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14r TEUs: OiiEGON 81'ATESMAN FRIDAY, JANUARY 7. 1887. WEEKLY STATESMAN Lsrsry Friday Vr STATESMAN PUB. CO. scsscxirnox satis t TNT. IB HTUM.... fl M im tax saooi&a, la advance. axmcwrma orsnnco thx addktss O ( their paper chaaired mart stats) Ue mm of ttactr former wmoOm, m U as tk ! to wtica Uy visa U pj AH ahaerlttUofu onUids of Marion and Polk counties will be (topped promptly when the time paid for expires, aaleu the subscriber ha a well-known floancial standing. Yoa mar al ways see to what date roar subscription is paid j toounf at me uc on your paper. A story Ugoing the rounds to the effect that the promoters of an American charity wrote to Mr. Gladstone asking him to subscribe something. The grand old man wrote a courteous declination to come down. The society immediately pat np the letter for sale to the autograph mani acs and got a goodly sum for it in lien of the expected small subscription. This is a hint to all great people. Gire 'em your autograph for charity. Wattkkao! of the Louisville Courier Journal would have the democratic party of this great country blazon upon all its campaign banners, "Give us free trade, or give us death !" Hie doughty Henri should pometw his fiery soul in patience yet a little while. Republicans do not deal in the first named medicine, but by the fall of 1888, if nothing happens, their stock of death will be full enough and complete enough to satisfy all the demo crats spared by the war. Thk Dakotans are pretty angry because Mr. Cleveland had notliing .to say in his meeaage about their admission or their exclusion from the union. The president had evidently forgotten all about the new state that was knocking for admission From the democratic standpoint however, that no state court ever be admitted that would add to the republican strength in congretui and in the electoral college there isn't anything to say that will bear inspec tion, and hence Mr. Cleveland did the tiet he knew how by saying nothing. If a great war in Europe breaks out the United States will not be in condition to occupy the dignified position of "armed neutrality" and will Have to slide along on the sea between the belligerents the tst she may. It was Mr. Bayard, the present secretary of state, that about three years ago when his republican col leagues in the senate were pleading for a navy, said from his seat: "We give you notice that not a dollar shall be spent in thebuilding of a navy until the govern ment is in the hands of the democratic party." It is singular that the country -did not wake up to the fact that Bayard was a consummate ass until the demo cratic party was actually in power with Lint pretty nearly on top. A ooon deal of a row is being made over Mr. Cleveland's appointment of one Morton of Maine as commissioner of navi gation, lie is said to know nothing of navigation. This is a common fault of the appointees of this administration, lie is said to lie the fellow who trumped tip the gravestone and other charges against Mr. Blaine. That is hardly worth talking about. lie is too small game for a presidential candidate. It is a mistake for the friends of Senator Blaine to cry about the appointment on that account. Mr. Blaine not having been elected on account of some outside squabbles con cerning prohibition, etc., his political wisdom now would consist in letting the administration appoint his enemies' to of fice as, much as it pleases. "I iiavk just been reading Henry George's book on the land question," sail a thoughtful professional man to a Chicago Journal reporter, "and its vaga riea only tbow how possible it is for a man to be a good writer, an extensive reader and a brilliant thinker, and yet tie devoid -of good judgment and common sense, and indeed, be a fool. His panacea for the ills of lift is a tax on land which shall equal the value of the land. He cannot see tliat this tax would come out of the tenant, instead of the landlord, just as the present tax does. He can't see that if this should work as he thinks it would, land would be worth notliing to the land lords, and then the tax would be nothing also. He can't see that, if his scheme worked all right, no one would build any Iiouses. He can't see what a field for enterprising appraisers would be opened, if all the land had to be rented from the government, and the rent be fixed, and rival applicants decide between. I Ie can't eee what an immense law business the government would have on its bands with its tenants. He doesn't say whether the government would rent by the month, the year or five years, nor how much land one person might rent, nor whether a person might sub-let any of his premis es. He doesn't tell how men would be come just as rich and powerful through extensive leaseholds as they do now through the ownership of landa. In short, Henry George is a visionary and a fool, and I predict that the labor party will find it oat inside of two years." Sale got a free bridge across the Will amette in her stocking on Hew Year's, 1SS7. May she find a woolen