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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1891)
THURSDAY, JUNK 25, 1891 ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. This department of The Scout Is open to nnv one who wisliei to conirieuio an nrucic on'ttmcly topic of interest to the allliinot! Write plainly and mi only one side of the manuscript. THE PROTEST OF THE FARMER. An Aduross to the Alliance by President L. L. Poll:. (CONTIUUKI) 1'ltOM LAST WKKK. In tho Kro.it State of Illinois tlio corn crop of 188'J eo.-t. ita fanner .$!),- l).'l.r),82.' more thun the crop ivhh worth after it wiih harvested. The mortgaged on land lots and chattels in that State in 1880, we to .$201,-l(il,:i:M. In 1887 they were .f 1 10,:i7!),0(18 an increase of indobled lioHH in Mivon years of $211.917,731 or 1011 per cent. On land alone the in crease was $M,9r3,000, or -10 per cent, If every mirplun btinhel of whe.it and corn of the crop of 1889 in that State had been applied to tho inert gaged indobtedncHS on tho farm laud in 1887, there would Htill remain $117, 781,977 to bo paid out of other crops or earnings, or it would have fallen short $:,872,2f0 of paying the interest. In tho great Stale of Michigan, with nil its diversified industries, the farms aro mortgaged to tho amount of $1110,' 000,000 at an avera o interest of 7 per cent. And to pay tho interest on the farm mortgages for one year would re quire luT,f 1-1 bushels more- of wheal than the entire net crop of tho State in 1889. In tho great State of Iowa $199,000, 000 of mortgaged indebtedness hangs over its farms a mini equal to $101 for every man, woman and child in tho State. And this is exclusive of farms occupied by tenants. All over tho face of this broad land, tho most princely heritage over given to man, may he read the same fad, sad story ; and if vou would read tho fearful rec ord of the frightful ravages ot money powor on iho industrial energies of our people, go to your UensiiM hureati in this citv and you will liud piled up tho abstracts of 9,000,000 ot mortgages on their homos a mortgage for every seven of our population, or averaging about one mortgage to every family in the whole Union. ltul this law of supply and demand is inexorable and unchanging in its cllects ami operation as applied to money. Scarcity of money means high-priced money; a plentiful supply of money moans cheap money. Tho high-priced dollar lessons tho price of labor products, the cheap dollar raisOH tho price of labor products. Look at our public debt. In 188(1 it was $2, 7811,000,000. We have paid in princi pal, interest and premiums on that debt the vast sum of $1, 198,9:11, Ml, and yot, it would take more of labor pro ducts today to pay the remainder than it would have taken at tho prices in lSSO to have paid tho original debt. Again, two farmers each had $1,000 in 1870. Tho ono deposited his mon ey in a vault, tho other invested in wheat and bought fiOO bushels. To- day the cash farmer can buy with his money 1,500 bushels of wheat, while tho wheat farmer, with his 500 bushels, can buy only $!1!1U in money. That is to sav, tho capital of the one has in creased without interest 50 per cent, the other has depreciated (Hi per cent. If this money, lying idle and drawing no interest, can thus increase its pow er so alarmingly over tho products of labor, what mind can grasp tho enor mity of tho evil that is indicted in the industrial energies of the people, when money is loaned out at ruinous rates of interest? In i860 wo had $52 per capita in circulation. During that year wo had 0!I2 business failures, involving liabili ties to the amount of $ I7,:i:i:i,000. In 1880 wo had less than $7 per capita in circulation, and