The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-02-23

Nesmlt1 lOE FalQaDle lonSreSSloual Ooeu-
ments.
FALLIxa oFF.-Somc Of the officers of the Peo-
pies Transportation complain thattheir passenger
list is falling of since the "Democrat' ceased its
onslaught upon them. Cup and at them. again,
Mr.. "Domocrat-or have you been subsidized p
[Salem Unionist.
We are sorry that their passenger list is
falling off, and we will do all we can to help
fix things up again. We beg their pardon
for taking breath so long. We assure them
we will be with them in six troubles, and in
the seventh we will not forsake them
"Nary'' forsake-not ''muchly."
Move havn't been ''subsidizedn-not
yet. We know tho P. 7. Company have piles
ofmoney, but they need considerable to keep
all the rest Of the Oregon press straight
We mean to pay for their advertisement and
for dead heading so many sap-suckers up and
down the Willamette.
As we never withhold praise where we be-
lieve it to be due, we will state a fact rela-
tive to the p. T., Co, that lately transpired.
This week we received a new job Office direct
from San Francisco. In. BAH who want
job work done now bring it on. The ocean
steamer 0rifamme figured up fftY-seyen
feet of freight and charged us 81 % for
freight from San Francisco to Portland. We
supposed of course that the P. T. Company
would take the measurement Of the ORR
famine, and charge accordingly. But they
did no such thing. They re-measured, and
made out only As feet, and charged US only
$I4,40; whereas We expected they would
charge us S24,0Q. We like to give every
one his due; even Old Nick himsel-hence
we state these facts. Query: have they at
tempted to subsiaize as? Is this fair-dealing
on their part an attempt to buy us Off We
wish some one would answer this agonizing
question, and thus ease the agOnizing emo
tons from which it sprung.
Lampoon aside. We assure the public
that the P. t. Company will have opposition
much sooner than most are willing to believe.
We are advised of certain very important
movements in this direction but the pres
ent is not the proper time to give them pub
licity.
We repeat what we have said on former
occasions. We never expected TO break down
the P. I. Company. We would not do so if
we could, and we cannot do so if we would.
We have no personal feeling, rs some have
charged. We have never made any personal
attacks upon any of the Company. We re-
Trained from publishing a damaging state
ment made by the Statesman, in its last ex-
piring breath, relative the alIedged r~ascality
of the clerks in the employ Of the T. 7. Com.
pany. All we proposed to do, for the pres
ent, was to awaken the public mind to their
character as an Overgrown, crushing, grind
ing and pulyerizing Monopoly. This, to
some extent, we have accomplished. Go
where you will, in Linn and adjoining coun-
ties. and you will find the people, almost
universally, regardless Of politics, denounc-
ing the P. T. Company, and sustaining US
In the views we have taken relative to them.
The people see that the facts we have sub
mitted have not been, and cannot be answer
ed. Why, for example, should the P. I.
Company charge US $I4, 40 freight, as above,
and the 0rifamme only S4,28? The latter
transported our goods about seven hundred
miles, in a vessel that cost hard on to q half
million of dollars, over a rough and tempest
Gus ocean. The P. 7. Company transported
our goods about one hundred miles, up an
easily nayigated, not dangerous river, in a
boat whose total cost annOt be over $25 900
or $4,000. Yet, although they made our
freight much less than the 0rifamme,-al-
though the distance is only about one-seyenth
that trayersed by the ocean steamer-yet'
they charge us nearly three-fourths more
than the Oriiamme. Why is this? Why
should they do SO? Why should the people
of this Valley submit to such a monopoly?
They are the ones who suffer by it. They
pay these exhorbitant rates of freight and
passage. They are those who are feeced.
They are having the very life blood drawn
from them by this Company. What we ask
of the public is that they will bear these
facts in mind nxet time an opposition line is.
started, and make 1t a part Ct their religion
to p~atronize it and it alone. Let them ever
bear in mind that every dollar they place in.
the hands of the P. 7. Company is a knife
which will be used in cutting their own
Threats, so soon as the opposition line shall
have ceased to run.
ExPELLED.-ohn Traverse-the "man
with a scar on his face"-whom we not long
ago denounced as a scoundrel and villain
generally-was recently expelled from the
Albany Lodge of the Independent Order of
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