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OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD. FEBRUARY 2, 1900.
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OREGON OITY, FEB. 2, 1900.
General Bi'llkh, with 40,000 men,
trekked to Spion Kop and then tracked
back again, less 3000 in killed and
wounded. 1 he next trial of the British
ii to be with 100,000 men in three divis
ions. Tub Boers, as an incentive to enlist
ment, ure offering recruits a share of the
$300,000,000 worth of Do Beers Co.
diamonds stored by Cecil Rhodes at
Kimberly. As a result there ia a rush
to join the Boer army and be in on the
deal when Kimberly falls. Don't all
rush at once.
Two batches of tr lined dogs have been
dispatched from Germany to assist the
Boers. They have been drilled to dis
mount cyclists by pulling them from
their machines, and a dozen or so of
these dogs are calculated to throw a cy
clist corps into great confusion. The
horses which the Boers ride are much
like the Welsh or Scotch ponies, being
very sure-footed, and with a power of
leaping from rock to rock that is phe
nomenal, Tint superintendent of one of the
largest German gun factories has de
clared that, in the event of a naval war
fare, the inefficiency ol the British fleet
would astonish the world. Because a
number of the foremost British officials
of the type of Joe Chamberlain are
financially interested in certain lines of
business, profound coiruption lias insidi
ously crept in. Every one attempts to
make the largest possible profits at the
expense of the stale, and this greed has
resulted in the expenditure of enor
mous sums for deficient ships armed
with second-rate guns. The hoggish
avariciousness of Johnny Bud muy
prove to be the cause of his own undo
ing. Tim Holyoke, Mass., city physicians'
report lias just been made public for the
fiscal year, and it contains some start
ling figures. These are all the more sug
gestive since the present city physician,
Mr. McOabe, has been in office for three
years, ami knows what he is talking
about. He says sickness among the
poorer people is increasing at an alarm
laur rate. The doctor visited during the
year over 700 families who could not
pay ior medical aid. He says'eonsump
lion iH increasing a'armingly among the
poor people, whom privation and want
make an easy prey to the dre.ided dis
ease." There is' also a very large in
crease of chronic diseases among tho
working class, for which nothing can be
dono, as they have not the means to at
tempt a remedy. The Holyoke alms
house shows also a large increase of in
mates. Perhaps one of the best displays of the
strength of a minstrel show ia its street
parade, and yet the big street parade
given by Richards A Pringle's famous
(ieoigia Minstrels fails to give evou an
adequate idea of the company's numon
cat strength, nor the magnitude of its
stage performance, which in point of ex
cellence and genuine merit remains un
rivalled. Every detail has been looked
after j an orchestra of0 thirty pieces fur
nishes the best of music for the stage
perfoimance; rich and gorgeous ward
robe is used with attractive advantage;
calcium effects and stage properties and
one solid carload of special scenery,
representing three tons, is carried for
the stage presentation. Fifty jeople are
Included iu lis roster, a score of big
rpecialty acts, the famous troupe of
tumbling and acrobatic Arabs, a host of
comedians, singers, dancers, trick bicy
clists, wire walkers, and b spectacular
flnalo, brimming with good, wholesome
fuu,w.Thts big attraction will appear at
Shlvely's Opera-house on Saturday even
ing, February 3. Beats on sale at Huut
ley's at 60 and 76c., '
The Farmers of Clackamas that it is
desired by the republican .machine
should vote for the machine candidates
will soon receive through the mails
(Uacle Sam pays the freight) copies of
public documents sent from Washington
to a republican politician in this city
this week (Uncle Sim pays the freight.)
On Tuesday while strolling around the
railroad depot at Oregon Oity.tha writer
noticed a lot of well-filled mail sacks,
and upon investigation 22 of them
were found to be filled with d cuments
from Hon. Jos. Simon to "Hon Gordon
E. Hayes, Oregon Oity, Oregoi ,"
marked "public documents, free"
(Uncle Sam pays the freight and the
people the taxes). A little figuring
showed us that the sacks mentioned
weighed 3500 pounds end probably
cost Uncle Sam (or rather the taxpaj
ers) about $5000. This is but one in
stance that shows where the taxpayers'
money goes.
