UMflGON Oil? COURIER FRIDAY, MAY 15, 19C3
OREGON CITY COURIER
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OREGON OITY, M Y 15, 1903.
The Sun Shines Bright in Oregon.
The family in the White house is
entertaining an uninvited guest the
measles.
The public is still waiting witli in
terest to hear what President Roose
velt has to say regardingthe "Iowa
idea." t
The President declares that we have
kept our promises to the Phillipinos.
Perhaps, but then we never promised
much.
Russia evidently intends to establish
a Monroe Doctrine of her own in Asia
and she lias a "stick" big enough to
enforce it.
George Gould says the present pros
perity will continue twelve months
longer. Just long enough, no doubt,
t ) convince a certain class of republi
cans that this party made the prosperity.
The Pennsylvania "muzzle law"
which practically destroys the liberty
of the press, is a fair sample of the
limits to which a Matthew Quay
machine is willing to go to serve its
own ends and perpetuate its own life.
Postmaster General Payne strenu
ously denied that Attorney General
Tyner's resignition was evor de
manded. And now it appears that it
was not only demanded but that its
demand was ordered by the President
as far back as last March.
Hermann's supporters insist upon
the observance of the rule of the In
terior Department, whereundor special
investigating reports are kept seoret
and confidential. Henoe, the text of
Special Agent A. R. Greene's report
filed last year with Secretary Hitch
cock, relating to Mr. Hermann's ad
ministration of the Land Office, can
not be given to the world.
LET MR. HERMANN EXPLAIN.
It will be difficult to convince any
reasonable person that Binger Her
mann was not dismissed from the
commissionership of the General Land
Office under two charges :
Por incompetency.
For conduct unworthy of an officer
of the government.
The statements authorized by the
administration since Mr. Hermann
left Washington are proof evident that
his business methods were inadequate
to the proper handling of the affairs of
the important department which was
in his charge. His suocessor, Com
missioner Richards, has effected rad
ical improvement although he has
been incumbent only a trifle more
than three months.
However embarrassing the allega
tions of incompetency may b?,it is in.
comparably more mortifying, or would
be to most men of normal ethical con
ceptions, to rest under the aspersion
of having committed acts that were
not consistent with the high duty en
trusted to him.
No word has come from him, nor
any from his friends, as to the under
lying causes that led up to his dis
missal. Accused of gross mismanage-
Some critics say the Washington
Monument in Washington is not high
art. They ought to be compelled to
elimb it.
Golf has loft the column of quiet
isporta and joined the hair raising
variety since it cured John D. Rocke
feller's baldness.
A fow more accidents in the navy
and our naval olfioers will not know
which end of the guns to point at
the enemy in the nest naval conflict.
SenatorJHoar uttered a very eloquent
tribute to Thomas Jefferson, but then
Senator Hoar never was in favor of the
forcible Bubjoation of the Philipinos,
If there be nothing in that special ment, charged with culpable' conduct,
report that is discreditable to Mr. I he has permitted the allegations to
Hermann, then his own supporters , pass unchallenged,
r , :
themselves should bring it out and pub
lish it broadcast. It will be most excel
lent material wherewith to refute alle
gations made against Mr. Hermann's
efficiency or even integrity as Com
missioner of the General Land Office.
Is it a tact, or is it a dream, that
the Presidont, ouly five mouths ago,
recommended a tariff revision commis
sion to Congress as a practical remedy
for trust evils?
Apparently the Now Yorkers find
the minature cyclones produced by
the "Flatirou Building" so eutertian
ing that thoy are going to build an
other. Senator Piatt and Governor Odell
Lave had thoir annual fracas but it is
not likely that either can afford to
fall out when there is a national elec
tion at hand.
CASE GOES BY DEFAULT.
It is not abuse to call in question
tho acts of an American official. No I
divinity "doth hedge him around."
He stands in the open glare of publi
city, and it is proper at any time that
the searchlight of inquiry should be
turned full upon him. If, finally, that
light reveals facts that appear to dis
credit him as to efficiency or integrity,
it is compoteut to ask him to explain.
In the case of Binger Hermann, can
didate for congress, specific allogaions
have been made, which have been sub
stantiated from the records. And the
only reply that has been made by
his supporters is to make a general
denial that there can be any thing
questionable in Mr. Hermann's eareer.
