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4 OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1904 OPvEGON CITY COURIER. Published Every Friday by OiUGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING CO. SHIRLEY BUCK, Local Editor anl Manager. H. L. McCANN, Editor. fcntorwl in Oreion tiity Postoffice as 2nd-class mattor BUBSCKIITION BATES. Paid In advance, per year 160 Six motithg 75 Clubbing lUit.es Oregon City Courier aod Weekly Ortgonian .$2.00 Oregon City Courier and Weekiy Courier Journal.. 2.00 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Examiner.. 2.50 Oregon City Courier and the Commoner 2.00 Oregon City Cornier and Twlce..a-Week Journal 2.25 Oregon City Courier end Weekly Joi .mat ... 2.00 The date opposite your address on the paper denotes I he tlmetowhlchyouhaTepaid. If this notice is marked your subscilptlon it due. speech before the Republican conven tion he laughed in his sleeve as he ex claimed, "All American1, who desire a safe and conservative administration, which shall avoid causes of quarrel, all who abhor war, all who long for the perfect sway of the principles of that re ligion which we all profess, should re joice that under this Eepublican ad ministration their country has attained a potent leadership among the nations, in the cause of peace and international justice." The Philippine and Panaman auditors gleefully poked each other in the ribs, and declared it the finest piece of irony they had ever listened to. Qen. Horace. Porter is only sixty-six, but when the governorship of New York was mentioned to him he was found to be in declining years. One of our new cat-rate Immigrants should be welcome in New York n City for he inscribed upon the register the convivial name of Boozena Sokup. Eccrctary Shaw says that high prices are a sign of prosperity . Whereat the beef trust, the coal trust and the Stan dard Oil trust immediately jump to higher rates. The Supreme Court has decided that guessing contests are illegal, Yet the officials of that symposium of conjecture called the weather Bureau still draw their salaries. The Erie railroad has discharged 4 10) employes this spring and round steak is 18 cents a pound. Secretary Shaw ably remarks that "high prices mean prosperity." James J. liill, the railroad magnate, asserts that Attorney-General Knox presented his bill and received a fee ot $600,000 as an attorney of the steel trust, Itm t he the man who declared that trusts would "sufficiently regulate themselves?" The Boston banquet to the Filipino! given by Governor Bates turned into an anti.imperialist symposium. Mayor Collins told the visitors that their right to self government is as true as the Declaration of Independence or the Ser mon on the Mount. He said "Filioinos have a right to work out the: r own sal vation, and if they are riff over success ful in doing it, it is none of our busi ness, any more than it is the concern of the Filipinos that we are not working oat all our own problems in the most perfect way." He advised them to curry home with them the leson of liberty put into effect at Bunker Hill. President Whitney of the Chamber of Commerce spoke along the same lines The Filipinos took up they-argument where .he left it and pleaded eirnestly for the same right to self government for which the Americans fought the British In the Revolution. Senator D eliver nominated Senator Fairbanks for Vice President by rap. turously eulogising all the imaginay virtues of President Roosevelt. The Hoosier says he is not quite sure that he likes the "Iowa idea." Would it be proper to speak of the Populist nominees for President and Vice-president at "doubting Thomas es?" Thomas E. Watson doubts wheth er he will accept the nomination, and Thomas II. Tibbies probably doubts whether he will be elected. The fervent languaue in which Perdi caris praises Rtisuli's delicacy and re finement gives rixe to a suspicion that he may still be a member of the bandit chief's staff. But why should our ad ministration insist on chaBing 'he bri gand to his luir as long as IVdicarii Is in this complimentary mood? Attorney-General Knox is a self-sacrificing man. He gave up a $700,000 in come as a lawyer to accept $3,000 as a uauineiomcer, ana swapped tnat lor a Seuatorslip at $5,000. But meantime he had got a $(500,000 fee as an attorney for the steel trust. So he cau still afford to take 8'igar in his coffee. becretary bhaw declares that it is a marvelous sign or prosperity when our manufacturers can easily sell goods in Europe cheaper than we cau Bell them at home, tie instances "not less than fonr million dollars worth" of merchandise which lis knows of to have been disposed of