THE OREGON SCOUT.
AMOS K. JO.VKS
EDITOR,
City and County Official Paper.
Friday, Seut'r. 7th, 1888,
EDITOIITAL NOTJCS.
Tub tlcmocracy of Oregon nro going
to liavo a bran now $20,000 printing
office in Portland. Sonator Hearst, of
California, takea $30,000 of llio capital
.stock ued tlic democracy of Oregon
tuko $20,000. Under the plana pro
posed, with practical management,
there need bo no such word as fail.
Astoria Transcript. It in to bo hoped
that this is truo a the Oregonian.
which poscfl as thu leading newtpapcr
of the State, is utterly unreliable, and
without doubt the moHt venal and
mercenary shoot that a sufFering peo
ple werccvir cursed with.
Tub selection of books for the use in
the public schools of Oregon for the
coining four years, will bo submitted
by the Stato Hoard of Education to a
vote by the various county nuperintcn
dentH this Kail. It strikes us that this
changing at school books every little
whilo is an outrage that iihould bo
peremptorily stopped by the people.
The fccrics now in use is good enough
and should not bo changed for at least
fifteen years from this time. His an
expensive luxury to parents resulting
in no good to any ono excopt a few
sharks who want to bcII the books.
And now conies tho Senate and in
its substituted tariff bill proposes to
place lumber on tlio free list in tho
face of tho party argument that free
trade in that commodity would
throttle tho industry. Tho Republi
can ship is certainly without a pilot.
It will now remain to bo seen how tho
Republican press will explain why tho
party is not advancing toward free
trade and as to why they have been
advocating a fallacy. Tho Republican
editor of to-day, by tho over changing
policies of his party, is kopt busy
upoloizing for what ho said yesterday.
Tim Alia has this pointed way of
dishing up tho fishery question:
"JustaB wo expected, Mr. Blaino ob
jects to having tho llritish lioij's tail
twisted F.o it will hurt. Mr. Illaino's
idea is that the lion's tail should only
bo twisted with a view to catching tho
Irish vote, and not with such rudeness
as to disturb tho lion. Tho "un
crowned king" points out with truth
that all his twisting has novor canted
tho lion a moment's uneasiness, but
that tho moment Mr, Cleveland tried
his hand there was a roar from Ottawa
to Bombay. This, in Mr. Blaine's
opinion, should touch us that the lion's
tail should only be twisted by its
friends."
An analysis of tho vote on thu Free
Wool clause of tho mills bill show that
tho states of Texas, Pennsylvania, Mich
igan, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Mis
souri, Massachusetts, Georgia, Maine,
North Carolina, Now Hampshire Ten
nessee, Indium, Illinois, Arkansas, Now
Jersey, Alabama, owning an aggregate
of ltl,0f0,000 sheop, east hovnty-fivo
votes againts free wool and nitity-four
votes for it. Texas, Owning more than
one-third of all tho nheop of tho 17
states, cast her solid vote for free wool.
The seven southern states, owning 7,
120.000 of tho wholo number of sheop,
:ast sixty-ono of tho ninety-four free
wool votes, and only six votes against
it. This analysis effectually disposes of
tho ehurgo of sectionalism in tho effort
to repeal the wool tax.
Tiuiiti: is a largo and growing class
of pcoplo who think legislation the
grand remedy for all t-ocial evils.
Thoy want a paternal sido to the gov
ernment upon which to lean in times
of trial and temptation, in order to
Hhirk any individual responsibility.
Tho AMoriiin thus gives mi illustration
of tho absurdity of this idea: "Ropro
uontativo White, of Indiana, has intro
duced a bill to establish an inter-state
minimum rate of wages in tho United
states. Every inula lalwor shall bo
entitled to not less than if l.fiO per day
of ten hours; every woman $1.00, and
children botween 12 and M years of
ago, 75 eonts per day. His constitu
ents arc daily oxpecting u bill to bo
introduced, to regulate by law tho
number of children that cadi family
in tho country may havo."
