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THE COLUMBIAN.
St. Helen, Columbia Co., Or.
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ORATIOX,
Delivered by J. IS. Frlerson at
Clatskanie, Oregon,
July 4, 1882.
Concluded.,
Chinese wages will not get an Amer
ican who has to support a family very
tatk We never heard of any member of
Ott lass dying of the gout Here is
something a roan in California who
forked his life about out trying to com
pete with cheap labor wrote:
It warn't just much of a place I had
Down thar in the Sacramento valleyi
: Only a homestead, but, good or bad,
Twas all I owned when I married Sallie.
Id worked as long as Jacob had worked
To get this home for my little beauty
Vorlced hard, you bet you, and never shirked,
And fair or foul was ou deck for duty.
And so, when I had money enough
To buy the homestead and put her in it,
Vou cannot blame me, though times was rough,
If I warn't wilBftg to wait a minute.
foolish, I grant you; I see it now,
But shoo thar isn't no use in prating
T wed without the price of a cow.
After six lung years of work and waiting.
i 6wned the homestead, a tidy block,
Well fenced and set in the river's forkage:
25t what is the farm, without the stock?
Like a derned fool I slapped on a mortgage.
Well, I furnished up the house a bit;
I paid, very like, too big a sum for't;
But, then, my gal was to live in it
To hum she'd allers been ued to comfort.
Bo I went to work. The land was good;
I allers was called way up in labor t
The farm was MIXE, and I understood
How men work harder for self than neighbor.
We dodged along for a little while.
Not poor exactly, not yet in clover,
Btili, I was rifch in my gal's bright smile,
Each evening at hum when work wj-s over.
That mortgage gave me a heap o' thought
I've often fancied on mornings sunny
I could see a shadow lying athwart
The furrow I plowed. Twas that cursed
money.
( But pretty soon the trouble began;
It came this way, for fn my position.
A married, yet single-working man,
I couldn't live through the competition.
What could I do with my single arm ?
Every man in the whole broad valley
Had Chinese help and a bigger farm,
Cruihing the life out of me and Sallio.
Chinamen living on rice and beans;
Chinamen toiling from daw n till nightfall;
Chinamen working in times betweens;
And I alone ! Now does it seem rightful I
I couldn't stand it, I tell you frank;
I'd work till I dropped in any weather;
But fighting coolies, you'd bust a bank
J ust to keep body aud soul together.
Look here you're fresh from the East, you say;
There the men grumble at their condition.
How would they like fifty cents a day
That's coolie wages for competition?
Bight here, right here in this very spot,
The yellow plague is gathered .nd focused;
They're killing the state with their slow, dry rot,
Eating it up like a Kansas locust.
Exaggerate, do I ? Well, perhaps;
A starving man isn't often quiet,
But if you think so, some of you chaps.
Hard up at the East, come here and try it.
Fve had my dose; I'm hunting no more;
' I've lost my homestead by forced foreclosure;
I'm beginning life at forty-four;
My baby's dead from want and exposure.
That's enough for me, for any one man;
I could read you volumes of just such pages;
I've stood the racket as long a I can,
And caved at last under coolie wages.
The workingmen can't be wholly wrong;
They may be lawless, may be unruly,
But a man can't starve and sing a song
To prxue his a arver a foreign coolie. '
One thing 111 say: the Chinaman's bad
Bad in the city, bad in the valley;
And through his cheapness I know we've had
A mighty rough deal, myse f and Sallie.
"We don't feel it so much up here
but we all know that what he wrote is
the truth. The lalorers of our land
should be protected and a man in Amer
ica should never he put down so that it
becomes impossible for him to gain a de
cent living for himself and family.
Men are greedy for wealth and power
and such a thing as enough wealth
i not known. Under their guise of
public improvements base designing men
have obtained from government such
grunt of lands and money as. enables
them to set at defiance the will of the
people. Lands intended for a heritage
for the people, our own and those who
come here to live have been given to
these plunderers who still cry for more.
