VALLEY RECORD.
VALLEY RECORD.
‘'Bank note paper mutt be sup­
pressed and the ¡»eue of the cir­
culating medium restored to the
nation to which it belongs.
Banking establishments are more
daugerous than standing ar­
mies’^—Thomas Jefferson.
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walls and towers and ponderous gâtés. the gold mines of California and by the sound money. No money is sound money
a few.
Portland Telegram of April 22, 1892,
With increasing civilization these walls issue of treasury notes during the war. that is not full debt-paving money, and i According to the census reports in
said: “Beggary and poverty on every
and towers and gates have disappeared, From 1873, when silver was demone­
hand. I have never seen so many beg­ and no armed resistance is made to the tized, until now’ there has been a gen­ therefore the Populist party is tfie only 1860, 91 per cent, of the people held 91
part}’ that is the advocate of sound per cent of the wealth, while 4 per cent,
gars on the streets as are to be encoun­ ingress or egress of people by any city
eral fall in prices and a material check money. Let the policy of the »Populist held the remaining 9 percent., leaving
tered in New York at this time. .Un­
in all Christendom. With increasing to national development consequent party be once put in force and the pres­ not more than 5 per cent paupers. The
happily the vast majority of these are
advancement in knowledge the burden­ upon the decrease in the volume of ent disastrous condition of affairs, solely census of 1890 shows that 90 per cent are
cases of such real need that it seems im­
some tariff restrictions now existing on money, relieved, however, to some ex­ the result of confining ¿lie business of living from hand to mouth, practically
possible to prevent, being in the maid
trade will also disappear, and future tent from 1878 to 1890 by the operation the country to a sin ■jW?gt»ld basis, would . paupers, while 10 per cent, own 84 per
composed of ambitious young and mid­
dle-aged men who have come to the generations, enjoying alike the liberty of the Bland lawr. The following figures be followed by an era of .prosperity un- | cent, of the wealth. To some extent
of travel and traffic, will class these Out­ are significant as to the effect of a full paralleled.
.»\
tariff legislation has been responsible
great metropolis in the belief that a man
grown restrictions as the twin offspring Supply of currency. They are the fig­
If gold and silver atfd treasury notes for this, but to a far greater extent it
willing to work need not remain idle.
of a semi-civilized era. The age has al­ ures of commercial failures in the years are all made, as they ought to be, full Las been attributable to our system of
This is not the fact, how’ever. This ready nearly outgrown them.
given:
legal tender money, it would do no finance and the high rates of interest
market like every other to-day is glut­
Political economy as taught in all our Year.
No.
Liabilities.
harm
whatever to make the treasury demanded for money. When the old
ted with unskilled labor. ” These two
495.
»-.$ 7,899,90!)
higher Institutions relegates a protective
A Powerful Speech to a Tremendous Audience
extracts are sufficient to refute the
5.183 ..............
228,499,4(0 notes redeemable in gold and silver, for United States bank was chartered, it
tariff to that seclusion assigned to it by
9.184 ......................... 172.847,427 if treasury notes were a full legal ten­ was provided that but 0 per cent, inter­
claim that the present hard times are
the logic of justice. To-day only the i '
16,757..................... 557,778,997 der they would perform the full func­ est should be charged, and Alexander
the result of any interference with the
Governor Pennoyer delivered the fol­ legislature of 1891, by the appointment
In 1863, with plenty ot money, the tion of coin, and no man would be fool­ Hamilton expressed the hope that within
protective McKinley law. The mobiliza­ thoughtless and selfish are its defend­
ers, and the time is not far distant when failures were light. In 1873, with a con­ ish enough to ask for their redemption, 20 years interest would be reduced to 4
lowing siæech at Ashland, Saturday, of a court reporter at a salary of $600,
tion of the great army of the unem­
with the ever-increasing enlightenment tracted currency, they were heavy. In and then the secretary of the treasury per cent. Since those earlier and better
and in 1898 by providing a stenographer
April 28: ;
ployed began under the reign of that
at a salary of ,$1,800 per annum, baa re­
of
our race, the defenders of tariff laws i 1883, under the very small relief fur- could easily do what is now a most days, the government has legislated in
law and from other causes than tariff
F klww - cittzexs of J ackson C ounty : lieved them of all the duties so imposed,
framed to enrich some at the expense of i nished by the Bland law, they were re- grievous task, keep the treasury vaults financial matters directly in favor of the
legislation.
i I wish to speak to you to say briefly and therefore those judges are now re-
others will have become so scarce and ' duced, while in 1893, under the British full to repletion with coin. Nor would money lenders, and they are rapidly ab­
Although the Wilson tariff bill is a
upon some Of the leading questions of Ceiving $1,500 per airnttm in excess of
infrequent that they can only be seen in | policy of contraction, as sanctioned by such treasury notes ever fall below par. sorbing the entire wealth of the people.
protective tariff measure, yet it;, is
the pending campaign.
the sideshows of some traveling circus 1 John Sherman and Grover Cleveland, History does not record an instance
their constitutional salary L t perform­
Thirty-five years ago I taught school
claimed that it is unjust because it only
State Matter*.
ing only their ronstitutfonal duties—a
Where they will be exhibited as great they become absolutely appalling. But where the full legal tender paper money in a town situated in one of the most
protects the manufacturer, while the
As the coming election will decide the most palpable infraction of the funda­
McKinley law protected both the manu­ living curiosities. The cause of exist- | it is claimed by some, upon the strength of a solvent government in the full exer­ fertile counties in the up;>er Willamette
character of the next state administra­ mental law of the state.
