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ft THEOKEGON STATESMAN : FK1DAY.SEPT 17. 1886 WEEKLY STATESMAN PublUhed every Friday T taw STATESMAN PUB. CO. BTBSCBIfTIOS KATES: One year, advance tlx months. 1b advance.. -.11 K SUBSCRIBERS ESTRntO THE ADDRESS of their papers changed moat Mai Ihe mm of their former poaioftice. as well at ol the fnee to which they with the paper changed. AU aubarrlntione outside of Marion and Polk coontiee will be atopped promptly when the lime paid for f id for expires, untew the eunseriber 11 known financial tianditic. Yon may al vara see to what date your i ascription te paid y looking at the tag on your paper. Fbknch fashion in ladies ' hair is chang ing and tbe bane has to go, slap. A lady was burned to death in a New York street car by her celluloid bustle exploding and setting fire to her drew. Thk Oregonian and other papers are inclined to give the fair a correct and fair report. Nothing succeeds like sue- Tbk San Francisco mint is the largest In the world, having a coinage capacity twice of Philadelphia and thrice that of tbe English mint. v A Chicago giil Is going to jump from the Brooklvn bridge. When ber feet strike there will be a splash like the blow ing np ol Heflg&te. Ex. A New York court has decided that a restaurant-keeper cant make a customer -pay for a beefsteak that be has not cut. This admonishes the restaurant to fur nish meat that will take the knife. Ajsarchist Parkons accuses the news papers of convicting him. This is the first good word for the newspapers since Ben. Butler acquitted them of making aim. 8. F. Alt. A Colorado coroner's jury has found the climax and capped it. The members 'sot onto" a man who was shot in gambling house and returned a verdict of death from lead poisoning. Ak artesian well at Belle Plaine, Iowa, drowned the town. Tbe mayor tele graphed to Chicago for an expert in wells, who telegraphed back to turn the well np aide down and let it ehoot the other wav, The name of the new president of the legislative assembly ef Bulgaria bears the same of GivkofL The rest of his name was not transmitted by wire, for fear that A would Givkoff to the great public in trying' to pronounce it. The new collector of the port of New York has given notice that he won't be bothered by office-seekers. He might as well hang up a notice warning off the mos quitoes. They'll keep on buzzing just the same, even if they don't get a bite Ma. J. A. Logan announces that he will make no speeches outside of Illinois, with the exception of one at Pittsburg A thousand cities, towns, hamlets, re unions, and cattle lairs beyond Sucker dom cry for him, but his atrabiiarious- sess cannot heed their prayer. The work of construction on the new bridge is being pushed, the men working ftandayB, the state firemen's tournament is over, work on the state house is pro gressing, tbe new brick block is going up, and everything is prosperous. Let's bear something about tbe fruit cannery. The republican party is not yet dead nor is Blaine. Maine has come to the front with a handsome republican plural ity. This is the first gun, and a straw to show which way the political wind wii. blow in '88. Blaine will be the next re publican candidate and the next presi dent. A nisciKswoH baa lately been carried on in the London Times regarding the rela tive power fur promoting foreign trade of consuls-general and commercial travel lers. Tbe palm is awarded to the drum mer. As between the drummers, the German drummer is ahead of tbe Eng lish, lie knows more languages, is more affable, engaging, frugal, industrious, and enterprising. For this reason the British mast spruce up their drummers or engage Germans, or their trade will go. Blaine, of Maine, still lives un terrified is the hearts of the American people, and particularly in tbe hearts of those who know him beet, the people of his own state. Their votes on Monday show that they love him and are proud of him. He is the poly living American statesman te whom all eyes are turned in bis every action, and the confidence and esteem in which be is held at home go to show that he is worthy of bis proud station as the Gladstone of America. MOPS AGAIN. From reports received at this office fom points in Marion and Polk counties aad the Willamette valley it appears that the hop crop has not turned out as well as expected, and in some places there is not more than half a crop. Hop grow ers in tlus section do not depend upon this to raise the price of hops, but they are depending strongly upon the failure in the east, and think that the good prices will not only hold this year, hut continue over next year. MR. SEER'S LETTER. For some time past the "Prohibition" Star, of Salem, has been asking promi nent men of the republican party their opinion of Jo Simon and his treachery, and among them was T. T. Goer. Final ly Mr. Geer condescended to answer the Star. We have had requests from many persons of this and adjoining counties to publish this letter of which they have heard, but which they have not been able to see. In answer