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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1911
Oregon City Courier
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WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE IS OPTIMISTIC
In a reoent article in Hampton's
Magazine William Allen Whito thinks
perfection in government is so rapidly
approaching that the milleuiura is
near at hand. Tlie struggle for eqnal
opportunity is a great world move
ment and it is the core of every great
reform known to the world, la a lew
hold Rtrokes Mr. White says:
"la civilization based moti war the
soldiers took the good things for
themselves the easy jobs, the power
ful places, the sooial distinctions the
special privileges. In a social order
based npou religion the priests took
the fat and left the lean for the par
ishioners. 'In days of old when
knights were bold and barons held
their sway' the picking fall went
to tie rulers. One after another of
these holders of special privileges was
dothroned, and immediately tlie
strong men of the world organized
along different lines, and in a century
or so the reformer came along, cocked
his eye at the situation and began
breaking down the old order and
settinir up the new. We can't change
human nuturej strong men will get
the beBt of weak men. Hat we can
and, thank Heaven, we do come along
every few hundred years and take the
soldier, the priest, or the politician by
the scruff of the neck and lift him
gently but firmly from his high seat
at the apex ot the human pyramid and
iron oat the pyramid into a plane."
Just now it is tlie capitalist wiio has
to bo attended to and 'the iusuigenco
of insurgency' in the United States
relates to him and to the 'divine
right' of capital. "
i he insurgout movement, according
to Mr. White, has two objoots one
political and one economical. In
nearly every state where the confiiot
has been between tlie people and capi
tal the people have won. The pri
mary law, the initiative and referen
dum and the recall have boeu tested
in a number of states and cities with
satisfactory results, and the people
now are reaching out for tlie direct
control ot politics without the aid of
the boss. Ton million people now
have the right of initiative and two
million people tlie right of recall.
The time is net far distant whon one
hundred million Amorican freemen
will throw off the shackles of the boss
and march under freedom's banner.
Continuing, Mr. White says :
"Never before have we been bo
nearly one people, with one dominant
political ideal, as we have shown our
selves this summer and autumn. . We
have said, this is our couutry we
realize it now ; we propose to run it
now that we have found the political
gunpowder we propose to end the
political fondalism under which we
have been liviug ; this is orir country,
for we are of one uiiud and that mind
is finding a voice. And this voice is
speaking for the average man. Never
before in all the world have any
ninoty millions of people held one
idea, one abstract idea, so llrmly in
mind as the American people have
held this idea : that capital, the pro
duct of the many, i to be opeiated
fundamentally for the benefit of the
many."
THE BURDEN OF THE GREAT NATIONS
At tho close of tlie great Oivil war
the dobt ot the United States was
more than three billion dollars, and it
is today the only nation on earth
whioh is reducing its national obliga
tion and relieving the bunion of pos
terity. While congress has always
been oliarged with being prodigal with
the people's money, the national debt
has boeu decreased every year and is
now a little more than one billion
dollars, which is much loss than that
of any ten other great nations, each
of which is adding to its burden an
nually. England, Franco, Gormnny, Russia
aud Austria are adding to their na
toiual debts each year aud placing
burdous ou posterity that will cause
a nnaucial draiu for generations to
ooine. Germany, with a national
debt of about 14,250,000,000, is in
creasing it at the rate of about fJOO,
0(Kl,0O0 a year aud nearly all of the
Inoreaso represents naval aud mili
tary expansion. The German esti
mates of the coming fiscal vear total
i3l, 000,000. of which 1315,000,000
goes to tho army and navy to carry
out the program of the war lord.
France, with a national dobt of
t.r. 800, 000,000, is spending more than
1200.000,000 a year on military ex
pansion. Russia's dobt is in excess of
$4,500,000,000 and the recent military
budget called for an expenditure of
$100,000,000 for the coming year.
England's debt exoeeds $4,000,000,000,
and tli6 program for naval expansion
adds new burdens to the taxpayers
ev.ry year. Austria has a national
debt in excess of $3,000,000,000.
The rapidity with which the na-
THE SMALL
can well afford to put his savings iu this
bank, where they are within call iu an
emergency, where they are absolutely
safe, where small additions can be reg
ularly made, and where their earning
power will be constant. A SAFE IN
VESTMENT IS THE BEST ONE.
