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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JAN. 19, HU2
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M. J. BROWN,
AN EASTERN VIEW.
( New York Journal).
The great number of Americans that
had the pleasure of meeting Governor
West of Oregon during trig recent trip
throughout the ooantry with the other
govreuors of the noitliwest were im
pressed by him as a mn modern in
thought, kind in heart and stirring in
truly advanced GOOD ideas. Of
those that met him not one will be
surprised to learn that he lias taken a
firm stand against that form of mur
der, lmoereonal and general, bnt
MURDEB NONE THE LKS8. whioh
is oallod capital punishment.
The state of Oregon, setting an ex
cellent example to the rest of tiie
country, will vote this year upon the
abolition of capital punishment.
And Governor West, expressing the
best sentiment of the best meu in the
state, acts without delay and an
nounces that exercising liiB power as
governor he will permit no ollioial
killings between this date and next
DeoemDer, when the people will then
have decided tbe question by their
bill lot B.
It is unfortunate that there should
be any man bitter, revengeful and
primitive and savge enough to believe
that the murder by the government of
men that have committed murder can
be oalled now neoessary, useful and
excusable.
We all know the great power of ex
ample. - The father that would oure his boy
of lyiufg mast not lie in the hearing
of that child.
The father that would disoonrage
brutality and vice in his children
must not himself be brutal and
vicious or hope to excue himself on
the ground that his authority permits
that whioh is forbidden to ohildhood.
And the state that does not wish its
citizens to commit murder in anger
for revenge or on any pretext must
not itself be gniltv on any pretext of
committing an ollioial murder.
Capital pnuishmout is brutal, de
grading; it encourages murder ana
does not disoonrage it
Men that mean well will tell you
that if you stop punishing murder
with murder, if you cease to do to the
murderer what he has done to his vic
tim, you will make life insecure and
U' order more frequent.
But that is not so.
Murder, thieving and every other
feature of degraded human life de
pend not upon savage laws, but npon
intelligent, conscientious national
character accompanying benevolent
government.
Tilers' is no capital punishment in
Switzerland under any circumstances.
And in Amerioa, in proportion to
the population, we have at least ten
times as many murders as they have
in Switzerland, where there is no
guillotine, no eleotrio chair and no
hangman's noose.
A witty frenchman defended capi
tal punishment by Baying: "If the
murderers don't want oapital punish
ment, let them give it up themselves.
Let them stop killing. " ,
A mother's kindness teaches chil
dren to be kind. Government, de
cency and kindness will set a higher
standard even among the lowest.
Capital punishment should be abol
islied.
Oregon and Govoruor West are to
be congratulated.
Postmaster General Hitchcock
working himself out of a job as fast
as he can. His latest break, without
consulting with the white house, it
the recommendation that the govern
ment buy and owu the telegraph lineB
of this oouutry. This, following his
disclosure nf mail carrying grafts and
recommendation or parcels post, puts
him in bad with the Republican
administration and his head will fall
in the basket as soon as the stand
patters dare work the knife. The
dispatches state that Hitchcock's an
nouncement "agitated oillcial Wash
ington greatly," and when ollioial
Washington ia roused to this point
something usually happens to the agi
tator, People will road of the tortures and
savage rites of the aulf-scorgors of
New Mexico and ask "Citu such
things be?" lmt Saturday at the
state prison in Wellington, Del., two
meu were tied to posts, stripped to
the hips, exposed to the zero weather,
and thou publicly whipped with oat-of-niue
tain until the blood ran down
their backs and tilled their shoos.
The news dispatches state "the heavy
leather strap with its nine thongs,
out deep into the quivering tlesh of
the wretches."
Now let us take up another oolloo
tion for foreign tuitions that the bhv
agery of Africa aud China may be
stopped.
Ben Soiling says Oregou is strong for
Taft. Ben needs a conuoil of doctors.
YOU CROW WITH A BANK
THAT IS GROWING
We want the small account
aud have every facility for
handling the large one.