to these requests, the letter is given below : Macubay, Sept. 5, 1386. Editor J?ta: Like a clap of thunder from a clear sky, there came in my mail of veeterdav a copv of the Star, an "es teemed contemporary," a copy of which I assure you I had not seen Bince the June election. An impression that there must be something personal to myself, was ver ified by tbe discovery of the editorial par agraph asking my "opinion of Jo. Simon and his treachery." I have recently been so enthusiastic over having raised the best crop of wheat in Marion county, and the ptoapect of soon harvesting ten acres of corn, now rapidly approaching maturity, that I had actually forgotten the existence of Jo. Si mon and bis alleged treachery ; even the Star had partially faded from my memory, and I was not sure that its publication bad been continued beyond the election The copy before me, however, evinces a degree of vitality and vigor that is both surprising and gratifying ; and recalls to mind the few. weeks preceding the late election when I, though not a candidate, was drawn into a public discussion of the pending questions at issue. I am glad the Star still lives, and promises to be with us in the future, for during the late campaign it not only contributed to the relief of tbe monotony usually attending such seasons of unseemingly strife, but actually helped to solidify the republican vote in this county, thus giving us a great er average majority than two years be fore. Credit should be given where credit is due. My opinion of Mr. Simon is wanted. Here it is : During the last eight years as a senator from Multnomah, he has shown more seal and activity than any other half a dozen members of that body, and at times, but for him, its proceedings would have amounted to little more than an in tolerable bore ; though I am willing to admit that his activity has often given him a prominence that seemed to be ac quired largely at the expense of his repu tation for good judgment. On tbe whole, however, I think bis record as a senator has been rather creditable. But what about bis "treachery"? In my younger days, when nothing afforded me so much interest as the perusal and re-perusal of the earlier political his tory of the United States, I remember reai ling a circumstance concerning Gen eral Jackson, which occurred, I think, in 1828, during his second candidacy and the first election to the presidency. The adjustment of the tariff question was then as now, a measure of great public impor tance, and Jackson's views of it were not sufficiently understood to satisfy the pub lie demand. Accordingly he was directly approached on the subject, and ia a long letter devoted to its discussion informed the American people, whose votes he very much wanted at that time, that he was strongly in favor of a "j udicious tar iff!" Of course that suited everybody and he was elected. The most rabid free trader, even Henry George himself, would willingly yield his support to a judicious tariff. In the that Jackson favored judicious tariff, do I oppose Jo. Simon's treachery. I should oppose any man's treachery. I presume it will be difficult to find anywhere a man who will approve of treachery, cut what does it mean in this case ? I presume the Star refers to Mr. Simon's failure to support Judge Waldo's re-election. His judgment and mine, as to Judge Waldo's fitness for the supreme bench are as far apart as day and night, and my own views as to the duty of a member of a political party af ter a majority has spoken are too well known to need repitition. Since 1872, when I cast my first vote for Joseph Wil son for congress I have voted at every election, state and national, and each time have voted for every candidate on the republican ticket excepting twice when I voted for two- democrata, who, in tarn, voted for me. - That Mr. Simon, in the Lite campaign exhibited a shameful lack of judgment and to a large extent forfeited the confi dence of the republican party of Oregon there can be no doubt ; but why need that worry the prohibitionists? Viewed from their standpoint of political philoso phy, Mr. Simon's course ought to be con sidered a very remarkable piece of judic ious treachery. The very first thing they undertake to instill into the popular mind is the duty of each individual to follow the dictates of his "private judgment, and when that conflicts with the judg ment of bis party associates to still fol low hie private judgment. In other words as has been said by a prominent disor- ganizer in this country, "one man witli right on bis side is a majority. " Mr. Himon, in the late campaign, aim ply exercised bis "private judgment. tie was "one man" who, in his opinion had "right" on bis side and was there fore in a majority. He simply did what tiie prohibitionists have advised all mcu to do everywhere. I" htar was especially vociferous in advising men to step out from their party organisations, and vote as they pleased, while I remem ber that 1 was equally sealous, though in a limited way, in urging republicans to stand to their organisation. Mr. Simon disregarded my advice and followed that of the Star and now the Star is kicking about it more than I am ! I am utterly astonished U find him censured from that quarter, because it is just such political freaks as bis that give rise to third par ties, and make the existence of such pa pers possible. If I could hope to exert the slightest influence with the Star, I should beg of it to not be too severe on Mr. Simon. The seed it is so industriously sowing, will, so far as it snccedB at all, tend toward tbe production of a wonderful crop of political Jo. Simons and it ought not to be unrea sonable in this case simply because his opposition was levelled at the only can didate on tbe republican ticket whom the prohibitionists desired to elect. The principle of the thing is the same ; and it is principle the third party men are af ter. I do not endorse Mr. Simon's course ; no more do I endorse the course of the prohibitionists in presuming to abuse him for following their advice. I can dis cover a gleam of reason and consistency in the democratic press taunting tbe re publicans for bis retention aa chairman of the central committee ; but the prohi bitionists to make faces at us about it, oh my ! Since Satan reproved sin, and the indignant kettle turned up its nose at the plebeian pot because its bottom was black, the like has not been known. T.T. Gekr. FRENCH POLITICAL FEELIXU8. According to recent reports from France the late local elections have been a surprise and disappointment to both parties interested in them. The anti republicans had believed that the public dissatisfaction with republican methods would lead a large number of the people to throw their votes in opposition to re publican candidates ; while the republi cans, on their side, were firm in the be lief that tbe people of the country were horrified at the results of the political re action at the last general election, and that they were only waiting for this local opportunity in order to demonstrate to the world that their hearts were still loy al to democratic doctrines and to the principles of republican rule. As it turned out, both of these anticipations were in correct. Tbe results of the last elections do not differ materially from those of pre vious contests of the same kind. Neith er side made any apparent gain; for losses which each incurred in one part of the country were offset by gains secured in other districts. This would seem to indicate that, while the great mam of the French people are not altogether satisfied with their present republican government they are by no means of the opinion that it is desirable to change matters by anything which seems an approach to ward the restoration of a French mon arcby or a French empire. sl,a.ni:k OS OKEUON. From Oregon comes the following de cidedly un pleasant prophecy : Prof. E. P. Hammond foretells terrific cyclones, earthquakes and tornadoes for Sep. 26th, 27 in and 28th. Now, would it not be well for these sensation seers to let up on this sort of thing for awhile, at least. Nervousness is killing weak and excitable people in the south. What is the use of adding to the evil by making prophecies which may or may not be fulfilled? Those who make these startling predictions claim that they wish to give timely warning, so that communities interested may reef their topsails. But the uselessness of the prophecies lies in tbe fact that most peo ple put no faith in them, and those who do are just the ones who shouldn't. Will Wiggins, Hammond and the rest of them kindly keep quiet until the shock of the recent earthquakes bas lost some of its effect on the nerves of the public at large. (New York World, Sept. 7. Who's Hammond ? Oregon can stand a good deal. She has "Prof. Chaney" and over two thousand "prohibitionist," but she hadn't heard before that she had Hammond. A POIST FOB APPROVAL. Mrs. A. S. Duniway finds a point to ap prove in tbe Washington territory repub lican platform, which contains a plank declaring in favor of tbe law of equal suf frage, and opposing the idea of its repeal. This is another link in the long chain of facts that go to show that the republican party is the party of progress and reform, tbe party of live issues, that is not afraid of the past nor the future, and is fully abreaHt and sometimes ahead of the pres ent. It is the party that has dared to do right in the face of war and dissension, the party for peace and prosperity, and the party in whose bands may be well trusted any jut issue. The question of woman suffrage is a live issue. That women will finally be accorded equal elec tive privileges with men is only a question of time. The time will cuine when peo ple will look back upon the period when they were denied the privilege as we look back upon the days of slavery, as a relict of the prejudiced and slow-going past, Doubt it as some may, and hojie against it as others will, tiiat time is last approaching. HOPS. It now appears that the New York hop crop will be nearer a total failure than even the best judges bad predicted. Some of the people in the hop regions of New York are inclined to take a very gloomy view of bop culture in that state, being led thereto, doubtless, by the re sult of this year's crop. The growers have, indeed, much to centend with there by the almost yearly occurrence of some insect test or drouth or unfavorable weather. A grower residing in the hop region near Rome, at Yenora, writes a letter to the Home Republican in which he casts a rather doleful horoscope for the growers for 18S7. He has probably tak en a retrospective view of the outcome of yearly crops, and with this year's failure to cap the climax of a scries of unfruitful seasons, peering gloomily into futurity, be makes the following prophecy : Another hop pest has been discovered and it iB freely predicted that there will be no hops raised another year, vu: 1KB Those who have thoroughly inspected the the roots find the contents of everv hill undergoing a general decay, which has already reached an advanced stage, cut what has attracted tbe most attention is the presence of a small worm not more than one-sixteenth of an inch in length, which seems to be feeding upon the cel lular of the root near the crown. The vines where the worm has existed have appeared as verdanLas anv, and the con clusion is that the worm at the root has been a more potent factor in development of blight, than foliage vermin or honey dew. The market at present in the Sound country is not booming, bo reports tbe Tacoma Ledger. Offers have been made of twenty-five cents a pound by tbe car load, jut no transaction at these figures is reported this week, indicating that such growers as have not sold will first gamer the crop. Ipon the result of the year's crop throughout the world, de pends in a great measure the market val ue of the hoj. In few weeks this will be known and the price of hops will go up or down according to the returns, unless the bears or bulls capture the market and, according their reBjiective manner of manipulating the market, establish un real prices. THE PRESS AND THE ANARCHISTS. The anarchist fiends, not satisfied with abusing judge, jury and verdict, are now turning their attention to abusing the newspapers the "capitalistic press," as they style it. The sympathizers with the doomed men have met and "resolved against the alleged efforts of the press to influence pubic opinion and to prejudice the minds of the jury who convicted un der their oaths. It is astonishing how sensitive these bomb-throwers have become. How dear is the freedom of speech when directed against the government and counseling riot, bloodshed and murder ! The insti gators of crime claim the constitutional right of free Bpeech, by which they mean the right openly to advocate murder and arson. But when tbe newspapers ven ture to suggest that American institutions are worth saving, they are denounced as exceeding their province, and as worthy to be suppressed. It is not a matter of any great impor tance perhaps, but it shows the consist ency of the loud-mouthed howlers who claim for themselves unrestricted power to do everything, hut who whine about the "capitalistic press" for disagreeing with their chosen methods. Tlie entire press of the country, or at any rate, the respectable portion of it, bas been unanimous in endorsing the verdict of the Chicago jury, and in making such endorsement, they were but reflecting the sentiments of the people at large. The prisoners were in one sense being tried before the bar of public opinion, and the anarchists, advocating the abolition of all restraints in government, should be the last to complain if the vox populi which they claim is the voice of God, has decided that the accused were guilty. The egotistical cranks who have set themselves to work to revolutionize all things, may learn Bme day that the American people know a thing or two. and are not afraid to back up their know! edge with actions as well as words. Thousands of county fairs will soon be held throughout the land, and all the county "fairs" will be present, and here in lies food for reflection. Why should county fairs be used exclusively to 'boom fat cattle and pumpkin pies? This ques tion lias struck Dakota with the force everything begets in that energetic terri tory. Huron, Dak., has answered the question in the interests of progress, and bas set aside what it calls a marrying day, offering a special premium to the first couple united on the grounds. This is as it should be. At a county fair th social factors of the neighborhood meet to view the plenty of the harvest. It is romantic occasion. In fact, there are few more sentimental and poetic events in the world than a full-fledged county fair. The hand organs, the pies, the pea, nuts, the fatted calves and the newly (tainted patented churns but all this is foreign to the design of this paragraph. It is written in interest of marrying day. lt every county fair throughout the country pay strict attention to furthering the great caui-e of matrimony. Thus shall the land wax strong and prosper ous. Do you waut a good home-made hack ' If o, banraiu. wtf OUR SATURDAY NIGHT. Eihtor Statesman : The firemen's association has had charge of Salem for three days this week, and Momus, the merry god, has presided over the city of church spires and maple trees. Bacchus, the god of wine and revelry, has taken part in the proceedings, though it was not a conspicuous part. Although some things have been done which ought not to have been done and some tilings have been left undone which ought to have been done, still the tournament may be considered a success in those tilings for which it was intended, that is, to awaken an interest in the matter of the best ways prevent the ravages and spread of fires, and to promote the efficiency of our tiremon. Although Astoria nas wrested the laurel wreath of champion ship from us, still we are not jealous of the city by the sea, and we hope she may wear it with a proud dignity worthy of the good fight her brave boys were com pelled to make to gain it. It is no dis honor to tie beaten by such a team as Astoria sent up this year. They were all stars, and they carried no dead weight of mediocrity. They will acknowledge the act that Salem has a Capital, No. team, who are always Alert and ready to come to the Rescue when duty calls, and they will be compelled to give three cheers and a Tiger for all those that took part when they remember the brave men and true who made thetn get down to their work, and caused them torememlier there had been a race after each contest. For the present, an revoir. We'll meet you in Yancouvcr. A social event in Salem was recently written up and put in tv before the event came off. Wouldn't you rail this an Advance Thought? Here's the latest in newsjper circles A member of the profession ol Faber bronchos goes into a newspaper office and elevates bis none and whiffs, as though he smells something of an unsavory odor. He is aked what is the matter, and answers that it must lie the dead "ads, This is local to Salem. There will be considerable "bustle" in the pending political contest in Washing ton territory. Of corsets to be sexpected that you, affectionate reader, know that women vote in Washington territory. They are on the Eve of the election now. The "grapevine" telegram in the Port land pujier to the effect that the island of Cuba had sunk into the sea, and retired forever from the geography of the world, proved to be a false alarm, got up no doubt by some real estate agent to boom his business. No ; Cuba is still in busi ness at the old stand, and bus no inten tion of soon taking "a header" into whenceness. Really, the report was a cause of great alarm to me, for, had it proved, alas! too true, it would no doubt have Lad the effect to raise the price of two-bit Havana cigars, and then what would we capitalists do? Every cigar store in Salem would have been com pelled to shut up shop. Nko II. Pkli.. CL A DSTON E-CLKV EL A N O-RLA I X E. Mr. Blaine's pre-eminence among con temporary American statesmen is illus trated in the eager anticipation and atten tive hearing accorded his Sebago Lake peech. There is not a man living save Gladstone who can command a larger audience whenever he may choose to ad dress the public. Cleveland is the president of the Uni ted States, and in that capacity trans mitted to congress a year ago bis review of the condition of the country and his recommendations for better government. The newspapers gave it space as a matter of convention and courtesy, but under protest, and its contents, commonplace and perfunctory as they were, excited little discussion in any quarter. Blaine, a private citizen, talking to a town-hall full of working-men in Portland, or to a handful of plain farmers and farm hands on Sebago Lake, oiiens his mouth and the whole English-speaking world not only stops to listen, but is set a-thinking. As Great Britiun in a fit of foolishness set aside Gladstone, her greatest states man, for a dull and decorous peer, whose chief claim to distinction is his title, so the United States blindly rejected Blaine for an untried country lawyer, whose forte is luck in politics. But tbe world is never long oblivious to the claims of the truly great ; the Ameri can people of all peoples are the least likely to lie permanently misled, and wnue History may loot tne other way she is never hoodwinked. If health and strength are given Gladstone he will come into his own again, and Blaine will go in to the White House. Philadelphia News. Kakiuhi .KRh are not so unusual as to give just occiiHiun fur so great a hubbub about them. Official records have been brought to light at w ashington to prove that this unhappy country experience on an average one earthquake each twelve days. During 1885 there were fifty-nine oflicical quake in the I'nitcd States and Canada, and during the twelve years from 1872 to 1883 inclusive, a total of MA. The earthquake in fact is so common that J nobody ought to lie scared a bit THE FAIR. A great deal has been said, first and last, about the speed department of the state fair, and the pool-selling attachment