The Bank of Oregon City
OREGON J I T Y , OREGON
tious of the world are piling np their
debts should serve as a check upon
the plans of the military enthusiasts
who apparently are anxious to place
the United states in the same nnan
oial boat with other nations.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Ono of the most meritorious nieaS'
ures before the Oregon legislature is
thcluill fixing the standard of weights
ond measures. When a person goes
to a store and purchases a package
supposed to contain a full pound
when in reality there is only seven
eighths oflajpound it is a form of pet
ty larceny that makes the average
householders fetl that they have been
buncoed. It is far better to charge
mnri for full weight than it is to
shade the price on false weight. Our
state laws prevent tho United States
authorities from stepping in and tell
ing the Oregon merchant that his
scales must balance and that pound
packages must weigh a full pound.
The retail merchant is not to blame
for short weight in packages the
fault!lies with the manufacturer but
he is to blame when his soales are not
properly balanced. An inspector sent
out by the United Status bureau of
standards reports that without excep
tion it has been developed that state
laws are utterly inadequate to sup
press dishonest practices in food
tratfic, as well as commodities sold by
measure. The only way the national
bureau can be of assistance is to call
attention to irregularities that exist
aud leave the matter with local au
thorities to adjust. Oregon has no
standard of weights and measures,
and where prosecutions have been at
tempted the rosnlts have not been sat
isfactory. The government inspector
reports that a large percentage of the
packages inspected by him were found
to be ."short in weight. Print but
ter, lard in caus and coffee in pack
ages are the principal commodities
that (he consumer must guard against.
Retailers claim that they do not sell
these articles by the.pouud but by the
package and are not therefore liable
to prosecution. Short weight in
packages is not the only fraud prac
ticed upon the public It is by un
evenly balanced scales that the dis
honest retailer can dotraud his cus
tomers. New York sugar refiners had
a system of weights by which the
government was swindled out of mil
lions and millions of dollars, and thoy
oarriod it on for years withoout be
ing doteotert. (Some poeple can be
honest without statutory regulation,
whilel others require a little careful
watching. As our present laws do
not soomjadequate to proporly punish
dealers in short weights aud short
measures wo need one that will.
EXTRA SESSION TALK
When congress convened last De
cember a considerable talk was in
dulgndjin by the Democratic members
of the house to the effect that they
would filibuster on the appropriation
hills and prevent their passage and
thus compel the presideut to call an
extra session and give them a chance
to commence work on immediate re
vision of the tariff. Since that time,
however, it has dawned on the Demo
cratic leaders that they are not , all
of the same opinion on the subject of
tarili revision, and that it would be
wise policy for them to take a little
more time and thus give them an op
portunity to get together, txtra ses-
siou talk has now assumed a new
phase. Preisdent Taft threatens to
cal an extra session of congress unless
that body takes favorable action on
the rooiprooity treaty with Canada
now befcre that body. The threat
has produced consternation among the
old guard stand patters in the senate.
This treaty lowers the duties on a
number of articles whioh they fought
for many weary weeks to prevent'
The invoking of the big stick places
them in an embarrassing position. If
they vote for the treaty they will go
back on their record on the Payne
Alrdich tariff bill, aud if they don't
vote for it the presideut will call an
extra session of congress and the in
terests they so faithfully represented
will fare much worse. The president
is of tlie opinion that if the treaty is
ratified the prico of commodities will
be ciieaponed and that unless this con
gress takes action on the matter we
will never have an opportunity to se
cure a treaty as favorable to this
country as the one uow under consid
eration. An organization has been started in
Washington with the avowed purpose
of controlling both state aud national
conventions of both political parties
in IMS, to the end that progressive
candidates will be nominated by '.both
parties. Behind the movement are
magazine writers ot the cla?s known
as "mnckrakors. The purpose aud
plans of the movement have been sot
forth in an address which is being
widely circulated. The address calls
ou all citizens, irrespective of party,
who believe in progressive policies of
government, to hand iu a statement of
theirjtirst, second and third choioes
for the presidential nomination in
1!13. The originators of the scheme
claim that a vast majority of the vot
ers are in favor of progressive ideas,
and they hope by the movement they
will be "able to force both parties to
nominate candidates acceptable to
them.
