OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAV, AUG. ft , 1912
OREGON CITY COURIER
Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Eighth and Main streets, and en
tered in the Postoflice at Oregon City, Ore., as second class mail matter.
OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER
M. J. BROWN, A. E. FROST, OWNERS.
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M. J. BROWN,
EDITOR
Selling silent.
Are you for the Fat Man or the
Lull Moose?
lis appelile and laughler vs
front teeth. Cio to it.
Lord, 1ju(. Clackamas County
has a lot of Wilson Republicans.
I'll bet Selling will have in for
those who dragged him into it.
Taxing incomes and unproduc
ing land won't hurt Oregon and
you know it.
Wilson is as certain of election
as Oregon .is of big crops. And
crops are done made.
Question: What candidates for
president and the U. S. senate is
the Enterprise supporting?
Taft has been officially notifi
ed. He knows he's running if the
rest of us have forgotten.
There is one bill you want to
ever keep in mind Secretary of
Stato Olcott's "blue sky" bill the
bill that stands between the
grafter and his graft. It should
have 9!) per. cent of tho votes.
Selling evidently thinks it is
none of tho people's business
where bo stands. Selling will know
a heap more of the people and the
power of public sentiment Nov.,
0, 11)12.
Dr. Harry Lane is a cinch bet
for U. S. senator at 3 to 1. The
Republican sido has three wedges
driven in and not a runner has a
ghost of a chance. Hut there will
be a heap of satisfaction in the
defeat for some of the boys.
David LuCluro, arrested for
non-support, was found guilly in
county, court, Judge Jiealle sen
tenced him to a year in jail and
then poroled on his agreement to
allow his wife to draw his wages.
The judge secured a job for hini.
Clackamas County is going
Democratic this year with a bang
They don't call the graduated
single l ax I he rich man's scheme
any longer. So much for smoking
'cm out.
I'oor uncle lien Selling is liil
j'ntr the chutes proper, and his
chances for
than Taft's.
election are no belter
Dr. Wiley has come out for
Wilson, lie has served under bolh
Taft and lloosevelt and has got
enough.
Free trade and single lax are a
pair that will reverse conditions
in this country. Kach would break
up monopolies.
The voters have no time for Hie
man who won't run up bis flag
Ibis year. And they says God hales
a coward too.
If you can figure out a possibil
ity that will stop Woodrow Wilson
from being president, se
I can't do il.
d it in.
If the Democrats had pot up
a couple more candidates for the
egislalure it would have a snap
to have elected them.
The beef trust gives out a vic
ious one, thai meat prices win
soar il the government ortiers u
dissolved. When trust mana
gers gel big enough to threaten
the governmeut, the trust mana
gers are big enough to go to jail.
Alienists want $1,900 for tell
ing win jury noneri s neau was
level when fired into that auto
mobile. The trial dragged on for
lys when it should only have
taken hours. Multnomah look flic
trial away from Clackamas, If you
could see I lie total expense bill
you would see the joke.
lion:
Stay in the Republican parly,
kill Roosevelt and vote for Wilson
Now you progressives, this ad
vice comes from a man who has
MADE you a progressive, it comes
from a man who money can't buy
nor the big interests corrupt.
Bob Lat'ollette was a progres
sive when he had to stand
alone. He was a progressive
when it was politically unsafe to
be known as one.
He stood up in the U. S. sen
ale and dilied big business and
big money and be stayed there
and defied I hem until he gathered
an army around him.
He fought corruption in Wis
consin and cleaned up the state.
He beat the state polilical ma
chine out and made them nuckle
to the best laws any stale has, and
he'sees that those laws are ob
served and enforced.
And just you stop and Ihink
what the Bull Moose progressive
was doing during all these years
LnKoIlette was lighting for some
thing, and what he accomplished.
Then do as LaFoIlelle says to
do vole for Wilson.
PICKPOCKETS.
