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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, FEB. 23, 1912 7 OREGON CITY COURIER. PROTECT OUR LAMBS. Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Eighth and Main streets, and en tered in the Fostoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as second clnss mail matter. OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS M. J. BROWN, A. E. FROST, OWNERS. Subscription Price $1.50. Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1 M. J. BROWN. EDITOR THE SCAREY TALK. Did you notice the predictions of two of our countrys so-called great men last week? If you did, what do you think of their views of the future? I always believe that it is just as well to state a fact as to think it, and 1 admire these men be cause (hey have sand onou?!.-. But I will take this back as applying to Steel Trust Gary, for he spoiled it all afterward by the statement that he did not know the newspapers were, going to use it or he would not have said it. What (lary said was this: "Things are being said now shu ilar to the things that were said .lust before the trench revolution This spark may yet burst into flame and that flume may come soon. Unlessthe capitalists and the corporations and the rich and powerful men themselves take a leading part in trying to improve the condition of humanity, great changes will come mighty quick And ttno moD win bring i.nem. That was pretty plain talk wasn't it, and it was a talk to his own silk-stocking bunch, the lows who have made their piles as Gary made his. It was a pri vate talk, and had tie nave known that a newspaper was to print it he never would have said it. He would simply have thought it. The other man who said much the same words was the pure food otlicial, Dr. Wiley, and while he didn t speak from the aristocrat s point of view, yet the people will take it from him with far better grace. Here's what Dr. Wiley said: "The time is ranidlv annroach ing when the people will face mob violence on tne streets, mis sit uation will bo due to the fast an proaching day when working people will be deprived of the means of subsistence. Every day the position of the workingman is becoming worse." i Hut now that you have read it, how much better are you or the country? Stating conditions that any man wlio reads already knows is a mighty long way from a rem edy. .What is Gary doing to better conditions? He gave his wife a necklace for a Christmas present that cost a half million dollars, and it would have been impossible for him to have helped more to bring about the conditions which he predicts if he had studied on a means. You and I know that no man should have money enough that he can give half million presents and never miss the money. ( It is such acts as this and such men as this that are breeding all kinds of trouble in this tired old world, trouble that is going to turn things' over one of these cloudy mornings. Hut 1 won't quit without mak ing a noise like a remedy. We have got to do away with the con ditions that make it possible for a man to own millions of dollars OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. The editor of the Canby Irri gator reels off political forecasts like a campaign manager, and here is what he as';s us to believe. Taft will bo renominated hands down, he says. He simply does not mention Roosevelt, LaKollette and Cummins, they are not in the cunning. Against Taft he tells us per haps Harmon, possibly Clark, yet in his possibles ' ana per- hapses he never drags in Wilson or Bryan. He goes on to say that Clark would be "easy meat" but Harmon would give the Republ cans a hard battle, But ho blows away the uneasi ness by the statement that theRe publicans will win. as the Demo erats are bound to do the wrong thing at the right time, etc. The Irrigator man must have some public temperatures that have not been given out by the doctors, He should be inter viewed" by the big chief of the American Economist. Now here's our guess they do not cost anything: Harmon won't come within even hearing distance of a nomina lion, and if was nominated he no louht would no deteated. If he and Taft are nominated third party will come into the race and skin them both. If Taft is nominated he will be defeated at the noils. Roosevelt stands the best snow of anv Renub ican for a nomin ation if he wants it but this wise guinea is waiting to see if a Republican can be elected tnis vear. Wilson or Clark win no nomin ated by the Democrats and it is an even guess which. Wilson is (lie best vole getter, nut euner would be accepted by the Demo cratic rank and lilo with little protset. And now put a pin in tnis pre diction, and refer to it next No vember the next president will lie a Progressive. STAND PAT " ARGUMENTS." Annlv to the matter all the fancy phraseology known to the mguage and trie lact win re main at the bottom mat in tne coming