Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-05-10
Number 10.
Communicated.
Editor LEADER:

of Lincoln county the necessity and
Importance oforganizing democrat
ic clubs in every town, village and
community in our county. The
republican and populist parties are
organizing clubs and having public
speaking in various parts of the
county, while we are apparently in
a lethargic stupor. We need to be
aroused TO a sense of our response
bilities and duties. We have placed
in the field good ticket, composed
of worthy and competent men, and
it is our duty to make an earnest,
energetic effort to elect them. If
we would organize and so TO work
systematically we could obtain suit
able reading matter and public
speakers from outside Of Our coun-
ty, and it might help to bring out
and develop our home talent, and
enlighten not only us democrats,
but the public in general and there
by make Our worl; effective.
There is nothing in Our party or
principles that will not bear the
searching sunlight of reason and
facts. While it is true that we
have hard times, and tina. the DEM
ocratic party is nowii power, but.
our hard times did not begin with
the democratic party in power. It
commenced with the republican
party in power, and it was caused
by the vicious legislation Of the re-
publican party in the interest Of
manufacturers, of National banks,
OF railroads and other corporations,
while they neglected the interest Of
the laboring man. Ii is a fact that
cannot be successfully denied or
disputed, that the democra tic party
has always been III favor of gov
ernment economically administered
and of low taxes, in order that the
government might not prove bur-
densome. They hare opposed a
high protective tariff in order that
the people might not have to pay
an exhorbitant price for the neces-
saries Of life. While the legitimate
doctrine of the republican party is
to build up few at the expense Of
the many. They have made the
rich richer and the poor poorer.
There never was a time in the his
tor of this country, nor in the his
tory Of the world, when there were
so many colossal fortunes piled up
and SO many millionaires made in
so short time as during the reign
of the republican party in this
country.
While there may have been many
Of us who have entertained hopes
and expectations that our 1egisla@
tors in congress and the chief exec
utive of our nation would have
brought order out Of chaos, and re-
lief to our people before now, yet
when any great current or motor
power is run in one direction for a
great while until it gets very much
momentum or headway, it requires
great amount Of care and good
engineering to avoid serious calani-
ity. 1t is quite evident that those
great and weighty national issues
are being carefully weighed, dis
cussed and deliberated upon by Our
legislators; and as a great Grecian
philosopher once said, it is we'll to,
"hasten slowly" Let us possess
ourselves in patience, and hope and
trust that new era awaits us in
the near future. Z,
We, as citizens of new county,
who are, as it were, battling for an
existence, are perhaps more directly
interested in state and county af-
fans. 1--WE want to put quietus
OIL thesrepublican extravagant leg
islative expenditures in this state.
Our public speakers will evidently
force the republicans onto the de-
fensive, and let them defend the
extravaganza of the last legislature
if they can. The appropriations
ard expenses are largely in excess
of two million dollars. If there is
not more care and economy used in
our state and county finances our
property will soon be covered up
knee deep in mortgages, in the way
Of taxes, if not otherwise, or we
may be entirely bankrupted, and
that, too. very soon unless a halt is
called. 1t is certainly high time
that we look to men Of known f.
nancial ability and honesty. A
man who does not manage his own
hnsiness OR financial affairs well L.