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1 i THE OREGON SCOUT. AMOS K. JOKKS KDITOlt, City and County Official Paper. Prirtay, November 31, 1888 UDITOIIIAI. NOTES. Tm: war of ppoils now commence, democrats liavo notliing (o do but look on mid enjoy the circtiH. A Cam. lia.i been issued for n consti tutioiuil convention at Jamestown, Da kota, December 5th, to further the ear ly admission of tho two Dakotas into tho Union. Tun bag trust is still running up the price of bags on the farmers. And still some of them pay the four cents u bag tarriir tax and hurrah for protec tion'. E. 0. Gkxkrai. Ai.oi:it and Senator Sher man both say now that the Republic ans will reform and reduce the (arid'. Havo thov suddenly become "British free traders?" o A. Caii.vj:(iih who d.ojvc Blaino over' Europo on a coaching tour, has been denounced by tho Iv. of L. for tho poor wages ho payu his men. Mr. Carnegie's income is $22 a infinite. A hin'(!i;t,au defect in the laws of Oregon was made apparent at the re cent term of circuit court, it appearing mat mo xmiuu'ri do not impose any penalty for iosi.ting an oflieor making an ariest, nor do they deiine the crime other than an assult. Amu:ay there aro numerous candi dates for the various federal positions 'which will bo classed among the spoils of tho recent victory. Verily, human nature is about the same au it always was. La Grande Gazette. Yea, verily, tho republican maw is as vonv eious as over. Wk aro now being treated to dreary discussions of tho future of tho demo cratic party. This is adding insult to injury. Tho future of the' party is assured; it will always livo. Jn fact, it is tho only party in this country that lias demonstrated its ability to -exist a quarter of a century out of power. How many defeats does any one suppose tho republican party would sustain before it would disband? Tin: election in Oregon shows that tjlo immigration (o this stato the past two years has been largely republican, and that Oregon can now be put down as a safe republican slate. Had the republican party been defeated this year, wo aro of. tho opinion that it would havo dissolved that party. The eflect on tho deinoeratiu party will be only to unite them, as they Imvo be come so accustomed to defeat, that it only bos a temporary oiTecUipon them. Somk pertinent suggestions are made by tho Astoria Pioneer as fol lows: "We would suggest as aehango in justico court practice at tho coming session of tho legislature), that all criminal cases bo tried before the county judges vdio are paid an annual salary, ami Hit? jurisdiction of justice ciftirta bo limited to civil cases not ex ceeding !f2f0.o This would save Clat sop county $2,001) per annum, besides it will givo hotter satisfaction. TilK supremo court.- of tho United 'States has decided that a life insurance polioy is not a part of the estate of au insolvent debtor, and cannot bu claimed by his creditors. In othur words, it is hold that a man has a le gal right to provide for his family by insuring his life, regardless of his obli gations to other people. Such a view is certainly in harmony with sound ideas of justness and fairness, though in special instances tho rule may work an apparant wrong to third parties. Many are of tho opinion that (ho Democratic defeat in tho late election was duo to the tar.!!!' question. This is u great mistake, for tho democrats not only carried two of the principal man ufacturing states, but made groat gains in others where they would havo lost ground were tarill' reform looked upon with disfavor. In tho great stato of Now York is where all tho trouble lay. Systematic colonisation along the Pennsylvania and northern hordum linil tho unstinted use of the inonoio lists' boodle U what did the work thmo to whicli.tnust ho added a considerable mupunt of domoorutio treachery in Now York city mid Brooklyn. It was tho dentil struggle of the repubHwui )MnKW, thy MnQlloiurliw of tho rwb- Ur tarrid, and they were bound to win , ho Mjwlli'r at lyluitcosl, , ! GIIAMI). A1191Y OF TUB IlKl'l HMO. The Grand Army of tho .Republic, n non-partisan organization, established for - tho benefit of tho veterans of the civil war, to perpetuate tho feeling of comradeship engendered by the participation in many hardship, weary marches, and battles fought for thepiescrvation of the Tnion, and to keep alive in the broantn of our jk-o- plo that martini pride and efficiency which can not but prove essential to our wifely when mcnanced by internal distentions or