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CITY
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"A MILE OF MILLS"
and more coming Is what makes
Oregon City the best on the coast
outside of Portland.
Oregon City ships 300 tons of
goods every day and reoelves j
tons. That's why Its the best
city In the state.
30th YEAR.
OREGON CITY, OREGON. FRIDAY. AUG. 30, 1912.
No. 15
01EGOM
CO
E FOR MEN TO
USE THEIR READS
YOU HAVEN'T GOT TO BE RICH
TO THINK SOME.
DIG OUT YOUR OWN IDEAS,
And See if the Remedy In Sight
isn't the Play.
The past five years have
brought a bunch of reforms in
Oregon and every last one of
them is making Rood.
The Courier editor was not a
resident of Oregon during these
contests for more representa
tive government, but he has
waded through the newspaper
ines and knows something ol
what it cost the people to get
tnem.
And how many of them would
you voters let go or ;
Pretty good stuff aren't they?
They are means through which
you can get what you want, if
you can t get it otherwise.
They are reforms which give
the common people an even
break and a show for them
selves measures for the best
good of the greatest number.
And as I read the editorials
and comment and news stories of
these proposed reform laws,
before they were laws, I see thai
Oregon was slated to go to ruin
with a rush, just as soon as
these laws got onto the job. .
But the ruin didn't come ac
cording to schedule. Things
wouldn't ruin; business refused
to catch paralysis, spinal menin
gitis, mumps or any old thing.
The laws went into effect. They
made good, and it will take some
mighty slick joker work to kill
any of them.
All this you know it doesn't
tell you anything, but perhaps it
will, if you will go on down the
column with it.
About the biggest one of the
reforms you got was the initiat
ive the power to go out and get
what you wanted when the legis
lature would not give it to you.
The purpose of the initiative is
to submit propositions for relief
when things are not right. It is
nothing more or less than a trial
by jury, with every man who
cares to be a pleader on either
side, and the whole people a
jury.
This fall we have several cases
on the calendar and ready for
trial.
One of them is a taxation re
form law. It is called a graduated
single tax. It might just as well
be styled an improvement ex
emption, for it simply means to
exempt personal property and
labor products from taxation;
And to offset these exemptions
there will be specific taxes plac
ed on big land holdings, on rights
of way and on franchises.
Now I don't care who the man
is, Republican, Democrat, Social
ist, Pro hi or Bull Mooseer, every
last one of them will tell you we
need reforms in Oregon's taxat
ion, that the present system is
robbery of the worker and favor
itism to the speculator; that the
system is rotten and that we need
a change.
And now that we have an op
portunity for a change, a change
that will put the taxation just
where it should be put, are we
going to let the same scare
stories the same crowd told on
the iniative, and referendum,
keep us from it?
The man who produces, who
works, clears and improves, has
nothing to fear from the propos
ed exemption law. To him it will
be a Christmas present. .
The man who has iilty acres
improved and fifty acres
unimproved will have nothing to
fear, for his exempt ions will
offset his wild land and it will be
an incentive for him to make
furtther improvements.
But the man who holds out a
big tract and does not improve or
make it produce, but who sits
back and wails for the worker to
improve around him and his
property advance in value
this man will have to pay your
exemptions.
And shouuin t ne t
You taxpayers of Clackamas
County are, not crows, and I don't
believe you are going to get
scared at a straw man stuck on
pole, even if they do give him
the awful name of "Confiscat
ion."
You have a chance, to change
our taxation. It needs it .You have
a chance to try out a reform that
promises you just what you are
asking for.
Its working, and working
awfully, right un in Canada
George Hicinibolham and Charles
D. Shields to the contrary not
withstanding.
It carries with it' in this coun
ty the right, to kill it just as
easy as you made it.
And where is the worker, the
improver, the producer, who can
get right down to brass tacks
and justify his opposition to the
proposed measure?
The man who will blow away
prejudice and reason will admit
that the proposed law will equal
ize the taxation that too few of
the workers pay the most of now.
The speculator, the franchise,
owner, the tax dodger are satis
fied with the present system.
A
STATEMENT
AND
A STORY.
