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i" SATURDAY..:... OCTOBER 17, 1896
IT STANDS FOR GOLD.
Pre-eminently above all other re
publicans in the state of Oregon stand
Hp a. George H. Williams, who ad
dressed the people of The Dalles last
o. :.. and frnm his liCS
: kJOLU L UUJ v(iuug .. - -
A nrt rlnubb did receive
- a true and correct interpretation of
- the republican national platform. His
. interpretation of its planK on tne
money question was evidently a dis
appointment to the many advocates of
" silver in. the republican party, who
were - led by Senator Mitchell to
believe that it meant the free coinage
' of silver at an early date, for Mr. Wil
liams' address was confined to depict
ing the beauties' of the single gold
standard, ana not as tno national ymi,
4mm r.t iQr Viarl it. "thn reDublican
party, from tradition ana instinct,
Iti-vnra himotalism." or as senator
,.Mithfill exDlained Vtho republican
Dartv today favors making silver
r - primary money of final redemption and
-will exert Its influence in that direc
tion if Major MCKinley is elected
president."" Therefore if Mr. Yvil
- Ham's construction of the platform is
correct, and he is indeed high author
ifr.TT tfio ftftA fill Vpl rnnublican has little
w i
- j iiniu tnr lipnfB little encourage
ment to support the republican
x national ticket. ' . ' '
It is indeed unfortunate that the re
publican platform is so vague that a
double construction can be put on it
- . ty two men so high in the party as are
Mr. Williams and Mr. Mitcncii.
tioliovn that
IlUWDVCl WO O.L J IWiv-MM w r
the construction put on tue piauorm
by Mr. Williams is correct that if the
republican party succeeds on jnov. d,
the present glod standard will oe con
timiAii fisp another four vears. there-
M . 1 1 V..f rx-na AViniiiA lftfr. fftr the
lUlO UUDIO lO tsuv vuv
Hnnnii;inrt an-irai mn.n. sind that is to
rise above party prejudice and vote as
his dictates teach, for the interests
ol the people.
We believe that Mr. Williara9 is
more nearly correct in his interpret
' ation of the national platform than is
ilr. 'Micnell, mat me repuonuau vai vy
of today stands squarely for thecou-
' .1 t ;nnla rrrAA at. M nrlftrV! .
uuuuuua vi a oiuro ft" '
and that no attempt will be made by
it to secure an international agree
ment for the tree or unnmiiea coiuoge
of silver should It again get into power.
In this belief we are encouraged, not
only by Mr. Williams, but by the great
. . . ti.
uaiiy papers to-ib are buj-jju. uug
Klnley, which are unanimous in tne
" contention that the gold standard is
'" perfection as a financial policy. - If
they contend for this policy, then they
favor a policy that is detrimental to
, ttio intoi'nat.a ' nf thn COUntrV. or eX-
. perience goes xur uauuw ou duwo v
' M . . . . nL . .i on m A ft
the greatest mincl3 ol tne nawon nave
been wrong in their views of what the
lt Af n f-inxln .-.! 1 Tl H '1 T"ll W nil 1 H
rOSUtU ML a OIUgLC t"'" raw..-. -
sidered the gold standard dangerous to
the best-interests of the country in
times past, and with many other lead-
- ing 'Staoesmen v raised ; their voices
J' against its maintenance. .On January
Z'J, xalo, in a speecu uwuro ijuugiois!
Mr. Blaine said: " ' ' .
"I believe tne struggle now going
fn in T.niu innnT.rv unci 111 iiijIiht cuuu-
trie9 for a single gold standard would,
if successful, produce widespread dis
aster in and throughout, the commer
cial world. The destruction of silver
.as money, and establishing gold us the
effect on all forms of property,- except
those investments which yield a fixed
return in money. These would be
enormously enhanced in value, and
would give a disproportionate and un
fair - advantage over every other
species of property." , ...
This expression from Mr. Blaine Ss
" in direct line with the sentiment of j
- ivjr. oariisie wnu saiu. ua cuu-m---
. . . -
summation of this scneme lor toe de
monetization of silver will cause more
misery than all the wars, pestilence
and famine that have occurred in the
hintnrv of the world." ' And this' is
the policy' which Mr. Williams holds
' the Republican party of today is
and no-one will have the termeritv to
denr- that . he ' speaks advisedly.
Therefore we ask in all sincerity can
the voter who is patriotic ana loves
his country affiliate with that party?
' WHA T WILL McKINLEY DO ?
Nothing is more dangerous to the
- Ilt?UUlt3. UL bnUOCB UUD1U W ll-
K 1 ' "
reasonable profits on the articles they
consume, than the existence ana mam
tainance of trusts and combines that
prevent hone9t competition. Through
the organization of trusts, combines
Ann - rto and npa m&rlA bv which-the
product of manufactures can bo so
limited' and prices so adjusted that (he
consumer la.. lorQed to pay ior :sucn
products whatever price may be de
manded, since all competition in the
lines controlled by such trusts is pre.
vented. Congress recognized the dis
advantage at which the consumer was
placed by the 'organization of trusts,
and in 1890 passed a stringent anti
trust law with the following provisions:
"Every contract, combination. in the
form of trust or otherwise, or con
spiracy in restraint of trade or com
merce among the several states or
'?ith foreign nations is hereby de
clared to be illegal.
or attempt t0 monopolize or conspire
with any.other person or association
to monopolize, any part of the com
merce between tne sevarai stales,, or
with foreign nations, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con
viction thereof shall be punished by a
finei-not exceeding $5,000, or by im
prisonment not exceeding one year,
or by both said pucishments, in the
discretion of the court."
But this law has never been en
twoA and today there are more trusts
-" j -
in existence in tne uniwju ouauea tum
at any other period in its history, not
withstanding the existence of the law.
Attorney-General Olney and Ms pre
decessor, Warner Miller, held that it
oiild not be enforced, and the present
incumbent, Judson Harmon, is equally
negligent in his efforts to make the
law operative. Miller and Olney were
. .nni-ntinn' attorneys, and Har-
mon has been in the employ cf corpo
rations during a good portion of hi
jegalpaactice, hence is in sympathy
more with the trusts than the people.