facturer and producer. I have always ing national distress is a lack of sound j J of figures furnished by the late Secre- cise of its taxing power ever fell below valley. At that time a gentleman with
tion and legislature, It Is proper that ci
The An»tratt»n Ballot law.
agreed with my Republican friends in money and not any particular adjust­ I tary Foster, that the per capita of circu- par, nor could such a contingency ever a small basketful of type and a hand
this time facts and figures should be
An extraordinary effort wafi made at
press was publishing a weekly news­
this contention. They are right. If ment of tariff laws, and those individu­ | lation is as great now as during the war, possibly occur.
furnished by which the voters of Oregon the last session Of the legislature to de­
paper. He then was not worth prob­
one class is protected all classes should als who are engaged in diverting public i he giving the per capita for 1865 at
If
Secretary
Carlisle
had
issued
$50,-
may become acquainted with the abuses, stroy by amendment the Australian bal­
be protected. Every tariff law that pro­ attention, from the disastrous oppres­ $20.57, while he gave that for 1891 at 000,000 treasury notes without interest, I ably nearly as much as anyone of 100
if any, which exist, in order that theÿ lot law, as it now exists, and to re-estab­
sion of the British money power, to the $23.41, which is about what is claimed
tects the manufacturer should also pro­
but with full legal tenders for all debts, farmers that lived about the village.
may be rectified. The growth of this lish the easy and effective means of vote
tect the producer, and the 6ame rule of insignificant question of tariff legisla­ at the present time. That the highest instead of issuing 50,000,000 5 per cent Shortlj’ afterwards he sold his paper
state expenditures for the last 10 years buying which existed prior to th^pgse-
right and justice should be applied for tion, or to thp more insignificant ques­ treasury officer of the United States bonds—and he had as much legal au­ and went into the banking business.
has been in some particulars most ex­ age of that law. This effort was de­
tion of resistance to church organiza­ should give his official sanction to a
the benefit of the consumer.
thority for the one issue as for the After the lapse of a third of a century,
travagant. Por the five last biennial feated so far as the last legislature was
How, then, can the consumer be pro­ tions, wkich have relieved rather than falsehood of that character denies to other—not only would the government the farmers alluded to, after toiling and
terms, the expenditures for the state concerned by a gubernatorial veto. This
tected? Will he be protected by com­ produced the present distress of the him the respect of his fellow citizens have saved $2,500,000 annual interest, worrying the whole year round, year
have been as follows:
veto having been made subsequent to
pelling him to pay increased prices for people, are as culpable as the man who and relieved him from their sympathy, but the treasury would not have been after year, in summer heat and winter
■XPZXDITCREa.
the adjournment of the legislature will
what he consumes by virtue of protec­ would call his neighbor’s attention to as his private fortune went from his drained of its gold by the parties who rain, are worth no more now than then,
.$ 815,253
1885-6....
come
up
before
the
legislature
at
its
..
738,405
1887-8 . .
tion afforded to the manufacturer and the danger of being stung by a bumble grasp in the maelstrom of money con­ desired to buy the bonds, and it would while the banker, without such toil and
•
next
session,
and
it
is
quite
reasonable
..
1,071,12»
1889-80...
the producer? That is the kind of pro­ bee before him, while at the same time traction against which he sought to not be subjected to a subsequent drain worriment, has accumulated wealth suf­
.. 1^4,4612
1891-2...
to suppose that if the Republican party.,
tection that vultures accord to doves he knew that a rattlesnake was coiled erect a barrier of fabricated figures.
by the same parties, who, having the ficient to buy out the whole 100 farmers
APPROPRIATE!».
which was almost a unit for such
The treasurer’s report of 1865 (Statis­ bonds, will now present silver certifi­ and have a large pile left. Is not a sys­
and that wolves extend to lambs. That up behind him, ready to make the fatal
..«2.214,800
1893-4....
stroke.
amendment, securee a majority of the
■
tical Abstract No. 9) gives the total of cates and get back their gold also. If tem of finance which thus allows the
will not do. The only possible way to
This enormous increase of expendi­ next legislature the veto will be over­
Income Tax.
few to absorb the wealth of the many
protect the consumer is to allow him to
the volume of currency for that year at
tures is in some regards entirely with­ ridden and such amendment will be­
No fairer system of taxation could $1,180,197,147, exclusive of the $829,992,- treasury notes instead of Ixjnds had been one that should be remedied by law?
buy where he can buy cheapest, and to
out justification. A greater solicitude come a law. In order to pass the bill
issued
$50,000,000
would
have
gone
into
do that the whole protective Bystem possibly be devised than the taxation of 500,730 notes, “many of which,” as the the general circulation, which would And is it not high time that the govern­
has apparently been manifested for the through the senate, it was taken Out of
must be destroyed. Our Republican incomes, by which a man pays for the secretary said in his report, “were in never have been presented for redemp­ ment should interpose, as Russia has
officeholder than for the taxpayer. Dur­ its place near the bottom of a large
friends will therefore see that the argu­ support of the government according to circulation as money, and all of which tion; for having been full legal tender, done, by making government loans upon
ing the last eight years 160 officers have number of meritorious bills and placed
ment they use against the Wilson bill, his ability to pay. Under tariff taxa­ tend in soqie measure to swell the infla­ they would have performed all the func­ land to save its yeomanry from the
been created independent of the officers at the top, contrary tt> the rulra of the
that it does not protect the producer, if tion a man pays on what he eats, drinks tion. ” Add these notes and we have a tions of gold. But such an issue of monej’ lenders who are sucking the life­
of the new counties. A general desire senate, and upon the vote being taken,
carried to its logical conclusion will and wears. Under that system a labor­ total of $2,101,896,470, which, as it was treasury notes would have been in the blood out of the people ?
