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
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M A H I N E il Y
SP""Tliis department will be under the niaiui'-'ement of Mr. Kilpatrick.
2-19-tf.
Tl
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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.
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of the U. S. Patent Otliee. Fci circular,
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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.
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The Centennial Hotel,
Propsietor.
TJiiion, Oregon
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Leading Hotel of Eastern Oregon!
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