OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 1912
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M. J. BROWN,
LOOK THESE OVER.
If we had more farmers in the
state legislature we would have
less commissions, less political
made jobs , less expenses, less
jokers and grafting and less tax
cs.
Peler Noyer of Molalla, is the
Democratic nominee this year. He
is a farmer. He has been to Salem
before and he has made good.
He won't have a suite of rooms at
the political hotel, nor he won't
trive any champagne suppers, but
he WILL vote right.
Noyer has the reputation of be
ing an honest man, and the
people of this county believe in
him. He's a fighter when it's time
to fight, but not a fighter just to
have people look at him. He's a
level headed, common sense,
practical man. He's the kind of
men we need at the capital to hold
things level. He won't introduce a
string of new laws or try to turn
Oregon over but he'll be there
when others are trying it. Ho will
watch legislation and he will
vote right, don't you have any
doubt about that.
And if you are disatisfied with
the last legislature that burned
up the taxpayers' money and
made a record for extravang
ancc, try Peter Noyer for a
change.
It is a polilical precedent in
Clackamas County to give the of
ficial who makes good the second
term. The county would bo far
better oil' if it kept the man who
makes good as long as be makes
good but this isn't the issue.
Sheriff E. T. Mass is the Homo,
cratic nominee for a second
term, and the Republicans are go
ing to help the De crats to re
turn him.
The only arguments this paper
has heard against Sheriff Mass
(arguments put forth by his po
lilical opponents) is that his ad
ministration has been expensive,
hut in the judgement of the Cou
rier the less his opponents say
about this matter the more votes
they will get, for the people of
County can yet see the horrible
picture of four dead bodies in a
littlo homo at Ardenwald father,
mother and two children, brut
ally, awfully murdered.
And here is where Sheriff Mass
spent snmo counly money, and he
would have been a worthless
sheriff if he hadn't. If he bad the
whole horrible affair to go over
again he would nn doubt do as he
has done, again.
The best detectives west of
Denver have worked on the case
for many months, attracted by
the big rewards, and no one of
them or all of them together ac
complished a fractional part of
what Mass did.
We all know Ibis murder story,
and a lot of us have our opinions,
and it is nn insult to white men to
drng in expenses in conned inn
with it for political issues. Mass
was dead right, and the hope of
this paper is that he is not yet
through with spending money on
the case that ho may yet find
the murderer and that (ho stale
may hang him.
Sheriff Mass WILL he returned.
They say a good assessor is
known by the enemies he makes.
No man can do his honest duly
in assessing property without
having a lot of people damning
him a little on the side.
It's a ticklish job to play if one
hopes to play polities. There is
only one way to play it, just go
ahead and do the right thing, as
tho assessor sees it.
And the Republicans are going
to help the Democrats return us.,
sessor .1. H. Jack next monlli
there isn't any doubt about it
for Mr. Jack is the host assessor
Clackamas county has ever had.
He's capable. He's adapled to
the position. He'll do what, he
thinks is right, lie will assess
values as ho sees Ibein and
that's all any man ran do.
No man can give full satis
faction in assessing, because- you
knows how it goes. YOU 11 proper,
ty is never worth as much as
your neighbor's only when you
want to sell. The thing to do is lo
SCHOOL
aud others who have the custody of school
or county money will find a check ac
count at this batik of great benefit iu
handling such money. We furnish a
special pass-book and checks (for such
accounts), which eliminates all chances
of confusing these accounts with their
personal transactions.
The Bank of
Oldest Bank in
Ore., as second class mail matter.
FROST, OWNERS.
Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1
EDITOR
get an assessor who knows val
ues and who is honest. Mr. Jack
is both.
And he is a worker. He doesn't
hire a bunch of clerks to do the
work he is hired to do. He is on
the job, every day.
There is no oflice in Clackamas
county where it is so important
to get a good man and keep him
It is an office that should be tak-
en out -of politics. At the end of
one term an honest assessor is
double the value to the taxpayers
than when he was elected. At the
end of the second term his value
has doubled again.
Get a good man and keep him.
Every year he is a bigger invest
ment. Don t make political
changes in a position of this
kind. Mr. Jack has more than
done what be promised you. Show
your appreciation by a bigger
majority, this year.
There is a big sentiment in this
county for a change in the office
of district attorney, and they say
the sentiment isn t confined lo
this counly eithei-.
Gilbert L. Hedges is the Demo
cratic nominee Young, well qual
ified, well educated, a fighter, an
aggressive character he is
making a decidedly favorable
campaign and he's going to be
elected.
Tho biggest mistake a county
can make is to elect a sheriff from
one party and a prosecuting atU
orney from another. There you
have tho situation of a president
with one house with him and one
against. A sheriff and a district
attorney should pull together.
