OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, MAY 17. 1912.
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EDITOR
BROWNELL'S BAD BREAK.
In the matter of the indictment
of (lustav Sehoorr for alleged
violation of the Corrupt Practice
Act, the Courier on its own ac
count, and in behalf of the Dem
ocratic party of Clackamas coun
ty, proposes to vigorously resent
the libelous charge of Attorney
George C. Brnwnell that "this is a
move LARGELY ENGINEERED
BY CERTAIN DEMOCRATIC LEA-
DERS OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY,
for the purpose of trying to fill
up the court house with Demo
crats and smashing the Repub
lican ticket generally."
People are wondering whether
Mr. Brownell has been drinking,
has arrived at the second child
hood stage, or whether he has
been taking foolish powders.
Of all the utterly false, silly,
childish statements this entitles
Mr. Browiull to the booby prize
If my six-year-old kid should
make as si'fy a puMie statement
as this one Brownell has made, I
would send him up to Salem to
the home for the weak minded.
Here's the public utterance Mr.
Schnoerr made, on which Mr.
Schubel brought action and on
which the grand jury brought an
indietmont:
Mr. Schuebel tries to make
his audience believe that the
"interests ' or certain parties
have "bought" me. Bo not
deceived; not I but he has
been bought, if signs fail not
and because ho is used to be
ing bought, and sold, as ev
eryone knows, he made an
effort to b.iy me in my own
house. This happened on
March 31, 1012.
The above statement and char
ges were published in the Enter
prise, and the grand jury brought
an indictment because of them.
And now Mr. Brownell comes
out with his cheerful little He
publican (witter that leading
Democrats are behind the matter
and it is being done to break up
the Republican party.
Mr. Brownell, did the Demo
crats go to Mr. Schnoerr and per
suade him to publish the libelous
article in tho Enterprise?
Mr. Brownell, did tho Demo
crats go to Mr. Schubel and in-
duce him to prefer charges to the
grand jury to have Mr. Schnoerr
indicted?
Mr. Brownell, did tho Democrats
go the grand jury and induce that
body to bring a criminal indict
ment, against Mr. Schnoerr?
Now if the Democrats are be
hind this matter and responsible
for it, as you say, then they did
ono of these three things. Now
which one do you charge?
Tell us Mr. Brownell.
Mr. Brownell's charge of poli
tical influences in this indict men!
is a reflection and an insult to
every grand juryman, and they
will not take to his explanation
any more kindly than will the
Democrats pf this county.
Tho Republicans havo their
soiled linen in the tub and they
want tho Democrats to start a
laundry that's what there is to
it.
The matter is between two Re
publicans, both nominees for the
state legislature, and the Demo
crats have no more to do with it
than they have to bringing inter
vention in Mexico,
And while wo are at it, here is
an observation or two. Just keep
your eyes open on this matter and
see how the linen comes out of
tho wash. .
You will nolo that Mr. Sshnorr
was given until June 3 to plead,
almost a month in which to make
up his mind whether ho is guilty
or not whi ther he is the guilty
party or the Democratic goat Mr.
Brownell would have him.
Do you think for a minute that
Mr. Schnorr asked for all this
time to make up his mind as to
how ho would plead? Not on
your life ho did not. Then why?
Just see if you can't guess.
The whole affair is a Republi
can mixup. The candidate who
brings the charges is a Republi
can, the m ii n against whom the
charges are brought is a Repub
lican, tho judge before horn he
will be trie; is a Republican, tin
district attorney is a Republican
the assistant district attorney is
a Republican.
Now in case Mr. Schnorr shoul
plead not guilty, which no doubt
he will do, and the case SHOULD
be brought to trial before, Nov
ember 5, 1912, what will be th
result?
It's a clear case one way or the
other. There can't be any half
way doings. The matter hinges
on the paragraph above. It lias
got to be tried on the alleged li
belous statement and a flat ver
dict rendered.
