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OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1899. OREGON CITY COURIER "OREGON CITY HERALD CONSOLIDATED. Here is Your Chance We have decided to close out our line of Ladies' Shoes S to make room for our full line of Men's Goods, and g therefor will sell our Ladies' and Children's Shoes at MANUFACTURING COST. Come befor sizes ar broken. - When You See It In Our Add. It's So. g The Star ft Clothing House 1 Strictly One Price House 8 jA. V.CHENEY Publisher laclamas Connty IndevenAcnt, Canty AH.SOKBKD HAY, 1830 legal and Official Newspaper Of Clackamas County. Harding Block, Opposite Commercial Bank. Oregon City, Or. A, HKL'HTMAN, Msssgir PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Cnter . InOrefoa Oitypoatoflcess2n4-class matter IUBBCRIPTION RATES. TPeli In advance, per year 1 gj pi' month f Li ' Aramealii'trlal - 25 mm-The date opposite your address on the ,.aer deaotes the time ta which yon have paid, f 1 tig notice Is marked your subscription 1 due. ADVEBTISINO BATES. Staadlnr business adrertlsements: Per month -1 inch 11, 2 inches 11.50, 8 inches 11.75 4 Inches 3, 6 inches (column) 12.25, lOlnohes(Kcolumn) , 20 Inches (column) , yearly contracts 10 per Transient advertisements: Per week-1 Inch Mo, a Inches 75c, 8 Inches $1,4 Inches 11.26,6 Inches 11.60, 10 inches 12.50, 20 Inches 15 . Legal advertisements: Per inch first Inser tion 11, eRCh additional Insertion 50c. Affllavils -of publication will not be furnished until pub- licsiion fees are paid. ,, . . teal notices; Five cents per line per week per moulh 20o, PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY. OREGON OITY, NOV. 3, 1899. An American Internal Policy. 7IBST Public ownership of publlo franohlses. The values created by the community should be ong to the cammunlty. Second Destruction of criminal trusts. No -asonopollBivlton of the national resources by law Hose private combinations more powerful than he people's government, ThikbA graduated Inoome tax. Every oitizon contribute to the support of the governmen t ao--cording to hl means, and not according to his ne cessities. (FoDucu Elootlon of senators by the poople. The senate, now beoomlng the private property of corporations and bosses, to be made truly repre sentative, and the state legislatures to he redeemed 10m recurring eoandals. Firm National, state and munlolpal Improve ment of the publlo school system . As the duties t mt oltlwmshlb are both general and local, evory fovernment, both general and local, should do ts share toward nttlng every inaiviuuai iu uer form them. ruth Currency reform. All the nation's .nnnnv to be Issued by the nation's government, and Its supply to be regulated by the people;and lot by the banks. aVRMTH-No protection for oppressive trusts, Orirani7.atlons powerful enough to oppress the people are no longer "Infant Industries." fliKEOT IjtoiiHTHW Lawmaking by the voters, Thb INITIATIVEThe proposal of a law by a per centage of the voters, whloh must then go to the rfnriJ!ldum. Tui ItKFiniNnuM-The voto at the polls of a aw proposed through the Initiative, or on any ' 1 aw passed by a lawmaking body, whose refer ence Is petitioned for uy a percentage !of the voters. Thb TMrmuTtvE Mandatk Whenevor a publlo fficial shall be deemed dlshouest, lnoompetent l ii i 1 1 1 1 1 1 I it n Hi HH voters shall have he right to retire him and elect one of their elioloe. The people alone are sovereign. Tub reason England shouts for an alli ance with the United States is because Johnny Bull wants Uncle Sara to help him keep "The Powers" off his back while he robs and murders the weak jnntiona of the earth. Si'ltlshnese always selfishness. As the man who controls himself has jl disposition to let other people alone so the government which is "of the peo. jilo" is not found meddling with the iuhts cf a foreign race. But all this is flumgod when the principle of aclf-gov eminent is cast aside. American Sen tinel. This administration is making a great effort to advance Sampson a few notch?! ovor Schley, and no doubt will be sue' vessful In accomplishing the business, There is one tluni!. howevor. that can iiot he done; and that is to raise Samp Bon higher than Schley in the estimation of the American people. Tub inhabitant of the Sulu inlands refer to "Emperor" McKinley. These barbarians seem to have the condition of .Kililical tilings dowii Mrifle finer than xir own people. The star.; and stripes - float over the islands and the emperor is a lort of a straw boss under the direction of Mark Manna, proprietor of the pres ent administration. Oom Paul's patriot r niaking it very interesting, lor Johnny Bull's mur derers. Oom Paul will make Johnny .realize that