A traveler home from Lon
don told a story the other
day. He wore a pair of Am
erican shoes ho had purchas
ed in London where he had
paid $3.50 cents for them. He
undertook to duplicate them
on Broadway, price onBroad
way $5. Buffalo, N. Y. Enquirer.
cently stated it, if you want to ap
lily the acid test lo a man, ask him
what he thinks of Governor
est s course.
How 'bout it? Are YOU wHh
hnn or against him? ,
WHY "TRICKY?"
Once more: If there is a stand
pal, Taft Republican in Oregon
Cily who is not a bit ashamed of
his position, will he please hold up
his baud? Itanium and Bailey's
circus will be in Portland next
Friday, and they pay good money
for curiosities.
Except the stale of NorlhDakola
and possibly Soulh Dakota and
Minnesota, and then tell what
lie Woodrow Wilson has not a
probbbililyofearrying ndwhn o 1 1
probability of carrying. And when
you have that job done show me
where there is a hundred lo one
chance of either Taft or Roose
velt squeezing in.
Beef is going up, up, up. The
beef barons tells us it is because
there is a shortage. And yet we
Mexico has cost the United continue a heavy tariff on beef
States a bushel of money since land nrevenl other countries lrom
the troubles began. The rebels are shipping in lo us when we haven't
Irying in every way to provoke enough of our own. This is this
this country to intlervien.lhinking protecting "American Industries."
Ibis country will have to take a You are the industry and they are
slick in, ami here's a guess if we protecting you from gourging
once ureal; in we will stay in. jynursrll on neel steal;.
The wool bill is now up to the
president to veto again. Vltoth the
senate and house have passed it,
the latter by a vole of 100 to (52.
But. the president will veto it. He
stands for protection lo the big
'mills of Massachusetts where
protection to American workmen
is an average wage scale of $'.). a
week. But president Tafl is en
tirely independent this year. He
has nothing to expect and he can
hit one more good wallop before
bo goes down and out.
I ! 11 .. I I I ..
UUO 111,111 111 WUIIIIWU l-(IU01V
owns 12,000 acres of good laud.
A properly graduated land tax!
would incline him to sell most of
it at fair prices, to the advantage
of many people. Portland Jour
nal. No man in Wallowa County or
any oilier old county has any more
right to own 12,000 acres of good
land than has Rockefeller lo own
nine hundred million of good dol
lars. And we have got lo bring n
boul a system that will stop the
few owning the ninny. The grad
uated land tax will put a check on
I he hoarding of 1 2,000 acres in
Oregon, and prelly soon t here w ill
be a federal law Ihat will tax the
millions so high it won't bo worlh
while lo get them.
A vote against single lax pro
longs prosperity. A vole for it
kills the slate. Common sense
says so. Enterprise.
When did common sense say
so? W hen did it render this ver
dict? When was the hearing?
W hat was the evidence? Common
sense should bring an action for
libel for such statements, for it
never said anything of, tho kind.
Common sense says taxing in
comes, franchises and nou-pro-
1 never hurl pros
it will boost it.
(hieing land wi
Iperily. Rather
BOB'S ADVICE.
I appeal to progressive Re
publicans everywhere to
mainlaiu llieir organial ions
within the Republican parly.
To maintain such organiza
tion, blind allegiance lo ev
ery parly nominal ion and lo
every parly declaration is
not essenl ial.- Hubert La
Follet le.
If you'll try real bard, get right
down to real, heavy brainwork,
yon CAN guess mil what the light,
ing Wisconsin senator is handing
out in the above lines.
Hut some of the kids may not
understand, so here's tho Iransla-
Seplember 1 shoes will go up
20 per cent in this country not
in England. .
A traveling salesman tells the
editor of this paper that clothing
for next spring s delivery has re
cently been ordered up 7 Vi per
cent to Americans.
Manufacturers have said these
prices SHALL 00 UP, and as they
all steal together, they WILL go
up, and the consumer might just
as well butt his head against a
brick wall as to protest, ,
He s got to have the clothes and
ho has got to pay what the hold
up gang may see fit to exact.
