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The N kwh believe* that the people,
generally, will view the preaent tariff
revision aa a colossal failure.
They
have given the Republican party free
rein, absolute power to reviae in the
intervals of the people and it haa failed
to make good. It ha* been trusted and
ha* violated the trust.
Of course there will be prosperity
under thr new tariff
There would
have been proa|>enty under the old.
And it la hoped by the tariff ta-neft-
ciariea, that before another preal-
dentiai campaign cornea on that the
people will become so engnieaed in
money making that they will forget an
incident so early in the Taft administra­
tion, and lie ready to be fooled again
A laal straw ia aaid to have broken th*
camel's back. The New* believea that
thr Payne Aldrich tariff bill will prove
to be ■ last straw.
But it may be aaid. the Ilemucrate
were tried once and they did no belter
than the Republicans. Thia ia true.
Tile Wilson tariff was, if possible,
more infamous than either tariff bill
enacted sine*. It was ao Infamous that
President Cleveland charactenxed it aa
"a measure of ¡-er tidy ami dishonor.”
Then to whom ur to what »hall we look
for relief?
A political party ia but an incident uf
our political system. If a party fail*
to come up to the requirement* of the
I- ..pie and fails to make guud, then d<
i feat and drive it from control of the
government. If all parties fall, then
do aw ay xlth party alltogether, or form
a new party, rejecting the view* ami
theories which brought the okl parties
to grief. The people must vote fur
their own interest, ami if it can not lie
done under the name Democrat or Re­
publican, then act under some other
name.
Action is what is required
When u public man show* that hi* heart
is right ami he advocate* measure* in
111* interest* of the people, then hold
his hand* up, no matter what |>arty
name he may wear.
When a man like l.aFullette stand*
for office, vote for him ami keep him
in office as long a* he rnakea good, but
no longer. "Eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty” said Washington.
There never was, never was a time in
the history of our government when
vigil« ■nee w as more im|>ortaut than now.
The crucial period of a government by
the people ia at hand.
Either the
people inu«t win out ami recover con-
troll of matters, or our form of govern­
ment will soon lie changed.
It cannot
>v>r will not l>e toleraleil much
ns controlled ami manipulated by the
Cannons, Aldriches ami other*.
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I* legslixed robbery when men are months before by outside parties, I-as I
permitted to so manipulate the price October east and west met in Chicago
of fuud products that a ft« ticious value The manufacturer* of woolen good* of
ia created which the consumer is com­ one region and the wool grower* of lEe
olitically ndependent
pelled to pay.
Now ail the wealth other came together to agree on the
acquired through h-gislalive favors, wool ami woolen duties of the tariff
through exorbitant railway charge* and law which they assumed would be
Entered at the postoffice at Scio,
through the manipulation of the market passed the following year. Their con­
Oregon, a* second-class mail matter.
of food products, is the product of men clusion wa* that the Dingley law rate*
who labor at an average wage of 11.50 should be re-enacted. That having ta-«n
per diem.
Not one dollar of it is settled, nothing wa* left but to notify
pub ished evert iridai st
produced by the beneficiary of class congress quietly after it should have
legislation, the railway magnate, nor been elected and had convened.
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The elaborate hearing* before the
the man or men who create a ftctictaus
ANl> I'MorMIK t«»R.
value for food products.
They are way* ami mean* committee were a farce.
simply i-ermittrd by law, to reach down The wool and woolen* schedule wa* then
into the pockets of the laborer ami help res judicata. The senatorial debate was
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therrweivea; and th* laborer la exree«i a sham fight. Aa the prescient of the
ingly fortunate if they leave enough National Association of Wool Manufac
One year in advance .
therein for the meager *up|x>rt of him­ turers. say*. "Thia entire discussion is
One year, at end of year
One year, al end of 2 year*
unnecesary and absurd.”
After the
self and family.
One year, at end of 3 year*
But th* great danger to our common­ real tariff makers ha>i decxled what
Six month* in advance..
wealth ia the pow er that th« se Sweden the duties were to be why »pend ticne
Three month* in advance
furtune* give to the men who jxx«s*** in talk?
