OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD,, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1902.
Oregon City Courier-Herald
BY, A. W. CHENEY
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OREGON CITY, OCT. 3, 1902.
Alaska has a population of 65,000. It
lb said that it can famish homesteads of
320 acres each for 200,000 families.
Dr. Lee, of Mississippi.declares that if
man will eat raw onions and drink
whisky he will nevir have malaria.
Ortainly a pleasant remedy.
Tun fortune of Alfred Beit, the South
African millionaire and associate of the
late Cecil Rhodes, is said to exceed $1,-
000.000.000. His income iB sufficient to
make ten new millionaires every year.
The whole of this colossal fortune was
made within a period of 25 vears, and
was founded on diamonds.
Regardless of what the world thinks
of John Alexander Dowie's religious
principles, he must be recognized as a
man of more than ordinary ability. He
has been in this country less than a
dozen years, yet he is the leader of
thousands and has millions of money at
his command. His latest and most im
portant project is the building of Zion
City on Lake Michigan about midway
between Chicago and Milwaukee. He
secured the mone7 for the enterprise by
levying a tax of one-teath of the income
of all his followers. Within a little
over Bis mouths he has built a city of
10,000 people, and the influx continues
as great as ever. Cottages have been
built for all these people, public build-
fogs have bee erected, and industries es
tablished, among them the lace factory
which covers five acres of ground and is
the only factory of the kind in the United
States. In Zion no individual can own
his own land. He is only a lessee, al
though, as the lease does not expire un
til the year 3000, that causes little anxi
ety. Ttie leases all specify that no lessee
eh a 11 use his site "for any purpose con
trary to the will of G id, aud particularly
not for the sale of drugs, tobacco or al
cohol in any form, for theaters, g.im
bhng houses, or for the raising of hogs or
Belling them."
GOLD AND SILVER.
Nothing could show more strikingly
tho change in the monetary condition of
this country than a comparison of the
etock of gold and of the money in circu
ation now and in 1896.
A fortnight ago, the gold in the treas-
iry amounted in round numbers to
$57,000,000, an increase of nearly $80,
000,000 Bince Ju'.y 1, 1901,and the largest
sum, with possibly one exception, ever
held by any government.
In October, 1896, at the height of the
free-silver campaign, the treasury held
less than $122,000,000 in gold, and the
total amount in circulation was only
$478,000,000 nearly $100,000,000 Ibbs
than is now held by the treasury alone.
Largely as a result of this increased
gold supply the amount of money In cir
culation has increased from $21.15, the
per cipita average for 1898, to nearly
$29 at the present time.
Meanwhile the commercial ratio of
silver to gold, which was 30.32 in 1896,
is now about 38. The treasury now
holds 54:1,000,000 Bilver dollars, and
there are nearly 70,000,000 la circul a
tion, against 380,000,000 in the treasury
and 56,000,000 in circulation six years
ago.
DOIXG SOMETHING.
Tho humorist who wrote the plat
form and declaration of grievances for
the populists of Illinois, in state conven
tion assembled, makes them Bay :
"We look upon the republican party,
with its gold standard policy and bank
ing policy, as our open enemy, without
disposition to conceal its intentions,
while -e look upon the democratic party
us a pa'ty of barter a d sale, without a
definite policy, save to gain olllea Its
history is one of fusion, broken prom
ises, intrigue, deceit, and therefose, it is
the secret enemy of a people's party,
and while the republican patty does
something and raises hell, the demo
cratic party raises hell and does noth
ing." How "the republican party does some
thingand raises hell" is best illustrated
by theeiistigation which the republican
iiovemer Cummins of Iowa iullicts on
uat republican "captain of industry,
John V. Gates, of Chicauo. Says the
governor of this quick-rich trust mag
nate, who, by the way way, was "fired"
out of a respectable London hotel, on
accouut of his vulgarity :
"lie may not be any worse than
scores of others, but to the masses o.'
people in this western country he is a
personification of trust greed, gambling,
vulgarity, He is th nimble example
who bus served to call popular attention
to a system a system of stock jobbing,
gambling iu industrial properties and
taking out of the consumer the enormous
prollts which enable bucu men to exist.
