Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-18
LACK OF APPRECIATION.

LACK OF APPRECIATION.
An Unfortunate Habit Into Which TIL
People of Oregon Have Fallen.
To THE ItIfoR GAZETTE
The agitation in favor of reduc
ing the Soutl's representation il
congress as punishment fol
suppressing the negro vote ended
naturally, in smoke. Practica.
republicans admit that the great
republican mistake was the ff-
teenth amendment and recent
Legislation limiting suffrage,
adopted by several Southern
states would be enforced in
Northern commonwealth were
conditions there similar.
| Several Northern States have
now educational or property linn
itations or both and the tendency
is toward restriction rather than
toward liberality. Sober stu
dents predict a general limiting
of the suffrage, in the selection
of legislative officers to actual
taxpayers, regardless Of sex In
voting for administrative and
judicial officers the test, they say,
will be sex and education. There
will thus be a patriotic reward
for thrift, and the improtident
will not be able by their ballots
TO waste the accumulations of
the prudent:
Senator Dolph once remarked
to Editor Lighter, of Astoria,
that constant source of disap-
pointment to him was the lack
Of personal evidences. of appre-
citation from his home people
when, after perhaps a long hard
fight, he accomplished some
thing favorable to their interests.
Not a telegram of congratula-
tions, not a letter of thanks.
The victories were often hardly
won; sometimes gained by un-
imagined sacrifices. Senators
aad congressman are human and
a "thauk you'' from those they
are trying to serve is often ap-
preciated as much as re-e1ec-
tion would be, aid gives heart
for renewed exertion. It is un-
fortunate for Oregon that her
people are falling into the hurt
full habit of eriticizing and fault
finding her representatives at
Washington out Of Office as soon.
as they begin to gain committee
experience and legislative power.
It has been very difficult to see
Mr. Tongue lately, for he has
been constantly busy day and
night, as member of the river
and harbor committee, and a
study of the bill as presented by
the committee will show that
bis efforts i'll behalf of Oregon
have been phenomenallv suo-
cessful. Yet, when I pressed
him the other day for informa-
ton concerning the manner in
which Oregon people received
the news, he reluctantly admit
ted that he had only received
messages of congratulation from
Corvallis for the liberal allow
ance for the revetment near
there. Judge Burnett, and 1
believe some others, wrote him
personally. Later, other places
voiced their commendation, but
Portland-well, we all know
Portland.
The Oregonian not only failed
to give Mr.. Tongue credit, but
actually said that the results
were due to the action of the
members from Washington, i'll
spite of the fact that not one
man of the Washington OF Idaho
delegations aided in the slight
est degree single Oregon pro-
ject mentioned in the bill as
presented by the committee.
The injustice to Mr.. Tongue is
the grosser because the great
bulk of the appropriations
secured for Oregon are for the
second district. The whole
state, tits true, will be benefited
by the improvement of the Co.
lumbia bar, but observation-disclosures
merits more than Interpretation
and blame. H. L. HoLGATE.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 9, 'cI.