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City- Courterf" Oregon COURIER ESTABLISHED MAY, 7683 HERALD ESTABLISHED JULY, 1893 INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHED 188B OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1902 19th YEAR, NO. 43 . COS Enthusiastic Muss Meeting, and County Ticket Selected Young Men Put to the Front. THE TICKET. Stte Senator Fred J. Meindl, of Ab ernetliy. Representatives Robert Ginther, of Beaver Creek precinct; A. J. Maville, of Oaneruah; Walter F. Pruden, of Springwater. County Commissioner George La zelle, of Caneniah. County Judge Charles E. Spence, of Carus ' Sheriff D. M. Klemson, of Cane mah. Clerk Gilbert H. Robbins, of Killin. Recorder of Conveyances Franz Kraxberger, of Macksburg. Assessor William Beard, of Maple Lane. - Treasurer N. W. Richards, of Maple Lane. Coroner Dr. W. F. Pruden, of Springwater. One hundred and ten socialists from vaiioua precincts signed ttie following test credential or pledge, at the social ist cou ity convention held at Willam ette hall last Saturday : "We hereby pledge ourselves to sup port the constitution and platform of the socialist party and to sever all connec tion with all other parties." There were probably 20 or 30 social ists, who came in late and did not sign the pledge. It was announced how ever, that the pledge did not bind them to vote for ail the candidates nominated, unless they so desired. The mass convention was called to or der at 10 a. m , by Fred J . Meindl, chairman of the county central commit tee. W. W. Myers waB elected tempo rary chairman, and Robert Ginther, temporary secretary. Chairman Myers made a few preliminary renuarks, before the regular business of the meeting was begun. The following committees were ap pointed : Platform George Lazelle, Fred J. Meindl, William Beard, Charles Moran, J)rai)z Kraxberger. Order of Business J. D. Stevens, A. J Maville, Robert Ginther. The remainder of the forenoon session was taken up with addresses by W. W. Myers and J D. Stevens Among other things the former said that the lodges and churches represented the principles of socialism, but the ministers preached against socialism. fctate or ganizer Stevens told of finding enthusi astic socialists in Eastern Oregon, who owned 600 and 1000 acre wheat farms, At the afternoon eession Fred J. Meindl was elected permanent chair man, and Walter F. Pruden, permanent secretary. The committee on platform reported the following, which was unanimously adopted : THE PLATFORM. 1. All officers shall be put on a flat salary. 2. Reduction of passenger and freight rates. 3. We favor precinct assessors, each precinct to elect their own assessor. 4. We reaffirm the principles of the national socialist platform, as follows: The socialist party, in national con vention assembled, reaffirms its adher ence to the principles of international socialism, and declares its aim to be the organization of the working class, and those in sympathy with it, into a politi cal party, with the object of conquering the powers of government and uBing them for the purpose of transforming the present system of private owner ship of the means of education and dis tribution into collective ownership by the entire people. Formerly the tools of production were simple and owned by individual work ers. Today, the machine, which is an improved and more developed tool of . production, is owned by the capitalists and not by the workers. The owner ship enables the capitalists to control the product and keep the workers de pendent on them. Private owneruhip of the menus of production and distribu tion is responsible for the ever -increasing, uncertainty of the livelihood and poverty and misery of the working class, and dividt s society into two classes the capitalist and wage-workers. The once powerful middle class is rapidly disap peaiiug in the mill of competition. '1 he struggle is now between the capitalist clats and the working class. The pos sesion of the meanB ot livelihood gives the capitalists the control of the govern ment, the pit bp, the pulpit and schools, and enables them to reduce the work- ingmen to a state of intellectual, pity ei cal and social inferiority, political sub servience and virtual slavery. The economic interests of the capital istic class dominate our entire social system; the lives of the working class are reckleshly sacrificed for profit, wars are f lmenttd between nations, indis criminate slaughter is encouraged and the destruction of .whole races is sanc tioned in order that the capitalists may extend their commercial dominion abroad and enhance their superiority at home. But the same economic causes which developed capitalism are leading to so cialism, which will abolish both the capitalist class and the class of wage workers. And the active force in bring ing about this new