PORTLAND LABOR PRESS
Page Four
¡Portiani» Xabor Iftreôô
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B onds and B unk
He Took No Chancea
“Didn't Hurt a Bit’
In a public ward of a hospital two
I« whet tkep »’.I ear
fellows were recovering from oper­
(Ceottnard from page 1)
of our
O f f i ia l P u b lic a tio n o f th e C e n t r a l L a b o r C o u n c il o f P o r t la n d a n d
ations for appendicitis. A third pa­
V ic in it y , a n d th e O re g o n S ta te F e d e r a tio n o f L a b o r .
ing craze is getting in its vicious une, could be used to lend to Oregon tient wus brought in from the table
and placed on a cot between the
Office, Loom 302 Oregonian Building, corner Sixth and Alder Street«, work.
farmers at 6 per cent.
Portlant, Oregon.
, .
nearly well boys. Coming out of the
States are bonded for public works.
rour per cent of the interest would ..
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go to tne banks and bond-buyers, ether and ^»K nizing earth again,
S u b scrip tion , $1.00 per y ea r in a d v in c e
Counties are bonded for roads.
who are not making a decent living he turned to the one on his left and
Advertising rates furnished on application
us it is, scarcely.
said:
Cities
are
bonded
for
water-sys­
C. M. RYNERSON, Editor and Manager
tems and pavements.
“How are you getting on, pal ?”
The other two per cent, according
Entered at the Post Office, at Portland, Oregon, as second-class mail matter
the Mail Tribune’s nifty scheme,
“Fine, till yesterday; but the doctor
And a load of interest is being to
left a spool of cotton in me, and they
piled up that is beginning to sag the would go to the state school fund.
SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1915
shoulders of the American working
Exactly, Four per cent to Mam- j opened me up again.”
man, who must pay for it all.
mon. Two per cent to the school
The new patient sighed, then turned
it
Let me repeat what I said a few children.
D e n ta l C o.
to the sick one 011 the right. “Well, W i s e
weeks ago—
With its plan for a pillow the Mail how are you, old man?”
O l i o H m ri:
WHO’S THE MAN BEHIND?
Tribune dreams on and on nd on.
“Pretty good, until yesterday; but a a ,
to 7 » . K .
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■uadaya } •o i
“Stagnation would be replaced by the doctor left his scissors in me, and !
Main 202»
The man who works pays all •
activity," it mumbles.
. they opened me up again."
! Falling
Some time last winter a man by the name of Chap- * taxes j> <* <t> 4 4 4 4 4 4
hurt,” 1 du6t
tbe door 0Pen®d» and the
"The
bankers
wouldn’t
be
man, who has been connected with a good fat job in these No one else pays a cent.
it snores, doubtless correctly.
doctor came in, exclaiming, “Any-
parts for some time past, conceived the idea that the peo- »
. ,
“Interest w o u lT S lowered to six b° dy ar° Und here Seen my hat!”
The new patient jumped out of the
BOWMAN
pie of the State of Oregon needed to be educated, par- children, and theirs, that must pay, per cent
„ . in nearly every part of the
window.
ticularly along the lines of the kind of legislation th at
-
‘nearly?” Why spoil j
they should or should not enact.
r>ffht now.
the lovely vision by any intruding
A kitten valued at $50,000 is in liti
Evidently he found some other people who thought I- Partland 18 tended frightfully. Not doubt?
gation. To have a $50,000 cat purring
the same as he did and they started a weekly paper
to^be'in
.’ b urG
«* Game,
or Lifting Your
known as the Oregon Voter. The editor has at various truth that it is a bad thing to
be in * ^ ^eatlnK
b y gYoh
B<?mstraps'
and opportune times made statem ents as to the high and 'nwk whkV\iou,7an’t’geta7ffnfor0io "’ode’d
Boottrapb’ wlth ,hlh
get off for 10
lofty aims of the aforesaid Oregon Voter and for a time J? 20 or 30 or 50 -vears- and al1 the "This practical plan is offered for E x p e r t S e r v i c e
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BROTHERS
UNION MADE
Clothing, Furnishing Good„
Hats, Shoes, Etc.
