THE TIMES
Vol. I. No. 16
CHASING THE LOAN SHARKS INTO
THE TALL TIMBER EASY SHOULD
THE PROPER BACKING BE GIVEN
PORTLAND, OREGON, FEBRUARY 2, 1912
Price 5 Cents
T h e “P o p u la r C o n n a u g h ts”
On T h eir V isit to N e w Y ork
MATTER OF APPLYING THE WORD
“ SCAD SEEMS TO PRODUCE MUCH
BEFOGGING OF THE PUBLIC MIND
City Auditor Barbur, we hope, tims. In the suit in question, ow­
will prove a good executioner. ing to this publicity, the suit
Of course, we speak in a meta­ against the debtor was suddenly
phorical sense. For the world,
we would not urge him to put on dropped. This shows that agita-
warpaint, seise his snickershee, . tion is a good thing. The de-
chase after loan sharks and bring | Cendant appeared to stand trial,
in their heads, dripping with on supplemental proceedings fol­
gore, literally, but he is to be lowing a default judgment, to be
commended for his valiant effort informed by the court that there
to put a stop to their quest ion-
They wax fat and smooth and was “ nothing doing.”
The facts in the case showed
greasy upon their little five per-
eentutms per month shaved off that last September the defend­
the warrants of city employes ant borrowed $75 from the United
who have gotten into their grip. States Realty Company (the ag­
The mayor and city auditor got
their heads together the other gregated name of a man who was
day to see if something could not born Lesser, evidently wanting
be done to protect the luckless more). To acquire this loan the
wights who are forced to con­ victim was compelled to give two
tribute on illegal portion of their weeks, and one for $50, due in
earnings to this reprehensible notes, one for $50, due in two
bunch of bloodsuckers. We sin­
cerely hope that a way may be six weeks. Lesser nagged the I
found out of the difficulty. It note signer, by appearing a cou- !
is well known that the erecutive pie of days before the first note j
board and the heads of each city was due at the place where the
department have notified em­ maker of the note was employed,
ployes to abandon this practice,
but the order is “ more honored demanding assurance that ’■
He was
in the breach than the observ­ could meet the note.
ance.” I t’s a bad habit to get pacified until the next day, when
into, and like other bad habits, he appeared again, and the re­
is hard to break.
sult was that the man lost his
We sincerely hope that some place and has been irregularly
practical method will be found employed ever since.
tq make illegal all warrant as­
Lesser took judgment by de­
signments, and by that method
fault
for $100 on the notes, for
the loan sharks would execute
themselves. They wouldn’t loan an attorney fee of $20, $6.00
money on any security, the legal­ costs and $2.50 interest, making
U R IN G their brief sig h tse e in g tour of N ew York on the occasion of
their recent v isit to th e city us th e g u ests o f A m b assador and Mrs.
ity of which was “ shaky.”
the total of $129.10, which the
R eid the D u k e and D u ch ess o f C onnaught and th eir d aughter. I’rin-
Ben selling, one of Portland’s borrower was expected to pay
ee ss P atricia, view ed th e m etropolitan d istrict from th e to w er o f the
broad-minded and far-sighted for a six weeks’ loan of $75.
M etropolitan I.lfe building, th e ta lle st stru ctu re in the city . One o f our pho­
merchants, and one who is hu­
Attorney Hurst says that the tographs sh o w s three m em bers o f the group sta n d in g on th e narrow' balcony
manitarian in principle, suggests loan sharks are now on the run o f m a t lo fty em in en ce. At th e 'left Is th e princess, a t th e right her m other
a plan that seems feasible and and a little official and private and b etw een them C aptain R lvers-B u lkeley. nld to th e g overn or general and
one that certainly would run loan backing will make them run with controller o f his household. T h e other photograph Is that o f the duke. Dur­
sharks out of business. Mr. Sel­ terror for the tall bushes. THE ing th eir sta y in N ew York th e ducal party w ere en terta in ed by the am b a ssa ­
ling thinks that a fund of $25,000 TIMES hopes that such will be dor at h is resid en ce, w h ere he g a v e a din ner and a sm all d an ce In their honor.
W hen th ey appeared In public there w as a great deal o f In terest on the part
should be established to loan to forthcoming.
of the crow d s, and they su b m itted good hum oredly to all th e dem oustrutloua
poor and worthy applicants on
of cu riosity w hich atten d ed them w h erever th ey w ent.
proper security for 1 per cent
per month.
Mr. Selling stands
ready to put $10,000 into such a
fund himself. He believes that
U. S. M a r in es at G u an tan am o,
90 per cent of all men are honest
O u r G reat C uban N a v a l Base
and well-intentioned and would,
if given a fair opportunity, pay
all they owe.