The great majority of the people do not
like vulgar gamblers, who brazenly
flaunt their habits before the world, and
Mr. Gates has managed to attract at
tention to the system very much at the
drunk and disorderly man howling
throoah the streets serves to advertise
ihexiBtence of open saloons in a towu.'
f f Ay $ A
CHAMP
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LETTER
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Special Waahington Letter.
T may be taken and actjpied as a :
tome iuiuk luai uiuntuo is going
Democratic this fall and that
that veteran statesman Henry
M. Teller will be returned to the
senate, which he so greatly adorns and
Where he Is so useful. The proof of
all of which Is that ex-Senator Edward
O. Wolcott Is about to shake the dust
of the Centennial State from his shoes
and to locate where his political pros
pects will be brighter. Rats desert a
sinking ship, and Wolcott deserts the
Republican party of Colorado. Every
body knows that he would stay there
and. fight it out with Teller if he
thought he had a ghost of a show.
Teddy on His Ear.
The press dispatches Inform us that
President Roosevelt Is on his auricular
appendix because Brothers Babcock
and Overstreet, chairman and secre
tary of the Republican congressional
committee, in compiling their cam
paign book left him and his adminis
tration out in the cold, when he not
unnaturally thought that he ought to
occupy the center of the stage. On
dit that Teddy, in a fit of anger, per
emptorily ordered those palpitating pa
triots to squelch their publication,
which they could not do, inasmuch as
they had mailed out 20,000 copies be
fore Teddy discovered how scurvlly
he had been treated. As Bab and
Overstreet recently dined with the
president, it may be assumed that they
have agreed to issue a new edition.
But Teddy may possess his soul in
peace, for nobody reads Republican
campaign books.
A Sanguine Prophet.
General David Breniner Henderson,
speaker of the house of representa
tives, has taken up the role of prophet
and has assured tho world in an off
hand sort of way that the country is
going Republican this fall, which is
important if true; but nobody ever ac
cused General Henderson of being any
kin to Isaiah or any of the rest of tho
major prophets. All their mantles fell
on the shoulders of General Charles
Henry Grosvenor, prophet maximus of
tho Hocking valley, who Is very quiet
these days in his vaticination depart
ment. No Democrat need be scared by
General Henderson's prophecy. The
wish is father to the thought. He is
the most cheerful of mortals, the Mark
Tapley of Auiericun politics. He's an
optimist, which it Is a rattling good
thing to be. If he had lived at tho
time of the flood, when Noah was
building the ark and predicting the de
struction of all things by water, David
would have said: "Boys, there isn't
going to be much of a shower. Noah
doesn't know what ho is talking about.
So eat, drink and be merry!" And he
and his cronies would have been
caught out in that forty days and forty
nights of rain, as they are likely to be
caught in the ..flood this fall. If re
ports from Iowa are not greatly over
drawn, General Henderson had better
quit wasting his breath and time in
prophecy and get down to work or tho
country is likely to lose the services of
those great Republican statesmen
Hepburn, Lacy and Smith.
Whltelaw'a Sorrowful Homecoming.
As Mark Antony remarked on a cele
brated but doleful occasion, "If you
have tears, prepare to shed them now."
