i OREGON CITY COURIER. FRIPAY, AUGUST 28 1903. OREGON CITY COURIER Published Every Friday by OREGON CITY COUR'ER PUBLISHING CO J. H. W7.8TOVFR, Editor and H'wlucss Manager R. lata Wbboteh, IxkiI l.di.:-. Rntered in Oregon City Pwtoffloeaa 2nd-olM "utter J'aid In advauce, ier y mu t ii Clubbing Bates 1 50 . 76 Oreeon CI m courier and Weekly Oregonian -12.25 OrcKonC ty iw.ier nl W.;e!uy Courier- Oregon City Conner aud Weekly Exawmer.. 2.oO Oregon City Courier and the Cosmopolitan... 2.26 Oregon City Qourli- ntM the Commoner 8.00 IWThe date opposite your addrem ou the if per aenoies lai- iimn u t thisnoticeis marked yonrubscilptlon u due. OREGON OITY. ATJGUS1 28, 1903 CHICAGO has passed its hundred th birthday. Chicago poets can refer to her "youthful blushes" no longer. ' EVIDENTLY the republicans have no sympathy with thatsort of senti mental honesty which leads people to regard it as a crime to rob an Indian. Mr. Pulitzer's College of journalism will be watched with interest by all practical newspaper men, most of whom have little faith in schools of journalism. OF the thousands who surround ed the bulletin boards to learn the returns from the Corbett-Jeffries fight, it is safe to predict that ninety per cent disapprove of prize-fighting. THE republicans pretend tolaugh at fusion in politics but they are mortally afraid of a fusion of all the democrats and the tariff revision republicans, on a platform which calls for moderate tariff revision Almost everyone but President Roosevelt has forgotten the exist ence of a Cuban treaty and, left to itself, Congress would never pass the enabling legislation; but Mr. Roosevelt does not propose that it shall be forgotten and he will cull a special session to prevent it. GENERAL Leonard Wood has seen thirty days actual service, but in four years he has risen from an army surgeon with the rank if a captain, to a brigadier general, very nearly the senior brigadier, over the heads of several hundred seniors who ha ve served all through the civil war. i THERE are reports of grave scandals in the Postoffice Depart ment, the Interior Department, the Department of Justice and in the Government Printing office, while the Department of Agriculture is quitely investigating a little scandal ofitsown. Can any one doubt that it is imefora change of administra tion H. H. RAND, "confidential clerk to the Postmaster Ceneral" has been absent from the Postoffice Department since July 2nd. He is enjoying the summer on his farm at Laurel, Maryland, but he continues to draw his salary because Post master General Payne certifies to the auditor that Rand' who is under Investigation, is "conducting an in vestigation." EVERYONE knows that Secretary of the Interior, Hitchcock started out to investigate the scandals which involve the Dawes Com. mission, two months ago. What everyone wants to know is what induced the Secretary of the Interior to abandon the effort so premature ly. Was it the discovery that some of his own relatives were tarred with the same stick as the Dawes Commissioners? SPEAKER-to-be Cannon continues in his opposition to financial legisla tion, so dear to the President and the Wall Street contingent in the Senate. As speaker, Mr. Cannon will no longer enjoy the immense amount of petty patronage which falls to the chairman of the com mittee on appropriations and the Presidentandhisfriends will have to offer some lare and juicy plums of patronage to disarm the angaUnism of "the gentleman from Illinois." SENATOR Daniels of Virginia has knocked a large sized hole in the financial legislation program. He calls attention to the object of the Aldrich bill, a roundabout method whereby the banks can secure the surplus' in the treasury to loan to the people who need it in their business at a good rate of inteiest. Mr. Daniels points out that the logical course would be toso reduce taxation as to obviate any necess ary surplus and permit the people to collect the interest on their own money. That town where "no negroes are allowed" is not in the South, It is Elwood, Indiana, the state which was guilty of Perry Heath, Beveridge and other horrors. MCKINLEY ON TARIFF REVSI0N. F. O. Schuster, a governor of the Union Bank of London, is re ported to have said in a speech delivered in London, July 29, that he "had a private interview with the late President McKinley two years ago" and that on that occa sion Mr. McKinley said. "My tariff bill has done its work. We have been able to build up many great in dustries in a, short time and now gradually, but inevitably, our tar iff must be reduced." Mr. Schuster , is a man of good reputation and those who know him do not doubt that, substanti ally, he quoted the former presi dent correctly. But if one requires corroborative testimony it may be found in the last speech delivered by President McKinley at Buffalo, Septembers, I901. On that oc casion Mr. McKinley said: "We must not repose in fancied secur ity that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing. If such a thing were possible it would not be best for us or for those with whom wfcdeal, We should take from our customers such of their products as we can use without harm to our industries and labor. Re ciprocity is the uatural