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4 OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, S EPTEMBER 15, 1899 OREGON CITY COURIER OREGON CITY HERALD CONSOLIDATED. A. V. CHENEY. Publisher Clackamas Concty Independent Canljy ABSORBED MAT, 1809 Legal and Official Newspaper Of Claekamaa County. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. E it tart ! In Oragol Oltrpostofflosat 2nd-elMSatUr aUBSCBlWlON HATKB. Paid In advance, per year 1 M Sir month" It Tae months'trlal .... : 2S The date ooooalte tout address on the HPir donoles I he time to which yon have paid f this notice Is marked yoar subscription la due. ADVERTISING RATES, Bta lint; bnslness advertisements: Per month I loch t, 2 Inches 11.50, S Inohes 11.78, 4 Inches I 8 Inchon (column) I2.2S, lOinohcsOcolumn) U, 20 inches (column) IB, J early contracts 10 per cent ikb. Transient advertisements: Per week 1 Inch tso, 2 Incho 75c, 3 Inches $1,4 Inches II 25,(1 1 nches 11.50. 10 Inches 12.50, 20 Inches 15 Legal advertisements: Per in h first Inser tlpn t, men additional Insertion 60c. Affllavits of publication will not be furnished until pub licatlnn fees are paid. Local notices; Five cents per line per week r month 20c, PATRONIZE DOME INDUSTRY, O'tKGON CITY SEPT. Ji5, 1899. An lmerlnnn Internal Policy. TimrPubllc ownership of publlo franohlsci. The values croaked by tins community should be long to the cummtiuity . Bboond Destruction of criminal trusts. No mo'iop j!lMti of the national resources by law. loss private combinations more powerful than the people's government. Thud A graduated lueometax. Every cltlzon to contribute to the support of the government ac cording to hit moans, and not according to his ne cessities.' Fourth Election of senators by the people. The senate, now becoming the private property of corporations and boss es, to be made truly repre Mutative, and the state legislatures to be redeemed Iroin recurring scandals. Fifth National, state and munlolpal Impr ve ment of the public school system. As the duties of oitlsuushlp are both gonoral and local, every government, both a; moral and looal, should do ts share toward fitting every Individual to per form them. Sixth flurroncy reform. All the nation's money to be Issuod by the nation's government, and Its supply to be regulated by the people and not by the banks. Bkvehth No protection for oppressive trusts. Organizations powerful enough to oppress the people are uo longer "Infant industries." Diiieot LEaisr.motr Lawmaking by the voters. Tas IifiTrATivB The proposal of a law by a per Centage of the voters, which must then go to the referendum, Tfl ltFKnNnt)M-The vote at the polls of a law proposed through the Initiative, or on any law passed by a lawmaking body, whose refer ence Is petitioned for by a percentage of the voters. The Impkimtivi Mandate Whenever a public official shall be deemed dishonest, inoompetcnt mi ' i I ' 1 1 I nlii Ml m int shall have the right to retire him and elect one of their Choice. The people alone are sovereign. Tiikrk is no reform paper in Oregon that has a better corps of editorial cor respondents than the Courier-Herald. Tub suggestion that President McKin ley and Senator limn will go marching through history arm in arm is a thought ful one; but Mr. McKinley may be in duced to see the danger he is in and let go before It is too late for hUtory to di vide at the forks of the road. Onb of the republicans wuo did con siderable talking about the Courier Ho.u.d and its anti-imperialistic views gave 25 cenis to the volunteer reception fund and drew about 2.C0 from the same fund. These are the fellows who are patriotic for revenue only. The president (s said to have returned from his vacation with some woll defined views for use in his a mum! message to congress; but as three months will elapse before the meeting of congress, the president would do well t'J take the people into his confidence now. Tub McKinley administration is for tunate in finding soft places for its henchmen. It paid out liiBt year to commissioners appointed for various junketing trips over $2,150,000. These are what uro generally termed adminis tration "soft snaps." Portland Dis patch. V. J. Huyan contributed $1250 to wards paying for the train which give the Nebraska troops free transportation home from San Francisco. How much has President McKinley given for a sim ilar purpose? He might contribute one of those deadhead specials in which he