Wherefore? Becauso Whitelaw Reid,
flunky extraordinary to the corona
tion of King Edward VII., did not, aft
er all, get to wear his knickerbockers
and other royal finery that is, in pub
lic a thing on which ho had set his
heart. No doubt he donned them in
private and exhibited his lean and pad
ded calves to his wife, children and do
mestic servants In that magnificent
house in Grosvenor square, the ultra
aristocratic quarter of London, "the
modern Babylon," which he rented for
that august occasion. But, God be
praised, ho was defeated in his mean
ambition to sport them in public, where
the world's eye could feast on the deg
radation of America and where lord
with pedigrees running buck to Jhe
conquest were walking backward aud
making salaams to do honor to Albert
Edward Wettln. That's the point on
which all good Americans will congrat
ulate themselves. Whitelaw RelJ, tho
American aristocrat, did not have tin
opportunity to cut Ills un-American
and fantastic flunky capers before
high heaven. Whitelaw did not get to
march in tho royal and imperial pro
cession and make a holy show of him
self and of us. His spirit was willing,
even eager, to thus abase himself ond
his country and her Institutions, but
fate Bpared that degradation, and Un
cle Sam was not chained to the char
lot wheels of the great-grandson of
George HI. Yea, Whitelaw, the sou-in-law
of his father-in-law, was uux
lous. He spend thousands on his
knickerbockers and other royol glni
crncks. He quarreled with garter
klng-nt-nrtns, or whatever the chief
iiuich-a-chiK'u of the coronation cere
monies is called, because he was as
signed to rklo back foremost in the
procession while the unspeakable Turk
and the head of tho French flunkies, in
the same carriage, rode face front. He
roared so loud because tho flunkies of
the effete monarchies of Europe, Asia
and Africa should outrank our flunky
In chief, the son-in-law of his father-in-law,
that Anally, to stop his whin
ing, they assigned him a carriage all
to himself, wMch, after all, he did not
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Roosevelt's Row With
the Republican Con
gressional Committee.
Whitelaw Reid's Dis
appointment V I
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get to ride in, poor thing! Hence these
tears.
King Edward was sick, and conse
quently flunky Whitelaw, with his
knickerbockers and his finery, did not
have a chance to overawe Cheapslde,
Rotten row, Piccadilly, Whitechapel
mid Bloomsbury square with his rib
bons, gewgaws, state carriage, liveried
outriders and other royal and Imperial
paraphernalia. Ferhaps since the days
when Sancho I'anza failed to secure
his island throne or Blnce Darius
Green and his flying machine came
down to earth with a lull, sickening
thud there never was a greater disap
pointment in this world than White
law's when he didn't get to ride in
that royal carriage, solitary and alone,
as chief of all American flunkies. He
had planned, so it Is said, to have a
band of hired boys hi livery, of course
precede his carriage, shouting: "Io
triumphe! Io triumphe!" In his mind's
eye he saw himself knighted Sir
Whitelaw of Ophlr Farm by King Ed
ward. But all that has passed, and
he returns to despised America with
out a title and with his precious knick
erbockers In his trunk. Wonder what
the tariff is on knickerbockers and oth
er royal outflttings! Whitelaw knows
unless our customs officer at ihe port
of New York failed to do his duty.
This sore disappointment came to
Whitelaw because a pestiferous berry
seed sllnned Into King Edward's ver
miform appendix.
Great God! On what a slender thread
Eternal matters hang!
Over the entrance to the office of the
New York Tribune, of which White
law is editor in chief, thanks to his father-in-law's
money, is the legend,
"Founded by Horace Greeley." Won
der what old Horace, who was an
American from skin to core, would
think of Whitelaw and his royal and
imperialistic knickerbockers! "What
a full was there, my countrymen!"
A Pointer.
Once upon a time I was engaged in a
private jawing match with General
Charles Henry Grosvenor. I was con
tending that the Democrats would
elect the house this fall and both a
house and president in 1004. The gen
eral said that the present prosperity,
would prevent our doing any such
thing. "But, general," I replied ar
guendo, "there is no greater prosperity
aow than there was in 1892, when the
Democrats wiped the Republicans off
the face of tho earth, even securing
one electoral vote in Ohio, which goes
to prove that prosperity has nothing
to do with It." This seemed to nettle
the venerable Buckeye warrior and
statesman, and he exclaimed, "Oh, it
was that blankety blanked Homestead
strike that made the country go Dem-
Deratic in 1802!" Of course the pro
fanity is General Grosvenor's, not
mine. But, while that conversation
happened two years a;;o, 1 have been
thinking about It a good deal lately
and have concluded inevitably and nec
essarily that if the good gray general
Is correct in his diagnosis of the situa
tion lu 181)2 we are dead sure to carry
the country In l!)02, for psvei. ely what
happened at Homestead, l'a.. in 1802
Is now happening In both l'onnsylva
nla and West Virginia this ye.:r. Far
Btrunger things have happened than
that Judge Jackson and General Gobln
should unwittingly and unintentionally
elect a Democratic house of repre
sentatives and n Democratic president
of the United Slates, a consummation
devoutly to be wished. Democrats who
uro inclined to be timorous should re
member General Grosvenor's words
and cheer up.
