OREGON CITY COURIER FRIDAY, MAY .28, 1909 '3 Si 4 1 1 1 -a) 4 Oregon City Courier Published Every Friday by Oregon City Courier Publishing Co, Entered In Oregon City Postofflce as Second-Class Mall. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. Six months.... " 71- Puiu In advance, per year $1 60 President Taft, outlining his views regadlng the tariff recently, remark ed that he hoped to see, In so far as possible, raw materials on the free - list. He said he had no patients with the disposition of the republicans to put iron ore on the dutlble list. He appreciated there was a chance that with free ore a small amount would be imported from Cuba and manufac tured in the states bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. It would be impos sible to bring Cuban ore north to manufacture because of the transpor tation charges. In so far as the Cuban ore supplied the demands of the South ern manufacturers it would diminish the proflls of the Steel Trust, but Mr. Taft has no objection whatever to that, especially as the manufacture of Cuban ore In the Southern states would increase the demand for skilled labor in that section. The president did not seek to impress these views on congress, although he will do so when the tarifT bill goes to confer ence, hut he assumed, and naturally. that when the subject came to a vote in the senate the democratic sena tors would vote solidly with the pro gressive republicans for free Iron ore. His surprise and disappointment when he learned that eighteen democratic senators had voted with the organi zation for a duty of 40 cents a ton on iron ore can he Imagined. It Is as lementable as it Is Indisputable that had the democratic members of the senate stood solidly for lower duties, voting their entire strength with the republican progressives, they could have compelled a tremendous reduction of the duties. Instead they have been divided on every vote and "the High Prie.st of Protection," Sen ator Aldrich, now boasts that he can not be defeated for no matter how many republicans may go over to the progressive faction, he will always have a sufficient number of democrats in his pocket to control the situation Arrogant as this boast may seem, the democrats have, on every vote, done their best to demonstrate Its correctness. There two schedules In the tariff bill which will precipitate a bitter fight when they come up in the Sen ate and again in the House when the conference report is brought In. One of these deals with lumber and the other with sugar. The duly on refin ed sugar Is Inexcusable. It means increased expense to every family In the United States and the solo ben eficiary Is the Sugar Trust, which controls the entire Industry of re fining Biigar in the United States. Great saving could be effected for the benefit of the entire people by re moving the differential, that provision which taxes refined sugar more than the raw product, , and only the influ ence of the Trust prevents this be ing done. Unfortunately the Demo cratic Senators from Louisiana and other states which produce sugar, so greatly fear the result of so doing to their homo Industry that they can hardly be counted on to help the pro gressive Republicans although as long ns they maintained the present fluty on raw sugar the planters of the South would not suffer In the least. The high duty on finished lumber is also Inexcusable and merely adds to the profits of the Lumber Trust, and yet It is doubtful all the Demo crats can be induced to vote for an . amendment lowering -It. The present duly was Imposed at a time when it was necessary to handle finished lum ber over and over because the plan ing machines could smooth only one side of a stick at a tlmo, whereas now (hoy plane all four sides at onco nnd tongue and groove It too without ad ditional labor but only increases the profits of the manufacturers. It Is deeply to ho regretted that the South ern Senators cannot see that the only protection their Industry rocolves comes from the duly on unmanufac tured lumber and bo vote with tho progressives for lower rates on tho finished produce. It looks now as though tho rate on rough lumber would bo fixed at $1 a thousand feet, instead of $2, the Dlngley rate. Pres ident Taft Is anxious to have lumber admitted free of duty. Signs of Progress S? NEWS FROM THE The Wright brothers hnvo given In disputable evldeuco of their desire to go down In history as invonlors nnd not public exhibitors, by the offers t hey have rejected. Who would over suspect, on read ing the Iron ore voto hi tho sennte recently, that free raw materials was once a cardinal Democratic doctrine? Money to loan at current rates C. II. DYE, S. W. corner, Nth & Main Sts., Oregon City, Oregon. The arrival of - a private car in Grant's Pass, containing three rail road men, has caused no small amount of talk in that town. Saturday was Clean Up Day In Cor- vallis. As a result of a. Booster meeting held in Silverton last week, a great deal of interest Is being taken in the work of the schools. The Columbia Agricultural Com pany have begun In earnest the work of reclaiming 10,000 acres of swamp land near Clatskanie. When the work is finished, the tract will be divide into farms, So great an interest has Albany taken Jn the efforts of Evangelist Johnson that the business houses closed from 3 to 4 o'clock Wednes day, Thursday and Friday afternoons of this week to allow the clerks to attend the services. Lebanon residents are working In unison for the success of tbelr Straw berry Fair, which will be held June 4th and Gth, and as a result it is one of the most talked of events of the summer. Nothing like pulling to gether for your own town The United States National Bank is to erect a five story steel building 1 Salem this summer, and the Masonic lodge of that city is planning to fol low It with a seven story temple, us ing the