Tillamook headlight., May 05, 1892, Image 1

Vol. IV. No. 49.
TILLAMOOK. OREGON. THURSDAY.
MAY 5.
1892.
$1.50 Per Yean
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
FAMOUS LIBEL SUITS»
U V. V. JOHNSON, M. D.
HOW VERY SELDOM THE PLAINTIFF
Oflci on next door to Temperance Parlors.
Tillamook, • Oregon.
£ K »ELPH,
L. HiSF.n, President.
}' m. Hbermau, Vice President
Wm. D. Stillwell, Treasurer
I.. Crenshaw. Secretary.
Wm. Barker, Superintendent.
Tillanjoo^ Lumbering Company,
ATTOR N E Y-AT-L A W.
TILLAMOOK,
OREGON.
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Attorney-at-Law.
Notary Public «nd Real Fatate Conveyancer.
Rough
and
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Lumber
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3rd Judicial District,for Tillamook County
TILLAMOOK,
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OREGON.
ALL ORDERS
gLAUDE THAYER,
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Attorney-at-Law.
TILLAMOOK, OREGON.
TILLAMOOK,
MISCELLANEOUS.
(< & E. THAYER.
BANKERS
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General Banking and Exchange business.
Interest paid on time deposits.
Exchange on England, Belgium, Germany,
Sweden and all foreign countries.
TILLAMOOK,
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OREGON.
HE best investment you can. rnalce
is to insure vow life, and thus pro­
vide your estate with, cash at your death,
or if you live, give you a sum of money
a few years later.
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Woed delivered to any part of the the city.
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Write the best policy, guaranteeing you cash and paid up insurance every year,
so you cannot lose your money in case of misfortune. Send ine your name and
age and I will send you a sample policy.
T illamook O rb .
J F. LARSON,
H. G. COLTON, Gun’l Ag’t, 33 Stark St, Portland, Ore.
W. F. D. JONES, Local Agt.
BLACKSMITH.
Wagon making, aud all kinds of Wood work
■ nd General Illackamithing done. Mill
Machinery Repaired.
Horse-shoeing a Specialty.
TILLAMOOK,
ORE.
N P. ROBERTS,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Wa^on Shop in connection.
done.
Cabinet Work
Shop opposite G. A. R. Hall.
TILLAMOOK, ORE.
Misa L. J. RUGOLES
Mrs.
J.
JOHNSON
RUGGLES & JOHNSON,
They keep on liancls at their store in
Hobsonville the largest stock of goods
in Tillamook County.
MILLINERY AND DRESS­
MAKING.
Our stock consists of Dry Goods, Clothing, Doot» anti S'..>en, Hats, Caps
and Notions. Groceries, Crockery, and Queensware. Doors, Windows, Lime,
Hair, and Cement. Hardware and Nails. £#“.S|>ecial attention given to
filling ordets for goods in jobbing lots.
Hats, Drew Trlnimln«a «nd a General Auort-
mentof Millinery Go.nl«. We always keep
the lateat Myles.
Near Court House,
A gents for
T illamook , O re .
TILLAMOOK, SIN FRANCISCO AND WAY PORTS.
Makes regular trips about every two weeks, the weather Permitting.
TILLAMOOK LAUNDRY.
The fast sailing S tb . T ruck E k lias been specially fitted up for carrying pas­
sengers. Following are the rates:
. . $15.
CABIN PASSAGE ................
.... $20.
ROUND TRIP,......................
STEERAGE (one wav)..........
........ $0.
♦ I per ton
Freight, (GeneralJMerchandi«e)
LESTER HART, PROPRIETOR.
Wishing gathered and delivered every
*e«k. Work done on short notice when desired.
Starched shirts ljcts each. Common Shirts and
drawers, i to 10cta each. Family washing and
ironing, 5©cts per dozen.
Saits cleaned to order.
TILLAMOOK, ORE.
J. K.
S ibley ,
Manager, Hobsonville, Ore
QENTRAL MARKET,
L. H. BROWN, P roprietor .
The best Beef, Veal, Pork ami Mutton always
on hand.
Butter, Vegetable* and
Chickens bought and sold.
Satisfaction guaranteed to every one.
Shop oppoeite the Grand Central.
GAINS ANYTHING.
Editor Godklti’a Mlahap—Funny Eapo*
rleiice of GfuFgc Jone«, of the New
York Tiiiie*—Ignatlu* Donnelly Gets Six
Cent» and Mr. Malloy S2O.OOO.
R. EDWIN L.
GODKIN, of the
) New York Even-
Ik ing Post, is a
■«constitutional re­
former and a vig­
orous assailant.
