OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY SEPT. 22, 1911, Oregon City Courier First Independent Paper in Oregon. W. A. SHEWMAN, PuhUsher. Published every Friday from the Courier Building, Eighth and Main Streets, by the Oregon City Courier Pub. Co Incorporated Telephones, Mala 51; Home, A-fil Subscription Price $1.50 per Year, ' Entered in the Postolfice in Oregon City, Ore for transmission through the mails as second class matter. M. J. BROWN, - Editor. WHAT WE'LL DO SOME DAY. The price of beef Is up to stay up. so the newspapers and market reports tell us. The range doesn't supply the cattle. We eat more than we raise, so there is nothing more to It than high prices. This is the excuse the meat pack ers, the cold storage outfits and the beef trust are giving out daily. But I saw another reason In the press dispatches the other day, a rea son that cropped out at a meeting of producers and consumers at Port Worth, Tex., a meeting of labor unions, farmers' organizations, boards of trade and the Cattleraisers Asso elation of Texas. And the president of this associa tion showed figures to prove that the cost of raising cattle this year has been the same as last year, while the packing houses took the cattle off the market this year at from $1.50 to $2.00 a hundred less than last year. And beef goes up. There Is a short age and It costs the packers more so they give it out to we saplieads. Beef goes up, pork goes up, mutton goes up, because the packers who have the supply cornered make them go up, because they have the cold storage morgues to lay it away until the people get hungry enough to pay the price. Some day we will buck these trusts with their own methods some day when we got sense enough to act when we protest. Some day the cattle raisers and meat eaters will form a trust to break a trust; they will have their own selling agencies and their own slaughter houses and their own pack ing plants. A RIGHT TO KILL. If you were ut death's door, wait ing and counting the hours of agony until merciful death stopped your clock waiting until consumption, Brlght's disease or cancer slowly ate out your vitals and a friend handed you an ounce of laudanum, and you rushed the finish with it, would you have that friend made an assistant at a suicide, made a criminal before the law? The papers have been having much to say about the Shakers at KlHsImme, Fla., arraigned on a charge of mur der, because they administered chlo roform to a woman who was in the last hours ' of consumption, because they relieved her of the horror of choking to death, and let her pass away in painless sleep. When the good book laid down that command, "Thou Shalt not WU" I don't believe there was a great white plague, nor di I believe it was sup posed to cover such cases as at Kls slmmee, Fla. I had a friend die In New York state, die after weeks and months of awful ngony, die after a cancer had at Inst eaten through and found his vitals. There "was no help on earth for this man. The great tumor spread, are away the covering of his stomach and exposed his vltnls. Day after day it consumed him until finally death gave relief. This man begged and Implored the family and nurses to end his ngony to give him some means to end life. It would have been more than hu manity to have grunted his requost It would have been mercy. This may seem a harsh means to we who have never observed Incur able disease, but there should bo a national law that would permit a phy sician to Bhorten the agony and has ten the death of a patient, when there Is no earthly help. . What do you think? President Taft used his head right. In the Dr. Wiley matter when he gave it out that tho doctor should stay on the Job. And the president could do another popular Blunt If he would now apply to Attorney General Wlckershnm the suggestion he ap plied to Wiley that ho be pormltted to resign. George H. PrlmroHe, the famous minstrel man of Primrose & West, who commenced divorce proceedings against his wife In this city some weeks ago, has had another think, So has Mrs. Primrose. They have kissed, made up, forgotten the past, and announce they will hereafter live In Oregon. And this announcement will forgive them both. Confidence -J The uian who keeps his money in the bank vyVcvhe has plenty creates a friend in that bank s-tt whffm he can turn when he has little. v. (Jjiavin confidence in this bank begets its confi :v derie it! yo'uf'and we can't, any of us, get very far on the road to success without giving and receiv . ing confidence. (J This bank has fairly earned your confidence through thirty years of square dealing and help ful service. J It will appreciate your account. The Bank of Oregon City The Oldest Bank in the Country THE GREAT UNKNOWN FIVE. Here are the names of five men, and I wish I knew how few of you could tell who they are, and what they are, without going down this ar ticle any farther: Henry C. Crosby, Thomas W. Page James B. Reynolds, William M. How ard, Alvin H. Saunders. Here's another bunch of names, and I'll bet a year's subscription against a pound of beef that every male read er above ten