THE TIMES
to k eep young girls and women pure and undefiled, ami to protect Why have they been so blind as not to notice that their boys were
them from wicked allurement« and temptations. They are engaged becoming addicted to cigarettes? A few arrests, fines and imprison­
in a grand work and quietly doing much toward the uplift o f human­ ments, and the application of the motherly hand where it would
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ity. Hut they cannot do it all; and they should receive hearty aid prove most effective, would all be excellent measures toward reform.
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and encouragement.
To he shunted from their throne of abused power, from whence
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If many well-meaning people would cease holding meetings and
THE TIMES is not responsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents deploring vice conditions in long resolutions, some gain would he they hurled death-dealing anil property-destroying dynamite, into
appearing in its columns.
made. Let them act practically in protecting the innocent and [cure. San Quentin is the ignominious end of the McNamara twain. From
At the same time, let them not forget the fallen sister. Because she relentless dictators to the peaceful and prosy work of jute-mill oper­
A FEARLESS EXPONENT OF INDUSTRIAL PEACE
has done wrong, is no reason why she should he utterly east out of atives is a big drop. Here, at least, the troublesome duo sunk into
humane
consideration. Some are so brazen and hardened, o f course, insignificance.« No longer are they even named, but numbered.
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of them, if given a chance, would gladly lead a better life. Here is May they work out a full repentence.
S A T U R D A Y . DECEM BER 16. 1911
where there is opportunity for real missionary work that pays.
Jesus Christ himself set thy right example, in the ease of Mary Mag­
Each man should have the right to earn his way,
Andy Weinberger has made an excellent Constable. Deputies
And each should have for fair d ay’s work a fair day’s pay, dalene. when he spoke the words that have gone down ringing Wertheimer. Nicholson, and all the other deputies are efficient and.
through the centuries, “ Let him that is without sin east the first competent men. But there is one criticism THE TIMES would make,
Each man should governed he by Justice’s right
stone. ”
And gain his ends by peaceful means—not dynamite.
and that is. that every man on the staff works too hard. This could
There is another reform that ought to he made in modern society, he ........ lied, and should be, by giving Constable Weinberger a suffi­
and that is this: A woman steps aside from the path of rectitude, cient number of men to serve the constantly-increasing business of
I and all the world is turned against her, and will not aid her in regain­ this office. Why is so pressing a need ignored?
ing her good name. She must remain, by the unjust anil ootr«m>nin
canons o f society, a scarlet woman thenceforth. The man who was
Trust-busting is an expensive game, both for the Government anil
equally guilty with her, and perhaps more so, is excused. His act the trusts. These things come high, but somehow we must have
| is considered only as a frivolity, to be overlooked and forgotten. them. The little preliminaries antecedent to bringing the ten big
THE TIMES is earnest and outspoken. It advocates
Society does not condemn him as it does the woman, who is the Chicago packers to trial has already cost in round numbers $716,000.
what it believes to be right, and that without fear or favor,
weaker of the two. We are aw'are that this idea is no new one; but
and unencumbered by the shackles of circumstance. THE
it is just as well to repeat old truths now and again.
TIMES will not swerve from the path of duty, and it cannot
New algebraical formula: If ab equals J. B. McN. and cd equals
be purchased or compromised. THE TIMES unqualifiedly sub­
J. J. McN., then J. B. McN. must equal x, and J. J. McN. must equal
M ÑAMARA IN RETROSPECT.
scribes to the great principles of human liberty under the law;
y ; then x equals 25,314, and y equals 25,315.
P" VEN AT THE risk o f dwelling on the pin.
<1 nauseam, there
of equal rights in all fields of legitimate endeavor, industrial
* appears to he further comment still necessary in the McNamara
freedom and to the advancement of the great Pacific Coast.