Hon. Georgb O. Brownbll, the populist-republican
champion of political
"sweetness and light," is receiving suck,
friendly attentions from the Oregonian,
that, it seems, it must be tempted to ad
mit that he is not alone a gentleman
and a scholar, but an expert in political
humbugry. The Oreg.uian's mind has
turned a somersault. In its issue of
February 12, 1898, we find: "Beyond
all comparison or competition, Brownell
is lower in the estimation of the pi ople
of Oregon than any man they know. He
is contemptible and despicable beyond
all comparison or competition. To the
honor of human nature, let it be said
that no man in Oregon, from the begin
ning till now, ever had such alacrity in
sinking to depths below depths in the
estimation of all who have known him.
No word cr pledge of his, of any kind,
on any subject, would be taken for any
thing. He is detested and de
spised by all men and by all parties
alike."
DANGEROUS AND SILENT.
For many yeurs A race of Sturdy Si
lent people lived in Soutn Africa and
At-ended To their own business. One
day a Silent child of This silent race
Found a jebble in a Creek, which peb
ble Later on was pronounced To Be a
diamond. The English heard of this
Discovery, and the country was soon
Overrun with them. Afier a While the
English said:
"These people need Development !
That's what they Need, and we'll Give
it to Them I They are Too Silent, so We
will Just jump In and whack the Day
lights out of Them and make them
Talk I We don't want The gold or Dia
monds 1 But We must Develop These
People I"
So The English landed A great army
& Started in on their Developing tour,
but up To the Present time Nothing
much has Been accomplished in That
Line, because The strange, sturdy, Si
lent people don't Stand still long enough
To Be shot and be Developed. And at
Present the Gist of the Dispatches from
the English;commanders sjoms To Indi
cate that They Did not know It was
Loaded.
Moral Always Be careful A-bout
Kicking A silent man. He Generally
Wears A bottle of nitro-glycerine In his
hip pocket & has a Bunch of dynamite
up His Sleeve.
POWEfl, STUPENDOUS AND UN
CONTROLLED.
The railway is more titan the high
way of commerce. It is, in fact, as the
breath of life to every form of industry.
Therefore these sentences from the re
port of the Interstate Commission a
body of men not given to overstatement
or sensationalism cannot but impress
every one who produces or consumes
anything in this country :
"Any railroad company can charge
tor its service whatever it pleases and
as much as it pleases, without any real
power in the Interstate Commerce Com
mission or any other tribunal or court
to limit the amount of such charge for
the future when complaint is made.
"Vast schemes of railway control are
now in process of consummation and
the competition of rival lines is to be
restrained by these combinations."
Only the other day a Wall street or
gan announced quite as a matter of
course that there was hope that W. K.
Vanderbilt, one man out of the nation's
70,000,000, might be graciously pleased
in the near future to remove the dis
criminating differentials by means of
which he and his associates, all citizens
of New, York city, have been crippling
that city's commerce and assailing its
position and its prosperity. The reach
ing out of the Pennsylvania for the
Chospeake and Ohio is another step to
ward the completion of the vast project
by which less than half a dozen men, in
fact three men Morgan, Vanderbilt and
Rockefeller will have power to decide
In large measure who shall prospor and
who shall not prosper throughout this
republic, in all its cities, towns, villages
aud farms.
These facts of stupendous power con
centrated and concentrating in a few
hands power that Is, as the Interstate
Commerce Commission well says, "un
controlled by any public authority which
can be efficiently exerted." demand the
attention of every citizen. They consti
tute the essence of the great problem of
monopoly. N. Y. World.
A Washington man who recent'v
married has asked his license fee back.
He claims the investment was not prof
itable. Probably the ladv has the same
opinion. Drain Watchman. "Proba
bly" the opinion of the fair editress of
the Watchman on matimomal matters
isn't worth shucks.
THE BOERS AND CATHOLICISM.