However, with these ex-attoruey-cenerals
and the presotit incumbent
wo have little to do, since the lattera
UTin expires next March, but the ex
perience of the past has made the
plundered people solicitous as to who
wi).' fill the office of attorney-general
in the future, whether he shall be a
second Miller or Oiuey, or whether he
shall be a man who is not under the
influence of these gigantic combines.
If Mr. Bryan is elected there can be
no doubt us to what sort of a man he
will appoint , to this oftk-e. In his
rammony Hall speech he declared
himself. "I am opposed to trusts." he
said, ,;acd if I am elected I shall use as
an"executive what power I shall have
to drive every trust out of existence.
If present laws are not sufficient to
meet this evil. I, if elected, will recom
mend such laws as will meet it."
But where does Mr McKinley stand?
What sort of a man will he appoint
attorney-general? ' Judging from the
fact that Mr. Hobart is at tho head of
the coal trust and that Mr. Hanna is
in sympathy with more trusts and com
bines than almost any other man in
the nation, there is little to expect
than thaO whomever Mr. McKinley
would appoint would be in harmony
with the interests of his manager and
his running mate, that the attorney
general under his administration
would be only a second edition of
Miller or Olney.
OHIO IS DOUBTFUL.
Hardly any supporter of "Bryan, bts
deemed Ohio anything but a certain
state for McKinley: in fact it has been
generally conceded that its 23 votes
would go solid for its favorite son;
but Henry George, after spending two
weeks traveling over that state views
the situation differently. In summing
up the'situation, Mr. George says:
"Both the hope and fear that Mc
Kinley will carry Ohio are based upon
the perfection of the Republican or
ganization, tho special interests at its
back and tho great amount of money
at its disposal. But, to my mind, there
aro forces on the other side that more
than offset these. Take the matter of
organization, a matter of which the
democratic practical politician laments
the lack, and it seams to me the Bryan
people have tho advantage. Their or
ganization is of a different kind, but it
will prove, I think, the more effective
as the short sword and mora open or
dr of the Roman legion proved more
effective than the long spears and
serried ranks of the Grecian phalanx.
In every city in which I have been, in
every town, of which I have heard is
proof that tne political aiscussio mac
is goipg on is hand-to-hand work, and
what counts the hanging up of ban
ners, hiring of great halls, bringing of
speakers from abroad, getting up of
monstrous excursions, to the talk of
neighbor with neighbor that is honey
combing the entire state with free
sil ver clubs and Bryan leagues. .-
"Take the power of the banks and
raWroads and all they control. Time
and time it has been proved that their
power at the polls is "as nothing when
a clear issue is made against them.
"And now, when only four weeks of
the campaign remain, there can be no
question as to which side is gaining.
Free silver is everywhere making its
way and every whero the republican
candidates are losing ground- I find
this in Cleveland as I return to it, after
something over a week's, absence, and
it is a thing, upon which ail those Ij
have talked with elsewhere are agreed.
' "And to these elements of success is
being added that most potent element
which Bryan's personal touch with the
people is producing and intensifying
belief in the honesty of the man.
From my views of th9 situation I can
not think Bryan will fail to carry
Ohio by a large majority: and the
same influences that give him Ohio
should give him all the central West
ern states that have been considered
doubtful."
ONE THEORY EXPLODED.
The theory of the gold standard ad
vocate3, that wages in all lines of in
dustry 'will be reduced if Bryan is
olected, seems not certain of being
carried out strictly in all instances,
"hence the theory is. exploded. There
is a sx)ve iac ory at Newark, Ohio,
where wages will be advanced 10 per
cent in case of Mr. Bryan's success.
A Newark dispatch, dated Oct. 5, to
the S. F. Examine! , says:
"It has been many days since a
factory notice promising increased
wages has been seen iu this vicinity,
but the employes of the Central city
Stove Works here today were notified
that in case of Bryan's election an in
crease of 10. per cent in their wages
would be given. The company's presi
dent, C. W. Cunningham,, has been a
life-long republican, While the heaviest
Stockholder, W. N." Fulton, although a
banker, is an enthusiastic silver advo
cate. Nearly all the employees are
republicans, but all are Bryan support
ers. ' President Cunningham said to
day the reason the promise of better
wages was made was because the com
pany felt confident free coinage would
stimulate business, especially in the
west, where the trade of the concern
largely lies."
The action of . tne manufacturers
bears out the contention of the advo
cates of free coinage, that business will
be increased by an increase of circula
ting medium, nd . thus better wages
can be paid laborers.
SETTLED AT LAST.
A special Condon dispatch to the
New York World, dated October 3,
says:
The World correspondent examined
today a file of the- Financial News, in
its office here, and found the following
statement in. an editorial in its issue of
April30, 1804: . .
. f'There can be no doubt about it
that if the united States were to adopt
a silver basis tomorrow British trade
would be ruined before the year was
out, for American industry would bo
protected not only at home but ' in
every other market."
This is the statement that has been
so widely copied by the silver press of
late, and denounced as spurious by the
goldites. Now that the World, which
is a strong and able- advocate of gold,
has found it to be genuine, and to have
been published more- than two years
ago, when tlia silver agitation was in
its infancy, it is to be expected that its
authenticity will no longer be ques
tioned and that the gojdites will con
cede thab Eneland is afraid of the re
sult of free coinage In the United
States. "
The New York Journal declares that
the next congress will be in favor of
freecoiuase. Advocates of the white
metal will have thirteen more votes,
it says, than the gold standard men.
Oregon's congressmen and senators
are put down for gold In the estimate.
FAU2IEUS AND THE TARIFF.
There is an effort made by the Mc
Kinley management to secure the sil
j ver republican vote among the farmers
by pushing the tariff issue to the front.
The ciaim is jpade by them that tno
democratic po!5y is and has been to
remove the tariff from all farm pro
ducts, thus placing the American
farmer in direct competition with the
farmers of the "pauper" worlJ, even
in competition with the "pauper"
farmers of gold-standard Canada,
Germany, Italy and France. It is
further claimed, directly iu the face of
facts, that the present tariff law, which
was passed by a democratic congress,
has removed tho duty from all farm
produces. Before che republican,
farmer who honestly believes in the
free coinage of silver, allows himself
to be carried away by such misrepre
sentations, he should investigate for
himself, and be convinced that there is
but one farm product, wool, which is
placed on tho free list by the Wilson
tariff law. That the farmers may cou
sider the. effect the present tariff law
has upon their ' industry and the
amount of protection that Is. extended
to their products, we make the follow
ing quotations from the 1S94 tariff law,
showing the duty (protection) placed
on a number of the leading products of
the farm:
All live animals, not specially pro
vided for, 20 per cent and valorem.
