Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-09-17
EDITORIAL COMMENT.


of the Southern states. At New
Orleans the epidemic was spreading
at last accounts and towns in Miss
issippi and Alabama were seriously
afflicted with it. The latest news
is that it is spreading.
It is now evident that the gov
ernment is getting ready to deal
with Spain vigorosly. The board OF
officers of the naval intelligence
bureau has had a conference as to
the scheme Of naval operations to
be adopted in case of war with
Spain. A plan which was worked
out in details some time ago was
discussed, and after few altera-
tions to bring it up to date, it was
adopted.
IF Oregon farmers are wise they
will not be carried away by the de-
lusicn that present conditions mean
permanent boom for them. Let
them make the most of their good
year and lay something by for an
other year that may not be SO good.
They are in great luck, but such
luck cannot be depended upon to
last. The man will make the most
money out of this boom that does
not lose his head and branch out
to much.
A miners strike in the East that
has been dragging along close to the
edge of riot and bloodshed for four
weary months at last has drawn to
close. An agreement was reached
at convention of miners held in
Columbus, Ohio, on September
l1th, to accept the proposition OF
the Pittsburg operators. The llli-
neis men will be called in conyen-
tion at Springfield on the 10Th
of September to determine what
shall be done in that state.
All accounts from the upper
Yukon agree that there is sure to
be suffering and death from starv-
alton up there. And the accounts
also agree, that gold in unlimited
quantities is to be found there In
the spring every man who can raise
the necessary funds, and is not
otherwise engaged, will go up there
and it is not improbable that the
population of Alaska may be large
enough to claim admission as q
state, with a better showing than
Nevada had.
Not only are the Souths crops
increasing in value, but manufac-
turing there is advancing with great
strides. The estimated consump-
ton of cotton by Southern mills
during the past year is placed at
1s042,671 bales. Eight years ago
the mills in that section were con-
Stunning about 546,89O bales. In
other words, the cotton manufacture
ing capacity of the South has doubled
within decade. No section of the
country can show an equal progress
in industrial activity.
One of the miserable abuses OF
power which is inevitable when it
is placed in the hands of a fool oc-
CURED at Hazelton, Pennsylvania,
on Saturday last. A sheriff and
$50 deputies armed with repeating
rifles fired into harmless band Of
Hungarians, who, it appears, were
marching unarmed from one mine
to another in the interest of some
kind of a strike. The dastardJy
business was criminal in the high
est degree, but the blackest part Of
it is that the mob was fired into
while they were trying to escape.
Between twenty and thirty were
killed outright: and fifty more
wounded.
The Booth Tucker colonization
scheme is receiving warm commen.
dations from every quarter. He
proposes to settle the poor of the
overcrowded cities in the East, or
small farms where they can main
tain themselves and have a home
1t is a most praisworthy effort anc
will undoubtedly succeed. Offers
of land are coming to him from al
quarters, and assistance in money
is also freely forthcoming. In the
hands of anyone else there might
be some doubt of the success of tn,
scheme, but in Booth fuckers
hands, there is no doubt about it
His zeal and energy are almost
supernatural, and his success ir
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