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4 OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1899. OREGON CITY COURIER OREGON CITY HERALD CONSOLIDATED. A. W.CHENEY.. Publish EMamas County McpAent ABSORBED MAY, 1830 Legal and Official Newspaper Of Clackamas County. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Bate.' ; la Qregoa Oltf pcstoflce as 2nd-class natter 0B3CEIPTI0N RATK8. Paid In advance, per year 1 Bit rami Ih kWemoutha'trlal..... M The dale opposite yonr address on the pwet aunoies I nc time to wmen you navepaia. ft this notice is marked yoar subscription Is Uua. ADVERTISING RATES. fitaadlnc business advertisement!: Per month 1 Inch !, 1 Inrhea 11.50, 8 inches 11.75, 4 Inches j, o menus (csiumn) wt.et, luinonesicoiumn ia, a luetics tco;umn) is, yearly contracts tupe rent less. Transient advertisements: Per week 1 Inch fas, 2 innhea 7.V, 8 Inches $1.4 Inches II. 26,6 1 nones SI Ml, 10 Inches Wi.W, 20 inciies as Leaal advertisements: Her ln'h first Inser lonl, each additional insertion 60c. Affllavlls of publication will not be furnished until pub llcatlun fees are paid. Local nutloes; Five cents per line per week per monm zuo, PATRONIZE HOME IXDPSTBY. OREGON OITY, DEO. 15, 1899. An .Imerlcan Infernal Policy, Tram Public ownership of publlo franchises. The valuos creaod ly the oommunlty should be- og to the cammunliy. Bioond Destruction of criminal trusts. No monopolization of the national resources by law less private oomblnatlons more powerful than t be people's government. Third A graduated lucometax. Every cltlson a contribute to the support of the government ac cording to his means, and not according to his ne cessities, Fourth Kleotlon of senators by the people. The senate, now becoming the private property at corporation! and bosses, to be made truly repre sentative, and the state legislatures to be redeemed roin recurring soandali. Finn National, state and munlolpal Improve ment of the publlo school system . As the duties f altlienshlp are both general and local , every government, both general and looul, should do ts share toward fitting every Individual to per form them. ' 8ixt Currency reform. All the nation'! aouoy to he Issued by the nation's government, d Its supply to be regulated by the people .and dot by the banks, Bevrhtb No protection for oppressive trusts, tirgaalsntioiis powerful enough to oppresB the people are no longer "Infant industries." PntKOT LiaiiLATioa Lawmaking by the voters. Tea Ikitutivb--The proposal of a law by a per DMitageof the voters, which must than go to the rWorendnm. Tbi Rkfemmdum The vote at the polls of a aw proposed through the Initiative, or on any I aw passoil by a lawmaking body, whose refer ence U petitioned for by a percentage 'of the voters. Tbi Impsiutivk Mandate Whenever publlo official shall be deemed dishonest, tnonnipetcnt nesllmu of hli duties 'li r.tt n shall have tie right to retire him and elect one of their Choice. The people alone are sovereign, POPULIST COMMITTEE MEETING. Notice is hereby given that the County Central Committee of the Peo ule's Party for the county of Clackamas will meet at the office of Judge Sehubel in Oregon City at 11 o'clock, Saturday, December 10th, 1899, to transact any lUBiiio:jB that may properly come before, the mooting at that time, II. Til kisses, Chairman, Elmkb Dixon, Secretary, DEMOCRATS, TAKE NOTICE, That a meeting of the members of Iho Democratic Oonnty Central Com niittco will be held in Oregon City on Poet mlor 18th, 1899 at It o'clock, a.m., at thu olfioa of Robert A.Miller in the Electric hotel building. All members of the committee aro eurnes'ly requested to be present as important business is to be transacted. Ronrnvr A. Miil.mt, Chairman Democratic County Central Comiuutee. A. W. Chunky, Secretary, TO SILVER REPUBLICANS. KotKe is hereby given that there will le a meeting of the members of the Sil ver Republican County Central Com inltteo at Oregon City on December 10th, J899, ut 11 o'clock a. m., at Room 18, Electric hotel, at which time all mem tiers of the committee are earnestly re quested to be present. 