OREGON
CITY
COUlffil
"A MILE OF MILLS"
and more coming Is what makes
Oregon City the best on the ooast
outside of Portland.
Oregon City ships 300 tons of
goods every day and receives 700
tons. That's why its the best
city In the state.
30th YEAR.
OREGON CITY, OREGON. FRIDAY. SEPT. 27, 1912.
No. 20
PUT A DOLLOR ON WILSON
And Watch It Help Make a Demo
cratic President.
"Here's a dollar for the Wood
row Wilson. campaign fund, and
it is from a man who has voted
the ' Republican ticket for 51
years," said E. K. Baker of Park
place to the Courier editor this
week.
When a man who started vot
ing for Abraham Lincoln has to
quit the party this year, there is
something radically wrong with
the parly and something very
right with the- opposing parly.
But Mr. Baker is but one of
hundreds, the only difference be
tween he and many others in this
county is that he has sand enough
to come right out and take
a stand with the cleanest man
who ever ran for president, while
many others will vote for Wilson,
but are keeping quiet about
where they stand.
Woodrow Wilson is depending
on the individual subscriptions
for money to run this campaign.
He doesn't want and will not ac
cept the money of the combina
tions. Singly, a dollar is a weak sis
ter, a trifle, but a thousand of
them in the aggregate have a
great power toward making or
tearing down.
You can spare a dollar to
change the administration of this
country.
Get in with a little contribu
tion for a cause that is worth
while. A hundred years from now
you will never know you gave it
If you do we will give it back.
The time is short. Only about
five weeks now. Let us make the
list lengthen each week.,
You can't help by waiting. The
dollars talk. Don't think but act,
and act while the dollar will help
Wilson.
The following is the list of con.
tributions to date. Add yours to
it next week: v
Judge Beat'e, Oregon City. 1 0.00
J. W. S. Owens Oregon Uity 1.00
O. I). Robbins, Route 3. . . .
A. E. Frost, Oregon City..
E. E. Baker, Parkplaoo . . .
W. H. Timmons, Gladstone
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Total $15.00
, Challenge to Mr. Dlmlok.
. Oregon City, Sept. .20.
Hon. Grant B. Dimick, dear sir:
The Clackamas County Single
Tax and Assessment Roll has now
been in circulation for more than
a month and I desire to renew my
invitation to you for a joint dis
cussion of the Single Tax meas
ures before the people of Ore
gon for the Nov. election. I shall
be glad to meet you in Oregon
City at any time after Oct. 2nd.
Sincerely yours,
William S. U'Ren.
The
At
Where Is the Joke?
What has the Burns Society of
this city done to the Enterprise?
Surely there is a nigger, if not a
Scotchman, in the woodpile, or
why this wood-be humor at the
society's expense?
There must be something un
usual, either in the society's
membership or the proceedings
of its meetings, else why this
labored effort at being funny?
But then if the Scotchmen like
it it's nobody's else business.
Hitting the Hard Places.
(Estacada Progress.)
Unless arrangements can bo
made with the P. R. L. & P. to ac
cept city warrants to be. cashed
next May when this years city
taxes are available, Estacada
street lights, will be switched oIT
October 1, and the citizens will
have to use' lanterns to get about
at night. '
The council, at its adjourned
meeting Monday night discussed
the loss of saloon license money
and finding its finances cramped
decided on rigid economy, first by
ordering lights oIT Oct., 1, and
setting the same date for termin
ating the salary of City Marshal
Ames.
Splendid Fire System.
With the installation of the
electric fire alarm Oregon City
will have as perfect a fire depart
ment as is possible under the vol.
unteer system. Chief Hanaford, of
the department has been on the
job every minute since election,
and largely through his eltorls
lhr' nrnmmt hiirh s-tnl.n of nrnnar-
edness and elliciency has been at
tained.
