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OREGON CITY, JULyIT, 1899.
11 . , in
-Mt American Internal Policy.
. t.t- Kt- l n..Klln f.annh am.
r:he values created by the community should be
ifcoug to the caminnntty.
s-Bxoond Destruction of criminal trusts. No
tsROiopoHzation of the national resources by law
"dess private combinations more powerful than
'Cue Tieonlo's government.
Third A graduated Inoorae tax. Every oltlzon
Xa contribute to the support of the government ao-
. ni hi. mung anil nnt. AnAordlnff to his ne
tcessitles.
.Fuohth Eleotlon of senators by the people.
The senate, now beoomlng the private property
-Of corporations and bosses, to be made truly repre
sentative, and the state legislatures to be redeemed
TJToib loeurrlng scandals.
Fifth National, State and munlolpalimprove
aneHt ol the public sohool system . As the duties
1 oltiamslitp are both general and local , every
-xevernmont, both gjneral and local, should do
As share toward flitlng every individual to per
form thcin. (
Sixth Currency reform. All the nation's
-money to be IsBued by the nation's government.
:.od its supply to be regulated by the people and
.'Hot by the banks.
Direct Lioislation Lawmaking by the voters.
Tbb Initiative The proposal of a law by a per
mentage of the voters, whloh must then go to the
referendum.
Tbi Refebknduh The vote at the polls of a
law proposed through the initiative, or on any
dawpassod by a lawmaking body, whose refer
ence It petitioned for by a percentage or me
voters.
Thb Impehativis Mandate Whenever a publlo
offlolal shall be deemed dishonest, inoompetcnt
hi mi ri lis futlo the voters shall have
itue riglit to retire him and cloct one of their
iflshoico. The people alone are sovereign.
The way to control monopolies is to
own them.
The Ohio republican convention went
llunnawards.
Who does your thinking? Don't grin,
'-Lis is no joke. '
X crow, that had been the mascot of
'.the volunteer companies in the Spanish
war, a few days ago ate some of the can
ned beef brought home from Honolulu.
Its days of crowing and mascotting are
over.
.A man, meeting a boy with a big dog,
-aaid : "I suppose you love the dog aud
the dog loves yon?" The boy aoiwered :
' "You lt tht dost loves n: he knows
that if he didn't I wooM ktwrck the rtof
fingont of him'." f A prop 6 th Phil
ippine arv! the l'rn( rt?te. Spring
field Republican.
Commander ford, MftUt lJy'i
fleet surgeon, vUt h. nmAtfy returned
.from Manila, say: "The iple&did
- jash, valor Mi l endurance of otir toi
lers is the only redeeming feature of
this unauthorized, unnecawary, tin-
.American and apparently endlcM war
of subjugation.
' The United States paid $20,000,000 for
tthe Philippines and has since spent $(3,
000,000 in an effort to "quiet title." To
say the least, it seems a queer business
transaction, and denotes a signal lack of
managerial ability or elso a genius that
'Sine passes the common understanding,
The Searchlight.
.And now we rise to propound the
question: W li y is it noce sarv for the
; republican party to put in its 1900 plat
form a plank denouncing trusts? The
republican party is on deck. Let it
utiiatch the ti lists haldheaded before its
:ao.xt national convention and the plank
will not he nocetsary. See?
A train load of ambulances, shipped
vlrjm CI icago to Tampa, Fla., more than
. year ago, has never been heard of I
" Some patriotic cusses have stolen them
.aud made some "profit" out of the deal.
.."A little matter of $20,000 worth of vehi-
cles to care for sick and wounded Boldiers
lis nothing in ihese days of Mcllanna
. prosperity. It shows how honestly the
t siovernmeut is run.
STRONGER THAN EVER.
The return of Colonel Bryan from his
extended tour in the East has been the
signal for much enthusiasm among his
fr ends. To a group of them, in ex.
plaining the political situation as he
now finds it, Colonel Bryan said he was
the bearer o good news from the east
ern country, where nothing stirred so
much enthusiasm as reference to the
Chicago platform. He said that New
York has four times as many Chicago
platform democrats as has Nebraska,
and so has Pennsylvania. There are
many men of great strength and wealth
there, but their influence is manifested
through the papers rather than with the
voters. There are democrats there, too,
quite as enthusiastic as those here, and
they are entitled to more credit, because
they are fighting against much greater
odds. He said the democratic party is
in better shape now than it was a year
before the last national campaign, and
the platform is stronger than it was in
1896. "No man can assume to speak
for the party, but we can have our ideas
of what will be done, said Colonel Bry
an. He continued :
It is my belief that none of us will live
to see a plank taken out of that plat
form. New questions will come up and
the platform will be added to, but noth
ing will be taken away. Nineteen hun
dred will see more men drawn out of the
republican party than ever before in any
one year. Not only that, bat we will
bring back many who left us in '90.
