THE CORVALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1S92. IUCID SVBRT FRinAT HORSIKS T jr&.j&.jsrsz oonover, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Pertear,. Six Months, Three Mentha, Single Copies Om fear (when Dot paid in advance). 1 00 75 5C 2 SO Little drops of whisky, Little jags of gin, Will make a man a democrat If persisted in. democha no CON VICTS. Last week twenty one ballot box stuffers were sent to the state prison from Jersey City to serve a sentence of eighteen months, and seven other ballot-box stuffers were sent to the state penitentiary to serve a sentence of nine months. It goes without saying almost that all of these scoundrels were demo crats. Their democratic friends moved every lever in their power to save them from the disgrace of punishment; but justice had its way and the courts held the guilty parties to a strict accountability. There are twenty-eight more to be tried for the same crime; and, if convicted, one or more processioi:g will start from Jersey City and travel over the same route, bound for the same destination. The Philadelphia Press cites these facts and comments as fol lows: Look at the procession as it toils along toward prison walls. Call to memory the scoundrelly work in New York state last winter when David B. Hill stole a state legislature, and then had his chief tool in the work appointed to a seat on the bench of the highest court in the state. Look back a lew years to Joe Mackin's crimes on the ballot-box in Chicago in the effort to make the Illinois legislature democratic; to Sim Coy's tally-sheet forgeries in In dianapolis, done to keep that city under democratic control; to Mike Mullen's crimes on free suffrage in Cincinnati for the benefit of the democratic party. DEBT AND TAXATION. For the decade from 1880 to 1890 the decrease in the per capita indebtedness, national, state and local, from $60.73 to $66.6 i , is marvelous within itself, but the "value of property assessed for tax ation increased during the sair period from 17 billions to 25 billions 500 millions, or 50 per cent., indicating a reduction of debt and an increase of wealth lor the country unprecedented in modern times, yet all this was done under the robber tariff and an impoverishing system of taxing the people to death. If a debt per capita of $60.73 wa8 to be assessed and paid upon -a capitalizationof 18 billions, how much easier can a debt of $33.37 be assessed upon a capitalization of 25 billions 500 millions, and yet people say times never were so hard as now. It is reported that the rebate on tin-plate, allowed for the purpose of promoting the export of Ameri can canned goods, is sufficient to cover the freight, interest and in surance on California goods shipped to Liverpool. As a con sequence the English consumer can get our fruits about as cheaply as the consumer in the Mississippi valley, and there is every reason to believe, therefore, that we should build up a large trade with that country. In 1891 about 80,000 cases of canned fruit were shipped from California to Liverpool, and sanguine dealers expect that the shipments this year will equal 400,000 cases. San Jose Mercury. i e It would be a good idea for the New York Times to pause in one of those labored editorials on trusts, and explain just how it comes that a prominent New York democrat, a member of President Cleveland's cabinet and manager of the latter's forces at Chicago in the contest lor renomination, is also closelv affiliated with the Standard Oil company, one of the createst combinations existing. A j - pretty party manager is this trust magnate for the great tariff "re form" prophet. Free Trade is just what demo crats do not . want. Now it needs no diagram to show what the plat form means, and they will have to fight on this untenable ground. SECOND TERM IN HISTOBY. No matter what interested poli ticians may say against a secoud term in the presidency, the weight of precedent is against them. The balance is almost even. Look at the record. In all we have had twenty-three presidents. beven ot tnem were re-elected, namely: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jack son, Lincoln and Grant. Two were re-nominated and failed of election Martin Van Buren. who was defeated by Harrison, and Mr. Cleveland, who was beaten by the republican grandson of the great whig leadei-. This gives nine presidential re-nominations, seven of which were approved by the people. Six presidents who lived out their terms of office failed to get a re-nomination. They are the two Adamses, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, and Hayes. Three presidents died during their first terms, namely Harrison, Taylor and Garfield. The four vice-presidents who be came presidents Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson and Arthur were all beaten for the regular nomination. The record thus stands: Nine presidents re-nominated and seven of them re-elected; six presidents and four vice-presidents who were set aside bv their respective par ties, and three presidents who died or were killed during