OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, MARCH 2,29 1912
OREGON CITY COURIER
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M. J. BR.OWN,
TONGUE'S "INDORSEMENTS"
I note that District Attorney
Tongue is using paid newspaper
space to tell the "dear people"
what an efficient ofllcial he has
been, and that he is printing the
names of lawyers of this district
who have been induced to sign
his petition.
I have noticed that the fellow
who has made fully good doesn't
have to get out with paid adver
tisements to prove it. The people
find it out readily enough.
By this same reasoning the
Courier should get out a paper
stating that it was'tlie,best paper
published in Clackamas, hire
someone to circulate it, and then
hire some newspaper to publish
the resolution which, the news
paper prepared itself, together
with the signatures of the men
who signed it.
And what would be your opin
ion of the editor if he should pull
off such a play?
You would think ho was so
swelled up that a coat of Charles
A. Dana would not be big enough
for a vest pattern for him.
And you would have him sized
up just about right.
Let me illustrate something
about this petition business, and
tell you what is said to be an act
ual occurance.
A member of a big, exclusive
club in Chicago was in wrong on
some matter of morality, and
there was an effort on to expell
him. So the fellow drew up a
sort of a memorial of self praise,
telling what a devil of a fine fel
low he was,' how ho was a moral
character with an Italic cap M.and
then he got his friends on the job
gelling signatures.
And behold, one night ho pre
sented the petition to the commit
tee who was investigating the
charges, and it had over half the
names of the club's members.
Then one of the committee made
the statement that ho would cir
culate a petition to hang this
man, circulate it among the
same club members and that he
would get half of those who had
aigued his character certificate to
ask that he be hanged. And he
made it good.
A petition is of just about as
much weight as a "to whom it may
concern" recommond or a straw
ballot. A man signs them becau
se bis friend circulates them, and
half of the men who sign them
don't read them or know what
they are.
Mr. Tongue: If you have done
your full duty as district attor
ney in this district and in this
county you bavon't got to tell the
people about it in the Enterprise
over the words "paid advertise
ment." The people of this county know
just as much about your record
as do the half dozen lawyers who
signod your working certificate.
Tho petition of tho people that
really counts is tho ono that tho
voters have a hand in the first
week in November, and if this pa
per is any judgo of sentiment, you
will get yours then.
Hut in the meantime, go on wilh
the petitions. .
Tho Democrats have played a
good card in inducing that old
war horse, P. S. Noyer, of Molalla,
to again become a candidate for
tho legislature. Three times this
farmer has won out in a largely
Republican counly, and three
times he made good. Ho was never
beaten nnd he won't be this year.
It is such men as Mr. Noyer that
tho slate legislature needs, and it
is such places as Molalla that re
presentatives should como fronu
Tho cities havo too many and the
farming districts too few.
The Policy
Is to provide a prompt, accurate bankiug
service for all, and to combine liberal
treatment with due conservatism.
If you think well of it we shall be pleas
ed to add your name Jo our growing list
of depositors.
Every modern banking facility extended.
The Bank o f
The Oldest Bank
Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1
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EDITOR
THE LOST CHORD
Two weeks ago in Carnegie hall
in New York, Theodore Roosevelt
rose to the text of "The Right of
the people to Rule" and sprung
this one: -
The great fundamental is
sue now before the Republi- '
can party and the people can
be stated briefly, it is, are the
American people fit to govern
themselves, to rule themsel
ves to control themsJves? I
believe they are. My oppon
ents do not.
And somehow the above had a
familiar rig, like the snatch of a
song that one has heard-and for
gotten. And in looking hack
through the files of a newspaper I
edited in New York four years ago
I find the forgotten chord, in the
speech of the Hon. William Jen
nings Bryan before the notilloa-
tion committee of Lincoln, Neb.,
on the 12th day of August, 1908.
Here it is:
"The overshadowing issue
which manifests itself in all
questions under discussion is
.. "shall the people rule?" No
matter to what subject we ad
dress ourselves, the same
question confronts us: Shall
the people control their own
' government and use that gov
ernment for the protection
of their rights and for the
promotion of their welfare.
