Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-10-04

sixty millions OF people and with
all the wealth and prosperity &C.
cumulated under thirty years of
republican prosperity, should be
knocked into cock hat, as 1t were,
in so short time. Is it possible |
that all these years of good times
when Our wage earnerS grow richer
and richer under the laws made and
enacted by the grand old party,
that republican oraters have told us
so much about Is il tpossible that
men would grow hungry and naked
in so short time, and with all
ibis wealth OH hand, that we are
told has been given to the working
men. 1t is folly to hold any party
responsible for what it has not
one. Wait until the democratic
party has enacted unwholesome
laws, or have passed any laws, and
then if they are not up to the stand
ard of past legislation fire the ras-
Gals out, but never cross bridge
till you get to it. 1t has been said
that this is government OF the
people and for the people, and the
American people are getting to be
All educated people, a reading peo-
pie, thinking and reasonable peo-
pie; and they are going to watch
the results of the Wilson bill and
moi condemn It because Bill McKir-
ley says 1t will make the poor poor
er.
The Oregon delegation have gone
home. Little Hermann is always a
busy man, for he has the interest Of
his people at heart and the people
may rest assured that he will do all
in his power for the whole state Of
Oregon, favoring no especial local
ity,
AS we expect to be here for some
time ere we return to Oregon and
the great Willamette valley, we
may send you a line at another
time. From what information we
have been able to pick up in the
two or three western states that we
have passed through, we are of the
opinion that Oregon is going to get
a very large immigration this fall
and next spring. People are get
ting tired Of cyclones and uncertain
crops, and talk of Oregon more than
any other western state, although
Oregon has never been advertised
like our sister states Of Washington
and California.
The building Of the Oregon Pa.
{ cific on to Eastern Oregon will
cause Oregon and the Willamette
valley to get more settlers than they
naturally would, from the fact thai
. one-half of the emigration that ha!
, come west of the Rocky mountain:
during the past eight or ten years
f never reached the great Willamette
valley, but many of them stop II
. Washington, and some reach Port
, land, but if the o. P. was com
r pleted il would bring the people di
, rect TO the very heart of the VIII
, lamette valley at Albany and the!
e would scatter out all over the state
, From the vast amount Of litigation
a that has grown out Of the building
E Of the Oregon Pacific 1t has becom,
r one Of the best advertised roads Il
, the United States and people ar
, watching Its career, even inside o
t well.known railroad circles. Mos
r people In Oregon think that tn
Hoggs are out Of the railroad fight
but they are mistaken, for men O
, the business capacity Of the Hogg
= are likely to turn up any day witt
money enough to build the road t
{ an caste, II terminus. 1t is a wei
r known fact that that the Hoggs ar
e not sleeping. From the very fac
n that Yaquina Bay gets a good ap
i preparation from congress at ever
session is evidence that 1t Is a har
e bor Of great importance, and mus
o soon take place with known harbor
q like the Golden Gate and the Col
d umbia river. Therefore 1t Is foil
}. 10 think for one minute that none
s will not be forthcoming from som
+ source to build the Oregon Pacifi
q to an eastern connection with som
4 transcontinental line and unloc
r the wealth Of mighty inland err
:, pire.