Oregon City courier=herald. (Oregon City, Or.) 1898-1902, October 13, 1899, PART 1, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Textr OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1899. I : OREGON CITY COURIER OROQON CITY HERALD , A. V. CHENEY Publisher c8 Clactamas County Mependent, Canty jt.lSOKBKD MAY, lt09 i .1 ti, ; ,: PUBLISHED WEEKLY. m . , Legal and Official Newspaper Of Clackamas County. ! gUr 1 In Oregon OitypostofllceM 2nd-olaw matter in .1 SUBSCRIPTION BATES. f) Paid in advance, per year 1 SO ' Sir months 75 Tlffeemoiitbs'trUl 28 a JHThe date opposite your address on the U) pper nnnoien i he time to wmcn ynn naiepata a fl thU nattcs Is marked your subsvrlption Is due. a tl ADVERTISING BATES. x, fitdlnit business dirprtlements: Per month 1 inch 11,3 Inches 11.50, 8 Inches 81.76, 4 Inches l 2. 6 Inches (column) S2.25. lOinoheX'colnmn) 14, 20 Inches (column) 18, yearly contracts 10 per y cem less. i Transient advertisements! Per week 1 Inch JOo, 2 Inches 7,V, 3 Inches (1,4 inches tl 26,8 i incnesi.w, iu incites ia.su, au mcnes i 0 kenul advertisements: IVr In h first Inner. -tirmfl, each niMltlnmil Insertion 50c. Alllliwlls r or piililii-Htion will not be furuiahed until pud Mlloatton funs are nald. I Local nntloes; Five ceuts per line per week - r month 20o. fll PATRONIZE HOME IMMJSTKY. a , , : 0 OREGON CITY, OCT. 13, 1899. -I) ' t An A m.p.riMii Internal Policy. First Public nwnmltlp of pulilh riinoliiscs. 1 The values cret'.ed by the cuminunity should be glotig to thacammunl'.y . jj Sboond Dnstriictlon of criminal trusts. No monopolization of the national resources by Uw 'less private combinations inre powerful than It ho people's governmnt, J Third A graduated luoometax. Every oltlaon j o contribute to tho support of the government ac J eordlng to his moans, and not according to his ne t cessltles. Fourth Election of senators by the people. i The senate, now becoming tho private property ) of corporations and bosses, to be made truly repre ' tentative, and the state legislatures to he redeemed ' rom recurring soandals. j Fifth National, state and mnniolpal Iroprnve i mont of the pubiio school system . As the duties ' of citizenship are both genoral and loeal, every government, both general and looal, should do ts share toward fitting ovary individual to per ; form them, j Sixth Currently reform. All the nation's '- money to be Issued by the nation's government. ' and Its supply to be regulated by the people and not by the banks. ' Rbvkhth No protection for oppressive trusts, Organizations powerful enough to oppress the people are no longer "Infant Industries." Dibkot Leoislatioh Lawmaking by the voters. Tmt INITIAT1VB--The proposal of a law by a per centage of the voters, which must then go to the referendum. Th Referendum- The vote at the polls of a law proposed through the Initiative, or on any 1 aw passed by a lawmaking body, whose refer ence is petitioned for by a percentage of the Voters. The Imperative Mandate Whenever s pnhllo official shall bo deemed dishonest, Incompetent I ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 h rv.Hi Ml e voleu shall have the right to retire him and elect one of their choice. Tho people alone are sovereign. TO SUBSCRIBERS. Tha subscribers who have not caid tin their subscriptions to the Oouhirk-Hkr-ai,d we would kindly ask to call and set tle aft soon as possible. The time of year lias arrived when the majority of oar country readers are able to pay, if at any time of the year, and the editor is in nood of money to koep the paper np to its present standard, an 1 kinily asks the subscribers to help him out. If you are nit able to piy cult, produce of all kinds can bs used, as the editor is sup posed to eat now and then. The date opposite your name on the paper de notes the tiim t which yoi hava paid, rioaso look at your date and do unto others as you would have tham do unto yon. r , . j IluiiKArritp. the Coukikr-Hkrau. will each week publish a political caricature We will also give a two or three column story when space will permit. This week we present the first Installment of those improvements to the paper. We aim to give the readers as good a paper us support will admit. A Lancashire town is affording a striking illustration of the successful municipalization of the gas supply. At a recent meeting the corporation of Widnes unanimously decided, on the recommendation of the gas and water committee, to aj;ain reduce the price of gas Id per 1000 cubic feet. This will make the net price la 3d (30 cents) rer 1000 cubic feet to consumers of over 3,000,003 cubic feet per annum and Is 5d (34 cents) to ordinary consumers. This reduction, besides being a reduction of a record price, is all the more Important coining at the present tims, when many g is authorities are raising the price in consequence of the increase in the price of coal, the Widnes authorities them selves having to face an increase of 30 pur cent. London Daily Chronicle. A FRUITLESS POLICY. pinos who want peace a just and stronu government. The advantages of pe ce and the disadvantages of war will then become apparent to the Filipinos. Bi t the aimless blows of General Otis at d his feeble government will never end the war. President McKinley eh u'd send a general to the Philippines. THE COUNTY PRINTING. I of such a man? Can he be trusted? He is a public ifficial and deserves criti cism if ever a man did.