Prof. Seamau A. Kanpp says there
is no such thing as bad soil in the
United States. The trouble is there
INVESTOR
la a poor man on the top of good soil.
The professor says farms should be
run on a business basis, just the same
as manufactures are, and the only
way to teaoh this is by personal con
tact. The department of agrioulture
bus put a representative in every dis
trict of the south, and has organized
a department lor the instruction of
boys, which at the end of last year
numbered nearly fifty thousand.
Prof. Knapp says the high cost of liv
ing mightjbe greatly reduoed if 25,
000,000 idle children were taught to
properly till a garden.
"LEND A HAND"
A bill introduced into the house
this week providing for the abolition
of capital punishmeut, was killed, as
lar as this session is concerued, and
we believe the members did just the
proper thing. There are crimes that
Beem to compel the exactment of "an
eye for an eye, " etc. Yet our hearts
are softened when we read the fol
lowing, whioh appears in "Lend a
Hand," a monthly publication pro
duced by the inmates of the states
prison at Salem :
"We believe that sooiety holds
many erroneous opinions concerning
ourselves, while we are trying to cor
rect those opinions, and soften the
feelings of sooiety toward us, so that
it may extend the helping hand to
assist us iu regaining our heritage,
the hand of brotherly kindness to
load us baok to the harmony of broth
erhood. We shall also try to induce
yoa to see the wisdom ol grasping the
extended hand, and lifting yourselves
out of the mire into which you have
fallen, of raising yourselves to that
standard of manhood, of being men,
gentlemen, such as any might be glad
to know. It's in you.if you will ; you
know it.
"Let not society be offended, if we
soold it, criticise it, argue with it,
plead with it; nor let the inmates be
offended if we criticise them, preach
to them sometimes ;"we will take our
own medicine, that is, the same that
we prescribe for others.
" We are doing the best we know,
trying to learn more aud to live up to
our light, seeking more light. We
were once free, we hope in the iweet
by and by to be free again j if by us
ing our position, during our enforced
residence here, in studying condi
tions, we are enabled to pen one
thought that will assist in bringing
about the purpose above set forth,
namely the restoration of down and
onts to tlie harmony of the Brother
of Man, our incarceration will not
have been in vain."
The little state of Nevada has set
an example of electing U. S senators
that other states might follow. Pre
vious to the election last fall the Re
publican oandidate, George S. Nixon,
and tl.e Democratic oandidate, Key
Pittman, agreed to submit their can
didacy to a popular vote. The result
was that Mr. Nixon received a major
ity of over 1,100 of the popular vote
while the Democrats had a majority
ot three or four in the legislature.
When the legislature convened Mr.
Nixon received the unanimous vote of
the legislature, thus endorsing the
popular vote.
Hettie Qreen, who is said to be the
riohest woman in the f.world, is now
studying on plans to erect aud en
dow an institution for the education
of American girls along lines which
will make them competent housekeep
ers and helpmeets for husbands who
must depend on their pay tor tlie sup
port of themselves and families. It is
said that Bhe intends to devote a large
part of her fortune to the project.
Washington is said to be swarming
with ottioe seekers from the South
who are insisting on recognition at
Uie hands of the next Democratic
house. They claim that a majority
of the Democratio members are from
the South, aud that as they supply
the votes they should also fill the
offices. Northern Democrats are
warued to stand baok aud give the
solid South a chance.
f.nnrirn flhhiiA tlm nnfut-n bint, bus
n 1 j .... ... n
bi eu dethroned and Maurice Zucker
man. of Lob Armeies has been
crowned king. He is said to control
the crop of Oalifornia and tl.e price
of potatoes will probably double be
fce a new orop is harvested.
If the now Democratio house is not
a success it will not be for lack of
advioe from the so-called independent
journals. The independent journals
are a good deal like the advocates of
tariff reform, thev both have theories,
and nothing practical.
In a recent lecture iu New York Dr.
Oook told his audicnoe that he was
the truly great discoverer and that
"ho reached the pole." What he un
doubtedly meant was that he
"readied for the pole."
The new reciprocity treaty with
Canada, signed by the commissioners
of both countries, places coal, lumber,
wood pulp and printing paper on the
free list, The treaty now goes to con
gress aud the Canadian parliament for
ratification.