8. W. Mohoan, Chaimiau County Central Committee. Russia and Frame, the only two na tions that ever helped us when we re ally needed aid, must think that repub lics are ungrateful as they hear of the ficw triple alliance against them. Tug president In his messAge says that the gold standard should be firmly riveted aud the greenbacks retired at this session of congress, because there might be a change in the future, and the republicans bolieve in making hay while the sun shines. Here Is an article from the Oregonian which shows what it i working fori Now we learn from Washington that there is to be no more flinching or equiv ocation on the part of representatives I'roni Oregon and other Pacific states on money and currency questions. Which S a to that work like that done by the Oregonian during the past 21 years has not boon dune in vain. ' FARMING THE FARMER. An interesting table has been pre- pared by the Democrat, of Bowling Green, Ohio, which is rich in its con trastf. It goes to show that the much vaunted "prosperity"' is prosperity for the ti usts aud for nobody else certainly not for the farmers. The Democrat ad' vises readers to t ike no person's word not even its own, for these figures, but to enquire of local merchants whether or not they are correct. As the Democrat presents the figures they read as follows : Oct. 12, 1898, Wheal, per bushel..! 62 Oct. 13, 1899, $ 64 22 Oats, per bushel . . . Corn, new, per cwt. . 21 38 , OS 07 28 15 33 iwo liicn iron pipe, per foot Iron pipe, 3 inch per foot...., . Iron casing, h inch Sucker rod, per foot, Rope and cordage, per lb 2i 08 17 40 00 Nails, per cwt 1 65 w ire fencing, plain, per cw t 1 85 Lumber, per 1000 ft. 12 40 18 00 If the farmers are any better off ihls year than last, those figures show that it must be because nature has given them a larger yield., and not because Mckinley has given them more of the things they need in exchange per bushel for their wheat. The Democrat, in the course of a com ment, pointedly, puts it in tids way. If you are a farmeryou will find that on October 13, 1898, yon could buv 10 pounds of nails with 2 2-3 bushels of wheat. Today, or just one year later, it requires 5,?4 bushels of wheat. Last year you could buy 100 pounds of wiie fencing for 3 bushels of wheat. Today you must bring 7 bushels to get your 100 pounds of wire fencing," The total capitalization of street rail way corporations in Pennsylvooia is over 103,000,000. On this they have paid a total of more than $9,000,000 within the year in dividends. The total operating expenses amounted to over $10,000,000, of which sum $6,000,000 represented the wages of labor. This, it is stated, is the only line of consider able investment in the slate which pays more in dividends than in wages to la bor, the proportion in this case being 150 per cent. The total operating ex penses, it w!ll be seen, are only about $1,000,000 in excess of the dividends. These facts have caused the secretary of state at Harrisburg to recommend legis lation to prevent the issue of fictitious stock by such corporations. Without doubt the stocks of thes.i street railways has been heavily watered. Still, the ra tio of profits to capital invested, even on the fictitious basis, is out of all propor tion to the wages of labor and operating expenses of the business. Legislation may here find a legitimate field for in terference in business methods, though experience has proved that such inter ference is generally futile. Oregonian. Consukla Vandebhilt, duchess of Marlboro, the kaiser of Germany and the prince of Wales have formed an American-German-English alliance, so we are informed by the toady daily press I Just where the American freeman, who has been taught(7) to hate kingcraft, comes in, is not given in the dispatches. The idea of a republic and kings and em perors going into a combine I and yet it does not seem out of place to the aver- ge money-grubber. They would wel come the rule of the Turk or the Pus sian Bear if they thought they would ave a little better place than the rest of the citizens of this country. We are traveling fast the road that leads to the air of the crafty rulers of men. Some of these days there will be the deuce to pay and nothing to pay him with. Ap peal to Reason. Thk political, not industrial, govern ment which lives in Washington has tist shown its ability to do things well for some poople. There are $'-5,000,- 000 of government bonds which are due and should be taken up. They draw 2 per cent interest and sell at par. Banker Gage, whom the republican voters have selected to look after the treasury, want ed to pay out some money to help his brother bankers, and instead of paying oil' these bonds which are due, he pays off $25,000,000 that are not duo and pays the holders a premium of $3,000,000, He therefore made the holders of these bonds a present of three millions rather than pay off bonds that were not enti tled to any premium. But what does Gage care about what the masses have to pay, so that he and his friends get it? Tiik chairmen of the populist, demo cratic and silver republican county cen tral committees have each called com mittee meetings to be held in Oregon City, Pec, 18. It is understood that the object of the meeting so early is to agree on some plan of running a fusion or union ticket next spring. Some popu lists favor inviting the middle-of-the- roaders fo join the combination, and hold one set ut primaries and one con vention to nominate on one platform. Two years ago the populists, democrats and silver republicans nominated a fu sion ticket and elected about half of Clackamas county's officers, and a silver republican to the legislature. McMinn- ville T-R. Socialism. 