OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1902.
Oregon CityCourier-Herald
BY A. W. CHENEY
Entered In Oregoa City PoMoffloe as 2nd-clM8 matter
, 4CBSCR1FTI0N RATES.
'nid la ivfvaace, per year 150
Si x months '5
Tkreemootba 'trial 26
fflTrhe date opposite your address on the
puper denotes t he time to whicv. you haTe paid.
1 this notice is marked yonr subac.iptico ii due.
OREGON CITY, SEPT. 19, 1902.
In the United States $10,000,000 are
invested in the manufacture of automo
biles, of which 12,000 were turned out in
1.' months. This machine is on!.? in its
infancy, and it is predicted that the time
ili come when its cheapness will place
Ihe ownership of one within the power
oi the man of small means.
Wm. N. Whitely, a manufacturer of
Jariu implements at Springfield, Ohio,
employing about 3000 hands, has left
the republican party. lie can't stom
ach the republican trusts any longer.
Thousands of republicans, he sajs, are
going over to the democrats, who, he
believes, Till win if they stick to the
tariff issue.
Louis Bkktband, socialistic deputy
Irom Brusbels, in his work on the "Co
operative Movement in Belgium," esti
mates that on the 1st of January, 1901,
the co-operative societies numbered
1800, and that they supplied the neces
earies of life to over one million consum
ers, or one-seventh of the total popula'
tion of the kingdom.
The awful fires in portions of tLis
eounty, which deprived in a moment,
almost, maiiy of our beat citizens of the
fruits of years of toil and self-sacrifice,
c ertainly convince every sane man that
great care should be exercised in
setting fire in the open during the
dry season, and that severe punishment
should be inflicted on any one through
whose criminal carelessness or indiffer
ence a great destructive fire is started.
French dealers from Paris have ar
rived in San FranciBco to buy Cali
fornia and Oregon dried prunes.
The French prune crop, which
n usually 25,000,000 pounds, will be less
than one-fifth that amount this year.
It is expected that two thousand car
loads of prunes will he shipped from the
Pacific coast to France to be dried there
under the French process and sold as
Jfreuch prunes.
Long and careful inquiries by German
doctors indicate that cancer is not prob
ably hereditary, but that it is pernicious
ly contagious. In certain districts the
number of sufferers in proportion to the
population is much larger every year
than in other areas. Dogs and cats in
many instances become cancerous, but
few horses and cattle are attacked. Men
and tvomen are stricken on the average
earlier in life in this generation than in
those which preceded it.
Sir William Crookk affirms that the
world is using np 1,200,000 tons of ni
trates a year, that 30 years from now
12,000,000 tons will be neededt and as
the supply will not be adequate, man
kind will stand face to face
with starvation, Lord Kelvin expresses
the opinion that if the present waste of
oxygen by means of laige furnaces and
the endless number of steam engines
continues, within a few hundred years
all the oxygen in the air will have
been exhausted, Chemistry must come
to the aid of civilized man to save him
from falling from his high estate (o a
lower depth than that in which the
Australian Bushman grovels.
The coal truat pays its men on an ever
Kgo $1.28 a day. As the miners are em
ployed only part of the time the figures
do not fairly represent what their wages
uie in proportion to their living ex
penses. The average earning capacity
of a miner is $248 a your. Out of this
enm he must pay tliecoul trut-t for house
rent from $3(1 to $72 a )ear, must supply
his own powder at $14 a year, his own
oil at $5 a year and physician's fees nt
$t a year, leaving a balance of $115 a
year, or $2 25 a week, for provisions and
clothing, the former obtained at the
company's store at prices forty per cent
higher than elsewhere, Ttie miners
uwkvd o twenty per cent increase. It
w as denied them, and the miners struck.
Tim most wonderful metal in tho
world is radium. It is one of the new
t ilings under the sun, at leant to human
ity, ami the word radium is not found
iu the current dictionaries. The total
mass of the metal thusfar collected
weighs only one-thirtieth of an ounce, or
10 ounces Troy. A Mr. Curie and his
wife extracted the tlrst grain from pitch'
blende at a cost of more than $10,000.
r.adium contains within itself such an
inllnite energy, writes John Brlsben
Walker in the, September Cosnioplitan,
that much the very beginning of crea
tion it has been emitting streams ct ma
terial particles projected with the ve
locity of 00,000 to IHV'OO miles per sec
ond. Radium converts oxygen into
oione. Its rays, blindingly brilliant,
ntiwr tease to shine. They have been
found to be of tare value iu medicine.
The prospector who lluds even a pound
of pitchblende rich in radium can take
op liia residence on Easy Street.
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When Arbitration
Is Not Possible
By ABRAM S. HEWITT, Millionaire Manufacturer
and Ex-Mayor of New York
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HE RIGHT TO LABOR IS INHERENT IN
EVERY HUMAN BEING AND CANNOT BE
SURRENDERED WITHOUT THE SACRIFICE
OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND OF PRI
VATE PROPERTY. It therefore cannot bo arbi
trated any more than the right of a man to his own
home if it shall bo claimed bj an outsider who proffers arbitration.
