yowiN IUUK1ER-HERALD. FRIDAY, JUNE 9 1899. OREGON CITY COURIER OREGON CITY HERALD CONSOLIDATED. A. V.CHENEY Publisher lactams Connty Inflependent, Canty ABSORBED MAY, 1890 legal and Official Newspaper 1 Of Clackamas County. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Eutsi i in Ortgon City poatoffloa u 2od-olM matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. llin advance, per rear 1 80 X month! 75 ares momnstrial 24 CtT-Th date opposite your address on the taper donotea I he time to which yon hate paid. K thii notice ia marked your subscription ia due. h ADVERTISING SATES. "fitanrllna; btislaeas advertlsemcnla: Per month I Inch 11,2 inr-hee 11.50, 3 Indies $1.75, 4 inches It, 6 Inches Coolumn) 12.25, lOiuohesOcolumn) i, 30 Inches (column) IS, yearly contracts 10 per Transient advertisements: Per week 1 Inch an, 2 Inches 75c, 8 inches $1,4 Inches II 26, 5 mcnes ai.ou, iu lncnaa 92.011, w mcnes Legal advertisements: Per Inch first Inner Won $1, each additional Insertion 60c. A 111 lav I Is of publication will not be furnished until pub lication fees are paid. Local notices; Five eonts per line per week Tier month '20c, Little drops of acid, Little wads of rot, Make the big beef ration For the army pot. One man who was .state printer for several years cleared $150,000 from that office. Was this legitimate, or is it true that the law protected him in such ex tortion? West Side. The populists will rejoice that Peffer's whiskers have got out of their party and republicans will be mortified to discover that the old imbecile has joined their ranks whiskers and all. Salem Inde pendent. No laboring man in this land receives a penny more wages for his toil on ac count of the robber tariff that enriches his amployer and enables him to "chin in" to the republican campaign boodle fund. PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY. OREGON CITY, JUNE 9, 1899. An American Internal Policy. Fibht Public ownership ot public franchises. The values created by the community should be long to the eanimuiii'.y. SooND--Dotructlon of criminal trusts. No monopolisation of the national resources by law less private combinations more powerful Ihnn the people's government. Third A graduated Income tin. Every citizon to contribute to the support of the government ac oorilins; to Ills moans, and not according to his ne cessities. Fourth Eloction of senators by the people. The senate, now becoming the private property of corporations aud bossos, to be made truly repre sentative, and the atate legislatures to be redeemed from recurring scandals. Fiktu National, state and municipal Improve ment of tho public school system. As the duties ol oittaeiishlp are both genoral and local, every government, both ganeral and local, should do Its share toward fitting every Individual to per form them. Sixtu Currency reform. All the nation's money to be Issued by the nation's government, and its supply to be regulated by the people and not by the banks. Direct Leoislation Lawmaking by the voters. Tun Initiative The proposal of a law by a per centage of tlia voters, which must then go to the referendum. The Befkbkndum-The vote at the polls of a law proposed through the initiative, or on any law pasaed by a lawmuking body, whose refer ence Ia petitioned for by a percentage of the voters. The Imperative Mandate Whenever a public official shall be deemed dishonest, Incompetent or negligent of his duties the voters shall have the right to retire him and elect one of their choloe. The people alone are sovereign. A young art student jumped from Brooklyn bridge last week after reading a book on theosophy. It would seem as though he had puniBhed himself Suf ficiently for all his sins by reading the book on theosophv, without jumping irom the bridge. itioee ispanishAmerican gold eland ard fakirs who call the American patri ota "copperheads" and "rebels" and ac cuse them of treason because they op pose the administration's policy of ex pansion will be making affidavits before many years that they "never said h.'r Any man who tells you he is a demo crat and yet who opposes the free coin e of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 is not a safe man to place at the front, either as a delegate to any convention or as candidate. Paste this in your hat and don't forget it when caucuses begin to get ripe. There is no reason in the world for re f a . lormers to leel blue or discouraged the prospects for a national victory were never before so bright as they are now, and each day , each week and each month of the rule of the trusts and the gold clique only make victory more sure