THE PURPOSE IS TO NAIL
. PAIR OF RUMORS.
NO MALICE OR PIN-STICKING,
Vacation Week.
This issue of the Courier is
rather light and much matter is
left out. It's vacation week. Print
ers have to have a day or two olT
once a year. We'll be back on the
schedule next weeK.
Slab wood for sale, 16 inch,$3
per cord, delivered. Leave orders
at James Atkins Lumber Co., Ore
gon City , Ore. Phones, 1'aciiic
316, Home A. 31. .
Difference Between Family Gath
ering and Publlo Picnic.
If, when you have finished this
column, you think it is a hedge,
think again for the Courier
doesn't hedge but it is glad to
make right, and dead right, ai?y
injustice to any man, if the editor
knows he has done the man an
injustice.
There have two reports come
to this oilice, or two stories,
rather, that have grown out of
the articles this paper published
of the Sunday picnic at Schnoerr
park.
The stories are that Mr.
Schnoerr is being blamed for
what transpired at that Sunday
picnic, and that the articles were
written for the purpose of injur
ing his chances for election to the
state legislature for which he is
a Republican nominee.
ii tlie Oouner was disposed to
attack Mr. Schnoorr politically,
it would not have hidden behind
others to do it.
It would have come out in the
clear, put his name in plain type
and went alter him.
There would have been no
Italian "'rk in it no knife in the
back but a stand in the clear.
But the Courier had no
thought of blaming Mr. Schuoerr
for the things that were' permit
ted on that day. At the time of
writing the article it had no
thought of blaming any person.
The point was that beer was
being publicly dispensed, girls
and boys could get it, and that
such conditions should stop.
. That was all.
Let me tell you a Jittle story
that will illustrate how the Cour
ier looks at these matters far bel
ter than the Courier's editor
could tell it.
A few years ago, looking for
stories of the unusual, I went to
a town of about 2,000 people in
Southern Texas, a German town,
and a town in which the Jingiisn
anguage was never spoken. The
town is Germantown, a place
back from any railroad, north of
isan Antonio.
This town, with its one street,
perhaps three miles long, is a
duplicate of the German towns.
Everything is in the style of the
V atherland it is a German town
brought to America.
i stayed several days in inis
own and found the neoDle and
their quaint .customs wonderfully
lascinating.
When the sun went down and
A Cool Kitchen
EVEN IN
MIDSUMMER
With A REAL LIVE BREEZE
blowing away the sultry air and
cooling the whole room
That's Yoor Kitchen and all others, too that
HAVE AN
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the stores closed, then the fami
lies brought out their tables, set
them along the sidewalk and they
gainerea arouno ana arank then
beer. And this seemed the natura
order of things, as fitting the
time, place, and people.
On Sunday I went to church.
The weather was excessively hot
and the services were held in a
grove. After the services these
several hundreds of people went
to a large tent neamy where sev
eral kegs of beer were ready, and
family after family would carry
pitcher after pitcher to some seat
or table and there would eat
their lunch and drink their beer.
It was a part of their way of
observing the baoDatn not pro
faning it. They drank the beer as
we would lemonade. It was their
way.their custom, inherited a
part of them.. There was no
drunkeness, no hilarity. A man
becoming drunken would hav
been arrested in a minute.
Do you get the drift of why this
illustration is used?
In that county, governed entir
ely by Germans, the jail had
stood vacant for one and a half
years. I here was no work for the
prosecuting attorneys, sheriffs or
grand jurys.
Now what I mean is this: There
is a heap of difference between a
German Sunday picnic and a
Yankee b low out.
Let the Germans bunch up and
have their beer and lunch and it
will be as peaceful as a mothers'
meeting.
Let a bunch of Americans get
around a keg of beer and in less
than thirty minutes some one will
be looking for an argument,
another win start something and
plenty others will see it doesn't
die out or the occasion want for
excitement.
I don't believe Mr. Schnoer is
any more to blame for the wide
open conditions of the recent
Sunday picnic than I am.
-1 believe he is just a3 strongly
opposed to boys and girls being
served with beer on Sunday or
any other day, as I am.
