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lienidtuice, Columbia st
bet. 2d and 3d sts.
Jas. K. Kelly and J. H. Reed, under the
firm name ot
KELLY & REED,
Will practice law in the Courts of Oregon
Office ou First street, near Alder, over the
new Post office room, Port.and. (40tf
LANSING STOUT.
Attorney and Counselor at Law,"!!!
PORTLAND, OREGON.
Office Under the United States District
Court Room. Front street. 4Jtf
pAGE & THAYER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
QOFFICE 1 n Cree's Building, corner of
Front aad Stark streets, Portland. 32:tf
f. F. CAPLKS. . J. C. MORELAND.
CAPLES & MORELAND,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Cor. FRONT and IVASrilXGTONSts.,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
JMJGENE A, CRONIN,
ATTORNEY A T LA W,
Koouis 7 and S Carter's Block,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
46.
U W.ROSS, M. 1).,
Physician and Surgeon,
JSfOfilce on Wiiu Street, opposite Mason
ic Hall, Oregon City. 13tf
JJ SAFFARRANS,
Physician and Surgeon,
5T" Office at his Dru: Store, near Post
Office., Oregon City, Oregon. 13ti
J. WELCH,
DENTIST.
Permanently Located ect Oregon, City, Oregon.
H OO MS With Dr. S-afiarrans, on Main st.
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IT. W ATKINS, M. D.,
SURGEON". ToitTi-AXD, Okkg n.
OFFICE Odd Fellows' Temple, corner
First and Mder streets Residence corner of
Main and Seventh streets.
ALANSOF3 SMITH,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
wPUOtTOR AND SOLICITOR.
AVOCAT.
f radices in State and C S. Ocvirts
Office Xo. 108 Front St red, Portland, Oregon,
Opposite McCormick's Book Store.
''Barnum Saloon."
ENT fc PLuJlEY,
DI PENSERS OF
Choice Wines, Liquors Sc. Cigars,
H&in st., Oregon City.
tT Call, and Robert Potter will show yrm
throgh the establishment.
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VT. HIGHFIELB,
Established since 1849, at the old stnfii,
Main Street, Oregon, City, Oregon.
An Assortment of Watches. Jew
elry, and Seth Thomas' weight
Clocks, all of which are warranted
to be as represented
Repairing done on short notice,
md thankful for past favors.
CLARK GREEN5IAN,
qCity Drayman,
fei OREGON CITY.
. B All orders for the delivery of merchan
dise or packages and freight of whatever des
cription, to anyiart of the city, will be exe
cuted promptly and with care.
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JMPERIAL MILLS.
Sayier, LaEoque & Co.,
OREGON CITY.
x i?U.Kep eoastantly on hand for sale, flour
Midlings, Bran and Chicken Feed. Parties
Vurcking feedmust "furnish the sacks.
Wig
Live and Let Live."
J7IELDS & STKICKLEU,
DEALERS IX
PROVISIONS, GROCERIES,
COUNTRY PRODUCE, Ac.,
CHOICE WINES AND LIQUORS.
nSSTAV6 d stand of Wortmaa & Fields
OUgon City, Oregon; jgtf
pG. STEWART,
Ao. 109 FRONT STREET,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
Watchmaker
uM And Jewel or.
And Dealer in CLOCKS, WATCHES AXD
JEWELERS GOODS. Acent for Wilcox &
Gibbs' Letter 'G" Sewing Machines, wh'icy
are now being sold singly at cast, or wholh
sale less than cost. Other goods at sreate
reduced rates. (4j tfl
JOHN II. SCIIRAM.
Manufacturer and Dealer in
SADDLES, DARXXSS,
etc., etc.,
Main Street, Oregon City,
jraWishes to represent that he is now as
well prepared to furnish any article in his line
as the largest esi iblishnient in the State. He
particularly requests that an examination of
uis stocK be made before buying elsewhere.
OREGON CITY
BREWERY!
HENRY II UMBEL,
Having purchased the above Brewery wish
es to inform the public that he is now prepar
ed to manufacture a No. 1 quality of
LAGER BEER,
As good as can be obtained anywhere in the
Stale. Orders solicited and promptly tilled.
JOHN 31. BACON,
Importer and Dealer in
EES CL2 ffg
STATIONERY, PERFUMERY, &c, &c,
Orpgon City, Oregon.