Cheap lands available for settlers are
not to be had, wages are cut down,
strikes by half starved men are put
down by the military, and unless there
is a change before long we the people
will lose what rights we now have, and
become worse than those in Ireland are,
or the serfs in Russia or peons in Mexi-
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co ever were. We must lay aside pon
tics and go in for the good of the coun
try if we want to celebrate many more
Fourth of Julys. Mammon care? not for
people or country.gold and power he
craves, he sneers at your totteiing form,
laughs at your three score years; to get
his cent per cent he will tear down your
lowly yet honest roof and graze his cat
tie on the spot it covered. Your sons
unable to learn trades will go to the bad,
and your fair daughters will become the
playthings of these wretches who having
been enriched by a ; generous people
would now push us down to starvation
terras and take all there is left Am I
not right ? Look at the murder of Gar
field who was a friend to the people. See
the rings formed in the country. Vau
derbilt, Gould, Claus: Sprecles, Stan
ford and a few others with nore land
and money than would pay the Nation
al debt.' See the country full of paupers-,
see the readiness with which the milita
ry is furnished to these men to quell any
agitation of the people, see laws passed
making it a felony for labor to ask high
er pay from capital. See how the peo
ple are plundered by unconstitutional
acts and the lavs passed to further in
crease the power of these men and keep
down the poor. Read back if your mem
ory don't inform you, then remember
the republics that existed before and
of the liberties of the people not even
remembrance remains. '' Do this, and re
member that history but repeats itself,
and if vou don't agree with me that our
country and our libeities are in danger I
will say that I am mistaken. We all
love our country and glory in our free
dom, we revere our ancestors, we are
ready to fight for flag and ountry at
any time, yet we are slow to perceive
danger. We never do and never have,
and never will till the blood of our peo
ple reddens the earthy and we have to
settle bv war what We should have set
tied by goo J laws rigidly enforced in
time of peace.
I claim with you a share in all the
love you may have and pride you may
take in our country, j and for my wife
and children I claim the same. I want
to see our country go on to last forever
the main place of Freedom in the world.
But like you I want to ee equal rights
before the courts and Congress for the
poorest as well as for the riches-t and
and not. allow a self appointed few who
style themselves "the! wealth and intel
lect ofthe country to jdictate to courts,
Congress and people in a manner more
rrocrant than the autocrat of Russia
Would assume. I
I copy some items from a New York
paper that will show that some of our
aristocrats have said and done and in
tend doing if they can.
"The rumor published some time ago
that Vanderbilt had procured the title
of Prince for his son lis true. On his
last visit to Europe he paid the Pope
ten thousand dollars to confer cn his son
the title of Prince of Rome. This will
just suit the shoddy aristocrats who ed
ucated abroad early learn to despise
our institutions and who worship the
meanest specimen of 'humanity if it has
a title." Another says: " We see in the
Berlin Zeitung of Feb. 23 an article that
may be news to many j of our citizens,"
Count Von Linden who lately spent two
months in the United States has re
turned. He was given a dinner in New
York the day before he sailed for home.
Mr. Cyrus W. Field of Cable fame pre
sided at the dinner, and there were pres
ent only nine persons, all members of
the Manhattan Club and the wealthiest
men in New York. I From them the
Count learned that the" common people
in the United States, though allowed to
vote, have no choice in the selection of
candidates, and that it is only a quescion
of time when the form of the govern
ment will be changed and an empire es
tablished. They think the people now
see the failure of a popular government
and for the sake of better wages and all
that they can purchase 'will consent to a
change of the form of government. If
that is done there are! numbers of our
i
aristocracy who will consent to go there
and purchase estates." j Commenting on
this the paper Kays: " Cyrus W. Field
was set wild by medals and titles con
ferred on him by foreign governments,
and his intercourse with the lazy nobili
ty of Europe has engrafted in his little
soul only contempt for our people and
our government. lie is the man who
erected a statue to Andre who was
hanged as a spy by Washington. Had
he common sense he would know that
he treads on dangerous ground.
