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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1891)
Enteral at the postoffice at Union, Oregon, as second-class mail matter. B. CHANOEY, EDITOR'AND PROPmETOn. hates or eonscnirnoN. One copy, one yoar One copy, six months Ono copy, three months Invariably Cash in Advance. $1 50 . 1 00 . 75 If by chance subscriptions arc not paid till end of year, two dollars will be charged. Kutes or ndvortising mnde known on ap plication. WOorrcsponcIcnci' from all parts of the country solicited. THURSDAY. APRIL 9, 1891. HIUTOUIAT NOTUS. The National Democrat says : "Ben jamin Harrison will be renomi nated in 1892 by tho republicans and beaten out of sight. Wo make this prediction confidently, and with Joy wo shall await tho fulfilment." The Union correspondent of tho La Grande Gazette seems to havo been scrutinizing the columns of The Scout very closely of late in order to find out tho number of times tho editorial "wo" has appeared under the present man agement. We believe tho combined efforts of the few who are laboring to prevent any improvements being made in Un ion will amount to nothing unless it bo to stir our more progressive peoplo to greater work. Republican. Correct; but there scums to bo a diff erence of opinion as to who thoso "few" are. Time will toll. Mns. Ai.Eit,our postmaster, reeoived official notico on Sunday last that from tho last report showing tho amount of business done at this office, it would, aftor April 1, 1891, be declared a third clasH office, and from that date she would receive an annual salary. This is another evidence that Union's popu lation is on tho increase. No T v l t h 8TA N i ) I N o tho report by the Union correspondent of tho La Giando Gazette, that a largo nutnborof our cit izens aro leaving town, there is a largor number of actual residents in Union today than at any timo in its history. Our population is steadily on tho in crease and where one goes out there is at least two to take their placo. A coiutESi'ONDENT writing to tho Ba ker City Democrat claims that Baker oounty is in debt $105,000, and pio sonts tho facts and figures to substan tiate his position. It is not to bo won dered that a good many people in Ba kor county can bo found who would bo willing to annox a large portion of this county to help them bear tho cross tin ancially. La Grande Chronicle. The democrats will havo 2J7 votes at tho opening of tho next house o congress, tho republicans 87 and tho farmers' alliance 8. This will give tho democrats a plurality of 150 over the republicans and a majority of M2 over all. Tho largest majority in tho house in tho past twenty-two years, or since tho close of tho reconstruction period all tho states being represented, was 111 republican from 187!1 to 1875, ant thu next largest was 81 democrats from 18SU to 1885. Tho retirement of Mr. Jones from tho editorship of this paper is no reason why it should not continue in the same bold and fearless manner which char acterized it under his management The Suout has always been tho peo ploVpaporand will continue so Whon over it sees anything that is not for tho good of tho peoplo it will have no lies itanuy in making tho fact known. This was its mission under tho former and will oo its mission under tho present manugement. Davis is not always silent as will be seen from the following astounding statement made last week: Tho MoKinloy tariff bill is hero to stay. Thoro will bo no now tariff law passed this century. Tho many friends of lqw tarilf throughout the country will bo pained to hoar of this. It was thought by somo that tho noxt congress would on doavor to ropoal this law, but sinco Da vis has seen fit to issue tho above edict, wo presume nothing will bo done. The little statu of Dolowaro has met tho tramp question in a way that will bo quite agreeable to all except tho members of that guild. Tho legisla ture has enacted that the tramps, where over found, may bo arrested and sot to work breaking stone for the highways, for tho period of sixty days, eight liouis to bo a day's work, and for cases of stubbornness, solitary confinement and bread and water nro provided, While it is probable no great amount of stone will bo broken, that will bo ofl'sot bv the absence of loiteriug trump. j Time will prove that Tin: Scout is tho truest friend the city ever lmtl, arid Unit the Bcpublicun is its worst enemy. ' We have everything to lose and noth i ing to gain by tho schemes now on ! foot to impede the progress of tho town. Davis has everything to gain and noth ing to lose. Let the peoplo bear this in mind. Au. tho 'ype founders throughout the country have formed a combined trust, with a capital of $ 15,000,000, having as its object the absolute con trol of the entire output of typo in the United States. Tho only firm, so far known, that has refused to become a party to tho compact is Barnhart Bros., & Spindlcr, of Chicago, who have branch houses in Saint Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and St. Paul. The Baker City Democrat hits the nail square on tho head in the follow ing paragraph, which will apply to this city as well: "Tho people are getting right down to the bottom of the hinder ances in the growth and prosperity of tho city. It is time that the Augean stables were cleaned. If there is any bus iness man in the city working against 'tho best interests of tho oomnutnity in the attempt to advance his own perso nal ends temporarily ho should be sat down upon. Tho interc3tof the whole community is tho first thing to bo con sidered." The Republican still persists in try ing to misrepresent us. The editor of that squirt gun should give tho reading public credit of having somo sense. Thoy aro capable, as a rule, of judging whether or not The Scout is "throw ing cold