OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD. 'MARCH (6 1900.
OREGON CITY COUU1ER
OREGON CITY HERALD
CONSOLIDATED.
A committer appointed by the National
Grange is at Washington fighting the
Hanna-Payne bill to subsidize the mil
lionaire shipyards that build American
ocean steamers. The Grange, in other
words, the consolidated farmers, have
nipped in the bud many a boodle scheme
both at the national and the various
stat.j capitols.
DARVEY-W.-SCOTT FARMING
Down-IJUl 'Prosperity of the
Tillers of the Soil in Clack,
amas County The Netvs
Trust of the Anti-Trust
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PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY.
OREGON CITY, MAR. 16, 1900.
Tub Boer war will add $500,000,000 to
En gland's national debt.
Onb handred families will settle and
form a co-operative colony at Newell
Island, Wash.
Anc.tiiur fake in the protective tariff
on conl. rhilapelphia dealers will fur
nieli Italy 50,000 tons of bituminous coal
at $1.50 per ton.
Tub Sumpter boom is not what is has
been. The last holders of high priced
city lots will each have an independent
fortune in experience.
E Vkhy step toward a general public
ownership of public utilities means that
a few more corporations have been taken
out of the bribery business. Chicago
Journal.
Phuhidknt McKini.bv is held respon
sible by the country for the horrors of
the bullpen at Ward nor, Idaho. Beyond
their votes, he has no use for laboring
men, nor fee!B any mercy for them.
Tub question that baa not received
merited consideration from congress is
that of irrigating the vast desert aren
of the central plateau of the United
States, which would icvd 50,000,000 peo
ple. Only $754,000,030 will be needed to
provide the angles of Germany, Austria,
Russia, Italy and France with the Mau
ser ritlu, The expenie cannot be avoid
ed and will augment the socialist mil
lions. Russia is slowly Bidliig towards the
Persian gulf and beckoning to England
to coma on to civiliza her. Some day
the lion and the bear will have to
have it out over Asia, the prey bjth
would devour.
Civilisation is advancing apace in the
old world. In 1800, Austria spent four
and a half times as much on her army
and navy as on education ; Italy, eight
limes; France, five times, aud Russia,
twelve times as much.
Tub natives of India have exhausted
their soil by stupid farming. If England
were not so busy killing Boers for Cecil
Rhodes, she might bo able to send an
army of British farmers thither to give
Instruction in agriculture.
Ovkb 500,000 children in this country
between the ages of 10 and 14 are em
ployed in factories, shops and mines.
The motto of private capitalism in the
production of marketable commodities
is, "Buy children in the clieapost mar
ket and sell goods in the dearesV
A sixtbbn-y ear-old New Jorsey girl
has formed a matrimonial trust by
marrying three husbands, and her par
ents are at a loss what to do to break
her of the marrying habit. Has her
mamma's good right hand lost its cun
ringT Thb bubonic plague, which prevails
in the Hawaiian islands, makes quick
work of a victim. Its tortures are inde
scribably horrible. In the delirium of
a raging fever, with the loathsome bu
boes swelling in the groins and under
the arms, the stricken one expires. It
is but a fraction of a day, from the first
symptoms of the malady to death.
Tux successful business man of the
city doei not esteem the successful
farmer aa much as b should. Farming
is a business just as much so as bank
ing or trading; it calls for just as much
system and thought. It ia the most
complicated of all. The farmer has very
few laws to guide him from one year to
another, as to much depends on the
future.
Tub only friends England has in the
wide woild are Emperor William (his
fleet, isn't strong enough to fight his
grandmother'8)',Emperor McKitiley (en
raptured by British to toadyism and
greed; the ameer of Afghanistan (he is
afraid of the Russian bear) and the To
ries in the republic who mis-name
themselves Americans successors of
the valiant patriots who licked the red
coats in 1776 and 1812.
Tub house committee has voted to de
feat the bill to make government own
ership of the cable to the Philippines.
ic recommends that the government pay
$1000 a day for 20 vears to a private
company to build and operate it. That
is, the government will pav eight million
dollars to private capitalists, so they can
can build and own the cabie. You know
a paternalistic government is such a
hateful thing to those capitalists.
