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Corvallis, April 18, 1879.
Polk County Letter
Ed. Gazette Dear Sir: After
shaking hands with you, and other
friends in Corvallis, on last Saturday
morning, I soon found myself travel
ing on fire road leading to Monmouth.
As I did not fall in company with
any conveyance, I had to foot it all
the way, a distance of about fifteen
miles, to the point where I expect to
spend a few months ilrteafching school.
I found the road good and the day
fine for traveling, as it was cool and
pleasant. It would make this article
too long, to tell all I thought of
on the way. As far as my eyes could
see, all nature seemed to harmonize
with the sublime teachings of the one
hundred and forty fifth Psalm, which
I reait at your house, just before
starting. When we meditate on the
goodness of God, until our hearts
are full to overflowing with love to
Him, and to all mankind, how easy,
how pleasant, how happy we feel in
that state of mind. We know then,
by sweet experience, what is meant
by the words, joy and peace. While
I noticed the flocks and herds feast
ing on the rich young grass that now
covers the hills and valleys, and the
little birds flitting about finding their
food, I thought of the sixteenth verse
of that beautiful Psalm, "Thou
openest thine hand, and satisfiest the
desire of every living thing." As I
looked over the promising green
fields and blossoming orchards and
saw that every man's labors are
blessed, it brought to my mind the
ninth verse, " The Lord is good to
all ; and his tender mercies arc over
all his works." The farmers were
very busy, in the fields, on each side
of the road, finishing up the putting
hi of their crops. Farmers as a class of
mien are worthy of the respect, honor
and love of all other classes, as all
are supported by the labor of their
Bands. I had short and pleasant
conversations with several of them
On the way, and found them interest
ed in every good subject that was
mentioned, such as building railroads,
temperance, education and religion
I talked with one old gentleman, who
said be had lived to become in pos
session of a large tract of land, and
had raised a family of ten children,
but had not as yet found to his full
satisfaction the way of life everlast
ing. He seemed somewhat willing
to know the way, so I trh-d to tell
him how we are to come humbly to
God, with the simplicity of little
children in order to receive His
rich blessings. The scripures point
to Jesus as the life, the truth, and the
way, and as the Lamb of God that
taketh away the sin' of the world,
and as the only name given under
heaven whereby men can be saved,
and to Him only can we safely direct
those who are anxiously seeking the
good and right way.
I learned that the meeting recently
held at the Gingle's school house, re
suited in the salvation of some several
precious souls, and that the 'Blue
Ribbon Club is doing good work at
tfiat place for the cause of temper
ance. When I arrived at the house of
Bro. T. C. Daughman, where I am
now making my home, I received a
cheerful and welcome reception.
After feasting on fish and other good
things for supper, and an hour of two
of pleasant" conversation, we read the
first chapter of Ephesians, and wor
shipped God by prayer and by sing
ing some of those spiritual songs
found in the Gospel Hymns. I re
joice to find Christians down here to
associate "with and as I am closing up
this piece I am thinking' of the many
with whom I had the privilege of
being with during the past winter, in
Albany, Corvallis, Philomath, and in
different parts ot the country.
In conclusion I wish to say this to
all that I feel as though we ought to
try to keep this work of reformation
going on wherever we are, from the
first day of January until the last
day in December, of every year. It
is a life time work, and if we medi
tate much on the word of God and
His goodness the work will break out
afresh in all our hearts and spread all
over the land. J. -D. Wood.
April 6; 18? 9.
From Macmillan's Magazine.
AMERICA REWIVIVA.
The return to the specie payments,
if safely effected on the 1st of Janua
ry, will make an epoch in the history
of the United States and a great mor
al tradition for the people. The ac
complished fact will enkindle belief in
all reform and progress, and will fals
ify the predictions of the prophets
(and they were many ) who foretold
that the democracy would never sub
mit to the great sacrifices necessary
to raise the value of all debts from
thirty eight tents in 1864 to one hun
dred cents to day. A recent instance
will prove what a crucial test this
has been. In June, 1804, an English
man lent 10,0007., or its then equiva
lent, $120,000, on mortgage on an
American farm worth $400,000. The
loan has just been repaid, and the
$120,000 produces 24,500 Thus his
profit has been 14,500, besides inter
est during the fourteen years at the
rate of six per cent, per annum to
start with, increasing to fourteen and
a half per cent, per annum with the
rise in value ot the currency. What
he, as a creditor, has gained in this
way his unfortunate American debtoi
has lost. There can be no doubt of
the hardship of such a case. Here
truly is an " unearned increment of
value" almost sufficient to justify the
expression " bloated capitalist!1' And
this is the real nJeaningof resumption.
