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0REG0N.CITV COURIER, FRIDAY, AUG. 23, 1912 OREGON CITY COURIER Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Eighth aud Main streets, and en tered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as second class mail matter. OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER M. J. BROWN, A. Subscription Price $1.50. M. J. BROWN, Theodore Roosevelt will speak in .Portland September z. Exempt labor products from taxation and you are helping to 1,UWUR the cost of living. And after all you have got to acknowledge mat the arguments against the graduated single tax are mighty weak productions. make owners of franchises, water powers ana nfie land pay more taxes. And will any man tell me they pay their share now? How can a man with brains of his own oppose such a proposition? Assessing land at what its sell ing value is and making owners pay taxes on this basis would turn some things over inOregon and even some things up. The graduated single tax will Let those who have grown rich by the growth of the Stale mak ing their properly many times double in value, let these pay tax. es in proportion. And the grad uated single tax would make them Charles II. Shields, "Secretary Oregon Equal Taxation League now treats the Courier with silent contempt. And it makes me real sorry that I hurt Charlie's feel ings. Didn't treat you thusly in Seattle, did they Secretary? What do you think of this country sending a government ship far over to Japan just to take Secretary Knox and a half dozen naval officers to the Mika do's funeral? Isn't it loadism? Isn't it silly? Isn't it a waste of money? The publication of the compar isons of Clackamas County's taxation under the present sys tem and under tho graduated land tax system is an argument that newspaper scare stories can't blow away. T,ho tax reform ers proposed to SHOW the people and HOW are the l'lutes going to get around it? In Clackamas County 31 indi viduals and corporations own 1 7(i,6-i5 acres of land, each tract or more than 300 acres ami worth more than $10,000 each. And then wo wonder why this country doosn't settle up faster. Tho graduated tax would break this up. Vole it. Chairman Hillis of tho Nation al Republican committee has broken , into prominence, along the lino of the lato Bill Nye. He says Taft and Sherman will be elected, by 381 electoral votes. Hillis is certainly trying to earn his salary. Makes one think of Charles 1). Shields, " Secretary of tho Equal Taxation League of Oregon. If the gradualer single tax was in operation today, in Clack amas County, there would bo a specific tax alone on lands worth more than $10,000 to the amount of $52,000. Added to this would bo tho spoeillo lax on franchises and rights of way, and at the same time taxation on all im provements would be abolished. How can any man but a franchise holder or dead land speculator he ngainsl it? Let us suppose that Oregon City, or Clackamas County, could aud would exempt from taxation any manufactory that would employ 50 or more men. Would this drive away what we have, or would it bring many others here? And yet the oppos ers of the graduated single tax have the iron nerve to tell you men who have brains of your own that it would paralizo in dustry in Oregon! Andrew Carnegie says the day is drawing near when million aires will bo taxed in proportion to their incomes. Andrew slates a truth, but mildly. The day is coming when (lie government will tax the first million high enough and the second million so high it, won't bo worth gelling so high that it will be little less than confiscation. And it should. No man has a right to two mil. lion dollars. He has no use for it, and it but deprives the olher man when ho acquires it. . ARE YOU A TRANSMITTER. OR POSSESSOR OF MONEY? The "Transmitter" passes it along to some one else about as fast as he earns it, often a little faster. The "possessor" manages to hold on to share of his Income, and turn it into property or invest ments.making it a permanent asset, and an in come producer. The easiest way to become possessor of wealth is to conserve ones resources through the aid of bank account, This bank is now helping many to acquire prop erty and independence, and will be pleased to have YOU join its growing family of money savers. Checking account, Savings account'and Certific ates of Deposit The Bank o f Oregon City Oldest Bank in The County E. FROST, OWNERS. Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1 EDITOR Now listen to retary cut loose. the Hired Sec A vote for Taft means "Up with the Cost of Living." President Taft's tariff record would bury him, if there were no olher things to shovel tho dirt. Governor West is going after Portland next, and it is amusing to see the officials welcome him, and promise all their assistance. Just see who are behind the movement to kill the graduated land tax. That alone should con vert a worker to it. Tho assault and murder of the 12-year-old girl in her bed this week at Eugene, is one of those brutal horrors that occur alto gether too frequently in Oregon. The business of this country lias gotten to that size where now it is the people that need protection, and the freer trade is more protection will they get. Taft's vetoes have already started something. Congressman Stevens, or iNehraska. has intro duoed a resolution that a major t,y vole may over-ride a veto. Wilson's election is as nearly certainty as any uncertain proposition can be. The Demo crats are solidly united and all pulling together, while the Re publican party is all shot to pieces and the pieces scattered. The graduated tax assessment book, which .will bring homo to every voter just what the new proposition will do. will make Charles II. Shields, "Secretary scratch his head some. - Think of an oriranizalion styling itself FOR "equal taxa tion" and fighting to have the present system continued. Makes one think of Selling calling hiin- sell a progressive but declar ing for Taft. Twice within a week the Pres ident has vetoed the budget bill because it abolished his pet com merce court. Tho house passed it over his veto, but the senate stood pat, as usual. Of course the Pres ident's objection had to bo strick en out and the bill repassed. If ever a man did-the wrong thing at the right time, ho is President Taft. He has presis tently blundered since his in auguration and you can deny it as you wilr, but President Tart has brought the republican party to its wreckago by not doing right things at right times. Judge II an ford was forced to re sign because it was proven he was a friend to big business, and nn unfit for the place. And now President Taft rushes in with the appointment of Clinton W. How ard, council for the Southern Pa cillo railroad and several other corporations. President Taft asked tho sen ate committee to embody in the canal tolls bill tho right of tho courts to determine whether it violated the rights of our treaty with (treat Drilain. Tho commit tee refused and the committee did right. Are the courts to bo our legislature? What is Congress for? Wo understand that the Roos evelt party will put a strong man for congress in this district and give Mr. Hawley a little race' this fall. The Democrats nominated Mayor Smith of (Irants Pass, but he jdid not file his acceptance and (lie field is practically clear for Mr. Hawley who is a stand-pal Taft Republican. There aro a good many people in this congressional district who would prefer to vote for a candidate for congress who stands for some things that Mr. Hawley does not, and more esiies cially one who does not stand for some things that Mr. Hawley does. So, if I he new Roosevelt party in this slate has any such tiling as a candidate for congress hidden about his cloths, it would be doing us a real kindness to trot him out and let us see what he stands for in this year of progress 1912. Woodhurn Independent. NO. 3. There is not a newspaper in the state of Oregon that opposes , half fare rate for "strap hang Secretary of State Olcotts "Jiluo era" and cat the price of gas in Sky Bill. There should not a voter in the state oppose it, for it is fram. ed for just one purpose to keep the three shell men from fleec ing Oregon. There are a lot of people in Clackamas County, and some right in this city, who have not yet forgotten the smart of being robbed of their good' money in that orchard tract deal. And this is but one of hundreds of the slickest kinds of bunco games, that are being worked every week in Oretron and to the disgrace of the state, being done legally. Secretary Olcotl says n tnis bill passes it will save the state a million dollars a year, and I can easily believe it, for Oregon is up against about every smooth skin game going, and I want to tell you that ttie smooth game and tho smooth promoter will get most anybody. Olcott's blue sky bill if passed will protect purchasers of stocks and bonds from the grafter. It orovides for the regulation and supervision of corporations that have stocks or honds lor sale, it reauires a state license before a company can oiler its stock for sale, and the state will approve tho kinds of stock that are on the square. Kansas has a similar law and it is the best law to boost legitimate business the Sunflower state ever enacted. And it will work the same way in Oregon. It will make the bunco men get out. It will effectually slop the sale of worthless securities. There is just one danger to this bill that the voters may pass it by entirely because the ballot is too long. Hut don't do it. The ballot number FOR this bill is No. 335 YKS. Take your note book and make a memorandum, and don t you fail to vote "SUPPLY" and "DEMAND." Live beef at $10.40 in Chi cago has but one meaning supply is not equal to de mand and there is not pros pect otherwise. By and by none but the organized workman and the extreme rich will bo able to eat meat. Oregonian. And yet we keep such a high tarill on lieei that other count ries cannot help our demand, panics are exporting car after car of beef sending it out of this country. When a tariff wall won't let beef in and when our trusts ex port enough to keep a constant shortage, then the meat trusts have a proposition more certain than the three shell game and just as crooked. WHY CAN'T WE? You can't establish a wage scale by law. It's not constitut ional. 