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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1891)
AKOTItKIl I.IK NAIX.KO. lintcrtd nt the Jinttnffrr nt Union, Oregon, at ttwnd-clatt mail matter. B. Chancey, Editor and Proprietor. iiATra ov RirmnitiPTioN. One coy, one your One copy, six months O c copy, three months Inmriabbj Oath in Admnte. If In rhunre sidtneriptions are not tid till end of year, two dollars will tie thurgttl. The Republican still persists in its lying statement in regard to this pa per. The statement that the letters to the La Grande Gazette were sent out from this office is a dirty, contemptible go ; lio. Wo had no' more to do with the 1 00 i'buginees, and knew no morn about it than the editor of tho .Republican. It sconis noeosaary for u to apeak in this plain way. The .Republican never Kates of ndvorilsint; made known on np- i i)rodttces a line of argument, but con- plicaiion SOorreapdiitlunct1 tho country solicited. from all parte of TUUKSDAY, Al'KIL 23, 1801. ISIHTOItlAI, KOTJ1S. TilK Salem Statesman, Dallas Ob server and several republican papora have alieady commenced lighting the farmers' alliance. It will do no good. Tho alliance is here to'teach a politi cal lesion, oven if it fails to bo a na tional life-time fixture. Tin: publication of the president's "itinerary" amounts to n notification for the 'Federal office-holders to rally on tho railroad stations and form aline across the Continent to see that he is received with "a continuous ovation" from Washington t; Kan Francisco. IIavi: you notieodtho two-cent drop in sugar since the iint of April? The Republican prww attired us that it would surely drop on April 1st at le.isl two cents. Instead it h. is stiffened in price. This is Ibc benefit the Repub licans have given the people by means of their now protective tariff. A.mono tho appointments soon to bo made by Governor Pernio' or is that of n state board of charities and correct ions to consist of six persons, not more than three of whom shall lie from the samo political party. This board will bo provided with rooms in tho state cnpitol, where meetings will be held quarterly, and oftouor if necessary. The principal duties of Ibis board will bo to invesl.sgate all charitable and correctional instilutions in the state and examine into their condition and management. Thoc include prisons, jails, hospitals, orphans' homos, asy lums and poor farms. Thk Koour would call tb.- attention ol "protectionists" to the following from Montgomery, Ward ik Co.'s cata logue for 1801 : The new tariff' law has compelled ua to advance a very largo number of articles sold by us from 10 to HO per cent, and we aio obliged to fill orders at the advanced prices. I ho Mckin ley bill means a largo addition to the expensos of the producing classes. This firm does an immense, business throughout the United States and if they tliil not know this to bo a fact they would not say ho. livery body is acquainted with this firm, and know what a largo and varied slock they carry. Tin: liakcr City Ulado, it seems, has taken the same position in regard to city matters there as Tun Scout has hero in regard to our city affairs. It says : It has boon tho custom heretofore with tho press of this city to praiso everything connected with tho city and hurrounding county, tho apparent aim being to "boom" tilings, Instead of trying to improve the condition of things by calling attention to our shortcomings. Dining the past tover al months the ltlade has on more than one occasion called attention to the actual condition of things. It is grati fying to the management to know that in every instance have the Blade's views met with those of many of the business num. Of couro there are those who would prefer to cover up all our faults, and trust to luck to have them lomain ho. This is a short-sighted policy, and will not win in the end. This is right, and if some of tho schomes concocted by thu present council aro enrriod out, Union will toon bo in the same financial stra.it as Uakor City Lakt fall it looked as if tho presi dential campaign would bo a square fight on tho tariff'. Sinco then tho sit uation has been unhappily compli cated by side issues. The silver ques tion has made trouble almost every where. In Illinois the Carter-Harrison question is near tlio front, in Iowa prohibition, and in Minnesota tights. Unless tho excitement on the last named burning issue can be qtiullod, it will bo no use to try to talk to u Minnpiiotn audience on the uriU". Wo j tiro sorry, for tho wtku of the party prospects, that the author of the Anti Tights bill iti a democrat. Of eourtc, a democratic atnUwmnn could not bo c pooled lo do anything ehe than aland up for morality, roganllmM of oouae qtionoejj, but wo fear that bcf-Mv ' tinues week after weok in throwing out insinuations in regard to Tin: Scout. This is the kind of opposition wo havo to contend with. Hut the ed itor of that vilo sheet is not eatisfied in publishing theeo statements to his few readers, but keeps his tongue going. whenever an opportunity affords, in telling the people that "Thk Scout is fighting every enterprise in the town and should be suppressed, etc." Such opposition we do not fear. It only shows a solfisb and