has been manifested, during the growing in order to secure its passage the presi­
overturn the whole protective system, ing man, not worth a dollar in the world, confined principally to the 24,000,000 interest of the people and not the banks,
So Apotheosis of Fraud.
dull times of the past few years, to pro­ dent of the senate caused to be counted
it will never do to invoke justice either with a family of 10 persons, pays nearly people of the North would give a per and could not therefore be sanctioned
We
have
indeed fallen upon evil times,
cure official positions with fixed salaries, as voting “no" a number of senators
in the adjustment or defense of a pro­ 10 times as much as his bachelor neighbor capita circulation of nearly $80. It is by the present Wall street administra­ and recent important political events in
and the legislature has yielded to that that did not vote, six of wkich number
tective tariff, for if it be done, the whole worth a million, it is indeed most urged by some bimetallists that the tion. The main fight against the free our national history are really beyond
desire, and by the creation of various were out of the senate chamber at the
system will fall beneath the very first astonishing that such an unjust and un­ United States should not attempt the coinage of silver is by the national the explanation of human intelligence.
commissions and boards, has given quite time the vote was taken. The amend­
stroke of its invincible sword. It is in­ equal mode of taxation could be toler­ restoration of silver as full legal tender banks. They desire gold alone as legal That a great political party should se­
a goodly number of amiable gentlemen ments proposed, by placing the Repub­
deed strange that in this the latter part ated among an intelligent people. And money alone, and that it should be done tender money and an unlimited issue of lect stubbornness of will instead of
very nice positions with fat salaries and lican ticket at the left hand of the bal­
of the 19th century there should be then when to the tariff laws are added by an international agreement. It is as bonds upon which they can issue their breadth of intellect as the proper quali­
little work; and the emoluments of lot and by permitting a person to vote
found intelligent men who openly advo­ the protective feature by which the poor necessary that we should be released bastard rag money to supply the re­ fication for the chief executive officer of
offices already existing have been in­ the whole straight ticket, by placing a
cate the adjustment of tariff laws so as man is not only compelled to pay an from the hardships imposed upon us by maining currency.
creased in some instances without justi­ cross in a square at the head of the
the nation, against the protest of its
to benefit one class at the expense of undue share for the support of the gov­ the gold oligarchy of Great Britain as it
fication. In fact, in my last message to tioket, would enable the vote buyer to
able
leaders and the preference of its
The
banks
now
are
fighting
for
the
another class. The American Revolu­ ernment, but a tax for the enrichment was that our Revolutionary fathers financial domination of the country, and voting masses; and that such officer,
the legislature, I requested, among other know whether the voter had earned his
tion was a revolt against the protective of monopolies, it becomes a national should have been relieved from the hard­ most unfortunately for the country we without being subjected to impeach­
retrenchments, the abolition of the money, if the voter hold the ticket up
tariff measures of Great Britain, which offense so rank that it smells to heaven. ships imposed upon them by the parlia­ have as president a Grover Cleveland ment, should pursue open bribery of
domestic animal commission, which, if while making the cross, bo as to enable
Take, for instance, the people of Ore­ ment of Great Britain. What Would
denied to the people of the colonies the
it had been done, would have decreased the buyer to see the place where the
gon, and how very few, comparatively have been thought of a member of the instead of an Andrew Jackson. The national representatives and by official
right
to
buy
their
manufactured
articles
the governor’s salary $250 per annum, mark is made. It is a most cunning and
banking monopoly in his administration * patronage nullify laws of congress when
in foreign countries. And after the speaking, are benefited by a protective continental congress if he had proposed fought for supremacy. In his farewell I repugnant to his individual inclination;
although the compensation of that officer deliberate effort to destroy the sanctity
lapse of a century shall we fasten upon tariff; and yet every man not bene­ that the colonies should not think of in­ address he referred to the struggle. He augment the national bonded indebted­
is now less than that of any other of the of the ballot, and it is the duty of every
ourselves a system against which our fited is surely injured. There are no dependence without Great Britain’s con­ said the distress and alarm which per­
principal state officers, except the attor­ freeman of Oregon by refusing to vote
Initiative and Referendum.
ness without authority of law; attempt
neutrals allowed under a protective sent? And what must we think of men
patriotic fathers rebelled?
ney-general.
for the Republican candidate for the
tariff. It is the old game of robbing who deliberately propose that Ke should vaded and agitated the whole country, to force secretly and in a most treacher­
The demand of the Populist state plate
It is urged, however, that the very Peter to pay Paul, and every citizen of
The last legislature was most extrava­ legislature, to see that this dangerous form for a constitutional convention to
when the bank of the United States ous manner a discarded monarchy upon
gant in its appropriations, $34,398.70 attack upon the secrecy of the ballot revise our state constitution and include first congress enacted a protective tariff, Oregon can rest assured, if he has not remain in the financial bondage of that waged war upon the people in order to a foreign free people, and worst of all,
having been expended for legislative shall not be consummated. Especially therein the initiative and referendum is and this is a sanction that the system the clear figures to establish his identity country until such time as its money compel them to submit to its demands, in utter disregard of the obligatioBS of
clerk hire, $20,000 appropriated for a should the hostility of every friend of one of the most important and necessary ought to be revered. The tariff tax im­ as a fortunate Paul, that he can safely lords consent to remove the shackles cannot yet be forgotten. The ruthless honor, refuse to carry out the pledges of
worse than useless railroad commission, the initiative and referendum system of measures ever presented to a free posed by the first congress averaged 11 be counted among the innumerable hosts which bind ns as their thralls?
