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,1 OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 194 . OREGON CITY COURIER. Published Every Friday by OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING CO. H. L. McCANN, Editor. Ilntered in Oregon Oity PoatofHce as 2nd-cliws matter . , . B0B8CB1PT1ON KATES. Paid In advance, per year 1 60 Bix months 76 Clubbing Bdes Oregon City Courier and Weekly Oregonian -$2.00 Oregon City Courier and Weekiy Courier Journal .' 2.00 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Examiner.. 2.60 Oregon City Courier and the Commoner 8.00 Oregon City Courier and Twlce..a.Week Journal 2.25 Oregon City Courier and Weekly Journal .... 2.00 )BrThe date opposite your address on the paper denotes (he time to which youhavepaid. If this notice is marked your subset iptlon li due For President, ALTON B. PARKER. For Vice-President HENRY G. DAVIS. Beef baa reached the highest point attained since the Civil War. Secretary Shaw says "High prices mean prosper ity." So this most be a good trUBt. Hw.u'.ans pledge themselves to change the taaiff "from time to time." But they forget to say whether to lower or h'gher rates, and when "time to time" gets here. administration?" The answer is the same in all minds. Th e whole military 'ores of the United States would be used if necessary, to suppress such outrages. And the administration would be right in so doing; but it is under as great obligation to act now that it is the mine owners who are violating every principle of free government, as if it were the miners who were so doing. The constitution of the United States guarantees to each state a Republican form of government. Wat it the intent of the makers of the constitution that the mere "form" of government shocld be guaranteed, or did it mean that the republican spirit should be maintained? If the lattei, then it is high time for the National government to interfere in Colorado for the defense of the people, for the government of Colorado is no longer Republican in spirit scarcely in form. It is an oligarchy a few mine owners being in absolute control. The government of fiussia is not so despotic as that of the authorities in Colorado. When men. "against whom no criminal charge can be established," are driven, at the point of the bayonet, from their homes and families ; when the murder of non-union miners is traced to a hire ling of the mine owners and the investi gation suddenly dropped ; when the. governor ot a state will call out the military forces of a state and place them at the disposal of a few capitalists, and unaer the direction of a prosecuting at torney who ii also attorney for the Mine- owners Association ; then it it - time for working men to consider whether they haye any rights which the capitalist it bound to respect. Congress appropriated $500,000 for the immediate prosecution of trusts. Only f50,000 has yet been used for the pur pose, the Attorney-general explaining that be isn't going to run amuck against "good trusts." The fact that several have been in dieted for the Slocum steamboat horror does not satisfy the American people. Tbey demand that seveial of the guilty shall be punished. Yet steamboat man agers in New York are in rebellion, de claring that there is no law for the rein spectioD of steamboats. The record now is 1,040 known to have periehed. Secretary Shaw in his Chicago speech repeated that $4,000,000 worth of Amer ican merchandise is annually sold abroad cheaper than at home. He merely left out two ciphers a typo graphical error. Steel rails are sold here for $28, but are offered in Europe for $?0 per ton. Our manufactured exports avera over 1400,000,000 a year and almost all of them are sold abroad cheaper than at home. At I he Harvard b qiet ex-Secretary o State Olney followed Tuft, and answered him. He said : "Where will you find in American law any right in a strong nation to appropriate the sovereignty or territory ot a weak nation, either in the name ol 'collective civilization' or in any other name or in any pretext what soever ? And if the search be success fulis not a rule which is good for na tions good also for individuals? And why not the lives and property of weak er and inferior citizens in any commun ity be rightfully expropriated for the bsneflt of the strong and the superior?" Mr. Roosevelt is superlative or noth ing. All his geese are swans. When he drops out memberg of his Cabinet he publicly announces that they are the greatest of their kind e' er known, lioot was the moat remarkable War Secretary eyer known, and now he says Knox has left a deeper mark for good 90 the coun try's development ' than any of his great and able predecessors. That is Knox throws into the shade hopelessly William Wirt, Roger B. Taney, William riunuey, Edmund Randolph, Caleb Gushing, Jeremiah S. lllack, Kdwin M. Stanton, William