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COURIER ESTABLISHED MAY, 1883
HERALD ESTABLISHED JULY, 1893
CONSOLIDATED SEPTEMBER, 1898
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 1899.
17th YEAR, NO. 18
City
Herald,
LETTER TO THE
PJIJLIPPINOS.
Tom Morgan Writes Some Tilings
to Our New Jfeiglibors.
My Dear Misguided Human Brothers:
Just lay down your fuses, bows and ar
rows and let me talk a little advice and
give some information. .
Now, to begin with, you fellows would
dojuBt as well climb into a sausage mill
as to tackle Uncle Samuel. Uncle Sam
uel is a figurative expression for seventy
millions of people. I do not want to see
mince meat made of you We have too
many varieties of meat now. You may
think you are receiving pretty hard
treatment, but Great Scott 1 what would
it be if Uncle Samuel should take a no
tion to send you a cargo of canned beef.
You ought to be thankful you have es
caped that. .
Now let me tell you what to do : Stop
fighting 1. It's only a matter of time when
you'll get licked anyway 1 Surrender
under one condition only that you
Bhall not be fed on canned beef.
You fellows don't know what a good
thing you are missing by not wanting to
become citizens of this grand country of
ours. There isn't anything like it un
der the sun. You ought to send a dele
gation over to see us this land of the
freeland of churches and 40,000 li
censed saloons ; bibles, forts and guns;
houses of prostitution ; millionaires and
paupers ; theologians and thieves ; liber
tines and liars; Christians and chain
gangs; politicians and poverty; schools
and scalawags ;trusts and tramps ; money
and misery ; homes and hunger; virtue
and vice.
A land where you can get a good bi
ble for 15 cents or a bad drink of whisky
for 5 cents ; where we have a man in
congress with three wives, and a lot in
the penitentiary for having two wives:
where some men make sausage out of
their wives and some want to eat them
raw; where we make belogna sausage
out of dogs, canned beef out of horses
and sick cows and corpses out of the peo
ple who eat it ; where we put a man in
jail for not having the means of support
and on the rock pile for asking for a job
of work ; where we license bawdy houses
and fine men for telling the turth on the
streets ; where we have a congress of 400
men to make laws ; a Bupreme court of
nine men 4o set them aside ; where good
whisky makes bad men and bad men
make good whisky; where newspapers
are paid for suppressing the truth and
made rich for teaching a lie ; where pro
fessors draw their convictions from the
same place they do their salaries ; where
preachers are paid $25,000 a year to
dodge the devil and tickle the ears of the
wealthy ; where business consists of get
ting hold of property in any way that
won't land you in the penitentiary;
where trusts "hold up" and poverty
' hold 8 down;" where men vote for
what they do not want for fear th'ey
won't get what they do want by voting
for it; "where niggeis" can vote and
women can't; where the girl who goes
wrong is made an outcast and her male
partner flourishes as a gentleman; where
women wear false hair and men "dock"
their horses tails; when the political
wire puller has displaced the patriotic
statement ; where men vote for a thing
one day and "cuss" it 364 days; where
we have prayers on the floor of our na
tional capital and whisky in the cellar;
where we spend $5000 to bury a states
man who is rich and $10 to put away a
working man who is poor; where to be
virtuous 's to be lonesome and to be
honest is to be called a crank ; where we
sit on the safety valve ot energy and pull
wide open the throttle of conscience ;
where gold is substance the one thing
sought for, and God is a waste basket
for our better resolutions : where we pay
$15,003 for a dog and 15 cents a dozen to
a poor womtn for making shirts ; where
we teach the"untutored Indian" eternal
life from the bible and kill him off with
bad whisky ; where we put a man in
jail for stealing a loaf of bread, and in
congress for stealing a railroad ; where
the check book talkb, sin walks in broad
daylight, justice is asleep, crime runs
amuck, corruption permeates our whole
social and and political fabric, and the
devil laughs from every street corner.
Come to w Fillies! We're got the
grandest aggreg atlon of good things and
bud things, hot things and cold things,
all sizes, varieties and colors ever ex
hibited under one tent.
We've got more guns, more bibles and
more whisky than any two shows on
earth. If you don't come we'll fetch j ou.
"Read ye nor. the changeless truth, the
free can conquer but to save."
"We want to save you first, then we'll
salt you down. Then we'll give you a
bible and you can get consolation out of
it without extra charges. It the salt
loses its savor wherewith shall it be
salted?" "Who the Lord loveth, He
chauteneth." "Thro' much suffering
ye are made perfect." That's what our
guns are for. ''.
Of course when you fellows jine us
you will have to stop eating each other.
You will be our meat then. Our peo
ple won't stand it to see a lot of good
meat wasted that way. You can eat
each other's substance that makes the
flesh. You can eat dog "belogna' or
canned horse meat. It will expand our
meat trade.
