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-"- WILLAMETTE FARMER: SALEM, OREGON, JANUARY 30, 1885. rtjPM. VinrG'rt' ' r;' '- ct- w virye- istued erery Week by th CXritIAMr.TTR FAHMF.lt ITItLIKIII.NG CO. W TKIIMH OF HUIISOIUITIOI. On year, (Postage paid). In advance I 2.00 U month, (rentage paid), In adrancu l.So Let than lx month will be, per month 26 ADVEllSISINQ BATES : AdrertliemenU will bo Inserted, providing td art MpteUbte, at tht follow Inflr tablo of rate t On Inch of tpaco per month t 2.60 Korea Incbc of paco per month 00 k n-blf column per month 16.00 Oa column per month 30.00 SLBimple cople aent tree on application. Publication Offlco: No. 6 Washington Btrcot, Up tain, rooma No. 6 and 6) TANYONK KKCKIVINO A COPY OF THIS PAPKIl WILL CONSIDER IT AN INVITATION TO SUIISCRIIUC ANNOUNCEMENT. We will Mild tho WILLAMETTE FAltMKIlto n new mliKrlliert from data until Jimury 1, 1660 for 2. IN CLUD3 OF TEN Tho FAMfF.K coat only (II or 41. to each and an extracep" otliOKcttirupof theclub. Trylt in cuius or fivi: Wo will acml lieKAUMEH (one) rat) forei.7B.or acli ml an oxtra cor) to getter up of club. A FIIKB COPY. Four New Subictllitri at 42 lach entitle Hi cluh ra icr to a ropy ono J car frto and will alio cntltlo cadi new mUcrlUr to tho taper until January 1, 166(1. Send order In Immediately and get thoailxnUzo of our great offer. rtrml .Monry ) -Money (Irilrr or Kritlafrrril LrlliT. Ctiilt Name tiiuit nil lie aent nt our lime. Addrew: WILLAMETTE FAIlMKIl.Balcm, Or. A MltKIMIi OFFER. A "HARD TIMES" OFFER-KEEP YOUR MONEY AT HOME. An)one, wlietlior boor her are now a uUcrlheror not to thU ncrt can upon arnttlng our or nmrr JIKW aiilitrrllier get tho WncfU of rale, which 111.110 A VKAH. That l to iiy. Wo will tend two coplei, or more of tho WuiAxm Fanx to any addrei iiion receipt of 'l.COcach. Tlio extra uUcrlbtr to ba period not now tiling the paper. J-UiUrn weeMlcaaro 41 a )cr and thl I only an adranco of M cent a )ear orcr lliclr rate, and if we hail 6,000 lubicrlben w could afford to ptiUIili thl paper for that mm. Let there bo linmedlato work done and thorough at that. Tin FJtaxra I and ran bo made mor uieful to you, one and all. !.t no eno y 1'ntlflo Coait paper aro too high when w offer tho WilUMr.n KiRMR atiuch a low rate. Bon'l Jelny, but nrC nl oner, a thl efferwlll only itand good for a abort time and llahio to repeal at any llmo. Club of TKV coiioimI of old and new ubcrilr and aent at ono time, FIFTEEN IIOI.U1I8. ltENEWALHhoull b cnt by Money Order, lUg lite red Letter or I'oaUl Note. rench good customers. Tlio production of Oregon falters becnuso men nrc not euro of having a reliablo snlo for whent thoy porduco. In our own instance, wo went cost Inst fall and, haul ns times nre, did fifty nor cent, bettor with our choice driod fruit than wo possibly could do in Oregon. Califoiikia seems tied neck and hcols and delivered ovor ns a paid-for-ottielo to tho Central Pacific railroad. That Stnto has elected Lelnnd Stanford to tho United Stntcs Senate, nn act of abject humility and dependence. Tlio most promising candidate was Aaron A, Sar gent who wns always n tool of tho Central Pacific magnates and who ovon played their game onco by going back to Califouinnud protended to bo opposed to them when bo was really theirs soul and body. Thcro is this to bo said in favor of Stanford that it is better to havo tho principal in tho Senate than to havo his tool there. As tho avorago pollicinn there, if whatever party, is owned by tho railroad, when another Senatorial election occurs thoy can elect Stanford's partner, Huntington, who is ns much better than ordinary tools of tho monopoly as Stanford is. In timo we can mnko tho Sonato up of such. In the good old times our Legislature had four lcguhir clurks for each houso and eovcral commutes had clerks if they needed them on account of unusual press of business. But "times are not now ns they used to was." Tho .States man published in ono list twenty-live names of ladies and six of gentleman as employed on committo work. If tho chairman of n committo has any knack of writing ho can keep his notes easier than ho can teach, oven tho piottiostgirl in Salem how to do tho work. It looks a littlo like u farco nndji good deal liken wnsto of public money to see tho Stnto Houso full of committo clerks and thcro is danger thoy may got in ench othor's way. pains to ascertain something definito concerning tho total of foreign loans, with following result: Tho Duifdco Company has .