8 OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1904 OREGON CI1Y COURIER Publiihed Everj Friday bj OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHINGCO' J. H. W jotovkb, Editor and Buaineaa Manager B. Lii WaaaoTiR, local Editor. Intend In Ongon City Postoffice as 2nd-clws matter 80B8CR1PTTON-BATES. Paid In advance, per year ." 150 Six months 75 Clubbing Rates Oregon City Courier and Weekly Oregonian .$2.25 Oregon City Courier and Weekiy Courier-. Journal 2.00 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Kxamincr.. 2.50 Oregon City Courier and the Conmopolilan..- 2.25 Oregon City Courier and the Commoner 2.00 Oregon City Courier and Twlce..a-Veek Journal 2 25 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Journal .... 2.00 Oregon City Cornier and Daily Journal..... 4.50 fflfThe date opposite your address on the paper denotes (he time to which you have paid If this noticeis marked yonr subsCirption ia due. OREGON CITY, JANU&RY 15, 1904 UNioNO)B:L Platt and Odoll bow respectfully when they accidentally meet, but they do not embrace. Webster Davis, the eloquent orator who moved great audiences in 1900, has sold his farm near Kansas City for $37,' 010, and will hereafter live in in New York, taking a prominent part in Demo cratic politics. Germany is said to he auain negotiat ing for the purchase of the Uanish West Indies, but a lively protest is being made in Congress on behalf of the late lament ed Monroe Doctrine. Isn't this calling upon a cadaver for assistance? The time has now come, (aye - the, Scientific American, for the government to demand for every passenger on the railroad the same immunity from maim ing and death as is shown by the Pull man Company, in their statement of only ten persons killed or wounded out of thirty-two and a half million pawn gers. In ordinary passenger cars, 7000 or one in every 92,000 were killed or injured Tub editor of the New York Tribune, speaking at the New England dinner in New York, says he wants to know if the nation is to fine a safe course "by roam ing the oceans to drag in semi-tropical and revolutionary communities to be made states in the American union;.' and he rains maledictions upon the head of any such unpatriotic American. Mr. Reid is willing t) steal semi-tropical and revolutionary communities only when they can be held as vassals . Is this the highest form of Amf r.canim ? It seems from the annual report made by the County Treasurer of Polk county that Polk does not owe a cent and has money in the treasury. It is a miserable shame that Clackamas coun ty, the best county in the state, phould be bowed down under a county debt of $200,000 and a tax rate that is a disgrace to modern civilization. "Get your thinking "caps" on, boys. Don't you be lieve it would he a good time "to turn the rascals out" and install a good busi" ness administration in the county court housb? We couldn't make matters any worse, that is certain. placing confidences in their promises, have re-elected tbem to office and when they were in office they have increased the expenses from year to year until they have gone beyond any reasonable amount. There will be another election in June and the voters will have a chance to decide as to whether they wish the taxes to be kept up as they are now or whether they want the expenses cut down. This matter lies in the hands of the voters and they can select members if the legislature that will have their interests at heart and will keep down expenses and taxes or they can continue to vote as they have in the past and' con tinue to pay out an tneir prants in taxes McMinhville Tel-Reg. DEMOCRATIC CLUB. Ciiahlks Emory Smith, former postmaster-general, protests indignantly against the charges of Mr. Tulloch and the approval of those charges by the resident's commission. In reply to his fuming Mr. Bonaparte, the head of the Commission, merely says, "Mr. Smith has made his record." Tun nations of the world owe the money monarchs 30,00(1,000. To eup po t this huge bulk of national debt, mostly incurred in war, are $.,0f10,000,. 000 in gold, of which at least $1,000,000,. 