And what a lot of the Men Who
came After Him havo but on his
overcoat and used his words.
Bryan was the father of the pro
gressive movement that is sweep
ing this country today. They re
viled nun tor me utterances men,
and today they steal them and call
them their own brain products.
WHErtE WAS HAWLEY?
While Congressman Laff
erty of this stale has not in
all things made an enviable
record at Washington, ho
certainly voiced tho senti
ment of his constituents in
voting for the free sugar bill.
Woodburn Independent.
Hut why should the Independ
ent go outsido its district to find
a comment? . Why didn't it tell
how its own congressman voted
on this bill, and state as frankly
that ho did NOT represent his dis
trict when ho votod against the
free sugar bill.' And whilo you
are at it, see how Congressman
Ilawley voted on tho hill to make
those who have an incomo of ov
er $5,000 pay an income tax on
same. And if you havo time you
might lako this gentleman's vot
ing record down the lino and see
how many times ho has stood for
tho people and how many times
for special privilege.
It is said that every ofllcial in
the capital at Salem has announc
ed for or signed petitions for tho
right of women to vote. Every
body admits tho right these days,
for tho reason that no ono can
think up any argument against it
I hat will hold water and that ho
daro spring. There is littlo doubt
that the slnlo will give the wo
men what -is legally and morally
(heir right next fall.
See how good a guess this is,
you Republicans: That instead
of Taft carrying Oregon "over
whelmingly" at the primaries
next month, LaFollotto will skin
him a mile, and will do to him
very much what North Dakota did
lo him two weeks ago. And the
reason is thai LaFollotto stands
for something, stands for what
Hie peoplo want.
Nothing lo it but play the game
to win this year.
of This Bank
Oregon City
in The County
THE STRAIGHT TALK
Did you ever read or hear of
Miss Leonora O'Reilley of New
York? Perhaps not much out
here on tho coast, and perhaps
not much anyway, for the boss
controlled papers don't put her
sayings on tho front pages. This
Irish girl is a power for the rights
of tho working girls and for the
the way she hands up the straight
talk is- making her a reputation.
She was one of the women heard
before the senate committee,, and
hero is what the senate commit
tee had to. listen to: '
I do not want to play any'
bluff game on you. We work
ing women have simply got to
have the ballot. Now I want
to hand it to you straight
YOU MKN HAVE GOT THE
COUNTRY INTO A DEVIL OF
A MESS, and we women are
willing to help you out. Y'ou
want the country to get fichf .
but you do not seem to real
ize that the greatest assets
of the country are the people.
This country has grown rich
BUT IT HAS GROWN MIGH
TY ROTTEN.
If the women who want Votes
would cut out tho window smash
ing and mob doings and put up
this lino of talk, how much quick
er would they get the ballot.
HAPPY DEMOCRATS.
If the Democratic party doesn't
carry this country like a cyclone
this fall, then will I quit guessing,
and if tho Republican party
doesn't completely go to pieces as
a party and be disrupted beyond
repair, then will I again quit the
political prophesy business.
This tired old world never saw
such ft spectacle in party politics
as tho ono now being staged by the
Republicans. We see a Roose
velt, the man who made Taft pres
ident lo carry out his policies,
with his coat off and knife in hand
trying to down his own making.
We see everywhere the party torn
asunder, divided into factions,
and everywhere mutterings of
discontent. We see an adminis
tration that has been one of the
weakest in many years, and a
president seeking a re-nomma-tion
solely on the strength of the
patronago he has given out.
And .the Democrats sit back,
smile, and frame up the line of
battle. Wilh Wilson, Clarke or
Bryan they can win this year
They know it, and they are not
going to tight over which of these
leaders it shall be.
HARD UP FOR ISSUES.
