lab
I
IT IS TRUE 1
1
THAT
At wood's Cascara Compound
i the ture-t and fafrst nntficiue for regulating the
action of thr liur, kidneys, stonm-h and towels
A never failing irtuwy for constipation, blliou?
ness, beadut'hft and a r.itfascs caused by a torp-d
liver or irresular action ot the bowela. It is very nse
ful to relieve colds and fevers and to j-urify the b!oi.
DRU GISTS - PENDLETON
For Sale Wholesale and Retail by
Brock & NlcComas Gompany
THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1902.
THE LAEOR VOTING.
During election we hear much
about "the lsbor vote," and "what it
will do and vrhat it requires of a
candidate for office, etc., but after
election, if we study the returns, we
find the strength of the "labor vote"
was an irridescent dream, a thing tc
conjure with rather than base expec
tations upon. The labor people barb
a great deal through their leaders,
hut they stay together at the ballot
hox about as well as a handful of
chaff thrown upon the water, separ
ating aimlessly and unwisely. In
short, the labor vote hardly knows
what it wants, expressing its un
certainly as do other men, who steer
without course or compass to the
port ot Nowhere.
In the late election the "labor
vote, said to have been G000 to 7000
strong, "was nowhere in the returns.
Tnion men were named on both tick
ets to meet its demands, but in no
case received any appreciable sup
port from their "brothers." In the
case of Mr. Nottingham in Portland,
he, who refused to vote as a member
of the legislature for some labor
measure, led his ticket. And Mr.
Barnes, a Portland candidate, one
irho was on labor's black list, de-
leated Mr. Hewett, one whom the
"labor vote' endorsed. And Mr.
Driscoll,, another Portland man, said
to be a special favorite with the "la
bor vote," got nothing!
TVhat has labor to say to this in
dictment? Nothing. It is a condi
tion of labor voting everywhere, for
It is unnatural for men to act togeth
er like a band of sheep or a gang of
slaves, unless they are entirely de
void of the spirit of independence
find without brains or individuality.
"When men are constructed exactly
alike mentally and physically this
concert of action can be expected,
ut so long as they occupy a plane
of intelligence above the dumb
brutes they will be found free from
the bridle and gear of their own
unions and orders, and it is well for
free institutions and free men that
this is true. If this truth was recog
nized by the thick-headed politicians
and office seekers there would be less
capital to be made out of labor vot
ing and less disposition to sway men
in bands and droves like they were
so many cattle upon the block.
FRUIT OF PARTISAN POLITICS.
The tragedy at the penitentfary at
Salem is a sequel to the story of par
tisan politics in Oregon. It is the cus
tom Tor the positions in the prison to
be parceled out as political patronage
and for the last four years, if not for
8 longer time, fitness has had little
to do in the selection of men to
serve the state, while politics has had
everything to do with it At any rate
the prison guards have proven to be
unfit to guard the interests of the
state or to protect their own lives
from two desperate prisoners.
The fact of the matter is, a prison
guard should be selected regardless
of his political relations, strictly on
his merit as a cool-headed, brave
man and a 'dead shot with revolver or
rifle. This was a demonstrated fact
at the recent session ot the national
prison congress in Kansas City.
"Wherever the system has obtained of
'Baking prison positions the spoils of
eMco, there some tragedy like that
at Salem has occurred.
The guards at the Salem prison
who fell victims to the unerring aim
of the two desperate convicts, were
good and brave men but they were
needlessly sacrificed, because not
proficient in the use of arms and not
cool-headed under the stress of
great excitement. They fired at the
escapes many times without result,
and while the escapes killed three
of the guards, the guards only suc
ceeded in wounding slightly one of
the convicts.
In short, the guards were political
pie counter frequenters, one of them
being an ordinary farmer, with no
special fitness for the work which
they were required to perform. The
result is, they are dead and three
families are without a head, while the
state is injured even more than that
from a law and order standpoint,
while prison discipline and author
ity everywhere are weakened and
desperate men made more determin
ed to resist !ie state.
