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About Albany daily democrat. (Albany, Or.) 1888-192? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1891)
:.3 '4 S I (JFiancc possesses uoo mineral springs, (StThich over looo are made use olin France. of The mussels found in Supar river. Wis, last Summer produced pearls having an aggregate Talue 01 $100,000. The annual amsunt of sawed Umber of this gauntry, if put upon a train of ears, would constitute a ttain 25,000 miles long. One of the latest discoveries of the scien tisti is that the germs of yellow fever may be conveyed from tropical countries in the plumage of birds. It has been shown 1'iat ill.- lif.- of a fish is very great. Hundreds of fish are still alivj in the royal aquarium in St Petersburg that were placed there more thae 1 50 years ago. The Pharmaceutical Era tells housewives that they can rid their flower pots of earth worms by soaking the soil with a warm decoe tion of quassia, wormwood and powdered horscchestnuts. After a few moments every worm will come to the top and can be removed. speaker tnsp his appointed McMillan of Tennessee, Catchings of Mississippi Keed of Maine, and Burrows of Michigan as the com mitlee on rules. The speaker is chairman of the committee, The "czar" will not be able to count any quorums uuder the new rules lie is a back number. The democratic caucus committee today has completed its labors in the assignments of minority representations upon the senate com mittees and will submit its list for approval to the caucus tomorrow, It is impossible to learn definitely the places assigned to any of the new senators, but it is understood they have been well cared for. Kyle and Irby, the al liance senators, are treated as democrats, while Senator Ptfier is left to the republicans to care for in arranging their list. Some of the republican brethren 01 this state Simoa for the office of United States circuit judge. The generally expressed objection to Joe is that he is a,raonopoly and railroad man. 'e can not see how this would make any differ ence for the railroads hold complete domina tioo over the republican parts-, hence the appointee w hom ever he may,be will be a rail road man. Railroad influences will not per mit any other man to be appointed. Joe Simon is the most distinguished republican leader in the state, and we can not see what these pentry aie kicking ibout. Jap Minto, Geo Williams, and C B Moores of Salem have caused a pair of blankets worth $50 to be manufactured at the Salem Woolen Mills which they w ill send tc McKinley as a token of their interest in his phyical, or rather political, welfare. This blanket will please McKinley very much, and why? Firs:, cn atccsst of the fact that ti e cost is high, ve a'l remember that McKinley on more than one o; -asion has said that he despised "cheap cU.t:.ing." He says a cheap covt makts a c.cap man, and cf course a cheap blanke' v culd also make a cheap man. He despists cheap things. Of course the class of men that McKinley calls "cheap" can not arTord to buy even a coarse ail-wool blanket but that dce! not maUer w ith him. Then, again, while the facts are that Geo Williams who draws a pension of $75 a month, and Jap Minto who is the "boss" republican of Marion county, and C B Moores who "hangs a-ound" and gathers up many crumbs that fall from repub lican tables in Salem, have not a single sheep and probably never will, ye: they have the temerity to encorse uron these blankets: "From the wool growers of Oregon to Gov McKinlry of Ohio." Such is republican politics. 'I'ncle Sam" and sav, forsooth, because, I have some monsr, now therefore, the L'ni t.M Males must tax the people to raised a fund for use, that I may use It not to build structure for the I' nited States but to build up an enterprise that will enrich me Individually. A man mlitht with an armed (hip steam into the harbor of Rio Janeioro and lav to the liralllans, pay me a half million dollars or I wii' bombard vour city. He might Induce them to pay him a half million and afterwards bring it here and build up great enterprises of benefit to us, but would any one say that to acquire money In that way would be right because of a benefit to us? Now, when the money wrung from the people by taxes aie reck lessly paid out to build up private tuter- fria is not the governmer.t using the peo ple's money for purposes other than gov ernmental In other words is not such a use of the nation's money illegal and vt rcng in principle? For the government to lax the people for any other purpose save and except to raise