Now you keep your eye on this
political case. Let us see if Mr.
Tongue takes off 1ms coat and
prosecutes the case or whether
he will say there is not evidence
to hang a dog on, and whether the
case will go over until after elec
tion. And to the friends of George C.
Brownell wo. would suggest that
a commission in lunacy bo called
to look into his matter. He isn
right, and a man who is allowed
to run the streets after making
such charges is an unsafe per
son for you can tell in what
form it may break out next time.
"JUSTICE."
It would be a saving of time and
a convenience if wo would have a
landing heao under which to
lassify the bungles of Justice in
Portland. This week the most
flagrant case was that of Nellie
Churchill, twenty years old, in
dicted for the crime of inducing
another girl to smoke cigarettes
and drink liquor.
Nellie was taken to jail after
the indictment and has remained
there for two months, waiting for
the trial that never came.
Finally she was brought before
the court and told if she would
plead guilty she would be paroled.
The girl refused to plead guilty,
because she said she was innocent
(,f the charge, and demanded a
Jrial, and when she insisted upon
u trial, the district attorney liirn
Eolf moved that the case be dis
missed, as lie said there was not
evidence to convict.
What do you think of this
measure of justice in free Amer
ica and against a woman?
Tho same methods in Mexico
against American citizens are of
enough importance to be dis
cussed by the cabinet nlWashing
ton. The court must have known
the girl could not be convicted
when it asked her to compromise
to plead guilty, for if she could
have been convicted they would
not have made her tho immunity
proposition.
And this girl served more time
for a crimo she was not guilty of
than the bank wreckers serve,
more time than the convicted
trusts will ever serve, more lime
than girl dispoilers of Portland
serve.
What do you think about the
courts and Nellie Churchill?
WET FIREWORKS.
There is a silence that can al
most be felt in regard to the new
graduated single tax initiative
proposition, and there is no get
ting away from the fact that the
single tax people certainly put
one over on their opponents when
they sprung tho new bill on an
unsuspecting public.
"We had 'em skinned, and Mr
U'Ron knew it," said one of the
politicians the other day, "and
now lie comes back with ono that
turns our plans all over."
Tho big corporations, and the
men who own and hold land for
speculation are the ones this pro
nosed bill will hit, and it would
seem that others it would bene
fit.
As fo the corporations, (he pro
posed bill is no burden until the
income reaches $.0,000 or more
and there is no reason that I can
see why a company with such an
income should not pay this pro
portion of the state's taxation, so
long as they are doing this much
business (they should be happy
to) and as to the man who holds
out land on which to make a kill
ing when necessity, demand and
industry shall have doubled the
price fie paid well, lew oi us
will shed any tears over his la
inents. It is only the men with
wealth that can hold out these
tracts, and these are the men the
graduated single tax is trying to
reach, and trying to make them
pay their share of Oregon's tax
ation.
The graduated income addition
to I ho single tax measure is mak
ing a big change in sentiment
toward the bill. JSelore it was
jailed the rich man's measure, but
now some of the men who were
so loudly denouncing it are say
ing they would like to see the in
:ome experiment tried out, and
they will favor the bill.
But 1 think it was just horrid
in Mr. U'Ren to wait until the
ippoiients of the old bill had just
got all lined up for the campaign.
with all their literature, set
peeclies and speakers drilled, and
then turn the hose on their fire
works.
But 'tis done, and they can nev-
r dry it out to burn this year, for
the people are going to try the
income measuro in Clackamas
ounty Ibis fall. ,
BIGGER THAN BILL.
WHAT BREEDS DISTRUST.
THIS FALL.
I believe women will bo given
tho right to voto in Oregon this
fall for the reason that I believe
in the men of Oregon, and believe
they will give the women tho right
Hint is hers.
Thero are no GOOD reasons
why women should not bo given a
right to help rule this country.
