OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD. JUNE 29
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OREGON CITY, JUNE 29, 1000.
"Tot President,
WM. J. MtYAN, of Nebraska
. SW.i VlrtA Prn.lill'tit.
C1IA3. A. TOWNE, of Minnesota
'ITkn thousand immigrants landed in
aewYork recently, mostly Poles, Ital
ians: and Oroats, for the mining regions
of Pennsylvania.
'iTim price of reGtied petrolenm in litis
f'jia on March 1, was i cents a gallon.
T lie Ituisian wells are not such great
-.producers as America. The Russian
government would sweep off the earth a
Monopoly like tlie Standard Oil Cou.-
pauy.
The corporations have stolen mil
1 lions of acres of coal lan from the pub
iic domain. We reward them for the
crime. Harry Dougherty, a union la
borer, whose family was starving, wus
shot dead by a railroad officer at Chi
cago while taking coal from a railroad
-car.
O.vone of the great Eastern railroads,
"ue superintendent forces conductors
and flagmen to buy new uniforms,
sit his price, whenever he says they
weed them. A New York department
. atoro furnishes the uniforms. The men
nre thus robbed of thousands of dollars
annually.
trust has been formed by the mill
iliters of Areola, 111., to maintain a Bcale
at.prlei's at funerals. The wife of a poor
laborer died a few days ago. When he
-sought 'the aid of a local minister tlie
latter flomanded $1, which the appli
cant had to borrow. Every other min
ister lii'the town makes the same charge
Judub CfljABK, of St. Louis, sentenced
young girls, Annie Klasek and
Mary Tratina, each to two years, deten
tion In the house of correction for disor
derly conduct during the strike and as
c&ault on the spy, Pauline Heasor. Hy
fsuch acts ol tyranny in the name of jus
ttice.tbe poor are embittered against the
wealthy. Revenge they hope for and
they will take it with compound inter
st whenever they get a chance.
Every night when J. Piorpont Mor
gan goes to b.'d, he kneels down and
tirays:
Now I lay me down to Bleep
.(I formed another trust today)
1 )ray the Lord my soul to keep
l've got another on the way;)
i II t should die before I wake
(I'll get it through without a doubt)
1 i ny the Lord my soul to take
(And bnr all other people out.)
Tuk socialist movement of France is
rthe one power that stand behind and
preserves epublicaa institutions. It
miy be taken ior granted that if ever
the fanatical reactionists of Paris fo'low
t & craay Djiouleda or the areh-consplr-stor
Roehofort into taking, up arms
ajainst the government, a they have
'threatened to do, the locialisis will rise
up and crush them. Keep an eye on
Trance. That country is likely to pass
through some stirring scenes in the
new future.
" The section men on the Cincinnati! di
vision of the Chesapeake & Ohio Kail
1 road are out on a strike for higher
wages. This is probably their last
3trike. A machine section worker has
ieen introduced on the Boston & Maine
- Railroad that performs the hbor of sev-
eal hundred men-. It never strikes.
JThfl force required to operate the ma
ljinein addition to the locomotive,
ui8ts of a train crew, a foreman and
i luarieu. JxiavesSS per cent in the
nsi if work.
Congress is getting ready to investi
gate the reasons why the paper trust
has nearly doubled the price of paper.
The reason is that the paper manufac
turers have seen the iron mills and
many other mills lifting their prices
from 20 to 100 per cent, and naturally
csncluded that it would be a good thing
for them to go' and do , likewise, It is
evidently a very good thing for them,
juJging by the h.wl that has gone up
from all the publishers who have been
squeezed. Evidently the publishers can
not raise the rates on subscribers and
advertisers, or they also would even up
things by forming a little trust of their
own. The moral to be learned of the
foregoing is that it is much better to
own a paper mill than run a newspa
per. -Wasp,
Forestry Agent Johnson states that
400,000,000 feet of timber is consumed
annually in the state of Oregon for fire
wood, and adds that this estimate is
quite conservative. The city of Port
land alone burned 137,797 cords of slab
wood and cordwood last year. The
Southern Pacidc, which burns wool ex
clusively on its Oregon lines, consumed
some 60,000 cords last year, and will
probably use 75,000 cords this year.
The Blue mountain wood camps cut
15,000 to 20,000 cords each annually.