and higher order of society is the working class. All otoer classes, despite their apparent or actual conflicts, are alike interested in the up holding of the system of private owner ship of the instruments of wealth pro duction; The democratic, republican, the bourgeois public ownership parties, and all other parties which do not stand for the complete overthrow of the capa ' listic system of production, are alike political representatives of the capitalist The woikers can most effectively ct as a class in their struggle against the collective powers of capitalism, by con stituting themselves into a political party, distinct from and opposed to all parties formed by the propertied classes. While we declare that the develop ment of economic conditions tends to SOCIALIST COUSTY VENTIOH. the overthrow of the capitalist system, we recognize that the time and manner of the transition to socialism also de pends upon tl stage development reached by the proletariat. We, there fore, consider it of the utmost impor tance for the socialist party to support all active efforts of the working class to better its condition and to elect social ists to political oflices, in order to facili tate the attainment of this end. As snch means we advocate: 1. The public ownership of all means of transportation and communication and all other public utilities, as well as of all industries controlled by monop olies, trusts and combines ; no prt of the revenne of such industries to be ap plied wholly to the increase of wages and shortening of the hours of labor of employes, and to the improvement of the service, and diminishing ttie rates to the consumers 2. The progressive reduction of the hours of labor ami the increase of wages in order to decrease the share of the capitalist and increase the share of the worker iu the product of labor. 3. State or national insurance of wor'. -ing people in case of accidents, lack of employment, sickness and want in old age; the funds Mr this purpose to be collected from the revenue of the capi talist class, and to be administered un der the control of the working class. (Continued on page 7.) Friday, March 7. Senators A dispatch from Wash And ington states that there Canal. is no danger of a Nicara gua canal bill ever build ing in the United States senate. The great majority or nearly all the United States States senators are railroad cor poration attorneys The bill might pass the house, and yet be delayed in many ways in the senate. The senators might apparently be working to the end that operations may be commenced on the great thoroughfare, yet at the same time putting obstacles in its way. The fact that Nicaragua now wants a big price from Uncle Sam to put the canal through t that country may be the out come of some scheme hatched in the United States. Senator Hanna spoke for the ship sub sidy bill. The house will vote today on the rural classification bill Prince Henry Bpent yesterday at Boston and Cambridge. He received the degree of L. L. 1). at HarvaiM, and was banqueted by Massaciiuelt citizens Today the Prince will be at Albany and West Point The. revolutionary move ment is spreading in Russia The West Indies cession treaty is in the Dan ish Folkething ...A brutal murder of native by marines is reported from Si mar. Machinists, who go on Btrike iu San Francisco, gain but little by mak ing peace .... Oragon Agricultural col lege forbids students to play billiards George W. Dorwin, the pioneer assayer of Oregon, died at Ashland ...... Febauary customs receipts average over $1500 per day at Portland Lewis & Clark fair committee plans canvass for $200,000. Saturday, March 8. Fraud Circumstances attending Charged, and antedating the appli cation of Governor Geer to select as lieu land the tract in Tilla mook county previously entered by Eu gene Jenkins in the United States laud office at Oregon City as timber laud, levd to the presumption that persons charged with fraud are attempting to get through the state land department some 14,000 acres of timber land now under contest for fraud. The same oath (respecting contract and speculation) must be made in appication to purchase from the state as in application to pur chese from the United States, so that the allegation of frauil in one case is deemed to apply equally to the other. An interesting bit of history leads up to tins action. A train wreck on the Southern Pa-j civic near Sanderson, Tex., resulted in the deaths oi 15 persons and injuries to 23 more. The train was west-bound, aid most of the victims, a'eide from the crew were, Immigrants going to Califor nia. The wreck caught fire, and man) of the passengers, pinned down iu the broken coaches, weie cremated. A broken rail caused the disiaster Prince Henry and his party have re turned to New York. ...The capitol at Albanv and t he military academy