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OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 4899. OREGON CITY COURIER OREGON CITY HERALD CONSOLIDATED. XTv. CHENEY Publisher Claciamas County iniepflenkCanliy ATISORBED MAY, 1899 Legal and Official Newspaper Of Clackamas County. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 8 ilr.r . In Oregon City postofBoa as 2nd-clasi natter IUB8CRIPTT0N HATES. Pal In advance, per year 1 tilt months Three manths'trlal fVThe date opposite your address on the taper aoaotea me time to wnicn yon navepaia. ft this notice is marked your subscription due. ,! ADVERTISING RATES. fltaadlnr business advertisements: Per month 1 Inch II, 2 Inches 11.50, 8 Inches 81.7S, 4 Inches r.i,o incnes icommnj luincnewtroiuinn 14, 20 Inches (column) early contracts 10 per Cent less. Transient advertisements: Per week 1 Inch (k), 2 Inches 75c, 8 inches $1,4 Inches 1 , 1 nclics tfl.ou, 10 luetics wiM, m incnes Imil adverilscmehls: I'cr in Ji first Inser tion $1, each additional insertion 50c. Affllavits or publication will not be lurnisnea unin puu llcntion flies aruruiid. Local nations; Five cents per line per week per month 'too, PATKDSIZK HOME INDUSTRY. OREGON CITY, OOT. 2a, 1809. : An, linevlcnn Inter nrtl Policy. rtinr I'uIjIIc owocnhlp of pnhlio franohlses. The values ere i' ed i) the community should bo oti' to tin cnmmuiilly. Second Destruction of criminal tru'-ts. No monopolization of the national resources hy law loss private combinations more powerful than t ho people's government. Third A graduated inoomotnx. Every cltlaon o contribute to the support of the government ao. cording to hi. moans, auJ not according to hid ne cessities. Fodrtii Election of senators by tho people. The senate, now becoming tho private property Of corporations and bosses, to be made truly repre sentative, fcnd the state legislatures to be redeemed rom rconrrlng scandals. Fifth National, state and munlolpal Improve ment of tho public school system . As the duties of oltlzaiuhlp are both gimnral and local ,svory government, both g'noral and loonl, should do ts share toward lilting every individual to per form them. Sixth Currency reform. All tho nation's money to bo issued by the nation's governmen t. Mid Its supply to bo regulated by the peoplond not by the banks, Hevfmth No protection or oppressive trusts, Orgnalznttons powerful enougV. to oppress tho people are no longer "Infant Industries." PinwiT T eoist.atios Lawmaking by the voters. The Initiative The proposal of a law by a per centago of the voters, which must then go to the referendum, Tira ItKi'icnitNnCM-Tho voto at tho polls of a aw proposed through tho Initiative or on any 1 aw passed by a lawmaking body, whose refer ence Is petitioned for by a voters. perccniage Jof the I Tub Impbiiative Mandate Whenever a public oftlolal shall be deemed dishonest, Inoompetcnt i ll i i 1 1 I I h i iiliinle vMcis shall have tlio right to retire him and olect one of their choice, The people alone are sovereign, The Sultan of Sulu has already earned ono month's salary under tho McKinley administration. To pay it 25,000 one cent revenue siampB were licked by the American people. Mtreury. This Oregonian gives Bro. Porter and the Enterprise the following "slap:" "The Oregon City papers have mado the grammatical discovery that a newspa per is of the masculine gender 'The Couri'T-lIotuld, he,' etc." Tun Massachusetts democratic state convention has declared' the government ownership of raMrouds as tho only way to stop discriminations and allow the little fellows to have any show in busi ness enterprise. The delegation declared for Bryan. Tun National Tribune, of Washington, Bays that the president on his Western trip is likely to find out from the old soldiers that in retaining Evans, who failed to carry out the promises of 1896, he is carrying a heavlor load than Altier, Otis, Brooks and Carter put together. Tho National Tribune thinks that sur rounded by sycophants In Washington, the president lias not realized how dovp ts the sentiment felt by the veterans over the broken pledges. The boiler makers working on the government transport ships in the Phil ippine carrying trade have struck. The administration farms out the work to political heelers, who pay them $1.25 a day less than the law provides. It is thus that the Mcllanna administration, that was elected by the working people, shows its love and regard for them I Contract work should be abolished in all publlo employment. It was through the contract system that Captain Carter was able to swindle the government out of over two millions. Sknator Hansa, on his return from Europe, statod it as his opinion that the uioaarehial government of England t of England was as good as the government of this coun try. That may be go under the govern tnont of McKinley, but there are still a number of Americans who believe that our system of government is far superior o that of any monarchy whin the con stitution and Declaration of Indepen dence are taken as the guide of our ultra. Bno. Ports r in his organ is still try ing to draw attention from the facts at issue by abasing the writer and others. In the last issue of his sheet he con futinds printing and writing inks and abuses a prominent merchant