The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-04-03
WATER ON BOTH SHOULDERS.

We pity an editor who is afraid to say hi:
soul is his own. Such an one is sure, soon
er or later, to make a ludicrous exhibition
OF himself. Our friend Carter, of CorYal
1is, has just been trying to perform the diff.
cult feat Of carrying water on both shoul
ders. A company has lately been formed,
as our readers are already aware, by sundry
gentlemen of Long Tom, and thereabouts,
for the purpose Of navigating tho William
'ette river between Eugene and Oregon City.
The editor of the Gazette notices this fact
and says: ''While we welcome the new
company, we have no harsh epithets for the
old. No monopoly, we think, would have
treated the people better.'
Our cotemporary's selfinterest requires
that he should notice favorably the new
company. His subscribers up that way are
in favor Of the movement inauguratCd by
this new company of Longtomers; but he
does not wish to incur the displeasure of the
Pr. company. He knows very we'll that,
if he does, he viii not get any more patron.
age from them, and that such q thing as
travelling free IN and down the Willamette
will be impossible. He knows that the P.
7. company spot any one, particularly an
editor, who dares to say one word against
Ghesa and that all ;Aeir influence will be
brought to bear against him ever after
Hence his ludicrous attempt to pat the new
company of Longtomers on the back with
out giving offence to the P. I: company
lie will ultimately find out his mistake
The editor of the Enterprise at Oregon City
tried the same game, but he failed. The p.
T. company finally Ostraciscd him and n0'o
he talks about right. Hear him:
''The last Legislative Assembly, apprecia-
ting the importance of removing obstruc-
tions to the free navigation of this river,
passed an act appropriating one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, out of funds donated
to the State for the purpose of internal i'm
provements, as an inducement TO the con-
Struction CT q canal and locks around the
falls under this act a company has under
taken the work and the day is not far dis
tant when unobStrueted navigation of the
Willamette, from its mouth to the head of
navigation, will forever prevent its control
madness to attempt to sustain an opposition
line Of boats on the river, because the faeili.
ties of the P. I. company for transporting
freight Orer the falls have given them an ad-
vantage, which enabled them to carry
freighrs ct a rate that would not pay an op-
position line This state of things must
continue until the canal and locks are con-
structed, when the day of high freights, and
supercilious behavior will be at an end
In the mean time we may expect that the
project will be frowned upon by the P. I.
company and their satellites, against whose
domination it aims fatal blow. But the
work will go on, and our advice to the p. L.
company is this: ''Make hay while the sun
shines :" put up the price of freights, grind
the face Of the poor, resrard your friends,
and punish your enemies and if other OPP
positions should be put on, WATER YOUR
STOCK and buy them out. By this course you
may perhaps wiring from the people enough
to enable you to leave the country, when you
can no longer make merchandise Of the peo-
ple's necessities"
That is the way to talk. 1t is decided and
explicit, and full of snap and rim, and the
sooner the editor of the Gazette also cuts
loose from the P. T. company the better for
him and his patrons.