and unsparing temper with which whole his party for financial reform, which re­
The dire predictions made by the ad­ cities and communities were oppressed, fusal has been more disastrous to tlio
$8 ,500 for the food commissioner, $7,000 voting in all parties be exerted to people. The initiative gives a certain per cent, which, if satisfactory to our of poor despoiled Peters. Under an in­
for the board of horticulture, $8,000 for thwart the scheme of the bribers and |>ercentage of the votera the power to in­ protective tariff advocates, now might come tax no such robbery can prevail; vocates of a single gold basis that the individuals impoverished and ruined nation than the late civil war in the de­
the state board of non-equalization, vote buyers. The passage of the bill itiate any law, which must then be-swb- pe generally satisfactory to all. But a man pays according to his means; a free coinage of silver would drive gold and a scene of cheerful prosperity struction of business, the depreciation
out of the country and leave us on a sil­
$12,000 for the domestic animal com­ over the governor’s veto at the next *w-
mitted to a vote of the people. The ref­ why were these tariff restrictions placed system which has the sanction of both ver basis is the same old croak that was changed into one of gloom and despond­ of property and in the want, misery and
mission (the expenditure of nearly one- sion will secure indefinitely the com­ erendum makes it imperative that all on trade by the first congress? Benja­
common sense and common honesty. made against the Bland law of 1878 and ency ought to be indelibly impressed on suffering imposed upon the millions
half of which sum might have been plete supremacy of the Portland ring in legislative enactments be referred to the min Franklin, in a letter to M. Le Veil­
The Roman people 24 centuries ago which is most completely refuted by the the memory of the people of the United thrown out of employment, are grave
saved), $8,000 for the fish commission, the politics of the state.
people for ratification. In practice it lard, dated Feb, 17, 1788, gives the rea­ changed their system of taxation statistics of the United States treasury States. History has repeated itself and facts so discordant with reason and al>-
$6,240 for the pilot commission and
son. He said: “We shall, as you sup­ from a per capita tax to a tax
the banks of the country, which from horrent to patriotism as to stagger be­
The Dalle* Improvement,
has been found that the referendum is
maintenance of schooner, $31,415 for the
pose, have imposts On trade and custom­ laid upon citizens, _____________________ department which show that the stock May 4 to July 12, 1883, contracted their lief itself and arouse suspicion of the
the
principal
feature
of
this
larw-making
If the navigation of the Columbia
commensurate
State and district fairs and improvement river and its tributaries had not been system. The wisdom and justice of this house, not because other nations have with their wealth and ability to of gold in this country increased from loans $186,000,000, have again brought correctness of the popular theory that
of grounds, $97,024 on account of state interrupted by the obstacles of nature plan is self-evident and must win thé them, but because at present we cannot pay, and the American people should 1878 to 1890 to the amount of $450,-
our people are capable of exercising the
printing, $85,000 for the state university at the Cascades and at The Dalles, the approval of every man who is in favor do without them. We want to discharge follow that just example. If the Wil­ 000,000. The objection that with the the country to the very verge of finan­ right of self-government.
x
at Eugene, which is in addition to the statistics of the two North Pacific of free governments. Our governments our public debt occasioned by the late son bill becomes a law the income tax free coinage ot silver we would have cial ruin.
it is entirely impossible to conjecture
Oh, for one year now of Andrew Jack-
about $9,000 annually received as inter­ Blates—Oregon and Washington—would
war. Direct taxes are not so easily feature will be placed upon thç statute dollars, the metal in which is worth
wliat national crime has been commit­
now
are supposed to represent the
est on the proceeds of the sale of uni­ have been quite differently written. people’s will, but the present machinery levied on the scantily settled inhabitants books never to be removed. For this about 50 cents, can be answered that son as president.
ted in expiation for which our country
Government I.nans.
versity lands, $30,326 for the agricultu­ The nearly 2,000 miles of steamboat is quite imperfect for that purpose. We of our wide-extended country; and what great stride toward a just system of with free coinage the metal in a dollar
is compelled to suffer an administration
would then be worth a dollar, for no
ral college at Corvallis, which college is navigation afforded by these majestic now have in both state and federal gov­ is paid in the price of merchandise is less
The government now loan3 money of government, the chief distinguishing
taxation the nation is indebted to the man would be foolish enough to sell his
receiving over $30,000 a year from the streams would have stimulated a river ernments a referendum existing entirely felt by the consumer and less the cause Populist party, which was the first to
only to the national bunker. When he characteristics of which are an egotism
federal government in addition to over commerce that would have very mate­ without constitutional warrant, and in of complaint. When we are out of debt demand it. With an income tax all bullion to others for less than a dollar wants money he goes to the government that disdains instruction from the plain
when he can have it coined into a dollar.
$10,000 annual interest from the agri­ rially advanced and enriched the great
nearly all cases subversive of, instead of we ipay leave our trade free, for our tariff taxation upon the necessaries of The further objection that the free coin­ and pawns his bonds at nine-tenths their lessons of experience and a callousness
cultural college fund, $100,000 for the
ordinary
charges
of
government
will
not
inland empire, the ever-developing re­ obedient to, the Wishes of the people.
life can be removed, leaving it alone age of silver is in the interest ef the sil­ face value. He receives his money and that is oblivious to the appeals of a suf­
support and maintenance of the Oregon sources of which would have sought a
leaves his bonds in pawn. The Populist fering people, while it persists in wreck­
be
great.
