Tillamook headlight., November 03, 1898, Image 5

THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, NOVEMBER 3, 1898
GROCERIES
and
PROVISIONS,
Cohn
Co- carry a Full
Line of Groceries and Pro­
visions, which for Quality
and Price cannot beEyual-
ed in the County-
Trade with Cohn &
Co and Get Value for
Your Money.
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A-DIKTG-
MERCH.
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LARGEST STOCK of GOODS
Ever Consigned to Tillamook.
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SHOES
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X Gent.'s Dress Shoes.
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for ^ase> Comfort or Wear.
By far the Largest and Best Stock to select from in the County
HEADLIGHT PIRATE
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which the country is entering. Mr.
Boutwell said the inevitable questions
in connection with territorial acquisition
Doles Out Gems of Current are: Shall we treat the people and
territories that we may acquire as pros-
Topics and Events.
i pective states, or shall we deal with
them as perpetual colonies ? The ex-
T he right of men to associate them­
i pansionists say that the new possessions
selves for mutual protection and im­
’ are never to become states of the Amer-
provement of their condition is recog­
j ican union, but by what authority, or
nized as incidental to their right to earn
I by what example, or by what teaching,
an honest livelihood. As a natural se­
asked Mr. Boutwell, may this country
quence, trades unions and labor organi­
I find justification for the seizure and ap-
zations are legitimate outgrowths of our
i propriation to its jurisdiction of vast
industrial system. Only when organized
populations—alien populations—uponthe
labor infringes on the individual right of avowed purpose of denying them and
every other man to earn an honest live-1 to their decendents forever the accus­
lihood does its action gives rise to legal tomed rights of American citizenship?
complications. The strike and the lock-1 In what American précédant can this
out are the more aggravated forms of government find shelter for the doctrine
resistance to the aggressions of capital I that it may seize communities, exercise
or demands of organized labor. While jurisdiction over territories and deny to
arbitration has been recognized as the the inhabitants the right of self-govern­
most desirable method of settling differ- I ment ? There is no such precedent, unless
enees between employers and wage Alaska furnishes it, which the most
workers, it can be effective only where ultra expansionist will hardly assert.
both parties accept the verdict as bind­ Mr. Boutw’ell urged that we should be
ing upon them. Unfortunately, how’ever, consistent in our form of government,
there are arrogant and unreasonable em-1 if w’e cannot be wise in fact. If we are
plovers who never find anything to ar­ compelled to choose between vassal pop­
bitrate and belligerent and unreasoning ulations to be now’ counted by millions
labor leaders and wage w’orkers who and at the end of the tw entieth century
prefer to test their strength in a strke to to be counted by tens of millions, or the
submitting the righting of their griev­ endowment of the sovereignty of state­
ances to arbitration. The bloody con- hood upon ignorant, incapable, danger­
flict at Homestead in 1892 might have ous communities and tribes who know
been averted but for the domineering nothing ofthe great work and responsible
and stubborn manager of the works, duties of self-government, let us at least
w ho at great cost imported armed mer­ preserve the forms of the republic even if
cenaries to overawe his employes rather its principles must perish.
than persue peaceable methods. The
horrible butchery of Pennsylvania miners
W hile re-amalgamation of the Oregon
by an overzealous sheriff last year nearly Short Line and the Union Pacific has not
precipitated an insurrection and the re­ resulted from the recent annual meetings
cent murderous conflict between the im­ of their directorates, the announcement
ported Alabama negro miners and the is made that the latter owns the con­
striking w’hite laborers in the Illinois trolling share of the stock of its former
coal mines only emphasizes the constant branch and that the management of the
menace to which the country is exposed (two roads will be along mutual lines of
from repeated labor riots that in most policy. The independence of these two
cases could be prevented
While the complementary railroads may be main­
right of the Alabama negroes to work tained in name and form for s »me time,
for lower wages than are demanded by but they are bound to be operated in
the w’hite miners of the north cannot be close communion, because they are in
called in question, it becomes a serious I their very nature to all intents and pur­
problem whether their importation to poses a single railroad route. Central­
take the place of men who have a higher ization and consolidatian of railroads
standard of living and therefore cannot has been the order every since the rail­
subsist on Alabama wages does not road system of the country began to
furnish an incentive for lawless resistance. take shape back in the ’ 50’s, and the
In any event the conflict at the Illinois process is by no means yet complete.
