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Vol. VII, No. 10. TILLAMOOK, OREGON. THURSDAY. AUGUST PROFESSIONAL CARDS. j)AVID WILEY, M. I)., AN1> ACCOUCHEUR, All calls promptly attended 13 Office at the A ldkeman , TILLAMOOK. ORE ^ELl’ll & MAY, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, tii . lamook , okegon . J T. MAULSBY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Notary Public and Real Hatale Couveaancer. TILLAMOOK. OREGON. (J LAUDE TH AY EK, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, TILLAMOOK. OREGON W. SEVERANCE, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, TILLAMOOK, OREGON. MISCELLANEOUS. CARL P. KNUDSON, Blacksmith- All kinds of wood work and wagon work done. Hoi^hoeing a ppecialty. shoes $1.50, old shoes Socle. Place of business: opposite Jones Bros. Livery Stable. Prices to Suit the Times: —----- BOOTg and Made to order. -H- Repairing done as cheap as the cheapest. Conic and be convinced. Advocate Building. P. F. BROWNE. (JH*£ pETER^ON. BARBER SHOP- ------ «+>------ First Class in Enry Particular. Shaving, Mair Cutting, Shampooing BATH ROOMS IN CONNECTION. —♦-— The patronage of the public is recpeet- ul y solicited. Kipans Tsbulea cure biliousness. $1.50 Per Year. is not what it is represented to be. j now have to return it with money BOTH SIDES OF IT The newspaper man invests his which is worth twice as much now capital in type, machinery and as it was then, and it is twice as stock. He tlieu sells his newspaper, hard to get. If they don’t get it, BORROWER'S COMPLAINT. advertising space and job work for they have to give property worth A money lender was interviewed as big a profit as he can get. Yet, three times as much as they owe. the «»tlier day, and he said in sub this is not called a bonus business. Wall street charges a bonus on the The fact is, I believe all men are I whole country. Pullman and the stance: isinus men as far as they can make railroad companies charge a big Bonus men and newspapers are it a success. All are trying to bonus on all the goods they ship necessary evils, ami the shiftless make a profit from their work, to this coast. The Standard Oil poor man seems to he a necessary their goods, their products, their Company charges a bonus of50 evil also. If I didn’t lend money plants and their capital. cents on every 5-gallon can «if here to the people, they would kerosene, and we pay a bonus to If there were not a few men who send somewhere else and get it, accumulate A- money and save it, a sugar trust. I don’t mind paying and pay dearer for it than they those who by some misfortune have a bonus to manufacturing indust would if dealing with me. They’ to borrow money, could not get it. ries that give men employment, would put themselves in the So the bonus man lias his use in but I do object to paying a big clutches of the cut-throat loan society as well as any other man, bonus t«> men for doing nothing coiqpanies of the east, or of some and lie generally has the same but handling the money for the foreign country. They would pay charitable feeling towards human country. an agent a per cent, for negotiat ity that others lmve. The bonus men herein this town ing the loan, pay an abstracter a The law makers make laws that are th» same, only on a smaller big fee for searching the records are not for the best of the country. scale, and some ot them handle and pav an attorney a 810 fee for Hard times ensue, and this is what eastern capital, paying 10 percent, examining the abstract, besides causes bonus men to exist. It or more for it, loaning it out at 20 footing the bill for recording along, creates a demand for them, and if to 100 per cent. iron clad morgage. Of course, they** there was no demand, they would You «lon’t believe me aliout the wouldn’t call that paying a bonus, go out of business. They are not 100 per cent., eh? Well, I'll tell but it amounts to as much and to blame for the hard times, they yon how it’s done. Of course, it’s more. These corporation loan com simply supply a want caused by against the law to charge more panies have no souls, and they the hard times. than 10 per cent., but it is easy take the land unless the money enough to get around that. A num It takes all kinds «if people to is paid when due, and will not ex make a successful world. who has money places it in some tend the time like we do. body else’s hands to loan, and the THE OTHER SIDE. The value and demand for a A man who lias been obliged to agent charges the bonus, afterward commodity regulates its price, and dividing up with the man who has if money is worth 20 per cent, to a borrow money, was next seen, and the money. man, he will pay it, and is gener- [ here is what lie says: Another way, the man who has ally satisfied to do it. If potatoes ! I have been obliged to borrow the money loans it and makes the are scarce ami on this account the money. 1 have worked as hard as note payable to one of his friends, price goes up to 82.00 per bushel, usual, and have been as econom who immediately endorses it over the fanner will gladly take it,' ical as ever, but I can’t meet my ■ to the money loaner, lie gets the though he would make money obligations. Thousands of others bonus just the same. From 85 to selling his potatoes for 50 cents are in the same iix. I can’t get a 810 is charged for 825 loaned 30 per bushel; he would not call the | decent price for my produce, and days, and the fee and the legal rule extra 81.50 bonus. If the merchant can hardly sell it at all. It is hard of interest is taken out at thestart. buys Hour at 82.50 per barrel, and to get money to pay taxes even. I At the end of the thirty days the the price goes up to 85.00 per can’t get remunerative work, and Isirrower may not be able to pay, barrel in the general market, tiie I ant behind with my grocery bill. and he gets the time extended merchant raises his price to 85.00. My wife and children haven’t such another thirty days by paying 810 This is not called a bonus, yet the I clothes as they need, and we can’t more. It doesn’t take many such supply and demand makes the live half as well as many people transactions for him to pay for the price, just as the rate of interest. who don’t work half as much as I money al this rate of lot I per cent. A farmer will buy a cooking range do. What some live-long idlers | per year. of some traveling fakir, paying 873 spend tor pin money would keep I don't blame the bonus num in for it, giving the agent a profit of me and my family in luxurious dividually so much us 1 do the fin 840, yet when the bonus man sells style, and enable me to pay my ancial system that makes it profit you the use of money, he puts the debts and have a nice home. The able for Isinus men to exist. money down before you, and trouble is the bonus man. The In speaking of free silver, we do charges a much less profit. You Wall Street bankers control con can count the money, secjust what gress and the circulation of money not say that we are absolutely ill it is and know its exact value and is limited to the lowest amount favor of free coinage, bill w«‘ are in know just exactly what you are possible. This enables them to ’ favor of legislation that will in getting for what you pay out, yet corner the money market and force crease the volume of currency, it many people regard the bonus bus people to pay a big price for the i will not be so easy then for the iness the worst of the two, and do use of money. T hose who borrowed money sharks to get a corner on it. not complain if their cooking range money when it was more plentiful, Silver is good material to stall oil. THE BONUS PHYSICIAN. SURGEON 2. 1894. MAN’S VERSION—THE
