OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 1911
Oregon City Courier
First Independent Paper in Oregon.
W. A. SHEWMAN, Publisher.
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M. J. BROWN, - Editor.
FOOLS WTNTED.
The MoNamara trial in Los Angles
again puts it op to ns that the quahfi
cations of an impartial iurynian are
to be a fool. He must bo ill-informed,
honoe unintelligent, or lie mnst per
jure himsolf, swear to untruths, to
get on the jury and either case
makes him an unsafe man to pass
judgment on liuuiau life.
. Any man fit to git as a juror on the
MoNamara trial is a man who reads,
who forms opinions, who knows as
muoh about the cane as he can know
Any man who has followed this
oase has formed an opinion or he is a
fool and any man who hasn t formed
one is again a fool.
What our murder cases need is men
of brains, of judgment, men who are
thoroughly informed. And If such
men will swear they are onprejudioed
and will give a verdict according to
the evidenoe, It doesn't matter if thoy
nave opinions a rod long.
The qualification of a jurer today is
an oath that lie is practically ignorant
of the case to be tried, and where the
case is of such nation-wide impor
tance as the MoNamara trial, such a
juror can only be found among the il
literate, ignorant olass and a man
who isn't qualified to try butter, let
alone a murder oase.
IS MURDOCH A PROPHET?
' Victor Mardock, congressman from
Kansas, and one of our country's deep
thinkers (if he is an Insurgent) said
in Portland last week that the strong
est man in the Republican party is
Theodore Roosevelt and the strongest
man in the Democratic party is Wil
liam J. Bryan. And he 'aid Koobb
volt would get more applause in the
Republican national convention than
the nominee, and Bryan would get
more in the Democratic convention
than the nominee,
I am betting odds that Murdook has
guessed right.
If Roosevelt came to Oregon don't
you believe lie would have dared to
' talk of local issues? Don't you know
he would have opened up on the Alas
kan matter, that he would have dared
to faoe the recall, and the Oregon re
forms, and that he would never have
hid behind an arbitration apoech?
The candidate who will be elooted
president next year is either the man
who will take you off your feet with
enthusiasm, or the man who will get
you going and ooming with calm,
plain oonfidenoe.
You will either throw your hat in
the air for a man like Roosevelt, and
stampeed with the hunch to a man
who draws you, or you will Bit down,
think out things under your hair and
deolde that William J. Bryan had
things figured out about right fifteen
years ago, but that he wag fifteen
years ahead of the race.
And I don't believe t lat tne middle-of-the-road
candidate the man
who tries to stand m all around, and
who says and does only that which lie
is oompelled to by force of sentimeut,
will ever be elooted in 1913.
OREC0N NEXT?
Another state, California, has given
woman tlio ballot.
Not so far in the future every state
will give her this right, because It Is
already her right and we will look
baok and wonder why we were ever
such barbarians as to deprive her, by
right of might,
The result in California will bo that
women will have the balance of
power, and when issues arise that de
maud, they will dome to the front and
help the right and the clean to win.
The dav for corruption has paused
in California. A man who isn't
clean, and who dooa not stand for
clean things will have no more show
for power than would a hoboe in get
ting a pastor's assignment at a Metho
dist oouferenoe.
And following California, Oregon
will give this right to women. It is
but a question of time. It will come.
Italy and Turkey are killing, Spain
lias a rebellion on, Mexico is at it
again, China has a great uprising on
hand, and Ueriiiiiny, France and
Austria are ready to spring. These
are uneasy days for the men who rule
nations.
China, great empire or sleeping
power, has oaught the fever and has
a rebellion on, and all things point to
the overthrow of the government and
that at republic will be established.
Deposit All Your Income
at this bank and pay it out by check.
J Thus you will make a written record of
all your money transactions, which may
be referred to months or years hence, when
information is wanted, or tho amount or
time of a payment is questioned.
J Most of the large deposits began as
small ones.
(J A checking account at this bank will be
your STEPPING STONE TO SUCCESS
The Bank of Oregon City
THE O I. D E ST BANK IN THE COUNTY
BY WHAT RIGHT?
Last week the Portland board of
health (that body which doesn't re
ooRnize personal rights or the coun
try's constitution sometimes) called
on the general manager of the Port
land Railway, Light and Power Com
pany with an order that all street car
men must be vaooinated.