14 and 16 N. 3d S. E. Cor. Hurnn
<> . -’me you must pay, pay, pay ia in- consideration.”
really l< rest to
it from getting heavier
some of us were fooled into the belief th a t he was
1‘eople generally
going to run a paper of the kind and quality th at his g?ouSd“v'er and <lragg,ng you t0 th" w, i ntd, ¡ " X i " M edi^ui.iJd
have c o m e to
realize that if
Multnomah
county
is
bonded,
as
a
editorial
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f
statem ents indicated
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These Hot Days
defective vision
“good
roads e,ec- eyebrows and" gasping for breath;
is to be remedied
But some of us who know something of the cost o f i^
8“.1
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of
the
lat<
>
goo<
,
roads”
It Is Mighty
tion.
a thorough ex­
Jackson county, of which Medford is
Satisfactory to
amination by a
producing newspapers and are fam iliar with the fact th a t Bonded for $1,
build the proud metropolis, is likewise
c o m petent on-
Chapman
isn’t in the habit
of , doing
very / much fo r the ,1
b I 14U toll lob i 1 istfi may S«l\< .L
.nuj tk.v k*. ? in fk.
tometrist is nec­
r
.
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their tires, and Oh! and Ah! about the onl> K°od road they had in the
essary. We com­
dear public unless there IS a piece of “kale in sight, are °ur scenery in greater comfort.
«w t place—the railroad—and the
op
bine in our busi­
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people of Medford are now "ravely
ness the serv­
beginning to see the faint glimmer of a light in the dis- Bonded to build roads so that the considering whether or no they shall
ices of an expert,
to n c a
Tea’ e8tate speculator may further re-bond to pay the interest on what
and a workshop
lance.
inflate the price of land.
they already owe to the bonding
wherein his prescription for glasses
companies.
We have not noticed that he has devoted any space 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ^ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 -
is accurately filled.
Close to All the Car Line
to boosting any laws th at would in any way interfere with man'tunget u home r for a poor • They have a bright idea, to-wit:
WHEELERflPTlCALfO. I
the rights of the public service corporations or of any ’ * • ♦ ♦ * • <!>* 4 4 4 4 4 4 «
* “We’ll borrow some money and 4
HIGH GRADE
F IF T H FLUO K , O R B G O X U N H L D U
monied interests.
, . The big dailies, and many of the • pay up our debts.”
P CONFECTIONS
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. b i g men of the city, men whom la- ¡ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
He has devoted considerable space to a condemnation bor had learned to trust, got out and
That is, part of them.
of laws th at would, if enacted, destroy the death grip o f : hol,cr“ 1 for the *^ds-
the pilfering plutes who fatten off the toil of laboring j.iS d” '
eration.
men.
It would make work, was the main
In erder to llluatrate the rapid growth of
. And a financial statement of the eeringa with 4 per cent compound intcreet
His
attitude
toward
organized
labor
is
in
accordance
argument-
.
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. c>ty o t Medford might not come added, we hare prepared the follow ing table:
WATER H ES
with the views of the average member of the E m p l o situation.
y - 1 d « ‘••eve the unemployed arnjgli ¡n this connection.
