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OREGON CITY COURIER. 14th YEAR. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1897. NO. 88: Mill FIRE, LIFE And Accident REPRESENTING Royal of Liverpool- "o uiinei m th worw. North British & Mercanfale-' oooo""" ,n the wor",, 80" Sun of London-0"1"'' pre, flr ,n fflD ,n th "i'- iBtna Of HartlOrd Lara-eat and beat American company. Continental of Now York u f be,t American company AND OTHER FIRST-CLASS INSURANCE COMPANIES The Tiavelers Insurance Company of Hartford Lara-eat, oldeat and beat aocldeut Inaurance cowuany In the world, and alto doe a very large life Inauranee bualueaa. ....nix oh m torn BLOTTiaa asd calinimju .... Lr Buna Tin Lowist for CHOICE CUTS ajdJENDER MEATS go to RICHAUD FDTZOLD'O CASH MARKETS . Seventh Street, Corner of Center, on the Hill. Main St., Opposite Caufield Block. . . Twt,8hopa, . - - - Oregon City, Oregoi. gJ?? G. H, BESTOW ft CO ' ton v ' . , ., ' DOORS, WINDOWS, MOULDING and BUILDING , MATERIAL. LOWEST CASH PRICES EVER OFFERED, FOR FIR8T-CLA88 GOODS. Shop Oppoalte Congregational Clmrch, . Malu Street, Oregon City, Oregon r COLLARING ' A MAN. CHARMAN Hon. W. J. Bryan's Book A LL who are interested in furthering, the sale of Hon. W. J. Bryan s new book should correspond im mediately with the publishers. The work will contain The results A review of 3 AGENTS WANTED CS- Mr. Bryan has announced his intention of devoting one-half of all royalties to furthering the cause of bimetallism. There are already indications of an enor mous sale. Address W. B. CONKEY COMPANY, Publishers, 341-351 Dearborn St....CHICAGO. CITY VIEW NURSERY CA.NBY. . OBKCON. Apnl. Peara.' Cherries. Flnme and Prpoea, Italian ana renwr, "'"" and Peach Treea. ' rinl-CUaa U Erery Rfipeet j ZEttsZZl J. A. COX, Prop., MEDITATION on the subject of crockery can lead to but one result a visit to our store . We show o much and we quote go many prices tlmt no other retailer can imitate, that wo outrival rivalry. Our assortment of breakfast, dinner, or tea sets in the finest ware and of the most artistic design are so many constellations of rare brilliancy. Descending from such to single pieces, we here again eclipse all. Fine Decorated 60-1'iece Tia Set for $2.60 and upwards. BKLL0J1Y & BUSCH, Th Housefurnuhers, OREGON CITY, OR. Leading Agency in Clackamas County F. E. DONALDSON, at Commercial Bank, Is not the way to make a man enter your store and buy. We don't attempt to force any one to purchase from us, but by offering value for money, seek to show them that buyers' and sellers'- interests are really identical.' & SON- An account of his campaign tour . . . His biography, written by his wife . . His most important speeches ... of the campaign of 1896. the political situation . . Bucklei't Ariica Salve. Tin Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Braise!, Sore. Ulcer. Salt Rheum Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands. Cbilblaius, Corns, and all Skin Erup, tions. and positively cores Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to (five perfect satisfaction or monev refunded. Price 25 cents per box For sale by Cbarman 4 Co. SUCCESS IN BUSINESS Is attained by the use of good sound common sense. The merchant ' who gives fair, honest values for the price never will be without plenty of customers. While we will always meet the price of "bait" mer chants to cash trade, we never resort to fake sales or Any other deceptions to attract trade. Our ap peals are to your pocket liook, and we give tbe best all-round values. The average man or woman has sense enough to know that when staple goods, like groceries, are offered for less than real value, they are of inferior quality or old and shop -worn. "Baits" were invented to catch fish, not men. We Solicit Your Trade. E. E. Williams, The ameer, 'Phone 8, M wonlc Bldg. 1 I I I I I THE RIVER STEAMERS. Report of the Business of the Locks at Oregon City During the Last Quarter. The Portland General Electric Com pany, the lessees of the locks at tbe fulls of the Willamette river at Oregon City, last week filed the report of the business done at the locks and the vessels passed through them during the three months ending December 31, 1896. Following are the statistics. Boats. . Trips. Pass Modoc A3 432 Toledo 23 118 Altona 93 1,584 Elmore 42 113 Ramona 42 685 Ruth 68 426 Gjpajf " 23 81 Albany............. .'...., 33 242 Eugene.. .......... ...... -27 61 'Total.'.. Boats. S,8Sl Tons. 1066V 2HV 696 151 220 2446)? 4632 484 1 2G0J Cattle. Sheep. Modoc.... 8 Toledo-. 2 Altona.... 56 108 1 4 Elmore v Ramona... . . . . Ruth Gypsy......... Albany........ 