Add that he is a
ltorth of Ireland
man and began
his literary ca­
reer by writing a
somewhat Orangcish history of tho re­
ligious discussions, aud the reader will
i readily see why any little accident in his
newspajier career affords much interest
to friends and opponents alike. His re­
cent arrest was just bad enough to be
funny.
; There is a politician in New York who
married a sister of tho noted Victoria
Woodhull and Tcnnie Claflin and is
I otherwise locally celebrated. Of him
The Post recently spoke as an "ex-keeper
of a dive." He straightway employed a
lawyer who had various reasons for not
loving Mr. Godkin, and tho next Sunday
morning the latter was aroused from a
i sound sleep by an officer with a warrant
! for his arrest on information for a criuii-
I nal libel. But ho did not go behind bars.
. Friends gathered rapidly, bail was
I givon, and so "I.arry," as j<x-ular rivals
call him, got away from court in timo ‘o
attend church. This incident has once
more started tho discussion as to lilxd
laws, and they aro found to bp in even
worso confusion than ever.
In a similar case a friend once con­
doled witli tlie late George Jones, of the
New York Times, who replied: “Oh, is
| that all? Why there are only six suits
now pending against The Times. This
is a bad year for ’em. I’ve been in the
| newspaper business thirty-five years and
; have always had from four to sixteen
libel suits on baud and have never yet
paid one cent damages.” Mr. Matthews,
. of the Buffalo Express, gave similar
’ testimony. Out of a dozen heavy suits
, but one went against him, and in that
■ case tlie verdict was for $1,000.
I Other papers have not been Ro for-
I tunate. The New York Herald paid a
: Mr. Malloy, of South Carolina. $20,000
1 merely for making this little statement:
“Tho leading citizens of Edgefield think
that one Malloy, a white man who some
tiuo ago was suspected of burning liis
I own store for the purpose of obtaining
tho insurance, kindled the fire which re-
■ suited so disastrously.” This is the case
in which Judge William Janies Wallace,
of tho United States circuit court, made
the remarkable decision that The Her­
ald had told so big and pulpaolc a lie
, that it did no harm!
This is not a burlesque. Here is the
exact language of the judge: “The orig­
inal publication, although its sensational
character and flagrant mendacity were
well calculated to outrage the feelings
of tho plaintiff, was so destitute of a I 1
color of truth that it could not seriously i •
injure him in tho estimation of the im­
mediate community in which ho lived."
To a good many persons this Bounded
like a polite way of saying that Tho Her­
ald (or its correspondent) was such a
liar that its word could injure no one.
And strangely' enough, somo peoplo have
nn idea that this is law. But it isn't.
No man can take advantage of liis own
wrong, and the biggest liar in the com­
munity is as responsible for his words
as a George Washington. There’s lots
of flin in a libel suit—for all except the
parties—and by a curious but not well
understoixl law they seem to run in
groups. About five years ago an article
appeared in the New York Mail and Ex­
press with these scare heads:
SfIB MAHIllCIl A NKatlO.
A «harmins' and l-itvili;:, rit jeinur woman
weds an llllt err te blin k mnn!
Tlie date was at a New Jersey town,
the names were given in full and tho
local correspondent was known to lie re­
liable. A savage letter soon arrived
from nn indignant father, then a notice
of a libel suit nn<l next a r.draction and
very humble apology. A letter to tho
correspondent notified him that if he
ever entered the Mail and Express office
ho would encounter an ublebodied
i
janitor with a fair sized club. Scarcely
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E. L. OODKIN.
■nailed when a still more savage
letter arrived from him with pointed
references to his lawyer and a demand
for his original manuscript. It was pro­
duced. an<l behold there was not a word
in it to the effect that any white girl had
married a negro.
Then the printed article was scanned,
and all parties wire iimased to find that
in it also thero was no such statement.
Yet every one who read it had got the
impression that there was. Tho scare
heads had done the mischief. In the
text the newly made hitslntud wm de
scribed as “a very illiterate fellow, but
a prosivrons grocer in a negro settle-
it hastily, got a falsa impression and the
tesnlt was the misleading lieada, Woraa
followed. West and south the item waa
widely copied, the retraction apparently
overlooked, and so millions of readers
have it in their minds as an actual and
very bad case of New Jersey miscegena­
tion.
Tlie lnrnagiug editor of Tito Mail and
Express was just beginning to breathe
freely when The Evening Telegram was
sued by Anthony Comstock, The Times
t>y a publishing firm, The Herald by a
mining firm and The Sun by Fred Geb­
hard and Pierre Lorillard, the last two
asking for $50,900 each. At the close of
the week Foster Coates, who recently
left The Mail and Express for The
Press, declared that thero was but ono
paper in New York not sued or other­
wise in trouble, and that was The Ban­
ner of Zion. The Sun had published
that Pierre Lorillard lost $225,000 at
baccarat and had spoken of Fred Geb­
hard as a blackguard. None of the
suits amounted to much.
