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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, SEPT. 29, 1911
Oregon City Courier
First Independent Paper in Oregon.
W. A. SHEWMAN, Publisher.
Published every Friday from the
Conner Building, Eighth anr,Main
streets, by the
Oregon City Courier Pub. Co.
Incorporated
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Entered In the Postoffice in Oregon City, Ore.
for transmission through the mails, as second
class matter.
M. J. BROWN, Editor.
, NO YANKEES WANTED.
The unexpected happened last week
when the Dominion of Canada served
notice on the Uinted States that no
yaukees need apply and voted down
the reciprocity treaty with a heavy
bang that was more than decisive.
It was auti-American, for high pro
tection and against expansion.
To the farmers of this conntry there
will be little disappointment in the
resale. Without the free list bill that
should have gone with it, reciprocity
with Canada held out little to them.
Bat to the great army of consumers,
the men who eat and wear but do not
produce, the defeat of this bill was a
bitter disappointment.
The defeat of this bill is no discredit
to Presidont Tafc. lie worked hard
for the ratification, sincerely believed
that it would be a great benefit to the
oountry and that he was bitterly dis
appointed none can doubt.
The narrowness of the Canadian
view in disapproving this measure
can hardly be understood. Under
their reasoning California might ns
well build a wall against Oregon and
tell her to keep out.
Canada wants nothing to do with
the yankees. Her wishes should be a
long time respected.
SAVE US FROM OUR COURTS.
The people of Oregon will be
mighty unoney nutil the United Statis
supremo couit has "passed on its
initiative and referenda in laws.
lake a bunch or judges and our
grand old constitution and it
mighty hard to tell what will bo the
result of the mix up.
The supreme court is going to do
cide whether our Oregon reform laws
are ooustitntional or not whether the
majority has a right to govern our
state.
You and I know they are couBtitu
tional We know popular government
can t be anything else bnt oonstitn
tional, but what we know and what
the supreme court judges may deoide
are entirely differeut propositions
The trusts want our reform laws
wiped off the slate, and the trusts are
asking the supreme oourt to use th
sponge.
The outcome will be watch .d with
great interest, not only iu Oregon,
but by many of the statts which have,
or which Intend to pattern from us,
A PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR.
After reading the yards of abase the
papers have handed out to W. 8.
U'Kon, and the charges of being
"political agitator," disturbar, etc,
it is a pleasing change to run onto the
following letter written to the Fort-
land Journal from Astoria:
"I notice by reading some of the
newspapers of Portland a tendency to
discredit or as I might say, belittle
the name of an Oregon man whose
name will be a memiry when buoIi
illogical sheets as the Portland Ore
gonian will be obliterated. I have
reference to the name of W. 8.
U'Reu. Speaking to you as a world
traveler, I truthfully say that for the
past four years whenever I have been
ashore, whether it be iu far away
Australia, South Africa or India, or
whether it be in nearby Scandinavia
or the British Isles, I have never
failed to hoar the name of U'ltuu of
Oregon mentioned in disunions
among the intellectuals. I cannot re
member of ever hearing the name of
tiie newspaper in question mentioned
away from those shores, so for that
reason alono I cannot refrain from
tolling the people of Oregon that it
appear, to me as futile and impotent
of results to doorv the name of yonr
most famous son, whose untiring
efforts to reform the states has givou
him go muoh honorable mention
among foreigners. Yours in jnstiee,
VINCENT A DIE MACE,
First Otllcer British Stoauier Strath
yon." It is givou out from Eugene that
Lawreiioe Harris, circuit judge, will
become a Ue'iublioau cmidulato for
United States souator against Senator
liournu. Several other men, who had
been thiukiug of entering the contest,
appear to have had another think
Judge Campbell has ruled that a
judge or justice of peace has full legal
right to accept fees for marrying in
Oregon, ou the ground that tiiey aro
not litigants. The litigation comes a
few years later, when the judges and
justices have another whack.
Confidence
J The man who keeps his money in the bank
while he has plenty creates a friend in that bank
to whom he can turn when he has little.
I Having confidence iu this bank begets its confi
dence in you, 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.
(Jit will appreciate your account.
Vv
The Bank of Oregon City
The Oldest. Bank in the Count'y
A VALUABLE "ASSET.