Republican Disintegration.
The recent falling of the campanile
at Venice, which both startled and in
terested the entire civilized world, is
not more thoroughly indicative of the
ultimate destruction of that ancient
city of story and of song thau is tho
platform declaration of the Iowa Re
publicans in favor of tariff revision as
a remedy for the trust evil a presage
of the dissolution of the Itepubllean
party. The campanile was the glory
of Venice; the Dlngley bill has been
regarded as the Gibraltar of Repub
licanism. True, Mr. McKinley in his
remarkable Buffalo speech, which may
bo regarded not unjustly as his fare
well address to the American people,
overthrew tho principle of the Dingley
bill, sapped and mined its foundations,
by declaring iu favor of a general pol
icy of reciprocity, which is free trade
In spots; but the trouble is that Mc
Kinley did uot live to carry out by
his tact and the weight of his great
name the Democratic policy which lu
kls Buffalo speech he borrowed from
the Democrats. He is dead, and he
nlone could wield "Excallbur." He is
lu his grave, and the Republicans are
wrangling and Jangling on every pub
lic question, especially the tariff and
Its daughters, the trusts. Even the
Iowa Republicans, who were doing
their best to walk In the light, lauded
the tariff while they condemned the
trusts, utterly oblivious to tho great
truth uttered by Mr. Havemeyer when
he declared that "the high protective
tariff is the mother of trusts."
Shaw Versus Gage.
Lyman J. Gage, former secretary of
the treasury aud wet nurse to the Fow
ler bill, of which he and his bank ex
pect to be the chief beneficiaries. Is lu
a fair way to become the scapegoat of
the Roosevelt-Shaw administration of
the treasury affairs, and It serves Ly
man right, for be it remembered that
in 181)6 he deserted the Democrats
and ratted to the Republicans in order
to secure for himself high office, which
he had never, been able to do while
r training with the Democrats. He re
ceived his mess of pottage namely,
the secretaryship of the treasury. That
he used the great powers of that of
fice for the benefit of the plutocrats is
generally believed; that he was offered
and accepted a highly remunerative
position at their hands when squeezed
out of office by Tresldent Roosevelt is
known of all men. He quit the treas
ury when all was serene with the rep
utation, self exploited, of being a great
financier, but there are breakers ahead
'for Lyman. His successor In office,
Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa, Is like Major
Bagstock "sly, sir; devilish sly," if
rot "tough, sir; devilish tough." There
Is a growing deficiency in the revenues
of the government, constantly growing
larger, and Governor Shaw "sly, sir;
devilish sly" is unloading the odium
thereof on Lyman. He attributes
this "woeful plight" of the treasury,
to borrow your Uncle G rover's phrase,
to Lyman's plan of paying more for
bonds than they were worth, and he
proposes to have It thoroughly under
stood that Gage, and not Shaw, is the
architect of tho treasury deficit. Shaw
is running for president, don't you
know, and must have a scapegoat;
hence Lyman plays goat.
