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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JUNE 241904 OREGON CITY COURIER. Published Every Friday by CITY COURIER PUBLISHING CO. SHIRLEY BUCK, Local Editor and Manager. H. L. McCANN, Editor. Intend in Oregon City PoBtofflce as 2nd-class Blatter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Psid in advance, per year 1 60 Biz montha ' 75 Clubbing Ilates Oregon City Courier and Weekly Oregonian .$2.00 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Courier Journal 2.00 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Examiner.. 2.50 Oregon City Courier and the Commoner 2.00 Oregon City Courier and Twlce..a.Week Journal 2.25 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Journal ... 2.00 iMp-The date opposite your address on the paper denotes (he time to which youhave paid. 1 this notice is marked your subset iptlon ia due. Senator Depew sas the country ia "simp'y resting after its wild debauch of promotion and speculation." Ia tnie Dr. Depew's diagnosis of what has been ex ultantly called prosperity? tlar flrinlf inn tha pViamnflfyno nnrt enutern of the administration, the Fili pino visitors have almost forgotten how the water tasted which was administered to them in large doses by American tour ists in the Philippines. it is worth careful thought. A people may be inteiligeut and still be unfit to Uke part in a free government. The scientist, the literary man, the minister, the orator, may be highly educated and yet may know nothing of the affairs of state. Intelligence and education, to be of any avail in the betterment of public affairs, must be directed in that channel. One of the most important results of the initiative and referendum provision will be the increased attention paid by voters to proposed legislation . It is true that many who voted on the Local Op tion Law in the recent election did not fully understand the provisions of that law j btill a greater number did not know the import of the constitutional amend ment relating to the state printar's of fice. Many voters have learned, since election, that they voted exactly oppo site t. what they wished in one or both cases. This is not to be coubidered strange, nor does it reflect any discredit on the voters. It is but the natural out come of the system, hitherto in vogue, of allowing a few men to do our thinking for us in all legislative questions. In each succeeding election in which resort is had to the initiative and referencum, the number of uninformed voters will grow smaller. More ana more interest ill be taken in public questions. More intelligent sction will be possible and purer government must result. Senator Lolge's stout opposition to arranging any. reciprocal trade, agree ment with Canada hag placed him out of touch with the business men of Massa chusetts, and they have begun to look around for his successor. The Chicago Inter Ocean (adminietra tion) frankly declares that when the President sends out his cabinet to plead for him, he had better keep Moody, Shaw, Hitchcnck and Payne at home, for they can do no good in the west and are liable to do harm.' THE LOCAL OPTION LAW. The administration has set the clerks in two departments at work to twist fig ures and torture statistics so as to dem onstrate that the wanes of the average working man have increased faster than the average cost of clothinp, provisions and rent, and the salaries of theBe clerks will not come out of the Republican cam paign fund, either. Mar O'Rell's declaration that Yankees are the most mercenary people in the world receives a new illustration in the agility with which Philander Knox steps up from an $8000 Cabinetship to a $5000 Senatorship. And how is our Oortelou to be reimbursed for his sacrifice? Or, are theie ways, perhaps? The vice president of the Hanover National Bank of New York said at a banquet last week "President Roosevelt has pledged himself to the bankers of the country to carry out whatever policy they determine on as best." It seems quite impossible that Mr. Roosevelt has aid any such thing. If he has, be is not fit to be President. ' At the Lake Mohouk conferenne Com missioner MacFarland, virtually gover nor 01 the District of Columbia, informed his audince that the chief hope of peace in the wor.d was based on the re-election of President Roosevelt. Th's is a great hit. Gov. McFailaud is overworking his brain, and also his gratitude in de votion to his maeter who appointed him to office. James J. Hill, tho great railroad build er, tells the Congressional Merchant Marine Committee "If you will admit foreign-built ships free of duty, you will get an American Merchant Marine quicker than any other way." He says that since his disastrous experiment no Since local option won it is but nat ural to ask, "What next?" Some idea to the answer of this question may be inferred from what is already. The vote shows, beyond a doubt that the majority is against the liquor business as it is conducted at present. We have thirty Beven precincts in Clackamas county, and only eight of these gave a majority against the law. Our county as a unit does not blieve that our