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Yamhill County Reporter )». I. »»HtllY, K<IH»r A Prupr. J G. H KHIH. U mx ini.' I itllor. Subscription $! OO Per Year. advertising evteh . Reading notices in local columns 10 rent* per l ue for first week and 5 cents per line thereafter. D splay advertisement», annual rates, one inch per month Si; each additional inch 50 cents per month. Obituary and marriage notices not exceeding 10 lines published free, if furnished in time to be current news. Additional matter 10 cent* per line. FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1900. Consular reports from France indi cate that the wheat crop of that country will be upwards of sixty eight million bushels less than last year, caused by the severe weather during the winter. ------ ---------- In the immediate future there will be no scrambles for the positions of minister and consuls to China. The president will not be beseiged by place hunters in that country, for even hungry office seekers will not be hunting jobs where they are liable to be boiled or hacked to pieces for the gratification of howling savage mobs. When President McKinley said that the republican party is the party of emancipation and not of imperial ism he struck the keynote in history and touched the sentiment of the in telligent American people. Politi cians and demagogues are much more to be feared in this country than im perialism. The former we have but the latter can never exist. “Fewest Failures for Eighteen Years'’ is the headline on Brad streets’ record for the first half of this year. That non-partisan busi ness journal says: “The number of failures reported for the first six months of the calendar year 1900 is the smallest period noted for eighteen years past. Compared with 1898 the decrease is 25 per cent, and even lar ger decreases are noted when com parisons are made with the first half of the years 1897 and 1896. '' The Oregonian’s opposition to President McKinley has been summed up by the Woodburn Inde pendent thus: “The Oregonian pre tended to be against McKinley in or der to secure a large list of demo cratic and populist subscribers, so that it could have the right sort of an audience at the proper time. Fi nancially and otherwise, its tactics met with much success. It is now sizing up Bryan for the benefit of its numerous readers, and especially for the edification of the new subscrib ers." fall. As there are some law abiding! Gov. Roosevelt is going to open democrats in that state y<-t, tin* time, his Illinois campaign early in Sep is not far distant when fusion for of- tember. About that time, doubt flee, and that is the only kind of fu . less, he will be heard on the stump sion there is, will be more despised ■ in Missouri also. Roosevelt has le by the American people than the! gions of admirers in the west, and most corrupt trust. Fusion is the I all want to hear him in the canvass. worst kind of trust, and no trust in J He will not be able to gratify a him the country lias done as much injury ‘ dredth part of them, but they are in every town, and he will greet some [ ------ . e.------- The last Oregon legislature passed of them. The people have not for an act amending the statutes and gotten what he did before the war providing for the filing of criminal and in the war, but they turn to him ’ informations direct by district attor now as the hero of the hour because , neys and leaving the calling of grand he represents, as much as any other juries to the discretion of circuit man, their aspirations, their sympa judges. It was maintained in some thies, and their purposes. He says quarters that such a procedure was now, as he said months ago, “Where in contravention to the constitution our flag has been raised it shall not of the state, but a decision rendered be hauled down.” He does not hesi by the court last week, in a case tate to declare that his nerves tingle brought to test it. declares for the with pride over the achievements of constitutionality of the act which the splendid volunteers and regulars will now stand unquestioned. In af who followed MacArthur, Lawton, firming the judgment of the lower and Funston in the Philippines, and court Justice Wolverton set up the who have “added so many new pages fact that it is no violation of the con to the honor roll of American his stitution to deprive a defendaut of tory.” He believes that the United an examination by a grand jury, and States is to be the great powerofthe that thereby no rights of the defend Pacific, and that in the future we ant are jeopardized provided a trial must be courageous as well as honest. ------ »•«------ is had before a jury in open court. Intelligent ClilnumaiCa View. This decision establishing the validi Rev. Fung Chak, a Chinese mission ty of the law will work a decided ary resident in Portland who takes a change in the criminal practice in lively interest in the warlike condition the state, and hereafter probably in the far east, gives an interesting view only the most important cases will of the situation. He is not blind to the be investigated by grand juries. faults of his own countrymen. Of the Charity covers a multitude of sins, and when applied properly, relieves suffering. Charity also suffers long, and is kind. This same heaven-born trait of mankind is just as often abused. Just as freely as the people are now contributing of their means for the relief of the starving natives of India, they gave in certain sec tions of the country some time ago for the relief of the Boer Indians and orphans. This was done at the so licitation of democratic ladies who used the Boers as a sort of political campaign sympathy manufactory. The treasurer of the democratic Boer committee in Washington, D, C., has