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THE NORTHMAN
Representative in Congress from 3rd
■ Oregon Dsitrict and Candidate for
I renomination at Republican pri-
■ maries, May 21.
Washington, D. C.
April 22, 1920.
To the People of Multnomah County:
■ Inasmuch as official business re­
quires my presence here in Washing­
ton, I shall have little or no opportun­
ity to meet the voters of the Third
Congressional District before the
primary election on May 21 and dis­
miss with them the issues involved in
that election. I, therefore, take this
opportunity of addressing you
through the public prints, this being
the first of a series of articles which
I shall publish during the campaign.
I have been your Rrepresentative
in Congress since March 4, 1915, al­
though my active services at the
capitol did not begin until December
6 of that year. As your Representa­
tive, I have devoted myself exclusive­
ly to the public business and have
endeavored to discharge my duties
Without playing petty politics. Dur­
ing the time of my service here, our
country has passed through the cri­
sis of a great war, during which I
put aside all partisanship and gave
whole-hearted support to the Govern­
ment’s war program.
■ I voted for better naval and mili-
tary preparedness more than a year
Before our declaration of war on Ger­
many, and voted and worked for
every measure necessary to the con­
duct of the war, and for the wel­
fare of our fighting men and their
dependents. I was one of the forty-
six representatives who were given a
100 per cent war record by the Na­
tional Security League, a nonpolitical
organization. Since the armistice I
have supported all necessary recon­
struction measures. I mention these
matters because one of my opponents
is attempting to make a campaign on
the issue with me on this question,
for my record will permit none.
over 100,000,000 people are superior
to the interests of any group or fac­
tion. I believe that the Government
has the right to set up tribunals for
the adjustment of industrial disputes
affecting interstate commerce and
that these tribunals should be clothed
with authority to enforce their de­
crees.
I am not opposed to any reasonable
demand of labor, nor do I favor the
enactment of any law requiring men
to work against their will. Such a
law would not only be unconstitu­
tional, but would be a farce. I am,
however, in favor of the enactment
of legislation forbidding two or more
persons to conspire for the purpose
of tieing up transportation in inter­
state commerce. In other words, I
am against strikes and lockouts. In­
dustrial differences should be settled
by the rule of reason, not the rule of
force. The strike is nothing less than
a “strong arm” method of enforcing
a demand, and although it is aimed at
the railroad treasury, the poor people
of the country—particularly in cities
—are the real victims. During the
recent outlaw strike, the price of
perishable food increased 50 per cent
in New York, Philadelphia and other
Eastern cities. I hold to the belief
that men engaged in interstate com­
merce are performing services indis­
pensable to the general welfare and
therefore have no right to strike—-no
more right than a policeman or a sol­
dier. In fact, no person has the right
to strike, anywhere or at any time,
against the public peace, health or
safety.
Challenges Labor Council
Following my speech of January
17, and the action of the American
Federation of Labor, in blacklisting
me, I openly challenged the Central
Labor Council of Portland to produce
or indorse a candidate, in opposition
to me at the cbming primaries, on the
Anti-Strike question. The politicians
of the above organization are work­
ing hard to defeat me, but neither of
my opponents has raised his voice in
defense of strikes.
The American Federation of Labor
and its local representatievs are rein­
forced by the Plumb Plan League—a
nation-wide organization which is
undertaking to elect a Congress that
will vote for its scheme to purchase
and operate the railroads of the coun­
try for the benefit of the railroad
employees and at the expense of the
shippers and taxpayers. These or­
ganizations have unlimited funds
and they are out to win. My name
is not only on their blacklist, but has
a preferred place at the head of the
list. Orders have been sent out from
Washington that I must be defeated
—must be punished and held up as a
“terrible example.” I have been fair
to labor, as I shall prove in a subse­
quent article, but the American
Federation of Labor and the Plumb
Plan League desire more than fair
treatment.
They desire “rubber
stamp” legislators who will dance
when Mr. Gompers and Mr. Plumb
crack their whips.