two upper floors for lodge purposes and renting the remainue of the building for a modern hotel. L&P Mrs. L. E. Gardner of Beaver Cree was an Oregon City visitor Monday, Lloyd Riches of this city spent Sun day in Kstacada, where he participat ed In a concert given by the Journal Hand of Portland. Mrs. J. Krlssinger of Canemah spent Monday afternoon with Portland friends. Portland people are delighted over the Interstate Commerce Commis sion's decision this week opening the Portland gateway. This is a ruling Portland has long contended for and the victory is regarded as an Import ant one. Its chief significance will mean a free Interchange of passenger traffic at Portland between the Hill and Harrlman lines. This is bound to Increase the travel of Eastern visitors to the Coast through this city for at present travelers coming through Portland bound either to or from the Sound, must re-check their baggage and buy new tickets here. This is Inconvenient and has often deterred passengers from coming to this city, The decision means that through tick ets must be sold via Portland, a thing that the Hill lines have hitherto main taiued should not be required as it would give the long haul to the Har- imiin roads. The Hill roads are ex peeled to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Portland merchants met at the Com mercial Club this week and took steps to decorate the city thoroughly In honor of the many visitors who will attend the Rose . Festival early in June. The retailers Intend to make their stores highly attractive for the out of town guests and tourists who will soon be here for Festival week. 'laces of business will be transformed Into perfect bowers of beauty for the delight of visitors. The work of em blazoning floral designs on shop win dows about town Is now coming on. Flags and festival colors will bo put up next week. Rose decorations of the business houses will be delayed until the festival opens on June 7th, supreme about the city, Showing much interest in Oregon timber, a party of 18 Michigan capi talists Npeut a day in Portland during the week. They represent a capital of over $50,000,000, and their visit here shows an Interest in Oregon tim ber that will mean the Investment of large sums here In the future. They said somo of their number Intended to secure some of the remaining big trees of tills state shortly. Two of the party will return to Portland within a few days to receive reports on Ore gon properties they are now looking up. Tho visitors are mostly officials of the Michigan-Pacific Lumber Com pany. A new member, the Brownsville Commercial Club has Just been added to tho Oregon Development League. Brownsville, one of tho most favor ably located cities of the Willamette Valley, has joined with the other 89 progressive, cities of the state com posing the League, making a round !H) of Oregon communities now In line for all the benefits to be derived fiom co-operation and Intellegent pub licity work. New and improved train service throughout on the Southern Pacific lines in this state will bo Inaugurat ed on June 1st. At that tlmo tho Shasta Limited, the new fast train to California, will bo put in commission, improving the Wlllametto Valley ser vice to a great extent. Civil War veterans are completing arrangements for the annuad state encampment which will be held at Curvallls Juno 2, 3 and 4. $1000, JfiOOO. and other sums to loan on farm land. C. H. DYE, corner 8th nnd Main Sts., Oregon City, Ore. NATION'S I AFT ISSl'ES PKOCLAMATIO.N OPENING 4-10,000 ACKKS. CHANCE TO GET INDIAN LAND Flathead, (,'oeur d'Alene and- Spo kane Reservations to Be Thrown Open for Settlement. Washington President Taft has issued a proclamation providing for opening up for settlement and entry of about 440,000 acres of land In the Flathead, Mont., 200,000 in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and between 60,000 and 100,000 In the' Spokane, Wash., reservations. Registration which will commence on July 15 and close August 5, must be executed and sworn to at either Kalispell or Missoula, Mont.', for the Flathead lands; at Spokane for the Spokane land and at Coeur d'Alene for the lands in the Coeur d'Alene reservation. Applications for regis tration must be delivered through the malls only to the superintendent at Coeur d'Alene which will be the principal drawing for all three res ervations. The drawing will begin at 10 a. m., August 9, and continue until completed. The time for mak ing the entries has been fixed as April 10, 1910, for all reservations In order to make personal investiga tion of the landB which will be sub ject' to entry. Regulations regarding the open ing of the lauds will be available about June 1. Governor C. N. Haskell and other defendants In the various townsite cases in Oklahoma have filed their formal charges In tho department of Justice against W. J. Gregg, district attorney for the eastern district of Oklahoma; Sylvester Rush, assistant attorney-general, and M. L. Mott, special attorney for the Creek In dians, who has also assisted a3 spe cial counsel In the town lot cases of Oklahoma. The charges allege that these at torneys were combined in an at tempt to procure unlawfully and by Improper means an indictment of C. N. Haskell and other defendants in the town lot cases. They are charged with attempting to prejudice and In timidate witnesses in Muskogee and Tulsa and with attempting to dis credit Haskell and other defendants. Flashing around the world by wireless telegraphy warnings of ap proaching storms and other disturb ances of the elements Is one of the latest International projects, accord- ng to an announcement made here. Still another of perhaps little less mportance Is the proposition to equip the vessels of all nations with uniform storm signals. These are the leading problems to he threshed out at a conference of distinguished meteorologists of the principal na tions to be held in London June 21. - A concerted movement will be In augurated to Induce the principal governments ' to adopt a uniform system of wlreleBB marine weather reports. , , The second National Good Roads Congress at Its closing session adopt ed resolutions favoring the active co operation of state and nation in the construction of post roads and tho mployment of convict labor In the building and maintenance of pub lic roads. With practical unanimity the con fess asks that the government ap propriate at least 10 per cent of the Internal revenue for building and maintaining public roads, provided that any particular state using such an appropriation shall expend an qual amount for the purposes of public roads. See V. Harris about Berry Crates and Boxes, $3.75 to $4.25 per 100. ! 