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8 OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 1 903, OREGON CITY COURIER Published Erery Friday by OREGON CITV COURIER PUBLISHING CO. J. H. WxnTOVRR, Editor and Business Manager R. Lu WinOTKB, Looal Editor. fctered in Oregon City PottoSoe u 2od-clug utter SUBSCRIPTION RATES, raid In advance, per yea man ha 1 M 75 Clubbing Rates Oregon CI lyuourierand Weekly Orejronian .12.45 Orpirnn fitv floiirlfif an! WeokiV Uourier- lournai 2.00 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Examiner'.. 2.60 Oregon usty courier ana tne uosmoponuiu... i. Oregon City Courier and the Commoner 2.00 be carried and served on his special train. A girl in Norfolk, Va., was mar ried twice within twelve days. Her first husband committed suicide be cause ot the attentions she paid the man who has just become her sec ond husband. The date ormoslte vour address on the per denotes the time to which you have paid. I .this notice I s marked your subsci lption ii due. OREGON OITY, OCTOBER 23, 1903 DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE MEETING. The Democratic County Central Com mittee of Clackamas County are hereby untitled to meet lh Oregon City on Satur day, Oct. 84th, 1003, for the transaction of Important business, I earnestly desire that every member of the Uoinmltte" hall be present and participate in this meeting as many matters of very great Importance to the party will be up for discussion and disposition. The hour of meeting will be at 10:30 A. m. The place ormeetflug will be In Redman's H il , K. 11. It KATIE, Chairman County Central Committee K. MASS, Secretary. The Czar of Russia has dared to stand in the street of in Darm stadt, Germany.smoking cigarettes, with only two adjutants to guard him.- The Germans were surprised that he did not seem a bit nervous. THIS IS THE BIG PUMPKIN. QP How Many Seed Does it Contain is the Question That is Up for Solution Before Courier Subscribers Senator Hanna tells the people of Ohio, that the Johnson support ers "are stealing upon you with se ductive promises and ready to put the blade to your throat and to poi son the water you drink." Many of Mr. Hanna's friends are not pleased with his new style of ora tory. ' BUCKLE ON YOUR ARMQR. In Germany ten thousand young men who should have renorted for military duty have been sentenced in contumacy for desertion. They are supposed to have left the coun try. The German army seems to have a stimulating effect upon emi gration . The DemocraticCentral Committee of Clackamas county will meet at RedMen'sHill in Oregon City on next Saturday, tomorrow morning at io:3o o'clock a. m. Dr. Beatie fs very desirous that every member of the committee and all other good Democrats who feel an interest in the party and desire to promote its welfare shall attend this meeting. Preliminary steps will be taken for the great battle of next year. The Democracy of Clackamas county should be putting on its armor and making ready for the fray. With a good ticket next year and good management. Something is going to happen. Conditions are getting ripe for a change both fn the county and the nation, It takes organiza tion for any party to make its best showing. Get the party machinery in shape now while there is ample time and plenty of opportunity. This call should be a personal ap peal to every Democrat in the county and every committeeman should feel it his bounden duty to attend this meeting. "Virtue against vice" is the mod est party cry of the Fusionists in New York City. Every vice found among the soldiers of our army is now attri buted to the abolition of the army canteen. It has been discovered that our minister at Constantinople can ar gue the American claims much bet ter while our fleet is at Beirut, President Roosevelt has accept ed an invitation to go fox hunting in Pennsylvania, The secret ser vice men who follow him will have a hard ride. . The following is an interesting sample of campaign literature, "The Republican party has ruled this nation with the exception of two administrations for the. last forcy-three years, and under its guiding hand the population has practically trebled. " The peace footing of the Cana dian militia is to be raised from 38,- 000 to 45.000 and supplied with of ficers and rifles sufficient for an emergency force of 100,000 men. If this country and Canada follow example of the European nations and start a competition in the in crease of our armed forces, it is hard to see just where it would end. ' V v- 4, '.' The magnificent pumpkin which deco rates the window of