THE OREGON SCOUT.
AMOS K. JOKES
EDITOR,
City and County Official Paper.
Thursday, May :0, 1880.
IIMTOIIIAI, NOTES.
Thk Wallowa Chieftain has entered
its sixth year. It docs not improve
with ago, but, on the contrary, gets
worse and now publishes not to exceed
four columns of home and county
news, each week. Thcro is certainly
an open Held in Joseph for a good
newspaper.
It is rcmarkablo that many of the
necessaries of life arc considerably
higher than last year. Extra C sugar
is two and a half cents higher than it
was three months ago, while salt is
thirty per cent, higher than last year,
and Costa liica coffee has jumped
from seventeen to twenty-three cents
since January. But tho campaign is
over and such items arc past their use
fulness. Wi: arc in receipt of a pamphlet
entitled "Tho New Kmpirc," issued by
the Oregon Immigration Board at
Portland. As a wholo it may bo tol
erably correct. In the description of
this county tho population of Union is
placed at 500 when 1000 would have
been nearer correct; and the popula
tion of La Grande is placed at 800
when 1200 would have been about the
right figures.
Thk .Scientific American of May t lie
11th says :
East of tho Cascade Mountains, Ore
gon is a sterile plain, with no vegeta
tion savo tho sage-brush, tho dwarf
pine, and tho Juniper. The country
is dreary and monotonous.
Our eastern readers will just take
tho reverse of this as a description of
our country and thoy will arrive at the
truth. If tho Scientific American is
no more reliable in other matters than
it is in this, it is a publication of little
value.
Thkuu are two classes of citizens
which aro of littlo benefit to any com
munity, -and both act as an incu
bus upon enterprise of all kinds. One
of these classes are men who have ac
cumulated a competence, tako no in
terest whatever in the growth and
prosperity of tho place, and being well
satisfied with their present incomo
desire no further opportunities. Still
another class exhibits fear lest tho ad
vertisement of advantages shall invite
competition and somewhat diminish
their lucrative tirade. Times-Mountaineer.
Tin: -ollicials of tho passenger de
partment of tho Union Pueific railroad
company have issued a circular to
ticket agents, in which it is casually
stated that La Grande is one of tho
important distributing points on tho
line. This tickles tho La Grande
Gazette immensely, and it devotes at
least a column of space fn giving
promineneo to the statement. A
drowning man will grasp at a straw,
and that shaky burg of La Grande is
in the same condition. Tho statement
made in the circular is correct, at
this time, and would be correct if La
Grande did not contain a half dozen
houses. It is at present the distribu
ting point for the entiro county of
Wallowa, and a portion of the Grando
Rondo valley. But how long will it
remain so? Wo venture to say that
in eighteen months all this will bo
changed and that La Grande will then
bo the most insignificant point on tho
entile line.
Tin: Athena Press consumes neavjy
a column in berating the editor of tho 1
East Oregouian because, in comment
ing on tho recent Ueynold-Hraden de
bate in Walla Walla, he charges B ra
don with being a bigot whose ha
rangues "ought not to be encouraged
by tho attendance of a single sensible
porfon." Tho East Oiegouianis rigid.
Thcro is no man who is not a bigot
himself but who will (indorse overy
thing it has said concerning tho man.
Tho subject of theology is tho most
important that can engago the atten
tion of thinking men, and tho public
discussion of tho merits or demerits
of its popular phases as presented to
us, should bo encouraged, and this, as
nil other subjects of importance, al
lowed to develop itself in the crucible
of reason and investigation. When
carried on between sensible men a dis
cussion of this kind is interesting, but
when such a man as this "Hev." Bra
deu takes u hand it degenerates into
buffoonery and in disgusting. Our
people had a dose of him last year and
it seems Walla Walla lias been similar
ly alllictod. Tho East Oregonin it's
advice in this instance, U good,
moku FACTS THAN tiiijv wantku.
The junketing committee who arc
in the Northwest "invcsligntin? onr
relations with Canada" are li.c ly, if
their experience in Portland i- rep, ..1
ed, to learn more than they want to.
What went they out for to sec? ' . Vi ri
ly, ajpicnic; but they did nut on-ane
hearing somovery important trull,- in
Portland.
Governor I'cnnoyor font thi cannon
ball plowing along through their frills
and flowerets:
I will, however, in doference to
your request, state to you that it is my
candid opinion, no matter what
jle
character of statistics requested by
you may be, that tho interest of the
wholo people of this country will be
best observed by tho removal of all
burdensome trade restrictions upon
lumber as well as upon all other arti
cles of commerce required by the ne
cessities of the people. I tun myself
engaged in the lumber bueiucss at this
city. The company I represent con
fciders itself suflieiently able to manage
its business and prosecute a livliliood
j without the intervening support of the
government by taritl restrictions upon
foreign lumber. To confess that it
was not so able would be to conftw its
infeiiority to British manufacturing
establishments, which confession
would not only be pusillanimous but
would also be most untrue. As you
arc aware, Senator, 1 am in favor of
the removal of all rcstiictions f far as I
possible upon tho trade of onr people. !
