THE TIMES
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I(NDECE.YT) W(EAHY) W(ILLIES) are about to delight
by an invasion. They would be about as welcome as a
T flock HE Portland
of buzzards, or a flight of locusts. According to one John Gil
W HAT M U A V A O U E SOCIALISTIS PROMISED.
(Los Angeles Times.)
New eity charter providing for home rule. (N ot done.)
2 . Initiative, referendum and recall.
3 . Ownership of puhii* service enterprises. (N ot done.)
4 . Municipal term inal station. (Failed.)
3 . Prosecution of “ tax dodgers.”
6 . Erection and inaintainance of public slaughter-houses. (N ot done.)
7. Four public markets. (N ot done.)
8. Municipal storage houses. (N ot done.)
9. Reorganization of the public works departm ent.
10 . Eight hour work day.
% 11 . Union wages for city employees.
12 . Abolition of contract system of public work. (N ot done.)
13. Work for the unemployed. (N ot provided.)
14. Municipal stone quarry. (N ot uone.)
15. City coal and wood yards. (N ot done.)
it;. Municipal iee plant. (Not done.)
17 . Annexation of contiguous territory.
1". Immediate redistricting of wards.
10 , Free medical services and dispensaries. (N ot provided.)
20 . Four municipal hospitals. (N ot done.)
21 . Free public crem atory. (N ot done.)
22 . Protection of youth and suppression of vice. (N ot done.)
23. Establishm ent of public com fort stations.
24. City to do plumbing and sewerage work. (N ot done.)
25. Utilization of garbage and waste for profit. (Not done.)
26. New method of sewage disposal. (Nothing.)
27. A dditional parks and playgrounds in congested centers. (N othing.)
28. Planting and caring for trees on streets. (N ot done.)
29. Substitution of model homes for slum habitations. (N ot done.)
30. Municipal lodging houses to m itigate tram p evil. (N ot done.)
31. Protection of public schools.
32. Free text books. (None provided.)
33. One free meal a day to needy school children. (N ot done.;
34. Social centers in schools.
35. G reater use of Auditorium by public.
36. Free concerts in the Auditorium. (N ot free.)
37. Extension of free concerts in parks.
38. Public trials for firemen and policemen.
39. Compulsory public holidays for elections.
40. New isolation hospital.
41. Improved methods of conducting c ity ’s business. (W orse.)
42. B etter conditions for children and women in factories.
1.
more, whom Patrolman Foster eorraled after a tight, they intend to
clean Portland up. His remarks were in part: “ We are going to
clean you all up. When we get all our men into this town we shall
raise merry hell with you. We will give you police all you want to
take care of, and we’ll do as we like. There is no police force in
the country can stop us. We’ll talk on the streets and we’ll please
ourselves. Bo many of us are coming that you will have to turn
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 2. 1911
every scab and every one else into an officer. Oh, we’ll fix you all
Each mail should have the right to earn his way,
right.”
And each should have for fair day’s work a fair day’s pay,
Aberdeen, Washington, handled the I(ndecent) W(andering)
Each man should governed be by Justice’s right
W(illies)
all right, and it’s a cinch bet that “ Cap” Bailey expressed
And gain his ends by peaceful means—not dynamite.
the sentiments of the entire police force, and plenty of outsiders that
would willingly help, when he said: “ If we do get them here, there
CLOSING OF THE BRIDGES.
is one treatment and one only for them—first read the riot act and
then use a cold water hose. We’ll show them whether they can run
AS LONG as people are compelled to cross Portland’s bridges, this city.”
J UST
A lot of bos, tramps and bums are coming in on the rods and
just as long as tratlic is maintained on the Willamette river, there
will be created friction. This will continue until this problem is set bumpers, as well as in the empties. This bunch look like I(ndecent)
tled, and settled right. As the matter now stands the boat people W(andering) W(illies), and probably are.
