Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-03-12
Political Notes.

Il looks as though the California De.
mocrats, Notwithstanding their preten.
sions and protsstations, ratbos like
cheap labor Az amendment offered
to the Marin Railroad bill, TO the effect
that the employment of Cinnamon on
the job should work forfeiture of the
! charter, has been voted down by the
Assembly by vote of forty-two to
twenty-four. How is thisg The De-
mocrats could have carried the amends
ment, but they didn't. Is that sort Of
voting consistent with Democratic pro
fessions and pledges to support "white
labor?"
The Oregon City Enterprise holds
with the Albany Democrat that the
national debt is not in process of re-
duction. The Oregonian criticises their
position after this style:
Well, what is there, then, that is
certain? Who knows for certain that
there is any national debt? There is
the same authority for the statement
that the debt is decreasing that there
is for the statement that we have any
debt at ALL
u. s. Senator Warner, of Alabama,
writes this encouraging letter to the n.
Y. Tribune, which speaks we'll for the
Congressional policy of reconstruction ::
Sin: You are sadly mistaken when
you include Alabama among the States
which are losing population by reason
of the current which is running toward
the South West, and most notably from
the States of Virginia and Georgia.
Alabama is gaining largely by this ex-
odus, and there is also large and
steady influx of Northern men and cap.
ital. The agents of our railroads have
been in Virginia for months past 'offer.
ing 81 so per day for laborers. 1t is
safe to assume that Alabama has gained
5000 in population by emigration DUR
ing the past year, aud her people are
now prosperous and generally better
coutented than at any former period of
her history. Much of this prosperity is
due to her prompt admission to her old
status in the Union, and to the wise and
liberal course of the Republican party
10 our State. Let Congress now net
thus wisely, literally and generously
towards Virginia, and similar results
will follow, both materially aud polite
ally.
The Oregonian supposes that the
Democratic State Convention, soon to
assemble at Albany, will pronounce Ell.
ther for payment of the national debt
in greenbacks or downright repudiation.
Greenbacks, however, have advanced
so nearly to the value of specie that
there is no longer anything to be made
by paying in greenbacks. Reputation
would seem therefore to be the last re-
source of the Democracy.
The Statesman of the 9Th speaking
of importation says:
To. day closes the highly Democratic
game of colonization, and the counties
of Polk, Benton aud Yamhill can count
up at their leisure the floating debris of
Democracy which has lodged along the
banks of their creeks and on the breadth
of their prairies. II Democracy is al
lowed to have sway in Oregon, we may
look for corruption /; the ballot will be
dishonored; the voice of the people
will not be heard. It will be the re-
peater; the imported voter; the false
swearer who will pronounce the "popu-
lar verdict" and the rule of the Demo
cracy viii be synonymous with corrup-
ton and decentralization. We can think
of no more horrible fate for America
than to be governed by the miserable
advocates of Reputation, whose motto
is success, however won.