THE CORVALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, AUG. 22, 1890.
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AD VEBTISE IN OREGON PAPERS.
In the resolutions, adopted by
the editors in convention assem
bled appears one that may appear
a trifle selfish that suggesting that
the boards of trade cease to adver
tise their, respective localities and
the state in eastern papers, but
reach the people direct by sending
out the local papers. The editors
feel, and with some justice, that
Oregon papers would be a safer
and more reliable index of what
strangers might expect and are
interested in, than any other print
ed matter.
, Two points are worthy of note:
First; Oregon papers would carry a
greater degree of honest conviction
as to the real merits of our climate,
business and farming advantages
than any specially prepared board
of trade matter can. Every issue
of every Oregon paper contains our
market reports, accounts of fruit
crops and general farm notes that
are of extreme interest to the home
seeker. Second, these papers can be sent
' to the selected lists of business,
' professional, and moneyed men,
and people of some means whom
it would be desirable to have come
here. There are splendid oppor
tunities for poor men and laboring
men all over Oregon, but the need
of more capital to develop the re
sources of Oregon is great, and the
presence of more investors and
manufacturers will be a boom to
every poor man and laboring man
Let our boards ot trade make a
note ot the fact that very few come
to Oregon without first making a
careful study of the Oregon papers
Let our boards of trade study that
resolution of the editors. There is
a great deal in it. CapitalJour-
nal.
The democratic plan of cam
paign during the present session
of congress appears to be one of
pure obstruction. If they cannot
have their way in legislation they
are determined republicans shall
not, and to carry out this plan the
worst filibustering methods have
been followed. Speaker Reed, at
the commencement of the session,
balked the democratic plan by
counting every member present in
making a quorum, and the vials of
wrath have been poured on his de
voted head; but unmindful of their
maledictions he has pursued the
even tenor of his way, neither
courting favors nor fearing frowns
If the constituencies of these dem
ocratic members are satisfied -with
the course pursued they may stand
a. chance of being re-elected,
which, perhaps, is their highest
aim in. life. But the country at
large has. a right to complain, and
demand that these public servants
do their dpty fully and not sit in
congress for the sole purpose of ac
complishing personal or - partisan
ends Times Mountaineer.
One of the curiosities of the
census is the loss of population by
the middle West. Illinois has
made remarkable gains, but they
are almost entirely confined to
Chicago. The middle western
states without large cities have
barely held their own, or actually
lost. The rough count for Iowa
shows a decrease of 200,000 since
1880. Nebraska shows an in
crease since 1880, but a loss from
the state census of 1885, and Kan
sas is in the same situation, Prob
a.bly these three states have lost
as many as 200,000 population, in
the last three years.. Crop fail
ures, low. prices and the reaction
from exc.es.sive agricultural pro
duction on borrowed capital have
thinned; their rural, population,
and sent, their people farther west.
A goodtmany.of them are in Ore
gon, and .Washington. Oregonian.
A PERIOD OF BUBBLE BLOWING.
Never was the air so full of fan
ciful schemes by which to live on
that rather undefined quantity
know as "the government" as now,
says the Boston Globe. The gov
ernment is to loan money to all
comers at 1 per cent. Tho govern
ment is to abolish all landlordism.
Tho government is to become the
guardian of all unemployed labor
and organize it into an industrial
army as service pensioners. In
short, there seems to be no end of
these schemes, and, what is more
astonishing, men of reputation for
political sanity are willing to let
them go upon the records of con
gress as serious propositions of
statesmanship.
In non-political circles there is
also a prolific bath of co-operative
curiosities. The social fad of the
period is bubble blowing. There
are schemes by which a working-
man can get a house for nothing.
There are schemes involving the
credit card system, by which the
more a man eats the more there is
left on the table; so that finally he
has only to lay down his tools and
enjoy free board for the rest of his
days. Besides this, it is proposed
to lay up capital on the discount
system, so that, with the same
wages now received by working-
men, a man by some mysterious
magic may soon find a perpetual
banquet and a sufficient bank ac
count ever at his side.
We fear that there is a serious
side to this otherwise ludicrous
display in the political and social
atmosphere. The government,
now bent upon universal taxation
for the perpetuation of the reign
ing protective policy, has been set
ting the pernicious example of
showering gratuties broadcast, in
violation of our fundamental
principles of government. This
spirit has seized upon the masses
and, fanned by such fictions as the
Bellamy Utopia, human credulity
is running amuck.
But soberer days are coming,
when men will realize, after sad
experience with delusive hopes,
that all gratuities and all prize
schemers, to whatever extent hard
cash is realized from them, must
ultimately be paid out of the hard
toil of producers. Whatever the
government does for the people is
charged to the people, and the bur
den gradually sifts down and
finally rests upon the shoulders of
labor.
There is no magical art that can
charm an honest dollar out of the
baseless fabric of a Utopian dream.
We cannot live upon the govern
ment, for the government has
nothing to give us except what we
first give to it. We cannot make
more than four by adding two and
two together and calling it a co
operative five. We cannot get
anything for nothing, nor draw
one drop more out of a cask than
it will hold.