To that end I would greatly reduo i
the national revenue procured from
imports, which method of taxation
bears with such severity upon the in
dustries of the country and the neces
sities of life required by the laboring
classes, ami would supply the deficien
cy occasioned by f.ueli reduction by
the imposition of an incomo tax by
which the wealth of tho country would
be compelled to help bear tho burden
of taxation for the support of the gov
ernment. Of course the governor is a "crank"
and a "demagogue," and a "free-trader,"
but the idol of protection which tho
majoiity of the conunittoo carry about
with them as their life-guard was
treated to hot shot fiom the very best
of Portland business nion. Stavcr fc
Walker told the committee that
Beciprocal trade relations with Can
ada would increase our trade with that
country. Were tho Canadian duly
removed or lowered, they said, thoy
would probablv establish a branch
house in Victoria, and do a business
of $60,000 to $75,000 a year.
Gen. Wm. Ivapus, Into republican
elector, now that the election is over
and tho necessity for lying gone with
it, "attributed tho loss of trade to tho
low rates and high tarifl'. If. the Ca
nadian Pacific was connected with the
American railroad system, aflbiding
us continuous rail service with British
Columbia, and if the duty was abol
ished, lie thought the American furni
ture manufacturers would easily un
dersell their British brethren."
Clias. II. Dodd, a hard ware dealer,
told of tho gradual falling off in Port
land's hardware trado with British
Columbia since 1870, "caused by the
increase of duty, so thai now tho only
things we can soil the Hritinhors are
safes, mowers, axes and common goods.
I To said tho Portland merchants could
beat either tho high tarilV or the cheap
railroad rates, but not both combined."
T. l Owborn, of the firm of W. C.
Noon it Co., bag and tent manufactur
ers, blamed tho low rates and high
tai-ill' for tho loss of trado. The Cana
dian Pacific, ho said, "had a ditl'eren
tial rate of from ten to thirty cents a
a hundred, and can land bugs on Cue
coast for $1.05 a hundred, while
tho American roadsehaigefl.SJOforthc
same service. He thought that by
the lemoviil of tho high Canadian du
ty and the connection of t lie Canadian
Pacific with A merieun railroad tVi-tonisi
Portland would bo ablo to recover'her
trade. Ho thought the coust would
derive at least a temporary bonorit
f,om 11 leoipioeity treaty."
President Donald McLeay, of. the
Board of Trade, testified that the com
bination of cheap railroad rates on the
Canadian Pacific and the duty had al
ready destroyed the grocery trade with
lhilinh Columbia.
"What advantage does Oiogou gain
from the protective tariff ystomT"
asked Senator Hoar.
"Not much. Hut then Oregon is
only a small part of tho United States."
B. Jacobs, of tho Oregon City Wool
en Mills, made Senators Hoar and Al
lison open their eyes when he said his
linn sells some of tlnir products in
Boston and Iowa. He snid tho exist
ing state of affairs in British Columbia
had barred them out of that country
and destroyed a trade of about $15,000
a year. Ho did not blnuie the rail
road so much as the high duty for this
slate of tillairs.
Sim Itocd, a inillionairo, and John
M into, a good man but (..,!, were
tho only wit nosoos who iboii'Mit the
duty a good tiling.
Tin truth will crop out between the
campaigns, at leuM. E. O.
SlNUA LEGISLATION'.
The following extracts from the
! American tientinel are published by rc-qin-ti.fa
lady of this city who is a
S vuitli-d:iy Advcntiit, and actively
oipo.- d to th0 so-called "National Re
form Association" which its trying to
get a ripd Sunday law jassed by con
gress. The articles will r.rvo to show
the spirit that lurks behind this move
ment, and exhibit, in a faint degree,
' the superstition, intolerance and bigot
i ry that yet hovers like a pall over por
! lions of tho eastern states :
lhk vnnman btalexman
of March
I 27 says that in a speech at
Chicago
lately, Mrs. Lucy Parsons declared
"that the locialists want a revolu
tion, peaceful or bloody, they caro not
which."
This is just what tho national Re
formers want; for when the ministerial
association of Den Moines, Iowa, in
1880 "resolved that the national reform
association is an attempt to accom
plish by revolution the Christianizing
of the nation, and therefore meets our
disapproval." District Secretary M. A.
