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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1890)
1 TOE OREGON SCQUT. -- : AMOS K. JONES - - EDIT OK. City and County Official Paper. Thursday, January 2, 1800. om: or Tincsr iikakd i'iumi, Wo take the following excerpt from a letter written to the Journal by a La Grande Mioolinaster who is now in Pine valley. He says, referring to a former article by him : "We slated in that article to the Journal that a majority of the voters in this valley arc in favor of La Grande for the county seat, providing La Grande and the people of tho northern part of the county will favor the annexation of the southern tiers of precincts in this county to Maker county and we still asFort'the fame. We will say fur ther that Dr. O'Connor is spoken of as a candidate for representative from this portion of the county and that if La Grande will support his candidacy, the people of thin valley will support La Grande for the county seat." .So far as what he pays concerning La Grande's williugnuNi to give tho southern portion of the county to lin ker, it is true enough, but when he says that a majority ol the voters of I'ine valley, or even one in ten of them are in favor of such a move, we believe him to be telling what be knows to bo false, and acting merely tii a btoob pigeon for the irresponsible wirepullers of La Grande, and a man whom the good people of I'ine valley should not tolerate in their midst. If the fellow wants to see this article ho will find Tin: Scorr in nearly every boiuu in I'ine valley. Dr. O'Connor certainly owes it to himself and his neighbors to contradict Ibis slander. For low down dirty work La Grande can certainly lako the cake. They will llnd that their scheme of establish ing wlntkoy shops in various parts of tho county and employing such fel lows as tho one mentioned above to misrepresent the sentiment of the peo ple, will not work to their advantage, but on the contrary will disgust tho people and bring tho responsible tax payers of tho county to a realization of the danger of such machinations. WHAT KIIAI.I. IT t'OJIH TO? KniTou Suorr: Willi tho decision of .Ititlgt' Ander son, in Salt Lako City, Nov. I'D, in re yard to admitting to citizenship Mor mons, who have been disfranchised, arises some important issues. For three or four years past companies of transient Mormons havo been brought to this country for thu purpnto of en tering land. Mill companies havo fol lowed up, and now HiiHtorn Oregon, Idaho, and as far west as Mood Kiver, Mormon companies monopolize some of the beet tracts of timber land. Judge Anderson refused to admit those Mormons to the free plane of tho American citizen because he looked at the en tim plan of tho Mormon church an treasonable! Tho Miidowmriit Mouse oath, when taken by an indi vidual, makes that individual a sworn traitor to this government, nnd the violation of that oath as testified to by ex-mombors is sudden death by the oxeoulioueiv of this modern inqui sition. Then if thu church can be proven to be ttoasonable, can its mem bers oxeroise the rights that belong to real citizens? (.'an the members of tins organization having in view tho monopolization of all things temporal and spiiitual vengeance for .loo Smith, on the American people, and reduction of all proporty to tho tem ples of its powerhold the acres of laud they now ropiosont? Are they of any more right to hold laud than any foreigner who has not taken his papers granting citzeuship? Tho lSndowinent House oath binds the victim to obey tho elders in all tiling, temporal and spiiitual; to hrinj; in tho bheaves at whatever cost ; to nvonii) thu blood of Jou and Minim Smith on the Americans who are not Mormons; to reduce all property pos sible to bo subservient to tho vices and ownership of the church and the penalty of violating this oath is death. Can you make anything but traitor of a man or woman who has taken oath? A witmws in (ho recent trials in Salt lalu sworo ho saw a man's throat cut from car to ear for violation of tho oath, and several other parsons, under promiio of protection fiom tho United States government, sworo to truths otiually honible in regnrd to the oath and ita workings. If thoy swear to obey tho directors of tho ohuroh in all things, thoy would not hoiitufo to nut in any capacity that would seivo to do troy or antago nize this government and the interests of ita peoplol Anything, in tboir way of thinking, that