M. Evarts, E. R. Hoar, Alfonso Taft, Chui. Devens, Wayne MacYeagh, Richard Olney, and others of the greatest lawyers. LABOR'S PROPER ATTITUDE. Roosevelt writes books ou war. He thunders war in his president's! mes sages. War loving and headstrong, im pulsive and impatient of remonstrance, Mr. Roosevelt as the commander-in- chief of the army and navy 'ncarcerates a menace which could not but effect the minds of a Christian people which hate war aud hold peace and its normal ac companiments above mere military ag grandizements and foreign contest." Eugene Guard. TEACH LOCAL HISTORY. Is Secretary Hoot an intirate? When he left the War Department the Tresi dent forvently embraced him, hurrahed for him, and sent a squadron of cavalry to escort him to the depot. But the ii lnstrious man went right off and made a peecbto Yale warning the .students against the usurpation of public oftloialt laying "The more frequently men who hold great power in otllce are permitted to override the limitations imposed by law upon their powers, the more ditli cult it becomes to question anything they do; aud the peoplo, each one weak In himself, and unable to cope with pow erful oflloeri, who regard any question ing 0! their acta as an affront, gradually lose the habit of holditig such ofllcert accountable and ultimately practically surrender their rlfht to hold them ac countable." It is understood that the President Immediately sent Cortelyou to Root to ask him If he said it. THE COLORADO OLIGARCHY. "If the Western Federat'on of Miners had control of the governmental xo.- chinery of Colorado, and should deport mine-owners 'against whom no criminal charge could lie established,' what a" tiou would be taken by the Natioua The present condition of labor is hot altogether unbearable. Labor unions have, to some extent, been able it resist the encroachments of capital. Indeed, the present tendency is for the unions to make terms with the capitalists, thus enabling the latter to make gi eater pre fits even while conceding better wages to the laborers But this will result in un bearable hardships on the great middle class of unorganized labor the farmers, merchants and professional men. And to the unions let us say, "Suffer not your selves to be betrayed with a kiss." Whenever the capitalist considers that bis inten sts will he fo warded by so do ing, he will trnmple unionism under foot at a matter of no moment. The Colo rado trouble proves this to be true. Is there a remedy for this condition? Yes j the ballot box. t Whenever legisla tors and other officials find that their election depends, not on the backing of capital but on their own faithfulness to the interests of the producer, then will we have legislation that will prove just and efficient, judicial acts that will pre vent instead of encouraging the encroach ments of trusts, and executive orders that will protect the rights of labor as well as the "sacred" rights of capital. The present administration has been ''weighed in the balances and found wanting" in its attitude toward labor. Vote it down; not because it clings to Republican doctrines, but because it is controlled by the almighty dollar. If the Democrats, when placed in power, show that they have not fully compre hended the meaning of your votes, then, in turn, vote them down, The great, living, burning issue before the Ameri can people is the relation of capital and labor. It is an iBsuu that must be de cided. Like Banquo't ghost, "it wiU not down." Decided wrongly, it means eco nomic slavery for the masses. Decided rightly, it means an upward step that will finally lead to a height of civilization and material development that is as yet almost undreamed of. It is a duty that every union man, ev ery man belonging to the producing class owes to himself, his family and his fel- lowman, to vote nvainst Roosevelt, un der whose administration and with whose connivance have been consuni mated tome of the grossest abuses the famous fiasco known as the "merger de cision," the exploitation of the public lands, the retention in office 0! heads of bureaus in which the most dishonest practices have prevailed, the acquies cence in the substitution of military for civil government a list of abuses that should condemn to everlasting political perdition those who have perpetrated them, and him who, having the power to prevent or punish, hat complacently watched their perpetration, nor opened hit lipt to tay them nay. It is proposed by the teachers of Ore gon that the history of the state shall be included in the course of study pursued in the public schools. The proposition is an excellent one. Although origina ting in the spirit which anticipates the event of next year, and designed espe cially to familiarize pupilt with the his toric importance of the work of the pio neer explorers, Lewis and Clark, the ultimate good to be realized from such