”
The courts have arrogated to them­
upon the luxuries.
ver miner can be answered that to deny party demands that this exclusive fa­
Rational Guard, and $60,000 for the market at Portland and Astoria, thus
It is further urged in defence of a pro­
ing the entire business of the country
selves the right to pass upon all laws,
Silver.
World's Fair. The World’s Fair appro­
its free coinage is in the interest of the voritism shall cease. They demand that and dooming our heretofore self-reliant
increasing the growth and wealth of and if such laws are not, in their indi­ tective tariff that it affords higher
At the close of the civil war the gold miner who now has a monopoly. every person having good security shall
priation and $40,000 of the appropria­ both those cities. But for those ob­ vidual judgment, what they ought to wages for labor. There never was a
national indebtedness amounted to The constitution recognizes both gold be placed on an equality with the na- i and independent yeomanry to a life of
tion for the state militia were made over stacles to the navigation of the Colum­
more
transparent
fraud
practiced,
as
| idleness, pauperism and sorrow.
the governor’s veto. Of the militia ap­ bia Eastern Oregon and Washington be, they claim and exercise the legis­ facts incontestably prove. As a general nearly three billions of dollars, the and silver as money, and provided for tional banker. If the government should
The free institutions bequeathed to us
lative power of annulling them. Such a
greater
portion
of
which
was
payable
in
their coinage, and congress had no con­ follow the example of the state of Ore­
propriation $55,000 and of the appropri­ would have been very far beyond what
’ are now on trial, but from those pres­
procedure, sanctioned by usage and ac­ rule those industries that receive the lawful money. In 1869 congress de­
stitutional right, whatever to discrimi­ gon, which loans its §2,500,000 of school
ation for printing $46,000 were expended they are now in material advancement quiesced in by all, has virtually changed highest protection are those which re- •
ent afflictions under the providence of
clared that this debt should be paid in nate against either metal.
during the year 1893, out of which the and prosperity, and both the cities of
money upon improved farm property in God may be educed higher and more en­
duce
the
price
of
labor
most,
and
if
our form of representative government
coin
or
its
equivalent,
in
1870
that
it
state printer expended for the type set­ the lower Columbia river valley would
The gold basis advocates insist that amounts not to exceed $3,000 to any one during prosi>erity. The plain alterna­
into a judicial oligarchy. The judges of American labor wall not stand the re­ should be paid in coin of the present
ting not to exceed $15,000, everything would have been incomparably greater
duction
its
place
is
quickly
supplied
you
cannot legislate value into money, persqa, and at one-third the appraised tive before ns is impeachment or empire,
the court, instead of the representatives
standard value, and in 1873 silver was
else being furnished by the state.
in wealth and population than those of of the people, now declare what our with cheap foreign labor. At the time demonetised, thus making the whole and yet they take very great fare that value of the property, there could be no t for unpunished usurpations become
The recommendations made to the last the Sound country, which would have
laws are and shall be. It is their prov­ of the strike at the Homestead workB, debt payable in gold coin, thereby im­ all legislation shall not only be in favor safer loan possible, and the effect would ; precedents fatal to free governments.
legislature for the passage of a maxi­ been literally side-tracked. The river
ince
to interpret and not make or un­ an industry highly protected, in 1892, measurably enhancing the valwe of the of gold, but shall also be against silver. be far-reaching and beneficial.
In this emergency tlie patriotism of our
mum rate law for freight and passen­ would have been alive with commerce,
It is not an experiment. The practica­ forefathers as displayed in the achieve­
make
laws. In order, therefore, to re­ out of the 2,400 men employed there bonds and the burdens of the taxpayers. With equal legislation the metal in a
gers on"railroads, putting the passenger and in all probability all of the trans­
store again to the people that which be­ old enough to vote, only 800 were voters, If the parliament of Great Britain pos­ silver dollar would have retained its bility and usefulness of the scheme have ment of our liberties will again be ex­
rate at two and one-half cents per mile, continental lines of railway would have
one-half of whom were naturalized, thus
value, just as the metal in a gold eagle been most fully demonstrated hero in
sessed the right to legislate for the has retained its value, and equal legisla­ this state. And something of this kind hibited in their defense, the incubus that
and prohibiting passes except to em­ sought the easy river grades in order to longs to them in every free government, leaving only 400 native-born citizens.
the referendum is an absolute necessity.
is crushing our industries will be re­
United States, and if it desired to legis­
ployes on the road, and for the abolition
In The Oregonian of Feb. 10, 1894, is- late directly for the benefit of the tion will again restore the equality be­ must be done soon, or the money-lenders moved by a congress representing the
reach the ocean. But such is not the The people and not the judges should
pf various useless commissions, were un­
case. The obstructions at The Dalles say what the laws shall be, and both the the statement that in the Gogebic money class of Europe and for tween the market value and the legal will own the whole land, and all other popular will, an American financial pol­
heeded except by the abolishment of the
value of silver. Some of our Republi­ classes will become their tenants and
(Mich.) iron mines, another highly pro­
and Cascades have dwarfed its naviga­
board of charities and corrections. On tion to the minimum, the farmers of the judges and the people, when laws are tected industry, 5,447 idle miners were the spoliation of the people of can friends claim that if we have free slaves, Even monarchist Russia was icy will be established, and prosperity
duly
enacted,
should
be
compelled
to
this country, it is not possible coinage of silver other nations would compelled to adopt this plan to save its I and happiness will be restored to a
account of the excessive emoluments of inland empire have been compelled to
living on charity, all of whom except 68
obey
them.
| nearly impoverished and disheartened
some of the state officials, I drafted a send their produoe to market by the
were foreigners. And in the San Fran­ that it could have devised more effica­ not like our silver money, and we would peasantry from ruin.
