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4 OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1808 Oregon City Enterprise. Published Every Friday. L U rOIUKU, pHornirroiL C J. CURTIS, Political Kditor. SUBSCRIPTION HATK8, One yesr $'.' 00 His months 1 00 Trial subscription, two mouths 23 A discount of fO cents on all subscriptions for one year, 'J.) cents for six months, it paid in advance. Advertising rates Riven on application. Subscribers will find the date of expira tion stamped on their papeis following Uieir name. IT this dale is not cnangeu within to weeks after a pavmenl, kindly notify us and we will look alter it. Entered at the posloUiee in Oregon City, Or., as second class matter. KKri ltMCAX STATE TICKET For Congress THOMAS It. TONGUE. For Governor T. T.GEER. For Supreme Judge F. A. MOORE. For State Treasurer C. S. MOORE. For Secretary of State F. I. DUNBAR. For State Pi inter W. L. LEEDS. For Attorney General D. R. X. BLACKBURN. For Superintendent Public Instruction J. II. ACKERMAN. DISTRICT TICKET For Circuit Jud;e T. A. McBRlLE. For District Attorney T.J. CLEETON. For Board of Equalization W. H. Smith. For Joint Senator L. L. Forter. Clackamas and Marion. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET Senator Geo. C. Brownell. Representative; J. L. Kruse, John Dennison, Alex Thomson. County Judge Thoe. F. Uvan. Comtnissioiier Richard Mortoo. Sheriff Max Ramsby. Clerk Adulph Aschuff. Recorder Hi on. Kaudall. Assessor EH Williams. Treasurer A. B. Marquam. School Superintendent 11. S. Strange. Surveyor E P. Rands. Coroner H. A. Dedman. Whew! but ain't the Pops hot. Wc'vb got the Pops mad. That's half the victory. Keep up the good work. I toys, we've it tbe Pops on the run. Evidently the Pops don't care to hear about that legislative hold-up. We have only sent out a few "feelers." Just wait until we get warmed up and then see the fur fly. We don't know whether the Pops are kicking about selling out for $30, or tbe "mud-slinging" editor of Clatsop. There: seems to be a large discrepancy between Populist figures and the records and figures cn file in the county court. The Populist who were howling loudest for war two months ago are now kicking the hardest about the prospec tive war tax. Windy, Slipckky U'Rkn is having a hard time explaining to the voters of Clackamas county his connection with the hold-up and Jonathan Bourne's barem. Two and four years ago, the Populist party demanded the disbanding of tbe Oregon national srmrd. Now they are willing they should fight Spain provided they are paid in fiat money, A movth ago the Populists were Jump ing on President McKinley for not going to war. Now they are whining about the government borrowing money to pay the exnvs of the war. Political acrobat Billy Myers, Honest John's protege, has now joined another party. This time it is the Middle of the Roaders. Jacob's coat isn't in it with Silly's checkered political carreer. WiiBATreached $1.70 last week in New York. Silver still remains stationary at 43 cents. One bv one tho Pnn.ilmtn financial theories are exploded. And little Billie Brvan iHn't saying a word j r Even the Herald iniwfit admits that ! tbe Republican county court has ad-1 ministered the affairs of Clackamas! county honestly and economically. As ! matter of fact tlioy have reduced tbe Indebtedness of the county over $30,000 during the past year. Phksidknt McKinlky proposes to issue bonds to carry on the war in such denominations that the peopdo of the United States can buy them, instead of allowing the Wall street ahylocks to speculate with them. And the Populists even oppose the bond issue. A Port'LisT school teacher' in Burling ton refused to let the stars and Btripes be raised over the school house where he is principal. The boys, with tiue American grit, organised and with an order from one of tbe school board hoisted the flag over the protests of the teacher. Such a mau should be fire J from the schools. Bko. Fitch is an adept scholar in "mud slinging." lid isn't slinging mud, however. It's all slime. When it comes to slinging mud Fitch stands pre-eminent. No mau on earth can touch him with a teu-foot pole. Windy Slippery U'Ren loads the Herald's batteries and Fitch touches them off. Tbe effort of Populist bushwhackers to attribute editorials in the Enterprise t T. P. Randall and use them against him in the campaign, simply show what base metho.ls these reformers will resort to in order to deceive the voters. Mr. Randall is too much of a gentleman to pay any 'attention to the vile slander of histraducers. Talk about mud slinging, it exists nowhere except among boodler Populist politicians. Is hisdebate with Brownell Mr. U'Ren referred to the author of "Jona than Bourne's harem" aa being a Methodist preacher, unworthy of belief, and intimated that all preachers were iars. Rev. G. W. Grannie, of Salem did refer to the hold-up- as "Jonathan Bourne's harem," but used it in a poli tical sense. The accusation against the Methodist was certainly uncalled for and will be resented by that grand and noble band of patriots on June til h. "All honor to the Oregon boys who