If your hen has long toe nails cut
off her head." She is not scratching,
and henB that don't scratch don't lay.
If you cut off a few heads the rest
will probably come to scratch.
A district judge in Unole Joe Can
lion's district told a grand jury that
it was'uot against the law to pay out
goodcoia for votes and that he could
seeno harm in it.
May Yohe, the little vaudeville ao
tress who was divorced at Oregon
City last fall, says her family can
trace their descent back 000 years.
May's descent didn't require" that
much time.
Tombstone men say that the high
cost of living does not hurt their busi
ness. It is the high livers that kelp
them out.
With the manure spreader costlnj
from $00 to $123, depending upon make
mid capacity, every farm on which
au attempt is made to follow agricul
ture lutelllgently and effectively
should have one. The question Is uet
whether one can afford to buy one, but,
rather, whether ho can afford to be
without one.
The young fruit tree should be
pruned during tlie winter or early
spring mouths If the object Is the en
couragement of wood growth and the
building of a proper frame. If the
trees are old enough to bear and one
wishes to induce such a result the
pronlug should be deferred until mid
summer, preferably during the mouth
of July.
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SUMMARY OF NEWS OF THE WEEK
The Indiana legislature has repealed
her county option law.
There has been a great tidal wave
in Luzon and many are reported
killed.
The bnbonio plague has caused
nearly all the railways in China to
suspend operations.
President Taft proposes a new
treaty with Japan, removing restric
tions on Japanese immigration.
Dr. Burke, proprietor of a Santa
Rosa sanitarium, has been convicted
of dynamiting a houso in whioh a
woman aud her baby were sleeping.
Rear Admiral Macomb, aged 84
years, dies in New York. He served
with distinction during the Oivil
war.
The new pension bill will probably
pass the senate, hut it is thought the
president will veto it.
California will probably pass the
bill submitting a female suffrage
amendment to the constitntion at the
next election.
Presideut Taft cancels arrangements
for southern tour and expects to call
an extra Bession of congress to act on
reciprocity treaty with Canada.
A carload of dynamite exploded in
New York ou Wednesday, killing 82
people, injurued hundreds of others
and destroyed nearly a million dollars
worth of property.
The bill creating a permanent tariff
board passed the house by a vote of
186 to 93, a large number of Demo
crats voting for it, inoluding Uliamp
Clark.
The fare from St. Louis to New
York is only 75 cents less now than it
was 63 yearsago, when it required a
week to jinake the journey and the
passenger was carried by water nearly
the whole distance.
The Staudard Oil Company has
brought suit for (850,000 damages
against Hampton's magazine for pub
lishing an article stating that they
sold glucose to confectioners. This is
tho first time the Staudard lias paid
auy attention toany of the publica
tions that have assailed them.
Gustav Postler, a contracting paint
er of Sau Francisco, while undertak
ing to hold up the Saratoga Clnb, was
shot deadly Ed Kripp, the proprie
tor of the resort.
The senate rivers and harbors com
mittee will report in favor of appro
priating $U,OOQ,000 to improve rivers
and harbors in Oregon.
The differences between the Demo
crats and Republicans in West Vir
ginia have been settled, and the legis
lature will ratify'the election ofJDem
ooratio U. S. senators and the Repub
licans are to have the presidency of
the senate.
J. A. D. McOurdy. an aviator, set a
new record in over-water flights, on
Monday, by covering a distance of 100
miles from Key West to within ten
mlies of Havana, where he was com
pelled to drop into the sea and was
rescued by a torpedo boat.
The often reported report that King
George of England, before lie became
heir apparent, contracted a morgan
atic marriage with the daughter of
Admiral Seymour, has been given a
nomlplete refutation by the highest
authority in England. Edward F
Mylius, publisher of a Paris news
paper, revived the report last Novem
ber, was arrested on a charge of sedi
tious libel, was promptly couvioted
and sentenced to twelve mouths im
prisonment, the lord chief justice ex
pressing legret that the law was in
adequate to impose a more severe pen
alty. F. S. Harlau, a millionaire lumber
dealer in the pine forests of Alabama
and Florida, who was oonvicted of
peonage more than five years ago, and
lias waged a legal war since that time
to,keep him out of the penitentiary,
has lost his fight and the prison bars
have been closed on him, where he
wilt serve an eighteen months' sen
tence. Harlan's agents hired men in
New York and shipped them to Flori
da lumber campB, where they were
surrounded by bloodhounds aud not
permitted to esoape. Government
ofrlcials were warned of the condi
tions and proseoutiou followed.
