ON
CITY
COUI
"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 receives 700
tons. That's why its the best
city in the state.
30th YEAR.
OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRDAY." OCT. 4, 1912.
No. 21
OREG
Im ifv
NOT MORE II
TEN NOURS'WORK.
SCHUEBEL WOULD GIVE MEN
PROTECTION OF HORSES.
A BILL HE WILL WORK FOR,
Says if Horses were Worked Like
Men, Humanity Would Protest.
Editor Courier:
One of the great problems that
is confronting I lie Ainericiyi
people today is the question of
adequate protection for the labor,
ing men of our country.
During the year 1910 five
state legislatures appointed com
missioners to investigate labor
conditions and to report and
draft bills in the interest of labor.
llnrty-six states and territories
now have laws limiting labor to
six days a week. Seventeen states
have laws limiting the hours of
labor in certain classes of em
ploymenl. In 1905 Arkansas
passed a law limiting the hours
of labor in saw mills and plan
ing mills to 00 hours a weok. In
1911 Georgia passed a law limit
ing the hours of labor to 00 hours
a week in cotton and woolen
mills. Maryland has a law limit
ing the hours of labor to 00 hours
a week in cotton and woolen fac
t ries. Chapter 403, Sec. 2 of the
law of North Carolina is as fo
lows :
Sec. 2. Not exceeding 00 hours
shall constitute a week's work in
all factories and manufacturing
establishments of this Slate. No
person under eighteen years of
age shall be required to work m
such factories or establishments
a longer period than sixty hours
in one week: Provided that this
section shall not npply to engin
eers, firemen, machinists, super
intendents, overseers, section and
yard hands, office men, watch
men or repairers of break downs.
In 1907 South Carolina passed
a law limiting the nours of labor
in cotton and woolen manufac
turing establishments to 00 hours
a week. When hard times come
the wages uf the laboring man
are the first to bo reduced, and
during good limes the last to be
raised.-If -iie expects to hold his
position he is often compelled to
work such hours and under con
ditions, that if a man should work
his horses in the same manner
the Humane Society would have
him prosecuted. We pass laws to
protect the dumb brute but re
fuse to protect the laboring men,
The
At
(who are the producers and back
bone of our country) from Or
ganized Capital and greed. Every
man should be entitled to at least
one day in seven for rest and
recreation. Oregon as one of the
progressive states should take a
step in advance in the. protection
of its laboring men.
I wish to submit for suggest
ions and criticism a law that I
Deneve is a step in ino rignr, m
rection.
Section 1. It is ihe public poll
cy of the State1 of Oregon to pro
vide that no person shall be hired
or permitted to work for wages
under any conditions or terms
for longer hours or days of ser
vice than is consistent with his
health and physical well-being
and promote the general wollfare
by his increasing usefullness as
a healthy and intelligent citizen
of Oregon. It is hereby declared
that the working of any person
more than ten hours in one day
or sixty hours in one week in any
mill, factory or manufacturing
establishment is tnjurious to the
physical health and well-being of
such person and tends to prevent
him from acquiring that degree
of intelligence that is necessary
to make hfm a useful and desir
able citizen of the State of Ore
gon. ' N
Section 2. No person shall be
employed in any mill, factory or
manufacturing establishment -in
this state more than ten hours
during any one day or more than
sixty hours in one week, except
watchmen, mechanics in the re
pair of machinery, or in cases of
emergency where life and prop
erly are in eminent danger,
Section 3. Any employer who
shall require or permit any per
son to work in any of the places
mentioned in section two of this
act, more than the number of
hours provided for in this act
during any day of twenty-four
hours, or who shall permit Or
suffer any overseer, superintend
ent, or other agent of any such
employer, to violate ajiy of the
provisions of this act, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be
fined for each offense not less
than $50 nor more than $500;
Provided, that each day's violat
ion of this act or any part thereof
shall be considered a separate
offense.
Yours respectfully,
C. Schuebel. .
The Wilson Roll.
Judge Heali'V,Oregon City, $10.00
J. W. S. Owens, Oregon City $1.00
O. D. Robbins, Route 3. . .".81.00
A. E. Frost Oregon City.. ..$1.00
E. E. Baker, Parkplace. . . .$1.00
V. H. Timmons, Gladstone$1.00
A. S. Brown, Oregon City, . .$1.00
Total ..I $16.00
Best
the Lowest Cost
ELECTRIC LIGHT is the most suitable for homes,
offices, shops and other places needing iigiit. Elec
tricity can he used in any quantity, larjr of small,
thereby furnishing any required amount of light.