mines is suggestive of similar disturb­
ances in the no distant future unless
P resident M c K inley makes a good '
some way is found for repressing the point in his St. Louis speech in which he !
greed of capital as well As suppressing emphasizes the improvement in the
forcible interference by labor w ith labor. national credit by reason of the re-es­ :
tablished confidence in the monetary in­ *
G eorge S. B outwell of Massachusetts tegrity ofthe country and the revival of '
who was secretary of the treasury in prosperity since he entered upon the in­ 1
the first administration of President cumbency of his office. How the war
Grant, recently delivered an address on could possibly have been financed had
the imperialistic tendencies in American the whole financial fabric been shattered I
foreign policy, in which he presented by the triumph of the free silver inflation­ !
some cogent arguments against territor­ ists is a question over which every
ial expansion. The vetern statesman thoughtful citizen may well ¡Minder in all
declared it to be his opinion that evil con­ seriousness. _ ________
sequences of the most serious character I T he newspapers of Paris have taken
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are not only probable but that they are
up the discussion of the terms of the
inevitable as incidents of the policy on j
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treaty between Spain and the United the earth; the European lives among class would ever consent to live in a been done to harass trade and drive it
States in a tone which sufficiently de­ relics, on every hand, that remind him country whose system of law’s includes from that market.
monstrates that a mistake w as made in that other nations have gone that way, an income tax as efficient as it is odious
the selection ofParisasa place ofmeeting i and prospered in it, that were as rich in —as just as it is merciless.
C uban bonds , it is stated by a Madrid
ofthe Commissioners. When our Gov­ ' industry and enterprise as the United I
dispatch, are outstanding to the amount
ernment consented to the selection it 1 States, proportionately to then exsisting
of $300,500,000, with an annual interest
T he address of President McKinley at
thereby paid to the people and to the conditions, and richer in achievement in
charge of $16,765,000. Spain could have
the
exposition
is
a
characteristically
pa
­
press of France the compliment of as- *he arts a,Rl letters. But w hat the
sold Cuba to the United States for that
suming that they would be perfectly I fathers wanted us to preserve and repre- triotic utterance. It expresses the senti­ amount before the war. It preferred to
neutral; that they would refrain from senf to the world was something new ments and the emotions of a true and j nurse its pride regardless of expense, and
interfering in a question which concerned »«deed; hence its unique value, even to earnest Americanism. Pride in the great­ I ought not to find fault with the size of
ness and pow’er of the republic, a pro­
only the two nations who were the thosc not directly concerned.
the bill.
found appreciation of our achievements
guests of their country, and that they j
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j in war, a high sense of the responsibili­
P resident M c K inley invokes patience,
would show’in every respect that com-
A strickin*'illustartion ofthe evil which
ties that rest upon the nation, admira­
plete impartiality which international has brought France to the verge of revo- tion of the patriotism of the people and wisdom, sincerity of purpose and un­
courtesy demands. It is to be regretted lution it had in the supineness of the po­ of the valor of American soldiers and shaken resolution to do right in consid­
ering the questions that confront the
that the press of Paris has not respected lice of Paris, whose numerical weakness
sailors—these find eloquent expression nation. He recognised the difficulties of
this obligation. The question as to is admittedly the cause of the spread of
in Mr. McKinley’s address, which in
w hether the tennes of the Americans are ' the strike disorders to their present di- 1 spirit and in form is worthy of the great the problem to I k * solved and declares
reasonable or not is one which the mensions. Had there been an effective j and memorable occasion. The portion that as in the past so now we will do
French press should refrain from dis- ■ police force at the beginning of the' of the address which will perhaps com­ our duty, "seeking only the highest good
cussing—even if those terms had been ' trouble, the turbulent strikers would ! mand greatest attention is that in of the nation and recognizing no other
publicly announced, as they have not, have quelled, the disorders kept at a j which the president deprecates any at- obligation, pursuing no other path but
that of duty.” This message to the na­
been.
