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QON CITY GOURI
25th YEAR.
OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY. APRIL J7, 1908
No 49,
ORE
MANY MOVES
YET TO MAKE
Harriman At Sixty
Give Up-Expected to Retire
This Year.
HIS PLANS ARE
Government Interference Has Brought Industrial
Chaos, He Says Blames Roads for Losing
Rate-Making Power.
(From the New York Times.)
Edward H. Harriman at 60 Is much
too busy to think about retiring from
the railroad business. On his last
birthday a year ago next Tuesday, he
thought that another twelvemonth
would find him ready to quit the game
but yesterday he told a Times report
er that there are still too many moves
to be made. He doesn't propose to
stop even to consider retiring until
the complications on the industrial
chessboard have been resolved suffi
ciently to enable him to see clearly
a little distance ahead. Until then
Mr. Harriman thinks he owes it to
40,000 stockholders and 150,000 em
ployes in his system to stay "on the
job."
This definition of his position Mr.
Harriman made In the course of his
afternoon constitutional along Fifth
Avenue yesterday. The reporter met
him coming out of his house, and ask
ed him how things lo ' ,'om Mr.
Harrlman's viewpoint of GO years,
lacking only a couple of days. It was
the railroad man who spoke of the
chess board: '
- "I wouldn't undertake to say," said
Mr. Harriman. "No sensible man
would undertake now to predict what
is going to happen or to make a com
prehensive statement of present con
ditions. There are too many moves
yet to be made before any degree of
stability is reached to make such a
survey possible."
"Who is going to make them?"
"You know as, well as I do," return
Wherever Wheels Turn
Electric Motors are Needed
No matter what they drive or where
they are
These
Anyone using power can profit
by consulting
Portland Railway, Light & Power Co.
e. G. MILLER, A$ent
Oregon Gity, Oregon
Years Will Not
NOW UPSET
ed Mr. Harriman sharply. "The peo
ple of this country have got to be
brought to a proper appreciation of
the inter-relation between the various
factors in industry. Then they must
see to it that the administration of
law is conducted in their interest and
not as a matter of personal caprice."
"And you are going to stay in the
game until this comes about, Mr. Har
riman?" the reporter asked.
Too Busy to Retire.
'I don't want to say how long I shall
stay in harness. A year ago, when
the Inter-State Commerce Commis
sion was at work, I said something
about retiring in another year, Well,
It isn't a case of changing my mind,
but of not having had time to think
about retirement. I looked then for
some falling oft in business, but for
nothing like what has occurred. I
didn't expect to see 50 per cent of
the decrease that has been realized.
Under such conditions there is noth
ing to do but to stick until matters
get into competent hands, at least,
and until confidence has been restor
ed. "Just now we aie hearing about the
wages problem. But do people ap
preciate that, with a given opportun
ity for the development of business,
the more we have to pay for capital,
the less there is to pay for wages? I
am not refering to the scale of wages,
but to the amount that we can spend
for wages. An in order to get capital
on reasonable terms we have got to
have good credit, and credit must be
A Saving in Power A Reduction in Expense
An Increase in Output An Improvement in Pro
duct Some Decided Improvement Always Results
When Electric Motors Turn the Wheels.
Benefits are especially
valuable to
Bakers, Blacksmiths, Bottlers, Butchers, Confect
ioners, Contractors, Dentists, Dressmakers, Grocers,
Launderers, Housekeepers, Jewelers, Machinests,
Printers, Woodworkers.
maintained by surplus earnings.
"There la the whole thing in a nut
shell. "A wrong Idea prevails in a good
many quarters about this relationship
of capital and labor. We men who
manage the roads are not the capital
ists. The security holders from whom
weborrow the money are the capital
ists, and they are in partnership with
the wage earners in trying to make a
fair profit out of serving the public,
roads to preserve the proper relations
between the different factors so far as
we can. But what becomes of our ef
forts when unwise Governmental in
terference, resulting In such a condi
tion of distrust as prevails at present,
jumbles up all the factors in one con
glomeration? "Be careful now, not to confuse the
terms. By surplus earnings I do not
mean the payment of dividends, but
the ability to earn something beyond
what is required to meet bare charg
es and expenses. So in speaking of
the partnership between the wage
earners and the stockholders, I do not
limit myself to the relations that exist
or .that may exist between the corpor
ate organizations on the one side and
the labor organizations on the other.
