OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD. FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1901.
Oregon City Courier-Herald
By A. W CHENEY
: ilfrliii Oregon CitTp(iatofncea2nd-claimatter
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OREGON OITY, APRIL 12, 1901.
A btatistiumn pl.tros the number of
Bheep in the wolJ at, about 703,000,000,
which hist year pro.iu -ed 2,685,105.013
jiouwla of won.
Is Italy uki ictil'Uie and the wine in
duHtty could nut In- in a worse plight.
Increase in poverty i keeping pnee with
increase in taxes.
IIuku is a "slam" on bluck-republican
brains: "The republican party of Ore
gon will not have reached the acme of
its brainial development until Brownell
ifl governor and Fulton Senator."
Salem J urnal.
Jean Berlier, a distinjjuie lied French
engineer, has perfected plans for a tun
nel under the Mediterranean ' to con
nect Sp 'in and VI. irouc). Its cost he
places at 123,000,000 francs. The route
lie has celected for his proj' ct would
make it 25 miles in length.
W'uTing F.tni says tint for 4,000
years the Chinese empire has never
waged a war for the propagation of re
ligion or the enUvttnnnt of the people;
and it would seem tlmt Glii'ia is there
for oven fnrlher behind the times th.in
most people thouurlit..
Tim only argument advanced for
making the salaries of the judges in the
fhilippines $20,000 a year is that the
salary ir.ust be large enough 'o inmire
lionesty on the part of the judges. Why
not discourage lune stealing by giving
everyone sever il horaec?
Now thitt the l'or.1 md Savings Bulk
swindle has bien wound up, it would
give groat s ttisfaction to its victims if to
tin 8) of the swindlers who are yet alive
Chinese civil bit ion were applied by
chopping off their heads. It would
nerve them right and pr unite biwi iess
lionesty.
Tim rampant vice of the wealthy
aiiii'uist which the preachersof our gnat
cities are railing, and the squalor ami
poverty of the overworked and under
paid millions ou whom the Indolent rich
ara battening, iln tint the United
Htatea is more in need of tho Christian
iui8iioti:try than any other laid un lor
the Hun.
A pkw figures reveal the appalling
degradation and vice that prevail In
Greater New York Manhattan and the
lironx. Among the population of 2,050,
O00 are 001 Jew ish, Homan Catholic and
rrotostant churches, and 7,585 "Haines
law hotels," namely siloons, large
numbers of which have brolhcl uttmh.
moms into which innoemt girls are en
ticed with connivance, of tin poli ce.
Now that tho prospect cheers us of a
speedy end to the Philippine war, comes
another and quite different statement of
the situation, which, if true, means that
the past trouble will bo as nothing com
pared to what the future will bring. It
is positively stated that the action of
the natives is influenced entirely by
promises ma lo to thein that if they will
take the oath af allegiance they shall
hive rtatelioad in the American Union
anil share our birthright of American
liberty. The Philippines will never bo
B'utcs, the Filipinos will never be equal
citiziMis of this ountry. When they
loarn this therjr will be another indig
nant out-break stung into being by w hat
they will regard as a breach of pledge
and a violation of faith.
Aoi is.u.m being a prisoner in our
hands, what shall we do with liim?
What is his crime? What has Aui
naldo done except to fight for the free
dom of his country for the rights de
clared by our forefathers to bo ''inalien
wble:" the rights of life, liberty and
imrsuit of happiness? Does not Agui
naldo a prisoner bring homo freshly to
the American people the blistering truth
that for the first timo in their history
they are called upon to rejoice it the
discomfiture of a mac and people right
ing for liberty? Is it a matter for na
tional congratulation that wo are ex-'
pected to exult piecitely as the San
5 arda v. o il'J have cxu'.U'd (luce years
j rgo over the capture of Gomez?
Tun co;iibii ation fever has struck tl:e
coal mine owners of Illinois. It is now
proposed !o plr.ee all tlx- coal mines of
tlmt statt- in a trust with a capital ptock
of $75 000,000.