Now this letter ought to fetch you.
Give Aguinaldo the marble heart. ' He's
sold you out twice and would likely do it
again. Besides we have bought you and
have offered you all the inducements of
civilization. Come to our arms.
Tom Morgan.
P. S. Forgot to say that when you
"jine" us your women would have to
change their mode of dress. Iu other
words they should have a more elaborate
wardrobe aad wear something moro than
a summer smile and a pair of ear rings.
Nudity is not permitted with us except
in the theaters and first-class ball rooms
and then not with male men.
I For Sale 27 acres adjoining West Or
egon City, Eighteen acres in cultiva
tion ; balance light brush. All under
, fence. Good spring of water. Excel
lent location. Sixty-five dollars per
( acre. Call on or address G. B. Dimick,
uregon uuy.
Money to loan at 8 per cent interest on
mortgages. Apply to C. D. & D. O
Latourette .
Red Seal
Sarsaparilla
for
Bad Blood
65c for
Regular
$1.00 Size.
Red Seal
Coujh Cure
guaranteed
to curt
any Cough.
40c for
Refular
50c Size.
Dr. Ward's
Red Blood t
Pills.
Blood Builder !
and X
Nerve Tonic, r
35c for I
Regular I
50c Size. X
Dr. Ward's
Little Liver Pills
act promptly.
25c.
Our Cascara
more efficient
than
Syrup Figs
and the cure is
Permanent
25 and 50c
Makes His
Guarantee Good
rfuriuCJ,' r.0t Cr.ly guarantees about everything he
sells from paint to perfume but he does more". Hi
makes the guarantee good.
It's so easy to say, "oh yes, we guarantee this" and
"we guarantee that," but when it comes to handing out a
hot water bottle or a fountain syringe to replace a defec
tive one, or painting a man's house over because the paint
peeled off, that's another matter. This, Huntleyhas done
in the past, and he will do so again if the fault lies in the
goods he recommends.
Conscience is a great thing in the Drug business
If your Druggist hasn't a big conscience with him every
day in the year and every hour in the day, you would
better look out for him. It's so easy for him to give you
second quality in your prescription when you pay for
first Huntley means to have only one quality and that
is first.
C. G. HUNTLEY
Original Cut-Rate Druggist
OREGON CITY, OREGON
Dr. Baker's
Celery and Kola.;
The addition
of
Kola and Black
Haw makes
a much more
efficient
preparation
man me 01a
Celery Compound.
65c for
Regular .
$1.00 Size.
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! 1 A mother
o remarked the
other day that oui
j Children's
Cough Cure
Twas the best thing?
t she had ever
fciven her child
No Morph'.rte
perfectly
Harmless
25c.
Special price on
Salt Peter arid Sulphur.
Send r
m-
s your
.Ail orders.
Headache
Tablets
that Cure
30 for 25c.
Tfie Labor Problem. -
Editor Coukijsr-Hkrald :
At present in all parts of the countrv
and for that matter in the world there
is a disposition on the part of the hbor-
1 ig cHsftw t combine for self protectii
and luutual benefit. It is apparent to
the masses that a tremendous struggle
is impending between the capital and la
bor, and that in order to be prepared for
the conflict.labor muBt be thoroughly or
ganized and in a position to make its iust
demands known and respected.
So manv abuses have insensibly grown
up, so many unjust demands on the part
of the employers, especially iu manufac
turing ostab'ishinent, that it reads like
a repetition of the Dred Scott decision
ightly altered, that labor has no right
that capital is bound to respect. We
sea here in Oregon the sad spectacle of
children, not more than twelve years of
age, working in the factories for forty
cents a day, who, in justice to them and
to the state, whose protecting power
should be thrown over them, should be
in sctiol during schoool term or at nlav
or assisting their parents at home when
not studying. Law should be in force
prohibiting the labor of children in
mines, factories or any continuous phy
sical labor until they have ha I at least
a common school education. . With the
rapid development of labor-savins ma
chinery in all the varied branches of in
dustry, and the sure and gradual decline
of what are called the middle classes
into the ranks of day laborers, there
can be little opportunity for the employ
ment of all who will and must work for
daily bread It is, therefore, just and
necessary that children should first be
educated, even if the text books have to
be furnished by the state, and secondly,
tnat they be employed at remu lor.ilive
wages, a sufficiency that will insure com
fort and plenty. How to do this will be
the study of the political economist from
this time on, and labor, intelligently
conducted, muBt settle itself to this
work.