been forced to publish a statement, which shows that of some »1,100 con tributed, all but $18 was expended in caring for the Boer envoys at a late celebration in Washington City. Among other things, the treasurer states that $140 was spent for cham pagne for the envoys. Thus the so ciety which received subscription in the name of charity, ostensibly for the relief of widowsand orphans, has come to an inglorious if not a dis honest end. wars China has engaged in of recent years, first with France, and later with Japan, that which threatens now prom ises to be the most formidable and far- reaching. However Rev. Fung Chak be lieves that the imbroglio will soon be satisfactorily adjusted. The great error made by foreign pow ers in dealing with China is in demand ing a cash indemnity. This, according to the missionary, has little or no effect. A foreigner is murdered, his government demands so many thousand or million dollars, it is paid, the account is settled and then the natives are ready to kill another foreigner, pay another indem nity, etc. In this respect the Chinese do not learn by experience. They are just as ready to massacre a band of for eigners after a heavy cash indemnity has been paid as they were before. A peculiar course of reasoning is used by the Mongolians in accounting for this monetary tribute. They look on the matter in a purely commercial manner; as if England, France, Japan, Germany or the United States, as the case may be, sold them so many foreigners to be killed at so much per head. The ignorant Mongolians are aware that taxes will come for one thing or an other, and if they can amuse themselves by slaughtering a few foreigners, they tnay as well pay the tax for the indem nity as to enrich some mandarin. Some times the imperial government attempts to punish the murderer, but never appre hends the guilty party for some reason or other. To teach the Chinese to respect for eigners and leave them unharmed, civil ized powers should demand, according to Rev. Fung Chak, not an indemnity of money but one of territory. The China man is an intense patriot, or rather, he loves Ilia fatherland immeasurably. To see a portion of the Chinese empire, no matter how small, in the bauds of for eigners, is the worst calamity the Chi nese can suffer It matters little that the natives will not be exiled from the land when the foreigners govern it. they look upon it as a part dismembered, as a limb cut off from the body. Under these existing conditions the wisest course to pursue in dealing with China for recompense for murdered sub jects of a foreign power would be to de maud laud, and the greater the slice de manded and received the more keenly the natives will feel their punishment, The yellow terror, that furnishes the daily papers with so much sensa tional matter, presents a peril other than that attending the frenzy that is sweeping over the hordes of the great empire at the present time. Oregon has ever been renowned as The mob can be driven back. Their the land of red apples, but whim it country can be subdued and par earned that name it was only neces titioned by the nations of the world, sary to put out an orchard to raise but what then? No part of China apples. However, something more would be Germanized, or Russianized is needed now. The orchard has not or Americanized. Rather, the inva only to be put out, but it must be ders would be Chinaized. The great conducted scientifically in order to dread is what China will, when produce u commodity that is in de awakened, be to the industrial world. mand. The people of Hood river This is what made the fearless Calif valley appear to have discovered all ornians thirty years ago afraid. the secrets pertaining to horticul They saw John steal in with a pole ture, und if our own people do not upon his shoulder and a bundle on look carefully after their interests either end of the pole. There was the honor of growing the choicest the non-combatant smile upon his fruit will fall to the section east of face, but the merciless thrift was in the Cascades. his heart. They saw him eat food that the stomachs of all geuerous There will be more tickets in the races would instantly reject, they field this year than during any presi saw twenty Chinese living and work Dti'i . ihi '. ii I 'ii otmTi TmAl.. dential campaign in the history of ing in a room not large enough for Judge Sears on Monday declared the the country. So far the following three white people to live in; they bicycle tax law unconstitutional, on the have been nomi :ated Bryan and saw them willing to work for wages ground that it conflicts with that sec Stevenson, democratic; McKinley that would not support an American tion of the constitution which declares und Roosevelt, republican; Barker child, and in a little while discovered “that the legislature shall not pass local and Donnelly, populist; Debs and that with their imitative qualities or special laws for the assessment and Harriman, social democrat; Wooley i thev could quickly master the simp collection of taxes for state, county,town ship or road purposes.” and Metcalf, prohibition, and Malon ler arts and by opening a shop across Judge Sears further held that the bi ey and Remmel, social labor. The the way could soon drive their for- cycle tax law is probably in conflict Afro- Americans and others are yet | mer employers out of business, and with the constitution for the reason that : to be beard from. However, the . they cried out against the invasion. it is a revenue law and ought to have ' principles held by all that have not | But now all the indications are originated in the house of representa been enumerated here, are doubtless that the mighty hive lias begun to tives instead of the senate. He further