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Oregon City Courier
First. Independent Paper in Oregon.
W. A. SHEWMAN, Publisher.
Published every Friday from the
Courier Building, Eighth and Main
Streets, by the
Oregon City Courier Pub. Co.
Incorporated
Telephones, Main 51;
Home, A-51.
Subscription Price $1.50 per Year.
Entered in the Poitoffice in Oregon city.Ore.
for transmission through the mails as second
class matter.
M. J. BROWN, - Editor.
WHAT'S THE CUR.E?
Iusdtnming up the tight of t ho peo
ple auaiuHt tho trusts for lower prices,
the Portland Telegram concludes with
this:
There can be no doubt in this
country as to which side will
win in the long ran, but how the
ultimate victory will be acliiev-ed-that
is the interesting quory.
Tho Courier bili ives, in it recently
stated, that the time is not far away
when our government will havo sup
ervision of every mill or corporation
that deals in necessities, and that our
government will determine just what
it costs to produce those necessities
and will fix the price at which they
shall be sold.
Today the coal dealers bacK east gut
together and fix the price of next,
winter's fuol. Demand, supply, or
the cost of production liavo absolutely
no part in tho figures. Tho price
steerers simply state that Juno deliv
eries SHALL be so much, July so
much, and so on down the calendar
into tho months of next winter. The
price is made because tho lead pencil
writes it down, and the fellows agree
to stand by. Families who havo the
means can buy cheaper during the
summer months, but the poor people,
the oommon people, who cannot buy
at convenience must pity what is de
manded. This 1b but one of hundreds of like
hold-ups where tribute is ' exactoil
from the consumers, because tho cor
nered product is a necessity.
And the people aro not goniK to pay
this tribute much longir. They are
in the majority, they know their
power and they are going to use it.
And the rusult will be that tho gov
ernment will tlx tho prions, rather
than tho trustB.
DOWN AND OUT.
Diaz was like the pitcher that went
onoe too ofton to the well, and his
handle was broken,
Today lie is in a way an oxile, liv
ing iu Spain, where he was forced
to flee.
Diaz didn't know when ho had had
enough like the pig1, ho didn't know
when the swill was exhausted, and
lie stayed at the trough.
For thirty years ho ruled Mexico,
ruled it as the section boss docs a
bunch of Dagoes, and then the job
got away with linn. Ho stayed on it
too long.
Now lie is a down and out. True,
lie lias millions of gold he squeezed
out of the oouutry, hot what good is
gold to a man too obi to spend it V
Would you take hiH gold and liiB
exilo and obnugo places with him?
NOW WATCH MADERO.
The oxpectwl is occurring and west
ern Mexico is being plundered y the
lawless element that, t he war brought
ont. Thero is no safety for life or
proporty iu these states. Now can
Madero hold tho victory he has won,
or will it get away from him?
Moxioo is made up of illiterates.
Its people are neither realtors nor
thinkers. They have never pro
dressed or uplilfeil anil they have no
desire for these advances. They
have no personal intornsts in peace.
thoy aro not concerned in prosperity
or ruin, liumbclt described tho IUox
ioan well when he said "lie is a beg
gar sitting on a gold mine. "
And this condition of the people,
following a war, is bound to bring out
bauds of brigands and plunderers,
mighty hard for Madero to surpross,
a statu or things that respects no
tonus of peace and knows no laws
Now it is up to Madero to make
good with his success, or it will give
Unool Sam n long wanted opportunity
to cut iu on the play and throw a
hook into coveted Mexico.
I note that the Portland retail
grocers have agreed to adopt the
weight plan In selling fruits, veg
etables and produce, commencing
this month, and it is a system that
every grocery should adopt, in justice
to both themselves aud their custo
mers. Under the present plan of so
uiuoh per dozen, it is a case of grab,
and the tirst ones get t he liig encum
bers, the biggest ogL'fl. the best or
auges and apples, and after a day 's
picking over uo one want tho small
leaviugs at full price. The weight
plan is the right plan, and it is but a
question of time when we will buy
nearly all our stud' in this way.
