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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1912)
Vol. II. No lg. PORTLAND, OREGON, AUGUST 17,1912 EASY FOR MINORS TO BUY BOOZE DECLARE YOUTHS ACCUSED OF MURDERING ADAM BAKER W omen Floured Largely In The Progressive Convention Price 5 Cents “ NO UNION DICTATION HERE” IS THE CAPTION OF AN ARTICLE IN ONE OF THE LEADING PAPERS V —■ '' Selling liquor to minors is not uncommon practice in many of the saloons in Portland. Rarely is a question asked as to the age of the patron. This much has been un covered through the confession o f the four youths who participat ed in the gang murder of Adam Baker while intoxicated .In prob ing further into the case, Detec tives Holly and Howell are inves tigating this phase of law viola tion. This is a violation of a city ordinance, not a state law, and is presumed to be sufficient reason for the revoking of a liquor li cense. The Council, however, has not made a practice o f revoking licenses for violation of the laws although from time to time arrests have been made for selling liquor to drunken men and to minors. Although the quartet of boys under arrest for the Baker mur der laid the foundation for the evening jag in regular saloons, which they name, they placed the fininshing touches while at the Overland Club, at Third and Stark streets. This club has been the rendezvous for young men and its reputation was such that the grand jury heard of it. The po lice had been urged to act, but delayed in so doing. Last Friday nighf the members o f the grand jury had planned to raid the es tablishment. but the auto in which they were visiting the roadhouses in the eastern end of the county broke down. The police finally called at the club Sunday, and al though the establishment was raided, it continued operations la ter in the evening. The case of the Overland Club will be heard next Thursday in the Municipal Court. From the confessions o f the boys. Harry Leecy, Oscar Carlin. Robet Burns and Charles Chris tensen, procuring drinks in a sa loon was a matter requiring no formality. They declared that there are many boys like them selves, hardworking youths, who on Saturday nights like to visit the saloons and “ have a good time” by overindulgence. There appears to be no protection ex tended to such youths by the po lice as the law against selling liquor to minors is not enforced. Only one of the four prisoners says his age was ever asked by a bartender. “ But,” explains Burns, “ every fellow is of age when he is out with a gang.” It was because of the flagrant conditions existing in the Over land Club that the grand jury was preparing to take the initiative and had the police not raided the establishment Sunday, the grand jury has planned to send another letter of criticism against the de partment. which would have made the letter of a former grand jury look like a pink tea ^invitation. The present grand jury has been doing a great deal of sleuthing on its own account, and there is a prospect of the grand jury using part o f its final report to the lax ity of the Police Department in respect to liquor selling to min ors. District Attorney Cameron suggested to the detectives who handled the Baker murder that the officers use the prisoners as witnesses against the Overland Club when the case comes to trial Thursday. Acting on this hint. Detectives Hellyer and Howell are preparing to assist in the prosecution of the Municipal Court case. All four of the boy prisoners are under lock and key. This is the caption o f an ar ticle on the front page of one of our great industrial papers of ! the United States and Inis some thing to say regarding Portland which we reproduce: At the time of the Elks’ Carn ival at Portland the labor unions attempted to dictate to Portland Lodge No. 142, B. P. O. E., that none but union musicians and union bands be hired. This at tempt at dictations was a com plete fiasco. It is impossible for the unions to dictate policies in any of the industrial activities of prosperous Portland. There is no such thing as receding from the policy of the Open Shop and ‘ live and let live’ which has been adopted by the Portland citizens and so it is with Spokane and Los Angeles. “ Wherever the unions dictate, the cost of living increases! Where the union dictates, the wage increases because of the in crease in cost of living. We thus have a false economic position, and the hand of the whole world is against the closed simp com munity.” Photos by American Press Association. MONG the many features which made the National Progresalre conven tion unlike any other political gathering was the large share taken In ^ the proceedings by women. The Republican and Democratic conven tions had women delegates, but not so many, and tn the unofficial participation of women the second Chlrngo convention outdid the first Miss Jane Addams, who Is easily first among American women sorlal workers, seconded the nomination of Colonel Roosevelt, and to the influence of the women delegates and spectators was probably due much of the almost reli gious enthusiasm which characterized the gathering. The lower of the two Il lustrations shows Colonel Roosevelt acknowledging the greeting of his parti sans as he was driven In an automobile