OREGON CITY COURIER, -FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18 1903,
OREGON CI1 Y COURIER
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CREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHINGCO
. J. H. Wibtoykb, Editor nd Builnesa Hanagtr
R. Lis Wiroteb. Local Editor.
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OREGON CITY, DECEMBER 18, 1903
The Tammany Hall Committee have
adopted resolutions thanking William
Randolph Hearst for the assistance of
his paper during the New York campaign
This may be an indication: that Tam
many will support Hearst's nomination
ill the next national convention.
Every man who is a public official,
, who holds a poeition of trust and proilt
is a public servant and bis every act 's
Just subject of discussion and criti
cism. While the Courier from time to
' time finds it necessary to criticise the
county officials of this county for their
; management of county affairs it does so
in a spirit of fairness and decency and
we shall hope to coi tinue to deal with
the present Republican administration
as kindly and courteously as the circum
stances will admit.
The Courier is in receipt of a letter
' of considerable length from County
Judge Thomas F. Ryan, in which the
Judge takes Borne exceptions to the
statements in the Courier in our last is
sue in regard to bis absence from the
county during the months, or at least
part of the months of September and
October. We will publish the letter in
full at a future day. Judge Ryan says
that he was (not away from Clackamas
county as much as two months, and that
be held court on the 13th day of Septem
ber and again on the 16th day of Octo
ber, indicating that he was absent from
the Btate only five weeks instead of two
months a intimated in these columns.
, We were of the opinion that the Judge
was in the East for at least two months,
but the Judge certainly ought to know
how long he was away. We do not care
anything about the matter and should
not have mentioned it at all bad not
some of our Democratic friends com
plained that Important business matters
in which they were interested were de
layed on account of the Judge's absence.
We do not know that that this is true.
But the fact remains, since we have
mentioned the matter at all, that Judge
Ryan, as County Judpe of this county,
was away from the county for a period
' of five weeks according to his own state
ment and that he has drawn his salary
for the period of time covered by his ab
sence amounting to approximately 125
That is to say that the J inline has drawu
on his salary account that amount of
money out of the county treasury for
which he rendered the county no servicu,
Of course we know in' high places, and
especially among Republican oflkials it j
is usual to take a vacation every year of
thirty days or more at the expense of the
Government, with full pay, etc. Wheth
er the custom is a good one or a bud one
we do not at this time pretend to say.
But with a county like Clackamas al
ready overburdened with debt with a tax
rate that is crusting the the life out of
the progress of the county we doubt if
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the Judge can justify himself in the eves
of the plain common people of the coud.
ty who pay the taxes and bear the bar-
den of the county debt.
The policy of county officials and es
pecially the county Judge, who has
much to say in the issuingof county war
rants, buying and selling the same is
very questionable. As long as parvalne
is paid for these warrants there is no law
against a county official's speculating in
county paper. Johnson and Andrews,
the contractors who repaired and con
structed the county court house this
Summer and who have but lately fin
ished the job, know something about the
manner in which the county officials
deal in county warrants. From time to
time as the work progressed the con
tractors were given a warrant on the
county treasurer for their pay according
to the terms of the contract, Judge
Ryan told Mr. Andrews that the county
bad no available cash with which to paj
these warrants but in order to accommo
date them he would take up i heir war
rants and give them his personal check
for the face value of same. As they were
unsophisticated carpenters and did not
know that these wa-rants were selling
at the banks and to many individuals in
Oregon City at a premium of from two to
two and one half per cent, they let the
Judge have the warrants at par and took
his individual check. Now Johnson
and Andrews, had they stepped down to
either of trie banks in Oregon City could
have gotten a full $100.00 premium on
these warrants. Johnson and Andrews
are both Republicans; but did not know
and have only within the last few days
found out that they loBt $100.00 in that
trade. Naturally they are not feeling
very gooa anout it. vi course there s
nothing criminally wrong about this
transaction, yet it don't look good on its
face. The County Judge is the County
Judge for all of the people and should in
-ii j . . . .
an guuu . conscience steer clear 'J any
transaction that in any way could reflect
upon his administration. The Courier
would like to know, and Johnson & An
drews would like to know and a good
many other people would lik to know
who got the $100.00 premium on these
warrants. This only illustrates what
the Courier has been driving at all of the
time, that it is bad policy for any county
official to be allowed to buy or speculate
in any part of the county indebtedness
and the law ought to be amended fixing
mere penalty for so doing.