4 6 31 2 4 8 Eugene Total 116 114 7408)$ The Altona has the best record for passengers, having carried 1,584 through the locks in the three months, of which number 1,019 were carried in October. The Ruth on the other hand carried the largest amount of freight, the tonnage to her credit being 2,446 nearly 900 tons greater than that of any other boat. The Altona made 93 trips through the locks, averaging a little better than one trip each day. Assessable Property. Tlie'following is the taxable valuation of property in the various school districts named on the assessment roll of 1806, the segregation have just been made by County Clerk Dixon. These are the school districts in which a local tax will be levied, the great majority of the dis tricts not levying any local tax, thus making it unnecessary to segregate the values from the general county tax roll : Milwaukie $204,695 Caneinali 83,357 Logan 21,963 Fulton joint ,. 07,797 Maple Lane 31.724 Molalla 79,187 Stafford , 62.852 Concur J 94,122 Butteville joint 7,156 Clackamas.... 71,010 Went Side joint 434,144 Canby 50,631 Ne Era 18,495 Lenta '. 32,909 Leland..... 12,722 Keilland 17,214 Sunnyside 36,100 Redtand 23,455 Mulino 14,628 Mulino 7,791 Willsbnrg joint 26,222 Scotta Milla joint. 1,552 Oregon City '. $885,843 Tbe reason why Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is so much more effective than other remedies for colds and coughs is because it is the most skilful combination of anodynes and expectorants lyiown to medical science. It is in every respect a scientific medicine. To make the hair grow a natural color prevent baldness, and keep the scalp healthy .Hall's Hair Renewer was invent ed, and baa proved itself successful. A new lot of nice fitting ladies' wrap per at the Racket Store. THE LABOR EXCHANGE Claims to Have Silved the Money Question. DOING BUSINESS WITHOUT MONEY Brief Review by B. J. Sharp, of Salem, State Organizer. The National Labor Exchange was in corporated under the lawi of Missouri by order of the circuit court for Pettis county of tlmt state on the 1st of March, 1890. Branches for the transaction of busi ness have' been organized in nearly all the states and territories of the Union and foreign lands. There are at present some 150 branches with a total membership of nearly 7,009. It is an organization of producers and others interested in the advancement of the people. Any person without regard to sex, age, race or religion, who is of good moral character and not engaged in a business injurious to tbe public, can become a member upon taking the pledge and paying the membership fee. The fee is one dollar and covers all the charge for a life membership, there being no assessments or other dues. The pledge is as follows : OBLIGATION OF HKMBKRS. ' I. .of the age of.. . ...years, sex, and by occupation now residing at ; County of..... ..and State of .In consideration of the rights, privileges, benefits and protection conferred upon me as a mem ber of the Labor Exchange Association. and to the end that the property of the said Association, upon winch the safety of -said benefits is based, may not be sacrificed at reduced value by forced liquidation in legal tender money, here by promise and agree that for any article or articles of merchandise and monies that I may deposit in the keeping, of labor and services that I may perform for, or for any certificate of deposit that I may hold on said Labor Exchange, I will accept as sufficient compensation thereof merchandise, property, labor, or services of equal value, and relinquish any rights, and liens, which may have resulted in my favor and against the property of the Association by reason of said deposits, labor or services. In testimony thereof I have hereunto slotted my 'name In the presence of the towing suDscrioM witnesses, tuu. . . day of.... A. 189.5 .s. ....... .fSKAL , Witness v .Witness No. . . .of Branch No. . . J After a charter has been received and the Branch is ready for business, a room is secured (cash rents should be avoided if possible) and deposits of any market able commodities received. Upon these deposits' certificate is issued, similar to a bank certificate, yet differing in some particulars. The . certificate states the name of the depositor, the date, nature and value of the deposit and is signed by the president and accountant. The back of the certificate bears this statement: "This Certificate of Deposit is not re deemable in legal tender, but receivable by the Labor Exchange Association in payment for merchandise, for services and for all debts and dues to the same, and is based upon and secured by, the real and personal property in the keeping of the Ass x-iation at the branch of issue." The property held for the redemption of this certificate cannot, as per charter, be mortgaged or pledged for debts, nor can it be withdrawn, but it may be ex changed by the Association for other property of equal value. The explicit statement is made that no one need be misled in regard to the choracter of the paper. It is not a claim of legal tender pay ment. Upon endorsement by the holder the certificate can be transferred to another and so on through any number of hands. When it returns to U e branch it is re deemed in the merchandise