to his Chicago hotel; the other shows (In the order named, from left to right) Mrs. Charles D Blaney, California dele gate; Mrs. H. M. Wllmarth of Illinois and Miss Addams. A to bring our bill before the peo ple at the next election. Joint W ork to Be Done. “ Our organization will now get * behind the Commission’sreforms GOVERNOR AND T A X COM and at the same time we shall MISSION TO SUBMIT continue our campaign against PLAN. the Single Tax measures proposed by U ’Rren and the paid bene At the request of the .State ficiaries and emissaries of the Tax Commission, which intends Fels fund.” in its own measures to prosecute In writing to the Tax Commis vigorously the war against Single Tax. the Oregon Equal Taxation sion and agreeing to withdraw League withdrew its initiative pe its measures, the Equal Taxation tition against Single Tax. This League said: “ It appears to us, in view ofi petition was signed by almost fourteen thousand voters and rep the definite stand your Commis resented the sentiments of at least sion has taken against Single; 50.00 voters, whom it was impos Tax, that by joining forces with, sible to reach in -time. The sig you the opposition to the Single j natures were obtained by volun Tax propagamla in Oregon will tary circulators, most o f them be concentrated and made more farmers. Over 12.1 MM) o f the sig ' effective and that confusion will natures were obtained outside I be avoided. In other words, as you say, ‘ the issue will be clearly' Multnomah County. Fearing a chaotic condition in drawn between two systems of I the minds of voters. Governor taxation—one of which is Single West wrote to the Equal Tax , Tax and the other in opposition ation League in Portland request ' to Single Tax.’ ” The numbers of the tax mens-: ing that their measure be with arcs on the ballot, which will bar; drawn. I Single Tax are .'¡04. .'¡Ob and ¡108.1 By so doing, he said “ the issue will be clearly drawn between two systems of taxation—one of ; GOVERNOR WEST W ILL W AR ON BOOTLEGGERS. which is Single Tax. the other in opposition to Single Tax. ami SALEM.— Tried o f being bur at the same time presenting a ra tional plan of tax reform which dened with complaints that the will remove many of those causes local option law is being violated w hfch breed discontent, and give in different dry counties of the life and support to many radical State. Governor West, with the hope of {Hitting an end to the schemes of taxation.” violations, today offered a reward The letter was signed by Gov of ifBMI for every bootlegger ar ernor Oswald West. Secretary of rested ami convicted. State Ben W. Olcott. State Treas In the reward appropriation urer Thomas B. Kay and Tax there is ifllMM) left, and it is the Photos by American Presa Association. Commissioners J. B. Eaton and intention of the Governor to {»ay Charles W. Galloway. SEARCH FOR FAIRYLAND" was conducted by 3.000 or more entlm- the rewards from it. After it is slaetlc young followers of Peter Pan one evening this eummer, with “ While not specifically declar exhausted, he will find other eminently satisfactory results The searchers were New York boys ing against Single Tax the bills means of convicting this «lass of and girls who. thanks to Park Commissioner Htnver, bad one of the o f the State Tax Commission will violators. meadows of Central park for thalr bunting ground When the banters. In have the effeet of nullifying the From practically every portion presence of 30.000 spectators, had scoured the lawns la vain, a bugle was C'Rren campaign, and make it of the State come complaints of sounded and a diminutive herald announced that the king and queen of impossible to secure Single Tax violations of the gambling and Fairyland would show themselves to their subjects. Immediately a big mag- county legislation by trickery or liquor laws and the Governor is pole shone with electric lights, which were matched with thousands festooned otherwise.” said Phil Metsehan, considering them. He is waiting from the park trees, and their majesties were disclosed, surrounded by tlvaa president of the Equal Taxation for evidence against Sheriff Bal and fairies, who were soon Intermingled with the gayly attired “subject»" League. four. of Crook county, ami the who footed it merrily in varied folk dances until the Ice cream and cookie» “ The decided stand taken TÎT city officials of Redmond, and I were distributed. Two of the feature» of the pageant—whleb 1» eipecked tn be an annual affair-are pictured above—the king and queen 1» their ehartoi the Governor and thp Tax Com when it comes, if sufficient, he and some jp to date cowboy fairies la "rhaps" and sombrero# mission against Single Tax ren will commence crimnal proceed ders it unnecessary for our league ings against them. WEST MAKES WAR ON SINGLE TAX “The Search For Fairyland” In Central Park, Nev/ York A The communities mentioned us being free from the domination of dictators have all made steady and consistent progress in popu lation and wealth because of the Open Shop policy, and jwlrtifu- larly is this true of Portland, which was first placed on the map of the world and began to bei>mne known when it was her alded abroad that we built our W orld’s Expost ion under Open Shop conditions in 1!)