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The World recently published an esti.
The extensive commercial dealings To a careful reader the recent increase mate of the size of the new trusts, the
century.
between the two countries should make
T he man who asserts that there is no for friendly relations and that it does in wages throughout the East ought to capital of which amounts to more than
prosjierity in the United Statee invites have this effect among the people is become a political object lesson. Hardly one thousand millions of dollar.
Although the men who coutrol these
doubt as to either his sanity or his hon­ not to be doubted, but there are Cana­ a day passes that some paper does not
esty. The evidence of prosperity is on dian politicians who seem ever ready to tell the story of a general advance ill the trusts are principally Republicans, the
price paid for labor in some Eastern great mass of Republican voters are not
KATKS OF HUBSCRIPTION
C omplaint is made that we Ameri­ every hand. It is seen in the large and stir up ill-feeling and to put obstacles factory or mill. "Oh, yes,’’ the followers in favor of the new system under which
(STKICTLV IN ADVANCE.)
growing
exports
of
manufactures,
in
One year
............
$1 5° cans spend $20.000,000 a year upon the activity of the iron and steel indus­ in the way of a closer friendship. An of hate and calamity assert, "the in­ aggregated wealth handled by a few
example of such is seen in the member crease is but temporary. There is but men undertakes to destroy individual
But why not? Is not
Six mon Ilia.........................................
75 amusements.
Three months
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5° the amusement worth the money to an try, in the improved condition of the of parliament who proposed that Can­ one reason for it. The steel manufactur­
enterprise.
Office at corner of Main and 2nd streets.
overworked and constitutionally too cotton industry, in the large railroad ada organize an army of 2oo,ooo men ers and all the others are behind with Therefore proper api>eals made to the
earning
in
the
demand
for
labor
and
in
for defense of her border, implying that their orders for the present. Do not pin great body of the Republicans of the
serious people? We are growing such
crops as nobody ever heard of before. the advance of wages. These things, there was danger of the country being your faith to the elusive star which Republican party from being placed in the
HEADLIGHT pirate .
We are selling not only our grain and familiar to everybody who reads the invaded from the United States. Doubt­ seems to twinkle out the news that pros­ attitude in which the Democrats are en.
cotton
and meat but our manufactured newspapers, attest that the country is less there are others who think as he perity has come.”
Doles Out Gems of Current
deavoring to place it—of subjugation to
goods, our steel, our iron, our machinery prosperous and gives assurance of con­ does, but it is hardly conceivable that Here we have the admission of the
the trusts—while the Democratic party
tinued
prosperity.
Topics and Events.
there
is
any
danger
to
that
country
and the like abroad to such an extent
Democratic party and its argument. It is loudly promising to lilierate society
from this. If there shall ever lie aeon-
that economists are actually feeling ap­
U ncle S am can doff his fighting duds, prehension lest we grow rich too fast.
T he craze over heroic advertisement1 flict between them the provocation will admits that the man who earns his bread from the dominion of monopolies.
in the sweat of his face has turned his Making such appeals, it now seems to
or Spain has signed the treaty of peace. Whv should we not see plays and buy seems to have been run into the ground come from Canada.
face toward prosperous times and his me, should be the immediate work of the
Poor, ignorant, idiotic Spain, it should pictures and decorate our habitations by some ardent crank in Jasper, Ind. A
back upon the black period of the past. Republicans who wish for success in 19oo.
have known better than to have gone to and in other ways lighten our lives at a notice of a religious revival at that place j
war. But it is fortunate Spainquit when cost that we can abundantly afford ? reads as follows : “Struck by lightning! ■ W hile congress authorized a small in- We do not have to think back very far The Republican party should oppose
she did. Had our fleet and volunteers Why should we not laugh ? Why should Jasper all on fire! Fire started in the I crease of the force of enlisted men in to recall the day when, under a Demo­ trusts by all feasible means of state and
ever been ordered to carry on the war in we not cultivate the finer and softer side ‘Amen comes' of the Free Methodist . the navy, it is stated at the department cratic administration, these same toilers national legislation. By promising and
Spain, by this time Uncle Sam would of our characters ? What is money for church last Sunday, assisted by the Rev. | i that the force is still inadequate and were marching across the country an endeavoring to do this President McKin­
have possessions in that country.