Talk about boyootts. this is about
the limit telling a man he must sub
mit ro the risk of blood poisoning or
lone I, is job.
No board of health has any right to
issue such an order, and no railway
oompany has any right to enforce it.
This vacoination is an individual
theory. There are many who do not
believe in it, and the Oonrier editor
is one.
It is up to the individual to deter
mine whether or no a doctor with
hobby shall open his veins and inject
a quantity of oow pox to cme him
from smallpox. It is up to the indi
vidual, and no one else, to say what
kind of medioine he shall take.
They say law is founded on reason,
but the saying shonldjDe ohanged that
law SHOULD BE founded on reason.
If it is lawful and necessary to have
conductors and motormen vaooinated,
why not the passengers? Why
doesn't the board of health, while it
is taking the supreme court s place,
comtiel every passenger to Ishow a
vacoination scar before being.allowed
to enter a car?
I have seen too many instances of
the terrible effects of vaccination to
care to take chances with having this
blood-poisoning vaccine mixed with
my blood. The effeots are more dan
gurous than the disease, and there is
no good law that will make a man
submit to it.
A GRADUATED LAND TAX
Oregon City, Route 2,
Oot. IB, JWil.
To the Editor of the Courier: In
your reply to my artiole in the Cour
er of tne nth Inst., under the head ol
'Single Tax Differences," you appear
to think that I advocate the single
tax in connection with what I would
term "the graduated land tax," I
did not intend that. Under the single
tax law, these rich land holders could
sell their land to poor home-seekers
and go right ahead doing business in
our own county and state, and onjthe
proceeds of their land sales and not
have a oont of taxes to pay on it; but
by doing away with the single tax en
tirely and adopting the graduated
land tax system, if these rich land
holders sold a part or all their hold
ings J;o poor home-seokers and contin
ued to do business in the county or
state on the proceeds of the sales
their entire wealth would be subject
to taxation, jnst as it is now, aud in
place of the poor laud liolde who
was trying to make a home for him
self and family, having to pay his
taxes aud the rich man's too, he could
be given a few years' time to get a
start before he had any taxes to pay.
This single tax law puts me iu mind
of a man that has a team of horses for
sale. One of the horses is a fine ani
mal that everybody wants, and the
other is an old, heavy horse that no
body wants, aud the only way he oan
gut rid of the old heavy horse 'S to
sell the two together, make the good
one Bell the bad one. And it is just
the same way with this single tax
law. Almost everybody would be in
favor of a law that would break tip
these large holdings and pot the land
In the hands of home makers who
would make nseof it. Bnt these men
who are promoting this single land
tax want to incorporate this nujust
and unreasonable exemption clause in
along with the rest of it, unquestion
ably for nothing but selfish purposes,
to favor the rich and oppress the
poor. They thought this exemption
would be impossible under any other
conditions and they might make it
work in connection with the single
tax measure. ,
Yours respectfully,
GEORUE IIICINBOTHAM.
WHAT THE GRANGE WANTS.
Following is the Clackamas county
Grange's positiou on 'improved roads.
It is along the lines the Courier hag
been advocating that improved roads
should be paid for by those who use
them and those whose property is ben
efited. And you cant' get away from
the justice of it.
"We favor good roads, but we wish
these roads , constructed from the
market places to the farmers' homes.
. "Beit resolved that we are op
posed to the program of Governor
West's road commission iu reoom
mending bonded indebtedness of 120,-
000,000 and reoommeudlng a 1.1 mill
tax levy to establish state aid.
" We are opposed to the construc
tion of the Pacific highway or other
trunk highways with publio funds at
this time, excepting such funds s
may belong to road districts through
which these roads rnn, or speoial
taxes voted iu these districts for use
upon the roads. "
Now that Oregou is saudwiohed be
tween two enual suffrage states we are
up against it and might its well sur
render now as later. This is one
time where tho Oregon women have
the best of ns. It is more Mian likely
that Oregon women will laud the right
of ballot iu the uoxt Btate election.
Eugene Register.
WHERE MEN DIFFER.
Oregon City, Oct. 9. 1911.
Editor Courier : I have with great
interest followed the dicussions on
the single tax question through the
Courier and have long resisted the
temptation to make a few remarks up
on the different arguments, which
from time to time graced the columns
of your paper, and wouldn't have
even at this time contributed my
views upon the matter, were it not
for the fact that there oocurs a point
er in the reply of the Courier to Mr.