Their work is in common. As a
working team they are a power
Pulling singly well you know
how it has worked in Clackamas
county.
G. L. Hedges will make good as
prosecuting attorney. He won't
use the oflice lo play politics or
further personal ends. You know
we need a change. You know this
is an oflice of utmost importance
in Oregon. There is one way to
make the change. November 5 is
NOT a primary election. It's
where your vote counts as much
as Rockefeller's. And if you don't
like the way tho district attorn
ey's office has been conducted for
the past years; if you want a man
who will work to indict criminals
and work to convict them; if you
want lo see men convicted in this
district and the lid put on crime
volo for a man who will stand up.
And Hedges will.
There is one of the brightest
young men in Clackamas counly
who is a candidate for recorder
and the fellows who feel the pulse
of the conuty say (here isn t any
doubt of his election.
Mr. Gaffney is a candidate for
the place made vacant by the (lis
appearance of Lloyd Williams
He is young, brainy and fully
qualified. He is a graduate from
the Portland business college,
has served four years as deputy
and ho is unquestionably the man
for Ihe place. You can t go wrong
on Mr. Galiney. lie Knows I no
work, he will work. He is brainy,
a courteous, pleasing, obliging
man. A bettor selection could not
be made. Keep this nomination in
mind, and help to put in a set of
olllcials next month that you will
bo proud of.
And let us make a clean sweep
next month.
Do you know George Ml. Hively,
of Milwaukee? The most of you
do, and those of you who do not,
ought to, for you would vote for
him for counly commissioner, if
you did.
Mr. Hively is a man who you
KNOW will do right, if you know
him at all. lie is a man whose
face is his guarantee, and every
man wwlio knows nun speans
well oi mm. no is mo kuhi oi man
we need more of as county com
missioners. He will stand up, and
stand up right. He has had ex
perience in counly work and road
building. He is a Virginian, one
f those men you can t buy or
bribe Ihe kind of men Clacka
mas counly needs.
I he Courier knows you cai t
CLERKS
Oregon City
The County
go wrong on this man. Elect hint.
C. Schubel, the regular Repub
lican nominee, was endorsed by
the Democrats , and is half their
nominee.
Mr. Schubel doesn't need much
further endorsement. Through
tho columns of this paper he has
openly stated what he stands for
and what he will back for if elect
ed, and you can't get away from
it that he stands right, that his
proposed legislation is for the
best interests of the greatest
number in Clackamas counly and
the stale of Oregon; that the bills
he will propose are justice, they
are right and are for a fair and
square deal for all.
Schubel is an aggressive char-i
actor, a fighter and a worker, and
such a man has his polilical en
emies. They will work hard and
turn every trick to down him.
Hut he's dead right, and you
know it. What he stands for is
tho majority, for an even break
for the worker, the farmer, the
laxpayer for justice. And the
voters are going to elect him.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
You remember that old saying
of the saddest of all words, don't
you?
Oh, but it hits a sore spot
when you tell one of the loyal
old Republicans that the Repub
lican party could just as well
have nominated and elected ils
president Ibis year as not.
Don't you KNOW it?
If the Chicago convention bad
nominated I.aFollette, or any
other live progressive, it would
have been tho meas of blocking
Wilson's nomination and the suc
cess of the Republican parly.
And why didn't the Republi
cans nominate a progressive?
Roosevelt was the WHY.
Roosevelt wouldn't permit it.
Ho had tho power, but he hadn't
Bryan's loyality, principle and
unselfishness.
He wouldn't let the convention
nominate any progressive unless
that progressive was he.
And here goes the old Repub
lican parly,
If Wilson makes anywhere
good as president (and don't
you doubt it) the Republican
parly is gone, not for this cam
paign, but everlastingly dead
sand bagged.
And it MIGHT have elected Us
president and continued Ils rule
for years to come as a new Re
publican parly.
Hut Roosevelt stuck his knife
in.
He's like the fellow who was
searched for concealed weapons
and they overlooked a knife up
his sleeve.
And when you see him stick
that knife in to the handle and
then turn it around, doesn't it
make vou Republicans feel good?
Doesn't it make you feel as if
you would like to kiss Roosevelt?
GAINING.
F.very talk that Woodrow Wil
son makes, makes Democrats.
Kvery talk that Theodore Roos
evelt makes, loses Republicans.
Wilson carries conviction. He
is a far greater man than the
people thought him when ho was
Humiliated.
Like Hughes of New York, he
grows on you and gels you. No
one but Roosevelt doubts bis dead
honesty and sincerity; no one hut
Roosevelt would dare assert tie
was trust obligated.
Wilson is a big man, a brainy
man, a thinker. His heart is with
tho country and the people. Given
congress anil llie senate neiunu
him. and you will see needed
changes in this trust-run coun
try.