The
Australian
ballot,
which
securee
I people. As a wholesome lesson to com­
cious
laws
to
secure
that
result
than
the
maximum salary bill providing that the more expensive mode of railway car­
thus be hampered in our foreign trade.
cisco Examiner of Feb. 13, 189-1, its New
Frank G. Carpenter, the noted syndi­
compensation of no state officer should riage, the heayv freight rates of which to the voter a fair expression of his will, York correspondent says: “At a meet­ congress of the United Statos has passed, Conceding, for the sake of argument, cate writer, in an article winch appeared ing generations, the aiiotheosis of fraud
exceed $4,000 per annum, and requiring have impoverished the producer, while and the Swiss referendum, which secures ing of ribbon silk weavers Chairman
The Unitel States is the greatest sil- that assertion to be true, it would then in The Oregonian Qet. 80, 1882, said: should be abandoned for a devotion to
principle by inflic|ing condign punish­
them to make a quarterly sworn state­ competing lines of railway have sought a sure enforcement of such will, are the Mott said: 'Since the McKinley law yer.prodncing country of the world, and necessarily follow that as foreign trade
“ The govornment (Russia) has a land ment u | khi a refusal to regard the plain
two
strong
pillars
upon
which
alone
ment to the state auditor of their re­ different termini, thus building up
passed wages in the silk-weaving trade it is a debtor nation also, and yet con­ would thus be restricted, a correspond­ bank which loans money to the peasants
ceipts and expenditures and to pay into cities on the Sound with a trafilo which free governments can endure. Let the have been reduced from 50 to 70 per gress has legislated to depreciate the ing impetus would consequently be in order that they may purchase land. * obligations of party honor.
Cuuc.luxion.
the treasury all in excess of their quar­ otherwise would have enriched the cities referendum system of law-making be cent. We formerly got $20 per week; value of silver and to enhance the bur­ given to domestic manufactures, just This bank was opened about 10 years
incorporated
in
our
constitutions,
and
The
grand
total
of the national in­
terly salary. This bill (senate bill 184) of the lower Columbia.
den of debt. Buch a course is worse what our Republican friends profess to ago and it makes loans to both individ­
then we will have a sure guarantee that we are now lucky if we get $7. The Mc­
debtedness of the sevx-ral countries of
was introduced by Senator Weatherford
desire, and therefore, upon their pwq uals and to villages. The government the world is $27,396,060,000, and More-
It is the duty of the general govern­ the laws of the land will be what they Kinley law did this as it destroyed the than folly; it is a crime.
of Linn county and referred to the ju­ ment and not the state to remove those
By the demonetization of silver not assumption, every protectionist should puts about $2,500,000 into it every year,
silk-weaving trade of Europe. Foreign
always
should
be,
the
just
expression
of
ton Freweir estimates the debts of the
diciary committee. After resting there obstructions and open up our great in­
workmen swarmed here and manufactu­ only has the burden of indebtedness be in favor of the free coinage of silver. and since its organization it has made world of all kinds at $150,000,000,000. If
the popular will.
two weeks it was amended by making terstate river to free commerce. The
peen
increased
but
business
has
become
rers reduced wages and put foreign
over 700,000 loans to more than 200,000 these debts are ma<L- payable in gold,
Tariff,
Paper Money.
the salary $5,000, in which shape it canal at the Casoades will soon be com­
prostrated on account of an insufficient
workmen
in
place
of
those
who
struck.
families, In addition to this there are the world's sFck of which, as we have
On the parmount question of finance
There has been a great deal said about
passed the senate and went to the house, pleted, Imt no appropriation has been
Then came the financial crisis which supply of money witn which to effect­
various ways of loaning money to farm­
«Il
Populists
are
substantially
agreed;
where it slept the sleep of the just. In secured for overcoming the obstructions
ively procure an interchange of com­ the necessity of having “sound money. ’’ ers, and the government of Russia | seen, being $3.700,000,000, how are such
threw
the
men
on
half
tipie.
’
"
These
the change in the assessment law made at The Dalles. Six years ago the United on the lesser question of tariff adjust­ facts arc sufficient to show that the ap­ modities. The Bland l»w of 1878 and The Populist party is the only one that makes advances on grain stored in ware­ I debts ever to be paid? The secretary of
by the last legislature my recommenda­ States engineers reported in favor of the ment they may differ, and therefore” peal made to the laboring men of the the Sherman law of 1890 relieved th® proposes to furnish such money. That houses or delivered to officials of the the treasury, in his statement for Jan.