The Chicago Times has probably sjient
more money on libel suits than tiny other
American journal. And a strange fea­
ture is that its worst losses were in cases
where it had been artistically deceived.
Several years ago Tho Times received
an elaborate account of a fearful scan­
dal at Rockford, Ills,, involving one
prominent politician and tho daughter
of another. The editor hesitated, but
the next day several letters came, all in
different hand writings, giving details
as if from different standpoints, and so
next morning an article appeared. There
was not a word of truth in the story. It
was a most ingenious fraud and tho
author was never certainly discovered.
Of the many resulting suits s mo were
tried five times. The final payment of
damages was very small, but Mr. Storey
admitted that lie had paid out many
thousands of dollars in lawyers’ fees and
hunting evidence.
A still more curious caso convulsed an
eastern city some years agp. An even­
ing paper gave a thrilling account of
four attempts to murder a young mar­
ried woman by connivance of her hus­
band. When suit was brought and tho
reporter was called on for his proof, it
was discovered that his main witness
was in the penitentiary at Joliet, Ills.,
tho next in importance in the New York
penitentiary at Auburn, and tho third
was a police sergeant, who declared ho
had tolil tlie reporter no such tiling.
Ruin to tlie publishers seemed certain.
IS IT A TAX?
|OES
THE
TARIFÉ
INCREASE
TH#
COST OF GOODS!
It Depends Upon the Kind of 1'nHflT— RoiMP
Duties Are raid by the Consitmeh
Protective Dulles by the Foreigner— Kt-
erything Cheaper Undei* PrdtettlBM.
duo
If a revenue or Free-trade tariff. sncH
is the former duty on sugar or tin plate.
We pay it all; if a protective tariff, art
tnoy pay a part of the duty at first, Uhl
eventually the foreigner pays nearly if
not quite all of it on goods wtnally lap
ported, if we prefer to buy EngltoH
goods, however, even though the Ameri­
can goods are better and cheaper, then, of
course, we [my the duty. This is a tax
on anglomania, but on ordinary |irod-
uets. brought in to compete witli domestd
products made on a large «rale and al-
readv ia practical possession of the <1<F
meslic market, the importer, the foreigfi
manufacturer and the foreign lalxirers
pay the duty.
In this connection we quote tho fob
lowing from a recont numlier of Lomlori
Fair-Trade:
“If we are to retain a liold <ln foreigti
market«, alight though it may be, wage«
must be kept down that the high foreign
tariffs tuny be overcome. One of the
greatest arguments against the theory
that tho consumer pays the import dntjf
is to be found in the fact that when it
foreign nation increase« the tariff on a
British product, the establishment
charges as well as the wages on this side
of the water are lowered, in order W
give the manufacturer or the merchant
a chance to deal successfully with the
change. If the consumer paid the dntjf
there would bo little cause for onr ex­
porter to grumble. But our mrtiihfaC-
turera and work people do tbitke sacri­
fices to meet the extra duty, and We acs
cordingly hoar grumbling from both.1’
This is plain enough certainly, and
need only bo verified by actual facta.
Ask tho Canadian farmer who pay« the
American duty. Ask the Sheffield man­
ufacturer, the Chemnitz workmen, th*
pearl button makers of Vienna, the titt
plate makers of Walds, the foreign man­
ufacturer« of silk and linen and cutlery,
and scores of other articles. They will
all admit that they |«y tbedtity if they
put their goods on our market Here is
an admission from tho New York Times
of Feb. 3, 1691. We produce it as be­
ing good Free-trade testimony indorsing
our own assertions:
“A statement Issued by the depart­
ment of agriculture, giving tlie exporta
to the United States from Canada for
the year 1HU0, shows that the Dominion
exported $11,219,0-13 worth of agricul­
tural products to the United State* I m I
year. The averngo rate of duty collect­
ed by the United State« emtouw upon
agricultural product« is abont 20 per
cent., and it is easy to prove trmu th«
apeecho« of Sir John Macdonald and
other Conservative leader« that the
duties imposed by the Americans iqion
Canadian products ex port od to the Unit­
ed States couie out of the pocketa of th«
' Cnmidian fanner. Ileuce we find that
during the fiscal year 1VM) no less Hum
$2.2-i;i,b00—that ia, 20 per cent, of $11.-
STOREY.