Those who know why they went out
and left us when the battle line was
drawn up against plutocracy will not
and ought not to come back. We do not
want them to come back, for they would
be as leprosy in the side of the party.
But I believe that the large majority of
those who went away did not under
stand, while others were induced to go
by those to whom they looked for lead
ership. They have since studied the
matter for themselves and have found
that the leaders were wrong and the
majority of the party was right. What
has there been since the election of 1896
to make those who left us proud of their
action in helping elect the present ad
ministration? It has been principally
disappointment and there are some who
say they are still against ue on the mon
ey question, but that other things have
arisen that demand correction and that
they are coming bacs for that reason. I
have not insisted that they shall accept
every part of the platform, but that
they shall accept it as a whole.
I do insist that if they come back into
the democratic house, it shall not be for
the purpose of throwing out those who
are in the house, and that they cannot
expect the killing of a fatted calf, if that
is their purpose.
Senator Foraker of Ohio, says : "We
seem to have a harder job on our hands
in the Philippines than we anticipated
I don't believe the newspapers are get
ting all the news received at the war de'
partment, but I know nothing of it, per
sonally. If more men and money are
wanted, congress will provide means.
The war .s not popular, though."
Q. C. Fields has secured a franchise
from the county court for a motor line
leading south rrom Oregon Citv through
Canameh, and projected to run thence
to the southern part of the county. It is
to be hoped that something may come
out of the many railroad projects now
talked of, as a railroad built from the
county wo ltd be of enistionable value to
the city as well as of great convenience
to the people living in the country pre
cincts.
It is a pity that Uncle Sam did not
wait until (lie goods were delivered he
ll fore he paid the '20,000,01)0 for the Fili
pino. It should have been a C. O.l).
transaction. Coi'rikr-Hkkald.
Hut then, brother Cheney, we should
not have hail the blessed privilege of
: Cliritiani.ing them. A great Christian
t nation like oun can afford to pay the
f paltiy um of $20,0i)0,000 for the privi
' t I.. .1.. 1 1 u..,
vi i:iicviciiiiy vwiui uct'r anu iui
lets; assimilating ten millions of people
Ilou't kick about such a Bin all matter,
Albany Precs.
The millions that went with Anna
Gould w hen she married the iio-Connt
Castellane are being used to overthrow
the republic of Frauce hy inducing the
army to revolt and establish a monarchy
that Anna may shino in royal robes.
Thus tlie profit taken from free(?; A
moricans is used to establish kings on
thrones. How many millions do you
suppose Anna Gould and all her clans
would have had if the railroads had
been owned and operated hy tlio people
as they should have been? How many
millionaires do you hear of made by the
postal system, badly as it is managed?
Not Anna Gould nor her father is at
fault. It lies) back of that lies in the
stupidity of the people for their belief in
private property in the means of produc
tion and distribution iu a system of
profits instead of service. Each Ameri
can who supports this system is using
his citizenship to help furnish au Anna
Gould with millions out of the masses
to help establish kings. And people
who know no better are fit only for sub
jects of a king and will be so ruled, un
less wiser and self-sacrificing men and
women shall save them against their
will .
A Prolific Country.
Molalla, Ore., July 3, 1899.
Editor Courier-Herald:
Oregon is truly a wonderful country.
It is one of the most productive coun
tries in the world. Even lies are bo pro
lific in Oregon that the smallest germ of
misunderstanding will blossom into a
scandal of amazing proportions.
A gentleman passing by a school house
meets his neighbor and siys : "They are
having high old times at recess ; I saw
the teacher and big hoys slugging squir
rels." The next neighbor says "I hear
the teacher and big boys were hugging
the girls 1" And then it grows nicely
under the watchful care of those holy
people who attend church regularly in
the morning and visit their holy good
brethren to swap lies in the afternoon.
