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Socialist Columns Business Men We Can Recommend For Mayor Dr. A. W. Vincent. lfor Councilman at argcG. I. I'erriuc. For Councilman First Ward R. C. Stoics. For Councilman Second Ward N. A. Gee. We hear that the present state laws properly unforced ore sufficient to control the public utilities in St. Johns. Well, it is never too late to begin a thins; like that, but we wonder why it was not thought of before. Could wc socialists do it? Have we the nerve? Dear voters, wc arc not promis ing the impossible. There arc many things which might be done in St. Johns, and which might have been done in the past. Hut the control of the public utilities is a question that has never been solved and is not to be solved by one or two HA VIS CIUAR'CUT METHODS It is the conviction, or should be, of every socialist, that no man has the moral right to believe in or advocate or use violence to change conditions or laws when he has n remedy in the vote which can be made effective. The laws at present in effect were made by men elected to office by the working class. The great bulk of working men belong to the old parties, vote their tickets and are responsible for results. Rebellious bitterness over coudi tions existing because of ignorance, has no place in a political party dc voted to the education of the igno rant, and the permanent relief of the conditions. Our coming National Convcii tion when confronted witlt the prop. ositiou that will be presented, should put such emphasis on its rejection oi tlic doctrine ot violence as a will not be heard DR. RAM BO DENTIST First Nntlonnl Bank building. ST. JOHNS, ORfGON. officers of a little town, even so good a town us St. Johns. It is! weapon that it a diiestion as brond as the laud and 1 from again. as old os the oldest corporation. The socialist occupies a leglti And all this time wc hove waited I mate field, its position is imprcgua for o Moses or a David or fa Davis) ble, its membership is growing or some other miracle! worker to con- with wonderful rapidity and it is trolthcui. Isn't it about time for the1 imperatively necessary for ultimate neonle to try to do something for 'success in the shortest time that it themselves? Say, for instance, to furnish themstlves with water, as they do in I'ortland, and witli light, power, communication and transportation as they ought to do everywhere? No! we socialists ore not going to repudiate frnnehises and other no tions of previous administrations keep in the straight and narrow oath. Its weapons arc education and the ballot. When o sufficiency of I the first brings enough of the sec ond to bear on the capitalist system it will crumble. I, for one, don't wont a placard hatmiiu! from in v neck: "I will use We have a wholesome regard for nny weapon to win the fight against the capitalist courts. Some of our 'capitalism. I do not hesitate to people have been "up (mains! break the present laws for which I them. And now the great light and power coiii)ntiies of Portland have formed a merger, mid the solons of that city ore num.cd. It was their "understanding" tlmt when they granted o franchise that nothing of that kind whs ever to happen. Docsn t that sound just like our own city dads, who had on "mi standing that the railroad compa ny would build ii spur to the city dock ? It is the understanding ot every one who has studied the principle of economic determinism, (which being interpreted menus every so uialixt) that industrial corporations will merge, (hot they must merge, n ud that it is just as wrong and absurd to say that they shall not do so os to say that two tribes shall not unite to light n common enemy, that they shall not form great tin tions, or that nations shall not form nlliiuicex nor agree to arbitrate dif ference. The two corporation have signed a treaty of jwace and you would couiih:! them to continue in in war so tlmt other might have nu opiHirttiuily to Ktab some of the tfimiU. Ilowloitit. Oh Lord! will Mich hh thU Ik? counted wisdom? INVF.STIOATU UNU.MPI.OVIC!) Some kind hearted capitalists and old pnrty