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OREGON CITY COOriER, PRIDAV, AUG, 30, 1912 OREGON CITY COURIER PnhlUliprl Prlrlava from the Courier Buildinef. 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. Subscription Price $1.50. Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5- M. J. BROWN, EDITOR Can you keep up with the Re publicans who are going to vote for Wilson Y The Colonel's great remedy is to throw the country into Ills and then try to cure the Ills. New York World. Taft they are disgusted with; Roosevelt they are afraid of, and there doesn't mem to lie anything tn it hut Wilson. A writer in the New York Sun says Roosevelt is the most popu lar man in the Uniled Stales since the death of Hilly Hie Kid and Jesse James. "We don't know where Roosevelt will lake the counlry if he is elected he is crazier than he was four years ago, "is the way a business man expressed it the other day. Nothing hut an earthquake can prevent a Democrat president and both houses of congress being elected this fall. Then we will see if tariff reduction will not amount to something. The wool, steel and cotton tar iff schedules simply plunder our people. There is absolutely no defense of weight to continue them, yet a big IrusUbooster of a president vetoes every hill that would lower them. It will be pit iful to count Tafl's vote this fall. "We must fret back to compe tition" said William Howard Taft before the primaries this spring, and then when the Democratic house furnished him the means, he vetoed the tariff reduction bills as fast as they were brought to him. Senator Bailey says that it is unconstitutional to investigate the means through which a presi dent was elected. It is criminal to buy a presidency, but uncon stitutional to to prosecute. That old constitution has a heap of re sponsibiliy dumped onto its old shoulders these days. The way in which President Taft is exercising the veto power lately warrants the remark that we need a man with less obsfinan cy and more sense in that olllce. In fact we begin to think that a constitutional amendment abol ishing the veto altogether would not lie amiss. Woodburn lnde. pendent. And the Republican rows grow worse. Do you know of any Democrats wno are going to vote iornoo.se veltr The Cleveland Plain-Dealer ad vises all its readers to vole for Taft, pray for Roosevelt and bet on Wilson. 'smoking out" process is dangerous in politics, and The often Roosevelt is finding it so. He started a fire under Penrose and now he can't put it out. Perkins is chairman of the Moose executive committee. He is also chairman of the steel trust executive committee. He founded the steel trust. And he of course will fight the trust he repre scnls not. . A Republican who lives in this city and who has voted the ticket lor 50 years told the Courier oil Hi ir he was ashamed of it and would vote for Wilson this lall He is one of hundreds in Clack amas County. Congress' appropriations went nineteen millions over the billion mark, l'his is one of the items of the high cost of living, for we gel tins revenue liy taxing mi oris in other words taxing our people indirectly. If you adopt the graduated single tax in November you wul simply adjust taxation in this state, shift a part of it from your shoulders lo those who are ahli and should pay their part. Thai is all mere is ol it. That misnamed "majority rule bill, which is really minor ily rule, will get it where Alice nau tonsilitis. when the voters tret the ballot. The whole state is up and against this joker which seeks to kill the initiative. When we seo the district attorneys and police officials in city after city refusing to do their duties and the governor remov ing them and pulling officials of his own well, it makes one think that that idea of having the governor appoint