during that year wo had UI.277 business failures, involving liabilities to the amount of $111 2, 11)1'.,- 7-12. The farmer sees United States l-per-cunt bonds, which would bo utterly worthless but for tho sturdy blows of his strong arm, clue in 1907, which were bought at 51 cents on the dollar, soiling at $1.25 to tlio dollar, when he knows that a mortgage on not ono farm in a thousand for tho same time at ouo-third its value, at tho rate of 7 pur cgnt interest, could be mill at Its face value. Me in alarmed when lie mo under our llnanoiitl policy the inajur part of Din wmillli of (W.OOO.tKM) people m tnui i in hrtiid of :t i.ooo num. Ilti mm ixmlraliiuNl wijiitul ulliml to i Jiwru wvur, Invading our lumjilw u)lllw, MlbaiilixilK llli Jih, HUH' lii'llmtf K'luwjiiniuK, ihu IiuIIiiH'". ilii taliiiu lliu ialfomi of ntlW HnidJiin iimIivMiihI iifiliit i of lhw. 4 tyranny intimidating official authority and di recting legislation, State and national. Ho sees the rich growing rapidly rich er, and tho poor growing rapidly poorer, and yet with each recur ring year ho continues to sow in faith, toil in hope, reap in despair. Sur rounded by the most wonderful prog ress and development tho world has ever witnessed, he stands appalled with impending bankruptcy and ruin. Is it any wonder that these suffering and oppressed nillions are organizing for protection? Hut wo are told that all these conditions have tho sanction Hut we know there is no so degrading as legalized tyranny, and no injustice is so oppress ive as that which stands intrenched behind the forms of law. But the political doctors tell us we should be less indolent, less extrava gant and less improvident, and all will be well. I hurl the insult back with the asf-ertion that no class of men work so hard, or ho many hours per day, or live so hard and leceive such little ' reward for their labor, as the average American farmer. A promi nent government official says that "di versification is essential to our agri cultural salvation." 1 point him to tho M51 abandoned farms in Massa chusetts, to the 1G32 abandoned farms of New Hampshire, to tho onco beau tiful hills and valleys of New England blooming in all tho glory of profitable diversified agriculture, but now given over to the briar and bramble, for an answer to this assertion. 1 point him to that beautiful garden spot in Amer ican agriculUue, New Jersey, and to the rich and fertile lauds in Michigan, and other states whero tho farms have depreciated in value from .'i.'i to 50 per cent, for a crushing refutation of the fallacious assumption. Others high in authority toll us that the meagro re turn for the products of our labor is dun to "over production," and wo lire pointed to our exports of bread slufl's e pp.. . tor prooi oi tne at-seruon, wncn in fact, if we had us-ed 2 ounces per diem per eapita mote than was consumed in the year 18H9, not ono pound would have lomained for export. Ho forgets that then an- H,000,000 tramps in this countrv and 5,000,000 human beings living in a t-tule of t-eini-htarvation. I'liero can be no over production to long as tho cry for bread from a single child in the land is heard. It is not over production, but it is under con sumption a want of a just and equit able disttibutiou of the products of labor. I solemnly protest, and with all rev- eience, that Uod is not to blame for our deplorable condition. I protest that it is not tho fault of the farmer. Hut I assert and charge deliberately, that tho fault is to bo found in the un just, partial, discriminating and wicked financial system of our government: a system that has imposed upon agricul ture an unjust and intolerable propor tion of the burdens of taxationand has