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The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12

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The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12

Pendleton's two progressive, vel
managed banks have more than one
million OF dollars on deposit. Each oI
the two banks have upwards OF $500, 900
This Is an excellant showing for Pendle-
ton and Umatilla county when the fact
Is that most Of the 1899 wheat crop II
still in the possession of the growers
= asst 0regonian. We cannot agree with
the East Oregonian that this is an
excellent showing" for Umatilla coun
ty. A million dollars lying idle in q
community Of that size does not show
thrift. II the money were out engaged
in useful enterprise Il would be a much
better showing than for II 10 be lying
idle in the bank.-Times Mountaineer,
II Pendleton had lC00 idle men
awaiting chance for their labor 10 be
let, the T.. o. would not boast OF II. As
money is capital, 50 labor is capital; I;
then why is idle money different from
idle labor
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12

The Roseburg Review relates how some
business men consider Il a burden 20
support a local paper. 1t then shows
from its books that II receives about
81 900 a year from home advertisers,
and that its pay rolls, which amount to
three times as much, is all spent with
the home merchants. II adds;
"Yet, notwithstanding these facts,
which are indisputable, some business
men and property owners lind the "bur-
den" of supporting (2) The Review too
heavy 10 bear In silence. They do not
advertise In the daily edition, or even
subscribe or pay for it-because they
must bear their share of supporting sew
eral San Francisco aud Portland dailies,
and II is SO handy 10 beg or-their
neighbours Review when they are partic-
ticularly anxious TO read il. These same
men are Mortified when II comes 10 their
knowledge that some resident OF Rose
burg has bought bill OF goods in their
line in Portland or San Franci SEQ.
Others OF them spend more ON fake ad-
yertising schemes like wall cards, pro-
grams, directories, et,., etc., than II
would cost to carry regular advertise
ment in daily paper, where IL would be
sure OF being seen by the most intelli-
gent and enterpeisfng part Of the COM
munity.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12

Salem still leads all towns on low re
tail prices-20 pounds Of sugar for (
dollar, and other things in proportion.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12

Senator Mcbride is busy just now
bolstering up Ivey, whose scandalous
official conduct in Alaska calls for his
resignation.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12

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The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12

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The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12

A Tongue organ devotes columns to
explaining why that congressman hasn't
secured an appropriation for Yaquina
bay. That would be all right II Tongue
wasn't always explaining how he's
going to do Il.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12

Editor Laura Jones must be we'll
again. Listen to this from the Drain
Watchman:
"The question az 10 whether or not
prosperity is here, has been settled be-
yond controversy. A country editor was
held up in Chicago the other Iday and
robbed Of f262.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12

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The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12
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The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12
JOURNAL TX RAY"

Congressman Roberts better take q
course in dish washing at an early date.
saH
Clark should lose his seat in the U.
S. senate, for no man west Of Ohio ought
TO get his Office by bribery.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12

Internal revenues $500, ,OOO, 900 a year.
MIR. Gage begins by explaining that
Mr.. McKinley's presence on Wall street
with the United STAGES treasury under
his arm is due to "the stringency of the
money Market" as proved by the re.
The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-12

Absolutely the only hope for Cancer
10 Swift's Specific,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-28

present day unparalleled prosperity, in
which every citizen has a right to share.
II any citizen is prevented from sharing
in that prosperity, he is the victim of
conditions which cannot be righted by
the election of Bryan, strongly as he may
be tempted to trust in that remedy. I'm
der the gold standard we have become
the leading creditor nation, and we are
financing the world. We have produced
three great crops in succession, and we
are feeding Europe. We have had three
years of unexcelled manufacturing in
dustry, and we are finding a prompt and
generous market all over the world. The
American farmer, the American laborer
and the American business man were
never as prosperous as they are to-day.
1t is by their suffrages that this presiden-
tial election must be decided. In what
direction do their interests lie?
The American farmer is selling for
371a cents a bushel corn which it costs
him 10 cents to produce. His wheat and
cotton, his beef and pork are selling at
profitable prices. He is spending his
money in luxuries and enjoying himself.
He is riding in railroad trains, and, as he
looks from the car windows over the
bountiful harvests. he is taking new
view not only of his native land, which
was never fairer or happier, but is also
thinking of his new markets and new
possessions" across the seas.
The laborer is to-day receiving more
wages than he ever received before, and
he is receiving them in currency that is
good all over the world. In many in
stances, undoubtedly, there must be a
readjustment of wages, and the sporadic
strikes now reported. in various manufac-
turing centers point probably to the be-
ginning of this readjustment. In my opin-
ion, these and kindred difficulties will be
safely and speedily settled. =
Now, can any sane man tell me how
the laborer will help his condition, or the
solution of the problems so vital to him,
by voting to debase our standard of value
and thereby reducing his own wages?
What has labor to hope from Bryan,
ostensihly the friend of the dissatisfied,
the champion of the aggrieved, and the
chosen candidate of all the long-haired
reformers in the United States? Does
not the supreme salvation of labor de-
pend, after all, upon preserving our
standard of value. upon the non-partisan
regulation of trusts, and upon the appli-
cation to those great commercial aggre-
cations, which are so peculiarly a pro-
duct of this age, of a system of license
and taxation? Is it not idle to denounce
the trust as an evil, menace to the ma
tional welfare? Is not the trust nat
ural and essential development of our
time? A quarter of century ago the
word Corporation" implied an inherent
reproach in the minds of exactly those
citizens who to-day regard the trust,
which is the incorporation of corpora
tions, with the same disfavor. Yet it is
10 the solution of the trust problem that
the American business man, as well as
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-28