21ifoU13 — went into tlie Washington
At tliis juncture a statesman of otni- treasury, which would have gon« into
nonce who owed much to tho paper the pockets of Canadian farmers if the
caino to tho rescue. Ho had lieen pub­ Dominion enjoyed unrestricted recip­
lic prosecutor for years, knew the record rocity."
It seem« useless to pursue the matter
of every crook mid criminal in the coun­
ty an<l held in his bunds the power to further, lu the face of the many ar­
crush many of them. He summoned ticles selling for less than the duty, the
them ono by ono to his ofHco aud made Free-trader still cries “tlie tariff 1« the
each detail his knowledge of the plaint­ tax." is tbo tariff on wire tiiuia a tax,
iffs. Tlie result was a record which selliug at $1.80 • keg while the duty to
cam cd the judge to declare that during two dollars? Is the tariff on a yard of
the progress of the trial lie had to pinch calico a tax. selling at 4U reals while
himself to be mre lie was not dreaming. the duty ia live cent«? Ia tlie tariff on a
Tho original case was practically ig­ yard of cloth a tax, selling at neventy-
nored. it was shown that tlio plaintiffs live cents while the duty 1« H7‘j centaf
were of u family of professional crimi­ We deny that tho tariff is ever a tax—
nals, ono that hud been such for four that is, a burden. In cases where the
generations. Judge and jury agreed tariff has 1« en increased with « view to
that such 1» ople could not be libeled. creute and develop a new industry, even
And it turned out after all that the orig­ if prices are temporarily enhanced, it is
inal publication was true, though it WM «imply an investment which will be re­
paid many fold as wsm as the industry
not proved on the trial.
Th« last affair Io interest the whole is established. The farmer does not be­
English speaking world wus that of Far- grudge the price of the seed in the spring
nell and the London Times, in which which will pay him bnshela of grain in
Parnell won. Other recent and familiar the fall.
There remains, then, but one point,
cases aro more amusing than serious.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly sued for$l<M),- namely, Does tho consumer pny »
000 and got six cents. At least nine greuter price for any domestic product
times out of ten these suits end in much because of the tariff? To tlii« wo answer.
tlie same way. Historically the subject No. We do not moan to say that the
is of intense interest. In England and duty is not in some instances added to
America alike tho press has lieen grow­ the price paid in the for.-ign market.
ing freer for two centuries, ami in read­ We do maintain, however, that if the
ing I ho old cases ono wonders how men tariff were abolished we would have to
l«y un equal if nut n greater price than
could have published pajs-rs at all.
British law has always laid groat wo now pay for the protected article.
stress upon any feature in a libel calcu­ Imagine the tariff on woolen goods abol­
lated to stir up strife, whether between ished tomorrow. Foreign woolen mills
individuals or nations, and under ibis would find for their output a new market
law the notorious Lord George Gordon, wider and richer titan «11 their other
••Protestant Champion,” was, in 17bfi, foreign markets combined. The capac­
sent to Newgate for seven years for an ity for producing would remain the
atrocious libel on the queen of Fiance. name, while the demand would bo large­
He profeized conversion to Judaism ly increased Under snch conditions
and died in prison Nov. 1, 1793. Sim­ must not prices rise? That ia to say. if
ilarly Toni Paine was indicted in Lon­ the tariff were abolished we could not
don for publishing his “Rights of Man," buy in tho foreign market at present
fled to France and was outlawed. Tlie prices under existent tariff conditions.
only attempt ait that sort of thing in the That counties» American products are
United States took form in the famous cheaper uow than foreign products
“Alien and Sedition Laws." Since they .Would lie under Free-trade wonid hardly
expired an American can libel foreigners admit of a ilonbt. Ill these cases the
ad libitum, ns witness the “war editori­ foreigner pays all the tariff.
We have had many coses of this kind
als" and speeches at various public meet­
ings. The American press is free in­ in onr history, aud in every instance
deed, but where all are free some will where the tariff baa been reaaovod or
lie licentious, and that the whole law of reduced below a Protective basis the
libel is in an unsatisfactory condition foreigner baa put up the price and w«
none are freer to admit than the editors have had to pay it; therefore we con­
clude that while denying in tvto that
tbeiuselvcs.
J. H. B ladlk .
the tariff on imported gosls is a tai on
domestic products, as the Honorable
A
Thermometer.
Tlie Johns Hopkins university lias a Grover Cleveland contends, we are very
good deal of money invested in weather. far from admitting that it ia always a
It owns a thermometer which is »aid to tax even oti imported goods. Foreign
bo worth $10,000. A powerful magnify­ mill owners would be the greater gaii-
ing glaM is required to real tho gradua­ cre by Free-trade. Their eagerness to
tions on the scale. With this iustru- break down our tariff walla ought to I m