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TILLAMOOK WASHINGTON Shoes for COen & Boys Nobby and up-to-date. They ate reliable in every respect. Guaranteed to give sati>Lictory wear. For sale by MILLS <& FINLEY. 5 1.50 75 50 Bribery—The Besetting Sin. t in the legi>l ittire. would expose the rascals and have them prosecuted, there would l>e no need of maintaining a boodle lobby, lor all reputable law. makers would deal fairly by them and give their accredited representatives a publie hearing on every occasion when bills affecting their interests aie pend- iug. But the corporate lobby is not organized for the purpose ot holding sandbaggers at bay, but for the delib erate purpose of defeating wholesome legislation demanded by the people and promoting legislation to increase the corporate income and enlarge corporate privilege. Sooner of later the American people must stump out bribery or bribery will stamp out the republic. Expansion of the Currency. 1903 HEADLIGHT. AUGUST 20. illegal acts you are attempting to crush t. II organized labor has only lawless purposes it ought to be crushed. •• During the last year the attempts to force men to give allegiance to strike bosses in their plans to set up an oil garchy that will control industry indc- jieiident of the laws ot the coin.try have resulted in mob conditions in many of the leading centers. Supremacy ot law and order has sustained not only many severe shocks, but the nation has also lost millions of dollars bv the organized idleness of thousands of men. 1 his loss must fall heavier on the man who de- fiends on his daily wage than upon those I who have something to fallback upon. It is time that the workmen of this country were learning that for the mil lions of dollars they pay in salaries to the agitators they are creating in return nothing but ceaseless trouble, enforced idleness and endless discomforts of life. They are also bidding tor the destruction of their most precious possession—that of industrial liberty. Their investments in mohocracy are mighty poor invest ments.’’ _____________ T7"''1D HEADQUARTERS FOR $ DAIRYMEN’S SUPPLIES $ .«2» STEEL STOVES & RANCES We carry a Large Stock of It miss Mr. Hea pap< tar « one 4ai< man I reap empi an I obts - horn com unpt . havi Y ’ . aw ; oil t and ' stat' ! ent t , out lion; is a in th pare I muti lugh Wat and bacl< that ' tool *'íí tight cour do it iirtit COM hav< they terw tuie Hardware, Tinware, Glass! and China, Oils, Paint, Varnish, Doors. Window Sashes, Line of Choice GROCERIES , The extent to which the circulating The cancer that is gnawing at the vitals of the American commonwealth medium of the United States has been and sapping the verv foundations of expanded in recent years is one of the the republic is the bribery of its public marvels of the time, says the Globe servants. Gradually but surely the Democrat. The monthly circulation standard of integrity is being lowered statement just issued by the treasury and public sentiment no longer revolts department shows that thegeneral stock at the betrayal of public trusts and the of money of all sorts in the country on NOT FOR TILLAMOOK CITY. miscai riage of justice through the open August 1, 1903, was $2.695,440,174, I or covert purchase of lawmakers, I which was a gain of $7,290,553 in the Nehalem Railroad Refuses to Locate Terminus There. juries, courts and executive.-». Like an month. The amount of the money in The Reliable Merchants in County. insidious poison instilled into the hu actual circulation on August 1 was (Oregonian). man system, bribery docs its deadly $2.382,018,496, a gain of nearly $6,000,- The directors of the Portland, Nelia. work stealthily in the body politic until 000 in twelve months. On the basis of lem & Tillamook Railroad have declined popular self government becomes a de- the estimated population of the country to locate the western terminus of the on August 1 this was a per capita cir line at Tillamook City. In a letter to the hision and a snare. That bribery has increased enor- culation of $29.55, which is the highest citizens of the Bay City it is suggested in that event we must consider an offer niouslv within the past quarter of n figure ever touched. that a spur or branch freight line can now made to us for rights of wav from In the middle of 1896, at the time of be run into Tiilainook City for the ac South Tillamook Bay to the Summit (38 century is conceded by all who have had occasion to observe and study mu Bryan’s reign of terror, the per capita commodation of the people and it is left miles) from timber owners on condition PROPRIETOR OF nicipal, state and national legislatures circulation was $21 10. It has, with a with the citizens ot Tillamook City to we run trains from Portland to Tilla and governments. The pet iodic up few minor interruptions, been increasing decide whether they will accept this line. mook Bay—without any freight track heavals over bribery scandals from the ever since. Bryan’s defeat in November, In the event Tillamook City declines to into Tillamook