, 1879-02-27
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The poor old fashioned "Oregon-
ian whose existence has been one Sc
rics of mistakes from its conception
until the present day, has at las;
made the fatal one which will con-
denim it to the depths Of oblivion,
tumbled in with hundreds of similar
ventures of past years which have
yielded to the inevitable, on account
OF error or continued assumption and
bombast. Long ago the concern
would have yielded up had merit
been its support. Unfortunately,
gold was contributed and its columns
prostituted for personal gain, until
virtues are Of little consequence,
and vice and corruption championed
when they bring with them the
tinkle OF gold. We are sorry to see
the undertaking crumbling away as
it might have been fraught with
good to the entire State if legiti
mately con nducted, but there is no
use to complain against just retribu-
tion. The Harrisburg "Nucleus"
fires the TO lowing broadside into the
old hulk, which in turn will be fol
lowed by the interior press, which
has been dictated to and snubbed
alternately as the humor suggested,
until the "heshliest incubus" shins
over the Lulwarks and tumbles him
self into the sea Of oblivion, aban.
doning the old wreck to a fate such
traffic as she has been engaged in de-
serves.
The "Oregonian" by naughty, su-
percilious bravado, in snubbing the
interior press, has ar last walked the
mountain, and raised spirit of re-
sistance that will grind it into pow
der. Every local paper has its local
influence, and the trickling riIls and
purling streams, uniting, form the
mighty river whose irresistible cur.
rent carries everything before it.
This purse proud organ, entrenched
in the metropolis Of the State, backed
by the most powerful monopoly on
the Northwest coast, arrogated to
itself dictatorial powers, and by in.
trigue and dishonest pecuIatiou, sub
sidized The Western Union Tele
graph Company, to its base, ignoble
purposes. This reprehensibIe act on
the part Of this company, who were
common carriers, and had no legal
right to place their lines in duress
for the benefit of any individual,
company or corporation, will not be
forgotten by the people Of Oregon,
when progress nimhe hands fashion
a demand for more broad and unre.
stricted telegraphic privileges. AT
ter securing an embargo on tele
graphic communication East, and
having monopoly of the Columbia
and Willamette rivers, its next insid
ious step was the manipulation Of
State patronage, by seizing the key
to senatorial influence. In this
scheme it met the indignant repul.
sion # the people and fell back upon
the noble (?) occupation of stabbing
the interests of State, to vent Its
spleen against the interest of one
man. This mellow dramatic effort
didn't scour with the better intel!i
gence Of the people, so it betook it.
self, as the last perfdious act of fcly
and dangerous infatuation of snub.
bing the press of Oregon, and now
it finds itself struggling like Laoc
oon) in the folds of cobra, that is
making it gap as Brackenbury said
he'd make things gap or speak to the
ghost Of his father. Yea, verify, it
has sown the wind and shall reap the
whirIwind Of an insulted press that
will sweep it to the sweet by-and.by
without brake or breeching.