a step is of much greater significance than what is involved in a knowledge of thit interesting story. Education that puts in the possession of the boy or girl information that it re liable as to the political, industrial and commercial development of the state in which they live, is of the highest value, both to the individnal who receives it and the oody politic. It appeals to us as altogether sensible that in the matter of historical knowledge to be acquired, that pertaining to the home locality should be first in importance. Such knowledge will enable future citizens to formulate opinions on public matters that directly affect their interests, and to guide their action in connection there with with an intelligence that could not be otherwise operative. If the history of the state is properly taught, it will include information re garding all its resources ; its present status as regards population, industy, tociety ; its topography ; the compara tive development of its various sections and the opportunities that are presented in all lines of endeavor. It will dieclose the factors that have been conducive to the most rapid and healthy growth and will serve as a guide jn the attainment of the highest destiny for the common wealth. The movement proposed here it one that might well be adopted by every state in the Union. Telegram. i ma ba a ai a. j! ; sm. nm m " n vim 1 1 uBGliHe 1 1 I MOW!!; For Sale at Low Figures arid 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 Acfes on O. W; P. & Ry. line, 160 acres in i 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, miles from terminus of O. W. P. & Ry line, at Springwater , $40 per acre. 1 ' : . ..At..- . . :- ' . - ' t ' 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. 4 S., R. 5 E., two acres cultivated, small house and barn, two million feet fir, and cedar, land mostly good, range immense, $$ 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 8j r 1 a ff ia nor aTfl Will ftaHp KM 349 Acres, 220 in A 1 cultivation, orchard, buildings, 7 acres hops, 6 miles from Hub bard, 35 per acre. VU, Acres on main pianK roaa, 45 auca m gyuu m cultivation, large trame Darn, no nouse; tana rich; $3000. 41 Acres, 5 miles from Oregon City, 2 miles from lSew,Era 25. acres in cultivation and v in crop, living water, good orchard, buildings g; j 1-. r-r. ' j -II rf.- V I uuiyiau, trojj auu an, rj Two or three thousand acres of good H land near line of O. W. P. & Railway, in 51 lots of from 80 acres up, and from $lo per I J . 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 FROM OUR EXCHANGES. A LOVER OF WAR. This from the St. Louis Republic 11 a (air estimate of Mr. Ro ttevelt, whom the Republicans have nominated for president, but whom almost certainly will never be endorsed by the voters of the American people : "The Roosevelt personality fairly bulges with dangera. No inau ever heard from the Rootevelt lips Uie exclamation that "war it hell." To him war looms at a gloriout oppor tunity lor the exploitation of penonal valor and he constantly preachet knight errantry to the American soldiery. He frankly despises the soldier who doet not love war -for its own take and la ments the fact that there was not enough of the Spanish war to go around. Mr. ONE CAMPAIGN LIE. The speciousness of the Republican pretense of being the original and only anti-trust party is sure t,o impress itsel more strongly upon the American people at the present campaign progresses. Every sane man knows that the Re publican party is the party of the trusts, that it is Republican legislation which made creation of the trusts possible and which is responsible for tbeir growth ; aud that the alleged trust prosecutions of the Roosevelt administration have been, as they were designed to be, noth ing but a gigantic bluff for political effect, In view of these well understood facts- the Republican platform's trust plank deserves consideration principally as an illustration of reckless mendacity. That remarkable document says: Laws enacted by the Republican party, which the Democratic party failed to enforce and which were in tended for the protection of the public against the unjust discrimination of the illegal encroachment of vast aggre gations of capital, have been fearlessly enforced by a Republican president. At a matter of historic fact, President Roosevelt can lay no claim to having originated the anti-trust prosecutions, aad there is absolutely no ground for the Republican effort to make it appear that there was any dereliction of duty on the part of the last Democratic administra tion toward the enforcement of the anti trust law then on the statute bioks. The foundation for all the litigation for which the Republican! assume to them selves credit was laid by the law officers of the last Democratic administration. It wat Attorney General Harmon to whom belongs the credit of securing