have volunteered to serve their country at tbe first call oi President McKiuley. No matter wbat onr disagreements may be on political economy, every section and every citizen is a nnit when it comes to repelling invasion by a foreign foe or maintaining . the honor of our countiy'a (flag. "Herald. Considering that there are only three Populists who have enlisted, it is evident that the Herald is anxious to baye the 1197 Republicans ordered to the front before the 6th day of June. Populists are great fighters with their mouths. Last Tuesday a man who lias been a prominent Populist of Clackamas county for the past four years came to this office and planked down on tbe table the cash to pay for a year's subscription to the Enterprise, with the remark that he had enough of Populism. He said: "I bave been enabled to get out of debt by reason of good prices which I have this year obtained for cattle and wheat. The party whose policy has brought this about is good enough for me, and from this on, I vote the Republican ticket. Billy Myers, Honest John's little protege is making a Molly Hogan of him self. He tails the farmers that if he is elected county judze, he will have the voter" at whonl plpcfinn decide npon supervisors and bow much road work shall be done. In other words he pro poses to suspend the state laws in Clackamas county in the interests of the Popocrats and incidentally fur himself. If little Billy keeps on he will have the commission of lunacy after him, No sane man would make snch outlandish statements. Any man that would make such misleading statements is not quali fied tor the position of dop-catcher. Those rcpoerati tint c'im to be loyal to tho United oiaits flax would do well to consider William Rufus King's atti tude toward the slate militia. When be was a member of the legislature he ob stinately opposed all propositions to in crease the efficiency of the Oregon national guard, denouncing the militia- men 88 mini(" of capitalists and of no benefit whatever to the state. And n',w ,nis mn wan,H to be Kwcrnor of j will register a vigorous protest against Oregon and still further demoralize the) a party that wilfully violated Its pledges patriotism of this state. Do tne people j to the people and blocked legislation. of this rnmoinnwe-iUh want at their 'Thepnpnlists were profuse with promises head such a man ? Or do thev wants! of reform. They promised to reduce governor that will do his utmost to pre- serve the honor of his people, and not ratine them to blush for shame when they Are called upon to help dofend the nation? COUNTY riXAM'K. There are a few inteiestitig items in the administration of county affair in Clackamas county which Bulmacedu Fitch of the Herald has overlooked. In fact, he don't care to discuss them. Ho has been trying to impose on the people of Clackamas county by publishing mis leading statements relative to how much the Populists have saved to the county of Clackamas, but is discreetly silent on what the Republican County Court has saved. From the financial statement published in the Herald in April, 181)7, ... i. ... i .i mo inucmtiiupss oi tue conutv was 17S,(iS4.tm. From the statement pub lished in the Herald in April, 18t8, the indebtedness of the county is $147,- 4S1.72, a reduction of the indebtedness in one yesroi ji,.i.'.vi. Aim it was done by a Republican County Court. Herald please copy. FINANCIAL AIISlltDITY. The more the financial heresies of the Populist party are studied the more absurd they appear. An illustration is found in the bill published ill this issue. According to the provisions of the bill, the government is to issue unlimited paper currency, irredeemable, to the amount of $40 pel capita, and the money is to be used to pay taxes ; that is, the general government will pay the taxes of every man in'the United States, and no person will have any taxes to pay It is also to le used in paying off all munici pal and county indebtedness. No mat ter if gold bearing county warrants or municipal bonds are out in payment of loans, these are to be taken up with this fiat money and all debts cancelled. This is inflation of the currency, pure and simple. And yet. there are fool cranks and populist heretics that believe in the scheme. CALAMITY HOWLKKS. Never in the history of this country has there been exhibited such bitter ani mosities against the party in power as Ib being done by the Populists and free-silver agitators and press. Their earnest prayer is that disaster may befall this country ; that people may be driven to the verue of starvation ; that many may be tendered homeless; that strikes may bring ruin upon the people; that pesti lence and famine may smite the people; all this and more are earnestly longed for by these calamity howlers. And what for? Simply that their party may be successful at the next election. They chew as a sweet morsel every report of a failure, of a strike, or if factory close down for repairs; and are doing all in their power to create wide spread disaster. Tliey prate and yelp about "confidence being restored" until it has become a rank chestnut. They publish with annotations