tor the people next year. Be of good cheer all ye doubting ones. The grand squabbl for an ollke, elec tive or appointive, is caused by the scan dalous fact that a public office is about the only good cash paying industry lbft in this country, that is still open to all comers. Republican congressmen, senators and bankers am still planning a scheme of "currency reform" to relieve the govern ment of all labor in this line and put the money matters in the control of the banks entirely. The gold-bug imperialists tell us that the Filipinos are not capable of self-government that the Yoonighted States must take care of them. Then these same gold-bug imperialists tell us that the Yoonighted States cannot have bimet allism without the consent of England ine people ditter with these English ape-ing snobs and oppose imperialism and lavor the independent and free coin age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The great aggregation of capital in this country in the various trusts ia greater than the power of the government under a republican administration. The trusts own most of the courts and defy the bal ance. In fact they are all powerful, and the father of all trusts is the gold trust. The great robber trusts now being fos tered by the gold party cannot exist without a large standing army and the army will be used to coerce the laboring men of the land and shoot thera down uuless they continue to toil without rec ompense, while the trusts pile up their illgotten gold, A grout many newspapers, mostly re publican however, are speaking now of "logical" presidential candidates for the democrats next year and they are trying hard to llnda "logical" candidate. Pou't bother yomaehos, gentlemen, the demc ciats and reformers have ahead v decided on a man who suits them, and his name Is William Jennings Bryan, Mr. Murkhanna caused Mr. John Sherman to be kicked out of the Senate to make room lor Murkhanna he then caused him te resign fr.mt the cabinet to make room for a satrap of Markhan na. And now he 1ms persuaded Tom Heed to retire front the speakership or be kicked out. Murkhanna seems to be the whole menagerie in the g. o. p, combination. Democrats, and in fact binietaHists and reformers in every state in the Un ion, even in New York, favor the nomi nation of Bryan for president in l'XO. n.i . i j t.. . . ineumy uppiusuiuii is irom a lew so Called democrats in New York City and even these fellows say they would be for Bryan if he would only throw in the back ground the silver issue. But if these ' few fellows are really democratic they will support the whole platform 10 to 1 and all. I There are more than one million men in the United States who belong to labor unions, and these one million voters have not a single representative in the national congress, and very few in the state legislatures. There are over thirty- . uuiiiuu peopie in me united States who are farmers, and not a single repre sentative have they in our national con gress. Most all congressmen are law yers, hence our burdens are heavy and nuru 10 near. Tub only way out of our present road improvement difficulties is to adopt the township organization system, and then each district can vote much or little for the improvement of its roads and the money raised will be used in the town ship that voted it. The Courieh-Her-ald is heartily In favor of this system and predicts that the next county con vention will nominate men pledged to this reform in our tax levying, tax paying and tax spending system. Why is it that when our public offi cials want to do some tinkering with the finances of the nation they always con suit the bankers and commercial clubs? We have men in the workshops.in the mill8,lnthe factories, in the mines, in the stores, and on the farms that are as capable, aye even more capable, of giv ing honest advice than the bankers are The truth is our officials do not go to the commercial clubs and bankora for ad vice, but for instructions and pay, for betraying the public. WILL BOYCOT US, It the assertion made by a prominent republican business man is true a meet ing of the republican business men of Oregon City will be held with no other purpose in view than to boycot the Courieb-Herald because it suoceeds wane their organs are starving, they claim. The republican are already 'fearful tot . i ,.,, jjopcr whu as large a cir culation as this one, and one that takes rne Bide of the common people, will have more influence in the next election than t hey and their organs like. , It means that the Oregon City republican ring ia liable to receive a black eye if this paper succeeds, which