at West Point W6'e visited. The Pr ince will remain in New York until Monday, hen lie goes to Philadelphia ...The Spanish regency may be prolonged, ow ing to King Alphonso's incapacity. .... Cecil Rhodes is critically ill Presi dent Roosevelt will not permit his daughter, Alice to accept the invitation to at'end the coronation of King Ed ward V" J. Furnish, republican can didate for governor, carries the Uma tilla primaries Kittitas valley, Wash., company arganized to irrigate 30,000 acres Great Waldo copper mines in Southern are to be developed extensively... Heavy shipments of wheat and flour are being mnde from North Pacific ports to South Africa Portland teachers receive eight per cent increase in salaries The Multno mah county republican convention will be held March 19. , Sunday Morning, March 9. Prince Prince Henry's demo Henry' cratic ways cause surprise Democratic and his sense and good Way. tact are praised by tha residents of Germany in connection with his trip to America. A progressive Berlin newspaper that us ually is not a particular admirer of mon archy finds compliments for the way in which Prince Henry has ruled the Americans. Dr. Barth of the Nation, says : "He has acted as a free, modern man among free men, without a trace of that narrow haughtiness which junker dom regards as the indispensable eti quette of rank " Fnnston Bays the Tagal leaders are murderers, not patriots. Chaffee and Wright report the MoroDg trouble to be j; NEWS OF THE WEEK, jj :!..-. fl k nv.fi. - - .1. ' iiiMjinui'Huw xaib suyi kilt CUUltUlBOlUM may be released in two years i Prince Henry yesterday sent a wreath , to be placed on General Grant's tomb. 1 The Prince was the guest of the Germany Society of New York at its annual meet-' ing. Prrnce Henry's tact and good . sense please Germany ,The Pres-; ident signed the Philippine tariff bill. A message is expected from the President ; on the Cuban question. Debate closed : in the house on the rural delivery clas' sification bill Senator Turner will try to get more money for upper Co lumbia improvements ....Moody con trolled Wasco countv republican conven tion Great building boom on at Vancouver, WaBh The Eastern owner of the Iron Dyke mine, in East ern Oregon, sends $125,000 for its de velopment.... Seventy-five cargoes ot wheat from Portland now afloat for Eu rope The neglect of Portland po lice to enforce city ordinances discussed by civic improvement association Five hundred settlers a day come into Oregon. Monday, March 10 Prince Prince Henry was sere Henry, naded by the Arion Club, dined with the Vander bilts and attended a reception at the New York acht Club. All arrange ments are complete for the homeward journey. The Prince will go to Phila delphia today. The senate this week wfll take up the subsidy bill and the bill for the protec tion of the President The house will' defeat the free delivery btll The. Tien Tsin mission trouble will be settled ! bv tii? French and American ministers. I Russia takes advantage of the Bandit trouble north of Pekin to send troops. The republican primary fight in Marion couuty will be between Simo'i and Mitchell people. .. .Deschuttes irri gation projects may be postponed one year by state land board's delay. Tuesday, March 11. Lord General Lord Methuen has Methuen been captured by the Captured. Boers, and is now held a prisoner. His forces were badly cut up, and three officers and 38 men killed, five officers and 72 men wounded, while an officer and 200 treops are missing. News of the battle created a great stir in London, and a marked feeling of depression pervaded the house of commons. Prince Henry finishes his American tour in Philadelphia He returns to New York and gives banquet on Deutschlanl, and will sail for home to day The. house passes bill regulat ing free r iral delivery aad cirrieis' sal ary secretary Lon, ot the navy, resigns. ... 1 he United States Buprerpe i court declares Illinois anti-trust law un constitutional. .. .The Portland library opened its doors free to the public. (Continued on page 7.) Homeseekers' Hates This paper has been advieed by Mr. A. D. Charlton, A. G. P. A. at Portland, that in connection with the homeseek ers' rates from Eastern points to the Pacific coast for March and April, it has been decided by the Northern Pacific Railway Company to extend these rates through to all points on Southern Pa cific lines between Portland and Ash land. For instance the rate of $33 from Chi cago and $25 from St. Paul and Minneap olis will apply via S.P. line to any point on main line or branches of the South ern Pacific between Portland and Ash land. This will undoubtedly result in a very material increase in our population, and the N. P. Company will do every thing in its power to aid in the securing of a large number of people who now have their eyes cast on the w est