The Corvallis gazette., January 16, 1891, Image 2

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DOOMED TO SHORT LFFE.
Someone has been matting a
postal card canvas of the farmers
of the United States and the re
sults have been somewhat interest
ing if not surprising. Some 110,
000 inquiries were sent out, and it
must be said that the economic
views of the farmers are shown to
be unexpectedly moderate. They
want state agricultural colleges,
But are divided on the question of
state ownership of railroads.
They are also divided on the tariff
and reciprocity, and display no
extraordinary expectations on the
financial question. This might be
regarded as a point in favor of the
real farmers, showiug that they
have more sense than their self
appointed representatives in poli
tics. But the most instructive of all
is the disposition of the farmers
regarding a farmer candidate for
the presidency. They divide their
votes among prominent leaders of
both parties, Cleveland getting
two-thirds of the democratic vote,
and Blaine more than one-third of
the republican. This is strong
evidence that the farmers, like
other citizens, will vote their polit
ical habits and convictions on pres
idential years regardless of alliance
movements and the efforts of dem
agogues to stir up class feeling
among them.
Considering this feeling and
disposition among the farmers, it
is quite probable that the alliance
party will be a short lived one.
Telegram.
Democratic and Mugwamp edi
tors who were so certain only two
months ago that the protection
given to tm-platerby the McKinley
bill would never be of any pratical
benefit to the United States, and
that no tin-plate would ever be
manufactured in this country, had
a big dish of crow for their New
Year's dinner, for only a few days
before that time, the first shipment
of American tin-plate was put up
on the market by the Pittsburg
mills, and before the next New
Year rolls around, it is believed
that the mills now in process of
erection at Brooklyn, St Louis,
Baltimore and other places will
supply every sheet of tin-plate
used in this country, and that a
new and great industry, hitherto
enjoyed by Europe, "will have been
established in AniericaT and profit
able employment given to- thous
ands of men who would otherwise
be without it.
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An efiort is very wisely being
made to pass legislation authoriz
ing the state to- have the session
laws printed in various county
papers in the state; The idea is
predicated upon two bases,, viz:
The curtailment of expenses in the
publication of these laws as
now done, and the more gen
eral dissemination of knowledge
ooncerningtheir character and ap
plication. The- expense will be
curtailed at lent fifty per cent, and
the laws-will be in-the hands-of
every newspaper reader as a-guidance
in the direction of his own
interests. As now printed the
laws reach the tables of the pro
fessional men mainly, while- of
their provisions the masses are in
absolute ignorance.
The Metropolitan press is un
necessarily working itself into a
fever on the danger of" a war with-
England over the Behrirrg sea dis
pute. Keep-cool brethren,, that
matter is in the hands of a man
who h'as never yet betrayed a trust
gi ven' him by the American peo
ple, and'if it shall terminate fn-war
the people will . know that no
other honorable method of settle
ment was left..
THE LEGISLATURE.
The legislature of Oregon-, that
has just convened at its regular
biennial session, says West Shore,
will be called upon to enact the
most important legislation demand
ed of any legislature since Oregon
became a state, and the people
have a natural interest in knowing
something about the men to whom
such vital interests are entrusted.
Upon examination it appears that
there are twenty-three republi
cans and seven democrats in the
senate and forty-two republicans
and eighteen democrats in the
house, giving the republicans a
majority of forty on joint ballot.
The significance of this is that it
insures the election of a republican
successor to Senator Mitchell and
renders the republican party whol
ly responsible for the legislation
of the s3ssion, since it has a two
thirds majority in each house.
Separated into groups, there are
twenty-nine farmers and stock
raisers, nineteen merchants, fifteen
attorneys, eight manufacturers,
four bankers, four physicians, two
real estate dealers, two mechanics,
one accountant and one school
teacher. This shows a pretty fair
representation of the leading busi
ness elements of the state, and
augurs well for the passage of en
lightened legislation. The young
est member of the senate is Jeff
Myers, of Scio, and of the house
W. E. Thoma?, of Portland. The
oldest member of the senate is J.
C. Carson, of Portland, and of the
house, John Minto, of Salem. Mr.
