OREGON ' CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JUNE 21. 1912
OREGON CITY COURIER
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BACK TO BOSS RULE.
In face of the national demand
for the initiative and referendum,
in fare of the fact that the people
in state after state are clamoring
for more power for the voters and
for protection from the states'
legislatures, and in face of the
nroDosil.ion that the next presi
dent will only be elected because
he and his party stands for trie
popular will of the people, yet the
Morninir Enlemrise came out
Tuesday with an editorial to
cut out the initiative and referen
dum and go back to the Days of
the Boss.
Carry the news to Lorimer, to
Barnes, to Aldridge and to the old
steam roller crowd of Oregon i
Pnnular government is a farce 1
The people are not competent
to pass on laws tney warn ano
which machine-made legislators
will not give them I
Thn voters are not capable of
deciding whether the plundering
lawg of a legislature are good for
them or notl
The voters of Oregon are bone-
heads, fools, and not capable of
governing themselves I
The members of the state leg
islature, this body of politicians
which made the last session a
disgrace and a scandal, and which
buried the taxpayers with their
extravagant appropriations and
' and encumbered the state with
lose leaf statutesthese men on
ly should rule, and you suckers
of voters, you geeks that pay the
taxes and suffer the consequences
you should NOT have power to
stop or undo the looting I
Some class to these arguments
of the Enterprise I
Why did that paper ever permit
you fellows to ever gain this pow
er in the first place?
The Enterprise says that since
the initiative and referendum
passed "our legislature is a sort
of a second hand affair under the
rule of thumb methods."
And this isn't right. When the
legislature plugs through a half
million dollar appropriation the
boys want it to "stick." What
business have the tax payers who
will have to buck it up to stick
their nosos in the matter, The
legislature knows best what is for
their good I
The Enterprise says "If after
forty days and nights of rain and
a flood of laws are handed down
for tho people to obey, some of us
think wo don't like the way the leg
Islaluro treated us we sit down
and draw up a petition, secure
the necessary number of signa
tures and then pass it on to the
voters to say I don't like it cither."
Some argument ta that I Took
some thinking to dig this outl
If tho legislature has a reign
and flood of laws to consider in
forty days, and then the initiative
gives tho people the power to take
up about half of them and spend
six months where tho legislature
has only forty days well, that is
dead wrong, for tho people have
no business monkeying with the
laws which they must obey.
"As long as we hinder them in
their work, it will he dilllcull to
get the best men In the game,"
pleads the Enterprise.
Why, bless you, don't I lie legis
lators themselves stand fur the
initiative and referendum? Are
they not out and out for it? Did
not every man of them come out
and out for the Oregon system.'
And the Enterprise champions
going back to the old days. !id
wo get bettor men in the legisla
ture then? Did we have satisfac
tory legislatures anil govern
ment? If so, why the sentiment
that forced tho reforms?
Do you voters of Oregon want
to go back to the old days of graft
and legislative buy, sell and scan,
tile? You who do, let us hem
from you.
The graduated single lax bill
will rediico the taxes of those in
Clackamas county who are paying
the taxes on dead land, owned by
wealthy speculators. It, will give
the relief the taxpayers are clam
oring for.
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EDITOR
JU8T SUPPOSING.
Supposing (just by war of illus
stration) that conditions in a
community were not at all satis
factory, that they were such that
they worked a hardship on that
community, and the people were
protesting and rebelling.
Now supposing again, that a
proposition was made to the peo
ple of that community that would
do away with the conditions that
were working a hardship on the
people, a proposition which the
promoters promised would make
the conditions better and that the
whole community would be bene
fitted and that it would result in
general satisfaction.
Now what, a business head
would do would be to consider the
proposition, look it over from ev
ery point of view, and if he was
uncertain a to whether it would
do what the promoters promised
he would ask WHAT will you do if
it does NOT work out as you have
predicted, what recourse have we
if it does not make good?
