V.
(. OliVALLIS, OREGON, JAN. 30, 1886.
JUST TWENTY
New pieces of black goods
received this week.
Mohairs and mohair effects
Very . latest goods and . styles
r . . . ...
riTiy cents to two dollars per
yard.
Also, crepons, serges, henri
ettas, etc.
It will pay you to see my line
before buying your best black
dress.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
The Brownies are coining.
F,ir reductions in clothing this month
at Nolan it Callahan's
R. II Huston and wife visited friends
in Albany last Sunday. .
Attorneys Bryso:i and Hufford are at
tending court at Toledo this week.
Don't miss Nolan & Callahan's great
clothing sale. There is money in it for
you.
President and Mrs. J. M. Bless enter
tained a large number of friends at their
home Saturday evening.
Rev. Geo. F. Plumtneraud wife are ex
pected home Saturday from a two weeks
visit with relatives in Portland.
Miss Emma Crawford, of Salem, daugh
ter of Capt. J. VV. Crawford, is visiting in
this city, the gnest of Dr. and Mrs E. J.
Thompson.
There is not a man in town in whom
ignorance is so intense, that he does not
know that the best of shavesjhe can get
from Spencer.
.Members of Ellsworth W. R. -C., to the
number of about twenty, were very pleas
antly entertained last Friday ?f.ernoon at
the residence of Atrs. John Clark.
G. W. Payne, of Salem, has accepted
a position with Graham & Wells as head
prescription clerk. Mr. Payne is an ex
perienced druggist and the firm is fortu
nate in having secured, his services.
Vili Klerr left yesterday for Portland, !
here he takes the steamship Columbia
whe
for ban Francisco. He goes to that city
to accept a position as assistant in the
painting department of a large carriage
factory. "
H. H. Kreger left Monday for a three
months' visit in Los Angeles, California,
During his absence he promises the Ga
zette readers an ocassional account of
his doings and of the many interesting
scenes incident to his travels.
Wm. Brown, who lives near the Catho
lic cemetery, has traded his home and five
acres of land to Wm. Taylor, the bill
poster, the consideration being the later's
interest in an estate in California, which
interest Taylor values at $1,800.
Frederick W. Eppingcr and Miss Lulu
Chandler were married at Baker City last
Wednesday. The bride is a graduate of
the O. A. C and has many friends in this
city who will join the Gazette in wish -ing
the happy couple a long, pleasant
and prosperous life,
M. 6. wilkins left Monday to attend a
session of the circuit court at Dallas.
From that point he will go to Salem and
complete the report of Referee Wood
cock, which is to be filed in the circuit
court next Wednesday. Mr. Wilkins ex
pects to return Saturday.
E- II. Taylor has formed a co-partner,
ship with Dr. Blake Cauthorn for the prac
tice of dentistry, and is in Portland pur
chasing instruments, and other dental
appliances. Dr. Taylor is art experienced
dentist and before retiring from the busi
ness several years ago had a very large
practice. v.
I,ast Friday evening several of the
college students, tvo of the professors
and their 'wives gave Messrs. Morrison,
Cooler, Veatch and Kidder a surprise
party; after which they serenaded sev
eral persons, including President Bloss
and B. F. Irvine.
Miss Anna Woods, who lives near Al
bany was last week granted a permit to
teach until the next quarterly teachers'
examination. Miss Woods has been en-'
gaged to complete a term of school in
Dist No. '4 for the regular teacher, Miss
Burkhart, who was compelled to resign
on account of sickness.
We have a number of copies of the
g-eech delivered in the senate recently
by Senator Mitehelii Ui6h the Subject
"Tariff Cm Wbdl and the Condition of
the Country.'1 This speech is an able
tme aid Is worthy of careful perusal. A
few copies of the address yet remain at
this office, -which can be had free of
charge by parties desiring one.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bryson entertained
a few friends at their home on 7th street
last Friday evening. Those present were:
Mr. and Mrs. J. R Bryson, President
and Mrs. J. M. Bloss, Prof, and Mrs. F.
