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TOE OREGON SCQUT.
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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.
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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,,
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OAND1ES, NUT8,
TOIJACOO, CKJAHS
And other Artiolos too Numerous to
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MRS. ALCE
AT THK-
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plete stook of t'rctdi
Station ory,
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Wiro Goods,
iirntiktils,
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Household Utensils.
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HEALTH and STRENGTH
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