the Courier office con tinues to attract attention. Ever sub scriberto the Courier who pays his or her subscription gets one estimate upon the number of seed in this big fellow, "and some one will get our fine $400.00 piano. Don't you want it. You need the Courier In your business. It will be , a better paper this next year than it has ever been before. Come in and pay up your subscriptions and help us along. You can also assist us by enrolling your name on our mailing list if you are not already a subscriber. During the next two weeks we wiil send our printed" matter to every voter and to every home in the county. We are in earnest about this matter, and we want 2,000 subscribers before the sno w flies. The following have paid their . sub scriptions during the past week and are entitled to be placed on the roll of honor this week. They have all made estimates on the number of seed in the big pumpkin : D. 0. Richardson, Oregon City $t.oo J. P. Cole, Aurora, Ore ' 1.50 A. Walker, Oregon City I.50 C. N. Tracy, Oregon City . .. . 1.50 A. ViganJ, Aurora, Ore 1.50 Col. R. A. Miller, Oregon City 1.50 H . 8. Anderson, Stone, Ore 1.S0 C. H. Gale, Ely, Ore u5o S. R. Green, Oregon City : 1.50 S. G. Bailey, Wilsonville, Ore 1.S0 S. J. Sanderson, Clackamas, Ore ... 2.oo Mrs, F. Barth, Canby, Ore u. 1.50 Within the last few years Patter son, N. J., has been swept by a fire, a tornado and two floods. . Her Anarchists are not the least of her troubles. Lewis Nixon, former head of Tammany Hall, declares that he is out of the race for Mayor of New York. We were unaware that he was ever in It. The Chinese minister at Berlin is buying large quantities of arms. Perhaps China wants the European governments to let her go to war with somebody. Former Secretary Long said, in speaking of his Assistant Secretary, Theodore Roosevelt; "His type writers had no rest. He, too lacks the rare knack of brevity." John Redmond, the Irish leader, thus expresses his opinion of Cham berlain's successor. "Alfred Lyt tleton is entirely unknown outside of the cricket field," The only daughter of the Ger man Emperor is an excellent cook. Cooking seems to be the one thing which her father has not attempt ed. President Roosevelt has been censured by the Prohibitionists be cause when passing through Kan sa last year he permitted liquor to THE BEGINNING OF THE END. The following excerpt we take from a letter of James Creelman one of the greatest newspaper writ er of the age. His information is usually accurrate, his sources of in formation the very best. In poli tics he is supposed to be a Republi can. If a panic comes as he pre dicts can it be charged to tne Democratic party. Not a captain of speculation, but a great financier, one of the fore most men of the continent a man whose name would be instantly recognized throughout the world for its commanding authority in the financial and commerical affairs of nmerica said to me yesterday: "You ask me whether the worst stage in the present commerical de pression has been reached. , I can scarcely trust myself to answer, for if I speak at all, 1 must speak the truth as I know it. The fact is that we are at the very beginning of in dustrial hard times. This country will sweat blood before many months, and before the year is over it is likely that hundreds of thou sands of men who are now employ ed will be idle. We are only catch ing glimpses of the steep part of the down grade. Bel ore we get to the real bottom the country will know what industrial agony is. "The great west and alarge part of the south is sound. Wherever people are engaged in agriculture, wherever theyare lookingto the soil for their living, all is well, for na ture has been generous and there Is always a market for grain, provis ions and cotton aboard. The farmers of the west and south need have no fear, save those who have been speculating in stocks. Domestic condition cannot ruin them, for, 1 repeat, the people of Europe must eat and wear clothes and the most important market for agricultural products is abroad. "But people have been crowding more and more into our eastern cities. The industrial centers are overgrown. We are manufactur ing more than we can sell. Gigan tic industrial corporations are be ginning to realize that they cannot pay dividends on hundreds of stocks that represent nothing but wind, "What are the facts? The great railways of the country have been the chief customers of the eastern industries. They have spent hun dreds of millions of dollars in im provements in the past few years. The railroads are through ordering. Where are the new