OREGON CITY COURIER
OREGON CITY HERALD
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PATRONIZE HOME IN DUSTKY.
OREGON PITY, AUGUST 4, 1899.
An American Internal Policy.
Tibsi Public ownership of publlo franchises.
The values created by the community should be
long to the caminunlty.
Sbooso Dostructlon of criminal trusts. No
monopolisation of the national resources by law
less private combinations more powerful than
the people's government.
Third A graduated Income tax. Every cltizon
to contribute to the support of the government ac
cording to his means, and not according to his ne
cessities. Fourth Elootlon of senators by the people.
The senate, now becoming the private property
Of corporations and bosses, to be made truly repre
lontatlvc, and the state legislatures to be redeemed
from recurring scandals.
Fifth National, state and municipal Improve
ment of the public school system. As the duties
of citizenship are both Konoral and local , every
government, both general and local, should do
I ts share toward fitting every Individual to per
form them,
Sixtb 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
Dot by the banks;
8EVEMTH No protection for oppressive trusts.
Organization) powerful enough to oppress the
people are no longer "Infant Industries."
Dihrot Legislation Lawmaking by the voters.
Tb Initiative The proposal of a law by a per
eentage of the voters, which must then go to the
referendum.
Taa Bkfebendum -The vote at the polls of a
law proposed through the Initiative, or on any
law pasted by a lawmaking body, whose refer
ence Is petitioned for by a percentage of the
voters.
The Imperative Mandate When evor a public
official shall be deemed dishonest, Incompetent
l ( i i'i ( 1 i c 1 ) ! dutlot the voters shall have
the right to retire him and elect one of their
choice, Tito pooplo alone are sovereign.
Under the McKinley administration
the government is conducted as an ad
junct to Great Britain, and American
Interests are subordinated to the success
of British freebooters in the Orient.
Ringling's circus cleaned up $30,000
in Denver. One family put a six-dollar
chattel mortgage on their furniture to
go. This shows that times are im
proving and confidence is restored.
Public indignation over the suppres
sion of the truth In giving the news
from the Philippines is very intense.
The administration ia bitterly assailed
by its former friends who thus have
been imposed upon through misrepre
sentation of the true situation.
The decision of the British Indian
Commission to force the gold standard
upon India means that the demand for
gold will so far outrun the supply that
the general level of prices must continue
to full until the gold standard is aban
doned and bimetallism restored.
The financial policy of the republican
party has been dictated for many years
by British financiers anil the United
States reduced to a financial dependency
of Great Britain, but under tne McKin
ley administration British financiers are
allowed to dictate our foreign policy us
well.
The exposure of the secret alliance
bntween the McKinley administration
and Great Britain, which explains the
nauseating Anglo Saxon twaddle that
lias filled the republican papers during
the past year, has a very depressing cf.
feet upon the Irish and the Gorman re
publicans. Under bimetallism the price of wheat,
cotton and other agricultural products,
the price of which is determined in for
eign markets, would be high and our
farmers prosperous. The prosperity of
the farmera would enable them to pur
chase the products of our factories, thus
giving employment to the labor of the
country and n aking prosperity general.
Uut under the gold standard wheat and
cotton leave no margiu of profit to ihe
i men above the actual cost of production.
If yoa don't like eome of the articles
published in this paper, please keep it
to yourself, for your own sake. We try
to publish the truth, and it may hurt
some of you readers, but " we icau't
help it. "
The money kings and monopolies are
in terrible agony over the political out
look. They fear that tbe democratic
voters are going to run the party hereaf
ter, and that their agents will not be
able to control the national convention
next" year, in which ease fh6yrealhte
that the triumph of the people can not
be prevented, pj j
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.Not since the Mexican war, certainly,
has there been a greater Scott than the
Ohio plutocrat who offers openly to buy
a seat in congress as the highest bidder.
"If we want boseism and corruption,'
he proclaims, "let us be honest and say
ao let us cut the sham out of it." If
the sham were cut out of Ohio politics
what would become of McKinley. J
The contempt of the VcKinley ad-
, miqistratjori for the American people
is causing much sadness of heart among
the voters who heretofore have regarded
the republican party as the party of
Lincoln, Sumner, Chase, BtevenB and
other great commoners who loved liber
ty and believed in the people,- The re
publican leaders will hear something
drop next year.
It is announced that in its next an
nual report the Internal Revenue Bu
reau will recommend "several new war
taxes." On the same day it was report
ed that three-fourths ot the members of
a Pennsylvania regiment that went to
Porto Rico on a picnic have applied for
pensions. This is but the beginning.