years can tell you who they are and what Job they're, on- Ty Cobb, Hans Wagner, Nap Lajole, Chris Matthewson, and others. Without keeping you guessing any longer, the five men above that you never heard of are the men who hold the nation's trusts in the hollows of their hands they are the men on whose say-so the president of our country laid aside deliberations and findings of a nation s congress, men whose findings will be greater than that of congress and senate the tar iff board. Didn't even know their names, did you? Didn t have anytning to ao wun giving them -these jobs or making them censors of a nation's tariff laws? You don't even know what states ihey are from, what their politics is, or anything about them. But they're some people, this big five. On their say congress Is sup posed to make laws according to or der, to tax Or untax, make or unmak trusts and to determine whether oi no the wool schedule is indefensible, and if so how much. But will congress take orders from this Big Five? We'll see next winter. THE ELEPHANT AND THE FLY. I note that the moral element of New York state has put on its fight ing togs and is raising an awful howl because a bill has slipped through the legislature permitting glove contests in limited rounds before clubs. And while this moral element was digging up statistics to show that a half dozen men had been killed in the past ten years In boxing contests, nine men were killed outright and fourteen others badly injured in an automobile racing contest at the state fair at Syracuse in two minutes If the moral people of New York would go after these death-dealing auto races, Instead of glove contests and horse races, they would get bet ter action on their endeavors. There should be a national law making voting compulsory, with a penalty of disfranchisement. A man who can vote and won t vote, should never open his face about conditions or how this country should be run. If every man who was able to vote was compelled to vote, it would do much to stop the looting of both par ties. You argue that It's a man's own business whether he votes or not, and that no one has a right to dictate? How about the compulsory education law? You may as well argue that It's a father's own business whether his child goes to school or not, but a wise law says the child shall, Just the same. When you ask your grocer for a dollar's worth of sugar you pay 25 cents as a tax to help out the sugar trust and receive 75 cents' worth of sugar. Colly! How you would howl If you had to pay that tax In a stamp bought o fthe government and pasted on your sugar! The party that framed that sort of a stamp tax would not last long enough to put another stamp tux on necessities; but there are a thousand such stamps on necessities, only we don't Bee them. Portland Uibor Press. THE HALTER METHODS. They fire put after Secretary of Stale Olcott now, and the Republicans want to hang his skin on the fence because he does not assay high enough in Republicanism, because, posing as a Republican he worked hard to bring about dovernor West's election. Rathor slim grounds to ask a man's defeat on, after thousands of Repub lican voters of the state did the very same. And haven't we a United States senator who hasn't always been lu clone communion with the Republican party, in fact bo far away from it at times that his party identity Is really In doubt. And what of It, anyway? It's the man people want these days. It does n't make any difference what his spots are so long as he knows how to run the office of secretary of state. The "organization" will have to go a llltlo deeper than party regularity to Incite voters against Mr. Olcott. Lust year we Americans paid one hundred and thirty-nine millions of dollars tax on sugar a tax against ourselves on a necessity we can't get along without, And sugar goes up, up, up. They say tho object Is to protect the few beet sugar growers, but of course It is to protect the sugar trust. But we are used to it and seem to llko it. ONE POINT OF VIEW. What the Courier editor doesn'i know about single tax would make a volume. But six months in the state and but a few months a student of the subject, he isn't trying to put over any Solomon stunts on you. But like the Irishman at the Donny- brook fair scrap, he has just simply got to get In and mix It, and if he can't scrap much he can make a world of noie. .This article isn't going to take you down moral roads, into technicalities or statistics. We already have too much of these mixed up with the is sue now too mucb ior aoout nail oi us to get an understanding of. I am going to present the strictly selfish side, the viewpoint from the fireside. And when you get right down to brass tacks, our politics, morals and religion are pretty strongly based on this fireside regardless of how much we four-flush and play hypo crite. So let us look at the claims of sin gle tax entirely from the viewpoint of the hog the hog who is willing his neighbor should have what he himself can't eat, and the rest of the hogs what the neighbor leaves. In smoother terms, the man first, his neighbor next, and then the