Mre than 900 mines in
Illinois will oe under the control of this
coin! ination. Last jphT the total pro
duct of 'hesu mi'ies was about 30,000,000
'on-, and they gnve employment lo37,
03) men.
The Pioneer Press of St.' Paul
under the Ima 1 " Trill in phi-it Pin
locmc. " tlevcribes the rise of Mr. Van
derlip t' fume and fmtuiie. It points
out bow he was bv accident thrown in
with Mr. Gage, how Mr. Gage tooi a
fiincv to him, and how, when Mr. Gae
bc-cimo secr. tar. of the treasury, Mr.
Vandeilip wns h pointed private secre
tary, riu prwate secretary has been
invited tiCHinert him-ell with a Wall
street in-ti u'ioii at $10,000 or $20,000
per year.
This mho in the m ice of coal in Great
R tain, roupl t ) it.h the depression in
the ne-tal trades, are m nous of per
manent comrm-rcUl decadence. The
Eiiinbnrijli KVeidog News says eilito-
rially : "The iron an 1 s'e'd trades have
gone fr m us. When the lietiti us ptos-
perity caused by the exp.-n Ikure of our
ovn government an I that oi Mropean
nitiotison armaments ceases, half of
the ni 'ii employed in iheae industries
will be turned in'o the streets. The out-
1 10k is appalling. Wlint suff iring will
have to be en lur.id befor i tli.) workers
realize lh.U there is n thing left foi
them but emigration 1 I r is useless to
p etend that this generation o' workmen
can ever hope to contend sncceshfully
with the Americans under present con
ditions. What are thee conditions?
They have cheaper coal and ron ore,
improved tools, inumerable 1 tbor-saving
machines, and, above all. the strenuous
efforts of the workmen to increase the
output. Hiwisittob txp'cted that
our workmen, trained to regard restric
tion of output as their i-lieet anchor, can
suddenly be mad to understand that it
is i fatal heresy, mid that their o'dy sal
vation '8 an increase I output at. dimin
ii-hed cost?"
THE P.A1LWA Y TRUST.
J'.eprv udvance in railway rates is an
a l'li i dial lux un productive industry,
a'nl that tax labs inevitably upon the
consumer If by this "community of
interest" the few immensely rich men
who control the transportation trunican
bring I he hundreds of millions of dol
lars of water in the railroad capitaliza
tion of the country to the point where
dividends can be earned and paid upon
it, they will have multiplied their al
ready vast fortunes din ctly at the ex-
pence of the people of the United States.
This great railway trust represents, in
fact, i nn of the gravest problems before
the people of the United States. Some
plan must be deviled for a closer and
more absolute control of the railways
by the iiation than now exists, or gov
eminent ownership of the entire rail
way system of the United States is not
tar distant. The people of the United
States will not long consent to be placed
at the merry of any little group of men
In a word, the near approuch to com
pletion of the plans of the great railway
trust forces an issue upon the people
which grows the more it is studied, and
which promises to submerge and over
whelm all others
Will the railway magnates consent to
a close government regulation of rates
that will he a genuine protection to the
public against extortionate charges, or
ill they pursue a policy that will foice
t no American people to take the rail
ways of the nation under national owner
ship and control? The answer to the
question cannot long be deferred, Co-
liiinbiis,0., State Journal.
A iSTUl'ESDOiS WHOLE.
Tuuolossal corporation created by
the laws of New Jersey, at the request of
Banker J, P. Morgan, which Is ab.mt to
enter upou active operations that may
powerfully affect the trade and commerce
of the whole country, if not the entire
globe, has been generally spoken of as
"The Steel Trust." It is to be borne In
mind that it is much more than a corpo
ration formed to carry on the manufac
ture of steel. The scope of its charter
conies very near being universal. It
has authority to engage in almost any
kind of business.
