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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDaY NOV. 3, 1911.
Oregon City Courier
First. Independent Paper in Oregon.
W. A. SHEWMAN, Publisher.
Published every Friday from the
Conrier Building, Eighth and Main
Streets, by the
Oregon City Courier Pub. Co.
Incorporated
Telephones, Main 51;
Home, A-.SI,
Subscription Prioe $1. 50 per Year.
Entered In the Postoflice ia Oregon City, Ore.
(or transmission through the mAils at second
class matter.
M. J. BROWN, Editor.
LINING UP.
Next month congress will convene
again, and it will be a session more
interesting and more closely watched
than any congress in the past twenty
yearB.
On this session will depend a lot
the course oar country will take on
presidential matters next year. The
stand pat and the progressive wings
of both parties have their ohances. it
remains to be seen how they will nse
them.
The old order of Jthings is passing in
this oonntry, ticking away on every
clock in the world, and it is a qnes
tion of men to meet new conditions
and frame up the future. And the
faction, the wing, the Progressive,
the Stand Pat, that Cornea nearest to
meeting this great pahlio demand for
a new deck and a new deal, will get
the votes of the people next year, re
gardless of his party.
There are a lot of congressmen and
senators just aching to gut in and try
for a sacrifice hit to make good with
the fans, and the rush is so great that
some of them are .sure to be disquali
fied for orowding' They polka out in
the open, they orowd 'itno the news
papers, and we have a string of men a
rod long, eaoh father to a bill that he
ass arcs us will give instant relief to
the country's ills and aohes, and they
take in everything from LaFollette's
new Sherman law to Olapp's 'commis
sion to fix the price of products every
morning.
Men who steer things, and men who
hope to have a hand at the rodder,
know that the soft pedal won't be
loud enough next year and that velvet
good talltt and Rameses I stunts
won't pass for issues.
Next year a voter is going to boost
the party that promises the most re
lief, and he is going to forget what
political Sunday bcIiooI he is a mem
ber of and that his father ever voted
for Abraham Lincoln or (irover Cleveland.
You are going to sue all kinds of de
livery next jear. Party voters will
touch elbows and discuss the best
means to pry the parasites from the
country. The lion and the lamb viill
. lie down together and the old party
hearder will have a devil ot a time
picking out ins sheep. Here are
few of the vote catchers that will be
introduced in the coming congress:
By LaFollette a now Sherman anti
trust law.
senator Newlands, an interstate
trade commission for a limited control
over corporations.
Senator Pointdexter, to prohibit the
sending 01 messages relating to stock
gambling,
Senator Oore, punistiing combina
tions who restrain trade or commerce
with prison sentences.
Senator Brown of Nebraska, to pro
nioit any rauroau irom Having any
interest in any competing line.
Souator Kenyou, a general anti
trust law, stringent and providing
prison penalties ror violations.
Senator Williams, requiring oorpor
atiuus to be incorporated in the state
whore they do business, and limiting
inn capital nook.
Senator LaFollette, a bill for physi
oal valuation for public utilities.
Senator MoOunibor, an aot to plane
control oi incorporations with secre
tary of oomnioroe, and no stock to be
issued without his uonsunt.
Senator Pointdexter, tJ have Alaska
nnderjurisdiction of ouiiuoroe commission
And so they go, a big buiioh to
htart with and plenty more to come,
and with tariff revision, parcels posts
ana otner Dig questions well, people
will watoh congress.
SOME DAY.
Real friends of President Talt are
mighty sorry lie dodged expressing
himself on the Oiegon plan while in
this state. The world hates a dodger.
The Assemblyites, Ralph Williams,
Charlie Fulton, and others about as
notorious in opposition to popular
government, constituted his body
guard while in tho state and oertaiu
ly gave him bad advioo, lossoning
what ohance he had of carrying the
primary iioxt spring. Chief tian, En
terprise, Ore.
When the government will punish
equally the big and little mau for the
same dogo.ro of guilt, we will have
less criticism of court judges, and
when we have the recall for judges
who are not just, we will have this
equality.
President Taft has nothing to say, but
LiFollette isn't So modest.
Almost every town and oity and al
most every newspaper advocates that
the town or city own its water worts,
its electrio lighting plant, etc., as be
ing the right and satisfactory way of
handling these important publio ne
cessities. If you know of a case where muni
cipal ownership has been a failure
over privte control, oite it for it will
be a matter of news.
And if munioipal ownership is the
most satisfactory and most economical
way of running a waterworks system
or a city's lighting plant, why isn't it
equally good as applied toother lines?
