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.
The South will remain solid.
Tho Australian ballot reform will bo
adopted in New York, and an honest
unbought voto secured thoro.
Tho next Congress will bo Demo
cratic.
The Republicans in tho present Con
gress will make a show of revising the
tariff.
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