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OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD. MARCH 23. 1900.
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OREGON CITY, MAR. 23, 1900.
You can't vote if yon don't register,
Remember this.
If (lie sultan of Sal u should visit his
great and gord friend, the president,
would hu bring his harem?
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If you wish to vote at the June election,-you
should register as soon as pos
sible. The time for legislation expires
May 15.
Fivisa Fox, a thoroughbred racer,
was sold in London for $106,875 to Mons.
E. Blanc, a French millionaire. Six
years ao hirf sire, Ormonde, brought
$150,000.
Poverty is a blessed heritage. An
drew Carnegie,
Don't pity the rich; they, too, have
their pleasures. The Smirt Set.
Jonathan IJouknr, the nio:t potent
Bpiritof the "hold-up" legislature, han
dled fellows like U'Ken just aa a shep
herd dog handles a seared shocp. Ev
ening Telegram,
Thirty right pauper babies in the
public morgue in New York city is the
crop of one day fi.r the potter's field.
And this is civilization t Only 38 little
do.nl paupers.
The ofllce-holding Btreak of insanitv
seems to afllict the biggest portion of
man-kind. Well, it may be as well that
assume other hob! y, for every one of
us is a little looiiv.
Ir would bo a good plan for justices
and notaries who are registering voters
to he on hand Saturday, March 31st,
when t' e united reformers hold their
primaries. It is of inteiest to them.
May Mr. U'Ken successfully wobble
on his initiative-referendum hobby-horse
into the Joe Simon camp. Vale, Bro,
U'Ken.
Birds of a feather,
Should flock together.
An appendicitis club has been formed
in Cleveland, Ohio, To become a mem
ber of this unique organization, one
must have had the misfortune to be op
eratod upon for appendicitis. "Misery
loves company,"
Tiik labor cost of a pair of mae'iine
made socks is the merest trifle. Eight
knitting machines, tended by one boy,
turn out in 24 hours 1200 socks. One
boy, with his machines, accomplishes
as much as a regiment of knitting
women 1
It is the opinion of Mr. Gorman, the
long-headed Maryland politician, that
the passage of the gold standard bill
will help Bryan in this yeai's campaign,
since the new law will prevent him, if
elected, from going into currency experi
uients."
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a his man who nas been loved, no
matter how little, by a woman, from the
moment when this love has neither cal
culation nor self interest as a basis, is
under eternal obligations to that woman
aud whatever he may do for her, he will
never do as much as she has done for
Mm Alexander Pumas.
lute tne British cabinet and the
British members of our administration
liave been attempting to fasten the Hay.
launceforte treaty on the American
people, which would bind us not to for
tify the Nicaram canal. Great Britain
tas been busy building an Impregnable
fortress commanding the Straits of Juan
-'el uca,.which, In time of war, would
radically make of Puget Sound an
English inland tea, and place the entire
Pound country at the meroy of perfidious
Albion. , ,
If President Meltinley would ape the
British by pressing an Income tax bill
through congress and bulldozing the su
preme couit into declaring it constitu
tional, he would thereby make more
votes than any $25,000,000 of boodle can
buy. But that sort of thing would be
too costly for Boss Hanna, ami there is
r.o use of talking about it. .
The Hell of the English is the infinite
terror of Not getting on. especially of
Not making money. Tnomas Carlyle.
Another wriier of books asserts thitt
"poverty is hell " It appears, then,
that both greed and poverty are hell
How will a mortal keep out of the one
or the other? Ih- there no fence to sit on
from which to contemplate both pits?
According to the Iron Age,358 manu
facturers of iron and steel have united
in 28 combinations, having in the aggre
gate $998,300,000 of authorized capital.
The profits of one of them, the Ameri
can Stel and Wire Company, were in 11
months $12,000,000. Another, the Car
negie Steel Company(great are the bless
ings of poverty), made last year $21,003,
000, and this year intends to clean up
$40,000,000.
The bishops of the Methodist church
say in an appeal to the. churches : ''The
decline in our membership is not an ac
cident. It comes from a sufficient cause.