This wood finds a market, in Eastern
Oregon and Idaho. The steamboats on
the Columbia and Willamette rivers
consume enormous quantities of cord-
wood, and the mills Ht Oregon City
about 75.000 cords of fir and cotton wood
annually, perhaps more.
Dispatches tell how the fticaraguans
put a tariff on American goods that will
make them all very wealthy. The duty .
on whisky is $16 a gallon ; on a $16 en
ameled bedsstead it is $150; on a $7 ice ;
box it is $48; on butter, 40 cents. As
the foreigners pay the tariff in this
country, so the foreigners must pay the
Nicaragua!! tariff, and such a tariff will
soon make all the people down there
rich if they are wise enough to import j
enough goods. The exporters of this '
country want ihe government to send'
the navy down to Nicaragua to force Ihe
government there to pull down the hijji '
tariff anil admit American goods, or
blow thecustoiu houses to hades. Good
policy. All the European and Asiatic '
countries should eeid their warships
over here and blow our cuat im houses
to kingdom come unless their goods are 1
admitted free. It is a uo.ir rule that !
will not woik both ways. . j
The "foreign devil" to-jin in Japa
nese is the direct cause of the frenzied
outbreak in China. The Shan-tung
province where the uprising began is
most densely populated, and every tiny
bit of thegrouud is utilized in a precari
ous struggle for existence. Belgian and
German englueers who have been con
structing railroads through the province
have shown a most brutal priyate-prop-
erty attitude. They nave surveyed
their lines across the little Chinese
farms, burning houses and whole vil
lages and destroying crops. They
ruthlessly seized supplies without any
compensation and impressed labor as
they needed it. The Chinese were most
cruelly treated, and their only way to
protest was to organize as they did. The
allied forces in China are doing what
Great Britain has bien doing in South
Africa, enforcing the doctrine with shot
an j shell that might makes right. Com
mercialism has bred a species of inter
national insanity that is appalling. It
will, to the Btudent in the distant fu
ture, form a curious, puzzling epoch in
ancient history.
The strike of 3500 niotormen and con
ductors in St. Louis was, pure and sim
ple a rebellion of labor against the tyr
anny of consolidated capital. One of
the street railway lines, which had not
entered the combine, arbitrated with its
employes and 'alsed their wages, and
its crowded cars continued to run during
the entire time of the strike. The sj n-
dicate has bulldozed this line, but has
failed to capture it. In Cleveland a
Btrike was averted among tlie street
railway men, through a consultation by
the managers with them, and a volun
tary proposition from them to raise
wages. The millions of dollars of loss
suffered by St. Louis on account of
the Btrike would have been averted had
the managers of the syndicate roads not
been purse-proud, tyrannical, over-bearing
and greedy. The Btrikera have or
dered 450 oiunibussea wl)h which to en
ter into competition with their late mas
ters, and will also procure automobihs.
Powerful unions in other cities are con
tributing funds to defray these heavy
expenses. The "class struggle" is waged
on account of the dollar.
Thievish managers of corporations, as
Senator Hanna admitted on the floor of
the senate, manipulate their business
merely as stock-jobbing schemes (to
freeze out the little stockholders who
have put their savings into them and
force them to the wall. If the world
needed further proof of the danger to the
woikingman from aggregations of capi
tal controlling industries, the heartlesss
shutting down of the mills of the Gates
irod trust interest, throwing out of em
ployment something like 15,000 men,
without warning or without reason, by a
corporation which had made net earn
ings of more than f5,0OO,0O0 during the
HARDEST JOB TO COME. 'L
Mark Hanna: "Well, Mac, it's all dons except bringing over the ele
phant" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
few months preceding, would supply it.
The individual has a right t" ask from
thewjrld but one thing justice ami
that he has not only the right to ask,
but the duty is imposed upon all hon
est men to demand it for themselves
and tor all others, and to right for it
and die for it if need be. Special privi
lege is the' foundation of every danger
ous trust in the country today. Special
privilege to one means injustice 10 all
others. Destroy special privilege, re
store justice, and we shall need no
ionger to discuss trusts or seek new op
portunities for this or any other genera
tion. "Bid distribution undo excess,"
says Shakespeare, "and each shall have
enough."
TREA CHER Y ISC A UNA TE.