liquor laws are cood enough. The people knew what they were doing. We have an intelli geuce mat ranks lavoramy with any state in the Union. And to insinuate that the people did not know what they were about is an insult to the people of the state. It was stated recently in the press that the closing of the saloons was one of the first necjBsary factors to bring order t ; the disturbed communities in Colorado. The people had read similar statements' under eimilar circumstances. Better conditions are demanded, and Oregon believes that this law will make conditions better. The next thing is the application of the law. We may trust to the wisdom of its promoters to do this most efective" ly. The inconsistencies of the measure, as claimed by its opponents, will not ap pear in any contest next November. No outlying precincts will be yoked to Canby to close up Canby. If Canby wants to shut its saloons it will, no doubt, be permitted to try it alone. Clackamas County might be carried for "prohibi tion next fall, but it would hardly be the wisest thing to do. We believe that the supporters of the law will make haste slowly. If the law is driven to its fullest extent immediately its popularity will suffer. For there are many places in Oregon that are not ready for "prohi bition" that may even have cast a ma jority for the law. Oregon City is per haps on 3 of those localities. There are smaller communities in nearly every county that have saloons and yet the majority of the people are against the saloon for that community. Clackamas Couutv has such communities as indi cated by the vote on local option. Let these communities first show that the law backed by the sentiment of the om nunity can be jiade a success and then the law wil. grow in the favor of its friends and in awe to Its enemies. Of course, the liquor dealers do not like the law. No law can be made that will sat isfy both liquor and tempeiance inter ests. The very reason the liquor men opposed the law so vigorously, should to its principles, yet it will be the policy of the paper to uphold the interets of the people far more than the interests of any party. A Democratic victory has already been won The County Court has yielded to the demands of the peo ple for correct reports. Nor will the matter end here. In the next semi annual report of county officers, the Clerk will certify to the amount of war rants outstanding and unpaid. The Sheriff's and Treasurer's reports will also conform to law. Thequestion may be asked by our readers, "In what respect is the county benefitted bv a fuller publication of the proceedings of the County Court"? Possibly an answer mav be found in the following: By reference to last week's Courier, it will be noticed (on page 7, third col umn), that H. Jocks was paid $4.60, and Lindsly & Son 66.63, the amounts being charged to "suspensoin bridge." By reference to the Commissioner's Journal Vol. 22, we find that the following is a full statement of the amounts paid at the June term of court for repairs to the suspension bridge. H. Jones, material 1 4 60 W McKay, labor 9 25 Ohas (iallogly, labor 63 00 wm Numb, l.bor 3 00 Thns Smith, labor 16 50 McNash, labor 49 00 E Cox, labor 28 60(f9 Wm Winkle 18 00 Ike Brdiges, labor 68 60 Dix Bros, lumber 24 31 Lindsley & Son, lumber 72 77 E Storey, hardware 9 00 n uson & Cooke, hardware 4 60 I a no. aw A m i hi i i For Sale at Low Figures and on Easy Terms Write for Full List Total $448 03 So the Court has properly itemized $71 23 out af a bill if $448.03. That is verygiodfora stirter. Next month the whole report will be in correct form. But as to what may be learned from the complete ' statement given above. The cost of the lumber being J99.43, the whole number of feet evidently did not exceed 13,000. The labor bill on putting in the repairs is seen to be $332.75, or more than $25 per thousand. The woik on tli? approaches, the greater portion being the replacing of ben's, but a' part was re decking. The writer is not a bridge carpenter, but he has made care ful inquiry of at least five bridge car penters and contractors, and their esti mate of the value of the work is som e what lower than the amount paid. The average estimate is about $7 per thous and. One contractor said lie would not want anything better than $10 in fact, that he would consider that an exorbi tant price. Another contractor says that he will give a bond to the county for the proper performance of his part of a contract with the county court to han dle all their bridge timber, new and re pairs, at $5 per thousand . Unless these gentlemen are greatly mistaken in their estimate, it would appear that the coun ty is paying very dearly for the privi lege of having the county court unani mously Republican. American is likelr to build a million dollar ship to compete with one costing mnke tne '""nds of the law all the more two thirds as much. Secretary Shaw's promise of a $14,000, 000 surplus has gone glimmering, and in its place we have (or June 30 a deficit of f"2,CCC,003. The government receipts continue to shrink, while the ordinary expenses of the citizen continue to ex pand, Since Theodore Rjosevelt be came acting