There can be no question that "expan
sion expands1 the taxes.
This is the four hunded and forty-seventh
day since Oberlin M. Carter was
found guilty of stealing and aiding in
the stealing of $1,600,000 of the people's
money and was sentenced to dismissal
from the army, five years' imprison
ment, 4c. He is still free, still wearing
his uniform, itity drawing his pay. Mr.
McKinley is still trying to find a plausi
ble excuse for letting him off. New
York World.
The Enterprise man last week de
voted considerable s pace to this paper,
in which he rehashes several insinua
tions which we have answered and ex
plained several times before. The man
cannot be trusted by his own party and
will not be taken seriously by others
who know him. AH our transactions
with the county are of public record, and
we are not ashamed of them either,
which is more than some other paper
men can say.
There is no doubt that in the next
compaign the republican party will pose
ashostile to the trusts. It will have to
in order to stand any show ot success.
But the republican party is now in
power and if it is opposed to truBts why
doesn't it fight then now ? If it is sue
cessful in the campaign of 1900 what
more could it thendo against trusts
than it can do now? And if it does
nothing now when it has the power Is it
not plain evidence that campaign pro
mises of future action will be as false as
anything that ever emanated from the
father of lies?
Patriotism, like many other virtues,
is easily counterfeited. Gruff old Dr.
jonnson cauea it "tne last reiuge ot a
scoundrel." It has one thing in com
mon with charity, "it covers a multi
tude of sins." It often expends itself in
mere bawling. Our holiday oratory
brings out no end of inspired and in
spiring utterances, but allowance ought
to be made for considerable leakage of
gas. Indiscriminate praise of every
thing American is a cheap way of draw
ing applause, but the truest friends of
tho country are they who make us
worthier to be free, who
help to save mankind,
Till public wrong be crumpled into
dust,
And drill the raw world for the march
of mind,
Till crowds at length be sane and
crowns be just.
THE PASSING OF THE HORSE,
The horse is going out of fashion. The
"swell set" at Newport have begun to
soli out their stables and to order auto
mobiles instead. It promises presently
to be as "slow" to keep horses as it has
been hitherto not to keep them.
The postal authorities are about to
substitute automobiles for horse-drawn
vehicles in the collection of the mails.
One of the great express companies is
experimenting with a view to the use of
automobile trucks in place of its present
wagons, and several of the large shop
keepers are replacing horses with ma
chinery in their delivery service as fast
as they can get the new vehicles. The
upper and the under trolleys have driv
en thohoreecar almost completely out
of business, and .St. Louis has an auto
mobile street sweeper which is said to
be a succes. It will not be many years
until the horse in a city street, if per
mitted there at all, will be an object to
be beheld with wonder.
OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD. FRIDAY. .- AUGUST 4, 1809.
Reply to Socrates.
Editor Courier-Herald: '
On seeing such a Pseudonym, I ap.
H.uavuou me nr8t letter of my critic
vmn leelings of respect, but on perusal
this was changed for others and varying
ones. A SDirit of levit.v that i i
frivolous, is not the way in which to
treat a subject that effects so seriously
mo weuareoi tne people. , , Above , all
one who publicly tries to correct another
should be absolutely fair himself.
Pocrates quotes me as saying ; J'l am
aware mat value is only an idea finish
ing with a period," and making deduc
tions laiseiy therefrom, whereas, any
f"Vc"T wuuui ooy can see that . .
said the very opposite of this. b'v read!
(ng the whole sentence, j My argument
was plain, enough; that', value,,, an jdea
pniyin the abstract, becomes real when
applied to the common things around us
including gold and silver. It matters
not as to the, cause of value, whether in
trinsic or noti'' '-'
:.My critic saysj. we will do away-with
this value, and then, like a mathematie
al point, it becomes useless as a meas
ure of values. Quite, right. t He her?
accepts my argument that something
possessing value is necessary to meas
ure values, and it is because these creat
metalic values under certain legal con
ditions could not have their values seri
ously changed, that they were preemi
nently adapted for comparing or meas
uring other values, that is for basic val
ues.