The Hon. (?) Mr. U'Ren sent out to
a large number of populists in Oreg n
probably all in tlie state just before
election day.personal letters urging popu
lists to vole for republican candidates
for the legislature. The leuson given
being tlu need of electing a legislature
tliat will submit a constitutional amend
ment providing for the ini.'iaiiye and
referendum. Mr. U'Ren well knew
when he wiote these letters that every
democratic and populist legislative can
didate in the state were pledged to this
measure by the fusion state platform,
and in almost every instance by their
county platforms. In this couuty Van
Orsdol and Matlhis were pledged to the
measure while Lamson and Butt, the re
publican candidates were not, yet this
ptp-Mitchellism saint and political Ju
das Iscariot had the hardihood to auk
honest populists to vote for Lamson and
Butt in order to have a delegation that
would favor the measuie. Most of these
letters were received on election day,
having been mailed at the hist moment
so as to prevent any counter work being
done to offset any effect they might have
had.
This man U'Ren, however, was al
ready in such disrepute with populists
that it is not believed his high-handed
treachery lost any votes to the Bryan
candidates anywhere. Populists are
now wondering how much, if any at all,
the state campaign committee of the re
publican party paid U'Ren for this ser
vice. This "Benedict Arnold" of popu
lism is thoroughly dead in the "Garret"
of Oregon politics. He died a political
death, from a loathsome dis -ase known
as political trickery, treachery and dis
honesty some time ago, or at least that
lathe belief ot this writer, and the
writer also believes that if he was not
afflicted with the malady he must have
contracted it from a too close exposure
to republican senatorial candidates at
the great legislative hold-up in 1897.
It is unnecessary to warn people
against his political methods, because he
is thoroughly understood by everybody.
North Yamhill Record.
Classes vs. Masses.
IT is a fact which no intelligent person
will deny that every government in
the world is dominated by the
wealthy class of citizens, ami conse
quently they cause to be enacted such
laws as they want. Therefore the
wealthy classes are responsible for the
enactment of alt monopoly laws lhat rob
honest industry of a large 6hare of the
toilers' earnings. Funhermore, many,
if not all of the class laws, are so framed
tlmt transgressors generally find soino
loophole through which they escape
punishment.
it is noteworthy that only a a 1 all per
cent of the voters of the United States
are eligible to office ou account of their
limited education. So we learn if ras
cals are highly educated the political
door is ofteu open to them for an otlire
of trust, which may cost the tax pavers
large sums of money. The producing
class ought to vote for honest men of
good sense, if not very highly educated,
in preference lo highly educated rascals.
It is evident the cause ol the toilers' im
poverishment is found in. their implicit
reliance upon the false teachings of their
chosen rulers, who, oeing wealthy, have
the instinct of money getting, the samb
as other persons, ate tern pied to legis
late for their own profit and aggrandize
ment, without much regard for the wel
faie of their constituency. Hence the
shameful laws that favor capital far
more than the producers of capital.
We know that Abraham Lincoln told
congress that capital, being the result of
labor, and could never have existed
without labor, therefore the laborer
iitiglit to have the greatest consideration.
Notwithstanding tlie great Lincoln's ad
vice to congress, that august body has
been almost continually legislating for
tlie rich man's-interest For proof of
this look at the hundreds of million-
! aires that have been made since. Pre-
vi us to the civil war millionaires were
tt-w not more than two or t:nee in all
our broad domain. What but class legis
I lation could tiave created numerous mil
li nair s on the side of the non-produc-
i ig, idle class, while the millions of pro
ducers have generally experienced very
hard times? How think ye did the mil
lionaires get possession of their vast
wealth without just compensation?
There must have been an unrighteous
can ho that brought about such unnatural
conditions as confronted tlie hard work
ing producers of wealth that bestowed
their earnings upon the non-producing
class.
It is evident that the con I taction of
the currency has boeu the main cause of
lo prices tor most every produui, of the
farm and for ninny years has been tend
ing to pauperize the larm -rs. The news
papers that advocate the gold standard
eeem to ignore the fact that the volume
of tlie circulating medium governs
prices. They want us to believe thai
ovor-urodui!uoii is the cau.se of our low
prices; lhat the votutne of money has
little or noiuiug lo do with prices. J. 8
Mill, an econumic writer of acknowl
edged ability, Borne, ye.us ago said that
"ll the volume of currency were doub
led, price i would bj doubled " It seems
that if persons of common seiibe would
put prejudice aside ihey could see that
the volume of money in circulation gov
erns prices. For inst nee, can we not
S'je that if money should be contracted
one half business would become stag
nant and prices decline? On the other
hand, if the volume ot money should be
doubled, is it not evident that prices
would'beconie higher?
