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rmw iinmJliai.inn,l.iTi-i)Ui fl i; 11 r J VOL. 4, DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 1873, NO i 24 m ml publican Official Paper for Polk County. Is Issued Evorj Saturday morning, at Dallas, Polk County, Oregon. P. C. SULLIVAN PROPRIETOR, STJBSCBIPTION RATE3. SINGLE COPIES On Year, $2 00. Six tfonths, $125 hree Months, $100 ' For Clubs of ten or more $1 75 per annum. &ubtcrijtion rnuat be paid ttrictly in advance ADVERTISING EATES. . ne square (12 lines or less), firstinsert'n,$2 50 Kach subsequent insertion I 00 A liberal deduction will bo made to quar terly and yearly adrcrtisurs. Professional pards will be inserted at $12 00 per annum. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance to insure publication. All other adTertisiug bills must be paid quarterly. Legal tender? taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description urnished at low rates on short notice. THE ILLUSTRATED PIIKENOLOGTCAL JOURNAL, is in every respect a First Class Magazine. Its articles are of the highest interest to all. It teaches what we arts and how .to make tho most of ourselves. The informa tion it contains on the Laws of Life and Health js well worth the price of the Mfgaaineto every Family. It 13 published at $3 00 a year. By special arrangement we are enabled to offce jthc Phrenological Journal as a Premium ior a new tubscribers to tho Orkgox Retcblicas, or will furnish the Phrenological Jocksal and Oregos Reptblicas together for $i 00 TVe commend the Journal to all who wint good magazine PROFESSIONAL CARDS. P. C. SULSVA'X, Attorney & Cotinsellor-At-Lav, Dallas, Oregon, Will practice in all the Courts of the State. 1 sylc. sistrsoN t E B STONE S I .U P SO & s T o rv E . Attorneys at Law. "Will practice in all the Courts of tho 3d J Q dicial District. OFFICE In ExocuMve buil liu? opp)sf t ChomoiwU Lintel S ils n M iv I ) 7:5 t-ye R p Boise P L Willis B 0 1 S E & W Ili'LI S, Attorney at Law SALKM,... OREGON. "Will practice in all the courts in the State F15.7ly ,JOIt J. DALY, Alt'y & Consc!Icr-at-Law DALLAS. OREGON. W ill pactice in the Courts of Record and In erior Courts. Collections attended to promptly OFFICE In the Court IIou3e. 4 1-tf B. SITES, M. D. I J C GttUBBS, A. M., M. D DItS SITES fc dRtBBS, DPliVsiciaiis ' and s FERTnEIR PROFESSIONAL SEF ll poj to t he citizens of Dallas and viciu ty 0 V V77-ti rear of Nichols A Hyde's Drue Store. 6 . Feb22 73tf W. 12. It U 13 E L ! DENTIST. Cffioe oU'door Nortn'i'tho Post Office ', DALLAS..... OGN p f r ... " -; . t - j Particular attention given to the regulati on children's teeth. work warranted Jan1l'73tf ALL KINDS OF WORK, SEWING Washing aoi Ironing, Ac, done by Mrs u tit on short notice and on reasoiiablo Bj. All orders 1 eft at the house, (south wets part of Dallas will be imiundiatelv attended to IIEAVEX'S LAST, I1KST GIFT. Tho anomalous position of women in onr day finds curious illustration in the criminal record. The Walworth case, ! the Gillem case, the Smith cvse, the Goodrich case, tho monstrous list of cases of undistinguished wifo murder ing, wife a.veging Patricks, all point one moral, It is plain that the popular prejudice still concedes to the man some divine right of ownership and control over the woman, whether he be brother, loyer. husband or son, whether he cherish or hate, honor or outrage. And because this belief belongs to patriarchal age and Eastern barbarism, it works infinite evil iu our modern Western Civilization. When brute force governed the world, men were.is a rule, the necessary protectors of women. In their turn, women were the helpless slaves of men. As society was then organized, some sort of marriage was open to every woman, for every mun wanted a house hold of cheap sevitcrs. If iq fought, on occasion, to ' protect his wives and concubines, as he fought to protect hi camels and assess, they cancelled the debt in labor. They were the house hold milters, bakers, spinners weavers, dyers, clothiers, chandlers, breeders ; and always everywhere ignorant chat tels to be scourged or parted with at the will of their master. Women were not couciously debased by this system because nobody dreamed of an v thing better. In Europe, the pitriarehal aarmge- J ment foil into early discredit. Greece and Home, therefore, with their lust of unmarried women, were perplexed with the cou-sequent social problems that still bafile solution. Later, the Catholic Church offered its remedy, of orders of celibate nuns. That failed. is was inevitable. Medieval Europe maintained the supremacy of the man over the woman as rigidly as primitive Vsia had done, though by difiereut m i r means, ihe loitiest idealist of the seventeenth century saw no higher Joctrine than "lie fr God only, She for God in him." With advancing intelligence and morality the position of women has necessarily improved. She is, in fact, to-day, a responsible, capable and vigorous member of society perfectly able to take caro of herself But in popular theory, and to adcrta'm extent in law, she still remains