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THE OREGON SCOUT. AMOS K. JOKES EDITOIl, Thursday, Nov. 21, 1889. KDlTOKIAt. NOTKS. Onij by one the "daisci" full. What a cluster of them, rare, beautiful ami sweet, fell this year. Tanner, Forakcr, Mahonc. When shall these three meet again? "World. IIakvky Scott, the ghoul, rises to explain just how the result of the recent elections was brought about, which leads the World to say that "Harvey always was a cheerful man at a funeral." Dii.lv Maiionj:, tho candidate for Governor of Virginia, says the ncgros are naturally protectionists. Senator Jllair, another good Republican, says that tho negro's ignorance is a menace to the country, Tiikhk is no greater delusion than tho talk of a homo market for tho American farmer. Suppose the Ore gon farmer was "protected" until ho was forced to rely on the Oregon mar ket. It would mean starvation to every farmer. Mh. II Aimiso.v'H Thanksgiving procla mation will be responded to moro gen-, orally than was suspected. Tho vic tories recently will cause many an un repentant domocrat to turn in and give thanks inultitudinously. Moscow Star. A "Young Mkn's investment com pany," with a capitol stock of $20,000, lias been incorporated tit Salem. It is composed of twenty young men who propose to invest their money in real estate instead of in faro banks, horse races, and "tho girls of tho period." (i. W. Hunt met tho citizens of Waitsburg last week and secured a subscription of $12,000 for tho road. In answer to a question ho said of tho .$ 12,000 subscribed there if he failed to carry produce to the Sound as cheap ly as the O. It. it N. carries to Portland ho will pay buck to any man so treated tho amount subscribed by him, with interest. This was greeted with ap plause. An exehango says that every news paper in tho land should publish the fact that burnt corn is a suro cure for hog cholera. It was llrat discovered by tho burning of a pile of com belong to a distillery at Peoria. It was thrown to the hogs and readily oaten by them. Uoforo that a number had been dying each day with the cholera, but disease immediately disappeared, Tho rem edy is so Bimplo that it can easily bo tried. Thk Suminervillo Annotator says: Any thinking man can easily 6eo that it would bo folly for tho O. It. it. N. to build tho proposed extension if tho Hunt road is not built, and if the Hunt road is built tho O. It. it. N. will bo compelled to build in self-defonce-So tho wholo business hinges directly on tho Hunt subsidy. If wo fail to raiso tho required subsidy tho Hunt road will not bo built, consequently tho O. It. it. N. will settle back in its old ruts and wo will bo left in a worse condition than over before Evkuy malo Indian on tho reserva tion who has reached his majority and accepts an allotmont of land in sever alty is endowed with tho elective fran chise by a recent act of congress. This will make quite u dillereuce in tho elections in Umatilla county. It is said that tho average colored gentle man Bwoats copiously at elections, but it is not probable that poor Lo will be similarly aflocted, consequently ho will not bo as odensivo a partisan, in ono sense of tho word, and can bo taken to tho bosom of tho average poli tician with greater all'cction, as it were. PnoFKSHOK Conoon's discovery of tho fossil remains of horses with cleft hoofs, tho ditl'oreut part forming toes, has been commented upon by a writer in tho Now York Evening Post, who Bays : "Apropos of tho frequent dis covory in tho far West of fossils of horses with toes, has it over been re called that Julius Ca'sar had such n horfo? Suetonius, in his 'Life of de Bar,' sixty-llrst section, says' 'Ciesar made use of n remarkiiblo horse, with feet almost human, and hoofs divided in tho manner of toes.' Tho wholo passage is interesting. Tho horse, it appears, was foaled in Ctesar's stud. Tho soothsayers at o.ico proclaimed that it betokened for its master tho dominion of tho world, whereupon Ca'sar had it roared with tho utmost care, and was tho (list to mount it. . Jiuleed, it would never suffer anybody 'jdfjti uiKm Uh back. Later ho sot up ' uii'imagoof tho horso in front of the Tomjdo of Vonim (Jonetrix. Was not tills aii. instance of what evolutionists oall'VovcrsionY' " vir.iv IF'. OF T1IK TAK. T. Pee - A Tennessee fanner, Mr. M blcs, puts in on interrogative form thx following clear and forcible argument against the present tariff tax frtM tho agricultural standpoint : Docs not every farmer sell his pro ducts on a. free trade market? In oth er words, if I ship my