OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1911
Oregon City Courier
First. Independent Paper In Oregon.
W. A. SHEWMAN, Publisher.
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Courier Building, jMgntn ana iumu
Streets, by ttie
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chuw matter.
M. J. BROWN, - Editor.
THE
FIRST BREAK IN OUR
BIG
PROTECTION WALL,
Th Canadian reciniocity bill lias
the senate, nasaed in Its orig
fnal form, and passed by a majority
of the Republicans voting against it
a party measure.
The vote in the senate was 63 to 27.
Of the 68. 82 were Deomorats and 21
Hepnblioans, and of the 27 against, 24
were .Republicans ana Democrats.
This is the first attempt of a nation
to take taxes off necessities a Repub
lican measure whose passage was
made possible by Deomoratio vote
The passage of this reciprocity
treaty doesn't by any means fully
renresent what the people of this
oonntry want in the way of lowered
duties. This bill puts the reduotion
heavily onto the farmers' products,
and while it is unquestionably a bill
for the greatest good of the reatest
nam bur, yet the people demand more
reductions and the demand is that the
trusts' products shall be lowered in
proportion to the farmers' products.
This reoiprooity measure is gladly
ancepted by the poeple as a bite, when
they couldn't get the loaf a taking
what they could get, taking it thank
fully, and biding their time for an
other ohauoe at the bread jar.
This bill was passed without amend
ment because of the fear that Presi
dent Taft would veto it if it had any
riders.
Bnt the passage of this measure is
unquestionably but a wedge for fur
ther reductions the opening of the
little oraok that will split the whole
big timber fall length and give this
oountry relief from the tariff-pro-teoted
trusts that are plundering this
oountry.
THE HANDY EXPEDIENT WHEN
THE PINCH COMES.
Prayer is about the handiest medi
oui that ever laid around loose. It is
o awfully oonveninnt that we wedge
it in to take the place of a little phys
leal exertion or a bit of self-denial.
If I am slok I would rather a man
would reaoh out his hand to me than
to send a prayer wireless, and if yon
are sick I will try helpling you to pay
doctors' and groours' bills before I get
down on my knees.
I am not arguing against prayer or
the answer to it, but am advocating
that contributions to a subscription
paper are a mighty sight more useful
than callouses on the kuees to relieve
distress or save life.
When one asks God to do that
whioh his hands and poeketbook are
able to do, I have an idea that the
line will be busy and he will have to
oall again.
A mother will make a piteons ap
peal to an All-wise to guide her boy's
footsteps, when the job is plainly
Within the Jurisdiction of the police
man or the curfew officer, a man will
plead to be relieved from pain when
Chamberlain's can be bought at Jones
Drug Go. for two bits a relief.
Just tor the otter surprise and con
sternation, I wiS the miscellaneous
form prayers might to literally an
swered for one week. Thou they
would be praying to have the answers
repealed.
WHAT IS THE ARGUMENT
AGAINST?
But three states are necessary to
give this country an income tax law,
and I would like to ask what fairer
proposition can you put to a man than
that lie should pay the country's ex
penses in proportion to what the
oountry pays him?
I have uover read or heard of an
argument against the proposition that
would hold water without leaking.
The strongest one advanced is that it
would make of us a nation of liars
and we are pretty nearly that now.
If I had an income of a thousand
dollars year a (mind you this is jnst
a joke as lllUHtrtion) and your income
is one-hundred dollars, should we be
equal taxpayers to our government?
Yon kuow we should not. Kvery
man aocordiug to his menus is an ar
gument you oan't pull away from,
The opposition to the income tax is
that income owners don't want to
pay It. That's the whole ball of wax
Harry P. Dalton, the Oakland,
Gal., asesessor, has joined the Seattle
ex-ohlef of poline in the hard road of
the transgressor. Found guilty of
aooepting a bribe to reduce the assess
ment of the water ooiupauy, he has
been sentenced to eight yours in pris
on. The modern
man or woman
recognizes the necessity of a bank account.
It gives an acquaintance at the bank which
is necessary to accommodation in time of need.
A stranger at the bank cannot expect to
get a loan on a few minutes acquaintance.
The man or woman who earns some, spends
less and has a pass book on this bank is out of the
worrying class, '
BEGIN TODAY to deposit regularly with
The Bank of Oregon City
The Oldest Bonk in the County
ARE EDITORS INTELLECTUAL
PROSTITUTES?