City. The best we of overthrow of Boss Tweed and the Tain 1896, sent the circulation up above be satisfied with the branch line proposed fered to give when the undersigned were bar many ring in New York to the more the point at which it reseed in the early by the directors the road will be built in Tillamook City recently was a freight DEALER IN is w recent prosecution of municipal bribe days of his canvass, when there was to a point on the bay considerably re cut-off thereto. Should your citizens de ask takers and bribe givers in Missouri are some dread that lie would carrv the moved from the city and no railroad con cline this they must blame themselves fríen s'inp’y eruptions from the deep-seated country. It went up again just alter the nections will be given Tillamook. A right for the consequences. Your truly, tion J ohn M C raken , core of the cancer. The consensus of Republicans entered power in March, of wav has been guaranted by timber Shop next door to Larsen's Hotel, Tillamook man 1897. T he general tendency has been President Portland, Nehalem & Tilla opinion of all who have given the sub land owners, who are anxious that the polit upward ever since, though there was a mook Railway Company. ject serious thought that the marked railroad shall select a new terminus. be 1» W illiam R eid , increase of bribery in this country is decline several times in those years, but Directors of the new line show that it the» Secretary. chiefly due to the intrusion of corrupt only slightly, and for a few weeks at a is impossible to locate the western term, priai time. The $29.55 at which the circula ing agencies improvised for the purpose inns of the road at Tillamook City be- m >0 of debauching the body politic and con tion stood at the beginning of the pres, cause of the lack of water in the slough I don« Catarrh Cannot be Cured trolling the actions of the people’s rep ent month will probably be exceeded at to give ocean freighters a chance to with LOCAL APPLICATIONS as they cannot men reach the sent of the disease. Catarrh is a blood resentatives in the interest of corporate the beginning of September. The reach the town. At low tide the depth or constitutional disease, mid in order to cure it chances are that the $30 point in the monopoly. STEAMERS—SUE H. ELMORE, W. H. HARRISON. ridic 1 who take internal remedies. Hall's of water at Tillamook City is five feet ; you must Cure is taken internally, and acts di Corporate magnates who pride them expansion will be reached before the end at high tide, ten. The city is reached Catarrh rectly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's ONLY LINE—ASTOTIA TO TILLAMOOK, GARIBALT eom' Cure is not a qu ck medicine. It was selves on their high character and who of the calendar year 1903. through a slough three miles long, hav Catarrh prescribed by oneof the best physicians in this BAY CITY, HOBSONVILLE. the ' Moreover, not only lias the circulation ing a channel 100 feet wide. In the bay country for years an I is a regular prescription. always proclaim themselves the foes of Connecting at Astoria with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co, and they Il is composed of the best tonics known, com lawlessness and anarchy, do not hesi increased much faster than the popula the water is 12!^ feet deep at low tide, bined with the best blood purifiers, acting di also the Astoria & Columbia River R. R. foi San Francisco, Portland to n tate to engage in systematic outlawry tion, which is also growing rapidly these and there is a depth ot between 18 and rectly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect and all points east. For freight and passenger rates apply to combination of the two ingredients is what pro desìi days, but the gold ingredient of it is and frequently glory in their wholesale such wonderful results in curing Catarrh. SAMUEL ELMORE & CO. General Agents, ASTORIA. OR 19 feet at high tide. In addition it is duces the 1 Send for testimonials free. growing much faster than the rest of the bribery of legislatures and in the bri B. C. LAMB, Agent, Tillamook Oregon. proposed to ask Congress to deepen the F J. CHENEY 8c CO . Props.. Toledo. 0. trait bery of high public officials, and even currency. Of course, in these days of channel in the bay to 16 feet at low tide Sold by druggists, price 75c. Ac-pnt« & R • Portland. Hall's Family Pills are the best. yion g 1 )A & C. R. R. Co.. Portland. in the corruption of men occupying the Republican financial stability and pros and 22 feet at high tide. ; kno' perity, all sorts of currency are as good bench, when they must know that they Sue H. Elmore carries Wells Fargo Co.’s Express or 1 The railroad directors are under some and their subordinates and agents have as gold, but it is well to keep the fact obligations,they show, to satisfy Eastern the 1 perpetrated acts more ' criminal than in mind that the gold element of the cir sawmill men who propose to erect plants not culating medium is far more abundant dynamiting city halls or state and na in Tillamook County. The mills which 1 tion tional capitols. Ordinary anarchists than it ever was before. Nobody is now are projected will ha ye a daily capacity I ruin kill men and destroy propertv, but the saying that the currency is not adequate 1,000,000 feet. The builders will locate General Banking and Exchange busi- mon corporate anarchists who infect our to the demands of trade. on deep water, insisting that their logs ness. * PROPRIETOR I thi” public bodies with the stifling and nox must coine down the rivers emptying Exchange on England, Belgium, Ger sent Mob Spirit in America. ious poison of bribery destroy the en into Tillamook Bay and that a deep many, Sweden, and all foreign countries a««' tire fabric of government. ClIAt'TAUQVA, N.Y., Aug. 13.