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Iwklj Cortallia dtotte. FRIDAY MORNING, TsOV. 23, 1883. Entered at the Postoffice at Corvallis Oregon, as second-class matter. EDITED BY IvI. S. WOODCOCK, OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COuHTY POLYGAMY ENCOURAGED BY CONGRESS Congress has failed to do anything of any consequence to exterminate Mormonism and polygamy or even to prevent the curse from spreading. The Edmunds bill has no better effect than adding fuel to the flames. The more fuel there is to come in contact with, the more tlie flames spread, and so it is with polygamy as effected by that bill. When any growing evil is in the country the government either lies dormant or else does just enough to urge to action the promoters of the evil. So it was in growing days of slaery. Instead of the government taking prompt steps to gradually sup press slavery when it was first found to be a national evil. She did every thing to promote its 2rojress until it led to the "lost cause." Polygamy ssems to be going much in Hie same manner . All people of any pretense to respectability cry out against it. The press all over the land denounces it. Heaven revolts against it, and hell itself is almost ashamed of it. every institution in the land known to God or man would take immediate steps, suppress polygamy and wipe it from the land at once, except the con gress of the United States and this body either disregards the subject all together or else passes a milk and wa ter law called the Edmunds bill being composed of nearly all water having just enough form in itto give it the chalky appearance of milk. Thus the Mormons are encouraged by a lw that cannot effect them, to go on imposing upon the ignorant vicious and lasciveous of this and the old world, bring them every year here by the several thousands as proselytes to their unholy cause, encouraged and promoted by an American Congress. Will the Congress of the United States ever become of enough importance to grasp an evil in the land and suppress it before waiting to feel of the public poise 1 THE MORMONS. The Edmunds bill, that many sup posed would answer the purpose with Utah, merely gave control of that territory to the once married Morman men and women, says the Willamette Farmer. JThe devilish system re mains and rules. The U. S. Commis sioners did their best but accomplished little. Mormonisn is receiving thous ands of recruits from Europe and spreading into Idaho, where it con trols the south counties, so that Idaho will be Mormon if the north counties are annexed to Washington on its ad mission as a State. Also, Nevada, ' New Mexico and Arizona have a large proportion of Mormon popula tionand are becoming as foreign to the American Union as Utah itself. The whole nation is puzzled over this Mormon question. Our republi can ideas are not competent to cope with so despicable and criminal a sys tem. Ignorance and lust are the foundation of this system and perjury and murder are its working principles. A strong hand should be upon it and compel nbedience to laws. The Mountain Meadow massacre which was only one of many damnable deeds has never been punished, much less avenged. All the territories in the great basin should be governed with an iron hand. The people should be kindly governed, when it is possible, and should be kindly educated, but with consistent kindness there should be unyielding firmness until the curse and , the stigma of Mormonism is wiped out and the infernal system is exterminated. A recent dispatch says: Elder Morgan, of the Mormon church, passed through the city to-day, en route to Salt Lake, with seventy-eight recruits from the southern states. The proselytes are of the most igno rant class, and appear to have no idea of Mormonism. They say they have been promised homes, with no restric tion in choice of religion. The weakness of Governor Criten don, of Missouri, for pardoning crim inals has caused the grand jury of St. Louis to recommend an amendment to the constitution of that State de priving the executive of that State of the pardoning power. CAN API AN VIEW OF TARIFF. 1 he New York free-trade league a few years ago circulated a sheet en titled : "The People's Pictorial Tax payer," purporting to illustrate by var ious cartoons and pictures, the bale ful effect of levying a tax on such for eign products as compete with our own. Conspicuously displayed on the borders of this sheet were the cards of Wm. Jessup & Sons, manufacturers of steel and importers of iron, Sheffield, England; of Concreve & Son, of New York, agents of the Toledo Steel Works, of Sheffield; of A. B. Sands & Co., importers of drugs; of John Clark, Jr., & Co., foreign manufacturers of spool-cotton; of Van Wart & McCoy, the New York agents of Van Wart, Son fc Co., of Birmingham, and a dozen other English manufacturing firms and their agents in New York. Besides these aie the