HllITOI!,
KEHKUAiiY fl, J801.
KIMTOItlAI, XOTIiS.
llox. Wii.mam Win'dom, secretary of
tho treasury, died suddenly at haw
York lust Thursday, while attondi' g a
banquet.
It im not probable tlmt the legisla
ture will donate much to tho Colum
bian exposition not over .$50,000 at
the most Wc think this is hardly
sufficient, yet, if expended judiciously,
will do much towards showing up tho
industriou of our wonderful state.
Wi: are in receipt of a copy of the
mid-winter edition of the Kroo Lance,
published at llollistcr, llonito county,
Cal., by W. 1$. Winn. Tho paper is
illustrated and contains much inter
esting matter in regard to the town
and county in which it is published.
Tin; xkw Spanish tariff raises the
duty on flour from 18 shillings to near
ly 100 shillings a ton. This is the re
taliation which comes as the necessary
consequence of the passage of the Mc
Kinley bill by congress. And whom
docs it affect? The farmer, as the
price of wheat must go down with the
price of flour Vlh.my Democrat.
Tin? Scout acknowledges receipt of
Jou. W. J. McDonnell's hill, prnvidiim
for a settlement between the United
States and certain r.iilro.i;! corpora
tions which have horotoforo received
bon Is from the government to aid in
tho construction of their roads, and
for other purposes, which ho has in
troduced in tho United States senate,
also his speech on "Silver, tho Money
of tho People."
Tin; hold stand that Loo It. Free
man, of tho Free water Herald, is tak
ing in regard to tho recent Chinese
trouble in that place, should meet the
hearty approval of all law-abiding citi
zens. While it may bo true that tho
Chinese are a ctirso to any community
it docs not justify such perpetrations
as have been committed in Milton
lately, by a mob of men styling them
solvcs "regulators." So loiitf us tho
Chinese are ullowed. ) rouutiu in t,ja
country tliey slioultl llo protected the
miinctts our American citizens.
(h:oit(iE II. Moitat, of St. Paul, has
purchased tho Portland Telegram, and
will convert it into a first-class daily
ovoning democratic nowspapur. The
linn of Palmer it Hoy, type founders,
have received instructions to fill thu
order for material for tho now big dem
ocratic daily to bo managed by Fran!;
S. Gray, formerly of tho New York
Mail and Nxprcss, of which mention
was made in these columns a short
time ago. That both these enterprises
will bo a success wo have no doubt, hut
thoy must recoivo a hearty support
from tho democrats of thu northwest.
A I'larno.v containing nearly ton
thousand names has been presented to
the statu legislature asking for tho tax
ation of church property. Among tho
signers are said to bo a number of min
isters and many church peoplo. Threo
other petitions that wore to have been
presented with this ono were lost be
fore leaching "headquarters." This
one, having for its object equitable
taxation, is being pushed by tho Ore
gon Secular Union, and a bill embody
ing this principle will, in all probabil
ity, bo presented to tho legislature bo
fore tho close of tho session. Tim
measure has many supportors who will
make every ellbrt to secure the passage
of such a law.
"Nn.uti.Y thu wholo resident, popula
tion of Union county pan handle has
signed petitions praying tho legislature
to annex that strip of country to linker
county. The Union county hobos who
are circulating a remonstrance meet
with no success." Hindu.
Tho above is a sample of the liter
ature (?) that has been sent foith
through the columns of Hakor City
papers of late. Tho fact of tho matter
is thoro is no truth in tho statement,
mid why Ihey should persist in lying
wo cannot see. We presume it is their
nature. It is true thoy did succeed, by
misrepresentation, in securing a few
names to thu petition, hut when thu
people found out thu facts in the mat
ter they roadily signed a remoutram o
ngaiust such action, and today therein
not ono in ton of the taxpayers of the
southern portion of this county who
are in favor of being annexed to I laker
county. Tho "hobos" as the Iliad.
stylos thorn, who circulated thu remon
strance, uomprikud some of tho boat
and most rttepuolud citizens of Union
county, and they did not have to carry
a cargo of whisky with them and m in
state facta in onlur to iudiioo tho peoplo
there to sign tlio ronmntrano, as did
the parties from H.W City, in order
to gut uih'uurtf to thu petition.
II. ClIAXrr.Y,
THURSDAY
TIIK lUnjlHKS AI.I.liVNCH.