tion that unless the assessor’s stamp be improvement of the Columbia at The what I shall say on the tariff will be, as country to support nrotective tariff difficulty to some extent. and yet the there is a necessity for paper money is several railroads in the country. * * * 11, 1894, gives the total gold coin and
; bullion in the country at $W6,9o5,59Ul
conceded by all. The supply of gold and
placed on a note one-half of the amount Dalles by building a portage road tem­ St. Paul expresses it, “by permission
measures on the ground that it will in- Silver dollars coined under the Bland silver is entirely insufficient to do the This system of loans has been going on i deducting from which $80,»16,010 free
should be forfeited to the school fund porarily for immediate relief to be sup­ and not of commandment. ”
law
and
the
certificates
issued
under
the
The prevailing hard times are attrib­ creaso wages is one of the most stupend­ Sherman law had both of them the world’s business, compelling all civil­ now for more than four years. It is very I gold in the treasury belonging to the
when judgment was rendered for its plemented by a canal. Our senators in
utable,
so say our Republican friends, ous frauds ever imposed upon human brand of bastardy, as under both laws ized countries to use paper money to popular and a great many of the peas­ United States, would leave $586,089,580
collection was not regarded, and as a congress, wiser than engineers, were de­
to
tariff
agitation and to the interfer­ credulity. The great tariff Larons, who the money loaner was allowed to dis­ supply the deficiency. The world’s sup­ ants take advantage of it. It is no won­ held by banks and in circulation. The
consequence the money and credits termined to have a boat railway. The
der that they do so, for the charges are
persuade the laboring classes of the
taxed in 1893 fell to $18,509,329 from cost of a canal was estimated at about ence with the McKinley law. They country to join them in securing protec­ honor them. Never, never, will we have ply of gold money is estimated at $3,- much less than those of the usurer» who t gold holdings of the banks for Oct. 3,
very
treacheous
memories.
The
have
1893, was $174,880,082, leaving in cir­
700,000,000, of silver money $3,800,000,-
$35,251,584 in 1893.
four millions, while the estimated cost
tion, on the ground that it will better prosperous times again in this country
abound in every district or Russia and culation outside of the banks $411,-
The plank in the Populists’ plat­ of a completed boat railway was $2,- hard times were upon us while the Mc­ their condition, are like the lion in the until silver is restored to the position it 000 and of paper money at $3,900,000,000.
\vlio are sacking the life blood out of 208.018, or about §6 per capita.
form regarding taxation which requires 860,856. The annual cost of operating Kinley law was in full force, and while fable who induced the leopard, the lynx held for 80 years under the government, The Republican party demands that ♦ha people. ’*
there
was
no
prospect
of
its
repeal.
To
The public indebtedness, as computed
gold alone should bo full legal tender,
that no indebtedness be allowed un­ the canal would be merely nominal,
and the wolf to join him in a hunting as full legal tender money, with equal
It Is indeed somewhat humiliating to from tlio eleventh census of the United
less the corresponding credit can be while the cost of operating the boat rail­ prove this assertion one has only to re­ excursion, and who after a fine deer had privileges of coinage with gold. The money, Ivitli silver and national bank
taxed in the assessor’s district is not way at its full capacity was estimated fer to fbets and statistics. The Railway been captured awarded the whole prize contraction of the national currency by notes as currency not a full legal tender. our pride, who chum to be the most en­ States, the several states, territories,
only just, but an absolute necessity, at $275,000. Notwithstanding these fig­ Age of January, 1893, said: “During the to himself by virtue of his prerogative. the denial of the equal coinage of silver The Democratic party — that is Mr, i lightened people of earth, that we are counties, municipal and school districts,
compelled to go to Australia for a per­ is $2,047,172.554. The population by the
when we consider the amount of ficti- ures and the opinions of the engineers, year 1892 there were sold under fore­
The only protective measure that is with gold, and by the deprivation of its Cleveland—would also have a single
titious indebtedness heretofore allowed. our senators have persisted in adhering closure 28 railways, having an aggre­ just and that should receive the sanc­ legal tender qualities, ¿s how bearing its gold basis with silver and state bank fect system of voting, to Switzerland 6aiDQ eensus is given at 62,622,250,
The following figures show the amount to their impracticable scheme, and when gate mileage of 922 and an apparent tion of the American people is one that bitter fruit in th(s present" unfortunate notes currency, also not full legal ten­ for a just system of making laws, to making a per capita indebtedness of
of indebtedness claimed for the several two years ago Senator Dolph failed to capitalization, bonds and stocks of $95,- will protect the American laborer frbm condition of the country. We need go der. The Populists declare for gold and Austria for a needed system of govern­ over $32. When to this indebtedness is
850,000. Much more alarming than the
ment depositories, and to Russia for a added the vast aggregate of corporate
years over and above the money and get the consent of the practical men of
no further back than the history of our silver and treasury notes, all full legal
record of foreclosure is that of railway the competition of the heathen Chinese
most necessary system of lending money and individual indebtedness, making a
credits taxed:
the house river and harbor committee insolvencies in the past year, for it and from the pauper and criminal own country, although the whole his­ tender money.
to the people. Let the government total estimated $32,000,000,000, the folly
$ 4.668,242
The money in the country in the
to accede to his proposition to navigate would seem that in 1892 a new era of classes of all other countries. This pro­ tory of the world is replete with the
accede to the demands of the people and of doing business with gold alone as fuil
. «,«87,979
steamboats on dry land, another board bankruptcy more disastrous than that tection is afforded neither by the Mc­ same lessons, in order to show that the treasury and in circulation on July 1, lend money as in Oregon and Russia on
. 14,819,133
legal tender money can be Been at a
. 18.793.206
of engineers at a cost of $20,000 was or­ recorded for several years previous had Kinley law nor any other tariff law. present stagnation of business and ruin­ 1893, ia given at $1,593,726,411, of which landed property at a rate not exceeding glance.
ous
fall
in
prices
ia
directly
the
result
of
. 28,751,736
amount
there
were
in
gold
and
gold
cer
­
dered to again report on a proper plan. been inaugurated. In the 12 months no They are framed to protect the rich and
4 per cent, and in limited amounts to
Is it any wonder that confidence has
The expense of a session of the legis­ In the report of the secretary of war un­ ess than 30 companies, having 1,650 not the poor. The protection pf Ameri­ |he poqtraction aï the currency and the tificates only §493,603,711, leaving a cur­ each person, and establish government | been destroyed and that a panic has
lature in 1885 was $34,516; in 1893 itwa? der date of Sept. 19, 1893, speaking of miles of road, and representing the pro: can labor is the very highest duty of the {»fusai tq use silver as full debt-paying rency of $1,098,122,700 silver and paper, depositories as in Austria, where it will , swept over the land ? And what Las been
bereft of debt-paying qualities. Can
$54,901. The appropriation for tfie that board, the chief of engineers said: digious capitalization of nearly $858,: nation. Such protection is not based on money.