000 must be annually paid over to the money lenders as in interest truly a pyramid standing on its apex, Alfred Ausmk, poet laureate of E ng land, has produced a wild jangle of words on current events, tie speaks "the British flag on every sea with its sym bal unfurled cirrying liberty, reverence, law, wherever wave pulses reach." Per- uaps uus is in allusion to the way in Which the British flag carried freedom to South Africa. The Republican party, in making Porto Rico"free," has virtually deprived her of self-government. The scheme is nnder the absolute control of President Roosevelt and limits representation at Washington to a simple commissioner, lie is not allowed on the floor of either house and can make his wishes known onl) in a roundabout way. This hum ble individual is a startling contrast to the dozen members from Porto Rico who sat in the Spanish Parliament at Madrid helping to shape wise legislation for their province. Spain seems to have been a monarchy that believed in some sort of self-government; the United States appears to be a epublic that be lieves in imposing laws upon its dependencies. Since the Jackson's day banquet last week the Democrats of Oregon City have been congratulating one another and Hgnrstively speaking patting one another on the back. The Democrats in this county were never in more harmonious condition than they are today. It is now proposed to at once organize a Democratic club in Oregon City and petitions for that purpose are now being circulated. The club should by all means be organized at once and it ought to have not less than 300 charter membefe. It is the intention for the club to meet about once a month and at each meeting to have refreshments and a good speaker away from home and just as soon as the Oregon City Democratic club gt ts to going all right, a club will be organize in each precinct in the county, and for the Oregon CityClub to visit each country club and to work up just as much en thusiasm as possible. It is good work and the proper thing to do and by all means let the good work go on. Any one wanting petiiions for the purpose of securing signitures for club membership can have them by applying at theCourier odice, GLADSTONE Get a home where you have all the fresh air and freeJom of the .country, anJ at the same time every advantage of city life. The elegant cars of the Oregon Water Power and Railway Com pany make the run tj Glad stone from Oregon City In sx minutes. After your day's work you travel home in luxury and comfort. TITLE GUARANTEED Every purchaser of prorerty In Gladstone will re ceive a Warranty Deed, and an absolute title In fee simple, free of all incumbrances. Call In at the offi:e of the com pany and see the map of Glad stone, and an agent will cheer fully conduct you to the prop erty without expense to yourself and give all needed Information in making a t election fr your future home. Remember you are under no obligation to buy, only come and we will show you the handsomest tract of of land m Oregan. I I PARK ' i - n IN CASE QF JUCGE GRAY. It is estimated that the Philippine frolic has cost the United States up to this New Year's Day, about $027,000,- 000, including the bonds about to be issued for the friar lands, and taking no account of the 10,000 deaths, and the ship-loads of lunatics sent home. Whether the oriental game is worth this Occidental candle, well they Bay it's altogether too late to talk about that. Not more than half of the members put in appearance on the 4th at the re assembling of the Fifty-Eighth Congress. Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Halo acted for the first time as chaplain of the Sen ate. Hardly any important bills are ready for action and some weeks must ie spent in talk before the appearance of the appropriation bills. Mr. Lodge, in the Senate, led off in a speech on the Panama Canal, extravagantly eulogiz ing the President for the remarkable wisdom which he has exhibited through out the whole transaction. He will be followed by Senators Morgan and Car. mack, and as the former has been a clone student of Panama affairs for years, some new light will probably be thrown upon the conduct of the President in what Mr. Morgan regards aa a conspira cy of plunder. A good many Demociats favor Gen eral Miles for President, on the ground that he is not an avowed partisan, if he ever even voted, that his record ii blameless, that he Is our greatest living soldier and a hero of a hundred battles, that he has no enemies in either wing of the party, and that he himself would be all the platform that would be re quired. That he is not a vociferous par tisan or a professional politician mhht not injure him. Gamaliel Bradford urges that his military achievements would constitute his sufficient platform. The Whig convention that met at liar risburg December 4, 1830, nominate d General Harrison for president and adopted no platfoom whatever. (His opponent wjb VanBuren). Harrison was elected and "Van, Van was a used up man.." So of Miles: He never did run, but perhaps he would. Tub Democrats smiled during tho