Yks, sir, we have a rare facultv for
governing colonies. General Day is has
ordered that laborers on public works in
Porto Rico shall have but 24 cents a day
for eight hours: that onlv DroDertv own
ers shall vote; that one must pay $1 be
fore he can vote I That's freedom under
the constitution I By such infamv. 600.-
000 out of the million people there are
pauperized. General Davis should "ork
for 24 cents a day. He is no more
precious to the Almighty than the low
est Porto Rica l.
It appears that not alone in Washing-
ton, but also in some parts of Oregon.
the republican taxeater is fattening.
According to theEugeneGuard, through
the extravagance of the republican ma
chine that runs Lane county, the taxes
in that county have increased from 15
mills in 1898 to 23 mills in 1899. Well
may the committee that has investigated
this matter urgently ask the voters of
Lane county, "irrespective of party, to
ioin them in this movement of retrench-
ment and reform."
Undeh the plan of the initiative and
referendum every voter is a lawmaker.
With direct legislation in force there
would be no chance for the pernicious
trading as now practiced in our legisla
tures. Every measure would be con
sidered upon its merits. In the matter
of assessment and taxation Multnomah
county usually gets what she wants, but
under the reform methods the rest of
the slate could out-vote her and give an
equitable distribution of the burdens bf
taxation to every county in the stato.
.McMinnville Tel.-Regiatei .
Why not put a tariff wall around Ok-
lalnm t? Tin Albany, N. Y.,Cotintry
Gentleman is strongly opposed to the
bill that has been before congress for
several year,-, in succession to ren.it to
settlers in that territory and some other
recently opened Indian lands, the 835.-
000,000 which the government paid for
them. The editor outs it this wav: "At
the behest of the land-grabbers, and un
der, the lead of the senators from these
'rotten borough' unpopulated states, it
is proposed to cancel all these claims.
and lot the rest of us foot the bills for
j'ist so many more free farms to com
pete with us."
After England has civilized the Boers.
Bhe could turn her kindly attention to
the turbulent Central American repub
lics. They need blood-letting to make
them good. President McKinley also
needs a dose of civilization for his mud
efforts to burden the starving Porto
Means with duties on the necessaries of
life. The outside world having been
duly civilized, England could turn to
and civilize herself tome by dispossess
ing the sleek highcuckalorums that hold
nearly all her soil and distributing it
among the landless and homeless mil
lions that fight her battles on land and
sea. Civilizing is a great fad.
There are hundreds of thousands of
workers iu New York aud for that mat
ter like exists in every corner of the
and whose average yeaily Income
won't reach $200. On this they must
support a family. The World lately toll
at length of a woman and her child
whose income and the woman sewed
night and day was $1.20 a week. Such
conditions are worse than slavery. They
are better than slavery tor the employer,
for slave labor and slave ownership
would cost the employer more. And for
all that the administration choir so con
stantly and with upturnod, thankful
eyes, chants of a persistent, aweet pros
perity, labor conditions grow worse and
the poor grow leaner and poorer. N. Y.
Verdict.
SciBNTtFio men know much about Na
ture, and yet know very little. Not one
of them can solve the problem, "What
is electricity?" They can only theorise.
The most reasonable theory ia that elec
tricity ia a "condtion" of atoms brought
about by chemical action, aa in a battery
cell, or by what may be called a severe
irritation of the magnetic halo, as in a
ynarn,), and by other means, such as
heat and friction. What this condition
is, is the question. It may be a yiolent
rotation, or it may be an equally violent
vibration of atom. Probably the arc
lights would prove it to be a vibration.
Friction in some form or oilier is preeo'it,
as heat is produced before burning or
destruction taues place.
Tub feudalism of capital is not a whit
less formidable than the feudalism of
force. The millionaire is as dangerous
to the welfare of the community in our
day as was the baronial lord iu the mid
dle ages. Both supply the m 'ans of
shelter and of ra'ment on the samo con
dition; both hold their retainers in ser
vice by the same tenure their necessity
for bread ; both use their superiority to
keep themselves superior. Th power
of money is as imperial as the power of
the sword. I may as well depend upon
another for my head as for my bread.
