CITY COURI 29th YAR. OREGON- CITY, OREGON. FRIDAY, SEPT. 29, 1911. No. OREGON GIVING US THE TH1RDDEGREE. Squeezing Until we Swear we Like the Pressure. MAKING LEMONADE OUT OF US A Little Sermon and a Big Pre diction on Today's Big Game. It seems go strange that the trusts and Red Kovers can't see that they ore lighting the dynamite fus, wheo they continually advance prices of necessities. If these big combinations would only be satisfied with the hog's share, and give the people a little show at the feed, there wouldn't be this un rest in the oountry. y It isn't the faotthat the trusts con trol necessities that the ooinmon herd is kicking, bnt the faot that they are using t1 e control to pinch to force tribute. And if conditions don't 'change to relieve the people before - ' long, yon will see some hot times in this bunch of states ; CJl This isn't a case of oroaks or die-, torted vision, bnt it is a prrfdiction that" any eaun man will make" after looking today's conditions in the face. Go into vour meat market and bny a pound of boiled ham aud you will ' pay 85 cents for it. . Two cents an ounce, and yon look ' at this wad of meat yon conld hide in one paw and wonder if you haven't made a mistake and gotten into a drag store. ' , ' Dried beef sets you baotc 40 cents for 16 ounces and "sugar cared" bacon 25 oents a pound. He tries the grooery store for a substitute for meat and duds that 13 hen's eggs oost him HO cents 3 cents apiece. So he outs oat both eggs nnd meat and hat nerve enough to ask the prioes of potatoes aud bread. The former is selling at $1 60, going up each day, and flour at $1.40, racing with potatoes to see which can go the higher. Lard to mix with the bread costs 16 oents per pound. If he wants a bite of cheese he lays . down 20 oents per pound. . If he has sand enough to ask the price of sugar it is eight cents per pound. (Tliis was written Tuesday, it may be at 10 oents now. ) Almost every necessity, almost every article that the workingman HAS to have, either to eat or wear, has just about doubled in prioe in three years. All woolens have taken' a jump of about 60 pr oeut. Shoes were never so high and every pair costs yon more. ' Clothing, cotton goods,, and ail wearing material are going up. And the common folk, those whose roads through life lay between the WE GIVE SERVICE Tea and Toast There's something quaint about the mere sug gestion; there are traditions behind it that hark back to a less strenuous age; to an age when the " dear old ladies meet at the weekly sewing circle to coin nice ripe gossip, and sip tea and eat Toast. As a universal insitution the sewing circle is now a memory, but "Tea and Toast" is more pop-" ular than ever. ' This popularity is largely due to the invention . of the Electric Radiant Toaster. This attractive ' ' little device makes Toast scientifically, for its radi s . ant heat forces the absolutely necessary chemical change in the bread. This means Perfect Toast in any degree that suits your individual taste. And it will surprise you to know that the net cost is , the merest fraction of a centper slice. Also that ' . it makes Toast faster than the average family can . eat it. . Entirely aside from these vital features-utility, speed and economy-there is a genuine charm in . operating the Electric Radiant "Toaster. The soothing glow of the coils, on a neat porcelain base creates a snug and cheerful atmosphere. The Electric Radiant Toaster is a unique orna ment wherever it is used-on the finest polished table, or on the finest damask table cloth. Portland Railway, Ligfit & Powet Company MAIN OFFICE SEVENTH ALDER. WE GIVE SERVICE WE GIVE SERVICE factory and the home, and whose ex istence is moulded into and becomes a part of the weekly pay check, are re belling at a oondition which clips at one end and makes no restitution at the other. , The man with a family can't see a war to break even, when steadily in creasing prices out the pay check in two. Years of prosperity., yeais of pretty good, wages aud fairly cheap products have educated the laboring classes up to a standard of living that lias in oluded comforts and some luxuries. He is a white man, has the white man's Bpirit and wants, and it is pretty hard for him to knuckle. He can't see any reason in the world why the cold storage, meat, shoe, sugar and other trusts should rob him. When you tell him the oountrr does not produce enough beef for meat and enough hides for shoes, he asks you why you dou't take the tariff off and let them in. -- When you tell him the pri.e of flour is caused by wheat shortage and Chicago gambling, he tells you to let in Canadian wheat. He wants the tariff lowered to re lieve the