OREGON CITY COURIER- FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1902.
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OREGON CITY, NOV. 5, 1902.
In Virginia a well of magnetic water
Lae been discovered. In Kentucky they
.Lave to manufacture it.
"THE.President'a advisers are fearful
'that his strong position on the trust
question will but serve to emphasize
the servitude of the Republican majority
to the trusts.
Trick is to give Pittsburg a university
that will far eclipse Carnegie's $5,000,000
polytechnic school. If this keeps up
education may cease to be an unknown
-qu mtity in "the fair city."
Preh. Mitchell and his union seek
' the privilege of saying who shall be at
1 liberty to work ; Pres. Baer and his as
sociates desire to monopolize the ma
. terial on .which alone non-union and
union laborers can find an opportunity
-to work. Much friction, but no heat.
Between his own conviction that the
tariff is too high and his desire to avoid
'saying what his political advisers tell
him will defeat his chances for nomina
tion in 1904, President Roosevelt is ex
jneriencing what the French call "a bad
quarter of an hour."
Two hundred corporations in this
cocntry represent an aggregate capital
of$3,6OO,e00,OOO. They employ 400,000
.workers, pay $250,000,000 In wages and
have -an annual outof $2,000,000,000.
i Does' anyone seriously believe that the
5 labor represented by thU output was
worthonty one-eighth its value?
'A'GRbat opportunity confronts the
Democratic minority in Congress. They
Lave only 'to unite on a single, reason
able policy, be frank and consistent and
.earn tbe respect of the country and they
-ill deserve victory in 1904. The great
responsibilities are all with the Repub
licans. 'The report of Secretary of the Interior
Hitchcock sets forth the fact that the
bears In Yellowstone park are so gentle
that they follow the tourists iu the hope
of pie. But with his nomination in the
balance, Mr. Roosevelt will not have
the temerity to m ike war on bruin with
auch strongly-marked republican ten-
dencies.
"No higher tribute to Gompers' hon
eety could be anted than the fact that
at the Denyer convention, where he was
defeated, he had to borrow money to get
home on," says a writer in the Nash
ville News. If borrowing nvjney to get
home on is a proof of honesty, there are
lots of us who have never been, given
credit for our virtues.
AwonnrNU to Engineer James O.
Stewart, the British bricklayer lays an
average of 450 to COO bricks per day,
while the American lays 2,000 to 2,700
bricks per Jay. When the American
bricklayer gets flft per day, which Is
what he earns as compared with the
liritiuli Ulwrer, wages in the United
States will bo as high as those paid in
Kngland.
Nowjthat the Republican party con
ironte a demand for anti-trust legisla
tion, -Henator Cullom has found that the
present law la all sufficient. We have
Ireqntfitly remarked that (act and have
asserted Usui faw prosecutions under
the cwinirial provisions of the law would
mcvt- respect, but no Republican attor
ry g 'ucral dare enforce it.
JThk financial failure of "Swift," tbe
(Sail Man," is Attributed to the enact
. ment 4 the) nta-oleomargarine law, but
ra tb en&etinont ot tnatlaw worked to
(thai tternieut of the butter men, the
caw ais'nod lor the assignment of
.$w'4 akesonthe appearance of what
tba doiana sti,matie aa a "non se-
The President's choice for chairman 'leghanies. Our centre of population, in
of the Republican National Committee jclu()ing Ala9ka Porto Iico and the
in the 1904 campaign ie said to lie be- Philippines, is somewhere in Kansas
.wCB v,,arKson, me spoilsman, and
Payne, the dictator of the policy which i
removes competent men from office on
the sole ground of political expediency.
And his supporters in chief are Piatt,
Quay and Addicks, three men who stand
charged with every crime on the politi
cal calendar. Wasn't it Mr. Roosevelt
who advocated civil service reform?
Such fidelity to principle creates abso
lute belief in the good faith of his atti
tude of antagonism to the trusts.