Here’s luck to “ Cap” Bailey and his officers, as well as all the
seem to have the best of the situation, and the thousands of persons
who must use the bridges feel that they are aggrieved. It must be others on the other shifts. “ Cap” Bailey’s suggestion of the cold
acknowledged that the frequent and prolonged delays are exasperat water hose sounds good, but don’t let him overlook the fact that
ing to a degree. It is a Federal law, we will admit, time honored and there are a great many Spanish-American War Veterans on the force
ancient, that obstruction to navigation on the inland waters of the who are artists at applying the real water cure, that beats an external
United States is forbidden. This measure was established to cover application in bad cases. The wetting down would be fine for break
all eases in general. When Portland was a village, and the traffic by ing up mobs, but a few of the ringleaders would he absolutely cured
water was largely in excess of trans-river traffic, a larger number of running at the mouth, with the water-cure applied army style.
of persons were better served by upholding the rule. But times have It is this sort of gabby gad-a-bouts that injure the cause of decent
changed and Portland has grown and is growing so big that trans union labor, and the sooner the unions take steps to suppress these
river traffic exceeds that by stream. Laws are man-made institu boozy bums, the more converts they can make to their cause. These
tions, anyway, and when good reasons exist for amending, abro lazy loafers queer the earnest efforts of well-meaning street orators
gating ami repealing them, the same power that created them has These hand-out heralds use no judgment. These greasy grafters are
the right to nullify them. It is a theory of government that when trouble breeders for the unions, the police and the general public
the laws of a sovereign state conflict with those of the national gov More power to “ Cap” Bailey and his water-eure, external and inter
eminent, the latter shall prevail. The national government has nal. if there is no room in the jail for them, put them in a chain
vested in it absolute control and jurisdiction of navigable inland gang and work them on the roads. Whai a shock that would be to
streams. The control of these is placed in the Department of War them! It would be hardly fair to lock them up with a nice, decent
Rent some tents, work them in a chain gang on the road and
An interesting complication has thus arisen. THE TIMES does drunk.
get Rome pleasure and profit out of their visit. This is the prescrip
not believe that the Federal Government desires to work any un tion
THE TIMES would wish to see filled.
necessary hardship upon Portland’s citizens. It believes that the re
quirements of the great majority should be justly and equitably con
sidered. It believes that the present law should be liberally con
WESTERN UNION'S SENSIBLE STAND.
W HAT THEY HAVE DONE.
strued, and exact justice done to the opposing sides. Furthermore, it
1. Reorganized departm ent of public works; increased cost, $15,000.
believes that by cutting out much red tape and concerted action by rT'IIE NEW RULES promulgated by the Western Union in Portland
2. Passed municipal term inal station ordinance; rejected by voters.
commercial bodes and representative business men, that the War De 1 are receiving high commendation on all sides. The one prohibit
3. Engaged tax ferrets; legality doubtful; case in court.
partment will grant the needed relief.
4. Annexted strips of contiguous territory by petition.
ing messenger boys from carrying messages to and from dives and
It must he conceded that river traffic here has always been an shady
5. R edistricted wards.
resorts is a right step forward. Such places have already done
important factor of development. In a recently printed interview too
6. One com fort station built.
much to contaminate the morals of growing boys, and the new
Captain Buchanan is quoted as saying, among other things:
7. Inaugurated public concerts in Auditorium; small admission price.
directly at the root of the evil. The places must learn
“ In the first place, I do not believe that any county judge, the rule strikes
8. Placed city employes on union wage scale, and eight hour day.
care of their dirty business in some other way.
county commissioners or the railroads should he allowed to dictate to take
Issued bonds for an isolation hospital.
Another
commendable
rule
just
established
is
that
of
charging
matters pertaining to river traffic. These matters should be left en no messenger fees upon telegrams delivered anywhere in the city 10. 9. Started
of factories.
tirely to the United States engineers and the government. If they limits. These often have run from a dime to 60 cents in addition to 11. Subm itted inspection
forty bills to L egislature for authority to carry out
are not interfered with, the steamboat men and transportation com regular tolls, which is a burdensome tax. The boys are placed on
pledges.
panies will he treated right and the general public will have nothing salaries,
12. Engaged experts on municipal research system and started im
which
should
have
been
their
basis
of
pay
long
ago.