For years Mr. Schnoer has been
generous with his- park. Any
worthy society or cause has been
welcome to it at any time. He has
turned it over to them and told
them to have a good time, and
when they have gone he has
cleaned up the park and had it
ready for the next society.
There was irtP person that had
anything to do with the recent
article in the Courier but the
writer of these lines. What polit
ical construction might be put on
it was not thought of. It was
written to call public attention to
a condition that should not be
permitted again. It was written
to stop our boys and girls from
getting drinks that they could not
get otherwise.
. This picnic in Question was
one of the unexpected. It occurred
and was over before it was real
ized what it really was. It won't
happen again, that the officials
plainly assure.
There was no politics or pin
sticking in the article. It simply
stated such public picnics and
Deer drinking should not he per
mitted. The law says they shall
not, and the sheriff says they will
not.
WANTS JUSTICE
IN
RIGHTS
SCHEUBEL SHOWS UP SOME
BAD SMELLING LAWS.
PROTECTION TO BIG INTERESTS
Jokers Put Through When Peopl
were not Looking.
Oregon City, Ore. Aug 26, 1912
Editor Courier:
I believe that every law should
provide for a square deal whether
it ue ior a corporation or private
individual and lor that reason I
wish to submit for consideration
the following bill:
"Section 1. Every person, firm
corporation or association claim.
ing the right to the use of water
for power development shall on
or before the 1st. day of January
1914, and on or before the first
day of January in each year
tnercauer. pay to the state o
Oregon in advance an annual li
cense fee of not less than fifty
cents or more than two dollars
for each and every theoretical
water horse power claim; pro
vided, that upon filing the state
ment provided by said Chapter
vdii or the General Laws of Ore
gon of 1911, the United States or
the state, or any municipal cor.
poration, claiming the right to the
use of water to any extent for the
generation of power, or any other
claimant to the right to use
water for the generation of
twenty-five theoretical horse
power, or less, shall be exempted
from the payment of all foes
herein provided. For the purpose
of this act, a horse power is
hereby defined to be 550 pounds
of water per. second of time for
each loot of available fall.
Section 11. Section 1 of Chan
ter 221 of the General Laws o
Oregon of 1911, and all laws and
parts of laws in conflict with
Section 1 of this act are hereby
repealed.
JUST A BIQ SMOKE.
The Four Errors In Tax Roll do
Not Change Results.
With big headlines the Enter
prise came out last week with the
startling news that the months of
work on the graduated single tax
was of no account, because it
was a mass of errors, that the
original roll could not be recog
nized, etc., and then it went on
to show FOUR errors in the fig
ures in this county.
The amusing part of it is that
the four errors were on personal
property assessments, which
under the proposed graduated
single tax would bo exempt.
in answer to the .hnterorise
charges V. S. U'Ren sent out the
following letter:
Oregon City, Aug. 23.
J. E. Jack, who condemns the
single tax roll in the Oregonian
this morning, is an excellent and
very careful officer, but in this
matter he has spoken rather
hastily. There are more than
13.000 separate entries in the
book. In copying these he had
found four errors, and all relat
ing to the personal property. This
work was done by skilled help.
most of the clerks having had
long experience in the official tax
and assessment work o.f Clacka
mas County. Three of these er
rors were made by these clerks
and one by two men that I em
ployed, one of whom had had sev
en years experience.
As to the public service corn-
oration assessments and taxes,
these do appear prominently in
the first seven pages of the book.
It is through my own oversight
that they do not appear in then-
regular alphabetical order in the
roll.
That only four errors have
been found in copying 13,000 en
tries seems to me a good reco
mmendation for the general ac
curacy of the work. As to the
State Tax Commission and its
work, I am ready to stand by
every line of the book. If theie is
any injustice it is in the record
of that body and not in our state
ment of it. Sincerely yours,
w. s. u Hen.
Those Vexatious Errors.
