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SEMI-WEEKLY BANDON RECORDER, TUESDAY, 6CT. 27. 1914.
9 A 9t
Representative
W. C. Hawley
Republican Direct Primary No
minee for Re-election to Congress
The people of Oregon sent Representative
Hawley to Congress because he was clean and
especially equipped to serve his native State.
He has made good, securing more than $3,000,
000 of federal funds for improving waterways etc. in
First District.
He was the first to oppose "Secret" reports on
homesteads and mineral claims and is working for
revision of public land laws and the elimi'iation of
every acre of agricultural land from the reserves for
homes of prospective settlers.
A vote for Representative Hawley is one for a
Faithful, Honest, Able and Successful Public Servant.
(Please read his record and platform in voters'
pamphlet)
Republican Congressional Committee,
W. J. Culver, Chairman. o i Adv.)
G. E. W I L S O N
GENERAL BLACKSMITH
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cripples and get their feet
knows a foot Uarl Clifrord, the scientific horse
$ shoer. Tie checkers, splitting mauls, and all kinds
of tie makers tools. All
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Saloons and the Boy.
Itosoburg News: The arrest last
Saturday of a notorious saloon keep
er for the alleged sale of intoxicating
liquor to two boys brings to mind
most forcibly one of the greatest
dangers of the saloon that of tempt
ing boys to drink. The saloon is de
pendent pon new recruits to its great
urmy of drinkers. Every year sees
its old standbys die and some one
must take their places. When docs
the saloon find its new victims?
Where can it find them but i nthe
toys and girls growing up to man
hood and womanhood? The saloon
Aires the young to its bar with open
..rms. It attempts to create an ap
petite for liqor in tho youth of the
and. It welcomes tho boys and it
nakes no difference whose boy it is
it greets the boys with generous
land and starts them on tho road to
liquor. And that is Just one of the
many things the liquor business does.
It is no respector of home or honor.
Tt feeds on all who come. It encour
ages the spending of money over the
har by frequent treating. It assists
the weak to drop farther down in tho
mire. It aids and abctts criminals.
It violates all decency and all laws
made to protect the public from its
operations.
The saloon, which does all these
things nd more, now comes before
the people of the state and th epco
ple of Roseburg and asks that it be
jermitted to come back here and be
rin its awful operations all over
igain. We are reminded of a few
erses written on this subject which
are worthy of repetition here. They
are entitled "The Saloon Wants
Boys:
'Johnson, the drunkard, is dying they
say,
With traces of sin on his face.
He'll be missed at the club, at the
bar, every day;
Wanted a boy for his place.
'Simons, the gambler, was killed in
a fight,
He died without pardon or grace.
Someone must train for his burden
and blight.
Wanted a boy for his place.
"Wanted for every vicitm of wine,
Someone to live without pardon di
vine Havo you a boy for tho placo?"
Get in on This!
I do not pine for human gore, yet
boldly I assert I'd like to slap the
brainless yap who calls a girl a
"skirt." Peoria Journal.
I pine not to bring others woe I
trust I'm not so mean; but I would
like to swat the bo who calls a girl
a "queen." Houston Post.
I pine to see no injured gink clutch
at himself and wnil; but I'd likti to
boot the crude galoot who calls him
self a "frail." Now York Evening
Sun.
I am not prone to violence, but I
should like to maul and kinck and
muss tho inane cuss who calls a girl
"some doll!" Judge.
I do not wish to seem a crank, but
always get a pain, and want to club
the awful dub who calls a girl a
"jane." La Follott's.
I do not care to kill the guy nor
wish to hear him screech, but I could
poke the senseless bloko who calls
a girl a "peach." Marquette, (Wis.)
Epitome.
I hanker not to murder, but I may
commit it when I laud a kick upon tho
hick who calls a girl a "wron."