909 Nearly Half Gone The United States supreme court ns decided the case of the Adams Express Company vs. the Common- ealth of Kentucky, Involving the right of the express company to ship liquor into a local option county, contrary to the law of the state, In favor of the ocmpany. The opinion says that the transaction was Inter state commerce, and therefore not subject to Interference by the Ken tucky authorities. And you have not yet opened that Bank account that you hove been promising yourself that you would. You have been neglecting one of the es sentials to your life's happiness and success In this delay, Do not put off this Important matter any lor.gr, but NOW, RIGHT NOW, take the step that will surely lead to success in life. You will never save unless you make a stat and if you wait until you have a large sum the time may never come and the start never be made. Remember that a small beginning sometimes makes large ending. Do not put it off any longer but make your first deposit today and we will help you save President Taft has sent back to the war department the estimates submitted to him for the Support of the military establishment for tho fiscal year and Indicated his desire that they should be cut approximate ly $36,000,000. Secretary of War Dickinson, who has Just returned from a 20-day in spection of the Panama Canal, says that all the engineering problems advanced in the construction of a lock type of canal were successfully worked out by the canal commission. Lived 152 Years. The Bank of Oregon City SALOON QUESTIONS DISCUSSED Oregon City Oregon May 23, '09 Mr. Editor: - I beg you to allow you me a little space in your valuable paper in re gard to the' problem of confronting the. society in respect to the liquor traffic. Present conditions are en tirely unwarranted, and although I am not a prohibtionlst myself, yet it is evident to any common-sensed man that reforms in this line are ab solutely . necessary. There are many different opinions and methods advanced and proposed whose advocates claim would remedy present conditions and its subsequent evils. Among them are remedies for which their promoters have been struggling for years and years and yet without any apparant headway, and in places where they did succeed in establishing their particular reform in local communities the result was not that which was anticipated. The demand for reform in the liquor traffic, however, is so great that al most any kind of a propositon stands a show to gain a parcel of it at least. nor instance there are those who would eliminate the evils of drunk eness by 'reducing the number of sa loons, imposing upon them a very high fine or license. It must be ad mitted that they have succeeded in raising the license to an almost pro hibitive point, and a saloon man who wants to make a margin of profit for himself, certainly must be a rustler. He must put his whole energy to catering to the public in order to ob tain trade and spare no means to employ, devices which serve to attract the attention of a certain easily con tiollable portion of society. Besides his license there is competi tion he has to look out for. When the saloon man notices that a certain man has enough '"booze" to do him, he dares not tell this man to go hom to his wife and children, save his money and be good, for should he do chls he would lose a customer and the other saloon across the street would get him. Besides this he needs every nickle to meet the demand of the nigh license. It is the duty of every city, town or state to see that all commercial as s ell as social affairs are conducted In a manner that will be beniflcial to Its society, and it is entirely incom prehensible to me how any city, town or state can impose high license on any institution for the sake of reve nue obtained thereby and thus permit ting that institution to conduct a busi ness In a manner detrimental to so ciety. Just think of licenseing indi viduals to make drunkards and then arrest the latter or make him pay a fine and thereby obtain another reve nue. Verily I say unto you that the Al mighty Dollar seems to be the object not only of the Individual of the day, but also of the city, town and state as well, in preference to the welfare of society. Then there is another element who see reform possible only in compelling each and every one to become total abstainers. This reminds me of King Herod who, in order to be f.uro and get the infant Jetus iillled, ord"red a multitude of infants to be slaugh tered, thus making sure that the Holy Infant could not escape. They reason that there are many men who once get the habit of drinking whiskey, it becomes a disease, which Is uncou trolable, and while the effect is not so bad on one as it is on another, yet to make sure of it they make all be "tee-totalers". They would do away with a commodity which is very of ten a necessity, because unfortunate ly It happens to be abused by some, who as a matter of fact are usually almost entirely devlod of any moral training whatsoever. They would suffer about