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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1891)
7 8fe fep JStarot. "tUUIISDAV, AUGUST 13. 1801. ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. This department of The Scout is open to any one who wishes to contribute an articlo on timely topics of interest to the alliance. Write plainly and on only one sldo of the manuscript." AlHaneo Directory. SUMMKKVILLK ALLIANCE No. 47 Kcgular meetings llrst and third ednes ncsdnys of eacli month. 3 W. K. JAnrr.it, Pres. A. V.Ouvnn, Sec. '. ()., Aliccl. Mt'ALLlSTKK A IjLI ANCK No. MKok ular mectiiiKH first and third .Saturdays in each month at 1 o'clock p. in. O. I). Hitkmas. 1'res. K. M. (ji!Ki:i.Kit, Sec. 1 0. La Orniidc. TKLOOASHT ALLIANCE No. 00 Kci;- ar meeting first; and third Saturdays In ntnr finnli tit nil Hi ni. 7 o'clock n. m V. C. IIi.Nc-Ki.r.y, Pres. W. A. Catkk, Sec. P. O., Telocaset. PLKASANT HILL ALLIANCE No. .r7 Kegular mcetiiiKs every Saturday at i! o'clock p. m. John ahs.ui, Pres. Petku MrSiiAl.v, Sec. 0., Elgin. UNION COUNTY ALLI ANCRJNo. 07 Jtegular meeting third Wednesday of each month at 10 o'clock a. m. C. I). IIiTFMAN, Pres., La Orande. W. A. Cati-i, Sec. Telocaset. 1IIO CItEEK AMiIAMJlv M). i iicg l ir meeting the llrst and thlrdlbuttirdays in !ich month. E. it. Parker, Pres. Emma I!. Paiikek, bee. lai cue I 1. O., Medical Springs. IIKJII VALLEY ALLIANCE No. 0 Itcgular meeting first Saturday of each month at 7::i0p. in. li. Loohhon, Pres. A. Wii.kin'soN, Sec. NORTH POWDER ALLIANCE No. 4(1. W. N. (Saiu.nkii, Pres. .1. C.Tuavii.mon, Sec. P. 0., North Powder. CENTER VALLEY ALLIANCE No. ft'.. T. H. KosTr.K, Pres., Island City. W. W. Randall, Sec, Cove. K EAT I NO ALLIANCE No. John Howman. Pres. 31 us. M. E. Pkiikins, Sec. 1'. 0 , Keating. IOWA ALLIANCE No. Ml. T. U. IhKin, Pres. A. Shaw. Jr., Sec. P. 0., Island City. LADI) CANYON ALLIANCE No. 55. J. 1). Poynoii. Pres. J. II. SiiAMiuunn, Sec. P. 0., La (Irando. THE ALLIANCE. An Ablo Article From the Pen of an En thusiastic Momuor. Union, Oregon, August 10, 1BD1. Editor Orkoon Scoi't: With your permission I will occupy a small simce in tho columns of your paper sot apart to the use of tho alii nnco, this week, and let mo suggest at tho outset that I think it very goner ouh of vou to tendor tho free use of your columns to the alliance, and I am sure it is highly appreciated by thorn, and I hope to seo tho members tako advantagoof tho opportunity thus offered to present their views on differ ent subjects of interest to farmers. Wo have numerous members through out the county who aro fully eoinpo tont to contribute articles of interest and profit, and I hope to sou them fully utilize tho gratuitous space in the near future, or as soon as there is a season of a little more leisure with tho tillers of the soil. But your liber ility seomu to have excited tho ire of your contemporary in tho hamlet across tho valley, who never tires emptying his vials of wrath upon your devoted head. It strikes mo that a few items of local news each week would interest his readers moro than so much abuse of persons for no othor apparent reason than that tho alliance deems them better friends to tho order than himself. Ono is led to think him tho solf-constituted oraelo of tho allianco, who is kopt very busy guiding tho order in tho way it should go which scemq to us just a little bit officious, since we havojiotyot asked him to chaperon us and I do think that tho application of a small portion of ordinaay modesty of everyday life should prompt all outsiders to leave tho matter of qualification of member ship to tho allianco. Tho journal above reforrcd to has published a number of articles very friendly to tho alliance, for all of which wo aro very, very thankful, and wo do hopo that friondly spirit will still bo extonded to us in the future, for wo farmers and laborers greatly desire and aro sadly in need of all tho friondly aid and kindly advice that wo can flocuro from every individual whoso interests do not antagonize our own but do not meddlo with our domcslio affairs, gontlomen, please. Tho county alliance will meet in Union again on tho l'Jtli hist, for the discussion of questions of interest to the order, and for tho transaction of business, and I desire through this medium to oiler in a fraternal spirit a low ttuggctftioiM for the eoiikKloration of member, and nolo brlelly uuui of the idlonyiieinli of uoifalii member, 'ur)iu) It would bo more propor, or llnwrlly, o ilo IliU orally in Hid meet ing, but ns our time has been so fully occupied heretofore with other mat- tors, l slioum probably not nave nn J opportunity to do so then, though I were a speaker, and not being blessed ' with tho gift of gab that chance is denied me. And now before proceed ing farther I wish to state emphatic ally that I do not assume to be one of the wise men of the order, but on the contrary I realize that I am ono of the least of