ICE CREAM AMi
247-71 Morrison Street
2 BS - 2 -3 I
could
be - printed
as “Exhibit
A” *•- £
ers Association, namely, “Unions are all right if they «ere we were, a great, rich county. It thp
hallnt
,h
,
B ate of
bus ss§
the baf
3 °o
s
i
s
are run right.” The latest issue of this newborn dissem- ,'Ylth w*’alth for aii her citizens, ¡f to
tn a „ vote.
vnf„ ° " en ' pan comei’
a ® ö
6
ü s l
S p e c ia l O ffer
m ater of mis-information contains an attack on the Sail- by their labor, voting ourselves into OF COURSE. THERE IS A WAY .25 FOUR Per cent 2 73. 8162. 8403 Si irS®
.204
FOR
THIS WEEK—14 Post Cards
.60
Com- 146. 324. ww. 2.588.
ors’ Union fo r its activity in securing the passage of a <lebt to n,ake jobh
hOR THE PEOPLE TO HAVE 1 00 perennani
pound»« twice e 293
retouched and one large cabinc
650. 1614. 5,177
2
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O
Mortgaging the years of the future GOOD ROADS AND OTHER PUB-
veer, January 1 585 1301. 3228. 10.356
print in Folder, 7x11, all for $l.(»0.
1462. 3252. 8070. 25,888.
- • ourselves
■
-
on th s LIC WORKS WITHOUT BONDING. 6 00 lend July 1.
law th a t made them free men instead of slaves.
to feed
for
a few
few m
months.
Proofs shown from negative before
finishing.
In this violent attack on laws th at are passed in the It was argued that a good system i A,,d a w“y . to have money to loan
81 O PENS AN ACCOUNT
H o f s t e a t e r S t u d io ^
(EiU hllehed 18 T e.re)
interest of humanity, and which is appropriately headed, , mik^lur %?uU
sLTiandsCX e y
'U iS c 'o id ^ ^
Zi Third Street
“Ashes of Victory,” Mr. Chapman says:
Fible’ a<’cei«™t* the back-to-the-iand !four Per cent for iL
HIBERNIA SAVINGS BANK Between 165
Morrison and Yamhill Sts
The
answer
is
in “The
Our restrictive legislation has hampered industry, happy homes and decrease the high People’s Land and found
Loan Measure.” ■ ® econd and W ashington streets
discouraged investment, reduced employment and throt- ,l’°8t of l,vlng
proposed by the Central Labor Coun­ A Conservative
Phones Main 5700
Open Saturday ■
cil of Portland, which purposes, and Custodian
tied prosperity. Wages, as represented by purchasing It’s a cruel falsehood.
Eveninga. fi to 8
provides means for carrying out the
P E O P L E ’S MARKET
<$>
proposition, to—
power, are no higher; the cost of living is greatly in­ «-
The ncreaaed. value given the <s>
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creased, and living conditions have improved only as <8* land
and Grocery
by good roads w ill be more
i
Edward Holman, Preaidant
progress has been made by private enterprise in spite of than reflected in its price.
Secure every man in the use
W alter J. Holman, Secretary
FIRST AND TAYLOR
of as much land as he needs, <§>
legislative handicaps.”
TELEPH
O NES: MAIN 587; A 1511
without
for
And land will be harder to get than j ZenWVo li
five''and ""Lr™"» the
There you have it. Evidently the Oregon V oter is ever.
land.
4'
EMIL THIELHORN
in the field to prevent the passage of any more progres- Th
wjn
<£
THE EDWARD HOLMAN
<£>
Pupil of Sevcik. Teacher of Violir
UNDERTAKING CO.
sive laws in Oregon and if possible to break down those greater, concentration of poverty and The measure proposes, also, to take
Thirty Years’ International Exp­
ence. 207 Fliedner Bldg., 10th ar.•:
____, in the
.. ci^y’ ju-
- . 8t . as
. many de ! 90 per cent of the annual rental value
already enacted.
mise-y
Funeral
Directors
and
Embalmeri
niiinds on the Associated Charities,
land for public uses.
Washington.
No doubt those who are interested in the success of at
Aht™{,fwere before the good roads
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Phonea Marshall 1629
were built.
Which will produce a fund suffici-
this program will see to it th at the paper is kept alive— v r.ighty
.
