TILLAMOOK
WASHINGTON
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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.’’
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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
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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,
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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«
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•
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
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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
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Pacific Navigation Co
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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*«!,