I refer to the fundamental relations
between those who furnisTi the funds
for investment and those who give
their services to make the Investment
profitable.
Industry Upset by Restriction.
"It is quite obvious that restriction
of business brings about economical
conditions throughout the industrial
structure. When men are working
on part time, or under limitations as
to hours and conditions, there is a
tremendous waste in earning capacity
and productive energy.. The whole
fabric of industry contracts. There
is less money to be spent by the work
ers and consequently less business to
be done to supply the "wants they can
afford. A family makes a bag of
(lour go where two were used before
the old clothes are made over Instead
of having new ones bought.
"Multiply this by eighty million and
you can see what it means to have the
Nation economize. And the distrust
naturally produced among those who
have the money to Invest, and there
is a combination of forces at work
with cumulative effeet, the result of
which it is hard to forecast. Earnings
decrease because of the slackening
volume of business; capital becomes
timid and rates for money high, and
there is correspondingly less to be
paid for the labor necessary to carry
out the work that we have before us.
The question of whether wages will
decrease does not depend upon my at
titude or the attitude of any other
manager of industry toward labor. It
depends upon whether we are gping
to have the money to pay labor to do
the work that we ought to do.
"I believe that things will right
themselves when people have had a
chance to understand the situation,
provided that we eliminate the self
seeker. What we have got to have
in political and in business life is
the man who is willing to work for
others and doesn't undertake to move
the pieces on the chess board solely
with a view to what he thinks to be
his own interest. If you ask me when
I believe an equilibrium will be reach
ed and confidence restored, I say
frankly that I don't know. The pa-
VANC0UVERS
GET SECOND
TWO GAMES OF TRI-CITY LEAGUE
PLAYED SATURDAY AND
SUNDAY.
PAPERMAKERS FIRST
Games All Full of Vlyor and Promise
of Good Work by Locals Ex
ceptionally Good for Com
ing 8eason.
The first two games of the Trl-CIty
league have been played and honors
are even. The Papermakers winning
the first on Saturday by a score of
7 to 1, and the Vancouvers getting
square on the Sabbath with the notch
es on the stick running 8 to 3 In their
favor.
The field was in good condition, the
weather was made to order and the
fans worked up to a mid-season ten
sion, which with the good playing to
the credit of either team furnished a
well rounded game either day, and the
season was thus most gaily launched
and as "coming events," etc., we may
well look for something most inter
esting from the league this summer.
Several hundred enthusiasts attend
ed the games' at Canemah Park. The
work of Havernlcht and Kilt the lo
cal battery was the best witnessed on
a local diamond. Pitcher Pender, of
the visiting team, held the locals down
for a time, and was replaced in the
seventh by Onley. The entire local
team played a most satisfactory
game, and Manager Partlow is Justly
confident of their ability to hold their
own with any team in the league,
when the season Is advanced sufficient
to give the boys a little more work.
Score for Saturday's game: -Vancouver.
A.B R. B.H. S.B. P.O A. E.
Hunter . .
Turk, ss . .
Briggs, If
Shea, c . .
Frey, 2b.-.
Woods, rf 2
Sullivan cf
Pender, p .
Onley, p ;
.3 0 1 1 0 0 1
.3011011
.4 0 0 0 0 0 0
11
4
0
1
0
0
8
McConnell .3
Totals ..28 1 4 4 24 10 5
Oregon City.
A.B R. B.H. S.B. P.O A. E.
Kreuger,3b 5
Kelt, c ...3
Chapin, rf 3
Hill, lb... 3
Adams, cf 3
Grifflth,2b. 3
Sater, ss ..2"
Locke, If... 3
Havernlcht 2
114
115
0 0 0
10 5
1 1 0
0 0 5
12 4
0 0 1
0 0 3
0
3
0
1
1
2
4
0
0
11
Totals.