Looking through a bunch of news
paper dippings, and accumulation of
several years and saved up to make
bricks when straw is scaroe during
the summer months, I ran across the
following little story old but ever
new.
Two or three years ago, down in
little ol New York, the newspaper
fellows arrauged a banqnet and in
vited John Swinton, the journalist,
to make them a talk on "The Inde
pendent PresJ." '
And he made them a talk.
This was two or three years ago,
and I am glad of it, for it isu't so
much true now as then.
Hieing to respond to the toast.
Swinton Bred this bomb: "There is
no such thing in America as nn inde
pendent prem. Yoa know it and I
know it. There is 'not one of yon
who daros to write his honest opinion.
If I allowed my honest opinion to ap
pear in one issue of my paper, before
24 hours my occupation would be
gone. The business of the journalist
is to destroy the truth, to lie outright,
to pervert, "to villify, to fawn at the
feet of Mammon and to sell his coun
try and his raoe for his daily bread."
"You know this and I know it, and
wnat folly is this to be toasting an
independent press." ,
" We are the tools and vassals of rioh
men behind the scenes. We are the
jumping-jacks they pull the strings
and we dance. Our talents, our possi
bilities and our lives are all the pro
perty of other men."
" WE ARE INTELLECTUAL PRO
8TITUTE3."
Swinton put a crimp in that banquet
you couldn't hare taken out with
a steam roller, but he told only God's
truth and he told it to a bunch of
hypoorites as guilty as Judas Isoariot
every one of whioh knew he was a
betrayer, but not one ot which would
admit it.
This all hapnuoed two or three
years ago. hut for some reason can
you guess it?-Swinton's speech didn't
have a very wide publicity, rue news
services didn t break in tins anair
very strong. Had some fellow given
it out that the world was growing
bettor, the wheat crop a bumper, or
that the market was off on tootpicks,
the press dispatohes would have
spread the news from New York to
Portland,
Bnt the constitution doesn't oompel
newspaper men to inoruninate wein-
selves.
I have often thought I would BBk
Oarnigee to skip a library and offer
a hero prize to the editor who wonld
for one month literally edit ins paper
with his honest opinions and oonvio
tions. But rust would cover the medal be
fore any editor would put up a claim
tor it.
But thanks to a Roosevelt, a Foulke,
a Hughes and a Wilson, we are doing
better.
Thauks lo a public whioh won't
stand for a newspaper whioh has a
sale tag on it, we are doing better.
A newspaper oan't call a Jack ot
spaaes a kiug of hearts any more and
make readers swallow it.
The poeple are becoming educated.
They know the difference bstweon
a newspaper and a dummy.
The newspaper that today refuses
to touoh a subject because it is hot
will be refused by readers because it
Is a coward.
The Oastoria age of newspapers is
past. The field is narrowing to fewer
and better sheets, fewer and more in
dependent newspapers, l.'es soothing
lotions, less shears, more opinions and
more brains.
HERE'S A PLATE OF COLD
I VITUALS WARMED OVER.
Rev. J. R. Lamb of New York
wants some froe advertising, and the
Courier is willing to donate We ate
in the habit of it and we are easv.
The Reverend is indeed a lamb, but
he hopes to be a tried old bellweather
as soon as he gets his "Order of Trne
Americans" to working and solves the
great race problem which oongross
has been side-stepping for the past
twenty years.
Mr. Lamb's very chestnuttv scheme
is to separate the nergoes from the
whites by purchasing for them a land
outside our country.
How easy on paper. How simple
Why doesn't congress drop these
little matters of reciprocity and free
trade bills and plug through this
Order of True Americans" bill?
And the wonder is the Courior
hadn't thought of this before and beat
the Lamb to it.
The only trouble I can see with this
solution to the race problem is the
solution. Otherwise it's dead easy.
You know the old proverb about the
horse that wouldn't drink, after he
had been led to the trough.
We may give Jthe negroes a quit
olaim deed to the Philippines and tire
every native off them. We may cut
them up in 10-aore garden patches,
hut I would like to have someone lead
me out and explain how we are going
to make the colored gentlemen accept
thorn and move onto them.
The only trouble with the Rev.
Lamb's idea is that everything is the
trouble with it, and one ot the troub
les is a little matter of a nation's cou
tistution that is supposed to give a
negro as many rights as a white man.