Berchtold, Mr. and Mrs. ThosI Callahan,
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Huston, Mr. and Mrs.
R. M. Davisson, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. (
rvionman and Prof, and Mrs. G. A. Co-
veil. '
G. D. Marks, of Kings valley, was in
town yesterday. He says the valley is
experienceing a religious awakning such
as was never before known in that local
ity. The meetings are being condncted
by Rev. I. S. Fisher, and have been in
progress several weeks. About forty
conversions is the result of the revival T
which number twenty- five have joined
the church.
As an. instructor in the manly art of
self defense Tommy Smith is certainly a
success. For the past few weeks he has
been giving lessons in boxing to a num
ber of young men, and Saturday night
the class gave an exhibition of their
skill in the old engine house. Those
who attended the afiair say that several
of "Tommy's" pupils have attained a
degree of proficiency that is indeed remarkable.
Prof. U. P. Hedrich of the Oregon ex
periment station, will shortly issue a bul
letin upon "Prunes, Apples and Pears in
Oregon." The foundation of the bulletin
is the data furnished by the horticultural
survey of the state recently made under
the direction of that department of the
college. It will be a practical paper and
useful to fruitgrowers. These bulletins
can be procured free of charge by appli
cation to members of the station council.
Carey Martin is not a nephew of Sec
retary K'nciid's, notwithstanding tl; s
information was telegraphed to the Ore-
gonian by its correspondent at Salem and
has been copied by the state press. Mr.
Martin is no way related to Mr. Kincaid.
He is a young man who started in poor
and worked his way through the Univer
sity ot Oregon. He is holding his pres
ent position on his merits alone, and the
malicious attack made by the Oregonian's
correspondent, from purely personal mo
tives, is unjust, and basely misrepresents
the statements which he made. Eugene
Guard.
Since the first of the month, Messrs
Nolan & Callahan have been endeavor
ing to locate tue Holder ot ticket No.
643, who was entitled to the elegant
leather chair that was given away by the
firm several weeks ago. However, after
four weeks of dilligent inqujry, the lucky
individual put in an appearance Monday
and took the prize. His name is W.
Seemit, and his postoffice address is Phil
omath. He does not read the newspa
rs, and learned of his good luck while
conversing with some of his more intel
ligent associates at a dance.
Prof. Hedrich has drawn up plans for
the improvement of th college campus.
Instead of a straight walk through the
middle of the grounds, his idea is to have
two walks diverging from the entrance
gate around either side of the grounds
and meeting again at the college. The
south-western part of the campus- wiU be
devoted to a race track, grid iron field,
tc, vfhile all the space between the
walks will be artistically laid out as a
park. The college possesses ideal cam
pus grounds, and under the able direction
ot fror. iieancn students will find in
fam the lessons always taught by the
beautiful in nature.
Professors French, Shaw and Cordley
are in Eastern Oregon this week holding
farmers' institutes under the auspices of
the Agricultural College. Mnday and
Tuesday they were at Union and yester
day and today at Milton. At each place
Professors French and Shaw were an
nounced to lecture upon "The Agricul
tural College and Its Work," Illustrated
by stereoptican views. Prof. French
also appeared on the program for a talk
on "Wheat as a Stock Food." Prof.
Shaw was scheduled to lecture upon
"Alkali Soils; Their Cause and Treat
ment," while Prof. Cordley was announc
ed to discuss "The Use of Spray Com
pounds." The professors are expected
home tomorrow.
At a special meeting of the council
held Monday evening, the ' levy for the
city was placed at the same figure as that
of last year seven mills, two mills being
for street purposes and five mills for gen
eral municipal purposes. An unsuccess
ful attempt was made to reduce the levy
to six mills, by cutting ofF one mill from
the levy for general purposes. There is
a considerable amount of the city's tax
delinquent and the opinion seemed to
prevail that it was not best to run the
risk of more delinquencies and consequent
inefficiency of the levy. . With the coun-!
ty, state and school . levy 18.3 mills, the
special school levy of 2 mills iu district
No. 9 and 7 mills in the city, the total rate
on property within the municipal limits
will be 27.3 mills; an increase of 2.8
mills over the levy for last year.
