The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-18
DAMN THE COUNTY COURT.

county court when we are damn
ing the money powers and sub
servient governments. Charity
d reform should begin at home.
e people of Benton county
st awaken and protest against
the crushing demands of the
county administration, and de.
clare that the heavy and useless
burdens imposed upon the citi-
zens must be removed.
The people of Benton county
have been taxed and taxed and
taxed. Year after year the
Unsuitable county government
holds up our citizens and de-
mands toll. Homes have been
sold for taxes and every year the
pressing distress of large num-
Der is caused by the tax collee-
tor. Have we no courage, no
manhood, no independence, that
we submit to such things?
"But the county must have
money" says some hired agent
of the devilish money powers.
Then let the county court make
its money. Is it not govern
ment and is it not the stamp of a
: government that makes money?
Why should county warrants be
made redeemable in gold or sill
yer! let the county court de-
are that county warrants are
oney and full legal tender for
l debts, public and private.
neu the county warrants will
rth as much as gold-and
kactically be gold. Then
people. will be relieved of the
burden of taxation and instead
of our citizens scrinping and
saving to furnish the county
the county will make
amends for the past unjust, un-
necessay and damnable extortion
and supply the people with mon
ey.
The watcllful ernploye of the
: millionaire again objects: "But
the warrants will not be worth
anything in other counties, and if
those counties won't consent"-
Stop right there. Benton county
is big enough and wise enough
to formulate its own policy with
out fawning at the feet of other
counties, and they are unpatri-
otic paltroons who think it is
not.
ssThe national government re-
serves the right to make money
and would put stop to Benton's S
proposed scheme" says our ner-
cenary objector. What business
has the national government with
our business? In the words of
nkhe Chicago platform and re-
echoed by William Jennings
Bryan: "We denounce the ar
bitrary interference by Federal
authorities in local affairs as a
violation of the constitution of
the United States, and a crime
against free institutions. Ay!
eand we will do more than de-
nounce should the federal au-
thorlties attempt to restrain the
free and unlimited coinage of
county warrants, stamped "mon-
ey'' not payable in money"
We adopt such policy and the
bcrats at Washington attempt
top US by sending an armed
Ee into Our county, we will
d Constable Maddox, armed
h a writ from Justice Carlile's
rt, to meet them on the AL
tiny bridge and
= Taxation is crime and the
fpeople have had enough of it.
] Our county courts have played
into the hands of the money
upowers. There nsst be an end
to this thing. Will the citizens
of Benton county talne1y submit
to a robbery that their county
administration can rectify? No!
a thousand times no! Rise in
your might, oh people, and drive
from the temple of justice, the
tools of the money powers.
Strike for your little homes, your
schoolhouse, your native land.
Are you hungry, poorly clothed
or worrying over money matters?
Look then at the members of the
county court, sitting officially
three days in the month, in their
best Sunday clothes, eating good
ndinners and refusing to issue
money of the county and by the
county, but taxing the citizens
for gold, gold, gold.-Bryan
speeches, localized.
IN his great speech at Alfred,
M,;r& last month Snea ker