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OREGON CITY ENTER PR I IS IC FRIDAY. NOVNMI1NU 1, 1!)12 Oregon Chy Enterprise Publlihtd Evtry Friday traded the tlrntlon mil von the approval of good government worker all over the country. Meanwhile. the woman who com- E. E. BRODIC, Editor ana Publlshar. , pUw ,hl(t ho du, not wlgh tho bal lot thrust upon nor, I out using it earnestly In both California and Washington. Kurthermorts ny one who mlKht have the temerity to sug goat that the ballot bo taken from her woiiM undoubtedly have an unplons ant session. Entered at Oregon City. Or. ofllea M aeoond-olaaa matter. . To I Subscription Ratia: Ob Year I4 illi Montlia Trial Subscription. To Montaa .24 Advertising Rates on application the matter will receive our atteutlon. Subscribers mill find the date of ex piration stamped on their par-' fol lowing their name. If last payment la not credited, kindly notify u. and KEEP THE WHISTLE BLOWING FRIEND OF WORKINGMAN "William Howard Taft ta the beat i friend the American worklngman ever the matter will receive our attention I haj tri White House, and It la up - i to ua to keep him there.'" Advertising Ratea on application. J TMi s ,,,,, lo .tatoment, made at . . mass meeting or employee at tne NOT MEN BUT PARTIES. j main ehopa of the Chicago & North- I w estern Railroad, at the noon hour A correspondent askt If President I by Andrew l Kelly, a well known la Taft la personally responsible for the j bor leader Identified withrallwajr great prosperity which now blesses '' onianliallons, brought a rlng the United States. j lnK cneor of IUa)ue from those pre. We answer frankly that he la not'"' indicated that resident Taft Neither would Woodrow Wilson bejl recovering emphatic support In the personally responsible for the de- j rank' of organized tabor, struct Ion of prosperity w hich w ould assuredly follow bia election. Our government la one of parties, not of men. The point at Issue In this campaign la not whether Taft or Wilson ahall be president for Roose velt cannot possibly get 266 electoral votes hut whether the Republican or the Democratic party ahall make the laws and control the affairs of government. The Republican party ha been In power 16 years and dur ing that time, under beneficent poli cies enacted into law, the country has enjoyed unexampled prosperity and progress. Only once In the last 50 years has the Democratic party been In full control of the government, and those four years were a period of un iversal distress, due to destructive The speaker recounted the various labor lawa enacted during the present administration and compared the rec-1 ord with the partial accomplishments of previous administration. He pointed out that In the closing days of Roosevelt's second term the railroad men of the south were threatened with a sweeping ten per cent reduc tion In wagea owing to the Industrial stringency that came in the wake of tho panic of 1907-1908. This cut In wages, he declared was postponed for ninety days and was finally averted by the election of President Taft, who ushered In an era of unprecedented prosperity. "President Taft is the nation's bust nes agent." aaid Mr. Kelly. "He has made good. He has given a square deal. He has brought increased pros- laws enacted oy ine Democratic au- r..r anH inprM1M,d ,. Ha has helped the laboring man. He is mmlnlstratlon. They were tariff-for-revenue-only laws, which opened the gates for foreign made goods, divert ed American money from American manufacturers and American farmers and American workingmen and Amer ica banks Into the pockets of foreign maufacturers and workingmen and financial institutions. That was the reason we had hard times under the Democratic administration. While President Taft is not Indi vidually responsible for prosperity, he has contributed to our happy con dition because he has given the coun try a safe and conservative govern ment He has administered the laws fearlessly and Impartially; he has not rushed us Into war with Mexico or any other power; he has been clean, honest and dignified; he has earned for the Tnlted States the respect of foreign nations by his wise conduct of affairs; and he has been econom ical and efficient In his administra tion. This, and more, is what Pres ident Taft has done personally; and when, in addition, he represents the party which has achieved so much for the coutry ever since it brought liber- en titled to our support Who ever beard of a laboring man turning down a business agent who was on the job? That's President Taft to a T. We are with him and we will keep him on the job four years." Shop officials declared after tho meeting that Mr. Kelly had been bet ter received than any other speaker during the campaign. Noonday meetings are being held dally in all the railroad shops In Chic ago and vicinity and are beinglargely attended by enthusiastic workingmen who do not want a change from pres ent prosperous conditions. 