George Hioinbotham which proves
the inconsistency between the theory
and practice of the single tax.
Mr. Hioinbotham asks the Courier
how we are going to get any more
taxes out of the rich man after the
single tax has forced him to sell his
holdings aud the settler has bought
his laud. To this the Courier replies
that "we aren't going to gut any more
of his taxes, as we don't need them.
The land he held as dead land has
been sold for farm laud, made to pro
duce and pays'twioe the taxes the rich
man paid aud the man who pays the
taxes can afford to pay them, as the
worthless land now produces and as
the owner has no taxeB on improve
ments, buildings, stock or anything
else except laud, his taxes are yet
lower than the taxes on impreved
farms today."
From this we may safely assume it
to be evidence that the worthy editor
and his lawyer champion of-ti.e cause
never oleared an aore of ground in
their lives. All they think is neres
Bary to clear up a farm is to buy 1(50
acres of unimproved land, quickly
erect buildings and clear tiie whole
thing in probably one year or two 1
will leave it to the farmers of Clacka
mas oonnty if it is not so that in the
majority of cases it takes nearly half
a lifetime to clear oft a farm of aver
age size and make it produce. In
most cases a farmer clears his land
just as he is able to, say from one or
two, to five aores eaoli year. The
life of a man who is strong and
willing to work aud buys an unim
proved pieoe of land far back from
town or market, rivals the strong will
of our old pioneers, aud he will.be old
and feeble when lie has his farm in
souh a condition that he can take the
rjalauce of his life in the easy chair
and leave a better beginning to his
heirs aud relatives, Now this is the
man who is the foundation ot the
prosperity and welfare of Booiety. In
most cases he is an honest man and
loyal oitizen, for if he were not he
would not go and carve out a farm
from the wilderness but would hunt
means of making a living easier than
that. I will not at all infer that all
easier epmolyment is dishonest, bnt
simply Bhow that if you go out upon
farms away back where a man and
his family are striving for a" liveli
hood you willjuvariably find him to
be an honest man.
Mow this is the man that the single
taxers love and want to help by re
moving all the personal property
taxes on all the big manufacturing
aud big mercantile establishments,
and throwing it on this man's im
proved property, aud thus squeezing
the very life out of his existence.
Now I do not wish to dwell any
longer in this man's behalf, lest our
dear editor's generosity in opening
his oolumus to the views ot his sub
scribers might be lessened somewhat,
and will exiress my views of the
single tax theory as regards the wel
fare of the .already existiug farmers in
general.
Drotn all indications of the argu
ments offered bv single taxers, it is
evident that the aim of this law is to
get at the large land speculators.
Mow 1 am not a laud speculator and
do not wish to be understood to be
such for the reason that I can not
got it into my head how the poor man
oan be benefited by this law. I have
read and searohed all available liter
ature in favor of Bingle tax, among
which was a pamphlet issued by the
single taxers at the lBt election. I
have mislaid this pamphlet, and
hence am unable to quote exact fig
ures laid down in it. But anyway, it
gives figures of how much taxes the
paper mills at Oregon City pay at
present and then gives figures of what
they would pay uuder the single tax,
which is over one-half less. It also
shows how much the woolen mills
pay, how much a number of stores of
Oregon City pay, also numerous fac
tories and big department stores such
as Meier & Frank Co., Olds, Wortman
& King, eto. And iu every instance
there is a most remarkable denrease in
taxes that would be unoer the Bingle
tax system.
Now it takes just a certain amount
of money to run the government, and
if all those above mentioned concerns,
which are only quoted out of the
thousands ot others just like thorn,
have so much taxeB to pay, then tell
me who has to pay so much more to
make up for tins decrease if not the
farmers principally? It is acknowl
edged that the rich land speculator
will also have to shoulder quite a
share of this increase, aud reference
is made by the single taxers to the
Southern Pacific. I am quite positive
however, that the little land the
Southern Pacific still holds in Clack
amas county and the inorease iu taxes
on it would not morn thau balance
the decrease of taxes on its personal
property. And let us suppose it did.
What ot it? Would that alleviate the
suQeriug of the farmers any to see
that some individual concern has to
slightly suffer with them? it the
champions of single tax take the
bother to determine the percentage ot
laud held in Clackamas county by
moil ied interests they will find that
they hold not over ten per cent of the
total laud in this county aud that of
the U9 per oent of land held by farm
ers not more thau 85 per cent is uuder
cultivation. Then who pays the
taxes, if not the farmer who has over
one-halt of it still iu an uncultivated
oonditiuu? And can he afford it?
