T H Z TIM ES
‘ ‘ but have already found many vivid illustrations o f this being a
state o f big possibilities.”
While Mr. Seaquist carried the egg to town with pride, it was
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also with some degree of fear, lest it should be prematurely scram
THE TIM E S is not responsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents bled, for he had it in his coat pocket and the car that brought him
in was crowded to its capacity and there was much elbowing for
appearing in its columns.
room.
Entered in Postoffice at Portland, Oregon, as second class matter.
Vancouver, Wash., boasts of a hobo hen, which recently rode into
that city on the brakerods o f a North Hank Road freight car. It was
A FEARLESS EXPO N E NT OF IN D U S T R IA L PE AC E
there found by J. J. Curtin, the night inspector, who took it home.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES—$2.50 per year, in advance,
Mr. Curtin desired to kill the hen and have a chicken dinner for
AD VE R TISIN G RATES made known upon application.
Sunday, but Mrs. Curtin championed her cause and finally agreed
to let the toss o f a coin decide the fate of the daring bird that had
Saturday, Mandi 9, 1912.
ridden so many miles in such an unsusal place, beating the railroad |
I company out of its revenue. Mrs. Curtin said that she knew the hen
would bring good luck.
It was agreed that if heads were turned up, the poor lien would
go to the block, but if tails won, she would live, and become a mem
ber of the family. The coin was tossed and ‘ tails’ won, saving the
TH E TIM ES is earnest and outspoken.
It advocates
precious life o f the tramp fowl, and Mrs. Curtin rejoiced.
what it believes to be right, and that without fear or favor,
To prove her gratitude for sparing her life, the hen laid a large I
and unencumbered by the shackles of circumstance.
TH E
egg in her nest, which had been provided, and now Mrs. Curtin says
TIM ES w ill not swerve from the path of duty, and it cannot
she w ill keep the stranger and place her on exhibition in the Clarke
be purchased or compromised. TH E TIM E S unqualifiedly sub
County Harvest Show this Fall. Had Mr. Curtin not found the hen |
scribes to the great principles of human liberty under the law;
when he did, she would have gone another 100 miles before the train
o f equal rights in all fields o f legitimate endeavor, industriai
stopped. She was tired and hungry and ate greedily’ when food was
freedom and to the advancement of the great Pacific Coast.
placed before her.
TH K TI MES
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TO TH E E M P L O Y E R — TH E TIM E S w ill ever be open to
the employer of labor, that he may have, through its columns,
an opportunity to place the truth before the public regarding
the business conditions which govern him and his environ
ments. The co-operation of the employer and the employe are
the substantial proofs o f what has made the Pacific Coast
what it is today, Their interests are identical, are inseparable.
The mutual experience, foresight and confidence between the
business man and the wage-earner have made and are making
for success. The investments of the one coupled with the efforts
of both are solid bulwarks of present prosperity and the assur
ances of the future. Minus these, advancement along the lines
of industrial and commercial progress of the Pacific Coast is
impossible. Without this hearty co-operation, a continuance of
the highest possible development of our agricultural, horticult
ural, timberal, mineral and other resources is out of the ques
tion, and we must retrograde and decay.
TO TH E E M P LO YE .— The columns of TH E TIM E S will
always be open to the employe, whether he may be an inde
pendent toiler or claim affiliation with a trade organization.
TH E TIM ES hopes that by thus affording a medium fo r the
interchange of opinions and by untrammeled discussion o f la
bor questions in its columns, that a better understanding will
be brought about between the employer of labor and the man
who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. TH E TIM E S
believes that by this method the rights of both w ill be con
served and advanced.
In the field o f labor TH E TIM E S w ill champion the prin
ciple of “ equality of opportunity,’ ’ with all that it means to
independent labor and to the average good citizen. This paper
w ill be the staunch and undeviating friend of all honest toilers,
of all unshackled, law-abiding, sincere workers; and while
never denying the right o f workmen to organize lawfully, this
paper w ill be the unyielding foe of lawless, proscriptive,
monopolistic and exclusive labor organizations, because they
are the selfish enemies of their own class, and the common dan
ger of the industrial world. Our position in this matter is un
mistakable, and w ill be maintained.
TH E TIM E S w ill at all times stand fo r the conservation of
human life and energy and character, with all their tremendous
potentialities; for the preservation of the community and the
nation; for the protection of property; for the flag and its
glorious traditions; for the national life and honor with their
pregnant possibilities; for the continuance o f a brave, virtuous
and patriotic citizenship, without which no nation can be either
truly great or really good.
W H A T A C O N TR A S T!
A R D L Y a <lay passes that does not curry with it the proof that
union men everywhere are committed to the policy o f slugging
independent workmen, who choose to be decent and law-abiding. A
recent instance (more fully referred to on another page) occurred
March 1 at Chehalis, Wash. A non-union man was assaulted and
brutally beaten by two union strikers.