3 U'mv spirit among women and deplored the fact that so many were "pushing Into business, preferring It to home duties" a great tunning canto over her to aoe the author and a brick in Jux liipoHltiou, to put It sweetly. tt Dm eight million women who are working for their living we doubt If there Is one who prefers It to tne proper klml of homo life. We resent the Implicit Hun that women who work are not lust as womanly, and mine as any oih er women. They have quite as much reverence for the home and love of family ties, or more, because you na turally lovo most what you cannot have - If you are a real human being. Wv pull on jour old "rubbers" ami wailn to I he ollU-e or factory or sweat shop work with wet skirt about our feet, and a henoachu that would keep the home woman In bed, but we are hot doing it from preferaiice, even IhouKh we are doing It cheerfully and trying to pretend that we think a pulr of tired teet and a lame hack the grand eat poMeHiiion on earth. What every one of ua wnuhb like to be doing ia KlitliiK at home near a warm tire, cut ing out paper dolls for the bnhy and trying to think up a new dessert for the man of the bouse who can't eat plo. but even then we doubt our ahi Ity to accept the Ant I suffrage motto, which seems to be "What we do not want, no other woman should want, and she can't have It If she does." EKNKSTINK 8INUKH. His Interests are .-II In Oregon. Is Intimately acquainted with the needs of the state. Is pledged to labor for an Immed iate revision of the tariff downwar Is absolutely opposed to single tax or any other measure that will in crease the tax burden of the farmer and the small home owner. Stands for the common people as against the Standard Oil Company and other corporate interests. Is pledged to secure for Oregon sev" eral millions of its overdue share of the Reclamation funds. PRESIDENT TAFT GAINING. Confidential reports from twenty states, sought by Carml Thomson, secretary to the president with no In tention of making them public, show a remarkable change In sentiment, which Is now sweeping strongly to ward President Taft. The reports received at the White House are not the kind usually made The Morning Enterprise does not dictate how Its readers should vote on all of the various questions that will be found on the ballot on the fifth day of November. Hut there is oue measure, the Malarkey Public Utili ties bill, that ought to pass. This bill gives our Railroad Commission full charge of all public utilities such as street railway companies and light and power corporations In our various towns and cities. These concerns ought to be controlled and the Rail way Commission la the power that ought to do It public by campaign managers. They ty to thousands of men in bondage, do not include sweeping statements there Is every reason why both he of victory, but are calm analyses of and the Republican party should be j the situations as they actually exist victorious on the 5th of next Novem- j in many localities, and they show con ber. Jclusively that President Taft Is gain - j ing. WOMEN CLING TO VOTE. i Many of the buslne8s mcn and Ia j bor leaders to whom Inquiries were The great cry of the anti-suffragist addressed, expressed the opinion that is that the women do not want tht thou8ands of regular RP"b"ns, ballot "Only a few; agitators", they;who intended to vote for Governor shout "are asking for woman suffrage, I xvilson 88 the be8t way t0 beat Col and the great mass of women would inel Rsevelt, now have caught the feel the ballot a burden and an irk-1 general feeling that there is an excel some responsibility. " j lent cbance to reelect the President, If this Is so, why do the states and they wln D0W ea8t their votes where woman suffrage has bten 'or D'm- granted, remain woman suffrage! There Is no doubt that prosper! states? If women do not want the i ty Is helping the President tremen ballot, why do they not turn around j dously. One of the reports received when they have the ballot, and vote ! from Mr .Thomson comes from Pitts woman suffrage out again? With the ; burg, where thousands of workingmen help of the earnest male anti-suflra-1 