and comments a bank failure or a closed factory, but are strangely silent about the hundreds of factories and industries that have sprung up all over the land. Some of them even blame the Republican ad ministration for the discovery of void in Klondike, as a scheme to down the sil ver interests of the country. Talk about soreheads, they are the sorest gang of bum politicians and ward strikers ever turned loose upjn a community. If tbey ever were in possession of the five human senses, no one would know it now They are so biased and preju diced that one might as well talk to an Indian cigar sign as to one of these mal contents. It does seem that every hobo, every political outcast, every renegade, every man who has served a term in the penitentiary for stealing public funds, every ward striker, all the scum and scrubs of creation have pooled their ibsues and joined one political organiza tion and called it the Union party. Ore gon has had a striking illustration of the ofiHoT of some of these outcasts at the last session of the legislature. VVHLIV OI'IMON. Never in the history of Clackamas county has there been such an under current of feeling against the Populist party as exists today. From the large number of men who haye called at this office; from the numerous communica tions received it is evident that the quiet and honest voter of Clackamas county salaries, abolish all useless commissions, 'secure a better and more equitable assessment law and many other changes in our laws. How did they keep those promises? They went to Salem ; became inmates of Jonathan Bourne's harem; drank Republican wlno, smoked bank er's cigars and received boodle from a gang of political outcasts w hose presence in Sulein was a disgrace to the Capital city. They give as an excuse for their perfidy and shame, tluit It was the only way they could defeat John II. Mitchell for United States senator. What right hail this incipient minority to thwart the will of the untjority? What right hud they to combine with boodle politi cians and hung up the legislature and prevent nee .led legislation? They were elected on a free silver platform, yd they combined with a hood lo out lit and received compensation for their service! from a gold standard bunker. They sold their principles, their donor, their party to their enemy. When any political organization will block the wheels of government simply to defeat the people's choice (or United States senator; when they will by their leaders and orutois, fiom stump and platform, nmke promises of reform to the ieople who honestly believe In the principles advocated by tho Populist party ; when they will denounce corpora tious and hankers and accept passes from railroads and boodle from bankers, then it is time for the honest rank and tile of the Populist party, and of every honest man in the state, tocondeinii such actions not only publicly, but at the ballot box. Instead of being nien imbued with honest motives with a desire to repre sent the eople and carry out the re lorrns promised, they became political grafters, boodler and traitors to their party and to their country. There Is not another state in the Union that was ever disgraced by sin h corrupt proceed ings. N other party ever organized was guilty of such gross iniquity and perfidy. No man of any principle or standing can honestly Indorse such actions. The Populists have been charged time and again with being resitonsible for the legislative hold-up. They have been charged with being false to their consti tuents and violating every promise made to the people. What answer have they made to there charges? They have plead guilty to the indictment; plead guilty to every charge made and do not even offer an excuse in palliation of their crime. They have never denied the charges made for the reason that they cannot. They stand mills, convicted of one of the most dastardly outrages ever perpetrated in the state of Oregon. They admit that they deceived the people, were false to their paity and pledges and violated every principle; sold out to their opponents and after forty days sojourn in Jonathan Bourne's academy of boodler politicians and political grafters returned to their constituents a disgrace to themselves and the party they repre sented. They now come before the people for a re-election. They have adopted a plat form with all the former political reforms eliminated and ask the people to indorse their actions in the legislative hold-up There is not one word of censure in re gard to the hold-up. There is not one plank in their platform avoring the abolishment of useless commissions. They probably know that having been false to their pledges two years ago the people would not believe them again. A man who will vote or indorse the legislative hold-up must be lost to all sense of decency and shame. No man of any principle can yote to indorse the actions of the Populists in the last legis lature. No true and honest citizen will do it. A rank anarchist and Populist in an outlying precinct of this county said, in indorsing the actions of the Populists in the legislature, that by so doing they