4 OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD. FRIDAY, JUNE 2 1899. OREGON CITY COURIER OREGON CITY HERALD r CONSOLIDATED. A. W. CHENEY Publish lactams County Independent Canliy ; ABSORBED MAY, 1809 legal and Official Newspaper Of Clackamas County. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. fKitt'-t-fr 1 In Oregon City postolflce as 2nd-clas miUtor SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Tp;dln advance, per year 1 50 'X J i lit hs 75 ftireo roonlha'trlal .... '25 'fJJr-The (Into opposite your address on the Ip&pcr denotes I lio time to which you lime paid. A D Vlill VISING RATES. " Htandlnprlmslness advertisements: Per month 1 Inch i'l, i indies 81.5H, 3 inches 81.75, i inches : 5 Inches Cjcvlumn) Si.25, 1" inchest' jcoliimn) :(, 20 Inches (coluiiiiu 8, yearly contracts U) per cent less. Transient advertisements! Per week 1 .Inch 60o, a inch 75c, 3 inches $1,4 inches 81 25,0 ;lnchcs tl.R0, 10 Inches S2.50, 20 inches 85. Legal advertisements: Per lneh iirst Inser tion 1, each additional Insertion 50c. Alnlavlts of publication will not he furnished until pub : lleat in Uf iMihl. Local notices: Klvo eents per lino per week pcr inoulh 20o, iPATBONlZK HOME IADISTKY. OREGON CITY, JUNE 2, 1890. An American Internal Policy. I'lasr Public, ownership of public franchises. The values eren.';ed by the community should be Hong lo the, cammunl'.y. Bioond DiMtruotlon of criminal trusts. No AQiiopoliJaliun uf the nutiuiml resources by law Sou private combinations more powerful limn Wis people's jrovnrnment. Third A graduated Income tax, Every oltl.on tto contribute to tha support of the government ac cording to hli mearH, auJ u jI according to his ne cessities. Foi'KTitRlectlon of senators by the people. The innate, now beooming the pi'lvnto properly wf corporatlonii and bossos, to be made truly repre sentative, ami Iho state legislatures lo be redeemed From recnrrinKseandnls. Fifth National, state and municipal Improve ment of the publlo school system . As the duties of citizenship are both coir. nil and lucal, every overniii'-'nt, both general and local, should do fits share toward lining every Individual to per form them. Sixth Currency reform. All the notion's nnouey to be Issued by the nation's government, and Its supply to be regulated by the people and not by the banks. Dtiikot I,snisi,ATtoN Lawmaking by th! voters. 'Tim Initiative--The proposal of a law by a per ventage of the voters, which must then go to the twfercnduiu. Tns! Uekeiiknuum-Tho volo at tho polls of a law proposed through tho Initiative, or on any law passed by a lawmaking body, whose refer ence la petitioned for by a percentage of the voten. The Imperative Mandate Whenever a public ofllolnl shall bo deemed dishonest, incompetent or negligent of his duties the voters shall have the right to retire him and elect one of their holoe. Tho people alone are sovereign. Andrew Carnkgie predicts a defeat for McKinley in 1000 if he does not abandon Lis imperial policy. President McKinlky will need the services of a strong political strategic board next year in order to secure a re- nomination. "I speak of forcible annexation, for that cannot be thought of. That by our code of morality would be criminal ag gression," McKinley. Alciehism and Eaganism, like Ban . quo's ghost will not down. The report of the beef court is too rank a dose for many administration organs to swallow. Tin old version : All just govern ments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. The new ver sion: Death or unconditional surren der. It is generally thought that Eagan is doing pretty well to draw full pay in re tirement while charged with "colossal" errors "for which there is no pallia tion." Wanted A Philippine policy. Any old thing will do, jimt so its a policy. Address, A lot McHanna, Keep off the grass St., lOtol Washington, D. 0. Socialist welcome the trusts as the forerunner of a gigantio government trust that will take in all industry. An iron-clad dospotism would soon fol low, It is better to preserve liberty by ao regulating franchises that combina tions, (n restraint of trade, cannot live. Fourth of July orations will have to conform to the administration model this year in order that papers publishing them may be sent to our soldiers in the Philippine Islands. The old fashioned kind would come under the administra tion's interpretatian of "seditious utter ances." Virginia democracy favor the election of United States senators through direct rote of the people and proposes to make it the subject of constitutional amend ment. Election of United States sena tor by direct vote of the people would do away with the American House of Lords, and if that institution is