The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-05-31

away all capital not i'm his own interest,
aud effectually checked immigration.
No independent banker, manufacturer,
or capitalist is fool enough to come here
and invest his money where he can
plainly see that his fortune and invest
ments may be ruined at any time by
this factiOus and unreasonable railroad
king. They have stopped coming. No
poor man, knowing the state OF affairs
here, will come to pay Holiday more
for timber and brush land than good
prairie viii cost in Kansas; and especi-
ally not when he learns that not pas
senger or pound of freight can get in or
out of the State without paying tribute
to one man, whose only rule of action is
might, and not right. Call you this
beneficial state of affairs ? Call you the
man who produced it a benefactor?
Nay, verify; lie is Oregon's worst enemy.
HOLLADAY AS A POLITICIAN.
Every citizen has right to his politi
cal views, and TO the free expression Of
them. But what right has Ben HOlla-
day, a citizen of the State of New York,
TO be interfering in the politics of Ore
gone As the owner of property here,
he has right to demand equal protec-
ton for property along with that of our
own citizens. And now we ask, has he
not always had it? Where is the citi-
zen, where is the party, that has ever
| proposed any injustice to him, or one
rule for him and a different one for other
| people? There have been two sessions Of
the Legislature since he came here, in
both of which he sought for and re-
ceiUed beneficial Legislative fdUOTs to
/ himself. And where was the member
/ that proposed to do him an injury? The
fact is that Ben Holiday has been
/ feted, and honored, and petted, and fat
/ tened by the people of Oregon as no
other man ever was by any other State.
And how has he returned our hospital
| ity? Look at his malign and eorrupting
/ influences in our Legislature; look at
his violation Of the land-grant act in
| quadrupling the price of lands upon
poor settlers; look at the employment of
/ his "red shirts' in the Portland cleo
tions; look at his recent interferences
in the primaries of political party in
the same city; look at his hostility and
malice spit out upon every man that
does not obey his orders and wishes;
look at his compulsion of men to give
up their steamboats,, hacks, and drays,
or submit to ruinious opOsition. His
political platform is "Rule or ruin,n
and, for one, we propose To give him
good square fight to see whether he
can.
THE REMEDY.
The ballot-box offers you the only
remedy to free yourselves from the i'm
position of this unreasonable man. And
we appeal to you, citizens of Oregon, to
pass not these words lightly by.
You men of bronZed cheek and horny
hands, in the sweet of whose honest toll
your daily bread is earned, how do you
like the picture? Are you ready to do
Holladay's bidding at the polls, and
thus perpetuate his power over your la
Dor and earnings?
And you immigrant and settler on
yon distant hillside, with your all stored
| in that humble cabin erected by your
hands; you labor like galley slave to
clear that land, earn living, and for
years pay interest and ten dollars per
acre for land which Congress told Ben
Holladay to sell you for two dollars and
IA half You and your wife have come
thousands of miles to settle in and build
home in fair young Oregon. You were
I told that land was here, cheap; and,
once here, you cannot retrace your
steps. The Congress of your country
/ has endeavOred TO protect you, but this
King HOlladay has set at defiance the
law made for your protection, and is
now engaged in robbing you by slow de-
grees. No politician or political party
in Oregon has dared TO speak ont in
your defense. But the Willamette
Ftumcr has dared to speak, and will
continue to defend you. This paper was
established and is published for thC
benefit Of the laborers and farmers o
Oregon, and it will never be bought, mol
threatened, nor bullied off the track
We know neither of the political par
ties, but we fight for the freedom anC
independence of labor and laboring meT
all the time. Give us an honest man
who will stand by the working men
and oppose the mOnopolies, and we car
not what ticket he is on.
, Workingmen, farmers, mechanics
: and merchants, citizens all, read thi
and pass il around, and If any man fin'
: aught herein amiss, demand his reason
D and send it to us for reply, if you nee
TO do so. But if this doctrine suits you
, then we ask YOU to buckle on your al
: NOR and go to work at once, for the tim
I is short. Remember that your enem
is organized, has money TO spend, an
INSCRIPTIONS hirelings at work. Al
= tend all political meetings, call out tn
= candidates, and make them pledg
: themselves Tor OragillnsI you OF Ine TAI
4 road king. Demand fence laws for tn
. railroads, payment for killed stOel
= equal taxation of the railroads wit
O other property, and full protection fc
e producers and shippers of freight; an'
@ lastly, demand that no man be sent
n the Legislature, to Congress, or TO I'll
n Senate, who will not pledge himself
n enforce the two dollars and half clau:
! of the land-grant act. Holladay's mil
IS ions will give you a terrible fight; bI
> 90 to the election TO assert and mail
n tain your rights as freemen. If you al
a opposed by force, or money either
n any part Of the State, meet it prompt
IS and effectively;
e ''Strike for your altars and your fires,
n Striken-
r and leave not a single perjured, bas