The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-09-25
SEVERAL REASONS WHY.

most popular side of the question. Tt
says that the horizon in Oregon looks
somewhat misty, and If the Republi-
can party does not put its shoulder to
the wheel and work as one man the
same question will beat them in Ore
gon next June.
The Same result will most certainly
obtain in Oregon next June, and the
Chinese question is no doubt one of
the elemonts in politics that will con-
tribute 10 such q result. A party cam
not succeed, and should not, that
takes such an attitude Of hostility to
the laboring interests of the Country
as that taken by tho Republican party.
The letter written by Mr.. Cheno-
weth, published last week, is one of
the surface indications that so certainly
point to tho revolution, silently and
Enthusiastically inaugurated in that par
ty, the tenets of which are rendered
doubly Objectionable to tho people by
the dotestable hypocrisy employed to
enforce them.
Take the tariff question to illustrate:
The Radical party wants high tariff
o. to create revenue for Government
purposes; (2) to prerent the introduc-
ton of foreign articles; and it argues
first one and then tho other of these
conflicting ideas to suit the temper
OF the particular community sought TO
be impressed. In manufacturing lo-
calities like New England the tariff
advocated is protective" one-al-
though tariff so high as to exclude
| foreign manufactures must OF course
cut off the revenue from these sources.
Out West, and on the Pacific, we don't
hear much about n protective" tariff.
The protective tariff of New England
is a revenue" tariff in California and
Oregon. The man who votes the Rad
ical ticket merely TO enforce u high
tariff for the purposes of keeping out
foreign goods and of raising n large
revenue from tho importation of for
eign goods Is either pretender oi' n
fool. Looking TO the revenue interests,
the protectionist is trying to kill the
goose that lays the golden egg.
And not less dishonest are their
promises of friendship for labor
While increasing tho articles OF home
consumption, tho laborer finds an or
ganized and determined effort put
forth to decrease his wages. He Is
threatened with competition that he
cannot withstand and is given the con-
solatory information that this competi-
ton and reduction OF wages Is for his
own benefit; that the country needs it,
viii grow rich with it, and will reflect
upon himself the glory of her wealth.
In that political pabulum there is
richness" quite equal to tho delecta-
bic diet at Dotheboy's Hall.
That the party holding such posi-,
tions is defeated is not wonderful. De.
nunciation, falsehood, sophistry and
federal pap may succeed in carrying q
few elections, but there Is n great good
sense in the country that viii and il
asserting itself; it canaot long be
blinded by prejudice or deceived by
sophistry. 1t cannot be persuaded
that high prices and low wages is q
desirable condition of society, or thai
what is an evil to the citizen is a good
to the State.
The idea that elections arc to b.
carried by will and work, by physica
exertion and money, is an insult to the
sense and integrity of the people,
Whenever We put forth the exertioI
Whenever there is an inducement t.
call forth the effort, we can win," i
the consolation that the Radical press
rendered to its disappointed reader
when the result in California becam,
known. You can do nothing of tn
kind. Your purposes are against tht
voter and his ballot is against you
The election in California is only
foretaste of what awaits you in Penn
sylyania and Ohio. In Oregon, wher,
Chinese Immigration has already af
forded a practical demonstration of it
workings, you will be defeated by ma
jority at least one-half greater thar
that of last year You may put al
( your shoulders to the wheel, you
$ bummers and blowers and ofice-hold
t ers may work as one man, your Sena
, tors in Washington city may buy news
papers and pour out money from you
3 Washington election fund; not all @
2 these, with the Loyal League an,
? Gov. Woods, appealing to me, ,Countr
: and me God, " thrown in, can stay til
7 march of public opinion.
a@aezzusEsa..ss.sz-rsrz~s
A man named Frank Whitney wa
fatally stabbed by Jack Harris at sa
9 loon in Portland, on the 22nd inst
: From the testimony given on the in
y quest, it seems that Harris acted i