Tiia Chautauquan recently published
what is termed "a condensed statement
of the grants made" to the corporation,
to this effect: "This corporation may
manufacture iron, steel, manganese,
coke, copper, lumber, and other mater
ials, and all articles consisting or partly
consisting of iron, steel, copper, wood,
or other materials, and nil products
thereof. It has the right to acquire and
develop any lands yielding these mate
rials, and to extract coal, ores, sione,
oil, etc., from any lands which it may
own or acquire. It may buy and sell
these materials and any of their pro
ducts, and it may construct bridges,
buildings, mi'chineiy, ships, boats, en
gines, cars and other equipment ; rail
roads, docks, slips, elevators, water
works, gas works and electric works;
viaducts, canals and other waterways
and other means of transportation.
These agencies may be bought or sold,
maintained or operated, but the corpo
ration may not maintain a railroad or
canal in New Jersey. This corporation
may engage in any other manufactuiing
mining, construction, or transportation
busine-s of any kind or character what
B03ver, hot it may not engage in any
business which shall require the exer
cise of the right of eminent domain with
in the etate of New Jersey. It may con
duct Its business in other states an I ter
ritories and in foreign countties."
CANCER.
Thus popular idea is that "cancer" is
"soiriethingin the system;" a myster
ious entity which, when cut out in one
place is certain to show itself sooner or
later again, either there or in ome
other locality. That impression is by
no means limited to the uneducated.
Not long Rince I heard a very highly
placed dignitary of the established church
remark, at a public function : "Every
one knows that who once has c mcer
always has cancer." Nothingcould well
be more remote from the truth. Can
cerous disease invariably arises in a
single mintit spot, usually a small
eronp of C' 1's, and is thus purely loc: 1
in its inception. All the subsequent
phenomena follow infection, diffused by
simple mechanical agencies from that
single soot. Every medical man win at
tends a cancer case throughout witnesses
thif primary local and limited develop
ment, followed by eventual diffusion of
cell-fragments unmistakably derived
from the cells at the initial center; and
proving that origin in many ways which
can hardly be pointed out here without
unprofitable technicality. "But why,
then," it would naturally be asked, "do
so many people continually die from
nit ...... i .
cancer r- --vvny noes tne disease so
generally reappear, after an operation
which has appeared highly successful?
( Kecurreu is the highly convenient
and usual term.)
It may be confessed that surgical deal
ings with cancer are almost always up
hill work. Nevertheless the reasons
for the ultimate failure of many of these
operations are always painfully appar
ent Either (a) the infective cell frag
ments have been allowed to diffuse
themselves to other parts before the op
erating surgeon was called in, or (b) the
operator has done his work badly. The
first explanation unfortunately accounts
for by far the greater number of in
stances. Teop'e hardly ever think
of
consulting an operating surgeon, or even
of applying to a medical practitioner at
all, until the malady has slovly pro
gressed forjmany months. But the sec
ond alsj cjyers no small field. London
Humanitarian.
PEPUBLlU VS. EMPIRE,
Love of military power; of forcing
the weak to bow to us, the conquerors
is stealing into and polluting our pure
democratic ideals.
Suppose the South African war had
ooenn ed ten years ago. The people
would have risen np as cne man and de
manned tnat Ureat rir.tain lie told to
keep her bands off those small republics
and it wou'd have been done.
We called the Filipinos patriots three
years ago when they were seeking free
dom from Spain ; today we occupy the
Spanish position and they are rebels
T! .
iigui or wrong we nave reversed our
position and are now occupied in the
same work as the European monarch 'e
it is nut too late yet if the common
people to get together and determine
what is to be done to get the country
honorably out of the mess the politici
ans have got u into through the policy
parially forced upon them by tho trusts
who (eel safer backed by an army of
150,000 men than they would be with
only 25,000, and besides colonies may
be made good markets for highly pro
tected goods. The politicians only
need id a little pressure as an excuse for
falling in with the trusts, the echeme
promised thousands of places for boosters
and relatives besides a t'eiter chance to
got their hands into the stolen money of
the trusts; both fattening off the peo
ple. These are facts, and when we forget
our party affiliation, are admitted. The
great public sentiment for such cancers
a i this on the body politic is manufac
tured in the otlice of the Associated
Press, a trust itself, and controlled by
the other trui ts. When a proposition
conies up of doubtful honesty, immedi
ately a feeler goes out through the As
sociated Press, and prominent men
financially interested, are quoted as say
ing tho people are in favor of it almost
to a man. The great newspapers are
owned b syndicates or trusts, and from
political headquarters are sent out to
thousands of party papers, tuade-to-order
editorials, with request to publish.