'Buckwheat, corn or maize, cornmeal,
0:itf, rye, rye flour, and wheat flour,
20 per cont and valorem. .
Wheat," 25 cents per bushel.
Barley and barley pearled, patent or
hulled, 30 per cent and valorem.
Butter and substitutes thereof, 4
cents per pound.
Cheese, 4 cents per pound.
' Milk, preserved or condensed, 2
cents per pound, sugar of milk, 5 cents
per pound.
Beans, twenty per cent and valorem.
Hay, $2 per ton.
Honey, 10 cents per gallon.
Hops, 8 cents per pound.
Onions, 20 cents per bushel.
Peas, dried, 20 cents per bushel; split
peas, 0 cents per bushel.
Potatoes, 15 cents per bushel.
Vegetables in their natural state
not otherwise provided for, 10 per cent
ad valorem.
Apples, preen or ripe, dried, des
icaW or prepared in any manner, 20
per cent ad valorem.
Straw, 15 por cont ad -valorem.
Grapes, 20 per cent ad valorem.
Oranges, lemons and limes, in pack
ages, at the rate of 8 cents per cubic
foot of capacity; in bulk, $1.50 per
thousand. .
.Plums, prunes, figs, raisens, and
Other dried grapes, including Zante
currants, H cents per pound.
Fresh beef, mutton and pork, 20 per
cent au valorem.
Bacon and hams, 5 cents per pound.
Extracts of meats, 15 per cent ad va
lorem. .
Llard, 1 cent per pound.
Poultry, live 3 cents per pound,
dressed 2 cents per pound.
Tallow, 1 cent per pound.
It will bo noted that there is indeed
a high protective duty on nearly every
product of the farm and garden, in
many of the schedules the- duty Ijelng
more than the market price of the ar
ticle. Take hops for instance. There
is a protection of 8 cents, while for the
past two years they have been sold
throughout this state at from 3 to H
cents. And too, the assertion is jfre
questly made that Canadian competi
tion is responsible for the low prevail
ing prices in i'farm produce, yet Uhe
facts are that there is at present a high
Tariff on hay, grain, butter, and
live stock, in fact all farm prodects ex
cept wool.. A perusal of the above
quotations from the tariff law as it ex
ists today, will cause the farmer to re
alize any increase in tho tariff cannot
benefit him. but on the contrary, any
additional duty, except it be on wool,
will be to increase the profits of the
manufacturing syndicates.
JUST FOR EFFECT. .
Senator Quay, the great Pennsyl
vania boss is pretty good at claiming,
and under date of Oct- 12, sent out
this statement.
"The election of McKinley and
Hobart is an accomplished and assured
fact. They will receive 270 electoral
votes, Bryan will receive 110, and
there are six states, having 67 electoral
votes, which are doubtful, but the
probabilities at present point to. the
fact that these 67 will go into the re
publican joiumn and be added to the
270 now assured for McKinley and
Hobart. This is the status tod ay. We
have the election and will hold it.
The opposition has abandoned the
East.
It will bo noticed that in . makiDg
this broad assertion, Senator Qua;
carefully avoids naming any one of the
states from which the grand aggrega
tion tf 270 are to come.. Evidently
this estimate is made without any
foundation whatever, for from other,
and fully as reliable sources, como evi
dences that instead of McKinley's
election being assured.it becomes more
doubtful every day, and if his manag
ers would acknowledge that their very
souls are struck with the fear that their
Napolean has found bis Waterloo.
They are truly alarmed, and tho causes
for their alarm are well founded,. They
are these: ' "
In 1892, when Mr. Whitney was the
power behind the screens at demo
cratic national headquarters, ho in
duced his Wall street friends to send
an independent commission to Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin in the
last week of September, to make ob
servations and report the result. The
report of that commission was so ac
curate that this year the Wall street
men sent the same commission to the
same and neighboring states to report
on the situation. ' The commissioners
have returned to New York,-and re
ported to their employers.
The report has made Wall street's
hair stand on end." The commission,
of course, was not to be governed by
sentiment, but by cold facts. . Well,
the report trade out is that Bryan will
come near sweeping -every state west
of the Allegheny Mountains The
Wall' street investigators say that
Bryan will carry Illinois outside of
Cook county by 50,000 majority, and
that Chicago could not be relied upon
to give more than 20.000 majority for
McKinley. This would give the
electoral vote of Illinois to Bryan by
30,600. The Wall street commission
reported that Indiana would giye
Bryan 25.000 plurality, and that "all
h 1 could not change it,"
Minnesota and Michigan also were
given to Bryan, and Ohio, Wisconsin
and Iowa were put down as doubtful
states, with the chances favoring Mc
Kinley, the Commission said that of
the threo last named States, Ohio was
the most likely to go for Bryan.
This news which came from Wall
street to a member of the cabinet by
wire caused some consternation in ad
ministration circles. Secretary Car
lisle has no hope that Kentucky c-an be
kept out of the Bryan column. He
has been figuring on the state by coi
firessional districts, with his frieuds,
and he cannot see how Bryan's plural
ity can be less than 18,000.
With such faets as these staring him
in the face, men like Quay cannot but
feel alarmed, hence make such broad
boasts as the above, simply for effect,
hoping thereby to create an enthusiasm
for tneir candidate, knowing that
there is a certain vote that always
tries to gft on th popular side.
MONEY FOR McKlNLEY.
As the campaign progresses evidence
accumulates to prove the oft-asserted
statement that the monopolists and
usurers both of America and Europe
a"re arrayed together to defeat the elec
tion of Bryan: that it is a battle for
tho supremacy of wealth over the
masses, for a concentration of the
power of corporations in the manage
ment of the government. Even the
great Oregonian places itself, unwit
tingly of course, in evidence along this
lino.
A man styling Limelf Baron Charles
H. do Courtier, representing to be a
"King of capital," was in Portland,
and the Oregonian quotes him as say
ing: " We are hardly iu position to say
much of our plans and movements, as
they will depend entirely on the. No
vember election. The syndicate we
represent may be termed international,
being pomprised of leading capitalists
in Amsterdam, Germany, France and
England, whoo aggregate capital will
exceed 845,000,000. This vast sum is
today at a standstill, as the result of the
i present- financial disturbance in this
country, and I am under positive in
structions to stopallinvestmeuts until
the result of the election is known.
Further than that I am under orders
to cancel all contracts and withdraw
all investments in the event of Bryan
being elected, and, on the other hand,
to close all contracts and make fjrther
investments if Major McKinley is elec
ted. "I am now investigating the ques
tion of state legislatures, both. in Ore
gon and Washington, with a view to
determining what their several com
plexions will bo after the election.
Any state in which the syndicate is in
terested whose legislature is shown to
have a majority of populists will nec
essarily be stricken from the list of
states with which the syndicate will
deal, and all the investments in . those
states will be withdrawn."
What are we to learn from this
statement of the "baron?" If McKin
ley is elected, a policy of government
will be pursued that will be solely in
the interest of the foreign bond holder
and money lotmer. If Bryan should
succeed, the interests of another class
are to be subserved. If McKinley's
gold-standard policy shall prevail the
"baron" will invest his foreign capital
(loan it at the highest possible rate of
interest) and who will it benefit, those
who -mortgage their property and
future posterity, or the "baron" across
the water who draws the wealth of the
country away in interest? :
There is something more to learn
from this "money king's" statement.
In states whose legislatures are under
control of tho party that has always
been-favorable-to tbemoney syndicates,
he will invest, because lie is assured of
a continuation of legislation favorable
to them.
Today Oregon, and in .fact every
state in the Union, is suffering from the
"investments" of these foreign syndi
cates. The masses of the people are
ground down paying interest upon the
foreign capital that has been placed
here by such syndicates as this "baron"
represents. The less of their capital
"invested" here the" better. If there
has to be capital loaned in this country
let it be home money. It is easier for
the people to pay interest on American
money than foreign money because the
interest remains here, hence it is more
profitable. Nevertheless this does not
detract from the fact that the money
syndicates of Europe and America are
deeply interested in McKinley's suc
cess, and that Baron de Courtier &
Co.' are lending their aid.
WHO PAYS THE BILL?
It is rather inquisitive prhttpi to
ask, who pays the salaries, of the
worthy state officials who are camp
aigning for McKinley? and to ask
why these gentlemen who are drawing
salaries from the state are not at their
several posts of duty earning them?
but they are questioas the tax-payers
of Oregon would like to know..
Railroid Commissioner J. B. Eddy,
who for nearly four years has been
drawing 32,500 annually of tho taxpay
er's money, is neglecting his duties
while campaigning in Southern
Oregon, though he is stili,on the state
pay toll. However, he never did give
any return for his'salary, hence so far
as bis services to the state are coc
cerned, nothing is lost.except his S8 a
day. ' .
Among the other leeches who are
out pleading the cause of the gold
standard are Attorney-General idle-
man, who draws $3,000 a year from the
treasury of Oregon, W. S. Dunniway,
Governor Lord's private secretary,
who draws $2,500 a year of the taxpayr
er'-s hard-earned gold, and R. J. . Hend
ricks, superintendent of the state re
form school, who has his band in tho
treasury to the tune of $2,500 a year.
The aggregate salaries of these state
officials is $10,500, or something over
$35 for each working day, so it is the
taxpayers are fui nisbing $35 a day
of the sinews of war for the McKinley
campaign in Oregon.
Minnesota is claimel by the free
silver men of that state by an over
whelming majority. It now looks as
if McKinley would not get a single
state outside of New England. . .
The New York World which has
been a McKinley organ in' the cam
paign, in ah open letter addressed to
Mr. McKinley, acknowledges that be
is beaten and that Bryan will be
elected.
They call that man a statesman
whose ear is tuned to catch the slight
est pulsation of a pocketbook, and de
nounce as a demagogue any one who
dares to listen to "the hoart beats of
humanity. William J. Bryan.
If, as Matt Quay says, the election of
McKinley and Hobart is assured, and
that they will surely receive 270 votes
Qf electoral college, why are the re
publican managers wasting their val
uable time and money carrying the
campaign further? -
Those who vote for party and not for
what the party and its candidates
stand for may not vote for the Bryan
electors in Oregon. However, there
ore those who care nothing for the
name of the party and everything fcr
what the candidate etands for, and
these will support. Mr. Bryan and in
sure the state's electoral vote for him.
Senator Mitchell continues to assert
that if McKinley is elected, he will aid
to "depreciate" our currency by inter
national agreement looking toward the
free coinage of silver. Mr. McKinley
says "we never had better currency
than we have today, and good money
wo will continue to have " Which of
these great tneii is the free silver re
publican to believe?
The Boston Herald, a gold standard
paper, advises the goldite cartoonists
to stop caricaturing the American
farmer till after election. "It is a
queer spectacle," it says, "to find the
farmer ridiculed in politics now in the
days of his reported distress. A clear
mistake has been madu, and it should
not in ordinary pruJence, be con
tinued." Since Senator Ben Tillman, of South
Carolina, has appeared on the rostrum
in Oregon, the republican papers of
the state have been quite ioud in de
nouncing him as ati anarchist and
traitor. If such appelation are justified,
what about Senator Mitchell aj Con
gressmen Ellis aod Hernia nr ' Tho
records of the senate and houe show
that they advocated ex ictly the same
principles Tillman is advocating today.
Neither the living nor tho dead are
free from tho scurrilous abuse of the
Oregonian. Thomas Garfield, a broth
er of the murdered president, wrote a
letter a few days ago, which is pub.
lisbed in another column, defluing his
views - uppa , present issues.. This
brought forth the following dirty slap,
n -t to him alone, but to his deceased
brother: "Garfield's brother is a
Bryan man, and Garfield wasn't very
wise himself."