Them will be some warm politics in
Oregon uext year.
AND WHAT IS CONGRESS DE
SCENDING TO?
Congressman Small of North Caro
Una has introduced a bill to amend
the Sherman law, and he claims the
amendment "makes the conviotiou of
corporations presumptive evideuoe of
guilt and that mandatory punish
ment most ioiiow.
If you like jokes, this is a good one,
Just read over the above and under
stand it.
A congressman wants a national
law passed providing that when cor
porations are tried and found guilty
that it snail be presumptive eiviuunoe
that they are really guilty, therefore
liable for punishment.
Wouldn't that blow your hat in the
river?
Finding a trust guilty and then ask
ing a permit to pnulsh it.
Excuse my smile. -
PRESIDENT SCHURMAN'S
BAD
BREAK.
President Schurman of Cornell, N.
Y., was in Portland last week, and
here is what he gave out:
"FroLd my observations I am
convinced there has not at any
time existed a vital demand in
the state of New York for a direct
primary Jaw,
I would like to have President
Sohurnmn explain the extmc of his
observations or qualify the word
"vital" as he uses it.
If there was ever a state that is ma-
ohine controlled aud where there is
open rebellion agairst the machines,
it is boss-riddeu New York. The
calmor of the people for direot pri
maries has frightened both parties to
declare in their state platforms for
direct primaries, only to treacherously
lie to the people after election.
bcliurniuu libels his own state in
such a statement. There is a vital
demand for direct nominations aud
Shorman knows it.
ARGUMENTS THAT COME TO
ROOST.
Here's one that seems to bs a little
weak in the upper story, yet it comes
from a senator who is supposed to
have brains enongh to represent a dis
trict in Michigan.
Senator Smith says that a result of
the operation of the Canadian reci
procity measure will be the flooding
of Canada with British capital., and
from across the border British . mills
aud faotories will flood this oountry
with competing goods.
Good I 1 only hops the Michigan
senator lias his telescopo adjusted
right.
I want to ask any Courier reader
who will rea on, what difference an
Imaginary line between this oonntry
and Canada would make on the cost
of production what difference it
SHOULD make whether au article
was made in a mill on the north or
sou tli side of a line, both sides of
which are populuted with practically
the same people, and where conditions
and wagos aro the same?
The Michigan senator, through his
fears, simply admits that we have a
trust-protected country and that
some of the Englishmen are going to
hand ont a little competition,
I hope h" i- a wise prophet and th"t
his croac' '.mi will come true.
A BUNCH OF SWEET-SMELLING
ROSIS.
A Co v vrirsagi an investigation by
couprii s w .a a matter of national In
terest, aud people followed the details
as closely as they do the Love divoroe
action.
But now-a-days they are coming so
fast one simply can't keep the run (f
only the lop-notchers.
Here s a list of national scandals.
It wasn't sent ont by the Courier's
Washington representative, but simp
ly jotted down as the editor ran onto
them in the newspapers. We mi.y
have skipped a half doen, and a
dozen or so more may be started be
tween this writing and its printing.
We would suggest, after reading
that you chew aloes to take the taste
out, or barn sulphur in the room:
sugar trust, Controller bay land tan
gle, Indian laud scandals, "tiust
busting" expouditnres, efforts to oust
Dr. Wiley, threatened extinction of
Pribylof Island seal herd, government
ot the District of Columbia, irregu
larities at the Washington navy yard,
alleged general extravagance in naval
services, alleged persecution of Lewis
pablioations, railway mail service
trouble, alleged favoritism shown to
Maj. Ray, U. 8. A., and other
charges, extravagance in the Cnited
States army, charges against Attorney-Uemral
Wickersham in oonuno
tiou with Alaska syndicate frauds,
paroels post proposition and other
postal service matters, fire protection
in government buildings and govern
ment methods of constructing public
buildings, violation ot civil service
law, creosote undervaluations, govern
ment rental ot the Union building,
recoveries on sugar frauds, irregular
ities iu the custom service.
Besides this even two dozen investi
gations there are any number of state
probings, like the Loiimer matter,
the Wisconsin matter, eto.
Governor West is gaining a little
now notoriety at the expense of Ne
vada, aud he should be arrested for
larceny, He has given it out that
hereafter when an "honor" convict
escapes he will send other "honor
oonvicts to capture him, and that he
will give them guns. The correspou
dent who gives out this new schme,
the Salem booster of the governor,
says: "As far as known here the
idea is one new to prison history and
when used will probably be the first
instance of the kind iu the annals of
convict hunting." The writer doesn
read the press dispatohes cloesly.