Ninety failures are reported in
the Pacific coast states and terri
tories for the month of July, 1890,
with liabi'ities of $503,603 and as
sets of $286,626, as compared with
65 for the previous month with
liabilities of $287,805 and assets
$149,839, and 69 for the corres
ponding month of 1889, with
liabilities of $302,406 and assets
of $133,509. The following are
the causes assigned for the failures,
viz: Incompetence 24; inexper
ience 70; inadequate capital for
the extent of the business under
taken 21; injudicious crediting 9;
personal extravagance 2; excessive
competition 3; unfavorable circum
stances 9; fraud 4; neglect of busi
ness and bad habits 8.
"Webster's Dictionary" is a
power in more ways than one.
These words were the signal for
the New York Central men to stop
work.
Tjie value of. our commerce this
year. has attained the highest point
ever, reached in the history of the
country, . aggregating $1,647,192,
014, an increase over last. year, of
$159,658,987,.
RAISING HOGS AND HOMINY ET
CETERA.
Some years ago a witty and sar
Hi
castic representative of Michiga:
in congress, Roswell G. Horr, dis
cussing political outrages in the J
south on the floor of the House,
told the Confederate brigadiers
that the south "ought to raise
more hogs and hominy and less
h 1." It was a profane utterance
but it fitted the situation so thor
oughly that it was re-echoed over i
the entire country. It is recalled
now by the curious coincidence
that the men of the south who
took Mr. Horrs advice and went
in for hogs and hominy are just
now raising the other thing also.
The Fcrmers' Alliance has captur
ed gubernatorial nominations in
democratic conventions in three
southern states and has a fair pros
pect for nominating Mr. Tillman in
South Carolina, if the brigadiers
do not assassinate him as they
threaten to do. In every southern
state the alliance is sending the
bourbons and the fire-eaters to
the rear, and it threatens to
capture not only the state
governments, but the federal
representation. It has, in fact,
nearly broken up the democratic
party in the south by seizing the
organization itself. It is worm
wood and gall to the bourban dem
ocracy, but it is a pleasing spec
tacle to republicans. - We rather
like the idea of the alliance rais
ing hogs and hominy and sheol in
this sort of way. New York
Press.
A writer in one of the reviews
speculating on the possibility, and
the results of an attempt on the
part of Great Britain to subdue
the United States to compliance
with her wishes, estimates that the
job would cost her not less than
$7,500,000,000. He arrives at this
conclusion by figuring on the
basis of what the Revolutionary
war cost the mother country per
capita of the population of the
colonies. As the debt of the em
pire is now nearly $6,000,000,000,
that country would be ripe for a
receiver by the time it got through
with a new war subjugation with
this country. This would be a
pretty costly job.
Unsophisticated Oregon farmers
should not be permitted to travel
abroad or even remain at home
without a guardian. The exper
ience of Farmer Jones has been
followed by that of Farmer Ste
vens, of this city, who ran across
bunco steerers in Seattle and was
beaten out of $30 by a very old
trick. It is probable that in the
case of Farmer Stevens, he, like
Farner Jones, did not read the pa
pers or he would have been post
ed on these bunco games. Tele-
Some people who come to the
Willamette valley from the east
ern states grow homesick and re
turn to the land of cyclones and
sunstrokes, blizzards and freeze
ups, after a time. But in ,nine
cases out of ten they don't stay.
The comparisons they must
daily make soon draw them back
to the land of the "big red ap
ples." This is especially true of
those who have made the Wil
lamette valley their home for
several years. We have instances
of people returning every week,
and the joyous feelings with which
they come convince us more and
that we have the best country more
in the world. Salem Statesman.
The supremacy of the English
in the application of electricity to
the propulsion of vehicles is likely
ere long to be disputed in this
country. A company is being or
ganized in Pittsburg to operate
electric cabs, the current furnished
by storage batteries.
More postal cards were shipped
from the factories of "Al" Daggett
at Shelton, Conn , in the month of
June than at any other similar
period. There were ever 180 tons,
making 60,000,000 cards. The
demand .is about 1,000,000 a day.
It has become somewhat fash
ionable to treat Senator Blair as a
crank because of his persistency
n regard to his educational bill,
but he stated an unpleasant but
plain truth when he said the other
day that not one of the important
measures on the Senate calendar
can be passed without the adop
tion of a rule for the arbitrary
closure of debate. Such a rule
should be adopted at once. Ex.
TnE railroad employes on the
New York Central will, without
doubt, loose the fight they have
brought about. The strike was
foolish and ill advised, based upon
the rivalries and jealousies of two
labor organizations. Strikes of
tins sort can only result in disaster
to the men who precipitate them.
The Records of Marion county show the
platting of many thousand acres of land in
small tracts of from five to ten acres.
Capital City Fruit firm of 640 acres,
Sunnyside No. 1, 320 acres; Sunnyside No.
2, 320 acres; Sunnyside No. 3, 300 and a
number of others have been placed ou the
Kecords by the Oregon Land Company of
Salem, Oregon. This company is also
doing business in Portland and Albany and
has numerous other small tracts. The
great advantage of this plan is that it
brings together in one community the class
of people who are all engaged in the same
business, viz: fruit growing, consequently
there springs up large drying and canning
establishments similar to those in the city
of Salem, which advantages make profitable
market for the products of these fruit
farms. Consult your interest by buying of
the Oregon Land Company of Salem, Port
laud or Albany. 6 25-lm.
FOR. SALE.
Good six room house, good new stable,
outbuildings, etc,, lot and half on Jackson
street, ony two blocks from new public
school enquire of Ralston Cox.
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