THE OORVALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1891.
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Wonder
fishinz on
if Cleveland will go
Decoration day this
year,
as was his custom when he
was president?
An exchange says: The Dal ton
boys, who held up the Santa Fe
trains in Oklahoma, were deputy
United States marsnals under
Cleveland.
To-morrow will be Memorial
Day. It is a day set apart by the
nation in honor of the departed
heroes who fought and died for
our country and wijl be absented
in every city village and hamlet
in the union. Lit all our citizens
join in' the exercises to-morrow.
The Oregon Improvement Com
pany has imported negroes and
put them in their coal mines at
Frank yii, Washington, to take the
place of the striking white miners.
They say the men belonging to
labor unions are too uncertain and
are liable to quit or be on a strike
when most needed.
The prize, fighters Corbett and
.Tnlrcmi didn't, hammer one
another hard enough in San Fran
Cisco Thursday night to suit the
professionals and others who take
a deep interest in such "sport,"
and so the affair was considered a
draw on the sixty-first round. It
takes blood lor a satisfactory prize
fight. Statesman.
The Commercial Bulletin, re
ferring to reports of ravages of the
hop louse ' on the Pacific coast,
says: Cynical observers may class
this as preperly coming under the
head of borrowed trouble, but
when'the history of Wisconsin as
a hop-growing state is looked into
it will be found that the presence
of the lice on the Pacific coast is
not a thing to be wholly ignored.
The people of Salem raised a
subsidy for the big Woolen mill, it
being agreed that 200,000 pounds
of wool a year should be manu
fa tured into cloth. The mill used
more than this last year, which
was the first year, and is now on
the market for 400,000 pounds for
the second year's run. Statesman.
Salem has made a good invest
ment in this, as well as several
other " manufacturing enterprises.
No enterprising city will let an
opportunity pass to establish solid
and profitable manufactories with
in its limits. The people of Cor
vallis should be on the alert to
capture some of these prize?
Factories is what we need to make
a busv and prosperous city. It is
within the power of our citizens
to have a paper mill and a car
riage factory established here dur
insr the present vear. Ihe can
nery project also lives in a dor
inant condition.
As , Memorial Day approaches
the question suggests itself, how
rapidly are the old soldiers dying
off? A Washington authority
says that at the close of the war
there were about 2,700,000 Union
veterans. The census reports
which are, however, more or less
imperfect show about 1,200,000
of these how living. The pension
rolls iarry about 300,000 names of
tKose whose 'claims have been al
lowed, and the deaths of pension
efs reported to the bureau aggre-
jrntfi ahnut 8.000 oer vear. Tak
ing this as a basis of estimate, and
calculating that the deaths among
all soldiers are at the same ratio
as'amotig the" pensioners, it is fair
to presume that between 35,000
and 40,000 veterans die every
year. Of course, as the years go
on the ratio increases, and in the
next ten years they will' drop off
A reunion ot the veterans of
the National and Confederate
armies of the late war has been
arranged to take place at Chicago
diirins the World's Fair. No ex
hibit of American attainment will
be so interesting to students of
political history as the cordial
greeting of those who fought
against each other in the rebel-
lion. Most or all of the old bitter
ness has passed away, and the re
maining leaders and soldiers will
meet with no unpleasant thoughts
and offer to the world a spectacle
such as it has seldom seen, of vic
tors and vanquished uniting in
celebrating the life and growth of
their common country.
There seems to be some rules
that do not work both ways. If
one has the right to buy and sell
where he wishes, ought he not also
be allowed to buy and sell what
he wishes. Prohibition free trad
ers say no. Another free trader
who claims the right to buy what
and where he w:flnts loudly and
strongly object to another man
buying labor in another country.
It will be observed, however, that
these inconsistencies are decidedly
democratic. A republican be
lieves in a reasonable government
control and restriction of all these
matters. Thus in order to become
consistent in all 3Tour views get
upon the republican platform at
... . . i
once, iou will una it maue oi
home lumber, home-made nails,
built by well paid home labor and
planned by home talent, instead
of imnoited lumber, nails, labor
4-
and Cobden Club brains.
