
nudity the way is clear for making
them payable in all commodities.
thus eliminating money entirely
and getting back to the barter system
of exchanging value for value direct.
1
This is not a pleasant picture to contem
plate coming as it does from the so
called brainy men of our matchless
American financiers, but it is nothing
more than could be expected from a
class of brainless idiots who immagine
that a nice little shell game like the
present national banking system could
become a perpetual institution .
Over Semitlve.
Oregon City, Or., May 6, 99'.
Editor Courier-Herald:
On the editorial page of the Courier
Hkrald of yesterday, I see an allegation
that murder is being committed daily in
the Philippines, and that the adminis
tration is "propigsting" a brutal policy
of tyranny.
Now I have a son in the Philippines
who is a party to this illegal murder a
party in the enforcement of this "brutal
policy of tyranny." Iam proud of the
boy, and proud of the fact that he is
there, doing his part of what the ad
ministration desires to accomplish.
In my judgment the sentiments ex
pressed in the said editorial, are per
nicious, and should be condemned by
patriotic citizens, and I bave no use for
paper engaged in this dissemination.
You will please discontinue the Oour-ier-Herald
to my address.
Respectfully yours,
J. W. Norris, M. D.
The above communication shows what
a foolish view people, that are otherwise
intelligent, take of certain events. The
article mentioned did not in any way re
flect on any one personally, and referred
in a general way to the un-American
policy now being pursued in regard to
the Philippine, and there was no fiction
about the article either, and the facta
are a we stated. We have nothing to
say against the boya that are lying down
their lives for their country at the re
quest of a boodle government policy.
NO ROYALTY FOR AMERICANS.
Andrew Carnegie announces hit re.
tirement from business, having sold his
iron industries to the great steel com hi
nation for one hundred and fifty mil
lions. Tins amount he mve?ts in first
mortgage bonds of the combine at 5
interest, which will produce him an in-
tumo ui 9 ,ouu,uuu a year, or fZU.UUU a
day, which is a pretty good salary to do
iiothing being 150 times as much as
the president of the United States re
ceives. It is a sum greater than is paid
to the kings of Bavaria, Spain, Servia,
Wurtemberg, Saxony, Roumania, Port
ugal, Norway, Bweeden, Greece, Den
mark and Belgium, COMBINED, and
Carnegie would have enough left to pay
the salary of every president on the face
of the earth ! That is what the fools of
America pay to one man, and not the
richest one by any means. And yet
these fools would never, never, never
submit to support royalityl But this
speculation in comparative royal in
comes was not what I started to call
your attenuaii to. It was this that
struck me so forcibly -when I read the
dispatch refeiing to the deal by which
the Carnegie properties passed into the
hands of the trust. The situation is,
that Carnegie had possessed himself of
the position to tax the people to the ex
tent of millions a year. The combine
wanted to exercise this power and they
bought the power of Carnegie, paying
him $20,000 a day for all time to come ,
he and his heirs, fer the privelege.
They expect to tax the people to pay
thin and a profit for themselves on tup
of it. Carnegie simply sold the privilege
of taxing the people only that and
nothing more. Just as kings sold the
privilege of taxing the people to
the highest cash bidder, which was the
cause of the Wyat Tyler insurrection in
England and all other revolutions.
When you come to consider that the
steel trust is capitalized atone thousand
millions (one billion dollars) and that
Oaruagie's contribution to is less than
one sixth of the whole, you will com
prehend to some extent, if you have a
mathematical turn of lniod, what this
one trust means in the way of taxing
the people. It will suck from the labor
of the people of the Jnited States more
money than all the kings, emperors,
dukes, lords, barons, presidents and
royal families on earth suck from the
world's workers 1 The robbery of roy
alty sinks into insignificance beside
this one trust. And then to know that
the copper trust is of the same size and
power and that there are over 4 JO other
trusts, you must be dull indeed if you
cannot Bee where this thing is leading
to. All these vast, incomprehensible
incomes could be saved to the people if
it some scheme to rob the industrious or
divide up the property, of which it is
neither. It will not take many years at
the present rate of combination to so re
duce the people to poverty that they
cannot stand the private ownership of
industries, even if they would. There
fore let us rejoice that the concentration
is making such rapid headway, because
it will shorten the time and lessen the
sum of human misery. Incidentall,
Carnegie announces his intention of re
tiring from commercial affairs and de
voting his life and fortune to philan
thropy and the fighting of trusts. All
of which can be taken with more or less
salt but time will tell whether he
means it or has the intelligence to com
prehend the only remedy. And we are
nearing the Twentieth Century. Ap
peal to Reason.