Single copy in wrapper.
them' That these master* of »wolen
If the allied eastern and western in­
fortunes own the government. I* demon­ tereat* had seen fit they could have or­
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strated whenever w* have a financial de red congreaa to arise the duties, anti
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crisis.
They own the government presumably it would have done ao.
trt
S|M-cial obituary notice*, per line
through owning her tawida ami the bonds may l»e that the public should lie thank
Ext.-nde-l Wi-dding co>i>mri.l», per line u3
Display a«la, to ta- change«! weekly
of the industrial world. They own the ful for their moderation. But what a
if ilvaired, one column wide «-arn
government ami the jx-oplr because legislative mockery it is when a few­
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they pcwaeM the power to bring about men get together in private, make out
Buaineaa locals per line first insertion 1U
a financial crisis whenever they desire tariff acadulrs to suit themselves, and
Each suliMequent insertion |ier line..06
ixing time standing ads, contracts made
to <ta ao.
then direct congrea* to make it law.
on application.
There was no natural cause for the Now we begin to understand how tariffs
financial panic of 19U7. Crops were a* are made. - Chicago Tnbune.
bountiful S* usual and the prices
were normal; yet. at the command of
REVISED BI IIS FRIENDS
I SENATOR OF R.6HT CONSENT
Wall street, N. Y., the financial work!
wa* shaken from center to circumfence.
URING the political compaigii
During the ilebate on the tariff bill in
Are the destinies of the country safe
of last year, the tariff figured
when entrusted to hand* of men who the senate, Senator (¡ore, of Oklahoma.
somewhat; but we were told
Democrat, refuaed to vote for a high
worship the almighty dollar?
by the |>arty in power, that
The Morgans, Rockefellers, Carnegies tariff on oil though urged to do so by
it should lie revised by its
ami other predatory millionaires, |xia- the oil product rs of hi* state. Explail
friends. The jieople accepted
•esses too much unre»tnct«xj power for sng hi* refusal, he aaid:
these statements ami elected Mr. Taft
“1 confeaa there ia a good ileal of
the peace and financial stability of our
ami a Republican c«mgr<ss
Mr. Taft,
human
nature in me. 1 wish that thia
country.
And the probh'tn for the
in the canvaas a.tated that, if i l.-cti-d,
people to solve is how to correct these cup might paa* from my h| a. many of
he would Immediately after hia inaugura
wrong conditions and how to rrcim- the independent producer* in the state
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atruct our rongr« as«-*, legislatures and of < 1» jf 1 < rr a ar « my | < r». ■ .a■ I. 1 J - - '
tariff This *p.-< ia! s.-sjoon was called
They would rendrr me
courts, so thst these wrong condition* ica) friend*.
and, after over four months of w rang
may be righted.
It must be done any poaaible service, and I would recip­
ling, enacted a tariff bill and it ha*
gradually am! without the diatructlon rocate. I would render them any job «
l>een signed by the prcaiilent ami con­
of the rights of property, no matter ible a< rvice that I could without violenct
gress has adjourned.
So we now
whether acquired rightly or wrung to my conaciencr and my convicltai*.
hate a specimen uf a tai iff enacted Ly
fully. We must ileal with conditions Prrha|w my attitude on thia occaaion
its friend*.
as they exist.
Rut when a man can i* attributable rather to venture ther
If anybody ex|iect«-d that the friemls
gcqtdr* a fiiftum- of
000 000 la oat to virtue. Perhaps when I have grown
of the tariff would, in the revision, give
abort life lime, we know that there is older in atatecraft, and in political flnc-
any material reduction of the schedules,
something wrung with uur «-conomic neaa, I may revise taith my view* and
they are disappointed; for the new law
my policies. Mr. Preaident. I am nut
system.
is not a reiluction but simply a rear­
It la absolutely necessary for our unaware that I may now be making a
ranging at the dictation of the tariff
eongre»»c* and courts to right about *< rtaua, a fatal political miatake, I am
benefleiariea, and the common nec« "»iti-
face m the mrthoiis i>f mai ling and not unaw are that I may be ordering a
tir* of life yet pay as high a duty a*
I am not unaware
interpreting law, if our economic system political caaket.
ever.
is restored to normal condition* While that I may lie, like the ancient queen,
There ia no article of more general
the legitimate acquirement of wealth lighting my own funeral pyre. But, air,
consumption among the people, rich or
should be protected and unhampered by 1 ahall never demand a protective duty
poor, than sugar
This product haa
PREDATORT FORTUNES
law, the illegitimate accumulation of in behalf of a product or an industry in
been under the ironboum! control of the
money and property should lie string- my own atate until I am willing to con
Sugar Trust, for several year*.