Indianapolis. — Attempts
to I
Roscoe P. Hurst of Portland re­ withhold J. J. McNamara’s check-!
cently wrote a letter to Secre­ books from the government’s in­
tary of State Olcott, commending vestigation of the dynamite con­
his actions concerning a certain spiracy were blocked by Federal
firm in Portland accused of high­ Judge Anderson in an order di­
handed, loan shark methods in its recting Leo M. Rappaport, an
business operations.
Recently attorney, to appear at once before
Secretary Olcott gave out an in­ the federal grand jury and turn
terview in which he scored the over the evidence required.
firms operating under the guise
As counsel for McNamara, Rap-
of legitimate bankers to warrant paport claimed that whatever
shaving and a salary loan busi­ checkbooks, stubs and canceled
ness. The writer informs the checks McNamara had given him
Secretary of State that there are were privileged communications
firms in Portland reaping a har­ and could not be demanded as
vest by making loans of small evidence.
Rappaport had been
sums and then compelling pat­ ordered to appear before the
rons making the loans to pay grand jury, but he resisted by a
large amount before releasing motion to quash the subpoena.
them. Hurst says he is pre­
District Attorney Charles W.
pared to submit proof to State Miller argued that the grand jury
Bank Examiner Wright that the wanted the checkbooks to find
illicit business is being carrier on out what McNamara did with the
by certain firms in Portland. He $1.000 a month allowed him as
also states that at the proper secretary-treasurer of the Interna­
time an attempt will be made to tional Association of Bridge and
put an ordinance through the Structural Ironworkers for or­
city council in Portland, pat­ ganizing purposes.
terned after the Milwaukee or­
“ That money was paid him as
dinance. which will place some of an official of the union.” said
♦ he alleged Shvloeks on the rock- Mr. Miller. “ It was expended to
pile. He says loan sharks are transport dynamite and nitro­
now on the run in Portland and glycerin about the country and to
steps are being taken to put them pay the expenses of men who
entirely out of business.
blew up places.”
Judge Anderson ruled that the
Coming back to the local situ­
ation. we have a little story to checkbooks were as material as
tell, which shows which way the a revolver or a knife with which
wind is veering. One of these a murder had been committed ami
K th e r n lte il State« jrovem m ent Hhould be obllsrfHl by th e continuation of
The court
money-lendine firms recently in­ might be presented.
th e d isorders In Cuba to in terven e for the third tim e in the internal
stituted a suit against an unfor­ also criticised Rappaport for re­
affairs o f th at islan d It would probably m ake use o f Its naval station at
tunate debtor in Judge Olson’s fusing to state in court whether
G uantanam o, on the bay o f the sam e nam e, thirty-seven m iles east of
court to collect $129.10.
The he had the checkbooks. Rappa­ S an tiago
U pw ard o f $10,000,000 has been sp en t upon the th irty square m iles
port
immediately
went
before
the
Telegram, particularly, has been
of territory w hich w a s granted to the U n ited S ta tes by treaty in the building
unsparing in scathing the meth­ grancl jury.
o f docks, m achine sh op s, storage houses, etc. P ractically th e w hole A tlantic
The union now wants to unseat : fleet la m akin g the sta tio n Its base and would be av a ila b le for Instant service,
ods of these financial pirates, who
dislike exceedingly to being Judge Anderson for doing his ; as w ell a s the sold iers and m arines. 3,000 o f whom It Is th e cu stom o f the
brought into the limelight of pub­ duty and carrying out the law. | govern m en t to m sln taln there The general staff o f th e arm y at W ashington
licity. because it spoils their op­ Law and justice to one should be has long been prepared for an em ergency in Cuba, w ith plans matured for
em barking several thousand troops w ithin a few d a y s’ notice.
portunities to rope in new vic­ applied to all.
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Scab, the word applied in will not take a job which the other
derision to members of unor­ mail has left vacant.”
ganized labor, seems hard to
The first action of the police un­
down in this community. Every
der
Judge Tazwell’a ruling that
days, it appears, this word
comes for judicial construction the term “ scab” cannot he ap­
THE TIMES lias frequently made plied lawfully to old employes of
mention of this word and the a company withstanding a strike,
manner in which it has been lo came up again tlie other day when
calv aplied.
At one time we arc given to Patrolman Sherwood, on reading
understand that it is taboo and a report of the ruling, proceeded
at another time that it can he to enforce it at the Albina shops.
applied if spoken in a gent'e- ! I*. A. Nordstrom, a persistent of­
leanlv, quiet, manner. Shades of fender. according to the police,
Blackstone! As though it were
over possible to use this nas*v was arrested for applying the
word in a polite manner, '"’at abusive epithet to a machinist en­
never was the intention and tering the gate.
never will he in the sense in
The arrest was made on the ini­
which it is used. Frequent oc­ tiative of the policeman, who
currences of late have brought
this reprehensible term into the called the machinist hack to iden­
tify Nordstrom. Three witnesses
limelight.