Standing on the crest of the Blue
mountains of Eastern Oregon where the
Oregon Short Line Rail Road eacl es
the summit of that great divide and
watershed, there was erected when the
railroad was constructed, now twenty
years gone, an eating house or rail
road hotel. It was built of Blue moun
tain pine, of logs with the. bark uncut,
in picturesque, pioneer style. For
twenty years it stood an imposing and
lovely monument attractive from the
exterior and more than attractive with
in. Within its walls was conducted an
eating hoase that was a marvel to the
traveler in all this Western world. No
better cuisine could be found in the
best hotels ot New York. No more
lovely place was to be seen in a trip
across the continent. The writer well
remembers that on a Sunday morning
in March, now eighteen years ago, with
the snow four feet deep on the level and
the temperature ten degrees below zero
his train pulled to the top of the Blue
mountains, and at daylight he had one
of the best breakfasts he has enjoyed in
a life time at this summit eating station.
The"old eating house has burned down"
its memories and its beauties remain.
The railroad people owe it to the traveling
public to rebuild it on precisely the same
lines as before. We are promised that
it will be done.
CANNON FOR SPEAKER.
It Beems that "Uncle Joe" Cannon is
to have an easy victory in the speaker
ship contest. Mr, Babcock, who in
tended to run on his tariff reform record
scarcely got started in the race, and Mr.
Littlefield, who trusted to his anti-trust
record, was entirely distanced.
"Uncle Joe" is simply a republican;
he is perfectly satisfied with the Repub
lican party ; he has implicit faith that
the crops will be good when the repub
lican party is in power, that prices will
be high to those who want high prices,
and low to those wantlovv prices, pro
vided Republican rule is not disturbed.
There is nothing that be wants to re
form, and therefore he does not have to
worry about platforms or promises. He
is the natural and logical candidate of
those who accept Mr. Hanna' s doctrine
of "let well enough alone." If he is
chosen speaker, as now seems certain,
we may count on the Republicans adopt
ing a policy of masterly inactivity.
MITCHELL ON VIOLENCE.
Mr. Mitchell rendered a distinct serv
ice to the causa of labor when he de
clared in answer to an inquiry relative
to the influence of violence upon the suc
cess of a strike: "I should Bay that its
success would not be dependent upon it
at all. The very conditions alleged
would reduce the chances of winning
the strike. In my judgment, violence
never contributed to the success of a
strike, because it loses for those on a
strike the sentiment of the public."
Mr. Mitchell is entirely right. Vio
lence hurts the strikers infinitely more
than it does the employers. In fact, the
employers so well understand the in
fluence which a display of violence ex
erts upon tho public that they have been
accused of instigating the violence
themselves In order to profit by the in
dignation aroused. Mr, Mitchell hag
done much to strengthen the cause of
labor, but nothing that he has said has
shown a clearer discernment of a more
just appreciation of the forces that move
society.
THE WESTWARD COURSE OF EMPIRE.
A monument placed last Wednesday
in a lone field between Wigg's Station
and Elizabethtown, seven miles south
east of Columbus, Ind marks the cen
tre of population of the United States
proper at the end ot the nineteenth cen
tury. It also commemorates the folly of
those who at the centuiy's beginning
thought it impossible that seaboard civi
lization would ever paea beyoud the Al-
exactlv where is unknown , as we have
n0 cenfmf; of the FiHDjnos.
In 100 years, the centre travelled west
ward 478 miles, or about three teet per
hour. The line made by its progress
was drawn to its southernmost point in
1830 by the development of Kentucky,
Tennessee and the lower Mississippi re
gion, wavered north until 1870, went
south in 1880 and north wardagain in 1890
and 1900 . Its longest jump was eighty
one miles between 1850 and 1860 because
of the California gold fever ; the short
est was from 1890 to 1900, when because
of the growth of the Eastern cities it
travelled but 'ourteen miles west, and
when the devt pment of Texas, which
gains as many I ngressmen in the new
apportionment as . ew York, and of Ok
lahoma and the In 'an Territory, de
flected it three miles south. At the
end of the century it is very nearly due
west of where it started.
Where will the centre be in A. D.