these otlicials and ho responsible for their work isn t such a bad idea after all. The Democratic tariff plank denounces the evil ot protect. lonism, demands immediate downward revision, insists on material reduction in "the nec essaries ol lite, and promises free listing of all trust controlled articles. Now what do the regu lar Republican and Hull Moose parlies stand for on these issues? The Congress just closed made appropriations aKKreiratniK one billion and nineteen' million dol lars. You have to stop and hit these giant figures soak in to comprehend this mountain of gold. We are a big country and i lakes a bundle of coin to run it but we all know there is too much wasted in needless salary jobs commissions and junketing tours They say a year from now the water will lie turned into the bur Panama canal ditch. The bill as passed by congress, giving this country I lie right lo run it in its own way has passed and been signed by the president. This great water way is going to do a lot lor tins coast counlry. It is going to bring settlers lo Oregon ami ciear up tins slate. How very different would he tin! political history we are making now, had Roose velt failed lo conic hack from Africa. Woodburn Indepen dent, If the wish of one of New York's big liolilicians had come true, he would not have come back "I hope a lion will do his duly" was the fond good-bye greeting. Hut what great change in his tory would we now see if a lion had got to him, or a fever cut him down? Over 3.VI00 bills were intro duced in I he lale congress, and there was prnpably a demand for about, ;i(H). Kvery man who goes to congress thinks is ability is to he measured by Ihe bills he gets through, and the result, is laws, laws, laws public laws that are never enforced or heard of after their passage, and private bills galore for the benefit of the few. Some day a man will rise up and say he wants to go to congress on Ihe platform of seeing how few bills lie will introduce and how many he will help kill. Last week we slated there was likely to be a congressioiM can didate in this district, who wouli make Mr. Standout Hawley know ne was running. I no man in view is (ieorgo F. Rogers, ex-mayor of Mueni, a Drigtii, nrainy young Republican, a campaigner and a lorcelul speaker. It Mr. Rogers consents to run. Congressman Hawley will have to go some lo go nacK to w asiimgion. Woodrow Wilson is a far bet ter progressive than is Roose velt. Wilson is the Lab'ollelle kind of progressive. His noinin ation on the most progressive piaiiorm ever adopted by a re sponsible party in America gave the country a . candidate that every real progressive can sup port, with confidence and pride. I hat is one reason, and there are many other reasons why there is not a chance in the world for the third parly to win the elect ion. Portland Journal. If a big factory wanted to ocale here and would employ hree or four hundred men, but asked lor tax exemption as an inducement, what would you say? Why you would jump at. the proposition as Oovernor West goes after mayors. You would gladly exempt the factory because it would lie a business propos ition to do it, because it would bring in a hundred fold the amount of the exemption. And yet the same reasoning applied to single tax exemption would drive the industries out of Oregon so I lie antis tell us. WHEN YOU DE COME A DEPOSITOR with this bank you begin at once to realize beneflits. Your money will be absolutely safe. Faying it by check will be a great con venience in many ways An acquaintance will be established be tween us which will promote and safe guard your interests. DON'T WAIT until ths pinch comes before seek ing the co-peration of a good bank. BEGIN NOW and be reidy for emergencies The Bank o f Oregon City Oldest Bank in The County WHAT OF THIS? On