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OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 16 1899.
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OREGON PITY, JUNE 16, 1899.
An American Internal Policy.
Fibst Public owoershlp of publlo Iranolilses.
The values croa'.ed by the community should be
long to the cammunity.
Skoohd Destruction of criminal trusts. No
monopolization of the national resources by law
less private combinations more powerful than
the people's government.
Third A graduated Itioometax. Every oitlzon
to contribute to the support of the government, ao
sordlng to his moans, and nit according to bis ne
cessities. Fourth Election of senators by the people.
The senate, now becoming the private property
ef corporation! and bossos, to be made truly repre
sentative, and the state legislatures to he redeemed
from reourrlng scandals.
Fifth National, state and municipal Improve
ment of the publlo school system. As the duties
of citizenship arc both gonnral and local, every
government, both gjnoral and local, should do
its share toward fitting every Individual to per
form them.
SiiTB-i-Ourroncy reform. All the nation's
money to be Issued by the nation's government,
and its supply to be regulated by the people and
Hot by the banks.
Direct Legislation Lawmaking by the voters.
The Initiative The proposal of a law by a per
Centage of the voters, which must then go to the
toferrndnm.
Tbi Referendum- The vote at the polls of a
law proposed through the initiative, or on any
law passed by a lawmaking body, whose refer
ence is petitioned for by a percentage of the
voters.
The Imperative Mandate Whenever a publlo
official shall be deemed dishonest, lnoometent
miliiii.i f his duties the voters shall have
the right to retire him and elect one of their
choloe. The people alone are sovereign.
When the people take the law making
power in their own Lands by direct leg
islation, it will put a stop to bribery.
The difference between a tramp and a
trust is, a tramp asks for what be gets
while the trust taaes it without asking.
Machine politics must go. The life of
the republic is of more importance than
the ambition and greed of the political
boss.
What the government needs in the
Philippines is about '50,000 foot-racers
We can't civilize the Fils until we catch
them.
II a few men can control a whole line
of business why should not the people
do it and save the profits that make mill
ionaires of the tow?
"Road ye not the changeless truth,
the free can conquer but to stive."
President M'Kinloy, at the BoBton Ban
quet. We're saving them.
Already the tniHts are subscribing lib
erally to the election of the republican
candidate for govomor in Ohio, in spite
of the platform declaration.
Why not call the Filipinos in and put
a mortgage on 'em? That will civilize
'em quicker than anything else and it's
almost as fatal as shooting at 'em.
No wonder the politician opposes the
referendum. It would destroy his chance
to boodle and make him in truth as well
as In name a servant of the people.
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If their legislatures will only "stay
bought" it will be some time yet before
California, Delaware and New Jersey
w ill have a full quota of U. S. Senators.
There is not gold enough in the world
to cash the capitalization Btock of the
trusts formed since the first day of Janu
ary in the state of New Jersey aloue.
The Enterprsio has purchased the
subscription list of the Press and now
that sheet will probably claim that ii
has a circulation as large as theCormuR
Ukuald. It will have to buy another
japer before it can honestly make such
a claim. The Courikr-Ukrald pur
chased the job press and some material
of the detunct Press and is now better
i)rpared than ever to turnout firstelafs
work on short notice.
Iliyhest Bidders.
Editor Cocrier-Hebald :
I notice in last week's issue in Dr
Strickland's answer to Dr. Carll that he
makes mention about Drs. Carll & Som-
ers receiving $180 more than the lowest
bidders.
Now, while we don't have any ill will
or feeling toward Drs. Carll & Somers,
we do think that the action of the com-
missioners ought to be investigated.
We, the people, elected them to office to
transact business for us, and it is no
more than right and just that they
should do as the majority of the people
desire.'
Now, do the honorable commissioners
think that the people want ihem to let
"jots" to the highest bidders? If eo,
the sooner they find ont otherwise the
better it will be for them.
: It may be possible that they have
more money than they know what to do
with. If so, they may let us have some
to put on the roads, as we have got no
money yet to improve onr public high
ways. It is such action as this that will
hasten township organization more than
any one thing that tbey may do.
I hope, Mr. Editor, that you will find
room in your paper for this communica
tion, so that it may attract the attention
of the honorable board.
I remain yours respectfully,
Louis Funk.
Redland, June 12.
Socrates on Argus.
Editor Courier-Herald :
We have been deeply interested in Ar
gus on our money system, but have
failed to grasp anything tangible in it as
yet.
He starts out with the pre-conceived
idea that money is a concrete substance
that gold and silver basic money (to
use his own terms) is concrete, and all
other money is representative, or ab
stract, and depends for its value on gold
and silver, therefore you might just as
well try to measure the length of a
house by a mathematical point as to try
to measure value by any other substance
than gold or silver .
