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CONSOLIDATED SEPTEMBER, 1898
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1899.
17th YEAR, NO. 19
City
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er-Herald
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It's a Class Matter.
Editor Oourier-Hbakld :
To illustrate the doings of former gen
erations centuries atro, I here quote from
a recent writer's statement of the" ram
pant greed of cursed humanity in the
remote ages:
"The world has always contained two
classes of people, oue that lived by hon
est labor and the other that lived off of
honest labor. The throne of England
was established by the chief of a Nor
man banditti. Her titles of nobility ate
inherited from freebooters and her soil
was wrenched from its rightful owners,
whom they reduced to serfdom as the
curfew bell proclaimed the 'divine right'
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flcult to duplicate. If you make
selection from these, you'll secure the
qualities wise buyers prefer.
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Caution.
Your friends not to
a buy a Cooking Stove
V or Range before they
fjjjj have examined into
the merits of
AND STOVES.
They will do better work, and do it
quicker, with less fuel and labor, and
will last longer than any other kind.
' Ton will find the price reasonable
enough. "
of robber rule. Thus did bands of ruf
fians parcel Out the world, divide it into
dominions and establish thrones on an
assumption of power, for their own per
sonal aggrandizement."
The same two elapses exist today as of
old, both in Europe and America. We
have the toiling, tax-paving producers
and the idle non taxed who absorb the
fat. of the land without labor. The Eng
lish system of robbery varies somewhat
from the one practiced by the Ameri
cans, but the principle and the results
are the same.
The violent opposition which the re
form movement encounters comes from
that class which lives and eets richer
off of the laboring class. They see, as
all well-informed persons can see, that
if the reform movement succeeds as de
sired, the idle class will loe its strong
hold it now has upon the earnings of
the producing class. Doubtless many
of the devotees o the prevailing system
of robbery are honestly disposed, but
having been taught from their youth up
that the specie basis system iB the only
true system of finance, they are in a
measure excusable for voting against
their own interests, because of the false
schooling by the minions of the money
power, who have for time immemorial
conspired to defraud the working class.
The conspirators long since found out
that a contracted currency and high in
terest are their best tools for robbing
the toilers, because low prices always
accompany a restricted currency and
prevents the producers from laying up
HOUSEFURNISHERS
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All-Wool C. 0. Carpet, per yard... 50c
Bussel's Carpet, per yard 50c
Ingrain Carpet, per yard 25c
Washable Jute Carpet, per yard 35c
Hemp Carpet, per yard 10c
Matting, per yard 10c
Lace Curtains, pair 75c
Fringed Table Cover, 3 by 3 feet. . . . 50c
Double Roll 15c
Strange as it may seem
there r has been produced
But One Carpet Sweeper
that hat given entire aatlif action ,
to both DEALER and USER,
THE "BISSELL"
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money against a rainy day,, and is the
father of tlie credit system. ;
The money aristocracy are champions
of the credit system. . They are strongly
opposed to high prices and to a large
j-supply of the circulating medium, be
cause they know that if high prices pre
vailed, farmers and all other toilers
would pay their debts and stop paying
interest.
If all workers could comprehend the
vastness ot indebtedness, both public
and private, in the United States, they
would bd amazed, and farthermore,
should the toilers learn that all interest
is paid by and through their labor, they
would be thunder struck. Such is the
fact; labor pays all.
Although labor creates all wealth, our
lawmakers have restricted the currency,
seemingly on nurpdse to make low prices
for everything the workers have to sell,
to prevent the workers from paying
their debts. After saddling a huge debt
on the nation, had congress greatly in
creased the volume of the circulating
medium in proportion to the increased
burden, the producers could have easily
paid the debts, because prosperity
always comes with a large circulating
medium. Could all of the working peo
ple fully understand this money ques
tion how a small volume of currency
keeps their noses on the grindstone
they would certainly stop voting for the
gold standard which stands for low
prices and hard times.
Ever since the civil war the scheming
money power has been clamoring for a
large volume of currency. They began
by putting the greenbacks into bonds,
then burning up the money that bought
the bonds ; then in 1873 they demone
tized silver, which act cut the volume of
primary money in half, so in reality we
are compelled to transact the vast busi
ness of the United States with less than
half of the needed volume of currency.
The advocates of an enlarged circulating
medium don't need better proof than
our experience since the war that a con
tracted currency stagnates and is a sure
harbinger of distressing hard times
Look at the want and misery that have
followed the accursed contraction of the
tool of trade I Mountains of indebted
ness cover the land like a pall, for the
BUSCH
Copper Bottom Tea Kettle 40c
10-quart Granite Pail 00c
10-quartDish Pan 10c
10-inch Granite Pan 25c
6 Knives and Forks 50
6 Table Spoons 10c
6 Tea Spoons 05c
Butcher Knife 10c
High Back Dining Chair.......... 65c
Rockers $1.00 and op
6 Copt and Saucers 45c
6 Dinner Plates 60c
6 Sauce Dishea... 25c
lOOPieoe fine Decorated Dinner Set 9.60
...
reason that the scheming aristocracy of
wealth want to draw interest from every
body that works, hence the contraction
cheme to prevent the producers from
paying their debts and compel them to
alwavs inly interest.
