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TV THjc: OKEGK)N S1ATESMAN FKI1)A NOVEMBER 18. 1887 WEEKLY STATESMAN l Try TMr by Oat STATESMAN FUB. CO. STESCRrPnOgf JL1TO: rW.U ftdTUM 33 SUSMmtha. la edvi SCTSCWKBS MXTEI50.THX 4XJDKXSS o tbeir papers lbufd 1 aaa&e of Uufr P " J"1 Ukm office lo wblcto Utar tk anted. All t nbaerlTHloat oaUide of Marten sod Polk eoantie will b stopped promptly when the time paid for expire, unlet the ubacrlber ha a well knon financial Manama-. I oa may ai- wari tee to what date roar ubteiiptlon U paid bj lookiDf at the tag oa your paper. X CO XEW srB&CRlrTIOSS WILL BE TAK en nnle paid for la ad ranee. SELLING OrriCES. The. election in New York was sorely settled by the "siae of the pile," and the democrats and the "sack" were elected. Never has there beenuch organized and successful taxation of all mho hold and all who hoped to bold places under a democratic city or national administration as in this rear of grace and civil-service reform. The democratic candidate for district attorney paid $15,000 tor the pri vilege of courting rotes, f 15,000 wan also the price of taking a chance for a supreme judge's chair : the candidates for seats in the board of aldermen contributed $12,' H00, the candidates for the state senate were taxed $20,000, and even the poor bat honest policemen were "requested" to chip in $15 apiece. From present, past, and prospective officeholders the party of democracy and civil service reform collec ted about $427,000 for the city campaign fund. The county democracy and Tarn many nail were empowered to see that the vast sum was placed where it would do the most good. How Mr. Curtis and such mugwumps as still keep in his train may regard this un usually profligate attempt to purchase an election remains to be seen. Cut there is not a dispassionate voter of any party in any part of the Union who is not quite sure that $457,000 could never be expend ed in the legitimate methods of a city campaign. The ever increasing ex pen ses of elections are regarded with appre hension by the most thoughtful men of the country, but this terrific taxation of candidates and officeholders, this undis guised barter and sale of place surpasses, all past experience and overwhelms all possibility of reform under democratic management. ine met nous ol these men were ap proved by the administration, and it ap pears as if Grover Cleveland looks upon tiie vote ol an American citizen as ol so much intrinsic value, the same as the fee of a lawyer. What is this country com in g to under tins kind pi rule 7 a man ajio ill sell a vote ought to be in the (enitentiary, and a man who will offer to buy the vote ought to be his cell mate. SOMEWHAT HYSTKKICAL. The Toronto Globe is unduly excited It has no love for Mr. Chamberlain and no faith in the success of any mission which he represents, but its alarmist views do not exactly fit the situation. It imperatively demands Mr. Chaui Itriain's recall, and on this odd ground : "Should the commissioners fail to reach a settlement, nothing can be more certain than that war twtween Great Britain and the United States can lie avoided only by t ireat Britain's abandoning Canada in a way that will forever disgnn-e the British name." All that rounds rather inflam matory. There is at prnt no smell of gunpowder in the air, and neither we nor the English are anxious for a quarrel. As to the fisheries question our govern ment is glad to meet any representative whom England send. We are not aware that any one has a chip on his shoulder, or that there is reison to fear that diplomacy wi'l not le equal to the occasion. All talk iiUmt an armed conflict is metviy hysterical. England will do her best to make a good bargain without doubt. For that matter, the Americans are not averse to doing the same thing, and they have a lepu'ation fir the aMIity to do it. Nobody complain of that. We shouM like what is tair and square in the premises ; England would also like what is lair ami square, and there is reason to hojv that a conclusion honorable to both art!s may 1k speedily reached. But a war nonsense. Tut uitt-tia ideal work will b- com menced next week on the New Year's edi tion of the Statesman-, as some of the copy for that edition is already in. On the first oflVceniher our Mr. Manning will take charge of this edition, and (It vote his entire time fo it until ft is issued It will lie a somewhat larger and better edition than that published on the first day ot this year. It is the intention of tne Statesman to issue an eiitht-paj-e pa- lr each Mmday so soon after January nrsTasm arrangements ran be made and imMut will justity it. It might 1 just remaikfd here that the Statesman is now enjoying a bigger boom in the subscription ueiartment, both Daily and Weekly, than ever experienced before. With its splendid new press, it can meet this demand easily, and we don't care a cent if business compels na to buy another new press right away off. Taa bjjeott i a twojdicea weapon. It cots both ways. Vj , . CHOLERA ST7SVBCTS. The quarantine cemmisioners deny the escape ot coders