would secure to thu Mormon ohuroh more powt or prop orty, i light bo it honorable or dis honorable. According to tho oath, ) ' means hy nlu -h M...m.i:i.:.iin may have it eoii'erti replenished and J jls "numbers Mvelled. is rtelit. "at what ever cost." The. president, in hi- r cent tnci?ngc to congress, snid noil.inj: in regard to this church. Cleveland said, "Polygamy must go." Perhaps Mr Harmon wants federal Inw.t enact ed for tho protection of this religious body, and. as ho is so very pious, per- j tion after 100 years of commercial in haps such subject in bis thinking j dependence than Great Ilritnin after should bo "approached in n reverential 1,000 years, What we havo is bolter calm" and that they arc too holy for j distributed. A man who has fr'iOOOO public discusMon. If the blood of the j a year docs not buy twice n much of Smiths is to bo revenged on tho Amer- j tho actual products of industry as he ican people, how are we to tfll when can with $ 255,000 for in oithor event he the icvengo is to bo opened? Are I buys all lie wanln, and beyond that they citizens or not? , 80LON. Nohtii Powdei:. Dpc. 15, 180. t1ik tahi i'l quisstiow. Editor Our.aox Hcout: The issue of Tin: Scot' T of the 26th, came duly to band, nnd with it the lagging reply of "W." to my letter of the 12th inst. It makes me feel some what elated to think my medicine had been "heretofore prescribed by the Oregonian," not being a subscriber of that paper, it is seldom I have the pleasure of reading i, and "W." may rest assured that the information be has bestowed upon me is highly ap preciated. Of course, when one's opponent is handicapped one cannot expect to gain much knowledge, and ho with quoting my letter, n few jiersoiialith'H IlliW l IV-UV UHtll i t I I lilt r J 1 1 fl 11 has managed to till n column. As he is in tho chromo business, and is offer ing liberal inducements on the same, I will endeavor to obtain a half doxen i or so, ono of which he has promised. When routed from pillar to post, the free trader generally falls back on wools and woolens. Jlo cares little for the facts that piolcction has made the woolen clothing most worn by the masses of the people as cheap here as in England, and that tho reason thai higher grade manufactures of wool, such as worsteds, are not as cheap, is hecauro freo trade rulings and free trade inlluenoe in congress have pre vented them from enjoying the &nmc protection. Great Dritain's capacity of consump tion of goods was $3.oo por capita, while ours is if 13. The fact that the great mass of our citizens live better and can atl'ord to buy more of tho comforts of life thnu those of Great Britain is also shown by our manufac ture, importation and consumption of woolens. In 1&S0 Great Ilritnin con sumed $ 127,500,000 worth of woolon goodrt or $!1.72 per capita ; the United States cousnmedflf 215,000,000 or $4,150 por capita. That our consumption is increasing oven faster than our popu lation is shown by the fact that where as wo worked up 1107 ,2-10.1(18 pounds of wool in various form of thai raw ma material, in 1888 wo worked up 119, r: 1 ,277 pounds according to the esti mate of Piesideut Whitman, of the National Association of Wool Manu facturers, an iucroaso of 311.5 per cent., while the population waa increasing only 20 per cent. Wage workers that will learn tin lesson of these figures must not let free traders befog them by trying to make it appear that there is some mystery about protection. Now, "W." suppose the manufac turer of tin plate under a protective duty should prove to l o profitable, la it io.ison.tblo to tiol'ovu that otlu-is would not stand ready to embark in it also? And hence competition is stuu to bring prices down. Tin plate of the market is represented to contain only 3 per cent, ol tin and 97 jer cent, of iron. It is iron plate with a very thin coating of tin on the surface. We are sending every year $30,000,000 out of the country to purcbaso tin whieh we could and should make here at home. Have we not mountains of iron? Thou why import it in this way? Tin ha now come to bo an article of great im portance and we are dependent on ICngland for our supply. Should a little trouble arise between America and Kugland, would it be at all credit able to America as a nation to bo de pendent on lCnglaiul for her (jupply of tin? Tho Harney l'enk Company of South Dakota, is described as exhibit iting blocks of tin weighing 7,000 pounds and yielding 25 to 10 per cont. of motnlio tin per ton. Therefore 1 think tho duty should be higher on tin, st as to create the "home manu facture" that "W." speaks of. The free trader who says that pro tection makes thu rich man richer nud the poo mnn poorer, dot not get much satisfaction out of the statistics of the United Kingdom read by Hobt. Gillen, before the Itoyal Statistical So ciety. 