page 1 is an open letter from Mr. Schuehe.li Republican nominee for the legislature, that calls attention to a mighty strange bit of legislation that has hiMMi n Rigged llirougii at oaiem- legislation that doesn't look any loo well for the men of Oregon, ftlin nirimt ted it. According to the session laws cited by Mr. Schuebel it would seem that our slale legislature went into a plain deal, or a plain steal, with the big water power users to give them the great power for less than a song ,and at the same lime to forbid anyone else from getting power at the same price. If this paper correctly under stands the laws cited by Mr. Schuebel, this is about the raw est favoritism to the big interests that was ever "joked" through Salem. It praolieally gives away a great water power here, but says no more shall be given away and then it tries to fix it so that the gilt shall never be taken away. , is certainly a strange law, a law favoring the big water pow er trailers ami exempting iiiein from competition. Alter giving them the big falls, they pledge not to give anyone else equal favors. It seehs almost incredible that such rank, discriminating laws could be plugged through, and it is but another instance ot wiiere the people tolerate it because they are ignorant of it because they did not know what their rep., resenlalives were doing at Salem. Mr. Schuebel outlines a bill which will stop this favoritism and make every power taker pay alike for water. It will be very interesting to see who will oppose his measure, and it will also be interesting to see what defense legislators will bring forth for the present law. These columns are open but don't all come at once. STRONGER ARGUMENT. (Salem Messenger.) The Oregon Equal Taxation League is sending out a 90-page pamphlet with a yellow cover upon which is printed in red ink the words "Equal Taxation" in letters. The pamphlet contains a number of thrilling pictures by Harry Murphy the cartoonist, which are calculated to frighten Ihe timid and set the bold to thinking. It seems to us that the "league" is unreasonably alarm ed; but anyway, the strongest and best argument against single tax that the "league" or any other organization or person can make is to immediately be. gin a campaign against individual ownership of land in tracts of more than, say 100 acres. It is usually - the case that the man who tries to "hog" everything in sight eventually loses all. The time is not far distant when this fate will overtake the land hog. It is possible that the Equal Tax ation League is conscientious in its present campaign against the single tax propaganda; but if it is defending our present system as being one of equality it will have to set up stronger argu ments than anything found in the yellow pamphlet. TWILIGHT. USUAL ARGUMENT. may from Your single laxcr argue and expatiate morning to night about the single tax, but the whole scheme may be summed up in the following: under single tax the land which now pays part of the taxes will pay ALL the taxes. Oregonian. The whole scheme may be summed up any way an editor ay sum it, but that doesn change the scheme any. The above is too small a mis statement for so great a paper as llii! Oregonian lo make. The graduated single tax will EUUALIZK the taxation. It will take it off personal property and improvements and It will put it on rights of way, franchises and large land holdings. Here is just one Ml lie item alone the Oregonian must have overlooked it: The Southern Pacific woul pay specific taxes on its rights of way and franchises in Clackamas County $52, Dili. J lus is jus i UN is Hem there are many oiners. hy can t a paper at least state truths : Does it think its readers are fools? LOOKING BACKWARD. Funny how things turn about and how the past keeps turning back