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, ent tor good roads, free text books. 224-222 THIRD STREET. COR. SALMON
per cent of the land of or any other good thing needed bv
Lady Aeaietant
county is in brush, it was , the neonle
as long as it can be useful to them. Incidentally “Chap” Multnomah
Packard Shoes $3.50 a Pair
said .luring the road bonds cam-
P P
paign.
will get his as the game goes on.
A land-value tax, that will tap the Lee M. Clark, Prea.
Geo. M. Orton. Mngr I
Repair Prices
enormous values piled up in cities
Wonder who is “interested” with him?
Good roads will not help put it in like Portland, where land is made
Men
Soles and Heels, lea th er or
LETTERHEADS.
ENVELOPES
Stop en d Sh
on Third Street
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Will
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HOW SAVINGS GROW
b
i onions or alfalfa.
Rubber ..................................................... j;
In Fact. ANYTHING Yea W ant
valuable and rents high by the pres­
Men’s Solea .................................. J ..........
ence and labor of the people of the
Men’s Heels. Leather or Rubber .
Already
the
assurance
of
good
MADE IN OREGON TEXT BOOKS OREGON’S SPLENDID SYSTEM
Ladies Solea and Heels, Leather or
roads has made the real estate spec­ city and all its tributary country, is
Rubber ...................................................
the key to economic freedom.
OF GOVERNMENT
ulator surer of his prey.
MblTSQHAH
PPlMiM,
to
Ladies*
Soles ..............................................
One and forever inseparable have
Ladies' Heels, L e a th e r .........................
Bonds are just what the very word |
Of course, we might give men a
seemed the text book and its at­
Ladies’ Heels, Rubber...........................
As an example of what can happen chance to get the land.
says they are—chains and slavery.
Boys’ Soles and H eels......................... 75c
tendant petty graft. Shifting, sliding,
Telephone Main 2900
under
the
Oregon
system,
a
Portland
43
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<$> 4»
changing, text books come, go, and
After that, they'd build their own
By
Laws, W orking Cards.
We
Carry
C o-O perative S hoe Store
BONDS ARE ONE MEANS
are replaced by others of different weekly, The Oregon Voter, in its roads, and issue no bonds to do it,
Union W ater Marked Paper
BY
WHICH
THE
FEW
FAT-
»
186 Second, Near W ashington
either.
authority or publication. An entire issue of July 10 reproduces in full
68»4 FIRST STREET
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TEN ON THE MANY.
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American generation recalls the ruin­ the People’s I.and and Loan Measure
But that, wouldn't leave any profit i <
t'
”8’ $' <*•
<$> <$> $> <$• <t> <$>
ation of its penmanship by the abrupt proposed by the Central Labor Coun­ for the real estate grafter, the bank
Named Shoes are frequently made in Non-Union Factories
or the bonding house.
Bond-holders are buzzards that
and despotic order for a change from
—
feast on the bodies, living and dead,
cil of Portland. A study of the
DO NOT BUY ANY SHOES
the “spencerian” to the “vertical”
■F r ■ *><> ♦<«-♦ <4 ♦ <> -$> < 4
4> of men and women who work.
no matter what its name, unless it beat
system, at a formative period in measure shows that under the Ore­ ’
Cr the people might go into V, ,, .
:
a plain and readable impression of thi
, ,!j ut “ >.ou I'k«1 being a slave vour-
school. The main idea seems to be gon system it is possible to make • the bonding and banking bus-
WORKERS UNION
UNION STAMP.
'*
iness
themsel
ves,
issue
bonds
*
self
and
fe,
c
l
t
h
a
t
18
Your
duty
to
that the presses of the school book something more substantial than a
All shoes without the Union Stamp :u ,
raise
your
boy
to
be
a
bondman—
for good roads or whatever else
always
Non-Union. Do not accept an’-
trust should never slacken—more figure of speech out of a guarantee
UNIOtyMrAMP
they needed, and pay (he inter-
And if you think this gentle little
excuse for the absence of the Uni, '
speed to them!
n
,
i
_•
a . . !•»
.it
.
