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About The Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1892)
THE CORYALLIS GAZETTE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1802." 1UCID IVIKT rftlT MORI. T 3TK-A-ISrK: CONOVEH, auflSCRlPTION RATES C Months, Sure. Months. nirU Copies. v ""' On Year (when not paid in advance)... 1 00 IS fie - IM THE RESULT OF THE ELECTION. It is almost certain tuat Cleve land is elected president for the next four years, although the re tarns are not as yet complete. And it is possible that elections . this winter by state legislatures rnay place the senate in the con trol of the democrats and popu lists. At least it is evident that they will secure it later, which with an already democratic house will give them absolute control of all departments of the govern- jnent. wnenic comes io uus, iue th democrats will have to an swer to the people for the propef administration of the eoverumeut. as they alone will be responsible for its policy, aud can have no ex cuse that they were hampered by republican obstruction or antago nism in any department. They will now have an opportunity to inaugurate the reforms they have so long promised, and if the coun- . try does not prosper under their administration the people will lay the blame where it belongs. The result meaus that the vo- on a change of commercial and in dustrial policy in the most pros perous period ever known in the history of the United States. The country will now have a free trade policy. The laborer, consumer aua producer will now nave aDun- dant opportunity to learn wnat i free trade means by actual expe- Tiatma Tliia roonlr wna frrinorit. about principally through contin ued agitation among the laboring , classes by scheming demagogues, who expect to benefit themselves by the change, and who fonud easy converts among a large con tingent of a foreign element of la- . . 1 r m 1 .1 Borers wuo were easily mibieu on ' account of their ignorrnce. This t same labor vole have placed them selves, on an equality with the ( cheap labor sections of the old ;." world, without knowing it. They , came to . the country to better their condition, but voted to place them in the same-category with their fellow laborers that they left fcehind them across the sea. When j. the reaction does come, it will fall ,'with' overwhelming, convincing ", force on the laborers of the land, who' will then see the error of ' their way and long for the good ' old republican days. The peoples party as a factor 'contributed not a little in an indi X rect way to the success of the de mocracy in this presidential elecliqir. , - , Tammany Hall too, did effect- ve work for Cleveland, and he will have the debt to pay. ' . r The, result ui Oregon was not unexpected, as it was ; very evi rdent the democrat of this state, as .a rule, did. not take kindly to fusion with the people's party. They believed in standing true to their colors, even if Harrison' did - get the electoral vote by a large majority. Tha vote m Benton eounty as well as other portions ,",of the state distinctly shows that iuey uiu not iavor deserting tneir ' party organization, no matter how ' hopeless the prospect for victory. , Good evidence of the kindergar ; ten. is not "lacking anywhere .and ,pne. influential newspaper, the t Christian Union, is publishing special kindergarten numbers. We '"do not iieed better evidence nor do we have to go outside of Portland to witness the wonderful progress of Froebel's system. In many large cities the system has been adopted in the public schools with complete success and , to the satisfaction of 'teachers, pupils and the public -generally. There are over 2500 kindergartens in the United States jiow, with an attendance of about .35,000 , children. All the largest .cities haye;such schools, the most of them, like those, in Portland, supported by private effort. Port--landV" record for " maintaining a ' high standard of public education -is first-class, and the state of Ore i gon cannot long delay the recogni tion and utilization of the Froebel methodjcritbout ; relatively losing "ground. "One' promiueht educator has said that what the cfulfLlearns 'between the ages ot three "and ix .is! more rvital and has" 'more iiP fluence on . his entire t life i than a crammer or hiah school edicatinn can possibly' have. Th Jsweeping jprogress maae by the kindergarten within the past five years, and the friends it Ms won among intelli gent peopfe,and especially among experienced' teachers, are conclu sive 4 its indespensable value to our state system of free education j the object of. which is character- jdevelopment as well as 'training M.W. f.J.J - M 1 . J J ine miner jor inieuigenc citizen ship. --'The coming session of the legislature will perform a popular duty if it will take notice of the kindergardens and give them state aid and indorsement Ex. GOOD ROADS.