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LAFAYETTE, YAMHILL COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20,1888.
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PRACTICAL!
MIÏÏ
>w(|iiiunVI
MIIM VUVVUIUI*
Oreg-axx.
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>*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.)
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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