And what are you going to DO
about it?
Let me tell you.
The Democratic platform has
declared for a tariff for revenue
only. Woodrow Wilson emphati
cally stands on that platform.
But such a. lowering of duties
would let in a world or goods from
other countries and
I know what you are going to
say, and I am beating you to it.
You were going to say that ev
cry dollar's worth of goods brot
into this country would keep the
American workmen from making
those goods here.
You have been reading some of
the articles in the American Ec
onomist, published lo lengthen
the hold of the trusts.
Lowering tariff duties' on the
things we eat and wear will coin
pel the American comhine man
ufacturers to meet foreign prices
to keep them out, and don't you
ever doubt, for four-llfths of ;
second but what American man
ufaclurers, with their modern
equipment and skilled workmen
can compete wilh any country on
earth even with absolutely free
trade.
A tariff for rcvenuo only is
long way from free trade. II is
the dilTerence in wages between
this country and abroad, and
more too.
What else should a manufactu
rer ask for?
Lower the duties, let in tin
goods and our manufacturers
will keep them out by undersell
ing.
Then you can buy American
made goods as cheap in Portland
as you can m London .
Think it over.
DISINFECTING.
A MAN, LIKE A DOLLAR,
is rated by his earning capacity. When
idle ho earns nothing; put at work he
creates value. (J There's a steady job,
at good pay, waiting at this bank for ev
ery dollar you chu bring to it. No lay
offs, and tho longer it stays t lie more it
will earn. J Don't keep your dollars iu
idleness. Let them begin now to create
value for you.
J One dollar will start an account,
and draw many others to it.
The Bank o f Oregon City
Oldest Bank in The County
"Isn't thai man West a cus?"
was the way a city resident put it
Tuesday.
And shouldn't he be a cus?
He dropped inlo Huntington the
her day and he told Charles A.
Morlhoy In resign as cashier of
the bank and as mayor of I he cily
or lie would go oner him lor per
mitting' moral laws to be llagranl
ly violated there.
Korthley resigned fast enough.
He broke Judge Haniford's record.
The governor said any man who
would permit tin horns, saloon
bums and prostitutes to rob par
ents of llteir children had no bus
iness to run a bank or be mayor of
a city.
You will hear some say the gov
ernor is getting loo fresh but
you won't hear a man who thinks
very much of his sons and daugh
ters say so.
Coventor West's position draws
a distinct line, and the people may
lake which side of it they will, but
on one side is decency and law en
forcement and the other the sour
smelling. '
The man who says Covernor
West is getting too fresh says it
oul of the corner of his mouth for
he is ashamed to say it otherwise,
lie wouldn't care to have his name
printed iu the Courier.
lovernor West is right, eter
nally right, in closing up' these
joints that ruin our girls and
make drunkards of our boys, and
as (he Woodburn Independent re-
The one danger to the election
this fall will be the size of the
ballot Ihat voters will size up
the big sheet of paper and pro
test against the size of the blanket
with a "no" vote down the line
Dut this isn't the way to short
en it. The way is to pick out the
measures best for Oregon, make
them laws and to kill off the oth
ers. And the framers of useless
bills will soon quit loading them
on the ballots.
Every week the Courier will
take up one or more of the propo
sitions that will be on this year's
ballot and go down the line with
il. The going may not bo as you
would go, but the judgment will be
dead honest.
iiie one taken up this week is
the amendment to Article IX,
through which Portland interests
hope to kill the graduated single
tax. This is the matter over
which the unsigned pink circular
was sent out, "Th eDeadly Par
allel," and the circular reads
"This is the people's honest
amendment to kill U'Ren's single
tax."
Now let's look it over a bit.
What is a "tricky" measure?
You will answer that it is where
the people have been tricked,
where they have been tied up and
have no way of getting back at the
ones who buncoed them, where
legislature forced something onto
them without their consent, etc.
Now the graduated single tax
amendment is before you to vote
on this fall. It is put up to you as
plain as A. 13. C. to adopt or de
feat.
