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OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1899.
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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.'