Jintrretl at the, poslojjicc at Union, Oregon, n
fewnd-cia mail matter.
B. Chaoey, Ep.ijpR and Proprietor
h ATM or Kuiisonn'Tioa .
One cupy, oik.' yi'nr $1 r0
One f'tjiy, six months .100
One cnjy, three moutliM ... "S
tumriuhhj Vali in Alliance.
If h elimire tnliaeriptioti are not paid till
end of near, tiro dollar will he eharged.
Hates of mlverllsing ninth known on up
plication. rsy-llorrrspnnth'ni.'c from till psirlH of
the country Molleitctl.
THURSDAY. SEPT. 21. 1891.
KDITOli IA Ij NO TICS.
Wk acknowledge rrceipt of an invi
tation to attend tho 1 IiirvoHt l''!8tiva
itiitl lnduntrial Parade v l ivll occurred
lit Minnon'ioli
on tiic 2.1rd Jiifeft?
Notwithstanding the fact that the
tariff on cotton goods was increased
by the Melvinley bill and that tho
price of cotton has declined two cents
a pound since the passage of the law,
twenty-nine of tho thirty-three cotton
manufacture of Full Itivcr, at a re
cent meeting adopted a resolution,
which concludes: "Your executive
committee believes that, the time has
come when some action should bo
taken towards reducing tho cost of
production, and in order to bring the
matter definitely before you for con
sideration, unaniinoiii'ly recommends
that a reduction in the wages of oper
atives be mado, to take eilcd October
6, 18!U."
From The National Committee
islation.
Our Arid Domain.
Tin: Scout is in receipt of Volume
1, No. 1, of Tho Rural Northwest, a
fcctiii-moiithly journal iesued at Tort
land in tho interests of tho farmer,
fruit grower and stockman.
Onk of the ground planks in the
platform of the farmers' alliance is a
reduction of tho present high and
burdensome tariff. Protection means
that the masses shall be taxed for tho
bent'lit of a few rich manufacturers.
All classes, except the lordly few, can
meet upon this platform.
An English gentleman puts up
$5,000 for any party who will cause a
piano lo move across tho room or
flowers to grow out of tho coiling in
any supernatural or unexplainable
way. If there are spirits who perform
such feats for mundane friends the
opportunity is a good ono to do them
a gootl turn,
Tho transmissouri states and terri
tories are inaugurating a new doctrine
The valuable land, which will produco
without artificial irrigation, is nearly
all claimed, and now we have attacked
the sand and alkali deserts of the went
with weapons of irrigation, and this
new doctrine is, that we will convert
every foot of these lands into gardens
and meadows. The rising generation
must have homes, and these homes
must bo productive, henco this grand
hiovcmont toward tho final reclama
tion of western arid lands. What
nobler purpoio can a people have in
viow? What nobler mission can
citizen perform than tho labor with
hand and mind in the bringing into
usefulness and fertility of tho vast
tracts f land which in their present
condition aro unfit for all tho purposes
of civilization unless it be that of
Tiik first importation of poarl but
tons received at Chicago since tho
now tariff went into effect was that
last week, and Marshall Field paid
.RO00 duty on $1,100 worth. They
were of high grade. Tho common
ones, such as tho people use, would
h.ayn (tOO jut fOUt (Itlly t' )")' But
the iniluhiry nnisl bo prolculeri, f
takes the last button. St. Paul Globe. '
Tin: lilllo town of Union, In tho
Grahdo Hondo valley, is rejoicing in
tho encouraging prospects of witness
ing soon a woolen factory in full oper
ation. This industry would have been
established in Tho Dalles long since if
tho least oncouragomont had been
extended lo the enterprise; but our
business men were slow in considemg
tho project, and it wont elsewhere.
Times-Mountaineer.
