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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
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All kinds of Furniture JtnJo, and rplioUtcriug done to order.
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All diuls of photographic work done in a su
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give satisfaction.
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huiro of Mr. X. Howlnnd. 9 7-wl
Dwelling Louse for Sulo.
A dwelling Ua use .u I lot, at iku i'o
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Main St., Union, Or.
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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. "
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