And then if the promoters would
assure you, and put trial assur
ance in a form where it left the
matter entirely up to the cornmu
nit.y, put it in the form of a con
tract that if the community did
not And it fully satisfactory after
a trial they might annul the con
tract if they put it in such form
that the community might annul
the whole business at any time
when in their judgment itAvas not
making good what would you
think of the judgment of the man
or men who would turn it down
say it wouldn't work, and then go
on with their wail against con
di lions?
In an ordinary business trans
action you would say that the man
who would take such action was
a bonehead. wouldn't you. You
would say that he hadn't business
sense enough to run a sand hank
And this is just the proposition
the graduated single tax is put
ting un to you.
Now, don t throw down this pa
per and say you won i reuu uuy
such stuff. The wise man is he
who changes his mind. The fool
is the man who never does.
There is before the voters of
Clackamas county today an init
iative bill that promises the lax
payers that the taxes shall be
more evenly spread; that the idle
lands shall pay their share; tnai
the public service corporations
shall pay taxes in proportion to
the amount of income they get
and that no man shall be taxed
on the products of labor person
al property.
The men who have worked out
Ihis bill nrnmiso the people of
Clackamas county that it will give
them relief from the tax burdens
of today, that it, will bring thous
ands and thousands of dollors un
der taxation that now escapes and
thnt if ome put Into practice n
will be the remedy the people are
now clamoring for.
And ns a guarantee of full
fnith in the proposed remedy, and
ns doing away with the argument
the rich landholders put up that
it would ruin the stale, the single
lax peoplo in the bill given to the
voters give the peo.ite the right to
change back to the present sys
tem, or to any other system, any
time they want to any time. the
graduated single tax does not do
what is promised.
And under these conditions and
these assurances, what would a
man naturally do, when that man
is laboring under a tax condition
that is most, oppressive, and a
system which if it continues to
increase taxation in the next ten
years as it, has in the past ten.will
mean simply and purely conllsm
I ion of the greater part of (he
farm land of Clackamas county.
I can't understand the mnn who
is dissatisfied with the present
conditions, the man who is clam
oring for a system of taxation
that will be Justice and equaliza
tion, I can't understand how Ihis
man can oppose (lie single tax
proposition with its income tax
provision, tor It promises nun
just what he is demanding; and
guarantees to him the protection
of abolishing it any time when it
does not make good
And now here is another matter
I want to ask you men to think
over some, whether you are for
the single tax proposition or
whether you are against it.
want you to look at il from the
seat of a juror, and form an hon
est opinion.
There is a bill being circulated
in Oregon today that if carried
will take away from you voters
the right to ever try single tax
a bill which if it should carry
would disfranchise you as to the
matter of taxation reform would
bind you never to vote on the pro
position again
If there was ever an argument
for the graduated single tax prop
osition this is one, and it alone
should awaken the people as to
who and what is behind the single
tax opposition.
Why do the people fear this
lax reform proposition so that
they would FORBID YOU TO
VOTE on it forever after, would
take away the right of majority
to regulate would take away
from a man his vote?
It is because they, know the peo
pie will become wise to the matter
before long and will vote for it.
That is the reason.
AND IN WHOSE INTERESTS
ARE YOU FORBIDDEN TO MAKE
YOUR OWN TAX LAWS?
CAN'T you men see it?
If the graduated single tax
woul harm the state, would work
out against the interests of the
WHOLE pe iple of the state or
county, why is it necessary to
FORBID the people to try it?
Why is this ONE matter picked
nut that the people shall have
no vote on? Why are not other
matters also forbidden? Why
are the people allowed to vote on
any matters at all?
Just think of the hare-faced
proposition that the interests ask
you to make into law me most
important matter that the people
have the matter of taxation.
This bill s.iys to you tatnave-s
ers on an otner matters tne vote
of the people shall rule, but on
this matter of taxation YOU
SHALL NOT VOTE."
Why, this vicious bill alone
should carry the County of Clack
amas for the single tax proposi
tion this fall.
The men behind the fight to
slop the single tax bill, the men
who hold vast tracts of land that
they do not pay but a mite of tax
on, the speculators, the idle rich,
these men fear that the people
will try single tax, and they want
to stop them before they try it.
