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


whoever the eombatan the by-stand-
rs insist on fair show for each side.
Even if it he but couple of boys
having set-to on being let out OF
.hool. one who chit FOUL would
land gool chance of summary pun
s!ment from his mates. The same
girit pervades all affairs. In pres
dental campaign, lying, slander and
forgery. even if successful for mo-
ment, wrcak a terrible revenge on
the dastards who use such weapons.
We are all brought up to insist on
fair fight and no favor. The natural
sense of justice AMONG men demands
it, and gives hearty support to the
sufferer from foul play.
Now, for years past-only too
many-we of the valley have been
struggling to "overcome the controll-
ing influence Of the City of Portland .
These are the words of Examiner"
in the Oregonian of the sth inst.
As no sane man desires to close up
the only road he can use, long, diff.
cult and costly though it be, until he
has got another shorter and cheaper
ready to take its place, the neces-
sity was laid upon us of opening
another route for our traffic. Thus
arose the interest in Yaquina Bay and
in the railroad to connect that port
with the valley; and thus it came
about that the inhabitants of the
Valley. farmers, townspeople and
press, are now and have for years
been the active and strenuous advo-
Gates for the improvement of that
Bay and the construction of that
railroad. Naturally enough Portland
fought it, for the prosperity of that
city is an artificial growth, and de-
pends on the maintenance of the toll
taking system by which it has grown
great. For, says Examiner" again,
'The City of Portland is the COM
mercial emporium of the whole State,
where all the large banks and all the
leading commercial firms, in every
branch of trade, are concentrated.
Every bushel of wheat and other
produeis-g grown IN the State is bought
and sold and shipped by Portland
merchants" Never mind now wheth-
er that statement is true or false
That is our adversaries' case the
words are theirs.
One more point they make. They
claim attention to "the established
flow of the internal commerce of
Oregon from North to South, and
South to North" under "the controU
iag Doacei''o of the existing transporta-
tion lines in the Willamette Valley,
from which nine tenths Of all the
freight and passenger business in
Western Oregon is derived" ''Like
the standard guage roads," they say,
''the narrow guage system will drain
everything in the direction of Port
land
There was one tribunal, one source
of power, not under Portland's infiu-
ence, TO which we, as citizens of the
United States, had an inalienable
right to appeal. The cry of this
Valley was loud enough to reach the
ear OF Congress. With solid facts to
back them; with natural advantages
that Portland could neither Control
nor destroy, but only mis-represent,
3,4OO of the inhabitants of this Valley
sent on .heir petition for the improve
ment of the entrance to Yaquina
Bay. All the officials of the State
supported it; the press of the
State gave their aid /; the repre-
sentatives of the State urged it with
all the strength their position lent
, and Congress listened. Not to
the full was ~our prayer heard, but
enough was granted to effect some
solid good, and to prove an earnest
of complete success.
How is this result described? ? Lis
ten: "The political exigencies Of
the presidential campaign enabled
the parties mentioned to obtain ar
appropriation of 100000"
Who are these parties? ''T. E
Hogg and his associates" say they
And tnds the endeavor is made te
give our success the color of a job
and to include as accompliccs thereir
all the earnest men who for years
past have striven to lift off the yok.
and break through the control
This is not all. Bitter experienc,
had taught us the kind of competi
tion the Yaquina road would have t
meet from that corporation which
eynically announced its policy to bt
the ssexcIusiye control of the Colum