The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-04-22
THEIR SEVENTH PLANK.

1
We call the especial attention of the
people of Oregon to the seventh reso-
luton IN the Republican Platform. It
sounds one of the key notes of the
campaign. We entreat every man in
Oregon who is opposed to pledging
the faith of tho State for the payment
of interest for an indefinite period up
on Railroad Company bonds, River
Transportation Company bonds, Ditch
Company bonds ad infnitun,. to hesi-
tate before voting for single Radical
candidate upon any Radical ticket for
tho Legislature. The talk about mil
road, river and other internal improve
ments is ominous. II the people OF
Oregon ever commit themselves to the
internal improvement resolution, the
saving clause, which favors asking aid
from Congress, won't save them Fl
being personally, heavily and indef-
nitely taxed for such improvements. --
OF course we all want Congress to aid
us; there is no difference between
parties about that. But we all don I
want new system of State taxation
inaugurated for that purpose. Be-
ware of that! The Congressional aid
clause is sham and blind. Con-
gress will not give more money subsi-
dies That has beep long decided up
on, and what new land subsidy have
the people of Oregon right to ex-
pect? What new one can they expect
1t Is notorious that the grant to the o.
G. r. II. and the MclIinnyille and AS
toria II. II. have absorbed all of the
! available public lands in the William
ette. Cmpqua and Rogue River Val.
lies. And now where can new
grant be located? In eastern Oregon:
Possibly! But any railroad improve.
inents prosecuted in eastern Oregon
will not be a State measure. Eastern
Oregon will surely get railroads but
they will not be built for eastern Ore.
gon or out of regard to it's develop.
ment. They will be extensions of Pa.
cific roads, now in contemplation. The
interests that prompt these arc moi
confined to eastern Oregon. Let no
: body be SO absurd rs to suppose thai
TREY depend in any degree upon cast
ern Oregon on upon the role Of easter,
OreJ~H, or of the whole State for tha
matter. Ii eastern Oregon, or I'll Or
egon, should unitedly oppose the mos
uncompromising hostility to thes,
t roads, they would still be built.
6 The interests of the eastern side O
4 the continent will force these road
: along their natural and inevitable
t courses to the sea. There are no op
a portunities III that section for rive
improvements, if Congress was dis
8 posed TO give money to make them
t This disposes of the proposed Con
sressional aid view of the question :
t The State aid view of it is more seri
a GUS. The predictions of the Repub
g lican party are all towards publ
debts. Their history in the admins
= tration of both the nation and O
i States proves this. They are the law
y full heirs to the maxim, ga nationa
e debt is national blessing, and thei
d faith in it is exemplifed by their works
9 Happily, Oregon possesses some ittl
: security in the limits in her Constitu
: ton.
However If the Republican part
: obtains ascendancy in the State,
e can readily whip an amendmen
t through two Legislatures and q popu
9 lar election with the party whip. Blu
even without this, there are, as w
u have indicated, many methods of MD
ing internal improvements Mt tho ex
pense of the taxpayer. 1t may b
$ done by granting inmunities, whicl
u are most specious sort of taxatio
: and which we will elaborate upon i
: the future. It may be done by guar
anteeing interest and by paying in in
stallment. The inventive genius Q
man is capable of wonderful achieve
: ments in such matters. Where ther
is will there is way, and the safes
plan to prevent the development of
way to extort subsidy from tax-pay
ers, to be conferred upon enterprisin
: capitalists, is to prevent the electio
J of those whose party has the will t
Z do it.
Whether the taxpayers of Oregon
and particularly those of Linn an,
: Benton counties, where this articl
: will be most read, will consider an
e act upon this matter before and at til
9 next election is 1ess material to us tha
:. to themselves. However they may sc
i fit to slight the propositions herei
: embodied, they will find the logic G
n the future unansweraLle and unnvoid
!, able.