He argues that if his idea of paper is
" me paper oecomes a measure
of values for what he thinks it is worth,
that is, ideas measures paper and paper
measures values, but he concludes, and
commences his second letter with the
statment that value being an idea, can
not be measured by gold, silver or pa
per. It will take more than a 50-year old
school boy to reconcile this rigmarole, I
give it up. After trying hard through a
long paragraph to be funny he becomes
serious and then he is really funny. He
says :
"The government stamps gold, silver
or paper for $100 and it becomes a repre
sentative of value for $100. Remember
the metal or paper is not $100, but the
figures it carries on its face is $100," and
the basis is the government.
The law creating our dollar was very
particular to say how many grains of
gold and silver it shall consist ot, that is
it made the basis of the dollar these
particular quantities of gold and silver.
Cannot Socrates see, that to measure by
the face and figure only, is measuring by
a mathematical point, which he himself
ridicules.
The statement that dollars are a cor
rect measure of value and cannot be
lengthened or shortened and every one
gets full value for them, settles it all, it
matters not that it contradicts the uni
versal doct'ine that supply and demand
rules the value of the dollar or effects its
purchasing power, this self sufficient
and self proclaimed authority denies it.
It is this rushing into print with
ciude, half digested notions which re
peatedly contradict themselves that
tends to throw ridicule on our claim to
be true reformers. Abgus.
The Oregonian.
In last week's Courier-Herald an
outline of what the Oregonian newspa
per had done in the way of business
prior to 1893 was given. It is my inten
tion in this article to tell the readers of
the Courier-Herald something of the
wealth, power and personality of the
men who control not only the policy and
desliny of the leading paper in Oregon,
but also the majority of newspapers in
the United States; a power that in the
last thirty years has assumed control
and still sway authority over the edi
torial and commercial columns of nearly
all the leading papers, periodicals and
magazines in this country. Tho Equi
table Life Assurance Society of New
York has been in existence nearly forty
years. Jt is at tins time the second
greatest corporation of its kind In the
world. Its business dealings have to do
with "bonds and mortgages" in every
part of the country, and it makes a spe
cialty of loaning its money on real es
tate and ollice buildings knowing that
under the present usurious irold stand
ard system in vogue siuce Cleveland's
second inauguration all the buildings
and real estate on which its money is
loaned will in the course of time pass
into its hands. Among its assets are
the following:
Bonds and mortgages, $27,000,000,
Real estate and purchases under fore
closure of mortgages, $23.O0O,0J0.
U. 8., state, city and other stocks,
114,000.
Real estate (and here 's where the
Oregonian comes in) outside the state
of New York including purchases under
foreclosure and ollice buildings, $15,-
000,000.
These with other giit edged collaterals
raise the assets of thU company to over
$200,000,000. Its outstanding assurance
is nearly one billion dollars more
money than there is to-day in actual
circulation among the people of this
country. It has been the policy of this
and other companies to get control par-
tienlarly of the editorial departments of
leading papers, and for this purpose it
islheiraim first to create a scarcity of
money, tu influence newspaper mer,
i. e., the owners, to start their buildings
on a magnificent plan, and when about
half or two-tbirds finished to loan them
money on mortgage to complete them.
This was the plan taken by these sharks
who have systeraaticly and very success
fully pursued this course for three dec
ades. There is no question but that the
majority the great majority of papers
are to-day paying tribute in the way of
interest to these monied corporations.
No matter what the honest opinion of
an editor is on political economics, he
must conform to whatever line or policy
laid' out , for him by tbe Shylocks who
hold the power : of foreclosure and evic
tion over him. He is as much their
servant as though he bad no independ
ent thought whatever j It is a well
known fact among readers of the "only,
paper" that the editor is and always has
been a free-trader, has advanced unan
swerable arguments in favor of that eco
nomic system' of commerce, n and yet
some years ago yielding to the constant,
irritation of ah "itching palm" he has
'marted his offices for gold to undeserv-'
era." Wnen innerent cupidity is linked
with talent of a high order, as in the
case of editors of papers like the Oregon
ian and the Louisville Courier-Journal,
there always will be found tempters
with the necessary thirty pieces or thir
ty thousand if needed to t educe them
from their alleglence to the people and
to throw their bra'n and pen into the
scale against the best interests of those
whom they pretend to serve. Treachery
in an ordinary mortal, toward his kind
seldom injures to any great extent the
community that trusts and supports
him ; but when practiced by those whoee
talents are great and in whose honor
and integrity the people implicitly re
pose their trust, then their defection is
a public calamity, for as the poet says,
"Neither man nor angels can discern
hypocricy."
