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THUUSDAY, MAKC1I 12, 1891.
tUUTOlUAI. NOTUS.
Samukij P. Putnam lms assumed ed
itoriul charge of Krcothought, tho lib
eral journal of San Francisco.
It is now stated without doubt that
tho new democratic daily will be issued
in Portland on the 18th of April inxt.
Stuanhk it McComah have retired
from tlieir management of the Pendle
ton Tribuno, and the papei will here
after be conducted by Mr. Charles Wil
hint.
Doth houses of the Washington leg
islature have adopled a bill appropria
ting ono hundred thousand dollars for
tho world's fair exhibit. The bill now
goes to the governor.
Tiikhk arc about twenty applications
for the new .$.'5,000 a year position of
attorney general. Tho governor may
fool 'en i all by refusing to appoint, and
thus save the state that much money
till the next election, Astorian.
Hon. J. II. IlAMtv is spoken of as
the democratic nominee lor tho second
congressional dislrirt of (lie slate for
congress. Mr. Haley has made a good
record in the legislature and wo think
the selection would bo a good ono.
Tub Evening Telegram says that the
Portland match factory is kept closed
ly tho payment to its proprietors of
.$500 a month by the San Erancitco
match trti.t. It has been closed for u
year. The Telegram demands an in
vestigation. Coai. oil is reported as having been
found neat tho town of Hubbard, in
Marion county, Orogon. A company
has been formed with a capital stock
of $.'100,000 for (he purpoi-o of sinking
wells to ascertain whether it can bo se
cured in paying quantities.
I). I. Com:, of Hutchinson, Kansas,
arrived in Sdeni last Saturday. Ho is
the national organizer fo' Oregon of
tho farmers' alliance, and will remain
in the suite several months, visiting the
diUoront sections, and organize branch
es of that order wherever possible.
Oukcion will not havo two congress
men until tho fifty-third congress meets.
A great many supposed a special elec
tion would ho hold for the purpose of
electing tho additional representative,
but such is not tho case. At tho gen
oral election in 1802 Oregon will elect
two representatives.
Tiik national government has just
paid Illinois her portion of tho two per
cent tax levied during tho war by an act
of congress. The amount is $1)51,000,
air! as the state is out of debt this
money will be applied to tho world's
fair exhibit, hence her legislatuio need
not make any appropriation for that
purpose
Ai'i'iioi-itiATiNd $527,000,000 at ono
session of congress is a pretty lively
way of getting rid of tho surplus.
Asido from tho .$20,000,000 ship sub
sidy bill that amount barely covers tho
record of tho short session. It's a very
lucky thing for tho country that this
conclave of plunders havo bueu reliev
ed from duty.
The people of Uaker county asked
na u special favor that Governor Pen
noyor should not voto their $12,000
wngon road bill, pouring tho dispatch
es in on tho governor, who is said to
havo remarked that they havo not paid
thoir stale taxes for 11 vo years, und now
ho would seo that it was done. If this
is true it oilers a colossal example of
cheok on tho part of tho Dakor county
people. Albany Democrat.
It is amusing to notothe manner in
which Davis comments on tho election
of A. K Eaton us school director at
tho recent school election. To ono
who is not acquainted with tho facts
in tho case his remarks may not seem
strange, hut it" is u well-known fact
that tho election of Mr. Eaton was al
together contrary to Davis' wishes and
that ho did all in his powor to defeat
him. As usual, his influence amount
ed to nothing, und tho I ax payers cast
their votw for Mr. Huton, who, wo uro
plbvu4 t wttu, wua uleolcd.
oun reisiTiox.
Davis tried bard to find something
mean to say about us last week, and
would have his readers think wo were .
"expelled from the fire company in or-1
dor to afford the city better protection '
against lire;" that wc are opposed to j
all public improvements, etc. He !
knows, and all members of the fire
company know, that we were not ex
pelled, and that we havo no particular
animosity towards the company, and
when it comes to duty we will do as
much work as any active member in
case of a fire. Wo have been a mem
ber of the company, in good standing,
for eight years tver since it was or
ganizedtill the last few months,
when wo quit attending tho meetings.
This we did for tho reason wo did not
like the action the company took in
the city election. We were ono of the
members composing the committee
that framed the now by-laws, which
imposed a fine ol 25 cents on members
for non-attendance at tho meetings,
and know that when a certain amount
was entered up against us our name
would be stricken from tho roll of ac
tive members. This is what we de
sired and expected they would do and
tho insinuation of the Itcpublican that
wo were "expelled," is an injustice and
shows a contemptible spirit of malice,
but entirely in keeping with his past
actions. He would have his readers
believe wo arc opposed to the purchase
of a fire engine for said company,
which is not the case, and no man can
say wo ever uttered a word against it.
Tho pcoplo know how wo stand on mu
nicipal matters and questions of public
improvements in the city, and four
fifths of them fully endorse our position.
Whenever a question conies up in re
gard to improvements for tho city, we
will give our views on tho subject, with
out fo.iror favor.