The two peoples engaged in the South
African war are both Protoaiant. In
the Transvaal are only something over
6000 Catholics, yet the sympathies of
their co-religionists the world over are
on the side of the Boers. The spirit of
intolerence is almost dead ; it is yet
alive, however, in the correspondent
who signs himself "Argus." Taking
council chiefly of his intense antipathy
against both Boers and Catholics, he is
cocksure that "the Boers have always
treated the Catholics with the greatest
contumely," etc. The exact contrary !s
true. Com I'util is neither a bigot nor a
fool. In the Transvaal Catholics are
eligible to any office, except, perhaps,
that of the presidency. They have es
tablished brotherhoods aud sisterhoods
in the republic, and the Sisters of the
Holy Family haye charge of the Boer
government hospital, where the average
number of patients is 250. The presi
dent has placed a special guard at the
convent of the Sisters of Nazareth at Jo
hannesburg to protect it from vagrant
uitlanders who want to vote. The Boers
send their children to Catholic schools.
Father James O'liaire, a Catholic
missionary, says in his book, "Twelve
Years iu South Africa," that he found
the Boers, who were all Protestants and
on whose hospitality he depended, to be
"simplo, honest, moral, religious and
kind people," En passant, what au
thority has Argus for the statement that I
Kruger "prosented the pope in 1894
with a two-million-dollar diamond?" If
it be true, the old Boer must have dia
monds to burn. Any one to whom a
stole is a bugaboo and a Romish church
spire a threat, deserves our pity. His
mental vision is blurred by hatred of
his fellow men.
In the Oswego, N. Y., Pilladiumof
January 19, a contributor,"natls the lie"
about the Boers in this manner :
Since the war of conquest and rob
bery commenced in South Africa, the
Euglioh have kept up a propaganda of
lying about the Boers. Here is the last
libel printed in the Anglo-American
paper, the New York Times: "As for
Irish Catholics, President Kruger hates
them so much that lie has never allowed
them to have the right of gaining a vote
or even holding an ufiice uuder any cir
cumstances." The contradiction to this L given in
the same paper by St. John Gafferey, a
magazine writer, who traveled wit))
Stanley in Africa. He says: "Dr. Leyds,
plenipotentiary of the Boers in Europe,
is himself. a Catholic; and among others
holding oltice uuder the present Kruger
administration are Dr. Farrelly, govern
ment adviser of international law; also
Mr. Hogan, secretary of the commandant-general,
both Irish Catholics;
Chevalier O'Donohue, vice-chairman of
the Johannesburg corporation, Irish
Catholic." One-fourth of the Transvaal
civil service are Catholics. The Catho
lic church and convent in Pretoria are
built on grounds presented by the Trans
vaal government to the church.
Who ever before heard of a war whose
avowed object was civilization, being jus
tified by a tissue of malicious lies? It
must be a very poor cause that needs
guch bolstering.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.
A democratic convention for the state
of Otegon is hereby called to meet in
the city of Portland on Thursday, April
12, 1900, for the purpose of nominating
a candidate for the position of supreme
judge, candidates for congress in the
first and second districts, food commis
sioner, four candidates for presidential
electors and ratification of nominations
for district and joint legislative offices ;
also to elect eight delegates to represent
the democracy of Oregon in the next
democratic national convention and to
transact such other business as properly
comes before it.
The siweral counties will be en'itled
to one delegate at large and one delegate
for each 150 vo'ea cast for Hon. W. M.
Ramsey, candidate for Biipreme judge in
1898, and one delegate for each fraction
of 75 votes or more so cast, to-wit, :
Baker 11 Lincoln 4
Benton 7 Linn 14
Clackamas 13 Malheur 4
Clatsop 0 Marion Is
Columbia 5 Morrow 4
Coos 8 Multnomah .... 32
Crock 4 Polk 8
Ourry 3 Sherman 3
Douglas 13 Tillamook 3
Gilliam 3 Umatilla Jl
Grant 6 Union 12
Harney 4 Wallowa 4
Jackson lo Wasco 7
Josephine 7 Wadilugtou 10
Klamath 3 Wheeler 2
LakH 8 Yamhill U
Lane... 14
Total 267
The democratic central committee for
each county is requested to fix the time
for holding primaries and county con
vention to biiit their own convenience
It is earne tly urged that those selected
as delegates to the siaie convention at
tend in person.
B order of lite democratic state cen
tral committee.
R. S. Shkridan, Chairman.
W. J. D'Arov, Secretary.
PPOFIT SHARING.