Down iu Arizona they are working
this scheme every week.
F. Weyerhaeuser is said to own
or oontrol propertv worth $1,000,
000,000. It is mostly timber lands
that he is euterprisiugly conserv
ing Not bo vory long ago these
lauds belonged to all the people.
How did one man manage to get
such a vast amount away from
them V Portland Journal.
I would like to have the Journal
answer its own question aud while at
it, pass its opinion on the single tax
proposition whioh it is claimed will
break up these great individual hold
ings and pat these millions of acres
iu roach of the poor people at a rea
sonable prioe.
R. G. Johnson, a business man of
Dea Moines, la., in speaking of the
commission form of government in
that city, while in Portland last week
made this significant statement:
Under the commission plan the
city saves money. The purchas
iug power of a municipal dollar
has been douoled, frequently
trebled.
And w hen you hear a man arguiug
against this government of a city,
just nail him down and make him,
explain why, ,
THE POLITICS OF THE COURIER
Several have asked the editor of this
paper where it stands in politics,
which party it is supporting and
where it will be on the national issues
next year.
The big sign over the Courier office
front doors states where this paper
stands that it is independent but to
qualify this word, whioh means so Ut
ile many times, we will say that the
paper stands for any ninn or Issue that
it believos is right, and we don't care
a yellow darn whether the man or the
issue comes from Republicanism,
Democracy, (Socialism, new thought
or Belva Lock wood.
James i. Hill said last winter that
in ten years there would not be auy
political parties in this country,' that
every year the lines were being brok
en up, and that it whs the MAN peo
ple were going to vote tor, not the
party.
i oeneve mil would have heeu a
truer prophet if he had shortened the
time limit of party extermination to
Uve years. '
It's the man and ' what he stands
for, nut the party approval label, that
tne people are going to look to from
now on
When a man comes up for publio
offloe who will stand the weight test,
who rings trne and who will tell the
voters what he stands for before eleu
tiou, then this paper will stay (give
l b three cards) and we don't care
whether the man" is Methodist or
Mohammedan, Sooialist or sage. Re
publican or radical, Democrat or
dude.
We aren't trying to draw up where
we can pose beside Lincoln or think
we have a great reform mission to
perform. We are simply going to ruu
a panor, run it as we think right,
"stand for the man who stands right.
stand with him when he is right and
depart from him when lie goes
wrong. '
If you can stand for such a paper
and have a little charity for misjudg
ment at times, we want you under
our umbrella. If you can't, stop it
when you happy please aud we'll try
and gtt ont 52 issues aud furnish
t li em to you through vour accommo
dating neighbor. '
WHICH IS CHEAPER., GRAFT OR
PROSECUTION?
J lie papers have had muoli to say
about Ur. Wiley, the pure food expert.
aud tne effort to oust him because he
allowed sotuo assistant $1600 salary to
help trie work. This has caused a big
scaudal" and even the president has
taken a hand in it, and I suppose At
torney-General Wickersham has made
an exhaustive examination or tins
awful waste of publio money and ad
vised President Taft to remove him. "
And when one reads this Wiley
affair it tempts him to go digging up
newspaper olips aud World almanacs
just to see it this man who has done
more for pure food thau the whole
national legislature, is the ONLY
man who has paid fees for outside
help, and to see how this matter of
$1H00 looks beside the hi ill finance
items that our attornev general has
authorized and audited in the anti
trust prosecutions that he is hired to
prosecute.
Here am t"e stRceenri? free pnri rv
Attorney-Gem nl Wickemi a n to nu n
who prosecuted tiu-t cases, f es 'hat
the attorney general has the right to
give out as tie pleases. What do you
think about them? Wouldn't you like
to be a lawyer and have WicLtrsham
for a frieni ?
Henry L Btimson t83,O0O.
J. O. M. Reynolds $35,000.
frank B. Kellogg. $48,000.
Francis I. Heuey $(5,000.
Traey O. Becker $15,000
Payton Gordon $19,000.
Cardeno A. Severance, $28,000.
Wade H. Ellis $11,000.
Jesse O. Adkins, cottou leak cases,
$10,000.
J. W. Barrett, oleomargarine cases,
$10,000.