It must be sad news to the
calamity howlers of the democratic
stripe to learn that the surplus in
the treasury is gradually increas
ing. The recent heavy drains
were because of the payments of
the direct tax refunded to the
states. At its present rate of in
crease, the amount in the treasury
will be more than sufficient by
June 4th to meet the quarterly
pension payment of over $30,000,
000. Even should it not be suf
ficient, that would not mean that
the treasury could not meet the
draft; for there is still a large
amount of the public money which
was lent by Cleveland's adminis
tration to the national banks which
lias not yet been returned to the j
treasury. This could be called in,
and would be ample to meet the
requirements. Blade.
IMPORTANT OPINION.
Settlers on unsurveyed land in
the Alsea country, should notice
the following letter which is an
opinion by Hon. J. T. Appersdn,
register of the United States land
office, in answer to Mr. A. P. Will-
son, U. S. Deputy Surveyor, in
reference to the repeal of the pre
emption laws:
Oregon City, Or., March 6, 1S91.
Mr. A. P. Wilson, Deputy U. S.
Surveyor, Tillamook, Oregon;
Dear Sir: We are of the opin
ion that under the act of congress
of March 3, 1891, repealing the
pre-emption law, that the act
makes provisions for all bonahde
claims lawfully, iniated before the
passage of this act, under any of
said provisions of law so repealed,
may be perfected upon due com
pliance with law in the same man
ner, upon the same terms and con
ditions, and subject to the same'
limitations, forfeitures and con
tests as if this act had not been
passed.
A bonafide and actual settler,
who made settlement on unsur
veyed lands, before March 3, 1891,
and can prove his compliance
thereafter on said land of the re
quirements of the pre-emption
laws, will be entitled when the
land is surveyed and subject to
entry, to file and take title under
the pre-emption laws as they ex
isted at the time when he made
settlement on the land.
J. T. Apperson, Receiver.
All settlers on unsurveyed lands
must make their filings within 90
davs of the acceptance of the survey-
B. W. Wilson,
County Clerk.--
THE PEOPLE'S PARTY.
The convention at Cincinnati
was stormy at times but it seems
to be well nigh unanimous in . its
main purposes, for with scarcely a
single dissenting voice it adopted a
platform, elected a national com
mittee and issued a manifesto to
the country announcing its en
trance into the political field as a
separate and independent organiz
ation under the name of the Peo
ple's Party. The platform indorses
the demands made by the Farmers
Alliance at its various conven
tions in regard to the currency and
the lending of money at two per
cent, upon non-perishable products;
it demands free coinage of silver,
the prohibition of the alien owner
ship of land and the reclamation of
all land held by railroads and other
corporations in excess of such as is
actually used by them. There are
many other planks in the platform,
such as the election of president
by a direct, vote of the people, and
a demand for an income tax, but
it is on the currency, coinage and
the land question that the new
party must make its chief fight,
and bv these it will be judged.
All of them have long been before
the people and have been amply
discussed. It is quite certain that
neither the republican nor the
democratic parties would ever
have endorsed the platform as it
stands on these questions and there
was nothing left for the advocates
of them but to establish the third
party which they have done. The
decision on this point having now
been reached, puts an end to all
future speculation as to whether
the alliance will act with the
democratic party in 1892, and
raises in place of it the question
of who is co be the leader of the
new party in the presidential cam
paign. The only eminent states
man who could stand on the cur
rency plank is Senator Stanford,
but the plank in regard to railroad
lands will probably exclude him
also. It is likely, therefore, that
some wholly unknown man will
be named when the time comes.
It is as yet too early to form an
estimate of the consequences
which the new party will effect in
the election. It is acting now ap
parently with a great deal of har
monv and enthusiasm, and if this
can be maintained, mere is nu
. ... i . i
doubt that it will seriously cut
down the republican vote in the
North and the democratic vote in
the South, thus putting a large
number of states in the doubtful
list and rendering the next elec
tion one of the most uncertain
ever held since the formation of
the government. San Jose Merc
ury. THE CHASE OF THE ITATA.