Tho farmers' alliance is tho product
of indignation and despair indigna
tion ut tho merciless exactions imposed
on the agricultural interest by tho re
publican party and despair that the
other national part' would ever bo
able to obt in tho supremacy and
right the wiongs perpetrated by its
'powerful adversary.
That this indignation was originally
well founded is beyond question, it is
doubtful if the nil-important industry
of agriculture was ever subjected in
any country, except the feudal Franco
just before the revolution, to so many
crushing burdens as tho republican
party heaped upon it in this.
it is also beyond question that tho
despair of the democratic party ever
coining into power was also originally
well founded. Those who organized
the alliance saw nothing between them
and eternal spoliation but tho unaided
strength of tho fanner.
Since this vista was presented, times
have altered. The policy of tho repub
lican party has been changed only to
intensify it, and the indignation which
was originally justified by that policy
has now more justification than oyer.
Tho relief that parly intended to give
is only illusory; the bunion has in re
ality been grievously augmented, and
the hypocrisy which seeks to sugar
over the superadded wrong is a fresh
motive for now detestation.
Hut on the other side of the picture
theie has been a genuine and decided
change. There is no room now for de
spair as to democratic supremacy and
the permanence of the supremacy. The
lepubliean party has had its day and
must go. Tho exigency which called
it into existence is over. The great
party of the future in ibis country is
tho democratic party, and no oppressed
popular interest ever looked to that
jMiity in vain. New York World.
AS OTIIICItS SKI
IT,
A correspondent from Hakor City to
tho La (Jrando Chronicle, signing him
self "Nemesis," has this to say of the
much-boasted ''Driver of Oregon"
Hiiker City:
"linker is dull : there is no monr."
!)Q fall rain, no winter snow, no Spring j
ism '
Illllilllf II W . W II W lWWIll IV'I J. .
and to add to our especial discomfort
the banks are not loaning any money.
What's the matter? Wo have by
Cong and circular sung and shouted
published and pulled thu imaginaiy
virtues, fertility productiveness tc. of
our (juccu Denver. Nuarly every real
estate ollico along tho lines of railroad
exhibits our Denver with additions
extending for miles in neat square
blocks with a population of f)000 of the
most energetic tho most prosperous and
happy people on earth.
The strangor comes, and
what does ho find? A small village big
with iniquity and containing about
2f00 with oxhaustless capital of enthus
iasm te. surrounded by a vast waste
of thousands of acres of dry sunburnt
sago brush land all in sight of town,
portions of which aro called additions
tho fact being made known by an
onornieous sign looming upiu tho dis
tance marked "Mix Addition" said sign
being tho only sign of improvement.
The fact is tho stranger is
"onto" us and wo aro left unless some
thing or somebody comes to our relief.
Wo hoped for an appropriation by the
present legislature but tho necessity of
hiring some ono to go to "tho world's
fair" will take all the money tho legis
lature can spare after lopcalihg tho
mortgage tax law and paying oil' tho
railroad commissioners.
We might try congress but its pressed
because tho McKinley bill is falling duo
in large installments.
Your correspondent suggests tho
publication in book form, large typo of
Aesop's poem entitled "Tho Fanner
and tho Lark."
Shnatou Guay, of Delaware, has
fconio sensible ideas about reciprocity,
and ho has introduced a resolution in
tho senate authorizing tho administra
tion to open negotiations for thu pur
pose of framing iceiprooity treaties be
tween tho United States and Mexico,
and .the United States and Canada.
Notwithstanding thu fact that reciproc
ity treaties with those to countries
would bu of more roal benefit to tho
peoplo of this country than all of those
proposed by Mr. Hlaino with tho South
and Central American republics, thoro
isn't tho Mlightust probability that the
republican onators will support Mr.
Gray's resolution. It isn't rual recip
rocity that republicans favor, but only
an imitation, that will sorvu for the
lime being to blind tho voters of this
country. Jacksonville Tiuius.
Tun tloutity of "Noinis'u" is worry
ing the puoplo of Hakcr City to a ro
nurUlde intent, ol latu.
THE ANNEXATION SCHEME.
A Common SonsoVIew of tho Situation, by
a Resident of Telocastt.