Furthermore, electric lamps ear he located in any
place, thus affording any desiied istrlbut: m of light.
No other lamps possess t'n.?e pualifieatlo.i s, there
fore it is not surprising that electric lamps are rapidly
replacing all others in nmden) establishments.
Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company
MAIN OFFICE SEVENTH & ALDER.
PORTLAND
Phones Main 6G88 and A. 6131
JUSTADAMNED
SOCIALIST
n
COLUMN THAT MAY MAKE
YOU THINK A LITTLE.
WHAT IS A REAL SOCIALIST?
Do you Think the Man who was
Damning them Knew?
A few nights ago on Main St.,
a dozen or two men were bunch
ed up, and there was some ex
citing talk.
A fellow came along and ask
ed what the excitement was.
"Nothin" but a damned Social
ist," one of the mea replied with
a sneer.
, 1 stopped and sized up this
man who was qualifying Social
ism. I don't know who he was, but
I hope he may read this and get
a picture of himself as others see
him.
The man knew a heap more
about "damned" than he did Soc
ialism. He had on one of the latest
style hard-shell hats set back on
his head to give him the swag
gering appearance; he nad a
tailor-made Turkish cigarette
sticking out of the side of his
face, his pants reefed up to the
lirst joint of his legs and a pair
of yellow shoes, with a beauti
ful polish, which he kept looking
at.
' He sure was some, noise. He
could tell "A Damned Socialist'
at sight. He hadn't heard a word
I her man was saying, but he in
tuitively knew he must be a Soc
ialist, and as one he must be
damned that is the only kind
there are to this stamp of a man.
Like the Indian, the only good
ones are dead ones.
This apology of a man thought
he had said something, and the
laughter of two or three of his
like was full backing.
But if someone had asked him
what the definition of Socialism
was, I'll bet a hundred dollars
against Taft's chances for elect--ion,
he couldn't tell the first
meaning of the word.
Now this isn't a boost for Soc
ialism. The ..writer never voted the
Socialist ticket, and probably he
never will only the future can
tell.
-Some of our political friends,
after they have read this column,
will no doubt advise taking Brown
out into the woodshed and im
pressing it on htm that this is
Lig'fot
or place for
You don't have fo hunt a time
and place for the truth, for fair
ness, for an even break.
The fellow down the street
didn't give the .matter much con
sideration. I hate to hear a man advocate
or condemn something le doesn't
know the rudiments of.
The growing Socialist parly is
being made up ol just such men
as .you and 1, of Democrats and
Republicans.
They are not Anarchists, they
are not homo throwers.
They are bred by the present
conditions. Ihey see the menac
ing power . of the prodigious
growth of wealth in a few hands.
They see trusts growing greater
and more powerful each day
trusts that levy tribute on a man
or woman from the cradle to the
grave.
They see in the present form of
government conditions that per
mit Henry Clay Filch, the Chicago
millionaire, giving lawn lunches
that cost $20 a plate, while wom
en ana children are starving in
Chicago.
They see coudilions that per.
mit Mrs. Jennie Croker-Whit
man, the San Francisco heiress
attaching a special coach to her
private car for her dogs to ride
in, while men ride the break
beams under the dogs' car.
They see men like Gary the
steel trust King, give half mil
lion dollar necklaces as presents,
and men working for $8 a week
in the Lawrence woolen mills.
Now here is telling you that no
nation, of white men can or will
long stand these things.
And Socialism has come up as
a means of relief from such con
ditions. Men just as brainy as you
and I, and a whole lot bettor in
formed, think it is tin only so
lution. And now fellows, just back up
a minute. Stand without hitching
and just look over the awful
".ism" and see what it really is.
The municipalization of the
sources of wealth. That is a long
word let's state it again in short
words.
Tho stale ' to own production,
the necessaries now owned by the
trusts and favored interests the
railroads, coal mines, food, fac
tories, telegraphs, the trusts, etc.
No use of flouting this kind of
doctrine for men like Bryan,
Roosevelt, Carnegie, Wilson and
others are preaching as much of
it as they dare.
Government central of . rail
roads, government supervision of
trusts, and all the other propo
silions along these lines are
simply Socialism.
Some of you men who say only
a damned Socialist just'take a day
off and find out what you are
damning.
Find out that there is no more
connection between Anarchism
and Socialism than between a dog
fight and a prayer meeting.