There are evidently many new rules be
ing adopted by our saintly fellow mor
tals, from what we can learn by casual
observation. One of the principles of
the new idea is, if you hear anything
about your neighbor, go and tell another
neighbor, taking great pains to tell it
full measure and offer any suggestions
that can be thought of that will make it
a little worse, and in the meantime
cover your tracks well, so that it cannot
be traced to the fountain head. Then
another good rule is to swear on the
roadside, but don't let grandpa hear it,
because he has a few dollars we may
need some day. If there Is a person you
know with a spotless reputation, help
him or her to keep it by circulating the
stories and falsehoods of Tom, Dick and
Harry about that person and try to drag
him down to the slimy depths in which
your own corrupt minds are existing.
Horsemen like to talk horse ; cattle
men like to talk cattle; farmers talk of
farming, and so it is in all kinds of
work ; therefore it is reasonable to con
clude that people who imagine other
people are performing adulterous acts
must be guilty themselves. If I believed
that every time I saw my friend speak
to a young lady he was trying to take
advantage of her innocence and that in
hi 8 mind there only existed lecherous
thoughts, then I should say to the world
it is my mind that is corrupt, my nature
that is base. Then, I say, the person
who is suspicious of everyone and puts
a bad meaning to all their acts must by
this proof be guilty ana lecherous in Ins
own mind and should guard well his
own actions.
How wonderfully smooth some people
are. but they miss their calling; they
are obscured by their surroundings, yet
at times their wonderful natural in
stincts get a chance to crop out. Here
is a man hiding his light wno is a natu
ral detective. He traces out the misdo
ings of the neighborhood in which he
lives with the skui or -uia esieuta ;" ne
takes up a cold scent, a slight, ground-
lees suspicion, and by the time be gets
to Oregon uity ne is on a red not trail
He finds out tilings that are false and
foolish ; he finds out $300 is the amount
paid to fix the matter up; he goes to
Portland and finishes up his wonderful
discoveries and returns to give them
gratis to his neighbors because he loves
Ins fellow man. tie win meet- you wiin
the right hand of fellowship in the
morning and stab you in the back with
the noinard of falsehood ere the sun
sets. On, he is smootn, ne is buck i
And then aaain there are saintly wo
men. We have one in mind who a few
short years ago was what the boys call
a "warm baby." She was gay. People
talked about her then. The naughty
neoD e But now she is a married lady,
and to sav she is "goody goody" would
be putting it mild, very mud. one
won't even sneak l people she thinks
would utter a falsehood ; and yet in her
own mind, assisted by the ponderings of
a mere child that is giddy on some
things, she can circulate some harrow
ing tales of faithlessness about people
Bhe never had three minutes conversa'
Hon with.
Well, they are praying for us, we are
clad ol it, and when we relorm we win
write and tell you about it.
C. M. C.
Portland's new democratic paper, the
Northwest Herald, says: "Our politics
is equal rights for all and special privi
leges to none, and public ownership of
public utilities where practicable."
Now, . if the Herald will kindly tell us
where they think public ownership
practicable, we shall know what it
means. We presume Huntington will
admit as much (where practicable) but
he would find none practicable, is the
trouble. Press.
By a vote recently taken, the many
separate colonies belonging to Britian in
Australia confederated inlo the United
States of Australia Tlie articles of
confederation malting the many in to
one great nation stipulated that all rail
roads, telegraph, express, mail, ferries
and all franchise uaing in lustries be
taken over by the new government and
operated in the interests of the people,
This new nation is about the size of the
United Statts with a very similar
climate, soil and resources. It will be
oneof the great nations of the earth in
the coming centnrv.
Expansionsts who have been landing
Dewey and Otis for their views on the
subject can now fiud little consolitation
in the following :
Dewey is quoted ns saying: "Rather
than make a war of c luqtiest on the
Filipino people, 1 would take up anchor
and sail out of the harbor,"
Statement attributed to Otis is in part:
'I was ordered to this post from San
Francisco. I dirt not' believe In the an
anexation of ihese islands when I came
here nor do I helive in their annexation
now."
The CorRiKK-llKKALD ha the largest
subscription list of any paper in the
county, and still we know of a case
where a single copy is read by as many
as six different families weekly, another
by four different families, and so on.
This Bhows that the people like to read
the pater that gives thn news, even if
they are not able to pay f .r it. Of course
this doecn't pay the priut.Vs bi Is, but
we will have to stand it.
Then and Now.
"In my hot youth,
When George the Third was king."
Byron's Don Juan.