There is nothing to hope for in
Tafl or Roosevelt. The money
bunch has split up and is back
ing both. The play for a change
in our present conditions is Wil
son and ino voters are going m
play it.
FULL CREDIT.
The governor's crusade
continues in deadly earnest.
One bartender has been con
victed already. Oregonian.
That's great stuff, isn't it
That is full credit, and splendid
help to a man who is trying to
oso some of the dives and stop
some of Ihe graft in Oregon.
Hut Governor West is a Demo-
ecral, and the Oregonian is color
blind.
That great sheet with a little
editorial page, didn't note that the
mayor and marshal of Redmund
resigned when the governor ac
cused inein oi permuung unlaw
ful conditions to exist iu that
city. -
The great Oregonian skipped
what Ihe governor did in Hunt
ington when he forced those olll
cials to get out and give decent
leople a chance lo clean up.
The Oregonian also failed lo
nolo how (he governor went aft-
r the road house joints outside
of Portland and cleaned up for
Ibein.
And one more skip was his ac
tion against the express compan
ies and the railroads in shipping
liquor into dry territory.
Yes, one bartender has been
convicted. That was as far as (he
Oregonian would see.
Who is the Enterprise support
ing for U. S. senator?
Wilson, with (he help of the
voters cleaned up in New Jersey
Tuesday, when Smith, (he Demo
cratic boss, who was a candidate
for U. S. senator, was defeated by
Hughes, the progressive. There
was a bitter light in the primaries
over this nomination, for (he old
Democratic gang proposed to tell
Wilson where to get off at .
Heard anything of Ben Selling
The Courier and twiee-a-week
Portland Journal, three papers a
week, all for one year, $2.
President Tafl says he believes
bo will bo elected. I am glad
someone does.
Our notion of absolute rest
lessness is to remind the Colon
el that ho is tho original Taft
man. Milwaukee Sentinel.
We need no revolution; we need
no excited change; we only need
a new point of view and a new
method and spirit of counsel.
Woodrow Wilson.
A fellow defined Roosevelt
pretty well the other day when he
said he was going so fast he
makes a Jack rabbit look like a
stand palter. '
The only chance for a new
party is that both the old parties
should be discredited. One of the
(dd parties is discredited. Ours
shall not be. Woodrow Wilson.
Theodore Roosevelt is said to
have done to himself politically
at Portland what General Nogi
did for himself physically at the
Mjikado's funeral. Woodburn
Independent.
It is said that a graduated
land value tax measure would
put one-half of the taxes of Har
ney county on the shoulders of
eight men and corporations. One
owner has 200,000 acres of land.
You may expect to hear some
thing against the graduated
single tax pretty soon. It is re
ported to this office that Oregon
City and Portland men have
planted a bomb and the fuse will
be lighted in a few days.
No person should be permitted
to hold land out of use that
some other person desires to
cultivate, No person should be
allowed to have more than he may
bo able to cultivate and uso. You
know it.
From now on you may expect
any kind of stuff. They will tell
you how Oregon will go plumb to
the how-wows if tho voters of this
stale volo to make the million-
aires pay their share of Oregon's
taxation.
Here are a couple of in curves
for a pair of presidential eandi-
Una Hfiimoa anva Tlnirv 'I'hnvv
is no more insane than Theodore
Roosevelt, and Senator Crane
cnv. Tofl'a nhn,. nro na imnrl
as they have ever boon,
- '
There are a lot of sandy Wil
son men In the country, but ex
Governor Folk of Missouri will
slay at the head . for a while.
Folk says Wilson will probably
carry every state in the Union.
Folk is a hog. Ho doesn't leave a
thing for the other Democrats to
go him one better.
For more than a generation
live stock has not been assessed
or taxed in the Province of Ont
ario, Canada. The slate has the
finest cattle in all North America,
and its stock dealers secure the
highest prices for blooded ani
mals. It. does not seem to hurt a
farmer there to pay no taxes on
his cows, why should it in Ore
gon? The class thai receives
the greatest direct benefit is
the laboring class, whoso
wages are higher under pro.
lection than I hey could pos
sibly be maintained without
it. Enterprise.
Carry the news to Lawrence,
Mass., where tho mills aro the
highest protected of any industry
and the wage scale $8.00 per
week.
It means, in tho Woodrow Wil
son view, a tariff for the benefit
of povery and not alone for benefit
of plutocracy, a tariff that gives
a dollar's worth of of protection
to (he American farmer every
time it gives a dollar's worth of
protection to the American man
ufacturer, a (anff that does not
as does (he present one, give all
its protection to American trusts
and gives nothing to American
labor. Portland Journal.
Don't simply deplore the fact
that somebody has sold you
sewing machine for $30 which
you can buy in Mexico for $18
apiece. Woodrow Wilson.