It seems to me that a 10-year-old
school boy ought to know better. He
says he is aware that value is only an
idea. If this is true, it ruins all the rest
of his argument. Suppose the people
set the idea that paper money is all
right; then paper satisfies the idea of
the people, and as value is only an idea
in the minds of the people, why not use
it ai a standard of measure as well as
gold and silver? Then, according to his
own reasoning, the idea satisfied is value
received, hence paper can measure val
ues. If Argus owes me (10 and presents
a $10 bill, or a note on some individual,
or county warrant, or government bond,
or even pne of those bogus bank checks
the populists talk so much about, wheth
er I receive it or not depends on my
idea of its worth. If I take it, then it
becomes a measure of value to the
amount I think it is worth.
Now, Mr. Argus, we will takeaway
the commercial value of gold and silver
by stopping its coinage as money or use
as jewelry, or, indeed, any of the uses to
which it is put by man. Now bring on
your mathematical point and I will be
gin on the length of the house while you
measure values by gold and silver, and
we will see who comes out ahead. You
will find that we will both come out at
the same hole we went in at, and come
out empty handed at that.
The fact is that the value of every
thing created in God's universe depends
on man's need of it. Man may, and
sometimes does, create an artificial use,
and this is just what he did when he
created money. For instance, take all
of the money out of the world, and man
will live just as well without it On the
other hand, take everything from man
but money, and he will either freeze or
starve to death within ten days.
Now, Mr. Argus, value, being an idea,
cannot be meusured, tor there are too
many different ideas in the world ; that
is to say, it cannot be measured by any
one of those standards. Socrates.
June 12.
(To be continued.)
After fighting the Erie railway for five
years George Miller got a verdict for $50
In lieu of ejectment from a train. By this
It Will lie Seen how the courts ininrlo
t 4
with justice, and a poor man has about
as much show to obtain his rights against
a great corporation as a lamb has to kill
a wolf. A suit against a railway means
years of costly litigation and a slim show
to win in the finals. As their attorneys
are employed by the year, the railroads
t ike every advantago to prolong the ag
ony and thereby too often go unwhipped
ol justice.
The crown prosecutor should urge cas
es against corporations exactly as he
proceeds against a criminal, for the rail
ways which get so many valued fran
chises from the people, treat the weak
as they would a criminal.
Although a man may know that he
has been seriously damaged, he prefers
to suffer the indignities rather than
bankrupt himself by going to court. N.
W. Herald.
It is a pity that Uncle Sam did not
wait until the goods were delivered be
fore he paid the $20,000,000 for the Fili
pinos. It should have been a C. O. D.
transaction.
Bad Road Work.
Canby, Oregon, June 5.
Editor Courier-Herald :
I again wish to call attention to the
condition of the roads in Clackamas
county. On last Saturday I swam
through the slush and mud on the lower
road to Canby from New Era. There is
one law that should be repealed and
that is the road supervisors law, or if it
is to be left on the statute books they
should have a right to repair bad places
in all roads without applying to the
county court or any one else. If we tell
the supervisor that such and such a
place in the road is not safe, "oh, I can
not repair it until I have orders from
the court, and there is no money to pay
for the work." Well, how would it do
to pay less wages to the supervisors and
men that do the work and then have
more money to pay for work? Supervi
sors in this county get more per diem
than they can get at any other work.
Why is this, is this county so flush with
coin that they can pay high wages? I
think not. I don't hanker for office or
covet warrants, but I will take the su
pervlsorship at one dollar per day and
will not put powder enough nnder a
stump to blow it 200 rods which has
been done in front of my place and the
stumps left for me to get out. I have
had a little experience in blowing out
stumps lately and know what powder it
takes to do the work.
There is one thing the republican par
ty can boast of, and that is that they
have put the nation, states, counties and
cities in debt fathoms deep. Is it not
time to call a halt? The last legislature
appropriated $40,000 to the bug and
worm establishment called .the agricul
tural college, at Oorvalis. Would it Hot
be better to stop appropriations to nor
mal schools and state fair and colleges
and use the money to build good roads.
If the constitution of Oregon allows such
appropriations it should be amended.
I think itdoes not allow anything of the
kind.
I see by the Oregonian of June 2,
that they have been decorating the
dead convicts' graves and some one
writes that they will next try to get an
appropriation to build monuments on
their graves. Well, I would about as
lief pay taxes for the monuments as to
pay taxes to keep a gang of professors in
idleness. What general benefit is that
college at Corvallis only to a few rich
men's sons who can get an education
cheap there, and then what are most of
them good for? Most of them expect to
be supported in some way without work.