Where does the "trick" com
in? Is it tricky because tho Port
land interests don't think you vol
ers have brains enough to vole in
telligently? Is any measure tricky
that is plainly staled and that
gives the voters full power?
These interests are flooding the
state wilh circulars quoting Ar
ticle IX and it urges voters lo
vote "yes" on it, il explains what
the number of this amendment
will be on the ollicial ballot, and
declares if it is carried il will shut
oul single tax in Oregon.
But is the graduated single tax
proposition ALL that this pro
nosed amendment will kill?
It kills the power of tho people
to vote on tax laws in Oregon. It
takes away from I hem the power
to regulate their own taxation
methods.
Yolo as you will on tho gradu
aled income tax proposition,
vote it out of sight and bearing if
you think that way and think you
can, but DON'T vote your rights
away. You cau volo the single
tax down (if enough of you want
to ) without having a state law
tell you you SHALL NOT vote on it
at all.
To illustrate:
Let us suppose that the grad
uated single tax proposition car
ried in Multnomah or Coos coun
ties, and that after a try out it
was making good, reducing the
farmers taxes lrom a third lo a
half, and that it was bringing in
new factories and industries.
Then what?
Clackamas county would want
lo come in, wouldn't it ? It would
pretty nearly 11 AYE TO como in
for self protection, wouldn't it?
And then you would find the
bars up and Clackamas county
COULDN'T come in.
And this is just what this vic
ous measure hopes lo bring about
The people should never vote
their power and rights away.
If ever a proposition should be
bo buried and buried deep it is
this one.
Whether you are for tho grad
uated single tax or againsl it, you
should be againsl any measure
thai would disfranchise your future.
Take your pencil and make a
note of No. 308. This is the num
ber this dangerous amendment
will have on the ballot this lall.
Vide NO on il. Hum the figures
0-8 iu your memory and tell the
millionaires of Portland thai you
refuse to sell your voting rigid for
i scare.
CURRENT EVENTS.
(Hy an Observer.)
The gamblers' war in New York
Oily, in which two lives have al
ready been taken Is attracting the
attention of the entire country.
The usual newspaper hysteria
will magnify the affair until the
real facts iu the case will be com
pletely obliterated. The reader
will do well to follow Mayor (lay.
nor's opinions rather Ihan the
crazy. outpourings of the sensat
ion loving newspaper.
...
There are nearly eleven thous
sand policemen iu New York
City, and in the very nature of
things there must be many crooks
among llieni.'Tbe same would be
true of eleven thousand preach
ers. Yet irresponsible writers
some among its membership are
gratters.
It is so near election time Ihat
it is in order for the usual cam
paign against Tammany to make
its appearance. The Oregonian
some days ago dished up the time
worn story ot Tammany s wicl.
eduess, traced the connection of
Tammany wilh the Rosenthal
murder, wilh police rottedness
judicial corruption, Aaron Burr's
ireacnery, ami way hack to our
old friend Original Sin. Rotten
as the Oregonian esteems Tain
many to be, it is good to know
Ihat it is not responsible for Mr
U'Ren, or Single Tax. Hut that
writer doesn't know Tammany
well enough. He certainly doesn't
know New ork.
Apropos the gambling excite
meat, it is curious to note that
all the men concerned are lleb
rows, judging uy their names
with the exception of one or two
Italians. I he only near-American
name thus far is that of Police
Lieutenant Becker. Nor are the
gamblers mentioned in the case
men of much account, even as
such men go. It is another case
of thieves falling out, and cheap
men in gamblers quarrels is an
old -story, not only in New York
but in Chicago, Denver, and San
Francisco as well. But this is the
the dull season, and sea serpent
stories don t amuse any more.
Last week the. National News
paper Conference in session at
Madison, Wisconsin, discussed
the question "Is tho Newspaper
Reading Public Gelling All th
Truth it is Entitled to?" The an
nounceinent. 01 the discussion is
about all the general public will
ever come across, yet it would be
mighty interesting reading to
know what some of these news
papers even thought.