$700,000 out in Oregon, and considerably more elsewhere. Tho Ompnny managed by Mr. Win. Hcid hns nbout 8G00.0OO. Oregon lonns, mid somo other parties probably hold mortgnges to amount of $150,000, making n total of n million and n half dollars. Tho public records shows a much lnrger sum of uncanceled mort gages, ns thcro has been neglect in canceling thoso that havo been paid up. This omission creates a false impression, and tho fault extends to every county in tho State. Wo lately know of n gcntlo man who .had been in nctivo business for thiity years, giving security when ho wanted n loan, who was astonished to find that' not n cancelation had been mndo to ono of thorn. Ho set to work to do it and found it dilllcult, as somo parties bad been dead many years. The fact that nine-tenths of the money borrowed in ten years has boon ropaid answers any assertion that borrowers cannot pay. During that timo thcro havo been very few foreclosures; tho claims havo been met, generally, without any trouble. Wo hear no complaint that capital desires toovado taxation but simply that it shall only be taxed equally with other property. As nil property, is assessed nt nbout ouc-thitd its cost and money nt its face, it is ovidont thnt money is taxed very unequally. THE REAGAN BILL DYNMITE. Somk of our rcadc.-H aro curtnling ex IMJiiBOH and Rending for Eastern Dollar papers. Don't send money away send us on subscriber!) and ?:i for n ycirs subscription for two. Tin: coixiti:i jicoplo nt Now Orleans Exposition have mndo a most suitable display. Tho lion. II. K. llruco, him K'lf a man of color, acting ns commis sioncrof this branch. Owiso tii small earnings and in nbility to pay inloroit on its bonds the Oregon ami California railroad has gone into tho hands of a receiver. Tho hiiiiio olllcers will probably bo retained and Air. It. Kohler im appointed receiver by Judge Peatly, because ho is the only IH'i-rion thoroughly acquainted with all the business. It hi:i:is to Ih) it fact that Mrs. (itnut, wife of (leneral (limit, has aliulntely refused to receive tlio gift of money oll'ercd to her by millionaire Yandorbilt. It is much more dignified and worthy the character of tho wife of ono of our greatest (Senernls to refuse this gener osity than to bo tho locipicutot any rich man's bounty. Tnr. uum: of Hepivhcutmives at Wash ington lately passed, under mispcusion or tho rules, by a largo majority a bill creating a department of Agriculture and giving its head a scat in tho Presi dent's cabinet. This is a great flop in tho advancement of the lights of tho farming population. This act has boon largely duu to tho clforts of tho (irauge, ns Kieriil years ago tho National (Irnngo petitioned for this very thing and it is gratifying to know that tho in llucnco of the Orange organization is a power in tho laud. We iikaiii) a farmer criticising the commercial enterprise of our metropolis the other day, saying that producers have always had to find their own mar ket: thnt in early times they found it market for their wheat ; that they havo had to find outlets for many products when it seams n? though tho great busi ness houses of Portland could and should ninko connections with eastern markets to disposo of tho products of our State, To conclude ho said thero was it great surplus of good dried fruit on her hands and ho was trying to that some ono to go in with him and load u ear for tho Montana towns. Really, it does seem that our Portland wholesalers shall form reliable- connections with the eastern market ami ueo that all our products On Saturday tho fiends whoso mission is to destroy Ixmdon, blow up tho bouses of Parlimcnt and tho White tower, a historic building, and Westminister Hall. On Sunday tho Amorlcan associ ates of tlicso llonds mot in Chicago to glory over tho diabolical deed performed in Ixmdon and to ninko threats of what they will do to destroy tho men of mark in America. Our country has prnctically aided and abetted tho most damuablo villany that over disgraced civilization by such meetings as that which disgrac ed Chicago mi Sunday and winking at the plots of these murderous scoundrels. "Curses, like chickens, coino homo to roost." We permit theo dynamite fiends to meet and multor their curses against Knidand and already they make threats that they will destroy the capitalists of America. We shall yet see their efibrts result in a harvest of destruction in tho great cities of tho Tinted States. When too late