The Corvallis Gazette (Corvallis, Or.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
764 issues from 1865 to 1898, published in Corvallis, Oregon, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Corvallis Gazette appeared in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1862 with Thomas Benton Odeneal as editor. Odeneal is a curious figure in the history of Oregon newspapers, having traded one of his previous papers for a bookstore in 1859. His move to the Gazette was indicative of more than just a desire to change careers again; it also illustrated a marked change in his political views. Having previously worked on Democratic papers, he decided to edit the Gazette, a Republican periodical, as his interest grew in the policies of the Republican Party. He left the paper in 1866, planning “to engage in more active, healthy employment a short time.”Several owners and editors followed until the paper eventually merging with the Oregon Union, forming the Union Gazette in 1899.
As a Republican organ, the Gazette was in favor of protective tariffs. An 1888 article, “Protection, Free Trade,”framed the tariff debate along class lines, contrasting the interests of labor with a wealthy elite. According to the paper, “When…we seek to crowd down the price of labor to a level of foreign countries, by opening the doors of free trade to foreigners, then we knock the bottom out of our own market and offer a premium to poverty and furnish recruits for the poor house.”The writers for the Gazette concluded that protective tariffs were necessary to ensure livable wages for American laborers, which, in turn, guaranteed prosperity for the nation.
The Gazette was also an advocate of prohibition, running…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Corvallis, Oregon, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress