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OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1899- OREGON CITY COURIER OREGON CITY HERALD CONSOLIDATED. A. V. CHENEY PubKalxr 1 ' Gaciain Cowtj Mepient Call MAT. ! legal and Official Newspaper Of Claeksaus Conty. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. KaU.-t . la Orf City poatoracs aa taa-eUaa autur IUBSCBIPTION RATES. FaM I n advance, er year 1 W flilmnatns , 75 TUNBDlh)'trUl ... J be data annoalta vonr address on tha paper dcaow. ine II n a to wkleD too late paid ft tale natlc la marked your subscription la dua. ADVERTISIXG BATES. fffla1lnr kusiarsa adTertlfsments: Per month I loch 1, im aea II .50, 1 Inches 11.75. 4 inches at inches lcalunsn) I2.2S, lOiachealcoloron) 20 Inches (colaan) H, jea'ly contracts 10 per Crm lass. Transient advertisements: Per week 1 Inch to, 2 Inch 7.V. 8 inch-a 11. 4 inches 1 ,6 t scbea 11.60. 10 lacaee n.io, 2b inches to J.eM advertisements: Per Innh firt Inner- i(0 1 . each additional insertion- SOc. Amlsvila f publication will not be furnished until pub tication lues are paid. Local notices; Five centa per line per week r.monlb 20c, PATRONIZE HOME I&OCSTRT. OREGON CITY. SEPT. 2H, 1899. An American Intenud Policy. fiwiT--Public ownership of public franchises. Tha values crcs'od of the community should be ltn to the cmninunUy. .Bcoosd OuKlniotion of criminal trusts. No monopiltaatlon of tli e ugtional resMiirnes by law less private combinations irnre powerful than t he peoplo's government. Taiito A graduated Income lax. Every eitlzon l- coatribotcto the support of the government ac cording to hia means, anil not according to but ne cessities. Foown Election of senators by the people. T!b eenala, now becoming tha private property iff corporations and bostaa, to ba made truly repre sentative, and the Mate leglalaturealo be redeemed rora recurring acandala. Fifth National, state and municipal Imple ment of the public school system. As the dutlea )l cltlinliip are both Kenoral and local, every Kovcrnmciit, both gincral and local, should do t share toward fitting every Individual to per form them. Biitu Currency reform. All the nation's money to be Issued by the nation's governmen I. and Its supply to be regulated by the people and Hot by the banks. Kitmth No protection for oppressive trust?. Organizations powerful enough to oppress the people are ao longer "Infant industries." IlIKKOT Lioisutior Lawmaking by tha voters. lot Ikitutite The proposal of a law by a per contage of tha voters, which mint then o to tke Tarerrnnnm, mm narBHK.iuuM- i ne vote at tne pons or a law proposed through the Initiative, or on aDy 4 aw passed by a lawmaking body, whose refer s?neo Is petitioned for by a percentage of the voters. H'at luPKiiATivi Mandate Whenever I public tfnclal sbull be deemed dishonest, Incompetent im ' i I 1 1 ii ii I i'li vi tin shall have the right to retire him and elect one i t their Choice. The people alone are sovereign. Tub exposure by the agent cf tl American Associated Press of the cen sorship of the press in the Philippine lalanda proves conclusively that facts Have been suppressed and that ins'ead jl receiving the news the American peo ple liave been ftd on the material manu factured by General Otis to boister up the administration policy of criminal ag gression. "V could build the Nicarauga Canal with the money exue.uled In one year in a war of criminal aggression in the Phil IppitMS Islands. The former would be a triumph of civilization that would bring lasting benefits to our people, while the sjther is tiie barbarous work of murder ttnd spolition carried on to advance the echmnuriof the Anglo-American China Ievulopmcnt Oompany. The highest point to which a trust can force the price of an article, the produc tion of which it controls, is regulated by Iho In i ill' on that aitiole, Whenever the price reaches a point where the same article or a good substitute for it can be imported at a profit, after paying the duty, competition with the foreign-made article prevents a further advance in tho price of the trust product. It 1b tliercforo apparent that the trusts are in favor of a high taritr, a McKlnley tar lift, and they regard McKinley as their licst friend and patron saint. "Tumi Is no doubt that there are many republicans who are opposed to the fostering of trusts and monopolies, but most of those who are elected to of- Jlco fail to represent their anti-trust con stituents. In the last congress you will llnd no record of a republican congreHs- nim voting for a measure calculated to injure or prevent the formation of trusts. In fact, whenever such a measure was proposed, they formed a solid majority Against it. When an anti trust amend silent to the Dmgley tariff hill was of- lered, they promptly voted to sustain the presiding officer who declared it out i . nu.A ....... .U ia r..n.i ! ong list of trust formed utulor the .mount ailmmistratlon. Olive Schreiner (Mrs. Conk Wright), author of "The Story ef an African Farm," Bays that a war by the British upon the Boers will leas-trio that cen turies cannot efface. MAD OS I M PERI A LISM. The Hanna organs do not discuss the Philippine question candidly. They dare not go into the merit, of the issue. They have a set of parrot-like phrase a hoot tbe flag, and humanity, and pa triotism, ami foolishly denounce as trai tors all bo do not fully indorse the present conduct of the war. Among the falsehoods they are ever repeating is the declaration that the opponents of imperialism are in favor of immediately withdrawing the United StaU-s navy and army and giving np the island of Luzon, or so much of it as is now under oar rule, to chaotic conditions.. What is the use of lying in this wsy? Ths common intelligence of tbe country is abreast of the truth. Tbe war against the Filipinos is proceeding on I be plan of cooque-jt and vassalage. It ia con ducted in defiance of tbe principle that governments derive their just powers from tbe consent of the governed. There is the natural inference that the admin istration expects to bold tbe islands as conquered territory and to put the peo ple thereof in the category of subjects or vassals, rather than citizens. Occasionally there is en intimation that after the "rebels" have been sub dued they may receive consideration in (be matter of independence, but all tbe circiiniHtances point to imperialism. It would be easy to deckre that the purpose is to ultimately promote inde pendence; but the administration ia on the wrong tack. Its theory is that a president with a war in his bands has a powerful impetus toward re-election, and that the people are anxious to grab territory. Its drift to imperialism and foreign complication will be arrested by the people. There is no other way of stop ping it. THE GOLD DEMOCRATS. The gold democrats who consider that they are still deaiocrats should ponder over the following clipping and com ment and see how they are claimed by the republicans and used in furthering the ends of Mark Hanna : The San Francisco Chronicle ironi cally says: "It is said the gold demo crats are going to twit MeKinley. This is too bad. Thy gave him the aid of 133,124 votes for Palmer in 18!t6, out of a total vole of 13,023,378, and if they go back on him now what will he do for frills on his majority?" This fling at the gold democ.ats is very much out of onler. The Chronicle must know that where one gold demo crat voted for Palmer, many voted di rectly for McKinley. It was so all over the country. In spite of McKinley's good-sized majority in Oregon, he could scarcely have carried it if all the gold democrats who voted for him had voted for Palmer. The gold democrats carried Kentucky, Indiana, Delaware, Mary land, and the Chronicle's home state of Cplifornia for McKinley. Without them he could not have been elected. It was only here and there a scattering gold democrat who voted for Palmer; the most of them and they were the men of most brains and influence in the democratic party vo'ed directly for McKinley electors, as the surest way to !eat Bryan. What the gold democrats will do in 1900 cannot be accurately pre dicted. Some will vote for McKinley again, and some will vote for Bryan, but in what proportion is problemetical. Telegram. NO LEASE OF U. S. TERRITORY. It is stated in Washington that a mo- dui vivendi regarding the Alaskan fron tier of the panhandle of the territory has been agreed on between Secretary Hay and Mr. Tower, the British charge d'af fairs. The principal points of the agree ment are stated to be as follows: The United States retains the large and Important section of the Porcupine district claimed and demanded by Can ada. The United States still contends that the provisional boundary line should follow westward and include the Kle heni river, thus controlling the naviga tion from the Porcupine district to tbe Lynn canal. The United States still holds tho vil lage of Kluckwan on the American side of tho provisional boundary line. ' The United States still maintains that the whole of the Lynn canal 1 in Amer ican territory. These stipulations appeal to concede all, or nearly all, of the American con tentions, but there are bints of a lease to Canada of a part of the Lynn canal. We are convinced that the people of the United States will never acquiesce in anything of the sort. It is a tolerably well estableslied rule, with Insignificant exceptions, that where the British flag once goes up it does not come down. It is the sort of rule that should work bith ways, and the American people will not coiiBtmt to see their flag superseded on territory where it has once flown, whether this Is proposed to be dono un der lease or grant. In fact, it is lu the way of becoming established interna tional practice that a lease of foreign terriloty gives rights in perpetuity. When the powers feel able to help them selves to a slice of China, they