They know that the men of Ore
gon are thinking these days and
they know the fear of trying the
single tax is wearing off. They
want to ti'i iho hands of the tax-
holders while the fear is yet on.
Governor West, who by the
way, is not an advocate of the sin
gle tax, says this proposed meas
ure to stifle the voice of the peo
ple is a vicious object, and one
the farmers should beware of,
It's the men who do not work
who are behind the fight agains
single tax- -the speculators and
the idlers who have had fortune
left to them, and who do not want
to pay taxes on I hose fortunes
These men are in the minority
They fear the majority, and
they are spreading stories of con
fiscal ion ti hold the people in
check while they hope to slip in
a law that will forever prohibit
voters from passing a law of their
own that will make (hern pay their
just share of the taxes.
Men, can't you see this?
Think these things out for your.
self between now and November
UNFITS.
Judge Han ford of Seal ti le
started something in that act of
is that deprived 'a citizen of his
itizenship because he was a Bo
ialisl, and because llanford Was
judge and thought he was Got
llanford is Hie kind of judges
that has brought about Hie dp.
iiiaml lur recall, the kind of
judges that have bred contempt
iv the highest courts and sneers
nil) Iho pe iple.
llanford in the great jurist who
ied to prevent an elect ion to re-
all a mayor the people did not
ant, a mayor the people I bought
as a tool of the monopolies,
llanford is the Judge who Is
sued a handy injunction to stop
the city from interfering with I he
charging of excessive fares by the
tract ion company.
Judge llanford did more for the
cause of Socialism in this one in
stance than all the workers
could do in a year,
Such men are unfit to sil in jus
lice, and such men are bringing
about a reform that will soon
lake root in every slate, Hie re
form that Oregon has adopted
the recall of unfit judges.
Here is the way the Springfield
Republican covers up one pretty
well, but if you will rend il over
the second time you will see Mr.
William Jennings Rryan sticking
out all over:
In order to make Roose
velt's election impossible, in
case he should be nominated
IheDemocrats must avoid an
other Parker campaign. They
must hnve a candidate radi
cal enough to hold the radi
cal wing of the Democratic
parly to the last man, and
who can then attack Roose
velt's favoritism to "good"
trusts, his mendacity, his ruf
fianism and his Caesarism.
The man who toils ha nothing
lo fear from the income, single
tax proposition.
THEY'RE OFF.
A Republican national conven
tion that will make history is be
ing staged in Chicago this week
a fight of two men in the same
party to be nominated for presi
dent, a fight of two men to see
which ahull inp iin. r.ori,,
the rocks this fall
tne rocks this fall.
It s a great scrap, a disgraceful
exhibition of the man hunting the
highest office in Hie country,
Contest that has heen a ilUornno
to the nr-psifionev nri iho .r.im
try.'
snecial Trivil0r intftpfkutu anil
the bosses, and the crowd that is
plugging ior his nomination is
only too plain proof of this. The
gang is not trying to hide its id
entity or purpose. It is out in the
open with the money and ihr rol
ler out to nominate Taft, and it
will do it,
But the nomination will not be
the will of the people. It will be
simply the will of the boss-con-
trolled delegates, the delegates
picked to help run the steam rol-
ler, men elected regardless of le-
ga itv. delegates sent nn from the
states where there is no Republi-
can nariv Tho.P app fh mn
iho nniir.nai nn.nm;ii r.f r,..,
years ago are seating, and these
are the delegates who will place
in nomination a man the Repub
lican party does not want
President Taft has been turned
down and beaten to a standstill by
every primary in the Republican
states beaten in every state
where the people were given a
chance at him. But he has tht.
steam roller behind him, and the
machine is going to force him on
to a people which does not want
him artd will not have him.