Little country papers get these Liberty
Colli n Tacks a id publish them as well
as the large pnpe.s, and thus is the so
called public sentiment made and con
trolled. Salem Independent.
The New York World claims a circu
lation larger than the combined circula
tion of the two leading p ipers of that
citv.
srors the cortui and wouks orr
TllK COLD.
Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure
a cold in one day. No Cure no Tay
Price 25 cents.
Only Reform from the Ground
Can Save Us.
Editor Courier-Herald There is a dis
position on the part of soma ex populist
papers in this state, as an excuse to aid
the election of a republican United
States senator two years hence to make
it appear that nothing short of a lepub
lic.iu legislature will make a direct leg is
lative amendment to the constitution
possible. Some papers who were for
merly professing populism aiid took such
an interest in forwarding reform meas
ures, and are now inclined lo look with
favor on the proposition to support out
right or not to antagonize the poweis in
possession of Oregon's p liiical otlices.
A gentle niBiiin Multnomah whose word
can be relied on and wl-o was and is in
a position wlnn his vote is essential and
his support necessary to push the meas
ures sought, stated to me that a promi
nent republican politician with lots of
"stuff" tent his ex-populist enimisaries
around to the populist members of the
legislature and as an inducement, fur
United States senatorial support pledged
himseli to put up $2500 for a direct legis
lation campaign. Tha gentl man re
jected tho offer and bis vote is not re
corded in any instance favorable to the
party, who tendered the bribe.
W e know that tl.e repnbl can conven
tion that met in Astoria and nominated
T. T. Geer in 1898, passed resolutio: s
unfavorshle to direct legislation and
stated explicity that the representative
system was the proper one to govern the
county. At the extra legislative session
of 1808, which elected Simon United
States senator, that body passed the
Portland diart.tr, and in spite of the
protests and appo ds of those who
wanted the chatter su!)na,U'd to a vo:o
of the Portland voterd, the protests and
appeals were ignored. The hypocritical
pretense that (he republican p.irty I ave
the good of the people at bean may fool
a few voters tut not many. The last
session overwhelmingly republican with
its $2,000,003 appropriation is hardly
the kind of political management ca'cil'
lated io convince the people of this state
that that party can be depended on to
protect Ihe people's inteiests. The re
publican politicians know very well that
there is not a populist, democrat or so
cialist, who would for a moment or un
der any consideration work or vote
against direct legislation, but whil the
republican official makes a great show
ing of loyal feaby to the people and their
interests, yet when there is anything of
a beneficial nature to be enacted into
law, those officiais gfiierally mannge to
elu le it, and wild i they kee'i the word
of promise to the ear they break it to
the hope
The Portland charter passed over two
year.-, au'i) was never read in eiih. rn mse,
the clt-rk, Mr Molter reading only the
first four or six and the last (our or nix
lines of the sixty pages. It was rushed
through both houses without, any pre
text at legidit) , and when 1 asked per
mission to address the committee in
charge of it, I was given to ui.di rstaiid
th 'l they wauled dm kin I of a charter
and was going to have it. They wanted
no foolishness about direct legislad m or
any populist nonsense of l hat kind. And
I noticed, air. Editor, that thohe who
made such a great hurrah about the re
publican legislature made no effo tto
have the Portland charter suomit el to
a vote of those who were to b governed
or rather misgoverned under it.
The recent election of two re, uldicans
national bankers in Neb aska to the
United States senate thows about how
mudi the republican party cares for the
people, direct legislation or any reform
that must come helore we can hope for
better times. Mark lianfia, v ho domi
nated the legislature of that state, ex
pressly stated that he did not even ft
vor election of senators hy popular Vole.