nine tenths of the population of Oregon City to do without a commodity for the sake of the other tenth who may perhaps not be able to control themselves. Is this fair? I think not. Here the question arises; "Is It right or is it wrong to partake of alcoholic beverages in any (inanity?" Holy Scripture tells us that Chris: was invited to a wedding at Kana, and while there they ran short of wine. Seeing this he performed a miracle changing water into wine, thereby sanctioning the moderate use of it. In the earliest days of man s creation, wine, which Is an elaborate beverage, has been used as a necessity, and wine the product of a plant or vine which God allows to grow here upon earth for the benefit of mankind. Therefore the moderate use of al-. cononc iK'veiages cannoi ue wrong or else Cod would not have manifest ed this to lils people already in an cient times. , The fundamental principle under lying the use of alchoholic beverages and the remedy for its abuses would be, moral training of man's characur. But we must allow that man has free will, and in his free will he Is subject to do wrong. Therefore admit that it is not satisfactory, for society to deal with the situations such as it should be, but It must be dealt with such as it is. 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In these days of progress, we hear and read much about government ownership of railroads, municipal own ership of street cars, munlcpal owner ship of water systems, municipal own ership of telegraph and telephone systems, municipal ownership of light ing systems; all of which are calcu lated to benefit society and protect it from the avariclousness of the individ ual corporations. Why Is It that we hear nothing of the municipal ownership of the liquor traffic? What are the evil consequences i caused by the extortion of excessive rates in public utilities by individual corporations in comparison with the evil consequences caused by the pres ent day method of conducting the sa loon? Why, in the name of common sense will not a city, in order that it may maintain its integrity and honor as a ruler and protector of its society, man ifest an ambition to make reforms where most needed first? It seems that there is something wrong some where, and it's getting high time that the people wake up in this line also, or else it won't be very long till the more radical changes' will be brought about. High license, competition and greed for money are the three princi pal factors which are almost wholly responsible for le deplorable condi tions which exist in our cities today, and it is my firm conviction that municipal ownership of the saloon 'would elevate the respectlbility of any city to where it belongs. Let the city conduct its saloons in a manner so that anybody, man or woman, boy or girl, doctor or milli ter, can enter just like any other place of business without reason to consider It a disgrace. Let the fronts be wide open just like drug stores or other places of business and have every thing just as clean and respectable looking. There will be no drunkards to soil the interior and things can be kept clean. Then make the position of bar-tender a good paying one, and set rules which he must obey, and should he break some of the rules of restriction, discharge him at once. Among other rules such as are nec essary, require of him to refuse any drink to anybody who manifests in the least that he has already enough and order him to leave at once. There will be no competition, and let him find drink somewhere else if he can. Also nobody will care If he comes back some other time or not. The bar-tender gets his salary, does his duty and that's all he cares for. There is no owner who tells him to make as much money for him as possible and instead of catering he gets orders to the op posite. The revenue obtained by the city would In this way be perhaps just as great as under the present sys tem, and even If it should not be, would that be any reason for allowing present methods to corrupt society? Oregon has made immense strides toward reform in the political arena, and It must be admitted by every state in the Union, that the people of Ore gon mean what they say. Past elec tions prove this and even if there are a few "loaders" who would call her the "Fool of the Family," we don't care for Uiat bit of ridicule, and know that we are only "fools" because we do not accept the dictates of the "bosses" and therefore are credible fools at least. The father of the reform known as the initiative and referendum with its Statement No. 1 is an Oregou City man, so let Oregon City again lead the way in a reform which means vastly more to its own citizens than any amount of state wide political re forms could possible do. It means the elevation of the stand ard of society and citizenship to a point from which it can look with pride and glory upon its achievements in t hat line. In conclusion I will say that I hope that some champion of better society will consider these notes and perhaps draw up details, as myself being only a little "back-o-the-woods" farmer, have no time for such work. Perhaps someone can supplement and improve this. Lets hear from them. I am willing to learn. Yours truly, A. J. KELNHOFER. R. D. No. 3, Oregon City, Or. (rami ., Was Tainted. Tulsa, Okla., May 1 Upon mo tion of the government, Judge Mar shall of Utah, in the United States circuit, court here dismissed tho grand Jury empaneled to reinvest!- , lU . X. ....... I B . gaiy me iuusKuget; lywiuoi irauo cases. Judge Marshall upheld the government's contention that the Jury had been subjected to Improper Influences. $100 Raward $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at .least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure In all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. 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