New houses, with hose cart' and
complete new equipment, in
cluding the Home '.telephone ser
vice, have been erected at Fifth
and Washington streets, Fifth
and South end road and 'lweltth
and Taylor streets.
The carls will be manned by
l.hi enrolled firemen of the city
who live in their vicinities.
A Case In Proportion.
Courier:
Recently there appeared in the
Portland papers a statement that
the merchants must have 22 per
cent profit for handling produce
and such, and that the article
must sell for $1.47 to get this 22
per cent.
Now, if this is so, by the same
iintmninir. u'lin n firmer nuts 30
cents worth of feed into a cow,
she must be some cow to make a
pound of butter a day. Now if the
feed cost 30 cents and one should
have 22 per cent to do business,
what would bo the cost. of the
butter?
J. W. Woltrap.
Who lives just outside of town.
Ees
t LIgnt
the Lowest Cost
ELECTRIC LIGHT is the most suitable for homes,
offices, shops "and other places Heeding iigit. E!ec-.
tricity can be used in any quantity, hu'g? or small,
thereby furnishing any required" amount of light.
Furthermore, electric lamps car be located in any
place, thus affording any doshed (i:strlbut.i :i of light.
No other lamps possess tV.?c oualificiitio.i i, there
fore it is not surprising that electric lamps are rapidly
replacing all others in modern establishments.
Portland Railway. Light &
Powe Company
MAIN OFFICE SEVENTH ALDER.
PORTLAND
Phones Main 6688 and A. 6131
i SCOTCHMEN DEBATE
Three Cornered Contest over
Three Presidential Candidates.
Scot met Scot at Willamette
hall Monday night, when William
McLarty, Max Telford and Major
C. S. Noble discussed the presi
idential issues from the three
viewpoints McLarty for Taft,
Telford for Roosevelt and Noble
for Wilson.
There is a little story that leaks
out that McLarty was pressed
into the service of his
president that his position was
forced onto him and that he
had to make his head answer for
his heart. The story has it that
he is a Wilson man all over, but
that the program called for a
Taft champion and the committee
on arrangements got to Mr. McLarty-
before he could get his
fingers crossed. But he got away
with it. He made a forceful speech
considering where his heart was,
and the morning paper stated the
applause "indicated Taft had the
largest number of friends in the
audience." And the leak says
there were three Taft men pres
ent. Max Telford told the audience
what he thought of Col. Roose
velt and his talk wasn't made for
the occasion. He's an original
Roosevelt man and for the Bull
Moose all over and his support of
the aggressive one just rolled out.
Major Noble is, just as strong
a Wilson man as his Scotch
brother is for Roosevelt, and he
hadn't got started when time was
called on him and his twenty min
utes were exhausted. ,
There was a good crowd pres
ent and every minute of the de
bate was intensely interesting.
Rev. Landsborough was chair
man of the meeting. -
Another meeting of like char
acter is being arranged for next
month, and it is a certainty that
admissions will be sought for.
Portland's Aid Society.
We are building a public li
brary for Oregon City.
A Portland architect draw) the
; la"
A Portland contractor build
the building.
A Portland librarian 'i.l have
charge of the library
We are paving Main tivet.
A Portland firm has the con-'
tract.
We are putting jn sewers. , .
A Portland firm is doing the
work.
Yvc are repairing the Barclay
liool. '
A Portland firm is doing part
of this work.
What's the matter with This
Man's Town?
is it a Portland Aid Society?
Walter Pierce Next Week.
Judge Bealio reports that Hon.
Walter M. Pierce of Hot Lake,
one of the best Democratic cam
paigners in Oregon, will open a
series of speeches in this county,
commencing next week. Other
prominent speakers will also
come into old Clackamas and
there is going to be an aggres
sive campaign waged from .now
on.
CAN'T YOU SEE THIS?
A Clackamas County Farmer Puts
up a Proposition to You.
Oregon City, Route 3, Sept 21.
