OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD. APRIL 6, 1900.
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OREGON CITY, APRIL 6, 1900.
A yacht cun stand upon a tack with
ant -wearing, but a man cannot stand
rjpon a tack without swearing.
'Socialists in the Transvaal, composed
if all nationalities, I'i -tiding Englnh
ewen, are reported as fighting with the
Eioer armies.
'.Tuk Enterprise states that it will not
writer into any more discussion with the
Courier-Herald. We didn't iptend to
fait it bo hard.
Ekwty per rent of the world's cost of
Ijtovemnient is the result of wars, the re
iwltof the fior ds of hull that dominate
it lie human breast.
Bihmahck prophesied that the British
sarmies would make their own graveyard
En Mouth Africa, Oom Puul will gladly
tfurnlsh the graveyard.
If it be true that the poor have no
aright tothe property of the rich, let it
also be declared that the rich have no
wight to the property of the poor.
'Tnu St. Paul Dispatch (republican)
wait! in ils issue of February 24: -"Society
is running its last lap on the pres
cnt course. It is on a false basis; it
kin list change."
"Conditions ovtsr in the Transvaal are
mow becoming such that it would seem
rto be about time for Mr. Krugor to sug
rgest to Mr. Steyu tlmt it is a long time
between laagers.
Tub Standard Oil Company bin pa ker
oseiwj across the Pacihc and sells it to
W oriental heathen at half the price we
Bay. Why don't we kick the stuffing out
f this bind of brigands ?
7k u'bqminknt republican, who was
virged to stand as a candidate at the late
Uamentod republican convention, has re
uaiked that he refused because he
"'would not be caught in that kind of a
irowd."
Firry dredges are fitting out on Puget
fk)und for beach . mining in Alaska.
They are supplied with Galling guns
wud armored so as to stand off miners.
Any one going to Cape Nome should
carry Mauser ride and a small cannon
to defend .himself.
J. Samublson.-o England, shows that
140,317 farm laborers have been dis
tanced by machinery In the past few
;ytrs in England, to make which ma
liliif ry required the labor of only 4000
men one year. These displaced laborers
are wanted In the English army to be
billed or kill.
3 this country 4047 families of the
Kioh own about five times as much
wealth as G.590,790 families of the poor.
This fact shows how the money of the
country, of which there is enough to
vera g8 $25 per capita, ,ia divided up.
The bulk of it is placed in the banks to
the credit of the wealthy.
Tromwo the last sis months the repub
Uican party has been undergoing one of
he tuoat trying ordeaU that has con
fronted it siaoe it was organized. Judg
ing by theaoninonious utterances which
Jtiave-been going the rounds of the press,
e would think that ordinary mortals
would -hesitate to Identify themselves
with a party which would trample the
asoostitution under foot and hoist the
Ulat of imperialism in the place of the
aid store aei stripes; but the gathering
ot the dans here on Wednesday last
shows that His a matter of Indifference
hat -the issue Is' or what course the
party takes, as long as there Is a chance
o get4 to-the pie counter.
CITIZEN'S CONVENTION
The outlined plan of the convention
on today (Friday) is about as follows:
At II o'clock the people's party will
meet at Shively's hall and the demo
cratic in Willamette hall, where each
will select its party delegates to the sta
convention, fill committees, elect parly
chairmen and transact any other busi
ness ot a party nature that may come
before them. After this the separate
delegations will adjourn and n.eet to
gether as an independent mass convex
tion in Shively's hall Jand adopt a plat
form, nominate a ticket, name a cam
paign committee, etc. All nominations
will require a two. thirds vote. The con
vention, if a full delegation is present
will contain 308 delegates, and as repre
sentative a body of men as ever met to
put up a ticket in Cla-kamas county
Theie will be no parceling out of offices
and the man mrot fitted for the office
will be nominated, without regard to
party affiliation.
The Courier-Herald greets the Jdele-
gates of the convention. May there be
continuance oi the same harmony
hitherto prevailing amongst all the re
form elements of the county.
In order to be successful at the polls,
every one must sink his own private in
terests and work for the general good.
