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Corvallis, March 28, 1879.
W. . CARTER,
FIHTAHrCIAl. IDOLATRY.
Editor Gazette: It is claimed
that the "irrepressible conflict" now
going on is between "fiat," and
money of intrinsio value. That peo
ple have been educated Into the be
lief that nothing is or can be money
but gold and silver, and that it is the
hardest thing in the world to get this
idea out of their heads. It is not
strange after all :
" Tis a hf story
Handed from ages down, a nurses tale
Which children, open-eyed aud mouthed, devour;
And thus asparrulous ignorance relates,
We learn it and beiieve."
H ufTelated that in the canton of
Berne in Switzerland, it had been
customary from time immemorial to
keep a bear at pnblie expense, and
the people had been taught to believe
that if they had not a bear on hand,
they would be undone, and the coun
try would go to wreck and ruin. It
happened one day that Bruin sicked
ed and died too suddenly to have his
place immediately supplied with an
other.
The peasants of Berne were fright
ed into hysterics over the death of
their bear, without which they imag
ined the country would go to the
dogs, and but for the accidental im
possibility to obtain another one un
til time had dispelled their prejudices,
they might to day have been enjoy
ing that dangerous and expensive
luxury.
" When the ligature was first sug
gested as a means of stopping the
blood flow from severed arteries," the
whole medical profession raised their
hands in holy horror at the idea of
" suspending human life oti a single
thread, when boiling pitch bad stood
the test so long." After the revolu
tion, the subjects of Great Britaiu
regarded onr government as a politi
cal monstrosity, a body without a
head, and tauntingly asked, "Who
is your king in America ?" So thor
oughly imbued Were all classes of
Europeans that kings ruled by " di
vine right," and that sovereign power
was based on a " peculiar blood" of
noble and " intrinsic value," not cir
culating in the veins of "fiat" repre
sentatives; that scions ot royalty,
not well fixed, imagined that they
Were doing great honor to the new
headless republic by offering their
persons and royal basis as a sover
eign standard for our government.
When Dr. Franklin was minister to
Franco he was approached by one M.
Beaumarchais, who proposed, as the
Americans had neither a king, nor
the " precious" material to coin one
out of, to act for them. In proof of
His weight, fineness and intrinsic
value, he stated that " he was a Nor
man, of more ancient family than the
duke of Normandy himslf and of a
more honorable descent as his line
had never been bastardized. Ifhisgen
erosity should be appreciated and his
services accepted, he would, in view
of the expense of the war, and the
condition of our finances, rule for the
pecuniary consideration of 30,000 a
year." The impudence of this royal
snob did not exceed that of English
capitalists, when in 1871, they sent
Ernest Seyd over here armed with
half a million dollars, ta seduce our
law makers into the establishment of
a gold money basis. And" had Frank
lin, and our government, accepted
the proposition of Beaumarchais,
they would no more have merited the
detestation of the disbauded army of
king haters, who had risked their
lives and spent their all in a seven
year's struggle to free themselves
from king rule, then John Sherman
and his hard money resumption co
adjutors now merit the everlasting
contempt of the people for fastening
upon them the " poverty-creating,
labor-crushing, liberty-destroying,
snob-protecting royal gewgaws of
the British system of finance." Our
infant tyrant Gold, for whom " John
Sherman acts as regent," is a far more
expensive luxury than would have
been the Norman Beaumarchais, for
his price was but $150,000 a year,
while Sherman's pet eosts-us ten mil
lions a year, direct, besides donations
aud perquisites. A king, or a bear,
are just as essential to the welfare of
the people as argold basis. They are
all badges of idolatry and supersti-
lion, emmems or ignorance ana a
darker age, and expensive gods with
out the power to save or bless. "Gold
has ceased to be a circulating medi
um in nearly all the countries on the
globe, paper having been substitut
ed." In this country the question is
UVSb Will VI pt-ipt, v . .wtu uaw,
but what kind of " fiat." Shall it be
bank "fiat" or "government fiat?"
That is the question at issue, It is
argued that money must either pos
sess or represent real, intrinsic value.
Admit it. 1st. What real or intrinsic
value does the bank note represent,
admitting specie basis? It represents
twenty five per cent, of its face in gold
(provided the bank has it), and seventy-five
per cent, of its face in what
the government ewes, not what it
possesses.
In other words one quarter of the
bank note is based on the credit of
bank, and three quarters of it on the
credit of the government, while the
bank gets the benefit of the whole.