oonsumer, not raised to pro tect trusts. He knows that every time ttie sugar trust boosts its prioe one cent a pound it means seventy million dollars a year more profit to the sugar -trust, and he knows they have no right to make him pay this. Aud I want to till you that if these combinations continue to boost prices that before long you will see strikes and labor troubles that will make the lata Debs rebellion look like a peace conference in comparison. ' The whole trouble is here that consumers know there is no necessity, riglit or justioe in the raise of prices oiwhe most of the hundreds of arti cles. . . , Demand regulates the prices when pioducts are not cornered. Did yon ever before know of a - con dition of hard times when prices didn't go DOWN ?.J Aud now, in the face of short time, little work aud men being laid off in all the big railroad- shops prices ol everything go UP. Tin people know it is the squeeze play and they are pretty indignant that the combinations will take ad vantage of their helplessness to tight. And they are ominously defiant ofj the government which flagrantly dis-! regards their condition and their ap peals for aid. And men in this mood are hard to handle. They are open for any pos sible change that gives promise of re lief, aud their, uncertainty, and their olamor keeps a country and its busi ness in a state of uncertainty that is dangerous. And the big thieves, the trusts who are so hoggish they don't know when the Bwill is exhausted, these fools ooutinue to put the screws on. . ' ., Mrs. Rev. Stoever aud children will arrive in Oregou City this evening, and Rev. Stoever will be here a week later. Get your butter wrappers -at tne Courier office and put your goods out in shape. , WE A RAILROAD IDE 6 No Eastern Capital Nec essary This Time. MADE OF SAND AND WORK, Stock Jumps to Par and Bonds are Selling Fast. A few months ago, whon Oregon City people started out to build a standard railroad to Molalla, the mourners shook their heads and said it couldn't be done. It IIaS been dou, and not one of those mourners can buy a share of stock unlvss he lays down one hundred dollars for it. Anything o. n be done that business warrants, when the right men get alter it and who will stay with it un til it IS done. v - On Monday ereuing, all stock of the Clackamas Southern Kail way Company was raised from f50 to 'fl00 per share. This aotion was tuken by the board ot directors for the reason that they had received subsoriptions to the capital stock in a sum approxi mately 80,OOO. The compauy now has at its oouiniand a sufficient amount of money to build the entire grade from Oregou Oity to Moalla, together with all of the bridges, aud as a result the stock is far more valu able than it was when the work first? started in the mouth of March of this year. There are about 140 men working on the grade. and getting out timbers and ties preparatory to the building of the necessary trestles aud laying the tracks The direotors will now center their energies toward the sell ing of their hrst mortgage six per cent bonds for the purchase of ties, steel aud equipment, and they do not expect that to be a very difficult task for the reason that some of the most conservative men in the county have expressed their desire to get some of the DondB, for the reason that they know their money will be absolutely safe aud that the interest will be paid promptly -semi-annually. The directors of the Olackaums Southern Railway Company were greatly handicapped in the beginning of their work for the reason' that most people were educated up to the idea that it required eastern money to build a railroad, and but very few ever stopped to think that the men engaged in the largest railway enter prises oouid not build a mile of rail way themselves but have to depend solely upon employees skilled in that particular line of work, and on bor rowed capital, and the heads of all railroad corporations simply look to the flunnoial end of the enterprise and depend solely upon skilled employees for the actual work. The officers of the Clackamas Southern Railway Company are pursuing that identical GIVE SERVICE course aud it will be conceded by all that the officers of the company are shrewd business men and look princi pally toward the financial end of the work and depend upon their chief . en gineer for the actual ' construction woik. The Clackamas Southern made a wise seleotion . in procuring the ser vices of J. L. Stacer as its chief en gineer on account of his long experi ence in railroad work for the Hill sys tem, and it is conoeaea that the Hill people always execute their work in a most scientific and substantial man ner. The bonds