7V CANDID and rational inquiry f into the truths and merits of so cialism is the duty of the Amer ican votes today. That we have in the past years been laboring under a great mistake regarding political economic conditions is now almost universally ad mitted. Though we are a nation of 80, 000,000 souls, though we have ah esti mated wealth of $85,000,000,000, though our armed military and naval force is such that we are feared and courted by the other nations, who a few years ago looked upon us with contempt and in difference, though in the last genera tion we have extended our railway and telegraphic system to the Pacific coast, and have added to, or making the at tempt in that direction to add enormous areas of territory to our alread" exten sive domains. Though all these sup posed blessings are ours, still, as a na tion, we are not satisfied, and with good reason. Our cities swarm with poverty, filtb,crime and disease on the one hand, when hunger, nakedness, destitution is the enforced condition of millions. On the other hand a few palatial residences occupied by miliiona'res and their ser vants, and an uncertain mass of human ity formerly denominated "middle classes," slowly, but surely sliding and sinking to the level of their unfortunate brothers in misery. The idle wealthy at the top, the idle poor at the bottom of the present social condition of the country is what is the problem to be met and the d.fflculty to be settled. From prasent indications, the former class, the idle wealth, has at its com mand.all that is necessary to insure its continued power and ascendency over the nation. More than this; it is in possession of means, by which it may intrench itself so strongly in its present position, that nothing short of an armed proteBt on the people's part will right it, and to prevent this the authorities are already taking the usual .means known, so long and so well to tyranny to prevent resistance either of an armed oi peaceable resistance. General Miles recommends an in crease of the army to 100,000. McKin ley ha just appointed General Wood governor and master. I use the lan guage of the Oregonian itself, an advo cate of military impenalisra, of the island of Cuba, the conquest of the Phil ippines will be followed by the appoint ment of Otis or some other military in dividual to the supreme command of those conquered inhabitants, and woe to the American citizen, as well as native who dares to assort the rights of free speech, free press or the right to assem ble in bodies to demand or petition a redress of grievances. No, fellow citizens j the attempt to es tablish imperialism in the United States has partially succeeded, and the colonial pol'cy of the European govern ments will find apt pupils in the govern ing classes in this country to follow their example. Commercialism will follow the era of Caesarism, but the power of the first will be lodged in the person of the president of this country, as it has been heretofore, in the supposed sacred person of the kings, queens, emperors, etc., of the latter in times past. There is not ore on earth today a greater despot than Wm. McKinley, president of the United States, nor a more irresponsible one. He assumes the government of conquered territories by an d through authority of the people, which they have uever granted him. It is always the way with political tyrants that the most despotic measures are un dertaken and consnmated under the hypocritical as-mmption of the people's welfare. Sulla atid Marius.Caesar, Pom peii and Agustus and the later emperors did it in Rome and succeeded in mak ing the masses believe they we're do'ng them a gr.at political benefit and con fering on them great blessings. The Williams, Johns, Edwards, Richards, Henrys, Marys, Elizabeths, James, Charles. Yes, even the Cromwellsin England made the people believe 'it. The king of France and the First Na poleou and his unworthy relative, the Third, cajoled the people of that country with the same idea, and it has taken