Start the new year by open
ing an account at this bank
THE BANK OF OREGON CITY
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Telephones, Main 3-1; Home A 5-1
EDITOR
AS THINCS LOOK.
If Taft is nominated by the stand
pat machinery he will have Koosevelr,
LaFollette and the great army of Pro
erersive Republicans shelling him
from every quarter, and the man who
thinks ont things will tell you he is
bound to be beaten.
If LaFollette is nominated every
gre-ir. combination, the money power,
the stand-patteis, and a part of the
Roosevelt following will tight him
and tli cue are, big odds for a progres
sive to buck, without the power of
money to help him.
If Roosevelt is nominated the same
interests in the Repubioan party that
played Judas Iscariot with him in the
New York governor contest in Nov
ember, 1910, will go np against him,
and so great is the fear and uncer
tainty of big bnsienge that tliese fic
tions would vote for almost any can
didate the Demociats might nominate,
rather than to see Roosevelt president.
Any way von turn the Republican
patty you will find a sore spot, and a
sore spot that can't be healed be
tween convention time and election.
And on the other side the Demo
crats know from many past bitter ex
periences that a house divided against
Itself is bound to weaken the under
pinning, and they are simply lining
up and getting ready to play ball
with the nominee who. ver he may
be. They know they can win if they
stand together and pull together, and
it looks as if they were going to do it
this year.
While Wilson seems to have the
preference with the rank and file, yet
(Jlarke, Foulke, Harmon or Jtiryan
will be accepted with but little pro.
test by the voters, and if any "but
Bryan is nominated, a lot of sore Re
publicans in the three-cornered fight
are sure to vote the Democratic
ticket.
If ever this tired old country heaped
opportunity cn the DeinoeratsjJ'tis
now.
They have scores of it-sueB to present
and make good on. The people are
ready to go with them like a flock of
s''eep , if their platform takes advan
tage of the conditions and promises
relief.
The tariff, the manufacturers'
trusts, the money trust, parcels posts,
railroad regnlatiton, the Sherman law
joke and scores of other issues give
them their one gieat opportunity.
Things look bright for the Demo
crtatio party thin year, and it will
take a pair of Napoleons to pull the
0. O. P. through.
STRANGULATION AGAIN.
The senate committee on paroels
post will kill this needed reform again
this year smother it with a pillow hi
the same old way.
While Bourne and Bristow were put
on this committee, the rest of it was
lacked with Republicans who wor
ship at the express companies' shrines,
and who may be depended on to scut
tle it. Here are the bunch of trust
boosters: Penrose, Guggenheim, Lor
inter, Oraue, Briggs and Richardson.
Of the Democrat io members four
will stand with Bourne and Bristow,
and two against, leaving the commit
too 0 to 6 against parcels post.
Salem should not be the only
oity to have a new earn nor y this
sea on, Large and small, there
are a dozen points up the valley
that need this kind ot enterprise
to utilize surplus fruit. Oregon
ian. And there are a half dozen points
that have tried it and failed. There
is a long road botween a need and a
fulfillment, aud the big canning trusts
are in that road. It's one thing to
oau produce and another thing to sell
the can,
If you are following the moat trust
trial in Chicago, what little regard
you have left for oourt justioe will
melt. It is not a trial or guilt or in
uooeuoe ot a crime, but a trial of
technicalities aud the main issues
are lost sight of. It is a sparring
match botween lawyers, with the
judgo a referee on points. It's a tra-
vsuty, not a trial, aud it makes honest
moo sick.
I don't like the source of this pre
diction, hot I hope it is true. Frick
the Pittsburg multi-niillioiiaire savs
business will take a wonderful stride
forward the coming year, that wages
will be high, woik in plenty, fac
tories aud mills running two shiits
and stores crowded with customers.
From the oradle to tha coffin there
is a monopoly on almost everything
nd the voters have an idea that
tweuty-two years of Republican rule
has brooded this condition. Now
watch tho voters.