mill in 1888 She has her stocking hung up THX KKW TEAS. The bells tolled the knell of the de parting year of IS8S at midnight, and we greet you now on the first morning of the New Year. As the latt year of time is buried in the graveyard of eternity, so let us bury the ua pleasant mexaories of the old year in the cemetery of forge t- fulness, and recall only the good deeds, the pleasant scenes, the gracious acta, the kind words, and store them away in the receptacles of oar memory, there to reflect upon oar minds thoughts of grat itude sad satisfaction. Let us also learn lessons from the teachings of past exper ience, and make the resolutions on this day for a better future, for the exercise of our abilities and talents and resources in a wider scope of usefulness and advancement and progress. Now, standing as it were upon an eminence be tween the valleys of the past and the fu ture, is an appropriate txne to gather new energies from the inspiration of past successes and form them into new am. bitiona for the future. Standing upon this hypothetical eminence that divides the valley of the past from the valley of the future, we can see the field of oppor tunities of the past well worked and oc cupied; but on the other hand the field of the future is new and the opportuni ties for its developement are yet open and ready for the plowshare of enterprise and pluck, and will yield bountiful bar vests to the industrious and prudent. In this country there is no aristocracy of opportunities. It is a democracy that recognizes and rewards ability, energy, prudence, and persistence; and it don't ask your pedigree, if you combine these qualities with honesty. The past year has been an eventful one for Salem and generally a prosperous one for this section. We have grown and advanced. We have extended the arms of our influence and broadened the field of our constituency. We have aroused and awakened the latent ener gies of our people. We have attuned our resources' to the instruments of progress, and we have advanced in all the material requisites that go to make up a healthful growth. About $325,000 has been put into build ings and improvements in the limits of Salem daring the year 1886, and the forces of advancement have not halted. Our population has increased and kept time with the steady tread of progress. All that Salem now needs to insure her rapid growth is the establishment of manufacturing industries in our midst We have every other requisite for the building np of a great city. Every social advantage may be found here, and Salem is preeminently the residence city of the state. She is the capital city of Oregon, and has the advantage of all the public buildings and institutions of this great and growing state. We cannot afford to yield any of the vantage ground al ready fained There is no middle ground of progress. There is no standstill We mus$ either go on and on in the line of progress or give way to some more en terprising rival The more we do the more we are able to do. While we are progressing and advancing, let us not halt nor falter, but speed our growth with the added strength already ac quired. All Salem wants is the united efforts of her citizens, the concentration of her enterprise. She has her future in her own hands, and she alone will be to blame if she does not grow and develop and increase and extend her influence. The Statesman has been kindly treated by the old year. Its circulation has grown steadily and its business con stantly increased. It has made good returns for the untiring industry re quired in its publication, and starts off the year 1887 with brighter prospects than ever before. It will be the con stant endeavor to keep the paper fully abreast the advancement of the times, and to make it all its patronage will per mit, with a fixed determination to extend its field. We wish you. otie and all, a happy and prosperous New Year. TO HOME i-KKK Kits. To the resident of the states east of the Rockies, who is subject to the extremes of heat and cold in summer and winter, and who lives in constant dread of the playful caprices of the elements, to the people of the crowded east this state presents an inviting field for immigra tion. Blessed with a climate that is rare ly equaled in any country, and with a soil that returns generous harvests for the pains of well-diiected industry, there are yet opportunities open for home seekers and home-builders and men of small means; and also splendid chances for the profitable investment of capital. It is an axiom, that "crops never fail in Oregon." We . want more men of push and enterprise and pluck and prudence and such will be encouraged and do well here. We have enough of the indigent, idle and shiftless, and this should -not be construed as an invitation to that class. If Salem advances as much daring the new year as she did in 1886, she will do exceedingly welL She should advance even more. A haptt and prosperous New Year to all! Don't write it with a 6 any longer. Ttbs over a new leaf for 1887. Sweab eff. KXTKosPKcrrrx. One year