In
this
country
from
1809
to
1848
the
any currency be called “sound money” pay not exceeding 2 per cent interest on I the result of that panic? Mr. Joseph R.
“The board estimates that the ob­ 000,000, have defaulted and been placed the indefensible grounds upon which
judicial fund in 1882 was $42,000; ip
deposits, and a perfect financial system I Buchanan, a careful 6tatistici:ui, gives
1898 it was, including $8,600 for “steno­ structions to navigation in the Columbia 1 in the hands of receivers. ” The hard tariff law? are framed, but is rather purchasing power of the precious metals that is incapable of paying any and all will be established that will both pro­ j the adult male population of the United
increased
fully
145
per
cent.
This
was
debts?
And
yet,
ridiculous
as
it
really
graphic aid for supreme judges in river from the náVigable wátera below times had struck the country right un- based upon that broad and fundamental
tect the borrower and the depositor, and States at 13,000,000, iff which 6/300,000
preparation of their opinions, ” $107,100, Three-mile rapids to navigable waters 1 der the sway of the McKinley law and doctrine that it is the first and most im­ the result of a diminished supply conse­ is, the two old parties that demand that yield a princely revenue to the govern­
I are wage workers, and of the ; there
quent
upon
the
trouble
between
Spain
gold
alono
shall
be
full
legal
tender
In the session of 1889 the salaries of the above Celilo falls can be overcome in affected all classes, the poor as well as perative duty of all just governments to
ment, which to a very great extent I are now out of work 2,893,000. He esti-A
and
her
American
colonies.
From
1850
money,
and
that
the
great
bulk
of
cur
­
judges of the supreme court were in­ the most feasible, speedy, convenient the rich, the laborers as well as the rail­ afford to the weak the most ample pro­
would relievo the people from taxation
tection. For long ages in the world’s to 1865 prices gradually rose and busi­ rency circulated among the people, for its support, and which would arrest mates the loss of wug(»s to workmen for
creased $1,500 per annum, and some ad­ manner and in that adapted to the pres­ road companies.
seven months beginning witl^teptyii-
ness
prospered
as
the
legitimate
result
shall
be
incapacitated
from
paying
debts
ditional dutiea wet* I ibww I i
Tta ort MomltiM of ooaBMToaaad to ito Jklfwr JTqrk :
Jà« history ritiwwer^ guarded by massive
“L&xyanted currency furnished l>y claim to be the uulyvues in favor of the fearful tendency in this country to fcer, 1893, at $935,516.490 *'uml the total
fervgncwrtnrtion of wealth in the hands
(Continued on 4ih page.)
PENNOYER’S GREAT SPEECH
future development by the construction
of a portage railway at an estimated
cost of £454,390, and recommend that
further development, of commerce de­
manding greater facilities than could
thereby be afforded be provided for
when required by the construction of a
canal.
- . ’ ■ ~
For six long years Senator Dolph has
persisted in his impracticable scheme of
a boat railway, only at last to he de­
feated by the board of engineers, which
does not recognize the scheme at all,
and for six long years the opening of the
Columbia river free to commerce has
been retarded* by the obstinate adherence
of our senator to his most visionary
,
scheme.
It is really not easy to con­
,
ceive
why he should so persistently
I stand as an obstructionist to the im­
provement of the Columbia unless it be
for the purpose of maintaining a consist­
, ency witll his well-known views upon
the tariff. He favors a tariff policy
which obstructs free traffic with other
I countries, and obstructing the naviga­
tion of the Columbia w’ould be in line
with such policy. It is, however, much
more important to the people of Eastern
Oregon that the Columbia river should
be opened to free commerce than that
Senator Dolph should maintain a consist­
ency of conduct conformable to his
views uppn the tariff. There is no ques­
tion of much greater importance to the
people of Eastern Oregon and the lower
Columbia than that of securing the
improvement of the Columbia at The
Dalles.
Senator Dolph in a letter dated Oct.
22, 1889, referring to the first report of
the engineers on The Dalles improve­
ment said: “ The engineers have recom­
mended a portage railway as a tempo­
rary expedient to overcome the obstruc­
tions at this point, while a canal and
locks or a boat railway is being con­
structed. Congress has never yet en­
tered upon the work of constructing
railroads, and I do not believe it possi­
ble to secure an appropriation for the
purpose of bnilding a portage road. ” Of
course it is not possible if our delega­
tion iq congress opposes it. At iùy re­
quest two years ago Chairman Blanch­
ard of the river and harbor confmittee
moved that $454,000 be placed in the
river and harbor bill for such a purpose.
Our whole delegation opposed it and it
was defeated. There is nothing wrong
or wicked in the government building
and operating a railroad. During the
last two years 111 railroads with 35,883
mileage and a capitalization of $1,»
032,400,000 have passed into the hands
ot receivers and are now run by the fed­
eral courts. If fédéral judges, who are
generally a lot of impraoticables, can
run that number of roads, there is no
doubt whatever that Uncle Sam could
safely run a small portage read five or
six miles long.
IM.
.
A.
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