THE MATTER. WITH OREGON
Under your editorial of "What's
wrong with Oregon?" I'd ilke to take
a few exceptions. You assert "there,
is too much dead land that can't be
bought for a dozen times what its
taxation value is " Dou't you know
that the law makes it the nuty of the
assessor to place a true cash value on
this laud? Still it does not matter
whether he does or not so long as each
particular tract i given a valuation
in conformity with those of adjoining
tracts.
The trouble with Oregon Iks mainly
in the fact that we're spending a lot
of money foolishly and with little or
no returns for the money spent. You
don't have to go far, Mr Kditor, to
see this.
Careful estimates have placed the
dead or waste land of this county at
about one fourth. I don't mean hods
owned by Weyerhauser or others who
own timber lands, though much of
this land will not and never cau be
cultivated. Clackamas county ex
tends to the summit of the Cascade
mountains aud every person who has
given this matter much attention
knows that there is much dead land
that is of no value whatever except
for the timber growing upon it.
"Ask the first dozen meu you meet
what they think of Oregon's system
of taxation, and if they are honest
they will tell you that it is equal to
the leprosy to keep settlers out. "
Now, friend Brown, that's putting
it pretty strong. Dou't you know
very well that the Oregon system does
not differ vory materially from those
of the other states? Every taxpayer
knows, or ought to know, that but a
few years ago every county was re
quired to make a levy of five inillB
for school purposes, This made a
fund of about, $2 75 per capita for
children of school age. We got along
fairly well then, too, as everybody
knows. Now we are required to pay
$8.00 per capita and they are not sat
isfied yet. I don't know iiow many
useless commissions the state may
huve to provide grafts for the liumy
horde, but they are numerous and no
one save our W. A. Dimick bus raised
his voice to object. Now if the Ore
lion system is so bad, why are bo
many leaving other states to come
here? The remedy is plain, aud that
is, choke them off. It is much easier
to spend money than it is -to save it as
we all have learned.
"It is a dead certainty that if
adopted by the voters there will be a
mighty lot ot dead laud brought to
life aud settlement in this state. I
have yet to hour this disputed audi,
want to tell you thai when you settle
Oregon'B great wastes you won't have
to hunt further for business and pros
perity." Now that sounds nice on
paper, but I am not going to believe
"it is a dead certainty" tr anything
like it. It I did I'd be with you at
once. To my mind it will bring any
thing but good results. Just now the
farmers of Oregon are doing as well
as they ever were in its history and
they are oertainly paying their share
of the burden.
"It can t make conditions worse
aud it is bound to make them better,
for it will force Wall Street out and
give the poor man a show." "
"Give the poor man a show
That is pretty nice bait to hand out to
the unwary : but surely they are not
all suckers.
Give the poor man a show say
too; but, God Lists you, who ever
thought of such a thing 1 You don
roll y mean it? "Force Wall Street
out I" Isn't that too bad 1 Where is
the poor hometseader to get off ? Go
oil the earth, o foonrse. When a rioli
man is taxed so that he has to give np
his holdiugB you my rest assured tha
the poor homesteader has surrendered
long before.
What does all this lead to? Right
nuderueath it all they are working
lor the government ownership oi ttie
land. Why not be honest with the
puerile and come out in the open aud
fight?
In conclusion let me say that I am
an admirer of your editorials, for
have found them instructive and
pleasant reading, and I am satisfied
that when you give this subject care
ful study and get down to the uu
derourrent, you will change you
opinion and be with us.
E. 0. HAOKETT,
1. The fact that we are spending
too inuoh money if it is a fact Iihb
nothing to do with the proper method
or system of taxation Tho wisost ex
penditure of money won't prove that
a bad tux system is good. The most
fooliBh expenditure of money cau
prove that a good tax system is bad
roKsiuiy it is not a tuct that we are
spending too much money, but that
we are not getting a dollar's worth
ot puouo good tor eveiy dollar we
spend.