outgrowth of our wonderful industrial development under the domestic policy now firmly estab lished. What we produce beyond our domestic consumption must have a vent acroad. The excess must be relieved through a foreign outlet and we should sell everywhere we can and buy where ever the buying will enlarge our sales and production and thereby make a greater nemand for h'.me labor. The period of excluBiveness is past. The ex expansion of our trade and commerce is the 1 resBing problem. Commercial warB are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties ere in haimony withthe spirit of the times; measures of retaliation are not. If, per chance, some of our tariffs are no lunger needed for revenue or to encourage aud protect our industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and protect our market abroad?" In response to the sentiments ex pressed by Mr.McKinley at Buffalo, and in line with an intelligent rec ognition of the necessities of the times, there developed within the Republican party, a very strong sentiment in favor of tariff revision. In the state of Iowa this sentiment took formidable shape and was rep resented by the ' so-called "Iowa idea." The "Iowa idea" was the term by which was designated the plank in the platform adopted 1 by the Iowa Republicans for the years 19or and 19O2 as follows. "We fa vor the modification of any tariff schedules that may be reqnired to prevent their affording shelter to any monopoly." ' Although Republican leaders pro fess to be devoted to Mr. McKin ley 's principles and invoke Mr. Mc Kinley's memory whenever they find itconvenient to do so in provid ing defense for some of their schemes, Republican leaders very generally have caused it to be made known that there will be no revis ion of the tariff. In line with this disposition, there has grown up in the Republican party a body known as the "stand patters," and at this writing it seems that on that prop osition there is no difference among Republican leaders although, to be sure, among the rank and file of the party there are many, and perhaps they are in the majority.who really believe in a revision of the tariff, But the Republican party is not a majority party. While professing to reflect the public sentiment, its policies are adopted by a small cot erie of men. While claiming Abra ham Lincoln as the party's patron saint,. Republican leaders repudiate Lincoln's teachings and while in sisting that they are but adhering to the teachings of William McKin ley, and pointing to him as a model of all thst a statesman should be they have turned their back upon Mr. McKinley's last speech, have repudiated his counsel and now in sist that however unjust the tariff schedules may provide to the trusts, there will be no revisiod and that the Republican party is unaltera ble in its purpose to protect special interests. Long ago the Republican party ceased to be, on every proposition, the party of Abraham Lincoln and there are reasons, at this time, for believing that the party leaders are determined to ignore the counsel offered by William McKinley in the last and perhaps the greatest speech ever delivered by that gentleman, End of Bitter Fight. "Two physiuana had a long ami stub born flglit with an abbess on my right lung" writes J. r, Huzbos, of DuPont Ga., "and gave n.e up. Everybody thought mv time had come. Ad a last resort I trid Dr King's New Diceov erv for Coutiuuiptioii. The benetit I re ceived was striking and 1 nuts ou 111 v feet in a fw days. Now I've entirely regained mv health." It conquer all Coiulis, Colds and Throat and Lung troubles. Guarttuteed by Uharuian At Go's Drug ftor Trice 50c, and fl. 00. Trial bottles free. u u & u u n'n Champ ,t..f. TT TT u Letter u n n Special Washington Latter. - SOME queer things happen In cur rent politics. Last fall, just after the election, I happened to be In Kansas City. The re porters came around for an Inter view. As there wasn't much to say about the election except that we had received a drubbing something less se vere than that of two years before, I discussed possible and probable Demo cratic candidates for the presidential nomination. Among other things I de clared that General Francis Marlon Cockrell would make a tiptop candi date and would poll the entire Demo cratic strength of the country. It was rather an elaborate Interview, and I stated my reasons for believing he would mako a strong candidate. My nomination of the senator nt that time attracted very little attention. The only comment I recollect was in the Washington Post, which suggested that maybe I wanted his seat In the senate, an Inexcusable piece of malice, for I stated in the aforesaid interview that I was in favor of his unanimous re-election to the senate In the event of his defeat for the presidency. To all such flings as that made by the Post the proper answer la the old motto, "Honi solt qui mal y pense" ("Evil to him who evil thinks"). Now people are falling over each other in their eagerness to be known as the original Cockrell man. Out in Mis souri the men who are now for Cock rell for president are as the sands upon the seashore and the stars of the heaven. Even the Chicago Chronicle has waked up to the possibilities in