27 7 5 5 27
Score by Innings.
Vancouver 01000000 01
Hits 01110000 14
Oregon City 2 0001301 7
Hits 2 0 0 21 1 0 6
Summary.
Earned run Oregon City, 1. Two-
base hit Hill. Bases on balls Hav
ernlcht, 2; Pender, 3; Onley, 2. Struck
out By Pender, 9; by Onley 3; by
Havernlcht, 5. Wild pitch Pender.
Left on bases Oregon City, 6; Van
couver, 5. Double plays Sater to
Kreuger, Adams to Griffith.
SUNDAY'S GAME.
Vancouver.
A.B R. IB. PO
A.' E.
McConnel, lb.
5 1
Turk, ss 4
Briggs, cf .... 5
Frey, 2 b 4
Shea, c 4
Ahern, If 5
Concannon, p. 3
Hunter, 3b ... 3
Totals 33 8 14 27 19
Oregon City.
A.B R. IB. PO. A. E.
Krueger, 3b ..3 0 2 2 2 0
Kelt, c 4 0 0 3 4 0
Chapin, rf 4 1 1 1 0 1
Hill, lb 4 1 2 8 1 1
Adams, cf 4 0 2 2 0 0
Griffith, 2b ... 4 0 2 6 3 1
Sater, ss 4 0 0 3 1 3
Van Northwick 2 0 0 2 0 0
Rummell, p . . . 1 1 0 0 3 0
Long, p 1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals .... 31 3 9 27 14 6
Score by Innings.
Vancouver ... 40000040 08
Hits 50001152 114
Oregon City . 00100000 23
Hits 02100011 49
Summary.
Earned runs Vancouver, 6. First
base on balls Off Rummell, 1; off
Concannon, 3. Left on bases Oregon
City, 4; Vancouver, 4. Twa-base hits
Griffith, Frey, Woods, Shea. Struck
out By Concanno, 8; by Rummell, 2;
by Long, 1. Double plays Shea to
Turk, Concannon to Shea to Hunter.
tient Is now undoubtedly under treat
ment that will prove efficacious in the
end, but the question still remains
whether the disease may not prove
very serious before the corrective
treatment gets the upper hand.
Where Railroad Men Have Failed.
"Mind. I do not lay all the blame
on the public, or even on the politici
ans. The railroad men themselves
are to blame for a great deal of what
has happened, and they ought to rec
ognize it at this time, when they have
their own worries with them. If the
railroad men of the United States bad
learned to trust each other years ago
a great deal of what has been suffer
ed would have been avoided. There
was a time when they had the right
to make agreements covering traffic
and rates, but what was the result? An
agreement was hardly made before
somebody whom it bound issued an
order violating its provisions. That
sort of thing was the root of destruc
tive competition, and subjected the
railroads to much of the trouble that
they have suffered since In being
made the victims of any one who
wanted to build an unnecessary com
petitive line for the mirpose of sell
ing It out.
"I am not opposed to railroad regu-
latlon, provided It is coupled with
railroad protection. Long ago I ex
pressed the view that regulation even
to the point of allowing the Inter
State Commerce Commission to fix
the rates, was not to be combatted,
provided that the Government would
allow the roads to make agreements
with each other through the repeal of
the Sherman law. The protection of
the public in the making of Buch
agreements is the degree of publicity
now insisted upon in respect of other
railroad affairs, and of that I am heart
ily in favor. Sensible, regulation, pro
tection of the railroads against unnec
essary competition, and publicity are
In my mind the three things that will
set the railroads right with the people
m me ena. But, meanwhile, the men
who have the responsibilities of the
railroads on their shoulders must
keep to their task and not give them
over Into Incompetent hands. There'll
be no trouble about training up the
men to run the railroads in the next
generation if the proper conditions
and discipline are established.