So
And when cede protection to every other industry
HE NEWS haa no fault to fimi •n^y legislate«] against
general is its consumption, that th«'
such It-gislatiun
ia
enacted,
the law in every other atate of the American
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with legitimately acquired wealth.
people thought that it should be either
ahoukl be enforced without fear or Union. ”
It Iwlieves that great fortunes
placed upon th«- free lint, or at moat, lie
favor.
made subject to only a nominal duty. arc a necessity to our present civilisa­
Predatory fortunes have l>een acquir­
Under the Dingley law, sugar was tion; for great aggregations uf wealth
ed through speculating and watering
dutiable at 1.9& cento per pound, Under are necessary for the accomplishment
industrial stocks ami bonds, through
But to the
the teriff revision by its friemls, it has uf great undertakings.
wholesale appropriating by individuals
lieen reduce«! to 1.90 cents per |x>und. fortunes illegitimately obtained through
and corporations of the mineral wealth
Quite a large amount of new
This reduction of .lr£J cents per pound *|H-culating in ami watering uf industrial
of the earth, through the mom>|x>lua
furniture, etc., ha* been added
is all that the sugar trust would jiermit stocks ami by grace of special privi­
tion of land and through special class
to the hotel equipment and the
and, of course, th«- congress which lege* obtained from congress, the
i legislation by congress.
All of the*«-
tablea are aupplled with the beat
managixj the revision, had to submit N kw . h in common with the masse* of
cause* w hich hsve bred swolen fortunes,
the market affords.
Especial
This wonderful reduction, by the the |«oplv, registers a protest.
ahoukl anti must be removed or con
pai rm taken to accomodate com­
friend* of tariff, of which we heard so
When it is known that it ia within
trolled. A proper system uf taxation
mercial men. Price* reasonable
much almut during the campaign, will the power of a score of men to bring
of incomes anti a graduatad land tax,
I m - a great boon to the poor man who about a financial crisis at their pleasure.
would go far towanla the correction of
buy* hi* sugar 25 cent* worth at a time, then all will admit that these men have
the evils lax legislation and enforcement
lie can buy one-fourth of a cents been allowed to acquire too much
of law haa |>ermittrei to grow up. A
worth more for the same amount of power. They thus become a menace to
removal of the protective tariff or a re­
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money.
A like reduction haa been our present form of government,
duction to a revenue basis, would per
made on a numtier of other comnwditlcs,
Some statistician haa taken the
la al
mil a liberal importation of fur« ign
but as a whole, the reduction that the trouble to find out the value of thr
gutxia and the competition resulting
people expected, ha* not been realised. product of an average day* labor, and
| woukl reduce the price of commodities
The people have found that tariff revi­ state* it to I m - from
to SI 1.
Of thia
totheir reasonable worth. The Ameri­
al West end of the Moriiaou Btroet
sion by it* friends has b«-*-n wholly in sum the laborer receive* leas than SI.OU;
can Consumer would then be [w-rmitted
the interests of the tariff tx netlciari«-* the lialance goes into th* pocket* of
bridge.
to retain a larger portion of hia earnings
ami not in the interests of th«- great employer* and dealer* who figure be­
and there would lie no more Schwabe
majority of the American people th«- tween the producer ami the consumer.
ami Carnegie*.
Now it should not be understood that
consumer*.
(Huccesaor tc Riner Br<«.)
But to accomplish this result, the
The fact of th«- business is. the pro­ latair which produce* ia, only, to be
IIIOI’RIETOR,
|M-ople must take |xditical matters into
tective tariff is either right or wrong. considered. The latior of the merchant,
their own hands.