ago this morning, January 1st, 1886, the 8tatkoAJI published the following editorial It will t observed that Salem now has every thing demand ed in that article, except the woolen mill She still wants the woolen mill, with a fruit cannery, and all other mannfactar- ng institutions that can find business here and five employment to labor. let 1887 be the year for the inauguration of manufacturing enterprises. Bead what was said one year ago to-day: WHAT SALEM WAXTS. Salem wants a woolen mill! not a card ing machine! not a carpet loom! not a knitting machine; but a good every-day woolen mill with all the latest machinery and appliances, and with sufficient capi tal and competent management to carry nn a larae business and emnlov many laborers. We should like for home capi tal to have the credit of owning all or the controlling interests in such an institu tion, but we would not object to foreign capital in case those men at home with , ; it. means ao not move m uie premises. Salem wants a bridge acmes the Wil lamette. We want the said bridge built by the counties of Marion end Polk,-and the city of Salem, with perhaps help from private subscribers. We may not get such a bridge this year, but we will some time in the future. When it is built we want a free bridge, that will unite the two sides of the Willamette river, and practically break the natural barrier that now separates as trom the other side. Salem wants Willson Avenue and Marion Square taken care of, and pre served and improved for unborn genera tions. Salem wants a boom! not a wild, nn tamed, cyclonic boom, with extravagant figures and estimates on everything; but a steady, growing and substantial boom, that will infuse tLe breath of progress into our very existence, and gradually push as on to a busy bustling manufac turing city, furnishing work to hundreds of contented employes and a living mar ket for all the products of the surround ing country. Salem wants the freedom of the ciiv hereafter denied to the vandal bonnes that have been a standing men ace to householders, and a lasting dis grace to the spirit of progress that should actuate us. Salem wants her cow pas ture relegated to the memories of the time when she wore the swaddling clothes of a village. All these things and many more Salem wants. She wants them soon, and wants them to be consummated or inaugurated with the current year; if not all possible in this year, then in some future year or years. NOD'S ANI VEK11S. The tendency of American newspapers to take unwarrantable liberties with cer tain nouns is one of the most unsatisfac tory features of contemporary journalism. To turn a defenceless noun into an aggres sive verb is an act as lawless as it is un punishable. When a reporter asserts that "John Smith suicided" he makes his meaning clear, but he shocks the rnerves of those conservatives who base their English on dictionary precedent. "Interview" used as a verb is another outcome of journalistic independence. But even the two words cited are by no means the most striking illustrations of the tendency referred to. A western paper says that one of its subscribers 'Thanksgave" at home. Shades of Noah Webster, what a word ! It is on a par with another provincialism which some times Bhocks the nerves in such a sen tence as the following: "James X and his brother Sundayed in town." The list of these vagabond verbs might be in definitely extended, but the above will suffice. It seems to be a characteristic of our Ieople to take the shortest road to the goal of their desires. The process of turn ing nouns into verbs is one of the most effective methods of making one word serve the purpose of two or three. But is elegance to be sacrificed for so petty an ob ject? It is an undoubted fact that the English language is the most flexible now spoken, but there isajoint beyond which philological liberties liecome vulgarities. Let the noun-diturbing journalists of America ponder deeply on this truth, and there may come a time when we shall hear no more of the men who "Thanks gave" or "Sundayed." As a common country lawyer, a man can sweep out his own office", carry in his coal and wait upon himself like other white men, but transfer him to congress in an unguarded hour, and it costs the people more to hire and pay a step-and fetch-it for him than the salary of a bank president comes to. Especially is this so with reference to senators. The esti mates for clerks, messengers and waiters of all kinds in the senate amount to near ly ."i"0,000l or about $4,500 for each sena tor for leing waited upon during the six or eight months congress is in session. Oi course these little items count and help to swell the enormous expenses of government; but people who kick are cranks. The estimates for the coming year under "reform" rule tell us that it will cost atout 11,000,000 a day, not in cluding Sundays, to engineer this great country. Figure on your part of it and then squeal if you want to. Ox February 1st the Boston navy-yard is to be closed, for the very good reason that there is no necessity for keeping it open. There is no desire to discriminate against Rjeton in the act, but there is a general feeling that we have a large amount of yard to a very small amount of navy, and that there ought to be a closer fitness of thine. 7nr a Dice plate of oyoters, in any style, call at Chas. Heilenbraad's. U KB. MANNING'S CERTIFICATES. Mr. Manning, cur new minister to Mex ico, has procured and published certifi cates that he did not get drunk at a break fast given to him at that capital, and after ward disturb his neighbors by having an attack of delirium tremens. In a letter accompanying the certifi cates Mr. Manning explains that it was a midday breakfast of a very serious charac ter. The party at table consisted of only two gentlemen, besides his host and him self, sjsi, so far from there having been any hilarity, the conversation through out was grave and improving. It was about the industrial development of Mex ico, and "I gained," says the minister, "a mass of valuable and interesting in formation that I could not have obtained from books." Wine was drunk, but in moderation. Subsequently he was con fined to his room with a cold and pneu monia. In proof that be did not misbehave himself at the breakfast Mr. Manning produces the certificate of one of his fel low guests, an American, that "he was not in the least under the influence of wine." The chief of the dining room of his hotel "kindly tendered his statement that the minister "was never under the Influence of liquor or wine while here, and drank very little of either." A man who occupied the room next to his at the hotel certifies that he never heard any unusual noise in Mr. Manning's apart ment, such as, presumably, would have been made by a victim of delirium tre mens. Finally, a physician tontines that the minister suffered from pneumonia aggravated by a cold room. But is it not strange that a diplomatic representative should find it necessary to procure such certificates? THK "KEAUV LAW." If seems that the '.'Keady lienor law" is to be a source of never ending litiga tion. The bill for the law was first introduced in the house, it will be remembered, when it read, section 1, "that no erson shall be permitted to sell spirituous, malt, or vinous liquor in this state in quantities less than one gallon, without having first obtained a license from the county court of the proper county for that purpose." It is now claimed that the records of the senate will show that the bill was amend ed so as to read in quantities less than one quart , and that the clerk of the senate was instructed to so inform the house. It is further claimed, that the clerk of the senate then sent a message to the house, informing that body, that the bill had been amended so as to read in quantities less than one gallon." Of course this little difference in the message and the clerk's instructions pass ed without notice the house "concurred in the senate amendment," and the bill, as originally introduced became a law. The law is now before the supreme court, in a case apialed from Astoria, and should the supreme court not concur in the decision of t lie lower court, then Oregon would be plainly without a law regulating the liquor trade. The matter is worthy the consideration of your legislators, and they should fully understand the matter, and in case the above alleged facts are substantiated, they should make their first duty, the rectifying of thisanother "mistake." ILLINOIS IN Til K SENATK. (ien. Logan will be remembered as par ticipating in two remarkable contest for a seat in the I'nited States senate. The first one, in which, after many ballotings, he was defeated by David Davis, settled the political status of the presidency Jot four years by giving that office to Mr. Hayes, instead of to Mr. Tilden. The other was the accomplishment of his own election against an adverse majority by the remarkable strategy of choosing a re publican by stealth in a strong democrat ic district of his state. Mr. C. B. Farwell, a capitalist of Chicago, has long desired his seat, and will make much effort to obtain it, with, rhaj, better propvt8 of succees than any one "lse. Illinois is not so fruitful in able men as she was in the days of Lincoln and Itouglas, and since their death Gen. Ig:in has oc cupied a position of undisputed political prominence over all others. Boston Herald. Kansas capitalists never tire of build ing new railroads with an immense amount of capital stock all over the coun try, on paper. The newest trunk line started is one directly from lJuluth to the southern boundary of that state. They make a little in this industry by going around to county seats holding meetings and raising three to five hundred dollars "to pay expenses of a preliminary survey." It is not a great bonanza but it pavs tolerable wages to the president and di rectors who manage to save a few dollars by the strict economy of their preliminarv surveys. Mr. Piekre Lobbilard advocates "a legacy tax" of 10 per cent, on all fortunes over $200,000, to prevent the transmis sion of billionaire