Under the oircamstances, 1 am
entirely opposed to an amendment
of the anti-trust law. It is now a
valuable government asset and in
strument. Tested and brought in
to practical and beneficial nse by
twenty years of litigation and
constrnction by the highest
court, why should we imperil its
usefulness by experiments? Pres
ident Taft, at Detroit.
And the suagr trust has just boosted
sugar four cents a pound; the woolen
trust has advanced prices 60 per cent
in the last eight months; the rubber
trust has raised the price of a pair of
rubbers from 50 cents to 11.10; the
Bhoe trust has added 75 cents a pair to
shoes; the meat trust has boosted beef
where poor people can only look
it; the bath tub trust has doubled
prices; ootton goods have gone
its
in the balloon business and so on, an
hundred articles oould be name
which trust organization alone has
Dut on.
We DO need amendments to the
anti-trnst law. amendments that wi
make the law effective, and we need
an attorney goueral who isn't led
around with a fast halter.
ANTICIPATING SICKNESS.
The Oregonian is hard up for argu
meats against the single tax. It con
eludes an editorial with these far-off
"ifs."
If a partial single tax should be
accepted and turn out to be such a
good thing will not Doctor U'Kou
have difficulty iu administering
more do es while the exhilaration
lasts and still greater diflioulty iu
forcing a fall treatment ou us af
tor tiie reaotion sets in?
This reaotion is so far ahead of the
doctor that the patient will refuse to
get seared. When a man is getting
well the doctor doesn't worry niuoh
about how hard it will be to gut him
to swallow medicine the next time he
is sick. The Oregonian should get
doner to its audience.
CR.OSSCUP HAS QUALIFIED.
Reports from Chicago state that the
reanon lor Judge urosscups an
nonnced intention to resign from the
supreme court bench is that he may
become a Uuited States senator.
According to the code he is particu
larly fitted he is of the Stephenson,
Lorimer. Donew. Koot, Bailey, Al
drioh bunoh. When a man is down
aud oat with the people and up and in
with the trusts and Wall Street, he is
ready for the United States senate.
Urosscuu has amply qualified, aud
big basiuoss should now seat him.
President Taft got in right with the
bovs in his St. Louis speech when he
said the law's djlay was ououostion
ablr one of the great causes of unrest
in this oountry aud that undoubtedly
the recall idea had grown out of the
fact that the courts in many instances
were not performing the lonotions
that thov should. He said that th
delay iu administering justice in this
country should bring the blush of
shame to all good Americans and that
the ooarts of this country made a very
Door Bhowing in comparison with
those of England whore tiie judges
been up with their dookets aud where
orimiuals find swift punishment
awaiting them.
From the statements given out hy
the Oregon Agricultural College there
are 88,000,000 acres of non-productive
laud in Oregon or two-thirds of this
crreat state is dead bo far as produc
tiou goes. Tins Btutemout snouiu
make the people of Oregon come alive
to the fact that BOtne remedy is need
ed. that soemthiug must be done to
induce settlement of this groat nrea of
dead land. Tliere is no state in the
Union that is so tied up with the
money of the corporations and rich
private fotunes, and if the single tax,
double tax or any other system will
break up these holdings, it should be
given a try at U.
If trnBts must exist aud it ap
pears they must they should ex
ist under strict governmental
supervision. Ultimately they
will be obliged to exist that way
nud no other. Portland Telegram.
Such a statement a dozen years ago
wonld have been a wild risk, and the
paper that published it declared a
Socialist sheet. Bnt the pinch of
uoce6sity and demand of the people
change our views. When trusts be
come bigger than our government, a
whole lot or us are socialists to tne
extent of takiug away this dangerous
power.
There is fan on in California. Oc
tober 10 is the date for deciding
whether or not women may vote, and
the situation has everybody guessing.
A few years ago this franchise to
women was defeated by the small
majority of UOOO, aud owing to many
changes iu sentiment since then, the
advocates are now claiming they win
carry the state.
If the Oregon State Press Associa
tion's "resolves ' moan anything tne
couutry papers will not be loaded
dowu with columns of free booster
stuff hereafter. The prots agent has
got to "get out or pay the rout."
