INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS AND RELIGION.
VOL. 4.
DALLAS, OREGON, SATUDAY, SEPT 27, 1873.
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FARMBS DECI.ATATION INDEPENDENCE.
When io the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for a class of
people, suffering from loug continued
systems of oppression and "abuse, to
rouse themselves from an apathetic
indifference to their own interests,
which has become habitual ; to assume
among their fellow citizens that equal
station, and demand from the Govern
ment they support, those equal rights
to which the laws of nature, and of
nature's God entitles them ; a descent
respect for mankind requires that they
declare the cause that impels them
to a course so necessary' to their own
protection.
We hold these trutbs to be self evi
dent, that all men arc crea'cd equal
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain iualicnable rights; that
among these are life; liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. That to secure
these rights governments are instituted
among men, deriving the jut power
from the consent of the governed, that
whenever the powers of the goverL
raent become destructive of these,
eithsr through the injustice or ineffic
iency of its laws, or through the cor
ruption of its'idmuiistrafors, it is the
right of the people to abolish such
lawt, and institute such reforms as to
them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness. Prudence-
ndeed will dictate that laws Jo g
established hall not be changed for
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ight and trifKiog cauces, and according
all experince hath shown that
mankind arc more disposed to suffer
while evils are sufferable, than to r'ght
themselves by abolishing the laws to
which thev are accustomed. Hut
when a long train of abuses and usur
pations, pursuing invariab'y the sam
object, evinces a desire to reduce a
people under the absolute despotism of
combinations, that, under the fostering
care of the Government, aud with
wealth wrung from the people, have
grown to such gigantic proportions as
overshadow all the lard, and wield an
almost irrcsistable influence for their
own selfish purposes, in all ita halls
of legislation, it i? their right it is
their duty to throw off cuch tyranny,
and provide new guard for their future
security.
.Such has been the patient suffuranco
of the producing classes of these states
and such is now the necessity which
compels them to declare that they will
use every means save a resort to arms.,
to overthrow this depotism of monpoly
and to reduce all men claiming the
protection of American laws to an
equality before those laws, nj ikirjg
the owner of a railrond as amenable
thereto as the "vanest beggar that walk
the streets, the sun and air his sole
inheritance. '
The history of the press nt railway
monopoly is a history of repca'cd in
juries and oppression, all having io
direct object the establishment of an
ab olute tyranny over the people tbcio
states unequaled in any monarchy of the
Old World, and having its own paral
11 in the history of tho Medevial
ages, when the strong hand was the
only law, aud the highways of com
moreewcrc taxed by the Feudal Rarons
who from their strongholds, surroun led
by their armies of vassals, could levy
tribute upon the traveler as their own
wills alono should dictate. " To
prove this, let fact be submitted to a
candid world :
They have influenced our executive
officers, to refuse their assent to laws
the most wholesome and necessary for
public good, and when such laws have
been passed they utterly ref u&cd to
obey them.
They have procured tho passage of
other laws, for their own benefit alone
by which they have put untold millions
into their own.coffcrs, to tho injury of
the entire commercial a"nd industrial
interest of he county.
They have influenced legislation to
suit themselves, by bribing venal legis
lators to betray the true interests of
their constituents, while others has
have been kept quiet by the compliment
of free pass.
They have repeatedly prevented the
re-election of representatives, lor
opposing with manly firmness, their
invarion of the people's rigts.
They have by false representations
and subterfuge induced the people to
subscribe funds to build roads, whose
rates, when built, are so exorbitant,
that in many instances transportion
by private convey ance is less burdec
some. They have procured charters by
which they condemn and appropriate
our land."? without adequate compensa
tion thorefor, and arrogantly claim that
by virtue of these charters they are
absolutely above the conttol of legal
enactment.
They havp procured a hw of Congress
by which they havo dispossessed hun- j
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dreds of farmers of thn homes that j
bv vcarsof toil thev have buit un: ;
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farms for roads never intended to be '
built, and after squmdering the money !