he is taking part in a scrap She fore he is through with him. The Boers will he vanquished, but not until many oi them have fallen on the field fighting like tigers to retain their native soil. Thr Courier-Herald has received con liderable complaint from subscribers .because they do not receive their paper tinlil it is nearly a week old. If some of tti.D republican postmasters do not do tWr duty we will trace the matter up and report them to Washington. W .send out two or three times as many ' papers us any other paper in the county and we object to Uncle Sam's postotlloo ( being used in the interests of any polit ical .party. The Courier-Herald is always put in the Oregon City postofliee on Thursday evbuiugs and we would like to know the reaso'i why it cannot got 15 or '20 .wiles in the county inside of six -days. "How are the mighty fallen 1" Mr. McKinley's phouters were bo opposed, a few years ago, to Bryan's speechmaking over the country. It's different now. Not a word is said, and Mr. McKinley travels here and there, making speeches, with some party like Dewey to draw a crowd. The Salem Sentinel has looked the state records up, and finds that while the Oregon heroes upon .their return from Manila traveled from San Francis co to Oregon at their own expense, it cost the taxpayers of the state of Oregon $042.93 for the governor and his staff to go to California to receive them and ac company them home. AFRAID OF FUSION. The editor of the Eugene State Jour nal is anxious for a fusion again. The democratic party of this state can not see the point. Woodburn Independent. The editor of the Eugene State Jour nal is not as anxious for fusion as the editor of the Woodburn Independent and a good many other goldhug republican editors are to prevent it, judging from the interest they show in the matter At Jlie last election the goldbug republi can managers were ternuiy scared oy the fusion, so much so, that they hired a few mercenary populists to get up a middle-of-the-road ticket by committing peYjury and fraud, which a partisan cir cuit judge condoned almost to the point of being a participant in the crime, and then the sack-holdor paid the expenses of the criminal attempt to defeat the fusion ticket by fraud, under the cover of law, out of the republican campaign fund, extorted from employes at the insane asylum and other state institu tions. Even after they had resorted to such dishonest and criminal means to ntorfore with the suffrages of the people they expected to he defeated by the hw ion ticket, and wouhl have been h,d not the unexpected breaking out of the war with Spain saved them. They did everything in their power to distract and divide the opposition and will do so again. They have alieady started their jampaign in opposition to a union of the opposition forces. kineaid s Eugene Journal. CARTER HARRISON FOR BRYAN. In a recent interview with a New York Journal representative Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, said ; I am disposed to take' Admiral DoWvy at his word when he (ays he says ie is not nnd will not he a candidate for the presidency, and I predict that Bryan will be nominated by acclamation at the next democratic national convention." The speaker was Mayor cant..- H. Harrison, of Chicago. He was chatting with a. Journal representative at the Gilsey House soon after his anival in the city. He came to do honor to the hero of Manila and to ask him to be Chicago's guost whenever it might suit him. "Yes," said the Mayor, "Admiral Dexey has shown himself to be greater than a president in declining to have his name presented to any political con vention. His greatness has been achieved as a sailor, and it is wise in him that he does not propose to have it dimmed. Dewey's name will go down in history along with those ol John Paul Jones, Oliver Parry and David Farragut. He can well be content with that." "But Bhould some one get up in the next democratic national convention and propose his name, could it not be stampeded for him?" "I doubt it, since he is not a cand't- date. I believe Colonel Bryan will be the nominee of that convention. He is today the idol of the democracy of the United States. He is stronger by far with the people than he was in 1896, and I believe he is to be the next presi dent. Yes, Illinois will be for Bryan. I think New York will Bend a delegation pledged to his nomination' The south and west are for him, so what can pre vent his nomination?" "What about the next democratic platform?" "Colonel Bryan told what it ought to be in his recent utneago speech a speech which was the greatest I ever heard. We shall reaffirm the Chicago platform of 1896 and add to its planks some made necessary by the misconduct of