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
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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.
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to bring our bill before the peo
ple at the next election.
Joint W ork to Be Done.
“ Our organization will now get
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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
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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.
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