minimum and there would have been no I tempt to dim the splendor of the
tion of its chief magistrate is in the
necessity to call ou the army and turn achievements of "the heroes of the
A war now’ between France and Eng- ! Paris into an armed camp. But the trenches and the forcastle.” The vigor­ highest degree reassuring and inspiring.
land would be a strange commentary on police force, essentially an arm of civil ous sentences of this part of theaddrress,
the Czar’s recent disarmament proposi- government, has been neglected, as the veiling a stinging and just rebuke to AGAINST THE
RAILROADS.
tion. In fact if the war takes place the administration of justice has been those who by detraction and bv sowing
Czar’s country will l»e almost certain to brought intocontempt. Everything has seeds of dissatisfaction, have sought to
W ashington , Oct. 2+.—The United
lie involved, for Russia’s interests are been subordinated to the army, in their impair the usefulness of the American States supreme court today decided the
w’ith France and against England. Gen- zeal to atone for the mistakes of ’71, to army and embarrass the government, joint Traffic Association railroad case
eral disarmament, from present indica-! be pi epared, when comes the time, to should make a deep impression upon all in favor of the United States and against
tions, is an iridescent dream. Each na- j strike a blow’ to wipe out that disgrace, fair-minded men. It is too much to ex­ the railroads.
tion wants the rest to do all the disarm- , The French have neglected everything pect, perhaps, that it will have any effect
The case was considered one of the
ing, and as a consequence armies and but the army, which has been set up as a upon those who, from personal or politi­ most important that has ever come be­
navies are likely to grow much larger ‘ hydraheaded god, which all Frenchmen cal motives, have relentlessly assailed fore the supreme court, not only to the
before they begin to get smaller.
i perforce must worship, and the result the conduct of the war. They are not railroads, but to the general public, be­
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j is an alleged Republic, in w hich militar- concerned about the consequences to the cause of the vast railroad ¡»roperties
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ism '8 the lie-all and end-all of the re- army or the government of their course, represented by the traffic association.
A line G orren , in the October Scnb-
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• sponsible heads of the nation. And now so long as the selfish or partisan purpose The association was formed November
ner’s : We manifest
a
character
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have
foster-
is subserved. It matters not to them 19, 1895, by 31 railways, representing
that has the same foibles and frivolities
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^d threatens to prove their greatest bane, that counsels of the republic are darkened the great trunk lines. The purpose of
as anv other; and without the same c . .
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for it has been drawn from the people, if they can promote their personal gain the association, as stated in the agree­
excuse, for we talk very loudly of our
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and it is in sympathy w ith the people.
or advance the interest of party. They ment, was to establish and maintain
"Americanism, and would have other
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are indifferent to the approving verdict of reasonable and just rates, fares and reg-
nations know that we were not bred as |
they were. Now. whenever we may un- ' A painful story reached this country the world upon our achievements. They ultaions of state and interstate traffic.
derstand by this "Americanism’’—and it from London. A company of American are deaf to the invocation óf patriotism. A similar association on a smaller scale
is coming to have some very various | actors playing a successful engagement The glory of unparalleled triumph, with was formed among the Southwestern
meanings under the influence of new’ at one of the London theatres have been all its assured benefits to humanity and railroads, and known as the trans-Mos-
ideas stirring among us—the people of swooped down upon by Her Majesty’s civilization, they are willing to depre­ souri Association, and the supreme court
Europe understand by it but one thing Special Commissioners of Income Tax, ciate for the attainment of sordid or in a notable opinion, declared that this
only. To be a typical American may the treasurer of the theatre has been political ends. Upon these people the association was illegal.