fortunes from genera tion to generation. Something of that kind will have to come sooner or later or the republic will one day be owned by a few families. Then a civil war would frrow ont nf a rnt nnm o mAninir ti1 after that rhim ramn tkora wap LI Vx a relocation and new adjustment of things. rui we neea not mo lor tne nrst reform before the legislature meets. WISE SILENCE. Everybody pitched savagely into the English Gen. Butler who declined to come in and submit himself to the mercy of the court trying the Campbell divorce suits. The counsel on both sides took a shot at him. The judge on the bench, when he delivered his charge, gave him a broad side, and the jury, after finding every body else innocent, added to its verdict by way of a rider a loud denunciation of the "meanness of Gen. Butler" for not coming into court and "clearing his skirts. It looks to the .Statesman as though Butler was wise to stay out. If he had appeared and sworn that the charge that he had been too intimate with the lady in the case was untrue, he would have been confronted with keyhole witnesses who would have sworn that they saw it all. He would have been dragooned by a lot of cheeky and shrewd lawyers on the other side, who would have demanded his public and private history from the time he was three years old and upward, and who would examine minutely into every little escapade at school or adoles cent revelry at the barracks. A fellow mixed up in an English di vorce suit has to stand all these things and there is no protection for himj in the suggestion that what he did years and years before he met the co-defendant, has nothing to do with the merits of the case. Notiody would have attached the slighest weight to his denial as that is considered a matter of ceurse among En glish gentlemen, while if he had not de nied it he would have been everlastingly disgraced. It is evident that the attack on Butler for doing the wisest thing in his power and staying away, is quite silly. He could have done no more good to either party than did the other fifty witnesses or so that appeared. Notody cared what tiiey said, so it was nasty enough to make a sensation in the pajiers. The truth or falsity of the testimony was hardly thought of, and the verdic t indicates that the jury did not believe anything that a single soul testinea to in tne course ol ttie pro ceedings. What was the use of Butler there? WANTED A KOAI). The people of Salem and all this sec tion should encourage the construction of a free wagon road over the Cascade mountains by way of the Minto pass. The support of the eople east of the nioun tains is assured thev are in favor of a free wagon road, to a man. They want a better way to market, and the jeople of this section should lend their aid to see that they get what they want. A free wagon road over the Cascades would le of great benefit to the people of the hunch, grass region, and it would materially help this section. It would enable our merchants to supply a large custom that is now cut off by these mountains. The legislature will be asked to make an appropriation to build a road through the Minto pass. The state is now amply able to do this. It will not le in the interest of any particular section, hut of all the eopIe on both sides of the mountains. Better use could not lie made of twelve to fifteen thousand dollars at this time than in building this road and dedicating it to the free use of the public. I-et our members work for this measure. They will have plenty of help from the mem bers east of the mountains. THK M AVOK'l AnuRKKS. The address of Mayor Ramsey to the city council is an able document. It shows study and reflects the impression of a clear and well trained mind and a level head. The new mayor makes some very good suggestions, and makes them plain. He also showed himself to, bo jxjssessed of good executive ability at the first meeting of the council, and the proceedings of that body will hereafter le deprived of the usual tiresomeness of the sessions of such t todies. The council also starts out like it meant business. They have made some KOd selections for jtoliccmcn, and the city government is in good ami com jietent hands. The present condition of the city's finances demands an economi cal and business-like administration, and that is the kind promised us. "Ei Roi E will fight in the spring," say the foreign correspondents. If memory is not at fault, this is something of a chest nut. The spring weather generally suc ceeds in thawing the martial ardor of the powers. But if they will fight, America will take pleasure and profit in furnish ing them with food and other supplies. A new paper in Philadelphia is named the Sock. Its motto should be soc et tu em. It is stocking its copy-hook with well knit editorials and will unravel many a tale of sensational news. But though well heeled at the start, these queerly named journals finally get out at the toe. Tux state of New Jersey is in trouble. A woman has been sentenced to the state prison, but she is so large that she cannot get into