"And will there be the work to do,
If confidence is restored and the
proper relations established? Of
course there will. There is as great
a possibility of growth ahead of the
railroads in the next ten years if we
only go at it rightly. Within the life
time of some of our children the pop
ulation of this country will no doubt
have reached 200,000,000, and the
system of American Railroading that
has developed to meet the needs of
80,000,000 of people is in its infancy.
But, as I have said, the self-seeker has
got to be eliminated and the people
at large have got to come to an ap
preciation of the underlying relation
ships of the factors In the problem.
When those two things are In process
of accomplishment It will be time
enough to talk about retiring."
Public Schools Observe Arbor Day,
The teachers of the primary
grades of the Barclay High School and
of the Eastham school, are preparing
to observe Arbor day at the school
grounds on next Friday afternoon.
Trees have been planted heretofore
on the school grounds on Arbor day,
but during the summer vacation the
trees have either been stolen or de
stroyed by some miscreant, and It
has been decided to purchase plants,
lor the school building. A special
program will be rendered by the
pupils.
Boston Suburb in Ruins,
An apparently insignificant fire
which started among the rags on a
dump in the city of Chelsea, a su
burb of Boston, Sunday, was fanned
by a northwest gale into a conflagra
tion which obliterated nearly one
third of the, city. Five hundred dwell
ing houses and public buildings were
destroyed, 15U0 families were driven
from their homes and 10,000 people
made homeless.
Narrowly Escaped Drowning.
The overturning of the boat con
taining Sid Charman and Tom War
ner, Tuesday while the pair were
making an endeavor to hook a Chi
nook, nearly cost them their lives, and
only the prompt action of men work
ing in the Willamette Paper Mill,
near the scene of the accident, throw
ing lines out with which the two were
able to be drawn out of the water.
A new feature introduced by the
Pqrtland Realty Board Is a weekly ex
cursion for its members, either to
some suburban addition to Portland or
to some point more distant, to thor
ougly famaliarlze them with the city,
its enviromnents and the state In gen
eral. Last Saturday they chartered
two special cars and went to Salem a
hundred strong over the new trolley
line, to attend the Horse Show in the
capital city. The excursionists were
unanimous in pronouncing these in
terurban lines the most important fac
tor in the development of any section.
There is an assurance that a line will
be constructed between Salem and
Stayton very soon.
Letter List.
Letter List for week ending April
10, 1908:
Women's List Beeman, Miss Lillle;
Holt, Miss; Sparrow, Mrs. Emma;
Vandebger, Mrs.; Wagenblast, Mrs. L.
F.
Men's List Bennett, Rev.; Bailey,
C. A.; Chrlstlanson, Chas.; Keith, Carl
Stribble, Geo. p.
The Sherwood White Sox.
The Sherwood White Sox baseball
teanuwon 3 to 7 with the Spantens
of Portland yesterday on the Sherwood
diamond. The White Sox are a good
team and expect many victories.
The Oregon-Alaska-Yukon-Paclflc
Exposition Commission has opened an
office in the Hamilton Building, 131
Third Street, Portland, Oregon, where
they can be reached by those Interest
ed In exploiting the resources of this
great Btate, either by letter or In
person.
Oregon Is the first on the grounds
at Seattle to erect a state building
for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposi
tion, and it Is the intention of the
Commission to make Oregon first la
everything throughout the Fair.
Don't overlook the oppor-
tunlty to get a year's subscrip- 4'
tlon to the Oregon City Cour- e
ler, the American Farmer and . A
the Metrooplltan Magazine all
for $1.75. The Metropolitan '4
Magazine alone Is worth the
money. Send money order for
$1.75 to the Oregon City Cour-
ier.
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TO
THE REPUBLICAN
VOTERS:
The only Republican State
ment No. 1 candidate for joint
representative from Clacka
mai and Multnomah Counties
is Doctor Walter C. Belt, of
Sellwood.
HENEY TALKS FOR
OREGON'S GOOD
Corrupt Conditions Have a Remedy
In the Defeat of Senator
Fulton.