Now let us look at the other side o f the picture. In our news
columns there appears an incident growing out o f the railroad shop
men’s strike at Roseburg. A convicted striker was fined for disor
derly conduct. It was a case where he was penniless and would have
to pay the penalty by imprisonment. This would leave his w ife and
six children helpless. At this juncture several non-union workmen
appealed to the court for permission to pay the fine. It was a nohl
spirit they displayed and one in startling contrast with the policy o f
organized labor. TD K TIM E S does not recollect a single instance
anywhere o f organized workmen going to the relief o f a suffering
non-union man or his family. Unionism is too narrow and too selfish
for anything o f that kind. The moral effect o f the incident at Rost
luirg is a most powerful one. Indepemlentt workmen have always
made clean records. They are men o f sense, decency, morality. They
follow not nor do they howl after false gods. They are content to
give value received for service. They arc not gathering in secret to
plan how they can, serpent-like, plant their fangs in the hands of
those who feed them. On the other hand, everyone knows that organ
ized labor as at present constituted, is rotten to the core. Under the
specious slogan o f strength in unity, the entire aggregation, judging
by instances constantly coming to light, seem to be planning how best
they can ruin their employers. They possess as little sense as the one
who killed the goose that laid the golden egg.
Now he it understood that TH E TIM E S is not attempting to be
rate all union men, for it is not. There are many noble fellows in the
ranks of unionism, but they are under an hypnotic spell. They arc
duped and deceived by their leaders. Had they had the sturdy man
hood to not yield to the siren voice of unionism, they could have main
tained their personal independence. They could have thought for
themselves.' As it is now. they are like hulls with rings in their noses
being pulled this way and that.
In the city of Detroit and we would mention others the rabid
demands of unionists so interfered with the city's progress, that th
indignant citizens there took a hand in the game They “ made good,’
too. They overthrew the closed shop and inaugurated the open shop
and have had prosperity ever since.
H
W H A T TW O HENS DID.
sundry writers have paid delightful tributes to all
sorts of sweet singers, and deservedly so. Somehow the “ lays“
o f the quiet and unassuming hen have been forgotten. I f it were
not for the hen. a great many o f us would he minus our breakfasts
especially if we would seek “ ham and.” Yet liens have added not a
little to our national wealth. O f instructive value, as statistics might
prove, we arc not going to give any on hens. We are going to tell
o f two Western hens' achievements. The first relates to a hen owned
hy (¡us Seaquist, who recently came to Portland from Chicago, to re
side.
With his family Mr. Seaquist lite s in a suburban home on the
East Side, and his hobby is fancy poultry raising. Ten months ago
a b ro od o f Marred Plymouth Rocks was hatched, and February
lamp Year Day, one of the pullets laid an egg. the like o f which, for
size. Mr. Seaquist Inis never seen in Chicago or the whole -tati1 of
Illinois. It measures til hy S inches and friends to whom he showed
it today with a great deal of pride pronounced it perfect in every
respect.
"1 have been in Oregon only about a y e a r." said Mr Seaquist.
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K N E L L OF TH E S P E C IA L-E D IT IO N GRAFT.
UT o f the melkin has come a whisper o f things as they are to be.
The handwriting upon the wall w ill he welcome news to a large
portion o f the community, as it w ill also be disheartening to a large
number of individuals and newspaper publications. F or many years
it has been the custom o f great newspapers as well as the horde of
pestiferous periwinkle publications, to get out ‘ ‘ special editions” .
The long-suffering business man, who often has a hard time enough,
Heaven knows, to make his ledger balance on the profit side, is the
prey of the special edition man. The latter, who is invariably shrewd,
formulates what he calls “ a canvass” . He calls upon the business
man, who is already overburdened with legitimate advertising con
tracts, and springs the special edition scheme upon him. It is no
uncommon thing for publications to arbitrarily fix a rate of $500 to
$1000 a page fo r a single insertion. Now, every person of common
sense knows that there is not one chance in a thousand for the
advertiser to ever realize a tithe of the amount he is requested to
pay on his investment.
I f the matter was one merely o f request, it would not be so
bad. Instances are not wanting o f an absolute .dictation, on the part
o f the advertising solicitor. W e know o f one case where a local
newspaper sent its representative to the head of a great corpora
tion. Said the agent: ‘ ‘ Last year, in our annual edition, you took a
page costing you $500. This year we shall expect you to take two
pages at the same rate.” Now, this meant an expenditure o f $1000
for one insertion. For reasons o f peace and policy, it is said that
the manager “ fell for the game,” and that the advertising agent
reaped a neat little profit o f 25 per cent, or $250 for a few minutes’
work. The paper then gained a profit of $750— or nearly that,
minus the cost of typographical composition, presswork, etc. I f this
was not a ‘ ‘ hold up,” a “ g r a ft” and sheer robbery, what was it?
It is very well to say that the corporation manager could have re
fused, but it must be remembered that he paid the price for the sake
o f peace, which is akin to blackmail. No word was spoken, but the
implication was there that his corporation, and the persons he rep
resented, might become the subjects o f editorial abuse.
Year by year the burden has grown until it has become unbear
able. Instead o f grafting— for it is little short o f that— the adver
tiser is entitled to just consideration. He “ pays the freigh t” in his
annual contracts for everyday advertising, which is fair, just and
reasonable. I f the publications which desire to get out “ big, annual
editions,” in which the represented circulation is generally a pal
pable lie, would give its patrons “ a square deal,” it would issue its
special editions a little better, a great deal larger, without making
is patrons the “ fall guys” in is annual grabs.