Myers and Mr. Minto are respect
ively the youngest and oldest in
the entice body. Less than one
third of them have been members
of previous legislatures, and are to
that extent free from the unpro
gressive spirit of their predeces
sors. Nine only are of foreign
birth, nine of the others being na
tives of OFegorr.
The feeling in the business
world for the new year is distinctly
hopeful and confident. The gen
eral business of the country is on
a sound basis, the demand for all
staple articles is good, nobody is
overloaded with a surplus stock of
goods, and there is every prospect
of a prosperous twelvemonth.
The same thing is true of our in
dustries. The workingmen are
fully employed, there is a notable
absence of wage-troubles of any
dimensions anywhere in the Unit
ed States; manufacturers are con
fident that the present conditions
are sound and stable, and antici
pate a continuance of them during
1891. The financial flurry is prac
tically over, and money promises
to be plenty lor all legitimate pur
poses. If the farmer shall be bles
sed with good crops, there is no
reason that one year hence we
shall not look back upon a year
still more favorable than the one
jwst closed.
According to the last report of
the secretary of the navy, "when
all the ships now authorized are
completed, excluding those which
by the process of decay and the
operation of law will by that date
have been condemned," our navy
"will comprise 11 armored vessels,
of which but 3 are battle-ships,
and 31 unarmored." Other na
tions: England, 76 armored, 29 L
unarmored; France, 5T armored,
203 unarmored; Germany, 40
armored. 65 unarmored; Russia,
49 armored, 95 unarmored.
The idea of fractional paper cur
rency has again been brought to
the front by Representative Kelly,
of Kansas, who has introduced a
bill in the House directing the
Secretary of the Treasury to print
$50,000,000 of it in bills of 5, 10,
25 and 50 cents, the- same to be
legal tender for all debts for any
sum not exceeding ten dollars.
The oldest pensioner on the gov
ernment roll is said to be Mrs;
Betsy Avenll, of New Milford,
Conn., who hale and hearty at the
age of 103i still draws the pension
due her for the services of her hus
band in the war of 1812.
THE INDIANS.
General Miles has taken per
sonal command of the forces at the
seat of war. "We may now look for
an energetic prosecution of the
war to the end. Yet it is sad-
yes, it is criminal that our brave
boys must be exposed to the ter
rible inclemencies of a western
winter, hunting dowrr these pam
pered savages and exposed to the
dangers of Indian warfare. "Why
is this? Simply because a lot of
impractical sentimentalists really
forced the Government into put
ting the charge of Indian affairs
into the control of the Interior de
partment instead of the War de
partment, where it belongs. We
have already lost lives more valu
able than all the redskins of the
whole Sioux nation. There will
be many more lives necassarily
sacrificed, and toil, hardship and
suffering endured because we have
been foolish and soft in dealing
with the savages. We have re
served some of the best sections of
the country for their use; kept our
own people off their lands, fed
them, clothed them, tried to teach
them agriculture; allowed them
to roam at will over these reserva
tions in idleness; let then? arm
and mount their warriors while
supported by the Government.
Now we have got to spend millions
in trying to protect peaceful set
tlers and in making good Indians
of these savages by killing them
off.
No uncivilized Indian in Amer
ica should be permitted to have a
gun or a pony. Disarm every one.
of whatever tribe, who have had
land allotted to them. Teach-
them how to plow and sow and
plant, always with oxen, and if
they cannot make a living let them
go to the wall as we do our own
people. They are nc better and
have no more natural rights than
whites. It is simply stupid and
cruel to arm them and support
them to shoot down our brothers
and sons and murder defenseless
women and children. It has tak
en some time to learn this lesson;
but we think that our former ex
periences in Arizona and these re
cent scenes of treachery and blood
shed ought to instill some sense
into our policy of Indian manage
ment. San Jose Mercury.
Good republicans are more in
terested in getting the party in a
shape to win than who shall head
the ticket in r92.
The reduction of the public debt
in December was slightly in excess
of $11,000,000, which means just
that much money put into active
circulation in addition to the or
dinary expenditures of the Gov
ernment. If it be right that the majority
should rule, and we have always
been taught that it is, it cannot be
wrong for the Senate to adopt a
rule to enable the majority to pre
vent debate going on indefirrately
upon any measure objected to by
the majority.