No man or party that works for a con
tracted currency is the friend of the
worker, because contraction stands for
the toilers's misery, but the rich man's
wealth. Sands Brownei.l.
Salem, Ore.
Banki Want the Power,
Editor Coumkr-Herald :
The Oregonian, of Sept. 16th, has an
article copied from the Indianapolis
News, headed "Facts About Gold". Af
ter going on to state the amount of gold
in this county, and the desirability of
having it always ready to redeem any
other money, this statement is made.
In other words, as soon as people think
that the token money is not redeemable
in gold, dollar for dollar, there is a panic,
credit falls and trade languishes.
The point 1 wish to raise is to ask
what part the people take in anything
ot that kind. In 1893, the people knew
little or nothing about it, until the panic
hit them, and had it been left to the
people there would have been no panic.
The first the people realized of the
patter was that the banks refused fur
ther credit, and went to hauling in what
money they had out. When asked to
give some reason for their actions, ali
the small bankers could say was that
they must do it if they expected to keep
on exchange terms with the large bank
ing institutions. The large banking
firms had but very little to say fur them
selves, but the newspapers, they had in
their employ, Btaied that the govern
ment was getting too much silver on
hand, and the government was entirely
too impatient, compared with them in
putting a value on that silver, yet, in the
face of their great power, the govern
ment might be foolish enough to attempt
to stamp it with a fixed value and call it
money of redemption, instead of it being
a something to be redeemed to give it
value.
What I wish to protest against is that
tha people had anything to do with pro
duoing the panicqr Jhat !,hey .would, jo.'
augurate another panic simply because
the government was making a certain
kind of money and calling it good money t
good enough for it to take upon any
claims due the go eminent from the in
dividual. The people would respect any
money the government would make and
the great majority of them would like to
see a great deal more of it, bo that busi
ness could go on lively, with active pro
duction and ample consumption; and
whether the money was gold, silver,
nickel, copper or paper few of them
would care, just so as it had the govern
ment stamp upon it, backed by plain
stated and positive legislation. In case
of another panic it will not be the peo
ple who will inaugurate it, it will first
be concocted in London and Berlin, and
then seconded in New York, and not
more than a dozen persons will take ac
tive part in the beginning, and when
they say the word all the rest willl have
to dance or leave the house; and the
common banker who would dare to
raise a protest would soon find himself
in as unhappy a state as a Siberian wolf
who has lost cast with his comrades.
His financial bones would be picked
with neatness and dispatch.
So long as they can keep gold redemp
tion for all other money they can hav e
it all their own way, and that few men
can cause the rest of the world to bow at
their feet. The fellow who imagines he
is patriotic, yet hurrahs for the gold
standard and supposes that all other
money must be redeemed in gold sets
np gold above the government, and reg
ulates the glory of our flag by the amount
of gold the government is able to control.
When "the token money is not redeem
able in gold, dollar for dollar, credit falls
and trade languishes." That means
that on top of the flag p"le there is a
golden ball, higher than the flag can
ever flap, and though the common peo
ple respect the flag the little ball on top
runs the machine. What I wish to em
phasize is that the people do not Inaugu
rate panics, they are not so shaky about
our government's credit, and the com
mon laborer, and tradesman doesn't care
a fig what the money is like just so long
as it will pay debts and buy goods, and
the statement that the people are parties
to the panic making business is not only
false, but wilfully and maliciously so,
made with the intent to deceive.
Thomas Bcckkax.
Marsbfleld, Or., 8ept. 18, '99.
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call at Charman & Co.'s drug store and
get a free trial bottle of Taft's Asthma
lene;' or will mail a free trial bottle
Write Drs. Taft Medical Co., Elm street
Rochester, N. Y. ' x ' '. ,
Sewing machines from $25 up. . Bold
on easy payments- Burmeister & An-dresen.
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Corner Front and Taylor Streets, PORTLAND, 0REG3N
A Mexican's Srtj.
City of Mexico, Sept. 26. Correo Es
panol, the organ of the Spanish colony,
says the United States; by its high
handed conduct in the Philippines, is
estopped from coming to the aid of the
Dutch republic, and asks, "How can the
United States,on humanitarian grounds,
now recommend peace to Great Britain ?
"How can it expert England to do
that which England allowed and encour
aged the United States to do? And we
say encouraged because it will be re
membered that soon after the breaking
out of the war with Spain, Mr. Cham
berlain, the very minister who now
wants to push down on the Transvaal,
had no hesitation in saying in defiance
of the reserve which his official position
demanded of him, that the United
States ought to hold on to all tho Span
ish islands in fulfillment f that high
mission of civilization which, according
to his practical theories, God has en
trusted to the Anslo-8axin."