Gault replied m the Christian Slatcx
man in those words :
"Whether tho constitution will be sot
right on tho question of the moral su
premacy of God's l.i w in government,
without bloodv revolution, will depend
entirely upon the strength and resis
tance of the forces of antichrist.1'
And in a meeting held at College
Springs, Iowa, Sunday, February 10,
1S8S), Mr. Gault stated four ways by
which influence may bo brought to
bear to make this a Christian nation :
First, agitation ; second, petition ; third,
by the ballot; fourth, by tho sword.
And in explaining and justifying the
UHO of the sword ho said : "Don't think
we arc advocating war; but if wo are
not faithful m the use of these other
means, as it was with the antislavery
question, after they had agitated, pe
titioned and used the ballot, thoy drew
tho sword; so shall we, as a last resort,
be compelled to tiso tho sword and the
bullet."
If there i.s any diii'orcucc between
tho intentions and methods of tho so
cialists and those of tho national re
formers, as officially expressed by M.
A. Gault, wo are utterly unable to dis
cern it. There is this, however, in fa
vor of the socialists, that where they
propose bloody revolution schemes,
out of sheer, open wickedness, tho na
tional reformers proposo revolution un
der a form of godliness, making it so
much more calculated to play into the
hands of Satan.
Wi: have already printed tho associ
ated press dispatch concerning tho
persecution of Air. D. Gonklin, a
Roventh-day Advontist, in Georgia, for
working on Sunday, but we republish
it for tho sake of tho comments made
upon it by tho Allegan (Mich.) Journal,
from which tho following is clipped.
Sunday-law zealots would like to make
it appear that all Seventh-day people
who aae or havo been persecuted for
working on Sunday wore cranks and
disputatious busybodies who deserved
persecution on general principles.
The following makes such an attempt
impossible in Ibis case:
"P. Gonklin, who was for scvoral
years a resident of Otsego, where ho
was greatly respected, recently moved
to IWilton county, (icorgia, and has
boon brought into serious trouble by
his religious opinions, which are those
of tho Seventh-day Advontist. Elder
M. (.!. llullinan, of that sect has writ
ton n letter to tho general conference,
in Hattle Creek, in which ho says:
'Mr. Conklin has been reported to
the grand jury, and a bill found against
him for working on Sunday, and all
he diil was to cut a few sticks of wood
to build a firejust what I have seen
many others doing since I came to the
Mate. 1 he penalty for violating any
portion of tho law in this state is very
severe. They have what is known in
this state as a "chain gang," where
those who violate tho law are taken,
and ball and chain fastened to ono leg,
and they aro made to work on the
public roads and railroads, and those
who are put there aro nianv of them
treated worse than brutes; nianv have
boon whipped to death, and doubtless
if he should be taken for working on
Sunday he would be compelled to
work on tho Snhlmth or be whipped.
What is your advice? Should wo bo
beaten hi tho circuit court would you
take tho case to tho supremo court?
and if so can you help us? We are all
poor hero.'
This is the cose of a man well known
in this vicinity, and of whom his for
mer neighbors speak in tho highest
tortiif. It scarcely suenis credible that
iu tho United States a man should bo
in danger of being sent to the chain
gang because, after conscientiously
keeping tho seventh day of tho wcok,
ho sees fit to chop wood on the first
day, but it is nevertheless true, and
there is a great ileal of this samo re
ligious ititoloraucd in our very midst.
With thin, and other similar experi
ences iu view, is it strange that tho
Next-nth l.i. AdwntisU are bitterly op
pos it,, tin. nuir Sundny-llueit bill,
win !i u n'.J tender them amenable to
tho law iu oth r pirts of the Union if
they did any w.ik on Sundays?
Combines the juice of the Blue Figs of
California, so laxative and nutritious,
with the medicinal virtues of plants
known to be most beneficial to the
human system, forming the ONLY PER
FECT REMEDY to act gently yet
promptly on the
KIDNEYS, LIVER AND BOWELS
AND TO
Cleanse ttio System Effectually,
SO THAT
PURE BLOOD,
REFRESHING SLEEP,
HEALTH and STRENCTH
Naturally follow. Everv one is usinr it
and all are delighted with it. Ask your
druggist for SYKUP OF FIGS. Manu
factured only by the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.,
San Francisco, Cal.
LoeisviLLE, Kv. New Yoxk, N. Y.
LUMBER for SALE
at the High Valley
Saw Mill.
All kinds of lumber constantly on hand
or furnMied on short notice. Prices cheap
as mo cheapest.
Patronage - Solicited.
5-sotr
WM. WILKINSON & HON.
Public Sale!
At Cowlcs & McDaniel's Corral, Cove, Or.
