The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-12-17

for ship loaded six or seven feet be.
low the actual depth of water to be
towed to sea; bins for grain and ele
vators were also arranged on these
tugs so that if the vessel lacked her
full load the cargo was completed at
sea. At St. Lonis to-day we find
that enuerprising city endeavoring to
compete with railroad centres by a
system OF immense barges, and it is
only a few years ago that rival sea-
ports on the eastern coast undertook
to lift vessels over shoal bars with
camels." So much for those who
have energy and try to maintain their
commercial equilibrium by honesty
and fair dealing. How much has
Portland done to benefit the State
Aside from asking for an applo lopria.
tion to dredge the annual deposit OF
sediment below Portland, positively
nothing that she could avoid. Did
any one see or hear of a Portland in
fuence at Salem working to secure
the passage of a law to reduce ton
mage or pilotage? OF course not, they
were too much exercised over the
Oregon Pacific, too busy Eliminating
false statements the press Of that
city has not yet ceased extolling the
| worthy Senators who were furnished
special cars to ride to and from the
commercial emporium" and such
honorable (?) gentlemen as seemed
by their acts, plant in the knee
joints, some small merchants, and an
unc; lous granger from an adjoining
county. And what did they do to
deserve so much notice? They
fought the Common Carriers Bill, a
measure the people wanted, they Ia
bored to defeat the Levee Bill-an-
other hope of the farmers, because
both these acts foreshadowed better
condition of trade, competition and
cheaper freights The truth is, and
its good time to tell the truth, the
| business men who assume to control
the future destiny of Portland, are in
turn controlled by the Oregon Rail
way and Navigation Company, and
it is the stated policy Of that
company" to meet any and all op-
posing interests and prevent their
establishment in oar (their) oacn
territory. Opposing interest will
be met as it has been SO far, by the
tree use of money in the Legislature,
by base lying, treacherous fraudulent
statements, bolstered up by honora-
BILE (?) Shyiocks and honorable (?)
attorneys, who work for pay and the
favor that thrift may follow"
Farmers of Oregon read the extract
at the head of this articlet Foetr
months to wait on an uncertainty be-
fore you can hope to realize a single
dollar for your labor of 1880, for re-
member eastern Oregon must be at
tended to first !" the backbone of oar
enterprise would not be weakened
by an action of justice or morsel
of sympathy, and surely by that time
"the retarding influence of the
scarcity of tonnage can easily be APP
preciated.o There is something so
cold, SO selfish, SO positively devil
ish in that sentence, no hope is ex
pressed, no wish for change, no de-
sire to sooth the bitterness Of the anx.
ious neutrality-suspicious.. 1t seems
to say, Farmers your wheat is
safely stored. it will .1s,aa1zy be
bought, sold and shipped by Port
land merchants The good, kind,
whole souled emporium of the
whole State," will graciously wait
like the Fat Duck " OF yore, ready
to gobble up your annual savings
and ask for more, quacking defiance,
meantime, at any invasion of its
oaon territory. Any other city in
America would exhibit the deepest
anxiety when confronted with. a mat
ter of such Importance, affecting as it
certainly does the prosperity of the
entire State. Nothing, however, but
an earthquake ora streak of lightning
judiciously used would stop the mar
row-minded managers of that incom-
paratively selfish emporium from
money changing, and the study OF
that peculiar kind of trade that takes
all, and gives nothing in return for
honest toll.
RIALTo.
Newnort Dac 2 1880