Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-06
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CALAMITY'S PROGRAM

WAibluH II Tue CuhukC piDhsnCN SHNN'
In return for their votes They are
still standing there aud still waiting.
Then the trains were taken Oh. 1t
was folly TO haul only empty cars
through the valleys and over the
mountains TO carry tramps end dead
heads. r al estate advertising disap
peared from the columns Of the large
Pacific Cosst papers. Rents declined.
Land became valueless. All this only
eIated Pennoyer. INSPIRED With the
col ossal ambition OF succeeding CIeve-
land a. the idol OF the Democratic
masses In the white house, he eel
forth message after message depicting
the woes and caIamities Of Oregon.
When the vice president came he sd-
vertised Oregon from sea TO sea ~ the
center OF financial apprehension, In
dustrial depression aud the home Of
emotional, calamity politics. His fre
quent interviews, newspaper articles
and letters to the press were all In the
same wierd vein. His Thanksgiving
Proclamation gave everybody cold
chill, made Oregon Democrats curse
the day they were born to be ruled
over by such walking delegate Of the
federation Of destitution. The Christ
mas letter capped the climax. oregon's
humiliation Is complete. Her cup
runneth over. Rachel weeping for her
children 10 cheerful composition com
pared to the status Of poor old Webfooi.
Oregon citizens are not naturally at
over-Ioyous ana over-enthuslastio lot.
Taey take to the blues, gloom and de
preston OF spirits like duck to water.
With such Napoleon among calam-
ity hOwlers to egg the,u on at any oc-
c.sion no wonder the bottom has
fallen out Of many an otherwise
b ,peful heart, and real estate con-
tlnues to decline. BY Pennoyer's
willful efforts at dampeniDg
enterprise aud by his brilliant feats at
blo0d-letting Of prosperity, values In
Portland hays shrunken oDe-half and
In the state at large ten million dollars
VIII not begin TO cover the declines.
Ifthe calamity racket proceeds aud the
Kansas plan OF driving out capital sue
ceeds, many q fair valley In Oregon
will be restored 10 the coyote and more
than one town will be depopulated.
The Pennoyer calamity program will
further depress values. drive capital
Into hiding, prevent investment In
Oregon, deprive working men Of the
chance OF employment, make railroad
extension impossible and work for
skilled labor will be reduced 20 mini
mum. Steamboats, will disappear from
our rivers aud semi weekly mixed
trains will run instead If the daily ex-
press. AT the head OF ali this aggrega.
ton of discomfort aud distress, the
governor, as leader Of the political sal
walton army, will march to the polls
aud cast calamity ballot TO send HIM
self 60 the national senate.
The governor has been In Oregon
City the past week to arrange for the
publication Of state paper, to be called
the Oregon Herald, TO be his personal
Populist organ. Clackauias county is
moe fruitful field for his labors than
Portland, and stroug aSht will be-
maize TO send several members OF the
salvation army political persuasion to
the Legislature. The governor VIII
rather prefer to have Portland aud the
Or.eonlan ami the MultnomAh dele
CATION against him In this cam
pAlgn. He will cultivate the
country prejuliee agalnst Portland,
that exists In the state ut large u n
limited extent, TO promote his political
bonn. He will picture the distress aud
dssiilntlon prevailing 10 the metropolis
aud ~ the great big tears run down his
cheeks, no will rake la the rural voters
whoae sympathles aud emotions are
always easy game for the calamity
demRgog, NJ IN alter how ever ~ little
he has dune for them.
When the calamity politicians strike
city they will depict the woes aud
sufEerlngs of the farmer. Their knife
willcut both ways. Every calamity
liar In the state, on the press aud on
the stump. will repeat Penuoyer's col.
ossal lie that two-thlrds are unemploy-
90 and one-thlrd are destitute. That
Invention Of the father Of calamity l,e-
will be the warcry for the next Ave
months. IL will 0e .hsch hief argument
oflhe fopulists, who occupy no lenaOlv
Rronnd on.the tariff. who are all Al SEA
an finAnee. aud have no other polilIcal
sl0ok Ia sradv 10 arouse the voter. The
woes Of 0fegon will DO made known la
every hamlet from ssa 10 sea and will
Be- Shouted from every Papallst house
tep. Tue slime Of dlsoonEagsmsat aud
che dIemal hues of hopsisasness will be
over ail. 'nly % glvs Peanoyer =
ch knee for ok years 10 All his cranki-
meas Ia the naiionAl capitol.
Unless the lsvel-headed hopeful busI-