suspect trom iion man's Island, bat the charge of contin ued importation of rags from cholera- fected districts of Italy are sot yet disproved. The quarantine system of New York is most unsatisfactory in its operation; it seems to be partly under federal and pertly under state control, and to be regarded as part of the politi cal machinery of both authorities. If there be one branch of the public service, the judiciary perhaps excepted, in which thorough-going ability and integrity should be the chief grounds of appoint ment and retention it is sorely the de partment of health. As in a matter so eminently national as the exclusion of infections diseases from our ports it does not seem improper that the national government should have exclusive control. It is not the cit ies of New York, Baltimore, Boston or New Orleans that are peculiarly in dan ger if cholera patients land at tbeirjports ; in these days of swift travel the contagion may infect Chicago or San Francisco within a few days after its appearance in an eastern or southern port. It is not unreasonable to demand that a national board of health composed of the best sci entists of the country shall direct a na tional system ef qurantine. The trade between New York and Chi cago is too vast and constant to permit hope of our escaping if New York is vis ited with cholera. And, though it may be that New York may be able to pro tect itself, even by its present cumber some methods, from a visitation of the plague, yet it is within the bonds of pos sibility that cholera germs may reach Chicago in the baggage of immigrants or in bales of imported rags or other articles of commerce without affecting New York. IJKTTKR FOR TEMPERANCE. Those temperance republicans who find fault with the party for, as they claim, 1 defeating the prohibition amendment should remember that the legislature is as free to enact any temperance law as it was before, and more so ; ' for, had the amendment carried, they would have been restricted' to one idea, been com pelled to pass laws for the enforcement of A provision for which there is no sen timent to enforce. Now the legislature is not restricted at all. It can pass a pro hibitory law, or a high license or local op tion law. But it would surely not be wise to enact a law the people do not want ; therefore the republican party and the republican papers propose to go for a high license law, with local option pro visions. What would you have them do? Do yon want them to force on the people a theory, a law which they do not want? No ; you don't, if yon are reasonable. The republican patty is the temperance party. The democratic party is the whisky party. The prohibition party is no party at all. It's dead. The grass has already begun to grow over its'grave. It died of starvation. Parties must have issues to subsist on. It ran out of issues, and therefore starved to death. Which party do you want to train with, the re publican irty, for temberance ; the dem ocratic party, for whisky, or tlie proliibi tion party, deceased? fODSX A PI'ERT. Some Oregon tiodsnaps have been kick tug up a row anout, tne abandonment ol what they call by courtesy "Fort Canby," at the mouth of the Columbia, on the Washington territory side. That alleged fortification wouldn't stand the bombardment of a toy popgun, and its medieval armament wouldn't sink Chinese jnnk. A fort at Canby is of about as much use as a wart on a blind man's none, except for the shelter of few government dummy Patch soldiers, snpiwted from the public crib. Let it be abandoned as soon as possible, or else put it in order so as not to be a disgrace to its name. The hod carriers' union of Han Diego, Cal., is something of an aristocratic or Ionization. We are not informed wheth er the members wear dress coats, but they have officially informed the colored men of that city that they "cannot be cojue members of the hod carriers' union.' Tins wouM not mean much if it were not coupieu wiui tne lact mat a hod earner not a r.iemler of the union is not allowe to carry a hod. One of these days peo ple will get tired of such nonsense, and honest men will be allowed to do honest work regardless of their color. The president don t believe in inter ference in politics by republican office holders, but he sets the example himself to democratic office holders, to "interfere" wherever they can get in a good lick for democracy. We refer to his interference in New York jolitics. He interfered just enough to enable his rarty to carry the day, assisted by his $1000 check. Oh Mugwumps ! Whither have yon withered UovxRMoa Pexxoyeb is the author of anoiner original remarx. in approving the action of a recent decision of a judge sitting on the bench, appointed by him be says virtually ; 'That's right, judge. That's the decision you were expected to make when I appointed you. If yon had not deodsd thai way, I would have been disaa pointed In yon', no matter how the law might rtad. TWZZDLKDTJH AJTD TWIIDLXDIX Democrats throughout the country have been exercising their longs over the re sult of the recent election in New