2nd. What real or intrinsic value
does the greenback represent? It
represents the full value of its face
in property or service, which the re
ceiver of it deposited with the gov
ernment at the time, and on the ac
count of the whole people, and the
government and the whole people,
on whose account the service was
rendered, and the property supplied,
have themselves individually and
collectively by a mutual and legal
obligation to accept and redeem it
whenever presented to either of them
in any other services, taxes or com
modities (including gold) that the
holder may desire tff society has to
dispose it. Are there any other uses
for money, and can there be a better
money, more soundly based, or one
that, while it serves all the purposes
as a medium of exchange and an
instrument of association, forms the
stoughtcst bond of" union between a
people, and the most reliable safe
guard of a government that can be
devised. For where a people's treas
ure is, there are their heart? also, and
when the money of a country is based
upon the stability of the government
and the fidelity of the people, the
cohesion is indissoluble. " But the
money which we demand would not
be dependent on any contingency; for,
representing not one comommoidity
in the land but all the commodities
based not upon the few little handfulls
of gold in the treasury-box at Wash
ington, but upon all the gold, and
all the silver, and all the iron, and
all the lead, and all the minerals, and
all the houses and farms, and all the
horses and cattle, with all the pro
d actions of town and country
founded in a word, upon all the
wealth, movable and immovable in
the entire land, and sealed with the
seal of the nation's sovereignty
this money could not by any possi
bility sink into discredit.
Never redeemable yet redeemed
every day redeemed in every trans
action of trade this national money
would circulate through the indus-
tral body as the blood circulates
through the animal body, enabling
the several organs to perform their
respective functions, and giving
health and strength by its circulation
to the entire system."
W. A. Wells.
Corvallis, March-21, 1879.
had and still has, the exclusive mon
opoly of the business of transportation
on the Columbia River, by reason of
having at an early day obtained pos
session of these passes in the moun
tains, at the points of said obstruc
tions, and the construction by it of
railroads around the same; and from
the long exclusive enjoyment of the
transportation business of the Colum
bia River by such corporation, it has
become so rich and powerful, its an
nual business amounting to nearly
$2,000,000, that it is useless for indi
viduals, through private capital alone,
to undertake to compete with it or
destroy its monopoly until such times
as means are provided by the general
government, whereby these obstruc
tions at the Cascades and the Dalles
may be overcome either by canal and
locks or portage railroads that may
be free, or comparatively so, to the
business of transportation and travel
on said river.
Notwithstanding the trade of the
Upper Columbia has been hedged in
by the oppressions and extortions of
the Oregon Steam Navigation mon
opoly, its growth has been marvel
ous in the extreme. In 1877 it was
60 per cent, greater than in 1876, and
this year it exceeds 1877 by at least
40 per cent. In other words, it has
much more that doubled in the past
two years.
From the Lewiston Teller,
published at Lewiston, Idaho,
your committee take some figures
prepared bv a writer who is always
accurate on this question. He says
it is estimated this year by compe
tent authorities that there will be
paid out to the company that has the
exclusive possesion of the Upper Col
umbia River trade the following
sums:
Columbia River Improvement
Mr. Mitch eli., from Committee
on Railroads, submitted the follow
ing report, in- the United States Sen
ate, Feb. 18, 1879 :
Tie Committee on Railroads, to
whom was referred the bill (S,
1570) entitled "A bill to aid m op
ening the Columbia River to free
navigation" having had the same
under consideration, submit the fol
lowing report: "
The evil sought to be remedied by
this bill, and which in the judgment
of your committee wouldbe remedied
by its passage in the form reported,
is exceptional in its nature. Excep
tional in this, that its magnitude and
oppressions can scarcely be compre
hended, affecting as it does adversely
and to a large degree the internal
commerce of the whole Pacfic and
Northwest; and exceptional in the
further fact that the remedy or means
whereby it may be successfully over
come requires such limited aid from
the general government. No parallel
is to be found on the continent where
such an oppressive, far-reaching mon
opoly may be shorn of its power by
so small an expenditure upon the
part of the general government in
the exercise of its constitutional right
to improve rivers and harbors, and
overcome their obstructions to com
merce. The Columbia River is in size and