saved the state $000,000. No one but a fool, an imbecile and an anarchist would make such a statement. The result of the legislative hold-up will cost the state of Oregon $.'6,000 in interest on warrants alone. It enabled money sharks and bankers to buy up state certi Ilea tee for 85 cents on the dollar, most of which were issued to poor people who worked hard for the money due them, and who by force of circumstances were compelled to take certificates as they could not afford to wait for the legislature to meet a annrnnriuta rnnnov In nan tl,ai -v f-j j..nV claims. The cot to the -tate in interest j alone will bo more than the expenses of j the legislature. Charitable institutions where the blind, the poor, the orphans are kept; schools that receive aid from the slate, have been compelled to borrow tin ncy at a high rate of Interest to maintain those Institutions until the legislature meets. When nil these facts are conslilcied, there Is not nil honest man in the stain of Oregon hut will say, that thu legisla tive hold-up of ISU7 was the most iniqui tous ci hue ever known In the history of this stale, If the people of Cliickinnas county would express their honest con victions at the polls on the tllh day of June, irroHctlve of political Hlllliatioiis the Populist party would not receive one bundled votes In this county, Hut there are some Populists who are so blind, so prejudiced, that were the Popti lists to elect their legislative ticket and rcat tho hold up, tlioy would mill support that party If they hud stolen the state treasury and the eupllal build ing, tbey would Indole it. They seem to be unable to comprehend the differ ence between right nnd wrong, between honor mid ilUhoiior, between American-i-on and anarchy. POITI 1-ilV r I VI MUXEV. A Rill Introduced In Congrcm lo Pro Tide Wild Cut Money. To show the wild mid visionary Ideas of the Populists on the nioi.ey question the bill introduced by Mr. Howard, a Populist member of Coi.giesa from Ala bama, is published. A inoio absurd proposition could nut originate oiiUidu of a Populist (hit money advocate. The hill reads as lollows: Ho it enacted by the Senate and House of Kopnni'iitalives of ll.o I'niled Slates of A iiu -rim in Congress .niacin Med, That the secretary of thu tieaMiiy be and he is hereby authorized and directed to re tire the outstanding redeemable curren cies of the United Ststes, as Inst as they limy lie received back Into the treasury, with a new iiuiionul currency, which shall be receivable fundi public revt lilies and a full legal tender, at its face value, for ull debts puvablu wiihiu the limits of Its maker, but not redeemable or ex changeable in any other kind of money. Sec. 2. Tlmt the money of account of the United Slates shull hereafter he as follows, namely: Mills, cents, dimes, dollurs, fugle, condors and talents, ami the uluu or power of the said money uf account shall hereafter lie that current at the passage ol this act, except that o( condors, w lin h shall lie ton fold that of eugles, and that of talents, which shall be tenfold th.it of condors. Sec. 3. That tho sixes of the materials used in the preparation of the currency ol the United States shall hereafter le three inches in depth and vary In length one half of one inch for each denomina tion, allowing five inches for mills and eight inches lor talents. Sec. 4. That each of the seven tic nominations of the currency of tho Uni ted States shall hereafter be comiiosecl ol four grades, namely, ones, twos, threes and fives, which shall be placed not only in Ittrgi engraved figures in the body, but small ennraved words around the margin of each piece of the said rur. rency . Sec. 5. That the production, disposi tion, exposition or circulation of any other currency than that of the United Stales, within tho limits of thu said Uni ted States, shall, upon conviction, he punished by a fine of not exceeding one talent or Imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in thu discretion of the couit. Sec. 0. That thu secretary uf the trea sury be and he Ib hereby authorized and directed to pay the debts of the United States; but in the settlement of any claim, of whatever nature, against the United States, all controversies to which the United States shall be a party, shull be adjudicated by the district courts of the United State, and their judgments, when not oyeriulod by the circuit and supremo courts of the United Ntp, npon being certified to the snld secretiiry of the treasury, shall lie paid forthwith, any act of limitation or restriction what soever to the contrary notwithstanding. Bee. 7- That the secretary of the trea sury be and he is hereby authorlaid and directed to distribute to the treasurer of each domestic public authority, such as states, counties and municipalities, In cluding tho territories and the Distitct ol Columbiu. the sum of forty dollurs per capita per annum, according to the next preceding national census, until otherwise ordure: by Cotmress, in order that tne said domestic public authorities may pay their debts and current ex penses without any local taxation. Sec. 8. That the secretary