we shall find that socialism, fiuinuism and nihilism will have found American soil most fertile for their diabolical enterprise. Wo have invited tho ritV-rnlt'of all the scoiiudrclim that e.Wls in lhiropo to shine our lot. Wo have mndo indecent hasto to kMow nil the favors and honors of citizenship up on them, and now our politicians and our law makers are afraid to legislate in favor of law and order and decency for fear that they may lose votes. The degredation of it is too deep to bo easily atoned for. Of course wo do not object to any respectable and icsponsiblo foreign element of our population, for among them are found our best eitirens, or equal to any, many of them nre true friends of liberty, but wo mean tho socialist crew whoso idea of liberty is license and whoso idea of govennont is to compell a division of property, an idea as fallacious ns can bo dovUcd, tor the gaining of property is tho result, most commonly, of steady work and good management. No good working man is n socialist, much less n dynamite fiend. TUB BLIND AND DEAF MUTE SCHOOLS. It is proposed to abandon tho effort to Biista'tAt schools for our deaf mutes and blind and to mnko n contract to havo unfortunates of thoscs classes taken caro of at tho llerkloy, California, institution. As tho State grows tho number must in crcaso, and wo havo pupils from Washington Territory nlso, nnd may havo them for years to coino. Thoso schools aro not a heavy tax to tho Stato and their pupils are generally young people who can return homo in vaca tion now but could not if it involved tho cxponso of a journey to nnd from California. Wo can all'ord to pny tho small tax tlicso schools cost us nnd ns n Stnto wc should prefer to bo independent in such matters. Our blind and dent schools aro creditable efibrts and both tho superintendents aro capablo mon. Itov. P. S. Knight has good offers to re move ulsowhero hut desires to remain if tho Stato do futrly by him ns ho is deeply interested in tho mute school nnd has dovotod several years to prepare himself for tho jiosition. No more cap able and eompetont persons can bo found than Mr. nnd Mrs. Knight who aro disinterestedly engaged in thoir work and do not not take it on speculation. FOREIQN CAPITAL IK OREOON. While thero has been a groat deal of foreign capital loaned in Oregon during tho lost decade, as one institution ad vertios thnt it has loaned over toven millions of dollars in that time, tho sum now on mortgages by foreign lain cominios is not very largo. AVo should roughly estimate that tho outstanding mortgages nrc not over ono tenth of tho total of loans mndo in tho just ten years, so the argument that tho Ore goniiui oilers, Unit thoso who owo had better bo sold out, because thoy can uovcr pay up, is frutile, as well ns rather cruel advice. When at Portland lately wo took) 0KEU0N AT NEW ORLEANS. A bill is beforo tho Legislature for tho purpose- of continuing the Oregon exhibit of tho Now Orleans Exposition. Mr. Wilkins informs us thnt tho Or egon oxhibit was tho only one in ordor on opening day nnd attracted a great deal of attention. It is crcditablo to tho Stnto anil attracts general admiration, for our products aro universally larger and superior to other states in nil re spects. Many Congressman havo bcon witness to our products and it is thought thoy will in consoquenco tnko greater interest in legislation that concorncs us. In every respect this exhibit is do ing good and working for tho best in terosts of our State, l-or this reason it is necessary to keep up tho display, re newing articles that lire pcri.hnblo and adding many departments not yet repre sented. We should see that every menus of wealth wo possess is shown and under stood at New Orleans. Wc have rich ores of precious metals, iron, copper, lead and coal. All such reeources should bo exhibited there. Our fruits nnd vcgntnbles ns well ns grains nnd grab's, need to bo shown thero nnd twico tho sum asked for will bo well in vested if it is needed to mnko our wealth and resources known. Senator Itcgan, of Texas, is tho author of n bill that has passed tho Houso by n heavy vote and now lingers in tho Sen ate. Friends of that mcasuro have prepared a similar bill for Orogon, that is now beforo this Stato Legislature. Its provisions nro to provent unfair dis crimination' such as inado by loworing rates, for instance nt Snlom, wbcro tho road competes with tho river, and charg ing more at points betweon hero and Portland not on tho