importance the seeond in the United
States, with its magnificent tribu
taries draining an area of territory
greater than the whole of that of
New England, New York, Pennsyl
vania, and Ohio combined, and equal
to it, and in many respects richer, in
natural resources. It is navigable
for ocean vessels from all parts of the
world a distance of over 100 miles
from its mouth to the head of ship
navigation at Portland, Oregon, and
it and its tributaries for river steam
ers of large capacity a distance of
over 500 miles, with the exception
of two points, where rapids interrupt
navigation one at the Cascades,
about 125 miles Irom the ocean, for a
distance of about five miles; the oth
er at the Dalles, about 175 miles
from the ocean, for a distance of
about 15 miles. The obstruction at
the Cascades is now rapidly being
overcome by the construction, by the
general government, of a ..canal and
locks; but such is the nature of the
obstruction at the Dalles, owing to
its great length and heavy basaltic
formations upon either side of the
river, that great time and expense
would be required to overcome the
same by the construction of canal and
locks. Your committee further find
that a single corporation, the Oregon
Steam Navigation Company, long has
$210,000
375,000
175,000
400,000
From Portland to Umatilla 12,000 tons,
at ?20
From Portland to Wallula, 15,000 tons,
at S25
From Portland to Snake River, 5,000
tons, at 835
Down the river, 50,000 tons, average $8
Total 1,190 000
But the editor of the Teller should
have added, to give the whole trade
of the Upper Columbia, the following:
To the Dalles, 4,000 tons, at ?10 840,000
To points below the Dalles, about 1,000
tons, at 10 10,000
Passengers up and down the river 150,000
A grand total of Y 1,390,000
All this immense traffic, immense
in the revenue that it yielded, was
performed with sevenriver boats of
from 200 to 400 tons burden, and
20 miles of cheaply-built railroad,
the running expenses ot which
could not have amounted to
$250,000, leaving $1,140,000 net prof
it.
Although concealing from the pub
lic the enormous sums they have
squeezed out of the farmers of East
ern Oregon, Washington, and Idaho,
yet they are sometimes compelled to
acknowledge it when put upon oath.
Recently in the circuit court of the
United States for the district of Ore
gon, a case in which the United States
was plaintiff and the Oregon St eam
Navigation Company was defendant,
John W. Brazee, the chief engineer
of the company for the past tweuty
years, was asked this question:
What would you judge would be the aver
age amount of freight transported over the
Cascades, up and down the river, say dur
ing the last year, at a rouh estimate?
Answer. I would judge about 300 tons
daily. The freight on the river
has been increasing very rapidly lor the
last three or four years.
If it was 300 tons daily, or 93,000
tons in 1877, it is 125,000 in 1878.
The growth of this trade comes from
the numerous settlements upon the
rich lands of Northern Idaho and
Eastern Washington and Oregon
lands which have no parallel on this
continent for the production of wheat,
oats, and barley. But it now costs
.the farmer of Walla Walla 43 cents a
bushel to send his wheat to Portland,
only 260 miles; and on bis farm ma
chinery and other goods that are
brought back, he pays in many cases
over 2 cents a pound. The truth is,
that while nature has been prodigal
in her gifts ot soil and climate, the
man who toils reaps little of its ben
efits. It is all taken by a remorseless
corporation. The people on the
Upper Columbia seem to be laboring
not so much for themselves and their
families as they are to swell the in
comes of three or four favored men
who constitute the Oregon Steam
Navigation Company.
The following statement of freight
charges by this corporation on the
Columbia River, taken from their
schedule of rates that went into ef
fect April 1, 1877, will give some im
pression of the tax now levied upon
the commerce of that country in the
shape of transportation charges on
the Columbia River:
Oregon Steam Navigation Company, Upper
Columbiat River. Freight and passen
ger rates, to take effect April i, 1877.
Rates of freights per ton measurement:
Portland to Dalles 121 miles gio 00
Portland to Umatilla, 217 miles 20 00
Portland to Wallula, 240 miles 25 00
Portland to Palouse, 317 miles 32 50
Portland to Penewawa and Almota, 348 miles 37 50
Portland to Lewiston, 401 miles 40 00
Fast freight 82 50 per ton extra to the Dalles.
Fast freights 85 per ton extra to all points above
the Dalles.
Passenger charges:
Portland to Dalles 5 00
-Portland to Umatilla, 10 00
Portland to Wallula, 16 00
Portland to Penewawa and Almota, . 18 00
Portland to Lewiston 20 00
All bills payable in United States gold coin.
That is to say, it costs to ship a
ton of freight from Portland, Oreg.,
to Umatilla, a distance of 217 miles,
via the Columbia River, $20 in gold
coin, or nine and one fourth cents per
fm per mile.