executive he has succeeded in upending a thousand million dollars more than was spent during the admin istration of the last Democratic presi dent. But the people seem to like It 1 General Miles affirms that only a very short apprenticeship is required to qual ifier the Filipinos for independence. In a speech before the Massachusetts Re form Club he said of the refusal of the administration to commit itself, "The policy that is adopted to do nothing, say nothing, disclose nothing, promise noth ing, until after the next election, or any election, iudicates to my mind a want of confidence in the wisdom and jugdment of the American people." It does look that way. cautious in the use of it. The successful closing of one saloon ia Clackamas coun ty for the first two years will make the law stronger in five years than the clos ing of a dozen saloons and the success ful thriving of a number of "speakeas ies." The question is entirely out of politics yet. And it the politicians will let the law have its undisturbed action it will stay out of politics. And the struggle for the destruction of the sa. loon in the state of Oregon is on. This the law implies. If the majority of the voters change in sentiment then the law must fall. But bo long as it stands, it means tormeut and death to the liquor interests as we have them today. 40 Acres in' Julia Ann Lewis Claim, 2 miles v from Oregon City, all good, level land, at $50 per acre. 128 Acres, level, living water, on Molalla, 60 acres in cultivation, rich soil, on main road, $40 per acre. 344 Acres on O. W. P. & Ry. line, 160 acres in 1 cultivation, small house, large barn, orchard, living springs, two million feet tim ber, $30 per acre. . 100 Acres, level, 60 in cultivation, good build ings, 1 Yi miles from terminus of O. W. P. & Ry. line, at Springwater, $40 per acre. 82 1-2 Acres in famous Logan country, 60 acres in A 1 cultivation, new frame dwelling cost $1500, large barn, living water, $50 per acre., , 160-Acre Stock Ranch in Sec. 17, T. 4S., R. 5 E., two acres cultivated, small house and barn, two million feet fir and cedar, land mostly good, range immense, $5 per acre. 225 Acres at Logan, 100 acres in cultivation, 50 more nearly ready to break, house, barn, fruit, good neighborhood, $30 per acre. 80 Acres 4 miles from Oregon City, 2000 cords wood, over-half 'good land, improved farms on three sides; wood will pay for the . place; 20 per acre. . Will trade. 349 Acres, 220 in A 1 cultivation, orchard, buildings, 7 acres hops, 6 miles from Hubj 90 Acres on main plank road, 45 acres in good cultivation, large frame barn, no house; lancj y rich; $3000. . . ,( 51 41 Acres, 5 'miles from Oregon City, i miles q from New Era, 25 acres in cultivation and in crop, living water, good orchard, buildings only fair; crop and all, $1500. Two or three thousand acres of good 11 l J , t;n n f P Sir Roihiorr in KM IrtllU Ileal 1I W. TT 1 V. lciiTTjf, 1,1 lots of from 80 acres up, and from $lo per acre up to $15, on easy terms. 30 Acres, 2 miles from Oregon City, 16 in cultivation, orchard, all varieties of fruit, splendid little place, on main road; $2800; terms. CROSS & SHAW Main St., Oregon City, Or. 233 Washington St., Portland, Or FARMER'S VIEWS ON ROAD BUILDING. OF 1NTESEST TO TAXPAYFRS. INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM. It is somewhat trite to say that popu lar goverumeLt must be based on the iu lelligeuce of the petple. This has been said so often and so universally acknow ledged that its repetition scarcely aroused thought on the part of the reader. Yet Tim taxpayers of the county will be pleased to notice that in the publication of the proceedings of the County Court for the June term, is given the article or service for which warrants were ordered drawn. During the recent campaign, the Courier called attention to the fact that the court proceedings were not published according to law. This state ment was regarded by many as a kick at the present administration merely for political effect ; but that such was not the case, ia now admitted by the Court. While the Courier will at all times promulgate Democratic principles nud will at all times be loyal to the Demo cratic party so long as the party ia loyal Viola, Or., June 23, '04. Edi i'oii Courier, Dear Sir. We "Farmers" are, I believe, usually considered by the "Powers that be" as an ignorant class, and perhaps it is to some extent true ; but a good many of us read the Courier and is a result we are "finding some things out." A little learning creates a desire for further in formation, so I will ask for a little of your valuable space for the purpose of asking some questions which I think are of some interest to the people of this part of the county. If for any reason you are unable to answer them, I would respect fully ask you to refer them to our Hon. Board of County Commissioners, or if received too late for this session of the Board, please refer them to Judge Ryan. About one year ago a subscription was circulated among the business and pro fessional men of Oregon City and the people living contiguous to the road lead ing from Oregon City to Viola, asking for contributions for the improvement