The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-08-25
A VOICE FROM BENTON.

CORVALLIS, Aug. 70, 1898.
Hon. SYLVESTER PENoYER:
Dear Govener-Your letter askin what
thot about all gettn tugether at Salem agea
to make law agenst colectin diets often
eachother durin the hard times cum tu hand
last week. | have been thlnken ever sence
whot to sd; line kinder unsettled about it
yit. lie rlLe jist what L think abOrt 1t on
both sides so you can have the benefit OF my
Idees, for you must bee ia tite plaire. of
corse times ar hard-tha are dem hard-no.
body ought to deny that the dimocrats in
this section most all agree to that some ov
the old ones sware tina new or sene such times
sense jackson rem the Government, and not
even then, for the Ginsang wasent all dug
out thsr and the Children cud allus find sum-
thin to du getherln that, even If ther wasent
many factorys runnin. But them days is
gone never to cum back. did think when
we carried the lection and threteLed to let
goods cum inn cheep that our factorys wud
iern iitu sencs and cum down to suite the
demand sutch minority for cheep things
but the shyloks thai ruined the country
are shettln down and refusin to i,y lunbur,
cole, iren, le.hur. glas tin or enYthlng else.
1t don't seam to du much good TT tell EN- we
amt goin to du enyt.hng rite aw"y. Tha
think it is the Sherman law hut dened ii
du; It's nuthin hut the cussed monopollst !;
tina wont listen to recon. Hevent we told
EN- often annf they could sell goods as cheep
as nybody? But that amt what we are talk
i'll about-the thing is how to keep Oregon
out ov the genral smashup 1t mite be done
by stoppin coIlections-that is if we cud
stop EN- for sum time. l believe it would he
better to not allow eny onwl;ln paments
while we've got the Government, then you see
the pore man if he was out ov work cnd live
enyway; but we. wud hav to manage it care
full or the feller that sells the goods wud git
discouraged. Its hard old kase, govener,
an wish you had kinder made up yore
mind little to what yn thot about it befor
yo writ me. Yo see l alwas thot yo knode
moren did andsit seems kinder onnateral
for me to give yo advise. Yo see if it dldent
work well there is no teIlin what the peepul
wud sa- 1ha might think we dun it to get
votes ov the farmers alliance, or the Poplists,
or the labor union, or sum of these other nu
partys that's comm up. The peepui are get
tin awful sharp and we've got to he keerful;
| think kin hold my deestrIct down and
am doin all no how t, get. the Grangers t"
hold onto yo; hnt sum ov em sa tina don't
wart to pa the expeus nv anuther legislator
for 10 yeers and tina are afeared tha wud all
be sude by the Merchants befor we cud GIT
the bill past.
Now Govener, don't think wede better
ask yo to invite us together for yo mite not
be in favor Of the law after we made it, Yo
no yu tlident say whether yo wud sign it or
not and we mite not be abel to pass it with
out yo lie tell you a trick worth too ov
this: just direct all the Coarts to render no
jngeme nts until times git better; this will
fix the hole thing and give nobody eny time
to sue, then il it don't wurk we'll yo kin tax
it back and let EN- go ahed. 1t don't need a
law to do it; you've got the power and have
had it ever sense You was Iected the first
time. wunder yo never thot ov it before
you writ tn us; jist rite EN- about sich a letr
as yo writ Judge Pipes when he had the
raiernad case up-teli em what to du or TAX
what Gums. Don't he afeard; you've got the
pnwr in you nachualy; let EN- have it! these
cnssed courts Is doin mulch harm as enV
hing els. Go for em clear down to the JUS
ice ov pece like you did the three Stran su-
pr-me c"art; the pore people all stald with
yo then-theyl do it agen and theyl DE enuf
ov ern by next lection to lect yo twist I've
writ plane thots-what l set out to du; the
times cum to quit disgisin AMI show EN-
what we mean; the cuntry must bee saved
il it busts all the old notions and parties III
the land. There's plenty new partys and
new ities about carts aud diets and COVER
p-nts; all we've got To du is to go ahed. l
@oap you'll not think i've hen to plane.
Respectly yourn,