From Portland to Lewiston, Idaho
Territory, a distance of 401 miles, it
costs $40 per ton, or ten cents gold
coin per ton per mile.
Compare this for a moment with the
cost of transporting a ton of freight
by water from Chicago to New York,
which is less than one cent, or about
nine and threefifth mills per ton
per mile.
Again, the freight- charges on the
Missouri River from Saint Louis to
to Fort Benton, a distance of thirty-
two hundred miles, are only $32 per
ton; $1 per ton for one hundred miles,
or one cent per ton per mile..
And in this connection the fact must
not be lost sight of that the Missouri
River is one of the most dangerous
and difficult streams to navigate on
this continent; filled with eddies,
quicksands, and constantly-changing
channels; yet freight on this danger
ous river is carried for about one
tenth of the price that rules on the Up
per Columbia. And why is this so?
Simply from the fact that the Missouri
River is, as it should be, free to com
petition, open to all; while the Col
umbia is owned, ruled, and controlled
by a single navigation company.
In other words, the cost of moving
a ton of freight up the Columbia
River is about ten times greater than
moving a ton along any of the prin
cipal water-courses of this continent.
But not only so; that which consti
tutes a ton by weight on the route
from Chicago to New York, and from
Saint Louis to Fort Benton, on the
Missouri River, and on most other of
the water-transportation routes in this
country, constitutes on the Columbia
River, under their system of meas
urement of freight, an average of
more than one third more, and in
many instances, depending on the
character of the freight, one-half,
three-fourths, twice as much, and in
some instances ten times more.
And this results from the fact that
the Oregon Steam Navigation Com
pany determine their freight by
measurement, and not by weight as
do most other transportation compa
nies. A certain arbitrary number ot
cubic feet, measuring from projecting
points of article shipped, and deduct
ing nothing for vacuum, constitutes,
according to the rules of this com
pany, a ion; when not unfrequently,
depending on the shape or character
of the article shipped, this ton of
freiaht does not actually weigh over
two hundred pounds. On such an
article the cost of transportation on
the Columbia and Snake Rivers,
from Portland, Oregon, to Lewiston,
Idaho, a distance of four hundred
miles, would be $40, or at the enor
mous rate of $400 per ton, according
to weight, or at the rate of one dollar
per ton per mile, determining the ton
not by measurement, but by weight
of two thousand pounds.
Your committee commend to the
consideration of the Senate the fol
lowing circular, which, in the form
of " rides," was adopted by the Ore
gon Steam Navigation Company
April 22, 1878, and by them publish
ed, as illustrative of the absolute and
exclusive power which this corpora
tion exercises over the commerce of
this great river, and which is alone
made possible by the fact of the two
obstructions to navigation the one
at the Cascades, which the general
government has undertaken to re
move by the construction of a canal
and locks, the other at the Dalles,
which is intended to be overcome by
the bill reported by your committee.
The following is the circular:
The following rules havo been
adopted by the Oregon Steam Navi
gation,Company to take effect on the
22d day of April, 1878:
First. This company will not take freight
to carry to any point upon the Columbia or
fcsnake Kiver, above Ohio, except upon an
agreement that it sbali have the entire
water-carriage of the same to its place of
final destination, so far as the company's
lines extend. The company, before receiv
ing such freight, may require of the owner
or shipper such agreement in writing, with
surety or otherwise, which shall provide
that if the terminus of the water-carriage
of the shipment, or of any portion of the
same, shall be falsely represented in the
shipping receipt or otherwise and the freight
shall, by direction of the owner, in said
shipping receipt or otherwise, be landed be
fore arriving at such terminus and shall be
further carried upon steamboat or boats or
vessels not belonging to this company, then
the party to such agreement shall be holden
for and bound to pay to this company full
freight for such further water-carriage at
local rates, in the same manner as if this
company had carried the same to the ter
minus of its water-carriage. And that such
reshipment on another than a company's boat
or vessel, within thirty days after a landing
of the same as hereinabove stated from the
company's boat or boats, shall be taken and
held to be conclusive evidence that the ter
minus of water transportation of said freight
was falsely represented and that the true
terminus is the point to which it was finally
carried. And said agreement shall con
tain a further stipulation that in case action
is brought thereon and a recovery by the
company had, the judge, justice of the peace,
or court, before whom or which the action
is tried, shall include in the amount of the
judgment, as disbursements, such sum over
and above the taxable cost as ne or it snail
determine to be reasonable attorney's fees
for prosecuting said action.