This is not enough. Lamontablo as
the fact may be, officials have beon
known to turn a public office into a
"private snap" when it should have
been a "public trust. "
One particular allegation is that
Often this is good policy, even for
a guilty man. But, in the present in
stance, the people want to know just
why he was dismissed. They naturally
want an explanation. Mr. Hermann
is a candidate for the people's suf
frages. He aspires to be retained in
publio office, the air of which he has
breathed for a quarter of a century.
He proposes that the people of Ore
gon invest him with the robes of
authority io stand in Congress
and speak for them on publio issues.
What manner of man is it who thus
aspires? What account can he give
of his most recent stewardship? Has
he been faithhful? Has lie been com
petent ? Was he or was he not guilty of
gross ignorance and gross misconduct?
These questions are pertinent at this
time. They must be answered. If
Mr. Hermann has beon unjustly ac
cused, then let the accused man stand
forth in the dignity of injured in
nocency and hurl back into the teeth
of his detractors the defense of one
whose official life may safely be dis
cussed by himself.
If Mr. Hermann has been unright
eously attacked by his own Republi
can associates, then let him say why
and how. If he has deserved what
has come to him, in the form of
charges, then let the lash of publio
Largest
Clothiers
in the
tlortbwest
Corner
Tourthand
Itlorrlson
Streets
Men's Summer
Apparel
Mr. Hermann acquired between 8000
and 4000 acres of publio land, between COU(jemnation be laid on his back.
uunng gmjjj iaan cannot be too sharply
wielded.
As there were no newspaper men
with tho President in tho Yellowtone
Parkjthore.is nojreasou why the story
of Jiis adventures are not be veritable
"'shilling shockers."
A Milwuukiewoiu.au has named hor
jliild "Theodore Roosevelt Henry
OlayJfPayne Brandonburg. " Is this
otjacaso for tho'Sxiioty for the pre
vention of cruolty to children?
Tho President's courtesy to tho lab
or unions has offended the oasten cap
italists and the Prosidont must take a
back track or they will throw their
support to sumo other candidate.
Tho war department is about to ox-
pe.ud $11)0,000 in tho consruetion of a
f(iiu carriage. This is but another evi
dence of the fact that this administra
tion iN running mad with militarism.
It islioped that the Alaskan scandal
which involvosa number of Army
ollloorsjis not a sample of what will
occur almost daily when the United
States Lets to Ihuilding the Panama
caunl.
Tho New Jersey trolley lines havo
just born absorbed bv tho "holding
company with a capital off 250,000,000.
Tliey(liiiolJseein(o bo badly fright
inodby theNorthern Securities decis
ion.
A traveler who has just returned from
Pompeii says that us tho excavations
proceed it is found that the Pompeiians
had houses fitted witli modern plumb
nig inul, iu fact,' "all modern im
provenionts. ' '
The public is beginning to wonder
if a strenuous President neeossirily
moans an aggregation of weak men iu
thtJ Cabint. Moody, Payne, Hitch-
ock. and Wilson are all uionuuioutal
u that line.
President Baer defies tho Interstate
OOTjuuerco Commission to prove that
Int companies, tney are legion, are
breaking the law by owning coal
miry is and operating railro ids at one
aud (ho same time. If, howover, tho
Commission provos that tho companies
are within the law it will be a stop
iu the right direction. It will demon
strate the necessity ! revising the
-?r
.
March 1871 and April 1873,
which time he was Receiver of the
United States Land Office at Rose
burg ; that Soction 452, United States
Revised Statutes, explicitly prohibits
such an official "from directly or in
directly purchasing or becoming in
terested in the purchase of any of the
publio lands, and that any person who
violatos this section "shall forthwith
be removed from office;" and that,
persuaut with this federal statute, Mr.
Hermann was removed from the Re
ceivership in April, 1873, when he had
served but one month longer, than half
his tonn.
The allegation that he acquired the
land is substantiated by a certificate
signod by J. O. Booth, Reoeivor of the
Rosoburg Land Office, such certificate
being furuishod by him upon demand
from citizons of Rosoburg, and given
by Roceiver Booth, under compulsion
of his official duty.
