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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JANUARY 1 ¡
; crusades which die out after all decline to talk regarding tile ¡'//‘"¿'''/„j. ^»peculation.
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Ijeabligbt, a little time without accomplish- report that the war between the
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Truckee Lumber Co
The nnw
concerns have the further advantage ot
having entirely new machinery. The
combinations have absorbed plants
much of whose machinery is old. The
new competitors have the latest ma
chinery there is.’’ The opinion of the
tournai of Commerce is that the com
bination as a manufacturer of common
stocks for purposes of speculation lias
had its day, that combinations will
hereafter be formed primarily for
economic reasons, but ot these it has
been proved that competition is almost
impossible of suppression and the econ
omies of centralized control have been
overestimated.
It may be a sound view that most of
the industrial combinations are doomed
to eventual failure, under the operation
of natural economic laws which they
appear to violate and from the force of
competition, but it would seem to be
unwise and unsafe to leave wholly to
these agencies the solution of the trust
problem. Something may certainly be
done through legislation to regulate
the combinations and to at least lessen
the power for oppression and exaction
they now possess. Natural economic
la ws will assuredly assert themselves in
time. Doubtless it is not possible, in
most cases, to entirely suppress compe
tition. Yet much can be done to protect
the public against the rapacity of the
monopolistic combinations by judicious
legislation and the demand for this
should be heeded by congress and by the
state legislatures.
OF SAN FRANCISCO. DEALERS IN
' iug any good. It
1 may be the companies has been settled and
means of closing up a number of that prices are to be pushed up.
gambling house for a time but to In case the report proves true,
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
stop gambling seems almost ini- the public will not be so back
( strictly i . x advance .)
possible, for the gamblers only ward in speaking its mind regard
$1.50
One year........
BOX SHOOKS.
75 migrate to new quarters. This ing the matter.
Six months—
50 hot and cold process of trying to
Three months
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IT has been demonstrated by
moralize the world is a failure,
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
as those who have watched them Dr. Reed in Havana that mos
EDITORIAL NOTES.
' from time to time readily admit. quitoes are responsible tor the
And LOGGERS’ SUPPLIES
M r . W. C. C assell in a letter Nearly all classes are infatuated spread of yellow fever. Having
to the Headlight last week said with gambling, and to stop it a solved one problem the next for
AGENTS STEAMERS W. 11. KRUGER ANI) TILLAMOOK.
that Tillamook county would get different sentiment must exist or Dr. Reed to fathom is how to
J. E, SIBLEY, Mgr.
Hobsonville, Or.
no railroad only “from the same 1 politics must be purified. A few exterminate mosquitoes.
months
before
the
next
election
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source that built the Astoria
A K entucky minister who
road, and no other.” Evidently in Portland will show what little
the Oregonian is not of that opi 'good the present crusade against made a living by breeding race
horses has gone into bankruptcy.
nion, for it continues to agitate vice accomplished.
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for an independent line from
He could have done better than
PROPRIETORS OF
Portland to Tillamook, for this is
A n effort is to be made at the that by coming West and start
what it said on Friday :
state legislature to make the term 1 1 ing
'
up a gambling joint.
As a region without railroad connec for assessors four years. County
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tion with the rest of the world, hut full judges, the county commission
T he putting of a price on Pat
DEALERS IN
of promise for profitable business, the ers and the school superintend
Crowe’s head is likely to turn
Oregon Coast region has few existing ents are elected for four years,
Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wool, etc.
parallels. Product of farm, field, or. and it is not too long when these up a whole flock of Crowe’s, for
there are not many men at large
chard, dairy, mine, forest and fishery
Shop next door to Larsen’s Hotel, Tillamook
¡officials are competent and con- who are valued at $100 per lb.
are already great in quantity, and some
I
scientious
in
the
discharge
of
of them unsurpassed for richness of
quality. That whole Const region j their duties, but when they run
Question of Indemnity.
ought to be ill close touch with Port, everything to suit themselves
TracLe a/t tlxe
land by railroads. This is an additional J two years is too long to endure ‘ The indemnity which the powers will
However that may be, [ demand of China will probably be the
reason for the construction by Port | them.
land or miller Portland auspices of the ! we hardly seethe justice of elect- most troublesome question in connec-
proposed line to the Nehalem coal fields I , ing some officials for two and 1 tion with the negotiations anil it ap-
Thence it could rendily lie extended down 1 others for four years.