Laberteaux of Jasper, assisted by the that in order to man the new ships near­ army of beggars supplicating the chartiy ley and the party will secure an easy vic­
if this not a good use to make of it ?
Kam’s Horn band of Adrian and others. ing completion it will be necessary to put of the people. Those were the days of tory in 19oo.
T rusts are getting so blamed numer­
The devil’s fire department from hell, some ships out of commission. This is a Coxeyism, of Clevelandism, of Waiteism, Our only danger will arise from failure
T he President desires the commission assisted by hook and ladder company, 1 rather unfortunate situation and there when calamity was in all its glory. At
ous the citizens of the United States w ill
to take the popular gronnd on this over­
wake up one of these bright mornings about the meet in the Philippines “to ex­ can’t stop it. Glorious display of light i is no remedy for it until the next con­ that time the Democratic party predicted powering question.
ercise
due
respect
for
all
the
ideals,
cus
­
gress
can
act
in
the
matter.
In
the
and wonder where they arc at and how
that revolution—a war between capital
and heat every night! All are invited to 1
they can get out of the clutches of this toms and institutions of the tribes and come and have the icicles melted from | meantime the navy will be crippled and and labor—was the only solution to the
CALLING A MAN A LIAR.
races which compose the population, em­ their souls. Mothers have especial in­ I while no exigency may arise to render problem. The bayonet of the working­
blood-sucking octopus.
phasizing upon all occasions the just and vitation to come and bring their crying ' ; this a serious matter it is a condition man was pointed to as the instrument
What You Get for doing it in Dif­
W here is Acquinaldogetting his muni­ benevolent intentions of the Government
I that does not reflect favorably upon the through which chaos should be trans­
ferent States.
tions of w ar from ? By the reckless way of the United States.’’ The w ell-disposed babies. No terrestrial loafers allowed on j judgment of the naval committees of;
ferred into order.
tlie rebels are wasting powder it must be natives will gladly accept this policy as the scene.’’
The Texas legislature is considering a
1 congress. It is apparent that in this But to-day we note that these changed
a considerable drain upon their supply.
soon as Aguinaldo’s thugs are put down.
T he organization of trusts, which goes ' particular they would have pursued the j conditions have come about as a result bill which isof interest to liars there and
on at a rapid rate, has had an unldoked- wiser course in adopting the recom- j of restored confidence. Security for the everywhere else.
S top , consider and answer this ques­ T he recent Congress was a billion and for and most surprising effect upon the mendation of the department. There is
It this becomes a law proof that a man
tion from a business point of view and a half dollar Congress. The country, too, banking interest of the country. It was another respect in which it w ill per­ capitalist and employment and comfort has lieen called a liar will become a full
for
the
workingman.
It
is
not
a
tempo
­
regardless of politics. The United States is a billion and a half dollar country at supposed that the creation of trusts haps be found that congress erred,
defense in assualt and battery.
has gone in the hole the past six years this time. The expansion in expenditures would involve borrowing money to a 1 though this will not necessarily have rary prosperity. The mills and factories
That is to say. the man with the bat­
something like $658,000,000, in what was chiefly due to the war, though, of very large amount and that the smaller any unfortunate result. In the matter are not flooded with orders for the imme­ tered nose, blackened eye and hiatused
diate
present.