in this way. This is very soothing. Both parties agreo that Grover Cleve' land is the antithesis ot Tin o lore Roost velt. If the St. Louis convention da ms ?? place mm on the track ngiiin there is nntliiiu whatever lu the cry againut a "third term" that Bhould inter fere with bis making the run. For it is only the third consecutive term which is objectionable. An effort is being made in some quar ten to show that the Courier is at tempting to work a graft in the matter of printing the proceedings of the county court. It has been stated that if tue proceedings were itemized as the Courier has suggested, that it would add at least fifty per cent to the cost of printing, and that the Courier would benefit to that extent. To anyone nnacqua'nted with the manner of print lng the proceedings, this might appear to be correct; but that such is not the case can easily be shown. Take, for instance, the following statements, ar ranged as they have been in the past: Sam Smith $18 00 Wm Jones 25 00 John Brown 10 00 Frank .. ones 2 50 It will be noticed that the statement occupy four lines The same itemized would appear thus: Knm Smith, 3000 ft lumber $18 00 Win Jones, 10 da labor 25 00 Jihn Brown, powder 10 00 Frank Jones, 1 da labor 2 50 Four lines; and as the ccunty pays so much per inch (in length of column), it is evident that the cost is not increas ed at all. Now and then, an unusually long name, oupled with an unusually long itemized statement, might call for an extra line. But that such is not olten the case, you am referred to our issue of June 17. There are 54 item ized statements, and only one of the entire number calls for an extra line We receive 15 cents per inch for print ing the proceedings. There are nine lines to the inch. The total extra ex pense of itemizing the bills was 1 cents Isn't that a graft for you? Herald it far and wide that the Courier ' as se cured publication of the court proceed ings according to law, but that in so doing it has grafted the county to the extent of one and two-thirds cents. erty has made great strides in the last 150 years. But does economic liberty , exist? A man is free, here in America, to bold whatever religious views he may wish. He has, theoretically at least, political and civil liberty. But under ! present conditions the average citizen, the laborer whose products alone contri bute t ) the wealth of the nation, does not have the privilege of enjoying the product of his own labor. The govern ment collects billions of dollars annually in revenues. If theee were used for the iqual benefit of all, the cause of com plaint would be greatly lessened. But such is not the case. Money is collected from the whole people and turned into channels that will benefit a few. The feudal king took the land that properly belonged to the tiller of the soil and turned it over to the lords in considera tion of their military services. Our gov ernment collects taxes from the people and turns it over to grafters in consider ation of their political support. Is theie any difference in principle? We are urged to support a certain man for Con gress because he can secure appropria tions for public works in the state. What, are we to sell our votes for the sake of a few dollars that the govern ment kindly gives us as a reward for political fealty? We allow the govern ment to put its hand in our pocket, ab stract whatever quantity of money it wienes, and then we must fawn on those in high places to secure a return of some small portion of this same money. Are we free? The absolute control that government and capital have over the product of every citizen's labor, is as genuine and as galling a slavery as ever existed. Many of the slaves do not realize this. Many of the slaves of ante-bellum days scarce thought of liberty greater han they possessed. Many t,f the slaves who were held in religious bondage to a ty rant church, gloried in their slavery. When political liberty began to dawn in England, many feared their new-found liberty, just as many are now afraid of our extended political freedom and loudly call for a return to the autocratic gov ernment proposed by Hamilton. So, at present, the great majority of people either do not realize our condition of eco nomic slavery, or are afraid to venture on new liberties. But as Bure as civil, political and religio-is liberty have been obtained by the people, just so sure will economic liberty be secured. The time may be long in coming, but come it will. WE ARE SLAVES. Is it not high time that the adminis tration arraigned some scor? of its steamboat Inspectors not only the par. ticular men who are responsible for the Slocum holocaiiHt, but other men