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OREGON .CITY .COURIER,. FRIDAY, APRILS
OREGON CITY COURIER
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M. J. BROWN,
EDITOR
LOOKING OVER ESAU.
Every day Roosevelt and Tafl
are making Democrat ic votes, and
things never looked so bright for
Democratic success.
Willi this nasty personal scrap
on, and then with any amount of
material to carry on a successful
campaign, there is nothing to it
but Democratic success. The
high cost of living, the trusts, the
tariff, any one of which is suffi
cient to win on, together with the
Jloosevelt-Taft tight well there.
is absolutely nothing to it but
Democratic victory unless some
thing different is brought about
between now and the time for the
national convention.
The Courier editor has a loiter
from a personal friend in New
York state, and by the way he is
tho editor of a city newspaper of
influence in that state, and he
writes that there is at present a
move, backed by powerful influ
ences, to get both Taft and Roos
evelt to withdraw, and to bring
Charles K. Hughes, ex-governor
of New York, as a compromise
candidate, to save the parly.
And if this were true, and if it
could bo brought about, would it
avail?
It would NOT, for Charles E.
Hughes, once a power for honesty
and for the people, sold himself
for a supremo court judgeship and
President Taft bought him.
There is nothing to it but a
chango of administration this
year, for with it will come the loss
of the senate, and the Democrats
will bo given full power to make,
good.
The man isn't before tho public
that can fix things up for Repub
lican success this year. Things
have gone too far and gotten toj
sore.
' "NOT CONCLUSIVE."
RIGHTEOUS ROOSEVELT
Senator Lorrimer followed Mr
Stephenson into tho whitewash
tub last week, and came out white
as (no, not sno) Stephenson.
Tho senate committee declared
"there was no conclusivo evidence
of a jack pot in the Illinois legis
lature." I wonder how much evidence) is
required to make guilty conelu
i sive before a senate committee.
Representative White of the Il
linois legislature swore that he
was given and accepted $1000 for
his vote.
Any conclusion to that?
Representative Link sworo that
ho was paid .$1000 for his vote.
Do you think a man would swear
to such u lie just to defeat Lorri
mer? Representative IJeckemeyer al
so swore that ho received $1000
for his vote.
Do you suppose he was anxious
to go to stale prison just to get
Lorrimer out of his seat?
Senator llollslaw sworn that he
received $2500 for his vote.
The market rate on senators
was a little F.lilTer in Illinois.
Edward llines, (he millionaire
lumber king, boasted that it cost,
$100,000 to put Lorrimer over.
Hut the senate commillee said
thoro was no "conclusive" evi
dence of tho bribery.
But the senate conimitleo thai,
did this whitewashing, don't have
to go to the people for their elec
lion. That makes some differ
ence, and it makes a demand for
the direct election of UniledStales
senators, too.
Isn't it funny? When Roose
velt was in power, some of the
men of Oregon City who are now
trying their best to cut his corn
ers would have been glad to grab
the crumbs from his band. Such
is politics.
Today Theodore Roosevelt is
just a plain citizen and no more
entitled to any favors from this
government of ours than the
writer of these lines.
I read his speeches, and so do
you, and they fairly boil and
scathe against special privilege,
and demand that the big fellows
be only given the same deal that
you and I are given, that we are
equal and should be treated equal.
It sounds good.
I used to be a great admirer of
this man Roosevelt, and thought
that he was as full of honesty as
he was wisdom.
But he has lost a big part of
his halo, and I have about decid
ed that Roosevelt is very noisy,
and little else.
February 21 he made a speech
at the Ohio state convention
just a plain political speech to
further his chances for the nomi
nation, -and denouncing special
privilege from A. to &c.
And the people tossed their
ready caps high in air and burst
out with "rah rah, rah I"
The other day a voter of this
locality received a copy of this
great speech of Theodore I, and it
was franked through tho mails in
an official envelope bearing the
name of an Oregon public servant
you helped to elect.