done aay with wbat would become cf Brother Abner McKinley't job at crp ain general of tfie army contractors tnd vat boosters. SUPPRESSED, KH. A prominent Oregon City lawyer and politician wants the Courikb-Herald buppressed for its free speech. This gentleman hss a right, of course, to ex press his sentiments and those of his colleagues who are opposed to anything but political ring rule. They say we speak too plain and that it will injure us and seem to be very solicitous about our well are. The present Oregon City re publican lawyer ring has about run its course, and the farmers and taxpayers from the country who vote'r straight are about to take up arms against it. It only remains for the latter to organ ize and stick together and they can have things their own way for awhile. The time has come when the farmer and laborer of Clackamas county should not be pulled around by the nose and used as a sad He for the politician to ride into office, and we are glad to know that they think this paper-should be sup pressed and that they have good reasons to have it put out of the way if possible. They will li iv ) s'.ill bitter rami be fore another year and we are proud o' the fact, too. This paper is not owned by any one except the writer and we are not afraid lo say what we think, even if it costs us a few republican readers. AVe believe in the principles we advo cate, are not running for office, intend to remain here and are not for sale as some former newspaper men have been, anil it will take more than a few ring pol iticians to sujiprett us . Truhts depend upon law for their ex istence and must fall of their own weight when the law ceases to uphold them. Therefore the trustB have a vital interest in politics. Every one of them will support the republican candidate in the presidential election next year. A little Shelby (Neb.) girl at her prayers the other night, after the usual appeal for her loved ones, added : "And please Lord take care of yourself, too, for if anything should happen to you, we wouldn't have anybody but McKin- ey to depend on, and he isn't doing as well as papa expected." Ex. . Wk desire to suggest to the the Presi dent that watching the mails to prevent "seditious literature" being sent to our soldiers in the Philippines is not half as shrewd a political move as it would be to watch the mails from the Philippines that are bringing into this country ac counts of the process of benevolent as similation practiced by Otis. The fellow who opposes direct legisla tion, gays the people are not capable of governing themselves; and ii doing this acknowledges either that he is in competent himself, or that he doesn't consider himself one of the people who think we ought to have a war occasion ally just to kill off some of the people, for fear the world will get over-populated. He always thinks its the other fellow that ought to be killed. A iriMiMKTj.olu'stnndard dtmocrat stopped the Courier-Herald last week because we were too outspoken. This man is one of the "immortal 30" that voted for Palmer and Buckner and thinks he Is a financier because he bandies considerable money during the year for others. He has been in several newspaper controversies and generally gets the worst of it although he don't know it. Labor unions in their convention at Salt Lake last week passed a resolution making It incumbent upon all lodges to inquire into the political records of all candidates upon all tickets. Those found to be inimicable to labor are to be turned down. The trouble with the la bor unions Is this : They are a pack of jawsmitha and given to passing resolu tions. Labor is decidedly in the majori ty at the polls. If it had sense enough to get together and do little more voting and a little leas resoluting it might ac complish something. Wk still maintain that the govern ment did not do right where it sacrificed our volunteer army for the sake of a few niggers in the Philippines. The lives of our boys are too precious to be used to further the ends of an administration. The boys enlisted for the 8panish war and not for any other and at soon as that war waa over they should have been discharged and regulars sent in their place. That ii what the regular army it lor. Another thing, the volun teers should not have been pushed to tha front to bear the brunt of battle and be killed when the regulars were kept in the back ground. Somi of our readers seem to think that Sana Brownell, who had an article in last week'a Courikr-Herald, it in some way connected with our Honerable Geo. O., because, at they claim, he has been known to expound populist doc trine when there were votet to be gotten and our Honorable Geo. O. ia jutt now figuring on "something" next