Let the office seek the man. Every one
who forces himself or his friend before
the convention unworthily, although he
may get the nomination, would be
left at the polls. We can only afford to
nominate the very best ticket obtaina
ble in the county, ami no self interest or
friendship should stand in the way of
this. Many there are who would make
fair candidates in ordinary times, but
these are not ordinary times. Our legis-
ators must be men of energy, as well as
intelligence, with lots of backbone to
top the huge grafts that will otherwise
become a legacy of debt burdening our
children. Two commissioners with like
haracteristics, the very betnien in the
county, are required to keep a close sur
veillance on tht county exchequer, We
hope the selected chairman will permit
no undue haste. Let everything be well
considered, calmly deliberated and
isely done. Above all, there must be
no compromising with those who have
broken their party affiliations by truckle
and grovel at t he feet of George C, but
beiug disappointed, seek the aid of the
reform convention to avenge them
selves. The elliciency, dignity and courtesy
of the officials elected by the reform
party in the past has never been ex
ceeded by any set of men, and much
care will be required in selecting their
equals; but if this be done, we can de
pend upon the sensible element of the
county supporting them at the polls, as
there are yet thousands of true men
who have never bowed the knee to
Baal.
Somk socialist colonies are actually a
"blooming success." In Iowa county,
Iowa, in 1854, a socialist colony of 500
settled on 4 )00 acres of land. Today
they number over 2500 souls, have over
40,000 acres of land, thoir assessed valua
tion is over $3,000,000 and they have
never, according to official record, pro
duced a pauper, a criminal or a suicide.
"Tins country, with its institutions,
belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of ex
isting goyernment, they can exercise
their constitutional right of amendment,
or their revolutionary right to dismem
ber or overthrow it." This is not a quo
tation from an anarchist's harangue,
but from that great speech of Abraham
Lincoln delivered at Cooper Union in
1800, which won him the presidency.
Till total number of sailors in the
merchant marine of the world is 2,000,
000. Iu the United States there are 35
seafaring men to each 100,000 of popula
tion, and their number will not increase
as long as the maritime laws of the
country are made by capitalists for capi
talists. Nowadays, says the Coast Sea
men's Journal, American deep-water
ships are manned with bums, break
beam artists, hobos, lunch fiends, etc.
No seif-respecting sailor will go in an
American deep-water ship unless he is
forced to.
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That Is what we all want to educate
our sons and daughters to believe in
itio old flag and a government position.
Salem Journal.
What else can we educate our sons
and daughters to "believe in," unless it
be to work (or a big corporation? Are
not the great industries oi the country
co thoroughly monopolised by the trusts
that, outside of the professions, so called,
there Is nothing left for a young man
except slock or fruit raising, politics or
being an employe ot a rich manufactur
ing concern? By all means, let us shout
(or the old flag and a job.
Tiia matter-of-course manner in which
Brownoir slates were selected at the
county convention for state and congrec
slonal delegates, gives not a few mem
bers of the convention a tad taste in
the mouth. They (eel not exactly sick,
but like swearing. Men and brethren,
you can do nothing so effective against
the corrupt "outuT'aa voting the re
form ticket la June, and voting "er
straight,"
The dividends of the Standard Oil
Company will amount this year to $80,
000,000, which is 4 per cent on a princi
pal o: two hillio i dollars. This latter
sum is the assessed value of all property
in the states of Montana, Wyomimr.
Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah,
XT .5 -
oovttua, mano, Washington, Oreiron l
and California. If the company's profits
continue at the same rate for 187 years, i
it will own all the money in the world
and, as a matter of course, all the prop
, j
erty. It is acquiring gold and cotmer
mines, railroads, gas companies and
banks as rapidly as its colossal earnings
permit.
J his is a bilhon-dollar country, with
out a doubt. Last year our foreign com
merce ran up to $2,074,000,000, the total
stock of money ciiculating in the coun
try (not counting the $258,000,000 in the
treasury) is $2,03,000,000, and the con
gressional appropriations for the last
two fiscal years amount to $1,500,000,000.
The amount ot money per capita in cir
culation, about $25, is very consoling to
the individual who has the "per capita."
The amount of indebtedness of all kinds
in this country is so enormous that a
very large part of the money in circula
tion filters annually through the fingers
of the mor.ey lenders. There is, taking
the figures as the treasury gives them,
seemingly1 enough money, but it is in
the pockets of the few, put there to a
very largo extent by governmental fa
voritism to the few at the expense of ihe
many.