Since the billing of Senator Tillman
and Mr. Schoonmaker to speak in The
Dalles on the same date ha-3 caused
some confusion, which none regret
more sincerely than do the manage
ment of thfe Bryan campaign, they are
willing and desirous to arrange mat
ters so that a joint discussion maybe
held between the two orators. By
such an arrangement all may have an
opportunity to hear both sides of the
question discussed by men of national
reputation. Will the management of
the McKinley campaign accept the
challenge to a joint discussion ?
The Chron'cle in reporting Mr. But
ler's speech certainly did not mean
what it said when it asserted that he
"abandoned the position from which
republican argument has driven him,
that silver was not demonetized in
1873." Mr. Butler dwelt at length
upon that proposition, and very clearly
showed that silver was demonetized
not only by the act of 1873 but by every
coinage act since that date; that con
gress had . not only - discriminated
against the silver dollar but had
clothed the creditor with authority to
refuse it as a legal tender.
The Oregonian places great stress
upon an alleged discovery made by the
New York World that the silver-mine
owners have been solicited to con
tribute to the Bryan campaign fund,
and brands it as an "unblushing pro
posal to buy the presidency of the
United States." Ye gods! What an
awful crime this is! But pray, what is
I Mr Hanria with his $15,000,000 cam
paign fund trying to do? Why did
Vanderbilt, Huntington, Carnegio and
their associates contribute these
millions if it were not for the purpose
of biiving the presidency? .,
i -
j Some remarkable figures are brought
' out by republican claims that wheat
had advanced because of the belief
that McKinley's election is assured,
' It Is stated that in Chicago when 'Ver
mont went republican, wheat fell 2J
points : When Arkansas went demo
cratic wheat went up 2 points; when
i M'Hne wen IT republican wheat fell 2
i points: :when. Bismarck's letter ap
peared wheat went up 12 points; .when
; the republican managers in September
j were- claiming everything wheat
' slumped from 70 to CO cents, and fell
steadily until the election returns came
in from -Georgia and Florida, when it
recovered to G9 cents.
"There is not a silver-standard coun
try in the "world today whore the .la
boring man receives fair pay for his
day's work." This is the Jast of the
"live facts' worthy of daily study,"
which the Oregonian Parades in a
double-column leader. Whether this
is true or not, D. P. Thompson says in
Japan, which is a silver standard coun
try, laboring men all find employment
and have all the necessities of life. Is
this true in Germany, France and
Italy? all of which are gold-standard
countries, ,"Do the people in those
countries . receive, fair pay for their
day's work? Is there cot more pover
ty, more want, more hunger and lower
wages in gold-standard Italy today
than any silver-standard country on
tho globe? -.'-'
Callers at Camou. .
. Cantos, O,, Oct. 1.1, A special
train often coaches arrived this morn
ing with miners, mechanics and other
citizens of Lehigh valley, Pa. . The
inclement weather still continues, so
the visitors were takeii'to the Taber
nacle, where Major McKinley went to
receive their greetings. They gave
him an enthusiastic reception, and
applauded his addr? to the echo.
Perhaps the
'New Woman "will
- be . a stronger wo
man than the old
one. Certainly,
fresh air and the
right exercise will
do much for her.
Fresh air is a great
restorative, exercise
a great nerve tonic
it a woman be in
condition to take it.
A healthy woman
can avoid disease.
She can avoid the
seemingly almost
inevitable weak
ness " of her sex if
she pursues the
proper hygienic
methods. The
-o.. Fame roetnoas mu
S&s'-not cure her if she
. be already sick.
Taken under medical direction, in con-,
nection with the right medicine, they
will help effect a cure. . No women who
suffers at all from so-called " female weak
ness " should attempt athletics of any
sort. " She should first put herself into
possession of strong and hearty health by
taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
After she is thoroughly well, exercise and
diversion will help to keep her well. The
cure should come first. ' Dr. Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescription is designed and rec
ommended for only the one thing. It
acts directly upon one set of organs. No
matter what is the matter with them, it
will cure it. It will net cure anything
else. It is a wholesome tonic, an invig
orating nervine, or nerve-food as well as
a healing medicine, and thousands of
perfectly well women have found that by
taking it regularly during the period of
pregnancy, the danger and pain of parr
piritibn were "much lessened, and in
many cases, almost entirely obviated.
In cverv American household, there should be
copy of Dr. Pierce' great work, "Common
6ense Medical Adviser." 100S pages, Illustrated.
One copy free to any address on receipt of ai one-
cent stamps to pay for mailing; only. World's
Dispensary 41'
Association, Btutalo, N. V.
Hi II
AS TO LIFE IN JAPAN
D.
P. Thompson Finds That
Country All Right.
LABOR
FOR ALL
There Are No Idlers, No Hunger, No
Want, But All Find Some- '
thing to do.
Japan Is One Nation Independent of the
Domination . of Great Britain Be.
cause It Has an Inaependent
Money Syste m.
GlFtr-MlN'O, Japan, Sept. 20. My
observation in traveling in strange
countries is that travelers make a mis
take in visiting the principal cities and
seaports only, and not going among
the common people to obtain informa
tion about the prosperity and m.itkiier
of living of the people of the country.
There are in Japan about 4000 per
sons in all of foreign birth, not count
ing tho Chinese, of which nationality
there are perhaps 10.000. The popula
tion of the empire is 41,500,000. not
co'intiog the population of the newly
acquired island of Formosa. The area
of Japan is not larger th.in Oregon and
Washington combined, and yet this
dense population is all clothed and feu
from this small area, and besides, there
is quite a mountain district where no
crops can bo raised. Tho principal
crops raised in Japan are rice and veg
etables. No wheat or barley is raised.
I have seen some small patches of buck
wheat. .The sea which surrounds Japan
teems with excellent fish, and the
principal food of the people is rice,
tish and vegetables. The country is
not adapted to the cultivation of wheat
because of the great amount of rain
fall that occurs at the time wheat would
ripen, and which would rot it,- as was
the case, to a large extent, in Eastern
Oregon and Washington in 1893.