Why wouldn't it be equally good
stretched out a little and have our
government run the telegraphs, tele
phones, railroads, coal mines and
other mediums of ueoessity?
It will, some sweet day.
A few years ago this statement
would have startled the natives, and
someone would Have suggested that a
lunacy commission be ordered to de
termine if the Courier editor wasn't
about ripe for the bug ward at Salem.
Bat a few years have brought out
great changes.
A few years ago the average man
didn't know any more about the run
ning of our country than he did of
running an aeroplane, but now he can
tell you the whole shine from fish
warden np to the white house
And when he thinks it isn't run
ning right, he can spring a remedy,
and show you how to fix it,
Independent, well-edited, fearless
newspapers and magazines have the
turned the trick, they have educated
the people up to this standard, and I
want to tell yon that when the pouple
of a great country like ours get to
reading, thinking and talking they
are sure to start something.
Just as sure as the types spell out
these words and make lines, just bo
sure is the day coming closer and
closer when our government is going
to run things that are necessary and
vital to our prosperity.
Today a mine-owning railroad will
tell the people of a locality to go
jump in the lake when they protest
against the monopoly this road has on
the coal supply.
tiive the Standard Oil company an
order for oil and it will compel you to
maintain a oertain price and show
what you are going to do with it, or
you don't get it the decision ot the
U. S. 8npreme court to the contrary,
notwithstanding.
Order a car of independent coal
from some oompany competing with
the railroad's oual mine, and they
will toll you to go sit on a tack until
they deliver it. They have no extra
cars, your oar of uoal gets sidetraoked
and lost and bo on.
The steel trust plays the hold-up on
the railroads. The directors mark
down about what size of a dividend
they want to make the millionaires
pay by a oertain time, then thoy levy
the assessment on steel users. The
railroads swallow it, and then even
np by hitting back on a country's ne
cessities. The telephones and telegraphs, the
express companies and the other big
combinations come right nut in the
open and skin you. It's a case of
take it or leave it, tor there is no
choice.
And the government is going to own
the Big Squeezes that plunder direct
and it is going to direct those who
skin in two ways.
The poeplo are the government in
this country and when they once get
under motion you oan't stop them
any more than you can a bunch of
sheep who are running to Bait.
Sentiment in a oertain locality
bunches up for a certain needed re
form, and is soon in the majority.
Then a wise guinea of a candidate
sees his chance to shine and he cham
pions the sentiment.
lie ib nominated and elected on the
proposition that Iih make good. It is
up to iiim to plug the game along or
the voters will plug him.
He joius other representatives who
have been elected to do the same plug-King.
Combined
THE REMFDY.
Hore is something a thinking man
simply can't get way from. It isn't
juBtice or fairness it isn't legal. :".
One after another of the big trusts
are convicted of being violators of the
anti-trust laws, 'of being oppressors of
the eaters and wearers, of being crim
inals, before the biggest court of our
country.
And what is their punishment?
They are told to "dissolve," to
break up into parts and not do it any
more.
A combination that controls a ne
cessity and forces the publio to pay
an exhorbitant price for that article
is more a criminal than the man or
company that takea advantage of the
ignoraucJ of l &a Oregon settler and
tells him a worthless piece of land
(through fraudulent representation)
at 1500 an acre. -,;
But the real estate man is sentenced
to prison for 'his crime, while the
trusfis sentenced to change from a
solid to a fluid coudition.
The Sherman law wasn't passed
yesterday. It has bee.ua statute for
many yeats. "It"forbids" co binations
in restraint of trade and a violation
is orimiual.
The convicted trusts have been
criminal for many, many years just
as crimiual as was ever Sam Bass
when he held np and robbed the
Southern" PaciflVtrains in Texas years
ago.
And when found guilty the courts
tell thet trunts to run out and liqui
fy to soften down or break up so
that the people won't notice them so
much.
And until the same justice is hand
ed out to the big trusts and the little
thieves, there will be agitation and
unrest with the people and onr coun
try will be in constant turmoil.
Big thieves have got to serve time
just as surely as do the highway rob
bers, and the people will tear down
every court nutil they get this jus
tice. We must have, and will have, equal
punlshment for the same degree of
guilt for the richest and the poorest.
A TAXATION PROPOSITION.
they have a power in
state or oongress to be felt anddesired
oy tiiose lurtner up, ana so the move
munt started in a few localities gath
ers ana rorces strength nntu it domi
nates the head source ot legislation.