So it seems that they are trying to mix Attorney Darrow up with
ease. Before us, as we write, there lies a brochure issued hv the bribing to jurors in the McNamara ease. Will the stench of this mess
TO THE EMPLOYER- THE TIMES will ever be open to
I American Federation of Labor, at the túne of the arrest of the two ever subside?
the employer of labor, that he may have, through its columns,
brothers, whose perfidy to true unionism was so recently proven,
an opportunity to place the truth before the public regarding
out o f their own mouths. The brochure purports to give a review
LITTLE HUNCHES ABOUT
the business conditions which govern him and his environ­
Doctors come anil Examine the
o f the facts in “ The McNamara Case, by Samuel Gompers, President
“ THE SYSTEM.”
ments. The co-operation of the employer and the employe are
Health of the Young Ideas learn­
American Federation o f Labor. Alson an Appeal for Funds to Se­
ing the Game of Trying to Shoot
the substantial proofs of what has made the Pacific Coast
cure a Fair and Impartial Trial.”
what it is today. Their interests are identical, are inseparable.
(With Apologies to George Ade
Straight with the Crooked Arrows
In
view
of
the
sensational
climax
recently
enacted
at
Los
Angeles,
A long time ago there were a Supplied through the System. The
The mutual experience, foresight and confidence between the
this brochure makes particularly rich reading now. As we under­ Bunch of Discontented People liv­ Kids Get their Slats Rapped, and
business man and the wage-earner have made and are making
stand matters now. it reveals, more forcibly than ever before, the ing in the East. They decided to occasionally
for success. The investments of the one coupled with the efforts
their
Arms
are
\ile hypocrisy of the McNamaras. It shows, in print, at least, that become Immigrants. “ Go West Scraped and Rubbed with a Bone
of both are solid bulwarks of present prosperity and the assur­
the guilty pair had convinced Gompers that they were innocent. On and Grow up With the Country.” Thing called a Vaccine Point. This
ances of the future. Minus these, advancement along the lines
this belief, they permitted him to appeal for funds, knowing all the They covered their Wagons with is to make them Get a Little Sick,
of industrial and commercial progress of the Pacific Coast is
time that they were guilty. J. J. McNamara telegraphically says to White Cloth, headed for the Wil­ so they w on’t have the Real Thing
impossible. Without this hearty co-operation, a continuance of
Gompers May 9, 1911:
the highest possible development of our agricultural, horticult­
lamette Valley over the plains in­ — Smallpox.
Sometimes these
“ Your telegram containing expressions oí renewed confidence fested with Noble Red Men and Points are not Antiseptic, hut
ural, timberal, mineral and other resources is out of the ques­
and
denying
statements
published
by
Detective
Burns
to
hand.
other Vermin, their Vehicles pro­ Have the Razoo o f Other Ailments.
tion, and we must retrograde and decay.
“ While I am highly pleased and hasten to thank you for same, pelled by Peaceful Oxen.
TO THE EMPLOYE.—The columns of THE TIMES will
Once a Week the Teachers and
you can rest assured that I would pay absolutely no attention to any
On the banks of the Willamette Principals and the School Super­
always be open to the employe, whether he may be an inde­
statement
emanating
fro
mBurns
or
any
of
his
ilk.”
pendent toiler or claim affiliation with a trade organization.
River they called a halt and Squat­ intendent have Little Gatherings.
On the same date. J. J. McNamara also sent out “ To the Brother­ ted in a Pristine Wilderness. They (Not Boils.)
THE TIMES hopes that by thus affording a medium for the
These are called
hood of Organized Labor” a statement containing these words:
called themselves Pioneers. By- Teachers’ Meetings.
interchange of opinions and by untrammeled discussion of la­
They are
“
That
I
am
innocent
o
f
any
infraction
o
f
the
law
in
word
or
act
bor questions in its columns, that a better understanding will
anil-by the Humble Hamlet grew Held Saturdays, anil Are Looked
needs no emphasis from me, for the truth is mighty, and will prevail into a Straggling Village, and aft­ forward to by the Teachers with
be brought about between the employer of labor and the man
right speedily; and for it I shall contentedly wait.”
er awhile into a Real Town. Quiet Joy. They meet to Catch
who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. THE TIMES
Well, the truth has prevailed, hut not the kind of truth to which Among the Institutions the Pio­ On to New Ideas. They Have lit­
believes that by this method the rights of both will be con­
J. J. McNamara referred.
neers fostered was the Public tle Pink Tickets and Blue Tickets,
served and advanced.