I have often heard it suggested at
home that the United States should bj
able to furnish to a large extent the
agricultural implements used in Japan
and China, but when you take into
consideration the small size of the
furms in these countries and the crops
raised, it would at once be seen that
our manner of farming, where farms
range from 40 to 10,000 acres in area,
would not do for a farm of from an
acre to two or throe acres in extent;
and these farms, small as they are, are
used for rice as tho principal crop and
half a dozen kinds of vegetables The
plot given to rice must be flooded
often.
The Japanese generally raise twd
crops from tne same land each year,
especially of vegetables, just as our
Chinese gardeners do in Oregon, and
all the lands areas carefully cultivated
here as the gardens around Portland
.are cultivated, and with equally good
results. Tho lands are much too val
uable for rice and. vegetables in Japan
to be used fur stock-raising, corn or
cotlou, all of which would do well; but
the Japanese can use their lands to
better advantage, and no people make
a study of the adaptability of the soil
to produce the most profitable crops as
they do. A very large portion;of the
rice produced here is sold for export to
Great Britain and the United Staves,
and rice is largely imported from India,
China and Corea, because the Japan
ese rice brings a better price abroad
and the foreign rice can be bought
here for a less price than the Japan
rice sells for. Tho rice . here raised
averages about five bushels per capita
of the population, and every farmer
raises a little for home use. It is used
by everybody as the staple food, just
as wt use bread in America.
No cotton of consequence is pro
duced in Japan, yet the manufacture
of cotton goods is being rapidly ex
tended, and factories are being built
in all the principal towns. Three are
now being constructed in Osaka, in
the southern part of Japan. A very
large proportion of the cotton used in
Japan is raised in the United States,
but strange as it may appear,' nearly
all the raw material used here from
our country Is shipped from Liverpool
and other British ports. A ton of
cotton from St. Louis costs here about
$28, gold, no matter whether it is
shipped by rail and steamer direct; but
is shipped for less than $10 per ton
from European ports, and cotton from
the United States is shipped to Liver
pool and sold there, without being un
loaded from the ship, and then billed
to this country, giving to Great Britain
the carrying trade of our own raw
material. The Standard Oil Company
has a line of sailing vessels for ports
here carrying oil and returning with
cargoes of tea, silk and rice. American
oil will, however, soon bo a thing of
the past in Japan. The Russians are fast
getting hold of this business, and with
the completion of the Siberian railway
toVladavostock, in thenearfuture, will
be able to drive the Standard Oil Com-
nany from this market. The oil is not
nearly so good as ours, but it will be
delivered here so much cheaper that it
will take the place of the American
oil- One thing only will help to keep
American oil in the market here, and
that is the intense hatred by Japanese
of the Kussians, ever since the late
war with China.. When Japan had
China prostrate at her feet, Russia
stepped in and compelled them to sur
render Port Arthur and other districts
back to China and accept a money in
demnity of $400, 000,000 instead, which
has embittered the Japanese against
the Russians. "
' They have been placed in very much
the same position that our country was
by Great Britain during the late war
in the United States.' Thai, country
allowed confederat cruisers to be fitted
out in British ports. We had a gigan
tic war on our bands; we were unable
to resent the gross outrage at the time.
as we had all we could attend to and
by the action cf tho British our com'
merce was swept from the seas of the
world by' these confederate British
cruisers. We accepted the pitiful $16,-
000.000 as remuneration for the out
rage, and allowed Great Britain to
hold the commerce of the world, and
to thus dictate to us and all other debt
or nations the price of all commod
ities, and the coinage we snould use,
and allowed her to even carry our cot
ton and other products of our country
to all the marts of the world as 6he
is now doing and if a voice is raised
against her and her standard (gold),
the cry is raised of repudiation and na
tional dishonor. Wo are too ready to
forget bow we, as a nation, have been
placed by this mistress of the world's
commerce and manufactures, and the
means used by her in placing herself
in her presenfpositlon as tho creditor
nation of the world. I
Japan is one nation independent of
the domination of Great Britain, and
while there are British banking houses
in Japan and some liritisb merchant
who deplore the fact that Japan will
not adopt the gold standard and thu.
reduce tho circulating medium one
half, in the interest cf their country,
yet no Japanese business man cau bt
found who xv ill favor it. On the other
hand they have gone to work building
fjetoiiesto produce everything they
need, which they now import, and in
stead of being dependent on other
countries, they build their own rail
roads and factories and keep their
money at home and sell their rice, tea
and silk, and are now building their
own ships to carry the same to market,
thus making themselves independent
and prosperous, as they are. No idle
people here; all have plenty to do and
plenty to eat, of food they prefer. No
foreign debt, no payment of interest iu
gold to impoverish them and compel
the treasury of the cation to hold one'
sixth .of tho standard currency to pre
vent a raid on the treasury they could
not meet, as is the condition of ourun
fortunate country at the present time.
it may Desaiu: "to you want pur
people reduced to the manner cf livin
ol tno Japanese Do you want our
people to work for the wages paid
Japan to workmen?" In reply I will
say: "Here every person has plenty
of work to do. They are paid a lo
price, it is true, but they have plent
to eat and wear; they are given anadu
cation; newspapers are as plentiful as
at home, and everybody can read them
men and women." A few duvs before
I left Portland a man whom I hid
known for many years as a hard-work
ing, honest, sober man, said to me
"I will work for you for a year for 0
cents a day, for one year's steadv
work." I replied: "I have no wor
to do; I am employing some men and
am giving them more wages, but I
not want to discharge them without
cause, to give place to another; be
sides, you can't support your family
on 50 cents a day.'' He replied:
can live better on 50 cents a day than
on no pay at all. For two years past
have not had more than threo months'
worn to do, and 1 have used every
exertion to obtain work."
Nosuch'coodition of affairs exists in
this country of lrw wages and low
price of living. There must ba a rem
edy in our country by legislation for
this condition of agairs. There must
be less legislation for the "business
men," such as Drexel, Morgan & Co.
the Chicago stock exchange, the bank
ers of Wall street, the sugar trust an
similar corporations, and morelegisla
tion in tho interest of the business
men who till the farms, work in the
factories, and constitute nineteen
twentieths of the people who create
the wealth of our country. No private
contracts should be made by the secre
tary of the treasury with private bank
ing corporations for the sale of govern
ment bonds at 104, when they could be
and were sold by popular subscription
to common people at 117, as was don
last year by Mr. Carlisle in selling the
amount of $64,000,000 to the syndicate
to obtain money with which to replen
ish the gold reserve.