Editor Courier-Herald:
A dispatch from Wardner, Idaho, the
scene of the recent struggle between cap-
tal and labor, and now under martial
law, dated July 6, says :
Yesterday evening a deputy United
States marshal went to the Last Chance
mine and told the foreman, John Press
ley, to get all the men without permits
together and require them to apply for
permits within five minutes. It was im
possible to comply within that time, so
Presaley walked out ot the mine, swear
ing he would never apply for a permit.
Many miners walked out with him, some
of them calling for their time."
Thomas Jefferson, a gentleman well
known in these United States 100 years
ago, author of a document which is read
aloud to assembled multitudes ot Amer
ican citizens every 4th day of July,
among other objections to the rule of
monarchy, said :
He George ill, king ot ingianaj
has kept among us, in times of peace,
standing armies without the consent of
our legislatures.
"He has affected to render the mili
tary independent of and superior to the
civil power.
He has combined witn others to sub
ject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution and unacknowledged by our
laws, giving his assent to their acts of
pretended legislation.
For quartering large Douies 01 armea
troops among us ;
For depriving ns, in many cases, of
the benefits of trial by jury ;
"For taking away our charters, abol
ishing our most valuable laws and alter
ing fundamentally the torms ot our gov
ernment."
Now. sir, I can see httle differe in the
acts complained of by Mr. Jefferson and
those acts which the Associated tress
dispatches from the Cceur d'Albnes re
cite. The spectacle of an American citi
zen in a sovereign state being compelled
bv a United States marshal to obtain a
permit to work ! Permission to labor,
and in the year 1899, the 4th day of July,
the 123d anniversary of our declaration
of independence 1 In a state where that
sacred right of oppressed humanity
against tyrants, the writ of habeas cor
pus, is suspended tor the benefit ot the
capitalist mine owner living in an ad
joining state or a toreign country, tnac
they may reduce wages, destroy the right
of society to organize for mutual benefit,
denying the right of free American citi
zens to form themselves into associa
tions for their elevation as citizens of a
fr.Arnnhiii..l flhancrn thn H.t frnm
1776 to 1899, the name of the king and
norii,mni fmm fanm ttt H Rni!h
to William McKinlev and the Standard
Oil Company, and there is very little
that is different.
How forcibly do the words of the poet
plowman, who belonged to the laboring
class, strike the mind when reading the
about the necessity of obtaining a per
mit to work. In the immortal verses of
Man Was Made to Mourn," Burns
says:
"See yonder poor o'erlabored wight,
So abject, moan and vile,
Who aska a brother of the earth
To give him leave to toil."
Permission to work to earn enough to
sustain life, and the power to grant or
denv the request lodged in the person of
a soldier, an irresponsible creature hav
ing power of life or death over the lives
and welfars of American citizens a mil
itary machine worked by an autocratic
crank in the hands of combined capital,
who have so tar stopped at nothing in
the way of seizing the property of the
people, either by class legislation or
military occupancy.
The complaints ol the miners era
ployed in Idaho should have the eame
hearing and the same redress of wrongs
that the Americans had in 1776. Hie
effort of the Standard Oil Company, the
owner oi me mines, 10 unmmaiiy con
nect the miners' union with the blowing
up of the property and its destruction is
as foolish ana abaurd as it would be to
try to establish connection and conniv
ance of the people of the Southern stales
lately in rebellion with the assassination
of the great Lincoln, the Northern
states with the foolish attempt and fail
ure ot John Brown's raid on Harper's
Ferry and the insane idea of slave liber
ation, or holding, as the Oregonian tried
to do at the time, the Swiss republic re
sponsible for the murder of the late
queen of Austria-Hungary by the fanatic
anarchist. The miners' union was in no
wise responsible for the damage inflict
ed, but it suits the purpose of Rockafel
ler and his co-workers in monopoly to
accuse the union of the crimes commit
ted and property destroyed.
If your readers will look through and
read carefully Jefferson's great work,
they will not find one outrage com
plained of that was perpetrated by Gen
eral Merriam in Idaho. I mean the sup
pression or me mirror Decause it nad
criticised Merriam's act in proclaiming
martial law in a sovereign state. Among
the signers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence were many who were connect
ed, like Benjamin Franklin, with the
press of America, but no complaint is
made or protest entered that the king of
England had gone to quite that length
of tyranny in subjugating the colonies.