2000? Eastern prophets see it crawling
slowly into Illinois and there pausing.
Far Western men say that it will con
tinue to go rapidly westward. System
atic irrigation, with its small farms and
compact civilization, they say, is only
beginning the transformation of the
west into plains as rich and populous
as Babylon's of old; and they may not
be dreaming. If the centre were to
move westward in this century just as
it did in the last, the year 2000' would
find it in Missouri a little southeast of
Leavenworth, Kan., where it would
still be considerably east of the geo
graphical centre. For this is indeed a
yery big country! N. Y. World. (
FEAR POLITICAL EFFECT.
During the course of the examination
of Mr. Mitchell, Mr. MacVeagh, attor.
ney for the mine owners, referred to the
strike which was settled just before the
election of 1900 and developed the fact
that Mr. Mitchell waa in telephonic
communication with Mr. Hanna just be
fore the settlement. Continuing Mr.
MacVeagh said :
"Mr. Bryan was again a candidate for
the presidency, and you were conscious
.of the great apprehensions entertained
by the financial interests as to the pos
sibility of his election?"
"I believe," replied Mr. Mitchell,
"that the fact that an election was pend
ing had something to do with the early
settlement of the strike."
Here is pi oof, brought out by the at
torney of the mine owners, first, that
the financial interests of the country
were arrayed on the republican aide in
the campaign of 1900, and, second, that
the mine owners settled with the
miners because they feared that
a continuance of the strike would
do political harm to the Republican
party.
If Mr. MacVeagh had pursued the
same line of inquiry and asked in re
gard to the present strike he might have
shown that '.he fact that a congressional
election was pending had something to
do with the appointment of the board of
arbitration that is now conducting the
examination. And yet the rank and
file of the Republican party continue to
credit the president and Mr. Hanna
with disinterested patriotism in settling
strikes just before the election, and the
Republican laboring men and farmers
continue to vote with the financial in
terests that control the Republican
party and can make and settle strikes
and panics according to their pleasure.
This blind faith will be shattered some
(lav. In the meantime those who are
aware of the dangerous tendency of Re
publican policies and methods must
redouble their efforts both to maintain
the integrity of the Democratic party
and to make converts among those wh o
have had such implicit faith in Rerub
lican leaders.
THE CARDIFF GIANT.
In the recent death of George Hull, of
Binghamton, N. Y., is recalled the
moHt famous hoax of the nineteenth cen
tury. The giant was twelve feet long
and apparently the petrified body of a
roan. Such men as Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Emerson and Dr. Weecott (the
' author of David Harum), were deceived
by it. Cardiff, where the giant was
found, is in Onondago county, N. Y., a
few miles lrom Syracuse. Near by is a
depression in the earth ; in thts hollow
are found petrified fish and reptiles,
Geologiste say this hollow once formed
the bed of the ocean. It was here the
giant was found in 1869, while men were
digging a well. The news of the finding
of the giant Bpread across the country in
a short time, and soon vehicles of all
kinds were headed for the pit loaded
with people anxious to look upon the
face of the wonderful giant. Soon a tent
was erected over the giant and an ad
mission fee of fifty cents was charged.
In this way $7000 was made in a few
weeks. Immediately a three-quarters
interest was sold ' to business men of
Syracuse, one of whom was Dr. Wes
cott, for $3000. The giant attracted
the attention of many eminent scientific
men and by them was pronounced the
pdUified body of a man. Hull got his
idea of the giant from an argument he
had with a Methodist preacher, in which
the minister claimed the earth was at
one time peopled with giants. Immedi
ately he Bet about to materialize a great
and grand sell. After a long search for
the proper kind of stone he at last found
one to answer his purpose at Fort Dodge(
Iowa, in a gypsum bed. After many
difficulties in transporting the very
heavy stone over 45 miles across the Des
Moines river to a railroad, he finally
succeeded in having it housed in an out
of the way place in Chicago. He then
secured the services of an Italian sculp
tor to carve a gigantic figure of a man ;
the marks of the chisel were removed
and the figure treated to a wire brush
and acid to give an old appearance. It
waa then packed marked "machinery'
and sent to Union, N. Y., in 1808. From
there it was taken by wagon in the uight
to Cardiff, where "Stub" Newell, a
cousin of Hull, had a farm. They had
fixed it up between them to bury it.which
they did, and planted a crop of grain
over tiie spot. The next year Newell
had some neighbors dig a well on the
spot and they discovered the giant and
thus a fortune was made. Dr. Wescott
was a gentleman of the hignest respect
ability in Syracuse, and when the giant
was finally shown to have been a fraud,
his health gave way and he died shortly
after, it is said, of a broken heart.