York. True, they have some reason to be noisy and hilarious, because New York is the pivotal state. Bat the republicans also have reason to congratulate themselves, over the result in Ohio. Tiu MnnhiiMna f hm nnninvniii. i aZLIa.Z VT-T a 7- ' indorsed the official conduct of Governor Foraker and his position on certain qnes- tions at issue between himself and Presi- dent Cleveland. It was well known that the president and those who sympathize with him made every possible effort to prejudice the case of Governor Foraker, I irmanarar were confident that the dem- ocratic candidate for eovemor would have a plurality of 15,000 over Foraker, and there were some indiscreet enough to ear that this DTODhesied result was the leni- timat outcome, of Foraker'a ooteooken I criticism of President Cleveland. The result as it stands in the returns I of the vote cast is a complete vindication of Foraker. The republican plurality on the state ticket is nearlv double what it was two years ago. Governor Foraker made a splendid can- H bn. it m.v be aaid. with instructions to his lawyers in Washington to begin proceedings against the president nrl nhJ tmnn, Throniyh all the earnn.irh he was the mark for the dmoerHc .rtillerv and small arms. nrKA iMoaidant u;mi-..o-ma Min. to show his hostility to the governor who had so boldly proceeded against a meas ure of his approval. General Gordon, of Georgia, was carried into the state to rouse the old copperhead voters against Foraker. It is significant that after this democratic campaign the plurality in Ohio was increased over that of 1885, and that a good working majority was secured ; tha lomal.fni-o Ohin i a trtlArahlv I taree political straw, and if straws show which way the wind is blowing there is Then we shJl whether or. not the de cold comfort for democrats in the fizures ocracy is the same sort of an animal in from Ohio. BLAINE. The result of the New York election has brought many men and newspapers, including the Oregonian, to a sense of the situation of the republican party in re gard to Blaine which the Statesman has held all along; that is that Blaine is the only available candidate, the only man in the party who stands a reasonable show of carrying New York, and the nomination will be his. if be desires it; and he will desire it if he thinks he can carry the country against Cleveland. With the States aw the wish has not I exactly been the father of the thomrht. I for all things have pointed to the above in.i. Kr .nM.H.wt ;,i,ww, iaa been broaeht into court to show that our position was correct. In the next contest Blaine will not be I handicapped by 8t. John and by the mugwumps. The methods of the former and the fallacies of the latter are too well known by the average voter to have m rance- This gives a republican del much wemht in future contests. He will eKtn of two from Rhode Island to the not be handicapped by the mouthings of aBurchard: and the broken nromises ani faith of Cleveland and his party will be decidedly in his favor. It is our hope that the fight may be between lilaine and Cleveland again, as there is scarcely a doubt Uiat it will be, and it is the opinion of many well in formed republicans in and outside of New York, that Cleveland's 1100 majority of 184 will vanish before the autumn breezes of 1888. Any way, whatever may be the result, a great majority of repub licans throughout this country are anxious for the fight with Blaine as the general ; and the leadership is his if he will take it. THE HOYCOTT. The prohibition campaign i over, and the election is over. It's settled now. Let it rest. Any member of the States man staff, or any employee of this paper had precisely the same right to vote for the amendment that the editor had to vote againsts it. Any business manjhad as much right to vote one way as any other business man had to vote the other. This is a free country. The right of suffrage ghould not be restricted, i oa must not any more try to compel a man to vote your way,than to drink and eat and think your way. Now that this question iB set tied, animosities and prejudices should not be nursed or carried into business life. They have no place there. Busi ness is one thing and politics is another. There has been talk of the boycott. This is wrong. It is cowardly. It is un-Amer ican, on-democratic. It should be ever uiscourageu in tins tree country., it is an exotic system of oppression, and should have no favor in this blessed land of liberty. A man in business who holds views different from yours may be as hon est in bis convictions as yon are in yours. There is a possibility that he has as good reasons to think as be does as yon have to think as youdo. Therefore don't let such matters have any weight what ever in your business relations. It would not do to allow oar represent tativesL to forget that Salem has her stocking hung np lor a Christ&as present in the shape of an approprfatfoa ior a government postoffice bnilJinf. CM FABTY. The Statesman says the defeat of the prohibitory amendment is a republican victory. How the mighty have fallen from their high estate of great moral ideas. Time was when the Statesman dared not make such a candid confession. It will not do so at the next regular elec tion in this state. Bat how will such s declaration fall upon the ears of thous ands of conscientious republicans who have been promised, times innumerable, that the republican party Us temperance ..,,.. ni. won Id I SWS ft w aw 1 I va M1 W. M mmm ivv t'-wwfav get all the temperance legislation asked for by them from the party. i Aioany Democrat. I TP A 11 C . 