Tiik Scout is free and outspoken
and will always bo found on the side
of justice, and if tho city council, or
any public official, goes contrary to
what wo think is law and justice, wo
will lot tho fact bo known to our citi
zens. This wo doom right and the
duty of a newspaper.
So far as our literary ability is con
cerned wo have mado no boast of it,
and tho editor of the Republican, in
our opinion, does nrt possess an over
stock of this article. Ho can see no
good in anything except it originate
with a few who havo an axe to grind,
and who use that organ through which
to accomplish their work, and Davis
willingly turns tho crank. Ho does
not seem to know their object, in fact
he cannot see an inch before his nose,
even with tho aid of his valuable specs.
If ho would brace up, raise his glasses
and look at matters with a broad view,
and mako his paper more independent,
like Tiik Scout for instance, he would
accomplish something and bo of some
benefit to tho community at large.
Ho says that ho was in hopes that
Tiik Scout would "bo free from tho
dirt tthat characterized it under tho
former management, and fall in line
with the spirit of progress." No, no,
Davis; if what you term "spirit and
enterprise," consists of the schemes
and plans laid by certain citizens of
this town for their own personal ben
efit, we don't want any of it in ours.
Call us a mossback, or anything, but
don't ask us to "fall in lino" with such
schemers as these.
lash laws iu:ri:Ai.i:i.
Tho registor of tho land ollico at La
Grando has received notico to tho ef
fect that tho timber culture and pre
emption laws havo been repealed, and
to allow no further entries under theso
acts. IJcMdes repealing tho timber
culture and pre-emption laws, it pro
vides that homesteaders cannot com
mute in six months, hut must live on
their claims ono year beforo thoy can
commute and pay tho customary $1.25
per aero, outside tho railroad limits, or
$2.50 poracroinsidotho railroad limits,
and soouro .title to tho lands. Another
important feature of tho bill is that
which practically annuls all contests
for lauds which havo been initiated,
for final proof has boon mado by tho
sottlors in many iustauees now pond
ing beforo tho interior department.
Special agents of the land ofilco have
reported that tho proof mado by tho
settlers was unsatisfactory, although
tho lands on which proof has been
mado, havo boon sold or havo boon
foreclosed under a mortgage given by
tho settlers to obtain money for mak
ing final proof and payments. Tho
act also providos for the reservation of
sites for irrigation purposes, and gives
tho right of way thiough all properties
owned by tho United Status, for tho
building of irrigation ouuuK und ditch
es. Besides tho provisions iclating to
thoaoquieilian of townsitos and other
property internets in Alaska, thorn is a
modification of the mineral land laws,
which will be of considerable benefit to
claimants, although there may be some
difficulty in digesting tho provision rel
ative to the cutting of timbc in min
eral states. President Harrison n fused
to sign the bill until there had been a
modification of that provision relating
to the cutting of timber in mineral
states, and this modification will ser
iously affect the Black Hills district in
South Dakota, as jvell as other mineral
states.
Semltors Pettigrcw, Casey, Sanders
and Allen worked hard to bring influ
ence to bear upon the president to sign
tho bill, and it was largely through tho
influence of western senators and rep
resentatives that the modification in tho
bill was passed through congress. Sec
retary Noble filed nine specific reasons
why the bill should not become a law,
and was very urgent before the presi
dent, insisting that ho should veto it
The modification passed in the rcsolu
tion gives tho secretary of the interior
power to regulate matters relating to
the cutting of timber, and all cases
where the United States has brought
suit against people who have removed
timber. It will take about ono month
for tho interior department to forma
late regulations by which the land offi
cers can act. Instructions havo al
ready been sent to the land officers di
recting them to allow no further entries
until the rules and regulations of the
interior department can bo promulgat
ed'. The interior department officials
aie not quite clear as to tho intent of
all the provisions, and it will tako sov
oral weeks to definitely decide what
was intended in this great omnibus bill
One effect, however, is conceded, and
that is that it will affect five-sixth of
all the contests now pending before the
department. It is quite probable that
tho practical workings of tho law will
demonstrate that tho next congress
will have to make some modifications
in its provisions.
CASH VS. CKKUIT.
Tho credit system, as at present car
ried on in Oregon, is the whole causo
of what is now termed "hard times."
The farmer, tho merchant, tho stock
raiser and grain dealer all do an im
mense credit business. "Wo say it is
the causo of hard times and expect, by
points which havo como under our ob
servation, to provo our assertion.
Wo ask, can any farmer or business
man pay from twenty to thirty per
cont interest and then make a success
of such business? You say no, as all
business men say. But does a farmer
pay such interest as above stated? you
ask. Tako tho following for an exam
pie:
A farmer in this section a short time
ago wished to purchaso a wagon. Up
on inquiring tho price ho was informed
that it was $101 on ono year's time, at
ten per cent interest, .$97 ou thirty
days or $Sb cash. At that rate tho
purchaser pays about twenty-six per
cont on his investment.. If ho borrows
money on his farm to pay tho debts ho
has contracted ho pays eight per cent
on his mortgage, four per cent to in
suro tho property against lire if thoro
bo buildings on tho land, and from
three to livo por cent to tho loan agont.