the war and the imperialistic policy of the McKinley administration. Such a platform, with Bryan as the candidate for the presidency, will, in my opinion, bring about a democratic victory." ' Beyond cavil Bryan is close tothe hearts of the people. At the Oregon Exposition Thursday night pictures of Bryan and McKinley were thrown upon a canvas by a stereopticon. The Ne braska atatesman's profile was received with shouts of applause. The salvos were almost deafening. But when Mc Kinley's picture appeared the hisses were Btrongly suggestive of a wild goose convention. Many groaned and made deprecatory remarks and indulged in innuendo and persiflage. It may have been amusing to some, but it was not humorous to the disciples of St. Mark Manna. Bryan is the popular idol. Ilera'd. ' 1715 OF STATE RELIGION. The city council of Glasgow. Scotland. has denied a petition of certain labor unions, supported by Beveral leading clergymen and university professors among others, ai-king that the People's 1 .w.u'e and art galleries be opened on bun'ays. war Cry. Tl us the thousands of working people of that grand old city are wholly de pi ned of the benefits of these refined and elevating public institutions, for the reason that Sunday is their only day of leisure. This is but another paragraph in the history of the conflict which has beeu going on between moral refinement and religious bigotry ever since the Devil first took a hand in politics. Union of church and state has been the cause of more ignorance and oppression, cruelty and bloodshed than all things else in the world's history. Without the state (or civil authority) to enforce its dogmas the church could not oppress, and with out the church, the state would have no religious dogmaa to enforce ; but in a country like Scotland, where church and t.te are united, a broad-minded states man t the same choice as has a Chi nese girl's fooc In the deforming shoe come down to dimensions or get out of it. We have much causa to rejoice that in the constitution of the United States it is made impossible that such a state of affairs should exist in our country. This speaks volumes for the grand old patri ots who founded our republic. The action of the Glasgow city coun cil is prompted by the same Bpirit of big otry that prompted Nebuchudne.ar to cast the three Hebrews into the furnace, that prompted Darius to cast the prophet Daniel into the den of lions, that prompted the Jews to demand thecrud fixion of Christ, that imprisoned John Bunyan, exiled the Quakers, drov Roger Williams from Massachusetts etc., etc. But there is no use to petition or at tempt to reason with bigotry. Bigotry is blind, deaf, stupid, heartless. A doc tor was once rebuked by a pious old Scotch lady for attending his patients on Sunday. "Weel," argued the doctor, "do ye no ken that the good Laird did many works o' Sundays?" "Aye, I ksn he did," answered the old lady, "an' I'll have ye to know I don't think a whit the more of him for it 1" PORTERS WAIL. As the Enterprise, Bro. Porter's organ, has been doi.ig considerable kicking be cause, it claims, the Courier-Herald has been robbing the taxpayers by "string ing out" the tax list, we herewith pub lish a small piece of the tax list taken from the Enterprise of September 6th, 1895, the only time the Enterprise has published the tax list in the last six or eight years. The following 31 lines from the Enter prise cost the county, at 25 cents per line, the sum of 7.75: .. Burney Wm T & Seott C N, eh of n w4 and w 4 ot ne4 sec 1 1 5 sraelUOac's t " All of see 15 1 5 s r 8 e 640 a's 21 60 (54 ot n'and t'i sec 30 t 4 s r 8 e 480 acres " . Vlii of nw) and s sio 21 1 6 s rae ilOucri'a 38 40 N l,i ana n ul sjj and sw i of sw)i Bcc3l56r;ie , 520 acres " w M of w M see 11 1 5 s ra e 16U acres " NwJianJwX of sw Ki sec 10 t 5 r 3 e 240 acres 89 B0 ' il. i seo 4IOS r 8 e Si'O ai res 10 80 All of seo 9 t 5 s r 8 e 040 acres 15 60 For comparison we here republish 81 lines from the Courier-Herald that ost the county, at 10 cent3 per line, $3.10 : Johnson, Franklin Beginning 60 rods east of northeast corner of nqrtheast A of southeast of section 16, Tp. ! south, range I east, thence west 20 rods, thence south 40 rods, thence east 20 rods, thence north 24 rods, thence east 56 rods, thence north to Clackamas river, thence down river with mean ders to point due north of be ginning, thence Bouth to begin ning, section 15, Tp. ) south. range 2 eastt, 63 acres 11 Si rarsous, jonn beginning ft post on west line of section 27, Tp. 1 south, range i east, thence west 10 chains, thence north 8 degrees, east 32 chains, thence south 86 degrees 15 minutes, east 18.24 chains, thence south 71 degrees 30 minutes, east 24.43 chains, thence