issued by the Clackamas Southern Railway Company have better security back of them than any railroad bonds ever issued in the state, for the reason that tiie issue is confined to such a low sum per mile. and the country traversed by the line is thickly populated and has a won derful tonnage awaiting the. comple tiou of the road, together with rich productive agricultural districts trib utary which guarantee perpetual feed era for the line. The day of uneasiness and worry for the success of the undertaking is over. The work is all done but finishing. and the finishing is dead easy when there is plenty of money in Bight. IS THIS WORTH WHILE Isn't it Greater than Susan B, Anthony or Carrie Nation? An out-of-tte-state subscriber sends a postal card to the Courier with this. "Enjoyed much of 'What's Your Bone Box For,' but would like an ar ticle on how a woman can get out of the box stall to the pasture, while cooking three meals a day and taking care of the children." All men can't be Roosevelts or Mor gans, nor all women Susan B. An thonys or Harriet Beecher StoweB. But all men CAN use their brains to raise themselves and their boys above hod-carriers, and aU mothers can use .their brains to make them sulves and their girls more than petty, narrot-like, small-talk, society noth inns. I watched four little girls playing "society" one day aping thir mothers' ways and it made one feel sorry for the little misses and ashamed of their mothers. Gathering up her dress as she had seen her mother do, one little girl shook hands with h"r hostess and aid "Have had suoh a SPLENDID time, Mrs. , and your refresh ments were SO nice. " This mite of a girl was posing as she had seen her mother pose, and using the conventional smart talk .of her mother's set. And what , a start for this litlfe lady, what a "pitifully narrow road for her to start life in. . There was a chance for the mother.' Not a ohanoe to become a Joan of Arc, perhaps1; but a chance to make that little girl realize that there was something more in life than being a parrot, a chance to start her on higher ambitions, aud the satisfaction in af ter life of having made and moulded a tfue woman, a woman who could think, who could talk, and whom all would respect. '. And the mother who does this is greater than any Belva Look wood or Carrie Nation. The mother wiio does this doesn't have the later remorse over the girl who has gone wrong. Today the mother eduoates the girl to be "cute," to store op society shop talk, to rraotioe faoial expressions and be a sillv, light-hearted, cackling non entity. - , And here's where the mother can get out of the box stall. She can de velop brains, Bhe can make that hand some girl's head expand, bring her up to higher standard than compliments and society talk and do more for womanhood than Queen Elizabeth ever did, PLACES WE DONT KNOW. Series of Letters of the Odd Spots of our Country.! For several weeks there has been In the display windows of the Courier office relics from the Puye oliff dwellers' ruiim of New Mexico, and the hundreds of people who have stopped to look at them proves the interest we have In a life and civiliza tion that has disappeared off the face of the earth. Next week the Courier will start a series of letters of the out-of-the-way spots of our country, of the places aud people way back from the markets of men, of the cliff dwellers, the self scourgers, the stone river of Zuni, the Texas rangers, the pueblos ot Zumi, Aoouio and Laguwa, cowboy life, stories of OH Mex'co, etc These articles were written bv the Courier editor a year ago for a syndi cate of eastern newspapers. They are not highly scientific, but written as the writer saw them, as they are, and we believe they will be interesting to the people of this country who know so much of foreign countries, and so little of home. Big Sale of Stock. On Tuesday, Oct., 3, at the farm of O. E. Spence, 1 miles south of Ore gon City and 6 miles east of Oanby, on Molalla road, beginning at 10 a. m., the following described live stock will be soli: Three registered bulls A. J. O. 0, Two " heifers ' Seven high grade caws. Seven " " heifers. (Ten fresh this fall) One 6-year-old sorrel driving horse One 4-year-old sorrel driving mare (single or double. ) One 1-year -old black driving mare. ALFRED A. 8PANGLER, Owner. M. H. I10STETLER, Auctioneer. . If yon have a cow, horse, wagon or bunch of hay, or In fact any old thins you don't want, that you believe some one else would like, it will pay you to say so in a few words in the Cour ier's want columns They bring r-alts. MAKING GOOD 15 JOT LUCK. It is Taking a Chance and Getting Away With It. ONLY THE. FAILURES USE IT, God