To the Courier:
I have read the many articles
published in the Courier and
elsewhere in regard to the gradu
ated single tax with a good deal
of interest. Many of them have
been amusing, rather than in
structive. For example Harvey
Cordon Starkweather's effort to
prove that he watns to pay even
more than his .just share of tin1
taxes, but is prevented from doing
so by that terrible corrupting Fels
fund in the hands of his enemies.
And Mr; Hicinbotnam's idea that
all the valuable property is going
to escape taxation and a few poor
men's farms will have to bear the
whole burden of government sup
port. And that that awful U'Ren
.is working tooth and toenail to
bring about just such a deplor
able condition of affairs . And
Brother Shields that disinterested
philanthropist with his pathetic
cry of R-U-I-N, R-U-I-N. Oh
dear, it is to laugh. And the rest
of that bunch trying to make it
appear that the whole thing is
gotten up to aid corporations and
Big Business" to oscape paying
their just share of the values and
make the poor man who is trying
to hew out a home among the
stumps, pay the bill.
Now I don't wonder that the
home builder is suspicious of
everybody and everything in that
lino for he is the one that usually
gets it in tho neck. Ho hasn't
time to read and digest all the
so-called arguments pro and con
that are offered to prove each
sides' contentions. But there is
one thought that he can grasp at
a glance, if he happens to think
of it, that should settle the ques
tion as to which side he should be
on in this controversy. Let him
remember that there is not a cor
poration or Big Business combin
ation in this whole country 'that
doesn't understand, more fully the
effect that any legislation will
have on their business than any
private individual can have, be
cause they employ especially
trained men and minds for that
very purpose and they of course
favor what they know will be to
their best interests and oppose
what they know will be detrimen
tal. Bon't you know that if the in
terests thought that the gradua
ted single tax would lower their
taxes they would bo for it with
migh and main.
And don't you know that there
is not a single corporation or Big
Business interest that isn't fight,
ing it? Don't you know that, it
is the same identical bunch that
has always opposed every pro
gressive measure that has ever
been made in this state are the
leaders in this opposition?
Don't you know there is anoth
er fund besides tho Fels fund
that is being raised to take from
the people the power to control
the tax laws and make it impos
siblo for them to have anything
to say about who shall be taxed or
what should be taxed?
Now honestly friends, do you
believe that if the interests
thought that'll the graduated sin
gle tax law was enacted it would
lower their taxes, they would
spend their time and money for
tho benefit of you and I? I tell
you, they are not built that way.
Now friends just think this
matter over and decide for your
own best interests. It don't seem
to me it would bo hard to do so if
you will look at it in this light.
Yours,
A. J. Lewis. '
Grange Wants Investigation.
The Milwaukee Grange claims
hat the county court is not com
plying with the state law in not
filing with the county court a
sworn statement of the bridges
built in this county that exceed
$500 in cost; that bids were not
asked for, and that the county is
spending large sums on bridges
and slighting its roads.
Saturday last that Grange
after reciting in detail the several
complaints, passed a resolution
appointing a committee of three
or more members to examine into
the number of steel bridges and
approaches constructed, ascer
tain the value thereof and from
whom each was purchased, the
amounts paid therefor, whether
bids were asked for their con
struction, if sworn statements
were filed of the cost with the
county clerk, etc.
E. I). Olds of Oak (irove presr
entert the resolutions.
Congregational Church Recital.
Oscar Woodfin. the baritone.
will give a recital at the Congre
gational Church next Monday
night, assisted by Miss Louise
Huntley, pianist.
Mr. Woodfin is one of the most
talented pupils of Rose Coursen
Reed of Portland and will sing in
three languages.
THE KIND THAT COUNT.
The Difference Between soft Soap
and Real Goods.
Politicians come and go.
When they come they pat the
editor on the back, tickle him un.
der tho chin and tell him how ev
erlastingly and unforgettingly
they are obliged to him and they
will return the favor, etc and so
on you know how the old song
runs. Why their gratitude is an
inch thick in spots.