What is [pears that our government desires that
the Coast to the California line, or be- I the state legislature going to do
ZMZesrt to tlxe Z’ost Office. •
,<e deferred until the other mutters
One Canal or Two ?
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vond. It may make a great difference j
are disposed of. The Department of
¡about
it
?
to Portland what the railroad connec- '
rO
State has been informed by the Amer
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It may be regarded as certain that
tion is that is first made with Tillamook,
ican minister at Pekin that no agree congress will not give serious considera
T
he
office
of
state
printer
is
Lincoln, Coos and Western Douglas and I
ment bv the foreign ministers on this
You will always find prime meat at this store. Give us a call.
Lane Counties. If that connection is [ : coining in for a good deal of cri- subject is to be expected and that it is tion to the Panama canal. There are a
I
few
members
in
either
house
who
look
[
ticism.
Well,
the
printer
gene-
with Portland, the center of business for ;
necessary to a solution that the question
J. F. JENKINS, Proprietor
the Columbia Basin will be fixed here for | rally gets it in the neck, anyhow, be removed from the joint council and with favor upon that route, as having
all time, and the West Const trade se for that is one of his perquisites. dealt with directly by diplomatic ex some very decided advantage over the
Nicaragua route, but the large majority
cured. Otherw ise this Coast trade may j If this office is retained—it is change between the powers.
favor the latter. The president of the
be divided lietween San Francisco and hard to kill off printers—why
This was to have been expected. It
Astoria. Plenty of money can be had in I not make the state printer a little has been apparent all along that Ger- j ! Panama Canal company, who is in
the East for such an enterprise, if res more useful and profitable as well many intended to demand an enormous | ! Washington to look after the interests
I of that enterprise, it is said does not
ponsible men here will take it up and !
to the state by having him print : indemnity, all her military movements , I expect that congress will do anything
Ulagon Cllork.
present it.
| in respect to China since the beginning ;
the school books ? Most people
1 for the project, but is not without hope
The Oregonian would never who have had to pay exorbitant j of the trouble clearly pointing to this. ! ' that his company will be benefited by
We guarantee first class Wagon Work
pen an article like the above if I prices to the book trust feel that [ It is said that German officers on j | the contention over the Nicaragua canal
at low charges.
I
service
in
China
are
allowed
five-fold
j
Mr. Cassell’s assertions are cor it is time something should he
■ and the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, regard-
Shoeing,
No. 4’s down, $1.50.
rect. Those who understand done to kill off the book mono I their regular pay and of course the . less of what may be the decision of
Chinese
government
will
be
required
to
WEST
A
TH
A YER,Proprietors.
the situation readily see that an polies.
Great Britain. He professes to think
reimburse Germany for this, which un
Work Shops :
independent railroad from Port
1
that
if
the
British
government
accepts
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doubtedly will constitute a very small
Next to Goyne’s Office, Tilla-
amended treaty Germany will unite
land is most desirable, and as far
T he senate has voted to do part of the extraordinary exactions the the
as Tillamook county is concerned away with the army canteen. As German government will make. It is with France to complete the Panama
niookCity, Oregon.
this is preferalje, for this reason. this was one of the bones of con-' an opportunity for putting a generous canal, while if Great Britain does not
By way of Astoria it would be in tentiou with the prohibitionists sum into the German treasury which accept the treaty a combination will lie
the neighborhood of 160 miles l>v at the presidential election our the government will take the fullest ad made by the three great commercial
powers of western Europe which will
railroad, while that of an inde cold water friends have gained a vantage of. Whether or not Russia will revive the financial credit of the Pan The DIRECT ROUTE to TILLAMOOK
be
equally
rapacious
is
a
question,
but
pendent road would be under ioo moral victory where they least
Carrying U.S. Mail.
ama company and enable it to float a
miles, and at a rate of four cents expected it. As so many army I it is safe to say she will not he at all loan sufficient to complete the under
modest
in
her
demands,
while
Great
a mile it would cost at least $6.40 officers and temperance men have
taking.