state. Now the single tax proposition will tax only land values the unproduc tive value of acres. It will abolish taxes on notes, mortgages, mills, fac tories and personal property of all kinds. Now let us start with the farmer and then take us all down the line, Oregon Is a whale of a state In size but a minnow in population and de velopment. There's a big area of land in- sight, but only a little of it to hitch taxes onto. There's a streak down the west coast that has rich and valuable Improved land, so in or der to keep the rest or the state irom taking the bankruptcy act, everything that Is movable or immovable is taxed, and the result is that the average farmer thinks about the best show he has for his alley Is get along with the least stuff the assessors are look ing for to cut out improvements and do away with visible personal proper ty. Now single tax tells this farmer ev ery dollar of tax on improvements, on cattle, hogs, houses, barns, orchards, etc., will be abolished, and that his taxes will not be a cent more on nis farm than on the non-producing, logged-off farm of his neighbor across the road. Now It would seem from a purely selfish point of view that the farmer ought to fall for this bait and swal lo wit, hook, sinkers and line. But heres some more: If taxation in Oregon is put on its broad acres with justice if the man who has copped out a big tract and is waiting for his neighbors' Industry to make it valuable to him some sweet day if this man has to pay taxes on what his dead land Is really worth, why he's got to make It produce or he can't afford to pay those taxes. And the result? There can t.be but one. This land has simply GOT to bring in an income. So the specu lator must sell it not at what he asks for It but at what he can get for it, nd the great private and corporation holdings in Oregon will be broken up, bought up, settled up. N And what follows this? Villages, allroads, good roads, schools, church es, and a settled community, good to live in. And then again all the while keep ing In view the selfish motive: Supposing Oregon should vote for single tax, and Washington and Cali fornia kept on with their present sys tem of hold up. What would be the result? Do you recall when Oklahoma passed the bank guarantee of depos its law? Do you recall how Kansas and Texas had to get into the same bandwagon to keep its money from going over the lines to Oklahoma banks? The result would be the same here. Thousands and thousands of home- Beekers are flocking out to this coast, but how many of them does Oregon catch? There are thousands and thousands of acres of land in this state, utterly worthless so far ns production goes, yet you enn't rent it or buy It. It is held by rich men and big companies to make a clean up on some day in the future. If this land was, for sale at reason able prices, and Oregon could tell land-seekers that this state would not tax them a cent on any improvements they would make, do you think set tlers would go to Washington and California? I don't either. Now I know just what you are go ing to argue, and I am going to beat ou to it. You will say this single tax is the rich man's law, and that it will ex empt from taxation the notes and ac counts of the rich, men. And I will ask you to turn back to last week's Courier, to 0. D. Robblns' statement, that the tax levied on this line or per sonal property in Clackamas County last year was on a valuation of $104,- 000, while ONE of our banks had over $500,000 on deposit. And now about the mills and In dustries that would be let off with only a tax on ihelr power, franchise or ground values. When we go Industry-hunting what Inducements de we hand out? First, we exempt from taxation the plant, for so many years that our grandchildren will do the, collecting; then we add to It usually free water, lights, a donated site and often a cash subscription. We do this ns an investment, we are glad to, because it Is a good trade and we get labor, prosperity, develop ment, and business in exchange. Now, supposing we could advertise to the United States that Oregon would not tax any Industry a dollar if It would, locate here. Do you Imagine the eastern actories that are hunting coast locations would pass up Oregon and go to Washing ton and California, ns they are now doing? And once more a tight and selfish one: If Multnomah County should vote for single tax (and it will as surely as the voters are given the chance) and Clackamas County should not, don't you know that county would Btop every factory and farm hunter, and that we would be weary waiters for settlers and factories? Cnn't get away from this any more than Texas could from Oklahoma's bank deposit guarantee. From an aeroplane. view of this sin gle tax question it would seem that It would benefit the farmers, the country districts, the villages and the industries, because of more develop ment, more work, more demand, more people, and that the only ones whose corners the system would cut would be the men and corporations who have over half of Oregon tied up. These men would have to unhitch' and Oregon will never be much until