One firm of soapmakers has for sev
eral years, at the close of a good season,
paid to each employe an additional sum
equal to 10 per cent of his wages for the
year. There have been years when the
total amount divided in this manner
reached $100,000.
A clothing company of New York
which until the present has paid several
millions a year to sweatshop ma ingers,
has built the town of New Orange, N. J.,
for the express purpose of improving the
condition of the people who make the
clothes it uses. Several large factories
and 300 houses have been built on ground
ideal in its location, and to this villag )
the toilers of the sweatshops are being
lured by wages nenrly double what they
have received before.
The president of this great concern
has removed with his family into the
new community, and is there organiz
ing social classes for study, a kindergar
ten, rooking school, night school and a
college, all of which are free to the em
ployes. The hours of hbor have been reduced
from sixteen, now common in the sweat
shops, to eight for women and nine for
men. The pretty homes are rented to
the workers for $6 and $7 a month, with
the privilege of applying the rent to the
purchase price, which will allow a man
to buv a house in eight years.
Everything ig being done to elevate
and humanize a class that heretofore has
known nothiug but unremitting toil, and
yet the company removes the work be
yond the old notion of philanthropy by
figuring a profit of 10 per cent.
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Since Pa Went Into Politics,
I bet there aint a family
That's flying half as high as we,
An' slingin' airs at every turn
Wi'h money in the house to burn.
We re liven now in scrumptious style,
An' in t says of'n with a smile
They ain't none of us got no kicks
Since pa got into politics.
When he was poor an' had to work
To make a living like a Turk
He used to say this ol' world were
A vain delusion an' a snare I
It tuk all h could scrape an' get
To feed an' lres us, but you bet
lie lMi't in that orlul fix
Since he got into politics.
He says the man that labors is
A chump that isn't onto biz
An' hasn't sense 'nuff in bis brains
To cha-e him indoors when it rains.
He used to be that way, but tuk
A tu.nble, an' the best o' luck
Kails his way like a thousand bricks
Since he went into politics.
He's wearin' clothes that's mighty ripe
An' smokes cigars instead of his pipe,
An' gets shaved at the barber's, where
T iey cqnirt bumqiiintuin on his hair.
He talks about combines and rings
An' fusion and some other things,
An' says he's onto all their tricks
Since he got into politics
Pa ut-ed to be a Christian, and
Could sing an' pray to treat ihe band,
An' just to guide our footsteps right,
Had fam'ly prayers every niiiht,
But now we're all in bed when lie
Cutnes home at night, an' ma says she
Imagines pious things won't mix
In corjial way with politics.
Ma asked him one if it was right
To help the corporations fight
The l.ones' people, an' he clinked
Some d"llara in his hand, an' winked
An' said she mustn't chew ihe rag
Long as she stands an' holds the bag
Whilst he climbs up the tree an' picks
The golden plums o' politics.
James Barton Adams, in Denver Post.
Tuk Enterptise pnblishes a lot of rot
about the Courier-Herald over charging
for some lithographed blanks for super
intendent, and pays so little regard to
the truth that it is useless to answer.
The board probably, appreciates these
cowardly thrusts in the back by the
senator from Marion.
Personal freedom is being curtailed.
Paradoxically, sell-preservation, in tho
form of trusts, is crushing out individu
alism the independent manufacturer.
Organized capital is spitted against or
ganized labor. The Bpirit of personal
independence more and more over
powered, competition throttled and
an ever-widening breach betweon capi
tal and labor, this is not an over-drawn
picture of present conditions. How will
it end? Will it finally lead to feudal
ism, socialism or nationalism ?
Brother IPEen TelU Wlter lie is.
T7"IXDLY permit me to answer your
x question of last week, "Where
is Brother U'Ren?" I had no
such interview as that you republished
from the Astoria Herald last week.
In a private conversation with Mr.
Cu'tis I expressed the hope that every
member of the last legislature who voted
for the initiative and referendum amend
ment to the constitution and who would
publicly promise to do so in the next
legislature, would be renominated and
reelected by far larger majorities than
any other candidate might have. This
includes all the populists and democrats,
classing silver republicans as democrats.
My position has been no secret at any
time.