At Charma'ify Warner's old tind, lately oc-
cupita oy uiciivrman, Main street.
10 tf
STEERS & HlftSDE,
WhoiesaBo Dealers in
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
lVzncs, Urandtcs, WhisJclcs, JH'3
No. 40, Fkoxt Strket, Fortlaxd, Okkcox.
Constanth- on hand a jrenuine article ot
Cutter Whisky.
CH.iS. HODGE. .CHAS. E. CALEF . .GEO. W. SNELL.
H0BGE, CALEF c Co.,
DEALERS IX
DEUGS and MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS, AXD WINDOW GLASS,
VARNISHES, BRUSHES, PAINTERS
JfaCcriacs, ana xrvagiats' Sundries.
G7 Front Street,
Portland, Oregon.
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HOW'S THIS FOR HIGH ?
PAUL GRSS3SR,
Having thoroughly reconstructed inside and
nit, Losrus' building, formerly occupied by
Chas. Freidcurich, has opened the same,
where the best of
lYinc, Jicer and Cifar,
can be hd. A slare of public patronage is
respectfully solicited.
Aug. 2U:"m3
COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL
(Formerly Arrigoiii's,)
Pront Street, Portia :nl, Oregon.
J. B. SPRkrGER,
PROPRIETOR.
THE PROPRIETOR OF THIS WELL
known House having superior accom
odations, guarantees entire satisfaction to
ail guests.
Irs7"The Hotel Coach will be in attendance
to convey passengers and baggage to and
from the Hotel, free of charge.
Office Oregon and California Stae Co.
Aug. L-tf
Patronize Home Industry.
THE PI0ISEER CURLED HAIR
MANUFACTORY
JS NOW PREPARED TO SUPPLY THE
X markf t w.th a No. 1 article of Curled
Hair for Lpholstery work, which will com
pare with any imported article In qualitv or
price. J
I pay the highest price for Manes and
Tails of Horses and Tails of Cows at mv
store corner Front and Salmon streets
D. METZl.FR,
I'ortlaud. Oregon.
TEW YORK HOTEL,
(Deatfehes Gafthna
o. 17 Front Street, opposite the Mail steam
ship lauding, Portland. Oregon.
H. R0THF0S, J. J. WLLKENS,
PROPRIETORS.
Board per Week
" with lodging."
44 " Dav '
5 00
. 6 M
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44 ' '
E0 CITY,
Hon.
George H. Pendleton on
Cninese Question.
the
A larrjje number of laboring men
from Cincinnati and subcrbs re
cently serenaded Hon, George II.
Pendleton, the great xchite states
man of the West, at his home in
Clifton, Ohio. He responded in
an appropriate speech, of which
the following are extracts:
I object to its adoption because
it is part and parcel of a scheme to
flood the country with a forced im
portation of an immense number
of Chinese of coolies and thus
for a secoL'd time bring into our
midst an alien race and to repeat
in a more difficult form the social
and government questions which
have so unhappily divided our
people. Their
skilled laborers get three or four
dollars a month, and with this they
seem content. They work from
daylight to sunset, and have but
a single holiday m a year. Their
food consists of rice, fait, a few
vegetables and sometimes fish.
The plan is Xobrin'j immense num
ber of thrse people here to supjibj
the demand for labor m the tields
and the factories and the shops.
e in Ohio have not appreciated
the importance of tins movemeent
I protest against it nowin time,
before it is carried out before we
are confronted with duties and in
terests growing out of their pres
ence, iliey are an alem an m
ferior idolatrous race. They have
not our tastes, or habits, or man
ners, or developments, or religion.
They are not fit to become citizens
or enjoy the rights of suffrage.
Amalgamation would injure both
their race and ours. Isolation will
give rise to great troubles. Eng
land, Ireland, German v, Norway
and France, have an overflowing
population of our own race, similar
to us in blood, in manners, in
religious faith an industrious,
sturdy, self-reliant self-respecting
people. 1 hey are fit to become cit
izens. They will mix with us, and
our commingled blood is purer for
the association. Let vis invite them
with open arms to come to us. Let
us people our country with the
best races of men.
But the Chinese will give us the
cheap labor, cheap human labor, . I
despise the word. It signifies
crime and shame. It signifies
squallor, degradation, ignorance,
vice. Are not laborers men our
fellow men? They have bodies to
clothe and stomachs to feed, and
minds to educate, and spirits to ele
vate, and old age to provide for.