Our brainy men havo slopped
arguing against Hie women. They
see the handwriting and they
know what is coming. It is only
those who fear the women's vote,
those who know what it would do
to them and theirs that, are work
ing against tho amendment.
Some of these days our boys
will look hick to these days and
wonder that such boneheads ever
lived in this country.
Mr. Jaggar said last week that
ho believed the Republicans wore
I ho ones who always do some
thing in this county. I believe he
is right.
WHICH?
Just because a young man spends all he
earns i3 no sign that ho is having a good
time. Ho thinks ho is. Ho goes his way an. I
he cannot understand why John Thrifty, who
earns less salary than ho does, has a Savings
Account and money when he needs it. A
spendthrift travels a road that lends to only
ono end needy and dependent old age. The
savor financial independence, comfort ami
prosperity when old ago creeps on.
The Bank o f Oregon City
Oldest Bank in The County
hat would you think of a
Portland councilman who voted
igainst a franchise wanted by a
power company in the lorenoon
and who voted for it in the after
noon ?
I know what you think and so
do I.
And then we wonder at tho do
inand that the people be given the
the right to vole on franchises
and nil matter of public grants
It is tho Benedict Arnolds that
are breeding the unrest and dis
trust in this country. There are
loo many men who change their
minds between breakfast and sup
per, and the people are getting to
where they want the popular vote
on almost everything.
And just as long as big business
will buy and little business will
sell the common peoplo will ask
for more and more in tho way of
power, and they will get it, be
cause they havo the power to get
it wilh.
QUIT STRANGLING THEM.
Capital punishment will bo ab
olished in Oregon just as soon as
tho people are given the ballot
to do it with, which will be this
fall.
The people will abolish it bo-,
cause it is in the order of pro
gression, and along the same rea
soning that we have abolished
tho whipping post and quit burn
ing witches.
Hanging can add no punish
ment that lifo imprisonment
carries and hanging is murder.
Wo aro outliving tho spirit of
barbarism that demands an eye
for an eye.
Hanging simply gratifies the
passions of the brute. It is no
different than lynching, only that
it lias the legal label on it.
And when you hear some fellow
arguing that such and such a fel
low should be hanged, just ask
him if he has a boy, anil if he
would want 'capital punishment
in Oregon 'f his boy was the one
to have it operated on.
Tho matter of whether or not
the voters will approve the big
ipproprialion for the university
of Eugene will come up to the vot
ers this fall, and it is said an ag
gressive campaign of the state
will be made to carry the proposi
tion. Where the university peo
ple made their big mistake was in
lighting so hard against the peo
ple" having tho right of expression
on this inal tor. Tho voters look
at it ns if the university interests
did not dare to trust them to pass
on the matter, and now that they
have been given the right, they
will lie quite likely fo remember
the opposition with their votes
Taft and Roosevelt are still
abusing eajh other, and what a
spectacle it is a man who has
been president and a man who is
president of this greatest country
on earth going up and down the
land, abusing each other, extolling
themselves, and making you think
of a couple of jealous school kids.
Would the lamented McKinley
have descended to this level? Do
you think the new ruler of China
would get down so far?
Brownell says th horrid old
Democrats are responsible for
the grand jury indictment against
a Republican candidate for the
state legislature. Before they
get through with that Titanic dis
aster I'll bet they will lay tho re
sponsibility onto the Democrats.
A president of a country is a big
man, but ihe common, little ol
people are bigger.
When President Taft told the
people of Arizona they must elim
inate the recall from their con
stitution or he would not grant
them statehood, he was simply
swinging the big stick.
The recall did not sound good to
the president, and because he did
not believe in it he didn't pro
pose the people of Arizona should
have it.
President Taft would not have
to live under it, but that didn't
matter. He didn't believe the peo
ple should have the power to re
call a judge and because he did
not believe ir it, he didn't propose
that those who did should try it.