LEGISLATIVE NOTES
The senate refuses to instruct Ore
gon United States senators to vote for
the direct election of senators.
Legislative committee approves
Boweruian's site for the location of
asylum at Pendleton.
The senate, by a vote of 16 to 12,
recalled the eight hour bill intro
duced by Senator Dimick.
Senate lobbyists threaten to defeat
all road bills originating in the house
unless that body favorably considers
the uuasures proposed by the highway
commission.
Doth the senate and house propose
to have a thorough investiagtiou of
tlie management of the state insane
asylum.
The senate favors the abolishment
of capital puuishmout.
Much time has been spent in argn
meuts over trivial matters and the tes
sion is more than half over aud scar
cely anything has been accomplished.
Senator Lock's bill for the suppres
sion of malpractice passed the senate
ou Monday.
The bill for the erection of a bridge
across the Willamette at Butteville
was indefinitely postponed by the sen
ate. Senator Carson has introduced a bill
to repeal what is known as the "Tut
tie Koad Law."
Seuator Kellaher has introduced a
bill to compel long distance telephone
companies to charge half rates tor
busiuoss done over their lines after 6
o'clock iu the afternoon.
Representative Abbott has intro
duced a bill which is calculated to
settle vexations questions of how to
care for injured workmen and provide
relief in the matter of hospital at
tendance. By the terms ot the bill
the employer pays into a fund known
as the accident fund an amount equal
to two per cent of his total pay roll,
together with one percent of the
wafces of each man employ d. To this
sum the state adds a suiu"eqnl to 1 3
of the amouut, to be used for pay
ments made under this act. The bill
at one step provides means for elim
inating tho casualty lawyer and also
the casualty ludeuiuity company, and
places employer aud employe in close
relation on this viral question with
out intermediate agencies profiting
therefrom. It ha no special cham
pion; it is l urely a roluutary commit
tee, who believe the vast andjunneces
sarv expense now incurred fur charges
and ccurt costs by which tax jay en
art) umlehict, should be stopped at
pcedily as possible.
OREGON NEWS NOTES.
Charles Adkins of Wilson, Oregon,
has killed fourteen cougars, within
four years.
Rails will be laid into Madras, 111
miles south of the Columbia river,
early in February. '
The Weyerhaoser interests have
fiaid nearly one-hundred thousand dol
ars taxes into the treasury of Wash
ington couDty.
Deposits in the Klamath Falls pos
tal savings bank are growing every
day, several people having deposited
the limit, $100, in one month.
The coal mines at Marslifleld, Ore
gon, which have been in operation
for 55 years, have been shut down,
the owners claimjon acoount of the
new Oregon liability law.
A recount of the population of The
Dalles by citizens Bhows a population
of 5.714, the government figures being
48S0.
Astoria wants the Oregon legis
lature to appropriate $100,000 to aid
that city in properly providing an ex
position to celebrate the one-hundredth
anniversary of the first white
settlement in the Northwestern terri
tory, '
A Lebanon woman is making chiok
cub pav. During last year, her 36
hens laid 4804 eggs. One of her pul
lets laid 220 eggs and another 237.
Her total net profit for the year from
the flock of chickens was $150. 80 and
she has 40 hens left.
The Oreogn Retail Hardware and
Implement Association, at a conven
tion in Portland last week, denounced
the catalogue houses as the "crown
ing evil of the commercial world,"
and advises the trade to boycott
them.
Friends of the Oregon State Horti
cultural Society are urging the pas
sage of a bill now pending before the
legislature) asking for the appropria
tion of $5000 every two years for
necessary expenses of the sooiety, such
as prizes for exhibits made at the an
nul show, services of exhibits com
mittee, judges, salary of secretary,
printing, postage, etc It is pointed
out in the arguments advanced for the
bill that eastern states, with very
much lesss prominence than Oregon in
the fruit growing business, appropri
ate large sums annually to promote
the growth of the industry.