they do unhitch, single tax or not. As stated, the writer doesn't know all about the issue. This article per haps Is a mild filirtatlon with a prom Ising blonde. Perhaps you can show that powder covers freckles and that her hair Is dyed. If you can, the writer Is ready for conversion. There's an old saying that a smart man will change his mind, and a fool won't. The writer is a progressive, he be lieves in new ideas, in new ways and means. The West is progressive -and its progression Is giving the East nightmare. And if you think the single tax idea of progression Is going to put Oregon on the blink, don't take anyone's word for the contrary, but go up to Van couver, B. C, or write up to Van couver, B. C, and absolutely know wiiat single tax has done and is doing for that city and the surrounding country. You can't get away from this liv ing, moving' demonstration. It's there. See It or find out about It. An eastern traveling man, a friend or the editor, who has this summer been in Vancouver, had this to say, last week: "I don't know whether It Is single tax, double tax or no tax that is mak ing Vancouver what It is, but any city or any country had better find out and use the same prescription. It's the goods up there." Better look it over, and think it over before you thoroughly make up your mind on the question of single tax. FOOD RIOTS NEXT. Sugar has jumped four cents per pound In as many weeks, and there is no reason for it than that the Ar buckles and the sugar refiners have cornered sugar. If the convicted sugar thieves had been sent to prison two years ago, we would not now be paying their fines, nor would sugar be cornered. And sugar Is but one of the many necessities that is going up. And they will continue to go up, so long as a government holds open oppor tunities to make millions on a "cor ner," they will continue to go up un til there will be food riots In this country. And when the people break loose here there will be something doing. They won't always stand for this downright robbery by the truBts. The New York World says Presi dent aTft will be under suspicion un til some of the trust magnates of this country are imprisoned after convic tion. USING A SUPREME "PULL." Here follows a press dispatch that I want the opposers of the recall of judges to think over a few, and let the significance sink In: New York, Sept. 1C Railroads here today are uniting to urge the United States supreme court to uphold the decision of Federal Judge Sanborn nulllfing the Min nesota Btate 2-cent fare law. The above dispatch doesn't state much until you get to thinking it over and then it states a lot. Railroads uniting to urge the Unit ed States supreme court to decide against Minnesota's state laws. Railroads going after the greatest court In our nation in the same way a lot of ward heelers would go after a mayor. Railroads going after the founda tions of our government In the same way the patronage-hunters and favor pleaders go after a congressman. Urging our greatest court, by the show of strength to stand by a lower judge's decslon and upset a state's legislative act, And I tell you when a country's railroads bunch up and tell a supreme court what they want, the people of a country want to bunch tin and have a recall handy. I am not criticising the supreme court for this action of the railroads, nor am I defending a two-cent rate in Minnesota, On the other hand I do not believe a two-cent fare, a com pulsory rate that makes the little cross roads compete with the trunk line, is justice. But I am kicking on a condition in this country that make8 the railroads see a chance to make a demonstration influence on supreme court decision. If we had the recall of supreme court Judges you wouldn't see such press items as above. WHO'LL CARRY OEECON? Senator Chamberlain says Wilson Is going to cop out the Democratic nomination, and that he will have three-fourths of the votes of Oregon when election comes. Senator Chamberlain is a Democrat and of course we want to add a pinch of salt to his prediction. Harmon has yet 4,0 be figured on in the race, and he is a man who is a hard fight er. Then there comes the stand-pat element in the party, the Democrats who would much rather see Taft elect ed than a progressive Democrat. Mr. Wilson isn't nominated yet, altho he Is running in pole position,' As to Mr, Chamberlain's statement that Wilson would get three-fourths of Oregon's vote, we might as well look at conditions as they are In this state and acknowledge he is some guesser, There is no getting away from the fact that President Taft has made a bad hit in progressive Oregon with his tariff acts and opposition to the recall. He is In Bad out here where the demand is for the free list to go with reciprocity, for the recall to go with the elected judges. His position smells too much of trust plug ging and campaign contributions to make him a vote getter. It Is a long time between now ana election, time for changes in senti ment, and time to make or break presidential candidates. But If the elections were this fall, it would take more sand than Lloyd's to bet even money