The cause is the slipping cog in our ex
perience, our lack of spiritual power.
The gulf between capital and labor
threatens us both sides. On one side,
'not many mighty, not many noble, are
called.' On the other, strange forces
are alienating the poor. The labor
unions, organized most capactly, are
much influenced men hostile to the
the church. Their gatherings are gen
erally on the Sabbath, thus keeping the
men out of our reach. We seem in some
places above our business. '
A bii,l has been prepared in Colorado
to place the granting of marriage licenses
in the state in the hands of a board of
county medical examinets, to consist of
three physicians, no two of the same
school, and where possible the board is to
have one or more female members. Li
censes are to be granted to met) not lens
than 25 and women not less than 22
years. To secure licennes, men ami
women mtiBt he free from certain dis
eases, and there must be no blood rela
tion between llin lontrnrtinn rmni,.a Tl
the bill bcomes a law. the man u.,hltlie British money lords.
the scrofula and the maid with the cough
will go across the state line to get mar
ried. Cupid isn't balked ov such a
flimsy obstacle.
It seems from reports that a tempest
n a teapot was raised while the proprie
tor of this paper was awav from the
state because certain politicians could
not run the Courier-Herald a: cording to
their liking. We want to state riirht
here that this paper will not be run or
be dictated to by any one, and we are
udgo of what shall or shall not appear
in its columns, and, while we aim to be
fair and give all sides and all parties a
hearing, we are not to be bull U sed.
Nor do we wish to persecute any one be
cause lie is against reforms advocated
y the true American citln3 or for the
alleged rebrms of a party that is after
votes ami cues nothing (or the common
peapie. He are sorry for him, that's
all.
Tuos. B. Rkkd, the erttwhile auto
cratic speaker of the house, understands
the significance of the signs of the times.
In an article published in the N. Y.
Evening Post he say ; "Where the sel
fishness of a few is entrusted with un
limited power and buttressed up by all
the power of the state formally enlisted
in its behalf.lt has never been able to re
sist successfully the selfishness of all.
In other words.the selfishness of the few
s always met with imd mastered by
that greater power, the selfishness of
all. The struggle may be long and may
seem doubtful, but is never so in the rj- '
suit. All history is full of examples.
For hundreds of years the unprivi
leged seemed iu France to be struggling
hopelessly against the privileged, and
the story was the most melancholy in
the history of the world; but the filial
result was liberty and equality. Nowa
day there can be no such prolongation
of the fight."
Tint reason why Europe is against
Britain is well stated In a late issue of
the London Speaker : "Foreign powers
are hostile, not because we are shielding
but because we are attacking a small
nationality. They are convinced that
the present war is a repetition of the
Jameson raid by the British government.
They regard Euglish politics as dominat
ed by the International financier. They
believe that with the death of Mr.Glad
stone the light ol the generous idealism
which they once recognized in English
life has gone out. And it is Mr. Cham
berlain whom we have to thank for the
blaek looks of Europe. The powers are
restless and uneasy. There is scarcely a
nation which s not now smarting un
uer one ol ins vulgar insults. Inere is
certainly not a statesman who would ac
cepthis word of honor. He Is every'
whore believed to have lent his eanUion
to the most flagrant ourage, on public
law in modem times the invaslou of a
friendly state In the times of profound
peace."
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Whitblaw Reid, of the N.Y. Tribune,
said in a private letter to the London
Daily News : "I give you hearty congrat
ulations on the changed aspecT" of the
war. It is an immense relief to us all
as well sb to you." Reid, who is a snob,
reflects the o'pinion of Wall street and
the big wigs generally of the republican
party.
"The surrender of General Cronje to
the British and the reliet of Ladysmith
have been favorable influences to Wall
street," says Henry Clews, the New
York banker, in a late bulletin. This
explains why President McKinley is
pro-Briiish. He is owned by the Ameri
can money lord, who ara partners of
ailE CITY I'RISTIXG.