The day is sure to come when men will
look back upon the prerogative of capi
tal at the present tima with as severe
and as just a condemnation as we now
look down upon the predatory chieftains
of the dark ages. Horace Mann.
We are living in a period wherein
these trust magnates have the power
which has been wielded in other times
by the church, the feudal lords, the
army, the lauded interests, and oeea
sianally by orators. They can find em
ployment for thousands of retainers.
Their patronage is courted. Their po-
litical support is wanted bv politicians.
They cm buj all the adjuncts of social
elegance handsome mansions, spacious
grounds, trained servants, carriages.
pleaiure craft, country places, rich plate
and li'.rniture, art galleries. Their
daughters are usually aceoiaolisued and
their sons have acquired the graces of
young manhood, and when the mag.
nates themselves have lived correct
lives and shown respect for the canons
of morality, society will do them rev
erence, aud the bigger the trust and the
greater the power, the larger the meas
ure of reverence. bpokane Review.
What is religion? To love justice ; to
long for the right ; to love mercy ; to pity
the suffering; to assist the weak ; to for
get wrongs ; to remember benefits ; to
lovh the truth; to be sincere; to utter
honest words ; to love liberty; to wage
relentless war against slavery in all its
forms ; to lova wife, child and friend ; to
make a happy home ; to love the beauti
ful in art, iu nature; to cultivate the
mind: to be familiar with the mighty
thoughts that genius has expressed, the
noble deeds of all the world; to culti
vate courage and cheerfulness; to make
others happy ; to till life with the splen
dor of generous acts; the warmth of lov
ing words; to discard error; to destroy
prejudice; to receive new truths with
gladness; to cultivate hope; to seethe
calm beyoud the storm; the dawn be
yond the night; to do the best that can
be done and then be resigned. This is
the religion of reason, the creed of
science. This satisfies the brain of the
wisest and the best. Robert Ingersoll.
M. Blocu, the noted Polish political
economist, expresses the opinion that
from the technical standpoint, in the
future war will be impossible. On ac
count of tbe rapid-firing, long-range,
smokeless-powder rifles.'and the won
derfully improved artillery, armies can
no longer set l'ito hand-to-hand conflicts.
Bayonet and cavalry charges will be
practically impossible. Future wars
will be decided not by force of arm?, but
by the ability of ei'h ir of the contend
ing power to feed b th its civil popula
tion and defray the enormous sxpense
of scientific welfare. The distinguished
professional butchers of Europe are
alarmed at the rapidly growing antago
nism to militarism. The millions of so
cialists, who are thoroughly and cer -tially
organiz-d.a'e hurling their united
strength against the military casto. The
spectre of the discontented poverty
stricken rabble, whu.h iu tl.e event of a
great war, would inevitably f How the
had of the socialist hosts, renders ttie
monarch's of the old world tearful of the
clash of armies. The military critic now
puzzles himself with the conundrum.
What shall Europe do with her standii g
armies?
SODS' IN SHIP BUILDING..
President Hill, of llie Great Northern
Railroad, promises that within five
years there will be 25 new steamships in
the Oriental trade, plying between tha
Pacific c ast and China, Japan and the
Philippines. These, he predicts, will be
of the largest size, with enormous carry
ing capacity, and bIoai of speed. Speed
is not considered so much an object as
to be able to lay the goods dwn on
the other Bide of the Pacific so thjy can
compete with the nat ve product. The
shipbuilding yards of both coasts are re
ported to be full of orders, and even
those on the Great Lakes have all tbey
can reasonably construct in the next
year. There are 50 war vessels, with a
total displacement 140,813 tons uuder
construction or contract in this country;
and 45 coasting vessels besides the large
ones mentioned' above with a total gross
tonnage of 76,007. The couatrui tion of
these vessels assists in promoting the
new era of prosperity in American ship
building. The world's carrying trade
has in recent years increased faster than
the number of staamers built to trans
port it, and the peculiar conditions
brougtit about by war have merely tend
ed to emphasize this fact aad bring the
matter to an acute crisis. In the new
shipbuilding era we shall no longer
stand by and permit other nations to do
most of the building; for the signs are
unmistakable that the long-looked for
and urgently-needed revival of Ameri
can shipbuilding is at hand, and that
ithout subsidies.