1 think the abuve propositions are cor
rectly illustrative of what would follow
the adoption of either court-e. It is evi
dent there cannot be money enough in
circulation when low prices prevail gen
erally. Those of us of 50 or more years
of experience in business well remember
that when money was uncommonly
plentiful, labor an J the products of labor
weie high and that the reverse condition
was sure to follow a small volume of
money. The udvocates of the gold
standard are driven to many illotrica!
straits when they ignore the law ol trade
and contend that the volume of money
in circulation has little or no effect oil
irade, for experienced producers and all
dealers in larm piouucts know right
well that the volume of currency in cir
culation is tlie principal factor that gov
erns prices.
We are under the gold standard in the
United Stales in the interest of the Eng
lish creditor class, who years ago began
a systematic campaign of bribery and
sophistry to bring it about so that the
English bondholders could collect higher
priced interest money.
Some years ago I read in a leading
English newspaper that England being
a creditor nation, it was to her interest
that all other nations should have a
small volume of money, for then com
modities would be cheap and English
creditors could obtain many more goods
for their interest dues than they could if
the debtor nation had a large volume of
money. The writer of the article refer
red to was congratulating his fellow
tradesmen on the beauty and great profit
of the gold standard for the reason that
Englii-hmen's money could buy every
thing cheaply. The pioducing classes
in Ame.ica do not wish to continue a
system of finance that robs labor.
Salem, Ore. Sands Brownei.l.
New Local, Train to Portland.
Citizens of Oregon City doing business
or shopping in Portland will have the
comfort of a first-class coach, besides
saving over an hour in I raveling lime,
by taking the Southern Pacific local
train, which leaves here at 9:22 in the
morning, and returning leaves Portland
at 4 in the afternoon ; Fare, 45 cents
round trip or 25 i-e.tts one way. If you
wish to go earlier in tlie morning, j a
can take the 7 a. m. tr tin and return
later by the 8 :3'J p. m . train from Port
land. The afternoon train leaves at 5:40
p. m. and returns from Portland at 8:30
in the morning.
Photograph Gallery for Sale.
The Columbia, oldest established gal
lerj in Oregon City. Will sell cheap on
accrunt of poor health. Will sell for
cash or trade for real estate. Apply to
J . W. Boatman.
THE OREGON H0MESEEKERS
IMMIGRATION EXCHANGE
Suggests a plan for selling your farm
Write for it
Address
Oregon Homeseckcrs
Immijration Exchange,
Oregon City, Oregon,
At 50 Cents
On the Dollar
We have purchased a large bankrupt stock
of goods that' we are offering at 50 cents on
the Dollar. Call and see them before the
choicest are sold. .
$15.00 Suits for $7.30.
$7.50 Suits for $3.50.
OREGON CITY, ORE.
MRS. K. BECKER
220 First Street - - Portluad, Oregon
Has a complete assortment of New Spring
Imported Pattern Hats and Millinery
Novelties
Hats Trimmed to Order. Prices Moderate.
You Can .
Depend Upon
. Patent Flour, made from old wheat. It I
. makes the best bread and pastry and always i.
gives satisfaction to the housewife, ' Be sure T
i and order Patent Flour made by the Port-
1 'and Flouring Mills at Oregon City and t
sold by all grocers. Patronize J
: Home Industry
ft
H. Betlike's Meat Market
Opposite Huntley's
First-Glass Meats of 11 IiQds
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Give yirt a Call agd be Treated ?ilt
S. G. SKIDMORE & CO.
' CUT RATE DRUGGISTS
Hadquarters for Drugs and Chemicals, Com
pounding of Prescriptions and Receipts.
Lowest Prices on Patent Medicines, Brushes,
Soap and Rubber Goods,
151 3RD ST: PORTLAND, ORE.
Foresight Means Good Sight
If there ever was a truism it is exemplified in the
above headline. Lack ot foresight in attending to the
eyes in time means in the end poor sight. We employ
the latest most scientific methods in testing the eyes,
and charge nothing for the examination. Dr. Phillips,
an expert graduate oculist and optican, has charge of our
optical department.
A. N. WRIGHT The Iowa Jeweler
aoj norrlson Street, PORTLAND, OREQON
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