are needed, where the mills are work gists who are now so anxious to pre-! ing to their capacity with orders vent this "burden" from being put up-'booked for 1913, and where so many on the un-franchlsed women, the j orders for present business have been women do not wan the ballot could filled that there are not enough freight combine and vote the measure out ' cars to handle the product, again. In no country or state, where! ' the franchise has been given thej VOTE FOR SELLING. women, however, has any attempt ev-i er been made to disenfranchise them, j Just a few reason why Ken Selling, although, when Washington became i Republican direct primary nominee a state, women who were not voting ; for United States Senator, should be under the territorial government. , elected: were tricked out o fthe franchise by j He believes in the direct primary, a piece of political Jugglery; they at Is a staunch supporter of the Ore once began the struggle to regain the : gon System. ballot however, and at last succeeded ' Is the Republican direct primary since which event they have been . nominee. making history In a way that has at- J Has lived in Oregon for fifty years. A prominent Democratic living In Marne, Iowa, having been asked to contribute to the Democratic cam paign fund, replied that he would like to do so but if the Democrats came into power he knew that finan cial gloom would settle over the coun try and that he must, therefore, pro tect his credits. DY knowing how to care for their income men ac cumulate money (or investments. You can do it. There is no better plan, no easier plan, no safer plan than depositing your earnings in a sound, con servatively managed home bank and paying your bills by check. This 'Check Account Plan' enables you to systematize your household and other expenses, to save the odds and ends of your income and allow them to accumulate for investment. Just try it. No matter how small the start your account will receive due care and consideration at. The Bank of Oregon City THE OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY FORUM OFTjiE PEOPLE SUFFRAGE IS DEFENDED. OREGON C1TV, Oct. 24. (Editor of the Enterprise.) There is a Latin motto that reads like this: "Abusus non tollit usum." With the aid of a dictionary and a friend with a good memory we are able to tell you that it means "Abuse Is no argument against proper use." What goaded me to the task of finding this out was that about a dozen men have been showing me literature sent to them by the antl-suffragista playing up In large letters every mistake made by women In atates where they vote, also some mistakes they are supposed to have made. For Instance one piece of their literature has a large heading "Jane Addams of Hull House agrees with the Antis," which you must admit Is mlslesdlug and quite likely to give a wrong Impression to a busy man with no time to read the entire article. What It really at tempts to show is that Miss Addams is Inconsistent In) advocating equal suffrage. Miss Addams' reputation Is international and she needs no de fense. Put It proves that by a liberal enough use of stars one could make the book of Job read like an Inter view with Jack Johnson. In the Anti-suffrage literature they have, been positively recklesa with stars, as you will notice, but that is to be expected from people who are. mostly from a mistaken Idea of what constitutes womanliness and chlvnlry enrolled on the side of injustice. What men have been more than a hundred years In doing, some people, seem to expect women In the suffrage states to undo In a couple of years handicapped at that. When you rei0 "Women stuffed th ballot boxes." A woman forged tax re ceipts and skipped" and so on, hasn't it struck you that although a great many thousand men hnve done the same, or worse, no one has thought of It as an excuse for disenfranchis ing the entire sex? And this brings us back to our motto: "Abuse Is no i argument against proper use." (living women the ballot Is not go ing to make angels of them any more than It does men, but neither Is It going lo make them, the brazen out casts Hint some people picture, but one must admit that the percentage of good women, honest women, far out numbers the bad If they do not outnumber them, then what is the odds who wins the country can't last Ion,? anyway. For sheltered well cared for women who only know about the Wolf and Temptations from reading the l.aJles Home Journal to try to say what is bpst for the sister who Is out In the world struggling for her very