Here
proved financial methods of keeping accounts.
to complain of.”
we find,- in this rule, one reduction at least in living expenses, for 13. Secured
new city charter, which is so vague th at nothing has been
With no desire of contradicting the worthy captain, we do not which
let us be truly grateful.
accomplished.
consider any action looking to relief of trans-river traffic as a matter
of interference. It is merely an effort to relieve a great number of
THE BARRIER TO BLISS.’
persons from an apparently insolent assumption by the steamboat
men. Captain Buchanan directs attention to the opening of the
Panama Canal, also to that of the Celilo Canal, “ which will tend to A RECENT issue of Puck contains a series of four clever cartoons BEACH AT TWIN ROCKS. trees; running through the prop
increase traffic on the river, Imt how can the people of the City of
union label, accompanied by explanatory reading matter For years upon years, down on erty is a sparkling brook, whose
Portland expect these immense aids to navigation to help the city if that on does the one
to read. The series is entitled “ The Barrier to the beautiful Garibaldi Beach, old waters will be piped for use, and
they place obstacles in the way of that traffic?” We would reply to Bliss.” In the good
first
a
union man is represented as sitting upon a sofa Father Pacific has just about had is equal to Bull Run water. A
Captain Buchanan that the War Department could readily regulat with his “ best girl,” while
surveys the couple from the outside, everything his own way, but time comfortable, home-like hotel will
the closed periods for bridges. At first this might disarrange boat through a window. Cupid Cupid
ready by June 1st, and “ good
thus
soliloquizes:
has wrought a wonderful change: be
schedules, but this matter would settle itself in time. Just regula
things
be the order
“
Why
doesn’t
that
guy
get
wise?
Can’t
he
talk
about
anything
mighty trees have fallen; tunnels of the to day. eat” The will owner
tion is not placing “ obstacles in the way of navigation.”
re
but Local No. 17?”
pierce the mountains; bridges nowned at North Beach for is her
Persons using the bridges see only their side of the question, the
In the second picture he lets fly his arrow directly into the heart now
span deep ravines and rapid clam chowder.
same as do the boatmen. Regulation would afford relief, hut even of the lover, with the remark: “ I guess that dart will help some!” streams;
rails glisten in the If you select a lot or lots now,
that must he temporary. The true solution must come in the future The lover’s face, as he feels the entering shaft of love, is radiant with sunlight; steel
the shriek of the iron- they
when tubes are laid in the river or tunnels driven under the stream amorous smiles, while the maiden looks aghast.
will be put in good shape for
is heard above the roar and you this
These would prevent all eongestion and solve a vexed question.
Picture third shows the look of contentment on Cupid’s visage. horse
so you can pitch
boom of the breakers; and see! your tent winter,
Portland needs all the river traffic it can get, lint river men must The lover plucks the barb from out his heart, his features aglow with what
or put up your little cot
greets
the
eye.
view the matter fairly. Let us hope some relief shall come soon.
love-light. The girl closes her eyes and entwines her arms about his
tage by the sea next summer.
neck in ecstacy. The suitor says, confidingly: “ Darlin’, see the A perfect sand beach, ten miles Write for particulars: G„ care
long and two thousand feet wide; THE
golden arrow Cupid shooted ine wit’.”
DANGEROUS ELEMENTS.
The finale shows the suitor in flight, the maiden collapsing in no boulders; as far as eye can IE TIMES.
tears, the arrow cast at her feet. All that is visible of Cupid is a pair reach, the restless ocean; at your
THE FLEET.
chubby legs, as he stands on his head outside. The suitor says of feet, the white crested breakers;
DORTLAND, and other cities as well, may soon .......ailed upon to of
north
of
you,
grand
old
Neahkah-
the
dart
as
he
takes
flight:
“
But
it
ain’t
got
no
union
label
on
it,
so
i
The
country
pays its taxes,
* solve a very serious question. Spokane had her experience with
it c a n ’t see much to praise,
nie; back of you, mountains and And
Farewell! ’ ’
the problem, as Aberdeen is now having. In this city there are farewell!
the fleet comes steam ing, steaming,
This is a trite illustration of the absurdities of the union label, mountains; yes, and fine trout Till
number of excrescences afflicting the body politic, which must bi though
W here the shore-bound millions gaze.