This month New Hampshire,
Kansas, Illinois, North Dakota,
Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Con
neticut, California, Colorado,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Florida and New York, fourteen
states in all, will elect each a sen
ator. The Oakland' Tribune says: It
is no crime to rob a nickleiir-the-slot
machine, if a Louisville judge
is any authority. In that city an
ingenious consumer of tobacco be
ing invited by the machine to-drop
in a nickel and take out a cigar
dropped in the nickel with a string
to it, pulled it out and dropped it
in again and so on da capo until
the possibilities of the machine
were exhausted. The court held
that he had not committed burg
larly and apparently not larceny.
He had simply acted according to
the invitation and the machine
had not resisted or forbidden him
to pull out the coin.
WHEA T RA ISING IN OREGON.
It is quite gratifying to notice in
several of our exchanges that Mr.
So-and-so has concluded to plant
out this fall several hundred fruit
bearing trees, principally prunes.
Now then, there is one of two
tilings, either Mr. So-and-so is a
new comer to this state or else he
is a farmer with progressive ideas
and has long since learned that
there is no money to be made in
raising broad acres of wheat at the
ruling prices of to.day. Many of
the farmers in the Willamette val
ley raise nothing else but wheat ;
not a spear of hay do they cut be
cause they have none, they feed
their stock on wheat straw in the
winter. Go into their excuse of
an orchard, the few trees that stand
are covered with moss or lichens ;
the limbs are strangers to the
pruning knife, while the fruit from
the trees is worse than none at
all. How about the garden? There
is nothing worth mentioning.
Eight out of twelve of these farm
ers buy their garden produce in
town and then haul it home. Two
thirds of them are without milk
for their morning cup of coffee.
Why? The cows were allowed to
go dry in the summer because the
wheat season was at hand and they
had no time to look after the cows,
and if there is butter on the table
for his hot cakes, he can thank
someone else for it, and at the
same time pay fancy prices for it
at the store when he sells his
wheat. Why, bless your soul, he
even buys his flour at the store,
and although he has bushels and
bushels of wheat in the bin he has
never tasted a morsel of bread
made from the flour of t.heNvheat
that he raised on his own farm.
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u nits iaii ne may nave a lew
dollars to jingle in his pocket aft
er he has paid his store bill-providing
the market happened to be in
his favor a few cents.
Wheat raising for profit in Ore
gon is a failure, tliere must be
more diversified farming to be a
success. Every month in the year
a farmer who has more than one
idea in his head, can" have some
kind of produce or something he
has raised on the farm to sell.
But such is not the case; all other
branches must be sacrificed for his
brond acres of wheat, and we hail
with pleasure that there is a lively
tendency to transform the wheat
fields into prune orchards. Port
land Examiner.
A BAD SKIH DISEASE
On Limb 5 Years. Bedridden 3
Years. Doctors and Medicines
Useless. Feared Amputation.
Cured by Cuticura at Cost of 3.50
Now Does Her Own Work.
A Wonderful Care.
I must write ami tell' you of the success I
have hail in usiug the Cuticur.i Kemedies.
I had been troubled for nearly live yars
with ekin disease in the right liml, ad- ail
the doctors iu this city could do nothing for
it. I tried everything, until at last I
thought I should hsve to have the limb am
putated at the knee, it was swelled to
twice its natural size, and I could barely
hobble around on crutches. I was in the
house, part of the time bedridden, for three
years, and could not get out. I happened
to look iu the newspaper and saw the Cuti
cura advertisement, and as a List resort
tried that. I used two bottles of the Re
solvent and three boxes of the Cuticura. I
am now able ta do all my work, both in
house and out of doors, anil my limb is as
natural as could possibly be mider any cir
cumstances. It is a most wonderful cure.
I had given up hopes of ever being 'well
it tuis will benelit you, you are
welcome to use it to the best advantage.
Any One not crediting thi8 can lind nle by
addressing me at the above named city.
Mrs. Harriet stickler, Iowa City, la .