of Oregon City and the board of county commis sioners. He claims that the county is paying more than formerly for inferior ink. That part of the contract is sub let by the writer and the board audits the bills. It doesn't rebect on us in the least and it doesn't on anyone else, when the character of the man making the accusation is taken into considera tion. . Undkr the constitution, a vast and ill- defined power is vested in the president as commander-in-chief during the exist ence of a state of war. There is hardly any limit to the things he can do with- out being responsible therefor to any thing out puuiic opinion, while the lat ter can be placated by appealing to patriotic feeling to support the flag. This is doubtless one reason why Otis has been allowed to conduct such a far cial campaign, quite as ridiculous as any of those for which we formerly ridiculed the Spanish generals. Had armed oppo sition been crushed out six months ago, the question of the president's policy could no longer have been obscured by hiding behind the plea that the Hag was in danger, which has kept so many from judging it on its merits. Do you know why these boys are re turning home? It is not because they are nomesicK. u mere was out ltitt a little encouragement, they would have re-enlisted to a man. It is no pleasure to go on in a conflict that permits of no excuse for its continuance. It is one thing to fight for country and flag; quite another for the sake of keeping soin::- hody in a job that pays well in many ways. The boys are utterly discouraged, and nine-tenths of them quit in disgust. If treated right and given a chr.cj to do something besides rotting in the trenches, it would not have been neces sary to offer them inducements to re main in the service. But the most of them have had enough of it. The con duct of the cninpiign has been ridicu lous. Filipinos pass the lines with the utmost freedom under the pretext of trade, or of surrender only to return to their regiments to impart information and make possible the bushwhacking warfare that is now being carried on. The men feel disheartened and deem their sacrifice in vain. Lieutenant J. F. Hau., Co. K., Twentieth Kansas In fantry, The Coumer-Herald is printing some campaign fairy tales concerning what the donio-pops have saved the county during the last year. These are on the same line as the ones published at the hat campaign and shown to be utterly wrong. There are many tilings that have to be explained in these kinds of claims. As an instance, in tho last six months the county has reduced its out standing warrants nearly $10,000. Not a bad showing. This savinur in hv a rn. pumican board, ami why not print the "' .wr.n. As we stated October 6th. th ileum. pops saved the county $4,330.30 in ONE YEAR, and if Bro. Porter had taken the trouble to look up the records in the court house he would find that it was so, too. But a man of his character doesn't want facts, as any lying assertion will do to fool the people. We defy Bro. Porter to disprove our figures, which were taken from the official records in the court house. He says the outstanding warrants of Clackamas county are $10, 000 leas than six months ago. We admit this, but why didn't he tell all the truth? While the outstanding warrants are $10,000 less the county's indebted ness is $13,821.13 more. We are always pleaeed to print facts, something Bro. Porter has a reputation for not doing. Ex-SuEbipf Maddock, who is jutt now trying to get a chance to run for sheriff for the fourth time (He was elect ed once), comes out in a lengthy article in the official organ of the ring attacking tho Coprter-IIbkai.d because it pub lished part of the facts in regard to his misadministration of the office of sheriff of Clackamas county for two years. He claims extra work and the taking of prisoners and insane patients to the pen itentiary or asylum as his excuse for drawing his enormous salary, and says the office should be put back on fees, in stead of a salary, claiming he lost $1000 by the office. The sum of $5,478.72, the amount of his first year's salary, wasn't so bad, even if all the work was done by deputies. If he had done as Sheriffs Grace and Cooke did he would not have needed so many extra deputies. If he had been working on the fee system he would have received $8)03 or $:)003 prob ably and would not come out a thou sand loser. As we all know, it costs some men considerable nnney to be elected, and he seams to have been one of this class. Bat the ide.i of his saying that the conveying of prisoners aud in sane people to Salem nude the expense of the office greater, when he received extra pay for this work from the state and this was not figured in in his salaty, which would h.ive amounted to several hundred dollars extra an 1 ra.ide his sal ary larger I He thought he could tool the paople this way. He says he re duced the price for publishing the delin quent tax list to twice what ihe county now pays the Courier-IIkhei.d for the same work, but does not say anything about the fact that the delinquent tax list had to bo republished on account of it at. the expense of the county. As we all remember, the list was given to the Three Sisters, the pipor that moved from Barlow to do the work, and that