living, standing shoulder to shoulder with men six clays In the week, makes one of those who struggle frankly "tired." This woman, personally, started to read the "Antl" literature with an un biased mind, but when she reached the point where the society woman who was writing mentioned the rest- ETHICAL TRAINING OREC10N CITY. Oct. 28. (Editor Morning Enterprise) The curricu lum of our public school Is grad ually being corrected. The or mimeiital gives place to the useful. A knowledge of lireek uud rhetoric U a desirable accomplishment for the few who have leosure, but the mass of boys and girls must learn something wherewith to galu a livelihood. Many mothers of the present generation III mlsapplUd parental affection, neglect to Instruct their daughters In domestic work which must ever be the natural occupation of woman. Too many boys grow up without a trade or any fixed purM)sa of life. ''I waut my children to have more comfort and pleasure than I had. says many a love blind parent. Legitimate comfort nnd plea sure come after working for them and are sweet as the evening rest after the day's efforts. Those who do not work live off the work of others unless they have accumulated a competence by previous efforts. Who has ever heard a parent ex- clam: "I want my children to be bet ter than I am." Here we may pause and look over the way on which moat of us ar- evidently striving for pro gress. The Increased number of Juve nile offenders and adult criminals bears some relation to this. It has beeu ahowu agaiu and again that those who have been kept strictly in moral rectitude at home seldom change from tho right way in after life. It Is a tendency of this age to spoil children by making them tho victims of such ruinous treatment so they are untlt to take up the struggle for existence and what Is worse may become moral delinquents. If parents neglects the ethical training of their children, It Is clenr that this duty must be shouldered by iBo teacher entirely. In many re poets she Is even better able to do so. The parent from his nearness and of ten from an excess of affection to his off spring may be unable to see their faults, while the teacher from a more favorable distance of observation nnd with a greater number of rhidren to draw comparisons can exerclso nn unbiased Judgement. In countries where the church has spiritual authority over tho young ethical rules are taught In the public schools. We have divorced ourselves from church Inferference In our pub lic education but we should realize UOYAl IWI f t OM1M6FC mm Adds Heal.hfulOuaTHlesloftelood Prof. Prescott, of tho University of Michigan, testified beforo tho Pure Food Committee of Congress, that tho acid of grapes held highest rank aa r . article of food and ho regarded tho rc suits from baking with cream cf tartai baking powder as favorable to health. Royal is the only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar. SCORED By HACKLTT OKKUON CITY, Oct. . (Editor Morning Enterprise) I notice au ad lu your valuable paper, furulshud by Mass, wherein he claims to havu Is sued luuu more lax receipts lu 11)11, than lleutlu did during 11)10; but he does not deny my statement that It cost Clackamas county about l-'.UOO to Issue these extra receipts and there fore it cost the taxpayers about 1 fur each receipt. He further claims that he had about 20 more prisoners lu Jail than Healle did; but he does not (ell the people that he charged the county $5.00 per week for these same prisoners and that this la rhnrgod up to (he "Jail ac count nnd not to sheriff s account as he would have you believe and Is not Included In the extra J.'.OOO In crease. He further slates that he had more circuit court-cases than llentle had. Well, what of It? lkut most people know that alHiut four-fifths of I the rases lu Clackamas county are divorce cases brought hero from Mult nomah County, and In nearly every Instance the defendant Is waiting near; by ready and anxious to be served. lialntlff's attorney generally makes the sheriff a present of somo small amount and It costa the county mull ing, at any rnte it should not. Ha also mentions the fact that the county Is Increasing in population ami of course It would naturally follow that crime would Inrreasu. Now In all cndor, do you think one year would make all this differ ence? Further, Isn't the sheriff under a salary and Isn't he supposed to be looking after criminals nnd protect ing the public? lie savs, too, that he had two "blind" murder cases, whatever be means by that I'll leave to your read ers. Where