1L ,
A SIMON TOOL.
W. S. U'Ren.of Oregon City, has been
traveling over the state in the alleged
interest of the proposed initiative and
referendum amendment to the constitu
tion. Mr. U'Ren's real mission is in the
interest of Joe Simon. There is abso
lutely no need of any anxiety about the
legislature voting to submit the proposed
amendment. The reform forces in their
several conventions, democratic, popu
list and silver republican, placed in their
last state platforms a plank favoring
submitting the measure to the vote of
the people, and every member of the
legislature elected by these forces voted
in accordance therewith. It follows, aa
a natural sequence, that the state con
ventions will again insert the plank and
every man elected by the reform forces
will vote for it. Then, why the anxiety
to Mr. U'Ren that the people regardless
of party affiliations, should vote for the
re-election of republican legislators sim
ply upon the ground that those legisla
tors voted to submit the proposed
amendment? His anxiety is not on ac
count of the initiative and referendum
excepting in a Pickwickian sense. The
republican members of the last legisla
ture took the "initiative" in voting for
U'Ren's boss Joe Simon for U. S. sena
tor, and he withes them to be re-elected
so as to favor the "referendum" in vot
ing to elect a side partner to the little
boas-prohably (to the unspeakable Brow
ne! I.
It is a fact that the submissi3n of the
proposetl amendment is a part of the p -litical
faith of llie democracy and its
allied forces If Mr. TJ'Ren would exert,
his influence to securing the insertion of
a pledge to the same effect in the repub
lican platform, the battlo would be won,
and we respectfully suggest to him
that the best way to do this would be to
cease masquerading as a reformer, bold
ly come to the front as a supporter of
the republican party, be elected a dele
gate to their stale convention and intro
duce the resolution declaring in favor of
submitting to the people the initiative
and referendum. If Mr.U'Ren is in favor
of Hanna, McKinley, Simon and Brow
nell, that is his privilege. Let him so
declare himself. Let him at least be an
honest rascal. The Dalles Times-Mountaineer.
Joe Simon's lied Calf Was It lie
moved? George Ogle says I was mistaken in
my statement that U'Ren was removed
from the chairmanship of the Clackamas
populists.
I was not a resident of the county at
the time, but from Fitch's confused and
incomplete report, I gathered that a
committee meeting was called to investi
gate him, and that, whereas he was
chairman wheu he went into the meet
ing, when he came out, he wasjiot.
Whether he was pulled out by the ears,
or prodded with some sharp instrument
so that he ju iped the fnce "vo'un
tarily," I do not know. It's no matter,
any way. I do know that of the superb
following he gathered in the county un
der the flag of populism and direct legis
lation, hardly a prominent populist is
left. Even such devoted fiiends aa G.
R. H. Miller, and George Ogle himself,
disapprove of his course, and, as George
puts it, cannot follow the devious course
of the red calf further,
If in 1895 George could have brought
himself to listen to my suggestion and
his attitude toward U'Ren had been less
that of hero worship, be would have
saved himself this four years of erratic
plowing in the field of Oregon politics
and the final mortification of finding
that the shape he had been following and
believed to be the genius of the initia
tive and referendum, upon disenchant
ment, proved to be only his ancient ene
my's "red calf," trained to that trick.
J. B. Zieqler.
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My lungs became hardened. 1 was so
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Nothing helped me. I expected to soon
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IF you will allow me a small space
in your columns, I will try to an
swer something of more interest
than U'Ren and Brownell fights. Right
here, Mr. Editor, allow me to call your
attention to this fatst: If vou would give
attention to the real issues and let per
sonal politics alone, you would satiefy
the patrons of your paper better, especi
ally your humble servant'.