No, it remained for the modern George
to do that. And let the people of Ore
gon remember that he is but a few
hours' transit by rail from the Vancou
ver barracks or the Fort Sherman mili
tary reservation; that McKinlev, at the
instigation of his campaign contributors
or representatives of the trusts, banks
and plutocratic combines, can suppress
freedom of speech and of press, the ris?ht
to bear arms, to meet together lawfully
and peaceably for pe it ion and redress
ol grievances, suspend the writof habeas
corpus, arrest and consign to the "bull
pen" or stockade like the rebel prison at
Andersonville as many as are suspected.
Don't think, fellow citizens, hat what
has happened and is continuing in an
adjoining slate can find no parallel here.
If you think there is no cau.e, can-e can
easily he found. The modern, like the
ancient tyrants, can and will find cause
and provocation sufficient. There is no
filter time nor place than here in Ore
don and now in the summer of 18)9 for
the pe -pie to enter their solemn protect
against the hrutal niiliUrv despotism
taking possession of a free stale and in
sulting a free people.
1. D. Stkvkxs.
Canby, July 7, IS99.
Great
Glearance Sale....
Don't fail to get the
the month of July.
down to actual cost.
It's So!
The Star Clothing House
Strictly One Price House
Harding Block, Opposite
Commercial Bank. Oregon City, Or.
Big Cut in Tan Shoes
Ladies
Tan
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Oxfords
Gents'
Tan
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B
Boys' and Misses' Tan Shoes cut proportionately.
A beautiful Souvenir given with each pair of
Shoes purchased .
McKITTRICK, "The Shoe Man," Next Door to 0. C. B.
An Oregon Cittf Freak .
Editor Courier-Herald :
Some time ago I wrote some letters to
the Oregonian. The paper published
three of them and then, after soundly
abusing me calling me a copperhead
and other vile names announced to the
public that no more would be published.
Then a cowardly sneak calling him
self "An Expansionist," claiming to
hail from Oregon City, writes a letter in
w" cn "B lue uregoman one miter
"ays many uncomplimentary things
: 1. 1 .1 11 ; .
me, jvh'ch be probably would not
lve said if I had been present or if he
had ""?!. 1 would have any opportu.
nity to taiK uacK. replying to an an
onymous correspondent under such cir
cumstances may be like kicking at a
skunk in the dark but it is hard to resist
the temptation.
He questions my patriotism because I
oppose the war in the Philippines. I
never knew before that "killing niggers'
constituted patriotism. Nor did I know
that McKinley and Alger and the other
grafters had the keeping of the people's
concience or tue entire direction of their
patriotic duty. I always supposed that
patriotism was love of country for the
country's good, the passion which aims
to serve ones country. Service in a
wrongful cause and againBt our coun
try's true interest is no service at all.
Serving William McKinley by defend
ing his "thrift and drift" policy and pe
culiar notions of "duty and destiny" is
no more patriotism than it would be to
defend his "to the victors belong the
spoils" policy. We have as much right
to criticise and oppose his Philippine
policy as his Mark Hanna policy. They
are both in the cause of oppression and
wrong and against the true interests of
tlie country and should be defeated. It
is our patriotic duty to uree our country
in the direction of right and to condemn
! our public servants when thnv
seek to
steer it wrong, it our country was in
danger we might be called upon to sus
tain, for the time being, whatever cause
our officials might pursue as was the
case in 1812. but such U not the case
now, our country is in no possible dan
ger from the Filipins. No possible
harm could come from our withdrawal
from the Philippines. It would be right
and just towards them, it would be true
to our own interests, true to our consti
tution, our traditions and the principles
upon which our government was' found
ed. Hence I urge it. Lincoln opposed
the Mexican war and was afterwards
elected president. Was he a copper
head? F
He says my boy must have inherited
his patriotism from his mother. That
is wen. irairiousm is a good thing no
matter vi here it comes from. It is a
thing "Expansionist" certainly never
inherited from his mother nor from any
one, and he has had none to transmit to
posterity, as I fail to see the name
among the volunteers. Long ears is
perhaps all he ;ver inherited. In my
estimation a coward is about as con
temptible as a traitor.
This correspondent, however, is a
knowing fellow ; he knows all about the
Mlipinoa; he knows more law than the
attorney general of the United States
add finds that the volunteers are bound
to stay two years if Alger so wills it.
