THE OREGON SCOUT.
AMOS K. JONES
KD1T0H,
City and County Official Paper.
Thursday, Dec. 10, 1881).
THAT rilKACItKK AfJAIN.
Wo nuido mention in these columns
a couple of weeks ngo that a ptigim
cious preacher by tlio name of Driver
had heaped a lot of personal nbueo
upon the editor of this paper without
any cause or provocation whatever, as
wc had never, in the slightest degree,
made reference to him or his work,
prior to that time. Wo then gavo him
a bit of good advice which, it seems,
he was not wiao enough to heed, but
has continued a tirade of abuse and
blackguardism that is disgusting to
sensible people. To reason with such
a bigot would only bo to throw away
precious time. In fuct the reasoning
would nil be on one side. Any of the
children in the public school could
propound qucsiions of tcienco to him
that it would be impossible for him to
answer or reconcile with his ideas of
theology. Wo think tho only answer
any of them could get would be a
swelling of his beefy neck, a baleful
glare of his bullet-like eyes and an im
precation consigning them all to
eternal hell for their impiety. Yet
this man no sooner comes into the
community than ho at once attempts
to nssumo temporal and spiritual con
trol of tho peoplo and annihilate ev
eryone who docb not buliovo ns ho
does.
Mr. Driver will find that his tactics
will not work in this enlightened com
munity, and that his nonseiibowill not
be tolerated by Ibis papor. Wo make
it a rule not to enter into a controver
sy with any man who is mentally
weak; who is not financially responsi
ble for what ho says, or who lias no so
cial standing. Kov. Driver would es
cape us on the two first propositions,
but as pastor of a church ho does pos
sess a certain social standing, howover
undeoorved, which wo think will war
rant us in condescending to administer
a series of llagollations with a view of
teaching him his proper place in tho
community, and which, wo hope, will
ultimately result in benefiting him.
As wo said before it would bo useless
to reason with such a man, conse
quently tho drubbing wo proposo ad
ministering to him from time to lime
during his stay among us will bo en
tirely of a personal nature. For the
members and tho church over which
he has charge, wo liavo tho kindest
feeling. If tho interests of the church
hero are injured, the members will
know what tho cause was and how to
abate tho nuisance.
It is said tho best way is to fight tho
dovil with tiro and to never tackle a
skunk unless you aro armed with a
long polo. Wo think tho weapons
needed by us aro easily obtainable,
and when investigations which wo now
havo under way in tho Willamette val
ley and tho state of Washington are
con&umated, wo shall ask Air. Driver a
few questions, and shall, in the inloi
ests of a law abiding and moral com
munity, demand truthful answers to
tho same.
Finally, brethren, with those few re
marks wo will closo by saying that as
we have been forced to ongago in the
"skinning business," we shall do the
job up thoroughly and in an artistic
maimer. Look out for tho baud
wagon. It's coming.
run
,A (IKANUi: WATKU ltONllS.
It scorns that our friends over at l.a
Cuando aro divided into several factions
and aro at each other's lluoatH over the
bonds issued by (ho town for water
works. Tho papers there have been
abusing C. II. Finn, because, as attor
ney for tho i ('sponsible citizens of tho
plate, ho has seen fit to oppose the is
sue of the bonds. Mr. Finn has is
sued a circular to tho peoplo, and if
what ho says is true, a peculiar state of
affairs exists in La Urando, and what
few tax-payers there aro in tho place
nro liable to bo greatly damaged. It
bcoiiih that the ."McConnell Bros, have
invested eight or ton thousand dollars
in a system of water works which an
swer the purpose very well, and as they
pay taxes in the city to tho amount of
if liI0.(K) may justly bo considered in
terested in tho place, It appears that
several self-constituted leaders in local
n flairs have bonded tho city in the
nun of sfiJO.OOO for water works, to
which the tax-payers object. It will
render tho pmporfy of tho McConuell
Bios, valuulois while they will have to
pay, by reason of taxation, more than
anyone else and bo forced, virtually,
to cut their own throats, in a financial
way, Mr. Finn fcays:
"Tho proposed bonded tax will, un
doubtedly 1h bused on saidaHBosjjiuont
(the school assessment) ami uu
roll
shows that, upon a one per cent school
tax levy this year, Snodgrnss paid tlm
dollars and one-half, Blum nothing in
dividually, Wildey seventy-seven emt1
nnd Jim Jtomig eighty-nine cents. I
suppose then) are tho principal tax
payers by thenoito they make. About
how long will it lake them to pay $20,
000 bonds?
