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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1891.
i:niToitiAr noti;s.
NoitVAls hill for the Connor vn'k
ntiil Eagle vulby ro.ul lus pawe.l Ihe
senate.
Tin: ono hunhrcdth nnnivoreary of
tho birth of Peter Cooper will be cele
brated today by tho Cooper Union
Alumni in Is'ew York.
limn tariffs are appropriate enough
in monarchies. In it republic where
men are auppoaed lo liave equal right
mini man's business ehonid ba built
tip nt anothor iiiiin'a expense.
Wiikn it public official, who it sworn
to do bin duty, lets parly prejudice in
fluence him in matter of a financial in
terest to the public, he is no longer fit
for office, and tho sooner he is out of
the position the butter it will bo for tho
people.
Tun Scout is reliably informed Hint
tho llev. T. ! Campboll,of Baker City,
who has been in Pino and Eagle val
leys propounding tho gosjiel (?) for
some timo past, is very much interest
ed in the division of Uninn county, and
has put in his spurn timo trying lo
show to the people there the advantage
of being annexed to lluker county.
Consistent, indeed.
"Vi: publish this wool: a letter from
"Citizen" in which he propounds some
very pertinent questions to thu city
council. It is a. matter in which the
taxpayois aro interested and should re
ceive proper attention. Our columns
aro always open for discussion of mat
tors of public intercut and we trust that
some member of tho council-will en
lighten our people on tho subject.
J. 1 WAiiBit, in a oiiniinunmation lo
tho East Oregoniiin, speaking of tho
county division bills introduced in the
legislature, hits thu nail ppiare on tho
head when ho says: "Seriously, there is
too much of this county division fever
and loo many county divisions, for tho
benefit of certain towns or small local
ities ami of interested parlies; and coll
ators should not grant ovory request of
that sort that comes to their tiara."
L. Samuiii. bus retired from tho man
agement of tho West Shore, and is no
longer connected in any way with that
journal. Tho new management an
nounco several changes in (ho paper.
West Shoro is a first-class illustrated
weekly journal, and has, seemingly,
prospered under Air. Samuel's nianago
inont, and wo regret to see him retire,
but trust that tho paper will bo kept
up to its usual high standard of excel
lenco.
Eon threo hours during tho busiest
part of tho day on Monday tho people
nil over tho United States wore denied
postofllco conveniences, simply be
oauso Wanamaker's brilliant genius
conceived tho idea that all poslolllcos
Hhould bo closed us a mark of respect
to Secretary Windom. Tho secretary
himself would novor have so thought
lessly and ieoklesly interfered with tho
business of tho eountiy, nor would ho
have given his approval of this brilliant
coruscation of official genius. West
Shoro.
It was hoped by a majority of tho
people of Oregon that the present leg
islature would enact a law to freo them
from tho extortions of tho sohoolbook
ring, but as tho legislature is noaring a
close it is not likely that anything will
boilonoin regard to tho matter. If
not advisable for the state to print tho
books, t-oino other means should be do
vised whorcby tho people would not bo
compelled to pay , tho exorbitant pri
ces charged by this ring. Jt is a
ulmmo that this robbery has been al
lowed to go on as long as it has.
Tin: Scout is constantly rocoiving
letters of inquiry in regard to our
county and town, and it i's quite likely
thoro will bo a heavy immigration to
Oregon the coining sumnior. Union
should make some efl'ort to eouro a
just proportion of those who come.
Other c ties and towns are on tho alert
and are u-ing evory moans to make
known thoir advuntngtB and induce
people to locate with thorn. Why should
Union not do likewise? In theo days
of sharp competition it is absolutely
necessary to keep your town constant
ly before the people if you would not
be distanced in thu race for supremacy .
Wo aro in need of live, energetic men
--men with capital. riuJt men ran
find mi opening here fur thu ostrtbluh
ing of luiinufaoturtw of iIuTuront kinds.
No other Ihwn in Hantom Oregon tan
boAHt of the vantages that Union po
ema or KUndmtlries.
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TIIK TARH'F AM) THU.-.TS.
