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About The united American : a magazine of good citizenchip. (Portland, Or.) 1923-1927 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1923)
12 THE UNITED AMERICAN manency for any number of reasons. Canada developed a new party, the United Farmers’ party, some four years ago. It proved a failure, for reasons quite similar to those ascribed to the failures of these break-away party movements here in the states. The elections in Canada early this year amounted to nothing short of a crushing defeat for the United Farmers’ party. The conservatives were put 'back into power with seventy-five members elected, the Liberals elected thirteen while the United Farmers managed to elect only the small number of ten. Labor elected two and the Independents two. The new party makers are mostly people who believe the coun try on the way to perdition because they don’t happen to get things their way, politically. In view of what history tells, they should begin a very exhaustive study of the cryptic signs on the proverbial wall and try to avert the inevitable—political aoom. = Ellison-White Conservatory of Music = Introducing Dramatic Tenor s = While Henry Ford is generally acclaimed as a to a goodly number of our chocolate-colored fellow-citizens by diligent pursuit of honest trades and farming. It may be amaz ing to know, but statistics furnishes the information, that approximately one million farms in the United States are to day owned and what’s more, tilled by Negroes. It’s a ques tion whether the great American emancipator, who in 1861 struck a blow to save the Union of the American states, inci dentally freeing the Negroe slaves of the South, had in mind quite so rapid an emancipation of these children of the African hemisphere more lately of the cotton fields of the American “South.” , ln CONCERT Mr. J. Hutchison at the Piano THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH, 1923 AT 8:30 O’CLOCK MULTNOMAH HOTEL The “bone-headed” detectives who took the “scent” Not all Negroes are bootleggers. Prosperity comes Tickets $1.65 for Sale Now at Sherman Clay Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiii B'lmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiinmiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiimiiiimmiiimimiimiiiiiiiiiniiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiimiiiiitimiiiiiiiiiig Car Shippers—Cargo Shippers I Inman-Poulsen | Lumber Company Portland, Oregon, U. S. A. | LUMBER The “heathens” of Asia, who, by the way, number in round figures something like nine hundred millions alto gether, in tribes, castes and nationalities, may not live in perfect peace with one another at all times, but in spite of the fact that the white man’s saving civilization has barely touched them, they seem to possess in greater abundance the better human qualities, whereby men forgive and forget, than their white neighbors in Europe who are such inveterate haters that this passion is gradually consuming what was left of them when the big war stopped. Canada, it should incidentally be remembered, is 3 Povl Bjomskjold money-maker he has done nothing in the world that should give him even an edge on public consideration for the Ameri can presidency—the highest political office within the gift of the people who compose this democracy. It certainly would be a queer looking democracy that delegated, by popular vote, a money plutocrat of the Ford’s size and type, the reigns of government. The American people may be traveling in the wrong direction part of the time and some of them all the time but it is inconceivable that a majority of the American elec torate can be so far away from the first base that they would pick a man for president because of his riches and money making proclivities. Money may be the God of part of our people, but the safe majority are still foolish enough to pin their faith on something else than gold, silver and flivvers. of the train robbers who recently bungled a would-be hold-up job and instead staged a Western pioneer massacre, in the mountain section between California and Oregon, should hence forth try their luck in the movies or offer their services to those who are looking for subject matter to furnish the ideas for the “daily laughs” they feature in the comic sections of our dailies. The murderous amateur robbers who failed to accom plish their purpose, can thank the crew of detectives and would-be man hunters, who took their trail for the freedom they still enjoy. Had trained men swooped down on the scene of the hold-up, a clean “getaway” could not have been accom plished and the hold-up men, instead of planning new crimes, would be on their way toward another world, beyond the gal lows, and society would now be secure against further molesta tions from that source. NOVEMBER, 1923 MANUFACTURERS Annual Output 200,000,000 Feet not known alone for its liquor products of many varieties, Western Canada leads in the production of copper. Place Your Orders With The United American Advertisers—and Tell Them Why |