Guards should be selected solely;
upon merit, proven, if need be, by
actual demonstration in shooting
straight, those failing to use shoot
ing irons effectively to be turned
away, regardless by whom recomend
ed or what tickeL they voted at the
previous election. A little reflection
will convince anyone that penitenti
aries should be placed upon a civil
service basis along with other insti
tutions, if the state is to be better
served and the politicians less so.
The incident a tragedy at Sa
lem clinches the point.
advance of 2 per cent upon Toronto,
Quebec or MontreaL
The New York Journal or Com
merce approves these statements of
the Bankers Magazine and adds
that in this country alone is the prin
ciple of branch banking disregarded.
In the dayst o state banks, however,
branch banking was recognized, with
the result that rates for money were
equal everywhere in the state. Hugh
McCulioch, who ranks among the
the great secretaries o fthe treasury,
organized the state bank of Indiana.
with limnrhpit nil nvfr thp State, and
as president of the mother bank as
Fort "Wayne, put an end to the Indi
ana "red dog" currency and redeem
ed the financial reputation of that
state. Surely a system that has
worked well in other countries, and
that was in succesful operation here
until the state banks were obsoleted
by our national system, is deserving
of close examination, as a means for
equal distribution of the loan fund
or the country, in order to equalize
the rate or discount.
All bankers believe that the public
and private credit were put in great
peril by the agitation of false fi
nancial theories in 1S96,, If they be-liev-i
s"so, that one great cause of
this peril was the inequality in the
rate of discount which made the use
of- credit costly at points remote
from money centers they should ac
company their opposition to the
Fowler bill with a suggestion of some
other means to get the results ex
pected of that nieasure. The bor
rowers are a more numerous class
than the lenders and their interests
must not be forgotten, for as a rule
they learesent the commercial and
industrial enterprise of the country.
I divisions or the earth that transcon
, tinental railways did for America,
rnfler the terms England grantee.
South Africa will have practical-.
the measure of independence that
Australia has. under which Austra U
has prospered materially and politi
cailv It is from Australia, we to
freest nation on earth have borrow
ed the ballot that safeguards our
?lectiuns. and it may be that in U
not too far distant future there .will
I come out of Africa something that
does as much for human independ
ence as the Australian ballot
1 Thf final, formal victory of -Ei
land, though the world may regr '.
that it was against such a galla-: j
little band means much tor progress..!
and the opening or one more great!
' field for the supply of the people . j
t eirth with what they need.
The Boer republics were pict.i-
csque aggregations of peaceful faro,
ers. but they were practically her
mit nations; the new English speak
' ing empire that will rise in their
; place will be as the mill to the spin
j ning wheel or the railroad to the
' stage coach in its relation to the
S Great March.
. In the greatness of this empire that
i is to be. the descendants or Uu-se
i farmers who made the world stare
! at their courage will have the great
' est share. A nation, whatever its po
litical destiny, sprung from such men
' . . 1 t 1 innf. nt.fi t-A.
wm ue a nuuuu "i ...
sardless of immigration, the spirit of
' South Africa, though inspired by the
progressive Anglo-Saxon, will always
i t.n cnMt nf thtt Ttnprs Ameri-
j U v LAI .JJ 11 . . .
can and Journal.
It Pays to Trade at the Peoples Warefc
Shirt Waists
- beltjT"
If you'll come to us you'll acknowledge that there
BUT ONE assortment of these summer desirables'
Pendleton. Whatever is correct and new you'll find her"1
and the PRICES are beyond the shadow of a donbtS
than the same goods can be bought for elsewhere.
SHIRT WAISTS 35c, 58c, 75c, 98c and $1
BELTS, 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c and $1.00
And all the time our JUNE SELLING goes
on at prices like this :
PEACE TERMS BOER WAR.
THE FOWLER BILL.
Just now the Fowler bill for
branch -banking cjid currency issne
on assets other than national bonds
is attracting attention.
The theory of the bill is that such
a system of branch banks and cur
rency will equalize the rate of dis
count or interest by preventing cur
rency congestion In the money centers.