2. It is uot true that dead laud
ot no value if someone is willing to
buy it and own it. It certainly isn'
true it the land is increasing in value
every year, and where is the OlacKa
mas county laud that is assessed and
is not increasing in value
8. Land that is "of no value exoeut
lor trie uuiuur growiug upon it is
worth something for more timber tJ
grow on. It wouldn't bo good busi
nesB sense to grow timbor ou fruit
laud aud city blocks. Natural growth
timber is a part of the "laud value,'
just Ms ooal is.
4. But Whether we have one Btate
commission or a hundred commis
sions, that has nothing to do with tho
system ot taxation.
6. You're wrong about Oregon
farmers payiug their share of the bur
den of taxation. They are paying
irom two to four tunes their Bhare,
aud they will keep on carrying that
load as long as they are taxed on thoir
labor, their improvements and per
sonal propertv.
ti. Mr. llaokett says " W hen a noli
man is taxed bo that he has to give up
his lioldiuKS, rest assured that the
poor homesteader has surrendered
long ago." How so? The eastorn
capitalist s holdiugs are for specula
tion only, luoreasiug valuation pays
tneiu good interest limy don t mi
prove or till. Tho homesteader will
make the laud produce. But if you
tuiuK single tax will hurt the pjor
man, then let us hud out Here are a
few local iutdauoes I find as a matter
of record: S. G.Miller is a small
home owuer at Gladstone. He has
two lots assessed filOO in 1910, with
improvements assessed $100; total as
sessment 700 His tax fur 1910 was
$14. Under single tax hia tax would
havo beeu fiJ.Stl. Hh would uot have
paid any tax on his $400 improve
ments. How much does it hart a
home owuer to have his tax reduced
from $14 to SS.Sti?
C. A. and Crace Baxter of Glad
stone, owned two lots that were as
sessed $300 iu 1910, and tiny had $i'.25
of improvements and personal pioper
ty: total assessment $S25; total tax
paid, $! 41V Under single tax they
would uot have beeu taxed on their
$l''35 of luipn Yemenis and personal
property, a; d thi ir tax on $.'00 worth
of lots would have been $5 90. Uow
much does it ruin a home owner to
have his tax i educed from 'f 10.49 to
$5.90?
Charles W. Polky has 80 aores; 20
acres improved in 1910 and assessed
$35 an acre, or $500 ; 00 acre unim
proved aud assessed 8 85 an acre, or
$.'00; with improvements and personal
property assessed $50. His total as
sessment in 1910 was $1,050 and his
total tax $23 10 Under the single
tax his improved acres would have
been assessed $8 85 an acre, instead of
t-f), he would have a paid no tax on
his $o0 of improvements and personal
prouertv ; so his totnl single tax as
fspssmeut would have been $180 aud
his tax would have been $21.64 under
single tax. Anything ruinous about
that?
Pelky had probably worked pretty
hard to olear up 20 aores of land so
that he could raise crops, and his
labor didu't injure the community;
but he was taxed on hia labor. Is
that a fqoare deal? Ho didn't have
but $50 of improvements and personal
property, but probably he had done
Ins best. Anyway, we taxed him on
his little $50 of improvements.' If he
had had $575 of irnpro . ements his
1910 assessment would have been
$1,575 and his tax would have been
$.'!! 65; but nnder simla tax it would
have been only $21 64.
Now. Brother Hackett. dont' let ns
shy at things just because we don't
understand them. That's what a
horse does, but men ought to know
better. We should nrt jump before
we see where we are going to land.
If you think single tax means govern
ment ownership of land, I would say
there was once a man who turned iu a
fire alarm because he saw the full
moon just rising, and after that his
judgment was away below par iu that
ooujinunitv.
QUESTIONS FOR HICINBOTHAM.
270 E. 28 St., Portlaud.
Editor Courier: If it is possible for
G".orgo Hioinbotham to ciscuss a pub
lic question on its merits, I shall be
glad to discuss single tax with him.