test ot virtues tne ue puhlican party will stand (Irmly ir moderate protection, wnn tne Democrats hack of iree trade Does anybody want free trade-? Oregonian. -we have got to take away the opportunity, and put our people more tin an equal basis. And the only way to do it is through legislation, by goveern rnent control of the means that produces that which wo eat, drink, wear and thoso things that are necessary to our comfort. And if the government doesn't well, perhaps .the men quoted wane up and iaco meso matters above are truo prophets. I wonder on what the Oregon ian bases these statements, The present steel bill, which passed the house by a vote of two to one, is "moderate protection" but the Oregonian has said Taft would veto it. The farmers' free list bill was "moderate protection" but the president would not have it. The Democratic wool revision bill was "moderate protection" hut President Taft vetoed it. The present Payne-Aldrich bill is nign protection and a trait jorus act by the Republican party whose platlorm promised lowered schedules, but Tait signed it Assertions are not facts, mere words don't count records loll the story. And how can a great newspaper expect men who do their own thinking to swallow its statements that Republicans nro for moderate protection and the Democrats for free trade, when congress proves the Democrats have stood for moderate protec tion and the Republicans have killed every sucn eiioriY AND MORSE WON'T DIE. Haven't hear anything about Morse dying lately, have you? Taft, pardoned this bunk wreck er and panic maker so that be could die a free ninu und in a cit izens nighl-dres, but just to bo mean he passes up the shroud doings and continues to live on. But Morse didn't have any no tion of dying when he put that, one over on the president. Nor did Morses political friends have Govt any real uneasiness as to the eon- 'stronger in the hearts of the vol- nnion oi ins noalttli. I hey want-'ers every day, (or men believo in od Morse out, and they got him ! him and believo if ever a man was OUR CONGESSMANS PLATFORM Conirressnian Ilawley has filed his rli'elaratinn as a candidate for congress in this district which is as follows: "I will continue my work suc- cesfully undertaken, of obtaining annnmria ions lor rivers, nur- hni's and ruililic buildings: extend ing postal facilities and rural free delivery, won neiter pay lor em ployes; adequate relief for vet erans; natoinui assistance in pro moting development, of our horti culture and agriculture; and for od roads: aiding seniors and miners in nuMic domain open ing to development all natural resources and agricultural land within the stale; I aril) revision by schedules on basis equalizing dif ference between manuiaeturer here and abroad; direct election of senators, having already voted for such constitutional amend ment. RIDICULE NOT REASON. The Eugene Register uses the good roads bill as a pretext to write a very silly attack on Gov ernor West, stating that he is a sentimentalist and an impralieal dreamer, a boy playing at a man's work, with little real thought but with dramatic effort to win ap plause, etc. tiiey may say wnat uiey win oi nor West, nut lie is growing out. You and I wouldn't have made the rifllle. It would have been serve for ours. But my opinion of Morse is he is an ungrateful cus. If he had any gratitude ho would have plugged Ihe game along, lain down and died and let thepresi dent out of (ho hole. Bui. such is gratitude. honestly trying to give Oregon a square deal ho is West. There are matters over which the Courier honestly disagrees with the governor, but. it is not so narrow and skin-bound as not to recognize honest effort for the slate's good. West does things. He is ever lastingly on the job, and because of what he lias dono and is try ing to do, tho herd is with him. And anv time the Register is in Worse and nioro of it, now doubt of this, let it trot out a Vice President Sherman solemnly didate against him and see what deelures for Taft. (he people would do to him. Most People Think that it pays to save Those, who have tried it know that it does. The differ ence between thinking and knowing is the difference between failure aud suc cess. Your savings, deposited in this bank, draw 3 per cent, interest and are amply protected. The Bank o f Oregon City TSi Oldest Bank inJIR County ' Oregon needs a guardian, and if there was ever a sinning open ing for a legislator to make a shining mark for himself and have the people call him the Real Preserves, it is now. Oregon needs a law to slop the rascals from fleecing the lambs, some means to run the bunco schemes through a cleaner and take the bunco out of them be fore they can be fed to an easy public. Kansas has a law that pro tects its innocentc, and it is the best piece of legislation that was ever put on the records of the Sunflower state. It provides that all stock before being