Does any sane man think there
is a really independent paper pub-
ished? Ihe Courier comes as
near to it as any in the state, see
ing that it is absolutely independ
out of politicians, parties, interesst
adverlizers, or any other influ
ence. let it is not independent of
its subscription list, and there
are instances where a too close
hewing to the line results in the
loss of subscribers. And seeing
that readers will not pay the real
cost, never mind valuo of a paper
adverlizers must be depended up
on iu most newspapers, the
reader is grafting upon the ai
vertizer from one point of view.
The old Englishman who first
coined Ihe word News from the
initial letters of the four points
ol the compass N. E. W. S
would certainly have difficulty in
in recognizing the modern news-
r. In his day they publishei
the news as they got it. Today il
is reclined and blended as the
publisher deems necessary. For
example who would' expect the
truth about Wall Street from the
New York Sun; or about Single
1'ax, or Mr. U'Ren from the Oreg
onian?
ROOSEVELT'S THIRD.
Roosevelt has been nominated,
new party has been born, and
has been stood on a platform
that appeals, to a large class. of
the people.
Might as well admit it, for it is
so.
Had "the interests" controlled
the Democratic Convention as
they had planned, and as Rons
evelt expected they would, Ibis
new parly would have turned
things over, but Roosevelt gambl
ed on coining mistakes,, Bryan
topped them, and he stopped the
demand for Ihe third party.
Now it is a line up between il-
on and Mryan, Matt isn i m it,
ind the level headed New Jersey
progressive has the best end ot it.
Woman loves a dear, rosy com
plexion. Burdock Blood Bitters
purities the blood, clears the skin
and restores ruddy, sound health.
YOUNG MEN!
Pabst's Okay Sbecific
DOES THE WORK. YOU ALL KNOW IT BY REPUTATION. PRICE $3
For Sal By
JONES DRUG COMPANY
(Incorporated)
Nor is the metropolitan paper
the only case in point. Tho aver
age small country daily or weekly
depending as it in most cases
does on its job printing plant,
must of necessity kow tow to its
biggest, customer. The writer has
in mind a small town paper which
has builtt up a profitable print
ing plant, but at the sacrifice of
its editorial influence. A valuable
uslonier wilh tho writer's itch
was given the right, of way in the
editorial columns. What he wrote
was neither good English nor
good sense, and resulted finally
in wrecking the newspaper.
Syndicalism is rapidly forging
to the front in Europe, and is at
tracting the attention of thinkers
every where. It has many advan
tages over socialism as a theory,
whatever it might have in actual
practice. Under syndicalism every
worker gets what he produces,
and no more, whether be man
ager or laborer. It is practically
cooperation rather than confis
cation. Every thinking man
should make himself acquaainled
with the theory.
...
Speaking of Socialism there
was a very funny editorial in the
Enterprise recently concerning it.
In the utmost seriousness the En
terprise writer condemned Soc
ialism because it meant dividing
up the wealth of society, and he
was very sure that would be as
foolish as it would be unwise. If
there is one thing that Socialism
doesn't mean it is that. Socialism
has nothing to do with the past.
Its quarrel is not with Rockefeller
for taking advantage of condit
ions, but is instead with Ihe sys
tem of government which makes
such conditions possible. Rightly
or wrongly great numbers of good
citizens believe that Socialism
is the remedy for the gross in-,
inequalities of our present sys
tem, and it behooves a man to
to think, and to think deeply, who
would enter the list against it.
Apparently the devil takes a
vacation along with everybody
The Home
of GOOD
Shoes
Every week we
are going to talk
to you in this
space about shoes
Watch ir.
An bonust price,
a good slice and
a correct fit all
these we gnaran
tee. So come in and
look over our
Bargain Counter.
On it you wi'.l
find a good pair
of Shoes or Ox
fords at a small
price.