An offer of arbitration is always attractive, but there are many
things which cannot be submitted to arbitration, and among them
none is so important to the workingman as the right to sell his
labor in a free market. THE ANTHRACITE MINE OPER
ATORS CANNOT YIELD THIS POINT WITHOUT BEING
DISLOYAL TO THE OWNERS OF THE PROPERTY AND
TO THE WORKMEN WHO CARRY ON THE OPERA
TIONS. It would be far better to abandon the business of mining anthra
cite coal than to concede the demand for any man or set of men
to deny the rights of employment and of labor upon which the whole
structure of free government is founded and to which this couiiry
owes phenomenal progress. In my judgment, therefore, the oper
ators are only doing their plain duty in declining to arbitrate a ques
tion which is in the domain of conscience and involves the personal
liberty of the individual.
THE ONLY SOLUTION OF THE TROUBLE IS FOR
MR. MITCHELL TO ORDER THE STRIKE OFF WITH
OUT DELAY. When this is done, if there be grievances to be
arbitrated they will be promptly adjusted between the local oper
ators and local unions. The right of association is not in question.
This is admitted by both employers and employees. What is denied,
and properly so, is the power by the issue of union cards to refuse
employment to nonunion men and thus condemn them to ostracism,
starvation and death.
SUCH A RESULT IS ABHORRENT TO JUSTICE AND IS FATAL
TO PERSONAL LIBERTY.
SEMI-STARVATION AT THE FEN.
A younc mau recently released from
the Oregon penitentiary makes the state
ment, which is corroborated by other
former inmates; that the food which l.e
received during his imprisonment of 18
months was insufficient in fact, keeps
a prisoner in a condition of semi-starvation.
It does not seem reasonable to
presume that one form of pinishment
which the Btate of Oregon inflicts on its
prisoners is hitting them in the beily
below the belt, which is cowardly aud
cruel. He gives a rough outline of the
daily bill of fare, as follows: Coffee once
a day, In the morning, made of one
pound of chicory to 300 men ; no butttr
at all ; a slice of meat of about two
inahes square; abundance of bread two
days old ; for supper abundance of mush ;
sugar but no miik. This diet lacks in
two things : variety and absence of
either animal or vegetable fata or oils.
Men are not in condition to work on it,
and it is not surprising that the prisoners
become lean and vary the dull monot
ony of life by couuting ribs. Another
evidence of the insufficiency of the food
is that this prisoner, who is a working
man, spent $75 on food during his im
prisjument, or nearly a dollar a week.
Abundance of chickens, turkejs, straw
berries, etc , are produced on the peni
tentiary far.n, bul those luxuries are re
tained by the officers. The convicts
can only get them either by buying or
stealing, as they sometimes do. A pris
oner in the Oregon penitentiary having
no money and no friends on the outside
who take pity on him is fn a sad plight:
getting not little enough food to die of
starvation, but not eufllcient not to rea
der even more bitter his hatred of the
power-hold'ng class which put him be
hind the bars. It is a wonder thatour
state criminal college does not send out
more poBt graduates like Harry Tracy
Governor elect Chamberlain has prom
ised that he will see to it that the"hnys"
have enough to eat.
Labor is able to travel on its own feet
because labor has been com Dulled to
walk without assistance. Hut the "in
fant industries" must bo provided with
"jumpers," "perambulators," patent
walking devices and all kinds of supports
and protection. The working masses
must Unlit their own way, but capitalists
must be given government bounty, pro
tection and a chance to w rest an undue
pr jilt from the peuple. When laboring
men organize and refuse to work unless
paid remunerative wages they are called
"anarchists," "disturbers of the peace,"
"menaces to society" and ''agitators,"
but when capitalists organize and shut
up one-half their mills in order to limit
production and thereby force the people
to pay tribute, W called "the evolution
of modern industrial methods" and the
capitalists are called "captains of in
dustry." When the laborers organize
and attempt to force capital to terms,
the militia is called out. When capi
talists organize and force labor aud the
public to pay tribute, public officials
talk about the "delicate machinery of
our vast business system" and plead
that nothing be done to disarrange the
machinery. Commoner.
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The machinery of England iseetimat
t d to equal the labor-power of 700,000,
000 nnn.
Linotype operators are being asked to
ao to South Africa for $22.50 per week
of for'y-eight hours. Under the Boer
government the minimum was $30 for
forty-two hours.
Thomas Reece, a British labor writer,
states that theie are to day in seventeen
trades in Great Britain over 1,000,000 fe
males working in factories, and the de
cease or male labor due to it is becom
ing a serious labor problem.
1
Brunswick House and Restaurant
NEWLY FURNISHED ROOMS
Meals at All Hours ' Open Day and Night
Prices Reasonable
Only First Class Restaurant in the City
CHAS CATTA, Prop,
Opposite Suspense Bridge OREGON CITY, ORE.
POPE & CO.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
Hardware, Stoves. Syiaruse Chilled and Steel Plows,
Harrows and Cultivators, Planet Jr., Drills and
Hoes, Spray Pumps,
PLUMBING A
Cor. Fourth and Main Sts.
