Show OLD oth RECORDS E r t.- t. In Jil Inthe Ta the Oregonian s Half a a. a Century Ago Aco column under column t tinder r date late of October 17 17 it publishes es two dispatches which have hac even yet et a peculiar interest rc t. t The first is as JS follows Chicago Oct U 0 lu Iu the rebel house bout e of resolution for the nit of a joint committee coni com to address 1 the people of California Oregon und and the bi various territories west we of the Rock mountains ou expediency of or establishing a n league k lc offensive and defensive e such 1 mill and t territories tI and anil an the tho confederate states were referred to tho flit committee on u affairs Those were cre pa parlous lous times on the thc wt r t c roast ua t b au e the population was wa nearly equally di- di vided between c n northern and arid southern people aa the southerners were more aggressive than the northerners But it it was too late Had the thing been een tried when Albert Albept Sydney Sydne Johnstone was wag the thc commander at Al Alcatraz traz there is is' no no telling what hat might taYO happened but wh when n he lie was by General Sumner that insured the holding of California and Oregon in inthe thc union for about all tim tho arms on the tho coast e ex except ept ct re rc revolvers were in th that that lt fortress s. s Had tho the proposition proposition S tion come collie a year c r s sooner oller there is no telling what might have t been The other othier item reacTs item reads as as follows ys 8 OC O Oct t. t j 7 T Th The Richmond d Examiner x sa 53 t e Con Congress has ts serious business ou banda band hand a at present nf tho j subject t being b ing finance and revenue ba bril Tho bill provides s r. r cr citizen shall hall give ghe the government Q fifth fth of his hi gross grov income and re- re l acknowledgment S per cent bonds It rt never reached a n vote vole because the truth is southern men IH had d no incomes at that time Nearly all the thc plantation owners were in the army and und the thc slaves were doing the work supporting sup sup- porting port the army and supporting the women and children at h home But had the federal government government govern govern- ment made that e experiment peri instead of establishing establish establish- ing banks w we believe it would have saved saYed the government a- a t. t great many hundred millions minions of dollars because b cause tho tile nat national onal banking law first carried through was vasi the thc first great levy which the thc national banks banks m made d upon upon the people and wo Wc believe the lineal descendants of the debts then made and put in iu the form of interest bearing se securities securities se se- arc are still drawing interest from the people pea peo pie that is a n l large rge proportion of them something something some some- thing like They ought to have lae been paid years year ago and w would have been except that the national banks s wanted those bonds as se security security se- se for the monc money thc they r drew from the gov gay The Thc interest account which the thc workers work work- ers cr in jn the tho United States have ha paid to national banks s and money changers since that war caused on of that war is something so fearful that if the amount could once be placed before the people of r the United States it would paralyze them |