of the same. While the practice of pool- selling is not a commendable one, and not calculated to improve the moral tone of society, still it has grown to lie what might be termed a "necessary evil" in connection with racing. It affords those who want to rink their money on the is sue of a race, those who want to "back" their judgment on a favorite horse, a chance to do so quietly, and without un necessary display, as is always the case where pools are not sold. It is a 8iecies of gambling. We are not all gamblers. Those w ho are not, and do not approve of such practices, have no business around the place where pools are sold. It would be better if nobody would gamble, and it would also be better if no one would com mit thousands of other little indiscretions, but human conduct cannot be perfect. It never was so, and never will be. There is a difference between a fair and a camp meeting. While it is well to advise everybody of the evil of buying pools, there is no use ranting against the fair managers for allowing them to be sold, for by so doing they corral and make less offensive a practice which they cannot prohibit or prevent; and the license of the institution aids them materially in bearing the heavy expenses of the fair. ALL AMERICANS. Frank M. Pixlcy, of the San Francisco Argonaut, is happy. The republican state ticket, just nominated in California contains the name of only one tierson who was not born on American soil, and he w as born in England of protestant par ents, and came te this country when he was an infant. Even he would not have been nominated but fur the ttohemian silver-tongued orator, Col. Fitch of whom everybody has heard, and who made one of the most flowery speeches ever deliv ered in any convention, placing in nomi nation as a candidate for attorney-general, the name of William H. II. Hart. He literally raised Mr. Hart to the skies on a silvery crested wave of eloquence, dwelling upon the fact that he was a brave and loyal soldier, and took up arms and (ought and bled for his country in the hour of her darkest peril. There was no issue of race prejudice in this conven tion, and Pixley claims that the result is merely the outgrowth of a healthy public sentiment, which he claims the honor of helping to create. The beauties of the "great palladium of lilierty" were re-illustrated this week in a case tried in tbe circuit court. Elev en men thought one way, and one man thought elevVn ways, and though the twelve Btaid out tweiity-four hours, neith er the eleven could convince the one, nor tbe one the eleven, and so they were dis charged, and the litigants will have a big bill of costs to pay for nothing. Three men are enough for any jury two to de- side. The present jury law is a "relic of barbarism" and ought to lie gotten rid of as speedily as possible, it is strange how long sensible iieople will cling to an out rageous custom because it is old. Pen dleton East Oregonian. Da. Dawhos, principal of McGiU's college of Montreal, has been lecturing on the geological formation of the bed of tbe ocetin and climatic influences on the dis tribution of the water on the surface of the glolie. He favors the theory that the kernel of the earth is solid, but that there iB liquid matter between the kernel and the surface; and that the crust of the earth is thicker and stronger than ever, giving abundant promise of permanence. Dr. Dawson's theory is not altogether re assuring, but it is vastly more comfort able than the proposition that there are eight thousand miles of molten stuff be tween us and China. It is remarkable how accurate science has become. The recent scientific con vention at Buffalo laid down the doctrine that men who think live thirty-three years longer than those who never think. Maybe this will cause some men to stop talking and go to thinking. Tub Maine republicans had to fight the "prohis," the labor party, the demserats, and the devil, but they proved them selves fully equal to the occasion. A kki nion of the Sledge family will be held at St. Paul next year. Old Sledge lived in Texas. Most of us played him in our gilded youth. Eriioi'LAS society is charmed with the new proverb, "Every man is a bachelor when 100 miles from bis wife." The business boom is upon Salem, and there is no excuse for a pair of idle hands in all the city. We would like to ak the Prohi if it has heard from Maine. .PI'RLIC XAI.E. W11.LSKIX AT fl'KUC 8AI.K.AT ilV H F.H .I Idenut! inllt outh eait of Halem, and 8'-t mile wimli of Turner, uu Monday, September AKh 1K, at 10 o'clock a. m., the following de aorlled property: Kixht milch cow, bead of youua cattle gull. on 2 ye.ru, 1 .pan p ..wrej hort, lo', band high, weight, 1400 each;l j borne nation, 1 two-borne covered hack good aa new, ene net double harneaa, and other artielen lermiof laie: All turn under 110, caih , all aiinu over 110, one yeara time will be u uoic wim approveu tecurtty, terent at l" per cent. A discount of 6 a for caab. Free luncb at lii o elnrk. with to per cenL w. vurB, . A. W'EtfrEKHAliHEN. W n. 8 PHF.KT, Auctioneer.