The people put up ! with two much
from his class. We allow them to run
our State Legislatures,' our Courts and
the Congress of the United States, to
starve and crush our laborers, to steal
from the Treasury millions on millions
of money and to seize upon more Gov
rnment land than is cultivated by all
the rest of the peop'e. We hope they
win proclaim an Empire. In the short
time they survive such proclamation
they will find out that lightning can't
strike quicker or more effectively than
can the outraged American people. Let
that come and the reign" of such men
will soon be over and the voice of the
people one:? more be a powenin our land.
This country does riot yet belong to a
few Vanderbilts, Stanfords, Camerons,
Grants, Tildens, and Fields a they will
find out. Gentlemen we are ready for
your proclamation."
Once destroy our laboring classes and
and break up those of moderate wealth
and where is our country ? These Shy
locks would have to prey on each other
till all were devoured.
Major Adams in his paper says that
the republican party here ought to have
dven me something You on Clutska
nie know very well that I belong to no
political party, and want no office and
the republican party owe me nothing.
I am for breaking up both of the old
parties, and throwing out our National
bosses and putting in good men of the
people, who instead of ruling the peo
pie will remember as did Washington,
Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and Gar
tield that they are servants of the peo
ple, and not paid agents of the cursed
eorruptionists who wish to perpetuate a
rule of the monied aristocracy and crush
out all thoughts of freedom and liberty
from the people.
I thank you for your kind attention.
May you all live to enjoy many a glori
ous fourth. May you and all the peo
ple succeed in every legitimate under
taking. May a thousand liberty loving
families people up our rich hills and val
leys, and keep out the land grabbers.
May all have plenty to do and be able
to do it, and have plenty to eat and to
wear and a competence in old age, and
may the whole world soon celebrate days
made sacred to the freedom of man as
we do our national hoilidays. And may
war become unnecessary even by people
struggling for their rights, and impossi
ble for those who "govern by divine
rights."
Our Sew York Letter.
Special Correspondence of the Colcmbiak,
New York, July 8, 1882.
The Russian Jews, unhappy victims
of a senseless, brutal persecution, hardly
paralleled in the history of the human
race, continue to arrive in "targe num
bers. Over 12,000 have already landed.
Employment has been provided for
nearly all, but the charitable Jews of
New York, who have labored day and
night for so, long to aid their suffering
co-religionists, arc at their wit's end to
know what to do if any more exiles are
thrown upon their bauds. They are
by no means cleanly in their habits, and
although intelligent and willing to work,
are physically incapable to perform se
vere manual labor. An Irish wag, in a
speech last night, enumerated the disad
vantages resulting from the immigration
of refugees and wound up thus:
" He is dirty, unfit for hard labor,
poor as Pats pig, and can't shpake Eng
lish as good as uz can whin we are ba
bies. I can say this much more of the
Jew he brews trouble every day wid
the police."
As for " throuble wid the police," it
is a question whether the Geoghegans,
the McCarthys, the O'Shaughnessys and
the tribe of Murphys, are not a point or
two ahead, as our jail and prison records
would seem to indicate. But it were
well for the Russian Jews who are a
waiting transportation, te call to mind
this old Polish preeept, and to act in ac
cordance there-with: "Niepcpsh viepsha
pispshin, Poaapiepshish viepsha piepshin."
Which means, literally, " Don't pepper
your pig with too much, salt, or you'll
not be able to eat it." This, construed
liberally, may be thus rendered: " Don't
anticipate the delights of deglution, and
don't believe when you reach the land
of the free, and the home of the brave,
you will each receive 100 acres and a
mule, to-gether with gold enough to
start a Chatham Street clothing-store or
a pawnbroker's shop on the Bowery. If
you do, you'll meet with 99 per cent of
disappointment."
SCORE ONE FOR TIIE STRIKERS.