They
see
before
them
or
­
direction is the country drifting ? These course, part of it was caused by an in­
as w ell as the larger banks would share . of armor plate for the new vessels autho- ders increasing every day in the year. Old front teeth will learn in a court of jus­
figures are enough to make one staggar, crease in population and business. The in the profit this demand made possible.
rized the maximum price to lie paid by | Glory floats triumphantly over a new tice that it ‘served him right,” says the
and if this goes on indefinitely thecitizens growth in inhabitants and industrial ac­
It appears, however, that instead of fin­ the government was fixed at $3oo. The merchant marine. The commerce of the Neiv York World.
of this country will Ike on a par with the tivity will continue. It will be advisable ancial operations of that kind the great­
house naval bill placed the price at $45o, world is being divided. The Orient and
The laws governing liars in other stat­
tax-cursed countries of Europe. Surely to practice economy in public expendi­ er part of these transactions have been
with a view to having Krupp armor, the Occident are demanding goods of es van. In Kentucky it is a misde­
these figures show plainly the urgent ture wherever this can be done without
accomplished without important bor­ admitted to lie the best, but the senate American manufacture. This is what is meanor punishable by a $20 fine to call
necessity of reform in making the receipts injury to the service, but at the same rowing, or, if there has been anything of
insisted on reducing the price. It is putting the toiler at work. Trade is any man a liar, and a police justice in
and expenditures of the government to time it is well to bear in mind that the
that kind done, it has been by indirect practically certain that the government following the flag. Capital is invest­ Louisville has declared from bis bench
correspond.
government of 1899 can not be run for method. On the other hand the financ­ cannot buy armor plate at the price
ing its surplus and applying itself to that a lie in Kentucky means a blow.
I t is well for the United States to be the same amount of money that was ing of these combinations has led to named, either in this country or abroad. the latest energies that have been slum­ This memorable declaration was given
used
in
1879
or
1889.
large deposits, especially in the smaller This is a matter, however, that is not
generous, and like individuals, a country
in discharging honorable a man who had
bering for the past five years.
banks, so that the managers of these immediately urgent and it is very likely
can be too generous. The United States
knocked down another fellow for calling
The
Democratic
party
has
always
said
in freeing Cuba did not receive the sup­ O ne of the comments on the promotion hanks have been embarrassed, finding that the next congress will take a differ,
him a liar at.<1 bad been brought to court
that
Republican
prosperity
was
not
per
­
of
Dewev
to
be
Admiral
is
that
it
re
­
difficulty in profitably loaning their ent view of it.
port from the Cubans it expected,in fact,
manent, but history disproves the asser­ to answer,
when our officers around Santiago were moves him from the political considera­ deposits.
tion.
The only thing to effect the stabili­ In Virginia, by the law of 1895—1896,
endeavoring to get ourbraveand wound' tion, that it places him at the top of his
ty
of
Republican
prosperity is a period of a man who calls another man a liar is
I
n six years our Government has
ambition
and
takes
his
eyes
off
the
Pre
­
cd volunteers from the battle field to the
FEELING IN PORTO RICO.
Democratic
rule.
Note the development guiltv of a misdemeanor and on convic­
raised
the
principal
of
the
interest-bear
­
sidency,
if
he
ever
had
them
there.
hospitals they absolutely refused to help.
of the country after the civil war for tion may be fined not more than $25,
Now to distribute $3,090,000 amongst Admiral Dewey, though, must lie allowed ing national debt from $585,000,000 to
According to the telegraphic advicce
In Georgia it is slander, punishable by
the Cuban soldiers ap|x*.irs to us that the to S|»eak for himself. All that he has been $1,026,000,000—almost double. In six the seeds of dissension are being sworn twenty-five years. Take history as vour $1,000 fine or a year in the penitentiary,
years
our
Government
has
raised
the
an
­
proof.
If
not
satisfied
with
this,
ask
any
represented
as
saying
so
far
does
not
government is a little too generous with
in Porto Rico by the professional agita­
or both, to call a man a liar unless you
the taxpayers’ money. The Cubans are encourage the idea that he might have nual charge for interest on the public tors there. It is not improbable that a of the people who lived and pursued
can prove that he is one, in which case
debt
from
$23,000,000
to
$37,
OOO,
000
—
some
vocation
during
that
period.
l»een
a
candidate
for
President
even
had
already kicking like Texas steers that
j few of our own agitators here at home
yon get clear. The Georgia courts hold
the amount of money is not large enough he not been promoted, but how he may an increase of more than 60 percent. In j are bearing the torch across the water
that a lie constitutes the first blow and
six
years
our
Government
has
failed
to
to satisfy them and they want more. feel abou| the matter later is something
¡ to that island that submitted so peace­
DENOUNCING TRUSTS.
justifies a violent responce.
meet
its
current
exfienditure
with
current
that
must
be
considered
later.