It is claimed by the single taxers
that to out out taxes on the improve
ments of the farm would be an incen
tive for him to clear more land, as
then he would not be required to pay
more taxes than before.
Who will believe suoh trash? What
fool farmer would refrain from clear
ing an acre of ground, it he has the
time aud meaus at baud to do it, just
to prevent the assessor increasing his
taxes upou it Y If editors and lawyers
judge the standard ot the farmer
business intelligence to such a low
point as this, 1 will pardon their
effort to improve conditions ou the
ground that ttiey don't know any bet
ter.
The reasons for the vast amouut of
uncultivated laud iu Clackamas coun
ty is principally, first on account of
pnrsical condition of gome lauds.
making it impossible to ever olear
them, regardless ot auy svstom of
taxation ; second, it takes time and
money to improve land and it must
necessarily be undertaken only as
time permits, and no kind of taxation
would give a man more time to clear
more than he can do, aud especially
is this true if we had the gingla tax
system, as in that case the increase lu
taxes ot his greater pari of uuim-
proved laud would ohcek him con
siderably in the purohase of powder
aud the like.
There is only cue class of farmers
who wou'd be benefited by single tax,
and this is the farmer who has most
of his laud under cultivation His
taxes would be less, as he would not
have to pay more taxes nn his im
proved land than his neighbor who is
struggling for an existence on h s as
yet mostly unimproved farm would be
compelled to pay. But tell me, is
this just? Cannot a farmer who can
raise 2000 bushels of grain aud has a
big orchard and already most of the
eomforts of life, pay a bigger share
than Ins struggling neighbor who has
DerhapB a'big lump ot interest annual
ly to pay for money that is also ex
empt from taxes? Give this latter
man a chance and 1 e will come out all
right in the course of time.' Lo not
choke him at the very start and he
will develop into a very useful mem
ber aud pride of the whole commun
ity. Now, Mr. Editor, I would like to
dwell upon the more fundamental
principles of taxation to show, or
analyze, the priuciple of why we are
taxed, the object snd principle there
of, and why personal property has no
right whatever to be exempt from
paying taxes, etc., but as this letter
is already obtaining undue proportion,
1 will be satisfied to close for this
time and appreciate your kindness to
give this room in your iuteresting
paper. I am sure that if your method
ot openiug the columns of your paper
to discussions of political arguments
would be pursued by all the papers,
there would be a better understanding
between the city aud rural inhoabi
tance of the county.
Youis trulv,
A. J. KELNHOFER.
Here's a little illustration that will
answer some of the poiuts the above
writer makes .
Iu Houston, Tex., iu 1903 a single
tax advocate bought three vacant lots
for 500 each aud erected this sign :
"I paid $o00 for these lots aud
when the iudsstry of my neighbors
makes thein worth $5,000 I will sell
them.
In eight years they have increased
in value to f3,6i)0 In a few years
more they will increase the other
$1,500 when he will sell. His taxes
on these vacant, lots have been very
small and he will take out $1500 more
than he invested and withont having
turned his baud over.
And what is true of a condition in
a oitv is proportionately true in a
country,
-There is no argument against single
tax in the statement that it takes a
generation to clear a farm, but on the
contrary it is an argument for the sys
tem all the more reosori why th,e big
speculators who are waiting, as the
Houston man waits, should be forced
to sell the dead laud at a price where
settlers can afford to out iu the long
years of labor. Yet there are in this
Btate thousands and thousands of acres
of burned over laud, logged-off land
and laud on which t lit re was never
any timber which lies idle vear after
year, which is not for sale, but which
is being held until surrounding im
provements, the coming of improved
roads and railroads shall make it val
uable aud make fortunes ior the hold
ers fortunes at the expense of the
buyers.
The writer takes up for illustration
the big factories iu Oregon City aid
wanfg to know who will pay the
taxes they now pay. Who pBys them
now?
The people pay them, the consumers
pay them, jou aud I pay them, as we
always have aud always will.
Every house builder helps to pay
the taxes of the lumber mills, every
wearer coutirbutes his part to the
taxes of the woolen mills and every
printing office pays its share of the
paper mills' tax. It has always been
thus aud always will be, under the
present system. It is but another way
of skinning the fame old cat, but the
oonsumerg pay the taxeg just as they
pay the tariff. We all know this.