summersaults. Twenty years ago the Populist party bobbed up like a night mare to the old parlies, and it bid fair to be some parly. iiut the scarecrows were set up and the ghost stories started and the Populist parly died an early death. Their doctrines were unsale, they told us. I hey were anarchisitc, and the country would go lo ruin. So I hey scared the party lo an early death. Miiero is just a til of it alive yet. The oilier daya halt dozen survivors met m St. ,ouis and held llio national con ven I ion. Hut now how 'bout it. Why the parlies of today have adopted about all that the Popu- Msls stood tor twenty years ago i bey stood lor government ownership and management of ailroads, graduated income tax postal savings banks, government ownership and operation of tel- phoncs and telegraphs ; declared mat, the land, including all nat al sources of wealth, is the ritage of the people anil should not, be monopolized for specula te purposes; declared tor di ed election of United Slates son- dors, the eight hour law, civil service regulation, presidential onus limited to one term, the in itiative, the referendum, etc. And now, twenly years later. the old parties take up those principles, shako Ihe dust oil' them, put on a new label and call I hem progressive mens. Funny how changes come about in Ibis counlry. MADE GOOD. Congress has adjourned, and bile there is not much that will give relief to the people that has become laws, yet the Democratic ouse has certainly done its part and redeemed its promises. Speaker (.lark says that the tar iff bills alone passed by the house would have saved the American people $500,000.000, .hut the pres ident killed them and all the months of hard work of the con gressmen. Hut in addition lo Ihe tariff measures it admitted Arizona and New Mexico to statehood; it sub mitted a conslilultional amend ment for the direct election of U. S. senators; passed a bill to pre vent the use of large sums of money in presidential elections, ami passed many other bills de manded by the people. "Hutting in on a private con versation is the bight of ignor ance; is inexcusable. President Dodds, of the "Look Pleasant" Club, authorizes me to say in answer to numerous cor respondents, that membership in his society does not deprive a member of the rights to change bis facial expression when being bored by a habitual loafer. Mr. L. J. Hylton's daughter, Nora, accompanied by her twelve year old son and a niece, irom Eugene are up for an extended visit with her father. A Mr. Hewitt of Portland is a prospective buyer of a home in our neighborhood. The proximity to Portland and Oregon City, with good roads intervening, together w'th the prosperous appearance of the community, are particul arly interesting to both he and his family. We are sorry to make mention of the continued illness of Mr. F. E. Black, a particularly good citizen of this settlement. Potatoes in this vicinity are showing some evidence of second growth, a result of too much moisture. The Snook family is entitled to our especial notice for their well kept lawn there is nothing more attractive or enhancing, than neat and pretty home surround ings. From a physical standpoint I may possess less charm than my neighbor, it may be that I con trol less wealth, and from an ed ucational standing, much infer ior to him, yet it is within my power to be his equal morally, which is more greatly to be dc served, and if honest and fair deserving of the same respect esteem and affection Sec. three Article six, Preamble "Look Pleasant Club." Miss Linnie Snook was a calk at "Mountain Ash" stock farm one day this week. A six o'clock dinner was given by Mrs. A. H. Harvey August 2S in honor of her son, Pert and Tom Kelland's birthdays, the for mer first viewing the light of day on that date and the latter two davs