The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-12-03

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such manner as to prevent their es-
tablishment in "our own territory
"a fine word that "control;" why
not say absolute ownership" at
cnce, with all the rights mp to heaven
above and down to bell beneath, as
the old law books give it?)
And so in our last Legislature Sen
ate bill 50 was introduced and, sup
ported, to provide for interchange of
traffic by common carriers, and to
forestal dishonest competition.
Whence sprang the bitterness with
which this bill was fought? A ru-
NOR had reached the 0. r. q N. Co,
that the failure of that bill would
give a deadly blow to the support
our railroad had won in the east.
They stopped not to ask whether the
State demanded it, they enquired not
if the growing traffic of the State re-
auired It's protection, but PortlanPs
representatives. servile henchmen OF
selfish and grasping corporation,
were "solid " in their opposition
astonished Senators from these val
lev counties looked on to see Mr..
Hirsch become the mouth-piece OF at
| ro1o uintnnf UhIph
STAYED not at "T. z Hogg and his
associates" but covered with their
food of venomous vituperation some
of our most valued citizens. Tele-
grams flew north, south and east to
poison public opinion in announcing
that the Oregon Pacific Railway had
been denounced in the Oregon Sen
ate as fraud.
Once more; our valley citizens,
whose statements as to the wheat
production OF our valley had been
impugned, met and undertook the
collection of returns from our ware
housemen and millers, and sent the
results on for publication, proving
that their words were those of truth
and soberness, and that firm reli-
ance could be placed in those figures
on which the estimates of traffic of
the Oregon Pacific had been framed.
Not one day was lost ere the enemy
was at work. The Portland organ,
which had set itself the task from the
first, of using the very weight and
influence it gained from the subscrip-
tion list in these parts, to check, to
sneer at, to destroy if it were but
possible, the enterprise on which our
hopes were placed, sent out its ennis
saries, availed itself of the organiza-
tion of the hostile corporations, and
with a courage worthy of better
cause, staked its own reputation by
publishing returns, showing wheat
! production from these valley coun.
/ ties of but three millions of centals,
against the four millions three hun
dred thousands. reported by the ware
housemen and millers themselves
difference far too vast to be consis-
tent with honest error, or even a
mild negligence.
Still again-On the 9Th of the
past month of November, the
Oyegonian published, with the sig
nature of Examiner what bur-
ported to be review of the prospec-
Ins of the Oregon Pacific, and of the
circular in which its bonds were
recommended by the financial COM
pany, IN New York which had un-
dertaken the issue of its securities. It
is difficult to say which is the more
repulsive, the cynical audacity of the
attempt to assume the disguise of a
citizen of Oregon interested, oh so
deeply, in the good faith of appeals
to the public to invest in Oregon Sc
curt1es, or the reck lessness of state
ments made to deceive the eastern
capitalist, unfamiliar with Oregon
and its resources, and timid in taking
hold of new undertakings.
| When this first appeared our
readers were, many of them, puzzled
at seeing a writer, evidently familiar
with his subject, venturing on state
ments he must have known could be
disproved as soon as made. The dis
guisc of the public-spirited citizen
was too thin. The hands were those
of Esau, but the voice, it was,
indeed, Jacobs voice. The very
ring and turn of the sentences was
familiar. The old game was played
of publication here to affect the
eastern market. On the sth it was
inserted in the Oregouian here, on
the 18th garbled copies were sent out
in floods in New York, with this pre-
fix: "The following review of the
circular and prospectus recently pub
lished in promotion of the attempted
sale of So, $50, 900 of first mortgage
. bonds of the Oregon Pacific Rail
road, has appeared in the Daily Ore
go,aian, the leading journal of Port
land, Oregon;" and this is the last