Helps the Man who Helps .Himself not the Piker. It was his luck, they glibly said When things began to come his way; And stubbornly he pushed ahead While they stood 'round from day to day And said that - with his luck they knew That they could be successful, too. What's luck, anyhow? Opportunity, one fellojw wljl tell you a chance coming to you that missed the other fellow. If it had hit the other fellow,he would have gotten away with it and made good, but it was his luck to miss it, and your luck to catch Jjt. I want to tip you off that this luck business Is pretty much a hoodoo bunk, and that the Individual frames up the most of what comes to him. You can wait for good luck to camp on your trail until you are a petri fied stiff, or you can throw out your feet, hunt up opportunity and make it. The man who gets along up around 45 years and has nothing to show for it but the fact that he's living, won't find much "hard luck" sympathy around the Courier office, unless he has had a lot of sickness or pretty straight misfortune story to balance his failure. To be sure all men cannot be suc cesses, in nfe way this age defines success. Every fellow 'can't get his picture In the Sunday Oregonlan, and hadev people look at him as some onion. But this story Is only hitting the man :who is bemoaning the fel-' low who thinks the world Is not giv ing him an even break, and who is protesting the race. Many a man is satisfied ,wlth him self and this little old world who never came anywhere near making a success . of anything in the way , we measure success but to himself and to his family he is all he ever hotfed to be and is as happy and con tented as a hog in an alfalfa patch. But there is no . one along the line who has any right to tell him to change his compass or which page to study. This man lives as best satis fies his own particular self and he's his own meter. He has little ambi tion, is easily satisfied and Is prob ably the most contented man on earth. But the man this article Is prod ding is he .who has passed middle life, has had good health, little misfortune has never got away with anything, and who goes around looking as if he had a mortgage coming due. When this fellow points out the men who have "hit it lucky," and sets up the long moan because he never caught on well, he's in Dutch with me, and I have no ear fpr his sad talk. The fellow who plays In "good luck" is invariably the wrestler who clinches with opportunity and works around for a toe hold or strangle lock. Outsiders know little of the in side work that gives him this hold they call It a "lucky strike." They see the result only and they ell "luck." All they can see Is a string of horseshoes, But this man may have played long and carefully for . the holds that brought this luck. He may have been tripped, side-rolled, pinned to the mat and yet come up and stayed with it time and again before he maae nis luck. I have an acquaintance who sold his oil Interests in Oklahoma for two million dollars last winter, and I have heard enough horseshoe "luck" stor ies told about him to bury bim as deep as his oil gusher. Why they had it that a hunch told him to go down there and drill and he simply had to he had to hit oil In self defense. They say "luck" would fall on this man and kill him li ne didn't' dodge it. But there was no luck to It. He used his head and took a chance that's all there is of it. He figured that the operators who were only get ting dry holes- down there weren't Koine deen enough, or making test enough. He went after it with a cir cle test, punched down a lot of dry holes, and finally hit it. Outside people never Knew tne long chances this man took or how near he came to going prone neiore he Droved his theory. They only knew that he sold out for two million dollars, out half of it In his own pock et and the stockholders got the other half. It was simply a case of "bull head luck." To be sure there Is the man who has fortune fall on him and who nev er has to make an extra wiggle to satisfy every want. If you are de termined to have luck Bhape ends, give this man credit enough to bal ance the ledger. His father made success for him. I always admire a man who has sand enough to kick in and play the game when Mr. Opportunity gives hlm,the tjp that is if he has brains to mix witn nis sana. iiuc oneu sauu is played for Judgment, and sand los es. And even then I will play the loser to get a piece of the money in the second go. I want to see the successful man who never made a string of mlsj takes. It is through these that he gets wise and finds 'Ihjck." The man who takes some chances and doesn't shy at something that looks hard Is the fellow who