():{— 1904. The unselfish devotion and ad- heranee to the principle of “ Free dom to all under the law” of some of the prominent citizens of the community, amongst whom was the late ami lamented Will iam Harrison Corbett, should not lie forgotten by those who came after us ami those who write history. The remarkable showing Hint Portland has made in the last decade is due to the fact that much hard work has been done and eternal vigilance was exer cised lest the ever-present trou- I ble-hreeder and labor organizer (for self-aggrandizement only) create by his pernicious activity a condition which some of the ¡i-itics on this continent find them selves in today, and which means lack of growth, retardation of liiisiness and manufacturing, and 'eventually commercial death. | Portland, from a city o f llM).- 1000 or more in 1900, in 1910 found itself a city of a quarter of TELEPHONE ROW TO BE TRIED ON ITS MERITS Judge McGinn Refuses to Oust Bell Company From Mult nomah Hotel. Circuit Judge McGinn yester day afternoon refused to dissolve the temporary injunction re straining the Multnomah Hotel Company from snlisituting the Home Telephone & Telegraph Company's {»hones for the Bell phones now in use in the rooms. The judge held that the ques tion was one that should lie tried uiit on its merits and until a lull j hearing could he given, he de clared that the restraining order I granted by Judge Gantenbein Iasi week would stand. The application for the dismis sal o f the injiltietion was argued I by Attorney |{ W. Montague, representing the Home company, who presented affidavits from the hotel management and from 1 other interested parties, declaring that the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company would still be permitted access to the hotel for its general lines, the siibsti- a million. This remarkable growth is due not so much to your development leagues and sand-paper organizations, but to the fact that capital was attract ed here, and also men who de sired to work without being labor union thralls, because the Open Shop was maintained, and this formed the basis of our remark able growth because it brought manufacturing enterprise to our community together with all the other commercial accessories which go hand in hand with a great industrial city. What is the history o f Port land. has also been the history of Los Angeles. The two com munities stand forth as remark able examples in gain of popula tion and finanieal showing during the last twelve years, and we may go in this way towards a steady and sure position as first cities of the land, if we do not relax our vigilance and our en ergy in preventing evily-inclitied grafters and slave-drivers of la boring men from carrying out their selfish intentions. No community can develop its industries if they are subject to the domination of any organiza tion other than such as provides us the wherewithal with which to keep the enterprise going. For instance, there may not be two heads to any one business with a reasonable assurance of the success thereof, so there is no warrant whatever for the expec tation of progress where there is lack of control on the part of those who own and finance a business. That is the keynote o f success of tin- communities mentioned above in that we run our own business without the dictation of any organization. That is the secret. We succeed because we have had the courage and the foresight to settle the labor ques tion in the right way. We have always treated labor well, es pecially is this true in Portland, and with but very few excep tions. have the employers been harsh or arbitrary with their workmen in the matter of wages or conditions, and where these exceptions were uncovered, the Employers’ Association has al ways counselled such employers lo lie fair; that unless they would do s o and come with clean hands before the bar of public opinion, they <-i 111 1d not expect In lie suc cessful. And, indeed, in some eases where employers were ob tuse. they were soon made aware of their isolation and compelled to yield lair treatment to those who were working for them. \ tution contemplated being only for the room phones. It was fur ther stated that the Bell com pany would lose nothing in rent als. as tile hotel lilHliagellierit ex- peeled lii keep up i|si payments • luring the life of the contract, which still lias two years to run. Judge McGinn said : “ 1 am not inclined to disturb the injunction on the showing made here today. I can see that the Bell interests Would suffer great loss through the substitu tion, anil M)'1 of the opinion that they would not have a complete remedy at law. 1 shall not dis turb the injunction until there has been a full hearing of the matter. ” The decision affects not only the situation at the Multnomah Hotel but also that at the Port land. Oregon and Imperial, all of which have announced the de termination to substitute the au tomatic Home phone for the Bell on their local switchboards. The Pacific company yesterday was represented by Attorneys j If Kerr and Omar ( ' . Spencer. Attorney I liomas Greene ap peared for the Thompson Estate Company, owners of the Multno mah Hotel, and Samuel Hill president ot the Home Telephone & telegraph Company was reg istered as apeeial counsel for the company. I