Why?
EOITOR-COURIER-H ERAI.D.
Why do rich men generally cleave to
gold standard, aud persistently oppose
free silver coinage and clamor for the
destruction of the greenbacks?
History informs us that whenever a
large supply of legal-tender money has
been furnished the people, thev invari
ably became prosperous. And when
ever a scarcity of legal money occurred
the people suffered adversity, showing
plainly that the main cause of prosper
ity was a large volume of money in cir-
culation, and the cause of adversity
was a small volume of money in circu
lation. History informs us further that
it matters not of what material the
money is made, if it is a full legal-ten-
der.
The intrinsic value of monev has
been many times proven to be a fallacy
notably by England, when Napoleon
Bonaparte threatened the subjection of
all Europe. Napoleon Aonaparte be
ing a believer in intrinsic value, had ab
sorbed much of the gold and silver nf
Europe by conquest. England and
Germany became greatly alarmed at the
attitude of Bonaparte, and not having
but little gold and silver on hand, Eng
land volunteered to issue a large volume
of legal-tender paper money with which
to combat, and if possible to conquer
the ambitions.
Bonaparte. "Sir Archibald Allison",
in hit histojy of Europe, tells ui that
the issuing of fiat money carried Eng.
land to the highest pitch of power and
prosperity ever known to any nation
since the beginning of time. Again the
United States congress resorted to a
legal-tender paper money with which to
combat, and conquer the alave-holders
rebellion. We here quote from Judge
Tiffany "On Constitutional Law," a
work that is authority in our courts. It
was written before the war. He says,
Chap. 12, Sec. 40:): "The authoiity,
which coins or stamps itBelf upon the
article, can select what substance it
deems pui table to receive the stamp and
pass it as money, and it can affix hat
value it deems proper, independent of
intrinsic volue. The value is in the
stamp and not in the metal or material
it is evident that the money-loaning
class is opposed to an increase of the
money supply. Therefore, the creditor
class seem to cling to the gold standard,
they fearing an increase of the currency
would lessen the indebtedness of the
people, and would stop interest collec
tion. Because, if money should be
plenty, prices would so increase that
many would be able to pay their debts
and stop interest. Let us investigate
tliest creditor and debtor classes and
ascertain, if possible, the cause of the
well-nifch universal indebtedness that is
robbing the producers eyerywhere of
more than half of their earnings. In
the first place, I suppose it will . be con
ceded iliac ine cretin or classes are gen-
e ally elected to our legislatures, and to
congress, and, therefore, they make the
laws to suit themselves, without much
r.gardtolhe welfare of the producing
classes. Consequently the wealthy class
is resuont-ible for all the bad laws that
are enacted. Instead of legislating in
behalf of honest industry as Abraham
Lincoln wished congress to do, we find
gigantic monopolies, formed and form
ing, which are destined to rob the indus
trious classes of a large share of their
hard-earned incomes. We find, by re
stricting the currency to a small volume,
the into lie of all producers is verv Bmall
indeed, something less than the cost of
production, and propeny of every kind
becomes ruinously low-priced. No mar
vel that the creditor classes, as a rule,
are extrenuous advocates of the single
gold-standard, for the rich want high
priced money and low-priced commodi
ties; for then, their high-priced dollars
will buy two to four times more of val
uable properly than they would if the
dollars were more plentiful. Why can't
every worker, regardless of property,
se through the mazy errors that poli
ticians have so long taught the people
for truth !
Sands Bkownell,
Criticizes the Road Syxtem.
New Era, Or., May 10, '99.
Editor Courier-Herald.
Dear Sir I herewith write an open
letter to the county commissioners of
Clackamas county, they now having full
control of the roads and bridges of this
county, aud knowing that a county judge
and a lawyer .cannot know much about
roads and bridges, am glad that the
care of them is taken from liim, and
hope the task of keeping the county
roads in traveling order will be bet'er at
tended to.
A few days ago I had occasion to drive
to Canby on the river or lower road and
such a road is a disgrace to a civilized
community. It is actually impassable
and should be repaired immediately, as
there will be sccidents, and the county
will have a law suit on its hands.
The road running east from New Era is
not safe to drive on in the night time
and hardly in the day time.
There was a little mishap at New Era
a short time ago; a team backed off a
bridge, the railing being a flimsy affair.