Pierce Butler, bleached flour and
United States vs. Swift. $10,000.
J. H. Wilkerson, various prosecn
Hons, $13,000.
Here are some of the food prodnots
afrected by the Canadian treaty, ar
ticles that will be admitted free on
which the former duty is given:
Hotter, per pound, 6 oents eggs a,
dozen, 6 rents; Potatoes, a barrel,
25 cents; frosh halibut, a pound, 1
cent; apples, a bushel, 25 oents; toma
toes, 20 cents per ct. ; onions, a bush
el, 40 cents; cabbsge, - each, Scents;
peaches, a bushel, 25 cents; poultry,
dressed, per. pound, Scents; poultry,
live, per pound, a cents; mackerel, a
pound, l oent; bacon and hams, a
pound, 4 oents ; beet and. pork, salt,
dried or smoked, 25 oents per ot.
Under reoiprooity there will be a
constant flow of lood fom the place
of abundance to the place of scarcity
Thus the producer will have larger
and steadier markets, and the oon-
sumor will have access to a larger and
more varied supply of food. The
matter will regulate itself far better
than legislators could hope to regu
late it by a double row of tariffs.
Toronto Globe.
The press dt patches have had muoh
to say of a silk stocking Norwegian,
who was recently captured in Brook
lyn, aud who after arrest confessed to
twenty burglaries he had committed.
The Portland dailies printed his pic
ture and the space writers made the
most of this blooded orook. And now
comes the rest A Brooklyn judge
gave him the awful sentence of Bend
ing him home deporting him. What
would Oregon do to such a judge?
Thiugs aren't running any too
smoothly dowu in Mexico, aud before
it all ends no doubt this oountry will
find excuse enough to get a half Kel
son on this republio and hold its head
down for a fall when the time comes.
The Moi cans like war and the things
that go wth it, aud it appears that
in many sections they don't propose
to -quit. And Aeuirioan investors are
loudly asking for intervention by this
oonntry aud protection from auarohy.
Delegate Wickersham tells the in
vestigating committee ot scandalous
Alaskan deals, and Attrorney-General
Wickerebain calls him a liar. Thus
the people have to draw their own
conclusions ot these men's honesty,
and publio sentiment has long ago pat
the attorney general down as an
official who will bear a lot of careful
watohing if there are any trusts
around.
It is said Senator Bourne is being
talked of for second place on the Re
publican ticket next year. I'll bet
President Tatt isn't langhing himsellf
into convulsions over the minor.
If Oregon City had a commission
government do you think the city
would be expending hundreds of dol
lars to have handsome shade tree
out down?
TO
THINK OVER. - . ,
An exchange says "Benton county
farmesr pay taxes on improvements
assessed as such, valued . at $35fl, 875.
The railroads of Benton couuty had
their assessments on down by the
state tax commissioners more than
that."
-Mr Stevens said in his street ad
dress here Saturday night that corpor
ations and capitalists coold be made
to pa their rightful taxes IF the as
sessors would be made to assess them.
Out of that little conjunction "if"
has grown the single tax party iu Or
egon. . :
John D. Rockefeller, who Mr. Stev
ens said would be one who would en
capo paving a personal tax under a
single tax law, raid a tax on personal
property of ONE THOUSAND DOL
LARS in iiis home city of Cleveland
last week.
The single tax advocates claim t ha
under a direct laud tax they would
catch Mr. Rockefeller for thousands
and thousands of dollars of taxation
on speculative lands that he holds,
aud that such taxes on the deal lands
held by speculator would far more
than offset the personal property taxes
which they dodge, and that by suoh
taxation system the rate would be low
er d to the farmer who produces and
improves.
Right uext to us, in Washington conn
ty, farm land has an average
ment of $62 20 an acre, and the dead
land $15 43. The difference appears to
be that farmers have cleared the land
aud made many improvements in
other words that they pay $4G.7Z more
than the other fellows because they
have improved.
On the dead land there is doubt less
many acres of valuable timber that
speculators are holding for a killing,
and whose value is greater than that
of tiie improved lauds.
xn suon instances it would seem
that the single tax system was the
right system to adjust matters.
What do you think about it?
A BIT OF BOB TAYLOR'S PO
ETIC SENTIMENT.
Most anybody oan express a senti
ment in some way. but it takes a scntli
erner to express one so people will
read it. remember if. and think about
it.