on Taft You may be jumping sideways to keep out of sight of your grocer who you owe $10 and can't pay, but you are a w hole lot better off than Copper King Costello, of Los Angeles, who was buried Sunday. Costello had $5,000,000, a .32 revolver and no health. He would gladly have glyen you four millions for your health, but money can't buy that So he put the gun to his head and left the fortune for the children to spend, Do you fall over the moral? Wanted to rent, a farm of Mbout 40 acres'uear Oregon Oity. Ask at the Conner offioe. WILL BEAR WATCHING. Whether or not the people of Ore gon want a special session of the legislature for good roads legislation depends. It is given out that the governor will call an extra session , under cei tain conditions, that not one of the vetoed bills or former bills of the legislature shall be resurrected at considered, that every member of the legislature shall pay his own expen ses, and that the session shall not cost the state one cent Good for the governor. This Is the kind of a program Clackamas County property owners want, but The expense of good roads legis lation Isn't entirely In the railroad fare and hotel bills of the legislators. A special session may be pulled off at Salem that will not cost a tax payer of Oregon one copper penny,' yet It may be the most expensive legislation that was ever saddled on to a state. It Isn't the details the taxpayers should keep their eyes on. It's the main show they want to watcn. While they are watching to see that some senator or assemblyman does not put a meal ticket over on them, some of them may saddle (enough expensive roadbullding, political fat jobs on the state to more than offset the cost of fitting out a war vessle with grub for a year's cruise. What the taxpayers of Oregon are interested in is not so much whether a senator gets his car fare paid to Salem, but how much of a political road machine is going to be organ ized, and how much of the money is going into good state roads and how much into good state jobs. The bills as framed up at Portland last week start out with a $5000 sal ary and an appropriation out of the state treasury $50,000 to pay salaries. this is a dead wrong way to make Oregonians think special good roads legislation is necessary. Under our present laws this great sum would not have to be paid out in yearly salaries, and this sum put Into county after county every year would do SOME road building. If legislators want to represent their voters they want to go down to Salem and keep their hand on the lid, and not plug through any old fixed-up bill, made In Portland last week ,and ready to be passed off as state deliberation. The Woodburn Tribune has it fig ured out that President Taft's train will go through that place at five o'clock in the morning of October 12, and suggests that the commercial club make arrangements for a reception and an automobile trip. There is just a sugestion of a doubt that the presi dent s party might not fall for this early morning doings and that the en gineer might not hold the train for them to look over the city. But there's a heap of fun in anticipation. The resignation' of Judge Peter S. Grosscup, of Chicago, from the Unit ed Slates supreme court, won't be a matter for the people to go into mourning over. This friend to the corporations would long ago have been pulled down if the people had had the recall. This Is the man whq set aside the Standard Oil fine of $29,000,000 on the ground that the Standard had been found more guilty on trial than on indictment. The recall will never make a man honest, any more than the pen itentiary prevents crime, or the hangman's noose a murder. A man must be honest and straight forward by nature. You can't leg islate honesty into his heart. Dallas Observer. But if by chance a rascal should get into public office (such instances have been known) would you let him die on the job on the theory that the recall couldn't change him? Or would you recall him and try to get another man, as you do in the Observer .or fice? Tf vnn Iiava a now. home. ' WAcron or hnmli nf Imv nr in fftiifc aiit old thinff you don't want, that you believe some one else wonld like, it will pay yon to say bo id a low wurua iu me uuui ier's want columns They bring re salts If it's a surface to be painted, enameled, stained, varnished or fin ished in any way, there's an Acme Quality Kind to fit the purpose. FOR. SALE BY JONES DRUG CO (INCORPORATED) We're in business for your health. ;aeung Absolutely Pure The only Baking Powder made from Royal G rape Cream of Tartar ' NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE THEORY PRACTICE "We can get along without com petition; we can get along with out monopoly, and the business men of this country must square themselves with that necessity. Either that or we must proceed to state socialism and invest the government with power to run every business." President Taft, at Detroit Monday. " Yes, we CAN get along without competition, and we are, so far as big business is concerned. And we CAN get along without monopoly, but how? - Telling business men that they