The following appears in the daily
Oregonian of February 27 :
"The experience of Nebraskan farm
ers in the last year should have taught
theih the fallacy of the cheap-money
crowd's arguments. Owing to the pros
perity that they enjoyed, the amount of
mortgages on farms in the state was re
duced during that time by nearly 3,.
000,000. Yet these same people only
- - , T.tu a u mo puna uieir
determint tion to stand by the cheap-
kinn,,. l.lnA n 1 .1 I S.
ito aim ine uneap-money candi
date. The cnmlir.inn roftuntu i..l.w
- - - '"w Diuuuum.
nessthr twill not see, rather than a
prudent spirit that desires tofindihe safe
wav and walk therein. Piir.Koarl,
never yet triumphed over the calm aud
u. .cuing lugm 01 events, am: in the at-
temnt todo fin it mnrotv n,u boo
of its narrow quality."
I wonder if it ever occurred to Editor
Scott that there were more ways of pay
ing off mortgages than selling farm nro-
ducts. For an illustration, we find in
the real estate transfers of last week.s
Courier-Herald :
J. Toompkin8 to Com mercinl
Bank, 63 acres, Toompkins'clm.$ 2833
W. E. Spicer, 70 & 2& acres to
trust Co 5000
W. A. Garner, 135 acres to School
L. Co R44 0
D.Mclntyre.to School Land Corns. 570
Total for the week $12,852
Now these transfers look to me as if
there had been a mortgage paid off by
the kind of prosperity that makes more
fool cheap-money advocates.
If this be an average for the year, 52
eeks, at $12,852 per week, makes a to
tal for the year of $668,304. This is a
pretty good starter toward $3,000,000,
if the balance, of the counties of the
state will do as well, and if Mr. Scott
will refer to the records of Multnomah
he will find that his countv will na
several hundred thousand dollars belter.
If Editor Scott will tell us farmers a
few more limes what to raise t nd we
follow his advice, we will all pay our
mortgages in the same manner. He
tells us to raise more hops and prunes.
Hops and prnnes go down. Then more
iogs ; they go down. Then more wheat :
wheat goes down. Now he is telling ns
to all go to making butter. Oh. ereat
Scott. I What will we do with i'? Start a
soap factory 1 No. Sell it to the soap trust ?
booking ea:-t from my farm, in almost
rifle range I can co int half a dozen
pieces of land that have had the mort
gages cancelled by parties giving quit
claim deeds. One ot $75 for 209 acres ;
another, $100 for 120 acres : and another
one year's rent, and so on, and more to
follow. Soon, had it not been for the
reduction of state interest to 6 per cent ,
double the amount of land would have
been turned over in the same way.
JNow that coc nty warrants are selling
at 2 per cent premium,, I shall advocate
the reduction to 4 per cent by the next
legislature. This, Mr. Scott.is the kind
of cheap money the farmers want-
Cheap interest we term cheap money.
Are you "again" it?
A bove I referred to the truaL What.
is a trust? Well, Jet's see. ' As we un
derstand it, it is a combination of men
or persons engaged in the same line of
Dusiness, combined to ruise the
their products. Now, this we consider
perfectly legitimate, for ilm fuf mat
all products have been too low in Ore
gon. Ve have the hop trust attempted
by the hop men : in California, a fmir.
trust; in Eastern Oregon wheat, and in
fortland the Oregonian Company has a
telegraphic-dispatch trust. Ths fact is,
Mr.Editor, I would like to belono- t.n .
trust myself; hence I can't oppose a
trust. HOW is it With vnn. Mr. Rmtlf
Under this competitire system there
is only one sure cure: the government
should own the trust. If the govern
ment owned the means of teWranMo
communication, how long iould Scott's
telegraph-trust last? Hem Bonn'.
opposition to government ownership.
wnenne tells us through the Orego
nian he is opposed to trusts, we know
he lies.
, The trust. Mr. Editor, we desire at
the present time (which I confidently
believe we will formjis a combination of
all reform forces in county, state and
nation to elect Wm. J. Bryan presi
dent. W. W. Mybhs.
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