a favorable decls'on for the Governmeut in the great case of the United States against the Trans-Mississippi Freight Association. When Mr. Harmon be came Attorney General that case, which had ben lost by the Government, was pending an appeal in the supreme court. Mr, Harmon took personal charge of the case, prepared the briefs himself and made the oral argument against an array of the finest railroad lawyers in the coun try . He won hit case. This was the first in which the anti trust law had ever been enforced. The decision secured from the Supreme court by this Democratic Attorney General bat been the corner stone'of all the Govern ment't tnbtequent litigation. This de cision was not handed down by the 8a preme Court until the fall of 1S9G. It was followed by the prompt inatituting of a limilar case by . Attorney General Harmon to dissolve the combination of eastern railroads known as the Joint Traffic Association. Shortly after this, when the facta concerning the combina tion made by the manufacturers of iron pioing became known, Attorney General Harmon brought the Addystone pipe case,, the court's decision in which marked another important milestone in anti-trust litigation. Both of these last two cases were Main St., Oregon Clly, Or. 233 Washington St., Portland, Or brought by . the . Democratic, Attorney I General, and were prepared by bim, but the decisions which sustained bis inteo tentiont on behalf ot the Government were not rendered until after he went out of office. To him, however, is cer tainly due the major part of the credit for winning them. The Northern Secur ities case, about which there is s- much boasting in the Republican platform, was simply another step along the way which he Democratic attorney had blnzad, and it would probably have attracted bui lit tle attention had it not been for the fact that it brought Philander C. Knox, who had been attorney for great trust inter ests,' into lime light in the role of trust buster. The Republican claim to all the credit for anti-truat legislation is as groundless as its platform assertion that the Demo crats failed to take action unier the anti trust laws; and that is mendacious. Atlanta Constitution. WBfBtm of Proclamation. Whereas, there was submitted to the electors of the state at the last general election as required by law, an initiative petition tor a Diiect Primary Nominat ing election Law ; And, whereas, on the 24th day of J une, 1904, the Secretary of State in my pres ence as Governor of the State of Oregon did canvass the votes given for said law ; And, whereas, it was ascertained and determined upon such carivass ttiat there were 5o285 votes cast lor said Direct Primary Nominating Election Law, and 16354 votes against tne same, and tnat Baid law received an affirmative majority of the total number of effective votes cast thereon and entitled to be counted under the provisions of law, Now. Theretore, 1, Ueo. 1;,. unamoer- lain, at Governor of the State of Oregon in obedience to Section 9 ot An Act entitled ' An Act leaking effective the intiative and referendum provisions of of Section 1 of Article 5 of the Constitu tion of the State of Oregon, and regulat ing elections thereunder and providing penalties tor violations ot provisions ot this Act," approved February 24, 1903, o hereby make and Issue this Procla- ation to the people of the State of Ore gon, and do announce and declare that the whole number of votes cast in the State of Oregon for said Direct Primary Nominating Election Law was 56,28 votes, and the whole number of votes cast in the state againBt said Direct Pri mary Nominating Election Law was 16, 364 votes; that said Direct Primary Nominating Election Law received an affirmative majority of the total number of votes cast on said measure and e& titled to be counted under the provisions of law, and that said Direct Primary (Nominating Election Law shall be and it in full force and effect at the law 01 the State of Oregon from the date of this Proclamation. Done at the Capitol at Salem, this 24th day of Jane, A. D. 1904. By the Governor : (Signed) Geo. E. Chamberlain, (Signed) F. I. Dckbar, Secretary of State. (Seat) For the best building blocks in Hub bard write the Courier office. We carry a complete line Coffins, Caskets and Robes. Th". only licensed em balmers in the county. Calls receive prompt atten tion day or night. SHANK & BISSELL I InrlprtaLpr Anr! Funeral fiirprtnn tne"00 PIJ.ne ls64 Main Street, Opposite Huntley's V Phone 1121 lies. 1833 Office in Tavorlte Cigar Store Opposite masonic Building Williams Bros, transfer Co. Safes, Pianos and Turnlture Moving a Specialty freight and Parcels Delivered to all Parts ef the City Prices Reasonable and Satisfaction Guaranteed Oregon City Planing Mills All kinds of Building Material, Sash, Doors and Moulding. F. S. 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