Luke McLuke Says:
When tho husband thinks ho could
havo dono better and tho wifo thinks
sho couldn't havo dono worse, nomn
ilivoreo lawyer gets tho prlco of n
new runabout,
A lot of inoii wonder why girls
cIohu their uy whim thoy uro boing
MhkimI, lint If tho mrn would look
Into minor tlmy would sco tho run
nun, Tlio war In Kurojio tnvm to Jmvu
ujihut n wholu lot of nun In till roii.
Iry. Hut Mother dlou f u wurM-
li!Ull'U(-i (0 ,Vi (hp Wtlkll iluv
ot jioiuul until VmUmihy.
UIiiiii Molltiir Ikih lliriiu of four
fwf Imlr tJiv Imts ti duff n
BUSINESS IS NO
SALEM SUFFERS
BUSINESS LOSSES
FR0MDRY RULE
Store Property Rentals Drop $75
a Month in City
BANK DEPOSITS OFF $300,000
Fourteen Business Houses Quit in Less
Than Year. School Attendance Less
Many Oregon papers have
been loaded down within
the past three weeks with
repeated assurances that
"Business is Pine in Dry
Towns."
The three most important
Oregon cities to become
"dry" nine months ago were
Salem, Oregon City and
Springfield.
If business is fino in those cities'
the taxpayers nnd most of the
business men would like to have
the "drys" explain just what
they menu by "line." 11 they
had snid "business is thin," then
they might have been more easily
understood.
Let them answer first nboiit
conditions in Salem. Ex-Councilman
John D. Turner, of Salem,
an attorney, is sponsor for the
following facts about that city.
Salem wont "dry" December 1 Inst
cloying 15 saloons, three restaurants
and two wholesale houses mid withdrew
liquor pormits from eight drug stores
and cut off an nrinunl license revenue
of $13,400. Ninety men and a monthlj
payroll of $5,700 woro put out of com
mission. Most of the men have loft
tho city. All buildings vncnted by
theso concerns nro still empty, except
Bix, which havo been occupied by ten
ants who havo vacated other buildings,
soveral of tho best buildings being
boarded over and used aa billboards,
More, than fivo hundred'modcrn dwell
inga nro "for rent." Store property
rentals on Stnto street havo dropped
from $185 to $110 a month, but "busi
ness is fino."
Fourteen other business planes have
closed sinco December 1 last, aside
from the saloons nnd restaurants. In
eluded aro three shoo stores two by
sheriff and one voluntarily; ono of the
largest drygoods stores hns boen sued
for tho first timo in twenty yours.
Scores of clerks havo left the city,
causing tho loss of moro payrolls te
tho city, but "business is fino."
A lending prohibitionist promised to
build 10 now dwellings if the city went
"dry." Nino houses woro begun, two
havo tho windows nnd doors in, but
havo never been finished; no work has
been dono on tho others, besides their
bare frames.
Building permits from January to
August, the last nine wet months of
1013, were $3SS,025; from November,
191,1, to September, 3014, tho noxt
oloven "dry" months, they wero $120,
000 less, or $20S,1CO.
The grammar school opening day en
rollment in 1913 was 1510; on the same
day 1914, H09, but "business is lino."
ilnnk deposits show a decrease of
$309,942 since tho town went "dry,''
oven after allowing for tho $4S5,0H0
deposited this year from sale of bouJi
in Boston. Tho decrenso, therefore
really should bo $794,942, but "busi
ness is fine."
Tho nttondnnco at the "Cherry
Fair" thi'i year was about one h"lf
what it was tho last "wot" year. The
Ministerial Association before tho olec
Hon which made Salem "dry," told
tho Cherry Fair promoters that they
would mnk" im for th" donations usu
ally made by tho saloons, b-t u:terly
failed to do so tins year and tho pro
motcrs refused to I.jI 1 thet m. nival.