House
Keepers
and
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Courier-Herald
m lOMANIS BEST FRIEND,
So Says Mrs. Rose, of New York City,
And Tens of Thousands of Other Women.
iWrs. Jennie Rose, 362 W. Twenty-Second Street, New York City, writes
The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.:
Gentlemen: "Peruna is a blessing
female trouble since I began menstruation, and every mocth I suffered two and
three days of untold agony, and had to arrange my work and duties so as to
be in bed every month for two days at
"My brother was cured of Bright's
I determined to try it for my trouble.
"Imagine my great joy when I found that It relieved me quite a bit the first
month and I was entirely without pain during that period after having used
Peruna only four months. .
"This is about two years ago and all
I can now come and go as I like and
and wish that every suffering woman
through the use of this medicine."
Truly
Imperial Bicycles. j
SPECIALTY '
OREGON CITY
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CANNE1"
GOODS.,
Oh, yes; oh, yes; coma this way
for the fullest and freshest stock of
canned goods in town. We have
just receive I a large lot of the
very best fruits and vegetables in
cans. Try our sliced peaches, our
fancy corn, or oui tender melting
peas! Go away, you make my
month water. Oh, no; come round
aud buy. Prices very low.
A. ROBERTSON,
7TH ST. GROCER
f
t Usnig the PATENT FLOUR
of it in a ringing chorus of
praise. 1 ne oread consequences that
follow its use are fine enough to
please the most fastidious. We can
not permit our reputation to suffer by
tting anything below our high
ta dard on the market. What the
. at- nt brand is at its best it is all the
tin es. Made by Portland Flouring
Mill Co. and sold by all grocer.
and Oregonian p'f Leaai3 anJ
to suffering women. I suffered with
least.
Disease from the use of Peruna and so
' ,
during that time I have suffered no pain.
consider Peruna woman's best friend
might know that she can find relief
yours,
MRS. JENNIE ROSE.
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SHANK & BISSELL, Undertakers
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Phones 411 and 304. Lower
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YOU MAY NOT KNOW IT
But tht Best Stock of First-Class
Goods to be Found at Bottom
Prices in Oregon City is at
HARRIS' GROCERY
Established 1870
FURRIERS
ij. P. RUMMELIN & SONS,
126 Second Street, near Washington,
Portland, Ore.
Our stock of Fur Garments is now complete, and
intending purchasers will
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estaDiisnmem ana inspect our rurs.
We are showing new effects in Fur Coats and Capes.
Our Collarettes and Boas are in entirely new designs and
consist of a great variety.
Mail Orders receive prompt attention.
Send for Illustrated Catalogue.
Mrs. Ellen Thompson, Battle Town,
Ky., writes :
"When I wrote you for advice I was
very bad off. When I reeelved your
letter I commenced using Peruna and it
did Just what you said it would. I have
had a cough for about fifteen years and
your medicine has done me more good
than anything I have ever used. I am
so thankful to you for your advice to
me." Mrs. Ellen Thompson.
Mrs. James Eighmey, Grape, Mich.,
writes:
"I have been troubled with pain be
fore and during my monthlies ever since
I waB seventeen. I was also troubled
with other female weakness. I took
your treatment, and am now well, and
thank you for your kind advice." Mrs,
Jamea Efghmey.
Mrs. John Meyers, Erhart, O., writes?
" I have been a sufferer from chronlo
catarrh for years and have thereby lost
the sense of smell entirely. I had four
of the best physicians in this vicinity
without receiving any benefit whatever,
"Now I am once more a well woman.
I find Peruna to be the best medicine
in the world as it has done me more
good than my physician could have
done for me. My Mends say I look
ten years younger. I tell them that
Peruna did it. I can't thank you
enough for your free advice." Mrs.
John Meyers.
Mrs. Ida Baker, Portsmouth, O.,
writes : 1
"I am glad to say that I am well. I
have taken Peruna and feel bettor than
I have for ten years ; have gained twelve
pounds and am still gaining. When I
wrote to you for advice I had given up
all hope of being well again, and I feel
that it has saved my life." Mrs. Ida
Baker.
Alice Scott, of Prat-klin, Ky., in a let
ter to Dr. Hartman, says:
"Tor seven long years I had been a
constant sufferer from catarrh of the
pelvic organs which resulted in dis
placement of the uterus. I wrote you
telling you all my complaints from the
beginning to the present, made happy
and much encouraged every time by
your kind and fatherly letters of advice
and Instruction. I am now a strong
woman weighing 118 pounds." Alice
Scott.
If you do not derive prompt and satis
factory results from the use of Poruna,
write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad
vice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
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We carry the ntdycomplete line
of Cneket, Cofr'nic, Robes and
Linings in Clackan as County.
We have the c niy Firt-t Class
Hearse in the County, which we
w ill furriinh for lt-sx than can be
had eltewhere.
Embulmii'g a Specially.
Our prices always reasonable.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
7th St., Bet. Bridge and Depot. p
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Brown & Welch
Proprietors of the
Seventh . Street
Meat Market
A. O. U. W. Building
OREGON CITY. OREGON
Incorporated 1899
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