later. Etiquette demand that I do not divulge their ages yet I will confide to you that both are over 16. Henna Milliard am Mr. and Mrs. Schnediecker were honor guests. Threshing in this neighbor hood is nearly all done, with the out, turn as a whole not equal t as t season. Mr. and Mrs. George Shriner visited with Sellwood friends Saturday and Sunday last. Mrs. (ieorge M. Lazello will Sunday at Seaside, the guest o her son and daughter summer residents at that, resort. A large part of our public side walk is all but impassible tin ainy weal her by reason of weeds protruding over them. Each nronerlv owner should lake enough interest in the general welfare lo keep these woods exe u od ant he wains clear. (leorue Alfred the four year old son of Curtis Dodds. is said have proven himself an excellent booster for Oregon, while visiting in Ihe east the past summer with Ins mother. Here we draw tin veil. If you aro sick and have tried everything ami did not receive help, try Chiropractic, (Ki-ro-prak-Tick) Spinal Adjustments and get well. Drs. Lehman and Stone, room 19-20, Hoaver Hid hours 2 fo 0-30 p. m. FORGOTTEN No third term, either in "form or substance," for any man as presidence of Ihe United States. On the 4lh of March next I shall have served three and a half years, and these three and a half years constuuie my nrst term. The wise custom which limits Ihe president to two terms regard Ihe substtanee and not the form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for, or accept another nomination, Theodore Roosevelt. County Court District No. 27 Joe Jackson 100.50 I. O. Holmes 39.00 District No. 28 Vorheia 15.00 Nick Sabe 13.60 Earl Groshong 11.90 .eslte Slinnk 21.00 John Wilhott 11.00 Wyland 11.00 Kokle 15.50 Carter 5.50 H. Knelb 2.00 Zeb Bowman 4.50 Perry Vorheis 4.00 Ed Rlngstead 3.00 E. Sowa ' 1.50 Hen Thomas 2.50 Ed Wyland 2.75 Floyd Ferguson 2.00 Geo. Cubs 21.00 L. D. Shank 25.00 District No. 29 D. E. Dowty 14.00 S. L. Prahl 4.00 Q. Reseh 2.00 W. A. Rogers 18.00 W. R. Sehuerer 6.75 District No. 31 R. W. Schata 4.00 K. E. Turner 4.00 A. AtUey 4.00 M. C. Baker 2.00 B. F. Wlsman 2.00 W. Wlsenberg 1.00 Glenmorrte Quarry Co 19.20 Oswego Lumber Co 11.60 R. DeNeui 12.50 District No. 32 H. Heater ...... 16.00 A. Vosa 12.00 F. Kiser 4.00 W. Holzmagel 10.00 W. C. Heater 18.75 G. Bulston 1.00 J. E. Morbach 2.50 Conzelmann Bros . . . . i 113.16 District No. 33. Henry Cromer 8.00 John KIgglns 4.00 Henry Wornlck 6.00 Ed Young 2.00 W. W. Tucker 45.00 Bitltner & Boylan 15.00 McCurdy Lumber Co 6.00 District No. 34 A. Thauias 14.00 D. Boite 46.00 L. Nelson 48.00 H. Oldenstadt 14.00 J. Peterson 48.00 J. Lents 32.00 J. Etlers 42.00 J. Robinson 22,00 J. Rineman 38.00 J. Bell 14.00 L. Bacon 34.00 E. Seely 16.00 G. Rogers 30.00 'G. Vlopp 11.00 S. Waldron 28.00 E. Gross 39.00 H. Waldren 12.00 F. Gross 68.10 F. Sinclair 56.00 F. S. Coole 143.75 C. Davis 1 176.00 E. Tiedeman 39.25 M. Tiedeman 44.00 J. Tiedeman 48.25 C. Zimmerman 67.75 W. Zimmerman 28.50 J. Zimmerman 92.00 F. Zimmerman 46.00 G. Tiedeman 59.00 G. Moser -3.50 G. Gross 8.00 E. Boekemun 13.50 E. Chrlstensen 26.00 E. Britton 44.00 W. Woellermeler 46.00 D. Olderstadt 13.00 L. Thomas 12.00 C. Heinz 92.00 J. Anderson 72.00 J. Wilken 16.00 J. Shively 8.00 A. Gross 86.00 T. Johnson 32.00 F. Kelnhofer 66.00 D. S. Colcon 118.50 W. Kaiserm 65.00 G. Tiedeman ' 6.10 Oregon City Lumber Co 8.64 Wilson & Cooke 7.20 S. Moser 7.00 District No. 35 Wm. Booth 14.25 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 and a correct fit all these we guaran 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 B. Clark 20.50 T. Mare 4.25 A. L. Rose i 7.60 Charley Berch v10.25 F. Patrick 3.00 A. Osburn 2.25 Guy Woodard 2.25 C. Prlester 4.50 District No. 41 Flrwood Lumber Co 3.06 John Aftolter 32.34 M. Updegrave 6.00 