offered for sale shall be passed upon by a le gal board or commission. And Kansas mil l taking on as inucn blue sky as she once did. Hut seriously. this slate needs protection from gold-bricking, if every a baby needed protection. ou nusiness men now many worthless stock certificates have you stowed away in the safe and in tne private drawers. We can't punish these ras cals. A good lawyer hired by a part of the money you "as trim med out of, and a technicality or two let them slip out of it. We want laws that will weed nut the skin games, the mining frauds and give confidence to the propositions that have merit and are on the level. WATCH HISTORY REPEAT. stated I.nsl. Anril the Courier thai Mexico could only be held together by an iron hand like Diaz's, and present events make the guess good. Hut it wasn't entirely a predic tion. The Courier editor has traveled in Mexico and knows something of Mexicans, and he knows that it will take years of education and a whole lot more civilization before the people of f.hnl. country can appreciate and use rightly the favors of a repub lic . .. . One shou d get back to me in terior of this big country and see iho dense, den orab e ign rance of tin? natives and the awful con ditions of indolence and poverty, and then ho would realize that the country of blacks, this mixture of Aztecs, Spaniards and Chinese was mighty poor material to found a tree repunnc on. And here's betting that History will repeat itself, and history has it that in 1847 this country inter vened in Mexico and gobbled a big chunk. It was a war of conquest. . OUT FOR EQUAL RIGHTS . I admire Governor West for his out and out declaration for equal voting rights for women, and I am betting a slack of whites that the state will carry for it. We fought Great Brit ian and licked her because she would not give we men the right of repre sensentation with enforced taxa tion, and yet we want our women to stand for the same condition Here is the way the Governor sizes il up, and can a reasoning man size il up any other way? "I am in favor of equal suf frage because I think it is right and because 1 have laith in wo man. "1 find that women stand for better things than do men. 1 find men so wrapped up in their af fairs that they don't give thought to good government like they should, while women do. "1 want to say that many a man gets credit tor wnat ins stenogra pber knows. Many men today are traveling through life on what their wives or stenograph er knows. SELLING WILL RUN Ben Selling of Portland, has made public announcement that he will be a' candidate for U. S senator and give Jonathan Bourne a run for his money. The press dispatches state that he "will retire immediately as a member of the Taft committee. No doubt some one sent him a copy of last week's Courier. Does being a member of the Taft committee. injure his chan ces for the senatorship? Rather looks so. He was the chairman and the main steeper of this stand-pat hunch until lie caught tne sena torship itch, but now he is a pro gressive all over and stands for the common people when they are looking. And it sometimes occurs to me that both Ben and Jonathan might be dumped into the politi cal graveyard and you and I per haps fare just as well. The U. S. Senate has far too many millionairs now. Five men walked onto the gal lows and were strangled to death in one day in Chicago iast week. This item alone should make the voters of Oregon abolish this le gal horror next November. Elect ing a man sheriff doesn't give him a moral right to murder murderers. OREGON'S REFORM LAWS STAND Tho Supreme Court has render ed its decision. The initiative and referendum stands in Oregon and tho Pacific Telephone Com- must pay its taxes just us any man has to. Tho decision of tho highest ourt in this case was unanimous, and it leaves Oregon free to gov- n llseli and the voters lo mane iws. . . . And what do you think ot this lephone corporation which lives f the fat of Oregon, yet refused to pay its taxijs. The Homo Company paid its without a murmur, but tho great acille thought it was greater than the'people and it relused. Thev must whack up nowjust as a farmer and a business man must whack up. And the men ot Oregon should member the spirit of this great corporation the effort to kill its form laws in order lo dodge us taxes. I'liat was a bad break the Re- ublican State Committee meet ing in Portland made wnen oiu guard" members openly advocat- d il was lime lo go down mo line, store the convention system, lolish tlm "fold law" of 19 10, und tell W. S. U'Ron where to get oil it I would like to see some ot these fellows who would kill oil Oregon's reform laws, run for something, and give the people n bunco to go down the line with them. These men with plenty ol mouth and little judgment are not it li the people. they play politics for what there is in it, for the job, the influence and t lie land in. The Oregon system is hero to lay because the people will keep it, und it doesen't mailer whether Mr. U'Ron made it, or whether, like Topsy, it "just growed." 