Mr. Finn and the tax-payers of m
Grande aro undoubtedly
S-S
prospect for any further growtl
town is extremely dark and
dents there who have anything to lose
are wise in acting cautiously in tho
matter. Ileal estate in a town saddled
with a hopeless debt is not desirable
property.
.n:PFi:it.soN davis.
It was thought that the J'ortland
Oregonian would have an opportunity
to air its ghoulish proclivities upon the
news of the death of Jefleison Davis.
It seems that wonders will never cense.
We see by several of our exchanges
that the Oregonian has this to say:
"The south is in tears say our dis
patches. Well, why not? No manly
man will sneer at Ibis, for the south
is kindled by the death of Davis into a
flood of memories that cannot but
come home to the business and bosom
of all its men. Tho losses of the house
holds of the south were frightful during
tho war, and there aro few of its homes
that do not include some chair that
has been vacant biuce the terrible bat
tle ended in equality of military virtue
for both sides. Cheap men like Lamar
who extravagantly hail Davis as "the
colossal figure of his time," will not
lack imitators at this time. These aro
the men who bluster in speech, as did
United States Senator Butler and Gen
eral T. Johnson tho other day, and
they will be sine to press tp tho front
as blatant mourners ; but these ram
pant, unreconstructed, demagogue
braggarts aro not tho real representa
tives of tho tears of the bouth to-day.
Tho real, sincere tears of tho south to
dav aro represented by plain people,
humble folk, who sent their sons to
tho great battle, and to continue to
sit listening for the sound of the foot
stops of their unreturning brave. These
aro tho folk in whoso heart tho death
of Davis awaken memories that cause
their tears to start. Tho tears are not
so much for Davis personally, as they
aro for him as tho representative of
that tremendous Flodden by whose
withering blast "the llowcrs of their
forest, tho tallest and foremost were
all wedo away." The devout Catholic
cannot see the picture of tho Madonna
without being moved by tho thought
of tho Mid'ciiugH of her sanctified im
mortal son; and so tho death of Davis
brings to tho front the memory of the
hour when thollowerof tho south died
gallantly under Davis for tho Confed
eracy. There is dignity in death,
whether it bo for truth or error so long
as the dead man did not live and die
a dastard ; from this point of moving
menioiies it would bo a disgrace to the
human naturo of tho south, if the
death of Davis tho gallant youth of
the south spent their bloodlike water
for error, but they spent it with a sin
cerity that was heroic. Tho south
could not do otherwise than give its
tears to Davis, without casting a stone
at their own dead, and to drop a peb
ble on his cairn to-day is bnftho in
stinctive impulse of all manly southern
hearts. No southern man of feeling
could do loss, even if ho had to-day
became satisfied that secession, rebel
lion and war against the union wore
bloody and costly blunders ho would
not to-day consent to repeat if there
were a chance of success."
AfTOItNIIYH SllKl.TO.N it C.UtHOI.l,
have succeeded in gelling a lebato of
one hundred dollars from tho O. B. it
N. Co., for John Dobbins, on tho spe
cial train chartered by him a few
weeks ago. Shebon k Carroll aro tho
attorneys for the O. . k, N. Co., and
the uniformly fair adjustment of the
heavy losses sustained by our eitiaetus
on account of tho fires on the line of
I ho road this fall, speaks well fur tho
fairness of the adjusting agent, J. J'.
lngersoll and the company's attoruoys.
If the 0. It. k N. Co. would only
change the line of their road from
the Swamp and snow drift along tho
foot hills, to the center of the valley,
by way of Union, and on the sunny
side of the canyon out of theeo swamps
and snow drift, all our grievances will
vanish, and with such men to present
our cause to them wo havo no fours
that all will be done that cap bo for
tho interest of the company mid thli
locality.
With the ohungo of the 0. II. k H.
track to Union and the building of the
I), k W. T. to Union she ha a tquVn
did future in Mote for her, and wh.U
the is liuskiug in the sunshine of lor
piotpcuty she feels the Until of jjlud
nb8 iieriucaUnK Her veiiw at the i
thntiiit that her iifiylihuin aru enpy-1
in H a like prosperity.
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