The Enterprise says the city Is saving
money by having it do ths printing af
ter its contract "has expired without ad
vertising for new bids. Suppose the
county should do the same. What
would poor Porter say then? If the pro
prietor of the Courier-Herald can allord
to do the county printing for from half
to three-fourths of former prices and can
give a better paper to nearly twice the
number, of readers the Enterprise does,
and can make enough to take a trip to
New Orleans, or to Halifax, for that
matter, it isn't because Porter wants us
to. If the senator from Marion could
have secured the printing contract at a
"reasonable figure," he could, with his
Salem graft, have gone to Paris, India
or South Africa, besides building a man
sion. It's too bad that he didn't get it.
We feel sorry for Biother Porter. Three
papers have gone out of existence in this
county in less than two years, but there
is no danger of Porter's organ going as
long as he has a senatorial graft, to con
stantly work. Here id a sample of how
he saves th s city money : In February,
1899, the Press was paid $4.37 for pub
lishing the water commissioners' report,
and in February, 1900, the Enterprise
was paid $17.50, nearly four times s
much. And the Enterprise has not four
times the circulation of the defunct
Press, either, although Mr. Koerner
says a paper with a circulation of 10 is
ust as good as one with a circulation of
1000, as It doesn't seem to make any dif
ference to him or Brother Porter wheth
er the people know what is going on lu
public offices or not.
IMPERIALISM, DR., 509,000,000.
United States in account with war of
expansion
To Dr.
War with Spain $259,341,299
War with Filipinos (1899).. 64,617.267
War with Filipinos (1900).. 100,885,934
Total $424,844,600
Probable cost army (1900).. 125,000,000
Grand total $549,844,500
Annual increase army and
navy expenses 100,000,000
Or.
Total value Philippine trade. 75,000,000
Total value China trade. . . . 60,000,000
Total value Porto Rico and
Cuba trade loO ,000,000
Grand total Colonial and
Asiatic trade 275,000,000
American command Philip
pine trade 70,000,000
American command China
trade 50,000,000
American command Colonial
trade 150,000,000
Total value American
trade 270,000,000
Net profit to traders at 15 '
per cent $40,500,000
Balance to imperialism.... $309,344,500
X. Y. World.
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VOTERS, BEWARE! .
In sundry p ecincts of Clackamas
county, both democrats and populists
have promised either the Brownell fac
tion, or anti-Brnwnell faction of the re
publican party to take part .n electing
delegates to the republican county con
vention, This would be a harmless po
litical diversion on their pdrt, if by en
gaging in it they i i not tio their own
hand. The democrats and populists
who have made these promises to the
republicans forget that if they vote at
the republican primary, they are by
that act estopped from voting at their
own primary. V'.tinc often at pri
maries the law will no longer permit.
In order that eaeli precinct be fully rep
resented at the union county conven
tion, all the voters t-hould atlend the
ptimariet,aml that with their hands un
tied. Let the republican factions run
their own business to suit themselves.
Brownell is a Joe-Simon republican and
we should let him swim or sink with
his own crowd.
THE BANKERS' HOLD-UP.
The re-arrangement of the money of
the country with which the trust-ridden
administration will inflict us, gives the
secretary of the treasury authority to re
fund any of the outstanding bonds of
the United States into thirty-year 2-per
cent bonds b; exchanging bonds at their
par values, and paying the holders of
the outstanding bonds a bonus for their
surrender, calculated on a basis of 24
per cent. This new graft empowers the
secretary to pay a bonus, calculated at
$88,000,000, for the privilege of paying
in the next thirty years $240,000,000
more in interest than would he paid if the
outstanding bonds were redeemed at
maturity.
The figures of ths outstanding bonds
of the United States, with their rate of
interest and time of maturity, are as
follows :
Mature
$25,364,500 (2s) Option U.S.
05 009,700 (5s) Feb. 1, 1904
545,345,350 (4s) July 1, 1907
193,791,440 (3s).-. .After August 1, 1908
162,315,4)0(4s) Feb.1,1925
36,400 ref. certs (4s)
$1,026,863,050
It will be seentha over $850,000,000
of these bonds mature within the next
nine jears, anl as they mature they
can be paid off at par without the neces
sity of giving any bonus.