Senator Bob Taylor of Tennesee
says In the following what the Courier
editor liaa many times said or tried to
say, but Senator Bob says it iu a way
mac win get you, and a make you
reao it again :
"I would rather fill my purse with
money anu Keep us gates ajar to my
happy girls while they linger under
tuy roof than to clutch it with a mis
er s hand until the harp strings of
youth are broken and its uuusio foi
ever fled. I would rather spend my
last .niokle for a striped marble to
gladden te hearts of my bare-footed
boys than to deny them the childish
pleasures and leave them a bag of gold
to quarrel over when I am gone.
abhor the pitiless hawk that circels
in the air only to swoop down and
strangle the song of a dove. I despiee
that soulless man whose greed for gold
impels him to strangle the laughter
ana song oi ins own lainiiy. "
' Larney Tom, who was seiit to"
the pen for seven years for silling
Wavheno on the Grand Honde res
ervation a little ever a year ago,
wa-4 in Dallas this morning, being
out nn parole. Dallas ltemizer.
And what was tho use of the big ex
pense for trying and convicting Tom
Larney for this killing?
If the mruderer of the Hill family
is ever caught, I wonder if Governor
West will make him an "honor" sub'
ject and let him out on parole?
Biuy" sunaay has cleaned op
$10,007.17 in ten months work as an
evangelist, and I wonder how many
hours Sunday would have rut in at
soul-saving if there was no money in
the game. As the buffalo Courier
says "It pays to be good and piously
erratic and ferocious, sometimes.
The papers have been running
joke parargaph about Reno being the
great divide, but the Fort Worth
Record savs there ' are otherh the
harem skirt, tariff wall, fool and his
money, the pearly gates, . Mason and
Dixon's line, Jim Crow laws and the
Rio Grande. Some of these days the
last one will be out from tne list.
If half the talked -of candidates en
ter the senatorial race for senator
bourne's mantel next April, Mr.
Bourne will win in a walk. In both
parties there are many who are "men
tioned" and the more that get in the
broader will Mr. Bourne smile.
A Washington dispatoh says Sena'
tor Chamberlain thinks of stepping
down ana out wtieu ins term expires,
but as there are yet three years before
his term is out he will probably have
another thins:.
HIS DAY OFF.
This little jiugle is written for the
business man who looks at life as a
toot race, and who thinks that first
prize is all there is between the cradle
aud the grave.
He was the boss, was the first to
come
When the day began, and he made
things hum.
He would hustle round with impa
tient jerks
And install some life in the lazy
oierks.
It was great how he'd growl and
how he would scoff
At the thought that ho ought to
take a day off.
Why he'd doubt the olock when it
pointed noon,
And he'd swear that the hour had
come too soon.
Go out to eat? Waste that time at
lunch? , .. .
Not he, he wonld sit at his work and
munch
Aud spatter bis crumbs when he
took a bite ' '
As he told the stenographer what to
write.
Year, year out he was on tin go.
He said "Too busy to rest, you
know."
And the dollars grew to a wondrous
pile,
But still he wonld wear that sarcas
tio smile
When someone suggested a time for
play
Or told of the need ot a holiday.
It was yesterday that we met him
last V
We were on the street, he was rid
ing past.
And we Btoppnd to look as we turn
ed to go.
For the wonder was that his pace
was slow.
The rig was new and the horses
trim i
It was his day oft they were bury
ing him.
A FEW SINGLE TAX ITEMS
FIFTY YEARS AGO.
The effect of the. disaster at Bull
Ruu produced great consternation
ihrcughout the loyal North. Daily
arrivals of dead and wounded from
the ill-fated battlefield brought home
to the people a realizing sense that
terrible rebellion was iu progress aud
that it would require tiie united
efforls of all loyal people to suppress
it. Major Ueneial George IS. Mo
Clellan, who had aohived some sue
cess iu Wust Virginia, was summoned
to Washington aud placed in command
ot tne army ot the r'otomao aud ueit
McDowell took charge ot the defense
of Washington, The vunerable Geu
eral Scott, though not officially r.
liuved, was quietly side-tracked and
snort time atterward was placed on
the retired list.
nib aipoiutment or MuClellan soon
restored confidence and new ncruits
wire hurried to Washington with
great rapidity. The fortifications
around Washington were strengthened
and were considered safe from attack
by the victorious legionB of Beanre
gard and Johnstqn. President Lin
ooln was much depressed by the fed
eral defeat.