Tho fact of his acquiring tho land,
while an officer of tho land office, was
unlawful is substantiated, simply by
quoting from tho federal statutes,
Section 453, tho substance of which
is quoted previously in this article,
and is made applicable in the statute
to ' ' tho olllcors, clerks and employes
in tho General Land Office." "In
Land Office Docisions," volumes 10
and 11, are tho records of cases tried
before tho government in which it is
explicitly settled that tho pliraso "the
officers , tho clerks and omnloves in
tho General Land Officii, " refers to all
officers, clerks and omnloves in such
local land offices as the Rosoburg office.
These decisions were rendered years
before Mr. Hermann's term of officii,
and stood as tho well known law.
In a code of law, when charges are
brought against an individual, tho
prosecutor must first lmtke specific
allegation, an then adduce his testi
mony, after which he rests his case.
It is then competent for tho defonso to
introduce its testimony, which being
done.tho prosecution then has tho right
10 tho ear of tho jury and then the
case is submitted to them for thoir
verdict.
Iu the present instance, before a
jury of 40,000 voters, the charge has
boon made against Mr. Hermann, and
tho evnleuoo submitted. The jury of
the people await tho introduction of
tho testimony by tho defense,
Let it bo remembered that failure
oh tho part of the defense to appear
in court aud answortho charges that
have been made is construed by the
court as admission ofEguilt'and judg
ment is rctiderod agaiust the defendant
by default.
lAKis Mr. nermann; propose to
IcriliMhis case to go by default?
Heavyweight garments cannot be discarded
too quickly. It's time to don the summer
suit.
There's only one safe course to follow. Buy your
Clothing where the reliability of the fabrics and the cor
rectness of the workmanship are backed by the guar
antee of a responsible firm.
Outing Suits . . . .
in single or double breasted and Norfolk
styles, made of homespun, serge flannel
and tropical worsted materials and equal to
Portland best custom tailor work.
$10, $12.50, $14.50, $15,
$16.50, $18 .
Men's Medium-weight Suits and Topcoats
extreme and conservative styles $10 to $35
We're headquarters for straw and Panama hats and furnishings for men---boys, too
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OREGON CITY.
Oregon City is one of the busies
little towns in the world. Then, too,
it is not as small a town as one might
infer from the reading of the oensus
report of 1900. Within three miles of
the court house in this boautiful city
there are 10,000 people. They are all
busy and industrious and the city
itsolf presents ono vast beehive in
which there are no droans and every
one is working for the health a id
happiness that the future holds in store
for them. Here three thousand people
are earning wages and good wages at
at that. Here every line of industry
is prosperous and the people are coii
tontod aud happy. Boiieath the r.mr
and rush of the Willamette river the
Willamette Pulp & Paper mills turns
out daily -eighty tons of newspaper
that not only supplies practically all
of the newspapers on tho coast with
white news but woekly makes largo
shipments to Australia. Tho Crown
Paper Mill located in close touch
to tho lllametto turns out tons,
of tnanilla aud wrappii g papers tuid
bagging paper every day. Botwoeu
tho owners of tin so ningnifi lent
properties and the labor that keeps
in motion their mighty machinery
tho best of feeling exists. The Port
land General Electric Company sup
plies the light and power that lights
tho great cities of Portland, Oregon
City and all tho adjacent suburbs. It
also furnishes tho power that drives
the trolley lines, and motor cars in
this end of the valley. The enlight
ened management of this magniflcont
property has made of it a power plant
second to but ono other power1 and
light plant in the world. The Oregon
City woolen mills have for thirty and
more years given employment to from
200 to 500 peoplo and turned the raw
material of this valley into woolen
goods that havo found a ready market
iu every part of the world Jand the
Portland Flouring Mill, which has
boeu a fixture iu this city for well on
to half a century, ships its goods to
every land where white bread is
the "staff of life," aud this week
alone it is making a shipment of 5,000
barrels of flour to tho Orient.