any of the cells. She is camping in the yard, and it is proposed to ask the state to build a prison round her. ""asasssssssjssssssssssjsssssssssssssai Wasted The legislature to. pass a law regulating railroad freight charges, and reduc ing passenger fares to three cents per mile. OUR SATURDAY NIGHT. Editor Statesman: The old year of 18S6 has slid into the rat-hole of eter nity, and now we have a bran New Year born to eternity. The child has been christened 1887, and it belongs to you, all of you. I don't mean any reflection by this. I am speaking figuratively. It is nothing novel for the New Year to come around on January first. It hap pens that way every year, and it has been ita practice for some time. It no doubt was the same when our ancestors were gibbering apes in the forests of Asia, or sponges in the bottom of the deep, deep sea. But this is New Year's day, 1S87, and it's our New Year. This is our time and we should make the best of it. Let us all make a preamble and adopt some good resolutions for 1887. If we don't observe the resolutions, we will at least be in the Btyle, and some jieople think there is a virtue in this. Here's kindest wishes for a Happy New Year to each and all, and many joyous returns of the day. A gentleman from the country was in Salem a few days since, when the town clock tegan to strike. He was curious, and asked one of the busy "fly young men" of the city what it meant. "Oh," answered the aforesaid F. Y. M., "that's a chestnut bell. It's just a ringing down one of Ed. Edes' back-numler jokes." Mr. Edes is one of the good looking and accommodating deputies of County Clerk Chapman, and the fly young man should be ashamed of himself. A young man of Salem says he has discovered erpetual motion. It's easy as falling off of a log. He wonders that the asylums are running over with men who have ruined their minds thinking upon such a simple problem. This young man has found one thing that never stops running, that never has to le wound up, and that runs of its own mo mentum without any assistance what ever it's a bill. lie says he has sever al living examples of this proposition, and he is reminded of this fact just now, as it is the first of the vear. Nki. H. I'kii. MALF.M'S N'EK1S. Salem needs more manufacturing in dustries. She wants a woolen mill, a can ning establishment, and other manufac turing industries that will give employ ment to lalior, furnish a home market for the products of the soil, and stimulate trade aiul enterprise generally. There is no doubt that such institutions would help to build up a great city and conse quently increase the value of projierty. They would help the farmer, the trades man and the lalxirer, skilled and unskilled. Salem wants not for herself alone, but for a large section of country) a free wagon road across the Cascades, through the Minto pass, that will give the people of that vast section east of this range of mountains u free outlet to our markets. The legislature should appropriate the money to bulid this road, and dedicate it to the free use of the public. Salem wants a branch of the narrow gauge railroad from a jtoint aliout seven miles east, and she w ill no doubt get this in the near future. If Salem gets all of these things, which she can do if her citi zens unite and pull together for them, not relaxing their efforts until the ends sought are accomplished, she will then get a branclrof the Oregon Pacific rail road , she wilf then have street railways and all the modern paraphernalia of a great city. They will come as a natural sequence of events. They w ill come with the growth of the city and the establish ment of these industries. The famous district No. 101, of K.of L., which ran the unsuccessful strikes on the Gould lines, has dissolved. Many of the men were reduced to joverty by Martin Iron's ill-advised act. It will tie remem bered that the strike was caused by the discharge of an unfit employee on an other road, which was in the hands of a receiver. The Christmas business comj-ls the employment of 7'Xt extra men in the Iondon postodice. In all the jxst and express offices of the I'nited States the holiday package business this year was larger than ever tiefore. This means rising prosjK'rity. NOTICE OK FINAL ACC'OI'NT. YOnt'K IS HKKKBY filVEN THAT THK aN umlerMKnod hH fi'l her final account an executrix of the lat will aol tetatnent of Her man KaU-n, late of Marion county. Oregon, de ceased, and that Monday, the 7th day of Febru ary, A. Ii., lt-7, at 10 clofk a. m., has been fixed by the Judge. f the county court of tbe tat of Oreeon for ths county of Msrlon, ss the time for the hearing nf objection to tuch final account and the ettlcment thereof. MAKGAKKT KARENS. Administratrix Salem, January .'th, 1W. p...; nnnnnn people use FERRY'S SEEDS FEKKY CO. mAmtUsxi to be tha UaltST ItllSHU im Of world. TERM 1 GO'S arlst S trUm !SE0RUL For 1887 J wfll be aiailad J rstt to ail trnbootor. darac. fmlaMla aUXMtwr. aa uMng gar. 4m. fuii ar Immt tSIDS wimU mmtd for u. Addr tit. -n-D-r -rf WWVVVf I . a. rtT m. Detroit. Mich.