Socialism is as mild and as
pleasant to lake as casloria. It
doesn't preach violence or revo
lution. It teaches evolution, a
change of thought, a peaceful so
lutioiv of a big problem by letting
the people own tho sources in
stead of the trusts the country
own the necessities the same as it
owns the posloflices and the same
as Oregon City owns its water
works.
Political parlies are promising
supervision and regulation of the
big interests that are closing in
on us. Such means will help, but
they are only steps to ultimate
ownership.
So cut out damning Socialism.
The Other Side.
In regard to tho resolution of
the Milwaukee Grange to invest
igate the mailers of bridge build
ing in this county, we clip the
following from the Estacada
Progress:
W. H. Matoon, member of the
court, said he didn't care to make
an extended statement at this
time, but that the court would be
ready shortly, to meet the issues.
"The sources of this attack is
well known to the court" he said
"but at present we will say noth
ing. In my district four steel
bridges were built," three over
Clear Creek and one over Eagle
Creek. For two of these we asked
bids, only one being received, the
Coast Bridge Go's, which does
most of the country work. The
other two, including the Eagle
Creek bridge, were done without
bids, because they were in a dan
gerous condition and there was
no time to ask for bids. We have
also put in concrete piers in place
of rotten piling on certain ap
proaches to to bridges. As to
swearing to statements, I don't
believe that has been done,- but
Ihe bills and vouchers are all on
file with the county clerk."
Write to the Sheriff.
Governor West is receiving
letters from somebody in Esta
cada alleging that blind pigs are
in operation. Sheriff Mass is
authority for the statement that
has been notified by the governor
and has been investigating.
Neither the sheriff or anybody
else, so far as known, has know
ledge of a blind pig here. The
sheriff woild like to have the
person writing the governor, tell
mm wnern li is lucuieu. j-.oia-
neither the time
such articles.
cada Progress.
II, f J I J Y E R ASKS
10 QUESTIONS
WHO WOULD MR. SCHNOERR
- HAVE BEEN TRAITOR TO?
WHO WAS HE OBLIGATED TO?
Some Questions that Grew Out of
the Recent Libel Trial.
Mr. Gus Schnoerr,
Willamette, Ore.
Dear Sir:
On your trial in September for
libel, you stated under oath that
Mr. Schubel wanted you to sign
the following statement to the
voters of Clackamas County:
"It has been slated that I am
under obligations to the Corpor
ate interests in Clackamas Coun
ty and would work in their in
terests if elected as a member of
the Legislature. It is a fact that
Judge Gordon E. Hayes, B. T.
McBain, Win. Sheahan and other
prominent citizens urged me to
become a candidate for the Legis
lature. They did not ask me for
for any pledge to support any
legislation in tho interest of the
Corporations or otherwise.
nominated and elected. I pledge
myself to the voters and tax
payers of Clackamas County, that
I will at all times work for such
legislation, that will tax the
waterpower and public service
corporation franchise in tho same
manner as other property: that I
will at all times do all in my
power to pass such legislation
that will help .bring about better
conditions for the laboring men
in the mills at Oregon City so
thai no man will be compelled to
work more than ten hours in one
day or more than sixty hours a
week.
You swore you refused to sign
and said:
"Christ, if I would sign this
paper I would make a traitor out
of myself. I can never do that.
On that trial you did not deny
that you became a candidate at
the request of B. T. McBain, Win.
Sheahan and Gordon E. Hayes
Mr. McBain was manager, Mr
Sheahan was Supt. and Mr. Hayes
was political attorney of the
Willamette Pulp and Paper Co.
To whom would you have made
yourself a traitor by signing and
publishing tho above pledges to
the people?
What obligations or promises
did you make to the Paper Co.,
that would conflict with the above
proposed pledges to the peoplo?
Sincerely yours,
P. S. Noyer.
THE MOTIVE.
No Sincerity, the Courier Is
Simply "Striking."
It is reported to this office that
ono of our councilmen made tho
statement the oilier day that the
reason the Courier made so much
noise about the condition of the
sidewalks and parkings was be
cause it did not get any of tho
city printing.
What pitifully small calibre of
men sometimes break into public
placosl
This paper is simply asking
this councilman to have enforced
the ordinance ho helped to make,
and which he made such a Bull
Moose bluster about.
It is asking that the parkings
on the improved streets, which
have cost the property owners
and taxpayers a lot of good
money, bo cared for and used for
Ihe purposes they were built for.