made it the helpless victim of tho rapacious greed and tyrannical power of gold ; a system under which, despite the admonition of history and all Iho teachings of the past, despite tho warn ings of tho ablest political economists of this and of all countries, of this and all the ages past, our currency has been contracted to a volume totally in adequate to the demands of tho legiti mate business of the country with tho natural and inevitable result high- priced money ami low-priced products. Hut again we arc told that wo should not complain,' for "a dollar will buy more today than over before." Hut whero is tho dollar? Should wo not buy more with it than ever before? Does not tho dollar cost us from two to four times as much as ever before? Hut buy moro of what? Luxuries? In his terribly depressed condition the farmer aspires not to Uio indulgence of luxuries, but is happv if by anv means ho may socuro to himself and family the absolute necessaries of life. Let us look into this boasted pur chasing jiower of the dollar from the farmer standpoint. Ho buys a dress fabric for his wife at 20 cents per yard, which twenty year ago would have cost 10 cents. The broker to whom ho sells his cotton makes his usual profit, the road which transports it to Now York makes its usual profit, tho New York broker soils it to a Now Hamp shire manufacturer and makes hi us ual profit, tho road transporting it to the Now Hampshire mill make its us ual profit, tho manufacturer mauipu IaWm it into a dress fabric, soil it to u Now York jobber and make his usual profit with a bunm of .15 pur cent in III shaK) uf an iiiijHirl tax oalUl pro tmitiou, tho road tranH)rtiug it to Now Yolk make iu umiiiI profit, tin New York jobber mIN it to (lit whole Mill HIMfi'lMtUl Mini IUkl lli IMU'il pMitll, Dm MUuUwftlv iiu'wlwnl m4U il ( tl'U I' Iwnl 'l III' lMIH f III llir H"Ulh Hi !' iil I ' l l tin . .u chant makes its usual profit, and the Southern merchant sells it to the farmer who produced tho cotton at his usual profit. Thus wo sec that from tho time this raw cotton leaves the hand of the farmer and comes back to him, ten separate and distinct profits, with a protective tax of 35 per cent, has been realized on it. Hut was la bor the gainev by it? Who reaped the profit? Every man through whose hands it had passed. Who were the losers? Tho man who produced it and sold it at a price barely covering the cost of production, and who, in its final puichaso, paid all these added profits. Who else? That frail and pah-faced girl, who stood on her weary feet for 12 to Li hours per day in manufacturing it, and who was forced to ieceivo her pay in the scrip of the linn, that must be hoioied at the store of the linn only at a heavy discount, and which reduces her wages below living rates. Is labor benefitted, when a dollar will purchase more of its products than ever befoic? Away with such fraudu lent and hypocritical assertions! It is not so much iu the jturchusing power of the dollar that the farmer is inter cstcd, but he is profoundly interested in the debt-paying power of the dollar. Will this dollar, which cost him two to four times as much n.s when money was plentiful will it pay more debt? Will it pay more interest? Will it pay moro on bis mortgage? Will it pay more taxes? Will it pay more toward uio education oi ms children inese are the questions which deeply con cern our depressed, oppressed and debt-ridden people. CONTINMIKD NKXT WKHK. A. n nounce m e n t. ioi urn pit norm in So SIIKUII-T'S SALK' -VTOTIOK IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT L by virtue of an execution issued out of the Honorable Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Union county, bearing date the 29th day of April, 1M)1, to me directed and delivered, upon a judgment entered and docketed therein on the 27th day of February. 