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IS THE PEACEFUL REVOLUTION NOW ON':
with n>en who will enact laws which will protect the interests
uf all the people.
There will be no attempt at confiscating the property of
the predatory rich, nevertheless their fortunes have been
accumulated in ways, scarcely lees than robbery of the
people. But the laws by which and through which they
secured their ill gotten gains, will be repealed and in the
end, the government will be divorced from Wall street.
Thia is ev idence that this peacable revolution is, even, now
on. The curtailing of Speaker Cannon's power and the
prosecution of "graft” criminals in various places, is evi
dence that the day of a higher standard of eititenship and a
higher regard of purity and justice by our courts is dawn-
•ng.
It is ’he duty of every citisen to favor for office only men
of known integrity and who will, in every case, stand for the
execution of laws against the rich plutocratic male factor as
well as against tnr poorest and moo! obscure petty larceny
thief It la tlw duty of our court» to not permit unneces
sary delays in the administration of justice, and to be even
more severe upon the ri 'h criminal than upon the poor man,
whose n. cessitw-s have often driven him to commit crime.
It is the duty of the citisen, irrespective of party, to sustain
the public official who dors his duty without fear or favor,
and condemn an official who la guilty uf omission of duty or
of mslfaesance while a public official.
The people and the people only can bring about a peaceful
revolution and the placing of the government upon a plane of
justice and rquality to all men.
The people must, also,
remember that the government ran aid will be of no higher
standard of honesty and purity than is the standard of
honesty an i purity among the pe«>p'e. In the same ratio in
which government la administered with justice and imparti
ality, will patriotism be restored in the hearts of th«
people.
OREGON
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SAFE INVESTMENT IN A HOME COMPANY
FOH .IX OP EX HIPER
Fur it '•hurt time only a limited
of
The initial meeting of what in hope I to become a l'ernia
nent Ofen River Association, was held in Albany last Thurs
day afternoon and evening. The purpose of the association,
as the name indicates, is for the purpose of agitating an all-
the-year round open Wiliam« tie river from Portland south as
far as practicable, eventually to reach Eugene.
A« is wdl known, the Willamette is navigable forbut little
more than one half the year, when, if obstructive gravel
bars were removed and the water confine I to a narrower
channel, there is plenty of water for boating all the year
Owing to the preiwnt condition of the river, steamboat men
can scarcely maintain a boat service for one-half the year
am! tic their boats up or operate at a loss for the rest of the
year. For this reason steamboat owners care but little for
the up river run, nor can they afford to maintain a boat
•ervice sufficiently satisfactory to the p«>ople to draw a
freighting trad«. So far as a |>AMeng»r trafic is concerned.
It is a thing of the past. Business men, in these days of
I rapid business and rapid transit, cannot off ord to spend the
time require«! for a trip to Portland, when it can be made on
the railroad in less than one-half the time.
But as a freight regulator an all-the-year-round l<oat ser
vice woul«) lie of immense value to the peoole of the
Willamette valley. Freight charges would not be more than
one-half what is now paid via the •*. P. But for the boats I
maintain themselves, they must h».Ve business an-! this
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cannot be obtain«*-! if ths service is irregular. One of the
pressing an I leading features of the Open River Association
is the pressing upon congress the free locks at Oregon
City. Thia of itself would reduce freight rates 60 rents per
ton u|»>n all the Valley freights, for this sum is the lockage
charges ami ia a«idcd to freight carrie«! by the railroad as
well as that carried by boat. But the full value of free
locks would not be realise«! if the other oils true t Kins in the
river are not removed. Ueno, the importance of agitating
the improvement of the river to the head of navigation
which, when the water is at a reasonably high medium
stage, is now Eugene.
The Federal government spends money, in large quanti
ties, upon the rivers of the Eastern and muidle Western
states; yet steamboating upon those rivers, aa compare«! to
what it was fifty years ago. is hardly worth mentioning.
But the rivers serve aa a freight regulator, the same aa it
will do on the Willamette, when it becomes an open river
the year round.
!f boats could run the year round even an far south as
Corvallis, they could build up a profitable trafle and the
saving of the lockage, would create a profitable river
service.
Albany is to be congratulate«! in initiating an association
which, if maintaindel with the same earnest enthusiasm ns
was manifested at this initial meeting, is sure to be success
ful in thucn i. Albany is, also, to be congratulated for the
hospitable reception given visiting delegates and for the
decoration of th« streets and business houn«*a.
Linn
the
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preferred Block uf the
Haven
Orchard
Co.
Any person who honestly and unselfishly st i lies the tren<*
of our government, cannot but conclude that th- continuous
conflict between the greed and se|fi«hn«-»a of the money«-
aristocracy, whi.-h is now th' ruling |s>wcr of our country
an«l th« rights of th« common people, must become, ay.
has become an issue and one which most be so decided that
anxieties and foreboiling» of the people for the future a hai
be place! at rest.
Thomae Jefferson, the greatest eon
stru-tive »tatesman the world has produce«! aaid: "Men.
by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties
Those who fear arwi distrust the people, and wish to draw
all power from them into the hands of the higher class«-*
and those who identify themselves with the people, hav<
confidence in them, cherish them and consider them as th
mod lonest ami safe, although not the most wise depository
of the public interest. In every country these two part.«-
exist, and in every one where they are froe to think, apeak
ami write, they will declare thi-msehoa.”
It matters not
what may be the names assigned to th.we parties, the princi
pies are the same the world over and have existed since th.
recording of history began, and exist today.