their first terms. This analysis shows that in the early days of the republic the second term was the rule of politi cal action. New York Recorder The unlimited cheek of those who are endeavoring to make tariff arguments ''for political pur poses only," is astonishing in the extreme. How they can persist in repeating the assertions, that the McKinley tariff law has made clothing, tinware and other articles of daily use, the necessities of life, cost more to the consumers than before, is beyond comprehension, when the very opposite is the lacts m ine case, as every person can demonstrate by a comparison of prices with any honest, straightforward dealer. The S. F. Chronicle mentions a case of that nature where a paper claims that clothing costs more than it did and says: "In this case it is only nec essary to appeal from the rhetoric of the editorial column to the sober statements of fact in the ad vertising columns of our contem porary itself. The editorial says, "clothing, for example, is much dearer under the McKinley tariff than before. The taxes on all kinds of woolen goods which ordi nary people wear are raised enor mously by the McKinley act." This is the rhetoric of the case, while on the preceding page of the same paper we get the facts. A clothing house in this city adver tises seven different patterns of men's all-wool suits for $6.50; men' double-breasted and single breasted suits reduced from $15 to $10; men's all-wool cassimere trousers reduced to $i.95. An other advertisement in the same paper offers ladies' all-wool jackets at $2.75; serge ulsters reduced from $27.50 to $12.50; all-wool tailor-made jackets reduced from $12.50 to $6.50; and so on through a long list." Albany Herald. A AVashington dispatch to the Oregonian says: There is no doubt that the subcommittee of the judiciary committee which has been sent to Homestead to make an investigation for the house of representatives will return with a very partisan report. It is learned from close friends ot the members of the committee that the inten tion was before starting out to place in the Congressional Record a report which could be circulated freely under the congressional frank, a partisan document, charg ing the republican party and the republican tariff with the respon sibility for the disturbances which have occurred in Pennsylvania. Even the third party men have un dertaken to make some capital out of the unfortunate occurrence, but the democrats seize it with a great deal of avidity, and are de termined to make it appear that the republican party is responsi ble for the unfortunate situation. If the people's party had more people it would possibly cut some sort of a figure. A WOOL RETBOSPECT. A very comprehensive presen tation of the statistics of sheep and wool by (he United States de partment of agriculture in its May report, shows that the value of our flocks is greater by $42, 000,000 than in 1870, and the value per head greater than since' 1875. From these facts it appears that the domestic supply of wool six times as great as in 1840, and that, both domestic and for eign supplies were only three pounds to each inhabitant, while they are now six and a half pounds. Then including imports of woolens, scarcely four pounds per head were used, whereas we now require over eight pounds. It appears that three-fifths of all the wool used for all purposes is of domestic production, while four-fifths of the requirement is manufactured in this country, leaving only one-fifth to come in the shape of imported goods. For three decades the value per head of imports of woolens has been regularly declining; and is now only about Ihree-fonrths of a dol lar per annum for each individual, when in 1850-1860 it was consid erably more than a dollar. SAM JONES AND TAMMANY. The Nashville correspondent to the New York Times writes: The Rev. Sam Jones concluded a series of meetings here last night. Among other things in his closing sermon he said, touching politics: "A fellow may say, 'I would die for the principles of my party,' when he would not know a princi ple it he were to meet it in the road. If old Tammany were to go to hell in a body and knock at the door, the devil would only let them in one at a time. If he were to let them in all at once they would knock him in the head, elect their own devil to run things to suit themselves." The fiend Wilson, recaptured a. id awaiting the hangman's rope, manifests in his voluble and dis im if in rr toll.' o 1 r -xt on1 lin f n 1 ai der of intelligence, perhaps be cause he cannot help it, or possi bly with design to induce the be lief that he is "insane." His evi dent weakness of intellect is not and must not be allowed to be a sufficient ground for a successfu plea of insanity. The scaffold and an inhuman, monstrous, mur derers abhorred grave, and not an insane asylum, is the place for such an insane man as he, even if he should become a hundred times crazier than he is. The record of democratic presi dential candidates ever since the war has not been lavorable to New York candidates, says the Toledo