was Mass and what was he doing when Sheriff Stevens of Multnomah County came up and gut his man Hoberts? The other murder er Is still at Inrge ami the pretension set forth In rowing's letter that the state authorities prevented him. i Mass) from bringing I tho guilty that It Is quite as essential to make i party to Justice Is nil bosh as nny tax good men and women as Intelligent j payer ought to know, men and women of our children to Ataln we say the expense of the educate the heart as well as tho brnln : sheriff s olTlco for 1310 was $1,375.06 We have still In our public schools and for 1911, Is I'UH.M. Thero Is no courses of studies which are ueless ' Justification for this whatsoever nnd to the average person, buL not one ; everybody knows It. und cthlcnl Respectfully suiimllted, E. C. HACKETT. JUDGE DIMICK TALKS n Continued from page 1) whom cannot read or write the En glish language and never lake any In terest In our public Institutions nor pay a rent of tax. Notwithstanding these fads, they become legal voters, while the women who were boru and educated in this country nnd who mould the character and shape the destinies of our young people, are de nied the right of franchise," WIRES DISCUSS BILLS ON BALLOT (Continued from page I) giving intnictions In sound ethical rules which Is of Incalculable value to every one. ANDREW FRANZKN. THESE NUMBERS WILL BAR SIMQLE TAX 1H OREGOK . Q H Q W A3ainstSw3hTax 36 5xRot4&Jru OREGON SPENDS NEARLY $5,000,000 IN 21 MONTHS SALEM, Or.. Oil. 25. A total of I.S:il.:ilO.('.3 has been disbursed by the sinte of Oregon during the first 21 montlia of the biennial period from January I, 1911, to September 30, 1912, aernrdlng to a statement Just completed by Secretary Olcott. This In an average monthly expenditure of 2.10.002.4I. day's labor on public works, and ex plained that tho state, or any county or municipality would hnve to pay more for building than a private Indi vidual would have to pay under differ ent labor conditions. (1. II. Dlmlck made a pb-a for the enactimtut of the lllue Hky law, .t:! :U5. lie criticised a portion of tint bill, which entails nn expense of more than :I5.0U0 per annum, but suld he would vote for the hill to protect the Individual aKalnst tho unscrupulous promoter and swindler. Dr. Morris favored the bill provid ing for un Income Ins. 350 :iM. Dr. L. I.. I'tckenn opposed the exemption measure, 351-355, and J. W. Ud.r favored the bill revising! the Inheri tance tax law, taking administrative matters out of the hands of the State Treasurer and putting then in the hands of the State Tax Commission. William Nheahnn made a clear ex planation of the Graduated Tax amendment and pointed out that the llawley I'ulp & paper Co. and the Oregon (ity Manufacturing Co. rouht purchase their water power for 35 cents per horsepower per month, which would be less than their taxes on the water power they control un der the proponed amendment. T. Osmund opposed the bill curtail ing the use of streets anil parks, and A, A. I'rlce urged the defeat of the bill abolishing cnpltal punishment. Mr. Sullivan favored the passage, of the Mil prohibiting picketing nnd boy cotting. Tho new bill providing a method for creating new enmities, 3IS:i(!l, pro voked sharp criticism, many of the members of the I.I vt Wires scoring the Jok'T lu the measure that provides only residents of the territory embrac ed In nny proposed new county mny vote on the measure. Dr. A. L. Ileatle and Dr. II. S. Mount fnvored the appropriations for buildings nnd equipment at the Uni versity of Oregon. These bills are 2-373 nnd 374-375. The defeat of the county Single Tax measure. .1 1 7 was unanimously agreed to nnd Mr. (iary took advan tage of the opportunity to any a few words In fnvor of the County High School Fund Inw. m Dements Best FLOUR . $1.30 PER SACK AT ALL GROCERS. Careful of Your Property One of the secrets of our success in the Baggage and Transfer Business Safes, . Pianos and Furniture Moving Williams Bros. Transfer Co. Phones, Office 50, Residence 1562 612 Main Street Office Doth Phones 22 Residence Phone Main 2024 Pioneer Transfer Co. Established 1166 8ucessor to C. N. Greenman FURNITURE, SAFES AND PIANOS MOVED BY EXPERIENCED HELP. PROMPT AHD RELIABLE SERVICE. SAND, GRAVEL AND BRICK Rates Reasonable, DafCRSfte 8tored 2 Days Free of Charge Agency for the celebrated MT. HOOD BEER D. C. LATOTJRETTB, President r. J. MEYER, Cashier THe First National Bank of Oregon City, Oregon CAPITAL, 150,000.00. Transacts a Qansral Banking Business. Open from I A. M. to I . M-