The Bankers' Magazine for Janu
ary, 1S99, published a statement or
the reasons which are believed to
support Mr. Fowler's bilL Bradstreet
reports the average rate of discounts
from 1S93 to 189" in different parts
of the country, showing the increase
in rate with the increase of distance
from New York, as follows, the aver
age of the lower and the higher rates
being given:
Lower. Higher
New York 4.41 5.36
Cincinnati 5.01 5.87
Chicago 5.74 6.53
St. Louis 5.90 7.23
Milwaukee 6.27 7.02
St Paul C.60 7.41
Omaha 7.9S 6.69
Denver 10.00 11.67
Richmond .. .. 6.00 6.40
Charleston 7.02 7.96
Savannah 7.99 9.75
Galveston 7.31 8.vo
New Orleans 5.85 7.05
In these rates may e found one
cause, and a great cause of the in
tense Southern and "Western agita
tion of the money question. "With
money at 4.41 in New York and from
5.90 to 10 In the south and west. Is
it any wonder that the people are
willing listeners to- charges against
wall street and plans for making
money plenty?
Where branch banking prevails and
flexible currency is permitted no such
difference is found. The Relchsbank
of Germany has branches in 316
cities, and the rate in them Is identi
cal. The bank of France through
its branches has an identical rate
tor the same class of loans and secur
ities In every department. The Bank
ers' Magazine Bays -that the same con
ditions exist, due to the same cause,
In Italy, Belgium and Holland. In
England the country bank rate is al
ways the same and in Scotlapd a
thousand banks have the same rate.
In the Dominion of Canada the
branches of the 'thirty-seven charter
ed banks everywhere make the same
rate, whether in the lumber towns -of
Ontario, the wheat districts of Man
itoba r mining camps of the Rocky
mountains, and it never exceedB as
The peace terms that end the Boc."
war are creditable no less to the van
quished, who made such a heroic
fight, than to the victors who have
taught the world a lesson of tole
ance and moderation by the generos
ity or their concessions. It may be
that King Edward's desire to be abl-2
to say In his coronation address th-it
his empire is at peace has inspired
the agreement that restores the pris
oners to their homes, restocks the:
farms and permits them to continue
their own language in the s choc's
and in the courts, but whatever the
motive, the world must recognize the
fact that England has granted these
favors to the people who have coM
her a hundred thousand men and a
billion dollars.
It makes some amends for the ob
stinacy that forced an unnecessary
war on the Boer republics, and it is
to be hoped that the lesson taugL4
the big empire by the two little
republics will be heeded as was that
other lesson given by America a
century ago. "
However, the war is ever a-ud
South Africa will not be wholly tha,
loser by IL
The Influence of England will maki
for the development of the ent'rt
continent, and the example of pro
gress that is bound to show in Eng
lish Africa will spread until the.
wide, rich regions that have been
parcelled out among the other r.u
tions of Europe feel its effect, and
Africa will cease to be the Dark Cor.
tinent.
Progress and civilization will ro
deem the jungles and deserts alike
The Cape to Cairo railroad will b
put through, and will do the work
for the most backward of the graat
HANDICAPPED, j
The man who started to run a race in
chains and fetters would be visibly hand
icapped. No one would expect "him to
succeed. The man who runs the race of
life when his
digestive and nu
tritive organs are
diseased is equally
handicapped. In
the one case his
strength is over
weighted, in the
other it is under
uiined. Success
demands above
all else a sound
stomach.
Doctor Pierce's
Golden -Medical
Discovery tcures
diseases of the
stomach and other
organs of diges
tion and nutrition.
When this is done
food is perfectly
digested and as
similated and the
body receives strength in the only way
in which strength can be given by the
nutrition derived from digested and as
similated food.
"The praise I would like lo give your ' Golden
Medical Discovery I cannot utter in words or
describe with pen." writes James TL Ambrose,
Esq., of U05K Mifflin Street. Huntingdon, Fa.