it is sure to do. ' The Oregon City, merchants will not boycot us because it Is a business popo sition and they are farsighted enough to see it, too. Think how absurd th nm. toiuou.s. you were going to buy po tatoes, for instance, and you went5 to one store (republican) and they ' would mveyou Dutone third of a sack for a dollar while another store (democratio iKipunsi; would give you a whole sac of better ones for a dollar, would you take the republican third, or wnoie sack? Same with advertising " you can reacn three or four times many people with an ad. in the finnnntn. iiERALDyouare not going to pay the same price for an ad. in a paper that has oui a tnird or a quarter as many read ers. We are not afraid on that score ana would rather like to have the re publican ring and their "wire pullers declare against us. ... piuasea to be able to state that the common DennlH ara tai , n Farmers, Organize! with this paper and its list of readers i lAJiiHianuy increasing. Why shouldn't tney i its the only paper in the county that advocates reform principles besides Civlnnr oil fVin I l wum anu county news. "uu 18 Ilot owned by politicians nor has anyone any strings on it. We have already received overtures from the on. position and "invites" to eo to Portion and see their boss. THE GREATEST OF TRUSTS. Just now Deo Die are Htnrr.la.l v, n, . i . w . i w mo F. K;ipieoi monopoly as it manifests in uib industrial trust, and well may they be startled. The principle, however, is the same as that which manifests itself in the effort of the na- uonai winners to secure a mnni,, ... . yak,or money. William Jen- uniga oryan. In the above the great leader brines forcibly to the attention a great truth that must not be overlooked. Because the money trust does not ODerate in n glaring a manner does not signify that the power it wields is not the most dan- gerous. The industrial tnmt nanm. , - """'FU Vll V right of the individual, but the money trust, through the national bank, usurps the prerogative of the sovereign Deonle the power to coin money and regulate me value thereo' and is making the attempt to tighten its grip by the retire ment of all government issues in favor of its own. "Whoever controls the money of a country is absolute master of all com- merce and industry." Accepting the words of Garfield as true, the industrial trust has reached its present power be cause it is allied with the money trust. and from this source it draws its sustenance. Dewey is coming home at his leisure. lewey is right. He wants to wait till the fawning, flattering flapdoodles fry in their own suspense. Dewey has sense, lie is not a mouth tighter. He is not a Hobson. He realizes that he bus drawn a good round salary for many years tjiat he might bo nble to direct vessels and guns when it became necessary. He did what a commander should do, no more, no less. That he is above other commanders, however, is shown by the fact that he isn't always throwing bou quets at himself. Unlike Roosvelt. who turned his bluster and freak service into political buncombe, Dewev prefers to let the people know that he is a part pf the nation and that valor should have its respect not fawning. Dewev's course is a stin'ging rebuke to the tuft hunting and knock-kneed aristocracy who waut to give him a house, a horse and God knows what fordoiug his plain duty w hile his salary was still in force Argus. HE HAD HIS PRICE. Ex-United States Senator William A. reffer, of Kansas, sent the following very remarkable special to The Chic atro xrioune Topeka, Kan., May 18 I have not said nor authorized anybody else to sav that I have returned to the republican party. The statement is an inference only from what I did say. The populist party has gone out of business. Seventy-five per cent of Southern populists are now back in their old places among democrats. Northwestern populist have arranged a plan of cooperation wiih the demo cratic party next year. Middle-of-the-road populists will make no better showing in the campaign of 1900 than would a side show man with garter snake for an anaconda. There will be only two parties next year republican and democratic. i ..... ... uy quarrel wun ihe republican party was about the money question, and that is settling itself. I don't want to flock by myself and I do not want to be charged with having died a democrat. I shall vote as I choose, but not for or with the democratic party. W. A. Puffer. Former Senator IVfTer's statement is in explanation of the following report from Topeka, Kas. : "Ex-United Stakes Senator reffer, one of the founders of the populist party, 1 good times