111 vt.-.uk abA OIiI8XAa "Ui u",c " , I De'" "TT eiecuon in ima aiaie; uu ciuU ! can partv is a temperance party. It is the only party that ever has done any thinK for the cause of temperance, and iU P P itJ in Oregon. We have only to refer to the result of the elec- tion on prohibition amendment in nn county to snow mat ine aemocrais mmde "mpi 10 use me issue as a lever Ior 8acce8a- TheT i t. ;s ! Li: niomon a u io injure ue repuoucao party ; noi oecause we aemocraui oeiieve in prohibition, for they do not, nor even in temperance. The republican party is the party of practical w ork, not of theory 14 b" been firm friend temperance legisiauon, ana uio uemuura- oc opposed its every movement, in V?800 tsrePQb,cn P" " a8""Ml P" U common enemy. Some republicans " 0rVD hen 10 th lheorY of consti I a a i;-5 J t j "-on proniouioo, ana ine majority ao not. There is no politics in this. But lit Hi! . .1 there is politics in the scheme of the dem- ocracy to assist the political third party prohibitionists, not for any benefit of the people, but for selfish ends ol.1v. Now the republican party in Oregon proposes to enact wholesome and strin gent temperance legislation, as they have done in Nebraska, Illinois and other Btate9 nd M they hv endeavored to Ml lie lull. iu wiiicu luer imvc always been opposed by the democracy. Oregon as In other states. AN IMPORTANT VICTORY. The S. F. Bulletin in looking over the field of the late political contest says 'But an important victory was yesterday won in a part of the field which did not attract much attention, but which, for all that, under certain contingencies, may prove decisive in the presidential con test of next year. The election to which reference was made was that of a repub lican congressman in Rhode Island. There was a failure to elect at the last election, and a new trial was had yeeter- day. T"6 democrats achieved some nnex-1 I ia. a I pectea successes last year,anu tne cnances i PPerea lo w J W0Ulu ioiiow . . l r it I mem up yesieruay. me resoii reponea however, is the election of the republican I 1 I a - 1 . 1 rr n T it a canuioate oy a piuramy wa. in wiai majority oi me popular vote is - A A - A A A - 1 T-. It a 1 n"7 at uie ursi inai. i u mere U filare 10 elect plurality will do next Ume The Mme rule oow PvlUj fiftieth congress and the twentieth state needed by the republicans toelect a pree- ident. Vromded the election of that high I jw a a . .i omciai snouiu aevoive next ume on tne house. If the democrats bad succeeded in Rhode Island, the states would stand in the next house, republican 19, demo cratic 17, divided 2 that is to say, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, twenty states being necessary to a choice. Now the states stand republican 20, democrat ic!7, divided 1." The democratic papers, with a most surprising unanimity, declare that the New York election of Tuesday settles the contest for president for 1883. Under the circumstances it might be advisable to save expenses by declaring Cleveland elected for a second term. Perhaps this would be done if it were it not for the pe culiar fact that for many years past the election immediately following that for secretary of state for New York' has al ways gone right opposite to the previous verdict. It makes a good deal of differ- I ence in New York when the year is an "off" one. S. F. Chronicle. The saloon was earnest in support of the Democratic ticket in New lork. The governor vetoed the license bill passed by the legislature last winter, which would have taken frota the sa loons &3.500.000 in hard cash. Thev could afford to come down handsomely for the continuance of such rule. That is the party St. John prohibitionists seek to keep in power. Some of Salem's podsnappery wanted to hold a grand military ball in the state house ; but Governor Pennoyer Interposed one of his original interjections and Sec retary of State XI c Bride wouldn't "stand in,". 86 oar esteemed pousnap friends bad to let the ball roll, and they are mad. In this action of the state authorities in not lending the Capitol JboHding to our young friends in which to woo the fickle Muse of Tarpsicbore, or words to that ef fect, tbey bare the approval ef many peo ple. , Dancing is probably a food thing io its places bat the state noose was built lor other purposes. . - ' .