The very wide extent of the work
of the Oregon Agricultural College is
shown in the report just submitted
by President Kerr touching the cativ
ity of the college during the two-year
period of 1908-M0. He shows that
during the past bienniuin, more than
88,000 persons have actually partici
pated in the work carried on by the
college or under its direction. Many
thousands more have been supplied
with bulletins issued by the college,
circulars and personal correspondence.
This shows what a great factor this
institution is in advancing the agri
cultural, horticultural and livestock
interests of the state.
PORTLAND ITEMS
Ex-President Roosevelt will visit
Portland, April 5.
The TJ. S. Senate has pased the bill
making a thirty -foot channel from
Portland to the Bea.
Tho ITarriman infAmflta nrnnnsa to
double track their road from Portland
200 miles east.
The Portland Central Labor Union
opposes the proposed amendments to
employers' liability law.
The United States senate commerce
committee will report in favor of a
thirty-foot ohannel from Portland to
the ooean.
Mayor Simon tias removed Judge
Tazwell of the municipal court and
appointed Major J. P. Kennedy Jin
his place.
President Louis W. Hill of the
Great Northern Railway, who is now
in Portland, announces that their lines
will be utltimately extended to Hert
ford and Klamath Falls.
The Y. M. 0. A. ot Portland are
making a strenuous campaign to se
cure the largest membership of auy
similar urganizaiton in the United
States. They have about reached the
5,000 mark.
' Sale of Jthe Inman-Poulsen mill
site on the east "river front is about
to be made to the Chicago, Milwaukie
& Puget Sound Railway, according
to the rumors that have heen floating
for the past five or six mouths.
An auto truck race, which was a
part of the automobile exhibition in
Portland last week, did ten thousand
dollars' worth of damage to a county
road iu Multuomah county, aud the
county court wants to know who is
responsible for the damages.
Joseph Fels, tlie' single tax apostle,
is in Portland. Mr. Fels is making a
tour of investigation, and he thinks
the single tax theory is making rapid
headway. For the puipose of carry
ing on a single tax campaign Mr.
Fels will donate $25,000 for every
$25,000 raised by private parties to
carry on the work. It is expected to
have a fond of $25,000 for work in
Oregou alone.
The Portland Commercial Club,
representing the Oregon Development
League, prepa ed and forwarded dur
ing the past week a memorial to the
secretary of the interior, asking for
the reconsideration of his action in
deferring apportionment of available
reclamation funds for the west unit of
the Umatilla irrigation projeot. Tlie
memorial contains a comprehensive
argument 'covering the faots of the
case andwas forwarded to tho Oregon
delegation in both houses of congress
for presentation by them to Secretary
Ballinger of the . departemnt of the
interior.
Fruit growers of the Pacifio North
west met in Portland during the past
week to attempt to form a central
selling agency for the output of their
orotiards. This project was not en-'
tirely succesful for the convention
tound itself without the necessary au
thortiy to represent the fruit growing
associations ot the Northwest, the
growers coming as individuals rather
than official xepresentatives of these
organizations. On this account, ad
journment was taken until February
23, when a se ond meeting will be
held at Walla Walla. At that time
eaoh fruit growers' association is ex
pected to send one authorized dele
gate and the convention, thus hav
ing power to act, may proceed with
the organization. At the Portland
meeting, which was called by Presi
deut Atwell of the Oregon State Hor
ticultural Society, considerable pro
gress was made, for all agree to the ;
value of the proposed organization '
and a number of disputed points will
be harmonized at the time tlie walla
Walla meeting is held.
Food Commissioner Bailey was in-
EDITION
OF THE OREGON CITY COURIER
FHE YEAR 9 will be
I the fiftieth anniversary of
some of the most exciting events
of the first year of the great civil
war, among which are, "The
Journey of President Lincoln from
Springfield to Washington ' "In
auguration of President Lincoln"
"Bombardment and Surrender of
Fort Sumter' ''Call to Arms"
"First Battle of Bull Run" Etc.,
Etc. The Courier has arranged
for the publication of illustrated
articles on all these exciting
events, the first one of which
will be "The Journey of Abra
ham Lincoln from Springfield to
Washington" which will appear
February 10 and will make two
pages of the Courier. The ar
ticles are strictly historical and
should be read by the pupils of
every school in Clackamas Co.
dictetd on Tuesday by the county
grand jury of Multnomah oounty on
charges of graft, incompetency and
obstructionism. The grand jury's re
port puts it up to the legislature to
investigate.