is running over the country making Sunday school speeches. Tub Enterprise says it "goes into more homei than any paper in the county." How absurd. It may go into a third as many homos hi the Coi kikr Herald, but is not read In a quarter of them it goes into and citixena are stop ping it every day and taking the only live newspaper in the county. Aa near as we can find out from reliable sources, the Enterprise is read by about one tenth as miny people as this paper. This Oregon City republicans have bjtn trying all sorts of fcheines to ham per this paper in every way possible, but you will notice that we are btill here, and intend to stay. They can call us populists, democrats, anarchists, calam ity howlers or any old name, but you'll still find us t'oing business at the old stand. " ' '-' - The result of the election in the Bland district in Missouri is not satisfying to the imperialistic' administration. The canvacs' was conducted on the. line of opposition to the imperialism and trust sympathy of the administration,' and the democrats won handsomely "This may be called the first gun of 1900, and it is a Colutxibiad, too. Thi Journal claims that the people of Salem are bored to death with advertis ing fakes. The people of this city are bored in the same way, and the worst of it ia, they bite. Oregon City has two papers that are trying to make a living and will give advertisers value received for their money, but still a lot of it goes for "fake" advertising. Tub government paid 1300,000 a short time ago for the transport Relief, and now the tub is condemned and pro nounced unseaworthy. Who stole this $300,000, under the name of patriotism, from the people? What adminiHtration pet got the graft? There is money in this "war for humanity" for those who stand close to the throne of McKinley iem, This was a clear case of robbery. Captain Ciiiiteb is reported as saying: "I will not go to the penitentiary alone." The country is with him here. It wants him ti have company, and hopes he will so completely "peach on his pals" as to take with him into im prisonment, (if the president ever gets braced up to Hppioving his sentence) every cheating contractor, every rascally congressman and every other partici pant in hia wholesale robberies. Tub president has finally screwed up his backbone stiff enough to announce a "policy" in regard to his new posses sions. Hawaii and Porto Rico are to have territorial governments J Cuba ber independence, provided the carpet-bag officials deem the natives capable of self-government, and the Philippines are to be ruled by three commissioners as soon as they are whipped into sub mission. Here is variety for you. Portland Dispatch. We send a man to congress or elect him president. We place our interests in his hands as our agent and we retain no power to direct his acts or veto his acts as our agent, no power to discharge him before the expiration of a cort&in term. We ought not to tempt him with such unlimited Dower. The more good men we elect to office under such con diiions, the more bad men we will have. Man is not a saint ; he is a weak mortal. We should aid him in his efforts to re main true by making it profitless for him to ber onie untrue. Last week while Senator L. L. Porter was enjoying his honeymoon at Astoria his organ was left in charge of one Maw, recently from the land of blizzards and wheat, who proceeded to "do up" the Courikr-Herald, he thinks, in great shape, and afterwards goes around town seeking soft soap fiom such persons as Judge Hayes for getting out a good pa per, when if he had spent half the en ergy in getting news for his sheet the readers would have iiked it much better, as it is always short of this kind of mat tel. Of course, if devoting a large share of his time to writing about us will help bun to get out a readable paper, we will not object, for the Lord knows it has been anything but such for a long time. Thosr free silver speeches which haunt McKinley were made before he made the acquaintance of that lofty statesman Mark Hanna, who contrib uted so liberally to the campaign fund of 189(5. It is curious to note, however, that Mack has never yet declared that he was mistaken in what he said in be half of the white metal in times past, but after having met the great promoter of civilization who boasts that "money talks," he just concluded that discretion was the better part of valor and pro ceeded to saw corporation wood, as it