Th'-so bonds of Japan would have
been sold at home, and the people
wouij have the beueCt of the loan
and the interest would have remained
at home and it would not have to be
faid in gold either, but in the currency
provided by the constitution gold
and silver. I am quite sure that after
years of careful trial and with the ex
ample cf our ccuntry during the past
four years ' of business prostration
there is no country not on a gold basis
could be induced to place Itself in tht
condition, but would, like Japan and
Mexico,,., retain free and untram
moled "" the money of the con
stitution, with free and equal coinage
for both gold and silver. .
D. P. Thompson.
Mews From 'Ecuador.
Guayaquil, Ecuador, Oct. 13.
General Alfaro, now chief executiue of
the nation, has presented' a bill to the
national congress providing for a go'd
basis, the premium not to exceed 100
percent.'
The convention has authorized the
government to provide free transpor
tation for such sufferers by the great
fire as desire to go to other places, and
also to provide food aod clothing to
destitute persons. - A general order
has been issued prohibiting any rise
ia the price of the nece saries of life.
More than 15.000 persons have already
left the city for other towns and
villages.; ' ' .
Attempts have been made to wreck
trains on tho Southern railway by
pulling out spikes in the fishplates and
raising the rails.
Uls Leg Broken.
Heppner, Or., Oct. 13.wJ. M. White,
of Lexington, met with a serious ace I
dent yesterday while in tho mountain
after wood. He started down a steep
TTiill, and, the ground being slightly
frozen, the brake failed to hold the
wagon, which was heavily loaded. The
team became unmanageable and start
ed to run. The front wheels struck a
log, and Mr. White was thrown from
the wagon and in front of a hind
wheel, which passed over him, break
ing his leg near the thigh. It i
thought that perhaps be is injure! iu
ternally.
Bobbed by His Partner.
Seattle, Oct. 13. The Seattle and
Tacoma police are looking for a Yuk i
miner named C. McClure, who Is chir
ed by his partner, J. McClane, will
robbing him of $2o00 worth of p'acei
eold. " The men had been work! ig in
Alaska on the Yukon river for tbret
years, and they came to Seattle on t'y
Lackme from St, IJiohael's a few days
ago. They stopped at tne AiasKa
hotel, this city, over night, and when
McClane awoke next" morning his
partner and his three year's earnings
were gone. .
Prince Utlkoff at Chicago.
Chicago, Oct. 13. The - Russian
minister of railroads, Prince Hilkoff,
the first public man to make the trip
from St. Petersburg to this country
over the new Siberiaij railroad, arriyed
at Chicago at 11 .o'clock today on the
Santa Fe road. He is engaged in a
tour of inspection of the railroads of
the United States. He was entertained
at Chicago at noon by the Chicago
Club, and will be given a dinner this
evening at the Auditorium, Ho will
sail for Europe November 1.
Talked to the Women.
Minneapolis, Oct. 13. Perhaps the
most unique feature of Bryan's yisit to
Minneapolis was his address last night
at the Lyceum theater to an audience
exclusively of women. There wero
2000 women present, Mrs. Frank A.
Valesh presided. When Bryan ar
rived at about 10 o'clock the ladies
arose en masse, waved handkerchiefs
and flags, clapped their hands .and
called his name. In fact, they did
everything men might do, except give
three cheers and a tiger.
FiiOliUT TOT! DEATH
Bloody Battle Between Citi
zens and Bank Robbers.
CUBA TO BE FREE
Spain Soon to Cease Hostilities.
Fighting to Be Stopped After
Next March.
Worn oat by Her Efforts to Crash the
Cuban Patriots, Spain Has About
Abandoned All Hope of Retain
ing; Further Control of
tue Island.
Denveh, Oct. 13. According to the
latest advices from Meeker, Colon da,
which is 90 miles from tha nearest t 1
egraph office, the three men who .( re
killed there after robbing a bank
have not been identified. One who
lived two hours after being shot, gave
names which are believed to be ficti
cious. It is believed that one of the
robbers is Thomas McCarthy, who
aided in robbing tho banks of Tellu
ride and Delta.
The robbery was one of the most dar
ing ever perpetrated in the west, oc
curring in broad daylight, when there
were 20 people in plain sight. Joe
Rooney, clerk of the Meeker hotel, bad
stepped into the bank, which is lo
cated in the general mercantile store
of J. W. Hag is, to make a deposit, and
stood talking to Assistant Cushier Da
vid Smith. As ho turned to leave he
felt a heavy hand on his shoulder, and,
glancing up, was looking into the muz
zle of a revolver. The man with the
revolver commanded, "hands up."
At the same instant two shots rangout
and two bullets whizzed past the head
of the assistant cashier, who threw up
his bands.
Meantime the other two robbers bad
covered the crowd In the store, com
pelling them to assemble in the center
of tho room and guarding both door
ways. Then Cashier Moulton was
called and one of tho men, said to him:
"Open the safe and be quick about it."
At the point of a gun he was conducted
to the safe, which he opened, and the
contents of the drawers, $700, were
emptied into a sack the robbers had
brought with them.
Not a word was spoken, the robbers
going about their work with a delibera
tion that was astounding.- After get
ting the money iu the till, they
quietly gathered in all the firearms in
the place, helped themselves t cart
ridges, and then the leader ordered
the crowd to all go outside with them.
The crowd filed through tho doorway,
followed by the robbers.
The robbers were not aware that the
place was surrounded. The crowd
they had driven from the store ran for
cover Citizens of the town had been
warned by the two shots fired in the
store, and arming themselves to the
teeth, surrounded the bank, quietly
awaiting the appearance of the robbers.
Deputy Game Warden W. H. Clark
noticed that three horses were fastened
at the rear door, and surmising that
the robbers would leave by that route,
took up his statiou a short distance
from the b ick door aid centered more
men at this nUco than any other, not
neglecting, however to keep the front
door just as well watched. '
; When the- robbers saw t'uoy were
cornered, Charles Jones raised a rifle
he had taken from the store and fired
at Clark. The bandits were com
manded to hold up their hands, but an
swered with a fujiir&de of shots from a
dozen different directions. Jones and
Smith fell to the ground literally
riddled with bullets. ' Harris mortally
wounded, held his revolver, and, stil
staggering, continued the battle unti
hefell. ' ' ' ,
. CUBA WILI, BE FREE.