must realize conditions or that So cialism and government ownership will follow, won't turn the trick. You can't scare the trusts into hon esty. Fining the sugar trusts thous ands of dollars and letting them take it back , through public assessments, won't prevent their cornering the market. There are two ways to stop the trust plundering. Put the big thieves in jail for combining in restraint of trade. That will do It fast enough. Or hand over the necessities to the government to control. Either remedy will do It and one of them will certainly be applied be fore long. THE 68 CENT LEAK. Mrs. George T. Carley, writing from Oregon City to the Portland Journal about unprofitable farming in Clack amas county, makes the statement that from G2 to 68 cents out of ev ery dollar paid by the consumer of food stuffs in cities goes to the mid dle man and transportation. What do you farmers think of the rake-off? The Courier has had something to say along this line before, and we expect to stay with it until we can get the farmers of this country to come out of it, and take action to change places with the middleman and get at least 02 cents of their dollar's worth. There's an awful difference be tween farm prices and Portland re tall prices. Fruits often rot under the farmers' trees while the retail price Is soaring in the cities. With the commission men out of the deal, and the farmers selling di rect to Portland, consumers would get stuff cheaper and farmers would get higher prices a combination that would make a few produce dealers sorry and a lot of farmers and con sumers happy. The Portland News Tuesday said that last week five tons of string beans, several tons of melons and two tons of fish were burned by deal- ers to keep the 'price up to eaters in Portland, and get the big rake-off. It's" the same methods as the sug ar trust employ only that the trust hides out Instead of destroying. If -farmers Yf Clackamas county would organize, cut out the middle man, and sell direct, they would bene fit themselves and the eaters. And If Portland would open its city to the farmers for an open free market the News could not publish such Items as above. Itching, bleeding, protruding or blind piles yield to Doan'a Ointment. Chronio cases soon relieved, finally oared. Drageists all Bell it. Fall ia Fire Insurance You insure your home against fire. Why not insure it against decay caused by sunshine, rain, snow and sleet? They destroy as certainly as fire, unless the surface is protected with good paint. . ACME QUALITY HOUSE PAINT v gives the greatest durability and beauty, and best resists rain and shine. i It costs less because it takes less and lasts longer. Let us show you the latest fashionable color combinations. 14 powder You fellows who have It figured out that the only way to beat the high prices is to die and quit the game, will have to figure again. News dis patches from the Monument Dealers' Association in Cincinnati tell us that prices on tombstones will advance. Senator LaFollette wants the gov ernment to control Alaska, to own and operate Its railroads, and he says he will work hard to bring out such a law next winter. But there are big ger men who don't want this. Yet Follette will have to fight all the big Interests and the Oregonlan before the government will mine much of Alaska's coal. NEWS OF OREGON. Little Items that Tell the News of a Big State. Work on the construction of the Dullas armory, for Company H. Fourth infantry, O. N. O., has been commenced. Spraying for fruit pests will be done In Lake county the coming year for the first time. Some of the trees that were brought in from the ou'.sida nurseries are the reason. When the clouds clear away It will be found that damage to prunes and hops In Marlon County has been In significant, according to the leading growers of these two staple Marlon County products. Charles O'Malley, superintendent oi government fish hatcheries, Is In Klamath Falls to look over the sta tion there with a view to recommend- Ilig lilt;, e&uiuu&umeui ui a uq &v. eminent hatchery. The record peaches for the Hood River Valley were raised by B. E. Heifer, whose ranch Is on the west Bide of the Belmont district. Four of the peaches, Elbertas, weighed each more than a pound. With the completion of the Central Oregon railroads In sight and the ap proach of the fall colonist rates on the transcontinental lines, develop ment again seems to be In the air In the Interior portion of the state. Railroad chiefs and development experts who will congregate next month at Burns, Harney county, say that the convention of the Oregon De velopment League, to be held there October 2-3, Is to be the most Import ant development congress held In Ore gon history. The Oregon Agricultural College is to be represented on the committee on awards for the big international barley and hop exhibits at Chicago. October 12 to 22, connected with the American Exposition -of brewing ma chinery, materials and products, by Professor H. V. Tartar, of the chem istry department. Rad the Cocrir vfBt adp, jo may find there for ne jttt what yo are looking-for. among Like