Strange that it never occurs to a pub
lic official so eminent, so astute and so
ambitious as Mr. Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw that there are two
ways for the government to make buc
kle and tongue meet the one is to in
crease the revenues, the other to cur
tail expenses. The latter method nev
er suggests itself to a Republican. The
present congress is the most extrava
gant one that ever legislated for the
American people. Its appropriations
were wicked and wanton waste. Its
motto nppeared to be "after us the
deluge," and the chances nre that it
will be a deluge Indeed. Personally I
like Governor Shaw. He is tin nblo
and amiable man. If he 1ms the cour
age to act on old Pen Franklin's mot,
"a penny saved is a pi any caned,"
and to insist that the e::;unxts i.f the
government shall be retrenched. iva no
knows they on:., lit to be, he will 'iass
into history as a i.ivat financier r.lcng
with Gallatin, V.";;I': ; i;:id Chrs: end
ns a rreat public bnct'actor, w':e her
he gets to be prcs'd.'iit or not. A mere
petty squabble with Lyman J. ilaue
as to which created ti.e deilcit in the
revcnui s will ;:3t ::v;
In his quest l'.;:
public inrairr- !.; : 1:
flee. If 1k has to U
the money to i uu tl
';. ci :u.r Shaw
.!,".; :ie. The
He h lu of-ho-:i!s
to raise
ovenimeiii, ho
will stand no more in;..i
the White llor.;e tlia :
)i iv;.iUing
hail of be
coming autocrat of nil the Ccsslas.
Utopian.
It is really refre-hlng to run across
Bomebody who belle, es In Utopia' and
the political millennium. The Minne
apolis JouiT.nl proposes, apparently In
good fulfil, to realize both by reviving
the old scheme, the uik-rly oxploi.ed
theory of a permantv'.t .nrlff commis
sion as the solution of the ills that ihe
body politic Is heir to, for it cays:
When will the dny come when our rov
ernment will be ready to adopt the plan
which is quite generally regarded as cal
culated to protect the count, y in a large
degree from that disuu'bunce of business
which periodical agHation of tariff re
vision as a political issue is likely to
produce? It Is to be hoped that some day
we shall refer this matter of the tariff,
which should be purely a business affair
and never allowed to become a political
Issue, to a strong commission In which
business men of all political faiths would
have confidence and which should be non
partisan in character. Recommendations
of such a commission made from time to
time would commend themselves to the
judgment of the country as a basl of
congressional legislation, the modifications
of the tariff being not general and sweep
ing as the result of long agitation, with
consequent hesitation and demoralization
of business, but gradual and incidental,
affecting but few articles at a time and
Justified always by thorough investiga
tion. (Such an administration of our protec
tive principle and revenue policy by a
permanent commission and the conse
quent greater or less elimination of the
subject from the field of practical politics
is a consummation most devoutly to be
wished. It has received the commenda
tion of public men and Btudents of publlo
affairs and the Indorsement of political
conventions, but it has yet to be actual
ized In legislation and intrusted with the
discharge of a service of great impor
tance to the commercial and industrial
interests of the country.
Certainly nothing more guileless than
that has ever been printed since Faust
Invented movable . type. Fancy the
conclusions of a commission made up
of such eminent business men ns Tom
Johnson, Charles M. Schwab, Mr.
Cramp, Mr. Sereno E. Tnyne and Sen
ntor Aldrlch! Bah!
A Missouri Humorist.
Tom Lloyd, the young sou of Con
gressman Lloyd of Missouri, bids fair
to rival Mark Twalu as a humorist.
Not long since he wrote his father as
follows:
June 2S, 1902.
Hon. James T. Lloyd, Shelby ville. Mo.:
Dear Sir I would like for you to look
up my pension claim and If possible have
my check sent to me immediately. I
have served for about one, week In the
First volunteer corps of the Lloyd House
tleanlng brigade, commanded by Lieuten
ant General H. H. Duckle (mamma). My
back is nearly broken, and my hands are
covered with blisters so that I am unfit
for anv more active service. My number
is 132,176,9S4,136,9sa. Trusting that you will
have the check forwarded me. I remain,
respectfully, THOMAS L. LLOYD,
Private in Rear Rank.
A Hot Factional Fight.
The latest news from Nebraska is to
the effect that lion. Edward Itosewa
ter, editor of the Omnhn Bee, is hot
foot after the flossy scalp lock of Da
vid II. Mercer, present congressmaa
Both are Republicans, and unfortunate
ly so is the district.
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is "Patent" flour. The intelligent house
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it is better and more ecomonical to use
Made in Oregon City by the Portland
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