water on every proposed on tcrprisc," or "is fighting every move ment that is calculated to build up the place." Such lying statements aio on ly actuated by selfish motives. It seems tho editor is in doubt himself as to whether his readers will boliovo him for ho continues to squirt tho samo dose at them week aftor week. CoNflitESSMAN Geauv, democrat, of the first California district, has been interviewed by a reporter of his homo democratic newspaper in Santa Rosa, on tho political situation and the ensu ing presidential campaign. Ho thinks that the tariff and the extravagance of tho last bession of congress will consti tute the issues of (ho campaign ; that Cleveland will bo the nominee of tho democratic party if he wants tho nom ination; that Harrison will ask and re oeivo tho republican nomination ; that tho silver question will not bo a nation al issue that it is merely sectional; and that tho noxt congress will demand tho payment of tho indebtedness of tho Pacific overland railroads. The only inference ono can draw from tho roport of tho newly organized "fanners' alliance" in Bakor county is that it is an annex to tho democratic party. Republican. Tho domooratie party is not to blamo if the farmers' alliance favor its main principles. Tho alliance, at) a rulo, is not in favor of a high protective tariff, ; and thoro is no danger of them becom- ing an "annex" to the republican par- ty, which is causing a largo numbor of republican papers to opposo this organ- ization. Tho reason of their opposition is very obvious. Tho MoKinloy bill itself has settled tho caso with tho coun try. By its operation it has made con verts to tariir reform in every section of tho land, and in tho Farmers' Allianco alono, which is pretty near a unit on tho subject, it has lust the republican party probably a half million votes. These will nover bo argued back into tho sup- port of a high tariff policy. Tho Mc- ! Kinloy bill has been an object lesson which has firmly fixed their views for this generation and whoso effects will bo remembered bovond it. The daily papors aro filled with ru mors of-war with Italy. This talk of war is occasioned by the recall of Bar on Fnva, the Italian minister to Wash ington, by his home government. Tho Italian government has taken this ac tion becauso of its dissatisfaction with tho way our government is acting in the mattor of the lynching of tho Ital ians of Now Orleans. Our prominent statesmen do not think thero is anv langor of war. Thoro is just ono thing to do with this bloodthirsty organiza tion of secret assassins, and tho time for action is now. Tho Mafia must bo torn up by tho roots and stamped to death. It must bo absolutely and permanently wiped off from American soil, and the American peoplo entire ly rogardloss of tto linos aro bound w I.. ,!l ! . . .... . . I " iu am in uio wors. The peoplo of Now Orleans must bo supported by tho full power of publlo eontiinont on this continent in tho purpose which thoy now have of ridding themselves of thu Alalia terror forovcr, and the logis- tition to this end should bo boaroh. ing ii detail and sweeping In olfeot. Tin: iiiLM()N'-i)iir,i.AK congukss. The official ropublincan estimate of j the appropriations made by the fifty first congress is now before the public in a special number of the Congress ional Record. It foots up $988,410, 129.55, but as the appropriation for re funding the direct tnr. unioiintini? to over .$15,000,000, is entirely omitted, and the indefinite appropriation for the payment of sugar bounties is put at about $3,000,000 less than will really be required, the attempt to bring the total within a thousand millions is a palpable failure. Tho Billion-Dollar congress has fairly earned tho title by which it will go down to historv, and any effort to shako off its honors will be futile. Moreover, tho fifty-first congress has projected its extravaganco into tho fu ture. It has passed numerous bills whoso execution will require largo ap propriations, but it has left the appro priations for its successors to make. Tho official statement, which, as wo have shown, omits some important items, exhibits a net increase over tho appropriations of the last democratic congress of $17O,-14G,209.75. That is the smallest amount that the country can bo said to havo paid for tho luxury of two years of Rced-MoKinloy rule. may bo said to havocostin round num bers a million dollars apiece. But tho excess is greater than it ap pears on its face. Tho increase was all in the annual appropriations. J lie permanontappropriations remain about the same. But there is really an in crease of nearly $10,000,000 under this head that does not appear in tho tab les. The permanent appropriation re quired to pay the interest on tho pub lic debt has declined within the past two years through the gradual redemp tion of bonUs by $9,079,588.50 a year. Tho fact that in spite of this there has been no substantial decline in the esti mated total of these appropriations shows that thoro havo been increased expenditures in other directions which prevent us from getting the benefit of tho saving interest. This conclusion is correct. Tho sugar bounties arc principally responsible for devouring this $10,000,000. In the ordinary appropriations the first thing that strikes tho obsorvor is that in most oases the amounts appro priated run well up witli tho estimates. Tho usual course is for the heads of de partments to estimate how much thoy can spend under existing laws, and thou for congress to cut them down to tho amounts thoy actually need. That is what eongross is for. If it were ex pected simply to endorse tho depart ment estimates tho officials might as well bo allowed to dip into tho treasury and help themselves. But m the fifty first congress things ran at tho lato j session something like this : Tho secre tary of agriculture estimated that ho needed $2,812,003.50. The agricultur al appropriation bill, as reported to tho houso, carried $2,80 1,853.50. Tho house raised tho amount to $2,Sli,S53.50. As reported to the senate it was pegged up to $3,018,153.50. Tho senate gave it anothor lift to $3,008,153,50. It finally boeaino a law at $3,028,153.50, or over $200,000 abovo tho estimate It is a comfort to know that tho final $3.50 was not disoardod through all its trans formations. xno oniy uiu tnat was reduced ma terially bolow tho estimates was tho ono that ought to havo been kopt up to tho top figure tho Fortification bill ! That was cut down from tho $7,18 1,323 asked for to $3,70 1.S03. But in spito of this reduction tho total ordinary ap- propriations woro increased from the estimated figures of $358,5 15,30 1, -10 to $359,500,585.99. Whon tho depart ments camo to congress with their re quests, Mr. Reed gonially remarked: "Don't bo so modest, gentlemen, tako a little more." Mr. Reed's genorosity has inado it nocessary for futuro congresses to scrimp to tho point, of parsimony to avoid national bankruptcy. Exami ner. WIIV .NOT? Tho Boston Journal, whose editor is a blind zealot in tho cause of protec tionism, says : In three weeks from tho present timo we shall bo eating MoKinloy sugar, and wo shall onjoy it tho moro bocauso it will cost us two conts a pound loss than we havo been in tho habit of pav ing. Even tho smallest child will realize the benefit of the ohango in an uuoxpootod but grateful thicken ing of the coating of niulmwee nnon hie slice of broad, and if he knew what he as about he would hymn the praises Ul iUUIYIUIOy. Then if it be such a blotted thing to have untaxod sugar, why, in the namo ..I r.i:..i of all that is reasonable, did not Mo Kinloy givo us Bomo more of it? Why not givo us froo lumber, salt, coal, tin, binding twiue.jute sacks for grain, oto. None of thoso protection paper answer j this question except to 6ay that we can not produce as much sugar in this country as we use. Very well, wo do not produce as much wool nor woolen goods as we use, therefore wo should havo free wool and woolens. We do not produce as much tin as we use, therefore we should have free tin. Yet ! tl,CC devotetJ3 of protectioni-m who gave us free pugar, because we do not produce all the country needs, gave us highly taxed wool, woolen goods and tin, becauso we do tiot produce all tho country needs in these lines. What logic. Tho truth is just like this: Mc Kinloy sought to secure a purely sec- Unal liWV wnd succeeded in doing it by taking away about all the '-protection" tho Fouth had, and increasing it in the oast, north and west. But the legisla' tion on the sugar tax was subjected to just such jugglery by Mclvinlcy in fav or of the refiners as to enable "corners" and trusts to thrive and Ave predict that this long-looked-for sweetness will not materialize very soon. Albany Demo crat. The Scout has, during the past few weoks, prosonted to its readers as it be lieves tho true situation of affairs as thoy exist in this city. It now only remains to be seen whether it was right. No attompt has been made by any member of the council or tho edi tor of their organ to answer anything, except occasionally when some mem ber of tho council or the mayor finds a crowd of a half dozen or o on the streot corners who aro willing to listen. to the plaintive cry of how "The Scout is op posed to all improvements, and throws cold water on every enterprise," etc. The climax was reached last Thursday morning, however, when tho Honora ble Mayor Wright issued his proclama tion, which was read by him in most of tho business houses and on nearly every streot corner in town. The Scout would bo pleased to publish it to the outside world that they might know by what a literary genius the city of Union is presided over. Still it was not a dignified official paper and somo who heard it aro mean enough to say that tho argument was not convin cing, and give it as their opinion that the mayor has since become ashamed of his humorous effort. Asonta Wanted. Our agents mnki'$100 to ."00 a month sel ling our goods on their merits. We want county and general agents, and will take back all goods unsold if a count y agent fails to clear iflOO and oxpenses after a thirty day's trial, or a general agent less than $2."0. AVo will send largo illustrated circulars and letter with a speeial offer to suit territory applied for, on receipt of time one cent stamps. Apply at onee and get in on tho boom. Address, ltENXlilt MAXinwcruitixu Co., 4-01y Pittsburgh. Pa. Take Notico. The annual meeting of the Union Come- tory Sooioty will be hold at tho homo of Mrs. K, A. Alger on Friday, April 10, 1891. at 2 o'clock p. m. Husiness of importance to transact. A full attendance is requested. Miii. T. II. OiiAWroitD, 1-2-Ut Secretary. Till: QUESTION SETTLED. S3K? This cut is ft faithful picture of tho we 1 known establishment of Thomas Price it Sou, nt fi24 Sacra mento street, S. F, As tho leading ch mists of the west, they wero asked to icttlo tho question as to what sarsaparillas wero in fuct purely vegetable. Wo present their re port. ' Wo havo mailo careful chemical analyses of lavornl well known brands of mr?urm Mil, and tiavo found them all with tho slnijlo exception of Joy's to contain iodide of Potassium. As u result ivo aro enabled to pronounce Joy's to tho only purely vegetiiblohamipitrllla nowo.. tuo market, which has come under our observation," Modoru mcdlcluo has proven that all ordinary iaco eruptlous aro not caused by disease1 blood, but by indigestion and bluggish circulation, which call for vogotublo alteratives, instead of mineral blood purifiers llko Iodldo of Potassium. 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