It is of course true that derpeciation
is equally hard on all creditors, and if
the two processes concerned the same
individuals the results might be equal
ized and no great harm done. But
as a matter of fact this never can be
so, and I think it redounds to the
ci edit of universal suffrage that each
time hard or soft money has been
fairly brought to a popular vote'the
people have been true to themselves,
notwithstanding all that the mosi
skillful and unscrupulous demagogues
could urge to seduce them. The hon
esty evinced at the polls is the more
striking when it is remembered thai
one person out of every four in the
United Stales has both a foreign la
ther and a foreign mother, and that
their patriotism therefore cannot have
very deep roots. Not to mention
Englishmen and Scotchmen, there are
almost as many Germans as Iiishmen,
and these are not always the best spec
imens of their nationalities, whilea ve
ry great number of them went to the
country as professed socialists. The
welding of this immense foreign mass
into the native metal is a very trying
process, and must ever be borne in
mind in criticising American proceed
ings. After resumption it will be
very difficult even for pessimists alto
gether to despair of the republic. We
have known something or theWith
culties of paper money in England,
and so lately as 1835., Mr. Mill found
it necessary to adopt very severe lan
guage in denouncing the "currency
juggle fiere.
But the birth throes of resumption
were not the only cause of the bad
times and aafferilie which have been
experienced in America during th
last five years : and it may be useful
rapidly to run over the period be
tween 1862 and 1873 before proceed
ing to notice the later events which
have conduced to a very considerable
revival of soundness and prosperity.
The root of the evil was the de
struction of capital during the civil
war which may be measured, in some
sense, by the withdrawal ot a million
and a half ot soldiers from active
production, and the annihilation of all
industry and of a vast amount of
property in the Border and Southern
States. Ihese influences were not
felt in their full force at the time, in
the North, owing first to the issue of
four hundred million dollar inconvert
ible legal tender paper money, and
afterwards to the extraordinary
amount ot borrowing. The immedi
ate effect of the large issues of paper
was to make all debtors "feel good,'
as they say in America. The append
ea taole will show what the one hun
dred dollar greenback was worth in
gold on 30th June of each of the years
following 1862 :
Fairview correspondence of Weston Lead
er : I would call the attention of land hun
ters to the Cold Spring -country, .where there
are hundreds of acres of as fine farming land
as is to be found in Eastern Oregon. Per
manent supplies of water can be obtained at
depths ranging from 12 to 75 feet. The vi
cinity is now partially settled. And parties
desirous of further information in regard to
the land would do ' well to call on Mr. Geo.
Einsidler. about five miles from the head of
Cold Spring canyon. The country lies
about 15 miles from Weston, and is one
grand, rolling prairie.
A bilk, selling silverware ware of bad
quality, has lately victimized a number of
people at Independence,
1861 100 1870.... 85.6
1862 96 1871- 89.0
1863 76.6 1872 87.5
1864 38.7 1873 86.4
1865 70.4 1874 91.0
1866 66.0 1S75 87.2
1867 71.7 1876 89.2
1868 . 70.1 1877........... 94.5
1869 73.5 1878.. 97.3
Any statement of figures, howev
er, can give but a limited idea of the
bad effect on all kinds of business and
the wide-spread demoralization inci
dent to the violent delay and hourly
fluctuations in the value of the circu
lating medium. The way in which
mercantile transactions were carried
on in the second largest commercial
city in the world, for several years
after the suspension of specie pay
merits,- was certainly most curious,
and in looking back on it it appears
already like a dream. Up to 1867, if
my memory serves me right, there
was no gold clearing bank in New
York; and up to the end of 1865
there was no bank that would take
gold on deposit and let cheques be
drawn against it. The consequence
was that all the gold bought and sold
tor the first four years after suspen
sion was delivered from office to office
in bags containing 1,000 each. These
used to go round and round from
buyer to seller shoveled in and out
again, generally in a few minute's
time just sufficient to test their
weight in a -very rough and ready
way. It was a striking instance ot
the difficulty of a community sudden
ly accommodating themselves to new
conditions. No city in the world had
better banking accommodation than
New York ; nowhere was the econo
niy.of" labor by the use of cheques and
clearing better understood or more
fully acted on. But when business
had to be done in two enrrencies in
stead of one, the requisite facilities
could only apparently be developed
by slow and gradual stages. First,
the bags of gold going round, as in
primitive races; then, after some
years, cheques; lastly, after some
more years, clearing ; a beautiful ex
ample for students of evolution !