Spain Is to Cease Hostilities After Next
- March:'
Cadiz, Oct. 15. If Spain has not put
down the insurrection in Cuba by the
1st of March, it is the intention of the
government t give up the struggle
and let the island go. The fcignifl
cance of this statement, coming direct
from an officer of rank in the Spanish
army, within the week, must certainly
be regarded as of no little importance.
The above determination is an open
secret among those who are close to
the government, and it Is said that the
policy is being adopted of exiggerafr
ing the magnitude of the trouble in
the Philippine islands with a view of
preparing tho people for the ultimate
design t f letting Cuba go. .
By way of further corroboration of
this estimate of the situation it may be
remarked that .while Spain is sending
more than 200,000 troops to Cuba, who
are in the main very young and un
disciplined, she is carefully keeping
her SO.000 well-disciplined and effluent
soldiers who may be available in case
of an outbreak at homo. She is al
keeping in Spanish waters 12 warships
which are ready for sea, and which
could be of great service in Cuban
waters in aiding tho United titates in
that polico work which she now asks
that country to do for her.
W. G. Foster, manager of tho East
ern Telegraph Cotnpttny here, speak
ing of the situation, said:
There is no question that tha gov
ernment is trying to use tho Philiipine
islands trou.bJe to distract the people's
attention from Cuba. There is no
doubt that Spain intends to do hoi ut
most to crush the Cuban insurrection
between now and Marzh. Failing in
that, I am informed that she will give
up the struggle.
"An important issue is the fact that
Cuba has a debt of $o00,000.000, and that
if Spain puts down the insurrection,
Cuba will have to pay that debt; where
as if Cuba wins, the payment of that
debt will fall on Spain, who contracted
it on behalf of Cuba. Naturally the
planters who have bee a driven from
the half ruined plantations, however
loyal they may appeur to be to Spain,
really want to see the Cubans sucooed.
as in that case they would not be taxed
by Spain to pay tho interest oa the
debt, and could then start again under
more favorable auspices."
BUSINESS IMPROVING.
Western Roads Hosier Than For Six
Months Past.
Chicago, Oct. 13. The higher pri
ces for grain and the chance of an ele
vation of freight rates in the near
future have bad a quickening effect on
freight handled by Western roads.
They are now handling more traffic
than at any time for the past six
months. The rush of corn to the East
as become so great as to prove a
serioussembarrassment to some of tho
roads, because of their inability to
procure cars to nanaie tne stun: as
rapidly as it U offered.
The sl ip non-s of livett ck, to,
hare takeu a big jump upward, and all
of the large roads runntng west from
Chicago report greatly improved con
ditions in this branch of their busi
ness. If the meeting of traflio officials
of tho Western rouds, which is to con
vene tomorrow, succeeds in restoring
freight rates and keeping them at the
point to which they may be elevated,
the roadu will bo doing tho best busi
ness they have done at any time in
three years "
END OK TUK FAIR. -
The 30th Annual Session of the Oregon
State Fsir Ended.
Salem, Or., Oct. 13. The 36th an
nual session of the Oregon state fair
ended todny. Io many respects this
was the best of the seven days of tbe
session.
Tbe stock parade at 11 A. M was very
creditable. The sheep, bogs, cattle
and horses, formed into one procession,
were exhibited on the parade-grounds.
Parson's band, stationed in the center,
played whllo the livestock passed ia
review before the vit-iU'rs.
The baby show was u'so given to
day, and served to interest many.
There were 27 ettriep, and there aro
21 mothers, whose babies failed to get
the blue ribbon, that are wondering
what grudge the judge bad against
them. .
Prominence was given to theexhibit
of the flax industry on the closing day.
J. H. Albert, the member of the board
who had been delegated to look after
this department, secured the services
of Mrs. Xitneey, of Waldo Hills, whose
training in flax culture was in the state
of Missouri. Mrs. Kim soy has .nken
pride in answering questions of in
quirers and explaining tbe procecs of
working flax in all of of its details
from breaking to spinning into threads.
In the evening, lectures on flax culture
were delivered by Mrs. W. P. Lord
and Dr. A. W. Thornton.
1 Tp'vfv:;'
Shorten itwith Cottolene in-
ct"rnr1 nf lo tvJ an1 oaa virrtat a
H crisp crust it will have ; how
delicious and wholesome it
will be. Pie made with Cot
tolene will do a dyspeptic
good. Do everybody good
because it is good. There is
only one secret in cooking
with Cottolene use but two
thirds as much as you would
naturally use of lard. Follow
this rule and Cottolene will
do the rest..
Gnnln Is sold rvrr.mhev la tint with
trade-marks ml ter's ksad
im cotton-plant rraiA on ctstj ti ft.
Made only by
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LAJCBf, EMM rnttMM rirlkUM, UTVfMs,
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AND
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Am prepared to. furnish families, -hotels snd
restaurants with the choicest
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Fresh Oysters Served
Every Style.
in
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. A number of choice tracts of
Agricultural Lind, both improv
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.Every Pieck is a Bargain...
fjjms of Ihe tracts will be be
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Address,
J. Jf. lalHTERS.
Zilla, Yakima County, Wash.
NOTICK FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Orrica at Tna Daixkr. Ob
October 14. 1HM. f
Notlre l horebv riven that the following.
named settler has tiled notice of his Intention
to commute una make final proof In support of
hi claim, and that haul proof will be mude
before KetfLster and Kecclver at The Dulles. '
Oregon, on November 1, W6:
OEOKGE LANDIS.
lid. E. No. MOB. for the Lot 1 or NWU KWV
See. 81. Tp. 8 N., R. 13 E. W. M,
He names the following witnewos to Drove
hU continuous residence upon and cultivation
oi Naiu i:inu. viz:
A. J. Brown. J. W. Jobniton. C. V. Charop
lin, and O. W. Stewart, all of Tbe Dalles,
Oregon.
JAS. T. MOORE. ;
Oct. 17 Register.
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