Cuticura Remedies
Are the greatest skin cures, blood purifiers,
and humor remedies of Modern times. Cu-
ncUKA Resolvknt, the new Blood and
.Skin Purifier, internally (to cleanse the
blood of all impurities and poisonous ele
ments), and Cuticura, the great Skin Cure,
aud Cuticuka Soap, an exquisite Sk-in Beau
titier, externally (to clear the skin aud soalp
and restore the hair), instantly relieves and
speedily cures every species of itching,
burning, scaly, crusted, pimply, scrofulous,
d hereditary diseases and humors of the
skin, scalp-and blood, with loss of hair from
infancy to ag-e, irom pimples to scrotum.
Sold everywhere. Price, Cuticura, 50c. :
SoAP,25c; i.ESoLVESf Prepared by Jthe
PoTTKB Drug aud Chemical CorpobaiTost,
Boston.
3T.3end for "How to Cure Skin Diseases,"
64 page8,-50 illustrations, aud H)0 testi
monials. PLE.6, black-bends, red, rough, cliapp.
ed, and oily akiu cured by Cuticura
Soap.
AC3INS' SIDJS: AND- BACK
Hip, Kidney, and Uterine Pains
aud Weaknesses relieved IS OSE
minute by the Cuticura Asti-
Pain Plaster. The first and only pain
kiUing plaster. -
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JANUARY AH
WE WILL CLOSE OUT OUR ENTIRE
Stock of Men's Winter Clothing, Overcoats, Furnishing
Goods and Rubber Goods, at
Greatly-
eauc
In order to mate room for our New Spring and Sum--mer
Stock, of which wa will have a large and elegant
assortment.
"Bill of Faro" at the "New Era
The Old Credit System Must Go.
The old credit system" must go. The people are awake to the fac
that credit and long time means Long Prices. At the end of the year'
the merchant that sells on time runs over his books and draws off alf
worthless accounts, toots them up and adds them to t lie loss account.
Now, those accounts must be paid for, and those that pay for their"
own must help pay for those worthless accounts. Again, if a merchant
sells on time he must buy on time thus making him pay big prices for'
his goods; then he adds his enormous profits to cover the losses1
of those worthless accounts. Now,
Neither sells On credit nor buys oiv time, so are able to offer Match
less Bargains m all classes ot goods they carry. The following are a
few of their sledge-hammer prices:
Ladies' and Misses1 Gossamers, $1.00, $1.17, $1.50, and' $2f.25, worth?
25 per cent more.
Rubber Overcoats, $3.70, wort ft $5.00
Ladies' Overshoes, 38c, 42c, 4Sc. and 55c: worth 25 pei' cent more.
Men's Overshoes, 57c. worth 75; 67o, worth 85. occ, tec
Overalls, 45, 50. 53, 63 and 75c, worth 20 per cent more any other"
place ii tawri.
Men's Hats. 30. 80. 85, and 90c. $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, tec:
Towels, 5, 8. 10, 12, 18. 23, 25. 35, and 42c.
Ladies' Shawls, from 25 to 50 per cent be!or regular prices:
Ribbons, Laces, Embroideries 50 to 100 pr ct. -below regular prices.
Corsets, 2G 48, 85 and 88c each.
Gents' collars and cuffs at 100 per cent, below regular prices-.
Mouldings. Must, close out this stock to make room for Large Stock?
of other goods to arrive from tiie East in February.
Come and get prices -we can't enumerate them in this space. No
trouble to show goods. "All goods purchased at I he '-New Era," war
ranted. Give us a call. WILKINS, BOND & CO.-
UBWITUBE) HEADQUARTERS!)
Furniture Store,
This is the great Emporium for Modern Furniture at reasonable prin
ces. His stock is large, and selected with special care with an eye to
Comfort, Beauty, Style and Durability. A glance at his elegant wick
er, plush and fancy chairs, convenient folding wardrobe beds,- stylish
center tables of antique oak and walnut, will convince those in quest?
of Furniture that his store is the place for bargains in anything of ther
isusehold furniture line.
Oorvallis,
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Charter : Oak : Ranges I
With. Wire-Gauze Doors.
Fire-Backs Warranted, for 15 Years.
Argand Stoves and Ranges,.
"Ventilated Ovens.
PLUMBING, ROOFING, REPAIRING. J
v. t. MssMff'a soif; ess:
We carry a lull stock of the Very
Best SEEDS, TREES, BULBS,
FERTILIZERS, ETC., BEE
KEEPERS' SUPPLIES. Give US a
trial nrrlpf.
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