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About St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1912)
Socialist Columns Business Men Wc Can Recommend Kor Mayor Dr. A. W. Vincent. Ior Councilman at Large G. L,. I'errine. Ifor Cotincilman lfirst Ward R. C. Stokes. Kor Coitncilnmn Second Ward N. A. Gee. 0 on to Candidates to be, not your rulers, but your hired men. We would ndvaiicc the municipal ownership of utilities whenever possible. We would abolish the contract system in the municipal work. We advocate the payment by the city of the cost of improvements of .street intersections. We favor the development of plans for city pnrks and securing grounds for the same at once if pos sible to do so at reasonable prices. Wo stand for the enforcement of state laws and city ordinances as they appear on the statute books. We stand for the strict enforce ment of plans and specifications on all city work let by contract. Ifrom the National Party Plat form: As measures calculated to strengthen the working class in its fight for the realization of its aim, and to increase its power of re sistance against capitalist oppres sion we advocate mul pledge our selves and our elected officers to the following program: General Demands: i The imme diate government relief of the un employed workers by building schools, by reforesting cutover and waste lauds, by reclamation of mid tracts, and the building of canals and by extending all other useful public works. All jiersous em ployed on such work shall be em ployed directly by the government under u direct eight hour work day and Ml the prevailing union wages. The government shall also loan money to states and muuicialities without interest for the puriwse of carrying on nubile works. It shall contribute to the funds of labor or ganizations lor the purpose ot as .sistiiig their unemployed members and shall take such other measure within its power as will lessen the widespread inlseiy of the workers caused by the capitalist class. a The collective ownership o railroads, telephones, steamboa lino and all other means of social transportation and communication 3 The collective ownership industries which nic oigutii.cd a national scale ami in which com putitiou has virtually ceased exist. .(The extension of the public domain to include mines, ipiarrles oil wells, forests and water (M)wer. 5 The scientific reforestation timber lauds, and the reclamation of swamp lauds. The laud so re forested or reclsimed to lie perma uuiitly retained h a tsirt of the public domain. 0 1 lie HiMolute ircwimu o pi tMM, sM.x-ch and HHteiublsxe. Industrial Demands: 7 I lie im proveinent of the industrial coudi lion of the woikers. (ti) lly shortening the work day in keeping with the tucreawMl pio duclivciicsK of machinery. (b) lly securing to cvciy worker u lust peiiod of not less than a day and a half in each week. (u) lly securing a more effective iiiiiiHfCtioii of workMlioitf ami lueto rum, (d) Hy foi bidding the employ mint of children under to years of iigu. (o) lly the forbidding of inter State traiihMrtatiou of the products of child lalwr and ot all ituiutpcct ud factories. (f) Hy alMillshing official charity nud substituting lit its place com pulwry insurance against tincm ploymeut, illness, accidents, iuva lidism, old age anil death. Political Deiiinuus: s i lie ex tension of iuliviitaiictt taxes, grail uatwl in protwrtiuii to the amount of the bequest and the uearuei of kiu. o A graduated income tax. to Unreiitrictel and equal suf frnge for men ami women, and we pledge ourselves to engage iu an active cnmNiigu in that direction, ii The initiative and refereu (him. proportional leprcseutiou and the right to recall. 12 The abolition of the senate 13 i lie abolition ol the iiowvr usurped by the supreme court of the United States to past, upon tin constitutionality of legislation eu acted hy congress, national laws to bu reiicaled or abrogated only by an act of congress or by a referen dum of the whole iwople. 1.1 That the constitution be amended by majority vote. 15 The cuuctiiient of further measures of gem r.rl education and for the conservation of health. Th iiuruou 01 education to ue tmuic a department. The creation of a department of public health. 10 The serration of the pres cut bureau of labor from the de partment of coiiiiiu-ice ami labor, and the establuhiiwit of a de partment of labor. 