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CITY ENTEKWUSE FRIDAY, FKltRUAKY 13, 10011 Oregon City Enterprise irv ash ruvMV omcm. iimt. Published Exrvy Friday. Subscription Rates. One year Stv months Tii il subscription, two months ; discount of "0 cents on all subscriptions tor ont jtar, -" cent for six months, if paid in advance. APVKKTISINU K A T V. S ON AIT1 UATIOS. Ilinmn ( itlows th. L'iMHTIll ni It. ItnotolllV IUS a very lurco native whito population of fofvign parent age, 111 per cent of the whole, hut there nre among these people relatively greater mimhor of children under I year and under I years and 10 years than among the people. f native parentage. Where there is such a tendency the dependenee upon immigration now the increase for the I'nitcd States as a whole .if 2 00 1 would he abnormally small, I M We ipioto the following on the subject from an article in The Nineteenth lYntury, to wlucli we re ferred some time since: "As .ate as 110 the increase in the population ly reproduction was 'JSOl. hy im migration, '.liti. ly 1V0 the first had dwindled to 14.10 and the second had increased to KV-!." Ihir ing the latter put of the decade S".0-ln0O there was . . .. 1 I is. .C : i ,r i 1 1 . i .kii.l no r.wnlt tltit I't'iwiN rn. Subscribers will find theuateol expiration siampeo. , a iiecime oi ...i....l,. ... - m their papers following their name. If this is not turil!, 0n population showed "a relatively smaller in- -x,,.t...1 i.iiliin two weeks atter a payment kuhuv no-1 (, ,i n,Vtw ot any previous lUviulo since fy us and the matter will receive our attention. I ivhra,j,m f Independence." fact ol a low lurth rate seems to he pretty Entered at the postotlice at Oregon City, Oregon, as second class matter. Thus tin well cstahlislied. Why there is an aversion for families is another story. klP'o What Socialism Means in this Country. The professional socialists must he highly elated by Ml... ,.it i,.L j nnmi tlieir theories which are inereasiui; Congress Should Pass the Irrigation Bill r. i(Uy in numi,er and virulence. For such mi asitu- i I,'. .it,.li veneris that N'liator I.Oiliie. , : ,,, I,.,.. ,L ;,,tp..t iiiiioiestioiiahlv and iosillv u who ha Ken the principal champion of the educa-i .prehension lest there should he a complete re tional test in the immigration bill, is willing to waive , oonstitiition of the government on socialistic; lines. h ,t t,.t if the rest of the lull can thus he saved. The j. , t) , t0 ; :1 iVin that is heing applied in a tenta- ..!.,,,( tlvit -there .ire.' how ever, a few I ,.,.,.;,. ..... ti, ,int..r,kwih of text hooks and writ- Wl Kl"'ll'l' HI It'lM." ., 111,. ,. .. , I.- ...... .. ... - p.- . 1 '.1-1 1.. . . . ... ten systems, and in gives tio just cause for worrying over "logical results" or ultimate elleots of any kind. Nothing could illustrate more aptly the determination of a practical people to act as conditions rather than as theories suggest. There is a growing sentiment in favor of municipal owi.er.-hip simply because Un able of private ownership has become intolerable, and relhvtion ukui the condition has shown that the public's rights have not been properly considered i the granting of franchises. One of the consequences may lw a broader and bolder theorizing as to the pub lic's rights, but that does not imply'a mad rush after Kutopian schemes It is merely a notification that the field for exploiting the people in the interest of very shrewd and acquisitive individuals is to be some what narrowed. The same tendencies which are observable outside the domain of municipal activities must be attribu ted to a like cause. It is perfectly clear that tln in creased favor which has been given the proposition for state ownership of coal mines is due to the condi tions growing out of the strike. The people have Ix'en driven to consider the subject by a gross abuse of tlieir irghts and an exasperating indifference to their needs. And while they know there are creut practical diffi culties in the way of state ownership ami that it would present serious problems of its own. they are coming to regard it as a preferable alternative to the indifference arid the abuse. In such cases socialism does not appear first as an principle is teste.J atter the fact and the application of the principle is a proved only in so far as it may seem reasonable. It is still a long way to the condition in which the govern ment shall own "everything." and the public opinion and public policy of the future will depend upon the public experience. Tiikuk has been grave rumors the past week con cerning the health of Senator Mitchell. He has been CAUGHT BY THE RELEASED GRIP. 1 BY PE-RU-NA. Congressman Geo. H. White's C A Noted Sculptress Cured. "1 1 rixirxxxxxxxxiizii7.xmxxnmxxxxTxxxxxxfuxxxxxxx;: tin liitl pvimi with tht tun mm la uu ? ik' m-n wj-j'w.v. - ta'ional provision eliminated," and that "in the pres ent condition of legislation it is generally recognized that the passage of the bill is imiossible unless all fipo.-ition is removed." The unpromising status of the measure may be Meri bed in great part to the timidity of politicians and possibly also to interested motives springing from another cause. The fear of a certain public sentiment fets been aroused among them by the protests of chi ef foreign birth, who have regarded the bill as a har iaer to the jieople of their blood. The influence of the transportation companies is decidedly hostile to the bl and it would not be surprising if it had made it sdi i'-lt even in the halls of Congress. It requires no argument to prove that this latter factor in the case should be ignored, but it is desirable tlL.t something should he said on the subject of the protests. Some of them have been made undoubtedly ujer a misapprehension. There have been German protests, for example, when the Germans have had thing to fea:. As regards the educational lest they should be reassued by the fact that the percentage of illit.