This political speech, made in
Columbus, O., hundreds of miles
from congress, mado by a man
who is no greater than you or I,
and who has absolutely no con
nection in any way with the gov
eminent this speech was label
ed "Document No. 348, C2d con
gress, 2d session."
And I want to tell you that it is
GRAFT, pure and simple graft
whether it is Roosevelt, Wilson,
or any of tho private citizens.
Walter M. Pierce, candidate
for the Democratic nomination
for U. S. senator, mado a speech
hero Saturday night. Suppose
that a month from now this
speech shoubl bo sent broadcast
through the mails as a campaign
document, called a senate docu
ment because Pierce and his man
agers didn't want to pay the post
ago on it?
There's tho situation exactly.
That speech of private citizen
Roosevelt had not as much right
in tho mails under a frank than
had the speech of Judge IJeatio to
the Democratic Central commit
tee the other day.
It is political graft from a man
decrying graft, and denouncing
special privilege.
And the voters pay the postage
One of the stunts of the plute
organ is to claim that taxes after
all are the samo in British Col
umbia as in Oregon. Fanners
I hero pay a live mill tax on some
forms of personal property, while
wild land pays from two to eight
limes as much as cultivated
land. Nothing like that in Oregon.
K.ven personal and poll taxes are
o be abolished in that progress
ive slalo next year. Portland
Labor Press.
The Republicans are trying
I heir dirt iest to kill olT Congress
man Latterly, but if you will use
your head a little you will find
that his record will show that he
has represented the people of Or
egon more in one week than Mr.
Hawley over did.
George M. Hively of Milwaukee
is the Democratic nominee for the
county court to succoed Willim
Malloon. If you want a change,
here is a strong man to change
with.
It's a Pleasure to Work for You
We will be pleased to attend to any bus
inesss for our customers at the Court
House, thus, in many cases saving a trip
to towa. We make no charge for this
service. School Clerks, and Road Sup
ervisors, especially, villfind this Bervice
of great convenience to them and we in
vito their accounts.
The Bank o f Oregon City
Oldest Bank in The County
THE BABY BEFORE THE PIG
I am very much interested in
two litllo items of news I found in
the papers during the past week
One is from Chicago, and it
states that the Episcopal church
has announced that hereafter the
rectors will not unite in marriage
those who have not a certificate
from a physician of standing that
the man and woman are free from
incurable diseases, in good heal
th, etc.
And the other is from Iowa to
the effect that the slate fair has
offered $25 for first prize for the
finest pig, and $50 for the finest
baby.
This is the first case that ever
came under my observation where
the baby came ahead of the pig in
the amount of the prize, and this
item, taken with the stand of the
Episcopal church against breed
ing DOWN, are incouraging signs
of an awakening.
This matter of handling mar
riages of the unfits is a hard one,
but all the more reason why il
should be handled, but it should
be our government, rather than
our churches, to take hold of the
matter.
Today anything that wears
dresses and pants and can dig up
a dollar, can marry.
A fool can find a fool mate, and
a degenerate his kind. Men or
women, inheriting insanity, scrof
ula, drunkenness and other curs
es to mankind, can find those of
their level. They marry, have
children who are BRED DOWN,
and then every little while we read
in the newspapers some horror of
degeneracy, such as have shocked
Oregon in the year past.
I am glad to see the Episcopal
church of Chicago put the man
and woman ahearr of the marriage
fee, and I am glad to see the state
fair of Iowa put the baby ahead
of the pig.
THEY'RE AFTER TONGUE
The opponents of District At
torney Tongue are making him
heap of trouble these days, not
the Democrats, but the Republi
cans, the voters who elected hiru.
It is claimed that his record for
prosecutions has been a shining
memorial of prosecution, where
the prosecuted were just plain
fellows and poor fellows, but that
his record for the higher ups is
not quite so lurid.