Dr. Thompson, at the Presbyterian
church, Sunday morning, spoke vigor
ously against narrow-mindedness in
church life. "Christ," he said, "is larger.
than creeds." He pictured the sinful
ness of those who raised up their own
gods in the form of creeds. "Men," he
remarked, "are willing to fight and die,
if need be, for seventeen kinds of Meth
odism and twelve kinds of Presbyterian
ism." Many people otherwise liberal in
their ideas, become dogmatic and narrow-
minded iu their Christianity, and want to
knock ssmebody down with their belief.
The hour demands clean cut, intellectual
statements, not dangerous denunciations
of other forms of worship. No church
has absorbed all the good in Christ
John, Paul and Peter each saw different
sides of Christ's character, and the epis
ties of each represent different phases Of
His life. The cbufctt is ' frauei with.
mortality and has not attained full excel
lence, but the mission of the several de
nominations is the same to teach God
and His love. The several branches of
the church have a higher mission than
searching for and pointing out the frail
ties of each other. Narrow sectarianism
is doomed.
Rheumatism is caused by lactic acid in
the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla neutralizes
th'sacid nd completely and permanently
oares rheumatism. Be sure to get only
Hood's.
Hood's Pills cure nausea, sick headache,
indigestion, billiousness. Sold by all drug
gists. . ,-
Men's all wool black cheviot suits,
56 50, cheap at 10. Nolan & Callahan,
You will find it to" your advantage to
call on Cecil the Tailor. Special prices
i for the next 30 days.
It is reported that Adam Bamberger,
the other day, helped himself to a fifty
cent piece belonging to his sister, Mrs.
Thressa Albrecht Hearing that she had
accused mm 01 tneit, nis tairst lor re
venge is said to have prompted him" to
commit two other crimes of even a more
terious nature. Of these, the first was
that of stealing a revolver from the room
of Harold Dimmick in the Occidental
hotel. And the second was to threaten
his sister with violence at the point of the
stolen pistol, unless she retracted the
accusation she had made in regard to the
loss of her money. But for the timely
interference of Chris Germansen. who
was calling on Mrs. Albrecht at the time,
the. affair might have resulted seriously.
As it was, however, no one was injured
Bamberger will probably be arrested.
Attorney J. H. Wilson returned Mou
day from New York City, having been
absent exactly two weeks. - Mr. Wilson
was east on importaut legal business, the
details of which can not at this time be
made public. During his four days' stay
in New York Mr.
Wilsou spent most ofj.
his time in the society of his brolher-in
law, J B. Walker. Mr. Walker, who is
a draughtsman of exceptionable ability,
is employed in drafting depaitment of
Muau & Co.'s patent office. In addition
to this work he does considerable writing
for the editorial department of the com
pany's -well known publication, The
Scientific American. In the latter role
he is meeting with splendid success. His
articles are receiving widespread atten
tion, and a e f..v r .bly comu.e ited upo- ,
not only in the United States Lut in Eu
rope. The athletic inclined j-oung men of
Coryallis are about to construct a track
for bicycles and sprinters. The college
athletic association is also connected with '
the movement and the work will begin
as soon as tue ground is dry enough.
One of Judge McFadden's five acre tracts
west of Job's Addition has been secured
tnrougn me Kinaness 01 tue juage ana j
Chas. Blakeslae, the renter. The boys j
figure that it will take between $ 75 and
? loo to fit up the track, besides the labor (
that will be subscribed. Considerable of.
this amount is already available. The !
new track will probably be dedicated ly
a field contest between the Corvallis ath
letes and the college boys, perhaps early
iu March. It is to be a quarter-mile
track, and constructed after the latest
approved types. Ail persons interested
in the matter, or in other athletic Fports 1
are requested to meet at the court
house j
J
Saturday evening at 8 o'clock.