- We don't like to m i! e tlii 3 a personal matter, but he I seems to wait it that way. We are still doing business at the old stvnd, and invite Bro. Porter over to see how we do it, if hi wo old be so conde-sconding. Hkhb is a brief and pointed way in which Judge 0. G. Garrison, of New Jersey, sums up the Filipino situation: "A Boy who had a Brindle Dog on a string was so tired that the Dog was on the point of achieving Independence, when a member of the Society for the Prevention ol Cruelty to Animals ac costed the Boy and chided him for not giving the Dog his Freedom, and finally bought the string for the aura of 25 cents. The last tho Boy saw of the kind hearted stranger he was kicking the stuffing out of the Dog because he hung back when he pulled on th. string." Wnx the CottRiKR-HRAi,r note that President McKinley has approved the sentence of fine and imprisonment of Captain Carter, charged with swindling the government? Carter is now serving his sentence on Governor's island. En terprise. We refer the Enterprise to our last weok'a issue, where the case was fully explained. It was only after the press took up the case and demanded the ap proval of the vordict that any attention was paid to such a little thing as a theft of $1,000,000 by an administration pet. We'll wager that Carter will never serve his sentence in full. Here is an extract from one of tho Manila dispatches: Several hundred insurgents have reoc- c.ipied Porac, which was captured by uenerai wacArtnur on September 2H.li and evacuated by the Americans on the tuiiowing day. Here is a description i i brief of the Otis campaigns. Practically the whole military activity of the past season is summed up in this dispatch. MacAr thur, or Lawton, or Wheaton, or some other American commander, has been driving the Insurgents out of Porac, evacuating it the following day to let the insurgents retur.i, and doing it all over again the next week. As an officer writes in a recent description of a expe dition : Cioain's march was without special Incident. Hoinn tlmte or font iulu mo. side of San Mateo Captain Rivers came uiuu uii entrencno'i output,, a sharp little engagement followed, with the stereotyped result. The Filipino 11 red a few momeiits and then disappeared. Their tire cost one American life and a few wounds. What was gained by itall? I cannot say. A town or two which had been previously captured and abandoned Were attain captured anil aimin uhiiM. doued. The Filipinos were scattered from the vicinity, just as Hies are driven from the sugar-bowl. They are soon back again. Our guard lines arouud Manila are fairly Btrong, and could be quickly reonforced from the regiments In the city. Beyond that guard line, it really makes little dilfereuce whether the enemy be Ave miles away or fifty. The apologists of Otis explain that this is unavoidable, as he has not troops to hold the places he captures. Perhaps this is so, but if he has not had enough troops to do the work it is largely his own fault. He informed the govern ment that he did not want more than 30,000 men. and if he has changed that estimate of the necessary force, the fact has not been made public. Strong re' enfoi cements are beinut sent, but the ini tiative seems to have come from this end of the line. It is the same old story. General Otis is fighting aimlessly, ami is inca pable of organising or administering the territory that he conquers. The new campaign that is beginning is on the same lines as the ineffective campaign of last seitson. If General Otis is left in i command the result will be the same as that of the camnauin that closed last June. The American troops will have occupied and evacuated a number of towns, and the insurgents will "have re- occupied rorac." This is not the policy that will end the Insurrection. To do that we must put the pursuit of the insurgent forces into the hands of energetic wmmanders and put the civil administration into the hands of uieu who will giye those Fili- Brother Porter and his organ are still bellyaching because thoy djd not get the county printing, and in last week's En terprise he calls us a liar. No a , if we can come anywhere near being such a prevaricator as the senator from Marion we would like to know it. In the first place, he says hi does not get his power and electric light free. Well, free may not be exactly the word, but anyway he doe3 not pay cash for it. We would like to ask Bro. Porter what the president of the P. G. E. Company said when he asked himfor"frea" lights for his residence on the west side. In the second place, he says he has better sense than to ask the merchants to boycot the Coukikr-IIdrald. We would think he