The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-07-16
ABOUT THINGS .POLITICAL-AND
DROPS SOME OPINIONS
Lays No Stress on Chances of Dem
oeratic Success in This Falls
Elections-Looks Rather
for Upheaval in 1904
Other News.


F'The work Of the recent sessions ha
been very important" the speaker said
"IOf course he republicans have ha
their own way about everything except
ing the reciprocity question with Cuba
They have rot yet passed the ship-subsi
dy bill through the House, but suppos
GTley will do SO at the next session. Thei
enajority is SO large in each house tina
they have had the power to do pretty
s3.uch as they like, and they are pledged
TO this colonial policy and intend to car
Ey it out.
EtThe worst thing about the Philippine
business is the pretense on the part Of
our republican friends that they are act
6ng upon high moral considerations,
T4i2en every intelligent man knows that
they are actuated by commercial motives
sos1ly The leader in the senate, Senator
Nszna, is continually quoting what Nc
A-in1ey said to him about public matters,
and we have had sort of political seance
IN the senate on every occasion when a
debate has occurred, either on political
question or the Nicaragua canal or the
ship subsidy.
Cali the world knows Mr., Mckinley
declared in his speech at Charlottesville
as he went to the Pacific coast, and after
ward in his speech at Buffalo, just before
GH assassination, that we must hold the
E1SMppine archipelago as base of dis
tn tG4ion for our surplus products in the
Oreta1t- The moral aspect of the ques-
tiox is used Simply to fortify the inten-
tioR on the part Of the administration
TO isoid the Philippine islands for COM
aeroEsl purposes.
ct is useless to protest against the
philippine policy now. If the republi-
aeazzs can continue the high pressure OF
9he Fseo1n which has given greater prices
to e9sg manufacturers and farmers and
caused al amount of circulation OF money
lil 5ais country hithertofore unparalleled,
shey will carry the next presidential e1ec-
zion But no man living can predict with
any certainty what will be the condition
IN I904, and ii is therefore useless to coli
lecture what viii be the result of the next
campaign.
'The republican party is unquestiona-
Uly in alliance with the trusts. No in
lel1ige1lt m@tl can doubt this fact after
looking at the record. III not one single |
instance have they failed to show them
selves the friends ofthe great nonopo1ies. |
At SsIs session OF congress they have fur
Uished conclusive evidence Of their in
tantlon not to attack them in eny way. |
2he Sugar Trust was powerful enough to
defeat the House bill removing the differ
antiaI on refined sugar, and the bill
zlngwn It's the Outage Whiskey bill
has been killed in The finance committee
Of the senate because the republicans did
zotwaut to give the Whiskey trust what
it wanted until the trust had been squeez-
ed for campaign purposes.
"a gseat many democrats are serious
about the congressional elections in No
Ve1nber, b'1t I am not so sure any import
mt results viii come from carrying the
house. TIE republicans will have the
presidency ard the senate by 20 majority =
and our control OF the House would prac-
tica1ly amount to very little. OF course
E democratic House could defeat any OBJ
jectionable legislation, but it must be re-
nlembered the republicans have already
effected all they desired, and they would
after losing the Honse in No
vember, rush q subsidy bill through, that
body in the short session.
eff We should carry the House and
financial reyulsion come upon the coun-
try in 1904 or before that time, the repub-
Iicans would declare that this WAS the re-
suit of democratic victory in the popu-
lar branch Of congress, while the posses
sion of the House by the democrats, as I
have said, would amount to very little"
Parkersburg, W. v, July SD. Haw-
kins, of Clarksburg, gave his pretty
daughter, Gertrude, eighteen years Of age,
a sewing machine on the condition that
she should stop swearinr. She Atopped,
but when her spring sewing vas done
she sold the machine back to her father
for $40 and took q trip with the money.
Yesterday when sue started to use the
her father prevented her and a
fight ensued, in which she says he tried
TO cut her head off with a hatchet. He
was fined. In the fight the machine was
smashed, and the girl now says she will
swear all she p1eases unless her father
will buy her another. 'tLet her swear"
he says.