cotton, wheat corn, beef, pork, or, any other commod- lty I have for sale to Liverpool for a market, arc not all the waleis of tho world open for anybody and every body to sell in competition with me if they choose to do so? Then if I ship anything beyond sea for sale all the world has a "whack" at me, and if j anyone can afford to undorsell mo I must come down in price or not sell on that market. Is not this then ab solute, world-wide free trade for tho farmer when he has anything for sale? But suppose tho farmer chooses to sell at home within the United States, is not all trade frco betweon the states, and is he not forced to sell on an ab solutely free trade market so far as railway and waterway transportation can put all men of like products in competition with him? Is it not per fectly plain thon, to any ono but a hopeless idiot, or one wilfully blind, that tho farmers of the United States arc all forced to sell their products on a free trade market whether they sell at home or ship beyond the sea? Aro not all mechanics and all work ingmcn of every kind and description in tho United States forced to hire their services in competition with all others who work at liko trades? Is it not plain then, that all farmers and all workingmcn in tho United States aro obliged to sell their products and ac cept their wages on an absolutely free trade market? Hut how is it when theso same fann ers and workingmcn come to purchase the necessary supplies for themsolvoB and families? Have they an open market where all tho world is bidding against each other by offering cheap goods? No, indeed; but they pur chase everything on a restricted mar ket hampered by tariff laws, and as a result all farmers and all workingmcn sell on ti free trado market and buy on a market made high and costly by a protective tariff for tho benefit alone of tho few men engaged in the pro tected industries. Thus, then, wo seo all farmers and all laboring mon are forced to sell on u market made cheap by tho world-wide competition of freo trade, while they buy on a market, mado dear by tariff laws en acted for tho benefit of a few men. Theso fow men have become immense ly rich by tho money thus onforccd by tariff laws from the toiling millions and put by tho unjust action of tho government into tho pockets of mo nopolists and speculators. Tho State of Tennessee lovies a tax of !H) cents on tho hundred dollars of property, and some of our citizens seem to think wo are a tax-ridden peo ple This tax of tho Rtato is a little less than one-third of 1 per cent, on proporty. Now, the general govern ment by tariff laws lovies on foreign mado goods a tax not of 110 cents on tho ono hundred dollars' worth of goods imported, but a tax of 17 per cent, on tho ono dollars' worth of goods. So that the tax of tho general government is t2!l times as high as tho tax lovied by tho slato government, and there aro hundreds and thousands of fanners and workingmcn who do not seem to know this, judging from the way they voto year after year and sustain tho high tax party. If farmers anil workingmen, by sell ing on a freo trade market for twonty livo years past, havo boon gradually growing poorer year by year, what will bo their condition at tho end of tho next twenty-live years if they still con tinue to toll on a free trade market and purchase all their .supplies on a market inflated by tariff laws which oblige them to pay $1.-17 for ovory dol lar's worth of goods thoy use? Ex-Vkksidxt Ci.kvki.and was intor viewed at AVashington last week on tho election results. "It is evident," said Cleveland, "that tho leavon of tar iff reform has at last leavened tho wholo lump. Tho west, which has suffered most from tho unjust bunion of tariff taxation, has awakened. Tho state platforms of both Iowa and Ohio aro abreast of tho St. Louis platform on the subject of tariff reform. The people havo considered and pastsod judgement. It was for the puoplo to decide. Thoy aro now deciding. It is enough for mo to say that 1 am sat isfied at tho indications ami the result of Tuesday's elections. Tho vnrdiot in Virginia indicates that the South i faithful to tho democracy of Joffunrou 1 and Jackson." ! A TAlOIEll'S Til (,'UNG "ItOCLAWATIOXS. , 1 hf Fiaaciicu Freethought in 1 si,oakinK of Presidout Harrison's ti. -. i '.in : ir,clitmntion says: It i- .miii it il t; government ofli-i-iii!