envious spirit and in time will result in more harm to himself than it will do him good now. With all his Iving statements he is unable to make the people uoliove him, and that is what grinds in his craw. Thk Scout has not opposed tho flour ing mill, the woolen mill, wator works or anything ele that will lend to build up our town. Can tho Republican say as much? No; it is the organ of a few schemers who are endeavoring to build themM'lves up at tho expense of the taxpayers of tho city. Tho facts aro too plain in the minds of the think ing public what the object of a few of these parties is. It has been shown on more than ono occasion that they have dono all in their p'ower to defeat certain enterprises. They don't want them, for well they know that should tho town go ahead and improve, opposition to their business would come in and that in consequence they would be "left in tho shade." Such is tho state of affairs that now exists in our city. Thk Scout has en deavored to, and wo think has clearly pointed them out to tho people. It now only remains to bo seen whether they will blindly follow these schemers or get in and assist in building up the I own. In order to havo a bettor town horo, it is clearly evident that wo must first secure manufactories. If the peo ple of Union think they will got them through the aid of certain parties who are now pretending to favor thorn, but at the same time doing all they can to defeat them, they aro badly mistaken. I Mr. Eaton is a faithful worker and is doing all in his tower lo secure a wool en mill hero, and will succeed if our citizens wako up to tho truo situation of affairs and get in and assist him. Tiik Scout was the first to agitate this question. Mr. Eaton received a letter somo time ago from certain parlies in the oast in regard to a woolen mill, and expressed a willingness to take stock in such an ontorpiiso to the amount of $25,000. He gave the iotter to Davis who took it and kept it for feovoral weeks without even mention ing "woolen mill" to our people, and probably would not to this day had not Mr. Eaton, being desirous of agita ting the matter, got tho letter back and given it to us, when wo called at tention to the matter and since then it has been agitated, and it now looks as though wo might havo a mill in a abort time. So far as tho new flouring mill is concerned, we made favorable mention of it at . first and aro still in favor of it, Davis' statement to the contrary notwithstanding; also the wator works, providing they can bo put in without too much expense to tho city. Tho only thing wo have op posed is a few acts of the common council and wo think our opposition is well founded. If they can go ahead, revue the ohartcr, extend the city lim its, bond the city, build reservoirs at the head of Cathorino creek, compol the taxpayers lo pay more than double what they should for the city printing, etc., without the consent, knowledge or wish oi our citizens, it is tndeeil a bnd state of affairs, and Tin: Scolt has had no hesitancy in making them known, nud will continue to make them known whenever they appear, but for tho present will leavo the mat ter with tho people. Continued war faro on one subject has doubtless become monotonous to our many out- side roadors, besides our space is more valuable for tho discussion of other matters. Jl'KlM.UV'ii .UlSTAllM. The Chicago Tribune, tho leading republican organ ol tho Northwual, publiue a Washington apodal about Un opttraUoiii of Uie new taiiU'. Ao- oiduit; (" tht rroiKHidoit, the State voniber, lblfl, roll around the Muiuw- j lJeiariiuul ha Uwu getting "wme U)t hunger for tight will demand it inurtliiig confidential ivorU about MieriffcO. Ilia owle fur mix p.my th- . II. l tf ih Mt Km!, v !.iw mi tin U JlUl jlMlIf ill the tUi I. of nil Itl.'llf Ji limn ' ill, idi .I, It eifllin, lllut bio popular inipuloe. Kxuminer Umii would b mm ki d huUg- in "imports has nut been realized. For-j cign goods keep coming in about as plentifully as ever. The law is not di minishing the revenues and "its main purpose of encouraging home manu factures seems to be a failure." So far as the revenue is concorned, the failure of the McKinloy bill to meet the predictions of its frxmers is a lucky thing for the country. The Cleveland days, when we were troubled with a surplus, havo faded into a pro historic mist. The Billion-Dollar Con gress has made it necepoiiry for the government to rake up every Cent it can scrape together to meet its liabili ties. But consider for a moment what this sustained volume of importations at the increased rates moans to the people. The meaning is that even after the imposition of taxes that were meant lo be prohibitory the farmers and work ingmen of America find themselves obliged to continue buying such for eign goods as they bought before Tho American trusts have taken ad vantage of tho new duties to such an extent that consumers find it cheaper to pay the exorbitant taxes levied by tho government than the still moie ex orbitant taxes levied by the capitalists Whon a foreign article is actually imported and the duty paid into the treasury, there can be no question of the fact that the tariff is a tax so fur as it is concerned, nor of how much the tax amounts