The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-06-17
TIE OREGON PACIFIC.

THE OREGON PACIFIC.
How quiet the Oregoninn has been the
last few weeks on this favorite subject: not
one word of gall all through the sweet month
of Nay. Whenever any Benton or Linn
county man dropped into the Office. how
casually the noble editor put him off with
'sOh yes, understand that road is going to
be built: quite mistake to suppose the Or
eyonan Is hostile to it; of course the intere is
Of all your country demand it: quite an appro.
piiation George is going to get for you,
and so on. And so the election takes place.
-Four days afterwards out comes another OF
those carefully prepared sermons, with some
thing or other "Hogg" has said in New York
for a text, and four paragraphs of misrepre-
sentat:on for all INTRODUCTION, three of -
well, mistatements for the first division, two
of SELF praise and conceit for the second di-
vision, lin which the Oregonian's love
OF truth, aud independence Of character
are sure to be paraded forth,) and
then three paragraphs of sneersfor the
winding up or peroration. For the third
or fourth time the same game has been
played, and always just so that the Oregon
ian has weeks start of the Valley papers
and can get NJ on to New York, and dressed
out nicely for gratuitous circulation there be-
fore any of the contradictions that always
follow it can arrive on its heels. What
dignifed part for the. leading journal of the
State to fill! To be always playing cat for
Mr. Wizards monkeys chcstnuts. Let us
look atIthe article little. On the 18th Of
EIarch, the Oregonion had bad attack of
Iaundice and saw everything yellow. 1t
could not even quote figures rightly: but
amongst other mistatements, reports the
Oregon Pacific as counting on 44O,O 900, in
stead of Ali, 900 tons of traffic. This precious
article was reprinted and scattered broad
cast over New York. Colonel Hogg by way
CT answer reprinted the joint resolution Of
the last Legislature, memorializing Congress
for an appropriation of $500, 900 for Yaquina.
Bay. This he correctly stated to be in direct
contradiction of the Oregonian article, and
added that the public would judge for
themselves which party they would trust.
the Legislature of Oregon, or the editor of
the Gregonian- Here is the text. Now.
cometh .he high and mighty editor and saith
in column and half what we will venture
to conlense in.o few lines. First says he,
the memorial did not amount to anything;
second, it was false, absurd and exaggerated;
third, the Oregon Pacific has published a'pros-
peotus and very pretty map showing divers
projected connections and an unobstruct-
-sd water liig ghway, and on which the falls,-
rapids and cascades, on the Columbia, Snake
and willamette are not marked; fourth, there
there are no men at work on the Oregon Pa
eitie;;fff FL III, steamships can't getIinto Yaquina
Bay or turn round inside if they did; sixth,
the transportation business ofthe Willamette
Valley does not amount to 4l4.O00 tons a
year, nor anywhere near it, nor does it prom
ise to for years to come; So enth, Mr.. Hogg
SAYS 65 miles of his railroad will carry more
wheat than happens to be growing flor ex-
port) in the whole valley at this time and.
more than the whole exportable surplus of
Oregon and Washington from Umpqua to
Snake river for 1851 and that was 277,957
tons.
Now we are not writing an article for
eastern circulation, and do not propose to-
rely on the ignorance of our readers of ma
terial facts, nor to cast gross insults on the
honesty and intelligence of the last, nor of
any Oregon Legislature. This we do say,
that we are not prepared to believe that the
Legislature of Oregon of 1880 sanctioned
by unanimous vote any absurd exaggerated
and false statements; still less those in q
memorial fully and carefully canvassed, and
the Importance of which was shown not less
by the earnestness of it's supporters, than by
the covert opposition of the adherents OF the
enemies Of the Oregon Pacific. The Ore
gonian now says the prospectus Of the
Oregon pacific WAS never published in
Oregon. We have a clear recollection of
the fact that the then President of the Sen
ate, Mr.. Sol Hirsch, produced copy of it
before that body and denounced its support
ers as liars and frauds, at the very time ne
was signing this same memorial in his
otncial capacity as President. One word
before we leave this point. The Oregonian
in order to make its ground good as to the
absurdity and falsity of the memorial mis-
statesits purport, and with its usual CON-
tempt of journalistic honesty distorts almost
every paragraph it processes to quote.
Now as to the Oregon Pacific Pl2Sa1ls