The school teacher has often cautioned
the children not to lean against it. It
was put up by our supervisor or his
aids, and it might as well been laid flat
on the bridge. I have nothing to say
against the supervisor as a man, but, as
a supervisor, he, I think, lacked judg
ment and I draw my conclusion from
observation. He put in a plank water
culvert across the road, east and south
of my place on the new grade east of
Ihe bridge across Parrot Creek, the
water running acoss the road about 20
to 30 feet north of the spout that he put
in. There came a rain and I dug a ditch
about 30 feet long and turned Ihn water
i ito it, a id this is about a sample of all
the road work in this district and many
others. There is money raised to have
good roads if we can have a road builder
to have charge of it and see that the
money is judiciously "spent. Political
pulls and rings and an Over thirst for
county warrants will not build good
roads, some hiring non-tax payers and
lazy relatives to work on them. This
branch of business needs a thorough
overhauling.
Respectfully yours,
M. F. Moores.
It is a peculiar fact that the four regi
ments that have done the hardest fight
ing in the Pkilippines were organized
and sent out by demo-populist adminis
trations, viz : Kansas, Nebraska, South
Dakota and Washington. Governor
Leedy, of Kansas was ridiculed and
abused for disbanding the national
guard of the state and calling for volun
teers to go to the front, and yet the
Kansas boya, under Colonel Funstan,
have carried off the laurels for hard
fighting. The other democratic states
of Montana, Idaho and Utah have
fought well, as have the volunteers sent
from the republican states of Oregon
and California, although the efficiency
of the latter state is due very much to
the thorough organization of the nation
al guard by Governor Jim Budd, a dem
ocrat. Roeeburg Review.
I Our First Week's Battle
: A Great Victory
Our first week's sale proved a great success
and gives us enough encouragement to see
that the people appreciate a
Straightforward Legitimate Business House
Which you can do your trading without fear that you
will not be treated right.or goods will be misrepresented.
Our reputation is well known in Portland and we shall
do our best to make it the same in Oregon City. There are
reasons why people appreciate this
NEW STORE
ist Because you buy goods fully 25 cheaper than
elsewhere. .1 . .
WHY? Because we are buying goods direct from the ;
factory in large quantities; not from jobbers, as others do.
2d We do not buy Chinese . made goods. Our goods '
are made by WHITE UNION LABOR. !
It Fits Better
Its Workmanship is Better
It Wears Better
It Gives a Better Appearance
The Star V Clothing House
A. HECHTM AN
Harding's Block, Opposite Commercial Bank, Oregon City
The Best Money.
Minto, Or., May 16,
'99.
Editor Courier-Herald.
, A few years ago 1 wrote many arti
cles for different papers on reform sub
jects, several of which were published
in the Herald, but lately I have not
written much, and the money has been
so good that I have been unable to see
the Courier Herald, or write much for
the press. But, I am more interested
in monetary reform than any other sub
ject, and believe that now, when there
is no campaign on deck, is the time to
educate the people by presenting argu
ments and facts, facts and more facts.
We have had lhetoric, oratory, denun
ciation and agitation galore, especially
. during a hot campaign, but these do not
j always educate. It is education the
: people need, and this can be secured
J only by repeated recitation of unim
' peachable facts facts that cannot be
! contradicted from the official record, li
the people have these they will reason
for themselves, and I have faith that
they will come to a just conclusion. If
you will accord me space, I will send
you, weekly, a short article, reciting
many facts now not known to the ma
j irily of the voters.
the best money.
We are told by the gold advocates
that we, the people of the United States,
I and especially the laboring people,
should haye the very "best money."
Ihat the "best money" is none too good
for "our working people." See Mc
Kinley's speeches. How they do love
our working people 1 They think they
own them. Then they assume that
the "best money" is the money that
will buy the most food and the most
clothing." John Sherman. That is
the dearest money the costliest
money the money that will buy
the most produces of labor, or the
most labor, is the "best money."
Yet these same inconBistant politicians
tells us with great glee, that the prices
of products and wages are rising that
is, that a dollar will not now purchase
as much as it did three or four years
ago, during the Cleveland administra
tion. If this is so, money is deprecia
tingit is not the "best money" not
as good as it was under Cleveland.
History tolls us that at one time in
England, alter Cresar had invaded the
island, and taken away nearly all their!
nrA n n .1 n!t.. . I. .. A ... . I
6" u iivcr, mm money was so
scarce, and so near being the "best
money" that a man could be bought for
less than $15; a horse, for less than $5;
a cow, for $2; a sheep, for 5 cents and a
Buai. lur i. rents, ui course tiiat was
better money than we ever had even
under a democratic administration. Just
think how happy "our working people"
would be if they could get to work for
that kind of the "best money 1" Would
they not pay off their mortgages and
taxes in a jiffy? Then surely confidence
would be restored I So you see we are a
long distance yet from having the "best
money" according to these wiseacres,
but we are gaining that.
