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ment, and supplies sufficient for present
necessities.
REINFCRCEMENTS AND SUPPLIES.
In the years 1889 the two Amer
ican mission stations received through
their respective boards, reinforcements
of families and supplies which rendered
them quite independent of assistance
from the Hudson Bay Company, but
they were still held by them as Ameri-
can intruders, Notwithstanding they
came to the country with the sanction
OF their government and the protection
claimed by both parties under the Joint
Occupancy Treaty of 1918, which was
renewed in 1927, and only abrogated
by the treaty of June 18th 1916,
affirmed by proclamation Of President
Polk, August 5th, 1916.
A DISCOVERY OF AN ELEMENT OF
POWER.
The Hudson Bay Company, with its
absolute control of the trading interests
of the country, found in the space of
four years, that the American Mission
airy establishments were, by their moral
influence and agricultural improvements
destroying their future prospects of
Indian trade and gathering around them
an element of power such as would, if
not checked, drive them from this
country. To circumvent this moral and
civilzing influence, and destroy the
American settlement; they introduced
and sustained Jesuits from foreign coun-
tries, who arrived with the companies
by overland express in the fall of 1888.
Having previously dismissed their En-
glish Episcopal Chaplain Mr.. BEAVER
and wife.
THE TWO INFLUENCES.
At this date in our history we have
not only powerful commercial COM
pany of indian traders, with the expert
ence of 2O6 yeras, but an order of Jesu-
its established by LOYoLA in 1886,
having for its object the re-establish-
ment of the Popes sway over all the
civil powers of the earth, and an ex-
perience of 303 years. The history of
this order of the Roman Church is
marked by one unbroken chain of intes-
tine wars, shedding human blood in
every country cursed by their presence.
No man can truthfully claim Oregon as
All exception, and we predict that our
government will not have peace with
our Indian tribes, and our foreign ele-
ments, while the Jesuits are permitted
to impart to them their superstitious
teachings and incite them to war against
American civilization.
CHRISTIAN SOLDIER.
These two influences above refer
red to were sustained by the strong
est nation on the globe; they were
met, however, in Oregon by the far
seeing soldier of King Emmanuel, al
most in single combat at the little
place now called Wallula, in Wash
ington Territory, DIR. WHITMAN hav-
ing become satisfied that the combined
effort of the Hudson Bay Company
and Jesuits was to make Oregon a
British Jesuit Colony, and while at
Fort Walla Walla was met with the
taunting boast that mo power could
prevent it," and the shout, ''Oregon
is ours, America may whistle, they
cannot prevent it.
Two hours after hearing these re-
marks, he dismounted from his foam
ing steed at his station twenty-five
miles distant, and said to him whom
you have honored ON this occasion, "a
special effort must be made TO save
this country from becoming British
Territory" Success crowned his her
culean efforts TO reach Washington,
but cost him
MARTYRS DEATH,
on the goth of November, 1S47, and
also his wife and the male members Of
his family, and such American male
emigrants as had accepted his hospital
ity for the winter of that year. While
DIR. WHITMAN was toiling and strug-
Cling amid the SHOWS and storms of
winter journey across the Rocky Noun
tains, to defeat the British and Jesuit
boast, and save Oregon from becoming
British Colony, few Pioneers in the
Wallamet valley were actively engaged
in combining the American settlers, urg-
ing them to form civil government for
mutual protection.
fconciuded next week.