SINGLE TAX NOT UTOPIAN
Can by, Ore., Sept. 25. 1011
Editor Courier: After the many
excellent articles including the stir'
ring editorial in laBt issue that have
appeared in the single tax forum, tl
Courier columns in the past few
months, it is with some diffidence
that I approach the subject. Vet, as
all of us on both Bides of the single
tax controversy may be assumed to
earnestly seeking the true solution of
the problem, it is scarcely possible,
even at the cost ot repetition, to dis
cuss the question too thoroughly
And, after all, "what is truth?
This question was asked of old aud
is not recorded that it was answered
David Starr Jordan has well said that
the only real test of truth is "will
work?" This to me is the last word
logical and sufficient. Dogmatio as
sertions, based on mere theorizing,
by either side, have "nothing to do
with the case. " And I believe slngli
taxers are in a position to "carry the
war into the enemy s country" along
the lines of the Jordan formula
view o! the faot that nearly all ou
ponents of single tax are defendants
of the general property tax. Does
this system work? Are its advocatt
entirely satisfied witii its record?
so what means the pessimistio tone of
the reports of the tax commissions
the various states? Without an ex
ception, so tar as I have found, tax
commissions or committtes appointed
to investigate have admitted that the
present system, systems, or lack
system, was not just or satisfactory
and although differing in degree
condemnation of present system and
in radicalism of remedies proposed,
they seem to agree on one point, tne
impossibility of just taxtion of money
oredits or any intangible personal
property.
lot in the fane Of this, and Of the
evidence on every hand to bear it out,
we yet hear the Parrot cry "tax
everything, tax everything."
ow, it is certainly evident tnHt
law absolutely iacapaDle of enforce
ment, which puts a premium on frand
anu perjury, is an unjust law and
cannot be denied that suon is our
present personal property ,tax. it has
been shown by others (b. D, Bobbins
in particular) how small a percent of
tne money reported to be in clrcula
tiou obh be found by the assessor and
no one has or can have the slightest
idea or the amount of credits untaxed,
It may be argued that this is due
dishonesty or incompetency of the
assessor, but our state tax commission
do not uphold this view, far they re
port that "There is muoh injustice
perpetrated In the name of taxation
but this comes far more from defects
iu the system of assessment Mian from
the weakness or incompetency of
sossing offlceis. " It is not enough
that a law may be theoretically just,
lc inuBt be expedient as well: if not it
carries within itself the germs of its
own downfall. An instance of this is
our own experience with the "exemp'
tion for indebtedness" law, which,
tneoreticaify benefiting the poor man,
opened the door to fraud and evasion
to such an extent that a prominent
business man of Oregon City has cone
down in looal history for his declara
tion that "Only poor men and d d
fools pay taxes."
it would seem after a hundred vears
of experimenting with general and
personal property taxation and its
confessed failure to accomnlisla the
objest for whioh it is presumed to
have been intended, that the oharca
of "crank" and "visionary" oomes
with rather poor erace from the
apologists for things as they are. It
wonld seem that it requires a more
visionary disposition to believe that a
system whose weakness and injustice
can bo seen in any looality, which is
admitted by the tax experts and. tax
commissionB to be, at the very least,
inadequate, which is being abandoned
in more or loss degree the world over;
to sun snout --tax everything equal
than to believe in a system whinh
holds that amount or value of natural
opportunities monopolized, either
used or held out of use, is the correot
earns oi taxation rattier than morn
ability to pay. But leaving aside the
ecouomio argument or "reserving it
tor a tuture article I submit the
proposition to the autis that the single
lax has stood the test of truth which
the old system has not, and that as
prophets the opposition have failed to
makikgood. Direful have been the
woes that were to result from even a
partial application of the single tax,
uut after several years' experience of
una sysibiu in various pa in
Canada, Australia and New Zealand
and a modified form in tuauv other
laces, single taxers can take the as-
gressive and defy the opposition to
point on one instance where a test of
single tax theory, wholly 0i in part
iias uueu auenaeo cy the train or evil
results foretold. After the visit to
Portland of Mr. Pels last Bnrine. the
Oregonian was kept busy for some
me trying to explain that the Dhe-
uomenal prosperity of Vanoouvei , B.
was not due to sinale tax. Sud-
pose we admit that for the Bake of
argument and agree that Pels was
ovre-enthuBiastio, we still have all
the best of the argument, for it
proves that single tax is not the with
ering blight they would have us be-
jve. Until some at least of the
towns and provinces in various parts
t the world, which have gone all or
part of the way toward single tax.
turn about faoe and retrace their Bteps
toward the old system, it wonld be
ell for the antis to fight shy of the
prophet role.