At the pr 'sent rate it will not lie
Ion g U fore every line of businesa in
the United St.vtcs will be in the grip of
an ironclad combination. Tho tenden
cy is too connpicnnus to be ignored or
denied ; it muct bo dealt with as one of
lh facts that underlie arguniont. To
the followers of Bellamy am! socialists
generally it is Hgreeablo, but 'o those
elill imbued with the early principles
of our republic it is portentous. .Dem
ocrats and republicans are generally
agreed that trusts are dangerous and
undesirable things; they merely dis
pute about the best way of suppress
ing them.
At the outset it is well to understand
clearly just what efl'oct tho tnrifT has
on this class of combinations. Pro
tectionists aro fond of asserting that
tho two things have nothing to do with
ouch other, and point in evidonco to
tho occasional trusts observed in Eng
land, and to tho still rarer conspira
cies of the sort that take in the world.
To reach a just estimate of the value
of this argument, it is merely necessary
to consider in a common-souse way
what a trust is and how a tariff" aot.
A trust is a device for maintaining a
permanent corner. Now let us sup
pofo that an enterprising citizen of
Mil pitas formed a combination to con
trol the sale of horseshoe nails in that
nourishing town. It would not take
very much capital to buy up all tho
stock on hand, but if the tvust under
took to raito tho prices very much tho
consumers would send to-San Jojo and
get their supplies at the old figures.
If now tho wise men of Milpitas should
meet and resolvo not to permit any
horseshoe nails to he brought into the
town except on payment of three cents
a pound, the connection between that
action and tho trust would scarcely
need to bo pointed out. The combina
tion could now put its prices up three
cents a pound higher than formerly,
before anybody could make himself in
dependent of it by sending to San
Joee.
But now suppose, in the absence of
such a rule, the trust undortook to
tako in the wholoof Santa Clara coun
ty. It is plain that tho difficulty of its
operations and tho amount of capital
required would be immensely increased.
There would be a hundred chances to
cut under where thoro had been ono in
Milpitas. And if all the dealers in the
county agreed to put up tho price of
horseshoe nails, tho only result would
be that more would bu imported from
San Francisco.
But if tho board of supervisors ol
Santa Clara county had tho power and
the will to impose a fine of threo cents
a pound on all tho horseshoe nails
brought in from outside, the trust
would have this much margin, al least,
and might succeed in making the spec
ulation pay. SuppO'O, though, that
importations from San Francisco were
unchecked, and it was thought neces
sary to extend tho trust' to cover tho
whole state. Plainly tho speculators
would have an immense contract on
thoir hands. They would need hun
dreds of thousands of dollars of capital,
tireless vigilance and gieat executive
ability to have a chanco of success, and
oven if they succeeded in cornering all
tho horseshoe nails in California their
monopoly could last only until more
could bo ordoied from Oregon, Wash
ington and the East. Still, if tho leg
islatuio could levy a tax on all tho
nails brought into tho state, it- might
bo posviblu to make tho combination
hold.
But it happons that tho movements
of trade cannot bo cheeked at auv of
thoso stages. Tho wiso men of Milpi
tas cannot prevent tho importation of
horseshoo nails into Unit town, nor can
tho Santa Clara board of supervisors
set up a tarill' along tho line of their
count , nor tho California legislature
tax interstate commerce. A trust, to
bo successful must cover tho whole of
tho United States.
Now, if there were no tariff, tho pro-
coss would not stop even hero. Before
thu trust could have a secure monopoly
it would have to take in tho whole
world, and, while there have boon a
fowattompta at combinations of that
kind, the enormous difficulties in the
way havo as yet kept any of them from
being aucoouful. But just hero eon
gross comes in, and throws ncroae the
course of trade that obstruction which
the wise men of Milpilaa, and the San
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ta Clara Miwrvtor. and the Clifor- I
nut legislature are unauio to inrow.
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iti irBuiuon ui irwuu) mo com-
petition lopK at (lie national frontier
The combinations whu-h utherwi'
would have tu epu-ml uur tin' World
are ultowwl to C"tioenlr.te tluir r
kourci' upon Ihe Uniu-d Hinu.
Tli.it ixihewu) in which truaU and
Urill'x are nlatiii. Examine r.