Next and last, the men who hold this
despotic power over the press hold it
exclusively for their own private benefit
and interest, and not for the paper or its
readers. Not only are they interested in
newspapers from a purely selfish motive
but in almost all commercial matters
that enter into civilized life, the rail
roads, telegraph, telephone, sugar, oil,
iron, steel, lumber, and in fact all that
must, can, or will be used in life from
the swaddling cloth at birth to the coffin
at death.
Following are the names of the most
influential officials of the company:
Henry B. Hyde, president and direct'
or. Salary, S100.000 a vear.
Chauncey M. Depew, director, and
until recently president of the N. Y. C
railroad, part of the Yanderbilt system.
Salary, $100,000 a year. Present U. S.
senator from N. Y. by grace of Boss
Piatt, a corporation attorney and pro
fessional lobbyist. Insists that labor and
capital can have no quarrel. Railroad
section hands work for 90 cts. a day.
August Belmont, agent of the Roths
child's banking house, manipulator of
U. S. bonds, and chairman of the dem
ocratic state central committee of N. Y.
under Cleveland. No interest in Amer
ica except what is drawn from bonds
bought by purposely depreciated green
backs at forty and fifty cents on the dol
lar, a Shylock by nature and training,
a very expensive class of parasite that
infests the American body politic.
Charles E. Smith, a cabinet official.
Cornelius N. Bliss, ex-secretary of the
interior.
T. K. Sloane, railroad president.
Fairchild, ex-secretary of the treasury.
Levi P. Morton, ex-vice president, a
London and New York banker, ex-gov
ernor of N. Y. Perfectly willing to "Dut
up" a cold million for the presidency.
George J. Gould, the son of his father,
Jay. It is enough to say that he has all
his father's greed and none of his genius.
Virtual owner of the Western Union
Telegraph Co., who out Otises Otis in
censoring dispatches that go into the
Oregonian offices.
Sir, mind you, Sir W. C. Van Home,
an English lord don't you know. Pres
ident of the Canadian Pacific railroad,
which perhaps accouts for the Anglo
phobia of the "only paper."
Horace Porter, a corporation lawyer,
and resident minister in one of the Eu
ropean courts.
John A. Stewart, president of U. S.
Trust Co. He offered the Cleveland
white house syndicate $180,000,000 gold
for bonds in '93, but collusion between
the J. P. Morgan syndicate and Secreta
ry Carlisle beat the old gentleman, and
he had to take the bonds second-hand
Morgan getting the cream.
John E. Searles, secretary of the great
sugar trust of which IJavemeyer is pres
ident. With many others too numerous to
mention, but all interested in fleecing
the people out of their honest earnings
by methods perfectly legitimate to po
lite highwaymen. These are the men
and these are the methods they use in
"mouldiug" public opinion. They have
the money consequently the power to
dictate to the press and politicians upon
what terms and topics the press shall
write and the politicians shall speak.
But I for one have faith and hope born
of belief in the justice, humanity and
righteousness of the American people,
that before a great while there will be
aroused a public sentiment, a popular
indignation, that will destroy forever
the influence and power exerted only for
evil by these representatives f greedy
trusts and corporations. Divine Provi-
I Don't Fail to
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Gulf Shirts, silk bosom..
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Gents'
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dence has met all occasions with men
sufficiently able to cope with existing
conditions. And to-day we do not doub'
but that the man lives and ia known by
his fearlessness and honesty who, when
elevated to the presidency by the suf
frage of a free intelligent people, will
destroy forever this evil that "hovers
like the raven o'er the infected house."
J. D. Stevens.
Canby, July 30.
PRESS OPINIONS.
It seems not to have occurred to Presi
dent McKinley and his advisers that in
attempting to fool the American people
on the subject of the Philippine cam
paign they are doing one of the most
dangerous things that can be done in
this country. Washington Times,
' The War Department has issued a
"hurry order" for a shipment of mules
to Manila. Isn't this a case of "coals to
Newcastle?" Does Otis need this kind
of reinforcement? New York World.
It will be rough sledding even for the
very elect it the Hon. William McKin
ley decides to introduce in the United
States those methods which he endorses
in the Philippines. Chicago Chronicle.
General Otis is accused of allowing his
work as an editor to interfere with his
efficiency as a fighter . Too much vers
atility is always dangerous. Washing
ton Star.
If ever a man was unfortunate in the
men preferred to positions of high
authority that man is William Mckin
ley. Boston Traveler.
At times it looks as if Secretary Gage
might see more prosperity than his par
ty organs can assimilate. Washington
Post.