—D. M. channel must be provided for ships to I disti The chief lobby agent of the railroads Parry, president of the National Associa enter and reach their wh rves. TILLAMOOK. ORE. man converging in Missouri, who has just tion of Manufacturers, delivered one of The letter of the officers of the rail pie t been before the prand jury that is now the most important addresses before the road company, making these explana I tion Boiler Work, Logger ’ s Work and Heavy Forging. investigating bribery charges against conference on “ Mob Spirit in America.’’ tions to the people of Tillamook, reads members of the late Missouri legisla Mr. Parry spoke on “ Mob Spirit in as follows : Fine Machine Work a Specialty. BARBER ANO HAIRDRESSER. ture, declares as an excuse for the crim Organized Labor.” He said : A. J. Colin, Esq., President Port of W» inal operations of the railroad lobby “ In this country in the last year there Tillamook Commission —Dear Sir : You SHAVING, HAIR CUTTING that roilroads would not maintain these have been many mobs of different kinds, to our surprise voluntarily asked our di C< SHAMPOOING, ETC boodle distributors at the state capi but to my mind the most dangerous of rectors to give your citizens of Tilla miss tals were it not for the periodic efforts them all is the mob of organized labor. mook n director to reside at Tillamook retu of blackmailing lawmakers to hold up No man, I take it, can object to any kind Citv. Your request was granted by the Electric Baths nicely fitted up. Goodfor the j and sandbag the railroad interests This of association, labor or other, which is board, and you notified to choose your persons suffering with rheumatism. U’d| is the stereotyped and common excuse organized for lawful and beneficial pur representative, but receiving no reply You OF SAN FRANCISCO, DEALERS IN given bv corporate apologists for bri- poses, but organized labor, as ir is con after writing you twice, the board was pori ' •— including railroad magnates, in- ducted today, stands convicted by its surprised at your silence—until today, bery, to e suranee managers ami officers of public own leaders as a lawless organization, in when informed that certain citizens of Ladies’ Shoes. two utility corporations. As a matter cf that it seeks by physical force to override vour town insisted on an obligation one Embrace every feature of style, grace fact, the preliminary work of system individual rights and in its continually from the railway company to put its beautv and durability. They wear well, hrid atic bribery is begun before the legisla railing against the laws and denouncing terminus at Tillamook City alone. We look well. Neh. Price from $1.50 to $3.50, tures open their session, and frequently courts and public officials for enforcing viva voce explained this was absolutely fere’ even before the members of the legisla these laws it fulfills all the requirements impossible. That heavy timber Eastern For sale bv l*e<>! tive bodies are elected. As 1 of the definition of mohocracy. MILLS & FINLEY. ers intended—with railway connection 1 Tne entering wedge employed by the thin Unlike the lynching liees and the vigi to Portland—to erect sawmills aggrega railroads for the corruption of legisla lance committees, it is what might Iw ting a capacity of 1,(MX),(M10 feet a day of i com AGENTS STEAMERS - W. H. KRUGER” AND "REDONDO. tures and public officers is the railroad termed a standing mob. unfairly discip lumber, supplies for which must come For San Francisco and Los Angeles. to <! pass. Within the past few months A. lined by its officers and ready upon occa down the Wilson, Kelcliis, Trask, Tilla lave Hobsonville, Or. SIBLEY, Mgr M. Baker, a member of congress, repre sion to commit the overt acts of outrage mook and Miami Rivers into Tillamook to i senting one of the Brooklyn districts, and destruction, which are the outward Bay alone ; and as they already own 1 com TILLAMOOK CITY, ORE. has declined the pass sent to him by the manifestation of the mob’s spirit. It de nearly half of the timber of Tillamook diet Baltimore \ Ohio Railroad company. clares in effect that its will is superior County, a terminus at your city was | trie' G entlemen In declining the pass bribe he said to to traditions, government regulations impossible. the