he received half as his commission for the illegal publication that cost the county nearly $1200. He then goes ou and says that we set the tax list differ ent from sheriff's sales, etc. Of course we do, and anybody else does, too; even when Le was sheriff he permitted it to be set this wav, and didn't kick, either. It makes a difference whose ox is gored. He then goes on to say that Grace left the office broke, and that Cooke will. If they had conducted their affairs as he did his, they would be worse off than he is, because they received reduced sala ries. Come again, Mr. Maddock, and Bhow your "ig-nor-ance." OTIS' PL AX. Among the newspaper correspondents who protested in that famous "round robin" against the suppression of legiti mate news by General Otis' censor and who are still at Manila is John T. Mc Cutcheon, of the Chicago Record. He is still writing interesting letters of the sit uation there, which land all right by be ing posted at Hong Kong, which is Brit ish territory. In a rscent letter, he gives this summing up of what General Otis has accomplished with his army during the nearly eight months thai he has condusted active operations. Towns taken and abandoned : Pasig, captured three times and aban doned twice. Guadaloupe, captured four times and abandoned three times. Mariquina, captured six times and abandoned nix times. Capita, captured twice and abandoned twice. Antipole, captured once . and aban doned. Morong.capt ired twice and abandoned twice. Santa Cruz, captured once and aban doned. I ragsanjan, captured onco and aban doned. Longos,captured once and abam'ened. Paete, captured once and abandoned. Novaliches, captured twice and aban doned twice. San Mateo, captured once and aban-' doned. San Juse, captured once and aban doned. Norzagaray, captured once and aban doned. Augot, captured once and abandoned San Miguel de Mayuma.captured once and abmdo ned. Mexico, captured twice and abandoned once. Baoolos, captured twice and aban doned one e, Mtcababe, the only town friendly to the Americ ans, taken and deserted and allowed t o be burned by the natives. Q'ling a, taken twice and abandoned once. Guagua , taken once and abandoned. Tnis is an impressive showing in it self; to carry out such a performance, hundreds of American citizens who of fered themselves to serve their country, have laid down their lives and more have been wounded or otherwise weak ened their ability of self support in fu ture, while the taxpayers have had to furnish millions of dollar "to pay the fiddler." But the list fails to tell the whole story. "This list is notcomplete," eays Mr. McCutcheon, 'but it shows what a lot of unnecessary work has been done, and what a lot of lives have been needlessly lost, just because Otis stub bornly preaisted in sticking to its origi nal statement. Tlie Ways of the World. Bankers and advocates of the gold standard have all along been telling us that money is plentiful, that the banks are full of it, etc. Why are the banks hoarding so much of the people's money ? Is it because the people are out of debt and have no use for menev that it is taken out of circulation? No. Most ev erybody is more or less in debt, caused by the stagnation of business, which is the result of a restricted currency. How can editors of newspapers pub lish editorials squarely contradictory to the established laws of trade, by assert ing that prosperous times are possible under a restricted currency, when all economic writers teach that prices are governed by the volume of the circulat ing medium? Professor Walker's Science of Wealth teaches: "Other things equal, the gen eral average of prices is determined by the quantity of currency in circulation, and prices adyance or recede as that is increased or diminished.... The general prices of all objects of yalue will ever depend upon the quantity of currency existing in the couutry in which they are produced and sold. This is an eco- October ..Sp CLOTHING Men's Gray T weed, regular $5 jOO suits , .$3 OO Men's Double Breasted, reg ular $6.co suits .4 SO Men's Fancy Cheviots, regular $8.00 suits i .6 OO Men's Gray Clay Worsted, regular $ 12.00 suits. .... .9 00 We have a full line of Serge suits in round cuts, double breasted silk faced and plain at prices that you can not duplicate elsewhere. Boy's long pants suits, brown plaid $3 '00 A full line of Hats and Caps, Shoes in Children's, Lathe' an J Gent's Underwear, Umbrellas, Blankets, Trunks and Valises. When you see it in Our Ad it's so. . The Star Clothing House One Price to All. - . The leading Clotliier$ A. HSCHTMN, Manager, Harding Block, - Opposite Commercial Bank or Postoffice Oregon City, - - Oregon nomic law as certain as any is the laws of nature." We might quote many other similar statements from other economic writers, that it is tho quantity of currency in cir culation that rules prices. John Stuart Mill says: "If the volume of currency were doubled, prices would be doubled." Strange as it may seem, the gold stan dard writers are continually telling us that over produution is the sole cause of low prices. They never hint that the scarcity of money has any effect on prices,. when in fact the scarce supply of currency effects prices as much as does the large crops. The gold standard ad