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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.
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H & MURPHY,
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Applewhite L Pernot,
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Ouics over J. D. Clark's hard
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HERCULES
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ENGINES
TTftve fewer parts, and ore
therefore less likely to gut out
of order tban any otner gas or gauoline engines now
I ::lu Just light Uie burner, turu ilia wheel, awl it
runs all day.
II ABIES NO 63IELI. OS DIXIT.
Ko double or false explosions, go frequent wlt& tlx
unreliable spark.
For Simplicity it Beats the WorlO.
It Oils itself Automat ically,
2To Batteries or Electric Spark.
It rana wttn a Cheaper Grade of Gasoline toaa an;
oilier Engine.
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MONEY TO LOAN.
Money to loan at 8 per cent interest on
farming land in Benton county. Enquire ef
J. II. Markley & Co. Office oyer the post
oliice, Corvallis, Oregon.
THE CHITWOOD NURSERY.
J. E. Wilson, proprietor of the Cliitwood
unrsery, Uhitwood, Oregon, has a fine dis
play of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Ever
greens Grape Vines, Shrubs, etc. , etc FbeH
lf&M Insect Pests. Address,
J. E. Wilson; Chitwood, Oregon. .
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