But juBt for argument, suppose we
did not. Even then wouldn't Ore
gon City or auy other city gladly ex
empt from taxation a manufacturing
plant that would employ 600 meu?
Wouldn't Clackamas county farmerB
gladly exempt from taxation a rou
doused milk factory, a canning plant
or a powdered milk factory if it
would locate in the county? Wouldn't
it be an investment to them to do so?
The writer asks who is to make up
the decrease in revenue to run this
state when the mills and the farmers'
improvements are exempt?
There is a streak of country along
the Coumbia river to the north aud a
streak along the Willamette to the
west that pays a great part of Ore
gon's taxes. The single tax idea is to
make the WHOLE BTATE pay the
taxes, to spread on the thousauds of
acres of laud held by the speculators
the taxes that will be exempt from
persoual property to make those
who are waiting for development to
make them rioh, pay taxes in propor
tion to the development values, or
turu the pioperty over to those who
will develop it.
As to the point that single tax will
tionelit the farmer who has an im
proved farm, but would work a hard
ship on the one purchasing and im
proving new laud, there is hardly an
instance but where ttiere would be
more or less improvements and per
sonal property that would be exempt.
Butthe point the writer of the above
article has overlooked is that single
tax would force the speculator to sell
this new laud to the poor man at at a
price that he van afford to pay the
taxes and make the improvements at
a price so much lower than it is now
held for that it would be much
cheaper under single tax than it is
now.
And later on I will have more to s iy
regarding this point, with gome facts
and figures.
Here's a little illustration, a news
item taken from the Oregon City En
terprise this week This illustration,
in a small way, shows what the trou
ble with Oregon is:
An illustration of how land val
ues have increased in Clackamas
county is the sale bv George A.
Harding of forty acres of timber
laud near Highland, which lie -paid
$u0 for forty years ago, for
1,800 The purchase price was
1.48 an acre and the selling price
$45 au aore. The land was bought
by Eugene Cumius. The taxes
and other expenses ou the laud
have been small, and although
Mr. Harding had his money tied
up for a long time the investment
was a tine one.
The justice of the single tax system
is in its proposition to levy taxes on
laud that should pay it, to make laud
that is yearly increasing in value, be
cause demand makes it wory' valuable.
pay taxes in proportion to its actual
worth, whether it grows firs or ap
ples, uudorbrush or hops.
The Courier miy not alwa I
right, but it will be honest.
IS THERE NOTHING TO SAY?
Editor Oruritr: Concern ing the
McNamara trial, it occurs to me that
there is this to say:' that the very
first move, the hasty and irregular ex
tradition of the accused meu savors
too much of the Colorado-Idaho kid
napping methods employed in the
Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone case not to
arouse suspicion that it is another at
tempt to railroad workingmeu to the
sallows. The sood old prinoiplo of
English law which holds that a man
is considered innooent until proven
iiuilty is Btill upheld (in theory)
All men are said to be "endowed
with certain inalienable rights"- (ou
the fourth of July i but it seems that
natural rights can be abrogated, legal
processes waved aud red tape cut if
the aocased happens to be a member
of a lahnr union. -
Allow me to use a homely illustra
tion: If Smith aud Jones sit down to
a game of chess, for iiiRtaucn, and in
the very initial moves Jones is detect
ed iu fraud "oaught choating"
Smith would be justified in retarding
him with suspicion all through the
game, in fact Jones would be discred
ited. Mow 1 contend that in these
two great oases wherein tne reputa
tion, aye the very life, of labor or
ganizations were and are at stake,
that the prosecution, by their first
move, discredited themselves. Of
course we are too far away from the
Bcene of the Lob Angeles tragedy to
write understanding of local condi
tions, but we are not too far away to
form au opinion as to the irregularity
of methods pursued, and when so
staid and conservative a body as the
United States senate takes up the
question of the alleged "kidnaping"
ot the McNamaras and Borah of Ida
ho himself too closely connected
with the Moyer-Haywood-Hettibone
kidnaping would volunteer that
" Whatever might be said of the moral
states of the Colorado-Idaho affair;
we were within the law, while this
case (McNamara) is clearly illegal,"
it certainly leaves au impression that
there is as abnormally developed
Ethiopian in the Otis woodpile. A
just cause does not need to be upheld
by trickery. Now, mind you, these
alleged irregularities were not ex
cused by any resistance to legal au
thority nor danger of labor uprising,
nor were they the mistakes ot raw or
ignorant officers, who through ex
citement exceeded their authority,
but, on the contrary, were the care
fully matured plans of experienced
ohloers and in one case (Mover-Hay-wood)
tho participation of two state
executives was so active that Su
preme Court Justice McKenua in his
dissenting opinion, said that "It iB
simply kiduap'ng. The governors of
Colorado aud Idaho are the real crim
inals." It will be remembered iu
connection with this historic oase
that the three federations of oWoials
were arrested ou warrants basod ou
perjured affidavits declaring that
they were present n Idaho at the
time ot the murder of Stennenberg,
the proseoution admitting all this and
defiantly retorting "What are you
going to do about it?" The answer
to this brutal frankness was the re
newed activity of the labor aud inde
pendent press, which brought the
methods of the prosecution under the
limelight with the result of a reason
ably fair trial and instant acquittal.