a weak. wavering shadow of man, hi helpless care and absolute property. It vas this most monstrous tradition which made o Walworth tjiu hubb'ind a brutal domestic tyrant, a course do mestic bully. Should not a man do what he would with his own ? It was this Sentimental nonsense that made of Walworth the son a calculating parri cide. Should not a son "protect" his mother? That the costly legal machinery of a State stood ready to "protect" her as threatenings and pistols could not, was a fact to common place to weigh with him. Her honor being insulted, chivalry demanded that he should avenge it. Smith, who killed a man and tried to kill a woman, because that man paid court to that woman, justified himself a huudrcd times over with the And he died, to his own thinking, in the full odor of sanctity, and in the sin cere belief that ho had committed no crime. Gillem coolly stabbed his wife because she refused to live with him on accout of his debauchery, iaithless ness, and violence. He thought ho exercised the plainest right of a hus band, and said to the policeman, "You'd have done the same if your wife had left you." And that po iceman ad mitted that he saw the murderer lying in wait, knew his mad rages, and feared some violence, but ;did not like to in terfere between man and wife." Good rich happened to be the victim instead of tho victor, under his system, which wasedidently the same, namely, that the woman is tho absoluc property of the man and tho creature of his will. To his thinking, she had no rights in the case. . These are not pleasant pictures j but it is only in their concrete form that the bad tendencies of society arrest the general mind. The one hope of di minishing crime is reform those false modes of though which generate crime. No one of these is more dangerous than the notion of man's ownership of woman, and of woman accountability to man. It brutalizes the lower classes from end to end. Its consequences touch unborn children and keep the ranks of rogues and paupers full. It makes the men of the upper classes tyrannous and selfish j the women, silly, exacting, frivolous and weak, It leads to crimes of sensuality and violence,and sets the code of honor above the law of the land. Half the scocial questions that vex our souls will be answered when the wond concedes that a woman is a normal, responsible individual human being, as a man is normal, responsible, indi vidual; that she must be the protector of her own honor, the judge of her own duty, the keeper of hor own con science, answerable to tha law and to Heaven. There will be a lofty observ ance of marriage, a noble race of child ren, only w!un the inan and woman are intelligent equals and friends. And iu that day the world will be ahamed to remember through how many centuries it ranged men into a mock order of devotees and worren into a fcentimcntal pTiesiuoci. j.cecuer. .i. . i ... c;:tAxr, mn i.i:n. m tiii; sala. UV-(.lt vii. We have been informed aforetime, by ai good U publican as thero are in the House of Representatives, thatf while the Salary bill was pending, (leu- Jrant could scarcely be inluced to talk on any mner suo.eet. naiaver mutter of state might he brought up in the conversation, he would dismiss it impatiently, if not adroitly, and return to the only legislation in which he evinced any interest, viz : the increase of . salaries. We also know that the attendants at the White House were the most assiduous and efficient j lobbyists in favor of the grab. Recent developments hhow that Gen. Grant not only encouraged the passage of the bill, but that he was tho originator, the prompter, and the "whip," as well as the signer of the bill. Gen. Grant's reponsibility for the salary-grab has noM. turned un as an clement in Gen TSutlcr's campaign for the Massachusetts Governorship. The Charlestown (Mass.) Chronicle, Gen. Butler's organ, plainly intimates that Gen. Grant, and not Gen Butler, is entitled to be "cusscd'Tor the measure. Gen. Butler himself virtually takes this ground for making the increase of the President's salary the most notable feature of his recent defense. A correspondent to the New York Even ing Pout relates that Gen. Butler announced, just prior to his Framingham speech, that he mtended to tell tho history of the grab. The announcement was conveyed to Washington, and the semi-official indorsement of Butler's candidacy, along with the important assistance of the Federal officers in Massachusetts, was tho result. The promised revcla tion was not made. It is now said that Gen. Butler holds his explanation in abeyance, as a sort of "rod in pickle," over the President's head, apropo? of the third term. The fact appears to be that Gen. Grant started the movement to increase his own salary to $50,000 a year ; it was found that this could not be done without throwing a sop to Congress ; the general increase of salaries, with the retroactive feature to secure the co-operation of retiring Congressmen, was adopted as a means to carry out the programme, and Gen. Butler undertook to engineer the measure through the