IT DIDN'T WORK.
For p oino years Hero hns existed mi
awkward niUumlciKtaiidlng between
tho United States, (iieat Itilllau and
Canada with regard to the fishery
question. Sometime ago representa
tives of these countries entered into u
treaty, which to become binding
would Iihv" to be ratified by thu re
ijiecriro jfdvtnunfvnWi To (bis then)
was strong opposition on tho part of
the Reformers of Canada who insist
ed that nil their rights had been sur
rendered to the Americans. Rut the
Conservatives having n majority in
tho parliament, Canadian consent to
the treaty was penned. In our own
country tho discussion took tl.o same
partisan complexion. The Republi
cans in the Senate thinking they had
an opportunity to humiliate President
Cleveland before the American people
rejected the treaty he had prepared to
overcome the existing dilliculties, and
settle them amicably and permanent
ly. The Republican majority Senate
did not endeavor to amend the treaty
in any way, did not offer a single
suggestion for bettering or improving
it just rejected it, solely and simply
because it originated with a Demo
cratic president, seeking re-election.
They thought its rejection would place
him in an awkward attitude in the
midst of the campaign. If Cleveland
hud been simply manufacturing cam
paign capital, tho rejection might
have had tho effect intended. But
onco more tho pitifully partisan Re
publicans of the Scnato have been
taught that President Cleveland is
more of u patriot than a pariisau, and
they arc thrown into consternation by
his prompt proposition to resort to
the only means left to secure tho law
ful right of American citizens. The
proposed treaty would have secured
all these by methods not so unpleas
ant. The Republican Senate evident
ly did not supposo that President
Cleveland would appeal to retaliatory
measures. Rut ho did not hesitate.
Tho only path of duty left open by
unpatriotic partisanship was plain.
I io nt once points out the way in his
own manly earnestness, in which
thcro is no truckling to llritish injust
ice or Republican trickery. Onco
more tho Republican Senators arc
placed faco to faco with their duty to
tho whole pcoplo. Failing to rise
superior to petty partisanship, they
havo already shirked it once. What
will they do now, feeling that their
littleness has been exposed? Read
tho message. World.
FA CTS FOR U'ORKJNGJIFN.
When you are told that a high tariff
is necessary to keep up tho wages of
labor, and that it is maintained solely
in too interest of the workingmen,
just pin tho person who is telling you
so into u corner and ask him to ex
plain a few facts, such as these:
That when tins country belonged to
England and tho llritish government
was doing its best to crush out Amer
ican manufacturers, the difference
between American and English wages
was greater than it is to-day.
That when we were living under a
low tariff, from 1810 to 1801, wages
in this country increased faster than
at any other tune beforo or slnco.
That at that tinio our manufactures
were stronger than they are to-day.
That after ten years trial of tho
low tariff of 1810 our manufacturers
wcro so well satislled with its work
ing that they supported tho still lower
tariff of 1857.
That at that time wo had almost
gained command of the seas, and that
now our llag afloat Is a curiosity.
That since Kugland abandoned pro
tection tho wages of her workmen
havo gone up f0 percent.
That llritish wages rose H per cent
botween 1872 to lHSJJ, whilo wages in
protected Massachusetts declined .r
per cent within the same period.
That tho only countries iu which
wages nro on tho American scale nro
those, such as Australia, in which
then) is plenty of land, and that these
havo high wages without regard to
tariffs.
That comparing countries under
similar conditions, wages In unpro
tected England are from to to 100 per
cent higher than iu protected Genua
ny, Franco and Italy.
That tho employers of tho cheap
labor of Continental Kurope demand
protection against tho dear labor of
England and America,
That tho total expenses of American
manufacturers for labor, according to
tho last census, wore only 18 per cent
of tho value of their product, whilo
wo nro paying taxes at thu rate of
17.1 per rent for tho alleged purposo
of making up to them tho bare differ
ence between the cost of their labor
and tho cost of labor iu Europe.