When the Charleston left Aca
pulco her officers were reported to
have said that the Itata had about
three days star? of her. We re
marked at the time that we did
not know the grounds.upon which
this estimate was based, since the
dispatches asserted that the fugi
tive ship had not been sighted
The arrival of the Colima clears
ud the mvsterv. It seems that on
the 15th, just after leaving Aca
pulco, coming north, a Chilean ves
sel, supposed to be the Itata, was
seen from the Colima, and on the
same day the Charleston was met,
nhnnt. sixtv miles behind. The
Charleston was notified of the
whereabouts of the Itata, but put
into Acapulco for coal. She stayed
there until the evening of the 17th,
leaving about two days and a half
behind the Itata. If the Chilean
cruiser was making ten knots the
Charleston had about 600 nautica
miles to gain on her before over j
taking her and supposing the
cruiser to make fifteen knots it
would take her just five da3Ts to
do it. But in that time the Itata
would have advanced 1,200 miles,
which would bring her off the Pe
ruvian ioast. There she might
meet otlter insurgent' vessels arid
be relieved of ' her cargo.
. Asr the Esmeralda put - oat of
Acapulco about the time the Col
ima sighted the Itata and return
ed" soon after, it is quite likely
that she met her consort and warn
ed her of the Charleston's pursuit.
In that case the Itata probably
struck out a new course for home,
and it would be almost impossible
for the Charleston to find her.
With the chances of her escape so
good, we do not take much stock
in the report that the insurgents
have decided to give her up to the
United States as soon as she reach
ed Chila that is, unless they take
her cargo of arms out first.
AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION.
The Department of Agriculture
has recently issued a report in re
gard to the productive possibilities
of tl e United States which effec
tually puts an end to all those
theories based upon the assump
tion that we have about reached
the full measure of our agricultur
al products. "So far from having
reached the limit," says the re
port, "we have not even ap-
nroached it. One third of the
area of the country is either too
wet or" too dry lor present culti
vation and awaits irrigation and
drainage, while of the other two-
thirds much is not included in
farms, and the farms themselves
are not utilized to their full capa
citv." The figures cited by the
report make the truth of this state
ment evident beyond all doubting
A larre nart of the arid lands of
the country have never even been
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surveyed, bufc. it is certain that by
irrigation millions of acres of this
area can be readily brought under
cultivation. In Maine fully two
thirds of the land is still unoccu
pied by farms, and only one-fifth
nart of the whole area of the
Southern States is under cultiva
tion. How large an area this is
may be estimated from the fact
that in Florida alone there is one
hundred and fifty times as much
good cane land as is now used in
the whole country in growing this
. n i
crop. In every section oi me coun
try there is in fact large quantities
of land not yet in use which wil
become available as fast as the
increase of population renders it
profitable to drain and irrigate it,
and these lands are among the
richest in the world. There seems
to be no reason therefore for doubt
ing that the agricultural produc
tion of the country is capable of
an immense expansion and that
we will be able to supply Europe
for many vears to come.
SOME GOLD FIGURES.
Just at this time it is of interest
to recall the facts concerning our
exportation of gold. From 1861,
the year in which t he war began,
to 1877, a period of 16 years, we
exported the enormous total of
over $530,000,000. Since 1877 we
have imported more than we ex
ported every year except five
18S4, 1885,. 1886, 1889 and 1890.
In the decade from 1860 to 1870,
the net exports were $330,000,000;
in that from 1870 to 1890, $400,-
000,000, and from 1880 up to May
2, 1891, our net imports were
$109,000,000.
Our production of gold from
1860 to 1870 was $475,000,000;
from 1870 to 1880, 400,000,000;
from 18S0 to to 1891, $330,000,
000. From 1860 to 1870 our. pror
duction exceeded our exports by
$140,000,000; from 1870 to 1880
by $157,000,000, and from 1880 to
1891, our production plus our im
ports gave us $438,000,000 of gold.
In the years 1878 and 1879 we
took United States bonds instead
of gold; instead of Europe send
ing us the metal she sent us our
own bonds.
The exports of gold for the nine
months of the present fiscal year
that is, from July 1, 1S90, to
April 1, 1891 were $25,797,546;
we imported $17,517,640, making
a net loss of gold of $S,279,706.
Subtracting the imports we have,
in the ten months of tho present
fiscai year, exported no more gold
than we have produced from our
own mines.Toleda Blade."
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