imliticiauii in Chicago have decided to investigate the problem of the unemployed in tlmt city. A commlMioii headed by Charles Crane, sou of the late well known ironmaster, i nobly trying to find out how the other half exists. The terrible old fashioned winter has produced conditions for thous ands out of work tlmt are pitiful in the extreme. This commiMiioii will investigate the conditions of the victims of the cold winter, and the still colder capitalist system. Understand, however, that merely the lesults not the cause of unem ployment with its suffering will le probed. To investigate the causes of unforced idleness might muss up the placidity of "our best jwople," mid ns the head of the commission .status, there will le nothing sensa tional in the work of the commis sion, We will waik calmly and sensibly and gather ull of the sta tistics necessary." Statistics! No sensation! What brutal candor. The esti mates of the commission show that approximately 300.000 uiuu are out of work, in New York city; 125,000 in Chicago; 20,000 in l,m Angeles (under Good Government Rule) and at least ioer cent, in nil oth er large industrial centers. Statistics! Did you ever try to stave off the biting cursed winter air that was freezing the life out of your little children by the use of statistics, Mr. Unemployed Working man? Did you ever try to appease their hunger with statistics? Did you ever try to get medicine for your sick wife with statistics? What do these well fed members of Mayor Harrison's commission suppose the workiugmau is going to do but starve while the sta tistics are being gathered? And if he is alive after they are gathered what good will this array of mathematics do, after it is turned over to the tender mercies of a charity organization? Verily the uuemployod asks for bread and ye give him statistic;. have no resixict. So far as I tun concerned none of that is true and never will he as low: as we have the genuine bal lot. If our party is to continue to ex ist and retain equal rights that sign had better not be put up. If there were a design to destroy the socialist pnrlv this year, no better scheme could be devised. The socialist national convention should itself bring up the question, if not presented as proposed. Right now is the time to bury it so deep that even a gold miner could not find it. T. C. Rivera. ANOTHER VERSION Of that parable of the prodigal sou who had been living iu n far conn try on husks nud decided to return home. As he uenred the old homestead he perked up his nose, and took some long whiffs. "Hm, if my old nose don't tell me lies I smell the fatted calf," he said, hastening for word. His father saw him n long ways oil nud ran forward to greet him. He also fell on his neck nud kissed him. After the congratulations were over nud nothing was said about eating, the prodigal blurted out 'Father, I have been in a far country living on husks hownhout that fatted calf." "Fatted calf," exclaimed the old man, "with veal 30 cents n pound nothing doing, my son." bo the prodigal sat him self down to n feast of cotton seed butter, chrome alum bread nud a choice dish of "Try-n-bunch-of- Shavings" the family's favorite breakfast food for the high cost of living had Indeed pressed them full sore, "Gee," murmured the prodigal, as he picked some of the breakfast mod out ot His teeth, "wish I was back where I could get n good feed of husks or something fit to eat." Moral: Maine it on the tariff." DR. J. VINTON SCOTT DENTIST Opn Evenings and Sundays by Ap pointment Office Phone Columbia 140 Resident Miotic Columbia 38 JOSEPH McCHESNEY, M. D. Physician nnd Surgeon. Day & Night Ofllco in McChomey blk. St. John, Oregon. Daniel 6. Webster, A. B. M. D Residence, C97 Dawson Strcot Ofllcc, I'lltor Dlock. Unlvmtty Pork, Portland, Oregon. PERRY CT STROUD LAWYER Tint Nntlonnl Dank Building ST. JOHNS . - - OREGON 0. jT GATZAIYER ATTORNEY AT LAW McDonald Dullding ST. JOHNS . . ORECON Wc buy or sell St. Johns Property AlcKINNEY & DAVIS Real Estate List your property witli tis if you desire to sell quickly 202 N. Jersey St. St. Johns J. R. WEIMER Transfer