In response to communications re
questing the National Legislation
Committee to express in plain terms
and in full the position of the national
order upon action necessary in regard
to tho declaration of the Supreme
Council in favor of the government
owHership of railroads, and questions
asking information as lo what course
the membership should pursue when
government ownership is not an issue,
tho committee makes the following
reply, and publishes the same to the
order at largo for the purpose of being
thoroughly understood by the mem
bership to the end that all may act
in harmony and in concert:
1. Railways under the present sys
tem of road-bed and rolling stock in
one franchise, either individually or
corporate, constitute a complete and
true form of monopoly.
2. A monopoly is any kind of occu-
Tiiuiek is scarcely any stato of tho
Union possessed of so many features
attractive to tho settler as Oregon.
Gold, silver, copper, iron and coal aro
to be had for tho mining, the finest
merchantable timber in tho world
grows in her forests and tho valloy of
tho Nile is no richer than Oregon's
soil. The climato of tho stato is ono
of rare oxcollonco. Tho homo-seeker
might travol all ovor tho world and
not find a location so dcsirablean many
portions of Orogon can afford him.
Welcome
Tiik editor of u Georgia paper
makes tho following liberal offer in a
recont issue: "Wo have taken wood,
potatoes, corn, eggs, butter, onions,
cabbage, chickens, stone, lumber,
labor, sand, calico, sour kraut, second
hand clothing, coon skim and bug
juice, scrap iron, shoo pegs, rawhides,
ohinquepius, tan hark, ilco dogs,
sorghum sewl, jugwaro and wheat
straw on subscription, and now a man
wants to know if wo would send tho
pnpor Bix months for a largo owl. Wo
havo no prccedont for refusing, never
having declined anything, and if we
can find a man who is out of an owl
and needs one wo'll do it."
Tiikhk aro cold weeks, sayB tho Ex
aminer, for that part of tho adminis
tration which is not rusticating at
liar Harbor. At tho Pennsylvania
republican convention thoro wero not
enough delegates for Harrison to keep
each other warm. At tho Now York
convention it wus tho samo way, and
now ti canvass of tho Massachusetts
gathoriug shows 1172 voices for Blaine,
17 for Harrison, 1 for Alger, il each for
Heed and Mc!Cinleyr 1 for Lodge and
1 for Fusuott. If tliu number of Mr.
Harrison's supporters in Massehust'Ctts
wore multiplied by the number of tho
followers of licet I and that snccescivoly
by tho numbers of the McKlnley, tho
Jxidgo mill the FussoU men, the total
would ho half us lingo us (ho lulu of
retainers of Mr lllulm. Kvtui nritli
iiietiii rightly iit"l limy I'0 " tourco of
plilloso)i!iieii (!OiiN)la(iou.
pation or business in which there is
no competition, and in which the
effects of competition cannot be ap
plied to rcgulato discriminations,
abuses and excessive rales.
,'J. Monopolies when left to individ
ual management without effective
government control, become a serious
infringement upon the rights of tho
people, because they possess power lo
lovy tribute at will, and are in direct
conflict with the spirit and genius of
our institutions.
I. I ho government, therefore, has
no right to farm out to a class o
persons, either individual or corporate,
the absolute right to conduct
monopoly; because by so doing it
would give such class the "special
privilege" enabling them to collect
tribute from all other classes.
5. If the government allows these
natural monopolies to be owned and
conducted by private enterprise and
capital a plain duty it owes to every
citizen is that it exorciso a control so
efficient that abuses and discrimina
tions will bo suppressed.
0. Tho elfect of rate wars (some
times erroneously styled competition)
at the so-called competing points, has
been to raise rates at all towns along
the lines of tho various roads, has
thereby been simply a method taking
fiom tho country and giving lo city,
I'.Oi'ice, nothing couli! !)0 moro de
ceptive than to advocate such "com
petition" as a benefit to agricultural
interests. Tho fact is, that this falsely
called railway competition lias boon
one of the potent causes for the
modern growth of cities at the oxponso
of the country, when under correct
conditions the growth of ono should
be a benefit and source of congratu
lation to tho other.
