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A* THE OREGON REGISTER. H “ A GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, AND BY THE PEOPLE.” LAFAYETTE, YAMHILL COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20,1888. II8BEB EVERY FRIDAY -AT- OREGON —BY— UlKK S. HARDING. gOBSCMPTlON BATES. ......... •? 22 , months In advace............... 1 «0 j -I the postoffice in LAfayette. gs second dass matter. j FFICIAL DIRECTORY. VSITSU STATZS. . .. .Grover Cleveland t'rimis ................ Thoe. F. Bayard 2 jTrew'ry............. Ch“ »• '■'airohlld Hcteuurite....;........... Vilas Ä, ... Wm. O. t.ndlc.f HI»;’ ............. W.C. Whitney Posierel .................Don M. Dlckinsoo KiSil .................... A. Hetland r-ootta.ssstOBAU Mjtcheii L................ .. ......................... ) J. N. Dolph .Binger Hermann .. .............. , STATZ. .......... Sylvester Pennoyer Uro- W. McBride .. G. W. Webb .E- B. McElroy iblk Iustruction........ .. Frank Baker Mar.......................... W. W. Thayer, Wm. P. Lord, eJudges........... R. 8. Stichen. 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Pike school house; Sat- essclng previous, at Anderson’s school IvaJay—It a. ■. Carlton; 3 p. m.---------- «. ufayslto. Preacher in charge. raaaiVTzaiAN szavtets. je services wl'l be conducted by Rev. of the Presbyterian church, as follows: lahbath of each month at Lafayetts. st 4th Sabbaths at Zona. kbbath at McCoy. All cordially invited.' J. Burt Moore, SICIAN AND SURGEON, Oregon. R.J. C. MICHAUX, LAFAYETTE, OREGON- vuttthre experience of nine year» bh Mmcee to the people ot Lafayette noetetag country. al, '«7. PRACTICAL! MIÏÏ >w(|iiiunVI MIIM VUVVUIUI* Oreg-axx. stock of watch««, clocks, >*wt*c*e* endaeilaet uoprecedent- *•> Cloeks and Jewelry repairing a spec- laity—All work warranted. a oall. T. C. STEPHENS. that he had or intended to retire the democratic administration to degrade from the race for the presidential the honest toil of America to a level with the pauper labor of the Old World. (From our Regular Correspondent.) j nomination is entirely untrue. In 6. That while dieclaiming the rightio W ashington , April 6, 1888. , a little over two months front now interfere with the administration of the “All things come to him who he ] will wish he had, and next No internal affairs of foreign nations, we sin waits'* has occurred to me very . vember he will hate himself for cerely approve the efforts of Irish and often this week as I noted the , evei having even indulged the hope English statesmen to secure by peaceful change in sentiment which followed , of becoming president of the United methods the American principle of home rule for Ireiand. the reporting of the Mills tariff bill States. | Nor will the knowledge 7. That we are in favor of such legis to the house, by Chairman Mills, i that he has lost some of the con lation as should prohibit and punish the. who left a sick bed to perform that 1 tents of his barrel add to the com manufacture or Balo of adulterated food«. 8. That we are in favor of the enact duty. i fort of his thoughts. A slight modification in the bill It is understood the six justices ment of a law by congress whereby the has secured the support of the Lou- , of the supreme court are in favor of homestead or pre-emption rights of set tlers shall not be forfeited by cancella isiana delegation who were at first the • promotion of Justice Field, of tion of filings by the laud department bitterly opposed to the bill. Another California, , to the vacant chief jus when settlement or filing is made in good slight change in the clause affecting ticeship. Until the appointment of faith. 9. That we favor the encouraging and worsted has won over the wool men Mr. Lamar to the supreme bench, from Ohio and elsewhere, so that Justice Field was the only demo developement of our Btate by the con struction of railroads and other systems the number of democrats who op crat of the supreme court. of transportation, and that we hold all pose the measure has been reduced Governor Hill, of New York, is corporations to be strictly responsible to to a very small number, and it is shortly to announce publicly that their liabilities under the law and recog hoped to reduce the number still he is not and never has been a can nize the right of the legislature to exact - all reasonable limitations vu corporate further before the bill comes to a didate for the presidential nomina power. vote. tion. He is a Cleveland man. Mr. 10. That we regard the further Immi Notice has been given Jn the Cleveland expressed himself to a gration into the United States of Chinese house that the bill will be called up friend this week as being highly laborers as directly opposed to the inter for action on the 17th inst. An ef pleased with the prospects of the ests of American labor, and we tiiggefore heartily approve the action erf the repub fort will then be made to hold the Mills tariff bill in the house and al lican senate in providing by proper legis house down to the consideration <jf so with the prospects of the demo lation for so amending our treaties with the measure until a vote is taken. cratic party in th* coming cam China as to prevent their further immi gration here. Of course the republicans are pre paign. 11. We recognize that the nation owes pared to repeat on the floor of the Gen. Clark, clerk of th* house of a debt to the surviving veterans of the house everything which they did in representatives, says he is tired of great rebellion, which cannot be ade . the committee room to delay the hearing the house denounced for quately paid, and hold it to be the duty of the general government to provide bill, hoping in this way to defeat it. doing nothing. He can prove by for the necessities of them and theirs by The democratic programme is to figures that it has done more work prompt payment of liberal pensions. 12. That the action of President Cleve get the tariff bill disposed of before than any of its predecessors ever land in ordering the return of the rebel flags was an unwarranted assumption of the meeting of the St. Louis conven did so early in the season. It has the right to use for political purposes the tion, in June. From the present passed up to date 222 private and trophies of a valor he did not possess and the fruits of a victory he did not help to outlook the chances are rather 129 public bills. secure. against a vote being reached by 13. While we approve every honest The public lands committee of the that time, but the effort will be house has reported a bill forfeiting effort to preserve our public lands by the punishment of willful trespasses upon made all the same. The chances of about 40,000,000 acres of the North them, and are in favor of such measures the final passage of the bill have ern Pacific, Southern Pacific and as will encourage our citizens to settle upon and improve them, we condemn the largely increased Recently, and Ontonagon land grants. action of the present administration in its pretended efforts to protect said lands, ' while it is by no means’ certain under color of which, instead of pursu REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. now that the bill will pass, it is ing the policy of the republican admin istrations by causing the arrest and pun more than probable that it will. At The republicans of the state of Oregon ishment of those only whose actions ap any rate the arguments over the in convehtion assembled, reaffirming peared to have been dishoneM and crim inal, it has refused to cause said lands to bill will place this whole question their allegiance to and confidence in the be surveyed, thereby discouraging their in a plainer light before the country great republican party of the nation, of settlement by people needing and desir ing to take them. The administration than heretofore. 