spring and la loosing no time in patting our re formers on the back and saying, "good boy, them't my principles," and "I am wid ye," but mind you, he don't tell bit Oregon City ring friends the same story. No, Sans Brownell It a prominent popu list writer and resides in a neighboring county and ia not a wolf in sheep't clothing. Legislated Value Editor Courier-Herald : The wheels of political fortune have taken another turn and the republican party is out on top this time, so there can be no excuse now, and if all there is between the people and prosperity is re publican success, every obstacle is now removed. But there are ptople who still declare that there is a degree of prosperity within sight but not obtained for the reason of unfavorable legislation. but just what legislation is needed is the all important question. To get the dis- tatisfled people to agree upon some one point is the hard thing to do. The Oregonian, in reply to the Spo- kane Review, makes a statement that contains somewhat hidden within it a very essential point that is well worth careful consideration by the people. We quote a statement therein made: "What it has said is this, that it is the weight of gold that is the staple value, or the most staple that can be found; and in order to make a good, sound and staple dollar, we have decreed that the dollar shall contain or be based on a cer tain number of grains of gold. We have fixed that weight at 23.22 grains not arbitrarily, for it is the result of mone tary legislation throughout a very long historic period." This statement contains more than would appear at the first glance. Gold is the most staple value to be found, "and in order to make a good, sound and staple dollar, we have decreed." And here is the all important point: Which is staple, the gold or the decree? It is admitted in the last sentence that the fixture is in' the "monetary legisla tion," and how any other conclusion can be arrived at than that all there is the matter with silver is the fact that "we have decreed" that "we" don't want it any longer. Should we "decree" that we do not want gold any longer, can any one give a reason why it would not tumble to the fluctuating value of a commodity and become as "dishonest" as silver? And again, should "we de cree" that 371.25 grains of silver should always be equivalent in all business transactions to 23.22 grains of gold, why would it be dishonest, or who would be vested with authority to say no to it? What is wanted among the people ia a more lucid' understanding of the fact that the fixture of the value is in the decree, as stated by the Oregonian ; but what we are to look for now is to see who this "we" is, as from a statement made by the , Oregonian that "ill informed, demagogic congressmen" were not the safe ones to be considered as the "we" to fix these matters, some body else must be called upon to do it. Further on, they tay "Congress, in ded, could make the dollar consist of 371.25 grains of silver, with tree coinage ; but that would be a dollar of less value, a dollar of less than one half the value of the present dollar; a dollar not only of low value, cheating everybody, but a dollar of fluctuating value, changing with the silver market." It is very certain from the foregoing statement that congress is not the "we" who can fix the value. Notwithstanding the fact that silver, prior to the time of unfavorable legislation, stood equal with gold and notwithstanding the statement made by them, "we have fixed that weight at 23.22 grains not arbitrarily, for it is the result of monetary legisla tion," yet the power of congress to fix to silver anything else than a fluctuating, commodity value is persistently denied, to the "we" spoken of must rest entirely somewhere else. We have been going on voting for con gressmen, supposing that they could ex press something of our wishes in regard to what the money of our country must be like, but we can only understand from the last statement that so far as their being able to "establish the value thereof" is concerned they are entirely impotent and that there is a greater power behind them that can render any thing they may do of no avail if it should happen to displease its royal highness. That this "we" whose "decree" is greater than the power of congress is much pleased with the success of the republican party ia to be taken for granted, and by the time the "we" and the republican party have given us two years more of legislation, I doubt very much whether either the people or con gress will have much power or author- ity left to thm. I think it would be a very good pieca of work for the people while they art resting and allowing this "we" and tha