comes up and the fel low that the failure is telling "lucky" stories about Incorporation is Loose There la trouble ahead In Willamette ovr (be recent incorporation election, busi eleo James Downey has brought snit through Dimiok & Dimiok to have the election set aside, on the grounds mat cue incorporators of the town did not have the votes canvassed by the county court; that the court has never deolared the town incorporated; that the electors never filed the names of any persons receiving the highest numoer or votes, nor the court ever having deolared any persons elected. It these charges, or half of them. are sustained, it would be well for the people of Willamette to dig up Lord's uregon law ana get a little bit famil iar with it before they start another incorporation campaign. . AREN'T. WE DUMMIES? Why do we Let More Than One Telephone Co. Assess Us? When you get down to common sense, please explain why Oregon City needs two telephone systems, any more than it needs two postof- fices or two systems of mail delivery. Nearly every business place in this city has both phones, not because they want them both or need them both, but because they have to have them both. The city doesn't need both these systems any more than it needs two mayors, and they are simply an extra source of expense and an hourly source of annoyance. What the business men should do is to get together and agree on one 'phone and cut out the other one. They have the key to the situation. What 'phone they would agree to use the private residences would use. Ther is no doubt about this, for they would be compelled to, and it is sim ply monkeydoodle nonsense to have to use two 'phones or what one can easily cover and take care of. It's a matter of business, and one we should play business methods with. We don't owe any obligations to any telephone company on earth. We have the business and If it looks good to the telephone concerns let them bid on it, and the company that offers the best for the business should get If. We are a lot of wooden men to let two telephone companies string us, while for just half the expense and half the annoyance we could have the same service. What's the use of two systems? If there IS use, three would be better, and a half dozen' better yet. All you business men have got to do Is to simply agree to use one phone only, and you solve the prob lem and cut out a big useless expense. Why don't you? OSWEGOJROUBIES. Village and Cement Company Scrapping Over Streets. A man Moore, president of the Port land Cement Co. , of Oswego, has Governor West beaten for keeping his name before the people and in the newspapers, and the latest broke out Sunday. The oement company is building a million dollar plant at Oswego, and there has been considerable trouble over the matter ot property ana street titles, one of which resulted in fight between Moore and John and Henry Beohner some weeks ago. Sunday last the oeniuut oompany commenced the erection of fences across several of the town's streets, when a protest was started a protest that nearly ended in a riot, and in which about 200 citizens took a part. Moore had 100 men on the job, dig ging pest holea and stringing fence across the streets. The citizens at hrst attempted to stop the work by force, but cooler heads prevailed, and a petition of protest was brought to Judge Beatie here, asking the ocurt s protection and that tlie fences be re moved. ' It is stated that Mr. Moore holds that the streets were never legally dedicated as publio streets, aud that he ie within his rights in fenoing, while the petitioners olaim they have been in publio use for fifty years and are therefore publio thoroughfares. Judge Beatie gave a hearing before the oounty court Tuesday morning, in which lie sustained the petitioners and issued an order for the removal of tin fences, aud ordered Koad Sup ervisor Davidson to remove them There was ourreut talk that the oenient oompany would oppose the oonrt order, and Sheriff Macs and deputies Miles, Eddy and Long went to Oswego to see that the order was carried out without interference, but no opposition was ottered, exoupting protests by the company. The outcome will no doubt be an appeal to the courts and long-drawn-out litigation over the disputed prop erty. Splendid Nerve. Three is hardly week someone does Aran lila irrluDDnAaa tlitft t.llA UU. U.OH, 111. - -" - -" Courier office, ask us to give them tne aevii, noi no menuuu n vuiu , and then when the paper is out he borrows a Courier to Bee if we roasted 'em. Bat it takos all kinds of nerve and all kinds of people lo make no vari ety. with the ohanoes of the whole ness being thrown out and the tion declared