The spirit of original investigation
l3 j
strong upon the boys of the O. A. C
at I
Corvallis.
few days ago, through the'.,
courtesy of John H. Gault, a bar magnet deraocracVj bcfln brouj?ht int0 such a doplor.
was received that possesses properties J abe gnan(.iaI con(jition that any untccessar
uot before known to attach to those ily ad(3od burdong arc more soverely felt than
pieces of apparatus. The young man evor before, and the innate disposition to
who first made the magnet is a fourth ( criticise was never mora acute. It has been
year student and does not desire his nan but a few short years since our state debt was
used till he has had opportunity to study 'so enormous that wo of the "present genera
ihe matter further. All bar magnets de- tion scarcely dared hope wo weuld ever see it
scribed in the books have the power to paid. In the early '70s it used to be a corn
attract magnetic iron at both ends. One ' mja faying that the legislature was simply
end is called the north pole of the mag- convened fur the purpose of registering the
net, and the other the south pole. The , wil1 of Ben ""lladay. In the later '70s Hon.
two poles have equal powerof attracting, I y1?1" Galloway late democratic cand.-
, - . , . date for governor, first achieved a ftato rep-
or nearly so. This new magnet has one ..... , ... . .
. ., . .. , ., , lutatioa through the scathing report he, as
poe at tkM utrn'-y .while the other ono rf ftn ;lirteUgalillg committeo, made
pole 1S in the middle of the bar. Thus a j the lni itie, of tha democratic -state
steel bar is shown that strongly attract . adrainUtratioll. About this time, too, the
at oue end, while the other will not even J editoriai columns of tho press wore loud with
attract iron filings, though the middle j denunciations of what was known as the
gathers a full coating of the fine iron, Oregon City lock and dam swindle, and
particles. How the magnet is made is ! later, men of every degree of prominence
kept a secret by the two boys for the
present, till they can finish their study of
the queerly acting bar. Hillsboro Inde
pendent "A Study In tke Economy of Cattle
Foods" is the subject of bulletin by Prof.
Sliaw, which is being sent out this week
by the experiment station. It is an ad -mitted
fact that the greatest success in
stock feeding can be attained oniy by the
adoption of scientific methods; the result
of years of study and experience. Mr.
Shaw says that tils history of investiga
tions to ascertain just what are the cor
ect proportions of nutrients to feed
animals to produce different results) that
the most economically, covera a period
of about thirty years. A ehemical anal
ysis of food stuffs, he states, is the. firit
step to render the results of feeding ex
periments intelligible, and is absolutely
essential to an understanding of the
material used in rations. " "It is the foun -dation
upon which the whole question of
rational system of feeding rests. By
chemical analysis it has been possible to
determine not only the amount of nutri
tive matter in a great many fodders but
also what per cent of each class of nutri
ents is digestible." Thus it is seen that
the department of chemistry connected
with the college is one of great impor
tance to the farmers, although some per
sons, unfamiliar with the matter are in
clined to think it a needless expense.
Teachers' Examination.
Notice is hereby given that for Oie pur
nna inf making an examination of all
persons who may offer themselves as can-
dates for teachers of the schools ot this
county, the county superintendent there
of will hold a public examination at the
county court house, Corvallis, Oregon,
beginning at I o'clock, Wednesday, Feb
ruary 12, 1896.
Teachers eligible to state certificates,
state diplomas, or state lite diplomas,
must present recommendations and make
application at the same time. , Applicants
not present 'at the opening will not be
permitted to take the examination.
. . - R. F. HOIM,
County School Superintendent,
Wanted.
Several trustworthy gentlemen or ladies
to travel in Oregon for . established, reliable
houe. Salary 8780 and expenses. Steady
position. Enclose reference and self-addressed,
stamped envelope. The Dominion Com
pany, Third Floor, Omaha Bidg., Chicago,
111. '
THE LAST SESSION.
Speaker Moores' Timely Article
on the Last Legislature.
The following letter appeared in a recent
issue of the Oregonian. The article was
written by Hon. C. B. Moores, speaker of
the last house.- It is one of tho most timely
articles on stale politicle matters that has
been made public for a long time, and eon-
tains so much food for careful thought and
study that the Gazkttk publishes it in full:
No pastime has ever been more popular
with the American people than that of ut
tering maledictions upon the heads of mem
burs of congress and of the legislature. It
is ono national fad which never wears out.
