The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-02-01
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The New York sun OF tho 18th ui-
timo scenes to understahl our Aenior
Senator, judging from the following.
HirpLE MITcHEnL, in his speech IN
tho Senate defending his scheme to se-
cure new land grant for tho benefit Of
JAY GoULD and the Union Pacific, ad-
mittod that the country was thoroughly
sick of the system Of subsidies to rail
roads. HIpPLE also condescendingly re-
marked that the universal publ.e ssnti-
ment was Sin great measure well
founded. We are truly delighted to
hear HIPPLE say this He is states
man of such gigantic stature, and up to
the time that Mr. THoMpsoN, at present
member of Congress from Pennsylvania,
helped him out of that good old Com
inonwealth between two days, he had
earned character so stainless that we
were really not quite snrc that che peo.
Pile of the United States were right in
Withholding the public property from
the GouLps and the seorTs and che
HUNTiNGroSs Until this welcome sen
tence had fallen from tho lips of HIP
PIE himself But doubt is past now
HiprLE has said it, and, being sure we
are right, we shall so ahead.
But after all, HlPPLE has strange
way of showing his faith. The fruits
that he brings forth are meet far any
thing but repentance. He doesn't be
lieve in subsidies; be thinks that the
public sentiment against the practice is,
''as il were," just. But the pure HIP
PIE proposes, in that very breath, to
confscate about five million acres from
lands once granted to the Northern
Pacific, and make new grant Of them
to JAY GoULp, or to somebody for JAY
GoULD, on the sorry pretence that they
are to be used to build road from
Portland to Salt Lake. Now.
Mr. HIPPLE, if he lives a few weeks
longer, may learn that, in addition TO
the sentiment against subsidies, thero
is also very general sentiment against
JAY GOULD and all his works. This.
like the other, is, ''as it were" Just;
or, in the phrase which HlrPLE seems
to prefer, it ''is, in measure, well
founded He might just as well pause
before he butts against the stone wall.
If HIPPLE should unfortunately collide
with an immovable body, and knock his
brains out, the enormous quantity of
them flying about would produce some
thing like the reported rain of-uncook-
ed flesh in Kentucky. We really
trust that HIPPLg will be preserved to
us. Since the prostration Of the ex-
eellent Mr. PATTERSON of South Caro-
lima we csnnet possibly spare HIPpLR.
He is now the only surviving specimen
in good condition of the CAMERON
school of Pennsylvania statesmen. We
trust the people of Oregon will perceive
the necessity of returning HIrrLE to
the Senate, and we earnestly advise
HIPPLR himself to SEQ that AIr GoULD
| pays cash to cover election expenses as
he goes along. He ought also to be
more circumspect as to the manner in
which he serves Mr. GoULD. TnoMP-
soS's resolution, looking to the forfeit
nre of the whole Northern Pacific
grant, would undoubtedly prove very
effeetual method of removing all dan
ger of tho Northern line competing
with the Union Pacific. But HnpLE
ougat not to have got THoMrsoS to of
fer it. Thomson is well known as
HIPrLg's other self, and If tho rcsolu-
tion passes, and the people ef Oregon
find themselves deprived of even the
sickly prospect Of railroad held out
by the Northern Pacific, they may get
sore about it. and remand HIprrE to
private life