centuries for the common people to rawaken to a true sense of their con dition. In the United States within a few years the system has established itself very firmly, and is becoming more and more the topic and trend of our politi cal system. Where formerly this was done for personal power and glory today it is done in the name and for the bene fit of "commercial prosperity," and a Bubservient president, who executes the orders of a trust or a monied syndicate is in every way as bad for good govern ment and inimical to the welfare and liberties of the people as though he were a Caesar, a king or an emperor. His power is as great, his resources for doing harm as unlimited and irrestricted as though his title were other than presi dent. The powers of commercialism are the powers of the state. They have at com mand the amiy.the navy, the executive, the legislature, and what is stronger than both under our new constitution thecmrta w ith a subsidised press that is so servile and truckling in its slavish ness that it praises its oppressions, and thanks them for the wrongs they have Let Us Help You For.many years we have been buying and selling Christ mas presents-each year we learn better the wants of our customers; learn better the kind of goods they like; learn where to buy from first hands, and in this we learn how to save ' our customers many dollars on their Xnus buying. A How It Is Done This Xmas buying begins with us early in the spring Long before it is ever thought of by the ordinary mer chants. It means many a trip to the sample room filled with hundreds of dollars worth of this class of goods.' Many a hard days work picking out this because it is pretty, and the price right, rejecting that, because while it may look well, the price is too high. This is the kind of buying in which we have been engaged for many years ' -Have made a study of the wants of our particular cus tomers and each year we are in a better position than the year before to help you, In our previous announcements we have had printed a quarter page of prices and tried to tell you about many of the aricles, but now we ask you to come and see for yourself. You Will be Satisfied Everything is out on tables, counters and showcases where you can see for yourself; can look to your hearts content, and pass on without buying if you like. The price of every article is marked in plain figures and these prices are very low, as low as early, close, cash buying can make them. s Huntley's Two Stores OREGON CITY, OREGON inflicted, and under which the nren is suffering. Opposed tojhis strongly intrenched evil are the common people who have struggled for years against this impend ing enslavement. They are slowly awakening to the fact that the remedy for these evils do not lie with their mas ters, They know that the power et trusted has been shamefully abused and they propose that they, themselves, shall take a hand in shaping the policy of the country and goverri ig the peo ple. There has been, too mauylawye s and bankets in congress; too many gam biers stock, poker and faro in munici pal boards; too many usuaers and note shavers in county court licu-ies, and a change from this class to farmers, me chanics and laboring people generally is the only remedy. While the outrages in Idaho are fresh in our minds, it is useless to talk of "our free institutions" while our governor of Oregon goes unin dicted by the grand jury of Marion or Polk counties .for crime or misde meanor, it is folly to talk of justice. While nails, wine, glass, oil, sugar etc., are going up and wheat, corn, oats, cot ton, hops are going down or are at best below cost of production, it is nseles, nay worse, it is an insult to our intelli gence to talk of prosperity. There s none for the common people. It is f- r the banks, the trusts, the exploiters (f laborers. Then the only way out is the union of the people of those who pro duce, those who are the defense and bulwark of the country. Its defenders Bhould be its governors, its laoorers mechanics. Farmers and wealth pro" diners should be its leaders and until they are, we will live and die under the present vicious system. Dec. 4. J. D. Stevens, Canby, Or. The Propose i I'nion IN the excellent communication of Mr. King's in your last issue, com. plaint is made that no plans of union have been outlined. Perhaps this is timely criticism, yet I had supposed that the vital question at present was one of principles rather than details. It was first necessary to feel the public pulse and ascertain if a uuion undo! any circumstances was desirable or whether each faction wanted