1 I won't stand." I heard a prominent Port land attorney make the above break this week, but his declar ation doesn't make it so. From president down to road supervisor law ltxes wages, it tells a governor, a supreme court judge, a sheriff, district attorney, county clerk, assessor,, policeman and so on what he shall work for. Any good reason why it should not tell a surveyor, a bricklayer, a carpenter or printer what he should reeieve? Wouldn't it be belter to tell f he in than to have them tell the employer and to have strikes, lockouts, riots and destruction ol property? This Portland attorney Held that it was taking away from a man his personal liberty when iw fixed a price for his labor. I've heard that before. A dry town takes away a man's liberty to buy drink; the stale laws forbid him to play poker or bet on elections; the criminal laws forbid him to strongarm a man and lake his coin all re straints of personal liberty. It s less a restraint on person al liberty to tell a switchman what pay he shall have than to have a whole railroad system tied tin. And some day we will have all wages fixed by law and we'll have less trouble. ' A BILL THAT SHOULD PASS. On page one is n letter from C. Schuebel. Republican nominee for the legislature, and a draft of a bill he will introduce and work for if if ho his elected to the leg islature. It is a bill that should pass, and if it were submitted to an open vole of the people there is no question but what, it would re ceive a big majority. While the forest fires of this state levy a heavy toll on values and while every precaution should be exercised io in every manner to prevent them, yet is well known to you and everyone that a forest fire is seldom traced to a farmer or land clearer. In nearly every instance these fires are the results of campers, hunt ers and automobile parlies a cigar or cigarette not extinguish ed; ashes dumped from a pipe, a camp fire left smouldering. Under our present law the open season for burning slashings and log heaps is the season when they will not burn. And the season when slashings will burn and when a farmer can clear his luiftl. are the months when he is not permitted to. If there is one movement Clackamas county, and the whole stale of Oregon should encourage it is the clearing up of tho logged off land there is no other mat ter effecting real estate of more importance. The bill as outlined by Mr. Schuebel will permit this work, and at the same time it will ef fectually safeguard property and prevent forest fires. Mr. Schuebel asks for opinions and criticisms on this proposal. The Courier believes it what I he state needs and what the farmers want, and this paper would be very glad to hear ex pressions from I lie farmers, or from anybody as to this bill. If you favor it or against it, let us hear from you. THE SMOKING. PROCESS. Portland's council passed a half. How did it haonon? The Daily News got a crowd of people out to the council meeting and the councilinen dared not face them and vote for the int erests of the combinations. That's why. The News says "If we can't elect honest men to the council, maybe we can scare a few crooks into being 'decent." There is a world of sense in this observation. Public senti ment nothing can stand against when it is thouroughly aroused, and the man was never elected to any olfico yet who is totally dead to shame. "If the council had to face a crowded house of honest men every meeting, this town would save millions a year in graft to the taxpayers." says the News. And its true, not only in Port land, but proportionally in every city. This smoking out, lining up and inspecting of municipal do ings wilr force men to work bet ter for the interests of a cily and it will brand the grafter so all will know him. STOP THIEF. ENOUGH HAS BEEN STOL EN IN UNEARNED PROFITS ON OREGON LANDS TO MAKE ,EV- EltY SOU! L IN THE STATE IN- DEPENDENT I Gentlemen of the land graft ring, don't you think you have enough? You have the earth and the fullness thereof; give the ; little chap a chance. 11 you don t, God help you for man won t when the sucker wakes up to how he has been slung. Anybody who has studied the lax problem knows the present system is an damnable outrage AND MAYBE SOME $5,000 IM- POUTKD GINK WILL ANSWER THESE PASSING REMARKS NOT. Portland News. "REPRESENTATION." Of course the Republican sen ale killed Ihe effort to pass the wool and steel bills over Taft's veto. They would never have passed the bills in the first place, only they knew fall would veto them And tho utter insincerity was tho fact than with tho steel bill not even all of those who helped to pass it voted to pass it over Tail's veto there was not even a majority for the measure. And such raw work as this sim ply prods on the unrest and dis content, and you mark the pre diction that this work of the sen. ate and the protests will result in one f two re forms, the abolishing of the senate, or the amendment of the rules so that a majority in both houses may overrule a veto It's a great parody on the retire sentative