Walk along Washington street,
along the south half of it, and see
the condition this hansonio street
is being allowed to degenerate in
to.
There are blocks where you
couldn't find tho cement curbing
without digging for it.
It is buried under weeds, grass
and rubbish.
In other places this costly
curbing is simply used to pile
four foot wood on, the cement
curb wall at one end and the side,
walk for the other.
Then will como a homo where
its owner has used this space for
what it was built for, for hand
some roses and shrubs and this
spot looks like an oasis in com
parison.
There are blocks and diocks oi
exnensive curbing wnicn migm.
just as well have been built in the
woods for all ino neneiu unu
pleasures it gives anyone.
There are blocks ana diocks oi
woode nwalks that are a disgrace
to a city of our size, and not only
that but dangerous.
There are places where me
briars almost meet across Uic
walk and where thistles ami
weeds are the whole things.
If criticism of these conditions
are not anoweu wun me
printing, the Courier doesn't
want it.
If a censor Koes with mis
patronage, we wouldn't lake it if
it were rolled up in inn uonai
bills. . .
And lh s s notice lo mat
concilman who has tongue with
out discretion, and a whole lot
more bluster than ability, thai me
Courier isn't "striking. It cannoi
hope for any of the putno prim-
ing at the hands of men of his
mental calibre, and it. doesn't ask
for it.
SINGLE TAX EXPOSED.
Charles Shields will Speak on this
Subject Monday Night.
Next Monday evening, in Wil
lamette hall, at 8 p. in., Charle
Shields of Portland, Secretary of
the Oregon Equal Taxation
League, will speak on, the issue of
single tax, and against the pro
posed graduated income amend
ment. This is a subject that is of es
pecial interest to Clackamas
county, and it is om that any man
should hear both sides of. Any
man who has interest enough in
the issue that ho will vote on the
proposition at all, should avail
himself of every chance to hear
both sides.
Go and hear Mr. Shields. 'Fill
the hall. Ask him questions
courteous questions on any
point you do not understand.
AND WE STAND IT.
Filthy and Dangerous Conditions
that we Wink at.
When you see a swill wagon
going through the streets of this
city with a drizzle of filth leaking
through the bottom und sprink
ling the streets with its germs
and poison what do yon thmu?
And when you see tho gatherer
take up your leaking box of vogc
tation and leave a trail of drip
pings to his wagon- -what do you
think?
Or don't you think?
If you don't, you should.
Its a nasty and a dangerous
proposition, and one that our city
oliicials should take hold of.
There are times of year and
weather when you might just as
safely draw a small pox patient
through the streets, or take a ty
phoid patient to the motion pic
lure shows.
There should bo some official
supervision of this matter, some
iron-clad city ordinance that
would apply both to the gatherer
and depositor of this garbage, and
them they should be literally en
forced.
No man should be permitted to
gather this swill until he provides
some wagon that is leak proof lo
gather it in.
No family should be permitted
to deposit it in boxes other than
metalic and with close covers.
And tho man who has the job of
gathering it should be made to
get on the job and have stated and
punctual times to make the trips
Why they wouldn t tolerate this
condition anywhere else than Ore.
gon City.
They wouldn t tolerate it in the
stock yards.
It s a hundred times more im
portant than many of the other
city ordinances which wo enforce.
There is nothing too strict that
is for the protection of human
health. There is no ordinance
for the prevention of sickness and
epidemics but what is economy.
Tho city oliicials or the health
authorities should stop this
dangerous condition that is per
mitted in this city.
Just watch tho leaking streams
of II 1th filter along tho streets and
then see how your appetite is for
supper.
Whew I
UP TO MR. 8HIELDS.
U'Ren Aoouses Him of Cowardice
and Dares him to Debate.
Oregon City, Oct. 2.
Mr. Chas. 1. Shields,
Sec'y Oregon Equal Taxation
League,
Dear Sir:
In answer to my letter to you
inviting you to meet me in Joint
discussion of tho tax measures
before the people of Oregon, I am
favored by your private secre
tary with a letter slating that
perhaps you will favor me with
one meeting after Oct. 25lh. Con
sidering your brag and bluster at
Hood River and other places this
looks to me very much like cow
ardly dodging. You are now on
the slump all the time, as I am
informed, and if you have any
courage with your conviciions,
you will bo very glad to meet me.