The Portland Journal has a
story illustrating this. That pa
per relates two instances of where
saw mills allowed sawdust to get
into the streams. One of tho men
was a little bit of a fellow, hard
up and short of financial and in
fluential friends. This man was
prosecuted and landed in jail in
less than twenty days, while the
Oroner & Rowell mill, a big con
cern, and which it is said was
guilty of the same violation at the
same time, remained untried for
two years, and then was acquitted
Mr. Tongue prosecuted the case.
The people of this county think
that ho was lax in his duty in Ihe
way of helping to clear up the
Hill murder case, and if Mr,
1'ongue could hear the criticisms
this office hears as to his course
with the sheriff's department, he
would get the same bunch the
members of the legislature have
got, and get out. But some have
to bo kicked out.
WHERE WAS HAWLEY?
This is a question the Courier
asks almost every week, as the
important measures come up in
the house, and we shall probably
ask tho question many times be
tween now and next November.
We asked where ho was when
the bill for free sugar passed the
house a bill that every man, wo
man and child wanted passed, and
which was passed.
We asked it when the steel bill
came up for passage in the house,
a bill lhat would directly benefit
every farmer in Oregon on every
tool or implement he had to buy,
every family that bought a sewing
machine in fact a bill lhat is of
far reaching benefit to tho people
at large.
And this week we ask him where
he was on the wool bill that pas
sed the house Monday, a bill that
is in the interests of every clothes
wearer in this country, and a bill
whose defeat would benefit the
wool trust (not the sheep raisers)
only.
Where was he on this bill?
Why didn't he vote for it if he
is representing this district?
Why didnt he vote for the bill
to lower duties on steel?
Why didn't he vote for free
sugar?
You people wanted these re
liefs from trust extortion, didn't
you?
Then what of the man who
does not and will not represent
you, but who voles for the trusts
and with the stand-pat bunch on
these matters of vital interest to
you?
Are you going to let him keep'
on throwing the spear in?
There is a movement on foot to
bring out Robert G. Smith of
Grants Pass to run for congress
against Mr. Hawley, and it is be
lieved that he will make the race.
He will come out on a platform in
opposition to the trusts and for
the people of Oregon. And if he
does run, or if any man does run,
it is the duty of any man who has
the interests of his own fireside
at heart to vote for him.
Progressive Oregon being rep
resented at Washington by a
stand-pat, trust-protector I
Oh, we boneheads.
REVIEWING.
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,
The above is a portrait of Da
vid E. Lofgren, well known in this
county, and Progressive Republi
can candidate for slate represen
tative to the legislature from the
seventeenth district, consisting of
Clackamas an ilMullnoniah coun
ties. Mr. Lofgren stands for slate
No. I, for good roads along prac
tical an economical lines; for the
investigation of corporation as
sets and prohibiting sale of in
flated and watered stocks and se
curities by requiring all corpora
tions seeking to do business in
this slate to be investigated by
the slate at the cost of the cor
poration; empowering cities to
establish public market places
producer and consumer may meet
for trade; for the slablishmeiit of
a system of standard weights and
measures and for inspection of
scales and measures; for legisla
tion to discourage swollen for
tunes; equitable taxation for rich
and poor alike, exempting house
hold goods to tho amount of $300;
from shortening and freeing of
courts from technicalities, and
limiting appeals to the supreme
court cases involving upwards of
$250, etc.
Mr. Lofgren is interested in the
colonization of this county, being
one of several inthe work of sub
dividing about' 12,000 acres 'and
sold to settlors in this county..
He is strictly a self mado man,
having worked his way through
college and the law school. He
was raised on a farm in Iowa, and
he has a ranch of 200 acres in
this county, and naturally his in
terests are individual with that of
the people of this county.
SQUELCHED.
Last week the Courier said:
Selling won't vote for Bourne,
Bourne won't vote for Selling
Tafl men won't vote for Roose
velt, Roosevelt men won't vote for
1'aft; LaFollello men won't vote
for either Taft or Roosevelt. And
for whom will they vole? See
the answer in the Democratic
mile the smile lhat won't rub
oft this yoar."