Why docs he waste his time and your
space discussing me? Single tax is a
publio question in Oregon ; I am not.
In the Oourr last week Mr. Hioin
botham sayB of the proposed single
tax bill:
"This law would hurt the poor
heme maker teu times as bad as it
would the rich land holder because
the rioli land holders have plenty and
don't feel it; but it would just drive
the poor man to the wall to start in
with"
If Mr. Hicinbotliaia will ourb his
misunderstanding until the "Single
Tax Assessment and Tax Roll of
Clackamas County for 1910" is pub
lished, he will find that he is shed
dine his tears over the wrong grave.
After he sees that roll lie won't feel
so much like predicting ruin for the
poor home maker.
Next he savs :
1 "lam just as much in favor of
breaking up and doing away with
these large laud holdings as any man
in the state."
What dues he mean by a "large Imd
holding?" Is he speaking of "laud
area or of "laud value?" It one man
has a right to take for bin salt the
value given to half an acre, five acres
or teu thousand acres by population
and industry, it's no business of onrs
whether he . holds ten acres or ten
thousand acres.
Clankamas county assessments for
1910 show that the Molalla Land
Company had $4,205 acres assessed
$87,040, "or $20.40 an acre. Did the
Molalla Laud Company create or
produce that value? It it
right have we to break it
away with it? Lots 1 and
215 in Portland, owned by
did, what
ud or do
8 of Blnok
II. L. Fit-
took, were assessed $88,000 in 1910 for
the land alone. That is $8.80 a square
foot, or at the rate of $488 828 an
ucre Which is the greater land
holding? Did Mr. Pittock'a labor
creato the $88,000 value of those two
lots?
What does Mr. Hioinbotham mean
by large land holdings?" Does he
nienn the 81,409 acres in Clackamas
countv, owned by T. D and S E.
(JolliuB aud assessed $401,745 in 1910?
But the land alone of Block 215 in
Portland, owned by II. L. Pittock,
chiet owner of the Oregonian, was
assessed $502,000 iu 1910, and it would
take 84,198 pieces of laud ns large as
that Block 215 to make as much land
as T. D. and S E. Collins owu in
that one tract. The assessed value of
the Pittock block ot land was $12.65
in a square foot in 1910, while the
Collins tract was assessed $14.70 an
aore.
Mr. Hicinbothaui would put a di-
reot tax on "hrge land holdings," so
as to make the owueis let no."
Would he make Mr. Pittock "let go"
his Block 215, which is less than one
acre in size, but greater in value than
any laud holding in Clackamas county
except thut ot the Oregon aud Cali
fornia Kailway Company?
Is a vaoant Oregou City lot worth
$500 a smaller laud holding than 6
aores of Clacsauias county land worth
$250? Is a 100-acre tract of wild
Clackamas county laud woith $15 an
aore a larger holding than a 10-aoie
tract of wild ltnd worth $1,500 an
acre?
Is the Oregon City water power,
olaimed by the Po.tland Railway,
Littht and Power Company and worth
more than $7,000,000 a smaller hold
ing than the 8i,.17U aires owned in
Clackamas oonnty by the O. & C
Railway Co. and assessed $1,105,555
iu 1910. Whioh is the larger holding
of personal property, a $0 cord of
wood or a $30 gold piece?
Mr. Hioiubothaui is iu the position
of a juror who makes up his mind
about a case before he hears the evi
dence, He doesn't understand what
single tax is ur means, "With all thy
gettiug get understanding," said the
wise man. Which is mighty good ad
vice.
W. li. EOGLESTON
Here's the man who w H raise the
kale to run the Tuft eampaiuu this
year i red w. upnam. He was first
assistant to nil the "barrel" in 1908,
and ho was so successful he has been
promoted this term. He is a member
n close standing with the Busse ma
chine of Chicago, runs a coal mono
poly in wiuter aud an ice trust iu
uuimer. Ou the side he has a lumber
company, a railroad aud a family
group of banks aud trust companies.