river. This appears fair to nil tho pcoplo and is a popular measure. Again, it reduces all rnilroad fares to thrco conts n milo for passen gers. This vnlloy road, known ns tho Oregon and California, has failed to meet its engagements, because, its busi ness will not enable it to do so, nnd lias cono into tho hands of it receiver. It is, fn n measure, bankrupt, which means that its businoss docs not pay cxponses nnd interest on the debt. This bill says, to all intents and purposes: "you havo mismanaged tlio business and chargod too high rates, so wo will compell you to charge lots pnssago monoy, behoving you will make moro monoy by so doing." This important bill interferes witli tho affairs and busi ness of all Oregon railroads by prcscrib iud tho rates thoy shall chargo nnd by saying tney snail not chnrgo moro for any short haul on any lino than thoy Blind for n longer ono. Whilo wo havo always thought cheaper rates would bring moro income, and pay hotter in tho end, and mnko railroads moro pop ular, confoss wo do not feci !iko in sisting that others shall do business to suit our viows. Tho transportation question is very complicated and somo hnvo made it tho study of thoir lives. Thcro nro many points thnt need full oxplinntion before any such action shall bo taken. Man agers of roads claim that by discrimina ting thnt can supply tho wants of thoso near market at living rates nnd can favor distant regions that could not possibly thrive nnd prospor if ratos cor responded to distance. Take tho coun ties of Jackson on tlio south nnd linker on tho cust. If thoso counties aro to pay full charges por milo, samo as thoso nearest to market will pny, can thoy poodtico wheat thcro and ship it to Portland, or to it sea port? Let us havo theso questions plainly nnsworod in next weeks Faumkus, be cnuso thoy aro tho objoctions that aro constantly inada to tho passage of the much desired Ilogan bill. of tho Slate would bo that much improv ed abroad. Our present system is do moralizing in tho cxtrcmo nnd reform i3 imperatively needed. To socuro it wo only need to hnvo nn efficient Bonrd of Equalization and to nbolish, in somo way that shnll not pnralizo dobtors too much, that sum of all political iniquity, exemption for debt, that is mndo to outdo charity in that it covors a multi tude of sins. LET'S HAVE A REMEDY. In reality tho morlgogo tax law did not tnx monoy any moro tlinn previous existing statutes did, but provided for nssessing mortgnges whoro tho lnnd wm. IWoro thnt money londora often mating... I to evade a tax, hut tho now law was ton pcciIc for them. Wo hopo to hco somt'tii'ng done this session to relievo money of this just complaint that it is linblo to pny nn iujust tnx. In Multnomnh county taxes nggrcgnto nearly four percent ; in Salem fully thice, so that tho lendor who loans at ton pro cent, and pays tho tnx actually loans for six nnd soven percent. Tho most rcasouablo plan seems to bo to ponnit a specific contract between borrower nnd lender as to who shall pay tnxes. 13c-' fore tho Inw was passed monoy was loaned on good city property nt 8 nnd J) per cent. Tlio present lnw will drive capital away nnd forco collection of lonns to tho ruin of many borrowers who can work out if thoy hnvo timo. Not in tho interest of lenders but to save tunny good and enterprising citi zens from financial ruin, wo advocate such legislation as will hnrmonizo tho lendor nnd borrower and not mini the latter. Dosiilcs, it is not just to cap ital to assets monoy at its full value when real nnd personal property nro not assessed nt over ono third tlio cost nnd actual value, as is "tho fact in our own caso. NEW YAKIMA. STATE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION. Wi: wish our friends would tnko nn interest in our welfare nnd send us ono new subscriber with their own renewal. Wo don't want to loso any subscribers if tho times aro hard, and by each ono sending us ono or moro new names our list will bo increased. Tui: board of manngers of the State Agricultural Socioty nro in session in tho city but hnvo dono nothing. They nro awaiting to seo what tho Legis lature will do with tho matter. Tho timo set for the next fair is Soptember 2Sth 1SS5. If you ikin't want tho Fakmer for 1885 drop us a postal card and say so. Wo don't want to loso a single sub scriber, but shall not force our paper on anyone. A solution of tho wholo question of Stnto finances, mortgngo tax, nnd of assessment nnd rovenuo, lies in tho ostnblishmont