TO YOUR TENTS OH! ISRAEL.
The time is now propitious for the
Democrats of Oregon and the county of
Clackamas to get together. We should
burry the hatchet and stifle all party
quarrels. We should forget the dif
ferences of the past. We should all get
together on a broad and liberal platform
of Democratic principals and be pre
pared to meet the enemy in battle array
with every soldier in his place prepared
to do or die in the "ffort to defeat the
common enemy. In "Ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain" the
Republicans have had long and ex
cellent schooling. We can not beat
them with a half hearted fight or a
half hearted organization. Every Demo-
crate must become a trained soldier.
The Republican party at the next
election, in 1904 will stand for all that it
stands for now, for centralization of
power, for corporate wealth and private
greed, for the rich against the poor, for
the few against the many, for the
plutocracy against the common man.
It will in J904 justify the formation of
trusts and levy tribute on wealth and
capital, in every village in the land. It
will seek to destroy the individual in
business and in all of the affairsof life .
It will put the dollar mark above the
man and Marcus Alonzo Hannah will
direct its affairs and marshall its assett.
The Democratic party will stand for all
that is clean in politics and honest in
government, believing that the "country
is governed best that ie governed least."
The Democratic party will appeal to the
common man, to the man "who sweats
and toils," who earns his right to live
by the sweat of his face. It will appeal
to the home builders and the firesides of
America, it will stand for the perpetuity
of a simple form of government, for the
greatest individual liberty to each and
every citizen, for the rights and the pro
tection of all. On such a platform and
fighting in auch a cause it ought to win.
We believe that it will win. The tru th
and the right will in the end prevail.
There have been many years, of darkness
and doubt. There has been a season of
corruption and fraud. Men have been
betrayed on the one side and sold on the
other. Honor has been b rtered for
gold and the Declaration ot Independ
ence and the human rights forgotten.
Theee things can not last. It is said
that error will get half way a-e.ind the
world while truth is getting its boots on.
The Democratic party will have its boots
on iu 1904 and it will stride across the
American continent, with the torch of
liberty i". one hand the Declaration of
Independent in the other and appeal to
every honeBt man who loves his country
and his home to join with us in hurryng
from power this plutocracy of wealth
ind imperilism which seeks to subvert
the very foundations of our government.
The right and the truth will win.
"Truth crushed to earth will rise again,
The enternal years of God are hers,
While error wounded writhes in pain,
And dies amongst her worshippers. "
Every man who loves his country can
join with us in the fight. The platform
will be big and broad and generous, The
burden of the fight will of necessity fall
on the old soldiers of the Democratic
party. Then "To your tents Oh 1
Israel," for the next battle is a battle to
the death a battle for the preservation
of American liberty.
In the election of Grant B. Dimi ck for
mayor of Oregon City on Monday Of
this week for the third consecutive term,
there may be much of interest to the
politicians of this county, especially
those of Republican persuasion. It may
mean that Dimick ia a new power in the
Republican politics of the county.
It may mean and possibly does mean
the passing of some cf the old leaders.
Senator Brownell has probably asked
the voters of Clackamas county for tbe
last elective office at their hands. He
has made some bitter personal enemies
in his own party as well as out of it. He
may be willing now to lay down the
reins of leadership, o? rather turn them
over to a younger if not a more skillful
politician. Browneli's leadership has
not always been for the interest of the
Republican party. He has used his
power as a leader in many instances for
his own advancement.' Dimick is a
younger man. That he is ambitious,
there caa be no doubt. That there are
some good things in Clackamas county
politics that he would like to have is
certain. He is fairly popular with the
members of his own party. More ao
possibly than Brownell has ever been.
