Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-08-18
NUEnONAFS VETERANS
ICoutipBec fr0an GEst DAgs.l ]

fCOntiDDee frOm GFst DAgs.
axaezsd. win . natgral iDeEsass q
gger or5s mfliiSn p9pGAsti0D yssrf re-
3sfying . e8sfleT o. > million srss
agd5sd Eoropssu fmmlgEa8t ist'Ofsss
s,sh yssr. hSs sissH we eDpa0y eaz2-
m10n American lsbSrt
Our es1Btry 5ss hssn Fapidiy chang
ingfrOm > F,ssais's s'sgDvsrnms1t,s islSos-
eepu5iie 10 3 ssms-sFistOeEseyi We are
N1ssndisg bnslFsd million yssT OF 8
vain eGsrt ao Ea4aeh the oio-WOT5d ess-
BseEiems ~ fbeir military 81 BavAi
eqnipneuLs. Little Of that DOBsy sus-
plsys esE11aOn DAY IsisOr. MOst q II
goes 90 manufacturer, 10 sOntrselOFs s0d
enpsaesisfs. Cat tiazt sum right 10 t~O
nn1 spend fifty niiiiO1s . ysss DHisc-
fsg nstiOaGl tafBpiEss aud pubic
waterEays.
We sEe spending many millions 3
Yesr on The regDizr am - Ais mtiiilss
arssaeie, esc. LII u. gut that in Two
std srss0d ff.y miiiiyDs q yssr o. 10 -
pTSvfI8g our riEsrs 10 tb- ini-fIOf aud
fc0dsring them EAvigsD,e. Tn iast
IsgisiatBieOs % Oregon appropriated > sDm
5Dr fss stsie militia. OBe,bsf y s7njeb
EouId extsDd tie Oregon PseiGe rail-
fk&d - ~ 10 eOBDsei Dy wagon r1aos
Vn TIE other side Of the Czse4dss and
pDar into this valley the eO8ntjsss
gFDdge.s u Central Oseg,n tbat are
nv WitbOBL = ggDd HIafket-
Ne ned. EBOIe tbsu militia, al sssy
eOngsnieBt passage around the daiIss "
the Columbia - We could snip in the
grain, melons, fruit and vegetables,
rspsning there 3 month safIisf than iD
California and lsss than 3 hnDdFso
misse sway from the Willamette valley.
AL fbsse pTOdDets We nov bring intO
Oregon by the hundreds Of esari0sds
from 600 70 100 miles away, paying
tr1Dute 70 the golden sLaie, vbsn We
have them within cur OWL DOr6srE, far
superior ip quantity aud the supply ~
nulimitsd, Dui going 10 waste while We
deprive our own people from pryfitabie
employment and allow the eOrpOsE-
fiOns 10 shut ns cut from their nse 5y
sxerbiiant Eatss.
Thsss are only Indications o. tbs di-
Esctisn in which we mnst change Ike
p0iieise 0f oar government If We ezpeei
10 BE- able 10 employ the millions Of
unemployed already here, and the mil
liOns YET 10 come. UnissE & general
policy o. extsnsiOn Of the wage fnBd Of
common labor issntsIed upon, with all
oar faesOTisE and individual enisrpfisse,
we ehali not be abe 10 employ our
lats0ReEE and thOse vino cannot get
lands aud cannot employ themselves
We must do AL possible 10 secure .
znarissl for American pfOdneiE. We
must eDeOnIage manufactures aud in
indnstriee in every form. But We nnst
also shut the doom 70 the surplus lab0r
populations " Europe and Asia, add
We mnst expsnd Enese money by our
citias, cOautiee slate1, aud nation IN
employment o. common labor By 8
wisely planned systsm Of internal iD-
provensnlA. Shut the door - tia
TIDE Of laO0f from abfOad ADD pEOyide
GpOre employment for the lab0gefs here
~ home e the Only way 10 ward on
pAnies AND hreso EaEs.
see what Ia nov Icing doDe with ths
Pacific railroads:
AZ the instaDee Of Huntington,
1lrOeker aDd Otbsr niilllOnaiFes the gOv.
arngDsnt has prepared Dill and II is
nov bsfofe congress ~ cancel dsbi ol
Sl20 90, 900 which ttsess manageff owe
the government, give tbeD o0ntrOl for
% or 400 yeaEs " the Pacific railroads,
and doss anyone snpp0se tiisi there
viii " . hns IA that Deasufs ~ aseure 1
loser fseighls 81 pfotscf slpgle settier
on railroad iaDdss shall Nc ride any
ebenpss n that bil Jsasseas no iEdes0
9'hat han n drawn A. carefully Ia tue
intaresi " tbs Psesfse oOfporatiOns aud
~ carefully guards strongly OsnLral-
i1eo o0rpoFatiOp power a. thOsgt
lfuutiDgtOn had wieldeo tue pan Of
Attorney Gsnsral Olnsy. What rigtls
hsFe tts Inassss ~ lab0fefs Rnd pro
fnoofs that 0fshniEsd capita n b0ubo
a feapeofg
Loo tbe Atnsficap 60tefnu1eni takf
,asssanaoD n tbasf groai nats0nai rail-
yey systens, Tan tilem Ia ths iulsfosi
Z tiis B,eoyis, ~ ia geopis sne for tls
sDpie pay tus enpioyss hgaDE sasss
mpiey neDs bnf Aa1efloans, ~ tLoas
~ bsss asaisEoo tiaalf tOieetien "
seoaas asoL, sne so ttiGss eoJss5ss
W sABes oDos wsaik ~ Als@rloAD
snasfe aiiysF 1eliafs. lApblalass
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~ roaaf noS laakrnpl "a lias h4Das
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