So 1 feel that we are safe in assert
ing that whenever given a trial the
ugle tax, measured by the working
test of truth, has made good. I hope
in a luture letter to take up a point
barely touched by Mr. Robbing and to
how why Socialists, instead of oppos
ing, should be and are supporters of
the local single tax programme.
GEO. OGLE.
That people bo long maintained the
present system of taxation is likely to
be astonishing to future genera
tions. Oregon Journal.
The Pilot Rock Kecord thinks farms
would not increase in value unless
there was a demand for their pro
ducts. Tax the idle and speculative
larm lauds as much as the used, or
the used at the same rate aa the idle
lauds of equal fertility and situation,
ana Bee wnat tne enect would be on
prioes. Woodburn Independent.
x nere is a roar oi protest going up
an over tne state against the proposed
good roads special session of the legis
lature, and the probabilities are that
the governor has his ear to the ground
aud will heed the noise.
O. K. Spenco of this county, master
of the Btate Gringo, is out and out
against l lie special session He says
the way to have popular roads legisla
tion iu Oregon is to pat the laws be
fore the people through the initiative,
and when we look back to the last
legislature and its want of results, we
are bound to believe the people can
skin the legislature.
STANDING IN WITH CRIME.
George W. Perkins, main squeeze
In the harvester trust, and with the
reputation of having been a partner
with J. P. Morgan, has been having a
little heart to heart talk with the
trusts' handy man, and our Attorney
General, Wickersham.
You see the harvester trust lias up
wards of $120,000,1)00, made up of
water pretty much of one part and
dollars pretty much of the other part
dollars it has squeezed out of the
American farmer.
This combination has been a soft
one and the dividends easy picking,
in plainer words it has been a punk
proposition easy money.
Now George doesn't want to let this
graft get away from him, just because
there is a Sherman law dangling on
a rubber cord, and a little "matter of
an American protest against the
loot.
So George goes right to the man
who la elected and hired to put such
combinations as the harvester trust
out of business, and he has a nice
little official chat with him.
And Wickersham. this great advo
cate of the people, this man who ad
vised president Taft to "permit Dr
Wiley to resign," explained to George
just what a "lawful" trust was in the
latest meaning of the supreme court,
and- just how distantly related it was
to the Sherman law.
And this attorney general, who
is
so handy with his "permits" will per
mit the harvester trust to "re-organ
ize, as has the Standard Oil Com
pany, the only difference being that
Perkins skinned Rockefeller a half
mile, hi diplomacy, as the harvester
bunch will do it before action is com
menced.
And what are you beginning to
think of this "dissolving" of great
trusts, anyhow?
A dozen men from a stock company
aud control a product that is a. trust
in restraint of trade.
A court verdict tells them to "dis
solve" and carry on the corner on the
quiet that is a "lawful trust,
Just different ways of skinning the
same cat.
WHY ARE THEY AFRAID?
So far as Secretary of State Olcott
is concerned, the two appropriation
bills of the University of Oregon will
go on the ballots next year, and be
voted on by the voters of Oregon, the
Secretary holding they are valid.
These appropriations carry over a
half million, of dollars of the state's
money money that would really be
taken from the pockets of the taxpay
ers without their asking or without
their consent.
The Courier editor believes in edu
cation, believes In better schools and
more of them, but at the same time
he believes the men who will have
to pay for them should have a voice
In how far it is wise to go.
And why this mighty effort against
letting the voters of Oregon pass on
this half million appropriation?
Are they afraid the people will turn
It down? And If so, why?
The- voters of Oregon should al
ways have a vote on a proposition
that carries with it such a great sum,
and the state legislature should have
no right to plug through such an ap
propriation without submitting it to
them.
Oregon is taxed to the limit now,
the state treasury is as dry as a lime
kiln, and Salem gives out the pleasing
news that taxes will break aeroplane
records next year.
under these conditions it is up to
the men who will have to do the pay-
ng to have a little stick in the game.
And the Courier believes the referen
dum IS just the handy thing at this
time.