Banking service is not an expensive luxury.
Some of tho rcatct services we perform cost
our clients absolutely nothing.
Banking
Service
J The small business man needs this bank's help
to make his business grow.
(J This bank is here to serve the people, and its
oillcers will be glad to talk to any having need of
banking service.
The Bank of Oregon City
The Oldest Bank in the County
THE TRUST TREATMENT.
Isn't it funny that the great su
premo oonrt physicians hadn't long
ago stumbled over the Sherman anti
trust anti-toxine for the cure of the
Big Squeeze that lias become so con
tageous and epidomic in this country?
For years the prescription lias boen
plainly written in the great medical
book but the doctors thought lock jaw
might result, so they tried mild rem
edies, iu hoineopathio doses, and ad
V)sed the patients to take plouty of
exercise.
And they did.
Three weeks ago the anti-toxine
was given to . the Standard Oil Com
pany. Thero were signs of letauus,
nervous flutters and spasmcdio con
traction of various muscles, but uo
loss of consoiousnoBS, and in a few
days relaxation set in, and danger of
Wail Street lockjaw passed.
Now they have tried it on the to
bacco trust and anxious friends are
watching for .the critical stage, with
fingers on the pulse.
Oh, but tho Sherman cure is great
stuff and aB soon as resu its are noted
in the tobacco trust it will be admin
istered to tho lumber,' steel, coal,
meat, woolen, and other patients, and
soon the wholo country will be rid of
the queeze malady and content and
competition will spread over the
laud like one continual crimson sun
set. Do you believe it?
Neither do I.
It will take something stronger than
hypodermics to kill the tiust germ.
The Standurd Oil Company bin not
ordered any shrowds nor called in any
undertakers, and there will Le govern 1
rainy Tuesdays before they throw up
their charter and quit doing business
with their ondless chain racket.
The only way our government will
ever regulate the trusts will be by
compelliiiB thorn to put their wares
on tne market at a certain price, tirb
government to flx the prico.
And this will come.
HEAVY TROUBLE.
There' isn't much more dependance
to bo put on the world's war stories
than iu the mayorality charges of the
Portland dailies. It half of either
were tine, Portland's candidates
should be in the jail and we are going
to have enough international troubles
to make llobsou happy.
Hore's tho way the newspaper writ
ers shovel trouble onto this country.
They get big pay and they must earn
it.
Japan and England are going to
double team tho United States and
wipe us.ofi tho map; Germany Isn't
going to stand for this and she will
take a fall out of Kuglaud, that she
has long been yearning for; France
isn't going to paint sunsets and sing
swan songs whiio there is trouble
doing, so she will help Great Britain
put one or two over on the Dutohoien
in the mixup ; then Austria is going
to butt into the scrap and help Ger
many; Russia and China will even up
some old scores with Japan, and so
on.
And as soon as tins one cools off
some other great newspaper far seer
will have tho U. S. jump on Canada
with both foot; the lliitish Empire
will go down for the count; lighting
Ireland will become an independent
little bunch of scrapping ; Uncle Sam
will annex Mexico; Germany will
tako over Belgium, Holland and Den
mark, and, and, will, this covers
about ail of them but italy and the
Swedes, and you may s.tok them iu
the mix up any where you think they
belong and you'll hit it as close as
tho war writers do.
Tho bible says that in the latter days
there shall he wars and rumors of
wars, and these days must bo getting
pretty closo to the end of the string.
Pathetic and but half appreciated
by we of this hustling age, whs the
liuo of march of the boys iu blue,
Tuesday. Fifty years ago these white
heiulediiueu were our boys, our Bandy,
genie youna bloods, who wont down
to the front and mixed it with bul
lets, hardships and sickness, and they
saved a country from disunion. Any
true American should feel like taking
oil his hat ovory time ho meets one ol
these old veterans.
From a deficit of many millions of
a year ago to a million of surplus to-
davits tho report of tho postofrieo de
partment. A year ago a Chicago
businessman oftored to give tho gov
einniont'a million dollars a year for
I he use of tho United States mails,
and it would seem that the depart
ment has boon injecting a few com
mon business methods into the postal
end of tho government.