The striking freight handlers have
gained a victory, the Southern Railroad
of New Jersey having agreed to pay the
20" cr-nts an hour for overtime. As this
is the only road that has made the con
cession, it is the only one for which the
freights were moved yesterday, with in
telligence and efficiency. A large riUm
ber of Russian Jews have refused to
continue work, and as they and the Ital
ians seem to be utterly unable to con
tend with the accumulation of freight,
the other companies will be obliged to
let them go, and the old hands will fall
in again, notwithstanding the fact that
some of the companies continue to ad
vertise for German workman. The rail
road companies must give in. They are
at a tremendous expense; because they
must employ twice the usual number of
men at the old rate, and hundreds of
special police at wages running from
$2.50 to $3.50 per day; and the waste
and confusion of the freight business,
are astounding. Goods consigned to
Philadelphia are sent to Chicago, and
freight intended for Cincinnati finds its
way to Bos.ton, or gets no farther than
Yonkers. Cheese, butter and all other
perishab'e materials are being ruined at
the rate of thousands of dollars a week;
and before long the suffering merchants
of the City, who are a power when they
wish to be, will make the purse-proud
railroad magnates howl.
THE NEW MYSTERY.
The murder of ex-detective William
Keely, on Wednesday night, at Sixth
Avenue and 14th St., is still a puzzle to
the police. Yesterday, Henry Finlay,
a young commission broker, who was
present when the assault was made on
ivcely, was arrested. He says he did
not see the man struck, but saw him
stagger and fall. He was assaulted by
one of a noisy company composed of
four Cubans, one Frenchman, two Amer
icans. WANTED A POPULATION
While New York is groaning because
of the uncomfortable influx of needy
foreigners, Hawaii is yearning for an
addition to her population. It is under
stood that an agent of King Kalakaua
is on his way to New York to intercept
some of the Russian Jews and Italians,
and offer them flattering inducements to
become subjects of th dusky monarch.
Another rumor is to the effect that ef
forts are to be made to lure the Chinese
over in large numbers. We cannot very
well spare the Chow Chows, the Yee
Wahn, the Hip-Tongs, and the Sing-His,
who do much of our laundry work, here;
but Sau Francisco will no doubt gladly
welcome King Kalakaua's representa
tives, and do everything in her power to
induce John Chinaman to migrate.
A NEW DEPARTURE.
The brewers of New York and its vi
cinity hive given notice that they will
hereafter so far respect the feelings of
the serious part of tho community, as to
refrain from delivering beer to their cus
tomers, on Sunday. This is making a
virtue of necessity; for their action is
duo to the refusal of their drivers to
work on that day. Should the saloon
keepers now give that holiday tc their
bar-tenders, they would earn the lasting
gratitude of a great many people, sin
ners, as well as saints. As things are
now, and have been for some yvars, the
excise law is a dead letter; and on Sun
day, the bibulous man, by slipping in at
the side door of any saloon, in the City,
can get all the liquid stimulant he may
stand in need of. Fact is, that the ex
cise law and some others are like the
figures in the barber's window more
for mock than mark.
8TUYVESANT SQUARE.
This is a lovely breathing-place, a de
lightful spot of greenery, lying between
East 15th and 17th Streets, and bisected
by Second Avenue. It is the property
of St. George's Church congregation,
whose double-towered temple of worship
staijds on the west side. The square was
deeded to the Church by one of the de
cendents of Gov. Peter Stuy vesant, with
the stipulation that it should be closed
at sunset, aud that no dogs should ever
be allowed within its gates. Here is
where a local poet was " loafing and in
viting his soul," after the manner of
Walt. Whitman, when he nursed his
faithful companion, Aballiboozolangano
ribo. Filled with dread lest that won
derful dog should have fallen into the
hands of tho " Ketch ers" and carted off
to the pound to be asphyxiated, the
poet rushed to the park entrance, where
he discovered the animal seated on the
pavement studying the warning on the
iron gate. "No dogs admitted to this
park." i Last evening, just before the
time when sunset is announced by the
big mounted 24 pounder at the Brook
lyn Navy Yard, I entered Stuyvesant
Square, to learn how it was emptied
wheu the gun fired. The boom of the
big gun was answered by a shrill whistle
in the mouth of a stout man in the square
and forthwith the men, women aud
children began to flock toward the gates.