The Oregon City Courier com
ments on one of its exchanges
calling the "Bull Moose" party,
the "Bull Mouse" party, and
wonders whether it was a mis
take or malice. We then turned to
the front nasre of the Courier and
discovered a headline that read
"S. P. Buys Electric Lint." Is that
a new kind of antiseptic bandage
Bro. Brown or did you hit the
wrong key.? Stayton Mail.
Reckon it was a case or ringers
in the wrong place, and we might
have known it would come. We
searched the Mail for a wrong
address to get even, but our
Stayton brother was on the job
and we couldn't even find a turn
ed letter. But there 11 come a
time.
The Legislature of 1909 pass
ed a law which will be found at
page 370, 1909 Session Laws
private corporations appropriat-
ing water tor power purposes
providing that all persons or
AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THIS
ACT. should nay a license fee to
the State of Oregon annually of
not less than twenty-tive cents or
more than two dollars per. horse
power per. annum. The language
i me law was not suincieniiy
lear to protect the WATER
POWER TRUST and fearing that
they might- be compelled to pay
the same licenso fee for the use
of the water appropriated before
the passage ot the law or luuu,
in 1911 the WATER POWER
TRUST caused to be passed
another law. which will bo found
at page 418, Session Laws for
1911. This law provides that
every person or private oorpor
ation having appropriated water
for power purposes PRIOR to
May 22nd, 1909, should only pay
a license fee of 10 oents for the
first 100 Horse-power, 5 cents in
excess of 100 to and including
1,000, and one cent for each
horse-power in excess of 1,000.
The P. Ry. L. & P. Co. is now pay
ing one cent per horse power per
annum for the Willamette J?ans
and other appropriations in ex
cess of 1,000 horse-power, being
the choice water power sites in
Clackamas County, while any
other person or corporation ap
propriating water since May 22,
1909, is compelled to pay from 25
cts. to $2. per horse-power per.
annum, as may be determined by
by the Board of Control.
This is an injustice to any
person or corporation undertak
ing to develop water power since
the passage of the Act of 1909.
The bill I have submitted will
treat all parties alike and compel
the WATER POWER TRUST to
pay the same license fee that any
other person or corporation
would be compelled to pay, who
appropriated water for power
purposes since May 22nd, 1909.
I shall be pleased from anyone
who has any suggestions or
amendments to make to this bill.
Respectfully yours,
C. Schuebel.
Here's One to Chew On.
An Oregon City man wanted to
go to Grants Pass. The car fare
was three dollars and he had only
a two dollar bill. He took the two
dollar bill to a business man here
and pawned it for one dollar and
lltty cents. Then he went to a
friend and sold the pawn ticket
calling for two dollars for $1.50.
That gave him the three dollars
necessary for a ticket, and , he
went to Grants Pass.
Now the man who bought the
pawn ticket for 81.50 paid fifty
cents extra (the pawn broker s
fee and got his money back.
The pawn broker got his loan
hack or ti.bu and mane miy cents
profit, and the man who bought
the ticket to Grants Pass was a
dollar ahead. The friend who
bought the pawn ticket was just
even, so who was out on the deal?
OH, THAT BAD U'REN
(Portland News.)
Mavhe vou saw a glaring yarn
this morning about how that bad,
bad man U'Ren had sent out a
fake list to the Clackamas Coun
ty voters in a hideous effort to
shoo them into the single tax
fold.
Listen to what U Ren says
about this alarming scandal;
most folks who know U Ren do
not consider him a liar:
"Out of 13.000 entries in the
tax list there were four mistakes,
none of them caused by anything
tax department." 1
Well, well, and A couple of
cisterns, isn t it a roaring shame
that four naughty mistakes out
of 13,000 statements appeared
to mislead those poor Clackamas
ballot holders 1
About 13,00 to four is the ratio
between the logic and justice of
the U'Ren side of it and the land
monopoly side of it.
PUTTING ON THE CLEANER.
Governor West now Lining Up
Against the Portland Bunch.
Governor West's crusade
against vice in this state is the
one absorbing topic of conversa
tion everywhere.
He cleaned up the road houses,
he cleaned up Huntington and
Redmond and made the corrupt
officials resign; he forced the
treasurer or mrnsnurg to re
sign on the charge that he was
running a Blind pig, and now he
has undertaken to clean up Port-
IU11U.