with the intention of permanently locating among us. TheBe rates will be placed in effect on March 1st and continue daily until April 30th. Tickets wilt be sold from alt Eastern punts basing on these rates from Chicago, St. Paul and Missouri river p intsand as a reFult, judging from the great number of settlers secured in previous years when these low ra'es were applied up to Portland only, it will undoubtedly add many settlers to the Willamette valley. Voters Again Must Register. The revised eleution laws of Oregon provide, among other things for the registration df all voters before they shall be qualified to vote at the coming county and state elections to be held on June 2, 1902. The principal sections of the law on this point follow : "Section 5. It shall be the duty of every elector in the state of Ortgon be tween the first Monday in January, 1900, and 5 o'clock p. m. of the 15th day of May, 1900, and between the same dates and hours biennially thereafter, to regis ter with some notary public or justice of the peace, or with the county clerk of the county in which the elector resides, in accordance with this act." The law further provides: "If the clerk refuses to enter the name of any qualified elector, such elector may pro ceed by mandamus to compel him to do so". Also that every elector may be registered without charge by personally appearing in the office of the county clerk and after being sworn properly, tating the facts as to Irs name, age and occupation, state or county of his birth, aad wiiether naturalized, and if so, the place or court and papers relat ing thereto also the exact place of present residence, giving section, township and range, or bv specifying the name of town, with street and location of dwelling or board ing bouse, also his ability to write his name or mark his ballot If an elector is unable to register in the office of the county clerk "he may register without charge before the notary public or a jus tice of the peace in the county in which he resides by using one of the blanks designated blank "A" in section 3, of this act, filling out the blank in such a way as to anord an the information which he ought otherwise give to the clerk." It should be remembered that all voters must register If they wish to vote, whether they have registered at previous election or not. Former registrations are now void by limitation. Plows - 208 FRONT STREET, juperior FRANK BUSCH THE HOUSE FURNISHER f IN? LACE CURTAINS 4 : A , X Harrows MOW is the time that the WIDE AWAKE FARMER 'Ms looking where he can buy the best goods for the least money, and he always decides on the Canton P & 0. Plows and Harrows because they run easier and do better work than any other Drills an Are the Standard of the World. They work in all soils and are a positive Force Feed, and will sow all kinds of grain without cracking the seed. If you contemplate buy ing a Drill or Seeder investigate the Superior. Now is the time to Pull the Stumps out of your field. We have the machine the Steel Clad Grubber, It will pull half an acre while while you set some other machines. Come and investigate this before buying a Stump Puller. You will also find a full and complete line of Farm and Spring Wagons, Buggies, Garden Tools, Pumps, Wind Mills, &c. n ORTHWEST IMPLEMENT lOMPANY, Placing Your No money spent in buildirrg is so wisely placed as that which you pay for good doors and windows. We invite atten tion to the assortment of our well made stock. Many great eccbiomies will be revealed by a visit and critical inspection of exceptional offerings throughout the entire store. -- Misrepresentations of any kind are not permitted in our stofe, if we advertise one door 2 feet 6x6 feet 6xi j4 thick we will not send you one that is dressed down to ) inches, it will measure one and one-half inches and cost onl $1.35 at lnat We guarantee our prices on windows to be as low or lower than any factory in Oregon can sell. Artistic Wall Paper There are many works of att in our stock of Wall Papers, We think we have some that are prettier than any ever shown before. Better Colors, i' Better Weights. Better Proportions." Better Prices. See if there isn't one here that just suits you. Price $ cents per double roll. Of course we have higher priced paper. Here are novelties made to our order in exclusive designs. In the magnitude and variety of these Lace Curtains, in their artistic excellence and in their un usally low prices we present a sale that will be profitable and helpful to you in draping and adoring your home. Fixing-up-time is met by unusual offerings. Lace Curtains per yard ioc. i Drills PORTLAND, ORE. Money A REAL PLEASURE The mechanical con struction of the Climax Machine makes it a great pleasure, because of the ease of operation and the perfect work it does. Price $20 and pay as you please. Seeders