Transactions on a large scale in gold
did not besrin till about the end of
July, 1862, when the pHce rose
rather suddenly to one hundred and
twenty. This advance made it evi
dent that all mercantile operations
must of necessity be kept on a specie
basis, by immediate sales of gold
against all produce shipped, and by
purchases of gold against all sales of
sioods imported. A forced paper cur
rency might be a local standard of
value in America, but all her external
trade operations had to be finally ad
justed to the world's standard. This
necessitated immense dealings in gold
and, speculation aiding it, the premi
um advanced by leaps and bounds
In June, 1864, the highest price of
two hundred and eighty was touched;
that is, it took two hundred and
eighty paper dollars to buy one hun
dred gold dollars. On the day that
sales were made at two hundred and
eighty, in the morning, the price fell,
in one drop, to two hundred and
fifty-five, and at three o'clock the
same afternoon it was offered at two
hundred and twenty-five. From this
it will be seen at a glance that any
one who borrowed $100,000 in gold
in the morning and sold it at two
hundred and seventy-five, could have
bought it back the same evening at
two hundred and twenty-five, netting
$50,000 currency profit on the oper
ation. This is a sample ( no doubt
an extreme one) of daily fluctuations
which went on for months and years.
Conducting business under these cir
cumstances was like driving a high
nressure engine, and sittinr on the
boiler without a safety valve.
When money was liable to be made
or lost in such amounts, in every nec
essary transaction, the use of work
ing become less and less obvious.
How could any really legitimate mer
cantile operations be entered into un
der such conditions of uncertainty ?
A cargo of tea or coffee might be
sold at a most satisfactoay price in
currency, but before the vender could
get from his place of business in
South Street to Exchange Place,
where he had to buy his gold, a rise
or fall in the premium would upset
all calculations. So too with exports
of produce, paid for by bills drawn
on Europe. Everything depended
on how the gold was sold. The un
certainty was even greater in Pliila
delphia, Baltimore, or St. Louis; since
New York alone had a gold exchange,
where all the business of the country
concentrated. This being so, many
merchants turned their attention totry
ing what could be made by buyingaud
selling gold, pure and simple, without
complicating the transactions with
merchandise. 1 Ins was fatal in its
simplicity and in the habits it formed.
For the step from gambling in gold
to gambling in stocks, or anything
else, is a very short one. There is,
too, at all limes a peculiarly specula
live element in the ordinary Aineri
can man of business. He fears the
ips and downs of life less than the
ordinary European. Excitement is
more pleasing to him than any small
certainty. He is fond of exercising
the sharpness of his wits, and in the
fluctuations of the currency opporlu
nities were boundless. The result
was that gambling became a predom
mating national vice, with the sure
concomitants of excessive extrava
gance in living and in general expen
diture. New York ran riot. Rents
were doubled and trebled. The num
ber of private carriages increased
ten fold. So morbid was the craving
for perpetual excitement, that a stock
and gold exchange was in active op
eration" up town," at the Fifth Ave
nue Hotel, then the center of what
may be" called the west end of the
city. Nor was the fever confined to
New York. It permeated every city
of the Union. The only people who
really seemed to feel poor were the
wealthy. It looks like a paradox,
but it is a fact. The man with 80,
000. out on safe mortgages, who be
fore the war got his 5,000. a year
interest, and spent it, found his in
come gradually going down to4,000.