these ; but, as stated above, not being a talker, and thus doomed to sit quietly by, I have probably ob served some of the pccularitics, and possibly mistakes, of those taking a more active part in tho proceedings. First I will say I have noticed al together too much of a disposition to i hurry matters along, to jump to con , elusions without sufficient deliberation, i and too much impatience to get away ; and complaint at the length of tho , , sess;on j knmv thlt fftrmors gcnor. ally feel that they can illy afford to lose the time they have been so long and habitually accustomed to devot ing all their time to their farm and domestic affairs that it is going to be very hard to fall into tho new habits necessary to render them useful mem bers of the farmers' alliance mid in dustrial union. Karbcit from me to counsel my brother farmers to idleness or indo lence; on the contrary I would strong ly urge the great necessity of frugality and strictly business habits. But much too long has tho average farmer bowed his head and bent his back to his endless toil, heeding not the man ner in which the government, in which he should have owned a common in terest, was being managed by our self-styled honest law makers, who aro so loud in their professions of lovo for the farmer. Of tho truth of their protestations, and the safety of the interests of the agriculturist in their hands, let the cries and groans of the debt-ridden, mortgaged farmers, from one end ol Hie land to the other, answer. Many of us have grown grizzly, and wrinkled, and achey in this endless labor, practicing economy that closely borders on parsimony the while; de nying ourselves and family many of the necessaries of life in our extreme desire to provide something for the rainy day that is surely coming to most of us, and to leave a home, hum ble though it may bo, for the wife and little ones should wo be called hastily away. And how well, I would ask, have we, as a body of farmers, by our veryjbest efforts, succeeded? Lot every individual farmer answer for himself, while our friends (the enemy), who toil not neithor do they spin, yet livo off tho cream of the land and reap the bulk of tho proceeds of our labor, still professing great lovo for tho farmer and so roady over to advise him, poor fool, as to what ho should do to bo saved, rob him by manipulating tho laws; while tho fanner, the good-natured whale, has suffered himself to be amused by the tub thrown to him by this nefarious class in tho form of sectional prejudices and side issues of minor importance, and giving this noblor class every encouragement in his power by bestowing upon them and their allies all the honor and emoluments of the offices and tho fruits of his toil. Tho alacrity with which the farmers are joining the alliance, as the only courso promising any relief from the grievous burdens heaped upon him by class lobulation, indicates that the farmer has at least partially awakened to a realization of his condition and ino great necessity oi taking some action to savo himself and country from uttor ruin. Now tho great, over shadowing question is, what is the best course for him to pursue to recover at least a portion of bin rights as a free American citizen, aim i answer un hesitatingly, educato, educate, educate lumsou. ino only means at our command, through which we can se cure any pormanent roliof, is by tho use of tho ballot; and only by tho pow or of an intelligent ballot based on competent knowledge. Wo must not need to be told by our frionds (tho onemy) how to vote if wo expect to exert any beneficial iulluonco by our ballot on tho body politic, but we must educate ourselves up to the re quired degree of intelligence to enable us to eabt a wise ballot as the only hope of salvation for the nation. The next question that naturally arises is, How are wo to do this with the tremendous opposition that con fronts us? And 1 answer again, with out hesitation, that it must bo accom plished, if at all, very largely itihide the alliance, behind closed door, away from all influences that aro antagonis tic to our interned.; and all opposing Julliuiuuii nuut bo excluded from this our uutih precinct. Do nut admit uuy ImjirgjRir pornoim, now. tliui will hu unworthy imimlw or w)ioo liiior. we should invite csts arc not in common they will only bo an disadvantage. But and encourage all worthy tillers of the 1 soil to come in and work with us, and ; use them kindly and considerately when inside, and invite and encourage j them to express their views on all j subjects under discussion and to tako J an active part in all procedings, and : not set him down on a point of order if lie should chance to be just outside ' a strict parhamenary line. What sort of difference does it make, anyhow, whether we comply strictly with par liamentary rules or not? Who of us is competent to decide? While it is proper to conform sufficiently to the ordinary rules guverning