It is refreshing to learn that the worm has turned, for TH E
TIM E S is informed that it is the purpose o f the Portland business
men to refuse longer to be made the victims of schemes that are in
tended to fill the coffers of the promoters at the expense o f the ad
vertisers. TH E TIM E S expects that its stand w ill not be popular
with other publications. It may even be made the subject o f scath
ing editorials, hut the truth can’t hur. There is this satisfaction,
at least, that the public knows where we stand, and the business
ma.n whose hank account is not made the subject o f an infamous
graft, will endorse us.
I f this is not sufficient, we do not care, and
are ready for the fireworks.
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TH E RED FLA G .
r HE TIM E S recently referred to a meeting o f socialists attended
* hy women suffragists. The incongruity o f blending the Stars
and Stripes with the red fiag o f Socialism was therein adverted to,
In a local paper o f recent date the same grounds were so well cov
ered by a correspondent, that we feel justified in republishing. The
letter follows:
MtJLINO, Or.. March 4.— (T o the Editor o f The Telegram .)—
Seeing a notice that socialists waved a red Hag at a suffragist meet
ing. moves me to protest against allowing such an insult. It is an in
sult to the Stars and Stripes that our ancestors so bravely fought and
died for to make ns a free Nation o f law-abiding citizens. To allow
a mob of shouting socialists to flirt a red rag in our faces is nothing
short of treason. It savors too much o f anarchy, o f which we now
have so much in these United States. I f the socialists want to court
‘ ‘ love and peace” as they pretend, why in the name o f all that’s
peaceful and lovely, do not they adopt a white or blue fiag— emblem
o f purity and peace, and then live up to their pratings.
Nothing is more aggravating than to have a traitor to our Gov
ernment and best iterests, shoving a red fiag under our noses. I f the
socialists are for peace, why do they flaunt a danger signal? It
seems to me the United States Government is growing very slack in
its duty to her loyal citizens to allow any set o f people to dominate
our freedom as these unions are doing. (A ll unions are for social
ism.) Uncle Samuel will wake up some morning if not before to find
a more lawless element playing havoc with the Nation’s affairs than
has yet been overcome. \Ve freed the United States from slavery
and it w ill have to come again, but next time to free the working
people from their slavery to the gigantic grip o f unions and societies
that have them in their power. It is to he hoped the women of Ore
gon will retain their self-respect enough in future to allow no fiag
but the Stars and Stripes, that stands fo r freedom forever, to float
over our devoted heads!
S O LD IE R 'S DAUGHTER.
@ by Glean L. Saxton.
PERSPECTIVE VIEW -FR O M A PHOTOGRAPH.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN.
SECOND FLOOR PLAN.
Here la a good design to build from, either In a suburb or a small village.
Size, twenty-six feet wide and twenty-eight feet deep. Cost, exclusive of heat
ing and plumbing. $2.500.
Upon receipt of $1 the publisher o f this paper will supply a copy o f Sax
ton’s book o f plans, entitled "American Dwellings.” The book contains 254
new and up to date designs of cottages, bungalows and residences costing
from $1,000 to $0,000.
AN ARTISTIC STUDY IN BROWN.
Design 969. by Glenn L. Saxton. Architect, Minneapolis, M in n .
@ by Glenn L. Saxton.
PERSPECTIVE VIEW —FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.
NEEDED REFORM S
T HE IR IS H people of Portland are thorouhgly aroused and justly
1 indignant at the insulting caricatures of their race now on sale
as souvenirs of St. Patrick's Day, March 17th. They are right.
There exists nowhere in the world a more virile, upright and honor
Hide people than the Irish. The great names o f Gratton. O'Connell.
Hurke, Robert Emmett. Thomas Moore, shine on the pages o f history.
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In the humbler walks o f life, wherever the cause o f right has been
defended, the muster roll of heroes reveals the humble names o f
F IR S T FLO O R P L A N .
SECOND FLOOR PLAN.
“ Kelly and llurke and Shea.” who have nobly died.
In every country the sons and daughters o f Erin have added j
It would be Impossible to find a more complete design for a home than
lustre to their lineage, ami in no country more than in the United i thia one. called "A Study In Brown.” The term Is used because the whole
States A ll honor, then, to them! W e trust that when St. Patrick's; scheme Is brown for the decoration o f the outside. Size, twenty-six feet wide
Day dawns every Irishman iua\ proudly hear his wee bit sprig of 1 and thirty feet deep. Cost to build, exclusive of heating and plumbing. $4.000.
shamrock and that the sweet associations of the great patron saint
Upon receipt o f >1 the publisher o f this paper will supply a copy o f Sax
may not he marred with hideous caricatures. *
ton’s book o f plans, entitled "American Dwellings.” The book contains 254
And there is another reform we hope to see, ami that is in the new and up to date designs o f cottages, bungalows and residences costing from
matter of the average stage Irishman, as ordinarily portrayed. It $1.000 to $0.000
is untrue to life, and should be banished off the boards.