The market is overstocked with
educated people. I know one young
man, a graduate from that college, and
his old father has to show him how to
farm. He is of no use on a a farm with
out insti uctions. Tax payers of Clacka
mas county, how does the indebtedness
of this county suit you, how do you like
to pay taxes and drag yourself through
the mud and slush up to the hub? If
you like it vote the old ticket and keep
knee deep in mud.
M. F. Moore,
Likes Present System.
Editor Courier-Herald:
As a small tax-payer and citizen of
Clackamas county, I wish to say a few
words in reference to road building. I
do not claim the present mode of mak
ing roads is perfect, yet I think it super
ior to the old style of road building. A
few years since, when ex-Judge John
Meldrum introduced the present method
much was said against, and much per
sonal abuse was heaped upon him for
daring to adopt the present mode of road
making. Mr. Meldrum muBt be well
pleased with the outcome, for scarcely
anyone would now think of going back
to the old method. While there undoubt
edly has been some abuses in the pres
ent system, it has generally been quite
satisfactory. We are now getting many
good roads leading to our county seat,
whereas a few veai s ago, it was almost
impossible to get to Oregon City during
the spring and winter months. Now the
people along the main thoroughfares are
willing to contribute in labor and money
to improve the highways along their
lands and the side or less traveled roads
can soon be made passably good, and I
do not believe any person, advocating the
old goasyouplea.se method of making
roads, could be elected as one of the
county commissioners. I think that the
people of this county owe a debt of grat
itude to ex Judge Meldrum for starting
the present system.
Yours truly,
J. S. Casto.
Carus, Ore,, June 12.
You can't make men honest by legis
lation but you can takeaway temptation
to be dishonest by giving them equal op
portunities. Will the politician undertake to say
that the people are not capable of self-
government? Most certainly, not. Give
us direct legislation .
Every time you draw a check on the
bank remember that you contribute
two cents to the government, that is to
be used either to buy embalmed beef for
the soldiers or to purchase another load
of ammunition with which to kill a Fili
pino for trying to do tor himself just
what your forefathers did for you. Liv
ing Issues.
Socialism vs "Individual Effort."
Last Sunday's Oregonian contains an
article which will well repay carefull
reading. Not because it s new, original
or fraught with deep thought, but be
cause like moet articles to be fonud in
papers of the Oregonian class it is direct
ly contradictory to truth and sense.
"The Socialistic Illusion" endeavors to
prove that socialism is in no wise to be
wished for as thereby the nation would
become in a few generations weak,
worthless, bankrupt and a prey to
stronger and individual energy as prac
ticed by other nations. It cites the case
of Alglo-Saxon Supremacy over the Lat
in and presumably the Teutonic races to
prove that not only individualism is the
better way but that any other method
means destruction for a nation that fol
lows it The premises as well as the
logic and conclusion are in every sense
false. At this end of this memoriable
Century those nations who are most so
cialistic are most successful no matter
whether they are Anglo-Saxon, Tueton
ic, Latin, Slav or what not. When "The
People" of the state control the collec
tive and distributive efforts, that state,
in spite of all opposition is the farthest
along the path of progress.
It has been heretofore the fashion to
point with pride to what "our glorious
country has done for suffering human
ity" but we have the very best evidence
from commissioners appointed by the
states and nation, that humanity suffers
more in these United States of ours
than any other country on the globe not
excepting despotic Russia or tax ridden
Turkey.
"Individual effort" coupled with and
aided by favorable legislation has made
a few men of this country enormously
wealthy within a few years, in fact one
generation, and on the other hand it has
reduced the mass of people, comprising
representatives of all nations, to the
verge of poverty. Our cities swarm with
criminals and paupers, madejso by legis.
lative enactments. Our lunatic asylums
are crowded by driveling, senseless be
ings, made so in theBtruggle for individ
ual success. Ninety-six per cent of all
who enter business fail because con
ditions existing in the body politic under
the Bystem of "indivdual effort" will
not permit them to succeed. The only
successful branches of industrial or other
class of business is that conducted by
the whole people, as, witness: the post
office; it could be improved, but not
under private owneaship, but by
making it more thoroughly socialistic
than it is. The army and navy God
bless them both are absolutely social
istic. That is why they are, have been
and always will be successful. The flag,
the standard always in the nation's
heart, is not the flag of individual effort,
but the people's emblem. The central
figure in the world today, the hero of
Manila bay, George Dewey and his
deeds, is not the result of "individual
effort" by a Rockerfeller, Vanderbilt,
Gould or Sage, but the collective mind
j , . . , , ..