That fiucceslvo republican Admin
istrations r.dmlttcd tho oppressive na
ture of high tariffs and thu necessity
of reducing taxation.
That tho same mou who led tho
movement for "protection to Ameri
can labor" aro tho very ones against
whoso reductions of wages labor tliuls
it necessary continually to strike, and
that with all their aversion to cheap
commodities they have no objection to
importing cheap foreign labor to re
plucu Milkers.
When your high tariff friend has.
thrown light upon these point?, send
tlio explanations tons, and wo will
kuggust sumo more thing to clear up.
II' . I !
Hubivrlbo for Ttiu &Jyur.
TIIOSK SAVINGS BANKS DEPOSITS.
That Mr. Rlaino is an habitual blun
derer, cannot be denied. He writes
and speaks impulsively, without veri
fying his alleged facts. It suits his
purposo to make a ttatcmcut and ho
makes it without knowing or caring
whether it is true or not. The little
1 newspapers' ' over tho country that
feed on the crumbs that fall from Mr.
Blaine's intellectual tabic, fall into
the same errors and scorn to care even
less for tho truth than their master.
Mr. Blaiilc stated iu Ids speech on
August 10th, that the deposits in the
savings banks of Grcnt Rritain were
less than in the single Stato of Massa
chusetts. Ho did not know whether
this statement was true or not. He
did not try to And out. It suited his
purpose to say it and he said it. The
'lesser lights" throughout the land
' found a marc's nest, ' ' and with in
stinctive exactness our contemporary
remarked last week that:
'The savings of the working people
of England, as in savings banks
amounted to $182,000,000, while the
savings of the working people in tho
stale of Massachusetts alone amounted
to $.117 ,000,000 for a corresponding
time, and then remcmbci that England
has moro than seventeen times tho
population of Massachusetts,"
The Nation, which is without doubt
the most competent critic iu tho Uni
ted States, speaking of this subject
says :
Mn the year 1SS7 the amount of de
posits in tho savings banks of Massa
chusetts was $201,197,900. In Great
Rritain there arc three classes of de
positories for the savings of the frugal
and industrious, which fulfil the same
function as the savings banks of tho
United States, and tho deposits or
contributions to which proceed from
the sanio source, and aro in every re
spect similar in character. These arc
tho savings banks under the manage
ment, as in thoUnitcd States, of trus
tees; the Post-ofllco Savings Ranks,
under the management of the govern
ment; and the "Ruildiiig" and
"Friendly" Societies, also under tho
close supervision of the government,
and whoso several liabilities and as
sets arc returned annually under the
designation of "shares," "deposits'
and "profits. " Tho official returns
of the condition of the "Trustee"
and "Post-ofllco" Savings Banks for
188G and of tho "Ruilding" and
"Friendly" Societies for 1882 aro as
follows, the sterling being reckoned
at $1.80.0, its real value:
Trustee Savings banks.
Capital (deposits). jC40,8i:i,0!
Interest credited.. J,2'J1,5.VJ
Government .stock
held for deposit
ors 810.1'JS
Total. . . . 48,88.-,07l $237,877,009
l'ost-olllce Pavings Hanks.
Capital XC(),874,337
Government Htorks
held for deposit
ors 2,8lH),ll
Total.
XS3.771.278 ?201.(i71,03S
Total MivIiiRS-ban'' deposits in
Great ltrliain in . frSM.0 18,707
Friendly and llulldlng Societies
of Croat Britain.
Value, of shares,
deposits not rep
resented by sh'rs s
and balance of
11 n a ppropriated
prollts for ISM. ..r2,SlL28i ?&0,lMlIV0
Total . ... ?7.r)0,233,20
It thus appears that, restricting the
comparison to savings banks alone.