District Attorney Cameron o
Portland did not take kindlv in
the governor s style of delivery
so west promptly removed him
and appointed Walter II. Evans
assistant Uuited States district
attorney in his place. Mr. Evans
is consiuering me matter or ser
ving.
Already there is an agitation
for a recall for the governor.
and the only reasons that can be
given is that he is doing his du
ly and rorcing others to do theirs
tiere is the way the governor
put it up to tne Portland omoials
There has come a time
right now when every man of
you has got to choose his
companions. Either you line
up with the decent element.'
with the mothers, wives and
sisters, or you line up with
the pimps and macpuoreaux
and the women of the street.
I know well enough where I
stand and I expect to know
whether the officers of this
city stand with nie.
What's a man Koinsr to do but
take a stand when a governor
hands out this line of talk?
lhere are no two ways about
it a man has simply to sav I
... : t v. u ... . v. "
am wiiu wit) guveruur 111 Ills ei-
forts to make the sworn officials
do what they have taken oath to
do, or l am against law enforce
ment and lor wide open Oregon
towns and cities.
You can t get around it but
what Governor West is dead
lght. He has hung the hides of
corrupt oinoiais up to -the shame
of the state and he should. In
every case thus far. the results
have amply proven that the olll-
nalswere unlit for the positions
mey neid. . . ,
1 he governor says . it is the
grafting officials who protect and
license crime that he is after and
he says if he can rid Portland of
thorn the rest of. the clean up will
be easy.
It is to be honed that a recall
petition could be started so that it
could be emphatically proven to,
ne governor mat this stale is for
eceucy and honesty. The vote
would tell a story that, the ele
ment fighlting West does not
want told, and you may be sure
they will not dare try on the re
call. . . .
But one thing the . governor
will find, and he probably knows
it cerore ne tinds it, that that
Portland bunch is a hard line to
go up against, and his pathway
won't bo strewn with roses.
AFTER ANOTHER
Into the Tall Uncut.
The Woodburn Independent
ays a twenty-five mile logging
road, built on main lino stand
ards, running from Silverton in a
southeasterly direction and lap.
ping a timber region growing
12,000.000,000 feet of the finest
Douglas fir in existence, is
announced for construction by
the Silver Falls Lumber Company
of Portland. Flagg and Standifer,
Portland Railway construction
firm, were Tuesday awarded the
contract for grading, ballasting
and tracklaying on the new line. A
run crew or men will ho at work
on the project this week.
The comnanv nromntinir the
project is composed of capitalists
from Portland, Texas, and east
ern slates. A milling business is
ot a part of the plans of the
company, but the logging indus
try win ho engaged in exclusive
ly. While logging will be carried
on to the extent of 600,000 foot of
lumper daily, it is said even at
this rate it will take einhly years
to exhaust the supply of timber in
the region tapped by the new
line.
8oclallstlo Address.
Next Tuesday night, September
H. L. Hughes, secretary of the
Spokane Charities Commission,
ill deliver a Socialistic speech in
Willamette hall.
Mr. Hughes is said to be one of
the ablest and brainy men of
ho Socialist party, and his ad-
res8 will well be worth hearing.
It is free to all.
MASSACHUSETTS FACTORY
WANTS COAST LOCATION.
WRITING PAPER AND TABLETS.
Manager B. T. McBaln has Gone
East to Confer vglth Omoials.
There are hopes or rather good
prospects of taking on another
paper mill here a writing paper.
envelope and tablet factory.
The Pike-Crane Paper Co., of
Pittsfield, Mass., want a Pac
ific coast location for a finishing
factory and Oregon City wants
that company to locate here.
They think well of this city, and
Manager McBain left for Boston .
this week, where he will take the
matter up with the heads of the
company, and he hopes to show
them that we have almost every
thing that a paper, mill wants
the power, the timber, the rates,,
the location and the labor.
Mr. McBain says if the com
pany should locate here they
would invest $100,000 in the
building and would add at least
200 hands to the pay roll.