deliberative bodies to avoid confusion and enable us to transact business, we require no straight jacket yet. Parliament is a monarchal contingent where the queen is the government. Here the people are the government, that is, with the former principally left out. But the average farmer is doing a mighty sight of thinking these days, and while he is not much given to oratory and if called upon to address an audience Ins tongue is liable to cleave to the roof of his mouth and his knees to tremble from his perch on the top rail, or a seat on the ground in the shade of tho fence, after lightly brushing the seat ol his overalls and shifting his chew of tobacco, lie will express more common sense businesn idea , in about twenty minutes than one of these raltlo brains will tell you in the courso of his natural life; and I hope to see the farmer encouraged to come forward in the alliance and tako a very active and prominent part in all proceedings as the only hopes of successful results. And J refer to him of the bronzed cheek and callous hand ; and if his plain garb shows contact with machine oil and Mother Earth, that shall be no objection. Sometimes J have been a j little amused, and sometimes I have experienced a slightly different sensii' tion, 10 observe a moiner arise m ins place with a great air of self-esteem, with a side kink in his neck something like a sand-hill crane preparing to pounce on a polly wog, seeming to say: Listen now, you fellows, I am going to speak; his voice slightly ele vated, so that the benighted brethren will not lose a sentence, and with uccuicuiy transatlantic dialect, an Antarctic intellect and a far off evpres sion of the eye as though viewing tho hidden mysteries of distant ages whether past or future deponent, sav eth not at this writing which reminds mo somewhat of tho longing gaze of a glass-eyed cayuso through a wire fence at tho green bunch-grass on the di taut hills, discoursing wisely on points of order, tho previous question, and parliamentary law, of which lie is gen erauy supposed to Know atiout as much as a pig does of the Sunday law Oh fie, lie! Another brother calls hastily for the order of business, and, like Rachel of old, refusing to bo comforted becauso ho has it not, when all the ovidenco wo have on the subject is to tho effect that if tho brother over had any inter est in a healthy, well-developed, order ly business ho suffered it to porish for want oi nourisnnient ueioro it whb half grown. And tho sago of I'ylo canyon reads from the Scriptures, everything after its kind; and views all subjects from a strictly business (and non-partisan) standpoint; and takes a common senso view af all matters under discussion, which is eminently correct. But do we obtuse hayseeds catch on to the I. D., that's tho question. Now if I havo said anything that will prompt investigation of subjects of interest to farmers, I have accom plished all I set out to do. And now, Mr. Editor, with an apology for tres passing so largely on your valuablo Bpace, I subscribe myself Ci.oniioi'n:R. siu:iciris s.vi.i:- TICK IS HHKI'llY OIVKN THAT liv virtun of nil I'vccntliiti Issmwl mil of the Honorable Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Union county, bearing datu ino .tan nay ouuno, ixu, to ino uirooteil and delivered, upon a judgment entered therein on tho Oih day of February, 151)1, which judgment was enrolled and docketed in the Clerk's otMee of Mild Court in naid County on the 21st day of February. A. D. 1SIH, wherein C. C. Colllnherry and Hert Colllnberry aro nlalntili's and T. It. Irwin is defendant, for the miiu nf Thirty nine and 1.1-1 IX) Dollars, witli interest thereon at the rate of S per cent per milium from the Oth lav of l ebrnary, ISiil, and cost 1 have levied upon the following described real estate minuted in Cniou County, Oregon, to-wlt : lots a and I and SV. of NV"'. See. 1, Ti. 8 Somh. it Mi:. V. M and 'of SB i Sec. ;. Tp. 7 South, 1! 4H V. W.M. and bv virtue of knld exeviitii.n and levy, I will hell at public auction at the court house door in Union, I'tilon I'ounty, State of Oregon, on Saturday the JSml duv of AiiL-iut. 1MU. at '.' o'clock i. hi ol mid dy, till tin right, title ind intrnt oi m una n. me Hiiove itrrt iIIhhI preiulM) tlittt the Mild dwfiirtduut, T. it. Irwin, had inert ia oil the KUt dv of February. ItUl. or Una kini'c uwpilrml, Ut mtufy tik JudtfuifiU, liitori.it And jiiwruiiiK t Tiirmtuf ! i iuh to mi' in ImimI In v. a. mi ii.ui i. ft! U 1 ml ul l III. HI Hit lllf I Ml. U) "I .lult J . lbil.LI.ti Monti ' A nnouncementjOWTl V-. VA, 1 . i .1V..1V.. lOJLJIMJLJII TffDfflIU UN Haye on the way and now ricultural The Company ill hereafter WThis department will be under 2-io-tf. m M. & M. Co. Ag -DEALER IN- BOOTS -AJSTID Latest Styles. Just Received, Direct from the East, a Largo Invoice of LADIES' and MISSES' CALFSKIN SHOES, the Best Ever brought to this Market. 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