Mr. ltlaiuo's statement had not the
slightest foundation in truth, and that
the depositors of tho Massachusetts
savings banks lacked $20S,:5f0,S07 to
put them on an equality with those of
(ireat Britain, and that, counting in
tho value of tho accumulations of tho
Friendly and Huilding Societies of
Great Britain, which represent as
truly and accurately tho savings of tho
Rritish musses as do tho deposits of
the savings banks, his statement con
tained an error of exactly $i0o,:i."5.
i!GG; and that instead of tho deposits
of tho savinus banks of Massachusetts
being in excess of tho aggregate de
posits of tho United Kingdom, tho
masses of Great Hrittnin havo iu fact
about $2. W on deposit for every $1
on deposit in Massachusetts.
There is another point of interest in
connection with this matter which is
well worthy tho attention of thoso
who consider Mr. lllaluu ti supremo
authority on all points of economy
and tlnanco, and who are fond of pa
rading contrasts between tho pauper
laborers of Great Rritain and the
workingmen of tho United Motes,
who, undor our high and unneces
sary system of taxation, are sup
posed to bu rolling iu allluoncc.
The aggregate deposits iu tho savings
banks of tho United States, according
to thu report of tho Comptroller of thu
Currency for 18S7, amount to$l,U7,
SG7,6M:i This, divided among our
estimated population for that year of
02,000, 000, would glvo an average of
$18. GO per head. Tho aggregate de
posits in the public savings institu
tions of Great Britain for 1885-G wcro
$750,5;W,200. This, divided among
the population of tho United Kingdom
for 1880, namely, .17,000,000, would
give an average of $20.97 per capita,
it is, therefore, clear that tiny com
parison of the havings-bank statistics
of thu United States and Great Ilrit
nln will not help thu high-taxation
policy quite us much as Mr. Rlaino
wpMod.''
CLEAR AS 3IUD.
Editor Irwin of the Eastern Oregon
Republican is a stunner when it comes
to presenting arguments in n clear
and concise manner, lie throws light
on a very important subject as fol
lows: Wc nil know how the pensions granted
Mrs. Grant. Logan, Garfield and others
wives of tho noble defenders of the nation's
honor were lured at by men holding high
positions mostly through the clemency of
the men whose widows arc subjects of this
pension IjUMncs".
It Is not n question of the sub
ject's private means; it Is a public question
and pertains to the subject's rights in the
sight of the government. Shall the nation
goon In this stingv style of caring for the
worthy? and nil this, too, helping the cry
of a plethoric purse that must become a
matter of the people's regard as to how to
keep it from longer tilling up.
Wc have entertained the same ideas
for some time, but did not know how
to express them in words. To be
suro the pensions should not bo lured
at. Neither should tho ladies be
lured at. No gentleman high in offli
cial position, or otherwise, through
the clemency of theso men should be
guilty of .those offenses, and when
they do, proves the obliqueness of
the characteristics of the human spe
cies, licnci wc remark that it cannot
be true, and if so, why not? Also
the cry of the plethoric purse, when
heard in the land, should bo kept
from longer filling up, or filling up
longer, just as you choose as is self
evident. These matters when taken
together don't neutralize and should
bo assimilated by the people. At
least the regards of the people should
be projected in that direction. Of
course it is. To increase the light, if
possible, thrown on the subject by
brother Irwin, wc will just say that if
the pension business is a business,
then it is a business. Don't it?
Consequently it should not be lured
at, but the plethoric purse should be
lured at and stopped from tilling up.
No man can be mistaken in this mat
ter, and wc don't hesitate to say that
any man who differs from brother Ir
win and oursclf on this subject, is a
narrow minded bigot.
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WKST HOUND.
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P.Oregon Titos ,, 7
lSStatc. Saturday ,. 11
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21 Slute.ThuiMlay i3
iSjColumbia. Mon 27
llOregon. Friday 31
(Mate, Tues. Sept. 4
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tie
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