were. Ordinary men can easily with stand a single great statesman, but the language of money is so convincing that ordinary mortals stand appalled. Tub MaiiBfleld Shield remarks that "Hanna has dragged down the party fouudod by Lincoln and Sherman." That is the truth. Abraham Lincoln was the llrst president elected as a re publican, as that name is tnodernly used in American politics, and John Sherman presided ovor the republican convention. Both men were essentially founders. Lincoln is dead, and Hannaistu can only Insult his memory and offend those who look upon him affectionately as one of the greatest statesmen in a tremendous crisis in the history of the United States. John Sherman is still with us. He has retired from public life after haying been shifted from place to place to make room for Marcus A. Hanna, and in his honorable age is abused and sneered at by auch feeble statesmen aa Grosvennr. of Ohio. It is said that Bro. Maw, of the En terprise, bought a cap before Senator Porter left for a wedding trip, and when the worthy senator returned the cap was getting uncomfortably tight. From the way he acts one would think it was something besides the shrinkage of the cap that caused the tightness. In reply to a correspondent in the Or egonian, ' who asserted that expansion was a democratic policy, ex-Governor Pennoyer says: "American expansion has always been the policy of that paityi but Asiatic expanion has never been its policy! Is it not really a most ridiculous dilemma for our government to have a ery rigid law' to keep the 'yellow bel lies' out of this country while at the same time it is employing a very large army to force them into it?" How often ye have been importuned to vote the corporations into your pos session and gather in the benefits of your toil as a wise laborer in life's vine yard should, and ye would notl And now the corporations gather in your productions, adding millions to millions, while you stand around like foolish chil dren whining because the trusts are skinning you. You are so afraid of do ing wrong toothers that you are defend ing men in the awful crime of enslaving you and your fellows. Get a think on yourself. Appeal to Reason. At a special election held in Los An geleB, Oal., for the purchase of water works, it carried by 7189 votes for and 973 against. The local papers were sur prised at the almost unanimous senti ment expressed by the vote, but they need not be if they would study public sentiment. Wherever the public has had the opportunity they have voted for public ownership of all such things. Tre people would vote more unanimously than that in favor of the government taking over the railroads if they could once get a chance to vote on it. The tactics of those who profit by private ownership is to prevent the people from expressing their desires and thus keep them in ignorance of how many want a thng. The vote in Topeka, Kansas, on the water question was almost unani mous. Public ownership is coming, and coming fast. According to the Oregonian, the Chi cago Times-Herald has the following to say of W. J. Bryan : "Mr. Bryan has character, sincerity, a winning personal ity, intellectual brilliancy, eloquence, and the elements are so mixed in him as to produce the best possible effect. He is besides, the leading exponent of a principle which gives him a remarkable influence whe;e the principle is held, while his character, gifts and attain ments secure him the liking of people who regret the principle. At one time there was a very natural disposition to ascribe his prestage to a single speech, but the speech was merely his opportu nity. Since delivering it he has proved his power as an orator many times, and he has stood the closer scrutiny of the public, which is attracted but not domi nated by oratory. Mr. Bryan is clean of speech and act. He has nothing to explain. He is honest in his convic tions. It U clear why he is popular, and no one Bliould now feel disposed to grudge him the position he has won." Mas. Geo. A. Harding, chairman of the reception committee, comes out in a statement in the Enterprise accusing the Courier-Herald of making false state ments. Why did she not answer the article in the paper it appeared in, as is the rule, so it could have been given as wide a circulation as the article. We still maintain what we said in the arti cle. We hardly believe she would in tentionally be involved in anything of the sort and never thought