Hero is one little item in the
circular that tho Selling bureau is
sendini? out to the voters of this
state that will do far'niore harm
to the Selling cause than all the
knocking the Bourne men could
do, and it will help Mr. Bourne far
moro than anything he could do
for himself. Here'9 the item:
He (Senator Bourne) is identi
fied more with the class of Al
drich Republicans than any other
Republicans, while' he claims to
do a progressive.
The first thing Ben Selling
should havo done, when ho got
the yearning for a senatorship,
would have been the hiring of a
manager and press agent, some
ono to have prevented him from
putting his foot in his moulh ev
ery time ho opened it.
When anyone attacks Jonathan
Bourne's progressiveness, ho is a
fool, for the people are not fools
Bourno has been nothing if not a
Progressive, and it is tho silliest
nonsense to try such stuff on poo
pie who read and follow the big
fellows these days.
I am glad to see the fellows
gel down in tho wallow and com
mence to throw tho mud, for it
Democrats to cop out the senator
ship this fall, but at tho same
tiino I gave the old-guard "gang
which everybody knows is behind
the Selling movement, credit for
more sense than trying to put this
raw one over on the peoplo.
As between what Bourne has
done, and Ben Selling's wind,
there is only one choice, forBourne
has done a lot for Oregon and the
Oregon voters, but there comes a
time when the people simply ask
for on entire change in adminis
tration. Senator Bourno has a
thousand times more to fear from
tho Democrats than ho has from
the Selling petty pin sticking.
What tho single taxers ask of
the people of Oregon is to tax all
land on its true value; to tax the
used land no moro than the un
used land;, to tax the wilhholder
of land no loss than tho man put
ting his land to its best use.
Portland Labor Press.
In 1908 the Republican party
rolled up the enormous vote of
57,080 votes for President Taft in
North Dakota. Two weeks ago Mr.
Taft didn't havo enough in that
slate to be worth counting. It is
a sign of what is coming this
year. Nothing can stop it.
The only way the Democrats
can lose is for the candidates to
all commit suicide just before el
ection.
WANTED A CURE
Maple Lane, Ore.
Editor Courier:
Some time ago I read in the
public press that the employees of
a local paper mill had been in
noculated with anti-toxin to pre
vent typhoid, I believe.
Well, that started the ' wheels
under my ragged hat. I can't tell
all that was ground out because
the patience of an editor, like the
space in a paper, must havo a
limit. But one of the thinks was
the wonder of how it would do to
inject vacine virus or some sort
of germicide into a lot of people
who are afflicted with the ofllce
itch. '
Talk about the war on white
plague or testing cows with tu-
berculine, to my mind if some one
wishes to snatch Pastuer's halo
or Koch's renown, let him devel
ope such a dope and the nations
of this little planet will rise like
one man and call him blessed.
Whenever anyone feels a dis-'
inclination to work at productive
labor, the office-seeker germ is
promptly on the job, or if by some
freak of luck a man happens to be
grabbed by the nap of the neck
and tho seat of tho pants and
chucked into public office, the mi
crobes have a long, easy snap to
unfit him for honest labor. See
him then, with his made-to-wear
smile and his ready mitt begging
votes. "Oh, he's a hell of a good
fellow," but he is lost to all self
respect. Perhaps a full course of
the Keeley cure might ' restore
him, which reminds me of the ho
bo who was asked by the kind wo
man what his name was. "Kee'
ley Motor" was the reply.. "Nev
er heard that name before," she
said." "I got that name because I
won't work," he replied. ' .
I never, if I can help it, turn
down a request for a feed from a
fellow down and out, but the vote
begger is disgusting. We now
have the humiliating spectacle of
a national vote-begging contest,
indulged in by the president of
the "greatest and smartest nation
on earth," up to the constable of
Mud Flats, reminding one of Cor
olainus with a "Motherllubbard"
on standing in the market places
asking for "your voices" and tell
ing of his "scars."
The talk these gentlemen hand
out is" spread before us in the dai
lies. If the average high school
kids of Oregon City could not do
as well, I would suggest leasing
the building to the transfer com
pany and finding a job "skinning
mules" for the principal.