south 7S degrees, east 1.80 chains, thence south 7.19 chains, thence west 34.20 chains to beginning, except 10 acres, book 63, page 456, section 22, Tp. 2 south, range 2 east. 11.11 acres I isa Charman, Thoa. All of Q. J. Ton er s conation Land Claim ex Look upon this and then upon that, and draw your own conclusions. We all know why Bro. Torter and the Enterprise are sore, and merely giye this, another illustration of the falsity of ih eassertions of the aforesaid organ and Bro. Porter. It may Beem strange to some to hear us call L. L. brother since he went to Salem and misrepresented the people twice, thereby getting his uivy and bis eleclnc lights, electric power and other appertenances free. or. in other words, for services rendered, there being no monetary consideration, however, except in case of the "12500 divv." All our actions and bills in this county printing matter are on record in the county court house and are public prop erty and show the saving aud advantage of having a contract (and it wouldn't have hurt the taxpayers if thecounty had let a few more contracts by advertising for bids publicly). Can Bro. Porter say as much? While we call h we don't belong to the same church, see ! GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP. How can the people (government) get possession of the railroads? Total length of roads, 176,461, miles. Stocked and bonded at$ll,000,000,000. Now let us see. ' .., , No respectable authority denies that $6,000,000,000 ot the $11,000,000,000 is water, wind and fraud. Of the remaining $5,000,000,000 gov ernment land grants, state, county and municipal bounties cover $3,000,000,000. Leaving $2,000,000,000 to be accounted for. Stockholders, bondholders and super numeraries have drawn interest and div idends on the "water," the land grants and bounties, as well as unconscienabl e fees, amounting to at least $4,000,000, 000 which leaves the railroad corpora tions as a whole indebted to the people (government) at least $2,0J000!),000. In a lofty spirit of generosity an ex change proposes that the people assume, or ratheir resume, ownership of the roads. Instead of sending the rascals to the penitentiary, cancel the debt and tell the rascah to sleal no m re. It is .tated that the year. 1899, the closing of :h'i century, will go down in Northwest history as having the. warm est January, the cnldest February ," the coldtst August, the hottest September, the la'tst spring and the earliest snow of any yenr in the memory of the white man and there are two more months to heat from. LuGranda Chronicle. Importance of the Money Question AS legislation on money is responsible for the condition of inhabitants of our nation, it would seem of the greatest importance that the voters of our country should fully understand the subject. The experience of some now living, as well as written hibtory, confirms the statement that the volume of money in circulation controls prices ; that when ever a large volume of money is in circu lation, prices increase and prosperity blesses the workers, and whenever a small volume of currency is in circula tion prices deciease and hard times fol low. There may be rare exceptions to the general rule, which exceptions, how ever, are momentary, and goto prove the general rule. If the producing class could fully un derstand the money question how low prices are caused by a restricted cur rencythey, with every fair-minded person, would certainly work for a much larger circulation than sold can give. What folly for the toilers to vote for a scarce money standard, which keeps their noses to the grindstone, when any other kind of legal tender money is just as good as gold 1 Voter.' ought to look into this money question for themselves and no longer take partisans' say so. What is the sensn of men working them selves into poverty and de.itli just to please the money sharks who hav.t in vented this scarce moi.ey scheme on ;ur pose tj rob tlwm of their earniu ;s? Although the misguided voters have voted themselves into slavery, wecannot blame-them half as much as we do the false teachers, the minions of the wicked money power. The schemers know right well that if the honest voters were not misled, very few, if any, would vote against their own interests, hence the false teaching. It seems that but very few people fully understand the thraldom that the labor ing class are in. "The contraction of the currency of the country since the close of the war was made under the pretense of maintaining the specie basis system of money, but the effect, and thh real ob ject, was to double and quadruple the volume and value of debt of the country. Cash being withdrawn from the chan nels of trade, credits must be substi tuted. By