cards of several foreign insurance companies. A noble set of backers, these, lo teach Amer ican tax-payers their true interests ! The principal cartoon is entitled, "How the tariff robs the farmer ana every workingman to benefit the mon opolists." Our Canadian neighbors were then discussing a protective tariff to shield themselves from the philanthropic free-trade of the mother country, which they have since adopted. The To ronto Mail, an able advocate of pro tection for Canadian industry, took up this Pictorial Tax-Payer, and other like sheets in the United States, and commented on them under the head of "Consolation of the Protected Farmer," in a keen and clear way, as follows : "The Yankee farmer rises in the morning tolerably refreshed. True, he has been sleeping on a bed, the sheets, blankets, and mattresses of which would have been taxed from 6o to 1 80 per cent, had they been im ported from a foreign country. But they are home-made, and his dreams have not been disturbed by the free trade bugbear that 'protection raises the price of the home manufactured article up to at least the price of the Imported articles plus the import duty." Mr. David A Wells and other agents of the Leeds and Manchester manu facturers once tried to frighten him with this bogy; but experience has taught him that it is only a make-believe. There is an import duty of 8 cents a yard on. cotton sheeting, but he buys it from the cotton factory in his market town at 7 cents a yard, and sees it going to England in competi tion with free-trade cotton. Moreovoer, he knows that it is to that import duty he owes the establisement of the neighboring cotton-factory whose ope ratives gives him a profitable home market for rotation crops. He is well satisfied with his bed. It is home-made; it cost him, if anything, less than an imported article; and its manufacture has given employment to artisans who buy the products of his farm almost direct from his wagon. He is not alarmed because there is a heavy import duty on foreign cloths, boots, and cotton shirts. His suit trom head to foot is of American make; he thinks this is better for him than if his coat had come from the west of England, his shirt from Man- j Chester, and his boots from Stockport. '1 Breakfast over, he takes to his farm implements. Foreign implements, such as shovels, hoes, wooden pails, churns, reapers, etc., are taxed 35 per cent; and in i860, when the battle of the Morril tariff was being fought in Congress the agents of the Bedford and Leicester firms predicted that an import duty on their goods would ruin farming in the United States. He has discovered that this is not true, and that Yankee farm implements have become the cheapest and best in the world. In fact, when our farmer con templateshe amazing 'growth -of this industry, it occurs to him that the English agents who lobbied and even bribed politicians and newspapers to oppose the high tariff, were not actu ated so much by regard for the condi tion of the Yankee farmer as by the consciousness that protection would deprive them of the American market, and by the fear that it would make the Yankee manufacturer a formidable rival in other markets. This is what the farmer thinks at his work during the forenoon. He hears the toot of the dinner horn, and sits down at the table, nothing put out by the reflection that tin horns of foreign make are taxed about two cents each. Neither does he lose his appetite when he remembers that furniture, such-as the chair he is sit ting on, the table at whichhe is eat ing, is taxed $5 per cent, when of foreign make. This duty has helped to establish furniture factories, and to give employment to tens of thousands of mechanics at home, and in this way has benefited him. After dinner he sets out for the market town, and, as he journeys 'hither, he pities the Canadian farmer, who, as a rule, has to dispose of hii produce to the middlemen that stand like a row of tax-gatherers, each levy ing his tithe between the Kanuck farm and the foreign consumer. He won ders, too, does this old Yankee farmer, how the Canadian farms endure wheat and barley year after year, and re joices that protection has given him a home market to which he can supply almost every variety of crop. He en ters the market town at one o'clock, and his sympathy for the Canadian farmer is deepened as he sees troops of Canadian operatives returning to the factories from their dinner. "I wonder," he communes;" if the Kanuck farmer ever sees a crowd of Yankee operatives going to work in a Canadian factory? Guess not. Then what do free-traders mean by arguing that protection, such as we Yankees are cursed with, ruins industry, while free-trade, with which the Kanucks have long been blessed, builds it up and makes a nation great? If that were so, would not these active little French-Canadians be at work in Mon treal, and would not our Yankee me chanics be