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OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD. FRIDAY, APRIL 5 , 1901.
Oregon City Courier-Herald
By A. W. CHENEY
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OREGON CITY, APRIL 5, 1901.
Tub transcontinental railroad do not
shed any tears over the failure of the
Nicaragua canal. Tli tranpcontinental
stand that sort of afllidion
v iili great foititnrie
Thk promi8ln youim railroad officials
x.,hr, aiiB3is tliat it would be well to
TI ' V unR
let the railroads own and operate the
nostal Bvstein eeim to overlook the fact
that the railroads are getting all the pro
fits now. Commoner.
According to the dictionary of the re
organizes, such as Cleveland, a demo
crat is a man who votes the repu' liiian
ticket iu national campaigns, but is
generous enouiih to allow democrats to
vole for him in a municipal campaiuu.
Yes, we confess to being puzzled by
the official news from Ihe Philippines.
We have been figuring up the num&er
of Filipinos recently reported to have
surrendered, and the total la greater
than the number admitted to have been
in revolt at any lime during the past
year. Are there Filipino "stipes?"
Tins government built an ice plant in
Manilla at a coat of $000,000 and has
turned it over to the civil government.
Why noi turn it ovar to some corpora
tion and encourage private enterprise?
It's ft shame to deprive enterprise of the
opportunity to skin the people. Or, if
it's good to build and operate ice plants
by the government in Manilla why not
for the people here who are taxed to
furnish the money to build that one?
Out then one should not ask questions
of the rulers the king can do no wrong.
Appeal.
England has done and b doing more
to ruin the Unite ! States than any other
nation on the earth," says George's
Weekly. England's vile commercialism
is eating its way into the body politic of
Uncle Sam, and her influence is telt in
every phase of American statesmanship.
Men like Senator Morgan tell the truth
when they say: "We must rescue the
republic from the designs of England or
a monarchy will bo tmilded upon the
ruins of our dearly beloved republic."
Senator Morgan is right and the sooner
his prophesy is heeded the better it will
be for us.
Tiik Missouri legislature passed a bill
taxing tho tangible and intangible prop
erty of corporation the value of franchise.
The dispatches Hiiy "the bill was not op
potted by the railroad lobby becnusO'it
places the power in the hands of a Email
board and because no penally is attach
ed to tho law." You see ly this that the
corporations know they can bubo a few
men, hence are opposed to the people
voting on laws, for they could not bribe
tt'l or a majority ol the people, which
they would have to do if direct legisla
tion prevailed. And please noto that tho
"power is placed with a stnnll board."
Which tells you that the people are
shorn of power, just us they are in Rim
ttia or Turkey.
L. G. rowi.:iut, chief statistician of the
division of Agriculture, U. S. census
bureau in the Chic.igo Record of March
llth, gives some interesting figures rela
tive to the farmers under tho present
rsiineof prosperity ami the full dinner
pail. In 18l0 there were t.&M.titH farms
in the United States. Of this number
2tU per cent.were operated by tenants. In
l')00 there were 5,700,000 farms ; of which
number .304 were operated by ton
ants an increase in tenant operated
farms of .013 in ton years. The in
crease of tenant owned farms for tho
ten years from 1SS0 to 1S00 was 1.0.
Should the Increase of tenant owned
farms keep up at the ratio indicated by
the increase during tho past ten years,
beforo this half century is rounded out
t-very farm in tho United States would
Ih) operated by a tenant.
"Thk reason there are more women
in the world than men," says a New
York paper, "is due to the fact that wo
men are spared the destruction that fol
lows war." When the Boer war is
ended there will be a great many mom
women than men in that unhappy land.
I he logical result of this sort of thing
can easily he arrived at. The time will
C'lHie when women will have to do the
fighting ahd the men will stay at home
timply because they will then be the
weaker uex and in the minority. Al
ready thode who closely observe the
trend of the times diecover that the men
are growing smaller and the women
larger. It is not an manual thing to see
women six faet tall The time will
come when these women will do the war
act themselves and when that time
comts just watch the "he" camp fol
lowers that will be chasing the army.