Thkkb is no little dissatisfact'on
among republicans because two whilom
democrats, Charles Toole and John Lew
ellen, were placed on their ticket. They
ask why the numerous true-blue repub
lican aspirants for office were turned
down to make room for them. Did Mr.
Brownell want it that way? If so, is
this statesman from Kansas bigger than
the republican party of Clackamas
county? Is he running it? The tru'h
of the matter is that Mr. Brownell, by
bis peculiar methods, has started a re
bellion in the ranks of his party. Voters
have become tired of bossism, and they
will not fail to express their tiredness at
the polls. Taking the republican ticket
as a whole, it has a number of weak
spots. Evidently, sundry candidates
were placed on it to fill it up, with the
faintest hope of their election. The
union party can slaughter at least a por
tion of the ticket perhaps the whole of
it, but early crowing is vanity if it
places in nomination iu best and most
popular men.
There is a striking similarity between
the Mine Owners' Association of Idaho
and of British Columbia, the Standard
Oil Company and the South African
Goldflelds Company. The similarity is
not surprising, for the same stockhold
ers in the South African Goldflelds Com
pany are stockholders in the mines of
the United States and Canada. The
same is true of the stockholders o( the
Standard Oil Company. Nationality or
religion does not Inleifere with theee
bloodless sharks. Their only concern
is the dividend and the complete subjec
tion of the working people in all coun
tries. This should be an object lesson
for the laboring people, They can see
themselves beset on all sides by tyrants
like Rhodes, John Hays Hammond and
Rocketellei, with puppets like Dr. Ja
mteson, Joe Chamberlain, General Mer
rlam and Governor Steunenberg of Ida
ho, ready to do their bidding, with an
army at their back to execute their or
ders. One ot the possibilities of the near
future is a combination of the great gold
mining syndicates. When that trust
has been formed, the world will be its
oyster.
Mommsen, the great German historian,
said to an English newspaper correspon
dent who asked his opinion on the
South African war: "Ihd repetition of
theJamieson raid by the English gov
ernment, which has been instigated for
peculators in stocks and mines, is the
revelation of vour moral nnrl mdirir.,.1
corruption and military weakness. ' Had
England a remnant remaining of wis-
'dom and natrinrinm. ah u-nnM i,
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sent Joe Chamberlain to Coventry and
bestowed on a misused people not alone
peace, but the independence to which it
'has a right. That would not be huei-
ness, but it would be a moral victory,
which surpasses all military glory."
Wnx the Courier-Herald state what
it charged the city when it did the l.st
work? The Pres died trying to live on
wind and promises. We get 50 cents an
inch for city ordinances and the Courier
Herald charges $3 an inch for sheriff
sales. Comment is hardly necessary.
Enterprise. ,
This paper was paid 50 cents per inch
for one insertion for doing the ci'.y print
ing several years ago, the same as the
Enterprise now gets, The Press since
did it for 24 cents, and died. The Courier-Herald
gets $2.25 (not $3) pr-r inch
for publishing the sheriff sales and $1.20
per inch for publishing tax sales, for five
insertions less than the Enterprise,
whose rato in $2.50 for five insertions.
These are facts. Why doesn't he stale
facts, instead of lying? "Comment is
hardly necessary."
An Open IMtr.
To the Chairman of the Prohibition
Party of Clackamas County :
Sir I see by the reported proceedings
of the convention of the prohibition
party of. Clackamas county that you
have placed my name in a very promi
nent place on your ticket.
Now I wish to say with the kindest of
feeling that it is to be distinctly under
stood that it was done without my
knowledge or consent, and if such a
thing had been mentioned to me, I
should have positively refused to allow
my name to be so used. If I were seek
ing an office I certainly would affiliate
with a party whose platform was broad
enough to stand on with both feet.
So you will please not consiler me a
candidate, and oblige,
Very respectfully,
W. H. H. Wade.
Currinsville, Ore.
He Got Pinched in the Machine.
Tothe Editor:
A good many friends and delegates to
the late republican county convention
have asked me the reason that my name
was not presented to the convention as
a candidate for county clerk, and in jus
tice to them and to myself, I will give
all the facts in the matter as I know
them:
J. N. Harrington, a delegate from
Oregon City precinct No. 3, had agreed
with me and promised to name me be
fore the convention, and believing and
trusting in his integrity, I never doubted
that he would keep his promise. Why
he did not nominate me Is a mystery to
me. I was not present when nomina
tions for clerk were made, and did not
know of his treachery till the thing was
over.