And Roosevelt:
nooseveii win noit, aon t you
have any doubts about that. He
will never let Taft and the gang
put one over on him without mak
ing them pay big for doing it, and
Roosevelt has just conceit and
gotism to think he can down
Taft, LaFollette, the Republican
steam roller and the Democratic
nominee.
i aon i heiieve ne can do it, or
come anywhere near doing it, for
the simple reason that the Demo
cralic nominee will stand for far
more than Roosevelt will dare
lake a stand on and the Demo
crats have no fight with the people
this year.
All the Democrats have to do is
to take it this year ft will be
served to them.
1912 CLOSED SEASON.
The people did not nominate
Ben Selling becuse they loved
him, but because they wanted to
show Bourne where to head in at.
They thought Bourne was getting
to big for h's party, and too big to
even corne back and take a look at
the state which made him.
Selling does not stand for the
shadow of what Bourne did, and
the people know it. He is a stand
pat millionaire and the Lord and
the people know the United States
senate has to many of these fel
lows now.
And the result will be that the
people will turn down Selling, and
that Harry Lane will be the next
man to represent Oregon.
Lane is just one of the common
fellows, one of the men who has
more brains than money, and his
record as mayor of Portland
is proof enough for the people
that the big fellow ran't get him
Lane is on the square, because
he is bred that way. He is for the
common fellows because he is one
of the common fellows, and his
heart is with the fellows who toil.
Harry Lane will be the next U.
S. senator. Sellings supporters
will tell you this in a whisper,
The season isn't right for Iho
millionaires.
LOAN SHARK METHODS.
This matter of compensation to
workmen for injuries received i
me that is constantly pushing up
for settlement and it
will never
is sell led
stay settled until tt
right.
As the Poilland Journal recent
ly staled the present way of set
lling these eases is little less than
i benefit for attorneys, resulting
in the lawyer beating the ambu
lance to the hospital.
Our sister, Washington, has a
slate law that does away with all
Ihis graft, and a means through
which the injured man gels every
cent that is awarded, and the in
jured does 'iot. have to go through
a long law suit to gel, It.
In that slate Ihe causalities are
listed and a man gets just what
his injury calls for just so
much and no more. .Every injury
is listed, from the loss of a life
lown to the loss of a tip of a fin
ger, nnd each manufactory or con
corn is taxed in proportion to its
risk to pay for the accidents, for
instance the drug store tax is verv
mills and factories are high.
loday in Oregon, ir a man
brings an action for damages it
is a proposliion of where some at-
orney will ket at least half of it.
ami t ne cas wi i racr a onor mnnv
weary months. In Washington
the man gets damages as soon
as the commission can get to his
case, as tho amount has already
been determined and the case
tried. .
There is a splendid opportun-
ity for bright men at Salem to
Iraft a law this winter I hat will
he fair to both the employer and
niployee, aid which will do awav
with a business today which flour
ishes in this state, and which is
worse than the business of the
loan shark.
GREfT "JOURNALISM."
The motto of the Oregonian
should be: "If you don t like
thing lie about it and keep on
lying.
The motto of the Portland
Journal should be: "Don't stand
for anything until the election re-
turns are in
1 once knew a fellow who sald
jf a fell()W W(jU,d kpep risfhl on
i,.ing a lie and stay with it, after
a while he would believe it nun-
a e,f' and tnen il wa as as
any Old truth
For an all-arouud,keep-a-com
" ing liar the Oregonian is four
miles over the limit. It figures
that the way to get people to be
lieve a lie is to keep on printing
that lie. That's what it s doing
with its stale and over-done lie
about "the poll tax trick" in the
amendment passed by the voters
two years ago.
To get away with its He aDout
the "poll tax trick" the Oregoni
an nas t( begin by lying about the
law ana 11 9 rlnl .ine. 7 l
says tne "eg.s.aiu
peaiea an pou uies .
mats a ne.
savs no poll taxes have been
collected in ureguu .in
ami thai s anotner ne
The Journal doesn t lie lnie the
Oregonian hasn't got the nerve
11 s 10I1,SUU 1 .V
"Ke a Pliue "
I .1 i tw.n -n KKI in tr sin nnii tn. ail-1
ami then wabbling on one side, and
then on the other, and sliding un
der the bed when the Oregonian
looks cross or says "Bo" at it.