And to this the Oregonian com
ments:
But let us watch that Dem
ocratic smile and see it fado
away as tho great Ballimoro
battlo approaches. Mr. Bry
an reads Harmon and Under
wood out of (he Democratic
parly and ho is suspected of
having a rod in pickle for
Champ Clark. He will en
dorse Woodrow Wilson
perhaps. But after all just
one man attains tho highBry
an ideal, and that man is not
Wilson, nor Clark, nor Un
derwood nor Harmon. You
may talk about your third
term, but after all Bryan has
not had more than two con
secutive nominations.
Tread lightly, smile softly
and carry a big stick, is the
advice of a great man. There
are many Democrats who
will accept the big stick fea
ture of the Roosevelt adjura
tion this coming summer.
If I had any idea of what the
Oregonian was saying I would try
to answer it. There is a hemor-
hago of words, and a little ad.
vice from a great man in Port
land to a little man in Oregon
City. It may be so, and I presume
it is, coming from such a source
of wisdom, but I really can't make
out what it says.
Selling and Bourne are giving
Oregon what Taft and Roosevelt
are giving the nation, and they
are all making Democratio votes.
Another illustration of how the
boys are going to play the game
this year was made at the Demo
cratic meting Saturday night,
when Walter M. Pierce, candi
date for U. S. senator, and tho
speaker of the meeting, brought
with him Milton A. Miller, his op
ponent, and invited him to have
half of the meeting. I
That's the way the boys are
playing it this year.
And the talks were worth any;
man's time to hear, because they
said something.
One of the matters that Mr,
Pierce brought out, in illustrat
ing that it needed some level
heads to study out the broblems
that were coining to congress,
was his . statement that he be
lieved that this part of the coun
try would many times double
when the canal opened, that tick
ets were being sold in southern
Europe to Portland today, to be
used when the canal opened, and
that brainy men predicted that
Portland would double its popu
lation in two years after the open
ing. Mr. Pierce said the matter of
protection to labor would be one
of the big matters to handle
when this condition came.
In speaking of the taxation of
this country, Mr. Pierce said that
in 1000 it took $7 per capita to
run this country.' while now it
lakes $12.50, and that our gov
ernment wants tho man worth
$500 to pay more- than the man
worth a million. He favored the
income tax to remedy this con
dition.
He said the freebooters were
ruling this country and' it was
time to throw them out.
Mr, Miller favored the income
tax. He said that taxes were
continually increasing, as was
wealth, but that the taxes were
entirely out of proportion. He
said the trust-protecting tariff
had much to do with this, but that
a chango was coining this year;
that the Democrats were going to
elect a president, carry Oregon,
elect a U. S. senator and carry
congress.
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no matter what kind of printing
you may have and the price will
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lief That Should Interest You
Although indigestion and dyspepsia
are so prevalent, ninst people do not
thoroughly understand their cause
and carti.
There is no reason why west people
gi onid not eat anvtlnng tliev desire-
if thev will only chew it carefully
and thoroughly. Many actually starve
themselves into sickness through tear
of latins; every goodlookiuB, good
Buelliim and good-tasting food, be
cause it does not agree with them.
The best thing to do is to fit jour
elf to digest any gool fool.
We believe we can relieve dvppepsia.
We are so confident of this fact that
we guarantee nud promise to supply
the uedioine free of all oost to every
one who will use it, who is not per
fectly satisfied with the resale it pro
duoes. We exact no promises aud put
o one under any obligation what
ever. Surely, nothing o uld be fairer
We are located right here aud our
reputation should be BnlHnirnt assur
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We Bay in Car Lots
Whether or not, as is claime I,
Roosevelt assured LaFollette that
he would not be a candidate, bul
would help him his fight, certain
it is that Roosevelt destroyed La
follelte's chances for the nomina
tion. And now that. Wisconsin
senator, who is nothing if not a
game scrapper, is coming back at
Roosevelt, and coming hard. And
but what are you Democrats
Uoth the Roosevelt and Taft
armies are going to invade Ore
gon. I hey might better he nuni-
ing pall bearers.
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