Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-09-04

,ought by outside parties,
The people Of Lincoln county are
not discouraged with the outlook for
another appropriation for their harbor'
the efforts OF the
Ore0onian to the contrary. Every
BODY knows that Harvey Scott pulls
,or tboee who are able and willing to
pay him the most money. IL has
always been claimed by those who
profess to know, that the oregonian
was run for revenue only, it's priDci-
pals being as changing as the drifting
sands on the seashore, adjusting itself
TO suit those who could and would put
up the most stuff One year free
trader and the next for high protective
only; and last for Cleveland and gold,
For the past three months Mr.. Scott
has been very much interested In the
future OF the Yaqulna country, as 1t
were. He has devoted page after page
and burned the midnight oil, In pre-
paring long, descriptive articles upon
the resources of Lincoln county, and
dwelling upon the likes and disllkes OF
her people, describing her citizens as
being lazy and ignorant. denouncing
her harbor, and has succeeded In get
ting the services Of one man, Jones by
name, who has for Harvey written up
a whole page in that paper, an article
that is 30 elastic that It stretched out
All around the truth aud meyer touched
a point of veracity. One might
believe that this man Jones was
partner, from the way he assumes to
dictate to the people. Harvey Sc"tt
and this man Jones has devoted more
space to the people OF Liucoln county
and to Ysquipa Bay harbor than any
other locslity ~ the great state OF Orc
pon. That Mr.. ScCtt is being well paid
for ali interest taken In the coast county
and Yaquina harbor, there can scarcely
he any doubt In the minds Of any
thinking person. 30 long as there was
no prospect for an extension Of the o.
p. II. r.. the oregonian very seldom II
ever mentioned the Yaquina harbor.
But as soon as there was prospect
of this road being continued, and a
connection with some eastern road
seemed to be matter Of early history,
then the Oregonian again became very
much interested In the Yaqulna har-
bor. and has continued from week to
week to make write up OF Lincoln
county look pleasing and at times has
very much overdrawn the resources Of
this county. But always managed tc
say something against the harbor and
ia many instances that which is not
the truth. When Harvey Scott said
that even II the Yaquina harbor wal
ever to amount to anything, that the
bay inside was and never would b'
anything but frog pond, he did mo-
tell us that the Willamette river a'
Portland was a mud hole, but he say
that the Willamette river at Portland
is large enough and deep enough, Il
float all the ships that fly the English
flag. Now every one who has eve
visited or saw the Yaqulna bay wei
knows that for distance Of six mile
inland that the bay is wider an'
deeper than the Willamette river a
Portland, thus giving twelve miles o
dock room.
We have lived at the queen city o
the Columbia, Astoria, and we wei
know that there was always until yer!
recently an army Of long shOremel
employed TO transfer wheat from barge
to deep water ships that came dow
from Portland with half cargo o.
board. We known that the city Q
Portland and the United States gov
ernmeut annually spends thousands 9
dollars to keep the bars In the Colum
bia river down beneath ships bottor
that draws eighteen feet OF water,
3 And yet the oregonian says this
+, thew have all the water between Al
a torIa and Portland that Is necessary fc
any ship that plows the deep, and sh
y has upon these grounds for year
a fought and so far succeeded In keepln
= from Astoria railroad, and has nevs
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