MooKb'n lull, a anumlcd, appio Tun m u.i haa luti-aed Uv V bill l.a li.atde, Or,
prfntlug $110,000 for Un wrltl' fair, ' appropriating fUW.OJO for portage Stock r Udd canyon. Hense men
Inu iHiMd the enate. 1 rail way a at The DnWtu and I'vlilo. 11 n this paper.
Till! (1IIKAT WRST.
The west is making a good showing
this year. Considering the number of
IHjoi.'ic, the achievements of the last j
year are grand. They ought lo arrest
the attention of all classes of people in
the cist. California has a more valu
able wheat crop than almost any east
ern state, but with it is her gold and
s her yield, amount to $23,000,000, and
her fruit crop she reckons" by tho
thousand carloads, while of course in
wine she surpasses all the other states
combined, and then her wool, her fish,
her honey, her barley he is the great
stato. Oregon shows an abundance
in ovory field that is simply lavish.
Washington claims an average of five
bushels mora to tho acre of wheat than
any other stato, while in hops, in lum
ber, in fish she has no rival. Idaho
and Montana rest on their output of
tho precious metals, lead and copper,
but nowhere do so few people produce
so much, and then their product is a
creation; the bringing forth of t-ome-thing
which was hidden before, and
the great bulk of which when pro
duced, does not enter into competition
with any other men's products, but
rather gives to them an added value.
Nevada is lowest in tho list, but Ne
vada is in sorrow. She is decaying for
want of cheap communications with
hor interior mineral belts, and cheap
transportation. Then, as ono of her
newspapers expresses it, sho has been
plundered fiorii the first; tho money
taken from her mines has materialized
in fair structures in all the great east
ern cities, ind in great estates in oilier
states. Ulah shows most satisfactory
progress in field, in mine and factory,
while her trado centers havo expanded
wonderfully. Colorado is prosperous
in every one of a dozen groat industrial
fields. In soil, in mine, in factory, her
progress has been with a steadily ac
celerating force, and the volume of her
bu.-ineh.s bus attained to something
gigantic. Wyoming has made a good
record. Sho will not show at her host
until more of her great resources aro
brought under development and sub
jection, but tho state is rapidly filling
with people and the roar of her indus
tries riso higher and higher ovory
month. The whole record of this
west measured by the number of peo
ple which occupy it, lias no parallel in
our own or any other land. Tho men
of tho east ounht to study the figures,
and if thoy will, wo think many a ono
of them will turn his steps this way
and oomo with an idea of joining his
fortunes with thoso who possess a re
gion so blessed.
THIS ALMAXCIS A.NI JMSMOCKACY.
The farmers' movement for reform
and tho democratic movement for re
form arise from common grievances.
Titus tho alliance and tho democratic
party aie moving along parallel lines
towaul tho same object. Hence, so
long as tho democratic party is in op
eration and tho republican party in
administration, overy consideration of
political good suggests that tho two
parties should act together for tho ac
complishment of tho common purpose
so far practicable The action of tho
National Allianco Convention at Ocala,
Florida, shows that this will certainly
bo I ho case in tho southern states. A
solid front of opposition will bo presen
ted (o tho plutocratic centralizing pol
icy which constantly menaces the
prosperity of the agricultural south, as
it does tho prosperity of tho agricultur
al west. As (lie south, through its cot
ton export, relies more on Liverpool
and London for its supply of money
than it does on Wall street, its farmers
are not so heavily mortgaged as thoso
of tho west, but they aro, novortholcss,
too keenly alivo to the menaco of
republicanism ever to weaken demo
cratic opposition to it while tho nation
al government is under tho republican
control. Only when thero is a demo
cratic provident in tho white house will
it become a matter of sorious difficulty
to convince the southoru members of
tho allianco that the intorosts of agri
culture demand at all times a united
opposition to republicanism. In tho
westorn agricultural slates, tho allianco
membership, though largely republi
can, has already taken a long stop in
tho direction of democracy. In spite
of blundets on its jmrt and on thu part
of the democrats, enough has boon
done to show that the democrats ami
alliance together can sweep thu west,
HiiiNiicu toguitiur can sweep inu west,
)Mntft,j lho I0U8I of WwaiontllljvM,
diaug Wl wnM,toxion Mf lne ,nu(0
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d Kivf a two-UiinU majority in tho
l b i toi.il i olb ge whenever they unite
for low taxation uiiii economical gov-
, criiuieul, tor th abolition of trtut and
mum. polio iiml for the ivtontion of
agiu-ulturf and oommen-t- to 41 equal
, with iiuimfut'tiire m pillars ot the
tale -M i urn u ,ti Tinxn.