If you approve of my attitude on
the important question which I have
discussed, please give me your vote
on May 21 and in the meantime
don’t allow yourself to be confused
or deceived by the camouflage or
dust clouds of the opposition. Efforts
will be made to inject spurious issues,
but the fact remains that the one
Principal Issue Defined
great issue of the campaign is the
I The principle issue involved in my one that I have raised and discussed
campaign for renomination is whether herein.
this country is to be governed by
Respectfully submitted,
well organized minorities or whether
c. n . M c A rthur .
■we are to have government for all Portland address:
the people. I raised this issue on the
1125-29 Yeon Bldg.
floor of the House on January 17,
1920, when I spoke in favor of an Washington address:
antistrike provision in the then pend­ 486 House Office Bldg.
ing railroad bill. I contended and (This advertisement paid for by C.
still contend that the interests of N. McArthur.)
I. W. W. DEFENSE FROM
UNIVERSITIES.
That some of the defense funds in be-
Armistice day murders at Centralia,
was raised among radical students in
leading universities of the country, is
strongly hinted in a letter read in the
house by Representative Summers of
Washington. In his fight to have
teachers of disloyalty ousted from the
District of Columbia schools, Repre­
sentative Summers said there was
evidence “the seeds of disloyalty are
being sown in our free public schools
and further cultivated in our college
and universities.” The letter pre­
sented to the house by Mr. Summers
was from a student of a New York
university who complained that there
was a failure to teach Americanism
in the school while the agitator was
permitted to work with a free hand.
After going into other details of the
campaign of radicalism carried on in
his university he wrote: “Recently
there was issued to college boys who
are members of the intercollegiate
socialist society, invitations to attend
a civic club meeting on April 15 in
New York city. Following this was
a brazen line beginning, ‘A round-up
of the free for the benefit of the
bound,’ and even worse, by Red Doran.
You will recall that this person has
connections with I. W. W. and has
been indicted about three times, being
now on bail. To continue:
Under
this was a line to the effect that Red
Doran would conduct a Dutch auc­
tion. This is enigmatical, but it was
not meant in levity. It closed with an
appeal to those who were coming to
bring money, the proceeds of which
would be split up between the Cen­
tralia and the intercollegiate society.
The Centralia is an effort to free in­
dicted I. W. W. I do not know how
many have contemplated accepting
the invitations, but this I think may
be implicitly assumed that all college
members of this society received a
request to attend.”
Fred D. Webber
Candidate for Republican
Nomination
For Representative
Eighteenth Representative District
comprising Multnomah County.
NOMINATE
INSANE ALIENS DEPORTED
Thirty-four insane foreigners left
Portland for New York a few days
ago from whence
they
will
be deported to their respective
lands. Seven of the lot were taken
from the asylum at Salem and one
man from Morningside hospital Four
were Austrians and three were Ger­
mans, the first lot of insane from
these countries to be deported since
the beginning of the war in 1914. A
car was brought up from the South
with 25 inmates, including many
anarchists, and the Seattle district
brought two aliens, making a total of
34 prisoners leaving Portland.
The subjects for deportation are in
charge of Inspector Ed Kline of the
immigration bureau in Washington.
Other insane foreigners will be picked
up enroute and it is expected the num­
ber will total 100 when the cars reach
New York. Domestic differences at­
tended the departure of one of the
insane Germans. He had followed a
Canadian woman into the United
States, whose divorced husband he
had worked for in Canada. He was
committed to the insane asylum and
later paroled, when the woman,
against the advice of immigration of­
ficials, was married to him. Then
came the deportation measures and
papers were made out to the woman
so that she might accompany her in­
sane husband to Germany. Then the
German, in a burst of fervor for his
fatherland, beat up his wife and told
her she wasn’t fit to associate with
his relatives and friends in Germany.
The woman, weeping bitterly, went to
the immigration authorities, with the
result that her husband was sent on,
while she is retained while her case is
taken up with Washington for the
purpose of canceling her deportation
papers.
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