They must replace
If right, then the duties should be of the counting room, of behind the
partisan prejudice with
patriotism
placed so high that not a veatig«- of bank counter anil of the professional
eatherford
wyatt
They must And out, if possible, what
if
foreign gomis would be imported;
man are all necessary for the con­
the trusts and protected classes desire,
wrung, then every duty should be venience and happiness of society.
and then do juat the opposite, By such
arrang«-d only with reference to the Wherein lira thr injustice ia, the
action they will do what is beat for
Office in Blumberg Bluet
interests of the general government in lal-orer who works in the trenches re
themaelvea and familtaa.
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view. Ami the quicker the people look ceive* too little of the wealth hia labor
The political management of the
at the subject from a moral and produces. Nor can conditions be made
government has become a matter of
equitable viewpoint, the quicker will lietter until society ami government are
l>ure and unadulterated *elflshn«>sa.
the question be settled ami «ettled organixed differently. Th«1 principle of
The only safe ami patriotic rule ia to
rightly.
If the people considers it graft. Ixith public and private, must be
vote for the interests of the greatest
An experienced compounder of
right for a few people to enjoy special eliminated.
number of people. It is quite time that
privileges, a* in the case of the tariff
I-*•< week congress adjourned, after
the common people those who work in
beneficiaries, at the ex|H-n»r of the more than four month* of wrangling
the trenches should get their |>olitical
many, then the protective tariff can be about the rearranging of how much
Successor to the late Hong Wo Tong,
eye* open on governmental matters.
of Albany, Oregon, is now prvi>ared to
defended.
But if they tad lie ve in lionu* the people must pay to the trusts
They must become so wise that the furnish Chinese medicine* to all.
The
equal opportunity for every man. then and other manufacturing combine*.
trust* and the intereato cannot, through undersigned recommends him and guar
the protective tariff must tie considered Now every dollar which i* acquired
Call or write him
partisan prejudice, cause the people to antees satisfaction.
as legalised robbery.
through *pecial favor of congress, mint
vote against their own interests, In at 117 Wust Second Street, All>any,
Thia is the fourth time that the tariff lie earnol by some laboring man. More
Oregon.
M. W estfall
other words, the people must get on It
has been revised by its friend*. The than one-third of the laborers earnings
the political situation.
Morrill tariff is not included, for the which ia paid for what he consumes, by
reason that it waa a war measure and the great kimines* of congress and the
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the immediate necessities of thr assent of thr pn sulent, goes into the
government overshadowe») all other pockets of the protective classes
Ilia the popular impression that a
intereato. But the Wilaon, McKinley, This, in addition to a reasonable coat
tariff ia the slowly worked out product
Dingley and Bayne bills have all been of the commodities he consumes.
It ia simply legalised robbery duly of protracted congressional inquiry and
measures in thr intereato of special
Does a gen-ral hanking and eichange
Thia impression ia buaine««
classes ami every time haa thr dutir* authorised by the government when one matured thought.
Lwni made at current rale*
bourn hauler upon the commdn jn-ople man i* compelled to pay from fin to lui confirmed by long and apparently earn and draft* issued on principal cities.
ami, proportionately, easier upon the jier cent more for the product of est senatorial debates over one or anoth
rich and predatory classes. This ia the another man's latxir. which is the er schedule. Ths people who ast in the
senate galleries a few week* ago and
result of tariff revision by its friends. direct result of the tariff, than
The «juration ia "How much longer will would have to pay if there was no listened to the elaborate discussion of
the |M-ople allow themselves to lie ma«le tariff or a tariff for revenue only, It the wool and woolen schedule thought
stoolpigeons of through p*rty prejudice? is legalised robbery when the govern­ they saw how tariffs were made.
That wa* a great mistake' The senate
Over Woodworth'* Drug Store lk-t
How much longer will they worship the ment permits transportation companies
god Mamon. for Mamon ia the basis of to collect exhorbitant tolls for the in adopting the schedule it did. merely phon*«,
carrying of freight ami passengers. It ratified one which had been agreed on
ALBANY ... Oregon
all of thi* tariff robbery.
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