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Show ' timber or coal or oil or water power, or anything else tbat was free to the, people from the Atlantic to the eastern base of the Rocky mountain g. - It baa denied the west coast any fair protection against . any enemy in case of war: it has seemed to hold to the opinion of Grover Cleveland that the west is mde tip of "undesirable states." , And the serious feature of it all is that the ma-, ma-, jority of the men in congress would be shocked to . have the truth told them, which is that they are too ignorant to occupy the positions which they hold; that they are hedged around by a provincialism which makes it impossible for them to have the honesty and energy to learn the real truth, because in their narrowness they have passed the point when they have any desire to learn anything further, fur-ther, or to investigate, lest they may possibly- be mistaken on some subject which may be of especial interest to some millions of their countrymen. Mark Twain said that "a cauliflower is a cabbage with a college education," and Jesus Christ said: "Father, forgive them;' for they know not what they do." Congress is filled with illustrations of Twain's remark, and the rabble around the cross did not need the master's intercession more than the majority in congress does. WISDOM WILL NOT DIE WITH THEM. Congresa has refused to pay the freight on the aubsidiary silver coins which are badly needed in the business of the west, especially in Oregon and Washington. By legislation our !enign government govern-ment has reduced the value of the product of our western silver mines quite $1,000,000,000 in the psst sixteen years, and by the same legislation has elosed the markets of the orient against the pro- ducts of the west such as grain, lumber, canned goods, etc, and by the same legislation has enabled the myriads of the orient to send their products such as coal, iron, steel billets, steel rails, rice, wool, silk, tea and a multitude of other products and sell. them to us 60 per cent cheaper than thy did sixteen years ago. and making the samj profit now as then. And while by the same legislation the government ic able to buy what silver for token mi-ney it needs at a discount of 60 per cent below the price -which it chsrges the people when the silver sil-ver ia coined; still it refuses to pay . the little , freight on those coins which the people of the west need. Except in the matter of the reclaiming of arid lands, which by the way costs the government nothing and adds vastly to the property of the nation, na-tion, and in some fortifications on the coast, we would be glad to have some one point out in whst way the government haa shown any disposition to do the square thing by the west coast for sixteen yesrs past. It hjts seemed determined to keep the people from appropriating anything of value, either in |