1801. upon a mandate from the t-'tipretne Court of the State of Oregon upon a judgment entered therein on the 8th day of December, 1800, wherein A J. Curtis, plaintiff and appellant, recovered Judgment :igainsi uio i.a uranue uytirauuc Water "UN I, UnLUUIV, Have on the wav and mow arrhinir, -e ;a Agricultural Implements. The Company tl! hoi-i'iiC'cr car-y a full and complete stock of FA a M A H I N E il Y SP""Tliis department will be under the niaiui'-'ement of Mr. Kilpatrick. 2-19-tf. Tl & m. Co. Alliance Notice. Tho nonrotary of each sub-alliance in Union county is requested to send tho county secretary, at Telocasot, tho charier name and number of their alliance, and date of monthly meeting, with nainos of president, vice-president and secretary. W. A. GATES, Sec. Union County Alliance. Tilbury Pox, M. V., tiu uuiiuout medical wri ler, lu Wh vork"81ciu Diseases," thin account for tho pimples no common on tho mceiyirt neck Hiding too rlfh or tooKmtay food, orRio lienrt; eating whljo tho oxcretory organs uro sluggish causes la if.ost poople indigestion oru dyspepsia' condition, v.'hlch causes tho blood to moro blug glshly, which In turn enfeebles tho pores. Tin result Is, that tho exuding secretions block In tin pores, which Inllume, each distinct luflamma Hon being a plniplo. Dr. Fox therefore doei not prescrlbo ' blood purifiers" so culled, but i "dyspepsia cur" to bo tuken, to uso his owr words "tilt the ilyspcpsial symptom) have disap pcarcil." The oM Idea was, that fuco eruption! wero cuu.umI by ,u humor in tho blood," foi which they trente ' iho blood, glring tho iniuerm potash. Honro tho reason why tho older nirsa pnrlllus contain potash. Joy's Vegetable Sursa pnrilla follows tho modern Ideas ot Dr. Vox, and alms with gentle vegetable alterutlres at the stomach and dlgcstivo organs. Tho reason is ap pareut why it cures dyspepsia and indigestion and the pimples and skin oruptlous which rosul thorofrom, and why sarsaparillus that usu mlu uruls fail. DEALEIl IN Latest Styles. Just Received, Direct from the East, a Largo Invoice of LADIES' and .MISSES' CALFSKIN SHOES, the Host Ever brought to this Market. Also a Fine Assortment of KENT'S My Prices FURNISHING -:- GOODS. will suit, the times. Drop in and see me. C. VINCENT. Main Street, Union, Or. Are You Uoing to Plant an Orcliard? Of Payette, Ada County. Idaho. Mwuiimui rHE CRY OF iynLLIONI OM. 7K V BKCK! ' STOP IT NOW, I :OON IT Will. RE TOO LATE. 1 h.i vf i-crn troubled many year with du.er.se of the Uiclneyi ml have tried m.inv different tcu-.tlie-. and hare ti-itii'lit uid fruin dinuent physicians witSi.uit relief. Atvii the ijlh of April 1 wn mifl'eriiiT iroiu a very violent attack that almost prostrated rat in nr'i n maimer 1 ...l 1 was bent orcr When I sot dow 11 it was nliu..-t impossible for me to uel UP ftlu.ie, or to put on H'y cK.mr, wncu kind Providence sent Dr. lu-uicy, ORHC.ON KIDNUY TJJA, to my hotel. I immediately commenced using the lea. It had an almost mitnculuu 1-ttYct, and to the r.fton ishmcnt ul ill! the uetj at the hotel, lu a feu- dut.l uui uaiiuy to tuttc. that 1 vk a new men. I wlll4 iccommend the tea to all attiicledl as 1 have been. I O. A. Ttll'PBK, llopriclur Orddeutal Hotel, 1 S.inta Koaa, Cal. Willi u Ml lilt I IT'S SAI.H. -VTOTIOK IS HKUK11Y UIVKN Til AT i hy vhiuu of tin execution Mini order of siilo IhmumI out of tho Honorable Circuit Court of the Stnto of Oregon, for I'niou county. lit'iiiliiK' ilutu the Hi) day of .lunc, ISill, iiinl to mo ilim'titl und ilolivcicil up on n jitilKiiu lit ami ilccrvc ot foreclosure mill sale therein