to continue? Editor-Courieb-Herald. How do the toilers account for some 3000 millionaires who have been made since the civil war? What adds to the strangeness of the unnatural condition of affairs is the class of persons who have become abnormally wealthy, who have not gotten their riches by meritorious industry j but it seems that the legislation of congress has greatly favored the interests of the capitalists in various ways, while the producers have suffered great loss by and through these same laws which have made the millionaires. It is evident that great riches nor ex treme poverty- would not curse a nation if legislation would always guarantee equal rights to every citizen, but when the laws are so framed that scheming men by their low cunning can rob the producers of more than half of their earnings, the schemers become rich, while the toilers become poor, i ' We think it is easy to prove that de signing men during and since the war have influenced congress to enact many laws which unduly favor capital, against the interests of the producers, and con sequently the millionaires have been swarming like bees in number beyond any former age. Inasmuch as all wealth comes through labor, what marvel is it that those who earn all the wealth have become poor, seeing they have lost what has made so many millionaires excessively rich? It is asserted that the United States is the richest nation on the earth. Admitting the assertion to be true, the producers of this great wealth do not find themselves in possession of but little of it. The con dition of the masses since the rebellion has not improved much, if any; in some respects many are worse off. What a paradox, a dilemma, the producers of this great wealth are in 1 Though hav ing, by hard work and strict economy. created untold wealth, many of the pro ducers have lost their homes. Politicians tell us that it is throueh bad management that people don't pros per. If bad management is the cause of hard times, then, with few exceptions, the entire working class are very bad managers, indeed, for they work, work, wor, eany and late, without getting better off. As wealth comes by labor, mat tact goes to prove that by hook and by crook the nonworkers in some way get possession of most of the toilers earnings without giving an equivalent. bnall the toilers continue to submit to this abject condition without a mighty effort to throw off the galling yoke of bondage i lo become free men. the pro ducers will be compelled to cast off the party chains that are binding them to the financial Juggemout which has for many years been crushing the farmers best endeavors to stem the tide of ad versity. If the farmers really wish to have good times, they must organize, as other callings do, to guard their interests. To leave their interests uncared for, expect ing mat strangers will volunteer their services in behalf of the farmers, is very unwise. As the rural population com prises nearly half of the nation. If unit ed, the agriculturalists could vote for and obtain justice to their calling by ireeing tnemselver from this financial slavery, See what a great change in the farm er's condition since Secretary McCulloch began to destroy the greenbacks in 1866, wnen ne said that "the people were mostly out of debt, and for that reason it would be a favorable time to destroy the greenbacks and other government notes just as rapidly as possible without biingingon a crash." Now, instead of being out of debt, most people appear to be in debt, because of the small volume of currency in circulation, which con dition always stagnates business by causing low prices. Seeing the people were out of debt af ter using a legal tender paper currency exclusively for years in succession, hav ing become more prosperous than ever before under a specie basis system, why did congress abolish that system of finance which brought universal pros perity, and return to the svstem that has brought disadvantage to most of the people? The producers of wealth never asked congress to inaugurate the system of contracting the currency to a gold basis, which stands for low prices, in debtedness and hard times. No, the producers were perfectly satisfied with the good times under the greenback system that richly rewarded them for their labor. It is asked who wanted hard times, misery and ruin to cover our beloved country like a pall, if the great nmj'.rity of the useful classes wanted the Special Sale... 00 The public is well aware already that what we say in print we are doing in our store. Prices on the Entire Stock will be Reduced During this Sale. Pants We have the finest line of Pants in this city. Come and see them All our Pants are made by Rosen-' wald & Wiel, Chicago. Turnlsblng Goods We have a very large line of Silk Fronts and Percale Golf and Negligee Shirts, at very low figures, our Silk Golf8hirts...... 