of the said road. The agreement was that if a certain amount of money was sub scribed by the people, the county court would contribute in equal amouut or enough to complete the road between the . two points named. The people showd their inteiest in the matter by subscribing considerably more than the amount naked by the court. The road was improved from a point about two miles from Oregon City to a point about the same distance from Viola. The work was stopped, so the court said, because the rains began and it could not be con tinued during the wet weather, but it would be completed this Spring. The Spring is now quite well advanced, but as yet we have seen or heard nothing about the completion of the road. While the work done was good so far as it went, we would like to know why nothing ia being done on the unimproved portion. At it now is, a man can haul a heavy load to wilhin two miles of Oregon City, then unload a part of his load or run the risk of hurting his team or breaking bis wagon getting into town. I have been told by residents of the Springwater country that a somewhat similar condition exists on the road from Springwater to Oregon. City. The Logan road is in good condition for a distance of about 12 miles, from Oregon City to Tracy's. Then there is a mud hole three or four miles in length, then a stretch of well-improved road to Springwater. Of course, the size of the load one can haul to Oregon City from any point on the Springwater end of the road is measured by the bize of the load he can haul across the mud hole mentioned above. When SpringwatBr is connected with Estacada by a good wagon road, already surveyed, that part of the country will become a grist feeder of the O. W. P. & Ry., a points where there is no water competi tion, and the road can charge "all the traffic will bear " (Right here I would like to ask for a little information. Does the county court receive fiee transporta tion over the O. W. P. & Ry. Co.'s lines?) Mr. Editor, I am only an ignorant farmer, and my ideas may not be broad enough to see the greatness of the policy pursued by the County Court, hut would it not be better to finish up the compaa atively small patches of read on the lines I have mentioned, and ibus give us the use of what has already been done, than to put so much work on the new road from Gladstone to Milwaukie? I mean the road that leads past the large tract of land owned by Judge T. F. Ryan. It has generally been the policy to build roads leading to the county seat. This is good policy, too, for the mer chants of Oregon City have donated very liberally toward building toads of that kind. Now, a road leading to Portland must he built entirely by tne county, or by the people living along the road. Portland will not build roads in Clacka mas county nor will such 1 oads benefit 1 he county generally. I want to see every body in the county conveniently located as regards good roads, but we should build first those that will moat benefit the county ii general, and then we will be all the better able to build other roads. ,lalll.i.iA.lli4,:iiai:i.,A,ljIiii.,.iJi ia'i,..,rinJ ,& fln-J Ji, Jh ift,.,. A.. Aill.,. Sufi'?? We carry a complete line of Coffins, Caskets and Robes. Th. only licensed em balmers in tbe county. Calls receive prompt atten tion day or night. SHANK & BISSELL Undertakers and funeral Directors i S".'.ce P':.on l Ma'n Street, Opposite Huntley's ""'fifri'"'''''''''"- .'fdjpWflpiniijiiJi iijpfiwi.fl)swiTflsffTiTrsW' ,'IliJ'llffl''lTJTT,, nTff(TTTiiirjii'j "it5IMl5lu"B4",v,H'- tfflW ft til :o Pbont mi Hia. 1833 Office in Tavorltt Cigar Store Opposite masonic Building Williams Bros, transfer Co. Safes, Pianos and Turniture Moving a Specialty Treigbt and Parcels Delivered to all Parts of the City Prices treasonable and Satisfaction Guaranteed :o Oregon City Planing Mills SURE TO CURE INDIGESTION. Unless Pepsikola Cures Your Dyspepsia Huntley Bros. & Co. Will Refund Your Money. It is not often that Huntley Bros. A Co. back up a new remedy with their own peri onal guarantee but they know that Pepsikola is sure to help all who have 3hro no dyspepsia and indigestion tlitu very first day they take it. Moreover Huntley Bros. & Cx are too busy and their reputation is worth too much to take chances in recommending a new remedy to their customers that will not do just as represented. Pepsikola is a remarkable preparation and has performed some cures in Oregon City that border upon the miraculoaa. It is also a grand nerve tonic. It im proves the appetite, gives new strength and new energy, tones up the stomach and digestive organs, and makes you teel better right off. When you buy a package of Pepsikola you are protected in every way. If it cures you the cost is 25 cents if it does not, Huntley Bros. A Co. will pay back your money without the least argument. All kinds of Building Material, Sash, Doors and Moulding. F. S. BAKER Proprietor, Oregon Gty, Oregon A New Home Industry The Cascade Laundry Does not wear ouf or destroy your linen Our Wagon will call for your soiled linen each week and deliver your iaundried goods to your home. Perfect satisfaction assured. E. L. JOHNSON, Proprietor.