streams
hidden
away
in
these
THE
TIMES
hardly
believes
that
even
a
radical
union
man
Then i t ’s: “ See the masts and guns.
handled vigorously. The disturbing elements to which we refer art would he controlled in his affairs of the heart by a union label.
same mountains. All around you, Say,
but th e y ’re nifty ones;
the Industrial Workers of the World, the Socialists and bitterly rad
the
salt
sea
breeze;
and
what
life
W
e’ll sweep the seas, ju st how we
ical clique dominating the labor unions. Each is at loggerheads with
please,
it brings; you feel ag if worlds W ith ships
the other, but the declared purpose of each is the same—to rule or
like those, my sons.”
ould
be
conquered.
Hand
in
AFTERMATH OF GYPSY SMITH.
ruin. Openly in the public streets as well as in low resorts, resist
hand
with
that
same
life
comes
a
Drab shapes all snug at anchor,
ance to public authority, as constituted liv law. is urged. Defiance is THE FINANCIAL finish of the Gypsy Smith meetings was not a pleasant companion; nothing less Our
ten million dollar brides;
hurled at the police. It takes hut little, sometimes, to fan the lowest
howling success. Offerings amounted to only $8.172.22. this sum than a splendid appetite; no other Do you
need an inspiration,
passions of men into a mob. who would murder, burn ami commit all being split as follows: Fifty per cent to the local investors who formed word can describe it. From the And forgotten
thrills besidesf
manner of crimes. THE TIMES believes Chief of Police Slover is the corporation to build the tabernacle, and fifty per cent to the Coun little old log cabin which nestles See
W atch the flags hauled up and down.
the
wicked
frown,
able and competent to put these bourgeois, these contemptible canaill cil of Evangelical Churches of ENGLAND—NOT AMERICA. The under the sand dune comes a de ^ our blood will muzzles
race, in maddened
out of business if a riot starts. But why lid it start? It is easier 1 building and the expense of the meeting cost about $14,000. Some licious fragrance, analysis of
chase,
prevent these things than to stop them. People of intelligence look one is evidently to blame for not financing things so that our local which brings forth fried chicken From your
on with amused contempt at these jawsmiths on soap boxes. They corporation could buy the ground, erect the Tabernacle, and show and coffee; yes, and clam chow We all forget shoe our tops taxes to your crown.
admittedly have the “ gift of gab.” Their small souls exult in re some profit in seventeen days. Some one was asleep at the switch. der; Nehalem Bay elams. too. In the handclasp of our pride,
ceiving the plaudits of those even more ignorant than they. It is to
Gypsy Smith is a good hired man. He has established a record
we see the fleet go steaming
where we take a hike for As
them the breath of life. If every time one of them appeared on a that will be hard to beat. Ilis recompense is $0,000 per year; he, Here’s
Where the fartherest billows ride.
the
inner
workings
of
said
log
box in a public street and begun uttering tbeir damnable sentiments therefore, earned more than his year’s salary in seventeen days. The cabin.
Then i t ’s: “ Guess they know the wav,
If i t ’s w ar or if i t ’s piay;
they were yanked off by a blueeoat. “ it would help some.”
hanees are good for his retaining his position another year or so. In your busy life you may have Since
we own them, now w e’ve known
Inanutnueh as the I. W. W.’s, Socialists, union strikers and a
Now. regarding our local corporation, which has rented the hall forgotten about the new road to
them,
whelps of these mongrel breeds despise eaeh other. THE TIMES to the grocers for ten days at $1.1X10. This sum lacks but $200 of
anyw ay.”
suggests a good rule to enforce. Why not capture the ringleaders paying the ground rent for one year. It can be readily seen that if the beach, built by the Pacific W e're more — chummy,
D etroit News Tribune.
Railway
&
Navigation
Company.
of eaeli gang, put them all in the same room, and let them exterminate imported attractions on an even split basis can be eliminated that our
road from Portland to Tilla
eaeh other?