Half the time it's under the beu
and the other half it's jumping
sideways to keep from saying
something that means something
On local issues its "People s, Col
umn" is stronger than its editor
ial columns
Two weeks ago the Journal got
a garden hose for a backbone and
with it came nerve enough to
print an editorial on graduated
tax amendment just to explain
it, you know, but not taking sides
And it found more queer things in
the amendment than anybody
ever thought of putting in it
Here's a part of that funny cd
itorial :
The measure provides for
a 1200 exemption for home
owners and a similar exemp
tion for two years prior to
the building of a home by any
person who own? uroccupied
land. It exempts perma
nent farm or orchard im
provements on raw land for
two years. It provides Lhat
all land and natural resour
ces may be taken over for pub
lie use at a price equal to the
assessment plus ten per cent
There is nothing in the amend
ment like this not a line that
crazy Chinaman could possibly
mix up in that way,
W ho ever heard of permanent
farm or orchard improvements
on raw land? That should
make Henry George rise up from
his grave and Mr. U'Ren want to
dig one. Any voter who reads
that stuff in the Journal and be
lieves it, ought to vote against.
tho amendment.
But where did the Journal get
that rot? Did somebody in the
office invent it, or did Seattle
Charlie Shields slip it into the
copy? 1 he fellow who wrote that
bunk stuff uses his head to car
ry his hat around on-rand he
doesn't use for anything else.
1 he Oregonian is against the
graduated tax amendment, and it
has the nerve to get right out and
lie about it, but nobody knows
where the Journal is, except that
Hs in the coal cellar offering
light to the voters
Perhaps the foot Journal would
have corrected this worse than
silly break about the tax amend
ment, but the next day the Ore
gonian said "Boo" again, and it
went Pack to the coal cellar
But cheer up, it will corne out
the day after election
WHY?
0. D. Robbins makes a pretty
good point in his article on page
2 of this paper and one you fel-
ows wlio own your own bone
"oxes want to think over a couple
of times. If this graduated sin
gle tax is surely going to send
this country to the dogs as the
antis tell us will surely be the
case, why don't they urge it on for
one little old county as an object
lesson, so tho people can see the
ruin and distruction and thus
once and forever kill the mat
ter?
vwiy ou.ri tneyr Have you
any idea v h y t
Hut no, instead ot giving the
resi oi uie state a warning
inrougn a practical illustration in
one county, they rush in with a
movement asking the voters to
stand by a proposed bill to for
ever FORBID tho voters of Ore
gon io ever vote on the matter
even.
And I want to tell you the biir
interests, the millionaires, the
speculators, the men who don't
work, are scared to death lo have
fhp crrnilnalo.l tiin,t i
v,vf 11 "'u l,ul-
try nnd unmake them.
I hat's what
tho antis are
fearful of.
-uer me national ennven
"ons and when the campaign has
Sfiuared away the Courier win
ine up me many propositus to
poine before tho voters, one or two
l'acn week and discuss them. We
'ay not go right on all these
'"easures, but to the best of our
understanding we will present
them.
If the report is hue lhat ilenrs..
has an inv-Mt in the p.: Hand
Examinet it would look us if ;hf,
regonb,n tou,'iu a pdd brici:
tome time ego.
THE GRADUATED TAX BILL.
The following short and com
prehensive explanation of the
graduatted tax bill is written by
Alfred D. Gridge. It won t do you
any harm to read it, and if you
find any dangerous places in it.
any of those places that will send
Oregon to the dogs of disaster,
kindly warn the people and show
ip the danger spots thr uyh the
Courier.
The question of justice in tax
ation has been betore the people
of Oregon for over four years,
first as a part way measure to
test out the strength and senti
ment of the people. Next as a
measure to give the people power
to collect their local taxes in their
own way. Now as a measure to
levy a graduated tax on landown
ers having over $10,000 in land
values, exclusive of improve
ments, i
All these measures have been
easy to understand, and have been
fought bitterly by the plute press
of Oregon as a single tax. They
have only been educational and
have not contemplated the stab-
lishnient of the single tax. The
measure proposed now would on
ly go a few steps in that direc
tion, leaving most of the com
munity created land values where
they are now.