to "go it a)one"at:d allow the republicans a walk-over. My observations and al". communica tions to the Oourier-IIerald lead me to believe that a uniou is desirable, not a iiision, out a new organization, perhaps only for this campaign, perhaps for all time or until our demands become the law of tho land. This much being agreed on.assigns p.rtenl th.U it will be at the coining meeting at Oregon City, Dec. 10th, the matter of detail then be comes of vital importance. One principle should be insisted on at the coming meeting, viz.: that no fi nal decisive action be taken until ap proved by the people at the primaries: simply s.n application of the referendum in our own ranks. As Frederick U. Adatns once laid, "We will never have a government where the people can rule till we haye a p irty where the people do rule," If thecommittees can agree uponany plan of organization and platform it is a simple matter to refer the final decision to the primaries, as was done in the matter of fusion two years ago. If the people veto the plan then of course the movement is off. If they approve it then let them (all forces of each preoinct meeting in one primary) elect delegates to a county convention to meet at a time set at the coming meeting. In the meantime let the county chairman of all other counties be notified of the ac tion taken at the coming meeting (in case union is decided on) and invited to organize in a similiar manner and to delegate power to committees to arrange for a state convention. Of course, if union carries the three-committee sys tem should be abolished and one com mittee for each precinct, county and the state be elected. We should all take more Interest in our primaries and, if the county were not so large that the majority of the people have no chance to become ac quainted with the merits and de-merits of proposed condidates, the nominating Dower should be taken out of the hands of oounty conventions and lodged in the primaries, but at present the feasibility of this plan is doubtful. And, by the way, not only our own primaries but those "of the republicans Bhould be watched in order that a repetition of the disgraceful scenes of weak-kneed populists and democrats voting in repub licans primaries may be avoided. That absolutely unprincipled Simon (ex Mitchell) grafter Brownell will no doubt attempt the same tactics aain. This can be fore-sUllod by making it known that the republican primaries will be watched and that the ntme of every man generally known as an opponent of the republican party who votes therein will be published and held up to the contempt of his fellow citizens. Eternal vigilance is the price of clean politics as well as of liberty. With a progressive platform and clean candidate's we should win against that once great party, now degenerated t mean Hannaism in the nation, Simonism in the state, and Brownellism in this county. Let us have common honesty as op posed to the grafting, vote buying sys tem of "practical politics" that is cor rupting the morals and subverting tl will of the people. Geo. Oqle. Molalla, Ore. The Bauer City Democrat makes the following pertinent- observations "Silver bullion has fallen to the lowest price of the century, and wheat, whi:h has never failed to accompany silver in the market quotations, durinu normal crop production years, is even below the price of its running mate. The gold dollar of the British importers buys more wheat than ever. Our wheat growers should be proud of that 40-cent-a bushel gold price. Wheat-growers of silver countries.freight rates proportion ate, are getting 80 centi in silver. The democrats of Denver went in'o the campaign with a demand for the city ownership of the water system rf the city. Though the city has alwajs been about 5000 republican majority the democrats carried it by 6(100 1 May be you think municipal socialism is not popular. . The meeting of the democratic, popu list and silver republican committees on December 16th, in Oregon City bids fair to be quite an event in county politics as a great many of the faithful are plan ning to come to town on that day. In view of this fact the respective chair men of the three committees have asked a nnmber of prominent speakers from a distance to be present, and it is proposed to have a rally in the evening. Judge O'Day and Judge De.l Stuart, of Portland, have already signified their wil.mgness to come on that occasion. The Racket store also carries a fine line of ribbons, the Kid-fitting corset, flannelette wrappers and gowns, gloves' underwear and hosiery an 1 other arti cles too numerous t meution. -A.'