foreign aggression, scorns thus early in it hisloiy to have lost the spirit actuating its founders, and bids fair lo be disorganized, or at least divided, on account of the over zeal of partisan members who would make it subservient to parly interests. That the excrtiona of these unworthy members have not been fruitiest wa made apparent in tho recent campaign John jr. I'ahner, of Illinois, as bravo a soldier as ovor ougagod in combat in dcfouFC of bis country, has withdrawn' from the order for tho reason that it has become u political machine and an annex to the corrupt republican paily, and as such was used against him in the recent campaign in which ho was a candidate for governor. His cotiifo was the only one left for a wlf rospecting man lo pursue. When tho ordSr, 'forgetting its high purpose, takes a pari in political contests, and its posts are lurnod into party caucus es, itis lime to order a-halt. Such is the point that now seems to have been o reached, which in all probability will eulminalo in the establishment of a democratic wing of the order. It ia understood that a move is now on foot looking to that end. It is a' fact worthy of notice that in the twonly tliroo elections held for conimander-in-chief, during tho existence of tho or der, not one democrat has boon elected to that position, although many dem ocratic generals of world-wide fame havo been eligible for the position. Another tiling which is not creditable to the order, and betrays tho motives which havo actuated it throughout, is tho fact that upon tho deatli of any noted republican member, orders havo been issued from headquarters for each post lo pay duo observance and respect, and for its members to don the usual badge of mourning, but in the case of democratic members this order has not boon issued, although many noted generals havo wrapped tlieir martial cloaks around tlfcm and passed over to join their comrades on tho other side among them Generals Hancock ami McClellan. This is the way tilings have been conducted and it has not boon pleamnl for a great num ber belonging to tho buler. i'teston Post, No. IS. of this cily, is probably a sample of other posts throughout tho country. Tho great majority of tho members desire to preserve llio spirit as well as letter of the law, but are prevented from doing so by offlciolis babblers who aro more noted for work done with their mouths than fqr any reputation gained on tho Held with saber ami musket. The post contains ono member in particular, Bov. G. M. Irwin, who is also editor of a republi can sheet here, whoso mission is, ap parently, to create discord and con tention in every organisation to which he belongs. Tho following oxtraots aro taken from last week's issue of his paper: Some political idiot is tho father of a certain document going tho rounds of (ho badly disappointed papers, and is being published with a gixut deal of parade and bluster. If it were not, evidoncJy, so full of palpable fa ltohooiU and misrepresentations, it might possi bly bo of some force, but anybody who knows unyttungou'ont tho facts in tho case can nail the las as be runs. Now wo allude to that document, pur porting to come fiotn Grand Army inemburs, declaring thai thoy intend (o form a democratic wP.g of the Grand Army. If it becomes necessary to say so, wo may out with that part that is n fact, that all the rebels who fought agttinxt the govern ment, wore democrats ; that fact every body knows, and the solid south, to day, is a living evidence of that fact. Furthermore, it is a well known fact Unit tho great majority of soldiers who volunteered in the army, to put down tho rebellion, were tit men who put the party in power. The ropubliuaus and war democrat nut down the rebellion, but it made most of tho democrat reiiiibliouiu More they got through with Uio job. It is evident that the bluiulenng, htul- fying writer of. said document never was in a meeting of the Grand Armv, or he would there have horned that while it is h inwitivc principle of the order 'that the penalty of treason is deatli,' and that they hold to ono ouu- try and one Hag, tltoy (lo not allow the ditioussbinn of lHillc within the meetings of the order. Outside thov are as independent hi. any mlur il. of men, and they pxuhjmi to , and no dmiKterslio UUtlterwkiie will be able th pifveut Uhm fiilwr." It miy be urged by uiuo that tlx m' u ib.' Ui.blnm. .i cwk, imwrnilo ,, , If (be lutlthllllK til .III IJ 1 1 (. IKlliW' t ll'l II, .'