Mr. Gompers thus commented:
School, and, o f course, they had to Each hearing a Sacred Symbol
In the field of labor THE TIMES will champion the prin­
“ We ask the fair and open-minded citizen to again read carefully have a School Board. The Pio­ written by the Superintendent as
ciple of “ equality of opportunity,” with all that ;t means to
Mr. McNamara’s letters. Nothing flamboyant, nothing defiant or neers who voted for School Direc­ a Mark of Distinction. Whether
independent labor and to the average good citizen. This paper
denunciatory can he found in them. They are a dignified expres- tors were the ones who had piled
will be the staunch and undeviating friend of all honest toilers,
these slips give the Holders the
sion of opinion and suggestion, as well as of an evenly-poised mind up Worldly Pelf, and that condi­
of all unshackled, law-abiding, sincere workers; and while
ongtray into the Parkay or the
with
a
clear
conscience
and
sound
heart.”
tion exists even unto this Day. To Dress Circle, the Outer Barbarians
never denying the right of workmen to organize lawfully, this
Indeed! And again indeed!
acquire a Wad gave them a chance aint Learned. After the Ball all
paper will be the unyielding foe of lawless, proscriptive,
Yes. -Mr. Gompers, we agree with the quotation in your appeal for to acquire Property. Besides en­ Vamoose.
monopolistic and exclusive labor organizations, because they
funds, hut not in the sense you wrote it at the time.
titling them to vote for School Di­
are the selfish enemies of their own class, and the common dan­
It is Entirely W rong for any
Do we observe, through the press or otherwise, any signification rectors to Boss them Around, they
ger of the industrial world. Our position in this matter is un­
Schoolmarm not to Enthuse over
of
Mr.
Gompers
expressing
a
regret
at
his
being
deceived,
and
for
had the Pleasure o f making out
mistakable, and will be maintained.
the sacrifice of the workingmen in their liberal contributions to the Personal Property Statements for these Functions Specially De­
THE TIMES will at all times stand for the conservation of
cause which they believe is necessary for them to uphold? Such the Assessor, anil omitting to men­ signed by the System for their
human life and energy and character, with all their tremendous
actions, and results of same, are the direct causes for the business tion they owned a Dog, or a Piano, Edification. What do they Want
potentialities; for the preservation of the community and the
men. in taking the stand they are willing to negotiate with their bought on the Installment Plan of to Indulge in Such Unholy
nation; for the protection of property; for the flag and its
employees direct, hut not with the walking delegate or union official, $1 down and Four Bits a week. Thoughts for. as the Desire to
glorious traditions; for the national life and honor with their
Have a Day of Rest, where they
who
is deceiving the workmen who are contributing to his living.
But the Assessor got Even by ean Get Shut of the Schoolroom?
pregnant possibilities; for the continuance of a brave, virtuous
"
F
o
r
right
is
right,
since
God
is
God.
chucking them on the Assessment They should Realize that all This
and patriotic citizenship, without which no nation can be either
And right the day must win;
,
Roll for a Bix Ta.\ on their Town is for Their Good. It’s so. because
truly great or really good.
To doubt would he disloyalty,
Lots and Prune Farms. Then they the System says so. and the Sys­
To falter would be sin.”
had a Come-Back with the Board tem is always infallible.
JUDGE GATENS COMMENDED
of Equalization, where they have
It has been Whispered that the
LOCAL UNIONISM INCONSISTENT.
UDGE GATENS, o f the Circuit Court, is to he highly commended
been Kicking Hard ever since.
School Board didn’t like the Way
for the good sense lie shows in many of the eases that come before
RGANIZEI) LABOR in Portland is apparently inconsistent.
It
But in those Good Old Days the
him. He is sincere and fearless in expression of what ho believes to O ' appears to he trying to work from both ends, hoping to break School Board was made up of Real an Editor Poked his Nose into
ln> rigid, and all fair-minded people will endorse bis views.
He even in the middle. It seems to be in the position o f the man who Reasonable People., They had no Their Business, which was IBs
bandies questions which many judicial officers would hesitate, from attempted to sit upon two stools at one and the same time, who found fear of a Recall, anil the initiative Business. There wasn’t a Man on
he could don neither, and so fell between them.
a sense of false modesty, id' clearly speaking their minds upon.
and Referendum hadn’t begun to that Board hut what was all Right,
personally.