go forward. under Bryan we turn back.
| The coming test of silver question
at the polls must, in all human proba-
bility, be the final one. The will of the
voters twice registered will not be the
third time disputed. Each year that we
preserve our present money standard
gives it additional security. The Amer
lean people do not like experiments with
their currency, their school houses, their
churches or their savings banks. A re-
versal Of the popular verdict of 1896
would mean reversal of all the achieve
ments that make up our national pros
perity. Bryan's election would mean that
the sovereign people had decreed that our
laborers shall be paid in silver, while
our foreign debts must still be paid in
gold.
Convinced as I am that the financial
question is the paramount issue in No
vember, 1900, as it was in November,
1896, it is worth while for Democrats
who supported Mckinley, as did, four
years ago, to ask what are the issues
upon which our party could have appeal
ed to the American people with fair pros
poets of success, and what we can con-
tend for in future contests, after this
economic and financial question is finally
settled. To my mind these define them
selves as reform in governmental admin
istration, economy in governmental ex-
penditure, the taxation and regulation of
oppressive trusts and combinations, and
the immediate enactment Of just and
honest scheme of colonial government.
These would have been issues upon which
every patriot could have been honestly
asked to vote. Why should we not set
fairly about a reform in our old system
of taxation, and, at the same time, initi-
ate departure which might well result
in throwing the cost of government upon
those who can best afford it?
The silver problem solved once for all, as
it will be in November, the colonial prob!
lem at once becomes paramount. We
must either give up Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Philippines, haul down our fiag,,
and shamefully abandon the righteous;
fruits of our prowess by land and sea-,
or we must prepare to govern these dis.
tant additions to our country fairly and
honestly and capably. A per-
pctual, constitutional barrier must be
erected against the statehood of all our
non-contiguous possessions. That sui
premely important problem is to be med
and overcome, not by cowardly evasion
or uisgraceIuf retreat, IOr the Aiheficait
people will tolerate no such course. We
must institute honestly and wisely and
administer economically an American Coz
lohial system, worthy, alike of our new
possessions and of their mother country.
We are not incapable of governing them.
We are, as nation, incapable Of nothingl
fully believe in the future of the
American republic. and that we are wise
and brave enough to bear the burdens
and fulfill the task Providence has allot!
ted US. Let us not faiter at the thresh,
old. NJ. e. INGALLS,.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-28
THE PATENT LAWS
BREED MONOPOLIES.
A Drummer Continues His Chats
on Trade Changes.
Reorganization of Employing Companies
Affords Larger Opportunities 10 the
Men - Expansion Gives Drlmmers
New Fields.
Concluded from last week.)

