The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-02-22
PLAIN TALK.
ON Plain subjects.
BY PLAIN CHAP.

BY PLAIN CHAP.
lam not politicians, but have been
thinking just the Same what very sell
fish business this protection is anyway,
The United States sends her produce
and manufactured goods 20 England
free OF duty, but when England sends
hers 10 the United States she Is cem-
PEELED to pay on an average si3 tor
every slc0 worth Of geeGs which she
sends. II the United States after one
hundred and eight years OF existence
cannot compete with the other nations
ofthe world she had better throw up
the sponge. This cry Of paupeI labor
too IL all nonsense for If the English
laborer were 10 work for nothing and
pay his own board we still with our AZ
Per cent average tariff wOuld have %
per cent advantage Of him. At the
present time tariff for reyeHue only IL
what IL needed.
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Seventy-two feet above low water
mark Is what II has been in Cincinnati,
0hio. We who once in awhile have a
small misfortune visit Us should con.
slider all misfsrtunes, and see If the
balance does net drop on our side. The
amount Of suffering caused by the heavy
floods Of the Ohio River can hardly be
estimated. Homes have been swept
away leaving poor people sill poorer
and making penniless some who had
wealth. Almsst starving they have
been lIvIng at the mercy Of tho waters
and charity efa friendly people.
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When Henry Wilson was elected Zen
ator from Massachusetts, he gave din
ner ts his friends In Boston. IL was an
elegant affair but no wine or liquors
appeared on the table. which struck
many 20 peculiarly that they began re-
marking about IL, when mr Wilson arose
and told them tnat all he bad he owned
70 his abstinence from the use Of liquors
and he narrated TO them how, when
ysung, he had been surrounded By It's
terrible influences, and how he had
changed his name and meyed away 10
get q new start, and how he had pledg- |
ed himself not 10 use liquor of any kind,
which accounted for its absence at that
Time. When he finished he received |
hearty cheer which showed that his |
manly stand was appreciated even by |
those whs thought differently from him
On the subject. This story Is going the
rounds ofths papers, and so, as it struck |
me as containing a good pont, give it
again.
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IL may be Of interest 10 these who
Indulge In roller skating 10 know that
It should no longer be called BY that
name. II Is now proper TO call il zam-
pilArOtaiion, and when asking young
man 10 skate with her the young lady
this year should net use that word, but
should say, "wilI you zampiiarotate
with me. and the pleasure Is said 10 be
enhanced.
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Henry BeFgh Is tryiag 10 have 4 law
In New York Safe proVid-
Ing fer the punishment or wife beaters
with the lash, / am in favor Of Il, or
something worse Any many who vii!
beaS his wife deserves q thousand lash
es laid on by Sullivan, and when he
gsts through with him he ought 10 be
dashed by the tail Of a whale, and then
lashed 10 spar and left on the b.iny
deep to be lashed by the waves OF n
msrcilsss sea until there is nothing left
OF him but whip lashes. am in favor
Of this lashIng business. for the beast
who whips his wife, and it caEnot be
toe severe. But hope, and think, We
do not need It here in civilized Oregon,
where women are generally treated as
mans equal, which she is.
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Different people have difFerea at IDEAS of
what pleasure is. heard q neon
struck drummer, or commercial traveller,
II you please, sxpaciating the other day
on the subject. and he couldn't imagine
any greater pleasure than to be wealthy
aud live at hotel. in New York City
for o few months and see the sights, ,ano
from his talk generally CLEANED tina
he considered money the greatest factor
In producing human happiness. Now
I think the truth Is, that there are mer'
unhappy wealthy people than ofanI
ether Glass Ia society and I am satisfie,
that wealth in itself does not produc
happiness Take il as rule, all tn
world over and it is the one in moderat
circumstances who obtains the most q
human joys.
kTwenty inches of snow seems as muc
out OF place in Oregon as a politicia
In church yet to these who have live
in the East 1t brings up reminders Of th
days Of the past which are in ms ny r'
speets pleasant to contemplate,
4 q. .. District Attorney speaks,
Col n Walters, q. S. District Attol
ney, Kansas City, Mo-, authorises tt
fenewing statement "Samarits