But the most of them will for
get in a minute the obligations of
years, when a newspaper strikes a
false note to their political dox
ology, and then they will stick
the knife in and twist it around to
see him writhe.
But the other day the Courier
received a letter from a ladies so
ciety not a hundred miles from
this city thanking this paper for
the stand it was taking for the en.
forcement of tho liquor laws and
the observance of the Sabbath.
The letter expressly requested
hat it be not published, that it
was written in the sense of appre
ciation and not in the way of ad
vertising. ' '
And somehow there was no sar
casm to our smile as we read it.
It was honest. It meant just what
it read, and there were no sug
gestions of a sixty clay loan in the
expressions.
Tho Courier editor has been in
the newspaper game for some
time, and ho has had many ex
presiomr of undying gratitude and
promises of remembrance poured
over him. They weren't written,
you know, just whispered when
there were none around to hear.
But this little record of apprecia
tion from this little band of worn,
en is worth more than all the po
litical promises.
OPENINQ THE FIGHT
Both Sides of Taxation Reform
Start Campaign Here
The campaign on taxation is
of far more interest than on poli
tics in this city and Tuesday
night the fight opened from both
sides of the fence, in favor of the
graduated tax amendment and
against it.
T. S. Alexander of Portland,
made the address against tho
proposed measure and his talk
was along the line of confisca
tion. He said the adoption of
the measure was bound to take
away from the farmer his farm,
the lot owner. his lot and the home
4wner his home.
This, anyone knows who knows
anything can only be accomplish
ed when taxes are 100 per cent,
the value of tho property, and no
doubt the property owner will
wonder how this can be brought
about when the proposed meas
ure exempts the owners' improve
ments, therby reducing his taxes.
And then this does not seem to
fit in with tho articlo of F. M.
Gill, representative in the legis
lature, who also talks "confisca
tion," but who stated in an open
letter in tho Enterprise, "Your
taxes may be less (under the
graduated single tax) for a
while." And if for a while, why
not all the time?
H. D. Wagnon, nominee for
assessor' in Portland for uio
graduated single lax people, J. W.
Benbough the famous cartoonist
and E. F. Coulter, spoko from an
auto to a big jamf) of people at
Seventh and Main streets, and if
the big crowd and closo attention
count for anything, there are a
lot of people in this city who fa
vor the graduated single tax.
The Enterprise says, no em
barrassing questions were ask
ed." This was decidedly consid
erate and courteous, inasmuch as
the single tax advocates invite
them. And tho Enterprise also
observes "it is doubtful however,
if any converts were made." We
wonder just how that nowspaper
arrived at these "doubts" from
what line of reasoning they evolv
ed, and what grounds they were
based on. '
Stands by the Governor.
The following resolutions were
unanimously passed by the Con
gregational church of this city on
September 22, 1912.
Whereas, the Hon. Oswald
West, governor of Oregon, has
opened a crusado against immor
ality and vice in Portland and
other parts of the stale, an d
Whereas: We the members of
the Congregational church of
Oregon City, recognize tho im
mense and difficult task the gov
ernor has undertaken and that
be will need tho moral support of
all good citizens.
Therefore, be it resolved: That
we extend to the governor our
heartfelt wishes for the success
of his efforts in such a noble
cause and that we assure him oi
.hi. minnnrl and nravers in SUCh
an undertakign and commend him
for his manly determination
against such odds as all citizens
know are arrayed against him.
Resolved further: That a copy
of these resolutions be sent to
Governor West and the local
newspapers.
Why Leave the Farm?
A traveler saw a boy hoeing
potatoes in the hot sun. He rode
up to the fence and asked: "What
do you gel for hoeing potatoes?"
The boy wearily raised his sun
burned head and replied: "Noth
in' if I do, but hell If I don't."
Painless Printing.
