The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-01-06

1857

With this number Of oSr paper We
greet our readers with cheerful hopes
and assured prosperity for the year to
come. Tho past year has boen moro
sventfal for Oregon than any that has
preceded it. Our commerce has ateadi
ly increased, and eur exports have non.
assumed proportions that give an ear
est to the future of our state. Property
values have augmented all over the
state. While the assessment returns
shew only sixty millions of property,
there are two hundred millions of prop.
erty in fact in Oregon. The credit oi
the State is beyond question, and our
merchants, though they assist many in
bridging over their liabilities, are, as a
general thing, sound and reliable. Our
schools, colleges and universities, are n
credit to any state or nation, and their
support is becoming more certain and
substantial. The health of the state il
good, sud far better than that of other
States. Over three hundred miles Of
railroad are promised US for the year
1892. Much more interest is taken in
manufactures, aud the demand for home
made articles is becoming greater.
When we realize that the profits deriv-
ID from the carrying trade must so out
of the state, we learn that We must man
ufacture for ourselves aud thus retain
some of our earnings among US. We
are becoming more familiar with our ex
periencs in this respect. We are learn
ing our lesson without the aid Of any
ether teacher but experience. The ne
csssity Of retaining our earnings at
home is staring us in tha EacO and nrg-
ing as to adopt some method by which
it may be done. To look over the entire
state and consider that the net earn
ings of corporations and tho monies
paid for all We eat aud wear nearly are
sent TO other states OF countries as fast
as they are obtained, aud yet prosper is
the most astonishing feature Of our PC
litical and commercial existence. We
ask, and ask again. how long can this
custom obtain without sending our pro-
ducers into hopeless bankruptcy Have
not the signs fully appeared on the com
msrcial horizon warning us Of this dan
ger ! Producers must have consumers
among them. Capital and labor must
each do its part. Prosperity and wealth
are not assured unless all classes OF in
dustry arc carried on in harmony with
each other. We hope that 1882 viii
witness q progress in these matters that
the state needs. Our people should Ia
Dor By evrsy honorable means to have
all We wear or use, produced or man
ufactured at home. The signs Of the
times indicate this approaching and de
sired era. Every good citizen will DC
found with bis shoulder at the wheel
pushing his part towards the accom-
plishmsnt Of our purpose TO secure
home facilities which SD all meet cur ev
cry demand. People should live with
in themselves a. far as possible. They
are ike family in this respect. Ii they
buy everything and produce nothing
they cannot prospe. well. Or, il they
purchase everything from those who are
their enemies In trade, and far remov-
ed from immediate commercial inter
change OF commodities that should OBJ
tain to make a return to the purchaser
for his labor, the victims Of this course
become slaves. The Chinese had their
walls around them. which we've imprsg-
nable. The commerce Of the Chinese
among themselves was like q system OF
eddies in the current of life. These ed
dies flowed in natural, but easy course,
but never beyond these walls. Their
prosperity was the wonder of the world.
Considering our situation the prosperi-
ty of Oregon is a greater wonder. That
we have prosperity at all is marvellous
fact. The good example of the heathen
in self-sustaining is disregardSd and still
we live. Can we not build a wall
around our commercial interests that
shall cause the sddies in the current Of
trade and traffic to return to us the
benefit of exchange in all things need
ed to harmonize:.Our Business relations SC
essential TO perfect and full prosperity
Or, shall we forever find these eddies
far beyond these walls, as they are
now, In other states and countries.
May the year 1882 bring to us the
means and remedies we need to relieve
as Of this bondage.
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