mean to them sometimes to be a shrewd forced to disclose the secrets of the pay­ vigorous utterances of the president may Justice Peckham announced the deci­
and pushing Yankee promoter—yes, per­ roll, and the players have been notified have no effect, but they w ill not fail to sion today in the joint traffic case. He
haps; but it also means to be a humane that such of them as are in receipt of a appeal to those whose patriotism and said the court could distinguish no differ­
and large-minded specimen of a man or larger salary than £200 per annum or w hose sense of justice and fairness arc ence between this and the trans-Missouri
woman, responsive to the deeper chords | $19 per week, will be coin ¡idled to con- not blunted by disappointed selfishness case decided a year ago. He said the
of life, and equalitarian w’ithout vulgar­ tribue their proper income tax for the or the promptings of a narrow partisan­ only new points involved was as to the
constitutionality of the anti-trust acL.
ity. It is useless for us to insist that we support of the effete despotism which ship.
The court had reached the conclusion
refuse to be measured by theories ; that prevails in Great Britain. It is an out­
D i king the winter the administration that as the railroad corporations preform­
natural character is shaped by practical rage, but it is unfortunately an outrage
event and daily problems, and not by for which their is no redress. The ¡»lea proposes to take steps to retaliate ed a duty of semi-public character, it
abstract ideals; that it is absurd to of non-residence will not avail as it does against Germany for discriminating was w’ithin the constitutional power of
want to keep us logically to the inten- in the ma;ter of personal taxation in against American pork. Professor Wiley, congress to regulate them as provided
tions of our founders, when we have this State. The tax connot be evaded by of the agricultural department, is now by the anti-trust act.
The opinion, which was very brief, was
elements to deal with that they could exercising the privilege of a Standard Oil conducting an investigation for the bene-
not foresee. W’e may urge all these magnate and refusing to answ’er a sub- fit of the president, and has gone to New concurred in by Chief Justice Puller, and
things, but w’e urge them iu vain. The poena. There is nothing to do but to walk York for the purpose of securing samples Justices Harlan, Brewer, Brown, and
average Euroj»ean of intelligence keeps, upto the Commissioners’office and settle, of German wines and other products Peckham. Justices Gray, Shiras and
While this
an outrage
with quiet obstancy, to his own .......
’ is clearly
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w it * will, which will undergo a close scrutiny to White dissented. Justice McKenna took
idea of what the American should be and have one compensating lienefit. It will find grounds for excluding them from no part in the case.
Under the decision today tiu* decisions
If we say check the growing desire of the American this country. American meat product
what he should stand for.
that we have developed other aspirations tax-dodger class to seek a refuge from have been harassed in so many ways of the United Suates circuit court for the
from those of the fathers, his air implies, | ‘‘Populistic persecution” in this country ' that it has liecome unprofitable to export southern district of New York and the
The lust
of the
protection of Eng them to Germany. It has lieen charged United States court of appeals, both of
“So much the worse.” ine
iusi ui
me ¡ under the congenial
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_ pride of life and the ambi-i land. For of course no right-minded and ¡ that these products are infected with which were favorable to the Joint Traffic
eve _
and the
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are nnt
iirw are
on not new on 1 true patriotic American ofthe tax-dodger ¡ triejiina, and everything imaginable has Association, are reversed.
tions
of imperial
destiny
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The Soil Surprisingly Productive.
Fine Schools and Churches.
The Land is Cheap.
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Crop Failure Never Known
Good Class of People.
Stock Alway Fat
GRASS IS KING !
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Tillamook, where the industrious Home Seeker is bound to be successful,
Owing to
oners betier
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