Tho two tariff lowering bills before
congress are products of the clamor ol
the people to throw off high protec
tion, which the privileged interests
have loaded on them, and to open
this country to lowoi-piic.ed necessi
ties. Tho end of protecting monop
olies has pretty nearly come. ion
can't fool all the yeople all the tinio.
And now it is President Taft's
turn. He will make a swing around
the Koosevclt-Wilsen circle aud visit
tho coast in September.
Oregon is the first state iu the
Union to express for president, and no
wonder the bovs all visit. Portland.
The individual needs this bank to
help him make his income go far
ther, ami to turn some of it into a
permanent asset.
OREGON CITY
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THIS IS TOO GAME,
Talk about dead game sports, we
Americars are 'em.
We're brokers iu blood and bone
when there's nothing more exciting
to bit our washers on.
In Indianapolis this week, at the
big auto race, men freely offered and
took bets on human life, bet on
whether such and such a car would
finish without a killing.
I like gameness, but this suits me
too well.
Think of a man on the risk eud of
a wager straining his eyes to see
the car he has bet against turn over
at "death curve, " munglo the occu
pants and win him his money.
Human life is becoming mighty
cheap lu this speedy country.
CAT SKINNINC.
"We will go rightjalong doing bnsi
ness, aud everything will be straight
eued out, "
That is what one of the tobacco
tmft Bteerers said of the supreme
court decision that is supposed to
measure the trust's length of life.
And they will go right along doing
business.
A law may tell a trust it shall not
bunch up and control a commodity,
and it may enforce it, so far as doing
business on paper is concerned, but it
will take something more patent than
decisions to stop the combination
from going "right along and doing
bnsiuess.
There are several ways or skinning
a cat. Some cat across the back aud
pull the bide both ways; some skin
around the nose and pnll it over the
head, and others rip it up the front
aud peel it off.
The tobacco trast will keep right
on skinning in one way or "another
until law outs in, determines what
the product cost and tells them what
they shall charge. . ,
Such a regulation would bring re
sults. The supreme oourt decisions
only force them to be bigger and more
cautious thieves.
And they call him Wood-run Wilson
now.
Next Monday will settle the scrap
over mayor in Portland, and the odds
look very much like Simon as a win
ter. Hore's a tip that Taft and Stimson
are nominated by the Republicans
next year, hut we haven't any sure
things down for the Democratic end
just yet,
The controller, on advioe of the
tomey general, has refused to
Governor Wilson for a moiitb'B
at-
py
sal-
ary.Jwhen he wasj out here telling we
coasters bow the government should
be ruu. If tins docking bad been ap
plied to ex-President Kooesvelt or
President Taft, their time checks
would have looked like a meal tioket
on the seventh dav. Hut all the same
it is not a bad precendout to start.
When a man is eloctod governor or
president, or any other public posi
tion, let him stay on the job We
have far too many men drawing sal
aries from the pubiio aud doing pri
vate feuce work.
Next year the voters of Multnomah
county will vote on the single tax
system, and Mr. U'lten believes the
proposed law will carry. Iu his talk
to the Portland ad men he pointod
eut how the system will exempt from
taxation all personal property aud ini
provemeiits such as buildings and so
forth, and levy a tax npon the land
only aud that iu accordance with its
rental producing capacity. To tax
pi lvonal proporty aud improvements
en laud, he said, was imposing a pon-
alty on enterprise, ro levy a tax on
land would make tho laud owners use
it to produce revenues, would discour
age holding for speculation and give
impetus to building investment, im
provement and use. He said that all
the people make land values increase.
As illustration he used H. L. Pittock
who bought a block for $250 50 years
ago which is now worth over lif.OOO,
000, is taxed on a valuation ot more
than $500,000 aud has on it Mr. Pit
tock 's homo worth $2250 according to
the tax rolls. Mr. U'Roii insisted
that Mr. Pittock only earned one two
hundred aud twenty-fifth part of the
increase, and that tho development by
the rest of tho people was responsible
for the great iucrease.