3,000. 2,000. ; that was the decline
if, for instance, he was living in Eu
rope, and it had to be remitted ; or.
what, nmniinlpfl to t.Kft anrru thinrr
&
the currency price ot commodities
increased to that extent in America
On the other hand, to make quite sure
of growmg rich, it was only necessa
ry to borrow currency and to buy
gold, stocks, merchandise, houses,
iand, any property, in short. And
the more any one borrowed the richer
he got. It was well, therefore, to do
it en gro8. Finally it came to this,
that nearly every one began to think,
and to end by stating, that he was
worth a million dollars ! It Was so
easy to make apparently.. Thns it
will be understood how, even during
the existence of the civil war,- the
whole mass of the people in the
North wfio were debtors' felt them
selves better off.
The farmers got high currency pri
ces for their products, and as they
were mostly in debt to their mort
gagees, they seemed to be coininc
money. The shopkeepers whobought
goods on a credit in currency found
mem constantly advancing m value
on their hands. And the moment the
war was ended, gigantic borrowing
commenced. It is estimated that be
tween 1865 and 1873 America cot
from Europe, between 300:000.000.
and 400,00,000. from sales of gov
ernment, state, city and railway
bonds. This no doubt went a long
way to fill np the vacuum of canital
caused by the war. And in the five
years ending with 1873; over twentv-
eight thousand miles of net- railroad
were constructed at a' coBt of 280.-
000,000, so that the demand for
labor was at high pressure, and a
vast mass of laborers who had been
engaged in the war were quietly
absorbed back into productive em
ployment. This put off the day of
reckoning, because it is easy to pay
high wages with borrowed money.
But the sudden pouring in of im
mense amounts of new capital is
always a very dangerous process in
auy country, as we have since seen
in the payment of the war indemnity
to Germany. It is very apt to sap the
morality of the people, and it will be
understood that the morality of the
American people had already been
pretty well sapped. No nation could
have been subjected to more demor
alizing influences than those accom
panying the advance in gold from
par to 280 in three years, and the
decline from 280 to 130 in the five
following years. It was in Septem
ber, 1869, that Messrs. Jay Gould
and Fjsk concocted the great gold
"ring," which was the dying kick of
the expiring gold excitement, when
in three days the price was forced np
from 137 to 167, and back again
to 132.
This was one of the most success
ful and disgraceful "concerns" ever
effected in Wall Street. It came to
a head on "Black Friday," the 24th
September, when these stock gam
biers, having all the available gold in
their own hands, locked it np, and
made it impossible for those who had
sold to make deliveries under their
contracts except at the conspirators'
own price. Many an honest man
was ruined by that day's work; and
that so many of them should have
paid out their last dollar rather than
fail on their contracts shows how
binding is that outside conscience,
derived from a custom of trade,
which will not admit that even such
a conspiracy can be pleaded in bar of
the fulfillment of obligations. The
clearings for the three days were said
to amount to one hundred millions
sterling, and it took weeks to get the
accounts straight. The "corner" was
only broken in the afternoon by a
telegram from Washington ordering
the assistant treasurer to sell gold for
immediate delivery. Even person
ages very high in the republic were
said not to be free from the complic
ity in the whole transaction. If the
rose itself was pure, those who dwelt
very near indeed to the rose were un
questionably tainted. Corruption
was in the air. It grew with what
it fed on. Between 1868 and 1873
there were "corners" in everything:
in stocks, in grain, in cotton. There
was the famous "day of the three
corners" in 1872 when five-eights
per cent, was paid for the loan of
money, five-eights per cent, for the
loan of gold, and two and one half
per cent, for the lotm of Erie stock
for the one day. Riches were suppos
ed to be made by one man getting
his profits out of another's loss.
Tweed was robbing the city. Credit
Mobilier scandal in connection with
the Pacific railway had come to light.
.The ministers ot two of the great
departments of state were accused of
sharing in the plunder ot contracts,
and a judge in New York was issuing
blank injunctions to the most notori
ous stock gamblers. The money
market was in a state of constant
spasms. Day after day, for weeks
and months together, borrowers were
paying one-eighth to one-quarter per
cent, commission per diem, besides
interest at the rate of seven per cent,
per annum for loans. This could not
last. The fruit had got to "that stage
which succeeds ripeness," and fell.