1 00 Sold all oyer for $1.50. " Shots A fine Vici Kid Gentle- " mens' Dress Shoe, black or I tan ; 2 25 English Good-year Welt in Calf or Vici, black or tan, sold all over for $4 and $4.60 n a pair, our price ,3 00 All kinds of Shoes irom 1.25 Op Clothing A Fancy Scotch Gray rr i t : D..:,u..inH price tlO. sale nrice ' A very fine summer all wool Wool Cashmere Worst-' ed Suit, Albany woolen mills, regular $11.50, sale - -n . price.. 0U i . . TV ' j ni : Ainucy riniu vasumere Oregon, all-wool goods, a m good value $11. sale price. I 20-oz. Black Clay Worsted c . . : . ...j .it i nun., nairflinw an-wuui, q only a few left. O Our celebrated line of Clay Wofsted.Lot 1961, sold in en I Patvef l.i nA an. ha tn $12, our sale price U Others in proportion 50 00 00 Our store is open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m.. "and you ? 1 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, The Star Clothing House A. HECHTMAN, Manager Harding's BYk, Opp. Com. Bank, OREGON ClTY - prostration until contraction had forced an undue inflation of credits." The above quotation is truthful, as the writer well remembers, relating to tl e legal tender paper money that was is sued during the civil war. Exclusive gold money contracts pros perity and expands indebtedness. Sands Buownell. Objects to Cash System. Much has been said of our roads and present cash system, I for one have come to the conclusion that the present sys tem is as bad as our roads itself. When ever one man is taxed to build the road on another man's farm, I sav. it is un just. Some men will say we must build Mm 1 C t m, uiaiu iimu ursr,, xney have com menced at that seven or eight yeats ago, still they talk the same way yet. Since our cash road system was adopted I have paid about $65 road tax not saying any thing about my neighbor's tax. I don't think there has ever been $30 worth of work done on a road of about 3 miles distance that we have to go before we strike what some smart Alex calls a traveled road. Who keeps up Main street in Oregon City j is it the tax pay er on the hill, or is it the man that owns the property on Main street? Property in a city with unimproved streets can be bought for about that much less than the street will cost to build, where, on the other hand, vou win nave to pay for the improvements. when one man is taxed to improve the me property of some one else isn't he adding that much, value to the other man's property ? The same can be ap plied on county roads. Let every proper ty owner build his own road as far as his land goes, only with the difference that we need not be taxed, paying the sheriff the money and finally be re turned in county orders. I believe that when the land owner knows that he has to work his own road he would do it on short order, because when he has his share of the road built very little work wonld keep it in repair, and many dol lars would be saved that are paid out for supervisors, for we would not need mi men j me court can oversee that part of it or have some competent man to doit. Just so long as a supervisor can by a legitimate way manage to get every third dollar into his pocket, just iubi iong we win nave poor roads. I sen this has been stopped by an act of our court, thanks to Mr. Marks. Leonard Heinz. au i Kinj nus tor yearn considered as chief exponent f populism, has re turned to the republican fold. Apparent settlement of many of the questions which were the cause of the organiza tion of the old alliance contributed to the change in the political attitude of Senator IVtler." In an imerview Mr. reffer s iid : It T I -1 1.- - 1 1 nave tunitys ueen a reouiiiican ex cept on one main question the money question. That seeiue to have settled itself apparently now. The populist party has been eliminated nationally by the democrats, so those of us who don't want to flock by ourselves will have to vote our convictions as best we can. We find by investigating the finance question that ihe creditor class as a rule seem to be anxious to lond or mortgage every valuable property for the purpose of drawing interest from it. It is evi dent that were the people out of debt they would not w ish to pay interest to anybody. We see that while the credi tor class is becoming enriched bv a re stricted currency, the debtor class is be coming impoverished. A quotation from B. S. Heath's Labor