Whenever wo are in trouble, our first 5m
pulso U to look for a scapegoat. It was this
peculiarity of humau nature that started
populism in Kansas. Hundreds of thous
ands of peopluwentoutto make homes upon
tliu pniii it lands of that state with baroly
sufficient money in their pockets to build
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money in large sums, and about the time
pay-day came around, a drouth and a bliz
zard and a cyclone or two came with it and
brought them into just that condition of
mind which gave the populist demagogue
1
hi opportunity. Tho republican party was
,t'ie most convenient scapegoat, and every
time a blizzard came howling over the plains
,tt lalf doze" populist politicians came howl-
ing along in the rear, and the populist vote
increased and the republican vote decreased
in direct proportion. Today tho people
everywhere are burdened with a heavy load
of taxation, and the most convenient scapo
goat upon which to shoulder the responsibil
ity is the last Oregon legislature, and among
the loudest in denunciation of that body are
many lately weaned taxeaters who have fed
u'P'uously at the public crib all their lives
Ona of the most deeply injured, who cannot
bo classed as a taxeatcr, is our friend Dr. J.
L. Hill, of Albany, who devotes a column in
your issue of Saturday to what ho calls the
Mollio Maguireism" and tho "hull-born"
!aws of lhe ,ast repubiican legislature. Cur
ft jeni js f a vcrv placid and phlegmatic
'deposition or he would hare spokon mure
severely and not have tempered his remarks
with such judicial placidity. - One would m-
for that the la.t assembly "was positively the
worst that ever betrayed a tax-ridden people;
but can vou recall a singlo legislative assem
bly in the past generation that has fared any
better iu the public estimation? Unfortu-
inatelr, hdtn.in nature is so constituted, and
Iegii-hifures are so constituted, that no law
making a.-jembly ever does meet public ex
pectation, even though Uie errcat maioritv of
f uch body may be composed of not only
capable but conscientious wjn, anxious
luitbiully to servo the public, lhe last legis
lature was like all its predecossors, but tne
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and of all shades of political belief were
beingcharged with complicity in swamp land
frauds. In all th; reckless charges which
have been made against the last legislative
cottiK!v tlinrft is nafliintr that has irnnntMl
1 n 1
I it .if t..A nriminnliltr nlli.a-nd
against tho legislative bodies which have
gathered in our state capitol in past years;
and here it is proper to interposo the sugges
tion that none of these legislative assemblies
were guilty of one half of the offenses of
omission and commission witn wnien they
were charged,
"Your Albany Cof respondent is a man of
high stsndlng in his profession, and as a citi
zen, but about one term in the legislature
Would immensely broaden his horizon. He
would thereafter "sing exceedingly low"
about legislative extravagance and ineffi
ciency, even if he had 89 other legislative
compatriots just like him. There is no man
in tho country who could so successfully con
duct the American nation out of its present
deplorable financial condition as the populist
who last week made an assignment of his
peanut roaster for tho benefit of his creditors.
All experience shows that it is mu'.h easier
to moralize over matters of this kind than it
is to correct tho evils from which we suffer.
No legislative body ever did meet public
expectations. None ever will, and no man,
however high his resolve, ever came out of a
legislative body with half as much self-satis
faction as he carried into it. " Indeed, as a
rule, the man who promises the most before
he gets in, and who talks reform the loudest
after he gels in, usually goos out with the
sorriest record". A man in tho privacy of
his own sanctuary can reform th world with
the utmost ease. The same man will go
into a convention with 89 others and come
out of it with absolutely nothing but his
experience. As a rule, a legislator is neither
better nor worse than his constituent, and a
leeislature is always a fairly representative
body. The burdens carried by tho people of
this state do not arise from any extravagant
appropriations made by the last legislature,
but so long as yellow dogs are scarce, we do
not feel disposed to protest against the indul
gence of the human propensity to kick the
nearest legislator and the latest legislature.