Editor Ohkoon Scout:
Tho following is taken from the Port
hind Oregonian of January 30th:
Hakku City, January 29. The people of
tlie panlmiidleof Union county and of North i
I'owdcr have signified their desire to he cut I
oirfrotn Union county and bo annexed to j
linker county by signing n potition to the
legislature to that ctlect. Home of the pe-
tltiouers have been induced to sign a re- J
monstrance. The inducements to sign re- j
monstrances arc, ns the Unionite? tell them,
tlmt linker count taxes are from two to !
live mills higher on the dollnr than tho-c of j
Union county, and further Hint the people
of the section to be cut ol! will have to help
pay thedebt of both counties, making luxes
In tlmt district double what thoy now are,
They also represent that the petition circu
lated proposed to tnke in as far north as
the Cove and a part of Union town. These
statements are false from beginning to end,
the facts being is follows: linker county'.-
takes for the year are2l 10-33 milN on tiie
dollar, and hinds of the same character,
along the lino of division between the coun
ties named were assessed in 1839 at if 1 per
acre in linker county ami $3 in Union coun
ty, and in 18!)0 if.3 In linker and $12 in Un
ion, ltcsides taxes being higher in Union
the assessment is nlsn higher. The part to
he annexed, after annexation, will pay the
same taxes as the balance of Hakcr county.
There is not more than $100.000 difference hi
the indebtedness of the two counties, and
further the potition does not contemplate
taking in the Covo ns a n ferenne to the de
scription in the petit ion will show.
The strip of country proposed to ho cut
otl' from Union county is so .situated as to
uatarnlly belong to linker county, and, if so
cut oll'and annexed to linker county, will
ho of great convenience to the people living
there. The people living on the line are
anxious to h 'long to linker county. The
city of Union Is trying to prevent this.
It is barely possible that a word from
one who lives in tho panhandle might
throw a feebler ay of light on the feeling
of annexation ; that is, if the intellect
ual brilliancy of the anther o,f the fore
going is not of such power as to totally
obliterate the feeble ray of light emit
ted by any one so unfortunate (?) as to
bo located outside of Hakcr county.
A remonstrance was placed in my
hands to circulate against annexation.
I had the paper in my hands three
days and it was signed by every voter
in tho precinct except ono, whom I
did not see. The heaviest taxpayer in
the precinct, hearing th'Vt I had a re
monstrance, saddled his iiorcC and
rode seven miles to sign it, ho having
heuid that it was to be sent away that
day. This gentleman lives on "tho line
to ho annexed" and owns land on both
sides of the line.
Hvcrv ono who signed tho remon
strance will bear mo out in the state
ment that no "inducements" were ex
tended i.or argument advanced to in
duce them to do so. The fact is, thu
pooplo are beginning to look upon this
biennial effort on tho part of linker
City as a nuisance. Not a session of
the legislature has passed in the last
eight or ten years that wo havo not
been cursed with this sterotyped an
nexation bill, as though wo did not
possess sufficient intelligence to take
this matter into hand ourselves.
Whonover our relations with Union
county aro such that it cannot bo en
dured, wo are vory apt to tako some
action in the matter for our relief, vol
untarily, and not wait for Hakcr City
to inform us of our ufllictions; and
when wo do tako such action wo will
let our desires bo known in a manner
becoming men of intelligence, honesty
and fair-dealing, and not sncakingly
and slyly circulato a potition as if to
steal a march on our neighbors in an
unguarded niomont, asking tho legis
lature to do a thing which of right be
longs to tho pooplo.
Tho idea seems to prevail in tho
minds of certain individuals that couu
tiescan bo chopped up by tho legisla
ture at any timo to gratify tho whims
of a few disaffected or avaricious poli
ticians, merely by an act based on a
petition. Tho United States derives
its power from the consent of tho gov
erned ; so, also, do the states, and all
rights not specially delegated to the
states are reserved to the peoplo. Tho
right to change or divide counties in
Oregon is not only not delegated to tho
state, but is specifically reserved to tho
people by the state constitution, (Arti
cle 1, section 21.) which provides as
follows : "No ex post facto laws, or
laws impairing tho obligations of con
tracts, shall over bo passed, nor shall
any law be passed, tho taking offoot of
which shall be made to depend upon
any authority, excopt as provided in
this constitution ; provided, that laws
locating thu capital of the state, locat
ing county seats, and other local and
social laws, may tako effect or not,
upon ii vote of the electors interested."
As an act to cut ofl'a portion of this
county and annex it to linker would
come under tho head of special laws, it
is wholly in tho hands of the pooplo.