the Cockrell case and has sent one of its staff correspondents to Missouri to get the exact lay of the land. I sup pose it must be accepted that my sug gestion of Cockrell for the presidency nearly a year ago was not such a bad shot after all. It was perhaps prema ture by something like ten months. It seems now to be agreed by a multi tude of people that "President Cock rell" would sound very well to the American Democratic ear. There is no good reason why Missouri, the stron gest and most reliable Democratic state in the Union, should take a back seat V That General Cockrell would make a capable president there is no doubt He has served twenty-eight years in the United States senate and ' has achieved a very high standing in that body. He was a very strong silver man, for which reason the Bryan con tingent would support him with ' en thusiasm; be is exceedingly conserva tive, for which reason the business in terests would not fear him. His serv ice as a gallant officer in the Confed erate army, which would have been a bar to his candidacy ten years ago, in this era of good feeling would prove a good help. A Union veteran has much Nupect for a Confederate veteran who bravely fought during the war for what, he believed to be right and who quit fighting when the war was over. His liberality on the subject of pen sions would also help him with the old Union soldier. In his private life, he is absolutely above reproach. If nom inated, in all human probability,, he would be elected; but defeat would not hurt him a particle. No one can defeat him for the senate whether be runs for president or not. If he will consent to run for president and should be de feated, the people of Missouri will not allow any one to oppose bis re-election to the senate. The "one gallus" fellows at the forks of the creek would see to that, with the hearty co-operation of the majority of the other people. The surest way for a senatorial aspirant to fall Into a pit of his own digging would be to start an intrigue to slip Into Oockrell's seat In the senate while he Is a candidate for the presidency. j It Is easy for a newspaper a thousand miles from Missouri to get up cock and bull stories as to "why" the people of Missouri are supporting Cockrell for the presidency. Another Richmond. There is another Democratic presi; dential Richmond In the field in the person of Hon. George Gray of Dela ware, who was for many years a lead ing member of the senate of the United States and who la now on the federal circuit bench. In the senate Judge Gray succeeded Hon. Thomas F. Hay ard, who resigned to be secretary of state in Cleveland's first administra tion and who was ambassador to the court of St James during Cleveland's second administration. One would travel long and far before discovering a finer specimen of mental and phys ical manhood than Is Judge Gray. The first tune I ever saw him was at the Tilden convention at St. Louis in 1S7G. when and where I was merely an In tensely Interested looker on in Vienna. Judge Gray placed Senator Bayard In nomination for the presidency, ne was then in the bloom of a splendid mat) hood and attracted universal attention by the grandeur of his physique mrl the excellence of his speech. Fror.: that day to this he has been a growing man and has kept himself well In tli public eye. President , McKinley ar pointed him as one of the peace con mlssloners who negotiated the Pari treaty t the close of the Spanish wit' and subsequently appointed him k United States circuit judge. President Roosevelt appointed him a cotuinl sloner to aid in settling the anthrucit" coal strike last year, the difficult an.1, delicate duties of which position he dlt charged with such success that be woa trw $ w wu n Clark's n n n Senator CockreU'f Chances Growing (3 Judge Gray Alto In the Running u tt n tt n the hearts of the, miners. They have made up their minds to advocate hlin for the . presidency. Of course Dela ware has a very small Influence in the electoral college. She has only- throe electoral 'votes, but that matters very little. If the labor anions support Judge Gray for the nomination wl It anything like unanimity he will get it, and If he Is nominated and the labor unions support him with anything liko unanimity at the polls he will be elect ed. Consequently his prospects of land ing in the White House are by no man ner of tneans to be sneezed at. That hie would bring to that exalted position character and capacity of a high order every well informed person will con cede. Judge Gray's prospects in life are cheerful. Choate Slops Over. Hon. Joseph H. Choate, wit, lawyer, bon vivant and ambassador to the court of St James, seems determined to out-Herod Herod as an Anglo maniac. To use a figure of speech from the lingo of the great American game of draw poker, which a Nevada court has solemnly adjudged to be a scientific performance rather than a game of chance, Joe "raises" all other Anglomaniacs clear out of their boots by suggesting that a statue of Queen Victoria be erected in the city of Wash ington. That preposterous caper ought to be worth two or three dinners at the king's tables for Joseph. As a tn't hunter he not only takes the cake, but the entire bakery. He ought