Much of the printing you get
these day gives you a pain in
the eye. The Courier does pain
less work, the kind that pleases,
but does not pain the eye. Try
us with the next job.
To Settle Labor Troubles.
Courier:
The following outline of legis
lation is my idea of the best
means of settling labor troubles.
I would be glad to hear from oth
ers on this subject:
Pass a minimum wage scale
law of not less than $2 nor more
than $5 for eight hours' work.
Allow all corporations interest
on actual invested capital not loss
t han 4 or more than 6 per cent.
Allow a percentage of wear and
tear, not more than 2 per cent.
Let the balance of profit go in
to a fund for old age nnd for dis
ability contracted in employ of
raetory or corporatior.
' This I brlicve would be leisia
lion favorable and acceptab'o to
both capital and labor.
H S. Clyde.
Socialist Meetings.
Tho Socialist party will make a
thorough campaign of Clackamas
county and deliver addresses it
the following places on the dates
that follow: M. V. Thomas, and
other Socialists will speak. They
announce that candidates of oth
er parties are cordially invited to
these meetings and that a divis
ion of the speaking time will be
given them:
October 2, Hyland; : October 3
Clarks; October 4, Beaver Creek;
October 5, Mulino; October 7, Mo-
lalla; October 8, Needy; October
9, Macksburg; October 10, Bar
ton; October 11 Canby and Octo
her 12, Maple Lane.
If He Ran a Newspaper.
Editor Courier:
There isn't a well to do fanner
in this community whose taxes
would not be lowered by the mi
quitious Fels Single Tax, and on
the other hand there is not a new
beginner whose taxes would not
be raised by the same bill. More
over we have well to do farmers
here who claim that it is easier
for them to pay $75. to $80 taxes
now than it was for them to pay
$8 or $10 twenty years ago, when
they were opening farms here,
Then you would exempt all our
four mills and factories who use
our roads and courts of law more
than anyone else. And I notice
that you have much to say in your
columns about robbing the tax
payers, but if I were running a
newspaper in the interest of a
millionaire soap manufacturer
and his paid hirelings, I would
speak easy about what tire inter
ests are doing . to the "Deer
Peepul." This in answer to your
criticism in last weeks Courier,
of my letter in a recent number of
the Canby Irrigator.
J. S. Yoder.
(But, Mr. Yoder, tho above is
NOT an answer to last week s
criticism of your letler it is not
within a hundred miles of an
answer. Please try it again.
Editor.)
Live Wires After Them.
Four weeks ago the Courier
took up the matter of tho circula
tion of a pamphlet in the inter
est? of those who want to divide
this county, and showed that it
was evidently a clear violation of
the corrupt practices act, in that
it did not give the placo of pub
lication of the circular nor had
any signatures.
The matter was taken up at
once by some of our citizens, and
Deputy Stipp, and Tuesday it was
taken up by the Live Wires.
President Latourette of the
Wires staled btat the circular
was apparently a direct violation
of the law, and William Ham
mond of tho firm of Cross &
Hammond was appointed to make
a thorough investigation of the
matter and report to tho club.
First Baptist Church.
Rev. W. T. Milliken, D.D. Pastor.
Services next Sunday morning
and evening. In tho morning Dr.
Milliken will speak upon the topic
"Christian Adaplibility." The eve
ning topic will be "The Prayer
and tho Tempest, an episode in
the Life of Elijah." Song service
before the evening service. Bible
school at 10. H. E. Cross, Supt.
Y. P. S. C. E. at 6.45. The topic
this week will bo missionary.
Those having no church home are
always cordially welcomed.
Prayer and Praise service on
Thursday evening. This is the
regular Covenant service and a
large attendance is desired.
The annual election of officers
will bo held on Friday evening of
next week.
Woodrow Wilson
TO THE OREGON CITY COURIER:-
Herewith I inclose for the Woodrow Wilson Cam
paign fund.
(NAME)
(ADDRESS) '.