So ho forced Ihe peoplo of Arizona
to take it out of the constitution.
And the " suit is that the bill
providing f r the recall of the ju
diciary has passed both houses of
tho Arizona legislature, with but
two votes against, and the gov
ernor has signed the bill .
The people were bigger than the
big president.
They found a way to get what
they wanted
They eliminated the recall in
order to get the president to give
them statehood, but we all knew
at the time that the acquiosance
was hyprocitical and that they
would get what they wanted in an
other way.
Arizona has tho recall of the
judiciary in its constitution, the
same as Oregon has it in hers,
And Presiuent Taft can now en
joy the thought that he has been
made a monitey of that he is big
but the people are bigger.
SOUR GRAPES.
The talk of a new county com
posed of the northern part ofMar
ion and the southern part of
Clackamas, is aroused mostly by
the failure of the county districts
to secure any of the places on the
Republican ticket at the late la
mented primary election. The
people showed quite emphalical
ly two years ago what they
thought of tho " mushroom pro
posals to create new counties for
the benefit of a few aspiring poli
ticians. Aurora Observer.
IN THE AIR.
I State after state, whose laws
give the pecple a chance, hits
Taft on the head, yet his backers
keep on.
What kind of a Republican play
is this, and what have the inter
ests up their sleeves?
California, claimed by the Taft
managers by 75,000 has gone
overwhelmingly for Roosevelt.fol
lowing all the other states where
the voters have the direct pri
mary.
It is worse than suicide to mini
inate Taft, for he is beaten from
the hour ho is nominated, and the
men behind him know it.
It is given out through a leak
that .seeing the hopelessness of
electing Taft, and refusing to
stand for Roosevelt, LaFollettet
Clark or Wilson, the big fellows
behind the Taft candidacy will
support Bryan if the Democraats
will nominate him.
Of course such a proposition is
ridiculous, yet at the same time
the talk shows which way the
wind is trying to blow, and that
if Bryan lives long enough he will
come into his own will bo given
the credit due him as an honest
man and the best Democrat of
them all.
LANE, NEXT SENATOR.
Hereafter the president who
wishes a second term will have to
put himself in the hands of the
peoplo. He will have to announce
in his first form that he will ac
cept another term only as the peo
ple confer it upon him. He will
forbid any man to say anything to
him about "delegates or "con
ventions." lie will do his duty as
pdesident and accept the conse
quences. The party boss will not
be able to conspire against him,
because the peoplo in their presi
dential primaries will support him
f they want him. He will cease to
rest upon tho preposterous as-
umplion that because he has
been given one term he is there
fore "entitled to another. Re
view of Reviews.
Tho news dispatches slate that
tho case against the meat trust,
which recently resulted in their
acquittal, was bungled through
tho inefficiency of the govern
ment officials in charge. That is
the way the news service states it
for they would hardly dare say
that tho meat trust got to the of
flcials and the whole shine and
bought them off. This matter of
trust busting is a huge farco but
it brings nearer the day of public
ownership of means of producing
necessities.
The fight between Roosevelt
find Taft becomes more disgust
ing every day, and they are edu
eating the people to where no one
ill vole for either, if they keep
it up. Picture President McKin
ley taking the stump to defend
his administration, and using as
his heaviest arguments ridicule
f Roosevelt. Each man de-
lares ho will support the nom
inee? How is it possible for eith
er, unless tho theory of JohnStark
on the seco.id page of this paper
is correct?
The lower house didn't do a
thing lo President Taft last week
hen by a voto of S20 to 49 they
went on re:ord for abolishing the
commerce court.
The peoplo will favor this ac
tion for the reason they think
thero aro already far too many of
these courts and commissions,
and tho people aro dead right.
I he commerce court is not
needed. It, is a political court to
make jobs for the politicians.
