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
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