These are a few of the material
things that have made of Oregon
City the third largest and best city
between San Francisco and the bound-
ttry line of "BrTt isltT!olumbia. Accord
ing to tho last census we are only
credited with 3,909 people. Upon that
basis Oregon City is the busiest place
of its size in the world. It inanufac
tures more goods, 'converts more raw
material, employs more' labor and
pays its labor better than any other
city of less than 4,000 that American
gonius and Yankee pluck has buildod
on this continent.
It is not only in its material wealth
that Oregon City deserves to be
noticed. Its social life is equal to its
creative and active business life.
Its two fine schools within the city
limits and four others within a radius
of two miles, its twelve churches with
thoir large congregations of Godly
aid active Christian works, its
t .velve nreachers who each works in
his own way to save the lost sheep and
who each week preach to their flock
as able sermons upon Christian life
and duty as one can hear anywhere.
Its fourteen secret benevolent socie
ties iii which much of the social life
of the city abounds. Its business in
' stitutious and social life are the equal
1 of tho best that can be found in any
laud. Its people are cosmopolitan
aud bohomian to a remarkable extent.
They are b'rond mindod and generous to
thestranger within thoir gates. Be it
remembered thi't Oregon City is in tho
heart of the Willamette Valley, that
it is 13 miles from Portalud, 185 miles
from Seattle, T."i(i miles from San
Francisco, ii.O.iO miles from .New
York, 8,i!00 miles from London and
10,000 miles from the Orient. When
coming this way stop ana wo wiu
pledge you a toast iu Good Willam
ette water, "There may be better
people but we have nofmet them."
TREASURER'S NOTICE.
I now have money to pay county war
rants endorsed prior to Nov. 1st, l'JUO
also road warrants endor-ed prior to
March Ut. 1903. interest will cease on
such warrants ou the date of this notice
Oregon City Oregon, May 15th, 1903.
r.NOS Uahill, treasurer,
2t Ulackhtnas cotinfy Ore,
Wagons, buggies, carnages mowers
rakes, binders at Fairclough Bros. & Co,
Card of Thanks.
We, the wife and children of Joseph
Froniong, deceased, desire to express
our thanks to the many friends and
neighbor and to the A. O. U. W., D. of
H. and the K. of P. of Oregon City for
their kindness and attention duriug the
last illness, death and interment of our
dearlv beloved husband and farther.
Mrs Joseph Fromono and Family.
Dance at Damascus.
There was a dance at Ritiau's hall at
Damascus Saturday evening. Musie
for the occasion was furnished ty Frank
and Percy Norton, assisted by Mrs. F,
Norton. Oystenand ice cream were
served. The dance was successful from
every point of view.
HOW MANY CHILDREN IN .".' '
OREGON ARE GOOD GUESSERS
Wc m Being to Eivt Seventy Dollars
in the form of cash prizes to find out what child
ch' give the best reason why Eilers Piano
House can sell pianos as it does, at fiom $100
to $150 less than any other dealer on the Coast.
The 1st prize is $25 cash.
The 2d prize is $20 cash,
The 3d prize is $10 cash,
The 4th prize is $5 cash,
The 10 next are each $1 cash
This offer appears in the newspapers all over the state,
and, of course, every boy and girl who rtiads it want to show
what a good guesser he is. So read the questions we give and
our advertisement in another part of this paper. They will help
ycu. If you do not just exactly understand anything, ask
some older person about it. Then sit down and write your own
conclusions yourself and send them to us,
Is there any difference between selling
iu large qualities and small quantities ?
Can a dealt r afford to make better prices
in one case than in another, and if so in
which case?
Does it pay to ship pianos and organs
in car load lots, and if so, why ?
Is it more economical to ship in boxes ?
Does this save in weight, and if so, what
difference does it make ?
Many bright and interesting letters are coming in, and not a
single child in Oregon wants to miss the opportunity of winning
a prize. We want to hear from you all. The gentlemen who
have kindly consented to act as judges of the contest are Mr. C
J. Owen, Managing Editor of the Evening Telegram, and Mr'
Thomas Milbum, of the Advertising Department of the Oregonian.
They will select a third from among the business men of Port,
land whose name will be announced next week. Contest closer
May 31st, i9o3. ChiWren i6years old and younger, are el gible
Letters must not contain over a hundred words.
EILERS
PIANO HOUSE,
Washington St. Corner Park, PORTLAND, OREGON
We want to Know