means of this contraction of currency, the volume of public and pri vate indebtedness of the country has been increased from about $6,000,000,000 at the close of the war until it has reached the enormous Bum of $34,000,- 000,000, with annual interest of $2,200, 000,000, or $220 yearly for each of our 10,000,000 active laborers. Labor pays all. This interest is added to articles produced, sold and consumed " The above quotation is taken from E. R. Baker's writings, published in 1886. Thirteen years have elapsed since Mr. Baker published his book. Every reader can form his own opinion as to whether the people have become more or less prosperous during the trying times un der the gold standard. The attitude o4 the creditor class is shown their anxiety to destroy the greenback currency 'which by its lan e volume had nearly freed the people and nation from indebtedness. That single act should have condemned the parti sans who were guilty of conspiring against the welfare of the people. We see that by an expanded legal ten der currency the people soon became proBperous and happy, and remained so as long as the large volume of currency was kept in circulation. ,' Mark the changed condition of the people after contraction had destroyed more than half the currency. Business became stagnated, thousands upon thousands of workmen were thrown out of employ ment and to sustain life they were com pelled to tramp and beg for food. All this destitution, misery and want were caused by the contraction of the cur rency, which fact is easily proven. For Borne years previous to the civil war times were very hard.'and contin ued so until congress issued many mil lions of legal tender notes; then all kinds of business revived and soon pros perity blessed every legitimate industry. The United States monetary comuiis (ion has truly said: "Money is the vitalizing influence of industry, the very fiber of social organization, the proto plasm of civilization aud as essential to its existence as oxygen is to animal life." It follows, if money is as essen tial to industry and social organization as oxygen is to animal life, that hard timea must follow the destruction of more than half of the currency.' The sad experience of the producers has proved the commission's statement to be true, for before contraction the peo ple were in the highest state of pros perity ever known in this country, or, I dare sr.y, in the world ! It was the creditor class that clamored for contrac tionthat class who want everybody in debt and paying interest to them. Therefore the rich aristocracy oppose an enlargement of the circulating medium, evidently fearing great loes if the pro ducers become prosperous, for then they would no longer be bound to pay inter est, because the debtors could and would pay their debtB. . ' ' " . . The charge that moneyed men have always been anxious to restrict the cur rency is not mere guess work. History informs us that whenever the producing classes became prosperous by reason of a large volume of the circulating me dium the wealthy class have clamored for its restriction. What but the hardest kind of hard times have the farmers and other toilers experienced for the last 29 years since j the gold standard was virtually estab lished the successful contractionists boasting all the while that the nation is very prosperous, adding hundreds of millions annuaily to the nation's wealth? How aggravating the boasting of the re cipients of this great wealth, which has been produced' by the hand of unrequi ted toil 1 The accusation that the gold standard advocates are working for self aggran dizement is proven by the result of their 'auor. AND3 Buownkll. Salem, Ore. LOCAL SUMMARY A few watches for sale cheap at Younger's. Watches cleaned, $1. Highest cash price paid for second hand household goods at Bellomy & Busch. Money to loan at 8 percent interest on mortgages. Apply to O. D. & D. O. Latourette. The Club tonsorial parlors, P. Q Shark, proprietor, Bhaves 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 Madison. Wm. Bohlander, proprietor. Weekly Oregonian and Cockikr Hkbalo for $2 per year. For Sale Small house and lot on west side (Windsor) for $75. Inquire at Courier-Hekald office. Rambler, Victor, Stearns, Ideal and Golden Eagle bicycles for sale at Bur m eiBier & Andresen. Good pasturaee inside citv limits. In quire at Colrikr-Hkrald office. r. G. Shark is now Drenared tnfnmUh local.dealers with all kinds of cigars at wholesale prices. Very handsome parlor orean for sale cheap at Block's furniture Btore, rp poosite postoffice. FineFarm 'or Rent. Inquiie at Ely Bros. store, Seventh street. Money to loan at 8 per cent interest on mortgages. Apply to C. D. & D. O. Latourette.