.I. I ,IH 77 n r amejwjgnnra without weight, but it is very apparent that there are altogether too many such in the Grand Army to-day. Wo believe it is the opinion of agreat hiajority of our people that the rebel-' lion was a sectional war the North j against tho .South and that the slavery question was tho issue. According to ! the sago of the Republican, they arc in I error in thii, and the war was simply between southern democrats and northern republicans. IIow absurd is his claim that the Douglass democrats worn as good as republicans, and his inference that the Union armies in consequence might bo considered re publican. This is n dead give away of tho whole position, since the vote of the northern States was, in 18G0, about equally divided between Doug lass and Lincoln. Breckinridge re ceived comparatively few voles at the North. There were 3,000,000 men in tho service, drawn-from the northern and brirder stales of Kentucky, Missouri Maryland and Deleware; now, admit j ting Mmt the troops from the northern stales were about equally divided be tween Douglas democrats and Lincoh republicans, wo still have the 251,i:U troops furnished by the border states named, to go to tho credit of the dem ooratio column almost exclusively. Miiceitis notorious that Alhose states gave no votes to Lincoln "to speak of, Thus it is to bo deduced from his own showing that the army containex more than a quarter of a million ma jority of Douglass democrats and nearly all democrats at the North wore Douglas democrats. Another feature of tho business looks bad. Four-fifths of tho drafted recruits wero rooublicans. This is significant of tho truth of our position that the stay-at-homes wero in overwhelming preponderance republicans. He says that most of the democrats in the Union army camo out republi cans. Let us see. Hancock, McClol lan, Hookor, Meade, Bopecrans, Stone- man, Black, McClorhand, Sickles were among our best lighting Generals, and wo hope they will not be accused of being republicans by a fraction cf u fraction. Shurz, Scigel and others wont in as republicans but arc now democrats. But enough of Ibis. If tho Grand Army of the Bcpublio is to bo made an auxilliary of tho republican party, pa triotic domocrats owo it no allegiance and will do well to sever their con nection with it, for the purpose of building up a grainier organization which shall hold patriotism to their country higher than fealty to party loyalty to tho entire nation bottor than allegiance to a sectional faction personal honor moro gaci.ed than tho demands of a party leader. WO KKTUK.YT. Tho democratic party is apparently beaten in the struggle, for tho prom dojioy. That ia ineiely au incidont in tho contest for good government, sim ply a Bull Run that will nervo to such earnestness, energy and fidelity as to insure final triumph. The democratic majority in tho House of Representa tives bhould stand by the Mills bill, or oven go further. Protection is a fraud and cheat. Apparent popular en dorsement cannot chango its nature, any mure than a counterfeit coin can bo made genuine by passing through the hands of pooplo who do not know its baseness. When the gloss wears offit will bo repudiated for what it is. No domocra should be discouraged. Divested o? the burden of pationage and tho dissensions and treachery l)orn of it, the democracy will be stronger, more earnest, moro honest than over. In tho honest and open Northwest is tho future seat of demo cratic power. Thoro are Southern status that will bo enticed across the republican line. Tho next threo years will wittiest such a complete exposure of ,the utter selfishness and unfairness of tho protective tariff system vhal tho great agricultural Northwest will revolt against its rule. Thore must be among democrats no retreat, no surrender, not the slightest flagging in tho fight. Preparations must begin to-day for the renewal of Inutilities against the hydrahoaded monster of protection the tax upon ouo man fur the benefit of another. Omaha iwiW. rramogntimmv -rrrrai It is said that President-elect llarri ton is itesirous of "doing something" right oil', iinuieduU'ly after he takes his seat, and will commence negotia tions for the annexation of Canada At. we huu n high tttrilV now "pro Uiiiug us" ugaitut that country it wouUi sociu tuni il woultl Ui ruinous to admit that people ud have thom competing with our blon i. . i.l h i ite for Tut Oi.fci.uh, iorr 1 A LESSON Iir.HK AT HOME. The San Francisco Examiner says: 'The workingmen of California have not had long to