MenopoIies in this country are due
more to the patent system than any 9TH
er cause the average trust could not mo-
nopoiize its product, and it will not try.
If 1t does, there is the same old remedy
which we free American citizens, who
are supposed to have something to say
In the election of our State legislatures,
can apply. We can pass State laws for
the regulation Of those monopolies. And,
by the way, speaking of politics, the Re-
publican national platform declares
against monopolies and would propose
national legislation against them.
Gsv. Roosevelt, singularly clear
headed public man on civic questions, let
me tell you, sees the point. He would
legislate against monopolies. l hrmiy
believe that this legislation will come,
and with it other laws intended to regu-
late industrial corporations, a good deal
as railroads and banks are regulated now.
Why, not? When the trusts really get to
going SO that they themselves know what
they can do, and so that they won't be
ashamed to show in what cheap, prim-
Tive, experimental stage most Of their
neCHguS now are, tuSu, iihc lAC uohno
and the railroads, they ought to be made
TO "show down." and they will be.
Then the Wall street investor-f0r
whom we don't care anything in particu-
iar-will be protected from making bad
Investments, and the unwary investors.
the widows and the orphans, whom GER
tain sand-bagging plutocrats like to tell
us about with so many tears, will be
doubly protected. Moreover, the en-
ployes Of the trusts, the clerks in the
Offices and the hands in the mills, can buy
trust stocks, and they will want to.
spoke about the Wall street investor.
He hasn't been making so very much
money in industrial stocks of late. He
got caught lots of times. Perhaps you
recall the case of the bicycle trust The
promoters of that scheme went to GER
tain bankers in New York on an eighty
million dollar basis. 1t wouldn't go. It
wasn't worth the money. There wasn't
the property in plants, good will, etc.
About a year later the promoters, the
same promoters, no doubt, who had learn
ed a good deal in the meantime, came
back with the bicycle trust proposition on
a forty million dollar basis, and it went
at that; could earn dividends on the forty
millions. 1t is probably true that the
American Bicycle Company is not fully
satisfied with every single one of the mill
ION details of its business, but doubtless
it viii get there. Other manufacturers,
and big manufacturers. in the bicycle
business will also get there; and other
big trusts in the bicycle business are
bound to get there, too. You can't keep
a good man down-or good proposition.
You can't corner all the capital and
brains in the country. Remember that
But was speaking about the investor,
the wary one, not the widow or the or
phan. He has suffered on account of the
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-28
ARTIFICIAL TREE INDUSTRY.

Factory-MadeP Palms of Life-Like For
nation Are Now Numerous.
This is the age of things artificial. A
palm mandatory has recently opened
a salesroom on Upper Broadway, and
a huge sign lower down on the same
thoroughfare notifies the mob that an
other store of the same sort will soon
be ready for business. The artificial
tree industry is comparatively new and
it must be profitable. All over town
one sees counterfeits. Many of the
large stores, and most Of the moro
prominent hotels Of this city, includ-
ing some of those that are most taste
full in their decorations, now have huge
palms in their halls or entrances. and
even in private houses it is not uncom-
mon to find plants with removable
leaves.
The prepared palms, such as are used
to-day, are infinitely more real in ap-
pearance than the old artificial plants
of few years ago. Many are SO close
in their resemblance to the live plant
that it is hard to detect them as imita-
TORS without close scrutiny. The leaves
are real leaves, and not constructed out
of enameIed tin, like the old kind, and
the fiber on the trunk Is real fiber. 1t
is only on approaching them and ex-
amining them that the leaves are seen
to be painted and the stalks inserted
into, but not growing out of. the stem.
The price of the manufactured article
varies from so cents to $25 for the or
dinary specimens, but some of the
larger and finer ones amount to $50,
or even $780, A small fern palm sprig
of some fifteen inches high is sold at
half dollar; tree, such as those that
are seen in the halls of hotels. measur-
ing. say. nine feet high. and with about
eighteen removable leaves, will cost
SIT. The sago palm is a more expen-
sive variety. tree of five feet selling
for as much as $40. We may rail
against humbug to our hearts content,
but, somehow Or other, the laugh is sell
dom on the fellow who fools us.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-28

| the American farmer and laborer, must
addres .mself. And in the solution of
| that. =. oDlem he will find the present goal
of patriotism.
The>business man who does not inquire
into the politics of his bookkeeper is
asked by the supporters of Mr.. Bryan to
allow partisan politics to be injected into
! the circulating medium through which he
carries on his business. He refused in
1896, as he will refuse, believe, in 1900,
Ito impute either Democracy or Republi-
canism to the dollar He will say that
| it is not a political question, and that it
should not be made such. Asking him
self where he shall seek guidance in the
casting of his ballot, he, like the laborer
and the farmer, looks out upon prosper
ity unprecedented. He sees trade follow
ing the flag all around the world, and
new markets opening to him under new
national responsibilities. He realizes, as
business man, that these responsibili-
ties must be grappled with and adjusted
on business basis. No policy of evasion
or retreat can commend itself to him.
Yet, into the field of partisan discussion
he finds these responsibilities dragged,
like the dollars from his counting room,
by the politicians who seek his vote. And,
like the farmer and the laborer, he finds
his next national ballot invested with
unique Importance.
What will be the reply of the American
patriot, who Is now asked to believe that
his home and his pocketbook are staked
on the next turn Of the ballot, that
wrong decision spells ruin, and that he
must decide issues of such moment as
were never before submitted to the Amer
ican electorate?
Bryan's election appears to
me impossible. Good citizens,
irrespective of party, should vote for Nc
Kinley in November. That it is the duty
of patriots to do so have no doubt.
The safety of the American republic is
not menaced by bogey, crowned with an
imperial diadem of straw. The cry of
Imperialism is simply a pretext of the
Democratic leaders to save themselves
from the fatal blunder they made in
1896. the bunder of dragging the dollar
to the polls and endeavoring to degrade
it. Imperialism is not the paramount
issue, despite all efforts to make it so.
Now. as in 1896. the real issue is the
Silver Danger That is the peri! threat
ening this country, not the imaginary
evils attendant on the acquisition of new
territory, which was the inevitable re-
suit of a war for which the shriekers
against imperialism We're largely respon-
sible. The only peril now threatening
the United States is ruin and retrogres-
sion under silver, the turning back of
the wheels of progress and prosperity
to the standards of China and Mexico,
and the abandonment of our position as
the greatest country in the civilized
world.
Shall we go forward or shall we turn
back? That is the question for the vot-
ers in November. Under Mckinley we
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-28
Works Great Work.