Tho "Cherrinns," consisting of 100
real bnostors, but of no prohibitionists,
then pledged their personal member
ship for tho neeessary funds, requiring
tho payment on their part of 50i.
rub it in, the Methodists then turn'ii
their church into n restaurant, put th
kitchen in tho pulpit nnd couipeli'i'
with the legitimate rcstnuriiiitM for th'
little IiuhIiicsx that their proprietor:
hnd hungrily looked for us n ponHibli
Minimi godsend.
niulnens must bo "fine" in imv ct,
when hiilldiug permit, piyrolU, bunt
depiltK, hiilikrilptrliii, elotwi etorcn,
pupulHled duelling. drprr-ufd rim 1 1,
Valium, nt'liiiiil ciiriiliN"iit ch'1 rmnW"
KUlUtlr nil fell mi 4rour w..iv o
llleiul furt. May Itf th pM.liiiitii.nl i
iiifttn Hint ihu "ngtitUjutf IiuiJuim" I
fine
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Job Printing at Recorder office
CLACKAMAS AND
OREGON CITY HIT
BY EMPTY TILLS
"Dry" Regime Followed by Query
las to Receiver
CITY WARRANTSUNSALEABLE
City Council Calls Election November 9
to Itaisc Levy 8 Mills to Pay Debts
Oregon City and Clack-
I amas County, of which Ore
!gon City is4he county seat,
present as lamentable a
condition in a b u s i n e s s
sense as a defunct corpora -,
lion about to go into the
' hands of a receiver. In
fact, a receivership for Ore
gon City already has been
seriously discussed by cer
tain of its creditors, and
Judge Campbell of that city
has declared his willingness
to declare such a receiver
ship, if formal application
were made to him, as he
would for "any bankrupt
corporation."
A special election has
been called by fh.o city for
November 9 "to relieve the
financial condifari.a of the
city," the purpose being to
vote $250,000 5 per cent,
bonds and to increace the
tax levy eight rtAUti in or
der to take care of the new
indebtedness.
On the part of Clackamas
County the County Treasurer is
confronted with an empty treas
ury for the first time in six years.
The Morning Enterprise, a radi
cal prohihitionist dnily of Ore
gon City, in explaining this sit
uation, says "the condition is con
sidered the result of the amount
of delinquent taxes on the
county's tax rolls. County Treas
urer Tufts refused the first war
rants on the general fund Mon
day (Octohcr 12, 1914)."
Business must bo "fine" in a city
and n county when tho treasuries of
both nro empty becauso of lack of
money coming into their strong boxes,
with a special election called by tho
city to increase its tax levy, with a ro
ceivership threatened and with "dan
ger" signs strung along the .length of
tho business portion of Main street by
"order of tho City Council," which
read:
" Danger Mnin Street Declared
Dangerous All porsons traveling on
Main street between North side of
Moss street nnd South side of Third
street do so at their own risk."
llnnks nro refusing to cash Oregon
City municipal wnrrnntB. Sines Janu
ary first tho city has issued $39,901.03
in theso wnrrants, according to tho re
port of City Tlocordcr John W. Loder,
nnd these vurrnuts nro still unpnid.
Tho city tax lnvy in 1913 in Oregon
City wns eight mills. Two weeks af
ter tho city went dry tho council in
creased this lfy to 10 mills for 1914t
and oa November 9 there is to bo n
special elation hi Id at which tho voters
will be askod in sanction an additional
levy of eight mills to meet th" rtunici
pal indebtedness. Yet "busiaf.ss is
fino in dry towns," and Oregon City
is doing well.
Vacant buildings now stnnd on Main
street, the chief business thoroughfare
of Oregon City, ns monuments to the
memory nf one gnrnge, one clothing
btoro, one rt-ataurant and ono livery
barn now clotcd up, but formerly did
good business. Fourteen vacant Btnrcs
lino both sides of Main street, nud
three vacant lots imik tho places
whero tlirf-e other store formcily
r I (uid, but which hnvo burned down.
