Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-03-15
How the Holiday Ring Disregarded
the Law and the Rights OF the
People, and the Best Interests
of Oregon,

of the REPUBLICAN,, how Ben
Holiday aud his hirelings spent the
money they robbed the people of to
lobby 10 and about the Legislatures,
both State and National. We shall
now show how this man, aided b.
his Republicans pet, J. c. Mitchell,
and other tools of Holiday, has disre-
garded the law of the land, the rights
of the people and the best interests Of
Oregon, while they have been claim
ing 10 be the immaculate leaders o.
the Republican party. The law
granting to Oregon and California
twenty sections of land per mile to aid
in the construction of railroad from
Portland to the Southern line of the
State and thence into California, was
a:sed in 1866, and provided specially
that the company to whom the grant
should be given by the State Lesisla-
ture, should be sold to settlers at
price not exceeding two dollars and
fifty cents per acre.
The land was given to Holladay by
the assistance Of his admirers and
money, and he promised great things to
the people of Oregon. He proposed
to be their Moses, and lead them out
of the wilderness and across the Red
Sea, and We need not inform our
readers. that if he has succeeded in
getting us out OF the W lderness, he Is
about TO drown US In the sea. tie
promised that if the good people Of
Oregon through their Legislature
would give him the land, he would rush
railroad to the California line where
it would interseet the road running
north from Sacramento, and thus
connect the people of this valley with
the great commercial mart OF the Pa
cific coast, San Francisco; that he
would tighten the burdens of high
freiehts that the farmers of Oregon
would never again receive less than
one dollar per bushel for their wheat.
and in short, he would make the Viii.
lamette valley bloom like rose gar
den
Holiday got the land, lied to the
Germans and obtained six millions of
money in gold, came to Portland to
live, bought large possessions, fur
nished fine mansion finely, and kept
harem, live in rio,ing and debauch>
cry, claimed to be King, took the
money he received from the people OF
Oregon and purchased men, or things,
enough to elect whomever he desired
both In tie State and at her CONNER.
cial city, and finally, the immaculate,
womanly Mitchell went to the Senate
of the United States aud the result 0
oil this is, tim>s were never so hard ln
Oregon as at present. the people we're
never so distressed for money, gram
bringing no more than before The
days of railroads. Now Why this state
of things? Simply because the people
allowed their gullibility to be operated l
upon by Beu Holiday and Mitchell,
Dolph and Crawford ring, to such an
extent as to pass the State quietly into
the hands of these corrupt and unprln-
cipled men, who cared nothing for the
peoples rights, so that thev controlled
the State end rode into power; and
then stood BY, looked calmly on aud
winked at these corruptions, and
exclaimed, " The are bad enough, but
no worse than others would do if they
had the same power and money
which is really admitting that the
governments 10th State and Federal
must be run by corruptionists, and Il
makes but little difference who ruas
them. Now as a punishment Tor all
this folly, the people are meeting oil
over the State and compelled to form
Farmers Clubs, and trying to inaugu'
rate some system by which they car
save themselves from total des'ructiol1
and the hands Of the despoiler TO whom
but low years slice they we're n
magnanimous' W