reading of the President's message on the 4th inst. when he laid before Con gress the facts and incidents which caused him to create a new republic called Panama. The contention that the canal can be built "forthwith" as the President said, even il tue treaty is rati fied, when at the most conservative es timate it will take twenty if not forty years, was enough to make anyone smile. It seems the President knew a a revolution was about to burst at a given date, for be had read many newspaper articles to that effect and had seen re cent travelers from Columbia and Pana ma. All told the same story. There fore he headed it off, except the killing of one Chinaman, by sending the Amerl. can navy to the isthmus to protect A mer. ican lines add interests. The President asserted that Columbia bad the power to ratify the Hay-Herron treaty, and give us the Canal strip at our own price, and in failing to do so all'ronted the United States. As the matter is now all set tled the Senate had only to ratify the treaty, and business will of course be done. THE STATE TAX LEVY. The Hoard of Apportionment haB estimated the amount necessary to meet the obligations of the s'ate for the next year and find that under the appropria tions made, it will require the expendi ture of $1,108,310.10. Of this amount, there will te raised by other means than direct taxes the sura of $273,310.10, leav ing $1,225,000 to be raised by direct tax es from the different counties. This enormous expenditure is occasioned by the appropriation of $500,000 for the Portland exposition, one half of which is to be paid this year; $105,000 for the Portage railway, $100,000 for the canal between the The Dalles aud Celilo, and $100,000 for the Indian war veterans. These are extraordinary expenses that we do not have to meet every year. De ducting these amounts from the total to he raised, leaves Jiil 0,000 to be raised by direct taxation for state purposes. This is somewhat less than the aver age raised for that purpose .yet there are Btill some items in it which we think might be reduced. Take Or instance the Normal schools, the Slate University and the State Agricultural College, which cost the state for the next year $195,0:6, This is just one of the many items that we think people of this state are paying too much for. Is it not about time the legislature aud state officers were to take into consideration the burden they are placing on the peo ple and endeavor to relieve them of some of it instead of increasing it all the time? Is not the welfare of the individu al of any importance, or must his iden tity be entirely submerged in the state T With the present rate of taxation, it takes nearly all the interest on money loaned to pay the taxes and if a person is in debt he pais almost double interest by the time he has paid his taxes. The question now is, will the people continue t o vote to keep a party in power that has shown that it will not reform in this matter? In every campaign tor a number of years the Republican party has promised the people that if they would re-elect them they would reduce the expenses of the state, and the people The busy gentlemen who have kind ly undertaken to select the next presi dential nominee of the democratic party in advance of the meeting of the nation al convention are finding their task somewhat more strenuous than they expected. One of their latest essays was to set all other possibilities aside and present Judge George Gray as a national person age so much bigger than his little state of Delaware as to commend him to the hearty acceptance of the democracy ,and the elimination of favorite sons and the personal pride of Democrats in pivotal states. They are able to say many fine and tiue things of the abilities and in tegrity of Judge Gary things that neither Democrats nor Republicans can possibly deny. But there is a large body of Democrats in Judge Gray'a own state who do not believe he deeerves.on'the score of loyal ty and steady service to the party, honor of being its presidental nominee. They charge that hia superior soul repudiated the party judgments in the recent past, that he held aloof from ita campaigns and refused to vote the party ticket. His ballot lost to the Democracy was a gain for the Republicans. And they further ever that for this negatively helpful action on his part he has been since on at least four occasions signally honored and rewarded by Republican administrations that he so aided to create. That is what leading and loyal Demo crats of Delaware, and of other sections also, charge against Judge Gray, and they do it