Do the people discern in what devious
ways the money of the country is being
concentrated in the hands of the few
who have already more than their
share?
WHEAT ANALYSIS.
A chemical analysis made by the
Childlow Institute of Milling and Bak
ing Technology, of Chicago, of flour and
wheat of the crop of Willamette valley of
'99, gives the following lesults, the
"Minneapolis Spring Patent" flour be
iug taken as the standard :
Standard Oregon
Loaves, per bbl 100 95.7
Loaf volume 100 81.7
Oualitv 100 108 0
Color , -100 95.7
Average value.
.100
95.:
Fermenting period. ICO 45.8
Wet Gluten 37.5. 18.5
Absorption 63 66.0
These figures are well worth the study
of every housekeeper. One hundred
pounds of Minneapolis flour and 63
pounds of water produce 163 pounds of
pounds of Western Oregon flour will ab
sorb only 56 pounds of watei in the
dough-making pro es. The straw color
that otien characterize bread made of
our flour is ctueed by allowing the
dough to ferment too long a time, the
table showing that it should not be half
as long as that required for the Minne
apolis wheat. The difference between
37 6 and 19.5 indicates that our wheat is
deficient in gluten or muscle-making
material. In passing, it is of interest to
note that the wheat from different parts
of the valley is unlike, doubtless on ac
count of differences in soil, 'altitude,
drainage, etc..
UNITED ST A TES ENTRAPPED''
In an article published in the Atlantic
Monthly Tr March, Ex-Secretary of
State Olney dibcuspes the "entangling
alliance" with Great Britain in which
the United States are caught. Mr.
Olney is recognized as one of the ablest
lawyers in the country, and he is not a
republican. He says it is a well known
fact that the United States hold the
Philippines upon the suffrance of Eng
land, and it is this which.in his opinion,
is the entangling alliance.
It iB t now n that during the time our
peace commissioners were in Paris
consolidation was effected between the
American-China Development Company
and the British syndicate holding con'
tiguous concessions, to build railways in
one of the most populous sections of
China, the great valley of the Yang-tse.
Kiang river, forming a joint combination
known as the Anglo-American China
Development Company. It is also
known that the American syndicate
comprises the greatest financial mag
nates of this continent, men of vast
wealth who control several trunk lines
of railroad and many of the great indus
tries of this country, which gives them
great political power. It is known that
this gigantic combination had its agents
in Paris when the Peace Commission
was there and that its influences were
potent in Washington. It is believed
upon good grounds that this Anglo
American syndicate was the influence
that prevailed in consummating the pur-'
chase of the Philippine islands by the
United States, aud that it is the wealth
of this powerful aggregation of capital
ists that vitalizes the imperialist move
ment in this country.
If the plans of this international syn
dicate are successf u'ly carried out.and the
war powers of England and the United
States jointly can be used to bluff the
powers of Europe and bully the Chinese
government so that they can carry out
their scheme of exploitation, several
hundred millions in profits will accrue to
the syndicate. Therefore.they will hold
their grip upon the republican party
and force that party to commit suicide
in its attempt to force an imperialistic
policy upon the American people.
It is known, also, that Russia has been
gradually obtaining control of the great
tea warehouses in the valley of the
Yang tse-Kiang, and in other ways
gaining commercial control in that re
gion. Through Iter intrigues, England
has thus succeeded in making the busi
ness interests of the United States
inimical to those of Russia.
Tub smallpox scare at Eagle Greek
does not appear to amount to much. At
least it appeared in a very mild form.
Reports say that on the eecoud visit 6f
the doctor to a patient there the patient
was out fishing. Two or three days'
sickness seems 1 1 be the worst effect.
Chicken pox would be a more appropri
ate name. '
HO AD PROBLEM.