customers to come from? X y-,TZ "Wages must be lowered and mills must be shut down. It is only the fear of speculate con sequences in Wall street that pre vents prompt action now. " I tell you that the reconstruc tions, extension and improvement of the railway systems of the country have been the backbone of the industrial prosperity which has led to the inflation of securities in Wall street to kundreds of millions of dollars beyond their value, The railway systems have got through; they have anticipated business for many years, it is a crime to de ceive the country any longer with false hopes of returning industrial prosperity. "The only door of relief must be cut right through the tariff. By that door alone can we reach the markets necessary to support our overgrown industries. Before this time next yearthe country will have suffered enough to put it in athink ing condition. Dark days are at hand for the standpatters,' for the real situation can be no longer concealed." OUR TRADE WITH CANADA. The prime minister of Canada, Sir, Wilfred Laurier, is a man or more than ordinary abilities. While he has not the long-headed Scotch foresight and audacity of the late Sir John McDonald he does have a Erench alertness of intellect and English spirit of persistence which stand his patriotism in good stead as he goes about to make the Dominion independent and pros perous. Sir Wilfred has always manifest ed his largest political ambitions in plans for the populating of Canada, the development of her riches of agriculture and raw materials, the creation of manufactures and the procurement of exchanging markets yielding best advantages to Cana dian foreign commerce His suc cess in these matters since he be came the responsible head of Ca nadian government has been due in large measure to the skill with which he has fought off the whole sale invasion of Canada by Ameri can manufacturers with their cheap wares. By giving to England a preferen tial schedule of tariff rates lower than those accorded to the United States he has minimized our trade with the Dominion to a degree and created a market in the old country for a larger proportion of Canadiah foodstuffs and raw material by re ciprocal exchange. In this way he has helped Canadian farmers out of the depression which fell upon them after the enactment of the McKinley and Dingley tariffs in this country. To that result must be attributed in considerable measure the increasing agricultural expan sion in Canada and the migration into its western provinces of so many thousands of . farmers from the northwestern states of our union. Now, however, the law of com pensation is effecting its inevitable reprisals and the manufacturers of Canada are aroused to the need of further protection of their indus tries. At a meeting of the Cana dian Manufacturers' Association re cently held in Toronto, a reso lutions was adopted demanding that the tariff rates on manufactured goods be so increased as to decrease the competition of British goods and blockade trust-made job lots of goods from the United States. The Canadian seem to be less ! hopeful of the permanence of our American prosperity than we are. They openly argue that a period of depression is ahead of the ' United States when the people will cut down their consumption of manfac tured goods and the surplus of our products will have to , be marketed in other countries at cost or less. When that happens the Canadians think their country will be the first dumping ground sought by our sellers and Canadian industries will be stricken a deadly blow. What effect these considerations will have on Premier Laarier's fu ture policy cannot be anticipated. There was a time when he leaned toward reciprocity with this coun try, but that was before he became premier and attained to knight hood. Now he is more inclined to imperial federation and British pref erences. But he is confronted with a dilemma that will call forth his best diplomacy. He must deyelop a more satisfactory Dominion policy and he must do this to the detri ment of the United States surely and of Great Britain to the extent of fully protecting specific Canadian manufacturers. Meanwhile a great section of our own people are clamoring for a re vision of our tariff that will either provide for perennial rates to Can ada or else compel Canadians to ship their products into the United States and mingle them with our exportable surplus, taking in ex change our manufactured goods at prices equally as good as they can get similar goods from the mother country. There is a way to do that and should our