of her in this connection and had no intention of drawing her or any one one into a news paper controversy. We all Lave a right to our individual opinions, and the writer would be the last person in the world to censure any one for such, but what we do object to is tho tunning of a public reception into politics. When Mrs. Harding says "democrats," she means one thing and we mean another. We don't consider any one that assisted in the election of Hanna a democrat, and we have several million people to back us, too. DE KEY'S VIEWS. The New York Wjrld prints an ac count of its endeavor to secure a verifica tion or disavowal of the highly signifi cant interview with Admiral Dewey printed in the London Daily News of August 21 and in the New York papers of the same date. Admiral Dewey was asked directly by the World, in a cable dispatch which it knowi he received, whether the inter view "substantially represents your views." The World's special correspon dent who was with the admiral at Ma nila and has been at every point where the Olympia has stopped on her home ward cruise, was instructed to ask the admiral as to the authenticity of the in terview. The editor of the Daily News, a journal of high standing, was asked as to the confidence reposed in its corres pondent. The answer was that-the edi tor had "no reason to doubt the news." Admiral Dewey has failed to improve everal opportunities to repudiate the interview. He has kept absolute silence in regard to it, though his words as pub lished convey a distinct disapproval of what Mr. McKinley calls "the presi dent's policy in the Philippines." L After this length of time, and in view of his failure to contradict the report, it is fair to assume that the views of the hero of Manila, whose opinions on this question will carry more weight with American people than those of any other man living, are that: ; , "The- Filipinos are capable of govern ing themselves ; they have all the quali neat ions for it. It is a question of time, but the only way to settle the insurrec tion and insure prosperity to the archi pelago is to concede.' self-goverqment to the inhabitants. That would be a solu tion of many question! and would satisfy all, especially the Filipinos, who believe themselves worthy of it and are so. , "I have never been in favor of vio lence toward the Filipinos. : The islands are at this moment blockaded by a fleet and war reigns in the interior. This abnormal state of things should cease. I should like to see autonomy first con ceded, and then annexation might be talked about. This is my opinion. I should like to see violence at once put a stop to. According to my view, the con cessioa of self-government ought to be the most just and most logical solu tion." What Admiral Dewey is reported as saying concerning the capacity of the Filipinos corresponds exactly with what he cabled to the navy department on June 23, 1898, and repeated in a dispatch in August of last year, and what follows in the alleged interview is the corollary of this opinion. If the Filipinos are ca pab e of uoverning themselves we have no excuse for attempting to govern them against their will. ' DE WE Y'S WAY AND M' KIN LEY'S. "The Filipinos are capable of govern ing themselves." ' Ihuve never been in favor of .vio lence toward the Kilij inos." "The islands are ht this moment block aded by a fleet and war reigns in the in terior. This abnormal state of things should cease." "The only way to settle the insurrec tion and assure prosperity to the archi pelago is to concede self-government to the inhabitants." These are the crucial sentences from Admiral Dewey's interview with a cor respondent of the London Daily News. Every sentiment in that interview is in accord with Admiral Dewey's official re ports and in harmony with his conduct in leaving Manila after McKinley had committed nimeelf to a war of conquest, although he had said he would not leave under any circumstances until tranquil ity was restt red. The authenticity and accuracy of the interview is established beyond a reasonable doubt. But Admiral Dewey iB mistaken. The way of justice and honor, freedom and peace, the Dewey way, the American wa),is not "the only way." There is another way the way of bloodshed and hate, the way of conquest and extermi nationthe McKinley way. Barrett at Portland. Editor Courier-Herald : What the Oregonian calls a full house to listen to ex-Minister Barrett's speech filled the lower