1 1 places tho wealth in uuud numbers at X 10,000,000. giving ling laud XJKI3 a hand; Scotland, CSI3 and Ireland W. Comparing the three richest nations, lie gives Great . i ( i i ; :.-".. I'raiK-e 100; 1'nitel Ht;itp, 4:100. We nil know ihiit tin tiixir man of Kngland is poor . , :,.!! '. i in of America, and Ilia' th i ar.' in ire of him about vfitr 'ii t;jiu' u many according to pauperism statistics. On the other biuul, if wo have less wealth in this country in proportion to our papula- point his expenditure are in tho line of gratifying bis opeci.il taste. Hut 1,000 workingoidii who get $2 n day arc nearly twice as good consumers as thty Would bo on fl a day, for thoy are tlill buying the things that every man wants, to be comfortable. Great Britain has more wealth per man, but that doesn't do any good to the mnn that doesn't get it. I could start in and compare the wages paid English nnd American workingmen, but it is u.-cless, for we all know that the American's wages are far hi advance, and I have no doubt but that "W." is fully aware of 1 tbatfnct. . JUDD GUI' It. E stni i And has Klecrrifie 1 the World Hy the niiiiounc iucnt of ti i.-t ..i"o return to civilimimi. tin tulviMtttre and discnvrr- ic have liccnrand, wondcrliil, m n rvclou. Tliu world has xeon nothing like tliein Ix foru. llix tlirilliiiR adventure, innndoii- discovinicx, darinp exploit, nstoiiiiriini; privation:, wwlerttil tri;, iienm the Darl, Continent. how he found Kmtii Hey Kv erybody will lo nu ludod, from his tir.it en trance into Africa to the present time Kv- erybixly wunt the new GENUINE STANLEY BOOK! From Stanley's own uiitliiirnnd dispatches. Over 4'Kl of tho Knmde-t and most wonder ful new ensjnivlnirs nnd colored plates ever seen inn hook of travel-'. It lias Iipciiim prly awaited, ami will lie more sought af ter, make ni ne money for the agent and make it. o.isier than any hook isMicd for the pif-t titty e;i. sTnil'HnrkT Old nnd unreliable ae KPf coutit.soi Stanley'- lrael- ur hclnp puMiolicd. Ho not le deceived bv old books, re-hashe nnd battered plate. V announce this to protect oiirugeut and the public a;?ainst the numerous, worthless so-rnllcd Siuiiley Hooks all of which are himply old hooks that have been in use for years, and are now being offered ns new books, with a few pages of new matter ad did. AGENTS WANTED Everywhere Teacher . Voting Men and I.ndie, Minis ters. Farmers, Mechanics and Clerk can tmsllv ruak" from $5 to $23 per day. Xo expcrlenc: required, Canva-Miig outfit now ready. Send immediately for illustra ted circular nnd term fie-, o", to secure an agency at oiloe, send $1.00 mr the outfit and yon shall bo oorved tirst. Money retunded if not s itlsfaetorv. Address THE HISTORY Vo,, 72.1 Market Street, San Francisco. I'al. m mm Main St., I'uion, Oregon. LOUIE F0RDNEY, Proprietor. Open Day and Night. Hm)i Krvi at Mi Hours mi ibe i:u rornn run. Fresh Baltimore Oysters Con stantly on Hand. Drop in nmi (let Hjunrt 3Ienl. -AND I tJ lUi U j l.l.sniAY llolii:it!(i, I'rop'r. MAIN STREET, UNION, OKKtiON. Koeps v'outtnitly on Hand a Xicc btock of Cboieo OAND1ES, NUT8, TOIJACOO, CKJAHS And other Artiolos too Numerous to .Mention. tilVK ME A CALL. MRS. ALCE AT THK- ICet'ps consU'itly on hand a com plete stook of t'rctdi Station ory, Shoot music, Wiro Goods, iirntiktils, AMD UMtniL Household Utensils. A tiure ot the public PtvUouauo to- mm S iff f mm y Goni8Cttoaery vtnro I I I ! I II FuETOFFICE I!9ll WW Combines the juice of the Blue F;gs c( California, so laxative and nutriuu., with the medicinal virtues of plar.! known to be most beneficial to t lis human system, forming the ONLY PER FECT REMEDY to act Cemy yet promptly on the KIDNEYS, LIVER AND BOWELS AND 1 O Gieansa t&e System Effectually, SO THAT PURE BLOOD, nCFHESH'.NG SLEEP, HEALTH and STRENGTH Kaiur-'ly follow. Every one is using jt til aie I'.eliThtcd with it. A-.U vour .'.r-i-pa for SYRUP OF FICS. K'anu factuicd only by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO., San Francisco, Cal. i.-"-:-vtu.F.. New York. X. Y. 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