As a specimen of Hanna machine
work the republican platform of Ken
tucky is an interesting study. Ft. Worth
Register.
Peace has its victories j but the kind of
peace bulletined by General Otis hasn't.
Detroit Tribune.
The President should compel the war
department to take the people into its
confidence, at least to the extent of tell
ing the truth about what has already
occurred. Lincoln did that during the
war of the rebellion, and frequently put
an end to alarming rumors by a simple
statement of fact. President McKinW
can do the same thing now, and he
ought to do it, if he can truthfully refute
the insinuations contained in this al
leged protest from the newsDaner mr.
respondents in Manilla.-Phikdelphia
Ledger.
And if Mr. McKinley is wise h m
bear in mind that the truth and t.h
whole truth is bound to come out in nv
event, and that temporary concealment
facts will not prevent the public learning
of errors that have been made by the
rsmuuve, me war department or the
general in command in the Philioninea
New York Herald.
Hon. Nathn Pierce died in Pan
Francisco last week. In 1894 he was
populist nominee for governor and has
been a prominent figure in OregoT poli
tics. He was 70 years old. He leaves a
wife and four sous.
Red Front House
OREGON CITY
Good Square Meal 15c; Lodging 15c
Board and Lodginu $3.00 per week
Table Board $2.25 per week
Over Red front Store; Katrnc l,1e Stwet
FETE ADAMS, Manager
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Ladies' Vici Shoes, Vesting
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. A.HEUHTMAN, , , ,
Manager
Balmorals was $3.50 now $2.50
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Whose Servant is lie ?
Oregon Citv, July 28, 1800;
Editor Courier-Herald :
I would like to inquire, and so would
many others who heard Bishop Tho
burn lecture at the Gladstone Chautau
qua, if the reverend gentleman is not an
accredited agent of the Vanderbilt-Rock-efeller-Brice
Chinese railroad construct
ing syndicate, and if his powers are not
more the nature of minister extraordi
nary and envoy plenipotentiary to the
court of Mack and Mark for the laudable
purpose of pushing Standard Oil, iron
and steel than of propagating and
spreading the gospel of "peace on earth
and good will to men?
The selfish project of committing this
country and its warlike powers to the
promotion of a scheme to put more mil
lions into the pockets of the gentlemen
above mentioned I fear will not com
mend itself to the thoughtful moral sense
of the American Chautauquans. Some
of them the majority I hope can see
that a scheme of that kind would keep
the country continually in hot water and
the pockets of the promoters of oil and
railroads always full.
The bishop's proposition to partition
China after the fashion of Poland can
have nothing to recommend it to honest
men and women, and everything to de
nounce it as a scandalous measure born
of greed and despotism.
If after 1900 years from the sermon on
the mount and the labor performed by
the Savior of mankind to establish uni
versal peace, a Christian (so called) mis
sionary travels over the country advo
cating the employment of the citizens of
a country to cut the throats of their in
dustrious brothers, then His labor must
be in vain.
Surely we cannot take' the bishop seri
ously when he tells us that India is the
greatest empire on earth, a country
where two years ago ten millions of peo
ple died of starvation and where the
miserable survivors are compelled to
support an army of 300,000 soldiers, as
the bishop tells us. We have always
had the impression, derived mostly from
history and statistics, that the English
occupancy of India has been fun for the
governors, but death for the governed.
If the English have introduced Chris
tianity into India, it is because they get
better returns on the money invested.
If opium or whisky or printed cloth is a
better commercial investment it would
have the preference. JuBt now England
wants China and the labor of her people,
and as an entering wedjfe she encourages
her own promoters in commerce n,l nnr
oil and railroad magnates to start the
scheme and to pledge their country to
protect their interests and further their
methods of acquiring wealth. The idea
is a good one, for the promoters, hut m.
country will hardly involve itself in for
eign entangling alliances, even to add a
few more millions to Von.w.-u ,
t , , ,, , -uisijui una
Rockefeller. If Chinamen can build
railroads in the United States (hey can
build them in China, without British
money or British guns, and I for one
am simple enough to think that the ceo
pie who build the roads should own
them True the men in this country
who built and are now operating the
nearly 200,000 miles of railroad not onlj
do not own them, hut have no voice in
tneir management.
ow if the biahop wonid only advo
cate he practice of Christianity in this
country, where it is so mu,h needed in
every day hfH, and let the Chinese, Hin
doosandF.ll,piI108looltafterthe. """"". wjuia be better f, on
ja ed.
S.