Is thero any wonder that ho cries "hard
times."
Tho reason that corporations are on
tho increase is that they do a strictly
cash business. You would not ask the
railroad company to trust you until
your wheat is threshed for a passage
from hero to Chicago, or to Portland.
Then why ask your neighbor or mer
chant to wait on you.
Pay as you go, and if you cannot
pay don't go, and in a short time you
will find that cash is king and that
credit is tho slave that has bound you,
not with a golden link, hut with an
iron band for lo theso many years. Wo
say, hroak tho iron band and deliver
yoursolvcs from tho bonds of slavery.
Hon. John Minto, of Sulom, has
been appointed by tho secretary of ag
riculture, stock correspondent for tho
bureau of animal industry in tho de
partment of agriculture, at a salary of
$1100 per annum, together with all
traveling oxponsos. His instructions
authorize him to go to any placo, or
places, in tho states of Orogon, Wash
ington or California. Mr. Minto is di
rected to bogin an investigation of tho
sheep industry of tho Pacific coast.
Tho work for tho present is to bo con
fined to tho states of Oregon and Wash
ington. Pom vand will now havo another fine
building, tho bill appropriating $500,
000 for a governino.it building having
pasted both houses of congrosd and boon
signed by tho prosidont. Two other
buildings costing u liko Amount nro at
prosont under construction, tho oity
hall and olmmbur of commerce, auil it
will not bo long before a flno court
Uoufco id under way.
1IIK DKMiiCItATIC IMCOOlt AMMI2
The democratic party has a mag
nificent career of power and usefulness
before it if it will adhere faithfully to
the task it has undertaken and assume
no new burdens until the work now
engaged in shall have been completed.
The fight for tariff reform has only
commenced. The democratic party
bus been mobilized; it has taken the
field, it has encountered the enemy
and routed it. But it has not yet dis
lodged the enemy ; it has driven tho
t'tiifliy out of the house of representa
tives; it mtii-t drive the enemy out of
the senate and the presidency beforo it
can relieve the country from burden
some and unjust taxation.
Tho democratic party has still to re
store the house of reprct-entwtivt;!. to its
constitutional position as a deliberative
body. It has still to defend tho rights
of the states against Federal encroach
ment. It remains its arduous duty to
protect the treasury from burglarious
schemes of subsidisls.
Now to hold the party together in
this great and good work, and to keep
the recruits who are daily swelling our
ranks, we must tolerate some difference
of opinion on other points.. Some of
its want free coinage of silver and some
do not; some want civil service reform
and others do not. While we havo
practical bi-inetahsm, und would have
efficient public servants under a dem
ocratic administration, and a fairly
equitable system of taxation under a
leformed tariff, let us not quarrel
among ourselves about the means as
to which wo differ, of attaining the
ends on which we are all agreed.
Let us remember that the more
planks there aie in a platform the few
er people can stand on it; tho more
articles thero nro in a creed tho owor
people will subscribe to it.
The republican party recognizes tho
fact that it was boaton last fall on tho
tariff, the forco bill and house rules is
sues. It is trying to substitute the cur
rency for the tariff. It is making ev
ery effort to change tho issues. On tho
tariff issue wo are certain to keep New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut,
and to add Massachusetts and Rhode
Island and possibly New Hampshire
in the east, and Minnesota and with
almost equal cortainty we may say
Wisconsin and Illinois.
If wo allow tho tariff is.-uo to go to
tho rear and put tho currency question
in front we are playing into the hands
of tho enomv. National Democrat.
Tiik resources of Oregon arc far
greater, in points of quality and num
ber, than those of Washington, our
sister state, notwithstanding which
fact we are being badly distanced in
the race for supremacy. Oregon's pop
ulation consists mainly of old settlors
and their offspring while that of Wash
ington comprises a comparatively re
cent emigration from tho East men
who are the solo embodiment of energy
and enterprise. They came from a
land whero indolence and inertia aro
nonenitios and whero energy and push
are necessary to gam a livelihood.
On tho other hand our old-timers havo
beon blessed by nature with everything
that heart might cravo and have grown
dormant, so to speak. In conversation
with a gentleman recently from that
state, ho speaks of sights to bo seen on
tho trip from Seattle to Portland. Ho
says that "at tho various stations along
tho line of railroads in Washington all
is bustle and activity ; not an idle man
is to be seen. Ono is engaged in mak
ing garden, anothor is building a house,
others clearing land, etc. But tho
moment wo cross tho Columbia into
Orogon all is changed. All wo see is
a fow stragglers awaiting tho approach
ing train with their hands in tlieir
jeans pockots and a languid, forlorn
look upon their countenances." This
is sufficient for the average readers and
they may form thoir own conclusions
as to the reason v aro not keoping
apace with the times.
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