Incidentally it may be mentioned that
poor George Pttibone, not so robust
as the other two, died according to
his physicians us a direct result of
his year of prison life. Some called
it murder, but then he was only a
miner. Had he been a United States
senator, a oonvicted land-frauder for
instance, some of cur so-called states
men would have been fairly slobber
ing over with sympathy and grief.
By the way, Bryan missed the op
portunity to prove in this case his
love of fair plav and justice for all,
by condemning the kidnapers aud
helping to expose their high-handed
methods; but the peerless one re
mained silent until AFTER the trial
and THEN denounced the "kidnap
ing." As to the present case, we need not
contend that the McNamaras are in
nocent; workingmen are not all
saints, any more than capitalists are
all rascal, but we can condemn any
high-hauded, secret, medieval meth
ods of official proceeding and draw
the inference that the cause ia weak
that employs such tactics.
A judge's instruction to a jury is
No. 2
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you the benifit of them.
This week we are setting out necessities in
each department and putting a price on them
that will make a great saving to you. This
is merely a continuation of the Holmes' Bar
gain Store plan, as you well know, and we are
confident that our efforts in giving genuine
"Square Deals," have been appreciated.
It will pay you in dollars and cents, to in
spect the real savings here.
oSJ
The Holmes Bargain
y U : I
that "The evidence of a wituess
found false id one part of his testi
mony is to be questioned in all," aud
by a parallel ot reasoning parties era
ploying "shady" methods of proceed
are, when the regular and legal meth
ods are open to them, should not com
plain if their motives are questioned
aud every move regarded with sus
picion, aud whatever the outcome of
this trial may be, an awakened publio
conscience should d mand hereafter
one standard of justice and one in
terpretation of law.
GEORUE OGLE
SWAT HIM.
The middleman is the carry fellow
between the original producer and the
ultimate consumer.
He is the party who simply doubles
the price of stuff between the two,
and puts it in. his pocket.
We don't need the middleman aud
there is no"poesible use of liia being in
business.
We don't need the jobber, and the
wholesaler, any more than we need
the produce dealer.
We need goods at the lowest possi
ble price aud through the least possi
ble hands from the producer to the
consumer.
The middlemen have got to go.
IN THE NATIONAL DIALECT,
Who but a genuine American fan
oould trauslate this:
After Rodgers had arohed to
Howard, Hheehan two-played over
short. Tommy took third when ,
Rapps bounded one to 'i'ozer, and
then leisurely made his way
home. Buddy died ou third when
Erueger popped to Metzger.
Bnt to eight out of ten meu this is
easy, and any kid past 6ix years can
read it easier than he oan Amerioan
history. It's a paragraph from the
great Amerioan game, Laiiu-to a man
who hasn't the red baseball blood in
his veins, but first primer to those
who love it.
Here's another from an eastern
paper :
"Larsen, given a life at first,
strayed off when Britt burned oue
over, and he went to the morgue,
while the geeks jeered."
NEXT WILL BE THE DRAFT.
Unless hard times and high prices
turn the triok, this country will havo
to resort to the conscription before
long to get men for the standing army.
The pay is flJ a month, board and
clothes, aud what quality of soldiers
can a country like the United States
expect to get for this pay?