Au'd I hare an idea this man l as some
ittle assurances ou the ride that a
Tatt aduunistiali in won't iut tfere
with liis comtiinaticna You know it
isn't natural for a mau to raise a cam
paign fund to be used attninst him.
Dr. Leonard Rilev of McMiunville
College, who has returned fro u an
astern trip, declares that Woodrow
Wilton will be ttie Democratic nomi
nee. He says that if Taft is nominat
ed the busiuefs aud professional men
will vote ttie Democratio ticket.
It's Roosevelt! a;ains; Tft. with
LaFollette watching for the weak
places.
UP THE WRONG TREE.
Two weeks ago the Courier made
comparisons between the Willamette
valley and Crook county, end fur
gcBtnd that any mau who-had ever
lived at Bend should ask for forgive
uess a a rerorni. me comparison
was further extended to "soma east
ern and central Oregou towns."
Just how he fignred it I don't know
but Editor Cheney of the Chieftain
at Enterprise, way out in Wallowa
county, thousht this crmpariaon lin
eluded that county, and the wav he
went after old Clackamas in a "get
back," would put our thermometer
up several degrees But he lets the
Ci urier editor out iu this easv way
aud he is forgiven :
However, we'll not censure
Editor Brown. He's cn of the few
oouutry editors with ideas and
the nerve to express them. Noth
ing of the "me too" order about
him. All he needs is a couple
of months in beautiful Wallowa
next summer tob build up hh rain
enervated constitution aud broad
en his mind, and lie would go
home a stronger aud wiser man.
Aud now if Editor Cheney will
loon up the comparison he will find
it was Crook county and not Wallowa
and that he is making a pretty big
ado about nothing.
WILL HE RUN AGAIN?
Here is what Governor West is cred
ited with having said in his address
to the ladies of the Medford Club:
"Honest to God, ladies, I
wouldn't acoept another political
office if it was handed to me on a
Bilver platter. I had an ambition
to be governor of the state for one
term, but now when that one is
finished I am going home to the
'missus' aud the kids."
And here is what one of the Will
amette valley papers tads onto this
statement :
He is a credit to the Oregon
plan and will be re-elected by tbe
biggest majority ever given a gov
ernor of Oregon.
SECESSION IN OR ICON.
(By an Idaho Pioneer R publican. )
In the latter part of 1800 and ti e
spring of '01, the "rims that tried
men's souls," the question of secession
from the umou and becoming a por
tion of the new confederacy was dis
cussed in the legislatures of Oregon,
Washington aud California, and later,
in Idaho The parly settlers of the
Paoifio slope were by a large majority
Irom Tennessee, Missouri snd Virgin
ia, and opDcsed to the coming Lincoln
administration, and in Oregon the
southern feeling was so intense that
negroes and mulattoes were forbidden
to come into the new state. In 1800,
Gen. Lane, who was the running mate
with Breckinridge for vice president
of the United States, on the Southern
Democratic ticket, was governor ot
Oregon, and there were three tickets
in the field at the fall election, the
(Juion, the Southern Democratio aud
the Douglass or loyal Democratic
The result was a tie as between the
Union and Secession parties, with two
Douglass JJemoorats holding the Dal
ance of power.
In the contest for U. S. senator, the
Doulass men voted with the Union
ists for Col. E. D. Btker. thereby de
testing Lane, who was with the con
federacy.
The question of secession was also
settled bv the votes of these two loyal
Democrats, and the words "The Un
ion," became the motto of Oregon
The matter of secession was also de
feated by two votes in the territorial
legislature of Washington.
General Albert Sidney Johnson was
iu command of the army of the Pacifio
at the time, with headquarters at San
Fraooisoo, and California seemed to
fuvor secession.
President Linooln, having been ap
prised of the conditions on tins coast
before his inauguration, sent Gen.