untercil on tht' 7ih ihiy of Miirrh, IttU, wherein the A. 1' llou'ilin Co. is iilnlutill', iiiul .1. C. Clavhiirn et a are (lefenilimts, for the Mini of Fifteen Hun dred Dollars with mturisl thereon at the rate of S )ii r emit, jior immiiii from tlieUtli day of October, lssil. and the further xu m of 'One Hundred and Seventvllve IViilars attorneys' tees, together with cost and dis lilirseiueiits herein and decreeing the sale of the following desenlied itiortKaed real ostate. to wit : 1 oniinem-iiix at Uio north east uoriier of lot number twelve in block number one hundred nu4 fourteen (HI) ill Cltniulll'M addition to 1 Onuuie, Union oiiuuty, Oregon, running thence soiitliwvjtierly alonu Hie eal Irue of siii lot twelve, twenty-two ( feet: thenee at rlifht uiiclen to ttid lirt line in a iiorih westorly dlrts-llini nmety-tour 'Mj u-t ; thence at riuhi angles to saul la.st line In a northeasterly dins-lion iweutv-tvvi. tl) feet to tile alley llue ol nid bltH'k le hundred and fourteen (1U; thenee at r ht an'es in a southeasterly ihrvtio,i alon. s.n.l ,iiie lute ninety four (tt feel to he .la. e ot (e KinuilLtC ill satislaelion of -hI jtldun at ami dwree. Now, theuf re. under and hy virtue of said esvutiou .ud order i as aforesaid 1 u ill sell ut public auet.on al ht eourtb" i' door ut I'aiou, l iilun eoui.ty. Oregu i .mi M ids . Jul) i. Iv'U, at 1 .!. i. ill. ofkml i all the riln ni.e an I intei- est ( f u, .11" the b.ve d, rile d ).ieiu l k I ti I.J ', I !u .mill lll.d tui'ieiu on the it I. d.i iK tii r IK-. ! has Has tho Largest Goneral "!ur3ry Stoek in the Mountain Country 125 Acres. Tree. from J'ayotlo Nursery will reach Grande Hondo valley in six hours from tho time they are taken from the ground. fountain Grown Trees are Hardy, Vigorous and Healthy. Do not order until you have visited our prico. Wholesale ami retail. our nursery, icen our agent or got 0-20- vl r .... t !. . it . . . ioiiiiany iui uiu sum oi unc iiuiKireu and l- ut v-six aim w-iuu do ars. ana Two ami Gi-100 d'lllars nccrtuiiK costs in stud Circuit four', wherein I am commanded to make the imi One ITlltulrcil jutil l.flr.siiv nwl CT-100 dollars now duo on said Judgment, wini interest, at inc rate or. a per cent per annum from the Sth day of December, 1&90, and the further sum of Two and (17-100 dol lars costs, of and upon this writ, out of the personal property of said defendant, and if sullicicnt personal property cannot bo found, then out of the real estate of said de fendant in my county on or after February iJ7, 1SDI. and not bcinablo to iind any per sonal property out of which to make such judgment. 1 have levied upon and seized all the right, title and interest that the de fendant herein, the La Grande Hydraulic Water Company, lind on the 27th day of February. lfiOl, or has since acquired" in and to the following described real estate, to wit : Commencing ten chains south of the NF. corner of the XK4 of the N'W of Sec IS, Tp. :$ S, It .IS U V M, thence South ten chains, thence West ten chain", thence North by 13 degs. Fast to place of begin ning, containing C acres, (the above lines arc intended to follow the government sur vey) aKo all the water rights, ditches and water pipes belonging to the said La Grande Hydraulic Water Company, alsa all the right, title, interest and claim that the said La Grande Hydraulic Water Company had on the Nth day of December, 18!X). or has since acquired in ami to lu acres in a square from out of the SK corner of the NW Yi of the NK'( of See. 18, Tp ,"!S. It 3S K W M, all of the above described property be ing situated in Union county, Oregon! and by virtue of said execution 'and levy f will sell at public auction nt the court house door In Union. Union eountv. Oregon, on Friday the 2Hth day of June, ISOl.at 2 o'clock r. ui. of said day, all the right, title, claim and interest that tho di fetidant had on the 27th day of February, lh!)l, or has since acquired therein or siilliciunt thereof to satisfy said judgment, interest, costs, disbursement and accruing costs. Terms ot hale: Cash iu gold coin to mo in hand. Dated at Union this the 20th dav of May, 1N)1, ,1. T. 150LLFS. Sheriff of Union County, Oregon. 