The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-07-25

TRE "ALBANY."-This is the namc of a
new boat recently built by the P. T. Com.
pany. She made her appearance here last
Tuesday morning, and after a short stay,
started up for Corvallis, having on board a
gOodly quantity of people from Albany, be-
cause it was q +" free.ride !" but after going
up q few miles she became scared at a few
Bnags, so we are told, and turned round and
came back, without having even smelt Cor
Wallis.
The P. T. Company can we'll afford to
build 6 little hand. box boat and name it IN
honor Of our city; for Albany and Linn
county pour more money into their plethoriC
Golfers than any other three counties in the
State. Linn county alone contributes to the
p. T. Co. sufficient to build u dozen such
boats every year.
One reason why we are anxious that the
proposed railroad between Portland and
Eugene shall be a success is that it will
break up this monopoly. Let the railroad
be completed, and in successful operation,
and frsights Of all kinds will come down,
and our farmers will then have some sort Of
show for competing with California farmers.
AT present the freights are SO ruinously
high that it takes a large portion of our pro-
duce to pay for shipping the balance to mar
ket. Our business men-our farmers
should never forget that while the +. I.
Company build boats and christen them af.
ter some ~favOrite town or locality, they are
SHINING them as completely as ever a peo.
pie were skinned by a soulless monopoly.
These new boats only afford now facilities
to the P. I. Company foe skinning Linn
county moro successfully.
WHINING.-All the teachers Of the public
schools of Portland were dismissed ut the
end of the last school term /; and the Radi-
cal papers are whining terribly al"ut it.
They say politics were at the bottom of it.
We do not know what the cause is, nor
what reason the School Officers assign /; nor
is it material. We 30 know, however, that
ever since the Radicals have had control in
Portland, they were very careful. as n gen.
eral fact, to employ none except the ''trn"ly
loil." Every Democrat was prescribed, nu
matter how we'll qualified in other respects.
And this is true of almost every locality in
the United States where the Radicals were
in the a~scendancy. And not only So, hut
many Of the teachers thus employed. regu-
ilarly taught Radical dogmaS tn the scholars,
one half of whom were the children Of Dem
ocratic parents. We know IF many instan-
-ces where Democrats, asserting their man
hood, refused to tamely submit tn such out
RACES, and took their children frnm school,
and hired teachers who confined themselves
to their legitimate duties.
1t comes with a very bad grace from thnse
who, for six or eight long years have thus
prescribed and prosecuted Democrats, now
to set up a howl because the Democratic city
of Portland has dismissed the Radical teach
-ers aforesaid. Their previous acts should
as a complete cstoppel.
We havo no fears, however, that Demo
Gratis will initiate their Radical predecessors
In this senseless, wholesale prescription.
The Democratic party always has been an
advocate of liberation. The Democratic
party never yet imprisoned any one; never
yet menaced anybody's liberty, or property,
or life, because Of a mere difference Of poIit-
ical or religious belief; and they do not pro-
pose to initiate the Radicals in such things.
They leave such meanness and y%ilIainy to
them.