Wm. Updegrave 6.00 Gaylord Keith - 4.00 Chas. A. Keith 25.25 Paul R. Meining 3.30 District No. 46 Mack Rivers 9.00 Carl Mumpower 2.00 Orval Watts 16.00 A. J. Crafton 4.00 F. W. Crothers 12.00 J. R. Carr 16.00 M. Leach 16.00 L. Leach 8.00 Elton Hattan 16.00 L. D. Mumpower 12.00 0. W. Hattan 10.00 District No. 47 V. H. Counsel 24.00 H. E. Sharrow 1.00 C. W. RIsley 4.50 J. F. Risley 4.50 O. P. Rothe ,15.00 Manson Rose 2.25 District No. 48 16.00 5.00 A. T. Hunt 28.00 Sidney Fisher 28.00 F. M. Gill 24.00 E. Wagner 22.00 Otis Wagner 32.00 G. H. Sanford 24.00 II. O. Sanford 10.00 Ernest Boese 12.00 Otto Boese 12.00 Albert Welsh- 23.00 Herman Johnson 24.00 Godfried Boese 24.00 Clarence Siefer 28.00 Ed Rich 20.00 Freight on Shovels 25 Fred W. Morter 1.35" Fred Anderson 6.00 Mat Sonlckson 15.00 District No. 53 Frank ErickBon 6.00 W. Powell 4.00 Geo. Wooster 12.00 E. R. Ridings 13.60 District No. 55 Creason Mill Co 365.07 Frank Busch 12.00 H. IT. Mattoon 68.00 J. C. Mattoon 12.00 E. Ficken i 12.00 Jim Hayden 6.00 Rae Crane 4.00 J. A. Tidyman 12.00 C. Jubb 6.00 A. B. Cope 30.00 C Cope 28.00 A. H. Meyer 32.00 F. Coikerlalne 8.00 District No. 56 Wilson & Cooke 3.40 Fred Heft 4.60 Dan Fellows 6.00 2.00 Bert Cody 6.00 40.00 Chas. Hanson 6.00 District No. 36 A. M. Anderson E. J. Anderson R. F. Watts 7.75 4.00 6.00 District No. 37 Wm. J. Carrell 4.50 J. J. Kraus 6.00 J. N. Bivert 6.00 J. Sigrist 6.00 P. A. Anderson 64.30 Wm. Sewell 46.75 D. Legler 71.75 C. W.. Kruse 46.50 J. Garde 1.60 District No. 40 C. Miller 4.00 Frank O'Meyer 24.00 John McCracken 10.50 V. Blust 6.00 Edward Cox ,. 60.00 Alphonse Bufford 13.50 Dan Kidman 9.00 A. Ilutolk .' 2.00 C. O. Davis 1.50 John Douglas , 25.00 J. J. Judd 25.00 J. C. Elliott : 3.00 District No. 43 Ed Douglas 12.00 H. S. Gibson 12.00 C. Murphy 5.00 Ray Woodle 4.00 Lester Rivers 4.00 Chas. Clester J 4.00 Earnest Hoffmeister 4.00 William Schnelman 2.00 E. Brady 1.00 D. Burnett 5.00 District No. 44 Wilson & Cooke 11.20 1 R. Worthen w 26.00 G. Yexley 12.00 S. M. Wornock 50.00 A. J. Marrs . 76.00 E. Bancroft 21.00 W. Roland 2.00 D. McCormaok 16.00 C. Gregory 25.00 W. Mead 38.00 C. Cahill 44.00 Dave Jones 29.00 Earnest Jones 39.00 Houghman .". 35.50 Chas. Rider 60.00 C. Williamson 35.00 W. R. Osburn 36.25 Buss 25.90 C. W. Hackett 14.75 E. Hiatt 28.00 C. Geiger 28.00 F. Eggiman 17.25 Herman Fischer 45.50 Rider & Co 84.00 E. D. Hart District No. 49 McCurdy Lumber & Hdwe. Co J. F. Snyder F. H. Davis E. T. Davis 36.00 E. Haseltine 8.00 C Wilcox 4.00 C. Garde 6.00 Paul Sauer 56.00. Mayfield 6.00 J. W. Pnttison 60.00 I Jesse Mayfield '. 2.00 A. C. Anderson 62.00 f Milton Miller , 4.00 Tom Carter 2G.00 John Wallace 6.00 Frank Sanford 36.00 Nat Scribner 11.50 W. W. Porter 3.50 ! Geo; Stevens 4.00 G. W. Callwell 4.00 G. R. Miller E. S. Wilcox 8.00 j Harvy Holland 1.20 Alex Irvin 28.00 Dan Fellows 10.00 G. T. Hunt 101.50 H. H. Anders 24.00 Ben T. Rawlins 43.00 C. Johnson 32.00 District No. 51 J. E. Siefer 20.00 John Anderson 6.00 District No. 57 I Wm. H. Stuwe 13.00 J. W. Rood 3.50 Ole Bergstrom 3.50 Austin Duboise 6.00 Isaac Williams 3.50 Henry Helgerson 2.00 IN THIS DAY AND AGE THE PROPER EQUIPMENT IS NECES SARY FOR SUCCESS IN ANY KIND OF BUSINESS AND THE FARM IS NOT THE EXCEPTION. EVERY FARMER USES UP TO DATE MACHINERY SUCH AS BINDERS, MOWERS, CORN PLANTERS BUT STILL LACKS MANY CONVENIENCES THAT COST COMPAR ATIVELY NOTHING. About the handiest thing around the farm or barn is a good wheel barrow. They save many useless s'eps many a heavy load and many an hour's work. We have Wheelbarrows that are made of hard wood with remov- aDie siaes.oiners wuti sieei ooaies Pig frames of allof them stlff.and well braced, v are DON'T FORGET TO COME IN AND TIME YOU ARE IN TOWN PRICE THEM THE NEXT FRANK BUSCH 1 1th Street and.Main, Oregon City FURNITURE AND HARDWARE