-1 .' Balm wants high lkeaee made high I enough to pave CWoaenia street some Atiir; time & the next hall eestory. Turn following is a part of the New Yotk Herald's head line upon the democratic victory on the 8th: "Prohibition Out In Force Interior Counties Poor Cold Wa ter on Republican Hopes." That sounds nice to democratic ears, and bo doubt also to political prohibitionists ears. But bow do conscientious republicans like the idea of prohibitionist continuing to pour cold water on republican hopes, when 4. , . . . . to keen the whisky and low license party a - mm n power? A party that does exactly op posite to what it professes to intend to do, and continues to do a thing so unreason able, deserves no consideration or respect whatever at the hands of honest, con sci entious, practical men, such as make np the great mass of the republican party. Cor st Tolstoi gave to a recent visitor a glowing description of the labors of the field. "All l" he exclaimed, "what a joy it is, when the bead is tired with work, to be able to repose one's self by a simple physical exercise ! Every day, according to the season, I go out mowing, digging or plowing. Oh, the plow! You little dream what a pleasure it is, and what good it does to the heart ! How joyfully the blood flows through the veins ! The bead becomes clear and the feet so light ths.t you scarce lr feel them. And what a appetite one trets. and how soundly sleeps afterward." Says the Washington Critic : "It is a noticeable fact that all the ladies who have spent any time in England and on the continent refrain from wearing head gear in the theaters when they return to this country." It is very desirable that this fact should be widely circulated. Just as soon as the gentler sex become convinced that a bonnet at a 'theater proves that its wearer has never been to Europe "the high-hat problem" will be effectually solved. A fellow prisoner of Marple, the Yam hill county murderer, swears to a state ment that the executed man made a con fession to him the day before he was hanged, in which he implicated his moth er and wife in the murder, and also claimed that he helped to kill Mrs. Hagar some years since in Clackamas county, and the French courtesan, Merlotin, some months ago in Portland. There are many persons who will believe this story, and it may be true; but it cannot be taken as evidence in court. When the farmers of Oregon visit the capital city and they do not see the Weekly Statesman, they should ask for it. Its numerous subscribers as jure the editors and publishers that it is a literary banquet. It contains all the aews of the day and week, and age cannot wither or custom stale the infinite variety of its if Tal 1 , a 1 T J znisceuany. in urn language in hw iww W r 1 mwv WTt I il man s uuicn nar noop, now u me ume io suDscnoe A Kansas editor devoted a great deal of space in his valuable paper to the abuse of a rival sheet edited in a distant town until he discovered that the latter was edited by a young and pretty wo man. Since realizing that he has been deploring the fact that there are not more pajiers in the country as ably and care fully edited as the one in question. The Bed river is frozen over at Winni- . m 1 A peg, tne ireeze coming earner man at any time within seventeen years. Salt river is still open to defeated candidates. SCROFULA I do not believe that Ayer'a 8a rsa par ilia has an equal as a cure for Scrofulous Hu mors. It la pleasant to take, gives strength to the body, and pro duces a more perma nent result than any m Heine I ever used. E. 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Many facilities have been added, and will constantly be added, to make the Statesman for the next year a better newspaper than ever before. Samples of the books ami iapers may be seen at the business ollicc of the Statesman. England isn't so everlastingly free trade in her practice as some of her wor shippers in this country seem to imagine. The custom bouse officers at Liverjwol promptly seized Prof. John L. Sullivan's Itolt rn Itiii arrival an1 nnur tifilil if fill Fa innooncemeE the duties on it arc paid. In the United fJt States it is customary to admit free of I ... . tt duly ine aparaius oi an educational in stitution. How can Prof. Sullivan pro perly instruct the British public in the noble science of mlf defence according to the Marquis of tj'ieensbury's theories without his belt? Besides it is cold over there in November. Is it customary to strip a man of his clothes unless he pays duty on them when he arrives in Albion? Thanks to Governor Hill, the tax-payers of New York will ay just 3,500,000 this year that should have been paid into the treasury by the saloons. Under Gov ernor Hill the state will iro on making " r paupers, nuing jaus anu eniienuii", and mechanics, farmers, and business V men will foot the bilis. Prohibitionists mdy see retotm in this, but Ohio tried it wenty-6ve years and could not. President Cleveland is cut of pocket just $1,030. He sent his check for (1000 for the political campaign in New York, 20 to the Charleston sufferers, and $10 to the Grant monument fond. New Store at Macleay. T BROWIB HAS OPKXID A flMlU4, j, BMrehendiM Mors at Maelaar. tr Emb a fresh atoek of food. Fricca aa low tan boose, for CASH. Square. bonet ar inf. paODCCK taken la cxcHangc for food .4' ,. - u-is-iatw if t V 1 t '. -. t ' - i