If a man "makes good" in an
office don't we know it? Can we
not guess who among our fellow
creatures is about right for a pub
lic snap? It seems not
There are a few other men on
the outside of this globe who feel
about as I do, only they lack the
courage of their convictions. Oth
ers, who must be the majority,
feel flattered to meet on terms of
fraternaly some one who gets his
living off the public, but outside
of the poor house. I feel sorry
for the helpless victim and would
gladly squirt a gallon of dope in
to him.
The most indeffensible phaze of
this question is the public official
giving up the tjjue and energy, he
is paid to employ in public affairs
Many familiar names appear in
the papers, whose salaries range
from fifteen to two hundred dol
lars per day. Would a farmer
pay his hired man to gad about
the neighborhood, blowing about
himself?
If such an act is not malflas
ance in office, we need a big patch
on the constitution and fyylaws of
tho hoarding house.
"It is customary" wo are told
It is customary for nome people
to grab at a halter rope when a
horse is at the other end yet no
one defends a horse thief, except
a lawyer, and he must be well
paid for it.
JOHN F. STARK.
HERMAN WISE.
Herman Wise is the only demo
cratic candidato for delegate to
the democratic national conven
tion, from the fifth judicial dis
triet, and the chances are he will
go to Baltimore. Ho was a for
mer mayor of Astoria, and the
following is a brief sketch of the
man from the Oregonian in 1909:
"Herman Wiso, for tho past
four years mayor of Astoria, re
turned to private life Monday with
the record of placing a new As
toria on the map. The Astoria
that was known all over the Paci
fic coast when he assumed office,
had a bad record for dance halls,
gambling lnnises and many low
dives. The Astoria which will
not soon cease to honor him for
the change ho wrought is a de
cent, orderly city, and neither tho
fishing season nor any other sea
son brings with it the rabble of
gamblers, thieves and other dis
reputables that in the old days
flocked lo tho city by the sea. It
was of course, impossible for
Mayor Wise to accomplish this
great reform without the hearty
support of the best people in the
citv. The firm stand no iook ior
much for the future welfare of
Astoria, "and the effect of his pol
icy will be felt through many con
tinuing administrations."
THE PARTY LASH
(Forest Grove Pess.) j
District Attorney E. M Tongue :
certainly has begun to feel Hi"
need of every effort on his part if
he is to bo nominated. Last week
a paper was circulated unions the
attorneys of Hillsboro a.ul Forest
Grove, asking them .to, pledge
their support to his renomitirti'Mu
A numer of the attorneys of Hills
boro signed,' but the attorneys at
Forest Grove, when Miss Langley
presented the paper, declined to a
man. Mr. Tongue certainly feels
shakey as to his chances, or why
should he bo asking his friends to
share his burden, and at the same
time use the party lash on others?
"JUSTICE."
Two more of that quality of
verdicts that make unrest and
build bridges between tho rich
and the poor, went through ac
cording to schedule this week,
one" the finding that there was not
any beef trust in restraint of
trade, and the other that that
Wisconsin trust senator had
a right to .blow over a hundred
thousand dollars to be elocted a
senator.
We all know there IS a. beef
trust and that it regulates prices,
and we all know that no senator
can spen $100,000 honestly in an
election.
But what we know and what we
get are two different propositions.
The Democrats are not seeing
how many candidates they can
have out, but how few and that's
playing the game.
There is one man alone that is
responsible for the resignation of
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the pure
food expert; and that man is our.
President. Now the food poison
ers will be happy again.
Wanted, the name, address
and reasons for any Clackamas
county farmer voting for William
H. Taft for president this year?
Now, one at a time, and please
don't crowd.
.
The Bourne-Selling fight grows
more bitter every week, and the
Democrats smile. There has
been a lot of sickness made over
this contest that a convention
ean't cure.
You farmers have been asking
for representatives from off the
farms. You have one now, and
a man worthy of any man's vote
and support. Now stay with him,
and never mind what his politics
are.