to ex patriate himself a la William Waldorf Astor and become a citizen of perfidi ous Albion. But perhaps the sugges tion is Mr. Choate's latest and lamest joke. Better Late Than Never. "Honor to whom honor is due" is an ancient dictum worthy of acceptance. Certainly the place of honor in all the proceedings touching the Louisiana Purchase exposition should be given to Thomas Jefferson, though certain per sons have been doing their level best to squeeze the immortal father of Democracy out of the celebration and bestow all the honors upon a few living men. At last a movement has been started to do something like justice to the one man without whom there would never have been any Louisiana pur chase to celebrate. There is to be a Jeffersonian exhibit. It is rather late to think of this plan, but better late than never. The Jefferson Memorial association of the city of Washington seems to be the prime promoter of this laudable undertaking. A location has not yet been selected for the exhibit, but W. S..McKean, secretary of the as sociation, has been authoritatively as sured that some sort of place some where will be permitted for the Jeffer son exhibit. That nook or corner ought to become the Mecca of all Democrats In fact, of all American citizens who visit the exposition, for Jefferson's wisdom, prescience, courage and tact doubled the area of the republic. A re vival of Democracy has already begun. Next year it will be In full blast and the redheaded Virginian' Is the patron saint of Democracy. They who honor him honor themselves at the same time. Uncle Mark's New Sobriquet What's In a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would small as sweet, Is a famous saying of Shakespeare. If Senator Marcus A. Hanna reads the editorial page of the St Louis Repub lic it may be doubted whether he agrees with the Bard of Avon In that declaration, for in Its Issue of Wednes day, July 15, it characterizes Uncle Mark as the Empress An of the Re publican party. Hitherto many nick names, epithets and sobriquets have been applied to the senator, all more or less descriptive, but until the date aforementioned they all Indicated that he was of the male persuasion. Now he is likened to an old woman. When General McCook was, In an early day, In command at Denver the Indians frequently became trouble some, and as they were quite numerous In that vicinity they were somewhat dangerous. They had not only to be treated courageously, but also tactfully. Among their chiefs Colorow was th.' most pestiferous. One day, having filled his tank with fire water, Colorow rushed upstnlrs with a pistol in hand into the room where General McCook was writing. Walking up close to the general, Colorow abruptly remarked. "McCook coward!" The general con tinued writing, made no sound, uttered no word, but out of the corner of bl eye watched Colorow's pistol hand. The chief, thinking perhaps that Mi Cook had not heard him said, "McCo- U d d coward !" Still the general wro". watched and made no sign. Then Colo row yelled, "McCook heap d d cow ard!" Unfortunately for the big In dian, he dropped his pistol hand. In" stantly McCook seized hlra by th neck and unceremoniously kicked h!n' down the stairs, where he fell sprawl ing among his followers, who were dumfounded by the idea of any niortsii man applying violent bands and feet to the person of their chief. McCook. realizing the situation, shouted: "Colo row old woman! Elect you a nev chief!" which they proceeded to straightway. The Republic has culler Uncle Stark an old woman! Will he V deposed? That Washington Statue. A good deal of discussion is going on errer the proposal of some Englishmen to put op a statue of George Washing ton In London. They may be doing IETsH5eHuse'"&ey Indorse some of 'the later acts of Washington's life, such as the capture of Corawallls, but a great many people will believe it to be mere ly a diplomatic play to further arouse on the part of America a feeling of sympathy and friendship for England. While this nation was young all the other countries were willing to take a whack at her, and old England led the van, but now that she is the big gest factor in the commercial world and the richest nation on the glob) they are climbing over each other to gain 'her friendship. It seems safe to assert that no large portion of the British public rejoices in the separa tion brought about largely through the operations of Washington and his army. It is true that Washington and his brethren In arms taught the Eng lish some salutary lessons In the gov- . eminent bf colonies, but human na ture doesn't often expend its feelings in erecting statues to those who teach good lessons at such tremendous cost A to those taught. It looks very much as if it is merely part of the large game England has been playing for several years to win an alliance with the Unit ed States. Public Ownership. It is a remarkable fact that three men mentioned for the Democratic presidential nomination are openly ad- ; vocating public ownership of public utilities William H. Hearst, Tom L. I Johnson and Carter H. Harrison, the I first named being owner of three great Democratic newspapers and the last j'two being mayors of great cities. Mayor