J. Pikkpont Morgan is a wise man.
He can read the signs of the times. He
knows the time is coming when the peo
ple will demand the public ownership of
railroads, and when l hat time arrives,"
says George's Weekly, ''he will be or.
baud with achoicj bu..ch to dispose of
at a good round Qgure to Uncle Sam in
exchange for usurious bonds." Tim na
tional banking fraud needs bond, and
Johnny w.U be the boy to help them
out. Wars can't cieate bonds fast
enougti lo btipply the demand of Ihe
uon-pioduciug clauses to lide the backs
of productive toil. The next great light
(the pulilic ownership of public utilities
light is now practically on,) will be the
fight of the people against usury. Iu
the meantime we wish to say any one
and everybody is justifiable in doing as
Romans do when in Rome, ai d, until
the people are ready for the change.
keep light on practicing usury. No
body will thank you for not practicing
usury at this time. Consequently it is
not light to preach what people are not
prepared for, but the day will come
wheu usury will be no more.
OUR NATIONAL WET.
Interesting light is thrown on our na
tional tendenc.es In diet by the figures
of per capita consumption given iu the
Statistical Abstract of the United States
(or 19vj0, j ist issued.
'lakingthe twenty year period from
1880 to lUOl), many reuiaikable changes
have taken place in the eating and
drinking of the American people. We
are eating 5.35 bushels of wheat and
wheat flour and 28.88 bushels of corn
and corumeal. Thus iu twenty years
our annual consumption of cereals has
been reduced by 5.05 bushels per head.
Within the sume two decades our
yearly cousumptipn of sugar has in
creased from 42 9 pounds to 65.2 pounds
per capita, an increase as significant us
the decrease iu our use of cereal foods.
Evidently we uie tending as a nation to
intke sugar raiher than bread our stall
of life. Whether at the same time we
are not also increasing our yearly meal
bills is a point on which the govern
ment's statistics are silent.
In the matter of our liquid refresh
ments the most striking change si.,ce
1880 has been in the per capita annual
consumption of malt liquors, which was
very nearly doubled. Meantime our
yearly allowance of distilled spirits is
just exactly the same now as twenty
years ago 1.27 ga Ions per head. Our
consumption of wine decreased 25 per
cent, in the same period. But we called
for 1.53 p muds more coffee and two
fifths of a pound les tea per head in
1900 than we did in 1880, Our total re
corded consumption of beaverages, al
coholic and non-alcoholic, is about 8
gallons per capita greater now than
twenty years ago, which "compels the in
ferenceremembering the immense con
current increase in the use "of mineral
and artificial waters that plain water
from the faucet is the most unpopular
liquid of nil.
PR Hi WE NT' 6 GROWING POWERS.
A wiitor in the Forum, discussing the
growing powers of the president, shows
that aside from tho offices in War and
navy di partments, the president his
patronage at his disposal asfolliws:
State Department
318 consular and diplomatic ap
pointments 11,000,000
Treasury Department
743 customs, revenue, marine
hospital, etc 017,305
Postolllce Department
4,015 postmasters . ... 6,931,000
Interior Department
747 pension officials, land office
agents, etc 1,997.010
Department ot Justice
Judges, attorneys, marshals,
et 1,120,000
Totft' 11,67 1,1)95
It is estimated that, including all de
partments, the President is, as the
Chicago Times-Herald says, "able to di
vert into the pockets of his supporters
annually the sum of $-.'0,000,000. a total
distribution of $80,000,000, during his
term ol ollice." The Times-Herald de
clares that "there is much apprehension
among the students of our political sys
tem concerning these 'growing powers of
tho i'resulent." This republican news
paper says:
In adjusting some of the problems
growing out of the recent war wo have
seen Congress practically abdicate in
favor of the president. The framers of
the Constitution rightly appreciated
that in a republic the popular branch of
the government must be paramount.