1 People will in' who8e grand achievmenta and long and WASHINGTON LETTER. ft Oregon Register NO. 37. utinnotjafiil arlminiafwifi'An va J ava successful administration of I 4 the govern has also filled the country with a horde consequence, look into the question ment of the United States they have so of officers styling themselves special agents of the interior department,' who themselves, people who have in the much cause to be proud, and the glory, of have been made to act as spies and in formers on such of the honest citizens as which they are entitled to share, now past taken some political dema Ouring the Present Session of Con ventured to settle upon the public gogue’s statement of it as true, and make and present the following state have gress lands for the purpose of carving for them ment of their principles and policy: selves homes in the wilderness, and has the result cannot fail to be a gain 1> We favor honest and efficient ad caused the arrest of honest settlers upon for the revenue reformers. ministration of all departments of govern those lands upon charges false and in- famous, and publicly branding _ "1^, them ___ i as The senate has spent more than ment, both state and national. robbers and __ .iimiw thieves , ; nua has caused caused them them to a week wrangling over the house 2. The right of the citizen authorized __ 1 i into the civil ” and be dragged —_ both —r.~~ Will Have a Regalar Correspondent _ _______ courts to 1_ be tried upon false and bill authorizing the secretary of ‘the by law, and to have his vote honorably eriminalcou In Washington, whose Letters fictitious chargee, thereby compelling ' ’_______________________________ J treasury to purchase United States counted ought to be respected, and all 2 them to incur the expense of two de- de are Reliable and In efforts to curtail or limit that right de fenses against the same act; has caused bonds with the surplus. The sen teresting. serves the condemnation of all good citi these same special agents to raise ques ate is not divided on party lines, as zens. tions and dispute the right of honest citi 3. That the policy of the democratic zens to acquire title to the public lands both parties 'have held caucuses to upon which (hey they have honestly and in _ J F faith — - A 1- settled . —I —* and W— . I r for ...I. ■ .-L. 4 they L. try to agree what should be done. administration which would place wool good which -o- and lumber on the free list and woolen have paid their money, and, acting upon The silver senators of both parties goods on the'highly protected list, cotton the suggestion of these agents, the of insist on amending the bill in some ties on the free list and other similar ficers having such matters in charge manner to increase the purchases hoop iron in the protected list, and which have under the direction of the admin istration, like a court organized to con . REMEMBER THE of silver by the government. policy would continue the collection of vict, deprived the settler of his land, The house has had its wrangle $50,000,000 on sugar each year, while at robbed him of the benefits of his labor, and refused to return his money, and too. The cause was the bill to re the same time the majority applaud and these wrongs have been perpetrated claim to carry out the president's idea against the settlers with no apparent ob fund the direct taxes paid by the that a tariff tax is robbery of the people, ject but to furnish a pretext tor the cry several states into the United States constitutes a piece of unparralleled polit of democratic reform. IS THE ONLY 14. We denounce and deplore ths re treasury. A large majority of the ical dishonesty, having for its sole object fusal of President Cleveland to approve house favor this bill, but owing to i the success of the democratic party at the last river and harbor bill, aud we de the peculiar rules under which the , the next election, even at the expense of nounce the action of the secretary of war the practical destruction of many of our in what seems to be a studied attempt to body works a determined minority most important agricultural and manu- delay the improvement of the Columbia river ; and fully recognizing the import can, by filibustering, delay and facturing industries. . Paper in the County. ance of our great waterways as regulator« 4.. We favor the policy of providing of freight charges, not only on the water- sometimes even defeat legislation. The opponents of this bill resorted [ chiefly for the revenues of the general wave themselves, hut on the railroads as [ government and for other purposes essen well, we insist that our great rivers to this method on Wednesday, and should be free and oped to the sea, and tial to the general government, a system succeeded in keeping the house in of duties levied upon imports, so adjusted we demand of the general government V puui needed appropriaaione therefor, at the session until 2:30 a. m. Thursday as to discriminate in favor of domestic same time recommending to the next TO ADVERTISERS’ morning. All day and all night industries and productions and in favor legislature to take proper and adequate steps to assist at once in opening the were spent in dilatory motions. of American labor, and we declare in great river to general commerce. favor of reducing the annual surplus rev 15. We denounce the civil service re Such furious. filibustering had enues of the government by admitting form professions of President Cleveland scarcely ever been seen since the free of duty such articles of general use as a sham and fraud, as promises made foundation of the house of represen as cannot be largely produced or manu to secure votes before election, and the violation of which has been as constant factured by our people. tatives. as the hunger of the democratic office- seeker could demand, < 5. That we depreciate the attempt of Senator Sherman says the report \_z The Register Oregon Register 8 PAGE 8 . s npci Inducement