The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-04-21

the finest of sympathetic indig-
nation. which he vents by draw
ing a word picture of the following
fashion:
"COnservative estimates place
The number of we'll behaved, in
duslrious laborers and mechanics
that are without work in Portland
at 1000. and in San Francisco at
10000. Il The republican party
is largely responsible for the con-
ditions that have produced hun
dreds OF paupers for each million
aire, and far more logical con.
clusion from the party's polity
would be TO advocate the cutting
up into cat and dog meat of every
penniless man caught begging for
work or food"
That sounds savage enough; but
let's see how the subject would
look held up in another light:
The Courier is a 32-column
sheet-long columns-of which
16 are printed by the patent out
side man in Portland. Thus two
swell behaved, industrious labor
ers" are robbed of employment
the Courier shows on the face of
it, by that paper alone. The pat
ent outside man has no use for
those printers because the same
type goes into a hundred other
papers or more. The result is
that of that 1000 HwelI- behaved
industrious laborers," at least 100
of them are printers, who hover
about Portland to keep soul and
BODY together, because they have
no hope of livelihood in the in
terror offices. If the Oregon City
man is sincere in his over-slopping
solicitude for the working man,
he can not only bring about no
small amount of relief at his i'm
mediate command, but set an eX-
ample which, if generally follow
ed, would bring about a mighty
revolution. AS it is with the
printing business, so it is
with every other enterprise on
the face of the earth. We
have made particular reference
not as flippant jibe or retaliatory
accusation, but to illustrate prin-
ciple. 1t is the tendency of the
times in every industry to evade
as much as possible the cost of
labor in any production. The ac-
complishment in latter day in
genuity has cultivated just about
a complete craze in that direction.
Every device, fad and factor that
brilliant ingenuity can conceive,
finds employment 10 the one end.
The type setting machine, the
self binder, electrical machinery
in various forms, steam enginery-
and steam laundry, and all the
multitude Of appliances calculated
directly to supplant the hands of
mankind-not TO mention the ON
nlpresent "patent outside"-are
all familiar witnesses in the one
great object of ignoring human
labor. The moral result of it all
it is not our intention here to dis
cuss. The facts as stated stand
for themselves. Now, then to
charge that a political party sis
largely responsible"for such con-
ditions shows either stupidity that
is inexcusable in this enlightened
age, or a blind devotion to par
tisan mythology, which amounts
to ignorance all the more repre-
hensible. There might be such a |
thing as the ''republican party be-
ing responsible" for the part the
Oregon City man is playing to-
wards making paupers. II so just
let the Cleveland democracy
if possible-once make law for
the printing of "patent |
and you will hear such
a chorus Of malediction arising
from the ranks of calamity howlers
rs has not been heard since the
lays Of the s'rebel yell"
HE American counsel have