and Finance Revolution: "When the currency was poorest, relatively to gold, our prosperity was greatest" and our financial disasters fewest, nor was there a symptom or an indication of financial THE "PULL" IN THE ARMY. The power of a "pull" is strikimrlv apparent in the case of Captain John M. Neall of the Fourth Cavalry. Neall is the Presidio officer who embezzled about $5,000 of the canteen fund and then fled his post. He happened in h a friend of millionaire JolinW. Ma-tu and a favorite of General Shatter. Therefore the absurdly light sentence recommended-that of simple dismissal is thought by his influential friends to be excessive, and they will endeavor to have President McKinley restore Neall to full rauk. When justice is outraged in this fashion it cannot fail of having a pernicious influence upon military dis ciplin, supposed to be without discrim ination. It is a queer system that im prisons an intoxicated private and exon erates an embezzling officer. Redding Searchlight. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1900. What Democratic National Com mitteemen Believe the Issues Will lie. Mr. Bryan has made this prophecy : "The Chicago platform will be reaf firmed entire and new planks added to cover new questions. The trust issue will be one of the most important of the issues." Some of the democratic national com mitteemen have recently expressed themselves, from which we quote: If the Philippine war is still active in 1900, the leading feature of the demo cratic platform and campaign ' will be anti-imperialism. If the war is over, it will be popular rights as opposed to the combined monopolies, gold, trusts, tariff and transportation.-J..Dwyer, Cali fornia. The democratic platform of 1900 will safeguard the interests of the masses, adhering strictly to Jeffersonian states manship, averting monocratic pitfalls. Ihe mantle of one issue will not cover 4o states.-Isaac B. Parker, North Da kota. Opposition to trusts will be one of the chief features of our next platform. White M.Grant, Oklahoma. The silver question, being simply a hght against gold monopoly, will, in m nnininn kn n ' 7 UD iu"y as prominent as the fight against all other trusts. -Peter J. Otey, Virginia. In the coming campaign the demo cratic platform will, as heretofore, op pose trusts and monometallism. Oppo sition to the former is necessarily antag omsm to the latter. If the former dies, the latter dies with it. The gold standi ard men are the trust promoters, and depend upon it for life. Hence the money question will be the paramount ssue in 1900, as it was in 1896. The platform will be reaffirmed next year -Adair Wilson, Colorado. Mr. Bryan did not say that the fight on trusts would be the most prominent eatu,e of the democratic platform in 111011 hllf t 11. . . ui me most prominent. I concur in this belief, with the explana tion that the gold trust will head the list of trusts to be warred upon.-J. M. Head, Tennessee. The Chicago platform will be reaf firmed in its entirety. The fight will be on trusts including the most pernicious tru- o all he money trust, as well as on ndustnal trusts.-W. W. White, Vt a8hington. I think Mr. Bryan's speech was a con ervative expression of Democratic sen- nt The platform of 1896, whatever other features may become prominent m next year's campaign, will be over- the party. Clark trusts are oconnvin rj For Over Fifty Years AnOi.dand Well-Tried Remedy. Mrs. Winslow's Soothinir Svrr i, been used for over fifty years by millions of mothers for their child teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums allays all pain, cures wind collie, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. Is pleasant to the taste, Sold bv Drti" gists in every part of the "World Twenty-five cents a bottle. Its value is incalculable. Pe sure and ask for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and take no other kind. whelmiiiolv -.7 'v.ui,u,bi pytne nextna- tuuvenuon of Howell, Georgia. Just now the 1.. -1 - x.. ouBuuon, because the American public has recently awake, Vl us "win ?ftngra f Th u Ubed enounced by the demo c ats, t is true, and will probably be dis- result of c V 88 an mevitable iiieretore. tl,n " . ' ""u - iv5Lura tin f . Oxonian and Cnurier-Herald $2 equal privileges in our at a the m 'HUoof lOtol win contin "i issue until it silver to mints with told ue to be 's accomplished. John GilWt si. . . In :-"""', ItUiana. wiM r' 01' Platform ntlll... . P'anks against m,a D " . Ul chan. inUed. The ViL eXpan810n be-beside-tracked b rrStlnCannot Pty will beu l?lt ,ere''ub'ican n i; tv, " B'H and rutin B-K-T,l"'n. South a Ulna.