POLITICAL ILLS
Fulton's Connection With T. C. Powell and Jones
In the Land Fraud Cases His Efforts
to Shield Them.
Francis J. Heney held the atten
tion of about five thousand people at
the Exposition Rink In Portland, Sat
urday night, with a xery extensive
discussion of the political tendencies
of the day and occasionally touched
on the political record of Senator
Charles W. Fulton.
During the address the speaker
brought out still more clearly the cor
rupt conditions prevailing in Oregon
politics during the regime of the old
machine and used as illustrations the
bribery of Representative Houser of
Jackson county, who was paid $3,500
for his vote, the attempted bribery of
Representative Kruse of Clackamas
county, who was offered $3,500 and
then $5,000, but who refused the
money and the notorious election af
fidavit frauds of Portland in 1904 in
which Whitney L. Boise, T. Cader
Powell, John P. Sharkey and others
were Involved.
In his address, Mr. Heney contend
ed that his Interest in making the
appearance at the present time was
not that of politics, for he had no In
terest In who the people of Oregon
selected for their representative In
Congress. His Interest, however, he
contended, was that of good citizen
ship and his desire to see the people
of the country cast off the shackles
which were binding them closer and
closer in slavery to a few interests
and special corporations.
Mr. Heney exhorted the people
against allowing the rule of the old
machine to prevail In the state, call
ed to mind the corruption of the past
when "Jack" Matthews was the po
litical boss and when the old Mitchell
machine ruled the state, and warned
the audience that Matthews and the
old time loaders were still In the bat
tle, back of Fulton, making one more
effort to regain the power wrested
from them by the initiative and ref
erendum, the direct primary law and
Statement No. 1.
Mr. Heney paid particular attention
to the primary law and to Statement
No. 1, contending that the principle
of Statement No. 1 was the vital point
of the whole law, which without It,
would lose its effect and bring no
good to the state. He pleaded with
the people not to allow the principle
to be taken from them, now that they
had it, contending that it furnished
the remedy by which they could cure
themselves of political ills In the
state.
Mr. Heney went over the points of
his former addresses, dealing with
the record of Senator Fulton, showing
his connection with the defendants
In the land frauds of the state and his
effors to shield these men from crimi
nal prosecution. He brought up the
fact that the senator had worked at
the request of W. N. Jones, to expe
dite the fraudulent claims filed by
Jones, and persisted In his efforts to
secure favorable action on the claims
until near the conviction of Jones.
He contended that Fulton knew of
the connection of T. Cader Powell
with th election frauds, and of his hav
ing embezzled $6,000 from Multnomah
county before his appointment as
United States marshal at the request
of Senator Fulton.
Because of all these disclosures the
speaker contended that Senator Ful
ton was not the right man to repre
sent Oregon In the senate, and urged
the people If they were convinced of
the truth of his representations not
to return him to office.
"Fulton has always been a thick
and thin Mitchell man for 20 years,
said Mr. Heney. "But he had been
closer to Mitchell than these men
had been. In 1897 and I regret that
It Is necessary to talk about a man
who is dead, but It is impossible to
tell this story, and It 1h Important that
It should be told, without describing
Mitchell's part In It. In 1897. when
Mitchell was bribing the loglBlature,
that hold-up legislature, Fulton waH
there as his first lieutenant. Fulton
says 'prove it.' Why, my friends,
every man woman and child In
Salem knows It; every man, woman
and child who lived in Salem at the
time knew It; knew that Fulton was
the recognized lieutenant of Mitchell
In that fight and waB handling the
sack. He admits himself that there
was a sack there. He admits he heard
that Smith got money; this man that
made the affidavit that the money
was paid to htm, that Fulton was the
man who made the proposition to him
to give him $1500 down and $1500 af
ter he had voted for Mitchell when i
the Mitchell house was organized. Ful
ton admits he heard about it. He
heard about It? Why, It was common
rumor at Salem at -the time."