Saturday, June 28,
I will sell at Public Auction about forty
head of Marcs and Geldings also one good
stallion.
All good size aud well bred.
TERMS:
Six months time, without interest, with
approved security.
GKO. W. THOMAS.
Just opened at the
lion Ton licstaurant.
Ice eream and temperance drinks senrcd at
nil Hours. J'rlvate rooms lor ladies.
4-L'j-tf
MRS. WALltATH, Trop.
THE WORLD'S BEST
Kid Button $2.50 Shoe
lias no equal lor Stylo, Fit and Wear.
Positively
deceived, foe stamp on bottom of each shoe. Take
no other. Every pair warranted. Styliati and
Squill lo any & ulioe In the murki't. h or salo by
Jos. Wright, Union, Or.
thn hnnt nhnn In America for tho monor.
uo noi dl
NOTICl."
Owing to change in my business I am
wishing to lmliinet! all accounts on mr
books, and would respectfully request all
owing me to call and settle,
h. k. ci.oroir.
Simiita i Oregon, May 13, KSn'I. ,VJH.
AY A jNt T E D !
Teams to haul Lum
ber. Logging Con
tracts to Let. Men to
hew ties.
Inquire of Anthony Crcok Mill and
Flume Co., at North .Powder. Or.
Wo Still Live at the
UNION CITY HOTEL
(Opposite tho Court House.)
Tho llest of Accommodations to Patrons.
Meals, 25c; Beds, 25c.
Livery and Feed Stable iu Connection
with the Hotel.
PATRONAGE SOLICITED,
b. .!. HO0TI115, . - Proprietor.
MMf
Shingles For Sale!
An unlimited ninoiint of No. I shingles
(on.itiintly on hand and for sale cheap.
Orders ti om nil parts of tho country t.o
Moiled. 8. It. IJUltROlMJHS,
! I tt Cove, Oregon.
ICE CREAM PARLOR
E. J. COLTER,
Notary Public.
Union
Farm Loans a Specialty.
WE HAVE SPECIAL FACILITIES FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND IN
VESTMENT OF FUNDS. WE LOAN ON GUARANTEED SECURITY.
Collections Pushed "With Energy.
Wc act as ficneral ArchI-, Trustee or Attorney for Individuals or Corporations, and
as Assignee or Receiver. Hold property in trust and care for tho samo. Assume tho
general care of Real Kstate, collect rents, pay taxes, etc. Abstracting, Perfecting Ti
tles, Conveyancing, Drawing all kinds of Legal Papers.
Satisfaction Guaranteed-
Insurance Written in the best Companies.
Favor us With a Trials
Oitick: Davis' Building, Union, Oregon.
-DEALER. IN-
BOOTS
JJSTJD
Latest Styles.
Just Received, Direct from the East, a Large Invoice of LADIES' and
MISSES CALFSKIN SHOES, the Best Ever brought to this Market.
-Also a Fine
GENT'S -:- FURNISHING -:- GOODS.
My Prices will suit the times. Drop in and see me.
C. VINCENT, Main Street, Union, Or.
MONEY!!
B. M. LOMBARD, -:-
Low Rates- IMo
Money
iir"Thosc who consult their own interests will call on me before borrowing.
OFFICE OVER SOMMER & BLUM'S STORE.
urn mi
(OPPOSITE CENTENNIAL HOTEL.)
J 3a
Everything Kirst Class.
Buss to and Piom the Depot Making Connection with all Trains
rUIRNlir
Wilson &
Manufacturers of
M 1 T 1 K
UllOli, UUUIiJ uuu
Mings
Keeps Constantly on
in
Bedding, Desks, Office Furniture, etc.
All kinds of Furniture .Made,
WILSON &MILMSH,
Just opened in the btick buildinc
MRS- RINEMART'S
&KrQFT$r rGr vVtrt -sW -A vOjtO .v. a .
m n n u . r-v n wotm
Street. Union, a full and complete ai-surtinont of
MILUD H FBI IDS.
Whieh are Now Open For
PRICES ON GOODS SURPRISINGLY LOW.
In addition to the ubove. n coinnlete lino of LaJiu' dent' and ChildreiiB'
Shoes aro in stock, and will le sold at cott.
A Share of the Public
IL F. BURLEIGH,
At omcy :u Law.
All Kinds.
Assortment of-
LA GRANDE, OGN
Commission.
opnetor.
Terms Very Reasonable.
Miller,
and Dealers m
T 1
room Sots,
hand a barge Sup-ily of- -
and I'jiliolsterin done to order.
Main St.. Union. Or
adioiniiiL' Javcox it Fh-utV stmv, Main
I
inspection ly Hie Ladies. '
Patronage Solicited.
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aid Bed
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