There is before the people a
measure that must be discussed
on its merits. It does not apply
the single tax in Oregon. It pro
vides a partial application of it, a
small part of it. If the people like
it they can go farther, if they do
not like it they can go back to the
present system or forward with or
to any other ideal they choose.
This measure is easy to under
stand, has no jokers, and will re
duce the taxes of every useful
working citizen of Oregon fully
one-half. An owner of less than
110,000 in land values does not
pay any special tax other than the
general tax levy. The owner of
$20,000 in land values will pay a
snecial tax of 25 cents on each
hundred dollars over the $10,000
This is gradually increased un
til at $100,000 the tax would be
$1150 over and above the general
levy. On all over $100,000 of land
values (not considering whether
the land is improved or unim
proved) an owner pays a tax of $3
a hundred. This measure puts
upon the tax rolls not less than
8400.000.00 natural wealth and
franchises now escaping taxation
almost entirely. In 1909 all the
tillable lands in Oregon were as
sessed at $135,000,000.
The objection is made that il
w'ould drive away capital and do
awav with all land vines. Yet in
British Columbia the land values
are increasing as the laws putting
more and more public burdens on
them come into force after every
session of their local and provin
cial lawmaking bodies. In the
four western provinces of Cana
da no farmer is losing his farm
or seeing us values nieeu awuj
heeause his improvements and
live stock are not taxed, nor be
cause minerals, timber and live
lands are taxed many times more
than tilled fields. Show English
money that it will npt be taxed for
investing in useful industries and
improvements and it will come
here too.
NATIONAL DISGRACE.
A writer from the national con
vention from Chicago says of the
manner of securing delegates for
the nomination:
The nominataion for the
presidency is a clear case of
barter and sale. It is a scan
dalous business and ought
not to be tolerated or con
doned. All sides are alive to
the disgrace of the procured
southern vote, and doubtless
the spectacle of dining, win
ing, feeding and feeling the
colored delegates from sunny
southland, will not be seen at
another national convention,
if there is ever another nat
ional convention.
BIGGER THAN CONGRESS.
The bill passed by the house
and senate, the army appropria
tion bill, which would oust Gener
al Wood, chief of staff, has been
vetoed by the president.
Wood was made chief not for
service rendered, but by the rank
est case of favoritism that ever
disgraced the army, and was sim
ply jumped over the heads of men
who were entitled lo the place be
cause he had the pull of those in
power. Congress recognized this
rank injustice and passed the bill,
but President Taft was again big
ger than congress:
Here is a bit of warning to the
over-rich fools handed out by the
.New ork orld:
What passes as an amus
ing vanity amoung the rich
is felt as an insult to human
ity by thousands that toil and
can hardly earn food for their
children. If plutocracy has
not already gone mad with
prosperity it will not flaunt,
its Pekinese spaniels too of
ten in the faces of food-taxed
people.
Y'our taxes will grow higher un
til you break away from the pres
ent robbery schemes of collecting
and levying them. The graduaa.
ted single tax offers you a means
of relief just to try out. Will
you?
Now that two libel actions for
libel have been broucht, it is now
up to the Enterprise to again in
terview George C. Brownell. and
have him state it "is the work of
prominent Democrats."
And speaking or things politi
cal, how do you like the variety
of support the Oregonian is giv
ing to Ben Selling?
William Howard Morgan and
Theodore Rockefeller have been
putting up a pretty good article
of scrap in Chicago this week.
And they opened that Chicago
canvention first with prayer and
then with a corkscrew. But it
was all done under Marquis of
Queeusbury.
The wild men are going through
what the call a national conven
tion in Chicago this week. Were
it pulled oil' under any other name
the governor would call out. the
troops to suppress a riot.
Four years ago when Roose
velt used the steam rid ler to nom
inate Taft, it was an all right obi
machine, but when Tal'l, uses it to
nominate himself well, its an
altogether different proposition.