held by the exchange, and is then cancelled, going out cf circulation. The direct purpose of the organization is the overthrown of the present legal tender system of business and the sub stitution of a system of exchange based upon the product of labor. Ilence we aim at nothing loss than the subversion of the present inadequate and unjust system of exchanges. The medium put into circulation would be perfectly safe because based upon actual wealth in the hands of the Exchange. As I have explained, the cer tificates are issued only as value comes in and that value cannot leave the exchange until paper equivalent comes in. Thus every dollar afloat will be backed by at last one dollar of value in the keeping of the Exchange. Paper goes out when value comes in, and paper comes in when value goes out. Another quality possessed by no other monetary system is its absolute elas ticity. Its volumes adjusts itseil to the demands of business. The amount in circulation will depend npon the volume of business. Beyond tbe possibility of legislation tbis system will promote domestic manu factures, and make possible the upbuild ing of American industries. We have the labor and we can feed, clothe and house the laborers while they rear factories and build machinery, and put into operation ten thousand new Indus tries that when so created shall not be mortgaged to foreign capital, but shall bo solely our own. Producing at home will save trans port1 ion and the cost of multiplied handlings. Capitalizing labor would relieve the la borer from interest and profit charges now drawn from his labor by capital. The elimination of needless wuste in distri bution would still further reduce his burdens and make him the lurgest re turn for his products. The further advantage of the system is that it would result in the surplus pro duction of the country accumulating in the hands of the producers in the form of permanent improvements. Factories, mills and all industrial machinery, and all transportation facilities would become the property of those who had built them, that is the producers. If any object that this would form a gigantic combination or syndicate the answer is ready. It would be a syndi cate into which could come anyone who was willing to work however poor or friendless he might be. This brief review of the new method of business is placed before the public in order to arrest attention, arouse in terest and stimulate investigation. PKHTINENT QUESTIONS ANSWKKED. If I become a member must I give all my time to, and deposit all my produce with the Exchange? No. You do not promise to do any thing through the Exchange. You only promise that you will take its commo dities in payment and not demand legal tender. How am I to get cash to pay taxes and interest? You have just as many ways of getting cash then as now. This plan does not reduce the money in circulation. It simply puts an additional medium along side of the money now in the hands of the people. Is there ary danger from dishonest management? i . Every safeguard put. around other business concerns can be placed about How do you establish prices and pay managing expenses? . Prices are fixed by the current market and a difference is made between the wholesale, or . buying prices and the re tail price sufficient' to cover expenses of the business. is califoiinia'.- The following from the Sun Francisco Call of January 24th, shows what the Labor Exchange is doing there and its possibilities: There is a large wholesale business house down at 322 Duvis street that has done a business of $28,000 within the lust eight months, wholly without money. Nor is it in debt for,ene dollar. It expects to go right along doing busi ness in exactly the same way without money. It has grown from a small affair, located out on Tenth street, a year ago, to its present healthy propor tions, by the same methods, and bases its future expectations upon what it has accomplished. It claims to have solved the "Money question" by eliminating money entirely having nothing io do with it. This business concern is the Labor Ex change. It is not a mere local co-ope rative affair. The Labor Exchange is a national institution that, in spite of the sneers and prophecies of fuilure that it met at its inception and that have fol lowed it along its course, seems to have reached a point where it may demand respectful study and consideration. The idea upon which it is founded is very simple. Its purpose is to employ every man who has an opportunity to produce anything by finding a market for the product to find some other man who wants the product and who has something to exchange for it. It is by this means that the use of money is dis pensed with. It is worked in this way. A shoe maker, for instance, wants a barrel of flour. He gets to work and makes a a whole lot of shoes of the value of the thing he wants, takes them to the Ex change and receives the flour. If lie wants