to. Nor can there bo any question ol the fact that cotiMim ers ol domestic, articles ol the same kind have to pay the samo tax, for if such thing3 could bo obtained any cheaper people would not buv tho for eign ones. The net result of Mr. Mc Kinloy's labors, therefore, baa been to make Americans get less for their money, or work harder for what I hey get, which is the same thing. Ci.auh Shjuckkls, the sugar king of San Francisco and the Sandwich Is lands, is said to have made ij.oOO.OOO within the past three weeks as the re sult of an "understanding" with tho sugar trust. This money coin-'S out of the producers and is taken from them on account of their not. doing a requisite amount of thinking and al lowing special and selfish legislation by which they are robbed by the sh arp ers. We believe half of the ooudomtvi tion for this state of affairs belongs to the victims and dupes of the system rather than all of it lo tho sh irpors, who aro only playing a game which they havo been taught to call "busi ness." East Oregonian. The Seven Dsvilo Road. w (fg; rar JSl "IT h womooji Bt-K.aKiw ffTiiiHWli c2ecfdanr. hWjuO. erssaas rrnirm.Twy w I AT UNION FROM APRIL 23d to 26th. ercheron arse! French Coach Horses and Mares, The best ever brought to this countrv. Thev .ire from tho celebrated stables of MARK M. COAD, Fremont, Nebraska. All young and PRIZE WINNERS at the leading great horse shoes. All TERED. These horses may bo seen at the liverv stable near the court house. eed THOROUGHBRED and REGIS- Evcry horse fully guaran- tt appears lioni Jsaker City papers that tho people of that section aro making strenuous efforts for tho build ing of tho Seven Devils wagon road, and that, with tho assistance fiom tho county court of this county, wo will soon have a road to that cam). Tho Baker Blade of tho 18th hist., in speak ing of tho matter, says: Mr. Moulton, tho general managor of the road committee, as announced in tho Blade last evening, leaves horo to-morrow morning with men, teams and implements and expects by push ing the work to have the road in a passable condition on the first of May. Tho peoplo of l'ino and Eagle val leys should congratulate themselves upon the fact that the people of Union and Baker aro not only able, but wil ling to place tho means of future pros perity within their grasp. Tho building of this road will be of vast importance to both Raker and Union counties, and as the appropria tion was freely given by Union county, so will Baker City quickly respond by liboral subscriptions, and all along the routo will bo found willing hands to facilitate tho work. lliits and cap ut ro.t. lone ltii. tf j G I IMS HOT Every, liorse-brecder and stockman is cordiallv invited to call and inspect our horses. n bleeder. EASY TERMS ON WELL SECURED NOTES. 3 Come Early. We Will Be Here Only Three Days 3 A GRAND OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE A SPLENDID HORSE OF EITHER BREED. MARK M. COAD, Proprietor. Only a Few More Days mains To Secure T- Our Entire Stock of Hats, Caps, Gloves, and Gents' Furn ishing goods Jewelry, Picture Frames, Albums, Variety Goods, Must bo Closed Out within the noxt fow days, Regardless of Cost. An no ti xi c e m ent 4 mh iv d Sim and our entire stock of AT COST AT COST T COST AT COST AT COST AT COST AT COST AT COST ; AT COST j AT COST AT COST AT COST AT COST I I AT COST AT COST i 'ruuinunjii svuifiuuii; Have on the way and now arriving, several ear loads of Agricultural mDlements. The Companv 111 hereafter carry a full and cuinplcte stock of FARMING ACHINESY. 2-19-tf. This department will be under the management of Mr. Kllpatrick. THE M. & m. Co. E,ffr"1FiqMMIIITrwrWffTrfFWaPW DEALER IN -A.J5T3D AT COST Now is tho time to Buy Your Groceries. Our StiK-k uf Almost (Jiven Away. JONES BROS., Union. Or. I Id A Pure Cream of Tartar Powdar. Superior to every other known. Uiori in Million of Hornet 40 Years the Standard. Ddfefew Cafe o4 i'utry, Light flaky BiKult. ClrlsWIr Ctkn, rdUUc hiM I. ,.1... to (Him i.ku. .u 1 aut. ueU work. DION CITY HOTEL, L. J. Bocthk, Propr. Oppoklie tin' Court Hoimc, Union, Oregon. Hnvln again Mutinied control of this il'uUr housu, I rottteUy tariis tb vul!k to irive m call. Tabk Furnished with the Best the Market bfiorte. Kir-t an l 1 1 u Latest Styles. and Just deceived, Direct from the East, u Luree Invoice ol LADIES' MISSES' CALFSKIN SHOES, tho Best Ever brought to this Market. Also a Fine A.-sorlment of GENT'S -:- FURNISHING -;- GOODS My Prices will suit the tiittt's Drop in ami see me. C. VINCENT, Main Street, Union, Or. Ire You EoiMto hit an Orctoi? SB? -AVKS' .' Of Payette, Ada County. Idaho. Has the Largest General Nursery Stoek in the Mountain Omiun-y 125 Acres. Trees from Payette Nureery will le.n h Grande Roude valh. in six hours from the time they sue taken from the ground. Mountain Grown Trees are Hardy, and Healthy. Vigorous Do not order until you havo visited our prioes. Wholesale and retail. our nureery, seon our agi-nt or got G-2G-yl The Centennial Hotel, Union,. Oregon J. COODBROD, - - -J iiwognli'.' .li Leading Hotel of ' astern Oreg roprietorB IM.VK UKOK IbVUfLK ROU'dSt For th.- rrlARGEH li ABLE. V. I nvtiler" rfwtwaantmwTnigaB3Ba (OPJ'OKITK CKN : Wm. E. Bowker, M HOT'? EE. 1 1 . 1)1 1 I t tor