- I had no intention of withdrawing
from the race, and I believe I would
have been the successsul candidate had
my name come before the convention.
Gkobqi L. Stobv.
A Horrible Outbreak
"Of large sores on my little daughter's
head developed into a case of scaldhead"
writes O. D. Isbill of Morgan ton, Tenn.,
but Bucklen'a Arnica Salve completely
cured her. It's a guaranteed cure for
Edema, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Pimples,
Sores, Ulcers and. Piles. Only 26c at
Geo. A. Harding's.
Brothku W. S. U'Ren, of Clsckamas
county, has raised his voice against fu
sion. This is a small inciden' V.vorable
to the fusion forces. A few patriots like
U'Rmi would soon tire any party to
death. Where U'Ren belongs is in a
party by himself. Even then, it wouldn't
be long till he would be trying to kick
himself. Evening Telegram.
SLAVERY AND PROTECTION
The Orejonlan Creates a llampus
in the Hanks of the Repub
lican Party by Us De
mands for Freedom.
you know any reason wliv the
Government oi the United State
should take awav vour rnonev.
under the cover of bounty payments.
and give it to another? And that other a
man already rich? This is the ship
bounty scheme. Going further, do vou
know any reason why Government
Bhould take away your money, un
der cover of "protection," in any form,
and give it to another? Oregonian.
Cirtainly, Harvey, certainly, the
Ilamiltonun system of government is
to legislate in the interest of the well-
to-do and allow them to take care of the
poor. This system has been in vogue
ever since God and the republican party
entered into partnership (Kaiser Wil
helm would say, "Me und Gott)."
and the republican votes have
expressed their approval by voting for
it again and again. Besides, Harvey, it
is more blessed to givj th in to receive.
You will observe tint the system works
so beautifully and so in accordance with
our Christian civilization. The govern
ment gives to the well-to-do and they
in turn give lo the poor. The poor ye
have always with yo i, Iuucj to aboliih
this precious economic fabric would be
to strike a deadly bloiv to the republi
can party.
The abolition-free-trade editor of the
Oregonian further reads the riot act to
its party thus wise:
It is as hard for the republican party to
let go of Protection as it was for the
liemocratic party to let go ot Slavery.
Yet the former Is as clearly an economic
evil as the latter was though it lacks
some of the grosser evils on the moral
side. Pro'ection, however, is doomed,
as slavery was; and this effort to protect
some of the people under the flag of the
United stales against others md at the
expense of others under the flag of tbe
Unit d States, reveals tlie error and enor
mity of the whole system. Even when
you examine its work and its results at
home, what is Protection but an invoca
tion of the powers of Government to rob
the whole people for the benefit of a par
ticular Interest? There has been no such
revelation of the true character of Pro
tection to the People of the United
States as they have in this Puerto Rican
outrage.
How do the dyeJ-in the-wool protec
tionists like this dose from the hands of
the great mogul of the "grand old
party" in the state of Oregon? What
principle has the republican party left?
Nothing but Hannah's sack.
A Pop.
Horeade I.lka Wlldflr
When things are "the best" they be
come "the best selling." Abraham
Hare, a leading druggist, of Belleville,
O., writes : "Electric Bitters are the beat
selling bitters I have bandied in 20
years. louknowwnyT Most diseases
begin in disorders of stomach, liver,
kidneys, bowels, blood and nerves.
Electric Bitters tones up the stomach,
regulates liver, kidneys and bowels,
purifies the blood, strengthens the
nerves, hence cures multitudes of mala
dies. It builds up the entire system.
Puts new life and vigor into any weak.
sickly, run-down man or woman. Price
50 cents. Sold by Geo. A. Harding.
Druggist.
Suite of furnished rooms bedroom
and parlor for two gentlemen. Refe
rences required. Enquire at this office.
" THE SOUTH.