•‘•d
,o
themselves
in
their
own
Stamp.
sermon is hunk—
to all of equal rights to life, liberty
bank.
The state of California prints it s , ,
.
g> «fr dfc <$>
(. 4> ..<• <«
Factory
Vote for bonds at every oppor-
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ian<* 'be pursuit of happiness. It is
BOOT AND SHOE
own text books. It prints them for |
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tunity.
The
!
possible
to
estubiish
conditions
under
This would be rather uneanonicai,
a naverage of 22 cents apiece.
WORKERS’ UNION
bas *ts K°od Points,
state of Oregon buys its text books which every man wanting an oppor- but
A Turkish Fable
246 Summer Street, Boston. Mass.
from the trust They cost the par­ tunity to earn a living can have it.
The people would get the needed
John F. Tobin, President
a woman was walking, a man
Chas. L. Baine, Secretary-Treasi;
ents or pupils an average of 43 cents It is possible to assure every citizen improvement—if they did need it. iOuke,i at an(l followed her
possession of his own home. It is a/’d Ulth no profit in it for anyone,
“Whv ” said she “ do von follow
apiece. How do you like it?
'here would be no one to fool them
" n >. mhi sne. do you follow
The saving of one system over the possible to banish poverty and all ¡nto believing they needed it if they me ?”
other, in Or« gon, would amount to of its resulting evils from the stute. didn’t—at actual ‘cost, without sup-
“Because,” he replied, “I have
$50,000.00 annually, with a like That being the case, one wonders why porting a horde of parasites in the fanen ¡n jovr w ith vou "
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..Whv so?
My sister, who is
amount paid at home FOR HOME The Oregon Voter should present that plo‘ CWi'
LABOR.
possibility as though it were some-
So far as I know, the state of Ore-, coming after me, is much handsomer
than , am (;<j an(J makp ,ove <o
This home printing plan is fostered thing to be dreaded rather than wel- Ron is yet unbonded.
by prominent educators and supported corned; why, it should speak of it as
#
.. her.”
by the Typographical Union. It is "a type of proposed legislation which ’
Our efficient little legislature •
The man turned bark and saw a
not only feasible, it is an assured some day may come perilously near •' ran be depended on to spend all • woman with an ugly face, and, being
•
the
money
in
sight
every
two
*
success.
Ask California.
Certain passing.” if the measure imperils
4 greatly displeased, returned and said:
citizens of our state, always to the anything other than some existing * . years.
• *• a . . * 4
"Why should you tell me a false­
fore with the “MADE IN OREGON” forms of legalized robbery it is not
hood ?"
And
up
to
the
present
the
people
slogan, will prove themselves and apparent after a close study. The
The woman answered: “Neither did!
have
thought
the
legislature
was
their sincerity by the quality of the fact that such legislation is possible
^ „ t should be done along I you tell me the truth; for, if you
support given this excellent proposal. under the Oregon system is reason, this line.
were in love with me, why did you
We Carry Fire and Burglar Insurance for Protection of Our Customer-
—Gold Hill New«.
enough for adoption of the systen
But along come« the Medford Mail lo<d< back for another woman ?”
BROADWAY DYE WORKS
elsewhere. Oregon is to be congrat- Tri’b“u’ne" whh , ne„ propogition ,o
The man who keeps telling what he ulnted on the splendid possibilities bond the state for $50.000,(104) for 50
Hay« A Hays, Proprittera
A neutral ship does not enjoy any-
GRAND AVE. AND SCHUYLER STREETS
ia going to do generally loses his of its system of government.—G. D. i years.
think like the advantages of an in­
Prompt and Careful Attention Given to Express Orders
audience before he does his work.
in The IMblic, July 23.
| T||i, mo„fy( ~
(he Maj|
Phone East 625
terned ship.
PORTLAND. OREG-A
The Most in Vaine, Best in Quality
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