McDowell to California to relieve
Johnston, with orders for Johnstou to
report to him at Washington, but
Johnston failed to do so, and report
ed to President Davis of the oouefder-
acy, at Moutogmory. The presence of
the uew troops under McDowell had
the tendency to check the secession
element and California was saved to
the union by seven votes.
Idaho was organized iu '08 as a ter
ritory, and a union paper, the "Gold
en Age " opened up iu Lewiston and
hoisted the old flag, it beiug the first
time that Old Glory was flung to the
breeze in Idaho. In a short time, the
flag was shot full of holes. A seces
sion paper, known is "The Crisis"
had been running a long time pre
vious. In the fall of '04 there were
two union men elected to the Idaho
legislature, and all officers of the ter
ritory except those appointed by Pres
ident Liucolu, were secessionists.
Washington Territory raised a reg
iineut of uuion infantry volunteers,
Oregon raised an infantry and caval
ry regiment, Idaho raised a troop ot
rangers aud California raised for the
uuion service infantry and cavalry
regiments aud a battallion of "native
cavalry," the last mostly Spanish
Americans All these troops did good
service in keeping the old emigrant
trails free from hostile ludiaus, who
louked upon tho immigrant wagon
trams as their lawful prey,
flew Mexico Territory, of whioh at
that time Arizona composed the west
ern portion, had joined the southern
confederacy. The "If'ive Civilized
Tribes" of the Indian Territory, tlie
Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws. Chica
sawa and Seminoles, had also seceded.
Had the secession element prevailed
in Washington, Oregon and Califor
nia, there would have been a lormid
able chain of country in the uew con
federacy, extending from the northern
boundary of Washington down to the
Rio Graude, and thence along the gulf
to the south side of the Potouiao. The
failure of the Pacific dope to cinnect
is one ot the great "its of history."
The Mews says therj sre 7000 idle
meu in Portlaud. This condition is
not because Portland is in bad shape
quite the coutrary. That oity ia grow
ing by leaps aud bounds, aud the
whole coast country is in good shape.
The trouble is simply that there are
tar too many men f of the amoout of
jobs au unnatural condition brought
on by the boom stories, wage scales
and splendid climate of this much-advertised
Northwest.
The weak spot with eastern adver
tising is that it brings to Oregon too
ninny work hunters and too few work
makers, and the work hunters fill the
cities while the rich land sections set
tle up slowly.
Oregon should change its mtthods of
advertising. It shoo Id reach out for
men who have money euouuli to make
a start, and it should warn the job
hunters to stay away. We have too
few of the former aud an overload ot
tbe latter.
WHO ARE DEMOCRATS?
We find iu Mr Bryan's" paper the
following:
"When trust maguutes say that com
petition cannot be restored between
big corporations they invite Social
ism. If the doctrine thus contended
for is ever accepted by the publio,
then the only remaining question will
be whether profits of monopoly shall
be enjoyed by a few favored individu
als or by the publio The Democratic
party is" opposed to Socialism and it,
therefore, stands for a restoration of
competition. It may be difficult to
'unt-cramble eggs,' as Mr Morgan
suRgtsts, but it is bett r to separate
the members of a trust than to endure
either private monopoly or its legiti
mate offspring Socialism. "Bryan's
Commoner.
Mr. Taft also said virtually the
same thing. So we have both domi
nant parti' s Agreed. But ten cr
twelve years ago when the Socialist
press and agitators welcomed the
trust an a forerunner of Socialism we
got the big guf haw or horse laugh,
but now the old party politicians
have to aoknoweledge we were right
once at least. Now it is a fact, as
Bryan, 'Taft. LaKollette and "Ted"
say: "Back to competition, accept
th trust or go forward to Social
ism." What are you going to do about it,
Mr. Voter? If back, how far? To
the jungle-? Stand still and let a few
big Ush swallow us up, or go forward
to the co operative commonwealth a
real democracy.
It is op to you, Mr Democrat and
Republican working mule, whether
yon stand for Bryan, Ted, back to the
jungle or the trust, cr for Polly aud
the children.