suu iiiusciB oi a wnoie nation, it was
"collectivism" or socialism that made
heroes of men like those whose deeds
have illumined the pages of this coun
try's history from Washington to Dew
ey, and not "individual effort." The
public schools, the fire and police de
partments, are socialistic, and the
abuses under which they suffer and
their usefulness is retarded is because
there is too much ""individual effort'
practiced in loading them down with
poor material. Whenever these social
istic affairs are conducted solely for the
benefit of the whole and not the few,
they will be much better than they are
at present. No one with the interests
of his country's welfare at heart would
turn over the postofflce department to
the railroads or express companies, nor
the army to Alger, Swift or Armour or
any beef or other combine; the navy to
Cramp's or Scott's shipbuilding firm;
the police and fire departments to the
millionaires; the schools to the Ameri
can Book Company ; certainly not. It
would be folly to do it.
The great and unanswerable argument
for socialism or collectivism is the stabil
ity and endurance of these economic
features already tried and found to be
right, just and feasible, therefore it is
the duty of the people to neither hesi
tate, falter, stand, or go back to "indi
vidualism" but to press forward to na
tional socialism.
Holland.
A Most Humble Apology?
Editor-Couhier-IIerald.
Please allow me a few lines of space in
your valuable paper to offer an apology
to your readers for the infliction my
growl and flight of Shakesperiau quota
tion has b:ought upon them and your
type stickers. Had there been any
question in the mind of any member of
the Simian family as to the comparison
intended by me it was quite dispelled by
the response, for the wildly scattering
"essence" of that reply comes from a
source classified by Cuvier. I will
try in the future, no matter how great
the provocation, not to prod the species
with anything so harmless yet provok
ing as a pen.
Shakespearianly yours,
W. E. Carll.
Some people seem to think that reform
consists merely in a change of pie eaters.
While, in fact, it consists in a change of
systems.
GREAT
CLEARANCE SALE
We realize that the summer season in our line of goods
is nearly over and not wishing to carry any stock over for
another season especially as we need room for our Fall and
Winter Stock which is now ready to be shipped from Eastern
Manufacturers and will arrive about July ioth we will sell all
our summer Stock at Manufacturing Prices.
Clothing,
Furnishing Goods,
Shoes, Etc
We will call your attention
best in the city and will be sold
miss me opportunity.
A new stock. of Ladies and Children's Shoes have just
arrived. Prices and quality cannot be duplicated anywhere
unless at 25 per cent more than our prices.
The Star Clothing House
A. H EC HTM AN, Manager
Harding's Bl'k, Opp. Com. Bank, Oregon City
Our Money System.
(5.)
Written for the Courier-Herald by Argus.J
Our ordinary measures of length,
weight and capacity are stable, but a
measure of values is more or less fluctu
ating. Twenty-five and five-eighths
grains of standard gold may buy one
bushel of wheat to-day and next year it
may purchase or measure two bushels.
We usually say this is caused by the
varying supply and demand of wheat,
and not of gold, but the influence, like
that of gravitation, acting on large and
small bodies proportionately, is mutual.
Supply and demand affect both gold and
wheat. If there was to be a sudden
flood of gold enough to double up the
world's suoply, in a year's time it would
double the price of the world's conimod'
ities, and the destruction of half the
present stock would no doubt have an
opposite effect.
Until a few years ago, our Btock of real
money consisted of about the same
amouqt each of gold and silver, and as
the leading countries have discarded
silver, using it only as credit money, we
have the same result as if our supply of
gold was suddenly cut in two. General
values have shrunken more than one
half.
A money that will continue to pur
chase the same average amount of pro
ducts for a long period of time is a sta
ble money.
There is no way of measuring money,
only by the average amount of products
it will continue to purchase. You can
not measure money by its representa
tive, or, as the Oregonian puts it, by its
credit substitute, or by the fractional
currency, which is by its aliquot parts
The governor of Oregon set up 100 cop
per cents and said that as a gold dollar
would purchase 100 of them and always
had done so, therefore gold had not
changed in valut. There was only 15
cents' worth of copper in the 100 cents,
which by law was made to represent
25 5-8 grains of gold, and it was equal to
saying that a gold dollar equals a gold
dollar and aiways has done so, therefore
the gold dollar has not changed value.
He would feel inclined to whip his own
boy who, when told to measure the
length of his barn, would return with
I. - L .
mo Biaieuieni, mat it was as long as
itself.