How much would he f.iv r ihs the idea
of the people voting on taws. As a so
cialist, I, lor one helieye that but little
can be gained by the referendum alone,
but it is the fir-t and most essential
move along the road we must travel. 1
believe, yes, Iknow thai i.o matter what
party holds power, nothing short of the
absolute and entire owneishio of ad ihe
means of production and dittrib lticn i 1
in the least mend social and political
matters as thov are. Tho present sys
tem musi lie overthrown, the monopo
lies must be socialized, and any party
that hopes to remedy the condition of
the country and its people, are sadly
lacking in wisdom. L 't it be understoo i
that money will be li ed lavishly in the
next two years to elect a legislature fa
vorable to another national banker. The
Oregonian admits as much, but for the
sake of politic decency, don't let it be
said that any self respecting p ipulist
editor will lend himself to scheme, plot
orconspiracy, to work io those whose
work and votes made direct legislation
in Oregon possible. The factious of
both wings of the reuu lican party, that
is, the bosses don't waul and wi 1 in
have if they can h lp it, government by
the people or any semblance of it. They
have for years been governed by the
(lamia?, and Platts and Quays, na
tionally, the Simons, Mitchells, Bon
nies, Scotts and Corbotts totally aud
with that class of worthies in pow ;r
there is littls hope of reform. Our only
hope is in a thorugh awakening of the
people to thedangers tli t menace them,
and drastic means to reform existing
evils. The evil is capitalism, the remedy
socialism. J. D. Stevens.
"Figprune"
Children
cannot drink
coffee or tea
ITot mash f:r breakfast, wltli
colJ water r.s a beverage, Is not
beneficial. The change from
hot to cold is too sudden.
With each meal give your
child a cup cf
"Figprune Cereal"
and note the chance for th
bettor. The child will thrive
on such fare,
Figprune contains 64 per cent
fruit and it rer cent grain.
Makes a highly nutritious and
pleasant table beverage for
both big and little folks.
it-
ALL GROCEKS SELL It.
YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT
But the Best Stock of First-Class
Goods to be Found at Bottom
Prices in Oregon City is at
HARRIS' GROCERY
You Can
Depend Upon
t
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
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FISH, FISH, FISH, FISH.
Salt Fish, Smokfi Fish, Dried Fish
DEAD FISH AT LIVE PRICES
Codfish from New Lnoland
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.
A. ROBERTSON, The 7th Street Grocer
IL Betlike's Meat Market
Opposite Hnntley's
piret-Glass Meats of 11 Ids
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Give yirrj a (all arjd be Treated ?itjt
Foresight Means Good Sight
If there ever was a truism it is exemplified in the
above headline. Lack ol 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 oui
optical department.
A. N. WRIGHT The Iowa Jeweler
293 norrlson Street, PORTLAND, OREGON
I For all kinds of
CALL
l Oregon City
F. S. BAKER, Prop.
SASH, DOORS, MOULD NG, ETC.
! BECKER'S MILLINERY
220 FIRST STREET, PORTLAND, OREGON
Great Bargains in Trimmed Hats
Magnificent Desgn
t
Also a Consignment of verg Cheay Hats
J Hair Switches at Very Lov Figures
SH9.9i
..fV-: 'SSfV fciJi
S 2
We carry coinpleU line of CoIBds, Csk.t, Babes and Linings. We hr. len In th
undor taking buslnew over ten years. W. are nnder small eipense and do sot ask larse
prorata. We ha always giren our best efforts to please onr bereaved friends W th
oughly understand the prestation of the dead. We destroy contagious germs and often"
sue odors heu called upon to prepare the dead for burial.
rf t
Brown & Welch
Proprietors of thk-
Seventh Street
Meat Market
A. O. U. W. Building
OREGON CITY, OREGON
Mackerel from Norway
Mackerel from New England
Herring from Alaska
Spiced Anchovies from Norway
Bloaters "Cromarty" Smoked
Building Material
AT THE
Planing Mill
.$jt
R - L. Holnian
Undertaker
Doors SouOj ol Court House