Ho little has liren the dmmind for busi
ness property that the burned strue
turcn wero never rebuilt. Hut "butf
new Is fino in Oregon City. "
The KntnrpriM printing office,
wlileh formerly employed u Urge fnrco
nf pilnlor and bonkblndurs, and often
worked night mill tUy to fill urilern, is
nmr omin!liiK its job ilnwrtiiniit crmr
hut five dny u weak, yet Tho Morning
Kii'.hv'Iiw l wi of Die jtfipttrt tint
M j'iiti 'tit OoMMillfti of On
Vwlrti r Wut "burUiu li
! U dry txwwi,"
SVm'Krmr u( Hnwhi, 1'wlintul, OtHfjowJ
T TINE'
S
, SPRINGFIELD IS
j MERE GHOST OF
! OLD BUSY CITY
I
Prohibition Makes Formerly
j Thriving Center Barren
'BANK DEPOSITS $57,000 LESS
Two Blocks of Vacant Buildings Line
Main Street in Place of Busy Stores
The city of Springfield,
in its present cobwebby,
stagnant condition, today
presents a picture, as com
pared with its thriving,
bustling condition of a year
ago, that would make the
angels weep. A year ago
every store was fillell and
crowds of people thronged
its streets. Every merchant
was making money, practi
cally everyone who wanted
work was employed. Every
one seemed happy and con
tented, except the prohibi
tionists. Today Springfield looks like a
deserted village, business is par
alyzed, and more than eight or
ten people on its main street at
any one time would actually he
the cause of excitement. l et
the Committee of One Hundred
says: "Business is fine in dry
towns."
Springfield went "dry" at the
election, last fall, tho saloons
closing January 1.
Let the "drys" tell all about
those "fine" business conditions
in Springfield after nine months'
operation of their "business the
ories." Although a much smnllcr city than
Salem, tho bank deposits in Spring
field havo fallen off in tho last year
over $57,000.
When Mnin street finally is read
justed in tho next month or two, prne
tically two blocks of storo buildings on
each side of tho street west of tho
Southern Pacific tracks will bo desert
ed, but "business is fino."
A real estate salo is unheard of nnd
would bo impossible on nny pnrt of
Mnin strcot, but "business is fino."
Tho Springfield Toggery, tho best
gent's furnishing store, is now boing
closed out by n receiver, but "business
is fine."
Tho I.a Franco Confectionery Storo,
ono of tho b(;t in "wet" days, has
closed out, but "business is fino."
O. W. Johnson's Hnrdwnro Storo, tho
best of its lino during "wet" days,
already has been sold out by a re
ceiver, but "business is fino."
A. J. Henderson, tho leading dry
goods merchant, occupied n doublo
storo n year ago. Today ho occupies
but ono storo and will tell you his
business is "about hnlf" whnt it was
a year ago, but "business is fino."
Tho city has ran into a $5,200 deficit
from an excess of expenditures over
income, although tho "drys" promised
that less police and court expenses
would make a surplus, if Uio people
would vote tlo $12,000 saloon licenses
out of business, but that's "fino busi
ness." Tho prohibitionists a year ago prom
ised to reduce tho tnx levy, but havo
increased tho lovy this year by fivo
mills, but "business is fino."
Not a foot of permanent strcot im
provement work hns beon dono, ex
cept tho construction of a smnll bridge
over u creek, nnd Hint wns paid for by
a bond issue. Streots and sidewalks
nro in a deplorablo condition, and tho
prohibitionists nro now petitioning tho
council to "doublo" tho oxpenso levy.
If tho local taxpayers, but a few of
whom aro "drys," vote down this pe
tition, the city confronts tho same pos
sibility as Oregon City, viz., tho ap
pointment of u receiver, but "business
is fino in dry towns."
Trolii Speaker Fined.
SKAHIDi:. J. A. AdnniH, u prnhibt
Hon Hpciikor and worker, served out a
fivn dollar fine in tho Keasldo jail for
fulling to obey the local onliuiiuccs
regulating street uponklng. Adams,
ivhn boiihtH of having been nrri'sled -li
times mill of having nerved 1 1 Jiill yen
tiiii'cn, dei'lurcK Unit ho prefer jail
Minimum In wylng fliivs, its Hiey glv
hi in more iiiilorlily mid eiiulile him to
ilriiH larger Hiidiiiim. Upon complii
Hun nf if jail lurm liurn lie Jf town
Mi Willi.
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