Selling men won't vote for
Bourne, Bourne men won't vote
for Selling. Taft men won't vote
for Roosevelt, Rosevelt men won't
vote for Taft, LaFollette men
won't vote for either Taft or
Roosevelt. And who will they vote
for? See the answer in tho Dem
ocratic smile the smile that
won't rub off this year?
ELMER SWOPE TAKES HAND.
Gets Into the Sohubel Sshool Mat
ter with Caustlo Letter.
Oregon City, Or., Mach 24.
To the Editor and the Public in
General:
In the article published March
22 from Robt. Ginther, he makes
the statement that publicity is
the proper proceeding to right
that which is wrong. I heartily
agree with him there, especially
is this true when a vile libel has
been uttered,- as in this case,
manufactured, so to speak, out of
the whole cloth, by the writer of
the article in question. As he
professes to be so delighted with
the articles, he attempts to make
light of the probability that his
appetite will be fully satisfied,
before the end is reached.
He. says I have lived here about
nine months, etc. Why don't he
speak tho truth and say about a
year, as I came to this community
before Easter last April. He calls
attention to the fact of my being
so well informed. I had a good
teacher, "Robert Ginther," him
self. Ho scarcely set foot into my
house before giving out that HE
was a school teacher; inside of
ten minutes he was boasting of
"how he threshed the kids," fairly
exulting over it, as the one ach
ievement of his career as a teach
er, worthy of mention, and of
which he was proud. It seemed
strange to me that anyone could
entertain such feeling toward
children placed in his charge.
"Out of the fullness of the heart
the mouth speaketh." The same
thing being reported on many oc
casions by him, made me feel
something was not just as it
should be with the man.
It was only after the disturb
ance repeated here by him, that I
came to know what a merciless
man he was in dealing with those
in his charge, that he had scourg
ed little girls (in short dresses)
until the blood drops stood out
under the blows, yes even till it
trickled down their bare legs on.
Absolutely Pur
To have pure and wholesome
food, be sure that your baking
powder is made from cream
of tartar and not from alum.
The Label will guide you
Royal is the only baking
powder made from Royal
Grape Cream of Tartar
No Atom No
to the floor.
Yes, publicity, Mr. Ginther, is
a great method of righting such
wrongs. (This of course happen
ed before I came to this state, but
was given, me by peoplo you class
as your sympathizers. How
about tho affair over at Clark's,
in which the justice of the peace
was called on to settle the diffi
culty, (a little more of your pub
licity on this point would be
agreeable, Mr. Ginther.)
Now a few words as to the er
ratic statements and what gave
rise to the use of the term. Send
ing your two eldest sons out on
the highway to waylay and beat a
little girl on her way to school;
and then giving out in your High
land school the statement that
"you had directed them to do this
thing, that being the only way
they could obtain justice.
Said a prominent attorney of Ore
gon City who addressed an as
semblage of people at the school
house that evening, "It's a perfect
outrage; were the' child mine
Robt. Gunther would answer be
fore the court to the charge of as
sault and battery." So much for
a lawyer's opinion, well acquaint
ed with the facts of the case. For
two or three weeks following the
"assault" every time your sons
appeared on the highway to go to
your mother's home, they were
armed with clubs, no doubt by
your orders.
A little more publicity as to
what they were to do with those
clubs is in order. These are some
of the causes which led to the use
of the word "erratic," as describ.
ing Mr. Ginther's shortcomings
"By their works ye shall know
them." Y'ou have extended your
libel to include all the rural
schools in the county, thinking
perhaps to allay public sentiment
by so doing. You show your own
hypocrisy by so doing, as the lit
tle things you have been making
a fuss over, are nothing in com
parison to tho malicious spirit
which prompted you to twist and
list -rt theso iiitie 'hings by i i
plying false and bas? motives !!
the children who had no thought
of evil and were perfectly inno
cent. .You keep' harping on th(
"wrongs" done in this district
repeating them over and over, iL
words that throw about as much
light on the situation, and convey
about the same degree of intelli
fence, as the repitition of the par
rot's cry, "Polly wants a crack
er." There have been wrongs com
mitted, '.'wrongs whioh fire the
aged with the ilood of youth,
and make the infants' sinews
tense as steel," and sad to relate,
you, Robert Ginther, are the guil
ty ono.