Second. All down freight from points on
the Columbia or Snake River, which is
brought to Wallula, Umatilla, or Celilo, on
any steamboat or other water-craft not not
belonging to this company, and is reshipped
for further carriage by this company, will be
charged the usual rates of the company,
from the point of shipment upon such other
steamboat or water-crart, which freight shall
shall be paid in advance at the time of
shipment.
This rule shall not apply to produce
brought by the farmer or producer in his
own boat to the said shipping points of Wal
lula, Umatilla, or Celilo. S. G. REED,
Vice-President Oregon Steam Navigation
Company.
Your committee further call to the
attention of the Senate the fact that
in response to a resolution of the
Senate, passed December 9, 1878,
calling upon the Secretary of War
for a statement ot amounts paid by
the War Department to the Oregon
Steam Navigation Company for trans
portation of troops and supplies on
the Columbia River, the Secretary
reports, January 10, 1879, among
otber things, that during the single
year of 1878 there was paid by the
Quartermaster's Departmant alone to
this company the enormous sum of
$99,775 94 for the single items of
transporting freight and animals, of
ficers and men. When to this is ad
ded all sums paid by the Interior
Department, for transportation of
Indian supplies ;JJby the Post Office
Department, for mail service all of
which service this corporation has a
complete monopoly over it forms,
in thejudgment of your committee,
an unanswerable argument in favor
of the legislation proposed by the
bill herewith reported.
Your committee, therefore, report
to the Senate an amendment, in the
nature of a substitute, to Senate bill
1570. in the following words, and
earnestly recommend that it be incor
porated either in the river and har
bor or sundry civil bill.
Substitute, in the nature of an
amendment, to Senate bill 1570, "to
aid in the opening of the Columbia
River to free navigation :"
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of the United States of Amer
ica in Congress assembled, That the
Oregon Portage Railroad Company,
a corporation organized under the
general incorporation laws of the
State of Oregon, be, and it is hereby,
authorized to construct and equip a
portage railroad of ordinary broad
gauge and structure around the rap
ids at the Dalles of the Columbia
River, and so as to connect conven
iently with the navigable waters of
said river above and below said ob
struction ; that such road shall be
completed and equipped within one
year from the passage of this act,
such company to receive and trans
port over such railroad all freight and
passengers in the order of their pre
sentation, and at charges not exceed
ing one dollar and twenty-five cents
per ton for freight, and not exceed
ing twenty five cents for each passen
ger, either way.
Whenever said portage railroad
shall be completed and equipped in
all respects as a first-class railroad,
within the time prescribed in this act,
upon application by such company to
the Secretary of War, it shall be his
duty to appoint three commissioners
to examine and report thereon ; and
if they shall report that such railroad
has been completed and equipped in
all respects in conformity with the
terms of this act, and as a first-class
railroad of broad gauge, it shall be
the duty of the Secretary of War to
draw his requisition on the Secretary
of the Treasury of the United States
in favor of said Oregon Portage Rail
road Company tor the sum ot one
hundred thousand dollars, which sum
shall be paid by the Secretary of the
lreasury to said company, out of any
moneys in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated ; and in considera
tion whereof said Oregon .Portage
Railroad Company 6hall transport
over its said railroad, for a period of
twenty years, all Indian and military
supplies, troops, and munitions of war
free of charge.
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RUPTURE!
ANOTHER WONDERFUL CURE
EFFECTED BY
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Paht, W. J. Horke, Proprie
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been SUBSTANTIALLY CUR-
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rrusses, which I purchased from you three months.
a!TO. I CanTmt. ll.rriKo tho niff.nn. kn.k mV..mt 11
ana mentally, that I have undergone during that pe
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Its simplicity of construction, and facility with which
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of their merits. I am yours truly,
ALFRED J. BURKE,
Chief Mail Clerk S. F. Daily Evening Post.
San Francisco, July 20, 1878.
ENDORSED BY THE MEDICAL PROFES
SION. California Elastic tZIToI'
After practicing medicine many years in this city,
during which time I have had an extensive experience
in the application of all kinds of Trusses, I can and
do recommend yours as the best in every respect for
it is as near perfection as modern science can make it
It has many advantages over the torturing steel-hoop
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on the subject of their merits. I remain truly yours,
L. DEXTER LYFORD, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
600 Sacramento street, San Francisco.
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