speak of taking a lease of tbe territory, but the wl o'e world knows that the lease is for ever. We do not want to see United States territory sliced out on any such pretense. DO THEY MEANITI William D. Washburn, formerly Uni ted States senator from Minnesota, ex presses a feeling that is very prevalent among the rank and file of the republi can party when be says: There is one thing that greatly dis turbs me. The republican party, wheth er justly or unjustly, is associated with trust io the minds of tbe masses. As s party we have reached a crisis where we nave got to call a halt. Tbe republican party has got to disconnect itself from trusts. It has tot to do something more man auops piaucrm pianaa against the trnata. It hia or in imtfiwik t. nii strength and legislate against ' them. The feeling against the trust idea is in tense in tne west, it is so interim in the republican party thai the party will break ranks iinleu anmnt lilno (a ibu.. The undertow of sentiment in the WesU ern republican states against trusts is not unuersiooa in tne lutst. The revolt may strike us as early as next year. , Thatia all very true as far a it goes, but it does not go far enoneh. Mr Washburn talks in an aimless way about severing the relations between the re publican party and the trasts, but he does not explain now be and bis friends are going to do this and at the same time train under the leadership of such men as Hanna. The republican party machine is owned bodv and soul bv the trusts, and everybody knows it. The great majority of the rank and file of t he party doubtless aree with Mr. Wash burn, and if they are really in earnest and not merely content with indifferent acquiescence in the opinions of men like Washburn, they can assert their inde pendence. We shall rejoice to see them do it, even although their present pass ive submission to Hanna and all that Hanna stands for is good politics for the democrats. Then, as to the legislation against the trusts that Mr. Washburn desires that is well enough in its way, but it does not cover the whole case. We want men in office who are in sympathy with the policy of such legislation. To.make laws aeaiust trusts and then nut nn mnUia, Griggs to enforce them would be ridicu lous. San Fsancisco has been one of the most corruptly governed cities in the universe. The political chicanery, thiev ery and corruption in Portland were in nocense, honesty and purity compared to the reign of the political thieves of both parties in San Francisco. But that metropolis has been fortunate during the past two years in having for mayor a man of respectability, integrity, wealth, courage and higU character, who lias done much, negatively if not positively, to hold the swarms of vam pires at bay. He is a candidate for re election, and there is, fortunately for that city, no doubt of his success. His name is James D. Phelan, and, though classed as a democrat, he has no politics when it com8 to the city's business. It is such a man that we badly need in of fice in Portland. Portland Telegram. The process of annexing Hawaii prac tically to Japan by annulling the con tract labor and immigration laws of the United States is progressing rapidly un der the auspices of tbe McKinley ad ministration. Ten thousand, four hun dred and twelve contract laborers have been imported since annexation, Aug. 12, 1898, to Jan. 6, 1899, the majority being Japanese and nearly all the oth ers Chinese. This is how the republican party upholds American labor! And yet union men vote for it. Commoner. This week the Coubiek-Herald pub lished the delinquent tax payers, of Clackamas county for 1898. While the list is a little longer the amount is smaller than last year, when it was much below tbe average. Sheriff Cooke has taken considerable pain and time to notify ev ery taxpayer either personally or by let ter, when his address was known, and this tended to cut down the list wonder fully. The change in the plan of assess ment has caused some to be delinquent who would not otherwise have been, but as soou as the taxpayer gut familiar with the change they will much prefer the new method, which has been in use in the EaBt for years. This plan has been adopted in Multnomah county. The list and an extra run of advertising has compelled us to enlarge our paper to 10 pages for several weeks. The only way to build up Oregon City Is to drop all petty jealo isies and ev erybody work together for the interest of the town. Don't be afraid to advo cate anything that promises to help your neighltors' business. What helps your neighbor help you. Enterprise, RioiiT you are Bro. Porter. If the the citizens of Oiegon City would pull to gether, our town could be benefitted wonderfully thereby, but there seems to be a tendency among tome of our citi zens to throw cold water on anything that will help the town unless it emi rates from a certain source or benefit directly certain individuals. We would be glad