"There is a tide in the affairs
of men which, taken at its flood,
leads on to fortune," and you have
been wise enough to discern that
tide in this case, the tide of "pub
lic opinion," which was setting in
so strongly against you as to
make you feel you would be over
whelmed. Consequently you be
gin to hedge and broaden out
your statements to meet this
state of affairs. Y'ou speak of
having no trouble in getting along
with clean people. Do you really
know what that statement means?
I believe not; only last summer in
giving a narrative of your early
life, you made the statement that
owing to circumstances you were
forced to go away from home to
work at an early age. You stated
that at the age of 14 or 15 years
you went to work in Astoria; that
in performance of your labor you
came in daily contact with bands
of courtesians during a period of
some 3 or 4 years. Now gentle
reader, herein is where he discov
ered the lodestone of his youthful
career, his young manhood, the
crowning glory of womanhood,
from which he has never swerved.
No doubt there were many hand
some, accomplished young women
Ume Phosphates
mm
among them who attracted his
attention, and perhaps his pas
sions. What an inspiration! What a
well spring of virtue, of honor.
of truth. Yet ho made this state
ment: "Thoy were tho best class
of people I ever associated with,
the best peoplo I ever mot. Ihe
best-hearted people in the world.
They would do anything for a fel
low." This was his confession,
(testimony), honestly, and I be
lieve truthfully given, so you may
readily understand who he means
when he speaks of "clean people."
.You may take the brightest
mind, then oblest moral nature
with which youth was ever en
dowed, and subjected to such a
malign influence and contamina
tion, it will soon shrivel and die
as yours did, for to all appear
ances, right there your moral na
ture ceased to expand. We will
not discuss any of the senile
driveling above his signature lo
any extent, and thereby incur the
contempt of our fellowmen.
Mr. Ginther is right, to a cer
tain extent, in regard lo the
"hoodlums;" still wo don't believe
there have been any in the neigh
borhood, certainly they have not
been attending our school lately.
If there are any such, tho oirus
nearest approaching the epithet
are safely schooled in an adjoin
ing district. Now, Mr. Editor,
there is no use in carrying this
controversy farther, for after all
is said and done, the fact stands
put clear and bold that this effort
of R. Ginther to blacken the repu
tation of our children, is the most
damnable, cowardly attack ever
brought to my notice.
So far, our experience does not
bear out any of the statement
made by Mr. Ginther as lo his ex
alted virtue, none of that nobility
of soul of which you boast. We
think some others should discover
it if it really existed. .
There is a just God above us,
Mr. Ginther, who searches all hu
man hearts.
We would say to you in all
truth that "He is sifting out the
hearts of men before his judg
ment seat."
We would respectfully recom
mend you to turn, over a new leaf,
and show torth some of those
works of which you boast, so that
when you appear before that
higher tribunal, there may be
some hope that the infintessimal
embroyo of your soul may be re-,
tained in the web of life, by the
hand of the Giver. Or failing this,
let us hope you may repose near
the "better short of the spirit
land," and theroby imbibe "nough
spiritual truth so to expand in
grace to the end, that when the
final trumpet of doom is send
ing for Heaven and earth to pass
away, you may not sink in to thai
las', 'ung sleep of Eternal o! l.
ioo, the utter annihilation of
Spiiit and sou!, from which iherc
is no awakening, which is iho
second death.
Yours respectfully,
Elmer Swopo.
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uaj a ume my oasuaene comple
tely left me and I felt greately im
proved. My kidneys became stron
ger, dizzy spells left me and I was
no longer annoyed at night. I feel
100 per cent beter since using
Foley's Kidney Pills.