They have homes which they love,
and wives whom they cherish, and
children whom they hope to make
woithy citizens the honest fathers
and virtuous mothers of a succeed
ing generation. And can you re
member these duties and see the
aspirations; can you contemplate
the patient hopefulness of cheerful
and contented, because fairly com
pensated industry, and talk of
cheap labor? Labor is too cheap
now. Labor does not receive its
just reward. This country needs
skilled laborers, zealous mdustiy:
it needs that such labor shall not
be cheap, but that it must be boun
tifully rewarded.
" :jc sf:
It must command the efforts of
an advancing civilization, and the
favor of a just God, until at last
the human intellect, and hand and
blood, as they constitute the no
bler, shall also be the better paid
member in the great partnership
of labor and capital.
.
Fuxxy Protection. We find
fn the Herald a report that the
lion. Hamilton Fish had instructed
Mr. Washbarne, our Minister in
Paris, to " offer protection to Prus
sians in Fi ance, for the reason that
many of our naturalized citizens
came from Prussia, and that the
Prussian Government had no repre
sentative in Paris." Considering
that the distinguished head of the
State Department has never been
able to protect American citizens
in Cuba, and that they have been
robbed, murdered, and outraged,
within a hundred miles of our shore,
without his daring to lift a finger
for their defence, this proposal to
protect citizens of a foreign coun
try, on the other side of the Atlan
tic, would be comical if it were not
insulting. A Y. Smu
Miss Baker, the newly-appointed
chief librarian of the Treasury De
partment, has discharged all the
males that were under her. She
says girls should occupy those po
sitions. An exchange says Sheridan has
no match. Never mind. He will
burn some day without one, jast
as well.
OKEGOJV, SATU16IAY, SEPTEMBER 3, -
Contested Election CasesWhat Con
gress pays for them.
Washington Cor. X. Y. Journal of Com
merce. A year ago a warning was given
in these letters as to what would
probably be the result of several
notices of contest then pending for
scats in the house. The prediction
has been borne out by the fact that
men had gone in the contesting
business with no case, no claim to
a seat, no hope of gaining a con
test, but for the sole purpose of
getting paid lor the effort to gain
a seat. I have taken considerable
pains to learn the exact amount of
money paid to the contestants dur
ing the terms between March 4th
and April 10th, 1869 ; December
7th, 1809, and July 1G, 1870.
Some of these men should have
been paid ; others were no more
entitled to the money they received
than any citizen. For instance,
Joseph Scgar claimed a seat as rep
resentative at large from Yirginia,
which State is not entitled to any
such representative. But he got
$2,000 for trying the experiment.
J. II. Sypher contested a seat where
his opponent was elected by an
overwhelming majority. He lost
his case, but he got $4,"o00 for his
trouble. Lieut. Mai t in, Sypher's
opponent, was thrown out because
he was a Democrat, and his injured
feelings were soothed by a snft of
84,000. The contests are not yet
over. A number remain unfinished,
and several thousand dollars will
yet be paid to the defeated con
testants. In the following list of
monies so far paid, the citizens of
localities from which the worthies
hail will appreciate the iniquitous
example the contestant for a seat
in Congress from their district has
helped set for future Congresses
Here is the list of names and pay
ments made to them :
W. F. Switzler, Nin'b Dist. Mo $5,000
Aclolph Bailey. Third Dist. La 4.000
J. L. Ziogler, Ninth Dist. Ky 2 000
Joseph Segar, at large. V a , 2,000
Frank Morey. Fifth Dist. La 3.000
G. V. McCranie, Fifth Dist, La 3.000
D. F. Grafton. , Texas l.oOO
II. D. Fuster. Twentv-first Dist. Pa. . 3.500
J. a. Held, Fourth Di?t. Ind 4,500
U. S. hittk'sy. Seventh Dist. V a. . 1 500
George Tucker, Fourth Dist. Va. . . 2.000
C. S. Hunt. Second Dist La 2.000
S. M. Barnes. Eighth Dist. Ky 5.000
M. Ryan. Fourth Dixt. La 3.500
L. St. Martin, First Dist. La 4.000
J. II. Sypher, First Dist. La 4.000
Joha Mollat, Third Diat. Fa 1.S00
Total during forty-first Congress. .$52,300
In addition to this sum is an
amount greatly exceeding the
above, expended in labor and ma
terial for printing thousands of
large books, containing the im
mense record of evidence taken in
the cases, besides the cost of pro
curing a large amount of the evi
dence and papers. The net gov
ernment expense of these transac
tions so far during this Congress is
probably $200,000.