- . Now that the1 rains' premonitory, of the. approach of the winter sea son Lave begun to fall, and the mud, so familiar to the Oregon eye and so demoralizing to Ore gon travel, has begun to give promise' of what it will do for us a few weeks hence, the subject of roads becomes a live one. There is too much of the Arkansaw trav eler mheaerage Oregonian. In the""WlHter54ie growls ceaselessly about the1. dmpassable roads, but when the summer comes, when he should be improving the opportu nity to make them bettel, they are good enough, and he dismisses the subject from his thoughts. Poor highways have cost the farmers of Oregon millions of dol lars. . Every year the producers pay more to support the state gov ernment. This is so evident a fact that even the most thoughtless and the dullest of comprehension cannot fail to see it. But seeing it and realizing its significance are distinct , propositions. . In an in definite way we recognize the burden of obstructed traffic, but we are not sufficiently impressed with it to take active measures to lift it. The heaviest tax the . pro ducers of Oregon Day is the one they do not pay at all, paradox ically speaking, and that is a tax upon traffic. If they would pay a liberal road tax and have the fund handled itt a businesslike manner, their traffic tax would, be less. Primarily, the producer suf fers the most by reasons of . bad roads, but secondarily the mer chant, artisan and every individ ual whose prosperity depends up on a steady and . uninterrupted continuance of business." When bad roads prevent the farmer from coming to town with his pro ducts, or diminish the size of the load he may carry, his loss is di rect and positive, and the loss of trade is equally direct and positive to the merchant. With the dull times of winter, the direct result ol the bad condition of the highways, every business man and mechanic suffers a dimmuation of income. The cost of marketing products comes out of the pocket of the pro ducer. The man whose products cost less for conveyance . from the farm to the consumer receives the highest . net price. The price of wheat in Liverpool is the same whether the wheat was raised on a larm within a stone's throw of a railroad 1 warehouse, or ; twenty miles distant over roads knee deep in mud and full of chuck holes. The difference is all in- the net profit of the producer. Whether it costs him to get his products to the shipping point, or whatever loss of opportunity to take advan tage of a temporary rise in price by reason of a mud blockade, must be added to the expense and . de ducted from the gross price the same as other expenses of -pro duction. It should then be charg ed up to, the roads as -a separate item, tohow what., a large: road tax the farmer pays because he does not xay any road tax at all. A direct road tax for the construe-; tion of good highways for winter travel, would save many times that amount of indirect' tax. by reason of loss of market or cost of reaching it. , This is a subject of more vital interest to Oregon than the tariff, or the finances of the cotmtry. It means money lost or money saved. Every dollar saved in the marketing of products- is saved to the producer and is a dis tinct gain to the entire state. , The legislature will meet in January, and the farmers of Oregon should demand of it a repeal of the : pres ent utterly absurd and worthless road law, and the enactment ' of legislation ' that shall result in making our highways passable for heavily loaded wagons at all sea sons of the year. Portland Chron icle. - . - ,, - . Thb bureau of American repub lics has been informed that the re public of Paraguayto induce im migration and secure the develops ment of land, has offered very gen erous premiums to agricultural colonists. It , agrees to give 18 premiums, ranging from $5000 to $625, to the cultivation of tobacco; three premiums of $4000 -each for the 5 cultivation ot coffee estates containing - 15,000 . plants; two premiums of. $5000 each for the cultivation of squares of sugar cane; two premiums of . $4000 each for the cultivation of : 25,000 cotton plants, and a premium of ,f50jD0 'to whoever cultivates 25,- uuo ' Brazilian banana plants. Thirty-two other premiums, rang ing from $5000 to $1000: are of fered for the- cultivation, of. rice, manu alfalfa, maize, Brazilian ba nana plants, ramie,'orange trees, lemon plants, grapevines and in digs, and for the establishment oil a sugar mill, alcohol distillery, steam ; sawmill," wine-factoryj i factory for manufacturing general cloth made from raw materials of the country, a factory for, the, ex tracting of textile fabries in gen eral, a factory for .cooking oil, a factory for the preparation of pre served . fruits," cigar',., factory and mandioca flour factory. rOregon-ian. Z7.J TO BEGIN PREPARA TION. ' Next year is ' very likely to be a critical one in the history ot p'riine growing, in Oregon. The yield of prunes was hot up to the average last year, and this, year has been the . most ..unfavorablet knowjxto the business. " It the, yield is good next1 year, the ; aggregate product will - be many times what it has ever yet been. The amount will be great enough, in fact, to make the Oregon product a very percep tible factor in the supp!yj of the United States, and the character of the Oregon prunes thrown upon the market next year will have a predominant effect in establishing the reputation ; of the prunes ' of this state. S It is .not too early to begin pre parations now. Every fruit grow er of Oregon, , and. Washington as well, who has a few acres 6t. prunes of bearing age should at once com mence an earnest study of the question how he is going to take care of his fruit next year. The planting and cultivation of prune trees is a simple matter. . The pro: per handliug of the product is a complicated, one which calls for the exercise of both skill and busi ness management. This subject is brought upat this time because it is found that the majority of growers do not seem to realize what is before them. They talk confidently enough about the large quantity of fruit which their trees ought to yield next year, but tney act as if they expected nothing of the kind. If there should bo a big prune crop next year one-half of it is likely to rot for . want of sufficient -evaporators, and. more-than one-half of Hie balance to be practically : spoiled for want of skillful handling. : The part which rots will be a heavy loss to the growers who raised it. The part which is injured for want of skillful handling will be a great and lasting damage to