- t.' t-ovornment franks and (. : ij i'iv iiny other than official bus inc -, and we would like to know wheio Mr. Harrison gets his authority j lo UH. tilt. t0ai 0f ti,0 XJnitcd States for business that is not official, but rolig- ious. A president is elected to exer cise political, not ecclesiastical funct ion. His duties are prescribed by the Constitution, and that of acting as high priest to direct the religious worship of tho people is not among them, A president should never bo a partisan politician he is not elected as a servant of his party, but of the whole people. Neither should he bo a religious partisan. He ought not to take sides on the question officially. As a citizen he has a right to hold or express any religious views that ho choose.-, but as a president he is not called upon to deal with religious mat ters. But it seems that Mr. Harrison has chosen to take sides between those who beliovo in superstitious incanta tions before the name a phantom and those who do not. An Atheist could not conscientiously join tho worship recommended, but ho must do so or ftand practically in contempt before the chief magistrate of the land. We maintain that it is unfair and unnec essary to place a citizen in that atti tude, but at the same time, we hold that what a president says officially ought to go ; it ought to bo mandatory. When he issues a pioclamation, that proclamation should stand and be oboyed.';lf he has a right officially to recommend a day of thanksgiving, he has a right lo order one, and it is the duty of executives to see that it is hoedod. Tho soal of the United States ought to be respected by every citizen, but as affixed to this thanksgiving proclamation it has no more legal force than tho mark of John Doe or Richard Hoe. "All this is apart from the matter of Mr. Harrison's proclamation, which contains some glaring misrepresenta tions. One unacquainted with the facts would judge from reading it that tho past year had been a period of phenomenal prosperity and unalloyed happiness to all tho people of tho country; but On the contrary, tho United States has been the scene of tho worst disasters of the century. Floods havo drowned thousands in a day; fires have destroyed whole cities; failuro of crops in some parts has loft the people in destitution ; and tho Di vine Providonoo wo aro asked to thank has in no instance intervened in be half of tho sufferers. What havo the people of Johnstown to bo thankful for, except the reliof fund? What did providence do for Seattlo? What is it doing for the starving fanners of North Dakota? To thinking people this proclamation can suggest only things wherein providence has failed and it must seem liko a grim pioco of sar casm to the hungry, tho homeless, and tho victims of a thousand ills. On tho other hand, it is base ingratitude to thoso who sacrificed self to help others that thoy aro not given honoorablo mention. "Taken all in all, tho president's Thanksgiving proclamation is empty, absurd, and useless." Was it "highly creditable" it Presi dent Harrison to appoint as his Postmaster-General a man previously un known in politics, as a reward for rais ing a corruption fund for tho camp aign? Was it "highly creditable" to iinhioo a Federal Judge to reverse his own decision to shield from punish ment an organiser of bribery in "blocks of five?" I it the administration al liance with Boss Mahoue "highly cred itable?" In the clean sweep office holders going ou in defience of the party's and tho President's pledges "highly ereditnulo?" Was tho Tanner episode creditable in any of its aspects? Is it "highly creditable" in tho Presi dent to pension all hi relatives and connections upon the public? Where does the credit como in? N. Y .World. In Ths Sixties. A copy of tho Idaho Tri-Weekly Statesman of August the 7, 1SB1, more than twenty-iive years ago, tell us that bout was th a retailing at 15 and 2f cents ier pound, mutton 20 and 2.1, chickens and $2.50 each, butter !?1 per pound, fl .30 per dozen, po tatccs (nuwl !.' eonts par pound, oats if 12, In. i- f:i". and -f 10, onions 25 and 80 cents p r pound, cabbage 15, and to on. The f '! 'ivinjr, houvvor, tho fore- i;oiu- a.uel '.i imtnuuili'd double the iric , .u I lu.i iv i'i tlit'iu ioiiM not W' luul at tiiat, uud green cU ton wood was hmi.- at $2 icr cord. i:r.KCTiox iNri:ni:xcr.s. The Boston Globe says : Some interesting points aro settled by the elections. Tho tariff will bo tho great, tho over shadowing issue in 1802. Tho Democratic candidato will bo a man who has an unimpeachable record for tariff reform. Neither Benjamin Harrison nor Fire Alarm Forakcr will be the Republican candidates. Tro Democracy will have bettor pros pects in the West than ever before. 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