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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JAANURY 30, 1903.
OREGON CITY COURIER
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OREGON CITY, JAN . 30, 1903.
It is evident that the Dakota
Divorce Trust was not contributing
its fair share to the Republican
campaign fund.
Would the proposed Kansas
legislation against shake eaters be
more successful tnan tne legisiauon
against snake drinkers?
Our pensioned ward, the Sultan
of Jolo. has succumbed to cholera,
but his large consortment of wives
and slaves will still look to Uncle
Sam as their guide, philospher and
friend. 1
Siberia is trying the experiment
of making its criminals conductors
engineers and brakemen on the
Siberian railway. In this country
few of them are content to stop
short of the control of the system
The Illinois State Journal informs
us that "an Egyptian mummy 2,ooo
years old died of appendicitis;"
But is the Journal sure the mummy
died of appendicitis or of the opera
tion ?
Tillman's defense of his assassi
nation of Gonzales is that he thought
the editor was armed. If Columbia s
Judge sentences the murderer to
be hanged under the impression
that he is guilty, he will need no
defense.
The Union Republicans in the
Delaware Legislature have given
Addicks nomination for both the
the short and long, term senator
ships, but there is a prospect that
the Regular Republicans and Demo
crats will flop together and give
the ax to this corrupt protege of a
President stricken with second-
term stark madness.
Chicago's grand jury has return
ed indictments against forty-five
coal firms for engaging in a con
spiracy to do an illegal act injurious
to the public trade, .bo tar, so
good; but the question of real im
portance is as to what punishment
will be meted out to those who have
engaged in such a conspiracy.
The Bubonic Plague Conference
at Washington is convinced that
the black death is active in San
Francisco, but is satisfied that
everything will be lovely as soon
as the city and the State of Cali
fornia have competent boards of
health that will proceed under de
finite, harmonious and effective
laws, after they have been supplied
with ample funds. At this rate,
the plague will have died of old age
or want of victims to sustain it be
fore the exact conditions to stamp
it out have been secured.
The Lewis and Clark Fair is at
last a certainty. The people of
Oregon are to be congratulated upon
the good sense with which the
Oregon legislature acted upon this
question and made the appropriation
necessary to carry on this great
work. With" a decent appropri
ation now by the r-ederal govern
ment, the Board of fair managers
will have at their disposal some two
millions of dollars with which to put
on foot this great advertisement of
the resources of the Northwest
country. The fair should be and
will be a great success: The state
of Oregon will reap from its sowing
a harvest of benefits that will many
times over compensate it for the
expenditure in money it is now
making. Every Oregonian should
now put his shoulder to the wheel
and do what he can to make the
Lewis and Clark Oriental Fair the
greatest that has yet been held in
the country.
STARTLING SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.
Where will the solemn decrees of
alleged science end? We have
meekly swallowed everthing ap
pertaining to the inexhaustible
germ theory, even to acceptance of
the discovery that laziness is
disease induced by the presence in
the system of minutes hook worms.
And microbes aside we have perils
ed in fear and trembling the leanr
ed theses of dietary experts, shud
dering inwardly with thoughts of
appendicitis every time we ventur
ed to nibble a slice of white wheat
bread. Having all butbeen driven
to snredded wood and like immune
food preparations, we must begin
to draw the line of credulity some
where, and we draw it right now
on Dr. MacDonald's confidently ad
vanced and highly original new
theory that if a man does not con
fine his diet to meat and potatoes,
he is more than apt to be a nincom
poop, a pervert and a dangerous
criminal.
ur. macuonaid must be a very
eminent specialist of something or
'nuther. He is tagged as professor
of criminology in the National
Bureau of Education.
The learned doctor has put him
self in an attitude where he will be
accused of being in the secret em
ploy of the beef trust, or sordidly
interested in the spud market. An
overworked public credulity will
eschew the diet, he authorizes and
go on chewing what not while giv
ing the great criminologist the care
less ha-ha!
Dr. MacDonald's theory is that
the substitution of less solid foods
for meat and potatoes causes the
increase of crime. The doctor
elaborates verbosely on this wonder
ful discovery, but after all is said,
that is all the doctor says, It is e
nough that the criminologist of the
National Bureau 'of Education has
said it.
WANTED COMMON SENSE.
President Mitchell, of the Mine
Workers' Union, remarked in his
Indianapolis address last night:
"Manufacturers, bankers, grocers,
whole salers, preachers and saloon
men., have their organizations.
Surely no one would deny us work
ingmen.. the same rights as the
whisky dealers. Labor will take
advantage of every privilege that
capital does. If capital jMS?
labor will consolidate; Labor
simply follows in the' footsteps of
its partner, capital." Now let Baer
Gates, Schwab and the other
Christian men to whom God in his
infinite wisdom has confided the
wealth of the country put this un
palatable fact into their pipes and
smoke it.