In the publication of an abstract of
General Briatow 's repoit. the countrv
nas an authentic record, su piemen ted
by notes from President Roosevelt, of
the general corruption which has exist
ed in the postoffice department for sev
eral years and under Republican ad'
ministrations. Here is the result of
the investigations. Four officers of the
department have resigned and thirteen
have been removed. Forty-six indict
ments have been found, involving thir
ty-one persons, ten of whom were prom
ment in tne postal Bervice. Mr. Bria
tow estimates the total amount ob
tained from the government ;by these
swindlers at about $400,000, but ad
mitB that this sum is small in compari
son with the losses involved in the pur
chase, at exorbitant rates, of useless
and unnecessary supplies. In his re
view ot tne report.tne tr resident praises
the thoroughness of the work done by
the investigators, agrees with the ad
vice to extend the statut of limitations
for a period of five yeara for officers who
hold positions of trusts under the gov
ernment, and ends with a dissertation
on the vils of corruption in public life,
the equal guilt of bribe-giver and bribe
taker and similar platitudes. He de
clares that all offenders shall be pun
ished ut makes no comment on the
case of Perry S. Heaih.
During the investigations it was dis
covered that one of the offenders, Ma
chen, began his dishonest practice in
1893, during Cleveland's administra
tion This fact has been thoroughly ex
ploited bv the Republicans, who are
naturally doing everything possible to
shift their Inevitable responsibility to
the people for the corruption which has
existed for years under their adminis.
trations. The crimes of Machen in 1893
are made very prominent, but in the
cae of Perry 8. Heath, it is quite differ
ent, Heath is prominent In the Repub
lican party. He still holds the position
of secretary of the Republican National
Committee. Brie-tow's report, which
the President praises so highly, de
clares that Heath's summary dismissal
would have been justified. Yet the
President or other Republicans have
not yet forced Heath to resign, They
aay that there Is no use in discussing
his case as the statute of limitation!
would prevent a criminal prosecution.
However, thia statute, which saved
Heath, as it did Congressman Littauer,
does not prevent a thorough report upon
what Machen did during the adminis
tration of 1893.
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JAPAN AND HER BIB "ALLY."
There will be no Japo-Russian war.
There will not be because the bear will
will remain in undisturbed possession
of his Manchurian bee tree, and the
reason be remains there, his ugly fore-
paws dripping honey. Is not because
Japan is any more reconciled to his in
trusion. The reason is that "perfid
ious Albion" has "thrown off" oh the
little slant. eyed yellow man with the
military stiffness in his spine and the
do and dare frown on his impersonal
countenance.
Russia bad satisfied herself that the
British "alliance" with her doughty lit
tle antagonist in th tr east was only
a diplomatic bluff before the postponed
date for evacuating' the Chinese prov
Ince arrived, and if that is not why she
"stayed sot," it is why she made a dem
onstration in Korean waters calculated
to eocl the fighting blood of the little
hero with the oblique optics, for he, too
knew by this time that he was very
much alone on the road to the slaugh
ter pen.