Harrison's last message occu pies a pamphlet of sixty-two lare pages, and I have to thank him for a copy of it It is an able document and I would like to quote it all, but a few extracts must suffice. Here they are: "The people above all are interested in the securing of satisfactory trans portation facilities thoroughly In keep ing with the progress of the times and In the taking of the preparatory steps toward an early ownership of the trac tion utilities. .There is little need for arguing these points. The people have spoken on them again and again, and to faithful public officials the people's : voice should be a command. I fail to agree with those who claim to find the sole moving cause of the general desire for public ownership in the ex ecrable service the people of this city have been subjected to for the past six years. In all likelihood general atten tion to the theory and desirability of public ownership was first directed by the outraged sentiment of the public, aroused by the intolerable service ren dered by 'the local traction companies. It had its origin perhaps In the failure of the traction companies properly to recognize and appreciate the responsi bilities and obligations assumed by them, together with the franchises from which, with such slight regard for the public rights, such tremendous financial benefits have been obtained. Today the desire for and belief In public own ership have gone farther than a mere wish for decent and comfortable facili ties. The great mass of our citizens have been educated to the Idea that in public ownership lies the sole, fair, just and reasonable method of handling all those utilities for the operation of which the practically- exclusive use of public property Is required. Public ownership is desired as something more than a mere means to an end, the obtnlning of satisfactory service. It is based on the belief that the profits ac cruing from the use of the property of the public properly belong to the public; ; that the granting to individuals of the j right to enrich themselves at the ex pense of the many by the exclusive use : of the public's property is as unfair In practice, as false In theory and as de moralizing in its results as were the habits of despots of the olden days who farmed out the levying and the gathering of the taxes as individual perquisites to profligate favorites. "These were my personal views in 1808, before the question of public own ership had been seriously discussed by a considerable number of our citi zens. My experience in official life and the investigations I have since made have only served to strengthen the Im pressions then formed that the idea of public ownership is neither a fad nor a dream; that it is based on the soundest of common sense, the most stable of business reasons; that It will not only help to lessen the burden of taxation weighing upon our citizens and reduce the rates they must pay for the necessaries of life now furnished by private companies at as high a cost as they dare exact but go far toward re moving corruption in public affairs by removing the cause and incentive for the debauchery of public officials." "Unhappy Cummins." Whether his excellency Governor A. B. Cummins of the Hawkeye State reads the Globe-Democrat I do not know, but If he does I am sure his o-nrire nnil rlnrwiar hAth Trill riafl whan he peruses the following ill tempered ( editor'. d paragraph from that stand I pat sheet, it disposes of both him and the "Iowa Idea" In the following harsh I and summary fashion: Has anybody heard anything- recently about the Iowa idea? That fad. It was announced by the Democrats, was to sweep over the Republican conventions of j 1903 and 1904 like a cyclone and disrupt and demoralise the party. The Demo- crats were to carry Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Now York and about every state In the ' Union of any consequence and have some thing of the same sort of tidal wave ! that they had in 1S62, when their candl- ' oats, Pierce, won every state except four. No one hears anythlnc about the Iowa i idea now. The unhappy person who pat- 1 anted It, Cummins, Is saying nothing bout It. He hRs virtually disowned t? . Be will absolutely disown It in lftH. aan never serve again for rainbow chv- j tnf purposes for th Democratic part. PE-RU-N A NECESSARY TO THE HOMEn A letter From Congressman White, oil I North Carolina. Congressman George Henry White, on Tarboro, N. C, writes the following letter to Sr. Hartman in regard to the merits of the great catarrh cure, Perona: House of Representatives, Washington, Feb. 4, 1899. Pernna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.l Qeatlemen " am more than satis fied with Peruna, and Had It to be an excellent remedy tor the grip and caA tarrh. I have used tt in my famtlfl and they all Join me In recommending. it as an excellent remedy. " Very respectfully, George H. White. Mrs. Karmie Wallace, Tulare, Cal. President of the Western Baptist Mis sionary Society, writes: "I consider Peruna an Indispensable article in my medicine chest. It it twenty medicines in one, and has so f ai cured every sickness that has been in! my home for five years. 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