"Who Is behind Fulton in this
fight? Where Is Jack Matthews In
this fight? Is he for or against Ful
TO BE CURED
ton for United States Senator? Don't
you know? I will tell you. He is for
him, tooth and nail. Who else Is for
him? Whitney Boise. Who else Is
for, him? Heap big merchant, all the
samee Ilkee Chinamanee Mr. Wil
cox. Mr. friend Wheelwright is for
him. He is a Democrat. I should
think Fulton should be suspicious. I
have been called a Democrat, called
myself one, have been one. Do you
want to know what I am now? I will
tell you. I am ashamed to call myself
a Republican and I am ashamed to
call myself a Democrat, and I am
ashamed to call myself, by any name
that brands me as belonging to some
thing that has no existence. They say,
'Be loyal to your country.' What Is
your party? Why, my friends, are
you not Intelligent, self-governing peo
ple? Where do parties come from?
What are they? We 3tart In tomor
row without any. Let's say we juat
got our liberty it came to us today;
we have Just created these Unltjd
States free and Independent. What
party do you belong to? Well, I
haven't any yet. Well, how do you
get parties? Why there is some ques
tion arises of principle, and I say I -believe
that we ought to have a cer
tain kind of government, and you say
you don't believe we ought to have
that kind, and I commence to preach
to the poeple or to argue to them that
It ought to be my way and you com
mence to preach and argue to them
that it ought to be your way, and some
men bolieve fn my way and some be
lieve in your way, and then we have
two parties.
Now, then, I say to you, what party
do you belong to, or what party are
you going to belong to? You JUBt
came over here, and you would say,
"Well, Heney is running that one."
"Well, what is his nationality?" "Well,
he is half Irish and half Dutch."
"Well, that won't do for me, I am
French." Is that what you ask? No,
my friends; you Bay, "Let me see
what the principles are that this par
ty Btands for, that Heney Is the rep
resentative of," and if you bellove in
those principles to be put In opera
tion in government, then you work
with that party. How long will you
work with it? Suppose they change
the principles on you; suppose Jack
Matthews gets control of It and slips
the cut on you, are you still so much
a Republican that you will have to
still go that way? Are you a Repub
lican in principle?
" 'When you are dealing with a man
who wears a silk hat and a broad
cloth coat, you must not treat him the
same as you would a drunken sailor,
and so Mr. Fulton said to Hall, 'now
here, don't bring a criminal suit
agalnnt this man. I don't like to Bee
a man of his high character Injured
by an Indictment." Stelwer had that
fence up there for five years, and dur
ing that five years, as we proved In
the Hall case, those little fellows up
there were complaining and complain
ing and complaining, but it didn't do
them any good.
Stelwer was a state senator, had a
vote for United States senator, and
when the time came that Dixon made
a report upon that and Insisted upon
the arrest of these men and their
prosecution. Hall did prosecute the
little saloonkeeper up there who had
280 acres fenced and he did prosecute
the other small cattle men who bud
some 300 or 400 acres fenced up; but
ho did not prosecute the Butte Creek
people because Mays went up there
as their attorney and tried to get
Hall not to do It, and then Hall talked
strongly to Mays about what he was
going to do; he went off and saw Ful
ton himself, that Is Mays did, and
Fulton went up there and at that time
Hall wanted to be reappointed United
States Attorney and Fulton and Mitch
ell had the say on who should be Unit
ed Stales attorney and Hall did not
prosecute and Fulton wrote Stelwer
a letter.
"Now, my friends, in conclusion,
Statement No. 1, is what gives you
your power to nominate your senator.
Without that there Is nothing In that
law. Unless you pledge .the men
whom you nominate for the legisla
ture to vote for the man who receiv
es the highest popular vote of the peo
ple of this state, there 1b absolutely
nothing In It. By nominating in that
method you control absolutely the
election of the United Statog senator
without any machine and without any
corporate interest having a chance to
Interfere. No, do not let them fool
you Into losing that right. What I ob
ject to more than anything else la
the election of Fulton is that it gives
comfort, it gives power and public of
fice to the machine men who held yon
Ject to more than anything else In
puts you back again when you have
escaped from it by Statement No. 1."