"STAND UP AND FICHT LIKE "
A lad was leaving Idaho,
A boy still in his teens;
He was ono of tho volunteers
Hound for the Philippines.
A father clasped the soldier's band,
And bade his boy farewell;
Those words ho said despite his tears,
"Stand up aud fight like bell."
"Staud np and fight like hell, boy,
Stand lip and fight like holl;
Don't show yoixr back, and dou't lie
down;
Staud up and fight like holl."
My grandsire fought iu ninety-eight
And dared the red-coat band,
To burst iu twain the galling chain
And free his native laud.
Uo fuoed the foe at Wexford's ford
And bade tho world farewell ;
Ho faltered not, but at his post
Stood up and fought like hell."
"My father loft the Emerald Islo
Aud a sailed acrcss the sea,
To dwell beneath the starry flag
In this laud of tho free.
And in life's battle here he had
Of dark days quite a spoil ;
He won; he never quit; he just
Stood up and fought like holl."
"His sous went forth iu sixty-ouo,
The dear old nag to save;
And two came home iu sixtv-five-One
tilled a southern grave.
Each was a man behindjhis gun,
These days when blood did tell.
And each before the ranks of crav.
Stood np and fought line hell. "
I give you to our country's cause,
My only boy, " be said ;
And don't disgrace your soldier
blood ;
I'd rather see yon dead.
God send you safolv home, mv son.
Good-bye, my boy, farewell,
And when you meet the Spanish foe
Stand up aud light like hell."
Tho war being o'er, the boy returned
With chevrous on Ins sleeve;
He stood and tought, a soldier true;
His post lie ne'er did leave.
Ue says, "When dark days cloud
your life N
Aud o'er you oast a spell,
Don't worry and lie down aud drift ;
Stauil up and right like hell."
Siucott.
The thrifty hog always has some
thing on the side.
COURIER, FRIDAY, JUNE
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FIFTY YEARS AGO.
At the outbreak of hostilities there
were very few military organization!
in the north, while in the south the
reverse was the case. What few or
sanizatiotis there were existed only for
francy dress halls or au occasional
parade. In 1800 Elmer E. Ellsworth
a former law student iu the law office
of Abraham Lincoln, organized
company of Zouaves at Chicago, and
so porfect did they become in the
drill exercise that they gave exhibi
tious in n number ot eastern cities,
Young Ellsworth was very highly
thought of by the president, and
when orders for volunteers were is
sued he was made a colonel ot a New
York Zouave regiment. The regiment
was uniformed after the pattern
the French Zouaves who had served
iu the Crimean war. A full regimeut
oi Zouaves was recruited in New
York aud when they arrived in Wash
mgton they attracted a great deal
attention.
of
The importance of keeping the
Mississippi river open from the Gulf
to Cairo was considered a very im
portaut matter by the federal author
ities. If the north could possess both
sides of the river they could cut the
confederacy in two, aud by the aid of
the coast blockade overcome the east
ern half by catting off its food sup
ply. The confederates were alive to
the situation and they began erecting
batteries at Vicssburg and Port Hud
son. A river flotilla was planned
form at Cairo for the purpose of mov
iug down the Mississippi aud clearing
the river of obstructions. James B
Eads, who afterwards became famous
in constructing the Eads jetties
the mouth ot the Mississippi, was
giveu authority to construct a fleet
of gunboats to operate from Cairo to
the gulf.
Geu. W. T. Sherman, who was des
tined to become one of the greatest
figures iu the civil war, visited Wash
iugtou and was made colonel of the
Thirteenth regular mfantry. Gen,
Sherman was a graduate of West
Poiut and was 41 years old. He had
served thirteen years as an artillery
lieutenant at rort Moultrie and in
California and at the breaking out of
the war had been ont of the servioe
for seven years. Geu. Sherman had
been stationed in the south a good
many years, and they fully appreoi
ated the gravity of the situation. He
did not approve of the president's
plan of calling for 75,000 volunteers.
but wanted the men all mustered into
the service as regulars, aud he de
clared that volunteers never would be
tit for a war of invasion. Gen. Slier,
man wrote his brother, John Slier
man, that he deemed it most import'
aut to keep the Mississippi open, and
that he knew of no one but McOlellan
whom he thought capable of diapers
ing the rebel militia now concentrat
ing at different points on the river.