We have recently seen the President he-
come theautocratic ruler of hundreds of
thousands of people in Cuba and of mil
lions of people in the Philippines. He
has'appointed and removed officials with
out asking tho consent of the Senate.
The laws promulgated by the Taft com-1
mission in the Philippines declare that !
they were enacted ''by the authority of
the President of the United States"
not of Congress.
And then the Times-Herald concludes
that "the oi. ly remedy appears to be
through the extension and enforce
ment of the merit system." This i,
indeed a piofound suggestion . A more
sensible one, however, would be that we
restore the machinery of our national
government to its proper order; that the
law-makingaml war-declaring power be
exercised exclusively b) the congress;
that the President resume his constitu
tional place as an executive, content
with being tho beloved magistrate of a
nation of freemen, rather than the au-i
tocratic ru'er of the peoples who have
never cons nted to United States govern
ment. WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, March 25, 1901.
The republican syndicate, which has
made extensive preparations to loot the
Philippines, under public land and tim
ber concessions, are making things
warm for the id innistration and demand
ing that promises made to them be kept.
There is one obstacle the Hoar amend
ment which was added to the Philippine
amendment to the army lull. Although
that amendment specifically prohibits
the granting' of thosn concessions, the
representatives of the lo tting syndicate
are demanding ttiat it be ignored, and
some of them are claiming tl at Secre-
tarp Root favors meeting their demands.
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The traditional bull in a china-shop
did not create more consternation than
Representative Babcock, of Wisconsin,1
is creating among the trust bound re
publican bosses by talking up the merits
of his anti-trust bill, which he introduced
near the close of the last congress, and
which he will re introduce. It will be
remembered that the bill, as introduced,
pr ivided for a repeal of the duty on all
manufactured steel and iron, its avowed
purpose being to prevent the big steel
trust making our people pay extortionate
prices for its products. Mr. Babcock,
who is now in Washington, has re
ceived so much encouragement of sup
port for his bill, that he hap announced
his intention to broaden it, so as to hit
two more trusts tin plate and plate
glass by adding clauses repealing the
tariff on plate glass and and tin plate.
He has also served notice on the trust
bound republicans that the bill shall not
be pigeonholed in committee, md upon
republicans in general, that if they do
not join him In curding the trusts, they
will see a party put in power that will.
It is certain that the democrats will sup
port the bill in the next congress, and
if Mr. Babcock can get as m ny repub
lican vctes as he thinks he can, all the
power of tho trusts cannot prevent its
passage by the house.
Senator Burrows has diessed up the
bugaboo of a reduction in the congres
sional representation of those states
which have disfranchised illiterate
voters, and is coddling it as earnestly
as though it ere a bran new baby and
he were its daddy. He has also dis
covered and announced a veritable
mare's nest that congress has author
ity to make a new congresKio, al appor
tionment at any time.
J. l'ierpjnt Morgan had a long priva'e
conference with Senator Hanmt in
Washington a day or twj ago. It was
given out that the conference was in re
gard to a new annex to the big steel
trust, to control all vessels engaged in
carrying iron ore on tho great lakes,
Mr. Hanna being heavily interested in
that traffic. It is also highly probable
that Mr. Morgan issued a few orders
for the administration to follow in deal
ing with his trusts and other interests,
preferring to give those orders to the
man to whom he gave his big campaign
contribution, raiher .hail directly to
Mr. McKinley.
Through the efforts of a rival concern,
a scandal that was hushed up by the
war department a year ago has become
pu'tlio. The Drigga-Seabury Gun and
Amunition Company, which was given
free use of government machinery in
the Frankfort Arsenal, to enable it to
(111 its contracts with this government,
and while it was months behind in its
deliveries, it dropped United States
work and accepted two contracts for
similar work from the government of
Columbia, using the machinery belong
ing to this government to make them.