to join hands with Bro. Porter and any citizen and do what we can for Oregon City and Clackamas county. Be gin at home; instead of having foreign architects, using Eastern lumber, wear ing Portland clothes and using Portland or San Francisco furniture, buy from Oregon City merchants and use home labor and material. Capt. Wells' lecture at Shively's urday night. Sat- EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. THE "heathens" worship an idol o stone ; the republicans worship an idol of gold. It is not considered proper in France to call a man a liar. He is always re ferred to as a "contributor to the dos sier." Funston's name is added to the long list of those who, having visited the Philippines and had an opportunity to see the Filipinos, return to this country convinced that the expansion policy jjf the administration is wrong. Because of the petty jealousies sur rounding the Otis regime in Manila, it is a well-known fact that whenever that gallant soldier Lawton, or any of tbe other fighting generals, ia about to ac complish anything of importance, he is immediately recalled and put on other duty, and it is owing to this scheming that the war is allowed to drag. In the excitement of tbe moment, it ht probably not occurred to most peo ple that in our latest feat of expansion we have succeeded in gobblirjg a full flex.' ged Mohammedan and all his tribe. Attorney-General Griggs says he will do nothing in the Carter court martial case until Carter's attorney, Wayne Me- Veagh, returns from Europe. No doubt the attorney for Captain Carter can be induced to prolong hia Etay to help out bis client. Bryan's latest suggestion to "license the truets," while calculated to startle one at first in its originality, is a mcst excellent plan, for in granting a licente, the federal government can make such conditions as will squeeze the water out of the stock and prevent the monopoli zation of any industry. President McKinley alludes often to maintaining the honor of the flag, yet he interposes his authority to retaiu in the service, on full pay, an army officer found guilty of embezzlement by a court martial. Americans are supreme in 'every branch of life, and if a competition in typewriters could be arranged between General Otis and the notorious General Weyler, there would be no reason to fear the result. Union labor in the United States will scarcely indorse the arrest and sentence; by United States authorities in Cuba of a man named Ferrer, a delegate from the Cuban Masons' Union, who got ten daya' imprisonment for having peace fully urged some carpenters to join the masons' strike. If United States troops are used against labor in this way in Cuba, how long will it be before the same authorities will take similar action against labor in the United States? It is now announced that President McKinley will take time to go to New York to attend the reception to Admiral Dewey and incidentally gain a little re flected popularity for use in the can paign. The Idaho, Wyoming and 3STorth Da kota regiments have arrived at San Francisco from Manila, and a large num ber of the men say that the islands are not worth keeninfr as a eifc and that it may take years to complete the con- j quest. The Western Union claims to have a grant from Spain of the exclusive right to land cables in Cuba. Whether this claim is well justified, it would seem, might be left for the courts to deter mine, but the administration has inter fered to uphold the monopoly to the ex tent of employing American troops to prevent the landing of a cable of a rival company. Thus it is again demonstra ted that the big monopolies have good cause for favoring President McKinley's re-election. Recent reports to the war department show that there has been a marked change in the attitude of the military governors of Cuban provinces. For merly, in their public addresses, though nothing was promised, still Cubans were always led to believe that in the very near future the entire affairs of the island would be turned over to them. Now this sort of thing is carefully omit ted. The military commanders seem to have reason to believe that President McKinley no longer feels as strongly as when he so expressed himself that "ter ritorial acquisition as a result of the war would be criminal aggression." Although the proclamation of tbe Philippine commission last April prom ised that "local funds, collected for local purposes, shall not be diverted to other ends,' it is stated on good authority that taxes in Luzon are being diverted to support the army, instead of being applied tu municipal purposes. This was the old Spanish policy, and our bad faith in returning to it will scarcely re dound to the honor of the flag or con vince the natives that the President can be trusted in other particulars. Governor Roosevelt's attitude since he changed from a reformer to become a "regular" republican, seems to be that the right thing would be for