Besides, whenever nature Thanking you for the company that it had done what, if and even the constitution ofthe country. has put Tillamook Bay, there the rail- Joht past favors, I l>eg not resented, would lay his action in all It asserts that the individual has no in way must terminate. In other words, the to say that I have moved into mv matters of railroad legislation open to herent rights that can not lie taken from the rail must meet the ocean where ex npp new store next to the supicion of having been corruptly him, and that therefore, it has the right rep< change of freights between ocean C. Ben Riesland’s. intluened. Commenting upon this, a to say that no man shall work and that steamers and sailing ships can be secured cou If you wish to prominent officer of the company de no industry shall run without its con to and from Portland, especially if Hon. see all the choice clared that the offer of a pass to a con sent. line of Suiting and Binger Hermann be correct in saving lie gressman is merely a compliment to the up-to-date Pant- “ In its attempt to compel a recogni would secure 16 feet of water at low tide ting s to choose from kindly give me a position the man occupies. A compli tion of its pretentions to sovereignty it and 22 feet at high tide on Tillamook call. All Suits cut and made in the shop ment indeed I Wliv are these compli relies not on reason, but upon coercion, Bay. Is that depth of water procurable at Tillamook. ments so generally distributed—not intimidation and the bludgeon. In its B S.—Pressing, cleaning and repairing at and can those five rivers with their only to the men holding public office, continual preachments against law and logs lie all dumped into Tillamook Bay ? of all kinds done. hut also to the men who exert political its constant appeal to the baser passions If so when ? We think not. If they can. influence, and especially lawyers of men it is doing more than any agency however, we are sure these Eastern take an active part in politics ? to cultivate the mob spirit and encourage sawmill owners, waiting lor our rail Everybody conversant with the nal- the unfurling of the red flag of anarchy. way. would ns soon locate at Hoquarton oral effect to pass bribery knows that “ The president of the Chicago Federa Slough and Tillamook City as on Tilla. J. P. ALLEN, Proprietor. the acceptance of the pass is regarded tion of Labor recently declared in an in- mook Bav, if vou can give them 16 feet by the lobby boodle distributors as a terview : * The President deals a death ; at low tide at your city, for their saw “ wink'* that they can go a little fur blow to organized labor when he de ( incorporated ). mills' shipping trade 111 connection with Special Attention paid to Tourists. ther without stirring up resentment. clares that he can not discriminate in its j a railway. TILLAMOOK CITY. ORE. A First Class Table. Comfortable Beds and Accommodation. And they usually follow up the rail- favor. It sounds fair on the face of it, Nevertheless while we are opposed to road pass with an invitation into the but without discrimination we are just PAID UP CAPITAL, »1(1,000. anv terminus at Bay Citv proper—or oil room, where liquor and cigars are where we started. What we have been north thereof-until trade develops A GENERAL BANKING handed out as “courtesies to the office,’’ fighting for is union labor to the exchi. therein, a compromise location would lie Centrally Ltoeated. Rates, $1 Per D«y and eventually m »re valuable gilts are sion of all other.’ BUSINESS. I between Tillamook City and the north distributed ami the public officer lured These are the words of a conserva* portion of the bay (as yet undermined), Directors —M. W. H ammon . W. W to his own ruin and the betrayal of his tive among union labor leaders and they for the terminus, with a branch or 1 C ibtiss . B. L E i » dt . constituency for private gain. voice the sentiment ofthe agitators the freight line only into Tillamook City M. H. LRRSEN, Proprietor. If the corporate magnates, who so country over To their mind if you deny - Cashier —M. W. H arrison . limits. Myon people would not be satis, TILLAMOOK, tetr the sandbagging of blackmailers the right of their organization to comm it ted with same kindly so advise us, for 1 Lheral Prices Paid for gilt edge securi- ties of all kinds. Agents for the Great Western Saw. M c I ntosh & McNAIR, Most Tillamook M. F. LEACH, Tillamook Meat Markt = Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wool, etc I Pacific Navigation Co » II i I OF C. & E. Thayer A. K. CASE, Tillamook Iron Woks General Machinists & Blacksmiths. LATIMER, BROS TILLAMOOK, OREGON. Truckee Lumber Co., MAYERS FIE & SPRUCE Lumber BOX SHOOKS GENERAL MERCHANDISE And LOGGERS’ T. SARCHET, Tailoniqg S TT PP T .J. E, Egtabli^ent, F R BEALS, REAL ESTATE, Financial Agent, TILLAMOOK, OREGON. 4 T. SARCHET, Merchant Tailor TILLAMOOK COUNTY BANK. t The Best Hotel. THE ALLEN HOUSE, Headquarters for Travelling Men. LARSEN HOUSE, » ! OREGON X The Best Hotel io the city. No Chinese Employ*«!,