There are powerful influences
against this sentiment for ooutrol of
big things. Great arguments are giv
en out by great men hired by great
money, but it will take more than
these arguments of the Roots and the
Dnpews to make me see that a coun
try which runs a luminous will hit
bankruptoy while private parties will
got rich on the same proposition.
Still drags along the farce of get
ting a jury for the MoNamara trial at
Bun Frauoisoo. .bach side trios to get
its kind on the jury and keep otf the
other kind. What a slow, expensive
moauB of getting a medium that will
make a uoise like justice. What tire
some, fool methods we have for trying
a case that is notorious.
In New Orleans they are trying to
form'a combination to buy the whole
cotton crop to keep the prioe np, and
in Massachusetts the mills are curtail
ing the output to keep the prioe of
cotton goods. Thus tho wearer gots
both going and coming.
Here's betting the coming congress
will change ends with a tar ill of 78
per cent on sugar and 10 per cent on
diamonds.
A WISE OLD OWL
Said Shiftless .Sam: "It is easy enough to make
money if you have money to mnke it with. I Bee
chances every day to make money if I only hud a little
stake to start with, but i fellow that has no capital
doesn't have a fair shake ill this world."
Said th- Wise Old OW1: "You never wi'.l have a
stake until you start. Stop your spending and try sav
ing. Pinch out a little of your earning and start a bank
account np mutter how suwll. Add to it. The longer
you put it off the longer opportunity will give you the
cold shoulder." Which one was right, Sam or the Owl?
The Bank of Oregon City
THE O I, I) E ST BANK IN THE C O U N T Y
(Portland Journal )
Colossal prices are asked the govern
ment for right of way for the Willam
ette locks. The law says that proper
ty shall be taxed at its full cash val
ue. On this property at the falls, are
owners now paying taxes on the same
dizzy valuations demanded of the gov
ernment? If the law says property shall be
taxed at fail cash value, how is it
that there is always one pi ioe for as
sessment purposes and another aud far
higher pnoi) when the public wauts a
proporty for publio uses? What au
thority is it that permits this condi
tinn to exist in violation of the law?
Is it the assessors who set aside the
law and make a law of their own in
placing values on piopirty for assess
ment purposes? Are the assessors of
Oregon above the state aud above the
law?
Owners of rights of way ou the east
side of the falls talk in millions
rue ownor rr the old locks speass in
hundreds of thousands. To be speci
no, the Portlaurt Railway, Light &
Power companv demauds $C0(U)00 for
the old locks? Does the Portland
Railway, Light & Power company
pay taxes on the old lucks at that val
uation ?
The sum is $100,000 or so more than
the lochs cost nearly 81 years ago.
The company says the locks are op
erator! at a toss now. liy what pro
cess of mathematics, then, does the
compuny figure the old looks to be
worth $GOO,000?
If the government builds and op
erates free looks on the east bauk Ht
the falls, what will the company's
locks on the west bank lie worth?
Will they ba worth one single dol
lar? If they will be nld junk then
and thoy will be how are the old
locks worth $000,000 now?
With the law requiring taxation of
property at full cash value, the almost
daily spectacle of one price for assess
ment purposes and another and higher
price when the public wants to buy,
deeply oonoenis the publio. It eats
op the substance of the average man
whoso property is all in sight, aud
helps make his cost of living high.
THE "OR.ECONlAN'S" SIDE LINE.
The Oregonian of Monday clipped
a part of an editorial (a patt. mind
you) from last week's Courier oi the
subject of taxation, aud th? n tacked
on these shavings of wisdom :
"So your single taxer woul 1 tax the
unoccupied, unimproved, uncultivated
lana, which is not worth anything,
and make its owner btar the burden,
or the chief burden, of all the cost of
government. But what is the nse of
government, or civilization, or im
provements, or society, ti the absen
tee owner of a desert waste? Whom
are they for?
w ny is a larraer taxed? wiiy Is
the bome-owner taxed? Why is any
body taxed? t
"Tim farmer wants mads and he is
taxed for them. Could he get along
wiiiimu roads.'
"The farmer wants schools and he
is 'taxed tor them Could the farmer
get along without schools?
The farmer wants Dolice nrotecr.inn
and lie is taxed for it. Could the far
mer get along without poilce protec
tion t ,
"The farmer wants courts, of ins.
tice and he is taxed for them. Could
the farmer get along without courts?
llie iarmer wants markets, society.
oomfort, health, mails, churches, and
the thousand and one conveniences
aud necessities that make up the daily
me oi a aweiier in a civilized com
munity ; and he must pay for them
through his contribution to govern
ment. What are Jiis improvements,
his hoDce, hia barn, his cultivated
fields, his fruit trees, worth, except as
they are made valuable by the efforts
of others and the development and
movement of organized society?