wait for an object les son on the effects of the prohibitive tariff policy that was to givo them steady work and high wages. They were told that their employeis wauled the present tariff maintained so that the American market might be pre served for American labor. Tho peo ple havo consented to be taxed for that object, and now it turns out that those same public-spirited employers arc having their contracts executed in England. Why is it that tho Jtisdon Iron Works are having the engines and boilers of the Australia made in Scot land instead of at home? Itis because the proprietors of that establishment, being business men rather than uatri- ots, except at election time, find it more to HOjir advantage to buy a fin ished article in a free market and pay ono tax on it in a lump, than to make an articlo oOa dozen materials, every one of which has been taxed at every stage of its manufacture. The San Francisco ironworker pays .$ .10 a ton for his pig iron. The Scotch manufacturer gets his for $10. Tho Scotchman pays $2 or 3 a ton for his coal. Tho San Franciscan is lucky to get his for $12. Is it strange that iron manufactures can bo turned out more cheaply in Scotland than here? " When production hero is heavily handicapped on tho side of materials, tho employers naturally look to see if there is not a chance to cut down wagep. They aro alwady beginning to hint that the present rates aro too high for a fair competition with tho East and Europe. That is natural lhe returns from .manufactures must be divided among wages, materials and profits, and whatever is added to tho cost of materials must bo taken from ono or both of tho other two. It would not bo human nature for tho employers to wish tho loss to come out of profits; so of course they turn to ward wages. The tendency of unnaturally high protective tariffs is always toward low wages. It lias been drsgursed in this country by tho fact that our vast re sources and scant population have kept the rewards of labor higher, in spito of the prohibitive tariff, than in countries less favored. But even hero tho tendency may bo traced. Wages havo increased factor with us in low tariff than in high tariff periods, and they have always been lower in highly protected thau unprotected industries. But it is in Europe that the drift may be seen most clearly. Thcro the highest tariffs go constantly with the lowest wages and tho most miserable working population. No protected country of Europe comes as near to tho English standard of living as tho English comes to tho American. Tho workingmon of California had a chance last week to help put tlieir work on a solid foundation. The lemocraticic party offered to remove the disadvantages that stood in tho way of California industry, and so en able San Francisco to manufacture for nilf the world, instead of sculling her own orders abroad to bo executed. California declined the offer, and inti mated that she preferred cheap Chi nese labor to cheap raw materials. She will havo abundant leisure for epentance." Tin-: markots of the world havo been lerided and sneered at for months by tho party which tho people of this country has returned to power. Now thcro will bo a fine opportunity for that party to demonstrate how the in habitants of a country may all grow rich together by dimply exchanging onimoditics among themselves. HI Cove M Store, JASPER G. STEVENS, Tropr. DKAI.KK IN IViru Drugs, Ifatout Medicines, erfumory, niuis and Oils, 'rescriptions carefully prepared ALSO DKAIJIII IN SPORTING GOODS, Coin-i-tiiiR of Bis, Shot lis, Pis- Mm s Tmior(o(l ami Domestic CM XtWH, etc. anlCB AD AID Latest Announcement to the Public: Having just received a large and finely selected slock of General Merchandise from Eastern Markets, bought for cash, we can ard will give our customers BETTER PRfCES THAN EVER. The Public is Respectfully Invited to Inspect our Splendid Line of Gent's Furnishing Goods, Hats and caps, Fine Boots and Shoes, etc. LADIES' DRESS GOODS. 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I Sheep Men. have for sale at my place, near Teloeaset, pan Merino Bucks. per cent, ditvount from the regular price or adlri; J X. M1TCJ1KI.L, Teloeaset, Union County, Oregon. Miller, and ftealcrs in- Parlor ai room Sets Artists. Thomson & Pursel aro nyonts for the celebrntoil Cyclone Wind Mill, Siul wtho prices on tlioni liiwolioon gront ly ivtlii.ul they m now within tho n.i h Uf H. Sample mill to ho scon ai tbelr planurln North Union. Call ml examlii it. " moi Be t