A deed is the representative of your
farm, say. You can Bay the farm has
always been equal in worth to the deed
never more nor less, as it would give
you possession to it, but it does not
prove that your farm therefore has not
changed values; but just as the farm
changes, and the deed with it, so when
the dollar changes, all credit and sub
sidiary money change with it. Yet on
such fool propositions as this, supported
by the Oregonian, was the present gov
ernor elected.
Same people say that as the interest
on gold is coming down, it proves that
gold is abundant enoueh to An t.lm hi,;.
ness of the country alone, and that it is
geuing cneaper.
The use of gold, or interest, may be
cheaper, through the shrinkage of busi
ness on a gold standard, while yet a
gold dollar continues to purchase a con
stantly increasing quantity of predicts
and labor,
'Continued next week.)
Quay missed the penitentiary and hit
the United States Senate. He was a can
didate for both at the same time and it
was for awhile uncertain to which he
would be sent.
Machine politics will bo down befor
the initiative and referendum. The h0?s
will be eliminated, intense partisan snir.
it will disappear, and the people will
rule themselves.
Senator Frye says he will vot to
mit boss Quay to the United States Sen.
ate so that the Quay Stone state may be
properly represented by a man who had
to plead the statue of limitations tn
avoid heme sent to the njnit ntiflrv
Oregon Independent.
i
Strictly !
One Price
House. I
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to our line of Fine Pants the
at cost of manufacturing. Don't 3
The beef investigation cost the govern
ment $20,003,000 but it was worth a hun
dred times that to the people. It shows
the methods of trusts and politicians.
The trouble with the representative
system of tiovernment is, the representa.
tives don't represent. They sell out.
Direct legislation will put a stop to that.
The press reports state that President
M'Kinley smokes ten cigars costing
$1.50 apiece each day. No wonder he
never loses an opportunity to proclima
the arrival of prosperity 1
TALKS WITH FARMERS.
Results of Practical Experiments
On Clackamas County Soil by
Actual Farmers.
W. W. Irwin, of Barlow, believes that
sheep and goats are the most profitable
stock that can be kept on the farm.
He recently Bheared 400 sheep that ay
eraged eight pounds a piece. They were
a mixture of graded Cots wold and Me
rino sheep, which he considers the best
for ordinary farm use. Lambs at three
months old bring from $2 to $3. Sheep,
however, must be sheltered and prop
erly taken care of if the best results are
obtainable in the way of choice lambs
for market and a good growth of wool
at shearing time. As an example of the
profit in sheep, Mr. Irwin said that a
few months ago he was driving home
a band of sheep, whtn a young yoe ac
cidentally broke its leg. He left it at a
farmhouse, and told the farmer to take
care of it, and to retain its possession
if he never called for the animal. Re
cently, the three-legged yoe had two
lambs, which will soon be worth $2
each, to lay nothing of the spring wool
clip. Mr. Irwin, also has great faith in
goats. It costs but little to keep them,
while they shear from two to five
pounds, and the wool brings from 32
cents and upward per pound. He now
has 203 young lambs from a flock of 150
goats. Last winter his goats ran on a
brushy pasture, and he only fed them
a few bales of hay. Goats thrive on a
brushy pasture, and if the twigs are too
high to reach, they will be readily de
voured when cut down. It is said that
goats will beat a grubbing machine
clearing off brushy laud.
County Commissioner J. R. Morton
Bays that potatoes are the best crop that
can be produced in the vicinity of Da
mascus, as the soil is peculiarly adapted
to that product. His plan is to plant
potatoes on ground that needs summer
fallowing, thus cleansing the ground,
and putting it in excellent condition for
fall wheat or any other crop that may
be desired, and at the same time get a
profitable crop out of the land. The po
tatoes prove an excellent crop, and
are always in demand with Portland
dealers. Mr. Morton says that after
the potatoes are planted, the ground is
thoroughly cultivated with a large har
row that pulverizes the ground for a
depth of four inches until the vines are
six inches in height. This does not in
jure the vines, loosens the soil and kills
the weeds. After this the ground is
worked with a shovel plow. People in
that section are partial to the burbank
potato. They haul their products to
the Portland market for the reason that
they can only sell a limited quantity
here, but their preference is Oregon City.
In view of the fact that Richard Scott,
jr., is one out of many graduates of the
agricultural college, who remained on
the farm after completing bis course,
ted to the itiqniry of County Commis-
sionerScottas to how lie made farmers of
his boys. Mr. Scott replied that ho al
ways taught them to work, when there
was work 10 do, but gave them oppor
tunity for recreation.
County Commissioner Marks believes
in keeping cnickens on the farm as a
matter of profit, and thinks the brown
and white leghorns are the best for lay
i"g.