The movement in G. A. r. circles to
erect monument over the grave Of
Henry Clay Work. at Hartford, Conn.,.
revives the fact that his father was
once confined in the Missouri peniten-
tiary on the charge of aiding slaves to
escape from the State OF Missouri to
Illinois. When the elder Work was re-
leased, one of the conditions of his par
don being that he should return to the
State of Connecticut, whence he came
originally, and remain there for the
rest of his natural life. This obliga-
tion he faithfully kept. The son, Hem
ry G. Work, was born at Middletown,
Conn.,, and saw the end of American
slavery while thousands of soldiers and
citizens sang 'Nicodemus," Ring the
Bell, Watchman," and Marching
Through Georgia"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-28
THE COMING MAN.

a pair of very chubby legs
Incased in scarlet hose:
A pair of little stubby boots
With rather doubtful toes;
A little kilt, a little coat,
Gut as mother can
And 10! before us strides in state
The futures coming man."
His eyes. perchance, will read the stars,
And search their unknown ways;
Perchance the human heart and soul
Will open to their gaze;
Perchance their keen and flashing glance
VIII be Il nations light
Those eyes that now are wistful bent !.
On some "big fellows" kite.
That brow where mighty thought will
dwell
In solemn, secret state;
Where fierce ambitions restless strength
Shall war with future fate:
Where science fromsnow hidden caves
New treasures shall outpour-
lis knit now with a troubled doubt,
Are two, or three cents, more7
Those lips that in the coming years
viii plead. or pray, or teach;
Where whispered worlds on lightning
fash
From world to world may reach;
That. sternly grave, may speak command,
Or, smiling win control
Are eoaxing now for gingerbread
With all baby's soul!
Those hands-those little busy hands
So sticky, small and brown;
Those hands whose only mission seems
To pull all order down
Who knows what hidden strength may lie
Within their future grasp,
Though now it's but taffy stick
In sturdy hold they clasp?
All. blessings on those little hands
Whose work is yet undone!
And blessings on those little feet
Whose race is vet unrun!
And blessings on the little brain
That has not learned to plant
~hate'er the future holds in store,
God bless the coming man."
-Eimira Telegram.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-28
NO FAL1ERINC UNDER
THE NATIONS DUTY.
Silver and Expansion Are the
Paramount Issues.
M. e. ingalls,, a Lifelong Sound Money
Democrat, Writes of the Neces-
sity for Assuming Larger
National Life.

One Of the most successful, distin-
guished and popular railway presidents
In the United States is the Hon. Mel
vile e. Ingalls, Of Cincinnati. From the
very ground of railroad construction he
has worked his way up to the presidency
of the Chesapeake and Ohio and Big
-Four railway systems, among the most
prosperous of our great trunk lines. MIR.
Ingalls, is one of the people, and is prac-
ticai in every idea. He is lifelong Dem
ocrat, and from the September issue of
the North American Review the follow
ing extracts are made from Mr.. ingalls,
Advice to Gold Democrats:
What has happened since November,
1896, to warrant a reversal of the judg-
ment which the American people then
pronounced at the polls? Under what
conditions have we entered on the pres
ent presidential campaign, and what, in
this regard, is the duty of patriotic citi-
gems, independent of partisan affiliation?
To the Democrat who voted for Palmer
and Buckner as well as to the Democrat
who voted for Mckinley four years ago,
the situation to-day presents peculiar
embarrassments. Preferring to act with
his party, when possible, the patriotic
Democrat must, nevertheless, answer the
call of duty, no matter in what direction
Il leads him.
The second and supreme trial of the
great financial issue, which never should
have been dragged into partisan politics,
will be made at the polls in November,
1900. This test will, L believe, be con-
elusive What are the conditions under
which it Is to be made?
There Is in the United States at the