decided that it is double I covered by the platforms of some ' swarm, and the fear is that it will be that have, so that other nominations I as when the locusts swarm and start taxation, because being personal prop-1 erty, it is presumed to have been taxed i may not be necessary. | on their flight, consuming all vegeta already with other personal property of tion as they move. The nations have an individual, and there was uo pro The fusion democrats of the state proclaimed “the open door' towards vision in the law that the bicycle shall of Idaho have turned down their own China. That open door must have not be subject to other taxation. democratic governor for no other I hinges which will permit it to swing The court also held that the tax was reason than that he is in favor of law | out us well as in, and when rich men not equal and uniform. It was not and order und that rioters shall not see what can be done, what will pre an ad valorem tax. a bicycle worth have a free and unrestrained hand in vent their building factories on Chi- being taxed as much as one worth |too. committing murder and arson. They nese soil and producing goods at on e- Concerning the result of this decision, cannot undo what Governor Steuen- fourth the present cost’’ What then if sustained by the supreme court, the Portland Telegram comments as follows: burg did for law, order and good will become of the workers of gener ‘ The decision of Judge Sears in the government, but they have given ous nations? The yellow terror is bicycle tag case, if sustained by the su that state a black eye with liberty one that the majority of the world preme court, promises another instance loving jieople all over the country. does not yet half comprehend w here money collected under unconstitu The result of the Idaho convention * • > — -— tional or otherwise invalid laws had tube will probably be that the state will D. C. I»erby i* »hie to come over to paid back by the county or city. In this cane the amount paid by each individual, . return to the republican column next town again, with the aid of a cane. Safe as a Bank. 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This Company also owns Two M illion F ive HrNORED T hous S hares of the Capital Stock of 50 of the best oil companies i in California, thus covering as thoroughly as can be done all the 1 oil fields. and Par Value of this stock is from $1.00 to $10.00 per Share. IT HAS THREE SOURCES OF INCOME. 1st -Royalties collected on 5000 acres. 2d—Dividends collected from 2,500,000 shares of stock held in 50 companies. 3d—Oil produced from 10,000 acres. Dr. Pierce’s Pellets cure heart-burn. is very small, only $1.25, or counting two payments, $2.50 each. But these pay ments aggregate for the two years about $18,000, and lawyers and brokers are not lacking in Portland who will not disdain to buy up as many of these tax receipts as possible and sue the county for their repayment. These repeated cases of illegal or doubtful laws, by which people are required to pay taxes of one kind or another, to the final in jury of the county that has to refund them, suggests the importance of a very careful consideration of such laws by members of the legislature A large proportion of the legislators are always lawyers, and it would seem that among them the public ought to be protected against these blunders—though to be sure, a lawyer, in the majority of given cases, knows as little as anyone how a court will decide. But if they have a ‘‘reasonable doubt,” to use a term none of them can exactly define, it would be better to exercise it against a bill that, if the law should turn out to be invalid, is calculated to make a mess of public business. As far as the bicycle-tax law is concerned, it is effectually “knocked in the head,” for it is unlikely that, pending the supreme court's decision, any more taxes will be collected. And since there is so much objection to it, and collection of the tax is so difficult, it is reasonable to suppose that the next legislature will repeal the law, and that will lie the end of the matter, except re payment of the taxes collected from in dividuals to brokers, and attorneys.” Death <>t aia Anali} Pioneer. “Aunt Mary” Walling, as she was fa miliarly known, died at Amity, Or., Sun day morning, July 22, at the age of 82 years, 3 months ahd 13 days. Mary Long was born in Ohio, April 18, 1818, and was married to John R. Walling in 1835. After living in a number of different states, they crossed the plains to Oregon in 1854 ami the same year located on a donation land claim in the gap of the hills two miles east of Amity This was afterwards sold and they purchased a portion of what is now the town site of Amity, of which Mrs Walling still owned a portion. 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Beveridge, son of ex Governor Beveridge of Illinois, is one of the most active of Los Angeles capitalists. The electric railway from this city, via Hollywood, to San ta Monica, is the latest monument to his enterprise. J M. Hale, one of the leading dry goods merchants of Los Angeles, is one of the four Hale brothers who own dry goods establishments in San Francisco. Sacramento, San Jose. Salinas. Petaluma, Los Angeles ami New York. The directorate’s reference: Bradstreet’s, or any bank in California. For Further Information, Call or Address Los Angeles, Cal. Room 212 Laughlin Building, Russell’ Engines Traction or Portable, Simple or Com pound, Wood or Straw Burners. Cyclone” Threshers There is a disease prevailing in this country most dangerous because so decep tive. Many sudden deaths are caused by it—heart disease, pneumonia, heart failure or apoplexy are often the result of kidney disease. 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