Sketch of a Trip Through Seventeen
States by the Editor v
iT '
Afier leaving Los Angles we pass
through the citrus fruit section for 50 or
00 miles after which we-eit'rthe dry
saud plains, and at Salton you enter the
ealt field when the ocean surface must
have been 203 feet above your head at
one time. Nearby there are huge piles '
of crude salt which is gathered here for
shipmout. About a hundred miles fur
ther on we cross the Colorado river at
Yuma, where the territorial prison is
situated. An inspection of the water in
the river will make evident the fact
that more land than water passes down
the Colorado river. We then pass
through the desert-looking parts of Ari
zona and New Mexico, which are princi
pally a Btock country, but from the rail
road we fail to see anv veeetation tr
speat oi except cactus, which we saw a
few poor cattle eating, while others
seemed to be hunting for a spier of grass
which it was almost impossible to find.
We then reach the old city of E.1 Paso.
which is mentioned in history in 1598.
Across the Rio Grande river in M
Mexico that part of the city is called
Cinidad Juarez. Here you can sei a fair
sample of pocotiempo and manana, the
churches, its worship, etc. At El Paso
we set our watches two hours ahead and
travel on Central time instead of two
Pacific, which we had been usinir until
we reach this place. The entire country
between California and eastern Texas is
settled more or less by Mexicans and
east of that, negroes predominate. We
travel Pearly two whole days goina
through Texas. Barren plains first.then
through the Pecos or Devil's river valley
wnh its wild scenery. At Spofford we
take on a special car from the Mexican
road that contains the superintendent
on his way to the Mardi Gras at New
Orleans. The Oregon editorial "delega
tion aboard made a visit to this person
age in a body and were kindly received
and greeted by Onnojh, an interpreter.
San Antonia is a city distinguished for
its salubrious climate and is a favorite
fanitaiium of the U. S. army. In the
eastern part of Texas and Louisiana we
passed through the sugar, cotton and
rice section. At Lifayette, while the
train stopped, we threw pennies in
the muddy etreet and watched the little
"coonj" scramble for them. It is worth
a week of anyone's time to take, atiip
by the S. P. to New Orleans. At Algiers
wecross the Mississippi to New Orleans .
and then to Jajkson, the capital of
Mississippi, where we met the editorial
delegations from the olher states filling 1)
Pullman cars, and were given a recep
tion and banquet. Our exe;cises were
held in the state house, where the en
tire state legislature and state ofl'cers
are democratic, there not being a repub
lican in office. In this southern coun
try the white people ere democrats ar.d
the negroes are black :epublicans. The
next day we visited Vicksburg, the me
tropolis of the state, where we took din
ner and visited the national cemetery
in which 1000 soldiers are buried. We
visited Baton Rouge in the evening and
again arrived in New Orleans ou the
morning of February 26th, the day be
fore Mardi Gras.
This and the following day was given
to seemg the elegant parades of Rex,
Proteus, Com us, etc. Three of these
parades contained 19 floats or pageants
each and each one drawn by six or eight
mules. Some of these pageants cost
thousands of dollars and make a splen
did sight, one you'll not forget. Each
float or pageant represented a mythict 1
scene and contained from 6 to 28 masked
persons, generally dancing as they
moved along. "Rex," the king of the
carnival arrived in the city on a steam
boat and after the parade he was given
the key (four feet long) to the city.
This parade contained only the pageant
of the king, who was gorgeously dressed
and covered with diamoads, besides the
soldiers, militia, secret orders, naval
cadets, etc., and was about two miles
long. Canal street, St. Charles etreet
and the other streets through which the
parades pass were crowded so it was im
possible to get along. Many of the in
habitants masquerade and walk up and
down the street during the two days of
festivities. It is said the man who
spends the most money gets to be"Rex,",
hence only the rih can be king of the
carnival. On Canal etreet, the main
thoroughfare, staging is built over the
sidewalks for seats similar to circus
seats and you pay 50 cents to tit and
see the parade gj by. Canal street has
six or eight car tracks and cars from all
parts of the city run into this street.
By taking a car at Clay statue (the
city is full of statues and squares) you
can ride twelve miles and return to
same place without getting off' One of
the peculiarities ot the people is their
aversion to gold and it is almost impos
sible to get gold money changed with
out going to the mint or banks ; the peo
pie seem afraid of it and claim it is short
weight or that the $5 pieces are so small
that they give them ont for small money.
Paper money is mostly used and one
and two dollar bills are very plentiful ;
silver is used lor cnange, but it you get
a $5 bill changed you'll get generally $3
in paper and i in silver. It would do
some of these howling sold bugs a world
of good to go to Ndw Orleans and have
their hard money refused and fiat paper
asked for.
(Continued next week.)