PBRTItfEHT QUESTIONS.
'Gillian" Waats to Know a Pew Thlag3
in negard to City Matters.
j Editor Ohhoos Scovt:
j 1 realize tlie fact that an over-inquis-
Hive person is a character that most of
mankind will always avoid and gener
ally despise; but as a taxpayer and
one who assisted to give life to our
new city council, as far as now mem
bership is concerned, I think I have
inherited a right to ask questions that
aro pertinent and of interest to me as
woll as to tho members or individuals
constituting the proecnt municipal leg
islature. I notice in bills allowed by the new
council, ono in favor of C. M. Foster,
for services rendered as surveyor "sur
veyingto the head of Catherine creok"
the amount being.f 00.00; also anoth
er in favor of W. E. Bowker, for horse
hire to C. M. Foster, fil.OO.
These services wore rendered before
the advent of tho new council and the
records show that no such proceedings
were ordered or authorized by tho old
or retiring council, and also there is
nothing to show in the records or min
utes of tho new regime authorizing
such action.
I wish to know this and I believe, as
a taxpayer, I have a right to know.
What was this survey made for?
Who ordered it, and by what author
ity? What is the object of finding tho
hoad of Catherine creek? Under and
by what authority does the city coun
cil pay for thoso services out of the
funds of the city?
Those arc very plain and simple
questions lo answer, if they can be an
swered at all. I am also informed that
a private subscription was made up to
pay tho expenses of this survey, and
that tho samo was made for and in the
interest of private parties. I would
usk if this amount paid out of the city
funds is made to mako up for tho de
linquencies of some of those subscrib
ers? I am also informed by members of
tho council that at its last meeting an
appropriation of- $ 100 was mado out of
the city funds to defray the expenses
of County Judge I. N. Sanders on a
trip to Salem, for the purpose of lobby
ing and engineering our now city char
ter bill through the house and the sen
ate. 1 would ask what is this so-called
now city cliartor? And who or how
many of tho taxpayers of the city know
what it contains, or us to any of its
conditions or requirements?
lias any charter, amended, now or
old, ever been presented to tho people
for approval or inspection? "Vl"U can
it contain that could surrouiul it Willi
danger of defeat to that extent that wo
are required to pay $100 to havo it
lobbied through our legislature?
It is tho history of special acts of in
corporation of cities and towns that
they aro passed without a dissonting
voice from said body, unless containing
conditions repugnant to tho general
laws or the constitution of tho stato.
Either of our representatives would, no
doubt, gladly introduco tho bill and
upon their recommendation it would
puss without an obstaclo being placed
in its way, and without tho hired assis
tance of a lobbyist.
It is possible, for ought that a major
ity of tho taxpayers know, that it
would havo boon to their interest to sond
a representative to defeat its paseago,
and in my opinion thoy would bo as
much entitled to a grab at tho public
sack, to which they annually contrib
ute, as tho limited numbor of fathers
of this so-called now charter. In eith
er case, however, I would like to' know
by what authority tho council could
allow it.
I do not wish a newspaper controver
sy, nor to appear conspicuous as a
critic, but I would like for tho mayor
or somo member of tho now council to
explain, and if satisfactory, well and
good ; if otherwise, more anon.
CITIZEN.
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Head of
Cows.
lletul of
good Dairy
yotir-olds.
Full Blood llolsioin
Bull, Irio 75.0G.
Raon for Silling: Intend to leave
tho valley about Ww flint of Alay.
Call on nu at once if you
want k bargain.
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For Bargains in
Hats, Caps, Gloves,
Jewelry, Picture Frames,
Albums and Variety Goods,
SCHOOL BOOKS,
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ntiM Tablets
k Imii Pipes and Cu
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In addition to bargains in the above
mentioned lines, all kinds of
AT LESS THAN COST.
JONES BROS., Union, Or.
and
Gents' Furnishing Goods,
Novels
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tlery,
To
oliday Goods
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