The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1885-02-13

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A gentleman, stopping At saltm, in Or
der 10 shake or the terrible agony Of the
Senatorial contest took trip 10 Albany.
On returning q news reporter interviewed
him, when 10 paid Albany and Linn
county The following splendid coinpH
ments and as we'll made some pretty sharp
hits on general principles. As we always
like 10 get tho opinion Of others we give
the whole interyIow: 81 never 90 enjoy
cd trip In my life. visited Albany for
the first timo, and neatsr, prettisr town,
with more beautiful surroundings, have
not seen In the Slate. thought Salem
was pretty nice place, but Albany beats
IL. The rising hills frIDging the Town at a
distance Of four Or Eve miles, aud tns
green valleys Ieako up picture Of po
culiar beauty Those hills which skirt tho
town look like tho sand domos, which are
seen around many Of ths mining cimps
Of tho Rocky niountalas, Then In tho
distance arc the crested tops 0f Noun
| Hood and Mount jefferson. Tho Albany
people are proud OF their IO~B.and don't
wonder Mt Il. would b. proul Of 1t ms.
self II lived there"
"what makes tho valley 10 gresn, you
talk about Grass 2"
"Grass and wheat, would have The
hardest kind or work % cosYInce Port.
lander oven. who has not recently been
lhsre. that tho wheat Is from Ave 10 six
inches high. II IL; and finer looking
fields mover saw. II just looks as though
that county was the yerltaol land Of milk
and honey. The soil-wsll nobody ever
saw II ociipsed-its richness ia beyond tho
scope Of adJeetiyes. I'm not William v.
Evarts, and I'm not equal to tts emer-
gency ~ describing u, but this I know !:
that the bayous OF the lower Mississippi
Ia the most favorable seaaons never pio-
ducod heavier yioIds than the valley of the
Willamette up thsre. II - one Of fbs
wonders that 1 cannot solve. why l. I
that the farmers there don't grown tich
Think OF it-tbat deep black Ioam, 70
many thousands upon thousands OF acres
cleared and producing, and yet the farm
ers are In debt. tell you tho truth when
I say thai whole lot Of them have go. 10
20 70 tho wall They're hard up. Tbey
swo everybody, and II my info rmaDts
into bankruptcy. Creditors are clzmof-
ing for 'spondulix' and 10 per cent long
since overdue, and they're going to have
e."
'Well. now, you can't have observed
all this and not, after all, have some rea.
son for it. When yoa Sift II fine what rea.
son do you assiEn-for there must he a
rsason-ther0's raason for everything 20
"f was proclaimlng Il from the hill.
tops instead ofa Newspaper reporter, who
won't say anything would say that the
farmers arc Inactive day dreamers, lack-
Ing in interss. and vital energy. They
don't entbuss. They sleep. Their sons
are a hundred per cent worss. Lots OF
& hem loaf around tho vill1ges smoking
cheap weeds and guzzling beer. while
their fences arc down. cattle and sheep in
the yard, doors or tho"
whats the matterg Little hot ain
you-you'ro not a kicker ?"
"No, I'm not, bat, good land alive, I've
beon TO st. Paul, aud there had 10 hustle
over the crossings 10 keep from getting
run over In the rush and crush aud JAZZ
Of business. Think cnybody u'd ever ge
run over In Portland. or any Of you
towns along here ? Not much Why,
began 10 think I'd been aslesp myself
when I'd got there and rubbed my eye
and tried to recollect what I'D been doing
snd I'm called pretty lively mar myself
No. we've got to wake up-get some o
the film OF our eyes. and drive along.
don't like TO kick, All these people AZ
nsIghbors Of mina now, hut tell yoa this
III thought ever would get 80 lis.les
and lifeless, so phlcsm attic, and devoid c
energy and enthusiasm as these people it
Oregon. ding ms, II / wouldn't move ba
and baggage into some other cline"