The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-05-21
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cific had taken UP 10s,646 acres of the
choicest timber lands in Linn county,
which they now hold at SIS per acre,
and got 1t for nothing, but the ex-
pense Of location.
A whole township of this timber had
been taken in Coos county and $4,000
acres in an Eastern Oregon county.
Large holdings had been lost to the
settlers in Douglas and other coun-
ties.
$4,5O0,OOO worth of timber lands
had been stolen from the people in
four counties of Oregon the past few
years by the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company.
Mr.. Weatherford next expounded
the principles of true Democracy. He
showed from the record that he
offered resolutions in the legislature
in 1885 and 1889 for direct election of
senator's. He charged that Mr..
Tongue voted against that as state
senator, after he once had voted for
It, Not only senators, but all who
represented the people, should be
elected by the people.
II elected to Congress he would IA
vor electing all officers by direct vote
of the people
Next he discussed the charge that
Democrats and Populists and Social
lists are scuttlers. He quoted Mr.. Cor
belts sentiments toward the Philip
pines as correct. If they were ca
pable of self-government 1t was our
duty to give it to them, as we had
done to Cuba. He denounced the bar
barities practiced in the Philippines
as a disgrace to our empire. He had
never found a Democrat who was in
| favor of the water-cure-especial If
he came from Missouri or Kentucky
Was it the part of great, free ma
ton to make a bowling wilderness Of
the Philippines? They should not be-
| come part of this great republic
They would never be fitted for citi-
zenship. All Oriental people should
be shut out of our country. We did
not want the Philippine islands. We
should never be able to make state
or territory of those islands.
The proudest day of our history for
the past 30 years was when the Amer.
lean flag came down IN Cuba, and
their flag went up. Never raise the
flag in tyranny and dishonor, but for
humanity and freedom.
What was it to be a world power?
This was the talk of those who want
ed this to be the greatest nation in
the world. The monarchles of Europe
were all anxious to be great world
powers. Was this our destiny? Was
ii world power that wanted the ship
subsidy bill passed, and then pass
Chinese exclusion bill that let all the
subsidized ships be manned with
Chinese sailors? That has been done
in the Senate.
Ships could be built in England,
with American lumber and steel,
cheaper than here. Nefarious trusts,
Infamous laws were throttling our in
dustries, and restricting our com
merce with the world, and yet we
talked of being a world power
He spoke of the Nicaragua canal
bill that was passed IN one house and
killed in the other. Ships loaded for
Portland with sand ana gravel that
came as ballast, was dumped into the
river, and the legislature appropriat,
ed money to dig it out again.
He favored arid land legislation TO
get water onto land now covered only
with sand, sage brush, horned-toads
and lizards. Ee had seen sand des-
erts made worth 800 an acre by put
ting water onto it. He denounced the
present laws that let a few men take
whole county put in a little ditch,
and charge all settlers what they
please for the right to live on 1t. He.
favored government control of the
water and reservoirs to make that
country blossom with wealth.
First the swamp land act robbed the
people of great areas OF land; then
the timber land act robbed them of
their greatest wealth; now the arid
land laws were constructed TO rob the
settlers and enrich the corporations.
He showed the record of Fulton and
Tongue as opposed TO the fellow-serv-
ants law, He attacked them for hav-
ing killed that bill in several legisla-
lures, and that such a law was in the
interest of labor.
II | am not elected l will give Mr..
Tongue the closest chase he has ever
had since he got in by SO votes in
1896, and I'll give it to him worse
than Mr. Vanderburg did If the people
stand by me in the district as they
will in Linn county
The Official Ballot.