"Of course the farmer is taxed. Of
oourse everybody is taxed. If land is
to pay all the tax, where does the poor
rarmer come out in the distribuutlou
of costs and benefits?
BODY IS FOUND.
Williamctte Gives up Body of:
Supposed Murdered Indian.
The ol I Willamette won't let (lie
death of. Henry lleuniniis drop, if the
authorities would, and Tuesday what
is undoubtedly the Indian s corpse
was found floating near Risley Sta
tion. September 22 the young Indian was
last seen with three" other Indians ou
he hanks of the river, aud it is said
the four were di inking together. The
Indian's tames are Parish Utining,
James Umtouch aud James Thorn son.
Henuing disappaered andt he Indians
returned to the Warm Springs reserva
tion. The wife, fathers and friends
vainly searched for the body for many
days.
It was generally believe there was a
crime committed, that Heuuiug was
murdered, but the white men were
not intereited.
No doubt the matter will now be
taken up and thoroughly investigated.
Treasurer g Notice
1 now have funds to rav County
Road Warrants endorsed prior tJ Feb
ruary 10, 1HU. Interest ceases ou
such warrants ou date of this notice.
November 10, 1911.
J. A. TUFTS, County Treasurer.
WHEN ARGUMENT FAILS.
to
Rocalling a judge promises
become as easy as dropping a
nickol in the slot and drawing out
a paokage of chewing gum.
What's the use of having judges
anyway? Why not ronder verdicts
in criminal and civil cases by pop
ular vote? The people should rale
under tho wise direction of W.
S. URen's Peoplo's Power League!
Eugene Guard.
This is very small talk from a very
able paper a very woak argument
against the Oregon system.
It's easy fur a fool to call another a
dummy, but it isn't argument.
With a devotion that smacks of fan
aticism the Guard stands by the halt
million appropriation for the univer
sity, aud it would repeal every reform
law in Oregon beiore it would lose
this bale of fodder.
The cheerful twiller above doesn't
prove anything.
How many judges have beeu re-
oalled.in Oregon that the Guard may
make Hie above liickel-iu-the-slot
comparison?
It s editor has more enthusiasm
than sauity over this matter of the
people ruling and voting ou an ap
propriation that an unrepresentative
legislature jammed through.
Lai'ollette is going to be a big noise
before the convention that will nomi
nate a Republican presiduut, but Pres
ident Taft will beat him out in that
convention.
Then what?
Will the Wisoousiu senator kiss the
hand that smites him .and tell his
rrogresBive louowers to make a run
tor the Stand Pat bandwagon?
Don't you ever imagine it.
He'll waltz out as au independent
candidate aud ttien you'll see as hot a
tliree-cornered fight as this country
ever staged Taft, -LaFollette "and the
Uomooratio nominee.
The Oregonian is too busy fighting
any change in taxation to get down
to the issue and meet arguments. The
above doesn't say anything, doesn't
answer anything, doeeut' prove any
thing. It is just a hemorrhage of
questions and observations that's all.
There's a pretty true old saying that
a man's politics, is founded on his
pooketbook, find that and yon know
the man.
A half dollar spent on car fare aud
a few hours' work found a man's
pochotbook in Portland.
The owner of the Oregonaiu owns
810 acres of laud just ouside of Port
land. If I owned this, and had the biggest
daily newspaper In Oregrn to back it,
I would own a yacht una ta.l it in a
private ocean.
The asstssed valuation of these 810
acres in 1909 according to the antes-
sur's hooks in Multnomah county, was
SZo.oliU InlDlOitwas ti)a.2U0. Thto
was for the land alone. The improve
ments on this tract were assessed at
500 - v
Now by way of K'adicg you to the
place you will stand without hitching
here's a little compaiisou It costs a
settler fit! to ' prove up a KiO-acre
homestead, and if you will figure it
out the assessed valuo of this 810-acre
tract in 1909 was equal to the value
if 1781 homesteads and iu llilOto 2,200
iiomesteads that is the 810 acres were
worth 419 more homesteans in 1910
than iu 1909.
Now what I wouil like the Orogo-i-ian
owner to answer is did he produce
that increased valae by tluift hit. or,
energy and frugality ? Did he turn
his hand over to increase the valae?
The value cf th se 810. sorts increas
ed 7,700 in one year.
What caused it?
Did the owner add a dollar's wortl
cf labor to the laud? Can a man pro
duce f,7uu in one year without dong
any labor uan you UUckamas coun
ty farme8 do it?