When Secretary Root's attention was
called to the matter, he asked the con
tractors to miike an explanation, which
they did by saying that the Columbian
contracts were profitable and that they
needed the money, or words to that ef
fect. And Secretary Root accepted
that as a satisfactory explanation. But
the end is not yet. The rival company
is threatening a suit in court, and in
miy event tho matter will lo heard
from in congress.
Governor Odell, of New Yoik, w ho
has jumped into notoriety by his cast
ing oil' Boss Piatt's collar, is being
groomed, according to inside Washing
ton gossip, as New York's anti-Teddy
candidate for the republican presiden
tial nomination in 1904. Senator Fair
banks continues to be spoken of as the
administration candidate, but the man
the administration really wishes to tee
nominated and will get nominated 'if
there is the slightest chance of doing to
without splitting the party, is Marcus
A. Ilanua. Of course it is Hanna'srne
now to pooh pooh any talk of his being a
candidate, but all the same he intends
to get that nomination if he can.
The Hanna-McKinley crowd realize
that they have no cinch in the state
campaign in Ohio this year, so they are
trying to placate all the hostile elements
wiihin the republican party. They
threw a sop to the anti-saloon league by
letting it become known that Lieutenant
Governor Caldwell, who is counsel for
ttie state liquor dealer's association,
would not be renominated, and then to
' prevent any disgruntletnen; among the
liquor men, promised Caldwell that he
should receive a good federal appoint
ment. In addition, they have made
sure that Senator Foraker's friends will
do no kicking, by promising him that
his cadidacy for re-election should be
endorsed by the state convention. Still
with all that they seein to be afraid that
the democrats will carry the state.
LOCAL SUMMARY
School report cards for sale at this of
fice The finest bon bon boxes in town at
'!.. K K K
Kozy Kaiuty Kitchen, up to date on
home-tuada candies'.
The latent in chocolate of all kinds at
the Kozy Kandy Kitchen,
A few watches for sale cheap at
Youuger's. Watches Cleaned, fl.
! The latest outTry the marshmallow
, kisses at the Koy Kandy Kitchen.
the
r 111 tun II Kvb Ulllt.fl o.
Rfid Front J..,. 15 cent!.
First-class board at reasonable rates
can be obtained at the Red Front Houi-e.
Shank & Bissell carry the most com
plete line of undertakers' supplier in
Oregon City.
If you want good wood from large'yel
low fir timber, order of C. E.Stewart,
Carus, or E. H. Cooper, Oregon City.
The latest ard best brands of cigars
and tobacos are kept by P. G. Shark
Smokers' goods and confectionery, also
To Loan on Farm Property $500,
f 1000, $1500, at, 7 per cent, one, two or
three years. Dimick & Easthara, law
yers, Oregon Oity Oregon.
When you visit Portland don't fail to
get your meals at the Royal Restaurant,
First and Madison. They serve an ex
cellent meal at a moderate price; a good
square meal, with pudding and pie, 15c.
Going East.
If you intend to take a trip East, ask
your atrent to mite you via The Great
Wahach, a modern and up-to-date rail
road in-every particular.
Through trains from t'hicago.Kansas
City, Omaha or St. Louis to New York
and New England points All trains
run via Niagara Falls and every through
train has free reclining chair cars, s.eep
ing and dining cars.
Slop over allowed on all tickets atXi
agara Falls
Ross C. Clink.
Pacific Coast Pass. Agent.
Los Angeles, Cal.
C. S. Crank, Gen'l Pass Agent.
St. Louis, Mo.
DOES IT PAY T3 BUY CHEAP?
A cheap remedy for coughs and colds
is all right, but you want something that
will relieve and cure the more severe
and dangerous results ot throat ami lung
troubles. What shall you do? Go to
a warmer and mom regular climate?