more for a round trip ticket to testified that the army canteen Britain will want a very liberal in- This idea is entertained in other quar
demnity and probably France also. In
Portland via Astoria than by an [ is a blessing rather than a curse, I ( deed,
ters. It has been suggested in British
JOHN BARKER, Proprietor.
no magnanimity toward China in
independent line. Freight rates i the next thing in order should be this direction is to be looked for from newspapers. Admitting the possibility
of
a
combination
of
European
powers
will of necessity be higher by the ! to deprive the senators drinking anv of the powers, with the exception
Astoria route. I11 discussing the | intoxicants in or near the na- of the United States. This government I to complete the Panama canal in the Stage leaves Tillamook daily exeept Sunday.
event of the United States carrying out
railroad question perhaps few | tional buildings.
will ask only such indemnity as it be
the Nicaragua project is now proposed Stage leaves fi. Yamhill daily exeept CHonday,
people have considered it in this
lieves
to
be
fair
and
just
and
it
is
for
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there
are some considerations which
Tickets must be secured the day previous from the Agents at
the reason that it will do this that an
light, but this is not the only
render such a movement very improb
reason why an independent road 1 T he director of the last cen agreement cannot be reached by the ' able. In the first place the interest of
North Yamhill and Tillamook.
is the best for Tillamook people sus, Robert P. Porter, has pre representatives of the powers at Pekin. Great Britain commercially in an isth
dicted that the population of the Whether our government will be able
by a long way.
mian canal is not so great as it is com
United States at the end of the to arrive at an understanding through ' monly
W. V. MORGAN,
supposed to be and it may well
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diplomatic
exchange
is
problematical,
1
present century will be 300,-
N ot a few persons express an I <xx>,000, and the director of the but at all events it is to be hoped that be doubted whether it is sufficient to in
opinion that kidnaping should be j present census, William R. Mer it will firmly refuse to countenance any duce her to take any action unfriendly
punishable with death. If, how- ' riam, has handed in a forecast of scheme for the spoliation of China, or to the United States, such as uniting
with other nations to construct a com
Make a Specialty of Logging and Machine Work.
ever, kidnapers can avoid tile 30,000,000 people within the be a party to demands for indemnity peting
First Class Work Guaranteed.____________
Charges are Reasonable.
canal. Germany has less in-
death penalty as successfully as limits of New York City at the not strictly fair and just to that empire. terest in the matter than Great Britain
If
any
power
is
contemplating
the
re
murderers, this would have no expiration of the same period.
and would hardly be disposed to assume Shop in Hiner’s old Stand, TIbUAJVIOOK CITY
terror for them. But there is [ Unfortunately, neither of them plenishment of its treasury by ruth I any large financial responsibility in a
it should get no
no reason why the Oregon legis will be able to verify their own lessly plundering China
e‘ from the' Unit'éd !
mÍK,ht pr°Te
support or assistance.... ......... -
lature should not enact a law ex prophetic visions.
As to France, the fact that a large
States.
amount of French capital is represented
tremely severe upon the culprits,
WINE AND LIQUOR HOUSE
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j in the enterprise might lead that gov.
Industrial Consolidations.
as some of the states are remodel
T he current issue of the New The consolidation of capital into so. eminent to make an effort to carry it to
ing their laws in this respect. If
the state legislators think the York Financier, a recognizer! ! called trusts reached its highest devel-' : completion, but it would not assume the
death sentence too severe, then ! organ of financial interests, pub opulent in 1899, in which year the ag. task of completing it alone. In view of
these considerations, therefore, there
let them fall back upon the best lishes a statement of the profits gregate capitalization of industrial coin, seems to be little basis for the Panama
C. E. HADLEY, Proprietor.
¡ofNew
York
national
banks
for
binations
amounted
to
$2,500,000,000.
remedy of all, that of whipping
company's hope of securing foreign as
the kidnapers with a cat-o’-nine 1900. It shows large profitsand Last year there was a marked decline in sistance Incomplete its enterprise, in the Agents for Kopp's Brewery, the Brewer of the finest Beer in the Northwest,
Strangers can find here a place to write, attend to correspondence, private]/
such
consolidations,
the
aggregate
cap.
dividends
by
some
banks
and
tails at a public exhibition. We
event of the United States going on with
confer upon business or social matters and generally feel at home.
do not want to be considered in small ones by others. The divi- Utilization being about $945,000,000. the Nicaragua project as provided for in
human but the cruelty with 1 ! dends range from 4 per cent, the The chief cause of this decline was the the (lending bill.