something that is not in the Ex changefor instance, if he wants a new set of teeth he is given a check or checks of the value of the product he leaves there, and goes away to tome dentist who belongs to the Exchange and who therefore will accept the checks for his work. The dentist is not required to take the shoes in exchange for his work the checks will be accepted at the Exchange for anything there is in stock Nor is the dentist even limited to iiiis. These checks are accepted by a score or more of other busiueas houses in almost every line of trade, so widely has the movement spread. So that Labor Exchange checks are coming into generaj ciivuiaiion ana w Absolutely Pure. Celebrated lor II. area! leave niiiu atrvnith and hraltllfulheM. Anlire. Hid (nod amln.l alum and all (nrma o( ailiilU'rallru common to Ilia cheap bramla. KOYAL HaKIKO POWDKl CO., NEW YOKK. serving not merely as a substitute, but in some respects as an improvement upon money. They are an improve ment to the extent that they serve all the purposes in facilitating exchange without being subject to taxation. That question has been raised at Washington the institution has reached such proportions as to have forced at tention at Washington and the Attorney-General declared that inasmuch as the checks were not redeemable in legal tender they could not be taxed. No, that is just the difference. Every check of the Labor Exchange found in circulation represents tome product of labor. They are redeemable in labor or the product of labor and no hing else. That is tbe whole scheme. Branches are being established all over the country, and especially in the West. There are flourishing branches in this state at Fresno, Ventura, Red Bluff, Visulia, Bakersfleld, Tulare, Santa Maria, Eureka, Plato, Carpentaria, Santa I'aula, San Diego, . Stockton, Oakdale and a dozen other places. These exchange all manner of goods with each other. There are bucIi things as socks and cigars from as distant a point as Reading, Pa., at the Davis street Exchange, ' broom handles from New Whatcom, Wash., fruit extracts from Fresno, as well as fruit from as far south aa San Diego. A consignment of shtrls ind overalls is. being negotiated mr with" a branch in Ohio. . A lot of dried fruit was recently shipped to Idaho Falls, Idaho, in exchange for pork,' and groceries were sent to Armona, in Kings county, in exchange for dried fruit. The branch at Red Bluff is putting up a spiceroill, the branch at Los Angeles is putting up a shoo factory ,and the branch -at Olathe, Kans., is building a gristmill. The branch at Salem, Or., is a step in advance of all the others and indicates the high-water mark of a movement of which the Boston Transcript recently said: Under the surfuie of nil this storm over silver and gold, there is in progress a remarkable movement hich probably not one Bostonian in a thousand has ever heard of, and which, threatens to absorb utterly in a few years all labor . and financial and social reform move ments. It is the Labor Exchange. ' These organizations have under taken to build a railroad. Sub scriptions of $100,0)0, not in dol lars, but in land, materials and pro vender, have been subscribed, and these will be pledgod for the rails and rolling stockpilings that cannot lie secured with the exchange checks. All the labor, the ties, etc-i will Ihj accepted for truffle chaiges when the rood is completed. The road to ho built is a strip 25 miles long, extending into the prolific farming country of tho Willamette valley. The movement will thortly be simpli fied by the issuance of checks against real estate for what improvements may lie made upon it by labor. In other words, a member of the Exchange owning a lot nmy have a house built upon it by other mem tiers, who will accept the real estate checks. The plan is that of the building and loan association carried on without money and without interest. The checks would lw issued by the Ex change and made partly redeemable by it for provender. The house, being built, would tie owned by the Exchange, that is, by every member of it. The rent from it (presumably paid by the man having it built) would be paid into tbe Exchange until it amounted to the sum of its cost. Then a deed would be given to the owner. The Trairie Farmer Pub. Co. of Chicago, is making some very low club bing offers on the Prairie Farmer and other first-class papers. It.offersto send to any one of our readers who will for ward their orders within the next thirty days, the Prairie Farmer and the Week ly Inter-Ocean, for $1.25. Or, the Prairie Farmer and the fU.Paul Pioneer Press, for $1. Or, the Prairie Farmer and the Ladies' World, for $1. This is a rare opportunity, and we hope that many of our readers will take advantage of it. Mrs. M. A. Thomas has opened a dressmaking parlor over the Red Front store and is prepared to do all kinds ol work in a first-class manner. Perfect fit- tingguaranUd. Give her a call. .