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the mercy of courts over which they j
held absolute swav. I
They obstructed the administration
of justice by injunctions procuring
from venal judges, by legal quibbles and
appeals from court to court, with intent
to wear out ruin the persecutor, openly
avowing their determination to make it
so terrible for the public to prosecute
them that they will not dare undertake
it.
Thev havo virtually made judges
dependent on their will alone, and have
procured' their"" oppotntraent for the
exoress nurnose of reversing a decision
of the highest court of the nation, by i
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which millions were gamed to them, to
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the injury of the holders of the bonds
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and the breaking down of the last;
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safeguard of American freemen. i
They have affected to render them
scItcs independent of and superior
to the civil power, by ordering large
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unlawful exaction, and have protected!
iwiivi v kJitgiiiiLL l utv'i vv tuvu
t'lem from putshmentfor anjinjury thoy
might inflict upon peaceful citizens,
while ejecting them from their convey
ances for refusing to pay more than the
rate ot fair prescribed by law,
They havo arrested and summoned
from their homes for trial, at distant
points, other citzens for the samo
offensive of refusing to pay more than
legal fare, putting them to as great an
enconvienco and expense as possible,
and still further evincing their deter
mination to myke it too terrible for the
people to dare engage in any legal con.
flict with them.
They have combined together to
destroy competetion and to practice an
unjust discrimination, contrary to the
expressed provisions of our constitution
i and tho spirit of our law.
They havo virtually cut off our
tiade withdistant parts of the world
by their unjust discrimination and by
their cxhorbitant rates of freight, forc
ing upon the alternative of accumul-i
ting upon our hands a worthless sur
plus, or of giving three-fourths of the
our customers pay for our proiuetg for
their transportation
Under tho false and specious prctenso
of developing the country, they have
obtained enormous grants of public
lands from Congress, and now retard
rather than develop its settlement, by
t'io high prices charged for such
land.
They havo converted tho bonds
fraudulently obtained from the govern
ment. into a great corruption fund,
with which they are enabled to bribe
and control legislatures, and subvert
every branch of Government to their
own base and sordid pnrpoe.
They have increased the already
intolerable burden of taxation, which
the people have to eudure, compared
with which the tea and stamp tax
which precipitated the war of the
revolution, seems utterly insignifficant,
by tbe appropriates of money from
the publio treasury, whilo they have
escaped taxation themselves by evading
and'violating the expressed provisions
of their charters.
In every stage of these oppreksions
we have petitioned our legislators for
redress in the most humble term.
Our repeated petitions have been
answered only by silence, or by attcmps
to frame laws that shall seem to meet
I our wants, but that ase, in fact, only a
legal snare for courts to disagree upon
ami for corporations to disobey.
Nor have wo been wanting in at
tempts to obtain redress through
Congress. We Inve warned them
from time to time of these various and
repeated encroach meuts upon our
I rights : we have reminded them of the
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circumstances of our emuugration and
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settlement here ; we have appealed to
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and impartial gowernment, to protect
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us from these encroachments, wh c h. if i
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eontmaed, would inevitable end in the
utlcr destruction of those liberties fur
wUch 0U(, fathw thc5r lhci
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i classes and an aristocracy of wealth,
i worse than that from which the revo-
lutiun freed us. They too have becu
deaf to tho voice of ju tice and duty.
We mnst thorefbre aequiescj in the
necessity which com Kits us to denounce
their cj'uninal indifTerenco to our
wrongs, and hold tnem as we hold our
legislature enemies to the producer
to the monopolist friends.
We, therefore the producers of this
State In our several counties assembled
00 this ,hc 'r of that day
inai gave uinu io a nauon oi irecracn
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and to a government of which, despite
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the corrupt.on of its oflieer?, we are
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still so jtiUiy proud, appealing the
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I Supreme Judges ot tne on i ur me
j rectitude of our:intcntions, do solemnly
declare that wo will use all lawful and
peaceful means to free ourselves from
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the tyranny oi monopiy, anu inai we
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every department of our government
givc3 token that the reign of licentious
f xtravagance is over, and something
of the purity, honesty and frugality
with which our fathers inaugurated it
has taken its place.
That to this end we hereby declare
ourselves absolutely free and independ
ent of all past political connections,
and that we will give our suffrage only
to support such men for office, from
the lowest officer in the State to the
President of tne United States, as we
have reason to believe will use their
best endeavors to tho promotion of
these ends ; and for the support of this
decl&tion, with a firm reliance on Divine
Providence, we mutually pledge to
each other our lives, our fortuues aud
our sacred honor.
TI1I3 NEW-PaKTV movement.
An impartial observer of current
politica1 events can no longer deny
that the movement among tho people
for the formation of a new party to
meet tho issues of tho day has assumed
a tangible ani vigorous shapo. It has
developed with unmistakable signs of
health and energy in five Western
States, Iowa, Ohio, Minnesota, Wis
consin, and Illinois. In Iowa, Ohio,
Minnesota, and Wisconsin, where State
elections arc to bo held this year, the
Democratic party is practically out of
the field. There is nothing but tho
Republican party and tho Opposition.
In Ohio, tho Opposition is called tho
People's party ; in Iowa and Minnesota,
it is the Anti-Monopoly party; In
Wisconsin the call is in ado for a State
Reform Convention ; in Illinois, there
is to bo no Stato olection this year, but
the Auti-monopolists are organizing by
counties, ara making nominatives of
their own, aud are generally as ed of
success. In all the. States, under
whatever namo or auspicasythe move
ment has the same commou aim. The
leading declaration of all the platforms
is, that neither the Republican nor the
Democratic party can bo trusted to
reform tho evils of which the people
Complain. The nominations are made
without reference to former political
associations. Project for ascertaining
tho political complexion of conventions
according to the old division arc
promptly voted down. Opposition to
to the grabs, and steals, and monopolies
of the day is expressed in no doubtful
terms. There is no spirit of compromise
intended to conciliate political fossils,
oo concessions to attract the co-opera-
tiou of discontented Republicans or
influential Democrats. The peoph-,
outraged by the political frauds that attested, that it has been established oa
have been put upou then:, and alive tola firm basis with the common purposes
the realization that they must rav J in all sections of the cuutry, of break
themselves if they would be sivj! at jg down monopoly and corruption
all, hive com'.1 together, an 1, with such !
vimfton a local interests kV'jv.
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Tbe ground taken by the Minnesota
Convention of Tuesday is the same as
that already occupied by the Anti-
MonopolisU in Iowa and Ohio, anJ the
ame also as that which the call for
the Reform Convention in Wisconsin
des gnj to cover. It resolved that it Is
uuwhc to continue the old party organiza
tious after their race I as been ruo; that
the course of the monopolies must be
checked; that taxes niut be levied for
rveoue and not for protecting certain
privileged classes ; that the public
servants of the neople must not be paid
of largely as to miko office-holding
attractive to human cupidity; that the
corruption iu the National Government
a illustrated iy Crelit Mobilier, the
Furt Snclliqg swindle, and similar
transactions, and the corruption in the
Slate Government, as found in the
the control of the State Treasury, must
be held up to public scorn, and that
those who are guilty mu?t be punished ;
that the excessive fees now enjoyed by
State and county officials must be
produced ; that the people must take
politics in their own hands,and declares
themselves free from party servitude
There is nothing in the platform that
is not new and prorgessive. There is
no allusion to the dead issues of the
past. Party chains arc broken; there is
a new declaration of independence ;
and all men who want to bo free have
the doors thrown wide open to them.