To
be
The United States has done enough for
fully to the incoming of the United States
In Arkansas passing the lie is a misde­
the Cubans without lotting and spoiling President of the United States and Com­ revenues by more than $258,000,000 < troops. When asked how many com­ Senator W. E. Chandler has written a
and
has
failed
to
meet
its
legal
sinking-
meanor punishable by a fine.
mander
in-Chief
of
the
Navv
and
Army
|
letter
concerning
trusts,
and
as
these
them with money bribes.
panies he could spare from his depart­
is greater than to be Admiral, if a great fund requirements by more than $400,-
monopolies are getting legion, his re­ In Mississippi insulting words are civ-
000,000—a grand total of deficiency of ment of the army. General Henry, in marks are worth reproducing. He says: illy actionalile. In South Carolina and
A few years ago some of the railroad man is in the position.
charge
of
Porto
Rican
affairs,
suggests
more than $658,000,000. According to
West Virginia the same.
magnates were successful in putting their
that he does not believe that his force ! That the growth of trusts in this
A ccording to statistics just published Secretary Gage’s own estimates, nothing
roads into the hands of receivers. Now
country
is
destroying
all
incentives
to
is large enough at the present. He adds
it appears to be a cut rate proposition to by the Government, our exports of man­ can lie paid into the sinking fund this . that a tew of the agitators are preach- . individual enterprise and putting all
hat funny people live out in the
year
or
next,
and
the
revenues
will
at
ufactured
goods
during
the
calendar
year
induce |ieople to travel.
j ing local self-government to the natives. power, industrially, in the hands of the country!” exclaimed little MissCitiman,
least
be
$170,000,000
below
the
expendi
­
1898 reached the enormous total of
talking confidentially to her doll, “Out
1 which means that trouble is liable to multi-millionaires.
W ith due respect for General Gomez $307,924,991, and they are increasing tures.
Ingenious and industrious men of there they put their corn in cribs, Here
¡ ensue.
and without the slightest desire or in­ at the rate of more than $25,000,000 a
B efore the adjournment of congress . The time is not far distant when these moderate means, whether manufacturers in town, you know, that’s where we put
tention to detract from the glory of year! To the outer world we are no
the house republicans appointed a people will lie accorded the same right of or traders, are being crushed out bv the the babies.”
either himself or his Cuban soldier, it longer merely or even chiefly a nation of
special caucus committee to prepare a local self-government that is accorded enormous monoplies. The brightest and
is to be feared that none of them really farmers. American ingenuity in devising
plan of currency reform or submission every citizen of every state in the union. best business men in the country are
know anything about the numerical labor-saving machinery, American ‘‘en­
to the next congress. The senate au­ ! It is the policy of the people of this conn- rapidly lieing forced to become mere
strength of their army. The same fault terprise’’ in organizing effort and the
thorized its finance committee to sit try to bestow upon the Porto Ricans salaried employees of corporations with TWO LIVE PAPERS
of not tiring able to count seems to have superiority of the American workman
during the recess to consider the cur­ , this boon just as soon as they show immense capital. The effect of such an
inflicted all of the Cuban generals. At have made our manufactures a more
rency question. It is understood that themselves capable of exercising the industrial system is deterioration in
the beginning <>t the war it was stated important dement in our commerce than
the republican members of that com. right. Some little time will be required society as a whole.
that 30,000 soldiers could I k * gathered is our grain. And while if we add cotton,
The repular subscription price of
on the north coast of the island and meat ami the like our aggregate farm mittce will sit with the special committee I to arrange matters satisfactorily and it The influences of such aggregations are
THE HEADLIGHT is$1.50, and
that General Gomez had under ,liim 10,- products still lead, we have nevertheless of house republicans and it is said that is to be regretted that the rumored not only powerful industrially but omni
the advocates of currency reform are haste has been shown, oris being shown. potent politically. These enormous com.
the regular subscription price of
000 more. But Captain Dorst was un become one of the foremost nations in
ho|>eful that a plan will lie devised ac­
the Weekly Oregonian is $1.50.
bmations of capital control the politics
able to discover anything of the 30,000 the world in manufactures.