The down-and-out men who have
tried everything else and failed, the
drunkards who can t Btand alone, the
despondent and the soldier of fortune.
Every day they desert, very few
ever re-enlist, and the time is not far
off when it will take something more
than thuteen per to get them inside
a reoruiting office.
But don't worry. We don't need a
standing army any more than we need
a United States senate.
Only two necessities, bo far noted,
have taken a jnmp this week 25 cent
coffee has goue up five ceuts and eegs
have jumped to 40 cents.
There uever was a brighter opening
than now for a bright, young Progres
sive to jump in as a candidate for con
gress in opposition to O. W. Hawley.
Mr. Hawley, his record in congress,
and his old guard, Btand-pat connec
tions, don't look good to progressive
Oregon.
Attorney Hedges' statement to the
Live Wires that in his judgment if
the canal locks are not built on the
eaBt side they will not be built at all,
is an opiuiou shared generally with
the poeple. If it could ba definitly
shown that work could and would be
started on the west side as soon as the
esat side route wag abandoned, the
people would not care as to route
Mr. and Mrs Leon Des Larzes, Music
Teachers, violin and voice. Studio 410
High St. Telephone Main 3171.
for No. 3)
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umns used bv subsmibers, for through
such exohauge of ideas men think and
enlarge. We invitefany man who has
ideas ouauy topio to express them in
the Courier. It doesn't matter
whether every word is spelled correct
ly or every comma jnst where t
should be. The ideas are what we
want, and the arguments. The opera
tor will dot the "i's" and orosB the
"t's. " And if you are modest, sign
an X. Y. Z., and let it go at that.
There are many problems facing Or
enon and there are many men to help
solve them. These rnatturs are of
great in terest to readers, and no mat
ter what the subject, or how you may
look at it, the Courier will be glad to
get your views.
Wonder if President
anybody on the coast?
Taft converted
THE SPENDER.
IndianapoliB.-Arthur Long of Pittsburg
stood in the Motel ICnglisli bar drying his
face with a fifty dollar bill. He threw the
bill to the floor und then produced from
a bundle under his arm a handful of lives
and lirtles. Throwing them on the bar, he
said. "Hartender, give mo a drink, quick,
or I will buy this hotel and have you
fired."
What n picture in a few lines!
Visualize it. The spender, leunlng
ou the bar of the high toned saloon,
the subservient tender, whose eyes
glisten nt tho sight of the currency;
the crowd some ngnpe, some ap
plauding und nil more or less athirst
these are the settings of the stage as
the brief curtain goes down on the
druniu of "A Fool and nis Money."
"Well," you say
"The money belonged to the mim.
If he chose to 'blow it.' whose busi
ness but his own?"
But was the money his?
Legally, yus. Some mysterious dis
pensation of providence gave over
Into his temporary keeping more
money than he needed or could use to
advantage and allowed him, for some
wise purpose of Its own, to show how
easily a fool and bis money nre parted.
rightful view Long did not own
that bundle of bills!
That money was pnrt of the accu
mulated assets of a world of labor.
It cost somebody's sweat and ache
and blood. It represented depriva
tion and slow savings and short din
ners. Ethically a mnn has no right
to that which be cannot properly use.
Long was squandering what was not
his.
And did you note where the money
enme from?
Pittsburg-Pittsburg where naked
bodies toil In front of the fires of
molten hells, where men sell their
shortened lives behind Iron closed
doors, whore half the slaves toll to
feed the leaping flames, while the
other half groan iu sweaty sleep. It
was in Pittsburg this man got his
bills.
Thini of the hungry children that
bundle of fives nnd fifties would feed,
of the cheer it would bring, of the
homes it would furnish!
And the man behind the bills?
Him? Why, the bills he flung away
will, soon or late, come Into decent
hands and fill their purpose In the
world, some five, some fifty fold. But
as for him
Him!
R.EX DYSPEPSIA TABLETS
Relieves gas in stomach, distress after
eating, stomach nervousness, dizzi
ness, headache, heartburn, heart pal
pitation and other ailments caused by
faulty digestion. Price 25o. Pre
pared by United Drug Company, Bos
ton, Mass. Sold in Oregon City only
by Huntley Bros. Co., the Rexall
store.
The best plaster. A piece of flannel
dampened with Chamberlain's LiDi
ment and bound on over the affected
parts is superior to a plaster and costs
only oue tenth as much. For sale by
all good dealers.
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