As Air. AVilliatn
The other day there were ten women of the underworld before
One branch recently called upon Mayor Rushlight, as instanced even have a look-in.
Shakespeare
was
wont to say,
him on eases appealed from the Municipal Court.
In fining them bv THE TIMES last week. It attempted to secure the abrogation
After awhile the Town became a
and then remitting their fines and permitting them to go. lie took of the contract for the Broadway Bridge with the Pennsylvania City, with Electric Lights and Gas “ All. all. are honorable men.”
occasion to read the police a sharp lesson.
lie told them that lie Steel Company on the grounds that the latter opposes labor unions, and other Public Service Corpora- The Editor. Unregenerate to the
was not in sympathy with the spasmodic raids made every now and will import its own workmen, and that it doesn’t stand for the eight- turns. Tlie School Board begun to | Last, kept Right Along Talking
About D Things. , While
again upon these unfortunate women as a means toward moral re­ hour policy. THE TIMES commended Mayor Rushlight for turning he afflicted with Dry Rot. Its I ^
„ ,, he Felt
form.
lie declared that such actions never brought about reforms, down so impossible a request.
Nuts began to Swell, and there |
(or « " thps? hon­
And now comes to light the inconsistent phase of unionism. seemed to be no Remedy that orable men.” he knew lie was
and lie was right.
Judge Gillens said what every honest, sincere and truthful person- While il desired only local union men employed on the Broadway would Allay the Inflammation. To Right on the Job when he Charit­
must agree with, because il si so. when he declared that the social Bridge, it is not so eager in the matter of the new firehoat, the work out Its Destiny it Invented a ably laid the Fact of their Queer
evil always lias existed, and always will exist. As long as human “ David Campbell.” The contract was awarded the Smith & AVatson School System, so Complicated Doings not to Intentional Wrong,
nature remains as at present constituted, this evil will continue. Iron Works, of Portland, an "Open Shop” concern. The idea o f and Archaic that the Teachers hut the Baleful Effect of the Sys­
Human laws cannot hope to extinguish it. They have never been this establishment getting the contract appealed not at all to the couldn’t Understand it. and would tem.
able to do so. The evil should he restricted to certain quarters, and unionists. They attempted to secure the abrogation of this contract, have liked to Chuck their Jobs.
he kept under the strictest surveillance. It can he controlled, hut it and to bring about this desired end were anxious and willing that a As to the Poor Kids, they just CYNICISMS OF A BUSINESS
cannot he stamped out. Other cities have attempted to throttle lie new contract should he made. They even assented to the plan that Gobbled what they could, slid into !
MAN.
evil, only to find that even worse crimes came into being, that shall the boat should he built by a Tacoma concern, simply because it is and out o f High School, wonder­
unionized.
here remain unspeakable.
ing What it was all About.
An easy way to make money is
During a former administration attempt was made to drive the
Portland is well equipped with a considerable number of iron
Because the Public Woke Up
women of this class out of their accustomed haunts and from the city. snd steel plants. These are modern and up to date and fully com­ and Dared to Penetrate the Man­ to buy stocks when they are low
Everybody that has any sense of observation knows that this plan petent to carry out any contract they may undertake.
They are tle o f Sufficiency which enveloped and sell them when they are high.
While you may not be able to
proved a failure.
Instead of ridding the city of them, it merely managed by capable men. and thd Smith «Sc Watson Iron Works is this Aggregation of Wise Guys,
scattered them, and they took refuge in any quarters they could find, not the least of these.
With clear vision, they have successfully the School Board Got Peevish. lead a man to water, you seldom
have to ask him twice to have a
many o f them locating in respectable residence districts.
conducted their establishments, and are a credit to Portland.
When some o f the Newspapers be­
All this talk against restriction, espionage, etc., on the grounds
To holster up an unethical and illogical policy, the unions, in gan to Print Stuff that Sounded drink.
that an evil should not he condoned, is based upon mawkish senti­ this ease, place unionism above local patriotism, willing to drive like a Roast, it Got Mad. Just the
Many a man has lost his mental
mentality, and not upon sound sense. There is no respectable citizen work away front Portland at the loss of the pay roll for Portland same the Whole Works was start­ balance by attempting to entertain
'that excuses the social evil, and says that it is right. The laws frown workmen.
ed. and that School Board couldn't two or more ideas at the same
upon it. as they should do, hut it is with us. has always existed in
time.