But," he says, "new men, hereto
fore unheard of, will emerge from ob
scurity equal to any occasion," little
thinking that he was to be one ol the
real conquerors of the south.
It was estimated that nearly 60,000
of the 75,000 men called for had now
arrivod in Washington, aud the task
of organizing these men into a com
pact army was one of the great prob
lems that confronted the authorities.
The president, cabinet aud military
and uaval authorities were busy day
aud night, and there was endless con
fusion Delore definite plans nould be
agreed opou. Contractors, politi
elans, place hunters aud the drift
that nusually tollows an army, were
rapidly gathoring, each looking for
places to fatten themselves at the ex
peuse of the government.
A brisk engagement between two
federal war vessels from Hampton
Roads and a confederate battery near
Norfolk, Vs., marked the beginning
of the war on water. . The fight lasted
neatly two hours, and although it
was a comparatively insignificant en
gngemeut, it was the first naval en
gagement in the great struggle, and
is therefore worthy of note. As the
rebels had strongly fortified the posi
tion the lire of the war shins was nn
ablo to dislodge them and the boats
withdrew without loss, and without
any particular damage to the confed
erate forces.
NEWS OF OREGON.
S Oregou'Jewelers will meet in Port
land ou June 5 aud 6, these being the
dates fixed for the fourth annual con
volition. Trado matters will be dis
cussed and entertainment features
will not bo overlooked.
John I). MoNauiara and his brother,
James, defeudauts in tne Times dyna
uiiting caso. were not required to en
tor their plea this week. The trial,
it was said by both sides, probably
will not begin until some time next
fall.
After lighting for mouths against
the inevitable, W, Cooper Morris last
week heard the doors of the state
penitentiary swing behind him and he
has started serving his sentence ol six
years for aiding in the wrecking of
the Oregon Trust and Savings Bank of
Portland.
Dayton has been presented with his
toric Fort Sheridan by the govern
ment and the old struoture will be re
moved, to tiie Dayton oity park. The
old blockhouse is au interesting relio
of the days when the pioneers were
subduiug tlia wilderness.
A systematic campaign for German
immigrants has been outlined by the
Commercial Club, acting with the
German-speaking societies of Cregon.
A conference on the subjeot was held
recently aud in future more attention
will be paid to securing this immi
gration. Baker and Oregon City are two
places that will have postal savings
banks, such institutions already start
ed in this state having proved highly
successful. The postmaster general
has designated these cities as deposi
tories and they will begin operations
at once.
An iuterurban railway from Baker
throngh the Powder Kiver valley to
Haines aud Nortu Powder is a projeot
dear to the heart of the Baker Com
mercial Club aud efforts will be di
rected ou work to bring this about
during the coming few months. The
projected line would open np a re
markably fertilteoubtry, as well as
give access to much timber wealth.
Oregon's importance as a frnit
growing state can be better under
stood from the figures in the biennial
report of the Oregon state board of
horticulture, lately issued. President
W. K. Newell places the total valua
tion of last year's fruit crop at
500. Apples lead the list with a value
of f 2,500,000 and dried prunes stand
second in importance with a valae of
11,680,000.
Au exchange says a oity ohap went
to work for a Clackamas farmer; at
3 o'clock the next morning the farmer
2, 1911
oalled to him to begin the day's la
bors. A few minutes later the young
man came ont of the bedroom carry
ing his grip. ' You ain't a goin' to
take that grip with yon to work, are
yon?" asked the farmer. "Naw,"
answered the man with a fine scorn,
"but I'm going to find some place to
stay all night. "
Dr. Calvin White, state health offi
cer, says the federal law "has permit
ted the transformation of the Colum
bia and Willamette rivers into sewers,
and they ar sewers; but the state
law forbids the pollution of brauoh
streams and imposes a fine of 25 for
violation of the law, which applies
generally to any town, camper or
other agency of pollution. The state
board of health proposes that this law
hall be enforced.