void. We want you to know us as The Nyal Store Because we are sole agent3 for the famous Nyal's Family Remedies We have found every Nyal Remedy absolutely re- liable and efficient. That's why we can afford to sell these remedies on the Money Back Plan We wUl cheerfully refund the price of any NYAL Remedy with which you are not entirely satisfied JONES DRUG CO. llNCORPORATJtD We're in business for your Health E OU 111 THE OPEN. Open River Men Want to Know who to Fight. FARMER SAYS SMOKE 'EM OUT That an Open River to State is Greater than Personal Ends. So far as this paper oan loam the government officials are .working ou cue matter or rigntn or way for the locks oanal, and while the opposition is aotive to atop the project, if possi ble, yet the work is beiug done under cover. From direct government authority we learn that aB soon as nrices for the rights of way are seoured, the matter will be referred to the government. and if the prices asked are reasonable. the government will deoide which of the several surveys will be used, and work will then speedily follow. In the event of exiiorbitant valuations being plaoed on the property, the matter will have to oome to apprais nient courts, delaying the work for weeks, and possibly postponing it in definitely. As the matter stands now there is no other proposition to be considered than the east side routes, ' and so far as the action of oongress is oonoerned and the authority of the secretary of war, it is a matter of east tide locks or no locks. There can be no other routes considered or propositions en tertained nutil the present authoriza tion has been annulled and the matter again taken up with the government. And suoii a course would mean a lose out on the whole proposition. This the opposerB to the locks well know. From business man in Oregon Oity, from commercial club members and citizens generally there is outspoken protest against the people and the moans that are working to stop this project. ' From a business man at Wilsonville we quote a part of a letter reoeived this week, which we believe repre sents the sentiment of the farmers of the Willauie te valley, and a letter which should be considered from a broader view than that the looks will be a good proposition for the business interests of Oregon Oity : "As a farmer, a shipper and a tax payer I, would Bay that no private in- , terests, no group of men, or any oity has a right to think the Willamette falls belongs to them and that its waters are theirs to dispose of, 'JThe Willamette fa':i belong to Or egon and every taxpayer in the state has an equal interest in fieni and the river. " As one of the taxpayers who will pay his part of the state's big appro priation for a free passageway around the falls, I indignantly protest against a few men holding np this work which would take 60 oents a ton from freight rates to the Willamette farmers, and I for one propose that the farmers above the falls, and the members of the open 'river oongres join in a movement to uncover the men and interests who are trying to prevent the oanal, show up to the people of Oregon why they are trying to stop the woik, and hold them up to the soorn of Oregon, as nieasruing a personal dollar against a state's wel fare." This suggestion is a movement that would oount more than all the pro tests the clubs or oouKresses of Oreuon could make. ' It would not be a difficult matter to find out who writcj and who has published the articles tending to stop the oanal work, and the citizens of Oregon Oity, tho Commercial Olnb and the farmers of the Willamette valley should hunt out these (tickers, know who they have to fight and make them stand in the open. And What have we Gained? At a meeting of the oity oonnoil Monday night it was deoided to drop the matter of further litigation over the removal of a shade tree in front of the Walker home on the heights, pay the coats and have the contractor go ahead with the work. This aotion should never have been commenced. It was worse than fool ish, has been expensive to the oitv, has delayed the work and has brought no end of oritioisrn against the village officials for trying to out down a shade tree that any man's common sense tells him should not be cat down. The action was too small, too petty, too much like spite work for a city's council to get down to, aud it seems strange that the oflioials oonld not have taken this action before two courts should have deoided against them. After weeks of oost, hard feelings, aud oritioism we are baok to the start And what has been gained? Vox any pain, from top to toe, from any cause, apply Dr. Thomas' Eleo -tio Oil. Pain can't stay whore it is nsed. COM IT