Minnesota has suffered more than its
s'iarc of spoliation. Its Government
has been in the hands of a Rinl
The Stato Treasury has been system
a'icallly despoiled. A oertain class
demands its control, Oue of this class
was a defaulter to the amount of $10,
000 ; his successor cost the pcoplo
8100,000 ; and the practice has obtain
ed regularly of loaning the public funds
to political speculators. When this
state of things was exposed, Mr. E. W.
Dike was appointed Stutb Treasury
and proved to be an honest man. He
refused to cover up the fraudulent
rartsactions of his predecessors by
carrying them over on the books.
For this the regular Republican Con
vention refused to nominate him, aud
took a man from the vory sarao class
that had already furnished two corrupt in
cumbents of the same office. Tho Anti
Monopolists have nominated Mr. Dike
for the position which he has honestly
filled, and thereby have brought the
issue of honesty vs corruption directly
before the people. It is fur. them to
decide whether they desire to have the
State funds honestly handled or not.
TI12 other nominations made on Tues
day are equally indicative of honest
administration. Mr. Ara Rartan, 'the
candidate for Governor has never been
prominent in politics, though he. has
hwen a member of the Legislature. He
is now tho President of thfcStato
Farmers' Association. Ebencter
Ayers J. II. Stevens are among tk
the best men in Minnesota, the former
one of the largest farmers in tho State.
Tbe most notable and most important
feature of the oppositiou to the regular
Republican arty in these several
States is, thatVt is no longer the Dem
ocratic party. In Ohio, the Democrat
ic party has made regular nominations;
lu Iowa, it may still come to the front
with a straight Rourbon ticket; but
whether the Democratic party gives up
the ghost or mades a pretense of living
it has left no legacy to the new political
movemeut, which isalike independent
of both the old parties. The present
success or failure of the new party in
these Slates is insignificant in corupari
sion with the fact, now thoroughly
( f electing men with a view to their
honesty and ability, and without to
gard to their past pilitieal c jnnictijns,
Chicci'So Trilunc.
Til 12 MOTfei;i 1 I SM'Ul. MAN.
There is nothing more fortunate for
mod crate genius than to be born poor.'
The "silver spoon" class are a very
comfortable people, no doubt, but the
the great trouble of them is, if they
don't become very great they are ti
tremcly likely to become the 1 very
opposite. Poverty has helped men to
wlve some of the greatest problems of
life-. Half its brovc dtds bavebe.ia
nccessitp, and the rrost of its qoblo
sayings have been born of determined
opposition. It docs a man good to put
him at his wit's ends. Emergencies
make men. Any man can be a general
or a pilot in a calm ; but storms shown
the metal. Reputation is made more
by boldness and will, than by ability
and patience. Life is too short to wait
for the tide whose ebb leads on to for
tune. We must make the most of
present opportunities, but we shall
hardly do it, unless present opportunU
ties are in the main present necessities.
; The'mau who works out these to the ful.
lest extent is the most successful man.
llcall's College. Jonr;a.
The man who wrco'! am saddest
when I sing," was foolish if he gaojj
much.
A Western genius has an idea which
is an idea. He proposes to arrango
church seats on pivots, so the devout
may more convicnently examiue the
toliets of the back scat.
A Dutch Congressman remarked, ,(
Ven I vas elected, I thought I vould
find dem all Solomons down here ; but I
found der was some as pick fools hero
as I vas mineself.
What is that from which, if take the
whole, tome will remain ? whole
some. It takes to boys to go to school nov
adays one to study and the other to
carry the books.
Our school boy remarks that when
his teacher undertakes to show him
what is what he only finds out which
is swhich.
Circus proprietors wish it distinctly
understood that tho term sawdust
swindles" which occur so often in New
York papers, docs not refer to their
exhibitions.
Tho proprietor of an English menagr
arie bus posted up the following notice
"Ladies aro requested not to remain
stationary in front ot the cages. It
tiresthe monkeys."
A cannibal's epitah uVrito mo 09.
one who loves his fellow-men.
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