Let majority decide, rather than a
few dozen men at Salem.
A LOSING GAME.
The federal grand jury has found
two criminal indictments against the
United Shoe Machinery Co., of Bos
ton. Now mark the prediction of this
paper: The case will drag along
weeks, months and probably years
before it will be brought to trial. The
highest penalty is a $5000 fine or a
ear s imprisonment. Should they be
fouhd guilty they will pay the fine
and then make the shoe wearers re
fund it. as the sugar trust has done.
Our great country has done a lot
of prosecuting and convicting in the
past five years, but WHAT has it
amounted to?
It hasn't put a trust out of business
or a trust in jail and It has cost far
more than the fines imposed to get
them.
We are busting trusts backwards.
The bureau of mines at Washing
ton has for a number of years been
experimenting with lignite, coal with
the view of manufacturing gas for the
purpose of generating electricity. The
tests recently made warrantP rofes
sor Feranold In announcing that the
saving to the country annually in the
cost of fuel will amount to between
one and two hundred million dollars.
The new device consumes all smoke
which menus an immense saving to
all the large cities of the country.
It has been estimated that there are
eight hundred billion tons of lignite
coal In several of the western and
southwestern states and if the new
device proves to be all that is claimed
for It the present generation need not
orry about a shortage In the supply
of fuel.
The prison problem will solve itself
Governor West stays with his "lion
roll' shine much longer. In one
eek, from September 15 to Septem
ber 22, five of his mission class broke
for where the timber is tall.
They say there is honor among
thieves, but this isn't true as a gen
eral rule, for if it was, there wouldn't
be so many men In prison, and when
the Governor thinks he can reform
them by setting them free on their
honor, he thinks about as the foolish
girl did who married the booze-holster
to reform him. And she had to get
trusted for a washboard.
An exchange gets off this rather
apt one: You never know what a
Democrat or Insurgent will do, but
you always know what a stand-patter,
a clothing store dummy or wooden
Indian will do.
President
their power
Taft
from
says senators get
the people. Since
.when?
Project's Prizes Many.
StanhVld. Sutlers on the Furn's'i
uTiganon ITolict carried ..f
if Pre-
and second pr'i s at the !t
Just clos d at Pendletcn.
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BEN W. OLCOTT
Secretary of State, who is charged
by the Republican "organization"
with the crime of heresy, with being
unorthodox to the machine, in work
ing with aud aiding the governor in
his work. The punishment for this
crime, as laid down in the Liucolu
Taft LeiiKue code, is banishment for
life. Mr. Olcott will be tried by a
jury of Oregon voters,
LET IT COME.
The Polk Ooonty (Dallas) Observer
noints out with a column and a halt
editorial for the single tax system
and closes with these observations:
"A radical reform is necessary. It
may we that the single tax movement
otters a thorough solution oi tne proo
lem. It has certainly been well re
ceived where it has been tried aud has
resulted in progress aud prosperity
unprecedented. We believe that va
cant aud undeveluied land held by
speculators should be taxed at a fifgb
or rate of interest than the holdings
of the home builder or the capitalist
who seeks to develop the community.
We believe that the man who eptab
lishes a small business, or industry,
and gives employment to others,
should not be required to contribute a
greater amount to the revenues for
sustaining government, than his
neighbor, who expends absolutely
nothing toward the betterment of the
community and, in fact, is a stum
bling block in the path of progress
In short, we believe that the man
who sacoeeds in 'making two blades
of grass grow where one grew before,'
is a bright and sliming light in our
citizenship and a penalty should not
be placed on his progress.
"This may be single tax in all its
glory, aud if such it be, let it come.
lhat s where The Observer stands,
and the prediction is made right here
and now that the time isn't far dis
taut when some such method of taxa
tion and valuation will prevail in this
country, and from its inception on
ward, the prosperity and development
of Oregon will multiply a hundred
fold.
'Therefore, The Observer hopes
that Col. U'Ren aud his Clackamas
friends will be successful in their
efforts to try the single tax."
WANTED, TAXATION REFORM.
You might as well face it, for there
is a sentiment along the whole Pacific
coat for taxation reform that Is going
to break np onr present; methods and
try new means.
Seattle is going to try the single tax
in the city, and thore is little doubt
but that it will carry.