Blade. Every time the head of the ticket has been from the Em pire state, and the record has been as follows: in xoo, ivicuieiian, defeated: in 1868, Seymour, defeated; in 1872 Greely, defeated; in 1876, Tilden defeated; in 18S0, Hancock, de feated; in 1882, Cleveland, elected by fraud in counting Butler votes for him in Brooklyn; in 1888 Cleveland defeated. History will repeat itself this year. An exchange says: Kansas, the state of cyclones, blizzards, and third party people, is not only revolutionizing politics but crops. The dispatches from there say that t r ... Kansas larmers are having great difficulty in getting enough har vest hands to harvest the large crop of wheat now read' for cut ting. It is believed that the yield will be the largset in the history of the state. The Telegram says nearly all the towns in Oregon celebrated the Fourth of July, and some sta tistical critic who has been look ing over the reports in the local papers has discovered that if they have told the truth the population of Oregon must be at least one million, not counting those who staid at home or went somewhere to avoid a town celebration. An exchange says: "The Stuff ed Prophet will have the 6tuffin' knocked out of him next Novem bar. . Stevenson will have to be a bet ter vote-getter than we think he is if he shall overcome - Harrison's 22,104 plurality in Illinois in 1888. ening gas, and will raise one third more biscuit than the same quantity of any other baking powder, and will make them lighter, sweeter, purer and more wholesome. See U. S. Gov't Report on Baking Powders, p. 13. UNIFORM STATE LA WS. The current number of the Fo rum contains a very practical arti cle from the pen of Professor James 1?. Colby upon the necessity for uniform state laws. Professor Colby is one of the members of the committee on uniform laws of the American bar association and as such has given the subject a most careful consideration. The writer shows tersely and yet clearly how the framework of our American aws has been made up by our in heritance from the English com mon law, by colonial customs and precedents, by the statutes and de cisions of the courts of the various states. These statutes and decis ions have been verv many and very diverse, and the consequence is that the resident of one state knows little or nothing about his rights and remedies in an adjoin ing state. To illustrate this diversity in the various state laws, take the subject of marriage. In several states the age of consent remains as at com nion law, 14 for males and 12 for females. In other states the age of consent is 16 and 14 for the sexes respectively. In still others it is 17 and 14 years, in others it is its ana lb respectively, while in New York it is 21 for the males and 14 for the females. Take also the subject of a marriage license under our dis cordant laws. In some states the male must be 21 and the female 18 years of age..v In others the female must be 21 also. With reference to the marriage ceremony in some states it must be solemnized by an ordained or licensed minister or priest. In others the qualifications of him who may perform the cere mony, vary about as widely as pos sible. In some states no witnesses are required to the marriage cere mony. In others such as Penn sylvania twelve witnesses are re quired to every marriage ceremony. Upon the subject of wills the laws of the several states are even more divergent than in that of marriage. Nearly every state has its own peculiar statistics on (his subject and few of them agree in the essentials to the due execution of a will. Upon many other sub jects the laws of the states are widly apart and the consequence is a hopeless muddle on the part of lawyers and courts in finding out just what is law and when it has been conformed to. There ought to be provided a re medy for this patent evil upon the face of the jurisprudence of the United States. The American bar association have been trying to effectuate such a remedy since 1889. It is not unlikely that the bar association will introduce in congress a measure for the codifi cation and maintenance in prac tical harmony ot the whole body of American law. This certainly is a consummation devoutly to be wished by the whole American people. The effect of such a meas ure would be not only to harmo nize but also to greatly simplify the whole svstem and pratice of the law in every state of the union and to relieve it of the present in consistencies which do so much to destroy the public confidence in the laws. .. . . History, it is said, is going to repeat itself again this year. His tory, at this rate, will become quite chestriutty after awhile. But, then, we can't dispute its right to share the glory, of modern im provements and become a breech- loading affair if it wants to. Ex. ONE CUBIC INCH OF Royal Baking Powder Will produce One Hun dred cubic inches of leav Tammany has 9583 offices and ) jobs to give out in Now York city, with an annual pay roll of $10, 123,887. Between 2 and 3 per cent, of this is collected for the society's campaign fund, yielding $250,000 this year for election purposes from salaries alone. These figures show why Tammany does not care much who runs the government, so long as it can re tain control of New York. They also show why Cleveland will make a bargain for its support. Oregonian. Stevenson, the democratic can didate for the vice presidency, is president of a coal mining com pany which refuses to recognize the miners' union.. Yet the dem ocrats expect union laboring men to vote for him. The o!d soldiers and their sons will not forget Cleveland's venom ous veto messages on pension bills for disabled veterans, their widows or mothers. They will defeat him and Adlai. THE B!G LAGOON. An Interesting Formation on t North ern Coast of California. On the northern coast of California, gome thirty miles below the mouth of the Klamath river, ia one of the most interesting natural formations to be found in this country, known as the Big lagoon. Here the coast, which runs north and south up to this point, takes a sharp turn inland, bordered by very high hills, running to a distance of fcbout three "miles, then turning out rgain makf- a sharp bay almost V shaped, and for ages past a sand bar has been washing itself up across this bay nntil the bar has raised up out of the Water some ten or twelve feet, having a width of about 100 feet and a length of four miles, peaching across the entire bay. This bar is in the shape of a roof. When there is a storm the breakers will roll up one side of it, break over, and run down into the bay inside, and it is a novel sight to stand there and watch the waters, mountain high on one side and perfectly calm on the other, the line between the two at intervals hidden altogether. This bar is a sort of short cut and can bo traversed on horseback. In a storm the horseman will one minute be high and dry on land, the next minute a large wave will roll up and running under the horse's feet to the depth of a foot or more, the rider will be for an instant four miles or so at sea on horse back, with no land nearer than the high bluffs of the mainland in sight. Moss agates may be found in abun dance on the pebbly beach, and when the sun shines they glitter with dazzling brightness. The wild duck that frequent this part of the coast literally fill this inland bay, and the passing hunter, should he take a shot at them, will raise suoh a cloud and such a quacking that he will think all the du ks of the earth have gathered there. Occasionally some wild beast like a bear or a panther will be found crossing this bar, and the Indians have much sport when such a thing happens, the animal rarely escaping capture oi death. Here the Digger Indians abound, liv ing on the shellfish, which they catch along the beach, seldom going over the ridge of hills to capture a deer, which are plentiful. It would astonish a Yale or Harvard football man to come upon this scene some bright morning at low tide and see the squaws and children playing lacrosse on the beach. They get so excited with their -sport that they keep it up until the tide drives them from the beach, often staying there un til they have to chase the ball down into the surf. Detroit Free Press. ' What Is Electricity? If the question ia now asked, "What is electricity?" we may reply advanta geously, in the words of Jokai: A thing of which we know a little more than noth ing and a little less than something. A little more than nothing, for we know that it is of the nature of light and heat, extending itself like them in. waves of motion. A little less than something, for of the essence of electricity itself, whether static or dynamic, we are still absolutely in the dark. There has been no want of other theories, but the fun damental tendency of the age is to re duce all phenomena and forces to the fewest possible primaries, and it is not improbable that this will be facilitated by the wave theory of the bo called ether. The problem of gravitation, too, which was so long regarded as a force acting from a distance, is now equally attrib uted to the agency of a medium. In his efforts to demonstrate the oneness of all natural forces, the physicist is not likely to be led astray, even although the cog nition of force presents one of those world problems, the solution of which must forever escape us; aye, although, as the final result of the most exact in vestigation, it should forever be denied to him even to assert decisively, "It is only a force, and the ether is its me dium of transmission," Exchange. WAHTEB, BICYCLE Five, Ten cr Fifteen In a Club. . In a Casli Club of 10 1 will live 40 per cent, of my discounts Write for Club Rates and. Discounts. "The Proper Caper." FRED. T. MERRILL, 127 Washington St., Portland, Or. SV3R. CHAS. KODSCN, all about it Wly EVERY POLICY HAS A GUARANTEED Insure under the why Every Man Yoa don't Needs Cash at MASSACHUSETTS you Death to Pay life insurance CO. INSURE JjebtS and Bccausa . . , . The Law Protects You I your Protect ins M. s. woodcock, Agent. life Family. n?.. J CORVALLIS, - - OUEGOS. H. Gr. 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