Of course, Japanese honor, which if
is as touchy as the Jap is cocky, war
given a knot bole to crawl out of, prob
ably through the instrumentality of
British diplomacy, actuated by a de,
sire to save Britannia's ski n from more
dishonorable disfigurations. The Jap
with his "Krag" at "ready" aloDg the
Korean border line, seemed to be watch
tag Manchuria, but swore he was watch
ing Korea. Aa the fellow looks cross
eyed, anyhow, nobody could success
fully question his veracity. As for Rus
sia, she dropped her menacing front
forthwith and with a serpent smile ex
claimed: "Why, what a misunderstand'
ing, my brave little man ! Did you think
I had an appetite for Korea also? Lei
me assure you," etc., etc.
And so Russia remains in Manchuriu
and Japan will try to have it appear
that she is keeping the great bear out nf
Korea. Very likely there will be some
kind of "treaty" made to that effect, or
open to that construction by Japan.
For two or three years,, perhaps, Rus
sia will content herself with intrench
ing her power in Manchuria and sec
retly getting "next" to Korea. When
Russian trade has followed the work of
Russian spies, it will strike Russia that
"duty and destiny" have long demanded
that the Korean gap between Siberia
and Manchuria be taken over govern
mentally by the Czar. This probably
after the Cossacks have hectored the na-
tives into insurrection and internal dis
order , thus proving their inability to
govern themselves.
In the meantime, Japan, like Br'er
Fox, is "lay in low" and ' sayin nu
fin'. " He has learned his lesson from
British perfidy an is not so pugnacious
over.the national honor. Perhaps at
heart he is glad to be left with Formosa.
And in the end, after Korea, China,
over which there will be a snarling par
tition and, maybe, war.
And, still fuitherin the unborn years
who knows? a Russianized India?
A SLUMP IN STOCKS.
Since thp election of 1900 the there
has been a slump in the market value of
stocks amounting to more than $7,750,'
000,000. If the Democrats had been
successful in the last presidential elec
tion the Republican papers would have
chaiged thistrrniendouB slump in stocks
to the Democratic administration. How
will they explain it now? When it is
referred to at all it is described as a mat
ter of small importance, and often de
fended as a really desirable thing. We
are told that is was a "natural liquida
tion," an elimination of "speculative
values," a "settling down to a solid ba
sis."
The readers of the Commoner are
are asked to remember that this slump
in stocks indicate) one of two tilings.
If the slump means that the water is
being squeezed out of the Btoca-, that
fictitious values are being destroyed, and
that the industries are simply settling
down to an honest basis, how will.
Republicans defeni an administration
that permits the inflation of values and
the watering of stocks?
It cannot be denied that many have
suffered by the slump. Those innocent
purchasers, of whom we hear so much
when remedial legislation is suggested,
have been suffering. It is laid that the
steel trust has 98,000 stockholders, and
all of these have suffered by the tall in
prices. - Why should they be exposed to
this loss? Many of the holdars of this
stock are employes who took the stock
more to encourage the idea of co-opera
tion in industry than to made profit
out of it, Tbey wanted to show their
appreciation of what they regarded as a
generoni offer on the part of she com
pany. Was it not a little cruel to thus
reward their confidence? When will
"confidence" be restored among those
people? What about the widow who put
her scanty savings in preferred or com
mon steel ? We always hear ot the wid
ow when we discuss the money question
or attempt to curb corporate rapacity,
why is she is kept in the background
now? The Kansas City platform pro
posed a remedy that, if adopted, would
have made it impossible for an intei-
state commerce corporation to have
wate -ed it8 ,f(Vk The tremendou9 los
wW have ben prevented if in rem
Mr had been adopted before iblw
,rut waa what remedy
GLADSTONE
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Get a home where you have all
the fresh air and freedom of the
country, and at the same time
every advantage of oty life.