But down in the South Eastern corner
sat a loving couple, deaf to all sounds,
save those of their own voices. The
stout man became indignant, and still
blowing shrill blasts from his penny
trumpet, stalked toward the corner.
"I say, what are you people doing
there V said he, angrily. " Didn't you
hear the whistle?" "Yesj we heard the
whistle," said the whiskered half of the
loving pair, " but we thought it was
somebody calling a dog."
Then the whiskered half walked off
sadly, to carry on their courtship else
where, while the throng at the irate crave
them a glance of pity, as they pissed. 1
CHIPS.
The Salvation Army of Brooklyn has
been put to rout by one man with a gar
den hose, and another man with a paste
pot. The general sentiment of the com
munity is, that the " Army" is a nui
sance, and that it should be abated, but
not by means of water and paste. A
child is born this week in Harlem, weigh
ing only half a pound. Congressman
John H. Starin gave a free excursion
up the Hudson to 3,000 paupeis from
the Five Points.
Our Washington Letter,
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C, July 8, 1882.
The season of preparation for summer
at the watering places has. merged into
summer itself and groups of gay and
happy tourists, clad in the richest and
brightest of colors, are to be seen on
every side. In this city the opening of
July caused a general temiuine flitting,
tho breaking up of many charming
homes. With the departure of their fam
ilies Senators and members took refuge
in the hotels and now resigned 'y await
the close of the session. Dullness is sit
ting down in every quarter wherQ scenes
of gayety prevail in the winter season.
Parks, avenues theatres, club windows,
hotel Pteps, are abandoned to strangers
for the next two months.
The recent discussion on political as
sessments in both houses of Congress has
excited general attention and, taken in
connection with tl e Hubbe'l-Curtis con
troversy over the assessment circulars,
will have a depressing effect on the fi
nancial icheme of the Congressional com
mittee. Political assessments, or assess
ments of Federal office-holders for polit
ical purposes, will probably nver be
come a national issue from the fact that
it has been the custom of both political
parties to levy tribute of this nature,
but this fact cannot disguise the evil ef
fects of the system, It is essential idea
of the spoils Rystem that the offices
should le made to support the paity.
There are clerks here to day who are
still paying ten per cent, a mouth on
what they borrowed to pay their cam
paign assessment. I mean "voluntary
contribution" with tears in their eyes,
knowing it deprived their 'children of
clothes for school or that it compelled
them to .violate their honor.
The one public measure of importance
which has passed the House of Repre
sentatives displays the incapacity of the
present Congress even more distinctly
than what it' has left undone. The re
vision of the tariff having been put oft
the House undertook to revive the inter
nal revenue laws in order to relieve the
country from needless taxation. After
muddling over tho subject for half a year
what is the result 1 The removal of a
few petty stamp Uxes on patent medi
cines, perfumery ihk the like, to which
nobody objects and which costs nothing
to collect and the reduction of the tax
on cigarettes, which ought to be taxed
out of existence. That is the sum of re
form. The whole costly machinery of
the internal revenue service remains.
The House of Representatives was yes
terday agaiu the. scene of an encounter
of words, in which Messrs. Robeson, of
New Jersey, and Whitthorne of Tennes
see, were the principals, and in which
the amenities of debate wero grossly vio
lated. Mr. Robeson, in closing the de
bate on the naval appropriation bill not
content with a general defense of his ad
ministration of the Navy Department,
without mentioning any names, referred
in bitterest tones to Mr. Whitthorne,
whom he accused of "purloining the pub
lic school funds of the State," and with
bringing his brother from his Tennessee
home to take a contract under an admin
istration to which he was politically in
imical. Goaded by the severity of Mr.
Robeson's language, Mr. Whitthorne
seems to have lost his temper, for. he
quickly pronounced Mr. Robeson's
charge " a lie, whoever tells it or who
ever repeats it," and concluded bv
" branding on the forehead of Mr. Rob
eson tho words ' falshood and perjury "
At this point the matter wus dropped
the participants having exhausted their
abuse.