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Franco-Prussia,n War.
From the Eoone County Journal.
The great war between France
and Prussia has begun in earnest.
As will be seen from the dispatch
es, published in another column.
two engagements have been had
both proving disastrous to the
French. At last dates the latter
were in full retreat toward Pa-ris,
which lias been declared by the
Queen in a state of seige.
This sudden triumphant victory
of Prussia has startled even those
who.
were most
sanguine
of her
prowess. Uwing to the superior
discipline of the French army, their
chivalrous valor and the immense
resources at their command, it was
thought to be impossible to have
more than temporarily repulsed
them and to have routed them only
after a series of desperate engage
merits; but at the first stroke of
the Prussian arms they are not
only defeated, but are thrown into
the wildest panic-stricken confu
sion, and from present indications
it seems highly probable that the
Prussians will put an end to the
war by a sweeping and triumphant
victory in less than a month.
No period so momentous or so
important to history is known to
modern times. The destiny of the
French empire is swaying in the
balance, and the star ot its imperial
ruler is about to fade forever.
Should the Prussians win, the dyn
asty of France must inevitably
crumble, and from its ruins will
probably spring a republic The
Prussians do not tight for aggran
dizement of territory, or the po
teucy of governmental authority,
but for the vindication of national
honor, and when they shall have
obtained from France such conces
sion they will have no disposition
to carry the war farther.
The disasters of this war, how
ever, brought on by Napoleon,
will recoil upon himself and his
crown will be torn from him by an
outraged and indignant people.
Already the murmurs of revolt rise
indistinctly but resolutely within
the French metropolis, and disaf
fection and desertion are fearfully
rife in the French army, while Paris
rings with the popular cry " Vive
la Republique." The volcano is
but slumbering. It may burst
forth at any moment.
Napoleon staked the future hopes
of his dynasty upon this war, and
hence would steep France in blood
and clothe Europe in sackcloth,
and his failure to win will cost him
his crown.
These, .we believe, will be the
results ot Prussian triumph the
overthrow of the Napoleonic dyn
asty and the establishment of a free
republic.
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Condemned.
There is not an individual in
Oregon who has been so completely
and emphatically condemned as
Geo. II. Williams by a large ma
jority of the voters, and yet there
is a paper published in his interest
which has the audacity to say that
many Democrats favor his re-election.
We have failed to find such,
and the delaration that any exist
is only imagination. The hallu
cination will be dispelled on the
20th of September. The Albany
Democrat contains the following
1 1 -a ...
paragraph in an able editorial m
regard to Williams, and we may
state that this is the universal sen
timent of all the Dernoractic papers:
No Democratic member will so
foully betray his constituency and
so utterly disgrace his party as to
vote for one whom the people of
Oregon have so signally rebuked
as Geo. II. Williams; and our very
able friend ot the JJulktui is "wast
ing his sweetness on the desert
air" in asking such a thing of them.
While it is possible that Williams
majht benefit either Southern, Mid
dle or Eastern Oregon in Congress,
yet his former course has been so
erratic and dubious that very lit
tle reliance can be placed upon his
promises ; and the statement of his
friends that a Democrat can have
no influence in that body even if
true, will very little longer be an
argument if every Democratic
voter and Legislator does his duty
and assists in fast displacing those
who thus show their animus to
Democratic members, and would
ignore the interests of a constitu
ency who did not see fit to endorse
their political sentiments. It is
certainly high time such a body
was "reconstructed," and the great
est privilege our Democratic Legis
lature can enjoy will be to assist
that process of reconstruction by
kicking out Geo. II. Williams and
putting an honest, conscientious
and able Democrat in his place.
We know of no amount of avail
able argument to induce any sen
sible person to believe that Wil
liams' re-election is necessary to the
welfare and prosperity of our State,
while his former actions have fur
nished sufficient provocation for
his summary dismissal from the
position which he has so long used
as an engine for the acquisition and
perpetuation of party power.