I note thai the latest quota-
tionon Ragnault's "Salome" is
$105,000. Had been thinking of
offering some of these as prem
iums with the Courier, but it is all
off now.
When W. S. U'Ren sees stale
after state asking for and adopt
ing the Oregron system, it must
make him think of that old prov
erb that a "prophet is without
honor," etc.
It's a question with me which
of the men on the Oregon delega
tion I have the most time for, the
three who voted for Root and in
direct opposition lo Roosevelt,
who carried the state, or the one
delegate who did not vole at all.
A man rose up In the senate
last week and stated that i it cost
the taxpayers of this country $0
every lime a United States sena
tor took a bath. And we all know
that the United Slates senate is
not worth what their baths cost.
It is amusing so see the Port
land Journal straddle tho gradu
ated single tax amendment. Nat
urally the paper is for it, and at
one time made a near-announcement
for it, but Jackson changed
liis shirt and his mind (me day.
And now it tells its readers to go
for il, through the People's Col-,
umn while the editorial columns
llirt.
STOP THE NATIONAL SALES.
Make the most out of the pres
ent horse play in Chicago, and the
one that is biled for Baltimore
for next week, for there won't be
many more of these big vaudiville
stunts pulled oil'.
The man who reads and thinks
over' these disgraceful, half
drunken, unrepresentative pow
wows, knows that the progress
ive spirit in tho land is going to
do away, with them and it won't
be long.
That Chicago convention is not
a representative nody of men,
deliberating on what is best for
the country. It's a prize fight, a
row, a row, made up of hundreds
of men who are there for sale
Esaus, who the millionaire inter
ests behind the nominees are bid
ding for. jt n a disgrace to a civ
ilized community.
And then the leaders wonder at
(he growth of the Socialist vote.
After a little the voters will ex-
press their preferences for pres
ident as Oregon does for United
States senator they will vote
direct for the candidate and cut
out the national auction sales.
DON't BE MISLED.
Oregon City Citizens Should Read
ana Heed this Advice.
Kidney (rouble is dnnirei-oiw
and often fatal.
Don't experiment wifh ca,.
thing new and untried.
Use a tested and nroven ki.w,,
remedy.
Begin with Doan's KidneyPills
Used in kidney (roubles for 7n"
years.
Doan's have cured thousands.
Are recommended hen. n.i
everywhere.
An Oregon Cilv citizen'.! elnl.i
ment forms convincing j.(,f
It's local testimonyu can' be
investigated.
A. G. Woodai'il A I o iw:.. ci
Oregon City, Ore.; savV 'T first
used Doan's Kidney Pills when liv
ing in Kansas. m l-.m
Iko ,1,. ,1 . I
"u'iiy ui.soriiere, n,..i - i
back to become lame and painful
Lpon ak.ng.noan's Kidney Pi
reeaf y "",,'uv was soon
fiee from the complaint. I Sji
lake a.box of Doan's Kidney Pills
occasionally, finding (hat tliey ac
as a tonic lo my kidneys
or sale by all dealers. pr
alo infwyp ,,lul .,, , ,
50 cents l-'oster-Milburn Com.
pany Buffalo, N. Y., sole age,
ior the United Stnii
my
Remember the name Do
nan s-
aim lane no oiher.
Notice to Creditors
nK !S U:n'hy. iv'n hat the
"""Moikiini n ;w tit,
A.bJ o,y Cou,,Uo,
nunisirator of ihn .i.f '.' ,u:
V-uuiy, Oregon. nd
Jonsrud, deceased. Any d"e.M
Persons having dai,, Sn "
"aid estate are requested to pre
sent the same to ,e, dulv v I
at the office of (iilbeVt .Hedged
. on or before siv
months fron, the date of the flrs,
Publ.eat.on of this notice
2l ?9?2.flr8t pubiica,i June
Administrator 0M& VSnf
Bert Jonsrud, Deceased f
Gilbert L. Hedges
Attorney for the Estate.