The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-02-25

of the kind Men like Mr.. Holman
may talk until doomsday. The fact
that eighteen or twenty millions may
be saved por annum cuts no figure.
It is tho petition Of tho monoy-holder
only to which it listens. Tho para
sites TINT have fastened themselves
upon the industrial interests Of this
country arc the first objects Of Con-
grossional solicitude aud thoy will re-
main 30 under the existing regimen.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The system Of porverting or wholly
disrogayding facts by tho authorities
at Washington, and by tho major part
of tho Republican newspaper press is
becoming SO generally understood that
tho feeling of distrust in tho govern
meat is daily increasing among the
people. And this feeling has been much
increased by the events Of the past
three months, by tho developments of
Mr.. Dawes and tho interminablo dis
cussion that has ensued. aud by tho
mastery Report Of Commissioner
Wells. Tho moro profound attention
is directed 10 these matters, because
these men are ardent Republicans,
whose party attachments and party
fealty arc above suspicion. The as-
founding facts and figures that they
have given tho country are not due TO
tho zeal of partisans hunting testimony
againstpolitical opponents. They nrc
the dispairing efforts Of the better class
of that party. Thoy arc the overrun-
ming of the Radical bushel of conceal
ment. The treatment that Mr.. Dawes
and Mr. Wells have met il conclusive
proof upon the matter. They have
had to fight their way inch by inch
against great numerical odds. Thoy
have been set upon with tho grossest
personal abuse, and arc now arraigned
for high treason to the Republican
party.
:. Before passing to Tho matter imme-
diately at hand and as m illustration
of tho correctness of theso premises,
wo again remind the public of tho pc
riodic falsehood that issues from MIR.
Boutwell, concerning tho reduction oil
the public debt. The fact is open, no
torious and undoniable, that tho debt
total ia getting larger each month,
but by tho most skillful manipulation
Of figures. by tho poryersion oi
truth which is the essence OF lie, II
il made to appear smaller. And
month after month. in tho future as IN
the past, tho ovor-crodulous portion oi
community viii DO reioiced with ths
usual monthly statement. Mr. Bout
well may haye them ready prepared
for tho next twelve months.
ATr. Dawes has shown that the pro
fessions OF rotrenchment and reform
in the administration was . pretense
without shadow of truth and forced
out by sheer party necessity; that tbs
expenditures have increased fearfuliy,
and that wholesale extaryaganee per
vades all the Departments-one onl,
excepted. But the party whippers-in
from Butler to tho Oregonian, witt
here and therc IN exception, are do
ter1ninedly engaged in the impossible
task of putting Dir. d. down.
The public is aware of tho handling
that Commissioner Wells has receiyet
in Congress and out Of it for reporting
tho result OF his official research. Il
his report, tho Commissioner showed
that pig-iron is produced in this eoun
try at On average cost of from So Il
| s26 per ton, and that the Welsh pig
iron in Great Britain-from competi
ton with which our Pennsylvania irol
lords are SO drcadfully anxious TO b
protected-is produced ct cost o
| so. .72 gold or .s26. .O6 in currency. Th
CONSERVATION of the iron lords is easil,
imagined at the Development of thes
facts, which might induce o reduction
of their 50 per ton tariff upon sucl
iron. They at once petitioned Congress
to inquire into tho Commissioner
facts, and offered to proye-by them
selves of course-that the cost il
America is 5000. But they hay
more than found their match. Th
Commissioner does not wait to be of
fcially called upon for his data, bu
replied at once. He shows that pig
iron is made at Clarksyille, Tenn, q
cost of $3.50; that it costs in Nash
vile S22.60; that, by the most incon
troyertable statistics, it is put down a
Carondelet, Mo-, at $25-at Youngs
town, Ohio, at $25-on the Lehigl
river in the State of Pennsylvania, j
is produced at $24-And he furthe
shows from firm in eastern Pennsyl
yania, that the iron can be made 70
! S22 to $23 per ton there, and then pa,
a good profit.
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