wlo have criminally neglected the inspec tion of other boats, carrying their thous ands a day. It is possible that most of the officials who are guilty of this fatal neglect are to go unpunished. Cuba is in trouble again. She ran in debt $35,000,000 by permission of the overdraw rein called the Piatt amend ment, and now she needs $'.'5,01X1,000 more and has applied to her guardian for leave to borrow it. The administra tion gravely shakes its head at the ex travagance and improvidence of its ward and does not know what to do next. Elihu Root Is one of the fonntest men that America has yet produced, standing perhaps next to Mark Twain. In his In all ag.'s and climes, in all degrees of civilization, there is seen a constant struggle on the pait of men to obtain authority over other men. This antnor ity has often taken the form of ownership of the person chattel slavery. The boasted freedom of Athens was the free' dom of a class, only. Her boasted great ness was a greatness built up on the 1' bor of slaves. In the palmy days of Rome, when "to be a Roman was greater than a king." the labor was oerformed by slaves, and the lower orders of citi zens were paupers supported by public revenues revenueg'derived in great part by exorbitant taxes wrung from the provinces. In the Middle Ages, authority took the form of Feudalism. Theoretically all the land belonged to the king. This he farmed out to the nobility in return f ir the promise of military services The common people, the ones whose 1 bors supported the king and the nobil ity, were not better off than slaves in deed, they were considered as much a part of the lands conveyed as were the forests growing upon the laud. Sometimes the control ot man by his fellow-man has been exerted through so-called religion At certain periods in the history of the world, this has re sulted in the most absolute form of slav ery a slavery in which both soul anj body were considered to be in the keep ing of the lord. The history of the great mass of the inhabitants of the world is a histo y of slavery chattel slavery, religious slav ery, political slavery, social slavery, eco nomic slavery slavery in a thaueaud forms. Some of these forms have disap peared from among civilized nations, some are in course of extinction, all are somewhat ameliorated. Chattel slavery is no longer found among civilised na tions. Religious, liberty exists in the more advanced countries, Political lib- For Sale at Low Figures and on Easy Terms Write for Full List 40 Acres in Julia Ann Lewis Claim, 2 miles 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 jn A 1 cultivation, small house, large barn, orchard, living springs, two million feet tim ber, 30 per acre. J 00 Acres, level, 60 in cultivation, good build is ings, 1 miles from terminus of O. W. P. & Ry. line, at Springwatef, $40 per acre. 82 1-2 Acres in famous Logan country, 60 teres in A 1 cultivation, new frame dwelling 1 cost fli 500,' large barn, living water, $50 per ,',-r" acre. ' 1 60-Acre Stock Ranch in Sec. 17, T. 4 S., ! 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P. & Railway, lots of from 80 acres up, and from $lo per acre up to $i$, 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. of good H"' Railway, in SI CROSS & SHAW 233 Washington St., Portland, Or INFLUENCE OF THE CHAUTAUQUA Only those who have been in close touch with the Chautauqua work can measurably realize the importance of its influence. If education meaos the de velopment of the mm, mentally, mor ally, sociably, physically, there is no one influence at work in our community that possesses greater educational value than the Chautautjua. In the delightful Park of the Willamette Valley Chautauqua Association, annually gather together thousands of the most intelligent and progressive people of Western Oregon. No other gathering in such numbers dis plays the same high moral and iniellec tual tone. The Chautauqua is unique in one feature the eut're absence of hood- lumism. Either the nature of the work is such that the rougher element is not attracted to the meetings, or the senti ment is so preponderatingly in favor of good behavior that any disorderly con duct is effectually held in check. The latter is perhaps true; and this alone constitutes an excellent training in proper behavior. The class work is of the highest order, and is so arranged as to cover a wide field. Instruction in Biblical and pro fane history, in music and art, in elocu tion and pedagogy, in physical culture aud domestic science these make up a varied course of study that can not well be surpassed ; and the value of the work Htin r.. Ilrpflnn I itv. II r. mond Pearson Hobson will lecture on "America's Mighty Mission." On Friday, at 2 p. m., Captain Hobson will lecture on "America, Mwtress of the Seas." In the evening, Dr. Thomas McClary will talk on "The Mission of Mirth." Dr. McClary's lectures always delight his audiences, being masterful combinations of logic, humor and pathos. On Saturday, at 2 p. m., there will be a lecture on "American Art and Ariibts at Home and Abroad," by Mtb. Marian A. White. In the evening, the canttta, "Queen Esther," will be given under the direction of Prof. Martin E. Robin sin, musical director of the Chautauqua. The attractions for the second week are as follows: An oratorical contest will be held un der the auspices of the W. O, T. U. on Monday afternpon. In the evening, Rev. G. W, White will appear for the second time, in his lecture on "Celebrated Cranks." Mr. Herbert Bashford, the poet of Oakland, California, will lecture on "The Literature of the West," Tuesday afternoon. In the evening, Dr. Mc Clary w I speak on "Sunshine in Labor." On Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Marian A. Whit will deliver her becond lecture, "Our Patriotic Painters of the West." The famous humorist, Lou J, Beau- . Iifr-,qfffii,-,ffnitf'i,rtaiiii--' -St We carry a complete line Coffins, Caskets and Robes. Th only licensed em balmed In the county. Calls receive prompt atten tion day or night. SHANK & BISSELL Main Street, Opposite Huntley's f 4 Office rhone 1031 J Res. 1504 nii.fjim 'inHtrfli JHiipuiiHUHliii WTip PTrTrJfBlllWlflpillllIJJIlWtlllN iitifiniiiijiiiiaiijijn is greatly eghanced by the fact that each champ will talk in the evening on "Take instructor is a master of his or her de-i Sunny Side." Mr. Beaucharap will occupy the plat form again on Thursday, his subject be ing "The Age of the Young Man." The evening will be devoted to a special pro gram by the elocutionist, Mrs. Harriet Colbnrn Bannderson, and her Assembly pupils. Pioneer Day exercises will be pre sented on Friday afternoon. Dr. Hillis will address the audience in the evening on "The Tragedy of the Ten Talent Man." Dr. Hillis will also occupy the platform Saturday afternoon, presenting his lecture on "John Ruskin's Message to the Twentieth Century." The cm- tata, "lielsharzar," will be given in the evening under the direction of Prof Robinson. On Sunday. July 17,-a sermon will be delivered by Rev. Geo. W. White, at p. m. Dr. Thos. McClary will preach In the evening. On the 24th, Dr. Hillis will preach at 2 p. m. and at 8 p. m. At 4 p. m. on the 17th and 24th, the Chemawa Indian Band will give a sa cred concert. partment. There is perhaps no stimulus to men tal activity and moral development greater than that derived from coming in coutact with the leading thinkers of the day. Much may be derived from books, much may be obtained from the members of any intelligent community, but there is actual inspiration in meet ing aud listening to such orators as are heard at these annual meetings. The platform attractions alone are worth far more, consider": i merely as entertain ments, than the price of admission. Lec tures will be given as follows : On Tuesday, July 12, at 2 p. m., Dr. Stanley J. Krebs will lecture on "Two Snakes in Eden." This lecture discusses the practical psychology of fear aud worry. The speaker is one ot note, and ii a profound writer on Psychical Re search. At 8 p. m. of the same day he will deliver his lecture on "Marvels and Mysteries of Mind." and on Wednesday at 2 p. in., that on "Dreams and Premonitions." On Wednesday evening, a grand con Phont 1121 lies. JS33 Office In Tavorite Cigar Store Opposite ttlasenle Building Williams Bros, transfer Co. Safes, Pianos sind Turniture Moving a Specialty Trelqht and Parcels Delivered to all Parts ot the City Prices treasonable and Satisfaction Guaranteed Oregon City Planing Mills 'All kinds of Building Material, Sash, Doors and Moulding. F. S. BAKER Proprietor, Oregon Gty, Oregon cert will be given under the manage-' "Special days will be: went of Mrs. Walter Reed, of Portland. ! . Grnd. ArmT Pv Thursday, July 14; Mrs. Reed is too well known to Chati tauquaus to need any introduction. Her musical entertainments have always and deservedly proven one of the most popu lar features of the program. On Thursday, at 2 p. m., Rev. George W.White will lecture on the "Black Napoleon." At 8 p, m., Captain Rich. Women's Day, Saturday. July 16 : W. C T.U.Day, Monday, July 18; Tioneer Day, Friday, July 22. FOR SALE, CHEAP A 16x20 John son steam bar press. Reasonable terms. I. A. Bonney, 2 miles east of Needy. Postoffice K. F. D. No. t, Aurora, Or. A New Home Industry The Cascade Laundry Docs not wear out'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.