all the prune growers of the state because it will go into market to create a bad rep utation for Oregon prunes. Ore gon's opportunity in this matter is great if our growers will only awaken to the character of the emergency. Oregon prunes un questionably surpass those of Cali fornia in size, and, if properly evaporated, in flavor. -:. If they are cared for and put upon the market with as much skill as the Cahfor nia product, our prunes will take first place upon the markets in the United Stales without ,a question, and the time is not far distant when there will be no: profit in raising prunes unless they: do take first place. Rural Northwest, v A writer, on education : saj's "Comparatively few teachers and professors who are. connected with the seminaries and colleges of our country are in sympathy with the present movement of the people lor a more practical - education than is generally acquired at the lusher institutions ot learning. - It is quite popular for the devotees ot classical and scientific education to call the movement for industrial education 'a mere ad' " This is quite possible, for that class of in structors are brought in contact with "fads" in all forms and have but little faith in the stability ol any new move. Old tilings are coming into use again on all sides, and education ' has "for so many years , been drifting away from what "was needed by' the people who are supposed to fill the most numerous and important classes in the country, that it is . about time to look lor a sudden and radical change. It is no more absurd for the daughter of wealthy parents to be instructed in housework, me chanics and even agriculture than it has been for the boys and girls who were to be farmers and me chanics or; the wives of such to spend the best years of their lives and worry their brains over . Latin grammar, and rules . of incompre hensible, mathematics that are of no use outside of a special line oi business.! ; No doubt when teach ers in classical . schools observe people coming to their senses they think it is a mere "fad," and if they give it the same encourage ment it may endure as long as boat racing or ball, games. Of course, there are some who will study for a . practical, . business, , every-day education, just , for .the, novelty of the thing just as some girls now engage in masculine sports, but the habit of earning a Jiving will be .followed by a majority -of the people for a long time' yet, and instruction that, tends that way, when once in: fashion, will be ap preciated. 1 -' It must - be noted by all those who have paid the least attention to politics during the- recent cam paign that aspersions on the char acter ot either candidate have been very-wisely -ignored and this is in marked contrast to the canvass of fonr. years ago. This : lias truly been a camDaiiru devoted to. edu cating the DeoDle m the diverse policies of government advocated by the different parties. Times Mountaineer. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria? L? it be true, as - is stated in a item now going the rounds of the press, that this country spends $100,000,000 a year for education and $200,000,000 a year for pene tentiaries, there must be some thing wrong about the educational system. It would ' be cheaper to kill the boys. -Ex. ' . . for Infants -MCMtotlAtoMirenadaptedtocbildreathat I reeommend it as anperlor to any prescription known to me." H. A. Abohitb, M. P., lil So. Oxford Bt, Brookiyn, N. T. . " The ue of ' Cantor! " Is so universal and Its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria - within easT reach." cUhlos Martyr, T. D., New York City. 1mX Pastor BIoomlngrtulB Beformsd Church. To CraTAna TRADE mm JKesresui?-.-. R. 1. WADE & GO'S ! HAT CONFORMATOR. The only practical Hat Cohformator in the world. If your hat don't wc will. make it fit. NOLAI CLOTHtER AND HATTER THE OREGON LAND GO, -WITH ITS SALEM, OEEGON, . In th5ray -Blocks corner liberty and,State streets., branch office in Portland, Makes a specialty of Snnnysido fruit tracts; mr 'Saiem Will sell 5, 10 or 01 acreots at $50 to $?0 per acre-rsmal casli payment long time balance. Send for particulars.- Market I have Purchased: the Old GORVAUIS MM WREET A nil ru-t 11 t4Tw n -full lin o nf f he best lic's well" as alfof mrold customers, are respectfully invited to call ana see me. Jb ree delivery to an Dr. J. M. CampM D D "B. DZEHSTTI ST- Gorvallis, - - Oregon. Office over First National Bank. - There is great -talk now about "mud- sliuging" but there is no mud slinging that is as dirty or as expensive as that .which will be "slung" by thousands of farmers on hundreds of, miserable roads during the coming winter. Paci fic Farmer. and Children- Castorlst nrcs Colic, OunutlpaUon, Bout Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di gestion. Without injurious merikwMon. " For several years I have recommended your ' Castoria, 1 and shall always continue to ao so as it has invariably produced baneflnUI reult8.n Enwnr F. Pasdbs. H. Xba Wlathrop," lS5th Street and 7th NowYoxkCit&i Cokpasi, 77 Mobxat Stbsxt, Vxw Tosa. STEEL - RANGES, COOKING STOVES, HEATING STOVES ' AND Stove Furniture AT PRIGS S : L TO SUIT ALL fit bring it to us and NOLAN HOME OITICB AT- . Op f Meats to be obtained. " The pub u"..w TAKE YOUR : WATGHE S TJ. B. VOGLE, . Vest door to Bom's dear foctofy. FISH & MURPHY, STOVES, TINWARE, Plumbing and Tin THE ELEBTSOK IS OVER And by; it has All Parties Must Have iVERCOATS and Winter Clothing. We are offering' Special Values in Overcoats at -Special Values Jn Overcoats at Special Values' in Overcoats at -And our Worl d Beaters at -Whicji must be seen Also Bargains in ... "... M Dress Goods and Shoes. 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