floor of the Maiqutn Grand quite comfortably. Considering the advertising and puffs the speaker had received from press, pulpit and of fice holders, we expected that there would not be standing room and that oveiflow meetings would have to be held outside of the building, but three times the number tf people present could easily have been seated. These were divided into imperialists, anti-imperialists and indifferent. Nearly or quite half were women. On the stage were a lot of McKinley 's office holders, ordered there to give tone and eclat to the show. There was Senator Simon, looking very much embarrassed, aa though he ex pected the appearance of Harvey Scott or H. W. Corbett, who, however, did not put in an appearance. There was ex-General Flatbroke Laudaulet Wil liams, who didn't get a chance to say a word, and General Beebe, with a fine suit of clothes and a magnificent head of hair. But Mr. Barrett was the grand central figure of the occasion. His titles and decorations are bewilderingly numerous. For instance, ex-envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court ol the king of Siam, hiyu skookum tillikum to several and various oriental powers auch as Japan, Korea, China, India, Java, etc. How these various kingdoms, empires, principalities and powers existed and did business before Mr. Barrett's appointment and how they will continue now that his term is finished is a serious problem. How Mr. Barrett hobnobbed with kings, queens, jacks and tenspota and the oriental no bility generally with four aces in the palm of hia hand made the audience green with envy. Count Cuttagutta and the noble Marquis Eatemuppa, of Japan, were very lavish with their information to our minister regarding the possible ties of our trade woth Asia. The mil lions, yea, billions of dollars, that they were anxious for the American people to make in the way of dicker! How rich our farmers would become in sell .Special, ' We have a large line of Ladies' Tan Siioes which we aie offering U less than manufacturing cost. Those shoes are from a late shipment of this season, and were rejected by us, but the manufacturers, F. P. Kir Kendall 4 Co., have given us a reduction of 40 per cent. Come and bee them. . When you tee It in our add It Is so. The Star Clo thing House j strictly une Harding Block, .Opposite . "... Commercial Bank. Oregon ' City, Or. ; Our store will close Wednesday, September 13tbr at 4 :30 p.m. and will re i , open Friday, September 15th, at 7 :0Q a m on account of holRlay. ..... Big Gut in Tan Shoes Ladies Tan Balmorals was $3.50 now $2.55 u ( " " Oxfords 11 11 Gents' Tan Balmorals i 11 u Boys' and Misses' A bjautiful Smveiir given with each pair of S Shoes purchased. I HcKITiaiCX, "Tii3 Sins Mm," N3xt Dm U 0. C. B. ing their products to the orientals in competition with Russia, Australia, South America and India. This is the aye of competition, said the ex-minister, the survival of the fittest, and we must meet these conditions forced upon us by events. In order to get these markets and this trade, we must undersell all these other producers. Then Mr. Barrett related hia imperi alistic experience in the Eastern states. He addressed, he said, an enormous crowd at some plate in the East. There were fifteen thou 'and people and at first nearly or quite all were antis. He de bated the question with an old preacher j whose oratory and eloquence surpassed that of a thousand Demosthenes, two thousand Ciceros, five thousand Mira baus and ten thousand Patrick Henrys He (the preacher) looked much like Lin coln, at least as tall and maybe taller. Well, this man wrought the people up to such a pitch of excitement and frenzy that the ex-minister dispaired of mak ing an impression on them, so he just thought he would try a new dodge on them he would tell the truth. He did tell the truth to that vast assemblage of mistaken fanatics, and what was the re sult? Why, would you believe it, be fore he had spoken twenty minutes the animated concentration of eloquence and oratory tapped Mr Barrett on the shoul der and said: ''You are right; I'm wrong. I see my mistake, my folly, my delusion, so do all this vasi body of peo ple! You're too many for us! We weaken! You take the pot!" Then, turning to the vast assemblage aforesaid, which had by some means increased to twenty thousand, very much like Fall staff's men in buckram, he said in bro ken accents, while the tears stood in puddles all around, which gave