Can thu author of tho foregoing batoh
of inlommtiou give ua my itmson why
thu hind op the linker oouiity tide is
not asiessed int high as that on the fil
ion county side? If his Hgtius arc cor
I rect and ho is well informed on the
I matter and proposes to do the fair
i thing with'us, he surely ought to tell
! U3 why thore is such a difference in
the valuation. Some fellow a Union
chap, of course has said that it is be
cause the assessor has been put through
a course of training, and has been in
structed to assess real estate bordering
on the lino very low, as a bait for tho
panhandlers; but I think he said that
just to get the Ilnkorites to call him
names.
Tho reason for such difference is a
very plausible one, however, and is lor
mo simple reason that about nine-
i. ... . ,, ... ., ,
j lGnll'S f a11 1,10 oltl?n a,ul 1,md ow"
ers along Powder river have erected
I their buildings on the Union county
j side of the river, and have, through
I choice, taken up their residence in tho
county of Union. The result is that
j that part of the real estate situate in
il.ikor county and containing no buil
i din'js, outside o! fencing, cannot rcas
j onably be assessed as high as that in
! Union county, containing the resi
dences and other improvements. The
same difference in assessment occurs
where the buildings, in a few instances,
are in Hakcr county.
The statement that "the part to be
annexed after annexation will pay the
same taxes as the balance of Hakcr
county," is a very smooth allegation,
to say tho least, and doubtless is vory
encouraging to those who are to bo
grabbed up to know that they will not
be taxed any higher than tho "balance
of linker county." Great consolation,
that!
Any one of ordinary intelligence
knows that the portion cut off would
carry their proportion of the indebted
ness of Union county with tlioni into
Hakcr county, which amount would be
to the balance of Union county's in-
(lot)teaness as tno taxable property so
cut off would be to tho rest of the tax
able property of Union county.
Tho county tax of Raker county lor
the year 188D was 18 1-10 mills which
was the lowest for several years. Un
ion county's county'tax for the same
year was 10 mills which was the high
est for many years, mid was made nec
essary by the expenditure of fjWO.OOS.Td
for roads and bridges'.
In 1S!)0 Raker county's levy for
county purposes was 11 HH-.'h") mills, the
lowest in the history of linker county,
made so by the necessity of having an
inducement for tho"paiihaiidIc" to be
come ii portion of Hakcr county. For
tho same year tho levy by Union
county for county purposes was
l-I mills, being nearly ono mill less
than in Raker county.
As a matter of fact Rukor county's
indebtedness is only a matter of con
jecture, and is unknown by even tho
best informed of her citizens; but it is
safe to say that it is double that of
Union county. Raker county has n
totat taxable property for 1S00 of 2,
OHl.boS as against !f":i,-I0fj,255 for Un
ion county. With tho above figures
wo leave the taxpayers to judge for
themselves as to which of the counties
offer tho greatest inducements for tho
future. W. A. CATES.
Wk cam. the attention of those who
assort that the McKinley tariff has not
increased tho cost of living to the fol
lowing from tho Dry Goods Economist,
n strictly trade journal: "A fi 1-inch
double warp Italian, which cost f2A
cents to import on October 1st last, ono
week later cost 12 cents; a littlo bet
ter grade which cost (50 cents to import
was jumped up by tho McKinley bill
to 02A cents, making a dill'oronco in
the retail price of either grado of not
less than 2f cents a yard, Tho anius
ing'part of this is that sbcut a third in
valuo, and about tho snmo in weight,
of this cloth is American cotton on
which tho McKinley tariff imposes, in
addition to tho ad valorem duty, four
times tho duty on the Australian wool,
of which the remainder of the fabric
consists. This putting an enormous
wool duty on our own cotton when wo
bring it back to this country would bo
enough to iniiko a cowluugh, if it wero
not such an irritating pieco of stu
pidity." Tin: in i.i, introduced in the legisla
ture by Jennings, of Lane county,
which provides that if any person shall
shoot and wound or kill another, mis
taking him for a doer, boar or other
wild animal, ho shall be found guilty
of criminal nogligeneo, and upon con
viction thereof shall bo punished by
imprisonment in the penitentiary not
less than three months nor moio than
three years, and by tine not exceeding
one hundred dollar, is a good one and
should reuoive tho support of all our
law makers. Hardly a week passes
hut we road of the aoeouut of some in
nocent K'rnn being killed in this way,
and there hotiUI be -iiu law Ut pun
ish parties gtuhy of such criminal nag
ligunie.
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