republican party to get in their fine work, to investigate and interview this all important "we," this great some body, somewhere, a something that can hold gold to steady that congress cannot put anything along tide of it that could dare presume to compete with it. By the people becoming better ac quainted with this all consequential "we" they can act in the future with greater wisdom and advantage to them selves. Thomas Buckman. Marahfleld, Ore. Forty-Fivi men have secured a small lumrast'i job as "forest rangers;" and while thny range their optica upon the far distant forests and wait for paydar, they ran congratula'e themselves that they had pull enough with Li n 1 Com mlaafoner Hrmnn. Coming Home. Sound the bugle's brazen message From the distant tropic shore To the home beyond the ocean, "We are coming home once more 1" Safely through the din of battle They have borne our country's fame, And soon, with heaven's blessing, Our boys will be home again. Once again, O joy and sorrow, Wings the heart of gentle love, Comes the message to the waiting, Like the sunlight from above. Raise Old Glory to the breezes Toward the distant azure dome As a token of our gladness, For the boys are coming home ! Go repeat with gentle accent To the loved ones, the slain, On yon foreign field of glory, For they'll ne'er come home again. Proudly once we bore our sorrow Strangled all our wildest fears, As we watched our gallant army Through the bl ur of misty tears. How we read each hurried letter, How we dream it o'er and o'er. Now we have the joyful message "We are coming home once more." What a gladness I what rejoicing ! Yet our hearts are filled with pain For the ones who still are waiting, For the ones whose loved are slain. When the day shall bring them safely To our own dear native shore There are some who left it gaily Will return to it no more. When we hear the bugle sounding, Hear the tramping of our feet, With what a joyful, hearty cheering Will our sunburnt soldiers meet. O'er the hills of dear old Oregon, from its valleys and its plain, Echoes fly like geared lightning t vve win soon De nome again." Once again, our hearts united With a bond of holy love, Let us ask one single b'essing From the Father's hands abovev. Let the free flag float forever, Forever through the future years, And with Thy boundless kindness, God bless our volunteers. Frances Marie Huerth. TitERuskin Colony passed into the hands of a receiver April 20th. It has been tangled up in innumerable law suits and mortganes and internal dissen sions for a long time. Many members have been expelled from the premises and deprived of their contribution to the capital stock, and all matters pertaining tothtse affairs have been suppressed from the public. Of the original mem bers onlv a few of forty remain. It is proposed, and will probably be carried out by a few, to re-organize as a frater nal society, but the old organization will have to be wound up, its effects sold and distributed to its stock-holders, a large part of whom are not on the ground. Appeal to Reason. There is nothing surprising in the above. A few people joining together for the purpose of bettering their condition and leaving the balance of man and womankind to gdt along as best they can. It's a very selfish motive. Whether Christianity is good, bad or indifferent is not a question at this time or has to do with this particular subject, but we wish to remark if the early converts to that religion bad hung around Jerusalem and argued theological points the gospel would not have been preached very ex tensively. It waa the Pauls, Patricks, Augustines, Joliets, Livingstons, etc., that carried the tidings to the four cor ners of the earth. So with colonies of the Ruskin type. They are narrow, lifeless, monotonous, and the inmates, no matter how enthusiastic they may be, or how sincere in their desire to re form and benefit their klud, the attempt genera ly fails when confined to commu nities. The Ruskin plan was a very good one, but being good why confine it. ' Go preach my gospel to all the world," says the founder of Christianity. "Hide not your light uuder a busiiel. Bdhold I bring you tidings of great joy." If the system under which the Ruskin people lived was even in a small measure per fect each inmate should have baen a missionary to propogate the ideas, con vert the sceptical and finally establish the great truth of socialism on the toter ing atiucture of miss-representative government. No colony can succeed, no matter bow earnestly they strive, while all the abuses of private owner ship and privileged .monopoly surround them. They must use monopoly money issued from monopoly banks, oil from monopoly wells and