the stage much the appearance of an Oregon road in winter, he says, the preacher does, "Let us piay I Ob, that that arch trai tor, or, rather those arch traitors, Hoar, Atkinson, Boutwell, Bryan, et al, weie here to be converted!" But they were not, more's the pity. The only applause Barrett received was when Dewey and the Second Oregon boys were mentioned, all, of course, joining in. The Anti-imperialist Club handed out circulars at the door both before and af ter the meeting. This fellow, Barrett, I believe with Bishop Tboburn, is in the pay of the Anglo-American Vanderbilt, Lipton, Rockefeller, et al, railroad syndicate; but he's a wet blanket. He has some elocutionary power, has practiced the speech before an amorous looking-glass several times, has probably played "The Villain Still Pursues Her" characters in amateur theatricals. He said nothing of the Philippines and gave no reasons why we should subjugate a nation strug gling to be free. The reason why the Oregonian did not publish his speech may be he scarcity of thfc capital I in its mi... .Je type. If this fellow men tioned himself once, he surely did three hundred times. Vanderbilt and McKinley Bhould give him a vacation. Besides, $50 for the Marquam for a fake lecture is too big an assessment on the office holding frater nity. Perhaps that's why Sheeny Joe and the others looked so glum. J. D. Stevens. Canby, Ore., Sept. 13. Dress or business suits made to meas ure, with 300 choice samples of cloth to select from, at prices ranging Iron $10 to $30. O. A. Chknet. Price House ' , A.HKVBTHAM, . Manager i '1 300 2.50 2.50 2.00 5.oo 4.50 3-50 2.50 2.20 2.00 2.00 1.50 4.00 3-50 300 2.00 ii 1 Tan Shoes cut proportionately. The Enterprise and the Courier Herald each gave $10 to the volunteer reception fund. The Enterprise drew $29.50, and this paper $11, from the fund. Even after gettina the larger end the Enterprise did not set the report of contributors, but borrowed it from us after we had printed it. "Okl Ballots:' Editor Courier-Herald: In your issue of the 8th inst. under the caption of'Old Ballo's," taking your data from a copy of an old ticket found by the janitor of the court hotiBe, you undertake to give a history of the elec tion held in Clackamas county in 1886. You sav, "the candidates on the re publican ticket for the legis lature were W B.r.t Tv, V x:i. ... .'..v.., uuiiij M.IUSU, iviiiu vxaru anu O. H. Byland, while the democratic can didates were P. S. Noyer, J. J. Gard, L. Mayer and John Slicker. The repub licans were all elected except Byland who was defeated by Noyer." The Official COimt for tho nfnroaoi,! election shows results as follows: John Kruse received 1291 votes; Milo Gard, 128G; O. H. Byland, 1128; R. Scott, 1053; P. Noyer, 119G; L. Mayer, 1190; John Slicker, 1066. Byland and Scott were both defeated. Noyer's majority over Byland was 68 votes, and L. Meyer's majority over R. Scott Wa8 137 votes, therefore Thorn were two republicans, Kiuse and Milo Gard elected, and two democrats, P. Noyer and L. Meyer. You say further J. L, Swafford, repub lican, was elected treasurer, over E. D. Kelly, democrat ; Curtis Baird. reDtibli- can, was elected school superintendent over D. F. May, democrat, and J. K. Bingham, democrat, was elected coroner over Dr. J. W. Nonii, republican, when the fact is that Kelly beat Swafford by majority; May received 177 mor votes than Baird ; Norris 61 more thin Bingham. In the election there were 15 conntw officers elected, of whom 8 were republi cans and 7 democrats. The greatest majority received in this election was W. T. Whittock's mainritu of 720 for county clerk over S. O. Priggs, democrat; the smallest majority was tnat ot Vol. W hite, democratic cindidt for county judge, who received 2 major- ty ovor nis competitor, J. H. Ewing. Knight was elected sheriff by 39 major ity; u l. liana's majority over Hayes for senator was 81 votes, while Mar. quam, republican candidate for assessor, Dear, uuis Dy only 30 votes. The questions which then aritaUrl f h. body politic were the expulsion of the Chinese and t:e "bank ring." Lol. White, who was elected I ii t lira for some time after the election, when ever he would meet a friend on the street would hold up two fingers to sig nify hia majority. Desdechado. Story or Slave To be hmiml hsmi anA i... t - --- iuut jur years by the chains of disease is the worst form of slavery. George D. 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