House, just as he had undertaken 3Ir Boutwell's election to the Senate, as a consideraton for support ;i in his campaign for' the Massachusetts Governorship; ; There are many' other circumstances that tend to confirm this showing. Gen.?ant accepted tho Presidency on purely "business grounds. In the historical review between Gen. Raulins, representing Grant, and Mr Forney, representing the Republican party, the substance of Grant's dickering was, that he could not afford to take the Presidency ; that is to give up a life position at a good salary for a four ifcara' engagement at a small advance. Yi conditions wore two terras inoffice and an increase of pay. It is to be presumed that these conditions were agreed to, since Gen. Grant accepted the nomination. Grant took a raercau tile view of the situation from the very first. He had a 'corner" on the Presidency. If the Republicans would not accept his terms the Democrats would. He was at that time incumber ed with no political principles, and could be tho candidate of one party as well as the other. Ho wrs pursuaded that he was more necessary to the Republiacn party than tho Republican was to him, and that was perhaps trae. The situatioo was an excellent one for grabs, ann there was never a more inveterate grabber. Gen. Grant has played the grab-gme ever since he has been in office. The appointment of hi relatives and relatives' partners has been the main feature of it. The acceptance of gifts from men seeking office has been another. He has jjrown rapidly rich. He is down tor no charities. Ho gives away no money. He makes tho State provide for his poor relative-. He entertains less than his predecessors. Ho dead heads on all the railroads. The Congressional allowance for the White House expenses are stated to be more than double what they were in Lin coln's time. Wo have recapituatcd these familiar circumstances for the purpose of showing, as it ?ecms to us they do show, that Gen. Grant's purpose is to make as much money out of the President's office as possible. In this view of the case, his personal responsibility for the salary-grab may be readily comprehended. It was a chance to clear $100,000. This latest, and apparently most reasonable, history of tho salary-grab is more humiliating to our national pride, if possible, than any other that could bo offered. But it is also instructive. It proves that the salary grab was a party measure, and that it was consumated under the whip of the Administration. It must be ranked, then, among the acts of the Republican party along with Credit Mobilier, the Snslling swindle, the land-steals, the Indian frauds, and tho other corruption which it has fostered. The Democrats were only too glad to join in for a share of the plunder. As to Gen. Grant himself this new version is not likely to affect his reputation one way or the other. The mau who could see nothing bad in Credit Mobilier, and could give a letter of recomendation to Tom Murphy, and another to a retiring Vice-President who had been drawing $1,000 every quarter from a Government contractor, may certainly sign a bill to take $2,000,000 annually out of the peoples pockets in order that he may himself fob $100,000 by the opcraton, without doing the least violence to his former public repute. Tribune., , , . , , Mr. Fredrick Lockyer of London wrote the pithy verse : 1 - They cat and drink, and scheme and And go to church on Sunday; plod, And many are afraid of God, And more of Mrs. Grundy. HOHVnilJY FUEL. To show how tho people regard the present administration, and how they express their contempt for the further pretentions of the present old parties, wo givo below some of the mottoes that floated in the breeze at a county' convention in Illinois recently. All the preeinct organizations brought in their banners, with appro priate MOTTOES inscribed thereon, many of which are so pregnant of meaning that I note the following : Corn Mut Go Up. Monopolies Must Come Down. No More Credit Mobilier Swindles, nor Congressional Grabs. If Any Political Party Stands Be tween Us and Our Rights, Let It Die. We Will Vote fur No More Robbers. (Point Pleasent Farmers' and Mechanics' Clup :) Equal Justice to All. Corporations Must Obey the Law3, as Well as Individuals. In God We Trust! Death to Mon opolies. A Fair Remuneration Paid for Honost Toil. Free-Trade and Farmers' Rights. Farmers to the Front 1 Politician?. Take Back-Seatg. No More Republicans ; No Mor1: Democrats. We Waut, and Mut Have, Honest Men to Fill Public Positions. Eternal Vigilance Is the Safeguard of Liberty. Let All the Farmers Be United, for iu Unity There is Strength. (Sandy Farmers' and Mechanic' Club : Survive or Perish, We Will Support the Farmers' Movement. j Brothers, Let Us Organize and Educite, for Knowledge Is Power. We Will Obey the Laws, and Mon opolies Must Do tho Same. We Vote for No Man Who Can Be Bought By Grab or Ste.l. If Our Present Congressman Can't Serve the People for $5,000 a Year, Ask Them to Resign, and We Will Send Men Who Will. (BiufI Dale :) Equal and Exact Justice to All. (Maple Grove :) Laws Based LTpon Jutice. , The Farmer Feeds the World. We arc the Laborers 6 Millions of Dollars Expended in the Erection of a State-IIjue to Enact Laws in to Swindle the People. Christain8, Vote as You Pray, for Horiest Rulers. Railroads Make a Fair Per Cent on $45,000 per mile. When Assessed for Taxation, They Are Valued at S3,O00. President, 850,000 a year; Con gressmen, $7,500. Farmers, 15 cents a Week. ; Til U OHIO imUHBONS. The straightout Democrats of Ohio have Consummated their tradition: stupidity by tho nomination of a State ticket, which will never be heard of again after the 14th of Octo ber next. It is safe to say that it will be buried out of sight by a majority so large that the candidates will never real ize they ran for any offices It is equally safe to say that no respectable person will regret that fact. From the fact that tho party itsoif is doomed to certain defeat, but little interest at taches to the details of tho Convention, further than they emphasize its folly. Its nominations are of no consequence, as they are merely pins set up to be bowled ovor, with the certain knowl edge that the operation will prove an auxilery to Republican success. The platform, however, possesses some interest as a matter of curiosity, be cause it has not an original Democrat ic plank in its construction. It sets out frankly with this admission : "The Democratic party seeks to revive no;., deak issues." As all the Democratic ? issues are dead and,' perished, so long i ago tnat a resurrection oi tnern wpuia entail an "ancient and nish like 'smell". 9' no one could indure, ,w,e are not-8urttf .,if1 prised that they declinithdbagrvea-; vfc; ble job. Haying no ifiaic,fj -,,ot their .t& own, they have filcljedno .or , twoy.f V'ltfi th RuliicW isucs'vcr.ai ff 9Q1?rt5wIql4 Yirious resolutions of : the Farmer' it-i Granges, and nearly , all the . issues; t1 which the party of the people made nf T against the party in power at the, recentbs )! t't Columbus Convcnton. Leaving -oufctsfkt the protests agaiust legislation ; foiiy class interests, di. criminations against i t labor, and the squandering of publid ;' laods(which were borrowed from the farmers platforms), and the denuoeia tions of Credit Mobilier. gwindlings, 8alarygeabbingi, and other forms of- !:"' public corruption (which were borrow ed from the Liberal party platform?, notwithstanding the fact that the Dem-' ocratic party is as deep in the mire us' the Republican), there is nothing! left. - in thus patchwork prouunciauieuty bat the single fact that the Detno;atie party s seaks.torevivc.no deal is.-ue. It is the last pitiable effort of a disorganized mob logo into a fight againstva power-' ful and well disciplined cnoiny,; -without t t leaders, without oae of its old -war cries which ued to iospire and rally tbt masses under its standard. The plytr form is a gao l one, but it is not a deiq ocratic plaltform. It does not call np a single issue upon which the thirty has heretofore aeliievrd a victory. To the remnant of iu following it will be as unintelligible as the jargon at tha Tower of Babel. Admitting, for iha sake of argument, that it is a Demo cratic platform, because it bus emanated from a Democratic Convention, of wht use is it? Wh.it 'security can this moribund faction give to induce people to vote for it. Tribune. A STK an ra: CASH. In a late report from the St.ii Lunatic Asylum of Utiea, New Votk the following very remarkable case wv stated. A woman patient of thirty y.-ar t ngc had been using morphine by hypodermic, for two years. Although warned against the effect, she still persisted in its use, taking two hypo dermic injections each day, until her body was completely covered wifh scars wherever her own hand could reach. She became in sane in conscquecce and was sent to the Asylum. While there needles began coming to tho surface f her body and were extracted. sometime. as many as five uscdlcs a day, an 1 one day twelve needjes wore pulled out of her flesh. She lived some months, and two hundred and eighty-nine uecdks were evtracted from hor fledi when she died, aud after death 11 more s' were taken-out, making three hundred need les in all, two hundred and' forty-six of. which wero whole and Bfry-four were broken. How or when thee needles got into the flesh nobody knows, but as the stomach was perfectly' healthy the theory is that ihcy wero introduced through the skin while sho was under the influence of morphine r dypodcrmically administered. Solomon's Proverbs have, I thing -otntted; to pay that, as the sore palate fiodeth grit, so an unesy conscienco hcareth Innuendoes. George Eliot. The cottago of William Penn, which is now in a dilapidated condition in the midst of the great warehouses of Philadelphia, is used for a beer saloon A Phrenologist told a man that he had combativeness largely developed. '. 'No," said tho other, "1 have not, audi if you say that again Pli knock you ! down". .. ! What good resolutions wo sometimes' make immediately after having actcii upon wrong ones. Mrs Ellis. 1 j tit. ,. , 3 " X t n ir.t .- . I (