vocates are enemies of high prices for everything but gold. High pricud gold and low priced commodities is the true meaning of the gold standard. It is asked why moneyed men want low priced goods and huh priced money. The reason is plain to thone who under stand human nature. Moneyed men buy everything they want with their money. Their high priced dollars will buy more than double the amount of goods aud of real property of all kinds than their dollars would buy if they were worth but half as much. Dear money is caused by a small volume in circulation. Cheap monev means a large vo.uine in circulafion. Both dear and cheap monoy are made of the same material; it is simply a matter of quan- tity. Any material that the lawmakers choose to use will make good money, as good as gold, if it has leiral tender stamped on it, the same as the gold. It is both nonsensical and an atteamt to cheat to teach that money must have in trinsic value. So anxious for dear monev. the monev lords not many years ago when Califor nia and Australia were adding annually a few hundred millions of gold to the world's supply, that some of the Euro pean govtrnments actually demonetizBd the gold and adopted the silver standard. But soon after the adoption of the silver standard the astounding statement reached these governments that moun tains of silver had been discovered in the United States of North America; whereupon these crovernmnnta hftHtonorl to demonetize it and again adopt the gold standard. The action of these gov ernments shows plainly that the rich ruling class wants a restricted currency, I wnicn means dear money. In like man ner history reveals the fact that th ml. ing class for ages has been working for dear money. In other words, the action of moneyed men seems to nrnvnih.;. determination to prevent the producing ciass irom oecoraing wealtny like them selves and consequently becominir shar- ers in civil and political emoluments. It is evident that if the value of the vr.Bt production of the United States was in the hands of the producers, they would constitute a wealthy class. ccijil Boy's long pants suits, fancy cheviots 5 00 Boy's long pants suits, blue cheviots, guaranteed all . wool ........5 50 A fine line of Albany woolen , mill, suits s oo DUCK CLOTHING Men's Duck Coats, blanket lined. , .1 ..;..,.,,.;",,,, 1 Boy's Duck Coats, blanket lined .... . . .';'.'.'.'..'., ; . , tiI 2t Men'sduck blanket lined ulster ' coats, blaok or brown. .. . . j 00 Interest on both public and private in debtedness ami all taxes are Mna.ll v paid hy the industrial class, in fact, honest industry pays eveiy expense. This strange, unjuet condition has been brought about by the greedy money power, who it seems from time immemo rial have coveted the workers' earnings and by teaching the unwary producers false doctrine on finance, many of the honest toilers have been led to vote themselves into slavery. Sands Brownei.l. Salem, Ore, Oct. 16. Everything GoesTlie G. O. P. Will Fix the Trusts and the Filipinos. There is one thing that is perfectly plain, and that is that the republican party maintains the idea that there is a power more potent than the government of the United States which regulates the value of our money. What that power is there can be no question, as every 6ne knows that it is a few banking firms in England, Germany and the United States; and an edict from them causes Uncle Sam to play second fiddle and the people to dance as they call. Whenever they get scared, away goes business, and we as a people are unable to help onreelves; and should our gov ernment attempt to come to our relief. all it could offer us would be base", de preciated, worthless stuff. We are now enjoying brilliant, good times, so it is Baid ; but where the peo ple will come out when the trusts get their work all in is something not vet settled. It is very probable that the next congress will fasten the gold stand ard upon us, and they will hunt all over the country for a club to hit the trusts with, and they may shy something at them, but the trusts, though they may howl and let on to limp off, will go regu larly along with their business. The peop.e will be amused at the play, and that will answer the purpose designed. The president Bays "The Philippine islands belong to this country by right of purchase." If that is so, what in the deuce did we go there to fight Spain for? Why didn't we help Spain to whip the Filipinos? Wasn't it a rather dirty piece of work to use Spain as we did if she was trying to defend her own prop erty ? It certainly was her own property 11 sue naa a ngnt to sell it, or else we are Parties to tha nnrnhanA of whrtf wn tnnnr to be stolen goods. But all goes it's re- puoucan, ana tne f iiipmos will be free when we per. them lioltaH T hvn nn doubt but King George would have de clareil that he waa intending to give the American colonists freedom if he could have gotten them subdued, and no doubt but it's England's intention to eive the Boers their freedom as soon as they are fully under control. The na tives of the Hawaiian fectly free; they are free to work for the ougar planters ar, me wages tney oner them, or go off and peacefully starve. What bean.iful ideals to work on the other fellow 1 Thomas Blckm an. Wanhfield, Ore.