Tub writer attended a road meeting
at'Eagle Creek on "Tuesday and the in
terest manifested in a good road to the
hatchery bridge was riot -as great as it
should have been. Thd citizens of Lo
gan raised over $2000 in a few days to
ward building a permanent road to the
same bridge on their side of the river.
the citizens of Oregon City having agreed
to build the road from place mentioned
to Oregon City, and it is for their own
interest to have a good winter road to
market, when produce is unusually high
and the farmer cannot get to town. The'
Idfa was that if the citizens of Eagle
Creek would raise $2000, the countv
would put in as much more as it has
done in a number of other cases. The five-
mill tax levy of Clackamas county will
nevf r build permanent roads and the
citizens will have to help build the road
and if they do, it will enhance the value'
of their property much more than the
expense for roads. One case was cited
at the meeting mentioned where, if a
farmer had been able to get to market
some time since, he could have sold his
200 sacks of potatoes for 90 cerfts, when
now they are worth but 45 cents, a clear
loss of $90 to one man. He could well
afford to give half the amount toward a
good read and still be gainer. It is to be
hoped the citizens of that fertile ' section
of this county, will see this matter in the
right light. Efforts are being made to
get a commission house established in
Oregon City so the farmer will not glut
the market here with four sacks cf po
tatoes.
Reflect and Consider the Danger .
S the time is gradually approach
ing once more when we are to
exercise our duties as citizens of
this commonwealth, it is perhaps well
that we pause in the excitement of per
sonality for a few moments and encour
age our thoughts to engage in conscien
tious reflection. Individual opinion.
when flamed into passion, is destructive
in its very nature; but when guided by
reason and judgment, it is the redeemer
of mankind. No doubt, "These are
tin.es that try men's souls." On every
hand, and in every Bphere of human ac
tivity, an unnatural condition prevails
We have men who revel in wealth and
live in luxurious idleness; we have men
who struggle in poverty for an existence
and whose cup of bitterness is uearly
full. Is this equality?
Our men of wealth are building forti
fied mansions and uniting their powers.
Not satisfied in the thought of having
enslaved their fellow citizens, they have
gone "outside the constitution" in search
of more to conquer. Not being of a
fighting disposition, tliey have, in a
spirit of patriotisra(?), collected thous
ands of our laboriug men and citizens aud
transformed them into warriors. They
have been sent into distant climes amid
the cheers of their countrymen; they
are returning at the rate of 250 a month
to fill the insane asylums of our land I
How rapid, yet how quiet, the change!
Thousands of intelligent American citi
zens being changed into hopeless idiots I
How loug, oh, how long will it continue?
Until the transformation is complete?
Do our men of wealth feel more secure
under the changed conditions? And we,
from whose midst these boys are taken,
how long shall we stand Idle aud indif
ferent? Our country in peril ?f Who
can deny it? Yet we have those
amongst us who are working devotedly
for the servants ol these men. The
time has come, iu my humble opinion,
when we ought to Iny our little differ
ences aside, temporarily, at least, and
unite as American citizens in this criti
cal period of our national existence and
drive out of the, councils of our nation
those who are laboring to bring about
its fall.
Respectfully,
Robert Gintiier.
Plea for Public Ownership. -
TTTHERE is a great of speculation at
I the present time as to whether
Mr. Bryan can receive populist
support in the approaching presidential
election. Democratic leaders should bear
one thing in u Ind, and that iaif they
expect to secure the populist vote gen
erally, they must put forth a good plat
form. Much as they, the Dopulists ad
mire Mr. Bryan's superb personal. ty
they will not accept him as any part of
what they consider the necessary plat
form declarations, and there is one
plank which is regarded, not only by
populists, but socialists as well, and .that
is the demand for public ownership
of public utilities. It occurs
to me that the democratic party can
well afford to insert that kind of plank in
its platform, especially when we consider
that the New York Journal bits been
carrying this demand at tho hed ot its
columns for months. Tlie deiu ijrstlc
masses will support this demand to a
man, and the ignoring of the same
by the party at this ti ne wj ill b
regarded as yielding t corporate in
fluences and-would certainly lead to
Mr. Bryan's defeat at the polls.
T. B. Hankins.
For new sewing machines and for low
est prices go to Block, the, homefur-nisber.