Yes, if uossible; if not possible for you,
then in either case take t he only remedy
that has bsn introduced in all civilized
countries with success in severe throat
and lung trouble, "Boschee's German
Syrup." If not only heals and stimu
lates the tissues to destroys the germ
disease, but allays inflammation, causes
easy expectoration, gives a good night's
rest, and cures the "atient. Try one
bottle. Recommended many years by
all druggists in the world. Get Green's
Prize Almanac at George A. Harding's,
Ldti
hats,
smith
st novelties in ria.iy-to-wear
Cull and see them. Miss Gold-
of Cod Liver Oil is the means
of life, and enjoyment of life to
thousands: men women and
children.
When appetite fails, it re
stores it. When food is a
burden, it lifts the burden.
When youlose flcsh.it brings
the plumpness of health.
When work is hard and
duty is heavy, it makes life
bright.
settrs
It is the thin edge of the
wedge; the thick end is food.
But what is the use of food,
when you hate it, and can't di
gest it?
Scott's Emulsion of Cod
Liver Oil is thefood that makes
you forget your stomach.
If you have not tried It, send for
free sample, its agreeable tast will
surprise you.
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists.
409 Pearl Street, New York.
50c, and $1.00 tall druggists.
nll Hfl A MrtT lMnilf IT
TUU IYIMT NUI ftNUW II
Bat the Best Stock of First-Class
Goods to
Prices
I HARRIS'
ft
You Can
Depend Upon
Patent Flour, made from old wheat." It
makes the best bread and pastry and always
gives satisfaction to the housewife, Be sure
and order Patent Flour made by the Port
land Flouring Mills at Oregon City and
sold by all grocers. Patronize
Home Industry
ft
Lenten Stason began Feb. 20th and ends April 6th.
FISH, FISH, FISH, FISH
Salt Fish, Smoked Fish, Dried Fish
DEAD FISH AT LIVE PRICES
Codfish from New Lngland
Codfish from Alaska
Salmon from Columbia River
Salmon from Alaska
Salmon Bellies
Sardines, Findon Haddocks, Soused Mackerel, Etc., in tins
Large Assortment to select from.. Prices right.
ROBERTSON, The 7th Street Grocer
A.
H. Bethke's Meat Market
Opposite Huntley's
first-Glass Pyleats of 11 iids
Satistaction Guaranteed
Give Iirg a (all ard be Treated IJigtjt
Foresight Means Good Sight
If there ever was a truism it is exemplified in the
above headline. Lack ot foresight in attending to the
eyes in time means in the end poor sight. We employ
' the latest most scientific methods in testing the eyes,
and charge nothing for the' examination. Dr. Phillips,
an expert graduate oculist and optican, has charge of our
optical department.
A. N. WRIGHT The Iowa Jeweler
293 florrlson Street, PORTLAND, OREGON
I For all kinds of
CALL AT THE
Oregon City Planing Mill
F. S. BAKER, PROP.
SASH, DOORS, MOULDING, ETC.
I MRS. R. BECKER
I 220 FIRST STREET - PORTLAND, OREGON
5 Has a complete assortment of
j Imported Pattern llat$ & Millinery Novelties
J Hats Trimmed to Order. Feathers Dyed and Curled
PRICES MODERATE
a A A . .
We carry complete line of Coffins, Caskets, Kobes and Linings. We hare been In the
undertaking butinen over ten years. We are under small expense and do not ask large
profiu. We hare always given our best effort lo please our bereaved friends. We thor
oughly understand the preservation of the dead. We deetroy contagious germs and offen.
she odors when called upon to prepare the dead for bnr'al.
be Found at Bottom 2
in Oregon City is at 2
GROCERY
i
Ms
Brown & Welch
-Proprietors op thb-
Seventh Street
Meat Market
A. O.
OREGON
U. W.
CITY,
Building
OREGON
Mackerel from Norway
Mackerel from New England
Herring from Alaska
Spiced Anchovies from Norway
Bloaters "Cromarty" Smoked
Building Material
R. L. Holman
Undertaker
2 Doors South of Court House