7. All the existing ovils and abuses
can bo abolished by a wise and effi
cient system of government control,
provided the railways submit to and
assist the government in inaugurating
and ipplying a systom so perfect that
the rights of all parties concerned will
be respected, and the public bene
fitted. If they refuse to do this, then
tho government must, as a matter of
protection to tho people, own and
conduct them as purely public
necessities.
S. Undor a good system of govern
ment control, by a competent com
mission, or otherwise, combinations
between railway corporations, whether
continuous or so-called competing
lines, ceaso to bo a matter of concern,
because thoy can, in fact, bo hotter
controlled in a fow hands and with
few conilicting interests than with
many. Let tho control bo wise, just
and conservative, but elliciont and
certain.
0. The above summed up is: Kail
ways aro monopolies. As monopolies
they must be undor efficient govern
ment control. The cry of competi
tion between railroads is a delusion
calculated to deceive and injure the
farmer. Under ollieiont government
control combinations aro not to be 1
dreaded, and railway combinations
cannot bo combinations calculated to
obstruct or suppress competition,
because thoro is no such thing as
railway competition. All agricultur
al states which do not control the
railways by a railway commission
should use every olfort to seouro such
control at tho earliest day possible,
and all such as havo ineflieiout com
missions should make ovory effort to
secure an otlleieut one, and endow
' such commission with sulUcienl
grazing, and its usefulness in that
branch of industry is well nigh ex
hausted. And what is a better course
for the American government to pur
sue than tho cession of this part of its
domain to lha diiferent states and ter
ritories in which such lands aro lo
cated. For what do tho states repre
sented at the Irrigation Convention
request Miall be done with tho arid
land? Simply that it shall go into
thoir public school fund. And what
does this request mean? Simply that
their systems of oducation will be im
proved and extended. And what docs
tho distribution of free education
mean? Echo answeis Civilization!
With this object in view, who is not
in synipntiV )viln rm,v (,f wsto.
irrigators? WliO can luiso a baud
against tho cession of every foot of
arid lnUil to tho different states which
claim it, on the conditions proposed,
numely, that it shall bo applied to
their different public school funds?
Not an American citizen who gives
tho subject a sober second thought
will raise bund or voice against such a
noble work. With rivers ami streams
distributed over tho heated plains of
tho west, what verdure would spring
forth, what productiveness would en
sue? With ditches and reservoirs
constructed and operated, and canals
opened through tho vast plains, what
fertility and richness would take tho
place of dust and worthlessness?
The delegates to that Salt Lake City
convention had a greater mission to
perforin than tho majority of them
realized. Tho duty assigned them
was not an everyday duty it was a
duty tho faithful performance of which
involves tho future prosperity and
welfare ol tho west I It was a duty
which, when fully realized, opens up
to the man many a resource for honest
thought. What does this general up
rising of our sister western states
mean? Why so hearty a demand for
increased farm laud, and why tho pro
visions that would make tho increased
laud an increaso in public school fundi
It means a nrM It means that actu
al settlors are in need of a place
"whereon to lay their heads," and that
the congenial locations on Uncle Sam's
domain have nearly all been claimed.
And this state of affairs is a natural
consequence of the land stealing and
laud granting which has cut such a
conspicuous figure in the history of all
past administrations. Nothing more
than an empty treasury and an ex
hausted public domain could be ex
pected from tho llugrant rule which
has done duty over American affairs
for years a rule which has given all
countries in tho world tho frco right to
dump thoir scum and refuse upon our
shores; and further on in tho shame
ful play, to convert such scum and
refuse into full-blown Amoricanship
and citizenship boforo the first princi
ple of American iudenondoneo has
penetrated their muddled brains, power to carry out the object .ought.
American born ohildion now seek in , with 'tniuty and economy.
vain for iolfMipporting homes. For
eigners rule tho land, and by virtue of
what agency Y My virtue of loom laws i Kmroit Ohkuun Seui'T:
and greedy legielalors. Tho time has In your issue of Augttl 20th H. C.
(uinu for tho Aniurionn eiliieon to tho ISmery nana nearly a column in re
ma lior Uom-o Mort hi right, ami 4ylun ir.y aiiiJr ..i tho Utih.
ill Ul9 Jlt'Oplf IIOSJ UlO IHMVW. What I mi,'..I Wl. no. m.i.L l,i-ln-!
uo will you inn). of your prvrogaUvof uUmienu that U u.t; .mU u
Jl V. 1 1 in man mi uiguiiifiit in piiM-iii n hi il?,
" Leg hut I find that I was badly mistakon.
In his first article he .tfnrms that sci
ence and the Bible iliVu'Ter in rogaid
lo the flood story, but he has never
attempted to show in what manner
they disagree. He fay?: "Science
demonstrates that, the atmosphere is
not and never has been capable of
holding water enough it. cover the
earth fo tho !"! of the mountain."
I referred him lo the 101th Psalm (o I
show him that the Bible and .-ciencc
do not di.Migiec. Then he says that
he want's other proof tlmn 'he old
IVulmil David. I then referred him
to Schrailer, Smith, Sir .1. Dawson, tho
Duke of Argyll. Howoi th and Lanor-
mant. In addition I will refer him to
Duncker's History of Antiquitv page
2-I3-215.
He has not presented ono logical
proof to sustain him in his statements ;
he has not attempted to answer a
sint'lo question I asked and he dare
not attempt to explain the 9th verse
of the 10 1th Psalm to agree with his
explanation of the (Uh, 7th and 8th
verses.
He casts aside not only the whole
story as it is given in the Dible, but
the large mass of collateral testimony
from every quarter of the globe which !
supports it. Now is this a scientific, is j
it a philosophical, is it altogether a j
rational method of proceedinj;? 1 for '
Olio a 1 ii hut Willing to cast side all of '
their testimony and accept Emery's '
opinion as final proof.
The Pible is a book which has been
refuted, demolished, overthrown and
exploded more than any other book i
you ovor hcaid of. Every little while j
somebody starts up and upsets jhis
book; and it is like upsetting a solid
cube of granite. It is just as big one
way as the other, and when you have
upset it, it is right hide up, and when
you overturn it again it is right side
up still. Every little while somebody
blows up the Pible, but when it comes
down it always lights on its feet and
runs faster than ever through '.he
world. They overthrew the Uible a
century ago, in Voltaire's time en
tirely demolished the whole thing.
"In less than a bundled years," said
Voltaire, "Christianity will have been
swept from eii,stcnee and will have
passed into hittory." Infidelity ran
riot through France, redhunded and
impious. A century has passed away.
Voltaire has "passed into history," ami
pot verv respectable history either;
but the Jjible still lives, Thomas
Pfly no demolished the ftible, and fin
ished it olf filially; but after ho
dropped into a drunkard's grave, in
ISO'J, the book took such a leap that
since that time more than twenty
times an many Hiblos, have been m ule
and scattered through the world as
ever weio before. Up to the year 1S00
from four to six million copies of the
Scriptures in some thirty diiferent
languages comprised all that had been
produced sinco the world began
Eighty years later, in 1SS0, the statis
tics of eighty ditlorent Bible societies
with their auxiliaries, reported more
than 105,000,000 Hiblos, Testaments
and portions of Scriptures, with 'IWi
new translations of Hiblos or portions
of tho Hiblo distributed by Bible socie
ties alone sinco 1S04; to say nothing
of the unknown millions or Bibles and
Testaments which havo been issued
and circulated by private publishers
throughout the world. For a book
that has been exploded so many times
this book shows signs of considerable
life, and 1 think it will bo able to
survive tho attack of II. 0. Iimorv, I
will say no more on this question now,
but wait patiently for some proof to
be brought forward on the other side.
I claim, however, to be, if not u free'
thinker, yet a free thinker.
Poure.
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