-lust such tactics as these discredit unionism.
Meanwhile Port­ put a Stick into the Cogs.
the race, and probably always will do so
The collection of fines is land's great iron and steel plants will move serenely on. because
In the Good Old Davs, before
Be prompt and your salary is
tantamount to licensing the system, to he sure. Objection is made they are attending strictly to their own business, because the public People Got so Wise under Higher raised without asking.
to this on the grounds that it is commercializing vice. When reform is contemptuously indifferent to the dictations of unreasonable union­ Education and Scientific Culcliaw.
If you are right yourself the boss
shall have been made in the natures of all men and all women, then ists.
when the Air in a School Room be­
will the social evil disappear, hut that day is never destined to he.
I lie Smith Ic Watson Iron Works will build a firehoat worthy of came Bad. Little Johnnie Jones is the most valuable friend you
Judge Gateiis is entirely right when he tells the police that where the name.
This plant, like any other home institution, deserves used to Get a Tip from the S ch o o l- have.
M hen a woman is unable to get
they should begin in their campaign of reform is with the vile prn- patronage.
marm to Open the Window and let
¡what she wants, she tries to eon-
i urers and mashers, who inveigle silly, young girls into their meshes
in a Little Fresh Air. Nowadnvs.
..
.. 0
, , v'ince herself that it wasn't worth
and start them on tin' downward path.
lie says the police know
DESPOILERS OF YOUTH
with no ( orner on the Supply of | having at all.
these persons, os should know them, yet they permit them to work CEA ERAL WEEKS ago THE TIMES pointed out tin fact that Pure Atmosphere,
\tmosphe
no one Dares to
, .
It's just human nature to get
their very noses "A n ounce of prevention
their devilish i\ de­ inn
tobacco and cigarettes were being sold to minors in this city— let it in. Because there’s a System
more fun out o f losing $10 at gam­
is worth a pound >f cure. ”
many mere children, 12 to 1:1 \ears old.
W ■ are pleased to note against it.
Commendation is due Judge Gateiis for the manli and sensible that the Juvenile Court has taken cognizance of the fact, and that
On certain Days a Bunch of bling than making $10 by work.
It takes a girl to know that a
inanner in which he calls a spade a spade
We may all dodge the the sellers are to he arrested and prosecuted.
Both the state laws Tooth Carpenters hold a Thing
question involved, or attempt to ignore it as long as we will, hut it and city ordinances forbid such sales.
The state law imposes a 1 they all Clinics— a part of the photograph that flatters her is a
still exists. If the mothers of these foolish girl would do their duly | maximum penalty of $50. and a maximum imprisonment of till days, System. They scrape o ff Tartar better likeness of her than the faee
and co..U«.i their daughters, keeping them at home material would Teachers state that tobacco and cigarette papers are often found in from the Kids' Teeth, at so much she sees in the looking-glass.
not he afforded the lecherous spawn who spread tin nets of vice for the pockets of these hoys, their clothing and breath show the odor a Tart, and Drill Cute Little Holes | Every virtue has its own flaws.
the unwary and unsuspecting.
of smoke. I neonseiously they are riveting upon themselves a per­ in their Molars, into which place
A woman once married is for­
The elimination of the “ roadhouses.” where so many moths fly nicious and destructive habit. Several officers have been detailed Amalgam Plugs. If the Kids' Pa­ ever a slave.
into the alluring web of sin and singe their wings in the flames of to detect and arrest the men who should know better than to saddle rents are shy on the Maztima. their
People usually have the blues
vice, would he a good start to make.
And right here we wish to this habit upon our hoys for the sake of paltry gain.
Right here Teeth get Fixed. Anyway. This after skimming the milk o f human
applaud the efforts of all those noble women in our city who seek irises the natural inquiry: What are the boys’ mothers doing? isn't so Bad.
kindness.
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