The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1898-03-18
Politician and Demagogue.
Harrisburg Ma,ch l5. 1898
To THE Ed,

To THE EDITOR:
c Saba writing 10 the Oregonian
IN ,his place, urges tie nomination
srd election of i deer for congress
iom this district upon the ground that
NJ Geer is plain homes. farmer, and
a onsh' how nice it would be to have
IA msurspre eat this pc ople who aye
al ,riy al farmers.
Sa, how surprised am when find
f1, .@me paper in which Mr.. Sabin'e
i4i - ualished, eight extracts from
petcb mad, BY Mr.. Geer, at Corvallis,
which he plainly shows himself to be
pohticisn and demagoeue, and not the
alain cpeet man that Mr.. Sabin takes
MIN 20 be.
He states that he does not care to
'tresh over old STRAW, which must say
,e'igs.s mt for l alwaye ike to hear
n.thing new, but l was only doomed
DISAPPOINTMENT for he immediately
tell back TO the "pot' argument OF mic
representation and dodging that is al
ways resorted TO by The advocates of the
present corrupt monetary system that is
iust now being praised by the gold
standard fusion party.
Mr.. Geer says that the free silver iu-
natics lave dropped the wheat argu-
ment and do not say anything more
about wool and cattle. Free silver men
90 not care to thresh over old straw, TO
use Mr. Geer's own words, and it is gen.
orally conceded by all intslligent men
thatare free from party prejudice who are
not bound by some other selfish motive
that the whest argument has become
sali-evidtnt.
/ The United States and England are
making every stfort to doSn 81 YER. and
the wheat crop of the world IL the short-
est it has been since man began to use
wheas "Bresd is tho staff of life" and
still wheat and silver are not so very far
apart; wnea. is worth at Harrisburg to-
day the pitiful eum of 81 cents per bu
In former years with little shortage in
California aud the middle west il woult
80 to sl.40. AZ TO wool in the sam,
0regonian OF March 4, is an account of q
man OF The Dalles sending q large
amount Vi wool to Boston on Lis acct ant
reeeiv.cs l35S cts per lh. for it which
~s9 2H ct, more than he could havs
sod il for in The DAlies; that weuiC
snrsly knoeA any free silveriie silly. l
wa,l men wiH-refer back to their WOO
sa S before tie single gold standard ant
s, : present sick silver dollar was force,
upon us and before we heard OF tbs
Mckinley Bill they will fint that soo
soiI for % aad IS cts. in email lots
aoi = large quantities would hay
ih5o1sat cts moie. In Harrisburg ant
ether .osns of the valley, and nov
wien Inc b.oated farmers of Kansas
Nebraska, Washington and Ore
soc have sold their extraorjinxr.
good crop oi wheat for sbout one half o
what il soouid have brought then. ana
have invested in WOODEN SHIRT for them
selves and WOODEN pelticoat 10, thei
wives aud daughters, the fret they haa
bsen able to buy for some time, and 81
many people are buying extra heav,
wooleus for the Klondike, and tens o
thousands of sheep have died ia Austria
lis, and for all this wool is worth bu
, 13lsc and that is such sn unusual sal,
that many papers publish an account o
the sale.
, We might take up cattle. horses. log
and other things and sho~ the sam
state OF affairs, where there 10 not son.
strong local cause for 1t to be otherwise
i Farms in this fne valley are selling TO
but little more than Government price
they are good ones too and some tha
are fairly good are selling for less. an'
even Dingley and Alaska cannot keep al
, the price of eggs and potatoes.
. II Mr GeeT has q coed cause he shouls
use plain straight forward argument.
and leave of this dodging and misrep
resentatIon. A lust cause needs M
such tactics.
0SE OF THE WISDIgs.