refineries, sugar ditto, farm implements, patents of whatever kind, in fact all that enter in to existence in social being in this age it virtually monopolized, therefore it is the bounden duty of every man ami woman knowing these essential facta to work outside of colonies for the puipose of giving to the whole people those benefits and privileges which it ia their aim and desire to enjoy exclusively. No portion of the body politic can remain above, Iwyond or better than the great muss; if the amalller portion cannot pull the lower up, those below will surely drag the higher to the lower lavel. This is history; its more, its common sense. It ia mathmetically correct, therefore take beet), and when yon seek your own political or social elevation, you can only attain it by assisting your neighbor to climb. The public is well aware print we are doing: in our store. will be Reduced During this Sale. Clothing A Fancy Scotch Gray Tweed Business Suit regular -price $10, sale price "u A very fine summer all wool Wool Cash mere Worst ed Suit, Albany woolen mills, regular $11.50, sale 7 50 price A fancy Plaid Cashmere Orcgun, - all-wool goods, a -a guoil value ifll, sale price, I Oil 20-oz". f.ln-1; Clay Worsted ' f-tut, wMT .i;t"il all-wool, 8 GO UliW to t ix'.ii Our cs!cb"Ued line of Clay Worsted.Lot 1961,sold in our Portland store for q $12, our sale price U Others in proportion 09 Our store is open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m.. and you are all invited to pay us a visit, and inspect our goods and prices. Remember all our goods are made by White Union Labor. NO CHINESE. i The Star & Clothing House A. HECHTMAN, Manager Harding's Bl'k,. Opp. Com. Bank, Oregon City Xiew Disease. Mr. Editor, you want to be careful what you say about how the Filipinos are being treated. Don't you see how you are causing certain individuals to swell up with patriotism? It is danger ous to the human anatomy to fill up with that kind of gas. It is a new kindof disease and doctors don't know just how to deal with it. I have known persons about Oregon City to get very full, even gloriously full, but not on the above mentioned stuff. It was some thing that was not manufactured by the present administration. It does seem very funny to see a man swell up, pant, roll his eyes in an agony of dispair and blow off great puffs of patriotic gas because a newspaper editor made a mistake and told the truth. Somebody please tell me what it is but murder, cold blooded at that. What provocation did the poor Filipino ever give us to cause us to strike him down? They never threatened to invade our country; they never blew up any of our battle ships or called us pig heads. They never molested us in any way. 1 TLey never put a chip on their shoulder and dared us to knock it off. They never even so much as made a face at us, and yet, in the face of all these facts, we invade their country, we shoot down the bread winners of the women and children because they resist our inva sion, and here at home in our land of peace and security, some of the two legged things that infest our land bloat up from the putridness of their false no tions and think it is the gas of patriot ism that causes them to swell because the truth has been told concerning our treatment of the poor Filipino. What is it but murder? Don't all you things get up at once, you might scare me to see so many of you with that dreadful bloat on, but some one of you please tell me what it would be if I were to go into one of my neighbor's houses whose skin was a lit tle different color from mine, and who conducted his family affairs a little dif ferent from mine, and because he resist ed the invasion of his house, I should hoot him because I wanted him to have the rules governing his house the same as mine, what would it be called? Now be honest, what name would you give it? I think I can see the lips of every hon est man move as they would in framing the word, murder; that is the word that expresses it exactly. Let him who will, bluster and swell up, from the weak-minded doctor to the president; let them swell even to the bursting of themselves asunder, it will let some of the rotteness run out. They think it is patriotism. What good can we do the Filipino, make him a taxpayer, is that the idea? God help him after old Han na holds him up. . Da we hope to make him feed himself better? As a matter of fact there was lest hunger and starva tion in the Philippine islands before our army disturbed the equanimity of their affairs than there is in our own land The expansionist exclaims, "we want to lift them but of their benighted, half savage state." I ask, what for, to drop them in our American sweat-shops? Expansionists