The falls at this city generat
es considerably more power than
is used by the several mills here
during the most of the year, and
could be supplied to other factor
ies. This finishing factory would
be a nice industry to take on, as
it is said it pays good wages and.
there is ever a ready market for ',
the goods.
And here's hoping when Mr.
McBain comes home he will bring
the factory along. He will be ab
sent several weekks.
MR. SCHNOERR'S 8IDE.
A Letter of Explanation In Regard
to sunaay Picnics.
Willamette. Aug. 26.
Editor Courier:
Referring to different articles
in your paper reflecting mis-
credit on my picnic grounds on '
the west side of the river. I here- '
by ask you to publish a few lines
in defense of myself.-
mere are conspicuous signs
everywhere on the grounds ; no
intoxicating , drinks a lowed m '
this park. . 1
1 he ground is rented out.
almost every Sunday to some
lodge or sooiety or closed family'
circle, bringing along their lunch
baskets. Portland lodges in par
ticular preier my park to any
location on the river.
I am working from ten to
twelve hours every day at the
farm splitting cord wood, to earn
living lor my lamliv. and be
lieve me when Sunday comes I
feel like desorving a rest and not
perform police duties in ' the
woods or search people's lunch
baskets for beer bottles.
Fee charges for the use of mv
park do hardly cover tho expense
of cleaning up the next day. If
this agitation is continued I will
cut the whole park into cord wood
and . you Oregon City people will
have to look a long time for a
parallel in such close vicinity to
your homes.
as to hoodiumi8in permit me to
say, tnat I surely cannot be held
responsible, because I did not
raise hoodlums in my family and
r our youth is so degenerated
that decent families cannot spend
a few hours in my park without
getting molestod by some fresh
boys, who have not yet commend
ed to shave the blame will have
to bo laid on somebody else's
door.
Yours truly,
Gust Schnoerr.
Big Spud Yield.
The Macksburg district will
furnish an immense potato crop
this fall. The quality is said to
be fine and the quantity at pres
ent neyond computing. Many or
the Early Rose are said to bo ex-
ptionally rine. Aurora Ob-rver.
Mrs. Margaret Hanlfin. who
as been at St. Vincent's Hospi
tal in Portland, for tho past two
months, has been removed to the
ome of her sister. Mrs. Chas.
Springer, on East 37th. St.,
ortland. and her condition is
much improved.
Alec T. Dale, of Oakland. CaV.
ho has for some weeks visiting
nis old nome at Tionesta,
a., was the guest of Mr. andMrs.
W. A. Shewman, at Concord stat
ion, Wednesday, on his return
trip. Mr. Dale is one of Oakland's
romment real estate owners and
predicts his city the future top-
but the slip of some clerk in the notcher of the Pacific.
Plan for the County Fair.
The management of tho coun
ty fair at Canby expect to make
is years exhibilation and enter-
ainment one of those holiday 1
weeks that will well be worth a
week off this year.
The fair is being extensively
advertised, pretty much the whole
county will be there, and Portland
is expected to send hundreds or
visitors each day.
There is a string of extras this
year, or special attractions that
will have something doing every
minute, and there won t he a dull
minute during the four days. .
Plan your work to have a hol
iday week, take in the races, the
ball games, the barbicues and
have the time of the year.
. .After the Ribbon.
Clackams county's big exhibit
is now ready for the state fair,
and Clackamas county expects to
get a place along up toward tho
top in the premiums. Those in
charge of the collection have
been working hard on this ad
vertising and it is just possible
the splendid display may cop out
the big prize.
Wanted one hundred goats for
browsing, address George II.
Brown, New Era, Oregon.'
Teams wanted to haul wood.
George Lamrners, Oregon City, Rt.
three.
Lost. On Molalla.Road Aug. 23,
one auto seat. Finder please leave
at this off ice and receive reward.
Lost Ladies watch, Sunday eve
ning in Oregon City between Sus
pension Bridg e and car line.
Finder please leave at Courier
office.
Teams wanted to haul wood at
Beaver Creek. Also want to let
contract for logging 20,000 feet.
George Lammar's saw mill, Bea
ver Creek, Oregon. ,