Too True. Gov. Palmer, of
Illinois, in a late "letter advocating
the adoption of the new constitu
tion of the State, says :
The tendency of .our Govern
ment, State and National, is to the
destruction of individual rights of
liberty! and property. To prove
this, and for no other purpose, I
cite the revenue laws of the United
States, under which arrests are
made and property seized in a man
ner that would at one time have
provoked resistance in any State
in the Union ; while, according to
the modes practiced in modern
times, property is taken and taxes
levied under State authority for
purposes that until very lately were
thought to be merely private and
personal and under personal inter
pretations of the constitution peo
ple are taxed to build railroads,
sink coal shafts, erect bridges, ca
nals, dams and embankments, and
the many other purposes, for the
mere private benefits of corpora
tions and individuals, and every
county,township and town is threat
ened with ruin.
Olive Logan says she turned her
back on Mrs. Joseph Young, No.
3, when introduced to her. In re
ply to which an exchange suggests
that, with her natural vanity, Olive
turned her handsomest side toward
Mrs. Young.
1870.
Synopsis of the New National Reve
nue Law.
The following is a synopsis of
the provisions and changes of the
Internal Revenue Law made by
the recent action of Congress :
Sec. 1. Repeals the tax on carri
ages, gold watches, private billiard
tables, gold and silver plate; on
legacies and successions ; on pass
ports; on gross receipts ot toll
bridges, steamboats, sailing vessels,
stages,express companies,tclcgraph
companies, insurance companies,
lotteries, theaters, operas, circuses
and museums to take effect. Oct.
1st, 1870.
Sec. 2. Repeals all the special
taxes (licenses) except those of
brewers, distillers, rectifiers, whole
sale and retail dealers, leaf tobacco
dealers, tobacco and cigar manu
facturers to take effect May 1st,
1S70.
Sec. 3. Repeals all the taxes on
sales of apothecaries, auctioneers,
butchers, cattle-brokers, commer
cial brokers, confectioners, whole
sale dealers (except wdiolesale deal
ers in liquors,) manufacturers (ex
cept manufacturers of tobacco and
cigars,) and plumbers and gas
fitters to take effect Oct. lst,1870.
Sec. 4. Repeals the stamp act
on promissory notes of less than
one hundred dollars ; on all rceeij)ts
for money or payment of debt ; or
transfer or assignment of mortgage
previously stamped ; on canned
and preserved fish; and on matches,
cigar lights and wax tapers ex
ported to take effect Oct. 1st,
1870.
Sec. G and 7. Amends the in
come tax law, to continue during
1870 and 1871, and reduce the rate
to two and a half per cent, (from
five per cent, under the iormer
a.
law.
Cec. 8 and 9. 1'rovide the ex
emption from income tax to two
thousand dollars (in lieu of one
thousand heretofore,) and in addi
tion, all government pensions; all
taxes paid ; losses from fire, floods,
shipwrecks, or trade, and debts be
coming worthless (excluding esti
mated depreciation in value); in
terest paid; amounts paid for in
come producing labor; house rent
paid and usual or ordinary repairs.
Sec. 13. Provides that any per
son may make oath that he had not
an income of two thousand dollars
in excess of either exception, and
if satisfactory to the Assistant As
sessor, such person will be exempt
from income tax.
Sec. 15, 10 and 17. Reduce the
tax on dividends and undivided
profits of corporate companies and
institutions to two and a half per
cent., (from five per cent, hereto
fore) to take effect Aug. 1, 1870.
Sec. 18. Authorizes the Presi
dent, at his discretion, to consoli
date Collection and Supervisor's
districts, and reduce the number of
Revenue officers, but without im
pairing t he efficiency of the service.
A Texas Paper Thanks God.
Thank God that we have never
seen nor heard of any Southern
women perambulating the country
with green speciacjes ana ner
maphroditcapparel.preaching "wo-
man s rights,
as we have often
seen these lamern-iaweo, tnin-
shanked and forked-tonguedstrong
minded women do, who hail from
that region whereof Boston is the
social center. We feel grateful
that we have never heard a South
ern woman contend that the holy
ordinance of marriage should be
solely a time bargain, like contracts
of hire and partnership, and disso
luble by consent of parties. We
all feel proud of this, and at the
same time, if these green-eyed
spinsters of the East want to be
lieve there is no God, and no fixed
code of morals, and to enjoy their
free-loveisrn, and drink hard cider
on election days, they are welcome
to do so. llryaii Appctd.