of n Stnto Hoard of Equal ization, with duties oloarly defined nnd with n corps of olllccint assessors to carry out their conclusions. This board should bo composed of one man from each judicial district, n practical man of aflnlrs. Tho Hoard should meet each Fchiuary nnd defino tho vuluoof proper ty in each county in tho Stnto, placing it, ns tho lnw directs, nt its full cash value. To determino this, sales of land on record enn bo referod to, nlso snlc of all personal proporty, from actual transactions. To estimate this properly each menber could previously visit ench county in his district nnd learn what transactions hnvo occurcd. When met for duty the wholo Bonrd could compnro notes and make such corrections as will ofi'cct tho most equal assessment, basing values not only on recorded sales but on distanco from markot. This could result in a scalo of prices for ovcry county, preparod and furnished to local assessors, who would only havo to mako their rounds and assess proporty ns instructed by tho Stnto Hoard. Placing of property at a full valid ation would obwato all tho dilhculty with rcganl to taxing money. High Tallies will work evenly as, if property is valued twico as high as at prosent, tho tax lovy will only be half ns high. Somo say fcThat money would pay s tax." If money pays all tho tax it ought thnt is nil thcro is of it. Money in any form is but a small proportion of assessed values. Such Hoard, well qualified nnd dis charging its duty fully nnd fairly, will simplify assossment nnd mako wattors hnrmonizo thnt nro now in inoxtricablo confusion. Another feature of importance is this; Our Stato assessment is only $S0,000,000, or thereabouts, and it is doubtloss trtio that property is not assessed at over one third its value, Tho fact goes to tho world that Oregon is tho poorest Stato in tho union. Assoss all property at a full vuluo and the sum total would not be leuatlun $300,000,000 and tho credit This placo is somo thrco miles below tho old city of Yakima. Tho traveler finds that onco isolated placo only twenty-two hours rido on tho rnilrond from Portland, changing cars nt Aiusworth. Leaving eighty miles of trnvel on tho new Cascade brnnch from Aiusworth to Now Ynk'ma. This now town is grow ing fast and bids fair to bo ono of our largest inland cities. Property holders and business men of tho old placo nro ollering lots in tho new city on condi tion of building within certain time. Until tho prosent year trnvolors crossed tho lim nt Tho Dalles and found thoir way by lough wagon road. A two days journoy over tho mountains to Yakima. Ten years from now this isolated tract of country will bo tho centre of tho finest agricultural district in "Washing ton Territory. Tho climnto is no coldor than thnt of linker county. In fnct thero is no region west of tho Itocky mountains that affords better openings to men of ontcrpriso and nbility than this Yakima region. Tho Cnscado branch of tho rnilrond is located from Aiusworth on tho N. P. It. It. to Now Taconia on Puget Sound, passing over and opening up thousands of acres of good lnnd for cultivation witk trnnspor. tntiou closo nt hand, to thoso wishing to locate whethor in city or on pro J emption. Wo can seo no surer prospect of success than in going to Ynkimn. Tho town hns n thousand inhabitants nnd wo predict four thousand insido of the year. Tho rnilrond company will havo shops thero nnd uso it ns ono of tho centres of operation. Tobacco Mr. V. H. Coldwoll, of Albany, hands us in samples of tobacco grown by him on tho whito land of Linn county prai rie. I hns been grown merely for his own uso nnd was cured by hanging insido tho house. It appears of good color and very mild leaf, golden in color. IIo hns tried tho best prairio land nnd manured his land nnd finds thnt the despised whito land produces tho best qualitity of leaf and ho thinks it grows ns largo as in tho Eastern States. This appears to bo a good explanation nnd is encourogemont to fnrmors who have grown tobacco in tho East to try and ninko a crop of it bore on n small scale with viow to mako a permanent business of it. Or tub twenty-threo superintendents of public instruction in New York, thirteen aro ladies; noclass understands tho needs of youth as woll as women and women. The Post-Intelligencer is ono of tho best exchanges that cornea to our table, is a live paper and a gcod exponent of tho people. If "ignorance is bliss" a great many peoplo must bo supremely happy. f V 4' it P &