a revenue to carry on the govern ment economically administered is uncon stitutional, and when a tax or tariff is levied, not to carry on or build govern mental works and property owned by the government, but to build up and protect private capitalists, then in the opinion your correspondent, the government use its powers illegally and unwarranted und the laws of our republic, and is simply as slstlng In the perpetration of a fraud upo the people by taking the taxes exacted from its citizens under the plea that the money Is needed for public purposes, when, fact, it Is diverted to the channels of the capitalists oi the country who, by their begging and corrupting our national leg Islatures have, so, far, blinded so many of the people of our country a to creat to so-r.e extent a sentiment, that the na tional treasury Is a thing to be looted, an that the government of the United States such a "Great Father" that it should tax one half of the people in order to pay or give to the other half enough to live on The government of the United States should pay Its employes. Its soldiers, and those who deserve pensions liberally hould, as It does, always meet Its obliga tions and take ere of its own propert and attend to the matters delegated to by the several states by their power of at tornev, viz, the "constitution of the United States," but to appropriate money to build p private enterprise never, no never, was such power given to it, lsnhe opinion of your subscriber. Geo. W. Wright, GO TO Foshay & Mason HOW it N'EW ADVERTISEMENTS. C N. STEELE A Co., Albany, Ore KJt Loan money on good real estate security In Linn nnd adj jiuing cc unties. OR SALE. Hou v and lot for sale or rent, on corner of 5; h and Ellswo' h streets, ror partieularbinnnire nf Ptore of ITOJ X UtSUKllSUX. 1 '"ANTED. Highest price ra:d for TT uices at the chair factorv, Aloany, Ore-con. UNWISE LEGISLATION'. Dec. 17, 1S91. Editor D'tnoiT'i! : Cr'i:. .it In athinton City interest ed i.i i-rocjriii; money from the treasury i-f -he United States to enrich the private ov lers of stock in the "Nicaraguan canal corporation." have sent out petitions to va-ious parts of the country asking the people to demand that congiess appropri ate money to assist the canal enterprise. While, no doubt, the canal would be of great benefit to the coast, is it not w rong in principle to take money from the national treasury, money wrung from an alreadv nign taxed peop.e, to Dui.d up a, or any, private enterprise. For the government to appropriate money to build up the navy, government al buililir.gs, and to improve a.l property owned by it in fee simple, is not onlv con stitutional but is proper and right, yet when the government goes beyond this and appropriates the people's money to aid private capitalists. is.in the humble opinion of your correspondent, not only unconsti tutional, but altogether wrong. The peo pie should be slow in petitioning cnrcss to aid the "Nicaraguan canal corporation, ' or any other private euterprise. There has already been too much special legisla tion for the private few and 1. is certa'nlv time a halt was made along that line. It may be well counted on tr.at if the cana; enterprise will pay. as most people think It will, that private capital will build it, wthout the pojp'.e's money being used that w.iv. I it r.ot wrong in principle to say becau e if some of the money in the nation 1! treasury was given to private capitalist- that th.'y would lujild a structure that would bene:;-, us. an i therefore the i money of the manv should be turned over to a few for that purpose? Such a lire ! policy would :7ord ati opportunity to every capitalist ti knock at the vaults cf TOR SALt-: Honse and corner A H'sodadd . ?750. lot I Apply to I W favi A 1 ON Y TO I.OA N -Home capital to .v i nau. in suiiKio run. on AIDaay and Liuu eoucty real eU e or good oe-sonal eourlty w R HcPue.-vjn. Firat Street, .ursuuic nun, i:rjaiiy, ur. POULTRY, GAME.fresh rom Portland and other laces, always on hand at market, near corner nf second and tllsworth streets. GftORGE SLAVOHTER FISH1 ALBANY OPERA HOUSE. WAPXEP 4 CRAN'OH I -u- 1 mrf -r Moncb.y, December 23 sfc, TheOrigi .,.' New O'Nv 3 Uncle M CaMn W 11 that ." t'-e C.-j.' Old u i.i 1 of New Orleans Quartet ! Special Scenery ! Grand Ope.ali-., On' Xu Irtvauce In prh-e. ie;tra The' have on hand a large and elegant atoek, consisting of Nash Goods, Toilet Cases, Albnnis, Fancy Perfumeries, JforeltiM, Supplies, Family and Teachers' Bibles, Illustrated Boots, Gold Pens. Etc. H. 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