I was taken with what our physicians here
said was indigestion. I doctored with the best
around here and found no relief. I wrote to
you and you sent me a question blank to fill out,
and I did so. and you then advised me to use
Dr. Hierce's Golden Medical Discovery. I took
three bottles and I felt so good that 1 stopped,
being cured. I have no symptoms of gastric
Uouble'or Indigestion now."
Accept no substitute for "Golden Med
ical Discovery.1' There is nothing "just
as good."
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, sent free on receipt of stamps
to cover expense of mailing only.
Twenty -oae one -cent stamps for the
book id paper covers, or 31 stajipa for
the cloth-bound volume. Address Dr.
JL V. Pierce, BuSslo, N. Y.
In Teas and Louisiana there are
now more than 100 ca: als and
pumping stations, each capable of
flooding 1000 pcres of rice They are
owned by irrigation c -mpanies
which suply the water a., needed tt
the rice farmers.
Scotch lawns, per yard 3C
Spool cotton, 2 for sc
Lonsdale Muslin- 7c
Good calico. rr vrA
Women's and Child'a'bi'
equal best 25c hoseont
q
Thn flriAnlftfi llnrnhnimn u
H KH H Hill Hill II IVMI?
I D louuiuu iiuio uudu ar
1 - -WKiir
Agents
Butter-
Ick's 1
Patterns
PENDLETON, OREGON
H Even the Wrappers I
! II Are Valuable I
J laundry soap is until you use
I uiaimona l m
I It is ihe laundry soap of the I
I day; goes further and does I
I better work than any other. I ' i
I IT IS ECONOMICAL TOO. Even the I
aTs-rappers are Tiuuauie. cave mem. e .
redeem them ( ran sorts of useful and
attractive artKies. Illustrated book
I snowing over SCO premiums given for M ft
wrappers, sent on xwjaeat. A postal
will bring it. H
Prmlca DfjrL, The Ccilih y Packing Co. II
So. Onaha. Nebr. L
issssT "11 1 ll II I
Lamp Mantles Guaranteed for 45 Days!
Peerless Flexo Mantles
NEW THING JUST OUT
BEST IN THE WORLD
These mantles are new productions and give 90 and
100 candle power respectively for the single and triple
weaves. They are made in two grades. Price 30 and
40 cents each.
The John Barrett Company
New Stores : Cor. Sixth and Alder Streets
Opposite Oregonian
till
If the Thousands
of satisfied customers were asked which furnace was the beS j
. 1 1 11 i
mey wouia an proclaim
THE "PERFECT"
fTrade Mark)
I
SEE OUR
IRON BEDS
Largest stock and great
est variety ever shown in
Pendleton. Iron beds,
are the neatest, most
comfortable, most attract
ive and easiest to keep
clean of any articles of
furniture ever put in
bedrooms.
W. G. McPhetson
47 First Street, Portland, Oregon
Campers' Outfits
Camp Stools, Camp
stoves, folding chairs,
folding cots, tents, wagon
covers or anything else
the camper may need.
Joseph Basle
Complete House Furnisher
STANDARD
BLUE FLAME
WICKLESS
OIL AND GASOLINE
STOVES
W. J. CLARK & CO.
Court Strset
Let Us Figure
ON YOUR BILL
If you are going to build a resi
dence, barn or other building,
or intend to make improvements
where you will require
Lumber, Building Paper
Lime, Cement, Brick
Sand, Terra Cotta Pipe
or anything in fhta line
and you will be money ahead.
Our facilities for supplying you
with the above articles and also
SASH, DOORS and BLINDS
is unsurpassed.
Pendleton Planing Mill and
Lumber Yard.
ROBERT fORSTER, Proprietor
WE ARE THE Pi
land the only people to
AnrnnlM
business that carry a
Harness, Saddles, ii ,
Pads, Pact Saddles au
Wagon Co v eat. and Can
JOSEPH
LMtfinfl Har
TRANSFER,
TRUCKING,
STORAGE.
1
CROWNER BR0&
Tfhtf Main 4.
Dally East Oragantaii by carrfer,
only 15 cents a whIc
The