11 now looks as if only the lines of Wilson and Clark will go on tho Oregon primary ballots. I haven't heard of Roosevelt calling anyone a liar for a week past. They raise the argument that nator Bourne does not live in Oregon and he should be turn down. There is not a candid ate announced against him that an turn nun. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, u mercury will lurely destroy the aense of smell and completely derange the whole syutem when entering It through the mucous surfaces. 8uoh articles should never be used except on prescrip tions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do la ten fold to the good you can possibly de rive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co.. Toledo, O., contains no mer cury, and Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It Is taken Internally, snd made In Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Cheney Co. Testimonials fret. Sold by Druggists. Price, 7 5c. per bottle. Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTOR I A NEWS FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL Ainsworth Affair Basis of an Investigation of the War Department. eaicinc cOuft aecicied. That tribunal held thrt the question of whether a state still maintained a republican form of government guar anteed bythe federal constitution af ter It adopted the initiativn and refer endum was a problem for congress, and not a judicial one for the courts. The decision was based on the claim of the Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph company that a tax upon It, imposed by the inltlutl. e u.id refer endum method la Oregon, was uncon stitutional. The Initiative and refer endum provisions in M'ssouri, Cali fornia, Arkansas, ColoniJa, South Dn kota, Utah, Montana, Maine and Ariz ona hung In the balance. An adverse decision would have affecteJ the pro posed legislation of that character In many other states. National Capital Brevities. President Taft's urgent appeal ty. Five members of tho senate com mlttee on privileges and elections, in a minority report asserted that Unit ed States Senator Stephenson, of Wis consin,' was not entitled to his seat in the senate; Declaring that further naval defense is essential to the Pacific coast, Con gressman Hayes of California, has asked the house naval committee to provide 50 additional submarines ou the western coast. The nomination of Chancellor Hah Ion Pitney, of New Jersey, to be as sociate justice of the supreme court of the United States to fill the va cancy caused by the death of Justice Harlan, was sent to the senate by President Taft. Representative Sulzer, of New York, has Introduced in the house a bill slm ilar to the Lafean bill of the last con gress, which attempts to standardize the size of boxes used In shipping ap ples, the purpose being to discrimin ate against western apples. The chemical schedule in the tariff bill prepared by the Democratic mem bers of the ways and means commit tee will Increase the revenues of the government more than $4,000,000 Many oils are transferred to the dut lable list, paints and Oyes are reduced and spices are taxe:'.. Tho most tm portant Increases are chloroform from 6 to 20 per cent, ai:d caffeint' Ji-om 25 to 45 per ce .t. Crude tartar and eg albumen use J, In b:iklng pow der are doubled. If von haven't tlm time to exercise regularly, DoauV Reirnlets will prf vent oouBtiDatinn. Thev Indnce a mill, easv. healthful action of the bowels wit' oat griping Ask your druggist for them. 25 cents. An Epidemic of Coughing ing over the town. Old and young alike are affected and the strain is Darrionlarlv hard on little children and nn elderly pennl-i. Folev's Houey a d Tar Compound in n quick, S'tf and reliable onre for all ooubIh aud colds. Contains no opiates. Jonetf D lug Co. .: Foreign mill workers sneakinc 45 languages nro leaving Law rence. Muss, am looking fur work elsewhere. Ami Massachusetts farted the slogan "Protection to merit' au orkmen. Now comes the story thatlloose velt won't accept. Perhaps lie has been reading cirant's history, or perhaps ho wants to get even with Taft. Washington. Investigation of the war department is regarded as cer tain as the outgrowth of the differ ences between the secretary of war and General Wood and Major-Genoral Ainsworth, which culminated In Alns worth's retirement after a threatened court-martial. General Ainsworth was subpenaed to appear before the house commit tee on expenditures in the war de partment. He was directed to pro duce papers of the department relat ing to the charges against Major R. B. T.ay, but members of the commit tee, including chairman Helm, admit ted General Ainsworth would be asked about many other things and that the entire administration of the war department