The Nashville (Tenn.) linnnrr
thus relates how an old holy, in
that city, took time by tire fore
lock : "A lady residing in the
Eleventh District, generally known
as old Mrs. W.,' having heard of
the Franco-German war, buried
every valuable thing she had, a day
or two since. When asked why
she did so, she replied that in the
days of the revolution her father
said that the British would not
come, but they did, and impover
ished him ; and that then, when the
people said the Yankees would not
come, they did, and gobbled up
everything she had ; and that she
intended to get ahead of the sol
diers this time."
s near Carlinville, Illi-
akeu a contract to cut
Two girl
nois. have taken
fifty cords of wood
Extraordinary Case of Hydrophobia.
o
A correspondent, who isa physi
cian,sends us the following particu
lars of an extraordinary case of
hydrophobia. His letter is datl
at Toledo, Ohio, April 20th :
About four years ago two men
in this city had a fight in a saloonl
They were both powerful men,and
they had a long and bloody tussel
with each other. While ficrhtin'1
one of the men had a finger badly
bitten b)- the other. The finger
became inflamed, and the infiama
tion extended to the whole arm ;
and for some months it was ex
pected the man would die, but he
recovered and the woumP healc
up ; but as soon as the wound ha
healed he began to show somo
signs of insanity or madness. - He
f ancied, when slccping,that the man
who had bitten him was alwaj'S at
tacking him, and he would wake
up in a great rage, striking in every
direction at his antagonist, and so
he would remain for some time be
fore the delusion passed off. Short
ly alter this he began to see the
man's shadow in water, and in all
other fluids mixed with water, but
it w ould not be visible in a looking
glass. Other symptoms increased
the first two years, and were only
exhibited once a month at full
moon. At the close of the third
year, at every full moon, he fancied
the moon was close by, and that
between him and the moon stood
his old antagonist in a threatening
attitude. He would rave and be
furious for about twenty-four hours,
and then the spasm would pass
away ; but in the meantime ho
would not attack any other person.
The novelty of the case puzzieiT all
the physicians in tins city, and m
this part of our State, but it termi
nated at the last full moon. Just
as the moon was risinghe happened
to be at one of our docks on the
Maumee river, and fancied the
moon and his old rival were pre
paring for a fight. He sprang to
meet him, jumping into the water,
and was drowned before assistance
could reach him. The name of the
man thus afflicted was Patrick
Clair, an old resident of this city,
and at one time an active business
man. The man who bit him was a
stranger, whom nobody knew, and
was never seen afterward.
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The N. Y. JJeratrdile Journal.
one of the ablest financial papers
published, .commenting on the cur
rency bill passed at the late session
of Congress, says : '
"It authorizes an increase in the
volume of the National bank cur
rency to the extent of 8-54,000,000,
and the withdrawal of the three
per cent, certificate, of which there
is outstanding a total of -$45,000,-000.
This widening of the financial
edifice by issuing National hank
notes and taking away a portion of
the foundation by withdrawing the
three per cent, certificates, which
are virtually legal tenders, is highly
injudicious,and vte cannot do other
wise than condemn such legisla
tion." The N ew York Economist , an
ab!e commercial pape-r of Repub-.
lican proclivities, in expressing its
disgust at Republican financiering,
"No political party ever threw
away a grander opportunity. The
administration and the majority in
Congress had it in their power to
secure a lease of power for at least
ten years to come perhaps twenty
by simply placing themselves in
line with the current of popular
feeling on financial questions. The
shortcomings of Congress are
equally injurious to all parties.
Capital is rendered less productive,
labor less remunerative, and com
mercial operations more precarious.
For the financial failure of Congress
and the administration, the Secre
tary of the Treasury more than any
other one man is to be held re
sponsible. His position gave him
the initiative on financial legisla
tion, and he abused it by blocking
all progress. Re adopted a policy
that w as contrary to all the teach
ings of experience, and stuck to it
with a dogged pertinacity that is,
likely to prove ruinous to his polit
ical friends. Congress instinctively
rejected it, and only adopted it at.
last in an emasculated xoxm con-
trarv to their better judgment."
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Taking it Cool. The chairman
of a vigilance committee which,
had been appointed to duck au ob
noxious citizen in Iowa, thus re
ported to his fellow citizens. "We
took the thief down to the river
made a hole in the ice. and lirol
ceeded to duck him; but slipped
through our linnd fin,1 LL1
the ice; and as he has been there
over eight hours, it is supposed he
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