the New York taxpayer to apologize to the canal thieves. J. Piedmont Morgan, the great New Fall Opening Sale The public are well aware that we are the leading Cloth ln in Oregon City. We have made apecial efforts, to get the bent line 'from Eastern factories' of Clothing, Hats and Furnishings, at the lowest prices. We placed our orders with the factories for these lines early in the spring and we are therefore able to sell our fall stock.at prices th at our competitors must pay for them, under the present calamity of trusts.. As goods have advanced fully 30 pet cent, you can save that amount by purchasing from us. Call and Examine our Line of Men's Clothing Boys' Clothing Hats and Caps Over Shirts Underwear Boots and Shoes Trunks We have the most of Neckwear ever When you see it The Star One Price to All. Harding Block, Oregon City, York financier, went to Washington the other day and had a confidential talk with President McKinley at the white noiiBe. The reason given out for his visiting Washington was to apk the rev enue officials to keep the course clear for the international yacht race, but he would hardly need to visit the president for that. Perhaps the fact Uiat a whole lot of money will be needed if the repub licans are to carry Ohio may have had something to do with it. Word comes from Hong Kong that the British officials there have been com pelled by complaint of the men to de tain the United States transport Tartar on account of gross overcrowding, in volving danger to life. There were some disgraceful examples during the Cuban ATTRACTIVE PRICES. Good green coffee, pound 10c Koast coffee, white metal spoon free in eacn pound 1 ic Star roast coffee, far better than package coffee 12 50c grades of tea for 40c 60c gunpowder tea for 45c Tea dust, pound ;,, 15c Arm and Hammer soda, pound 4c Fine Japan rice, pound 5c Tapioca.. 4 t05c Good white beans, pound 2c Good gh ss starch, pound 5c Germea for mush, 8 pounds 25c Koiied oats, 7 pounds 25c Golden Gate baking powder, same as Pioneer, bulk, pound 35c Sandow baking powder, 28 oz., war ranted 25c Good table salt, 50 pounds 35c Stock salt, 100 pounds 40c FlftllP malfl 'rora best old 1UU1 wheat, either East- Am Cir Wau turn flrannn Diuuiial ' . : . . n 1 i, . it pnuea ia two to uve uarret lots. Washing powder, like Golddust, lb. 5o Sal soda for washing, 5 pounds 10c Sewing machine oil (bring bottle) 4 ounces 5C Lemon or vanilla 'like Price's or Burnett's, which cost 12 to 15c oz.) our price, per ounce "Jc Good grade lemon (bring bottle) oz., 5c Seddless raisins, 3 pounds 25c Fine prunes, pound 5c I'epper sauce 8c Finest catsup, 12c pint (worth double) bring vessel. Dixie Queen tobacco, 6 packages. ... 25c Pound Corn Cake and pipe 25c PopularfPrice chewing, cheapest.. . 25c Star Horseshoe or Climax 50c Independent (like Battle Ax) 35c Battle Ax, 40c; 2 pounds 75c Good brooms 25 to 35c Scrub brushes 15c Scrub brushes discolored by water. . 7c Trade for Hay, Grain, Shingles and Farm Produce. THE RED FRONT, Oregon City. stylish, and best line shown in this city. in Our Ad it's so. Clothing House The Reading Clothiers A. HECHTMAN, Manager. Opposite Commercial Bank or Postoffice Oregon campaign of official negligence in pro viding sufficient room for troops on ships. It is not gratifying to national pride that British officials should be obliged to take steps for the health and safety of our men which our own offic ials seem to have neglected. It looks to President McKinley very much as though the handwriting was on the wall in Ohio, and there is worry in the white house. President McKinley's personal visit to the national encampment succeeded in preventing the passage of a direct Tote of censure by the veterans, but did not remove the feeling of resentment. Lots of veterans will stay away from the polls this fall because Evans will not be re moved. Whisk broom 9c Cotton clo thes line 9c Matches, bunch In Good horsehide razor strop. 5c ouiw nans, cuncu or round head. .. 50 Soleleather ends, half cost of soles. Leather cement, 10c ; for rubber.... 15o Warranted pocket knives direct from factory, best and cheapest in town. Boys' knife 10o 50c 2-blade knife 25o Warranted scissors and butcher knives at Eastern prices. Gunpowder, pound 40o Shoes... Bradley & Metcalf's and Lewis's "Wear Kesister" shoes, the best goods, at practically Eastern pri ces. We tack and rivet coarse shoes free and warrant our best and medium-priced shoes. We sell cheaper than shoe stores and handle goods that wear. Try ua for shoes. Children's rubbers 15c up Men's rubbers 50c up Rubber are not warranted. Dry Goods Stock now arriving daily. New goods in great variety at lowest prices. Too busy to enumerate. Come in and see. Cloaks, Jackets and Capes. Millinery Up-to-date hats in great variety ready for inspection. Opening day, Tuesday, Sept. 26. Goods tliat equal in style and elegance anything in Portland, and East ern prices apply. See our hats, before buying.