pouring over there also?" By this time he had reached the store, and disposed of his tomatoes, potatoes, etc. With the money re cieved in payment he makes his little purchase, and finds no small consola tion in knowing almost every dollar he pays out goes to home industries. He thinks this over as he travels homeward, and talks protection vs. free- trade with his sonsin the evening. One of them work on the farm, and the others are at trades in the town Can ada has had no attractions for them. "You boys are all here," says the old man, "and I guess it is pretty good country, protection and all." So little attention has Congress giv en to arresting the evil polygamy, that in many of the older states "ant1 polygamy societies" are being formed to work for the suppression of this growing evil while Congress remains as dead upon the subject as the corpse at a funeral. Liaa County Business Council Mortgage Tax Law. Endorses Albany, Or., Nov. 4, 18S3. Ed. Farmer: At a regular meeting of the Linn County Business Council, P. of H held at Sautiam Grange hall on November 3d, the following preamble ami resolution was passed by an unanimous vote of that, body, with instructions that the Secretary furnish the Willamette Farmer and other papers with a copy of the same for publication: Whereas, since the Legislature of Ore gon at its session of 1882 passed an act which is known as the Mortgage Tax Law, there has been much discussion pro and con as to the public utility of said law. And, Whereas, The Patrons of Linn County Business Council is composed of fanners and tax-payers who are entitled to a hear mg and a voice in matters pertaining to the eueral welfare of the State, Therefore, Kesolved, That this Council is in favor of all property that has or claims protec tion under the laws of the State, paying its.tnir proportion of the necessary expenses to maintain such protection. Kesolved, That we believe the Mortgage Tax Law has brought out a large amount of property which has heretofore escaped taxation. We are therefore in favor of giv- iug said law a fair trial, until some better method can be found by which justice can be done to all. Resolved, That we are nnutterably op posed to taxing only such propeity as is in sight of the assessor and exempting money, notes and accounts simply beausethe owners thereof can by false testimony conceal them, Kesolved, That moneyed men and money loaners should not find fault with the prac tice of assessing real estate at less than its estimated value, while they themselves will not take mortgage on land for more than about one-third of its estimate value to se cure the pay memt of money loaned. Kesolved That we hail with pie. sure the coming of capital into oar State, and are not opposed to the combiaation of the same for any legitimate purpose if not so man aged as to oppress other Industries. Nimrod Payne, Sec'y. Bead, teafl Benin County. The series of articles which we published during the first of the year in the Gazette from week to week describing Benton county by voting precints containing a list of the tax payers of the county with the amount of tax paid by each, we now have for sale at this office bound in pamphlet form. This contains a complete description of the county and is a valuable book to send to friends at a distance, and the tax list therein contained is particularly valu able to the business men of the county and all aver tba aaaafc C. H. w & Are now located in their new store in Crawford & Farra brick block, with an immense stock of Dry Roods, Clothing, HflTS CAPS -boots and shoes Ladies Dolmans Cloaks, Ulsters, Furnishing Goods, and a fine display of new patterns in Staple and FANCY DRESS GOODS! Si V dJ mm 1 1 V J m CORSETS, KNIT HQODSANDICSACQUES TRIMMINGS, GLOVS, &.C. Qents' Ready ade Clothing, Qvergoats and FURNISHING GOODS. 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Two years ago 1 had as upceily a colt as was ever raised in Jefferson county. When 1 as breaking him, he kicked over the cross bar and got fast and tore one of his hind legs all to pieces. I emplovcd the best ferriers, but they all said he was spoiled. He had a very large thorough-pin, and 1 used two bottles of your KemdalTa Spavin Cure, and it took the bunch entirely ofl, and he sold aitcrwards for S1S00 (dollars). 1 have Uf cd it for bone tpavins and wind galls, and it has always cured eompletel. and left the leg smooth. It is a splendid medicine for rheumatism I have recommended it to a good n.any, and thev all y it does the work. 1 was in Witheringtoli & Ki ecland's drugstore, in Adams the other day and a very fine picture you sent them. 1 tried to buy it but could not; they said if 1 would write to you that you would scud me one. I wish you would and 1 will do you all the good I can. Very ltesiectfully, E. S. LYMAN. From the Akron Commerci al, Ohio, Nov. 25, 1882. 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