Like Topsy, the iuciease just giow
ed.
If a newspaper owner can add $7,700
to the value of 810 aores in one year
without doing a day's work on the
land, auy farmer who owns 81 acres
should add $770 to tile value of his
farm.
If any ot you Clackamas farmers are
doing this, please wire in, my expense.
Where the shoe rubs the Oregonian's
buuyons is that single tax would make
its owner pay the same tax on his 810
acres as 2,200 homesteaders would pay
on their 852.000 aores, with an unim
proved value of ten cents an acre.
The Oreognian wants settlers to
come to Oregon, take up hometseads
way out in the foothills of society and
work out their own Balvatiou.
It says tney can't do well unless
they are taxed on everything they pro
duce. It says they would be mined if they
were exempted from taxation ou all
their labor produots and were taxed ou
nothing but the small value given to
their laud by the general population.
One has to sprain Ins imagination
some to comprehend this reasoning.
But if you can't swallow it, chew
it and then eat a loolish powder. '
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Summons.
In the Oiror.it Court of the Stale
Oregon, lor Clarksmas County,
Libbie Klaia, Pluintirr.
VP.
Fred l?lni. Defendant.
To Kred hluis, above uamed defend
ant: In the name of the State of Oregon,
You are hereby required to rppea1"
aud answer the complaint filed against
vrm in the alcove eutitled Fuit on or
before the 2Srd day o December. 1911,
the shuio henig the last day for your
iippefrmice hy order ot said Court,
and if you fail lo miswrr for want
tlwof, I Iih plaintiff will apply to
said Court for the relief demanded iu
pair) .complaint, to-wit:
For a dfcr.e dinsnlv'iiR tlm bends of
matrimony between you and the plain
tiff, and that plaiutitf be awarded her
maiden utime, aud nucli other relief aa
ro the llourt uiav seem meet and equit
aide.
This summons is published by order
of the Honorable J. U. Campbell.
Judge of paid Oo .rt, made and dated
the 8th day of November, 1911, and
the arae will be published six succes
sive weeks, the first publication beina
niaue on the lUth day of Novembr,
1911, aud the last publication ou the
22nd day of Deoember, 1911.
L. It. RKEDER,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Get your Butter Wrappers at this office
A POWER TO RECKON WITH.
Repubilcaus and Democrats in hunt
ing for something favorable in Tues
day's election returns, overlook a sig
nificant something Everywhere So
cialism made giant strides from lieu
tenant governor, congress, down to
mayors.
Republicans aud Democrats helped
to make these gains, bolting the old
patties because of betrayed promises
and voting for Socialism beuause it
offors a change from trust rule and
boB domination.
Mun who think should look over
Tuesday's elootion returns again.
Slowly but surely the Socialists are
taking oity after oity, and when they
get these strongholds, Iook out.
socialism is a power to be reckoned
on from now ou
That war between Italy and Turkev
started out like a sham battle lots of
noise but little bloodshed but it has
now blossomed into a horrible
slaughter, a no-quarter killing match
that makes humanity shudder. And
oyer in China they are mowing down
iiie people aud whole provinces are
like a great slaughter house.
It's a hard proposition to breed a
man pu above this killing game. It's
in the blood and it will take a few
hundred more years of arbitration
and peace compacts before men will
observe the commauduieut "Tliou
halt not kill."
If the stand put RoDUblioans and
Democrats can tiuci auy hone in Tues
day selection returus. they are easily
satisfied. It was progressive victories
aimost everywhere and plain notice
that the next president will be a kPro
gessive anu wnotlier a Uemocrat or
Kepoblioan depends ou what the plat
forms sud issues will bo.
Congressman W. C. Hawley, of
this (first) district, should be his
own successor in that office, "for
the good of the service." f'a lis
City News.
Good of what service?
As beef bops hieher mid hicher nnrl
the trusts tell you that it is because
or a shortage of supply, bear in mind
that we tax ourselves
pound ou imported beef.
l,l cents per
The Courier is for the man
and not his collar!
No. 4. (Watch for No. 5)
'ARLY HOLIDAY SHOP-
pers appreciate the opportunity of an
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tion offered is always fresh, and contains all
the late and desirable things which are sought
for as gifts to onefs friends.
We have early shipments of Holiday Goods
arriving daily which are being opened up. from
time to time; and which we invite shoppers to
inspect. And therein you are able to find
much that is modestly priced and very eason
able. . -
Before deciding on your winter wear, it will
be to your interest to secure a copy of The.
Fashion Book, Pictorial Review Patterns.
We will be pleased to see that you receive a
copy.
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