Mr. Brownell says the Repub
lican scrap between Schnorr and
h ubol is is engineered by Dem
ocrats to fill up the court house
illi Democrats. Thero was once
time when the court house was
filled with Republicans. Such
affairs as the presen t one has
put the Democrats in, and it is
irch affairs as tho present one
that will keep the Democrats in.
The fish and game tax-eaaters
e industriously telling us thru
some newspapers of the great
work they are doing to provide
for the future requirements of
ily sportsmen. Falls City News.
And the great work they are doing
to make jobs for those who won't
lo hard work.
The tariff is the mother of ar
tificial prices, because it is the
foster mother of monopoly, and
only when tho roots of the whole
evil thing are touched shall we be
gin to get control of the forces
that have all but mastered us.
Woodrow Wilson.
Thomas Brown has sold his
fish market on Seventh stret to E.
Stinson, a recent arrival from
Minnestota. Mr. Brown has con
ducted the market for four years,
and he will now leave for Mount
Hood, where he will spend the
summer hunting and trapping.
Four new rooms will be added
to the school building at Willam
ette, the present building having
become too small for this grow
ing suburb.
This campaign is a con
test of the plain people ag
ainst privilege. There is a
powerful demand for favors
of government for private in
terests, and these interests
are usually powerful enough
to get what they want. The
only way to stop this thing is
to choose public servants who
owe. nothing to the interests
and whoso records show that
they stani in the clear. Har
ry Lane.
Could Ben Selling make such a
statement and carry any convic
tion with it?
We have far too many million
aires in congress today. We need
men like Lane who stands with
the crowd.
And you can't stop Lane. The
people are behind him, not only
all the Democrats but a big line
up of the Republicans, and you
can find the latter in this city any
day, openly stating how they will
vote.
Bourne and Selling made the
opportunity and the voters will do
the rest.
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Governor West says he is go
ing to start something in a few
days that will make the fellows
sit up and look around. He says
he is going to show tho people of
Oregon where the public money
has been going, and that he is go
ing to do it on his own responsi
bility. The people have been
wondering tor some time where
it has all ."Deen going lo, and if
the governor will show them and
then stop the leaks well, he
won't have to do any Roosevelt
stunts to get a second term.
THE ONE ARGUMENT.
Figure this single tax matter
out for yourself. It's too simple
to need any help on. The prop
osition is to take the taxes off of
cattle, horses, wagons, imple
ments, houses, barns, and all la
bor improvements, and put it on
the idle land and on the incomes
of the corporations. The only
matter to really determine is
which class you belong to.
WATCH FOR THE JOKER
Of tho initiative petition being
circulated as claiming to be anti
singlo tax, Governor Vest says it
is in effect a measure to protect
capital against the interests of
the people, and that behind it is
a silent interest at work that is
against the interests of the farm
er.
To accuse the Democrats of
bringing about the trouble be
tween the two Republican nomi
nees was rather underhand poli
tics, and the boys don't like it
worth a cent. The object of
course was to try to prejudice
the German vote against voting
with the Democrats this fall. But
Mr. Brownell has overplayed his
hand. The Germans are not fools
and they will resent this clumsy
play just as strongly as will the
Democrats.
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son of tho Panama canal the mil
lionaires of the country are tying
up the land of Oregon. The in
come tax will make these specu
lators turn loose and let the stale
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talists pay taxes in proportion to
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The Oregon voter who keeps in
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will be a bunch of big and import
ant matters to be voted on this
fall.
W. W. Myers thinks that in a
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conventions and the I. t). .
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get the worst of it, for so far it
has not been necessary to call out
tho soldiers or resort to pitch
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Since the California returns
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Hearst, but he did a mighty nice
act when he brought the body of
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of this remedy before buying it in
ine regular way of a druggist at
fifty cents or one dollar a larare
bottle (family size) can have a
sample bottles sent to the home
free of charge by simply address
ing Dr. YV. B. Caldwell. 405
Washington st., Monticello, 111.
Your name and address on a pos
tal card will do.