Let that propensity havofree vent, and let it
be conceded as the high-born privilege of
every citizen of the state, who has an acute
attack of the colic, to. relieve it by taking
down his gun and banging away at the first
member of tho legislature who thows his
head. The Indian "medicine man"-no
loses a patient, never protests against the fate
that awaits him. Why should a legislator?
Let us, however, repeat the protest that our
present tax burdens were not imposed by the
last legislature. For this others must be held
accountable. The fault lies largely in causes
beyond the reach of tho legislative asscmbl; t
The specific appropriations made by that
body did not cause the hard times, and Hie
abolition of the railroad commission and tic
cutting-off of the committee clerks would
not have brought the universal prosperity.
Legislative critics spend nearly all their time
watching the spigot and leave nobody to
stand guard over the bunghole. The small
leaks attract our -whole attention. The most
serious evils arc overlooked and apparently
not appreciated. No one pretends thnt tho
legislative appropriations could not or ehould
not have been curtailed in many ways, and
yet the cutting-off of every appropriation
against which protest is made would make
scarcely an appreciable difference in our tax
levy. For this excess, too, the people them
selves are directly responsible. At every
biennial sessian, avery section of tho state
comes down to share in the distribution of
the treasury surplus. Union county wants
a branch asylum; Gilliam wants a normal
school; Umatilla wants -on appropriation for
her normal school: Morrow wants all appro
priation for the Columbia river; Lakeview
wants ono for a graded school; Jackson
county wants one for a normal school at Ash
land; Douglas for th j school at Drain, and
the Soldiers' home at Boseburg; Lane for
the state university; Benton for the slate
agricultural college; Polk for fho school at
Monmouth; the other counties for their
orphans' homes at d othe-i purposes, and the
"faalem hog" for the rest. Every constitu
ency holds its representation responsible for
any failure to secure the pet local appropri
ation, and the man who "Stands agast at tho
until 01 itie general appropriation bill is
often tho most unsparing critic of the legis
lator who votes against his favorite appropri
ation. The clamor of all these various con
stituencies for a local appropriation, and the
threat of political extinction for tho repre
sentative who fails, forces tho legislative
dicker -which makes common cause of all
these scattered interests.
.every constituency wants an appropria
tion, and evory constituency condemns the
total which is the logical resu't of its own
local demands. These different appro) ra
tions have varying degrees of merit; but,
whether good, bad or indifferent, their spon
sors are compelled to make common cause,
as tho failure of one may mean the failure of
all. These legislative combines have always
been vigorously denounced, but tho people
themselves are primarily responsible for
them. It is a fact too worthy of comment
that the net results of these so-called raids
upon tho treasury ars greatly exaggerated.
You may strike out from our last general ap
propriation bill all that is set apart for the
railroad commission, for tho state university,
for the state agricultural college, for stato
and district fairs, for the stato board of equal
ization, for the Weston and Monmouth nor
mal schools, and for all tho various homes,
and you have saved the taxpayers less than
$75,000 per year less than one-tenth of the
total appropriation. In other words, undor
tho present state levy, which amounts to 4.8
mills, yon havo saved loss than K ot 1 mill.
In Salam, whoro our total tax amounts to
something more than 30 mills, the man who
pavs a tax of $60 would save just $1; and
yet practically the whole army of critics join
in denunciation of tho legislature which un
necessarily imposed that extra dollar of tax,
while those who are responsible fur the
remaining fco'J ro-ocho the cry, pile up tno
fuel under the boilers of their indignation
and chuckla in high glee at tho success in
diverting the attention of the taxpayers from
the real sourco of trouble.
It is not probable that the most rigid
economist could safely promise to so reduce
our appropriations as to affect the stato lovy
to tho extent of one mill. Tho great bulk of
our appropriations are for the care and sup
port of tho depondent and criminal clcsscs,
and the reports shew that with us the per
capita cost for this purpose is less than tho
average in other stales Next comes the
heavy cost of our judicial and administra
tive departments. This might, in many
ways, bo reduced, and yet tho aggregate
possible reduction would be but as a drop in
tho total appropriation. This is not to be
construed a an argumont against tho reduc
tion of extravagant appropriations, b itni a
protest ftgaintt attributing to the last legisla
ture all tho woes that nffiiet mankind.