Opposes Good Roads Movement
To the Editor: in yonr remarks
preceding a letter by Hon. E. P.
Carter in last week's Courier, you
say "Mr. Carter evidently thinks au
tomobile dealers are behind the good
roads movement. " The writer and
every farmer he has talked with on
the subject are of the same opinion,
and more, we charge that this whole
nefarious business called "good roads
movement" for short is championed
by automobile manufacturers, auto
mobile dealers, speed maniacs, bond
syndicates and a lot of harpies that
would like to fatten at the public
orib. In a former letter to your jour
nal I asked for one real farmer "to
speak out in meeting," and give his
reasons for the faith that is in him,
tell us wherein we would be benefited
by plastering the county with a bond
ed indebtedness, for the benefit of the
aforementioned gang. I have not
seen a line in anwser, nor talked with
any farmer that would uphold the so
called Good Roads Association.
Quoting again, "That was the no
tion eastern farmers entertained years
ago, but now they are the most en
thusiasts supporters of the good roads
movement." Perhaps some of them
are, but not all. There are farnieis
living in this community who aban
doned good farms in the middle west
and came out here to start anew, be
cause they could not make a living on
their old homes aud pay the exorbi
tant taxes demanded of them for hard
surfaced roads. t't
And again, "If farmers desire to in
oraese the value of their property,
they will encourage their delegation
at Salem to work and vote for these
road measures." Does the editor or
anyone else imagine that a hardjsur
faoed road near his farm will help
clear the land or cultivate any of his
crops? JThe hue and cry is that
farmers are unable to get their crops
to market I am nearing the three
score and ten mark in life and have
farmei ever since I oould reach to the
plow handles, and my 'experience has
been that getting the orop to market
was the easiest part of the work.
Ana aagin is it "not a fact that the
sole aim and object of the Good Roads
H. . Cross
CROSS & HAMMOND
Attorneys at Law
Probate Practice
Abstracts
Wt have now movec into our termnnt quarters in the
Dew Beaver Building next to the Aridresen Building.
A
NCOLN
Asooiation is to build an automobile
road fromPortland to Ashland para
llel with the Southern Pacifio? Of
how muoh benefit would (such a high
way be to the farmers of Olackkamas
county? The whole trend of the mat
ter is to get the connties bonded for
the benefit of the loan sharkB, who
have already bonded our one large
city "for all the trafflo will bear"
and are now looking to the dieffrent
ounties of the state for further invest
ments. And right here I rise to re
mark that we are not in need of a
county road engineer. If the overseers
in the different districts j.are not cap
able of doing the work they can be
recalled and others appointed in their
place.
All this road agitation it seems to
me, comes at an inopportune time, as
it will take all the means at our com
mand the coming season to repair the
damge done by the recent flood. I am
in favor of better roads as fast as
we can build and pay for the same.
J. S. YODER,
Hubbard, Or., R. F. D. No. 2.
Read in Februarv Sunset Magazine
SAN DIEGO THE CITY OF
DKEAMS COME TRUE. Beanti
fullv illustrated iu four colors. TET
RAZZINI SINGING IN THE
STREKTS OF SAN FRANCISCO
OHKISTMAS EVE. Now on sale.
All news stands, 15 cents.
As a rule It is not n commendable
policy to select breeding fowls or anl
tntils from mining those which have
been sold as culls at prevailing mar
ket prices. Occasionally an Individual
of Nome merit umy be secured, but the
risk Is too great to wulie the experi
ment worth while. 1
As a general thing the farmers who
are Induced to go Into the business of
growing sugar beets fall short from
six to ten tons per acre of getting the
yield which the promoters of the sug
ar factory led them to expect. The
land is either too thin, too dry, too wet
or too low and never just right.
Remember the Name
Foley's Honey and Tar for all
o uglis and colds, for croup, bron
chitis, hoarseness and for racking la
gnppe coughs. No opiates. Refuse
substitutes Jones Drug Co.
Wm. Hammond
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