The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1900-03-23

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Where there is will there LEA way,
| Albany College is In il today.
| IL isa vacuum Of day thar passO
without q joke around the depo,s,
The farmers are being favored Will
some elegant weather for putting in icr,,
cent spring wheat.
Albany has done her part towaids ge,
ting the big mill. Now let the shovel.
and hammers fly.
The Epworth Lsaguers in April, the
Christian Endeavoiers la May. Albany
10 big enough for all OF them.
A dispatch from Dawson saya that
fully 5000 people viii start for CapG
Nome when navigation opens. Who
viii be left Tor the arbitrary British off,
cisls to prey uron.
Every day emphasizes the need Of d
big public hall for Albany, one that will
hold at least one thousand people. IL is
time something was done with sharp
stick.
The Salem Journal is entirely respon.
sible for the following:
Ex-senator A. ]. johnson, one OF the
Forty" and Silver Republlcau, who
posed as an aulI.Dolph maa tbut was
one OF McBride's managers,) haa been
rewarded with the bank exarinership.
A good way to settle the bridge ques-
ton as to the responsibility Of the coun-
ty would be 10 submit II to vote OF the
people OF the county. referendum style.
Let them vote on II "Shall the county
keep up the bridge" aud then abide by
the result. The majority rulea. Why
not IN this case.
The OEMocRAT has received copy OF
The Smart Set, new magazine just
started in New York City. Price 25
cents. The publisher knew where to
send it.. t3t
tits reported from Toledo that the
poetic @. & E. agent there has named
the new arrival ut his house
Dewey
Buoy.
Tomorrow will be busy day in AL
bany, raising day. The debt OF Albany
college will be raised in perhaps half a
day. The people of the city will do
their duty as they always have in the
past when it came to the rub.
The Portland chamber Of commerce
have unanimously endorsed Senator
Simon's position on the Puerto REQ
tariff bill. II is confidently expected
that the wind vii. not blow over with
him Ia the emattef, and thati1e win stand
firm tor the right In this affair. II he
does we will forgive him for come OF his
past crookedness.
The narrowest citizen any city has is
the man who viii not support a new en-
terprise because il will bring more peo-
pie and business houses into the city
and hence more competition for him
The man afraid Of competition might as
well withdraw.
The Topeka Capital Journal has pic
ture illustrating the immense advantage
OF our new colonial possessions to trade
From 1898 to 1899 the sale OF liquor to
Cuba and Porto Rico increased one
hundred 70 two hundred fold, and in the
Philippines nearly thousand fo'd. An
immense thing.
If the bridge were swept and few
new planks we're placed in the decking
il would be good for couple Of years
use at least. The piling 10 good for sew
eral wears vet. SlOO would cover the
expense, The fact might as
take charge of the bridge except by
Iuhu0hbc vi tuc cuRkULhC SVuIbg 9uA ~
should be kept up in keeping with Al
bany's prospects at this time. These
are days when We must go ahead and
not backwards.
Count Tolstoi, the great Russian
phiIanthropist, tells the story OF most
wars when he says, substantially, that
the cunning manipulations OF
politicians poor men are led TO forget
The teachings OF Christ and at the com-
mand Of their leaders shoot down other
poor people who are their brother Chris-
tians and might ba their best Triendss
while at the same time the other poor
people are compelled to support the
men who are employed to shoot them
down.
Judge Lowell, of Pendleton, who re
Gently lectured in Albany, in letter in
the Hepner Gazette states that he is not
for U. s. senator, but he would
deem it an honor to repre-.
sent Oregon in the senate, in a manner
IN indicate that he Would be glad to ac-