uongruss, which was then in gas
sion, n ad passed a bill appropriating
zou,uuii,uw ior llie purpose of carry
lng on the war and provided for the
enlistment ot one million men to
aerve three years. The president
message was quite severely criticised
by a tew northern papers who were
opposed to the prosecution of tiie war,
but It was one of the greatest mes
sages ever submitted to congress. The
closing part, whioh gave Lincoln'i
definition of a republican form of
government, follows: "It may be
affirmed without extiavagance, that
the free institutions we enjoy have
developed the powers and improved
tne condition or our whole people be
yond any example in the world.
"Of this we new have a striking
and an impressive illustration. So
large an army as the government has
now on foot was never before known
without a soldier in it but who has
taken his place there of his own free
ohoioe. Bnt more than this, there are
many single regiments whose mem
hers, one aud another, possess full
practical knowledge of all the arts
sciences, professions, aud whatever
else, whether useful or elegant, is
known in the world, and there
scarcely one from which there could
not be selected a president, a oabluet
a congress aud perhaps a court, abun
dautly competent to administer the
government itself.
"Nor do I Bay this is not true also
in the army of our late friends, now
adversaries in this oontest; but if it
is, bo muoh bettur the reason why the
government wuicn lias oonleried such
benefits ou both them and us should
not be brokeu up.
wnoevorin any seotion proposes
to abandon suoh a government would
do well to uousider in deference to
what priuciple it is that, does it what
better he is likely to get in its stead
whether the substitute will givn, or
be intended to give, so much of good
to the people?
"This is essentially a people's con
test On the side of the uuiou it is a
struggle for maintaining iu the world
that torm and substance of govern,
ment whose leading object is to ele
vate the oondition of nieu to lift ar
tifloial weights from all shoulders: to
clear the paths of laudable pursuit
for all ; to afford all an unfettered
start and a fair chance in the race of
life. Yielding to partial and tempo
rary departures, from necessity, this
is the leading object of the govern
ment ror whose existence we cou
tend."
The rebel privateer, Sumter, having
escaped the blockade runners, cap
tured five merchant ships and towed
them into a Cuban port,.
What They Escaped.
We clip the following from the Blue
Mountain American. It is, amusing
and pietty true to life and lawyers:
"Ueorge Jdrewio sued Ed Welch in
the justice oourt at Prairie City last
wees xne amount involved was
$1.75. Brewiu claimed that he gave
that amount to Welch to buy grub
with and he failed to account for eith
erjtlie grub or coin. A jury heard the
evidence and disagreed, and another
jury was called and heard the evi
dence and they disagreed. Then the
parties got together and agreed to
each pay half the costs mid quit.
The parties were in about $100 each
And they sav justice don t amount to
much The chances are if tho parties
cf the action had not been represented
with pretty good lawyers they wonld
I ave tried it again, then appealed to
the circuit court, and from there gone
to the supreme court, and after about
six years get a long winded opinion
by the supreme court giving the bojs
a new start by ordering a new trial
in the circuit court.
Towns are Waking Up.
(Forest Grove News-Times. )
Cities and towns throughout Oregon
are, at this time, making efforts to
render .their streets more attractive
by having the weeds and tall grass
growing in the streets and ou the side
walks' edge cut and removed. The
growing grass proves unsightly and
in the summertime is a distinot men
aoe to property. Newberg has reoei.t
ly passed au ordinance making it ob
ligatory npon property owners to keep
the lrout of their premises free from
obnoxious weeds. Municipalities have
taken steps to remove this oondition
through enactments and ordinances
which have proved very successful in
ameliorating existing conditions.
The Uourier at Oregon City makes a
timely comment ou this peculiar sit
nation common to many towns.
City connoils iu McMiunville and
Dallas have passed ordinances com
pelhug property owuis to keep tne
rags mowed in front cf thoir premises
and the ordiuanoes are stnotly enforo
ed agaiust violators. .
Concern iug national nolitics. Gov
ernor Folk, in his recent speech be
fore the Democrats of the North at St.
Paul, said :
"The prospect for Demecratio sue
cess is very bright. If the party is
true to its ideals, it will, 1 believe.
win in the next campaign. The idaals
of Democracy are embraced in Jeffer
son's maxim, 'Equal rights to all and
special privileges to none.' This max
im opposes privilege in any form,
whether it be protective tariff, sub
sidy or bounty. ,
'If protection is right in one thing.
itB justice on some other things cannot
be denied. The onlv true Democratic
idea it that there be no protection at
all merely for protection."