Tillamook
City
Oregon.
enormous mass of industrial securities
which jfrim^Js being committed lowest, to 150, the highest, a ma | created
It is not questionable that the Panama
the previous year, which so
justifies extreme measures. It jority being below 10 per cent, glutted the market that promoters canal can lie completed for one-half or
would not be a bad plan to serve with considerable additions made found it almost impossible to induce less than it would cost to build the
Nicaragua canal. It could also be com
safe crackers, footpads, train to surplus funds besides.
I underwriters to finance their projects,
pleted in less than half the time and it is
robbers, housebreakers, highway
| so that inanv attempted consolidations
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admitted to possess some important ad.
men and the gang of toughs who
Berlin starts the century with had to be abandoned. The appearance vantages over the Nicaragua route. The
infest Oregon from time to time a story that will keep the rest of of new competition also lmd something determination, however, to have a dis
J. P. ALLEN,
with that treatment. One thing the world busy until its close in to do with it. though how potent an in tinctively American canal, tinder the ab
Proprietor
is certain, if Oregon had such a the effort to match it. The Spree fluence this exerted cannot easily lie solute control of the United States, is so
law that element would consider river froze so suddenly that the determined. It is the judgment, how. general and strong that the conceded
it prudent to keep away from this swans were unable to get out and ever, of some careful observers of the advantages of the Panama route will First class accommodation
competitive movement that while
at second class rate.
state, for besides the excruciat were frozen in the ice. It is really it new
has not vet attained its fnll propor have little weight against it.
ing pain of a flogging, there is discouraging to start the century tions, enough has already been ac-
the humiliation and the groams with a mark which the most ac complished to demonstrate that any
BEST MEALS IN THE
Blasts from Ram’s Horn.
of the victim as the lash is laid on complished can hardly hope to fear that American industry was to lie
CITY.
as a warning to others. And it reach.
After all there is no holiday like a holy
dominated by monopoly is with few
Tillamook, Ore
day.
exceptions needless.
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is a good one, for although the I
criminal class may not witness it,
H ere is a matter which the The New York Journal of Commerce ! God approves our toil by setting us
a graphic description of the flog people of Oregon would like to be says the history of combinations shows new tasks.
ging in the newspapers is suffi enlightened upon. What is the that the suppression of competition is There is always hope for a boy who
ENGINES
cient to make the toughest intrinsic value of a senatorial almost impossible and where it seems can blush.
to be effected it is of brief duration.
character put on his considering vote in the Oregon legislature ?.
The devil wastes no powder on stuffed
BOILERS
" Capital," remarks that paper, "is ac
cap before running the risk of Perhaps those who have had some cumulating with unprecedented rapidity: prophets.
SAW
undergoing such an ordeal. This experience will inform us if they it must find investment ; it goes into the Destiny is the measure of a man rather
is our remedy for the above class come as high as in Montana, or fields where the trusts are reaping than descent.
MILLS
of criminals. What is voitrs ? is it that the gentleinen who are large harvests and where most of them A man is not dry the minute he is saved
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sent to Salem are proof against arc experiencing some competition from from drowning.
concerns not taken into the original
He who makes light of the bible will
the
Citv
of?
x'inK bribed ?
W e feel sorry for
combination. The new concerns have get no light from it.
H
t
Portland for it is undergoing
two . advantages;
they ...
are not over.
, ,
.
------ , When eT*l
slap you on vour back
one of those spasmodic moral
T he big sugar manufacturers capitalized
and overcapitalttation is an look into vour heart.
C. Baker. Publisher
FIR & SPRUCE Lumber
LEACH & JONES,
Tillamook Meat Market
NEW MEAT MARKET,
General Blacksmithing.
Tillamook & North Yamhill Stage Line.
General
Blacksmithing
Billiard Parlors and General Social Resort.
Zallen flouée,
RUSSELL
High Grade
=Machinery
RUSSELL &
CO.
PORTLAND,
IY rite for Catalogue end Prices.
OREGON.