No county in Oregon should pro
fit more by the Lewis and Clark
Oriental Exposition than Clacka
mas county: Our territory will
run right to the doors of the great
exposition, we do not have to hunt
the opportunity; the opportunity is
brougli right to our door. Every
material resource of this great
county should be brought to the
attention of the public and thorough
ly advertised to the world. Wt
have the best county in Oregon.
One of the best counties in the
world. Let- us tell about it ane
demonstrate it so all may know
what Clackamas county is mi
Wouldn't it be well to have some
sort of gauge to measure just how
far to enter into the degrees of
faith? If a man hasn't quite
enough religion they call him an
infidel, and if he has too much thev
know that he is insane. Ah, how
we are still suffering for that bless
ed gin, common sense!
It is related that a number of
good churchmen coming up out of
the swamps to Memphis saw an ice
factory. Upon returning home
they reported that they had seen
men makiug ice. A deacon called
on them and said:
"Brothers, you oughtn't be talk
ing thiser way round where the
children can hear you."
"But it's the truth," one of them
declared.
The deacon wiped his brow.
"Friends," said he, "nobody can
make ice but the Lord, and he can't
4o it in July, I'm sorry but you'll
have to come before the church.
The church was unusually toler
ant that, season owing to the fact
that the rain had been good, and
the brothers were not summarily
expelled, but a committee was ap
pointed to investigate. The com
mittee went up to Memphis, inves
tigated, went back and reported,
and the account published at the
time says that both the original of
fenders and the committee were ex
pelled. It is rather sad to think that in a
great city the police must stand in
readiness to protect a rivival meet
ing against its own overwrought
fe vor.
Last summer there was a 'dis
astrous drought in Tennessee. A
hillside preacher called a meeting
to pray for rain.
"Do you believe that your pray
ers will bring rain?" an old justice
ot the peace inquired.
"Ot course they will."
"Then I'll just issue a warrant
for your arrest for letting this
drought continue so long when you
could have prevented it."
The revivalist does a great work,
no doubt, but emotion is not next
to godliness.
ANENT THE PRINTERS UNION.
Since the organization of a typo
graphical union in Oregon City
some three months ago, there has
been scarcely a day but some little
question has arisen concerning the
rights of the union and the rights of
the employer. Sometimes it was
the Enterprise and sometimes it
was the Courier, that tne misunder
standing we will call it that word
for the want of abetter was over,
and later since the Record was es
tablished, much of the trouble has
been in that office, The scale of
wages has not been the bone of
contention, tor none ot tne papers
mentioned have failed to pay the
union scale and none have murmer
edat it, deeming it a very fair scale
for both employer and employe.
The last trouble to come up has
been relatives to the rights of em
ployers to work in their own office
if they so desire, In this the union
is maintaining that an employing
printer cannot work in his own
office unless he is a union man and
cannot become a union man because
he is an employing printer. If
there is any justice in this, we fail
to see where it comes in. As an
illustration suppose we take some
of the others unions in this city.
There is the retail clerk's union for
example. Suppose the retail clerks
were to say to their employers;
"because you do not belong to the
union you must not sell a single
piece of goods yourself, but if a
customer comes into this store you
must send him to us to have his
wants attended to. You must not
open this store for business after
seven o'clock at night even if you
do not require a single clerk, for
you are not a member of the union
and not allowed to sell goods."
How long do you suppose that un
ion would last? How long do you
suppose the retail merchants of this
city would stand for any such policy?
Just long enough to allow the mer
chants to get a new set of clerks,
and it is a safe guess that all of
those new clerks would be non-union
clerks. Then there is the barber's
union. Suppose that the owner of
the O. K. barber shop was told
by his employes that he could not
work in his own shop? Is it likely
that he would stand for any such
high proceedings? Not on your life.
The constitution and by-laws of the
International Typographical Uniort
do not ' uphold such high-handed
proceedings, and it is only because
the typographical union in this city
is in its infancy and that the great
majority of its members are new at
the union business that they at
tempt toeriforce any such unreason'
able demands. The by-laws of the
International distinctly state that an
employing printer can carry the
union label and do all of his own
work, provided he be a member of
the union himself. They further
state that he can carry the union
label if he is only an honorary
member, provided he have one
union printer in his employ. The
Courier is the friend of unionism
it bel eves that unionism is right
it was the first paper in Oregon
City to recognize the local union
and has never paid its employes less
than the union scale, but it refuses
to be dictated to by any jack-legged
printer who claims that the owner
has no right to work in his own
office because he is not a member
of the union, and that he cannot
become a member of the union be
cause he is an employer. The
local typographical union may be
able to accomplish something, but
if it dots, it must have at its head
a man wise enough to understand
the meaning of the constitution and
by-laws when he sees them and
just enough to realize that the em
ployer has some rights of his own.
