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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1904
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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 '
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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
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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 -
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