The failure of Jay Cook and Co., on
19th September, 1873, followed by a
string of houses who had been occu
pied in financing the new railroads,
was the point of apparent origin of
the panic, but as I have endeavored
briefly to point out, the whole catas
trophe mas in reality a slowly pre
ptred gQpvth ot the entire character
of the business of the country. Fol
lowing these, finance houses, railways,
mercantile firms, and savings banks
became bankrupt in rapid succession,
and to such extent that credit may
be said to have ceased to exist. Dur
ing 1873 the price of gold ranged
from 119 to 107. The currency price
ot commodities which had followed
the upward movement in the gold
premium, had not kept pace with us
decline. 15y the end of the year
hundreds of thousands ot workmen
had been thrown out of employment
by the breaking of that small wheel
ot credit which keeps all the big
wheels of production and transporta
tion turning. This of course affected
the demand for every article of con
sumption, and the distributing mer
chants throughout the country felt
the pinch, not only of this smaller ac
tual demand, but also found that their
stocks of goods laid in at thb high
curerncy prices were constantly shrink
ing in currency value owing to the
appreciation ot greenbacks. Shrink
ing Was universal. To add to the
depression of the harvests of cereals
in 1870-71 and 1871-72 had been
below an average, and the- farmers
felt' the growing burden of their
loans. -
( 2b be Continued.)
R. R. Terminus. It is quite within the
range ot pottibilUies, that the western term
inus of the Northern' Pacific railroad will be
located at Cape Foulweather, in Benton
county. Portland will simply be a way sta
tion, even though the" Board of Trade has
resolved that Port Orford, is the best place
for a harbor of refuge. The great fight will
be between the C. P. R. R. and th" If. P.
R. R., as to which shall possess this "outlet
to the sea. " The world motes.
A Swede in Umatilla recently put
house, cleared a "garden spot, dng a
np a
well
at considerable exnense and then found that
all his improvements were beyona his line
and on the ground of a neighbor. Moral :
' tie sure you re ngbt, then go aneaa.
The Lafavette school challenges any other
school in the State to a reading match. Six
persons from each school to contend for the
award of merit.
Clmrclt Directory.
Catholic Church : Services on the 1st and last Sab
bath ot each month. Han commences at 10:30 a. u.
I Rev. Van Lin, Pastor.
H, E. Church South : Preaching morning and even
ing, "on the 1st, 3rd and 4th Sabbath ot each moi th,
at 11 and 7:30 respectively. Sabbath School at 0:30
every Sabbath. Joseph Emery, Pastor.
Evangelical Church': Services at 7 P. if. on the
1st and 3rd Sabbaths and at 11 a. M. and 7 p. m. , on
the 4th Sabbath of each month Sabbath School at
3:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening of each
week, at 7 p. u. W. C Kant.nek, Pastor.
Presbyterian Church :. There will be preaching
morning and evening at 11 and 7 o'clock, respect
ively. Sabbath School Immediately after the morn
ing service. H. P. Duxni.no, Pastor.
Episcopal Church : The services for the month of
Oct. will be as follows: Oct.. 6th and 20th at 7:30 P.
H. , Oct. 13th and 27th at 11 A. with Holy Com
munion. ,
Sunday School every Sunday, between the hours
of 3 and 4 p. if. Rev. L. Stevens.
CORVALLIS LODGE No. 14, F. & A. M.
holds stated Communications on Wednesday
on or preceding each full moon. Brethren
in good standing are cordially invited to attend.
By order of W. H.
of
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O. F. , meets on Tuesday even
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Hall, in Fisher's Brick, second
storv. Members of the Order
rood standing, are invited to attend. By order
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. JAMES VICK. Rochester. F. Y.
Farm for Sate.
rpHE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS FOR
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four miles north of west of Corvallis, on
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Corvallis, Jan. 1, 1878. 16:ltf.
ROBERT N. BAKER,
9
FORMERLY OP ALBANY, WHERE HE HAS
V given his patrons perfect satisfaction, hu dater-
mfiMwt tj"i ta In fVimwllla , ... b.
- . . - w nUVlt ...j nujnv iv ue fa
vored wi h a fair share of the public patronage. All
work warranted, when made under his supervision.
Repairing and cleaning, promptly attended to,
Conallis, Nov. 28, 1878. lS:48tf.
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