Perhaps he never saw the law under
w hich the enlistments were made. He
should be called to Washington at once
to instruct the war officials in the pro
per discharge of their duties. Tlie war
department seems to be laboring under
the delusion that the volunteers' time is
out and they want to come home. The
President and cabinet have been having
night sweats over it . Mr. "Expansion
ist" has discovered that their time is
not out and that thev are very anxious
to remain in tlie service. By all me.ins
he should bee tiled to Washington. The
officials there would not have to apolo
gise for keeping the boys over time. He
writes as if he thought a lie well told
and stuck to is as good as tlie truih.
He ought to be very serviceable to the
admini tratiou. They might find some
way under his instructions to eend Ibe
boys back to Manila.
The old tories believed in the divine
rights of kings to govern, disbelieved in
a government of the people, for the peo
ple, for tlie pople and by the p-ople,
and always had a si rong friendship for
EuglanJ. They were the see I of dis
loyalty in 1812 and of the modeJn Anglo
uiaiiics. It there I: anything in hored
ity an I hiredite l pre lisp'witj n of
mind I should guess that a nun whoe
Great Bargains we offer during
All our summer stock marked
When you see it in our ad.
A.HECHTMAN,
Manager
!
Balmorals was $3.50 now $2.50
ilmorals
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ancestors were tories, would now be an
imperialist and expansionist. But very
few of such people have boys at Manila.
A man who permited his boy to go to
the war is not a tory nor a copperhead
nor traitor, and none but a cowardly
sneak who kept his boy at home would
apply such on epithet to those whose
boys have gone.
I suppose "Expansionist" will now
call our boys unpatriotic because they
did not remain in the Philippines as
was their duty under his conatruction of
the law and not in the swamps of Lu
zon "killing niggers" and carrying on
McK-inley's noble campaign of criminal
aggression in the "noble and patriotic
cause" against the liberty and rights of
man.
H. B. Nicholas.
To Change Tlie Name.
Editor Courier-Herald : I arise to sug
gest a change in the name our paper,
the Courier-Herald. This is entirely
for the benefit of those who talk and
write a good deal about the paper. I do
not care particularly what name the
paper wears if it is short and sweet.
Brevity in business affairs is the desir
able thing. Euphony in sound is also
desirable. When we are talking we like
to speak words that are easy on the
tongue and pleasiut to the ear. Now
Courier-Herald is neither. But there
is a deeper significance a matter of far
greater importance than brevity or eu
phony. Circumstances and exigencies
of sociology are closely connected with
the name of this paper. Socio-political
events have made the name of this pa
per what it is; the same forces are re
forming so as to require another cogno
men for our gazette. W. C.
A Eugene boy writes home from Ma
nilla, on the back of a fruit label : "Ev
erything is in bad condition. Rain and
heat are the worst of our troubles. Ev
erybody is covered with boils, caused by
the fat bacon and hardtack. Have not
seen fresh bread for twenty days. Am
sick now and traveling with the cook
outfit ; hope to be well soon. Four hun
dred men in the regiment are sick, and
100 wounded. Have lost 20 killed. The
officers eat the peaches, and we get the
labels to write on." And yet there are
some people who insist that the boys
would like to remain in this death trap
and grow up with the country, com
ments the Albany Democrat.
A Clerical Fraud.
Editor Courier-Herald:
Believing as I do that he who knows
of the commission of a crime and fails
to expose it is a particips criminua, and
being informed that a cartiin minister
late of Seattle, is holding meetings in
this part of the state, I feel it my duty
to expose him in the interests of Chris
tianity and common decency. In doing
so, 1 have no personal grudge to satisfy,
and regret the necessity which impels
me to the performance of such a duty.
For the information and protection of
both the church and the public I will
say :
First That he was sent to the United
States penitentiary for smuggling whis
ky to Indians.
Second He was compelled to with
draw from the ministry aud membership
of the Methodist Episcopal church in
Puget Sound confereuce. He thought it
bitter not to atan 1 a trial. Rev. Wil
mot WhipBeld, of Seattle district, who
lives at Fremont, Wash., will confirm
this statement.
Third He was court martialed by
the Volunteers of Amsric oi charges
of immorality and dishou'isty. Captain
McClelland, "now of Spokane, and the
o'licers at Volunteer headqtwteri in
Sau Francheo, will onfimi this state
ment. Fourth The details are of such a
character ai to be unfit for publication,
becau e they would fall into the category
of ohseene literature.
Fifth He, I am .Informed, c .ntinuea
the s line tactics here in Oregon riding
with other men's wives and alienating
women from their husbands.
M. H. Nichjik.
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