without impeaching his high intelligence or bin admiteed abilities as a publicist. They charge these things against, and only against, his record as a party loyalist. But what the Democracy needs and its strongest voices demand todny, is internal peace and external solidarity against the Republican oli garchy. The party feels thoroughly that the past is history not to be apoIog;zd and vet not to be made the inexorable inleoi futuie policy and action. The standards of the party are set fat forward toward the coming days. In that spirit of new hopes for a new era of party unity and victory all Democrats should weigh with leniency and justice the claims of those who adhere to those standards. Judge Gray has not In his veins a drop of the virus of radical republicanism. ii ne owns an independence that is sometimes annoying to his Democratic colleagues it would cease to be independ ence if it did not act with some friction. But other Democrats in other times have been equally independent and yet not banished for their independence. Judge Gray holds to the old, eitab- lisbedfaith and stands staunchly nponthe foundation principles of the Democratic party. If, on full consideration of his claims in comparison with those of other offered candidates, he appears to be the strongest and most militant to make the presidental race, there is no reason why he should not be nominated. Certainly he is strong with the great conservative business world and on the other hand has the unquestioning confidence of the labor world as a friend who understands their causes and deals justice in the adjudication of their rights. 1 The great offer of the Gladstone Real Estate Association made to the i UrA h h ,.W, I,. u. . . r-r.vn. wn.6u.., u, one mmuiCU lots 10 De SC , ... . ...... uiwinlc ot uiaastone.at an even jjtioo per lot, fio down and jfio per month with out. interest, has attracted widespread attention. Already lots are being sold to careful, conscientious buyers, who not only knowabargam when they see it but are taking advantage of the low price to get an elegant property whe e th S is ideal and the enhancement in values ,s sure to follow. Already Portlcnd buyers are rapidly approaching Gladston on the north. In two years time the e'.ednc cars will not be ouf of sight of handsome dwellings in Uhz ent Tm Tof i2mi es from Oregon City to Portland. There is no longer any doubt that the moter company will have a do b ack ?a Iwav MwZ the two cities by the time of the great Lewis and Clark exposition. Ask anv Mr rlTn 7 sense and there r.nn he hi,r nr rnnr-ln.l, m,Hk.H uJ. '.. - 2. L . ml fd'f "L3"' COnSult VOUr Own good, Common Pr ; N,;.7" . n :: r: . z ',: : v :r viy Deween w y and Portland is ... mi. . .101 iicmu.iui uaiinui i unuuu. u is iar Deirer man money at interest uiceu man, wno uoes not own property or his own so situated as to be as safe as stock Again, if you ask any fair and unnreiu- J rivrtl fur rniKliV frt.rf iL. t j . suburb of Oregon City and with greatest promise for the future, and he 0 t V ;, ijcupie u umustone and not a vacant house. system and all other modern and up-to date conveniences rapidly following. Scnools, churches, telephone Remember the Great Proposition is-. J00 lots of your own selection, in the splendid 1 townsite of Gladstone, on the banks of the Clackamas river, a mountain stream famed for its beauty and purity, at $ 1 00 per lot, $10 down and $J0 per month without taxes or interest, j 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 S( rests, OREGON CITY. H. E. CROSS. A Clean Sweep Low Prices With yrHV t i.i y i JPSJ HartSctiafTner U'W &r u M,r mm j HandTailorcd I Wjl II WWM im a, lun Hum juu Since we have inaugurated our great Over stock Sale we are known as "The store that Saves You Money," but never during this sale have we cut prices so low as now in order to get all the odds and ends off our hands. In fact everything in the store, from a collar button to a suit or overcoat, has been reduced to prices gratifying to the economical. Our goods are the kind which give satisfaction. Our prices baffle competition, but they, cannot fail to please our customers. To purchase a suit or overcoat from us now would mean a money-saving venture as our prices on clothing is everlastingly the lowest. Our immense stock of Men's, Ladies, and Chil drrn's shoes will be disposed of at wondrously low prices. Every article in the store will be sold at telling prices. Come ancf look over our exposition of bargains. When You See It in Our Ad. It's So J. M. Clothier 6th and Main Sts. PRICE, and Furnisher - OREGON CITY, ORE. It tWW tf fTf W T f