The elegant cars of the Oregon
Water Power and Railway Com
pany make the run tj Glad
stone from Oregon City in six
minutes. After your day's
work you travel home in luxury
and comfurt. 1 :
. The great offer of the Gladstone Real Estate Association made to the people of Oregon, of one hundred lots to be se
lected by the purchaser in the handsome townsite of Gladstone, at an even Jioo per lot, $io down and f io per month with
out Interest, has attracted widespread attention. f Already lots are being sold to careful, conscientious buyers, who not onlv
know a bargain when they see It, but are taking advantage of the low price to get an elegant property where the location
is ideal and the enhancement in values is sure to follow. Already Portlcnd buyers are rapidly approaching Gladstone on the
north. In two years time the electric cars will not be out of sight of handsome dwellings in the entire run of smiles from
Oregon City to Portland. There is no longer any doubt that the meter company will have a double track railway between
the two ci ies by the time of the great Lewis and Clark exposition. Ask any fair man, consult your own good, common
sense and there can be bu one conclusion, and that Is that property between Oregon City and Portland is as safe as stock
in the First National Bank of Portlaud. t is far be ter than money at interest. Again, if y0U ask any fair and unpreju
diced man, who does not own property of his own so situated as to be a rival for public favor, as to the handsomest
suburb of Oregon City and with greatest promise for the future, and he will unhesitatingly say GLADSTONE
Already there is a population of five hundred people at Gladstone and not a vacant house. Schools, churches", telephone
system and all other modern and up--to date conveniences rapidly following. . 1
Remember the Great Proposition is-
. 100 lots of your own selection, in the splendid
townsite of Gladstone, on the banks of the
Clackamas river, a mountain stream famed for
its beauty and purity, at $100 per lot, $10 down .
and $10 per month without taxes or interest.
Any purchaser can have his money back with $25 profit on each lot when he has paid for
his property, if he is then dissatisfied, provided he give 30 days, previous notice to that effect
, bright, capable agents wanted in every commu
nity to whom liberal inducements willbe made
to sell Gladstone Property. Write for full information.
Main and Seventh Streets,
OREGON CITY.
have the Republican leaders for the
situation which now confronts them?
What is the president doing, what is the
Republican congress doing to protect
the public from watered stock?
If to escape this dilemma the Repub
icans inaiBt that the shrinkage in stocks
dees not indicate a squeezing out of
water, but a loss in actual and houest
values, wha will they say about an ad
ministration tnat results in sucn a uiuw ,
to the industry? Can the country be i
said to be prosperous if honest stocks 1
have suffered a shrinkage of nearlv two
billions of dollars in three years? Is the I
Industrial condition a satisfactory one?
THE MOLALLA CENTRAL MINING.
- COMPANY
Inspection of Mine No. 13 for MoMla '
Central Mining Co.
" Oregon City, Ore.,
Oct. 17U1, 1903,
Said mine is situated in South Mo-
lalla Mining District, county of Ma
rion, state of Oregon, said mine be
ing a true fishure vein uncovered
about two thousand feet, and being
four (4) feet six (6) inches or more
in width, it is tree-milling ore
which assavs as follows :
Lowest grade ore $16.76
Next grade ore 5-94
Full test across ledge 310.33
Lower halt stratta 5 5 1 .5o
Selected samples 2773. 3I
,WM. Griffith,
a Mining Expert.
This company is incorporated
under the laws of Oregon, and cap
italized at $25,000. The company
is offering a small amount of this
stock at ten-cents per share in order
to develop the ledges and erect a
mill. The officers of this company
are well known men of Oregon
City. . . -
OTTO F. OLSON, Pres.
LINN E. JONES, Treas.
G. B. DlMlCK, Sec'y.
F. H. WELCH, Mgr. .
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TITLE GUARANTEED
Every purchaser of property In Gladstone will re
ceive a Warranty Deed, and an absolute title In fee
simple, free of all incumbrances (
PARK
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First-class service. Driver furnished if required.
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Jt
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and give all needed information
in making a selection fur your
future home. Remember you
are under no obligation to buy,'
only come and we will show
you the handsomest tract of
of land in Oregan. .
E. CROSS.
Gross
If Not, Why Not?
corner next to postoffice,
a complete line of Furniture
New and Second-Hand. '
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arket
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