lay, "we want to cultivate their minda and get them out of their state of ignorance." I ask, what for; that they may have a keener tense of their misery when their childreu have to go to bed hungry that the maw of the tax-gatherer and usurer be satisfied and Shylock sets his pound of flesh? Now we have gotten down to the meat of this problem. It it to aatiafy the Shy lock that all this malicious, cold blooded murder of the poor. Filipino ia carried on until he is subservient to their will. Cams, June 1. Squib. Tin latest trust is called the "Patriot Itm TrUHt," and Alger, Hanna, Quay, Piatt and Elkins ate its princip'e members. already that what we say in Prices on the Entire Stock Pants . We have the ttnost line of Pants in this city. Come and see them. All our Pants are made by Ryjgen wald & Wiel, Chicago. furnishing Goods We have a very large line of Silk Fronts and Percale Golf and Negligee Shirts, at verv low figures, our Silk , nr. Golf Shirts 1 00 Sold all oyer for $1.50. Shots A fine Vici Kid Gentle- "ZZi mens' Dress Shoe, black or ft tan L 25 English Good-year Welt in Calf or Vici, black or tan, sold all over for $4 and $1.60 a pair, our price O 00 All kinds of Shoes from 1.25 UP Correspondence. Prairie City, Grant Co., Oregon, is an enterprising town in the John Day val ley, with a population of about 20 souls, 58 miles west of Baker City and 14 miles east of Canyon City. There are some lucrative miniug claims on Dixio creek just north of Prairie City. The soil here is very productive where irrigation can be employed. Times are much better here than in Webfoot, thousands of head of cattle haying been sold in Grant county this spring to eastern buyers. On Strawberry creek we met John Gutteridge, a.; Clackamas county boy whose father runs the big prune orchard at Springwater. We have met a num ber of people from Clackamas county at John Day City, situated two miles north of Canyon City, a lively town whose one saloon is doing a land office business. McCullum & Boyley, dealers in general merchandise, do a big business, carry a stock invoiced at twenty-five thousand dollars. Their freight Is hauled in wagons 110 miles, from Heppner, for wiucd. the freighters receive $1 per 100 pounds. When you recover vour breath after being quoted the price of any arti cle of merchandise, the merchant will grasp your lapel, pat you fraternally on the back and say : "Its the freight, you know, we have to figure on the freight." The kind of oranges you pay 10 cents per dozen for in Oregon City are sold 3 for a quarter here. We went into a birber shop to get a shave and hair cut and fell over in a fit when we had to pay 50 cents for the hair cut and 25 cents for the shave; it was the freight figured in, you know. We called at the dental par lor of Dr. E. A. Knight, of John Day City, and he taxed us $1.00 for extract ing a molar; its the freight, you know. One gets a good meal at Hall's hotel for a quarter. Robert V. Officer, who is running the City Feed Stable in John Day City, ia a Molaliaboy and well known to the early settlers of Clakamas county. Mr. Officer is hearty, well and prosperous, and showed his good sense by handing your representative his subscription to Oregon City's only live newspaper, the Courier-Herald. - May 24. E. A. Now that the homecoming of the Ore eon boys is assured, and thousands of hearts will be gladdened, let us in the hour of our gladness forget not the sad dened hearts of the frieuds of those who never can return except in sweet memo ry. Let us make glad the hearts of the friendt of the living.and show to the fath ers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters of the fallen ones that the Ore gon soldier who gave up hit life in the 8panish war believed that in case of hit death he would fill the grave of a hero. The notorious bad beef investigation ia ended, and, as everybody expected, everyone connected with the scandal has been whitewashed. General Eagan hat been punished by receiving a tiz year't vacation and full pay. Genera! Miles has been censured for not tellinf the truth toon enough. The moutht ot all the soldiera who were not killed by the stuff have been closed. The pack ers are declared innocent and are now fit subjects for tha U. 8. Senate. Alger hat bnen deel a red the greatest secretary of war since Stanton. The farce it ended and the people will foot the bill. How do yon like it? Albany Prest. Peffrr's whiskers will now be given a rest. Tha wind will subside and to will the daily paper. Peffdr hat joined tht epablioan p irty. Wanted. A party with capital to es tablish and operate a creamery. Milk from 100 cowa guaranteed to start with. Address with tUmpa for answer, Johk Epperson. Kelso, Ore.