and Storage Wo dullvor your Roods to nnd from all parts of Portland. Vancouver. Linn ton, Portland nnd Suburban Lxpross Co., city dock nnd all points acccssiblo by wagon, piano and, furnltur moving Office Phone Columbia 24 Residence Photic Columbin 198 St. Johns Express, Transfer and Storage Co. Piano Moving n Specialty. Haul iug done to and from Portland Residence 400 F.ast Richmond Office 103 North Jersey Street ST. JOHNS OARAGE II I I!. Iliirllngton Street Automobile Ucpnlring nnd Vulrmiir,ing Wc can get yon Auto Tires of nil kinds lllcyclo and General Repairing In coiiiu-ctlon. New nud second bund bicycle for mile, bicycle tires iu stock, J. M.and V. I'. WRW, Prop. 1'bone Columbia 587. CAMP 773 W. 0. W. Mcotn ev ery Wed nesday or en In i; In Dick nsr's Hall 132 DORIC IODGC NO. P. and A. M. ' Regular communications on first and third Wed nesdays of ouch month 111 Odd tallowy' Imll VUitora welcome. . Clias. Davis. W. M. C. O. Uogi-rs, .Secretary Order Eastern Star Alincrvn Chapter Meet Rvcry l'lrst and Third Tuesday Hvcning oi Jtuch Month in odd l'cllow nun. air, husic Kogcrs, Secretary. IIOLMtS LODGE NO. tOt kMGIIIS OF i'VIIIIAC Meets every Prlilay uiu.hl at $V Hull. Visitor nlyays Wei- V. W. MASON, e.c. I). IMIORSMAN, K, U.S. 4 FOUND WANTING George Ilrewer delivered his I,y ecu in Course here in Spokane to a full house. During the course of lis remarks he said: "Imagine now that we see Ileiijainiu Franklin coming down the aisle, and as he approaches, he says: "George, why so many bright lights here? My, how brilliant." I say, "Yes, those are electric lights. Do you remem bcr the time you tried to call down the lightning with your kite string ami key t Well, we ttse electricity now to telegraph and telephone across llie continent. We use elec tricity now to run motors, elevators and all sorts of machinery. We use it to run automobiles, street cars, and even railroad trains, and we have great improvement in printing and many other machines for manufacturing and producing purposes, etc.," nud Hen would say; "Yes, you have certainly made wonderful progress. It is wonder ful progress, it IS wonderful in deed, but I see you are still fiddling along with the same old Constitu tion, which was made in the infan cy of this republic". How about it, Mr. Old Party Yoter? F. D. Wright. LAUREL LODGE No. t8G I. O. O. P Sr. JOHNS. 0HCG0N Meets each Monday evening In Odd Fel lows nun at 7. jo, A cordial welcome to all visiting brothers, If you havo any Plumbing you want done just call us up, Columbia 92 EDMONDSON CO. 203 S. Jersey Street Teddy is iu favor of referendum and recall to be eNurciaud only by the legislature. Who's going to recall the legislature? i'ld AiM "We must get back to the peo ple," declares Mr. Roosevelt in his latest (? as we go to press) campaign diatribe. Get back I Theodore back? Why bless you, what you want to do is to "catch up witlt the people." You have been lugging behind like the little dog under the wagon. Catch up with the people, or you will soon tie lost iu the dust of our heels. EL Successors to St. Johns Sand nud Gravel Comtuny I.. D. JACKSON, Prop. General Contractor We are prepared to do nnv and all kinds of excavating for street work and other purposes. We also handle sidewalk and build ing material. Newton and F'essenden Streets St. Johns, Oregon Phone Columbia. , . . Butterick Patterns John Strootman Shoes for Ladies (Jorsets UI P tr A.' Jml' rJ .( k ' Ja-r n aSmu.-UI IhHlAkWl I Ii V.' Sil ( -VVtst I rMT J I I'll. . 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 Star Brand Shoes for Everybody Headlight Overalls Spring and Summer Draperies for House fMoQnillfY T 1111ft Soon the home discards its Winter U I u d 1 1 1 1 1 M I 1 1 1 1 u Furnishings and turns to Draperies for the O llIWB 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, and 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 D. M, Ferrys of Michigan C. C. Morse of California L. L, May of Minnesota Lillys of Portland Mandeville & King of New York Opposite the City Hall COUCH & CO. PIONEERS Distributors of Merchandise since 1 904 Phone Columbia 137