The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1900-10-27
names and deeds adorn the pages
of American history.
QUESTIONS ABOUT PROSPERITY.

names and deeds adorn the pages
of American history.
QUESTIONS ABOUT PROSPERITY.
Concerning prosperity, he said:
Can farm be sold at a higher
price than two, three or four years
ago? Does the wheat from that
farm bring higher price? Can
town lots be sold easily, and DO they
bring higher figures than formerly?
F. don't know whether they do or
not. Let each man take these ques
tions home to himself and answer
them. Is not the cry of prosperity
a fake, an unful6lled boast, an
empty sound? Do farmers, me-
chanies and laborers have money
to lend to their neighbors? Is it
easy for them to pay their taxes?
These are the true tests of prosperi-
ty. Sheep are high priced in Ore
gon, aud so are cattle. There are
nine million less head of cattlein the
country now than ten years ago.
The great free ranges are exhausted.
They were giving out when cattle
went down in price number of
years ago, and the unprecedented
sales then make scarcity and high
prices now. Mckinley did not
make the cattle high. If SO, why
did he not make them higher, or
make wheat high? He did not
make sheep high. The Oregon
price is far above that in other
states. 1t is a local demand, tenn
porary only, because wheat farmers
are seeking and handling more
sheep. The price will decline, no
matter who is elected president.
WHAT woRKINaMAN SAID.
Judge Stuart dwelt at some length
on trusts. Their increase in the last
four years was amazing. Their pow
er to fix prices covered nearly all the
necessities of life. To Judge Stuart
a Portland working-man had said:
'.If the dinner pail was full it was
made of tin from the tin trust. solder
/ ed with solder from the solder trust;
the bale was made of the wire from
the wire trust; inside was beef from
the Union meat trust, salted with
salt from the salt trust; the cracker
In it was from the cracker trust, the
cover was fastened on with leather
from the leather trust, and he intend.
ed to throw the whole thing into the
river for the sucker trust"
BARTER1NG HUMAN LIFE.
Judge Stuart closed with des-
criptive reference to the treaty Of the
| United States with the Sultan of Sulu.
He read from the document various
sections. One provided for the payment
by the United States of $3.50 per
! month to "his royal highness the
Sultan" and for each of his numerous
dattoes from $50 to $3.50 per month.
Another provided for the protection
of "his royal highness," the Sultan, in
all his r tes, his religion, and other
privileges, including the right to po-
| lygamous marriage and to keep slaves.
Another provides that Americans can
purchase land in the Sulu islands by
| first making Arrangements with "his
| royal hsghness, the Sultan" aud then
completing the purchase with the own
er Of the land. The first privilege
gives the right to the Sultan to accept
bribes in the purchase, and the other
| prepares the way for American ad-
! venturers and eyndicates to buy up
great land tracts in the Islands. The
! speaker adverted to the recent state.
ment by Frank Carpenter in the Ore
gonian, describing how any man could
| buy Sulu girl for his slave for prices
from So to SIS, according to her beauty.
This traffic in human blood and yir.
tue, the speaker declared, was recog-
| nized, permitted and abetted by the
provisions OF this infamous treaty,
which bore the official signature and
seal or the United States or America.
! It bore the signature Of William Nc
Kinley, president of the United States.
/ It is contract that is binding and
from which the United States cannot
retire, and is in honor: bound to res
pect- Itcommitted the sovereign
people OF the United States to poll
cy of recognition and of sanction of
the infamous traffic in human life and
female virtue, prevalent in the $50
thiekly populated and .polygamous isl
ands of the Sulu Archipelago.
Judge Stuart's startling narration
of the facts was received by the audi
ence in profound and significant sill !