Portland was the third c'ty in the
United States in the inorease of bank
clearings for the week ending May 25.
Foley's Kidney Remedy
Is particularly recommended for
chronic cases of kidney and bladder
trouble It tends to regulate and con
trol the kidney and bladder action
and is healing, strengthening and
brsoing. Jones Drng Co.
Grinned Into Matrimony.
That grinning matches were an ac
cepted form of sport in early English
days is shown fcy an advertisement
announcing a gold ring to be grinned
for by men on Oct. 9 at the Swan,
Coleshlll heath, Warwickshire, which
appeared in the Fost-Boy of Sept. 17,
1711. Addison gives a detailed ac
count of one of: these "controversies of
faces," telling us that the audience
unanimously bestowed the ring on a
cobbler who "produced several new
grins of his own Invention, having
been used to cut faces for many years
together over his last."
His performance was something like
this: "At the very first grin he cast
every human feature out of his coun
tenance, at the second he simulated
the face of a spout, at the third that
of a baboon, at the fourth the head of
a bass viol and at the fifth a pair of
nut crackers." Addison adds that a
comely wench whom he had wooed In
vain for more than five years was so
charmed with his grins that she mar
ried him the following week, the cob
bler using the prize as his wedding
ring.
Don't nse harsh nhvaina Tho re
action weakens the hnwnlo laa.lo n
ohronio constipation. Get. Dnan's
ttegulets. They operate easily, tone
the stomach, cure constipation".
BARGAII
In Embroideries are greater than ever
27 inch Flouncing, Values to 85c Yd, iot
J 8 inch Corset Covet ot Flouncing, values
to 45c pet yard iot
6 to 8 met Values from 1 5c to 20c
for
ANOTHER Extra Special is Ladies'
Mercerised Hose, 2 Pairs for
A lot of bargains in Glassware to close out, also some
LESS THAN COST to close
W. A. HOLMES,
Absolutely Pure
The Only Baking Powder Made from Royal
Grape Cream ol Tartar.
Safeguards food
against alum
Cbemlsts tests have shown that a part of the alum from
biscuit made with an alum baking powder passes Into
the stomach, and that digestion Is retarded thereby.
Read tho label and make sure that your baking
powder Is not made from alum.
I would a great deal rather be f
put In Jail for something 1 was
Innocent of or for something
that I had not done than to
know in my heart that I had
done some dishonorable, dirty
thing, where I could see the sug
gestion of It in the eye of every
man I looked at Governor Wil
son of New Jersey In n Recent
Speech.
Oan't look well, eat well or
well with Impure blood feeding
feel
body. Keep the blood pure with Bur
dock Blood Bitters. Eat simply, take
exeroies, keep clean and you will have
long life.
The uniform success that has at
tended the nse of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has
made it a favorite everywhere. It
can always be depended npon, For
sale by all good dealers.
Why Not Call It
nn rz3 n
zi Ulij Lb t)
THE BAR.GA
Yd.
A 45incli Flouncing, values to $1.25
69c
8-incfi Embroideries, Valoes to 25c, for
15c
Tha
Mountain that Was God.
A new and much enlarged edition
of that nunine boob, "The Mountain
that Was 'God,' " which made its
first appear-iuca last summor, is now
issued by its author-publisher, John
H Williams, of Tacoma, Washing
ton, with G. P. Putnam's Sous of
New York as his eastern agents.
Neaily 35,000 copies of the first edi
tion of this beautifully illlustrated
volume were sold in eight mouths.
In the new edition, care has been
taken to make tho book fiuor aud more
attractive than ever. The text has
boen almost rUmbled, auu tho number
of illustrations has grown from 140 to
190, eight of whioh aro in colors.
The bock l as already wi n the enthu
siaft'C approval ol lovers of the great
peaks Ona of these, a well-known
ngl')-h auihor, write t Mr. Wil
liams: "if loir big mountain weie
a university, it wor.1 ! give you a de
gree !"
FliitHtion has been aptly described
as "attention withonl intention,"
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