government when no houses of congress and eighteen million voters want bills passed that a man with appetite and a smile can kill their wants. And it's a harrowing give-away on the senate that on the effort to pass a bill over the veto that, it should not have even a majority they were afraid it M1GH1 pass A STRANGE MEASURE. Hunginglou with its gambling dens and open saloons at all hours, was exactly as the major ily of public sentiment wanted it. The town with no-license laws governing it. and with blind pigs in operation, and open and flagrant violation of the law of lreiiuent occurrence, could easily slump out this sort, of Hung if the people who opposed it were in the majority. Polk County Ohservei It beats all what calibre of men will occasionally break into the newspaper business. Will this great reasoner just lake a minute oil and explaam to an anxious public HOW there COULD be a no-license town tin less a majority of public senti ment made it dry, and HOW blind pigs aud flagrant violat ions of the law could be majority sentiment alter a no-license vole As well argue that because a poker joint had not been raided by the police that the gambling was what tho majority of the people wanted that tho grailing police represented the people. (iovernor West cleaned up Huntington because the major ity of the neonle want .d it elean- ed up mid necause west Knew he was right m cleaning it up. Governor West cleaned up the road houses out ol Portland lie- cause they were sour holes, but these joints were not exactly what publio sentiment wanted, because they had been allowed to tin all these years. According to his measure of sentiment Redmonds gambling mayor was just what I lie people ordered anil his conviction was against the wishes of the people. I' or fool reasoning the Observ er editor may have the white alley, but he got in wrong when ho thought lie was called to write editorials. He should be a mayor or chief of polieo in some blind pig town. JOHN LIVINGSTONE. Good Massa, aro you waiting At the gale for old mack joiin? hear your voice a-calling And 1 hasten to be gone. I'll slip off quiet in the night No one shall see me go. Oh, but my heart is hungry lor the friends of long ago I Is my Mary with you, Massa, Watching by the Pearly Gale? She put on her Golden Slippers Years ago, but John must wait. Oh Massa, it's been lonely With both you and Mary gone; But I've been brave and cheerful As I kept a'plodding on. And though my face is black us night, Folks say my heart is while I reckon I wont be Black John Up in that Land of Light. Dear Masa, I'm a'coming, I'm hurryin' through the gloom The Lord Himself has called me. And He says, "In Heaven there's room. M. N. B. The Courier has readers, a lot of them, and live ones. An ad. does the biz. DOWN WITH THEM. Two years ago the Socialists elected a mayor in the city of Schnectady, N. v., and one of the tilings he was elected for was his pledge to make the ice trust sell its product to the poor at a low rate. The Socialist administration played its cards early by putting in a large stock of ice and this summer began selling it at 25 cents per. hundred pounds, while the ice trust asked 40 cents. This wouldn't do for the ice trust. So they enjoined Mayorr Lunn You know what "enjoin" means don't ypu? It's a way whereby the trusts and the courts get you either go ing or coming. . "T.'r,,,.;.," ..w.nrn, I,,.." UIIJl'lll lllCUlin 1 11 J U 1 1 1 I II II - and injunction moans don't get on the trusts preserves. An injunction means quit it. It usually doesn't give any reason. It simply says "get off the job; you are rubbing up a gainst special privilege." So they "enjoined" Mayor Lunn for selling ice to the poor for 15 cents less than the trusts. What do you men with red blood in you think of courts standing between sick babies and cheap ice? Doesn't it make you think of a rope and a telegraph pole' "Enjoin" means stop until some court can decide the matter and in this case it was a wait for weeks until it could bo argued and probably until the hot weath er was over. Then tho babies would either be dead or not in want of ice. The ice trust went further than the injunction, they asked the courts, to prevent the Socialist Mayor troin using the telephone in the city council department tor an ice bureau, so that the poor people could not call them up tor cheap ice. Wouldn't such actions as these make you back up and feel like getting in behind the Socialists? Doesn't such damnable tactics as these make you say it is time to down these monopolies and make them slay down to change the conditions which foster them? Here's the way the Portland Journal concludes an editorial on this Judicial outrage: "Perhaps it is un-American and un-constifutional for the iioverty stricken to have ice Perhaps it is unconstitutional for the little children of a swel tering eastern city, children with parents too poor to buy at trust prices, to be given the ice neces sary to save their lives. Perhaps not. "But if it is not tho function of government to give ice to dying children, . is it the function of government to help ice dealers or wool nianafacturers or any other manufacturers to get big prices and big prolils? THE BULL MOOSE SONG. Courier's Suggestion for a Roose velt Campaign War Hymn. Col. Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" party is making much capital out ol the semi-religious character of the meetings held by that party the long meter doxology together with an opening prayer, is a feature of their every assemblage A Dervish like fervor is induced by the singing of the popularEng. lish hymn "Onward Christian Soldier." While the average man may have his doubts about the genuineness of Roosevelt s sud den lovo for religious exercises, there can he no doubt whatever as to his love of public worship The Oregon Cily Courier humbly suggests tho lollowmg revised version ol the John Bull-Roose veil war song: Onward Teddy Soldiers, Marching as to war, With the blood-red banner Going on before. Theo., Royal Master, Leads against the foe; Forward into battle See his subjects go. Chorus Onward Teddy soldiers. Marching as to war, Willi the blu.sl'ring bull moose Uomg on netore. U the sign of triumph William's host doth llee;' On, then, Teddy soldiers, On to victory; ll opposed are liars Worthy of tho lash; lirotliers, lilt your voices While Perkins lifts the cash. Chorus Like a mighty army Move we at His nod; lirolhers, we are treading Where the "Pops" have trod. We are not divided, All one body we, He's our Hope and Doctrine !nd our pa-ar-ty. Chorus Principles may perish, Parties rise and wane Hut we men of Teddy Hypnotized remain. Reason's call will never 'Gainst our Chief prevail; We have His Own promise That He cannot fail. Chorus Onward then, ye simples Join our holy throng, Menu with ours your worship Sing wilh us this song: Glory, laud and honor I'lieoilore our King," ' He's Ihe Chief of Sages, He's the Real Thing. Chorus Onward, Teddy soldiers, marching as to yar, Wilh the leader's record Going on before. Music for the above may be ob tained from Pierponl Morgan, the Salvation Army, J. D. Rocke feller, the Harvester or any oth er respectable trust. i.iunos musi remove men- nais luring tlie singing of this hymn. the third stanza Mill be sung kneeling. A vast ammount of ill health is lue to impaired digestion. When tho stomach fails to perforin its functions properly the whole sys tem becomes deranged. A few doses of Chamberlain's Tablets is all you need. They will strengthen your digestion, invigorate your liver, and regulate your bowels, miserable feeling due to faulty .ligeslion. Try it. Many others have been permanently cured why not you? For sale by Hunt ley Bros. The Home of GOOD Shoes Every week we are going to talk to you in this space about shoes Watch, ir. An honest price, a good shoe xnd a correct fit all these we guaran tee. So come in ami look over our Bargain Counter. On it you will 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 WHICH ARE YOU? (Portland Daily News.) What about a land value tax? Who will it benefit; who will il hurl? There is but one way to decide how to vole on any measure and thai is to determine how it will elTeel YOU. How about it,, where are you in the class of the 232 or the class of the 2 40,856? That's about the way the grad uated land tax will work if it passes in Multnomah County next November; there will be 232 individuals who wil pay more, Ihere will be a couple of hundred thousand folks who will pay less. The News never was loved by the 232; it is not seeking their affection, it is trying to get a square deal for the U'JO men in the thousand. Here aro a few figures; read them, digest them; if you do, this article alone should tell you how to vole on the tax measure: ' Two hundred and thirty-two people own $03,014,300 worth of land in this county. A thousand and four hundred and ninety seven own $-10,649,500 worth more; ALL of tho rest of the people in the county, more than 210,000 souls, own $7i,106,8U0 worth of land. Under the present tax system the 210,000 are carrying the chief load, the 1197 are getting out of a considerable part of their just debt to the state, and 232 are sneaking out of the major part of their obligation. Tho present tax system that puts a fine on industry, improve ment and energy, and that gives the speculator, the idle land mon opolist,, and the vested interest chap the chief reward of the oilier fellow's work, has piled up most of the sixty three millions for thu 232 folks at the expense of the 210,000; a land value tax will take some of this unearned incre ment away and lighten the load I on the man who merely works for a living instead gambling for it. And what is true of Multnomah County is true of the state gen erally. Hay fever and asthma make August a njonth of intense suf- ering to many people. F oley s Honey and Tar Compound gives prompt case and relief and is soothing and healing to tho in- flamed membra nes. Win. M. Mer- ethew, N. Searsport, Me., says: few doses of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound relieved me Of a severe attack of asthma and less than a bottle caused a Com- plele cure." Refuse substitutes. For sale by Huntley Bros. 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