would be probed. In addition to this phase of the in quiry, the house committee on mili tary affairs will act on a resolution Introduced by Representative Wat kins, of Louisiana, calling upon the secretary of war to produce all pa pers, correspondence and orders hav ing any bearing on the letter of Sec retary of War Stlmson to General Ainsworth setting forth the charges of insubordination which led to his retirement. Sugar Trust Investigators Report The sugar trust Investigating com mittee, after many weeks of open hearings reported to the house that a sugar trust exists. The committee estimates that 62.39 per cent of the sugar business Is con trolled by the combine As to the effect of the combine on the cost of sugar to the consumer, the committee expresses the belief that monopoly keeps the price up, und charges that since the organization of the American Sugar Refining Com pany In 1891 it has violated the Sher man law repeatedly. The report states thnt the Louisi ana canegrower is discriminated against by an arbitrary ruling of the trust, but that the Huwatian planter is Independent. Ot the beet sugar growers the report says: "Your committee reports that the evidence sb taken does not disclose combinations between the manufac turers In the beet Bugar Industry that have caused or had a tendency to cause a decrease In the cost of sugar beets." 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ICE, Dentist Beaver Building, Oregon City PhonesPacific 1221, Home A 18. J. F. HEDGES Attorney-aL-Law Weinhard Building, Oregon City Portland Oregon Portland Oregon M.y sr-r cr -ySS' i An Unsurpassed Showing of New Woolen Goods The New Dress Goods The most beautiful and satisfying assortments of stylish Dress Goods Ave have ever shown are here now Recent arrivals have brought new weaves and new col orings will be shown this week. In this store's show ing of new Spring Dress (Joods there is a most agree able ehauge ill styles from those shown iu the past seasons. Whatever the edicts of fashion have ap proved for 1012 are here in brilliant array every wanted shade; all are exclusive in this store and all ire moderately priced. Cream-Colored Dress Goods 75c to $2.5() Yd. A full showing of the correct new weaves iu cream colored fabrics New Diagonals, Whipcords Dasket Weaves, Novelty Arniurs, Novelty Stripes, Wide Wale Serges, Storm and Ocean Serges, Imperial and French" Serges; also Cream Serges with hairline and pin stripes and black and white Pekiu Stripes, Bedford Cords aud many others. All pure wool fabrics of seasonable weight and dependable qualities in widths from 45 to 5G inches. New Bordered French Challies, 65c a Ycrd A splendid assortment of the new French Challies, shown in beautiful bordered styles in rich colorings. It is a pure wool fabric that washes perfectly and is full 2S inches wide. There is nothing nicer for party dresses or evening wear. New Challies at 50c Hundreds of yards in this showing of new Silk and Wool Challies, neat small dots and stripes, ami pret ty figured patterns, iu rich color combinations. New goods, full standard width. Priestley's New Black Goods, 75c to $2 a Yd. We have just opened a camplete new stock of Priest ley's celebrated Black Dress goods; also a full line of Win. F. Heed's Black fabrics. These assortments include all the fashionable new weaves for Spring. They are tine piece-dyed fabrics that are guaranteed perfect in weave, color aud finish. They are the best and most attractive ltlack Goods we have shown in a long time There are many grades to choose from in widths from 44 to 60 inches. New Colored Dress Goods 85 Cents Yard Fine all wool Plain a .d .voily Vegereant, New Beige Weaves, Chalkline Stripes, Novelty Pana mas and hard twisted Worsteds, in plain and fancy weaves. The prettiest dress goods in town at anywhere near this price. They come 4 4 inches wide. Scotch Mixtures at $1.00 A very attractive shnwiiiir nf the new Scotch Heather r:.iUires in Iho popular shades of laii.brown and pray. Fabrics of unusually durable quality that are ei'en:e ly fashionable. They come full 52 inches wide. New Woolen Dress Goods in plain and fancy weaves, 54 to 56 inches wide at $1.50 a Yard An unsurpassed showing of rlo mestic and imported Dress G,.ods for spring, 1912, is here aid it awaits' your inspection. From iho point of style and value it is '.ho best we ever had. These fabrics come from 5i to 56 inches wide. New Scotch .Novelties, Heather Mixtures, Illuminated Cheviots, Novelty Worsteds, plain and fan cy Serges, wide-wale Diagonals, and many other kinds, all of dou ble weight and made from the fin est wool yarns. Not a desirable shade or color is missing from this wonderful assortment. We cordially invite you to look at the new goods, even if you are not yet ready to buy. It will help you to plan your spring sewing to the best advantage, and quality con sidered you will find our prices the lowest. S