He must be a man who understands
what the meaning of the word
"unionism" means, not one who,
"clothed in a little brief authority"
seeks to do all the damags he can
to all the employing printers in the
town save his own. He must be a
man of principle, at least,
FREE TRADE AND SAILORS RIGHTS.
To one who has followed the "ins
and outs" of tariff legislation in
these United States for a life time
and who has familiarized himself
with the vagaries of tariff legislation
it is a little surprising to read in an
old rock ribbed Republican journal
like the morning Oregonian, day
after day and week after week,
the strongest editorials on the
great doctrine of free trade. Free
trade not in spots, not reciprocity
but plain unadulterated Free trade
of the old Democratic stripes. That
which we Democrats have advocat
ed for all ttyse years. A straight
and honest evision of tariff duties.
The Oregonian loudly calls upon
its party to listen to the mutterings
of discontent among the people and
approach this subject with care and
great caution and to revise every
tariff schedule that will in any way
stand revision, to cut down the
schedules and make so many
articles free as it is possible to put
on the free list. Again the Oregon
ian cries out every day against the
increasing arrogance of corporate
greed and demands at the hands
of its party that something be done
to check the trusts in their "mad
and devilish career." Notsatisfied
with preaching these unholy doct
rines, which have for years been a
part of the creed of the Democracy
of the country, the Oregonian is de
nouncing a great many members
of its own party in high places who
have to do with these questions for
betraying their trust and abusing
the will of the people and making
the good name of the Grand Old
Party a by-word and a stench in
the nostrils of all hnnpst men.
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I far, so good. She following cutting
from the columns of the Oregonian
might with equal propriety have
been written by the great Henry
Watterson and published as part of
the Democratic taith in the Demo
cratic Courier-Journal.
Meanwhile this British protest will
develop the weak point of the reciprocity
theory its essential unfairness. We
are lopping off a few links of tariff in
justice when e should lay the ax at the
root of the tree. We are nibbling a
round the corners of tariff reform, be
cause we are afraid to offend certain
powerful interest by meeting the situa
tion frankly and fully by abolishing all
superfluous duties. Tnia indirect and
dishonest way' is entitled to get us into
trouble with Great Britain asfcvell as
German"-, and the more trouble it makes,
the better for us. A fair readjustment
of the tariff on revenue lines can offend
no one, will give Cuba and the Philip
pines the relief they so sorely need, and
will set the Republican party right be
fore the p'eople. Any other course can
only inyite a Democratic victory in 1904.
The subservience of its leaders to private
interests puts the party in serious case.
You cannot serve the people and the
trusts.
It is easy enough to agree with
the Oregonian in these matters.
But is it not futile for the Oregon
ian to hope that the Republican
party will follow its suggestions in
these matters. The Republican
party, especially in the East is
wedded to a high protective tariff,
the higher the better. -The sched
ules of the Dingley bill are sacred
in the eyes of the great party lead
ers. That they will amend its
schedules or revise its rates is little
to be hoped or expected. That it
will approach the trust question
with any idea of regulating their
business methods or surpressing
their iniquties is hardly to be be
lieved. The trusts are largely
creatures of the tariff. They have
grown up under the fostering care
of the Republican party and the
high schedules provided in all our
later day tariff legislation. The
presumption that the Republican
party will either modify the tariff
as demanded by the people or sup
ress the trusts is not to be enter
tained for a moment. That being
the case what will the Oregonian
do two years hence when it finds
tbe party for which it has "fought,
bled and died" defending both of
these evils in its party's platform.
Will it swallow its convictions and
recant all of the ideas it is thundering
to the people now and go with its
party or will it continue, its fight
for principal and go with the party
which promises some relief along
these lines. We shall see; but in
any event the coast country is
every day becoming more and more
a Free Trade country and becoming
with each day more and more op
posed to the trust evil and their
voices will be heard "later. The
Democratic party is approaching a
great opportunity anli the people
may at last come into their own.
Tlie Secret of Long Life.
Consists in keeping all the main or
gans of the body in healthy, regular ac
tion, and in iuiekly destroying deadly
disease serins Electric BittHrs regu
late stomach, liver and kidneys, purify
the blood, ami giv a splendid appttite.
They work wonders in curing kidn ,y
troubles, female complaints, nervous
diseases, constipitioi, dyspepsia and
malaria. Vigorous health and strength
nlways follow their use. Oidy 50 cents,
guaranteed by Geo. A. Harding, druggist.
Land titles examined and abstracts
made. I guarantee to defeat any tax
title or tax deed in Clackamas county
otherwise no charge made. Money
loaned.
ii. B. Dimick, Lawyer,
Oregon City, Or.
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Foley's Kidney Cure
makes kidneys and bladder right
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