San Francisco is strongly working
for a single tax try-out, and the
Chronicle is oat and out ' advocating
the trial.
Berkeley, Oal., commissioners
are
the
tax
working out a plan to submit
8 ngle tax proposition to voters.
Iu Los Angeles a strong siugle
platform has been formed and it
will
be igven to voters to.pnss on.
Vancouver lias a single tax law
through which all the city's revenue
is wised by land tax alone, and this
city is pointed out far and near as
proving the full success of the
method.
The whole Pacific coast wants taxa
tion reform, aud out of this senti
ment changes will surely oome.
As a means of eliminating the mid
dle men, T. O. Palmer of Chicago,
who was before the congressional com
mittee that investigated the sugar
trust, made the. statement that on the
continent, where the governments
perimt the people to have paroelB
posts, the town people are furnished
butter, eggs aud other prodncts fresh
everv day, delivered to their doors by
the parcels post.
Jcdge Grosscop now Bays he will
not resign under lire, and the publio
will now bemoan that it didn't wait
until after he had stepped down.
If it's a surface to
be painted, enameled,
stained, varnished, or
finished in any way,
there's an Acme Quality
Kind to fit the purpose.
Jones Drug Company, Inc.
We're In Business for Your Health.
3AKING POWDER
Absolutely Pure
The only Baking Powder mado
from Royal Crape Cream of Tartar
NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE
GIVE US THE GOOD OLD TIMES.
Mulino, Or., Sept! 25. 1911.
Editor Courier: Will you or some
one elso please enlighten the writer
of this and perhaps enlighten others
as well if the people of these JJnited
States are auy better off now with
the union prices for labor aud high
prices for food staffs, clothing, etc ,
than they were in years pant when
wages were low aud the price of a
living correspondingly less? Is it not
in a great measure the fault of,' the
unionist in raising prices for labor
that is causing all this to-do?
It seems to me curious, when these
labor unions begau in this country
that the tar seeing people who make
laws did uot anticipate just Buch a
state of affairs as we are now in, or
coming to.
People are not nearly so oouteuted
in this country as before these onions
were allowed to dominate. To my
way of thinking the trusts are not
much more to blame than those who
are raising wages and cutting shorter
the hours for a day's pay. If wages
can be regulated by a combine oi
men, why oannot food prices be reg
ulated also up to a certain point?
This fussing over a two-cent rail
road fare looks ridiculous in the face
of high prices allowed for sugar, for
instance. People can stay at home if
they do not like the railroad rates,
but they must have sugar.
If some foreign oountry comes to
grief in any way these blessed United
States are to the rescue immediately
with millions of coin if necessary, but
when it comes to grinding on the poor
ana cue working class in general these
same beautiful united States can do
them up proper simply by allow in a
the controllers of foodstuffs to control
the situation My sympathy is with
the-working people, those who work
for wages aud those who work but get
no pay at all, but I say do away with
unions and trusts and we will have
the peaoeful times of yore. X. X
- WANTED, NEWSPAPER. MEN.
Tne Polk County Observer ends a
strong editorial on the weak spots of
the country papers with tins obBerva
t ou :
"What the press of Oregon needs is
newspaper men. '
And the Observer has said it
There are too many weaklings in the
field, too many men who have garden
nose in the place of baok bones, too
many men who a dollar'B worth of job
worn or a tnree inch advertising con
tract will buy silence aud buy favor.
Tins office gets bundles of ex
changes from the different towns and
cities of the state, and out of them
can't find over a half dozen that
stand for anything, whose editors say
anything, whose columns dare criti
oise or comment. There are dozens of
dummies that dangle just sheets.
Yes, "the press ot Oregon needs
newspaper men," men who can and
who dare take a cue iu the game, and
who win Bring np the newspapers
from the present jokes to papers that
will be known and felt.
1
Governor Johnson, of California,
says of the amendments to be voted
on by that state that every one will
carry without a shadow of a doubt,
and adds:
"If there can be one good, sound
reason advanced against the in
itiative, referendum and the re
tall except by the man who dis
trusts the people, their intelli
gence and their ability to govern,
I would like to hear it. When
one reaches the stage where the
people are distrusted, one distrusts
democracy itself, and our very
form of government. The wor
ship of the Judicial fetish does
not appeal to me. We have out
grown the Idea that it is unpatri
otic to criticise the judiciary. I
hold that it is the duty of every
men to crticise any corrupt Judge
or any corrupt decision."