Nature Convulsed.
Port Townsend, Wash., Sept. 25.
Concerning the ret erit earthquake along
the coast of Alaska, Rev. Sheldon Jack
son, educational agent of Alaska, writes
as follows from Yakutat, under date of
September 17:
"The first shock was experienced on
Sunday, September 3, but being light, it
caused no alarm. During the following
week other shocks were felt, and people
began to got nervous. On September
10, at 9.20 a. m., the shocks became bo
violent as to cause genuine apprehen
sion. During the following five hours
there were 52 distinct shocks, culminat
ing at 3 p. m. In a shock bo severe that
the people of Yakutan were hurled vio
lently awoss their rooms, or, if outside,
thrown to the ground, while pictures
fell from the walls and clocks and dishes
crashed from the shelves and houses
rocked and swayed and whirled. The
mission bell rang violently in the Ska
kine church tower."
Sam Simpson's Poems,
The poetical writings of Oregon's
sweetest singer, Sam L. Simpson, are
now being compiled for publication in
book form, and agents are in the field so
liciting subscriptions. The book will be
ready for the public by December. Tbe
contents will consist of the choicest se
lections of tbe author, and will fill a
book ol 400 pages. No home library
should be without a volume of Sam
Simpson's poetry. Aside from tbe in
trusio merit of Simpson's poems, written
on all subjects, their local nature, des
cription of Oregon romance, scenic
beauties, of mountain and river, bave a
special Western significance and value.
The author of" Beautiful Willamette,"
has been called the "Burns of Oregon,"
so near was his heart to nature ae evi
denced in so many poems written on bis
native land.
Mrs. J. R. Beavers hss been engaged
to canvass Oregon City for the sale of
these poems. The book will be sold for
$2.00 and $2.50, payable on delivery, by
agents for the Simpson Publishing Com
pany. School books and school supplies at
Portland prices. Tablets, rulers and
pencils free to purchasers of books.
Charman A Co., the cut-price druggists.
Notice,
Dan Williams having sold his store to
Geo. W, Grace, all persons knowing
themselves indebted to him will please
call and settle acconnts. ' 1 " j
For Rent 320 acres, suitable for dairy
or grain or stock farm, hop yard. For
further particulars inqnlrc of D. Wills,
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Seven per cent money to loan three
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A few watches for sale cheap at
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- Money to loan at 8 percent interest on
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The Club tonsorial parlors, P. G.
Shark, proprietor, shaves for 10 cents.
A full line of cigars and tobacco is kept.
When in Portland be sure and call at
the Royal restaurant where you can get
the best 15c meal in the city. 253 First
street, corner of Aladison. Wm.
Bohlander, proprietor.
For first-class handmade or machine
made harness go to F. H. Cross on
Seventh street, opposite A O U V hall,
Prices reasonable and wo'k guaranteed,
45 cents round trip from Oregon City
to Portland and return via Southern
Pacific trains. One way rate 25 cents.
Tickets now on sale at railroad depot.
Trains leave Oregon City at 8:40 a. m.,
and 3:35 p. in., and arrives from Port
land at 9 :23 a. m. and 0 :52 p. in . Save
time by using the quicker route.
Weekly Oregonian and Goimnsn
Hkrai.d for $2 per year.
Rambler, Victor, Stearns, Ideal and
Golden Eagle bicycles for sale at Bur
meister & AndreBon.
Shoe repairing of all kinds at F, II,
Cross' harness shop, opposite A O U
W building on the hill,
G. fl. Young, opposite BurmeiHter &
Andersen's, keeps a full line of new and
second-hand furniture and house fur
nishing goods. Prices very low. Give
him a call. ' .
Fob Sale A good second-hand
Vic
tor mill and power combined, also
pony. H. Scheel, Blssell, Or.
We pay a premium for Clackamas
County and Oreqon City warrant.
BANK OF OREGON CI TV.
Lost On Sept. 20. Wwn m.i.
mas Heights and Parkplace, a nickel
keyMnd watch, Elgin movement No.
239,366. Return to this office or to J. A
arrar, rarpiace. Reward.
BIDS WANTED.
Sealed bids will ha ..:. ...i .. .
clerk's office for repairing the Eagle
Creek bridge on the Currinsyille road as
follows :
For a new approach at north end of
said bridge, 46 feet high and about 180
feet long; also one at south end 20 feet
high and about 30 feet long; also two
undersills under north pier, main bent,
and two under south bent; also two east
posts ou south bent to be spliced.
For Clear Creek bridge at hatchery j
Three bents under south end of bridge
and four under north end. "
Bids will be opened on Thursday. Oc
tober 6th, 1899, at 2 o'clock p. m.
The hoaroT reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
' ELMER DIXON, Clerk.
By E, H. Cooper, Deputy.