My letter giving the item s of rxrrn
ses of the Congressional srrte to Ycik
town has made some of the Congressmen
rather sensitive. There is a probability,
however that wo shall finally know
about the disgraceful matter attending
Garfield's funeral The more these things
are exposed the better will be the chance
of preventing any more such exhibitions.
Upon the reassembling of the Crimi
nal Court this morning to continue the
star-route trials, J udge Wylie remarked
that he saw that the case had been go
ing on in the newspapers since the ad
journment of the court. " I don't k now
what progress the newspapers have
made," j he continued, " may be they
have found a verdict." Mr. Merrick to
day authorized a denial of the rumor of
a disagreement among the counsel for
the government in the star-route cases,
growing out of the alleged suppression
by Mr. Bliss of certain newly discovered
evidences of the most important charac
ter. At a conference of government
counsel this morning it was agreed that
the grand jury should be immediately
reconvened and another set of indict
ments framed.
Dr. Lamb's official report of the au
topsy made npon tho body of Guiteau
immediately after his execution is pub
lished to-day. It is the opinion of the
learned editor of the medical journal to
which the report was first transmitted
for publication that it presents nothing'
to indicate that assassinwas ofunsouud
mind.
ArarsT.
I . Si.
A j Trip toCthe Cowlitz.
A week ago last Monday wo- ma.fe a
trip with our family to Tolda We
went on tho steamer Toledo; arrived
there quite iato in the evening antl
found it a flourishing settlement. Thi
Cowlitz Valley is an empire hi, itseU,
and is fast filling up with wt tiers. Tho
land is of excell&ut quality, and waUr
communication and railroads an- handy,
A literal appropriation from Congress
is needed for the Coli:z liver, and
then the steamboats could go 30
miles above Toledo, and open for settle
ment an immense region. No one ha
an idea what a chance there is opened
for any one. wishing a splendid home.
Captain Joseph Kdhg i the Cortez
that has opened this Ttrta Incognita to
the public by pushing his steam boat
through rocks and drifts and anags to
tho heart of thi invaluaUe kingdom,
Jits boats are daily loaded with tho
treasures of this region. Thia is not
new country, but an old ci4e resurrected
into a higher, nobler life of activity.
On the way we !ecame acquainted
with Mrl Hodges and family, connected
by marriage with the Meeker family,
also with Mrs. Mitchel. We found
them, people of culture and refinement,
Hodges and Mitchel start a shins!
mill at Castle Rock. Mr. Mitchel was
formerly an editor and Mr. Hodges is a
pensioner, and belonged to the old Army
of the Potomac whence he bears noble
scars. Ho was in a Michigan or Wis
consin regiment, we forget which; but it
is all tho same, wherever he came from
he acted j well his part in tho great drama
of the Rebellion.
We found a nico clean bed at the ho
tel, and had excellent fare on the boat;
all tho ladies j;o their pile on the stew-,
aid of the ToUdo, and if he fills the bill
with them in the matter of cookery, he
can pass without an onion. The air oi
the river was invigorating ani delicious.
Woods and Caples have a big store at
Toledo, i There are besides two or three
other stores, a shoe shop, drug store,
kept by Dr. Boyoe, a saloon by Miko
Dunnegan, a hotel by Mr. Shnltz. J.
M.Dinsmore has a fine ranch a mile and
a half from the river, and has raised a
tine crop. He found a skeleton of a
man on his claim. There was a dollar
and a half in the skeleton's pocket, so if
he was dead, he was not dead broke.
Very consoling thought in this country!
We started back on Tuesday, but on
ly got as far as Freeport. We met on
the boat MiH Smith, sister of Mrs.
Chandler Huntington, and quite a num
ber of interesting ladies and gentlemen.
We had some excellent berths on the
Joseph Kellojj by special invitation of
the Captain, and came up on that boat
Mr. Burroughs, the steward, was very at
tentive and made everything very pleas
ant. Mrs. Orin Kellogg and daughter
were ou .board, an amiable and !eautiful
lady, formerly a Westfall of Washing
ton Co. )
George Foster's house on the Col urn
bia River has a fine appearance; and the
scenery seemed uncommonly beautiful
as we came up to St. Helen.