, The trusts that have in thi list few
years become so formidable and threat
ening to the whole country depend for
their profits and huge margins on the
laboring clsn where a combination of
capital can fix the price of wheat, the
farmers great staple of wealth and ex
port at 50 cents a bushel, and sell him
the flour made from his product at
eighty cents a fifty pound Back, it is pos
sessed of an advantage that threatens
the very life and well being of the coun
try, because if capital can, by combining,
putdown wheat to fifty cents a bushel,
it can reduce it still lower, and on the
other hand, the flour trust can raise the
price of the manufactured commodity to
a dollar a sack. And the people under
the present system are helpless to pre
vent the injustice and extortion. There
must be at fir-it a public sentiment
aroused that will demand of the law
makers a redress of grievance?, that will
demolish and repeal all laws of a sump
tuary nature. That will do all that is
possible to insure to the laborer and
producer all his or her earnings,and fail
ing in that then the only avenue open is
the public ownership of the monopoly in
question. Should every other measure
fall, and, I, for one fear it will, then the
whole people should own it, control it
and operate it in the whole people's in
terest.' For instance, there is one post
master general, at a salary of eihi.
thousand dollars a year. It is his duty
to superintend the whole postal eybti-m
of the country, and although the post
office system might be improved especi
ally where the corporations carry the
mails by contract, still it is far in ad
vance of the railroad system. The rail
roads have as many presidents ml
other purely ornamen'al officials as there
are lines, their salarius ranging from one
hundred thousand dollars per annum to '
five thousand, and for all that, their
combined labor is no weightier nor use
ful than the one post master general.
The people, who pay the salary of the
United States official, also pay the hun
dreds of millions of dollars for the orna
mental useless appendages of the rail
road system. Labor pays all this and
receives very little in return. It has
built all the roads. It does not own a
mile of track or a dollar's worth of roll
ing stock. It is owned by men, who not
only did not build itrand do not operate)
it, but who do not live in the country.
In fact, much or nearly all the profits go
to aliens in foreign lands, who hav bo
little sympathy with our country and
its institutions that they are anxious to
forswear allegiance to the republic and
swear allegiance to monarchs of other
countries and humbly beg the privilege
of becoming their suhjects.
Labor has a mighty work to perform
endless reforms to put in practice justice
and equity to be dealt impartially irre
spective of classes and for this purpose it
needs and must obtain the very best
material that human ingenuity can sup
ply. They must elect men who have no
suspicion ot corporation taint on them
who are nit and and have neyer been in
monopoly's employ as couauillord and
attorneys, whose sympathies and souls
are and have beeu with the working
men and not the m isters, with the man
and not the dollar; with humanity and
not property. When such are elected
and the proper and needful laws passed
and enforced, then labor will have its
rights and not before. By all means let
labor combine for the distinct and
avowed purpose of bettering their con
dition and for the elevation of common
humanity. Surely God has intended
that the common, plain people, who, as
Lincoln said "He must have loved be
cause he created so many" should have
their innings, and the time srems pro
pitious a id conditions favorable for .
bringing the matter about. The country's
deBtiny is in their hands let them rise to
the occasion and show the world that
they are worthy sous and daughters ot
revolutionary ancestors. '
J. t). Stevens.
Canby, Ore., Sept. 18.
Dress or business suits made to meas
ure, with 800 choice samples of cloth to
select from, at prices ranging tron $10
to $30. O. A. Cheney.
Wanted, Girl for general houss-
work; one who understands cooking.
Good wages. Apply at store of
I. Selling .
(School Book
Prices
8
Are fixed by the State, but the Prices on Slates, Pencils,
Tablets, Pens, Ink and all the little necessary things fop
the schoolroom we fix, and we have fixed them way down.
We couldn't find a Pencil Tablet big enough and good
enough to sell for 5 cents, so had one made to order
2O0 sheets of best quality pencil paper and named it our
"Big Value" Tablet. You will find the same "Big Value'
idea running through the whole line.
For every scholar we have a rule free for asking
and with every book we furnish free a strong book
cover.
We buy and sell second hand books and caa save
you half the cost of your school books if you can use
second hand ones. As usual with uj we guarantee the
quality and the price. Everything in the line of school
books and school supplies that is not satisfactory, that
cannot bt used, that foi any good reason you may desire
to return, we will buy it back ftt the price you paid.
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Our Cloth Books
For 2e.
Are kandaomely bound In fancy covers this year and
embrace many new titles that are just out of copy-right
and which kavt betn selling at $1 50 each. Ask to see
them. Special price to libraries.
An Artistic Picture
With Frame for 40e
We have a large line of these and they are not chromos
or cheap in any way but price. An art store would ask
i.oo forthem. Same picture with a mat and ready to
frame too; with glass front and asel back 15c
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Closing out Bicycle Sundries, Bas Ball Goods, Hammocks
Thtse goods at a discount of quarter to half from regular price
Huntley's Book Store
OREGON CITY, OREGON
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