But, just in
proportion as intelligence am! education has advanced among
men, has the influence of the first class named waned and
r v téd
that of the second class advanced.
This thought is th<
inspiration which brecia reform and which causes men to
prose on towards the ideal in the administration of govern
ment.
In our own country, the power ami dominance of wealth
in the control of the policies of our government, have been
supreme since civil war days; and the great struggle of th«
-a
future, alluded to in the first paragraph of thia article, will
G. PRILL. M. D.
M- the breaking away of these »hackles.
Since and inclu Ung the enactment of the first great finan
cial measure by the thirty eighth congress. Wall street has
dictated ami dominated nearly every law which has controlled
the finances of our country.
Since the enactment of the
first distinctive protective tariff bill, after the close of the
SCIO
civil war, have the tariff beneficiaries dictated what the
schedules of rates should 1«. In each instance, these men
may be presumed to be experts in each particular field; yet,
aa they were formulating ami dictating measures, of which
themselves would be beneficiaries and, knowing the selfiah-
nesa and greet! of humanity in general, it is not unreason
An experienced compounder of
able to sup|>ose that these men ha i only their own interests
in view when they dictated the finance am! protective tariff
laws. Being thus favored for a half century by congressional
Successor to the late Hong Wo Tong,
enactment, in the way of special favors ami advantages, it
of Albany, Oregon, is now prepared to
is no wonder that these men have grown fabulously rich.
furnish Chinese medicines to all.
The
And it is mi wonder that these so called "Masters of Finance
undersigned recommends him and guar
ante«» satisfaction. Call or write him
and Industry." consider themselves to be especially fitted by
at 117 West Second Street, Albany,
nature and capability, to conduct the affairs of a great
Oregon.
M. W estfall
nation. Aid they arc, too, if they would only divest them
selves of selfishness ami greed. Their training for two
generations has developed an astonishing capability to
U hen st the Open River meeting at Albany, last week,
manage men aid affairs, but. at the same time, has been
one could frequently hear "Johnathan is making good”
developed the selfishness am! gre«d of their natures. It is
Centrali)- located, good
uttered by men who were probably, his enthusiastic friends.
just in this manner that hereditary monarchical families
•
rooms, prices moder
By the work of Senators Bourne and Chamberlain the river
have been developed ami perpetuated in European ami
and harbor bill, as it came from the House, was amended to
ate, couiteuud
Asiatic countries.
When the American colonies revolted
include an appropriation of >.'«10,000 for the establishment of
treatment
against the rule of King George III, a new principle of
free lockage at Oregon City. If Congressmen Hawley and
government was bom into the world. That immortal docu
Corser Morrtjen »od Frost Streets
Ellis have influence in the House sufficient to have the
ment known as the "Declaration of Independence" proclaim
amendment ratified, they will do much to repair their mis
POKTLANu
OREGON
ed to the world that taxation without representation, was
take in not having the appropriation included in the original
injust ami intolerable and the word "Patriotiam” was given
bill. Should they fail to have the amendment ratified, they
Noth:« of Final Settlemen«
a new definition.
will both be apt to hear something "drap," nest fall.
Following the successful revoluntary war ami up to the
Notice is hereby given that the under-
civil war, the question of human slavery engruaac«! the
sign«! administrator of the estate of
principle attention of our government Slavery had built up
Thetaiorr RoMcvelt, in the eye. of the old world and, ateo,
George B. Huber, decease«!, has flic«!
an aristocratic, aggressive ruling clast in the South
They in the eye« of a majority of the people of the United State«,
his final account in aaid estate in the
nought to dominate ami rule the nation in their own Inter i« a very “Mg” man. The enthusiastic receptions, which is
county court of the State of Oregon for
ests. They Inuit up a slave plutocracy which determined to being given him by I he crowned heads of Europe, is evidence
Lian county, and that said court has
DRUGGIST
rule or rum the nation. The money plutocracy, of the that hia influence is sufficiently great as to tie felt by these
sot Monday the 25th day of April, A. I).
present time, nemi to be imbue«! with the same spirit and, foreign peoples. It is not because be is a ci tuen of the moat
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1910 at the hour of 1 o’clock p. m. of
let us hope, they meet with the same downfall.
p iwerful government in the world, but because he represonU
•aid day at the County Court room in
In discussing the slavery question. Abraham Uncoln aa d liberty ami equnl.ty among men. as but few rulers uf the 6.
the City of Albany, Linn County, Ore
"a nation half slave and half free cannot long endure. ” He world have manifested
And the (ojniiace, of the foreign
gon as the time and place of hearing
reason«*«! that the nation woul I eventually become all slave peoples, seem to be the groundwork or basic cause of his
any objections thereto and the settle
or all free. The same statement might be made concerning astonishing [.opulanty, over there.
ment thereof.
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eatherford
wyatt
the plutocratic money lords of today.
1 ither our govern
J acob H ums
ment will become a plutocracy in name as well as it now ia
Administrator of the estate
in fact, or the laws which have lull up and ma ntai cd
When Toddy comes marching home there is “a hot time in
of George B Huber deceased
plutoe-ecy during the past Afty years, will be repeals I. Tl ia i oil time" die. Sure the receptioi given by the Cannon-
W. H Queener.
is the conflict now upon ua.
We m ist depose Ca monism . A dr eh crowd will not be very enthusiastic, to say the
Office in Blumberg R.«jrk
Atty, for administrator.
ard AWrichism from power and re pace the places vacabd hast.
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