This is the issue, the whole issue
and nothing but the issue, bo help
yourself.
Sav, who are the Democrat-, any
way? yours for a pure democracy,
W. W. MYERS.
CUT OUT THE RED FLAG.
When Assemblyman Merrill, the
first Socialist ever elected to the New
York legislature, was escorted to his
chair, the delegation carried a red
flag.
It ib such petty little demonstra
tions as this that does Socialism more
harm than all the anti Socialists can
print. It gives the cause the soent cf
anarchy and it makes level-headed
men fear the future.
The old stars and stripes that Amer
icans have given their lives for aud
drenched with their blood ia flag
enough to cover any political party in
this country, and why Americau So
cialists should permit the red rag to
be used cn such occasions is what gets
me
Raising the price of shoes fifty cents
a pair will do more harm to the Re
publican party than all the Democrat
ic speakers of the country.
President Taft dramatioally ex
claims "Nothing but death can keep
me out of the fight now." But there
are other things that can keep him
out of the finish.
Lou Payne, Republican old guard
boss, says the Republican sorap is be
tween the old guards and the black
guan b. .
Put the strongest and oleauest men
on the Demooratio state and county
tioket this fall, and the voters will
Bee that the Republicans won't walk
off with everything.
The cold storage morgues ate used
for the rjurpoBe of cornering products
aud keeping prices np. A stringent
law. oomDellinur the date to be put ou
every cold storage product would stop
this cinch. The Amenoan tanners
were paid six billion dollars for last
year's egg produotiou, while the
American consumers had to pay tne
niiddh service thirteen billions.
In tilling a petition of candidaoy at
Salem, Senator Bourne gives out these
objects whioh he will work for: A
system of direct legislation, popuiar
election of senators, parcels poBt, fed
eral corporation control, exclusion of
coolie labor, non-partisan taritT ccm
mission. liberal appropriations for
river and harbor improvements, free
canal, euforcement of pure food laws,
efficiency in government, national
good roads legislation.
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TUT YOUR. IDEAL TO WORK.
It is good to have un Ideal.
But-
Idpnls are nothing' If they do not
ead up to the real. To be worth while
hey must lead you somewhere and
and you somewhere. j
This is the test: Try your Ideal on. j
If It Is good the results will be good. I
Eou can test the tree of idealism by its !
fruits.
An ideal is a picture In your mind ,
if what Is supremely to be desired. '
It is a vision of what ought to be.
ind it is on impulse to better things. ;
An ideal is more thnn a dream.
If you ouly dream you are not a good ,
denllst. If you dream long and hesl-.
ate you ore not on Idealist at all; you
ire merely u Mlcawber waiting for :
iomething to turn up. If you are n
:rue Idealist you will go out and turn
iomething up. -
A true Ideal Is a big Idea that bus ,
worked Its way down from your head
uto your heart. It beckons and lends '
rou to an objective. A true ideal tins
terminal facilities.
You want to do or be. Well
Tbe ideal tukes hold of you where .
rou are und as .von ure and puts ynu
n motion and in tbe right direction.
It leads you to n goal. '
Lincoln had a true ideal.
It was given bim by his wilderness
mother, who, when dying, called tbe
nine-year-old boy to ber bedside nnd
said: "l am going away, my boy. but
I want you to remember that your
mother wants you to be a good and u
iseful man." That Ideal goodness
and usefulness led Lincoln up to the
heights.
Jefferson had nn Ideal to weave the
web of democracy Into the warp of
M'ganic law. It took hiin also to the
blgh ground of greatness.
Ideals are living Issues, not more
ionglngs.
And your ideal Is it good? Then
harness It to your life forces iu such n
way that It will lead .rou to noble ac
complishment. nold fast to It. Dream the dream.
but make the drenm come true.
Dream? Yes, but do!
Link your Ideal to your will power
fhen something must move, because
fou have linked t.ou s power nun
yours.
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is bustling around the house.
notice
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