And not only sowing machines
hut almost everything the big
trusts turn out. They sell at mon
opoly prices at homo (which the
tariff permits) and compete in
the world's markets abroad. And
just hear in mind that back in
Lawrence, Mass., the highly pro
looted and big dividend paying
woolen mills have a protection to
workmen of an average wage
scale of $8. per week.
In an able editorial asking for
more capable men in the state
legislature, the Portland Jour
nal asks "Why elect a six-bit
man lo a five-million dollar job?
George Ade once said that giving
$5. advice to a $2. man was $3
lost. We won't gel many men cap
able of holding down five-million
dollar jobs for $2.50 per. A big
business concern will hire the
highest paid brains and ability in
the market. A state will bid for
the poorest. There are few men
with ability who are doing char
ity work and responding (o the
call for volunteers. Oregon will
get good legislatures when Ore
on will pay for them, but until she
does she will get more of (he two
bit calibre the kind of men who
hold their hands behind (hem.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORI A
MEN AND THINGS
How a Coulton Man Looks at
Present Conditions
Coulton, Ore., Sept 22.
Tho Courier:
That man Hicinbotham is cer
tainly a stayer. I can understand
Shields, he is working for so much
per, and like Judas, he would be
tray Christ for a few pieces of sil
ver, but like Mr. Eggleston, I can
not understand the makeup of a
farmer who will line up with the
Shields-Oregonian bunch.
Now he answers my question as
lo which county he would buy land
in, in a single tax or a present
system county, by refering to the
state board of equalization. That
puts me in mind of some of the
arguments some of our fore fath
ers had to go up against when
they were trying to form a gov
ernment. It was something like
this:
We cannot get along without a
king. There must always be a
head.
Mr. Hicinbotham would trust
two or three men rather than the
whole people.
Then he says that the people
have picked out all of the best
land and cleared it up. Now he
had better take that back or the
real estate men will jump on him.
I will bet he did not get that from
Charlie.
Now I don't like to repeat my
self, but perhaps Mr. Hicinboth
am did not see the article. Say
nothing about the water powers
and franchises, the higher prices
of land near the towns, and if
every acre in Clackamas county
paid an equal amount it would be
but 34 cents and 2 mills in order
to collect $427,239, which was
collected in 1909.
Now that is not going to hurt
anyone very much is it? And as
to Charley waiting until just a few
days before eleotion and then say
"shoo," and throw a (It or two ot
scare the people into voting ag
ainst the single tax amendment
that is an old game that has
worked line in the past, but it
won't work now.
Now, Bro. Brown, I will have to
get after you. I see that you are
whooping it up for Wilson. Now
I think that he is a silk sock gent
and that the common people can
expect littlo from him. But this
is not the worst. The Big Busi
ness bunch will unload something
on him as it did on poor old Cleve
land, The time is getting about
HpC for jllSt SUCh a move
You
know, and we a!' know, that T, R
!" one f Ihe biggest grand stand
Players in the world, and God
1 T-III i
knows Bill is his man Friday and
they are both onto the scheme.
They know that neither can be
elected and they don't want to be.
They are simply fooling the "dear
people." Now if I had lived a
couple of thousand years ago I
would say that an angel visited
me in a dream and told me. But
not now. You know a few years
ago when that man Leiter was
bulling tho wheat market. As
long as he had money to buy he
could stay on top. But there is a
limit to everything human en
durance, iron, steel, etc. Push
anything past that limit and down
she goes. Look at the high cost
of living; look at the railroads
struggling to pay interest on ten
elevenths water; the electric lines
crowding them for all they are
worth; the fine banking system
we have in this country, wherein
if all the depositors should all
(!emand their money tomorrow
they would only get ten per cent
of it; look at the thousands of
unemployed, the trouble they
have with their employers, and
see if you don't think the limit is
very nearly reached.
And there is another thing, it
is to the interest of some of them
to bring on a panic, and it is very
easily done.
There are many people that
think that tho masses could save
money if they would. Saving is a
good thing for an individual pro
vided others do not save. There
are about 30 million laborers in
tho United States. Suppose each
of them would save one dollar a
week. That would draw thirty
million dollars a week out of cir
culation. A howl of dispair would
go up from the retailers; many of
them would go to the wall and
others would have to discharge
clerks and declining men and quit
buying. Take 30 million dollars a
week of goods from the jobbers
and some of them would go the
wall, and others would discharge
clerks and book-keepers; and the
jobbers would have to quit buy
ing from the manufacturers; the
manufacturers would have to
close down because they could
not sell their product; the closing
down of industries would reduce
the demand for coal and there
would be more men out and the
consequence would bo one of
those things they spell with a
big P.
And if so small a matter as
that could bring a panic, what
could the big financial bunch do
to us any time they wish. So it
looks to me poor Woodrow is
going to have a load he can't car.
ry.
G. E. Rogers.
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