-racy among German immigrants was but 3.'2 in 18!!'l, .r.8 in 10HJ and 4.1 in T'Ol. and by the further fact that the te?t does not prevent the entrance of il literates for tne reunion of families, since they are priviledged by the law. What remains of the law is certain provisions concerning health, character and - i . . dt,,.. -l,i,.f. h,,nl,l hardly arouse the on- IMUUUliU 11 LU'. " ...vw - . j - ( priition of imv person who drsire the welfare of the j all-compelling principh country. But aside from the interests or supposed interest of any race, all the provisions of the bill, including the ducational test, would seem to be reasonable, and there is a special reason for the test at this time, not htcause of a hostility to any race as such, but because f the frightful illiteracy of the present immigration. Seventy per cent of that immigration consists of ele- .. f,..., ( ,.t n.r noiit illiterate Thf hltest imt'iun iiui" to "i '"j j"- ........... . - -j , , i i I 1 it 4, :.:,. .1..,.. .,t r,l tW tf,P iiereentac.fi holds ! a very sick man but it is believed he is much better , , i i e .1... ,t .,r..j.Tit It won i be h.lrd to replace N-nator good but trial tne aciuai numoer oi peopie uom mc j" illiterate regions of Europe bids fair to equal the ! Mitchell in the senate with a man that could do as highest record, made by the regions in which educa-I much for On-aon. His long experience has done tion is wellni'h universal. Now, if ever, is certainly ! much an.l his ability more for this state. V hen a the time to enact the bill into a law, and if it should ' state secures a man in the seriate that can do as much mot he pas.-e.i Congress will have been false to a great '; for it as Mitchell ran, it had better keep hmi there public duty. j A man might be a better speaker or a more profound thinker but few men of the senate have the ability to LOW Birth Rate in the United States. accomplish results as easily as .Mitchell does. Tint i . I. Iu Iw.n ? I 1 1 I. n w ii wed ti 1 1 irli Tii" assertions of Dr. Shradv concerning the low ; ugly rumor- n,,,,,,,,,,,, , ... tirth rate among Americans of American ancestry are : uneasiness and the legislature has talked of adjourn partly indorsed by "Hicial deductions which appearing over so that there could be no democrat ajq.omted in the report, on the last census. Volume II part If by the governor if he should die. Ihe latest reports n population presents tables which indicate that the j are that he is better. Certainly it ,s hoped that he Tate is considerably higher among persons of foreign j may recover rapidly as Oregon has need for h,s Her parentage than it is among those of native parentage, vices. and declares that "the changes in the age constitution j ' .of the native elements of the population are caused! Gam.oway's bill for preserving the blockhouse on -principally by a decrease in the fecundity of native-! the Grand Ilonde Indian reservation and authorizing born women of native extraction." These changes j the Oregon Historical Society to obtain possession of ..... . 1 . . ... rvl : . 1 1 1. 1 ,. I. Bhow a decline ill the proportion ol children reporieu ; it is a meritorious measure, j ins for the flirt year of life, and the report adds that j lieved to be the only one left in Oregon, was built at a k.1 J0' I I I . I'll V tor K ai il b. y 3 The world A A-k F( I j:of medicine XXTNn 3 j; recognizes XJJ Grip as cpi- f vA V;,4 in -v r r r- a-.- n 1 w 1 ii t.M friinSI9 9t MlH.I'l I,. 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Oregonian $2 O CCSO' o o o GGQOo O O O while the loss may be due in a measure to omissions and mishtatements, to a slight decrease in the num- very early date, and many military men who after ward became famous were stationed there at various auu in inntaw-iin.ii t,r-j hj a cnim ..vv -n.. , ii - - , ,be.r of jnarriageg for American women and to the post-, times, among them being General Phil .Sheridan, Gen- ponement of marriage to a later' period in lite, an i eral W. 1J. iiazen, uenerai t. j . nnnui, i these causes are of inferior importance to the one first i Wheeler, General David A. Mussel and Fighting Joe nam(j Hooker. General Grant also visited the place. We A summary is then given which shows "that from j ara prone to neglect objects of historic interest. This 1890 to I'.kjO there was an aggregate increase in the landmark, of great interest on its own account and .nail vp white nonulation of 10,61.5,,03.1 percent; ' also for its associations, ought to be preserved, and but after excluding the children less than iu years oi tne uregon iiistoncai nociuiy in m iuh i,..r.i,..u... both of whose parents were of foreign birth the It is to be hoped that Representative Galloway's bill - . . i . numerical increase is reduced to, approximately, 7 37'J,1'.2 and the percentage of increase to 10." The effect'of the exclusion is particularly noticeable in the North Atlantic division, where the change in percent oH :, from 20.0 to 9.5. In other parts of the country thiB change is: South Atlantic, 20.5 to 19.6; North will receive favorable consideration from the legisla ture. Oregonian. The senatorial election at Salem stands about the ..... . i ' ' i nr:.i. ' . same. Little or no cnarige taKing piace. mm hi thia change is: South Atlantic, JUo to , ij.o, .oru. , g an g0IneUling mUHt be .Central, 21.1 to 12.8; South Centra., 29.9 to 28.4; ; Western, 41.5 to 32.5 If the population tables for this state are examined It is believed there will be an election but as to the XI tile popniauou muico iu. . j and the percentages figured out it will be found that; raan there seems to be little light. o : : ! This is Your Chance! To buy jooiln tit prices to suit your pufso- Wo have just linisheil stocktaking and must reduce our stock to make room for Srin and .Summer floods. i Reductions in Shirt Waists, and Skirts of tlio latest Styles, Dry flood, Under wear, Hosiery, Shoes and etc, of the best make and quality. " Men's and Hoy's Clothing, Hats, Gloves and etcat prices that no prudent buyer ever overlooks. : : ! : : : The Red front! COURT HOUSE BLOCK OREGON CITY, OREGON. o o - o o I o o o o