tariff-makers hit upon it the conditions of trade between us andCanada may soon be transformed to our great advan tage and the sad discomfiture of the Chamberlain programme. Cholly's Repartee. "Cholly Is so clevah at wepartec!" exclaimed Clarence. "Isn't he?" said Reginald. "What's bis latest?" "A grwent, howwld bwute said to him, 'You are the biggest fool in this itate.' And Cholly answered wight off, 'I don't agwee with you I' "Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Two Effect. "I never send out a story for publica tion," snld Dullpath, the realist, "with ut first having slept over It" "I don't bcllev I've ever read on ot them either without doing the same thing," returned Hawley. Sweet Coateat. Blobbs Sillicus is very prond of hta lineage, Isn't he? Slobbs Yes; he would rather have ancestry tlmn make a name for him' self. Philadelphia Record. People would be more willing to tak their whipping if the fact could be concealed that they were getting one.. Atchison Globe. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. fta Kind You Hare Always Bought Bears the fOgnaturec THIS IS FOR YOU The COURIER has on exhibition in the window of its office a magnificent $400.00 Kimball piano. It is to be given away absolutely free to one of its subscribers. 'This piano was bought of the Eilers Piano Housej It is one of the best makes in the world. It is worth all it cost. It is perfect in tone and workmanship. Do you want itj? Wy$ fitoijp fillip i Ms fry V eaSl , w- k 4 5 f i wi vity row A 4 1 A mm $4 HOW IT WILL BE DONE The Courier has secured a magnificent pumpkin, raised on the farm of Mr. J. H. Lindsey. It is a perfect specimen and weighs more than 100 pounds, It, too, will, in a few days, be on exhibition in the Courier office. It was raised from the seed of the big pumpkin we exhibited last fall. Every subscriber to the Courier who pays his or her subscription to the Courier for one year will be permitted to make cne estimate upon the number of seed in this monster pumpkin. The one making the nearest correct estimate takes the piano. 'In the event that two or more sub scribers make the same estimate the piano will go to them jointly and they can sell or dispose of it as they please. Time is not of essence of the contest. We will cut the pumpkin January J7 1904 On New Years afternoon, and no guess or estimate will be received after twelve o'clock noon of that date. At that time the pumpkin will be turned over to a committee composed of the following well known agriculturists who wiil cut the. pumpkin, count the seed, examin the estimates and award the piano to the person or per sons who have made th correct or nearest correct estimate of the number of seed therein contained. The names of the committee are Hon. William Ganong, of Canemah. Hon. Thomas Turner, of Stafford, ' Hon. William H. Vaughan, of Molalla. The Seed of a Pumpkin Only such seed in the pumpkin will be counted as are" fully developed. By a seed we accept the defini tion of Webster. It is something which has life and will grow if planted. A shell which has no heart and an imperfect seed which will not grow is not a seed un der this contest. The committee will determine this matter for themselves, and their judgment will be final and conclusive. Why Not Renew Your Subscription Now. The Courier has more than 1.800 subscribers. It wants enough more to make the total 2,500. The subscription list ot a paper is its capital stock. We need your $1.50 and you need the Courier . The paper is worth the price asked for it. We give you the chance at the piano absolutely free. A HOT TIP There are many people who say they "don't know anything ab out the num. ber of seed in a pumpkin," and these people are not what you would call "pump kin heads" either. We will give you a tip : This pumpkin has in between two and five thousand seed. Any person who gueses less than two will miss It, and any subscriber who goes oyer five thousand will likely be too high. How to Send Your Money. Mail us your check, or money order or cash for $1.50 and renew your sub. scription or become one of our many new subscribers. Send in your estimate on the coupon found below. We will send you a receipt both for your subscription and your estimate. Don't delay the matter. 'Now Is your "pumpkin" oppor- imuiy. 0 : - 1903 To the Oregon City Courier : ' '' Enclosed herewith find $ , to It credited on my subscriptiov to the Courier. Mg estimate on the number of seed in the Courier Prize Pumpkin is Jlame.. Address The Early Bird Gats the WormBe in Time OREGON CITY COURIER, Box 338 Oregon City, Ore.