of the trea sury be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pity a national dividend of one talent to each citizen of tho United States over twenty-one years ol age who claims it after ttie passage uf ttie law authorizing its payment. For Yiiiiiik Men mid V cutis Women. There is nothing that will arouse the ire of a young man or woman so quick as to have Inferior laundry work put off on them. They may dress ever so well, but if their shirt front or Bhlrt waist is . ,!,:. , ., . Tlie Tfoy IullIlJl y nmku(J a oJ Indies' and gentlemen's fine work There nan bo no better work than is done ul the Troy. Leave your oiders at Johnson's barbershop. COBUKSroNDBNCB Nimm Qilenllima Answered. Mll.M At'KKK, Mny (I, Editor Enterprise 1 wish lo ask tlio political editor of the Kutcrpilse, Mr. Curtis, the following questions: Huh llieie ever been any lawful money that was not ll.it money? When you use money as money, Is (I the material It is printed en or thu func tion It performs that Is a value to you ? When you light a clgur with a dollar bill do you use the dollar bill us money or as a cigar lighter? When you take a gold dollar snd havn your teeth tilled with it, do you use the gold dollar as money or as a uisxl mate rial for dentistry? Can you use the muletinl on willed money Is pi luted for any other purismo nt the same time (but yuu are using It as money ? Does anything in the woild have an mn hanging value except wnen ineusurcil by Itself? If gold was as plenty aa iron would a gold dollar buy as much as It ilia's at tho prccn lime? When you sell corn, wheat or cotton for money, do you not buy money? When you sell money do you not buy corn, wheat or cotton? If the supply of money does not in crease as fast as population and product and lint demand of business, will you hot have to sell luoru money to puri haso product? Can money and property, measiiii by money, both lucreaso In value at tho same lime? II. Tiikisskn. In answer to the first question, we de sire to Inform II. Thlcssen that gold Is not list money. Any fool ought lo know this, Fiat money is "Irredeemable paper currency, not resting on a seein busts, lul deriving iti purchasing iMiwer from the dceUrutory fiat of the government issuing it " The second question Is too sillv to bo considered. In answer to the third question we will ay (nut we never use. a dollar bill to light our cigur with, hut if the dollar bills were the kind the Popti lita aro clamoring for that Is all they would bo good for. Neither do we use a gold dol lar to till our teeth with. Dentists have gold crpcrlullv for that purpose. Popu lists would tine rags or any old thing to fill their teeth with, even If it bio wed tho top of their heads off. ' Can you uso the muteilalun which money Is printed for any other purpose at the same time that you are using It as money?" arks this verdant Pop. Money is money ; it is used as a circu lating mod in in and is not used for dish rags, Populist balloons or for ham sand wiches, and is not like corned beef and cabbiige Ak us something harder. The other questions, except the last, Is referred to any 12 -year-old schoolboy, who will no doubt le ablo to enlighten any crsxy Populist, provided he has sense enough to comprehend it. In answer to the last question we will nay that the government never sells money lo buy products. ProdiMa are sold for money. If Thiessen will read up on the increase of the per capita lie will find that money increases faster than populuHon. When there were sixty million population in the United Status the per capita was $18 24. Now, with seventy million population, the per cap ita is $': 85. We seldom pay any attention to ver dant cranks who are daft on the money question, nor do wo believe Mr. To lesson would be able te comprehend the ques tion were it explained lo him, We re spectfully call Mr. Thiessen's attention to an editorial in last week's Enterprise wherein we discussed voluntary and in voluntary idiots. Judging from Mr. Thiessen'l questions he belongs to the latter class. If this young financier will bke a course In some kindergnrten it may result In loosening the cobwebs that befuddle his brain and enre him of fol lowing blind gods In his search for pop ulistic heresies. Midland Monthly. The tragedy of the Maine and a de scription of the Cuban capital are timely and deeply interesting articles in the May Midland Monthly, both profusely illustrated. Miss Minna Irving of Tar rytown, N. Y., who wrote the descrip tion ol the battleship Iowa in the Mid land for August, 181)7, is the author of "The Tragedy of the Maine." Ilnfll lubtrutions wore obtained from surviv ing olHre.ru of the Maine. In pleasing contrast with these war suggesting arti cles is a tine description of a visit at the Uiliiplucu of Loiigleliow, Portland, Me., and a talk with Mrs. Pierce, tho poet's surviving mlur Tho prize stoi v in this number, "My btiungo Mirror," by Mrs. M. O. Favllln, is an Intensely interesting mystery tale. Stire I, Urlppe Cure There is no use suffering from this dreadlni malady, if you will only get the right remedy. 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