would have, too, but be hasn't. He also says we violate the contract with the county board when we publish sheriff and tax sa'es. To think of a man that doesn't know any more about print ing than a horse does of heaven talking about how type should be set I Accord ing to his figuring, there should be no display or any attention paid to tha looks or rules of typesetting. We fol lowed the same style in setting the tax list that has been followed by all pub lishers for years. The O eaonian, which lie feebly tries to imitate, set type the same way, but if Mr. Porter would sug gest a change it would probably be adopted by the Oregonian. He might also give it some pointers in regard to publishing and grafting. The tax roll was furnished by the assessor and the delinquent list was published thtr- trom, and we had no control of how the matter would figure up. We merely followed copy. The trouble with Bro. Porter is that he can't bear to see the county t wed $(S00 or $700 on the tax list when "he might have had it himself," and as he is considered quite a grafter, he likes to see "all the tratlld will bear." If ail the printing is given this paper that it is entitled to. the county will save over $2000 on this contract alone. The county board Is to be congratulated on this sav ing to the taxpayers and deserves much credit for giving it to the lowest bidde "when Porter wanted it so badly." After Porter had the bill passed by the legisla ture taking the printing away from this paper he was bragging around town how much he would make when he got the printing, but for once the taxpayers were taken into consideration and the job was not given to Bro. Porter at a "reasonable reduction," as he promised privately. Why didn't he bid for the job, as the Tress and the Courikr-Hkr-Ai.DdidT He thought he would get it any way, but when he found out he couldn't he said he would do it "5 per cent cheaper than Cheney." He is still bothering the life out of the commission ers by urging them to break their con tract so he can have a "whack at it," and will hardly speak to the attorney that assisted us in saving the county from the clutches of this man Torter. The last republican county platform advocated the letting of the printing to the lowest bidder, and now he wants the board to go back on the platform he himself supported. What do you think 1 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. Oc tober Special CLOTHING Men's Gray Tweed, regular $5.00 suits.... $3 OO Man's Double Breasted, reg ular $6.tO suits. ........ .,4 SO Men's Fancy Cheviots, regular $8.00 suits ....6 OO Men's Gray Clay , Worsted, , . . regular $12.00 suits, . .9 00 We have a full line of Serge suits in round cuts, double breasted silk faced and plain at prees that you oan not duplicate elsewhere. Boy's long pants suits, brown ''. plaid ......,.,.....'.$3 OO WHEX President Lincoln wrote that "No man is good enough to govern another without his consent" he did not anticipate that only 33 years later the republican party would try to prove that he did not know what he was talking about. If the b:,rbaroua Mohamedan sultan of Sulu is capable of governing his subjects with no interference from us, are not the Christian inhabitants of Luzon at least as capable? Yet President McKiiiley makes a treaty and pays an annual sub bidy to the barbarian, but offers bullets to the others. Somehow, Senator Hanna's declara tion that the English government "is just as good as ours" seems to many re publicans as rather a foolish utterance to be made just at this time by one so close to the president. M. Hanna may think that the idea that a republic is better than a monarchy is very absurd, but there are still quite a few Americans who will not agree with him. Boy's long pants suits, fancy -cheviots. . 5 00 Boy's long pants suits, blue cheviots, guaranteed all wool ... 5 50 a e 1; r a 11 t 11 ti int. 111 m 11 1 mi i .1 mi an i mill, suits . . . . . 8 oo DUCK CLOTHING Men's Duck Coats, blanket 1 lined. ................... 1 35 Boy's Duck Coats, blanket ' lined....... .......... ...1 25 Men'sduck blanket lined ulster coats, black or brown . . . . . 3 00 Whether or not the policy of crushing the Filipinos by force be approved, al most everybody but President McKinley seems to be thoroughly tired of Uenerai Otis. But if the trilling military services of Teddy Hoosevelt were sufficient to make him governor of New York, there might be danger that a successful com mander in the Philippines would inter fore with Mr. McKinley's renomination. By stating that he does not deem it advisable to bring the insurrection in Luzon to an end too soon, General Otis merely expresses in words the theory on which the Spanish generals used to act. And the contractors heartily indorse the sentiments expressed. If Admiral Dewey had accompanied President McKinley to Chicago, the lat ter might have been eclipsed instead of gaining luster by Dewey's reflected pop ularity. As in the case of Miles Stand Ish and his friend who went a-wooing for him, the people might have cried "Why don't you speak for yourself, George?" Admiral Dewey is not likely to be bamboozled by the politicians. If he has any political aspirations, he is keep ing them to himself. If he finally de termines to go into politics, he wilt go in as he went into the harbor of Manila. He will just slip in when his opponents are not expecting him and take posses sion before breakfast. Governor Koosevelt was once known as oue of the foremost champions of ad ministrative reform and pure politics in the country. But. as with many better men, the machine has got him for its own. He has let the New York canal thieves go unwhipped of justice, and in stead of making merit the test of, hold ing office, turned over the insane asylum system of the state to the spoilsmen. It is no wonder that when he went to make speeches in Ohio, where the republicans had praised the president's backward step in civil service reform, Governor Roosevelt had nothing to say against the betrayal. A full line of Hats and Cap.5, Shoes in Children's, Ladies' and Gent's Underwear, Umbrellas, Blank-ets, Trunks and Valises, When you see it in Our Ad it's so. The Star -sV Clothinn House One Price to All. The leading Clothier$ A. HECHTMAN, Manager, Harding Block, - OppositeCommercial-Bank or PostoThi Oregon City, - - Oregon F. H. CROSS, Harnessmaker DEALER IN First-Class Hand or Machine Made Harness Shoe Repairing a Specialty. seveu,h A'KU- SitVokkoU Attractive Prices 19 pounds Beet Sugar $1.00 Good green coffee, pound 10c Roast coffee, white metal spoon free in each pound 11c Star roast coffee, far better than package coffee t 12'4 50c grades of tea for 40c 60c gunpowder tea fcr 45c Tea dust, pound 15c Arm and Hammer soda, pound 4c Fine Japan rice, pou nd 5c Tapioca 4 to 5c Good while beans, pound Good gh 83 starch, pound 5c Germea for mush, 8 pounds 2oc Rolled oats, 7 pounds 25c Golden Gate baking powder, same as Pioneer, bulk, pound 35c Sandow baking powder, 28 oz., war ranted 25c Good table salt, 50 pounds 3oc Stock salt, 100 pounds 40c Flour made from best old wheat, either East- em ar Western Oregon, special V. prices in two to live barrel lots. Washing powder, like Golddust, lb. 5c Sal soda for washing, 5 pounds 10c Sewing machine oil (brlrrg bottle) 4ounce8 5c Lemon or vanilla flike Price's or Burnett's, which coat 12 to 15c oz.) our price, per ounce 7)c Good grade lemon (bring bottle) oz.. 6c Seedless raisins, 3 pounds 25c Fine prunes, pound 5c Pepper sauce 8c Finest catsup, 12c pint (worth double) bring vessel.' Dixie Queen tobacco, 6 packages. ... 25c Pound Corn Cake and pipe 25c Popular Price chewing, cheapest... 25c Star Horseshoe or Climax 50c Independent (like Battle Ax) ,, 35o Battle Ax, 40c ; 2 pounds 75c Good brooms 25 to 35c Scrub brushes 15c Scrub brushes discolored by water, t 7c Whisk broom 9c Cotton clothes line 1 9c Matches, bunch lc Good horsehide razor strop 5c Shoe nails, clinch or round head .... 5c Soleleather ends, half cost of soles. Leather cement, 10c : for rubber. . . War-anted pocket knives direct from factory, best and cheapest in town. Boys' knife 10c 60c 2-blade knife 25c Warranted scissors and butcher knives at Eastern prices. Gunpowder, pound 40c 15c Shoes... Bradley & Metcalf'j and Lewis's " Wear Kesister" Bhoes, the beBt goods, at practically Eastern pri ces. We tack and rivet coarse Bhoes free and warrant our best and medium-priced shoes. We sell cheaper than shoe stores and handle goods that wear. Try us for shoes. Children's rubbers 15c op Men's rubbers 50c up Rubbers are not warranted. Dry Goods School umbrellas 41c, with steel rod, neat handles 90c, finer up to $2.25. Dapendable flannels direct from mills, line lot of Gilbert's reliable linings and sateens, linings 5j up, sateens 9c "P Warner's corsets, easy, neat, durable and don't rust, 50o up. Mackintoshes, fresh stock, nobby make and durable, bought before the ad vance and economically priced. Standard patterns ; seam allowing, yet use less cloth than Butterick's, cheap er too, 5 to 20c. Ladies' jackets and capes, interesting values in up to date popular priced garments. Ready made and made to order waists, jacket suits, dress skirts, children's dresses and aprons. We take orders and measurements and guarantee sat isfaction. Dress skirts $1.50 up. New line of dress goods, correct in style, quality and price. Ample supplies of calicos, ginghams, shirtings Ac. Cali cos 4c up, muslins 4$c up, scrim 5c, toweling 4c up, outings 5c up. Big variety of nobby neckties and sus penders, big assortment of modern hats at eastern prices; Clothing fresh Btock, marked to sell quickly. Work shirts, overalls, pants, interlined (water proof) duck coats, hosiery, gloves &c Best out 9 oz overalls 35c, heavy dark xnit overshirts 40o, boys' underwear 25c. Millinery Up-to-date hats in great variety ready for inspection. Opening day, Tuesday, Sept. 26. Goods that equal in style and elegance anything in Portland, and East ern prices apply. See our hats before buying. Trade for Hay, Grain, Shingles and Farm Produce. THE RED FRONT, Oregon Cittj.