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RECIPROCITY BILL IS
PASSEDJY SENATE
Measu'e Goes Thresh Without
Amendment by Majority
of 26.
Washington, D. C The reciprocity
trade agreement between the Un'ted
States and Canada embodied In the
reciprocity b:il, that proved a Btorm
center In two sessions of Congress,
passed the Senate without amendment
by a vote of 63 to 1. A majority of
Republicans voted against it. Of 63
votes for It, 32 were Democrats and
21 Republicans. Of the 27 against, 24
were Republican and three Demo
cratic. Bourne, Borah and Heyburn voted
against reciprocity, while Chamber
lain, Jones and Polndexter favored it.
Thus the Northwest broke even.
Every threatened change in the bill
was defeated by the consistent union
of Democratic and "regular" Republi
can forces. Senators Polndexter of
Washington and Works of California,
recognized as Insurgents, voted
against nearly all amendments.
, Struggle Expected Over Wool.
A bitter struggle Is expected in the
Senate this week over the wool tariff.
A full revision bill already has passed
the Democratic House. Several sub
stitutes have been offered In the Sen
ate. No sooner had the reciprocity bill
passed than senators began to pre
pare for the attack on the tariff. The
wool bill was made the unfinished
business and was taken up Monday
morning.
The Indications are that the substi
tute will be voted down without ef
fort to amend It, and that -subse-Quently
the La Pollette wool bill al
ready introduced in the Senate may
be adopted as an amendment to the
House free Hit bill, to be finally,
dealt with before the free list vote is
taken August 1.
Steel Pact Put In Records.
When the House steel trust com:
mlttee reBumed its Investigation
Monday, Chairman Stanley put la
the records a copy of an Ironclad
agreement by which the Steel Plate
Association of the United States was
entered Into November 9, 1900. The
agreement has been in possession of
Chairman Stanley for some time, and
a number of witnesses have been
questioned regarding it. Eleven
great steel companies entered into
the agreement and apportioned among
themselves all shipments of steel
plates.
The steel company that dared yIo- '
late the agreement laid Itself liable
to heavy penalties, and it is said that
fines of $1000 frequently were Im
posd on members of the association
when complaints were filed with the
executive committee.
May Remain In Conference. ,
It Is quite certain that a number of
Important measures will remain in
conference. The resolution for the
election of senators by direct vote
seems to be one of the measures that
cannot be agreed upon at this session.
If the campaign publicity bill passes
It will be amended to cover primaries,'
and it, too, will remain In conference.
The same fate may await the New
Mexico and Arlaona bill. The reap
portionment bill, wh'eh Increases the
number of representatives to 433,
seems to be sure te pass.
Taft's Attitude Told by Aid rich.
i
Ex-Senator Aldrlca of Rbode Island
appeared before the Lorlmer Investi
gation committee and told the story
ot the -administration's attitude to
ward the election of Senator Lorlmer.
Instead ef tending Edward Hinas, the
Ch'cago lumberman, to Springfield
with word from Washington that Lor
lmer should be elected, Mr. Aldrlek
testified that he told Hlnes that Pres
ident Taft was not supporting the can
didacy ot anyone, but that Lorlmer
was not objecuonaDie to mm.
Panama Mall Lines Fixed. '
Postmaster-General Hitchcock has
ordered the establishment of a fast
ocean mall service between the prin
cipal ports on the Atlantic and Pa
cific oceans arid Panama and Colon.
The order calls for a service which
shall begin in the autumn of 1914, so
as to be in operation when the canal
Is opened. . The contract calls for l
knot steamers to furnish a weekly
service between New York, New Or
leans and Colon and between Seattle.
Ind.San Francisco and Panama.
Attorney General, Denies Allegations.
Charges made by Delegate Wicker
sham of Alaska that the attorney-
general had "shielded Alaska crim
inals" and had allowed the statue of
limitations to run in an alleged coal
contract fraud case were branded as
falsehoods by Attorney-General Wlek-'
ershaw before the House committee
on judic'ary as an answer to the del
egate's allegations. As to the alleged
coal frauds the attorney-general said
h's department was still investigat
ing the case.
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