But what fools were the republi
cans, who, nominated Lincoln in 1860,
when they declared in their platform
that:
"We commend that policy of na
tional exchange, which secures to the
working men liberal wages, to agricul
ture remunerative pricei, to mechanics
and manufacturers on adequate reward
for their skill, labor, and enterprise,
and to the nation commercial
ity and independence."
prosper-
Next week, from a populist point of
view, I will tell you what is really the
"best money." J. P. Robertson.
North Dakota has an "anti-tramp
law." Railway employes in the state
are endowed with police power and au
thorized to arrest anyone found riding
on freight trains. The penalty for this
terrible crime is thirty to ninety days
imprisonment or a fine of $25 to $75.
More Prosperity.
"The organization of trusts has re
duced the army of commercial men fully
7000 since the 1st of January," said L.
S. Read, the representative 'of a Balti
more hat manufactury, at the Perkins
Sunday, "and the continued formation
of these big combines is going to cut the
number down still further. Then the
jolly commercial man, who has lived up
his salary as he went along, will begin
to realize in large number that he must
change his occupation. No longer can
he put up at fine hotels, no more can he
telegraph to the landlord: "Save me the
bridal chamber,' as of yore."
Mr. Read has been on the road for 30
years, but has, unlike the majority of
his brethren, saved something for a
rainy day, and will probably open up a
hat jobbing establishment in Portland.
He savs hats have not yet been included
in anv big combine, but indications are
now pointing that way. St. Louis alone
sends out 700 hat drummers, and four
fifths of these will have to join the army
of the unemployed when the hat trust is
consumated."
The foregoing item of news which ap
peared in the Oregonian of May 15th,
may prove interesting, though somewhat
alarming, reading for this class of flash-ly-drossed,
nilv-tongued gentry, whose
salary and traveling expenses have
formed part of the cost of nearly every
article of merchandise. But to the
student of social problems, who has
marked the trend of vents of recent
years this appears as only one more
step in the economic evolution that is
rapidly weeding out the middleman
and email producer and, which, if fol
lowed to its logical conclusion, must re
sult in one of two things, viz : concentra
tion of our manufacturing and distribu
ting industries in the hands of one
"trust" or combine of capitalists with
the great laboring and consuming pop
ulation at their absolute mercy, or sec
ond, on the establishment of some form
of that terrible bugaboo "socialism"
where every able-bodied, able-brained
man and woman will be a sharer in the
national output of wealth to the full ex
tent of their willingness to perform use
ful labor. One of these two alterna
tives seem to be almost certain. Which
do we prefer? Merely talking against
trusts as the gold standard New .York
World is doing so vigorously nor even
passing anti-trust laws will help us.
I have a sincere admiration for Mr.
Bryan, and believe him to be one of the
purest politicians of our day, but have
no faith in his "anti-trust" ideas and
have never seen a suggestion from him
of a real, genuine remedy for the trust
eil.
Some of my socialist friends may con
tend that the trust is not an evil. T
maintain that it is, though it might be
designated by that anomalous term a
"necessary evil ;" necessary in the pro
gress of natural law ia order to teach
the people the necessities for, and the
benefits of a better system, just as the
child's first growth of teeth must de
velop and then decay, with the accom
oanying inconvenience, before a better
set is provided.
Our jolly drummer has merely got in
front of the car of evolution and is be
ing run over, and no class of middle
men deserve or will receive much less
sympathy, for most of them have im
agined themselves to be the ' upper
class" (whatever that may mean.) Yet
there are noble exceptions as for in
stance: Eltweed Pomroy, the presi
dent of the National Direct Legislation
League, who utilizes the spare moments
of his busy life to edit the D. L. Record
and in additions contributes to several
other magazines and reform papers; his
writings composing one of the most val
uable contributions to economic litera
ture extant. Some of his articles would
prove excellent food for thought for
those of his fellow craftsman who now,
(thanks tothe obliging trust) have been
granted a leave of absence," though (un
like Eagan), they are not on full pay.
And, while they are in the reading hu
mor it would be well for them to peruse
and digest that mine of sarcastic truths
"President John Smith" bv F. U. Ad
ams, and at least the "Parable of the
Water Tank" chapter of Bellamy's
Equality. "
Gso. Ogle.