15y W. It. Usiinr.. Deputy. " o-2S. MINING NOTICI5. Union County. Oregon. April 10. 1801. To William U. rowler, or to his heirs Y editors, administrators or assmns: r O t A K V. 1 1 IS 1 1 K 1 ! Y N O T I V 1 K D T 1 1 AT we have expended $200.00 in labor and improvement upon the Forest Queen Lode, situated in Granite Alining District, union county, Oregon, in ordei to hold said promises under the provisions of sec tion 2321 Kcvis-ed Statutes of the United States, beiiiL' the amount required to hold tne same rortne vears ending Decern ucroTst lhS). and December Illsf 1SU0. to-wit : the of sum !fl00. during each of said years, and if, within ninety days after the first publica tion of this no'tice, you or your personal representatives fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of such expenditure as aco owncr, your interest in said claim will be come the property of the subscribers under said section 2.'i21. J. T. FYFKU. JNO. IIAKLHY. As lsxooutor of I Deceased. 1-10 GEO. W. I'KUiaXS.vA jrLiLii in itiiiiis i i Kins. j. n, cms, .Mcdonough. I have now on the ear F U R N road from the east two loads oi' I T U R F WhitUi Avill ;rrivo About Marcli loth, and coniuft ion Avith Avlnit 1 now have on hand will M)itinrist tho IJrought to Hastorn Oroyon. to call and select before S. C. MILLER. PATENTS Obtained, and all Patent Husiness attended to Promptly and for Moderate Fees. Ourofllce is opposite the Ju. S. Patent Otliee, and we can obtain Patenis In less time than those remote from Wasoington. Send MODELor DllAWING. 'e adviso as to pantcntabililv free of charge; and wo mako NO CIIAKGE UNLESS PATENT IS SECUKED "We refer, here, to the Postmaster, the Supt. of Money Order Div., and to ollicials of the U. S. Patent Otliee. Fci circular, advice, terms and refl'erences to actual cli ents in your own Stato or County, write to C. A. SNOW & Co., Opposite Patent OHice. Washington. D. 0. "5!i:il "III! 1 2r of Fuvnituro ovov gsDo not fail the rush. Thomson A' I'tii'sel are asreuts- for the celebrated ( yehnip WindIill, and as the prices on them have been great ly reduced they are now within tho reach of all. Sample mill to he seen at their iilanerin North Union. Call ami examine it. rs.-jaL UMtMi lf9 The Centennial Hotel, Propsietor. TJiiion, Oregon J. COODBROD, - t rtecognUed by ull a 'v Leading Hotel of Eastern Oregon! VlSlt l.AUOK SAJllM.tf BOONS l'r tlio Awoiuodnllon of Coiiiiuerc-ial Traveler CtlAKUliS KKAWON A Hl.E. IU 'il .1 III. r el ui j.ri mi. i 4 I It .' I't ill . H I't i IK I" ' r d u. .1 ., I I SS,, ,, . i 111 (, I I I tl 1. I if. I. Ill I til .! r timi d i ( ! j aitluty Iui. -1. MMERCI hl mi ui "ppn ART "P Wm (OlM'OMTU CKNTEKN1AL HOTEL.) E. Bowker, - Proprietor. fr) Um Kint OUm. Tmm Very ItoMuuable. 'Bus to und Fiom hf lcj.t hkintr Connection with all Pass fcMiirer Train 7 in I sdk oi i BLE- rf&4- ui Imphlejcf InfcrtnaMon andab- j-uems, t uveal , Trade 4 m Jlurlis.jCopyr.chts, J,. irtc tW&Zl lv Auartr nuriN -v i.i i. . 5tiV nronilwnr. LIVER PILLS. DO NOT CRIPE, SICKEH OB COHCTIPATE. lie Cwf rot Sicr Hfff mi ui rju n ' IHU tt CaUrU ... I 1 1 1 . 1 fw I .1 ,.i I lii l I U I.. I IIUIlrM il'iin H He r-uIIuim in J OB PRINTING! liuii (....in JTu ...i t-.ki IU., i III. ia Dm m THEURJIARiniMrPlllHECU 6f IUUIS. W.