Every land has its agitators. We have
ceptable to the next congress and to the
Any one subscribing for THE
of
the
country,
nominate
the
candidates,
I hvoih I a cor|»oral‘s guard and those
i a few of them in this country. As a rule
country.
then furnish the means to carry the
HEADLIGHT and paying one
L ast year the United States imported
under Gomez dwindled when discovered
■ these people are unscrupulous, unprinci-
year in advance can get both the
to 167 by actual count. General Garcia 2286 horses worth $200,000, and ex­ T he trade between the United States | P,ei' and irresponsible dreamers. In the elections, and later direct all legislation
reported to General Shafter that he had ported over 51,000horses worth $6,000,. and Canada is steadily growing, in Philippines we have Aguinaldo, who State and national, and dominate use of
HEADLIGHT
12,000 soldiers ready for duty, but when 000. In 1890 this country imported spite ot a tariff policy which is favor, rules his people through tear and intim. executive power.
they came to I k * transported to the west 48.248 horses and exported only 3500. able to England and is designed to idation. In Porto Rico, where civiliza, The principal notion 1 have is that this
and
side of Santiago only 2.400 were found. The figures show a surprising develop­ promote the interests of English manu- tion is more advanced than it is in the condition ofaffairs should not be allowed
to
destroy
the
Republican
partv
To
General Gomez has reported the Cuban ment in otic article of foreign trnde.
facturers in competition with Ameri- Philippines, the agitator is a duplicate
WEEKLY OREGONIAN
army at 47,500, but the muster rolls so
cans in the Canadian market. Last of our old-time Populist. He can talk preserve that party and give it’a na.
far produced do not show over 2* .000 ' C laims tor damages done to American year the value of the exports from this and nrge inflammatory action, but he bonal VKtory in 1900. doubtless under
One Year for £2.25.
the lead of President McKinley. i, mv
and it is even uncertain whether all of citizens during the Cuban insurrection country to Canada was nearly $92.000,. cannot think.
ifreat
desire.
those ever saw service. The truth is to the amount of $30,000,000 have been 000. being greater by over $80,000,900
At the present time there is no real rea­
Yet I fear that we shall not get such a
that probably nt one time or another filed with the State department. Under than our whole export* to Central and
son why trouble should be feared as a re.
25.000 or 30,000 Cubans were in the the Paris treaty the United States as­ South America In proportion to their
snlt of the action of the people of Porto take ground m State and national Ton-
field, but it will lie difficult to establish sumed these obligations and if the num Iters the Canadians huv more from
Rico, but a great deal could be prevent­
All old subset ibers paying their
the claims of even that many with suf promptness displayed in paying the the United States thwn any other com­
ed if some of our agitators here at home ventums against the enormous trusts subscriptions for one vear in
Orient accuracy to enable them to draw French sfioliation claims shall lie obaerv- munity in tlie world and there is every
and monopolies that are now
wonldtake a year off and rest their tired ^"rmeil in every direction and in Conner advance will lx entitled to the
their share of themonev now on the w av. | | ed the heir of claimants may be able to reason to expect that they will con- jaws.
same offer.
I tion with every great industry.
iTiUnntoolt
ï> lijt lit Of course this fact will cause no regret
as it means more for those entited to it
Fred C. linker, Publisher.
and we may be sure every Cuban soldier
who did serve his country in the field or
Official Paper, Tillamook City and County otherwise will lie on hand when the dis­
tribution is made.
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