What he wants, we have no means of
knowing. What his leadership will
produce time alone can tell. The Re
publicans of Clackamas county are by ho
means a majority party. They are dis
rupted by internal dissensions anl have
been torn by factional fights. They are
in power now for the first time in many
years. It will take able leadership, and
excellent and honest organization to
keep the party in power. The Demo
Brunswick House and Restaurant
FURNISHED ROOMS
Meals at All Hours
j 0
Pricea Reasonable
Only First Class Restaurant in the City
CHAS CATTA, Prop.
Opposite Suspension, Bridge OREGON GIT Y, 0 RE.
CHARM AN
Saves You fflomy
There is not an item in the drug liue but that you can save
money oy getting it here.
If we sold you a poor grade at
ing nothing. In fact, poor drugs at any price is the most '
expensive form of economy. Here you take no chances '
everything is of the quality
sdUMdcnon in Duying anything of us it is right as to
quality. The next; satisfaction is, you pay less for the pure '
an.ucnere man you do
cetter get what you want
SOME EVERYDAY PI? ICES:'
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CHAJRMAjST & CO.
City Drug Store, Cut Price Druggists.
Mail orders solicited
crats will be camping on their trail a
every day. of the next two years. In
the mean time, the bystander and the
looker on, we Democrats and others
will watch the political sky w ith much
interest. We do not now know whether
the recent election means the setting of
one political star and the rising of
another in theG. O. P. firtnanent or
whether it means additional factional
fights and a struggle for leadership and
party supremacy. And while we watch
the leaders of the opposition fight out
their battles, let us as Democrats get
closer together, gird on our armor and
prepare for fray and by ruaking Olack
amas county a Democratic county at the
next election we can do much to dis
concert the enemy and ' tumble around
the heads of some leaders ou the other
side their castle of broken promises,
and disreputable politics.
2000 sacks of first-class . potatoe s
wanted. Shank & Bissell.
We sell the greatest of blood purifiers,
Acker's Klooil Elixir, under a positive guar
antee. It will oure all chronic and other blood
poisona. If you have eruptions or sores on your
body, or are pale, wenk or run down, it is Just
what you need. We refund money if you are not
satisfied ; 50c and $1. Howell & JonfS, druggists.
A new Royal and a new Queen draw
head sewing machines will be given a
way to customers of Parkplace Cash
Store on Christmas.
Luck in Thirteen.
By sending 13 mileaWm. Spirey, of
Walton Furnace, Vt., got a box of
Buckleu'a Arnica Salve, that wholy
cured a horrible Fever Sore on his
leg. Nothing else could. Positively
curea Bruises, Felons, Ulcers, Eruptions,
Boils, Burns, Corns and Piles. Only
25c. Guaranteed by Geo. A. Harding
druggist.
Timber Men Wanted.
Two hundred timber men to make
piling. Twenty foremen. Highest wages.
Steady job. Pacific Timber Company,
Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Yours Truly,
PACIFIC TIMBER CO.,
Bv M. H. Silsby, AsB't Acc't.
Oregon City
Secoiul-IIancl & Junk Store
HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR SECOND-HAND
GOODS, HIDES, JUNK
METALS OF ALL KINDS, ETC.
Large lot of Sacka for Bale cheap.
Second-Hand Goods Bought and Sold
RING PHONE 416 FOR JUNK.
Sngarman & Co.
New Plumbing
and Tin Shop
A. MIHLSTIN .
JOBBING AND REPAIRING
a Specialty
Opposite Oaufleld.BIock OREGON CITY
ODen Dav and Ninht
a less price vou would he .
you want. That is the Greatest
tor the poor article elsewhere. ,
by getting it here.
dt
C01 co,ds Price, 2Sc.
Phone 13.,