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Oholeia and Diarrhoea Remedy aud
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onre and when rec'uoed with water
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pnysioian cbh presoribe a better rem
edy. For Bale by all good druggists.
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SARAH MOORE, PATRIOT.
One of the constant needs of humans
Is the inspiring example- of noble
deeds.
And that Is why the story of Sarah
V. Moore is worth while.
Where most people see in a group of
Ituliuu workingnieu a "lot of dugoes"
Miss Moore saw iu them brothers iu
need.
About ten years ago Miss Moore, a
womuu without Inllueuce or wealth,
undertook to do something for the In
coming aliens who laud in such num
bers ut New York. She selected as the
object of her lubors the most despised
and rejected of these the Italian la
borers. Because of her persistent efforts the
Society For Italian Immigrants was
organized, which society has accom
plished a world of good.
And then
Not satisfied with this society, which
greets, and cares for the ignorant im
migrants from Italy, Miss Moore
turned her attention toward making
these aliens Into good citizens.
During the building of the New York
aqueduct, the great artificial water
way by which the city gets its water,
thousands of Italian laborers have
been employed.
These gangs live In camps such as
one sees when railroads nre being
built.
Manners aud men are in the rough.
In these crude camps Miss Moore
opened camp schools for the education
of the Italians. Repeatedly told by
the water commissioners and the con
tractors that schools would not be per- ,
mltted, Miss Moore persisted and suc
ceeded. Moreover
It is told of her that In writing the
little primer which she printed for the
use of the workmeu she learned the
words which the men needed to know
hy sitting on the bank of an excava
tion nnd listening to the orders given.
Stricken with paralysis, Miss Moore
continued to the time of her death
to Inspire the young women teachers
who were her helpers.
Hers was a patriotic mission.
If the melting pot of America is
flually to fuse Into one citizenship the
dissimilar elements that are cast into
It for the melting it must be by such
sacrificing labors as those of Sarah W.
Moore, patriot.
Aud
Although there were no great head
lines in the newspapers the day after
this heroic woman died, whose life
better deserved such notice?
AN ACT OF SIMPLE JUSTICE.
A New Zcalander was convicted of
stealing sheep.' After he had been in
prison for five years It was discovered
that he was innocent, and he was of
fered a pardon.
The convict refused the pardon.
He had not committed the crime and
therefore had done nothing which
called for clemency.
this country and everywhere, ex
cept In New Zealund, when such a dis
covery of Innocence is mado the par
don is offered, and If the prisoner ac
cepts well and good. If he does not
accept the pardon he may stay In
prison until ho serves his time.
Such is the tender mercy of civilized
states toward one whom it has wrong
fully punished.
New Zealand believes that justice
Should be meted out to all equally.
The parliament directed the supreme
court to reverse its decision an act
of justice never done by our courts
which cleared the man's name from
every tnlnt of legal guilt. And then
It voted the unfortunate man $25,
000 to compensate him for the injus
tice done him and for his time and
labor.
You see, conscience is king In New
Zealand.
Frequently in our country meu are
pardoned on account of innocence of
crime for which they have suffered
years of punishment. Lately there
have been several such cases.
Do our courts reverse their decisions?
No. Do the victims receive pay? No
a cent.
What cruelty of treatment! Think
of the indignity, the humiliation of
public trial, the long Imprisonment,
the hard labor, the bitter sense of in
justice, the suffering of relatives, the
deprivation and disgrace of families!
And the sUte thinks It does its duty
when it sets the sufferer free!
One innocent convict when offered
his freedom asked like the prisoner
of the French Bastille to be ullowed
to stay in his cell until he died. The
prison brund wns on him. He hud clv-
en his best years to the state; his lm
mediate ianuiy was (lend; he could
only go to the poorhouse.
Is It not monstrous that the state
should repay a man for years of vica
rlous suffering by merely sotting him
free?
New Zealand has given nn example
to the whole world of an act of staple
justice.
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"big, suvci wiitcniielon" to every one
who brought iu an application for
membership during the period of throo
months. Fifty watermelons wer
needed.
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it Is an evsr ready and valuable rem
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