"The datardly crime of 1873 is about tho
oily disreputable thing which has not been
laid at its door nd there seems to be a lurking
suspicion in the minds of many that possi
b'y we had something to do with the demon
itizati!n of silver and tho consequent de
pressed condition of the wheat and cotton
market. Criticism of public officials often
loses its force because it is too often exaggcr
tod, too often unfair, and too often indiscrim
inate. In the confunon of popular clamor,
tho re -pons ibiiity for public abuses is often
shifted, and the real culprit escapes. Dema-
g-igues of all factions, with tho loudest pro
fesMons of indignation, and with tho most
nniheiic nr'severatior.j of devotion to tho
"plain people" of tho country, will bend
every elF-rt to Ox tho responsibility for thoir
own shortcomings upon tho other fellow,
and the real criminal often comes out of the
du-t and smoke of battle as tho popular
favorite. It is well enough to talk about
eliminating money fr:m polities, to sav for
the ton thosisoiidth time that the people are
aroused, to tell us that tho taxcaters aro to be
relegated to tho rear, and that slate, county
and municipal corruption mast come to an
immediate end, but this expected political
niillenium will never coma until at least nine
tenths of the voters of the country are "born
again" in a political sense. No man can be
permanently successful in cither commercial
or political life who dyes not attend strictly
tr, l.iulri.iss evrv JrtV In UiS Vear. But A
more fraction of tho people of the country
make a busSne of politics, in tho higher
sense-. Th.i majority do not attend tho pri
maries iie tenths of those who do not
attend the primaries never make their pres
ence felt at the conventions, and tho delegates
to our conventions consider their duty done
Awarded v . " """"
Highest Honors World's airj
Qold Medal, Midwinter Fair.
- Most Perfect Made.
40 Years the Standard.
U v f! 1
whsn the convention adjourns, for at lens;
nine-tenths 01 tho burden of taxation which
is borne bv the people, the responsibility
rests with local sentiment and with local offi
cials, who are presumed to voice, tho senti
ment, and a mere pittance is chargeable to
the legislative assembly. In attempting V
fix responsibility there seems to be no general
desire to 6eek original sources of information
but rather a disposition in effecting future
reforms to follow the lead of that particular
Moses who happens to have the most religi
ous tone of voice.
"The abuses complained of cannot bo fix-.d
upon the republican party. Under tho smne
combination of circumstances, no party at d
no legislature would do any hot tar. A simi
lar conflict at the next session wiil bring the
same results. Dr. Hill's panacea of popu
lism would make matters infinitely wors,
Nebraska tried that. Governor Waile's
administration in Colorado made that state
a by-word throughout tho country, and Mrs.
Leaso, who ought to ba good authority, ig
quoted as saying that lha administration tf
Gov Lewclling wa3 the most fiimeu and eo -rupt
that ever disgraced the state of Kanses.
Tho legislature of 1895 should have done
better. The same has been said of tho legis
lature of 1893, and all that preceded it. 1 l.e
same will be said of tho legislature of 1SU7,
and all that succeed it. When all political
abuses are abolished, vthen .every public offi
cial does his whole duty, when the people
have no further reason to complain of the
burden of taxation, wo may look for tho im
mediate "eoming of the kingdom."
C. B. Moores.
Nolan & Callahan will give
away on April 1st one Fire
Leather Chair; on May 2nd one
Waverly Bicycle.
9
Opp
ortunity.
3
THE FIRM OF
Of Independence, has dissolved partnership and divided
into two equal shares (he immense stock of merchandise
they carried. Mr. Henkle's share is now being shipped to
Corvallis and will be closed out with the remainder of
the Z. II. Davis & Co. stock. These goods are
GOING RAPIDLY,
And to get the choice of the lot you should hurry up and
make your purchases. The stock includes
Groceries, Dry Goods,
Clothing, Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes, Our terms are
stjictly cash, a rule that will not be deviated from. The
place is next door to the First National, Bank.
Geo.
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