PHILANTHROPISTS may yet receive their imported religion at no This
THE HARVEST MOON.
mook will be in fine running order
Not to be flippant in this matter, a serious problem is here pre cost.
sented. Eaeh day it will grow harder to solve. There is ample war
Let us hope that the Council of Evangelical Churches of England. by next season; they will com How peacefully the broad and golden
rant of law to nip these offenders, and it should be done. One hears Alexander Dowie. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Purple Mother Tinglev. and plete the laying of traek this Comes moon up to gaze upon the reap er’s
them howl heeause the eapitalists have money, while they have none. their eloquent hired men. arc kept far away, in the Great Hereafter, month. Trains are now running
toil.
If they expended one third of their energy in honest toil they could from each other. It this combination should ever amalgamate, we up the coast, from Tillamook to That many
they who own the land for
a mile.
have money,too, the same as honest and industrious workmen have. common suckers would have to hunt up the real doers of good_the the mouth of the Salmonherry. May bless her
beams, and they who
Others before them have hurled their billingsgate and anathemas at Salvation Army-—and beg for chuck and a bunk, after we cross the and these trains are crowded; in
take the boon.
fact. “ Standing Room Only” is Of scattered
law and order and deeeney and eapital. They have passed to Great Divide and are admitted to the Happy limiting Grounds.
ears; oh, beautiful! how
the best seat to be had. at times.
“ tongueless sileliee and forgotten dust.” So will these denuneiatory
soon
Next summer you will have to The soil,
dusk is turned to silver w ithout
agitators. The powers they assail, founded in common sense, still
pay
twice
as
much
for
a
lot
on
serenely hold their place, and will, until they are. like—
It has been intimated that some of the local Socialists. I. W \V's
makes the fair sheaves fairer
beach as you will if you pur- ^ hich than
“ Immortal Caesar, dead and turned to clay.
at noon,
¡mil union strikers do not like the way THE TIMES speaks about this
hase
this
fall;
there
are
thou
And
guides
the gleaner to his slen
To stop a crack to keep the wind away.”
them. Glad to learn of it. We are not printing a paper to please sands of people in Oregon, and
der spoil.
what
we
consider
the
most
dangerous
class
of
persons
in
America.
like the rest of the So, to our souls, the Lord of love and
So the riff-raff scum proposes to boycott respectable merchants We shall continue to speak the thoughts we believe are right, and Oregonians,
human
race,
are
for some
who protest because their street meetings injure tile latter’s busi with
no fear of these deluded mortals. With a few penstrokes we thing new; to find looking
it they will take Sends might
harvest hours, when daylight
ness. Well, well. The merchants do not worry over this matter. i say
more
in
print
in
a
day
than
their
combined
forces
can
unsay
trip over the Pacific Railway
disappears;
They know these pitiable parasites haven't any money now. never a year. We are unafraid at all rumblings, grumblings ami threats £ the Navigation
When
age
and sorrow, like the com
Company's line:
had ntnl never will have, so they couldn't buy anything, anyway.
ing night.
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?
adU-H
L
k
"°W
,hat
T
*letl,f,,han,nM‘r
'"»V*
"ore
sl>ot
now
wherV'thev'
see
thi^ea'ch
nothing
Their proposed boycott is so harmless that if the little bauble pleases , „
our field of work with doubts
IH'rsons as indmduak so refer , could keep them from having. Darken
and fears.
them, they might as well have it to play with. Suppose they should . no i in p.rsonn h. We don » ft t hwe
care
to
know
them,
bor
the
honest
Manv
have
bought
at
Twin
Rocks,
es the presence of his heavenlv
“ make a touch" of some industrious person for a piece of money and t, ". r poor or rich who produces something, we have respect. For f„r after traversing the length of He tim light
really desired to buy of a merchant. The great “ unwashed” would ih h M v V T iK v T ' '.'' 1
To rise up softly o ’er our silver
nmkers wo hav** nothlnF l"'t dis- j Garibaldi Beach, this sixtv-aere
leave behind them such an odor of unclcanueas that disinfectants approval. It the) don t like the way
hairs.
we point our guns, they hu.il»__. ____ 1 . __ t . 1
would be neeessarx.
—Charles
Tennyson Turner, in the New
better stand aside, for we shall aim to shoot straight.
ural park, being covered with fine York Evening
Mail.
h