With many other citizens, I believe
the final passage of the initiative and
referendum amendment and its submis
sion to the people of Oregon by the next
legislature is far more important than
the success or defeat uf any party in
June. We are told that the populists
must be capable of great patriotic sacri
fice of party feeliug if they can vote for
a republican for the legislature when he
promises to submit this amendment to
the people, even though he has already
voted for it once. Perhaps this is true,
but to many 0f us it will be no greater
sacrifice than we made in 1890, when we
temporarily laid aside government own
ership of railroads and telegraphs and
paper money to vote for Bryan because
his party had adopted the least of our
principles free coinage of silver at 16
to 1 for the purpose of getting the pop
ulist vote, or the final and complete sac
rifice of our party on the altar of fusion
iu 1898 for the possibility of thereby
pissing this direct legislation amend
ment to the state constitution.
The life of the people's party, since it
became a strong political power, has
been a succession of patriotic sacrifices
of party pride and feeling for the sake of
principle. The members of this party
have, professed much and practiced
more. They have had their reward in
fusion promises. The substantial suc
cess of principle has been obtained by
non-partisan action, on the same line
that the initiative and referendum was
made a part of the constitution of Smith
Dakota in 1898 and passed the republican
legislature of Oregon and the democratic
legislature of Utah in 1899. The proba
ble success of this amendment in Oregon
ia well worth one more sacrifice from
men who have made so manv and oh.
taiued so little in return.
Many of our populist leaders said two
years ao that the democrat leaders
wtre only seeking fusion or "union" to '
destroy the people's party. Recent
events prove not only that we warn
right, but that these democrat leaders
think they have accomplished their pur
pose. Judge Cowing, state democrat
committeeman from this county, is re
ported in the Telegram of Dec. 21 as
saying: If the populists don't want
to ride in our political band wagon in
the next campaign they needn't. The
demociats are strong enough to stand
on their own props." This is the same
"band wagon," in charge of the same
leaders who weut into, the "union" of
reform forces in 1898 and managed their
machine with such fine treachery that
they defeated all but six of the forty-five
populist can.iicates for the legislature
anil elected fifteen out of thirty demo
crats (counting four sLver repub.icans
as democrats, which, in this county at
least, they now profess to be), and at
the same time there were two populist
votes in Oregon to one democrat. These
democrat leaders have already called
their state convention, hut they said not
a word to the populists about "union"
or holding our state conventions at the
same time and place. Last Saturday
the democrats of Marion county called
their county convention, but not a word
to the populists about "union." How
long since any one has heard a democrat
leader say "We are all the same; there
is no difference between populists and
democrats"? In Clackamas county,
where there are four populists to one
democrat, the leaders are still anxious
for "union," but for what purpose?
Well, I don't want t ride in any
democrat "band wagon" that I ever
saw. I would rather walk barefoot
with the independent reformers. And
neither am I joining the republican
party.
If the people's party is really de
stroyed, as the democrat leaders believe
it is, then some of the populists will go
back to the democrats and some to the
republicans, but I am convinced that
the majority will follow the course re
cently outlined by Hon. W. W. Myers,
when he said: "I shall work indepen
dently for the success of the principles I
believe to be most important." Person
ally, iu the June campaign, I shall be
found with that'group who hold the im
mediate success of the initiative and ref
erendum amendment in Oregon to be
the most important principle.
As to local salaried offices, so far as I
can help at all. I shall help the men in
this county who have helped our cause
in the past, no matter what ticket they
are on. Moat of them are populists, but
there are Borne democrats.
In conclusion. I have also been
charged with aiding Senator Brownell in
' nis ellorts to go to congress. In iustice
to the senator, I have told every one
who asked me that he has faithfully
kept his promises to help in getting the
initiative and referendum amendment
before the people of Oregon for their
final vote. He has rendered us valua-
I ble assistance. This is the simple truth.
: I believe he will keep his promises on
this line in the future. I am sure he
will if such action continue lo bring
him votes and political strength in time
to come as it has in the past. If this
record of faithfulness helps Senator
Brownell in his political ambitions, no
one will rejoice more than myself, for it
will be a very large hint to politicians ol
all parties that it may be gl politics
for them, pertonally, to aid the cause of -direct
legislation.
I trust that any one who is interested
can now see "where Brother U'Ren is."
Respectfully,
W. S. U'Res.
To the Editor.