17 That all judges he elected by the people for short term, ami that the power to issue injunctions be curbed by immediate legislation. i The free administration of justice. Such measure uf relief wc may be able to force from otqtitaliui are but a preparation of the workers to .Seize the whole power of the gov ernment, in order that they may thereby lay hold of the whole sys tem of industry and thus come to their rightful inheritance. OTIS GUTS HIS The I,o9 Angeles Times begins to feel the irresistible tide of public opinion sweeping against it as shown by the figures laid before the association of American adver tisers that its circulation has dropt from first to fifth place in f,o9 An geles. Governor Johnson's opinion of Otis: "In the city from which I come wc have drunk to the very dregs the cup of infamy; we have had vile officials; wc have had rot ten newspapers; we have had men who sold their birthright; we have dipped into every infamy; every form of wickedness has been ours iu the nasi; every debased passion and every sin has flourished. Hut we have nothing so vile, nothing so evil, nothing so low, nothing so dc based, nothing so infamous in Sail Francisco, nor did tve ever have, as Harrison Grey Otis. - - - - - - - My friends, he is the one thing that all California looks at when, iu looking at Southern Call fornia, they see anything that is disgraceful, depraved, corrupt, crooked and putrescent that is Harrison Gray Otis." Hiram Johnson in speech at Simpson's Auditorium. It happened once that there was a carcass iu the road from which arose an offensive odor. Atl who passed held their noses, but 110 one made any effort to remove and bury the putrid annoyance. Pinal' ly a man came along and loudly cried: "What a stink! I.et us get rid of it." Straightway the officers of the law pounced upon him and placed him in prison for using often sive language. Then they removed the carcass ami the stink went with it. A stranger passing commented " 1 lie language was not nearly as offensive as the smell, and because it led to the removal of the nuisance the man who used it ought to be rewarded Instead of being im prisoned." rat was caught red Handed in the act of poaching upon the es tate of the I.ord So-auii-So, His Highness "What do you mean hunting 011 my private lauds?" Pat "Yure laud is tit? Sure, and how did ye, get it? ' H. H. "I got it from my father, sir." Pnt--"Aud the auld glntlemaii, phcrcdld he git ut?" 11. II . "He got it from his father. It mis handed down from our gteat ancestors." Pal "Paith an' ver great nn't- sisters, pliere did they git ut?" II. II. "Sir, they fought for It." Put "Hegorra an' 0111 foight ye ler lit. The socialist administration of Milwaukee has been accused of ex travagant cxtHMiditurc of money iu ciiuyiug out their socialist ideas. Hut the investment of money in something that will bring returns is good business though n novelty iu city government. And iu spite of these investments, and Iu spite ol the fact that they have xitd the e.HMisei ot work on municipal docks and other exiHMises formerly met by issuing bonds, and paid over f joo.ooo of debt left by the former administration, the tax rate has actually been reduced and the budget for 1012 now ready shows a still greater reduction. DR. RAMBO DENTIST First National Dank building. ST. JOHNS, OlltGON. DR. J. VINTON SCOTT DENTIST Open Evenings and Sundays by Ap pointment. Office L'lione Columbia 140 Resident Phone Columbia 38 JOSEPH McCHESNEY, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Dy & NIcht Ofllce In McChosnoy blk. St. John. Oregon. Daniel O. Webster, A. B. M. D Residence, C97 Dawson Street OHlcc, PHtor Dlock. Unlvcr&lly Park, Portland, Oregon. PERRY C. STROUD LAWYER First National Hnnlt Building ST. 101 INS - - - OREGON 0. J. GATZMYER ATTORNEY AT LAW McDonald Building ST. JOHNS - - ORECON Wc buy or sell St. Johns Property Ale KINNEY & DAVIS Real Estate List your property with us if you desire to sell quickly 202 N. Jersey St. St. Johns J. R. WEIMER Transfer and Storage Wo dollvor your poods to nnd from nil pnrU of Portland. Vnucouver. Linn ton. Portland nnd Suburban Lxnross Co., city dock and nil taints ncccssililo by wagon. I'lano anu mrnnura moving Ofh'cc Phone Columbia 24 Residence Phone Columbia 108 St. Johns Express, Transfer and Storage Co. Piano Moving a Specialty. Haul iug done to nud from Pottlaud Residence 400 I vast Richmond Ofiice 103 North Jersey Street ST. JOHNS GARAOE II I li. lltirlliiRton Street Automobile Hvpiiring and Vulcanizing We can gel you Aiilo nn-toi all