The other day the epithet bob testified that Nordstrom had used
bed v.p again before the m ciiei- the word, while he, admitting that
pal court, the occasion being the he had hurled the term at the ma­
trial of six pickets iron I l.e chinist numerous times in the past,
Brooklyn car shops charged with
disorderly conduct, in that the testified that he had not used it
folowed workers to their homes at the time at issue.
perforating the atmosphere with
Judge'Tazwell held that the un­
the word, “ scab,” yelled in a ion men should have time allowed
most unladylike manner.
Na­ them to adjust themselves to the
turally these men objected and
the «extette were accordingly new condition, and dismissed
Nordstrom. He also addressed a
I 'u 'lc J .
It came out before the court warning to those in the courtroom,
that the word, “ scab,” may he not to apply the word “ scab” in
applkd legally by union pickets the future to men who simply re­
to men who quit their ranks
when the voice of organized la­ mained in their old positions when
bor whispered “ strike” last fall, the strike began.
Similar warning has been served
a .d staid by their jobs, where
they could earn bread and butter by the police on pickets at the Al­
for their needy families in (he bina and Brooklyn shops.
railroad shops, or to professional
strikebreakers, there is a limit.
That limit is reached when
“ scab” is hurled at. men who are
honestly continuing at their work
in jobs they have held for years.
This is an amplification of a for­
mer ruling by Judge Tazwell on
the same matter.
II. J. McCracken, who is a fore­
Edward Abcock and Frank
man in the hoilershops, testified Domini, non-union machinists em­
that at the shops, when quitting ployes in the O.-W. R. and N.
-time came, on one occasion. 20 of shops at the foot of Russell
the foul-mouthed
billingsgate street, were attacked last Sun­
slingers followed his men to their day night by 1(1 men at Gold­
homes with the reiterated expres­ smith and Russell streets and Ab-
sion of “ scab.” Incidentally the eoek was struck in the hack of
foreman expressed his opinion of the head with a rock. It is be­
policemen who stood at hand and lieved his skull is fractured.
permitted such language.
Domini was beaten and sustained
The police, on inquiry, admit­ painful bruises.
ted that such conduct on Wash­
The attack waa the result of
ington street would not he per­
lh<* refusal of Abcock and Domi­
mitted.
James Rudenmn is a foreman in ni. they say, to join the cause of
the paintshop. After he had been the striking machinists. Follow-
chased for eight blocks by the ill- iny the trouble the men’s assail­
mannered horde, he naturally be­ ants fled. Domini escaped from
came angry, and admitted that he the attackers and notified the
cussed them a little. Very few police.
Abcock was taken to his home
men would not have done so in
like circumstances. He even went after being attended to by a phy­
so far as to remark: “ This has sician. It is feared he may die as
gut to he stopped; we W o n ’t a resultof his injuries.
stand it much longer.” That. too.
The OREGONIAN very per­
was perfectly natural. The crowd tinently remarks of the above in­
of roughs following him. appealed cident :
to the policeman at hand, con­
“ Things are quiet around the
struing the remark into a threat.
One non-union
It is a little one-sided justice Albina shops.
that permits one crowd of idle worker had his skull fractured
loafers to molest an industrious Sunday night.”
toiler, and that, too, apparently
under police protection, and at the
same time he not allowed to retort.
As Rudeman informed the <•«>11 rt.
“ We have to keep our mouths
shut, while these fellows ean yell
all they please. The police think
j it is a joke,”
The Times would like to see the
under dog have his dav occasion j Indianapolis Condemning Fed
eral Judge A. B. Anderson for
ally.
discharging Detective W. J.
We reprint with the comment Burns, indicted on a kidnaping
that this editorial paragraph re- I charge in connection with the
ccntly appearing in The Orego extradition of -I. ,1. .McNamara,
i nian. hits the nail squarely and the Socialist party of Indiana in
! fairly on the head :
convention Sunday called on
“ A ‘scab’ is a man who takes Congressman Victor L Berger,
! another man’s job, which the the Socialist representative from
other man has quit. So Judge Wisconsin, to demand the judge’s
Tazwell now appears to rule We removal by congress.
R esolu­
should like t ohave a ruling from tions
condemning the “ Roy
the judge on the proper designa- Scouts” and the “ Militia of
. tion of the man out of work who Christ” were also passed.
TWO NON-UNION
MEN HURT ONES
SKULL BROKEN
WOULD INVOKE
RECALLOFJUDGE
A. B. ANDERSON