Mail or hand in this coupon, with your contribution enclos
ed, to the Courier Wilson Campaign Fund, Oregon City. Check
should be made payable to the Courier, Oregon City
APPRECIATION (?)
Weeks of Boating Repaid by Dash
of Cold Water.
This isn't a kick. We have no
sore spots. It's just a protest.
Since Guttenberg began to set
up wooden types and print them
there has always been a sort of
an exchange bureau between
newspapers and the things that
depended 'for success on public
patronage. That is, the news
papers would get behind and pro
duce free boosting and the pro
moters of the Things Boosted
would show their aimreciation
by extending complementary tick
ets to trie boosters.
From the Round-up, the state
fair, down to the smallest little
struggling county fair in this
part of Oregon, there always
comes to the Courier office comp
lementary tickets in exchange for
the free reading notices we give
them. We don't use the tickets
they go into the waste basket ,
but they show appreciation, and
that is worth far more than the
admission price.
Since January 1st. this paper
has boosted tho Clackamas coun
ty fair at Canby. It has written
and published column after col
umn and put the stories on the
first page. It is a county project,
and it is our duty to boost it,
do it freely and willingly.
And after we have done it, well
it makes us feel a little bit pleas
ed to get at least a courtesy a
card of thanks as it were in the
shape of an invitation to the fair.
This office has always re
ceived these favors until this
year. Last year we left the tickets
in the draw and paid cash fares
at the gate.
It isn't the price, it's the spirit.
This year the fair management
passed up the Courier, but re
membered the other papers.
Perhaps they don't want our
free advertising. Perhaps they
don't think its columns of free
stories are worlh a card of
thanks. It would appear so, and
this is notice that it won't be
forced on them. They haven't
GOT to have it.
DIFFERENT WAYS
Draw Your Own Conclusions as
to Which are Right.
Chairman Frank Jaggar and
Secretary William Hammond are
keeping their dates secret, for in
the last campaign the local Dem
ocrats secured an advantago thru
a prematuro announcement of the
Republican meetings and followed
their opponents all over tho coun
ty. Enterprise.
Well, this is a novel ono.
What kind of a campaign wore
the Republicans making in, the
last campaign?
Wouldn t their speakers bear
following and answering?
In marked contrast to the abovo
tactics the local Democratic man
agers and the Socialist local ask
the Courier to announce as fol
lows:
Editor Courier:
Please announce tho following
dates and places for Hon. Walter
M. Pierce and invite all candid
ates of other parlies to be present
at any of tho speeches or to make
replies to any of his statements.
Estacada, October 8, at 8 P. M.
Wilsonvillo October 9, at 8; Can
by, October 10, at 8; Molalla, Cel.,
11 (the hour to be announced lat
er;) Oregon City, Oct., 12,
R. B. Bealie.
Courier:
Please announco the followinij
dates for R. U. Thomas, Socialist
candidate for representative, and
invite candidates of any party to
share with him tho platform and
half the speaking tune:
Octobor 2, Hyland; October 3,
Clarks; October 4, Beaver Creek;
October 5th, Mulino ; October 7,
Malalla; October 8, Needy; Oct
ober 9, Macksburg; October 10,
ober 9, Macksburg; October 10,
Barton; October 11 Canby and
Octobor 12, Maple Lane.
The People's Paper.
From page 1 to 8 this paper is
filled with interesting letters on
many subjects from its readers.
It shows interest on tho many
live matters; it shows apprecia
tion of a newspaper whose col
umns are long enough for any
man's opinions and both sides of
questions; it shows life, interest,
and wo are glad to get them.
We invite you to use tho Cour
ier's colums. They are yours for
any honest opinions on any topic.
The Courier is going some theso
days, it is covering Clackamas
county like an umbrella and it is
you writers who are doing much
lo make it popular.
But get in early with your com
munications. When they all come
in the midle of the week, some
must be left out.
Campaign Fund