until lllcvclo nml (lcncral Kcnnlrlin: Iu connection. New and second Imnd bicycles for sale. Ilteycle tires in slock. J. M.nnd V. I. WRM, Props, l'lione Columbia 5S7. CAMP 773 W. 0. W. Moot ev. cry Wed- n 0 s il n y evening In Dick tier's Hall DORIC IOD0C NO. 132 r. unci A. M. & Regular cninmunlcntlons V on flrxt nml tlilnl U,..l nodny8 of each month 111 I l.f 1 1 I. .llJk..Uv lllt.l Visitors welcome. S. Chut. I Luis V M C. (). Rogers, H. cr turv Order Eastern Star Minerva Chapter MeeU livery J'lrnt and Third Tuisdav Itvriiing of P,u-h .Mouth iu Odd I dlotv ilull. .Mrs. husie Roger, .Svcnlnrv HOLMtS IOD0C NO. 101 Kmgiiis or iviiiia: Mi'i-Ut'Vt-rv PrM.iv 111 lit at T7:3 O'CIOCK in 1 t) o 1 Hull. Visitors ulyavs el roiue. V. , .M ASON. C C I). P. IIOKSMAN, K KS, LAUREL LODGE No. 18G I. O. 0. V SI, JOHNS, OIICGON Meets each Monday evening in Odd Pel lows lmll at 7 jo, A cordial welcome t" all isitiug brothers. I'rol. KeuilriCK P.blieilil.st years toucher of (lermaii and Preiiclt at at the University of Rochester, has been asked to resign 011 account of his socialistic activity. Duly another case where a univer sity is given "utidesirability ml ver Using." Kev. albeit hhrgott. pastor of the Isnst Side lluptist church, Portland, has been asked to resign for the same reasons. 'All tliat we elory iu was once a dream. Tlie world-will iiuucliw oinvnrd ideuai New voleu kiwik, now lMths buuiu to by glwim; stir; Muu is eiuviuiuK from the .eiHilclior. l.ft no iiuni dare let no iiwu ever dare On time's gnwt way ougiiiiire, to mark: Nothor- I he Socialist vote iu Seattle. Plie largest vole was for Scott fot treasurer 3.1, 381 against 36,366 for the man elected. The lowest vote for any socialist was 18,882 an in crease from something over -jooo nt the last election. A small town iu Germany has municipal ownership" to such pin nose mat it lias announced "no 1 tax at all" for this year and prob ably more. If you have any Plumbing you want done just call us up, Columbia 92 EDMONDSON CO. 203 S. Jersey Street EL rite South American Republic of Uruguay has made lire insurance government monopoly. A socialist ltniHir has bteu start- atl fur circulation nmgug the stu dents at Harvard Univumity. Successors to St. Johns SjiiiI uuil Gravel Company I.. D. JACKSON, Prop. General Contractor We are prepared to do anv and all kinds of excavating for street work and other purposes. We also handle sidewalk ami build ing material. Newton nud Kessenden Streets St. Johns, Oregon Phone Columbia Butterick Patterns John Strootman Shoes for Ladies t You may not be able to own an automobile, but the ladies of St. Johns can own a WARNER'S RUST PROOF CORSET. We have the St. Johns agency and have them in sufficient variety and size to fit any figure. They are washable, and can be boiled just like any white garment. Ladies who wear them sing praises of their com forts; and they are guaranteed to give satisfac tory wear or your money back. Prices from $1.00 to $5.00. Bonham & Currier j Star Brand Shoes for Everybody Headlight Overalls pring and Summer Draperies for House PlnQninfY TimQ Son the home discards its Winter ulfjulIlliM I lllllJ Furnishings and turns to Draperies for the O Spring and Summer So we call your at tention to our showing of Draperies, always worthy and never more complete than this season. There is not a housewife whose fancy will not be attracted by this unusual display every sort of Curtaining is here and the price range will satisfy every purse. If the problem of arranging the home for summer is ahead of you, come and see this array of Draperies, you will be welcome whether you buy or not. Ginghams That Will Not Fade We would be proud of this showing, nud rightly, if for nothing else than the richness and exquisite col orings of the numberless weaves, but their sturdy goodness and extremely low prices will satisfy the most exacting. You can purchase any of these fabrics and be sure that they will wear to the last thread. Our Spring Storm Serges are already selling fast, so it might be well enough to look them over while the stocks are complete. In Our Grocery Department Lots of good things to eat at all times, and prices that are as low as true merit will allow. SEEDS SEEDS SEEDS BULK AND IN PACKAGES 13, ,M. Ferrys of Michigan C. C. Morse of California L. L. May of Minnesota Lillys of Portland Maudeville & King of New York Opposite the City Hall COUCH & CO. PIONEERS Distributors of Merchandise since 1904 Phone Columbia 137