We have the Genuine Martha Washington Comfort
Shoes, and the Stacy Adams for men who want Foot Ease.
OREGON CITY SHOE STORE
else, judging from the closed
churches throughout the coun
try. Why cannot we have band con
cerls these beautiful Sunday af
ternoons and nights? We have the
park anil the bandstand, as well
as the band. Who's to blame? .
There is a splendid account, of
the Bull Moose in the last Literary
Digest. livery admirer of t he gal
lant Colonel should read it.
MAKE US PROVE IT.
If Our Claims for This Tonic are
Overdrawn, your Money Back
If yo uare weak, worn and run
down; if your blood is vitiated and
impure; if you are pale and hag
gard; if you become exliaustted
with every slight effort and ex
perience palpitation or fluttering
of the heart; if your sleep , does
not rest you, if your sleep fails to
nourish you, or you have lost your
appetite
We are justified in recommend
ing Rexall lieef, Wine and Iron by
the fact that il has been1 benelle
ial iu Ihe many other cases in
which we have advised ils use. We
don't ask you t olake our word for
what it will do for you. Make us
prove it. If it, does not do all that
we claim fir it, we want you to tell
us so and gel your money back.
That's fair, isn't it? Price $1.00.
Sold only in the .community at our
stores, the Ilex-all Stores, Huntley
Bros. Co, Oregon Cily, Mollalla,
Canity, Hubbard.
Mr. W. S. Gunsaulus, a farmer
living near Fleming, Pa., says lie
used Chamberlain's Cholic, Chol
era and Diarrhoea Remedy in his
that he has found it to be an ex
cellent remedy, and takes pleasure
in recommending it. For sale by
Huntley Bros.
WANTS,
Wanted, one hundred Angora
goats for browsing. Address Coo.
11. Brown, New Er.a, Oregon.
Teams wanted to haul wood,
(ieorge Lammers, Oregon Cily, Rl.
I hree.
LOST, boys green serge coal,
iu or near Oregon City. Leave at
Courier ofllce.
Slab wood for sale, 10 inch, $3
per cord, delivered. Leave orders
at James Atkins Lumber Co., Ore
gon City , Ore. l'hones, Pacific
yiolfome A. 31.
'Teams wanted to haul wood at
Beaver Creek. Also want to let
contract for logging 20,000 feel.
Cieorge Lammar's saw mill, Bea
ver Creek. Oregon.
FOR SALE: 80 acres near Col
lou in Clackamas County fruit
bell; 5 acres improved; family
orchard iu bearing and lots of
small fruit; all fenced and cross
fenced; barn and other buildings;
price, $25.00 per acre. Terms. Call
on Mr. Leeson near tlio place; or
address R. C. Hunter, Owner, Col
ton, Oregon.
Hay fever and asthma make
August a month of intense suf-
ering to many people. 1'oleys
Honey and Tar Compound gives
prompt ease and relief and is
soothing and healing to the in
flamed membranes. Win. M. Mer
ethew, N. Searsport, Me., says:
A few doses of Foley s Honey
and Tar Compound relieved mo of
a severe attack of asthma and
less than a bottle caused a com
plete cure." Refuse substitutes.
For sale by Huntley Bros.
For Sale
9-room house, large lot CSxlOG,
good well and pump on porch;
woodshed, etc. Price $800. In
stallment plan.
Harding Walden Tracts, in sight
of Oregon City, 1-2 mile to car
line; price $150 lo $200 per acre.
Installment plan. Call at Room ,
Winehard bldg. Oregon City.
Wanted
1. A party with good security
to borrow $050.00.
2. Wanted, a party with farm
property as security, to borrow
$1000.00.
3 Wanted, a parly to purchase
a five room house in Gladstone,
near car line; price $900.00; $350
cash, balance in 18 months.
i Wanted, a party to purchase
small house and four lots on Fifth
street, Oregon City; $1000, easy
terms.
Cross & Hammond,
Attorneys and Abstracters
Beaver Building, Oregon City.
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