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LETTERS FROM HE PEOPLE.
To tiik Editor:
It heeiiis to rne the warn-
found to convince the thinking man of I AQK OCIT
to-day that the opposite policies of the' VwI w4 1
vow inn j For anyone killing or steal
iijw cjiangeg irom guuu iu uau ariu viuu
verna.
Some may take ihsue with me, and Ray
itiu will. ir inc .11 it li w inn i Lti u i . . ...
i mat 1 uraw on the imatininon to a
and Kural Home, an Independent I great extent when I declare that to-day
journal, hhould he carefully looked into! the jop!e are enjoying the fruits of un
hv tin Doubting Thomases who t-ee no 1 precedented prwjerity under the wise
',.,. ,i, , . : w administration of the Republican party
grave danger in making a chance in the n . .i i- .
.... h its adherence to the policies of protec
administration of governmental affair. : tion to American industries and sound
It them read and le convinced, if such
a thing he possible. X. X.
Clover Flat, Sept. 21, 1900.
A COMPARISON OF FACTS.
You remember the old proverb,
"Facta are stubborn things." Iiead
these facts carefully and remember when
you are reading them that they are facts
and not theories.
The last time the Democratic party
was in jower and in charge of the gov
ernment it increased the bonded debt
$2o2,33o,800, and yet had an aggregate
deficit of l.'io,4 0,050.17, and this dis
money the two great leading issues.
I find this state of affairs in existence
locally and must conclude that it exists,
to a certain extent, throughout the
length and breadth of the land. My
business calls me to every part of South
eastern Oregon and Northern California,
and close observation assures me that
prosperity stalks gaunt and proudly
throughout the country. Farmers and
stockmen are paying off the last plasters
of the hard-time mortgage; they are
buying new machinery and new wagons
and paying cash for them ; they are
building new houses and new barns;
astrous showing was made in a time of Ihey are buying the best blood to infuse
ieace. The Republican party had a i into their herds and improve their
surplus for the four vears 189-92 of
1209.554,348.18 and for" the four vears
1897-1900, within which time the Re
publican administration carried on the
Spanish-American War, and so adjusted
the revenues to the needs of the country
as to produce a surplus in excess of ex
penditures of more than $03,000,000 the
present year; and yet the debt was not
so great by f t;2.(n,000 as during the
four years of Democratic rule. Stop
and think. The Republican party
turned over the government to the Dem
ocrats in 1893 with a bonded debt .f
only $585,029,330, and thi debt was in
creased in time of ieace to $847,3o5.
130. Confronted by these facts, mut
not every fair-minded man, who ap
preciates the absolute imfortance of the
successful operations of the Treasury to
every business enterprise the employe
as well as the employer confess the
unwisdom, the risk and the danger of
again turning over the affairs of this
country to the Democratic party? We
certainly think it would be a very un
wise and unbusiness-like proposition to
even consider. The entire country be
ing prosperous, now is the time, if there
ever was one, to let well enough alone.
A LESSON WELL LEARNED
To the Editor:
I am not a politician in
any sense of the word ; neither do I
take much interest in politics. But the
time has come, in my opinion, when
every true American "should at least
study the causes whi;h lead from finan
cial disaster and panic to prosperity and
plenty with each succeeding change in
the co-intry'a administration. We all
know what it in to pass through the
"hard times" period; thousands are
only now getting over the panic of the
last Democratic rule, which left the
country in distress, and the farineisand
stockmen in particular, in sore financial
straits bordering on bankruptcy
was one ot them. 1 am mst irettins?
over it like thousands of others, and I '
I, i !.. i.: I
nave; uceu nimning over me causes
which bring alout these changes of
fickle fortune. Kvery man should think
it over seriously. There must be a cause
that brings about an effect. Thee
uimiien cuiiiiol ins laiu io I roviueilCB
The old saying that "one party is as bad I
as another is played out. Some ex-1
cuse more tangible than this must be
stock, and they all have dollars now that
they can call their own against the dol
lars they had a few years ago that be
longed to their bankers, and which they
were compelled to pay or lose their
homes and farms. This is no idle talk.
Every man in business knows it. I
would not miss the mark far were I to
state that in Lake county, Oregon, alone,
the ranchers and stockraisers have dur
ing the last twelve months paid out one
hundred thousand dollars for new
wagons, implements, machinery and
stock.
I for one don't want any change in the
administration of governmental affairs.
I can thirotiiihly realize and discern the
difference the difference retween pros
perity and happine s under Republican
rule, "and the disaster, panic and bank
ruptcy we have experienced under Dem
ocratic misrule.
It is a lesson well learned. Let every
man look to his own interests, ard let
the man who, through blindness and
foolish partisanship, thinks he wants a
change, vote for it. He may get it, and
the dire results to follow, to his heart's
content.
I am satis tied as matters stand to-day.
J. 13.
J Lakeview.Or.,Sept.23,1900.
lnf ttocK belonging to the
South Eastern Oregon
Live Stock Association
$500 REWARD
Will be given Ur the arrest and convirtion of any per
son or pernons Bleating any stock belonging
to member of thU Association.
J. L. COUGIILIN,
J. M. INXKS, President.
Secretary.
I s PI PI n Successor to
I. O. riCUU, BIEBER & FIELD.
I am always Pleased to meet
THE DOUBTFUL MAN
I Welcome Ills Inspection of
Both Goods and Prices!
I want Your Confidence with Yoar Pat
ronage. Sea my New Line of Goods Jnst
Received.
J. S. FIELD.
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