Your secretary also writes that
you are loath to divido lime with
me in Oregon City on Oct. 7. 1
renew my challenge to meet you
on the slump lrom nay 10 oay
from this time on lo the close of
tho campaign. I will pay half the
expenses and maintain the Single
Tax measures to be voted on by
the peoplo in November and op
pose the measures you are sup
porting. Respectfully yours,
W. S. U'Ren.
DOUBLE WEDDING.
In Portland Tuesday evening
Miss Edith Clair Jackson and
Miss Letha Leota Jackson, daug
hters of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Jack
son, of this city became tho brides
of Jesse Holland Settlemeir and
Frank Daniels O'Brien, respect
ively Tuesday evening. The doub
le cjromony was performed at
St. Mathews Episcopal Church,
Portland, the Rev. Mr. Brcck.rec
tor officiating.
Miss Edith Jackson was
employed in the County Assess
and Miss Letha Jackson has been
employed for several years by the i
Clackamas Abstract Co.
governor isrs
FLASH LIGHTS.
STIRRING TALK FOR A CLEAN
ER OREGON
OUT AGAINST OFFICIAL CROOK
Outlines Work Before Congrega
tional Brotherhood.
Someone has said
West is not an orator.
Governor
Well, perhaps he isn't ac
cording to rule.
Ho doesn't thunder out tho
dramatic points, and he doesn't
observe Hoyle in gestures, but
here's telling you that when men
in a crowded hall will lean for
ward in their seats with intense
interest for a straight hour the
man they are listening to is sure
some talker.
If you had droppod a match on
the floor at the Congregational
Brotherhood meeting last Tucs
dify night, you could have heard it
strike so tense was the interest
in the governor's talk.
West gets one. You are bound
to be convinced of his sincerity
in his great work if you permit
yourself to be if you will listen.
In his plain quiet way he talks to
you. Ho doesn't mako a speech,
but he sure shoots 'em in just
the same, and keeps shooting.
At the banquet of the Broth
erhood ho was askod to talk on
the topic, "Light in Dark Places,"
and here are a few of the flash
lights, after he had explained his
prison policy:
"The law violators have been
keeping me busy since I havo been
governor. Now I am going to
keep thorn busy for a while."
"The law officials will bring
down from Crook county to Salem
a boy who has violated the law by
signing a check when ho was
drunk. They bring guards with
llioin that ho may not escape. It
will cost the slate of Oregon from
$300 to $500. And the saloon
keeper in the same town will vio
late the law every day. I know
this.
"Tho trouble with the saloon-
men is they try to run tho govern
ment when they should bo run
ning tho saloons, and I am going
to teach them to run Iheir own
business.
They won't play fair. They
can't let a dollar got away. They
will keep a man at the bar until
they get his last penny, when
they know his family is in want.
People won t give mo credit
for being honest. They look for
a motive. That is why I have an
nounced I will not run for gov
ernor again. Now l am not play
ing any favorites.
i hey say I will tire out and
quit. I like to fight, and I will as
long as I am in office and long
after. The only piece for tho
other side will bo to surrondor.
Unless the law violators can
use a man in office Ihey. are not
with him. I want to mako public
officers steam up and givo more
for their money.
Law should bo enforced;
wishes of tho majority must bo
respected.
In Huntington officials as
sured mo there were no rod light
places. I settled the dispute by
showing them some. I know ono
when I soe it."
October 10 I will offer a
standing reward of $100 for tho
arrest and conviction of the own
er of a red light properly.
There is no good of arresting
tho women. Crooked men put
them wrong. To fino the girls is
no use. They can't pay tho fines,
and they are paid by thoso who
make money from them.
It is foolish to try to clean out
a yellow jackets' nest with a fly
swatter. Fire is tho means. Wo
havo got to get the owners, not
the girls; got to get the man who
c.iits his property for such pur
poses.
1 hey say we must have a re
stricted district, but I ask, who is
going to furnish the prostitute?"
1'wenly-four men were re
cently arrested for living off of
women. It is a penitentiary of
fence, but instead of sending
them to the pen, ono pimp was
allowed to sign anothers' bond,
and they have never ueen brought
to trial.
An official in this state, when
asked why ho did not clean up
tho place said ho would be hurt
ing his own business.
All crooks look alike to me. I
am going to try to clean them
out. But it can t be done in J()
days, and you people must stand
by.'
Gilbert L. Hedges followed mo
governor on a plain presentation
of tho initiative proposition to
make a public utilities commis
sion. Mr. Hedges said that while
we needed a public utilities com
mission, the law before the voters
was not the kind of law needed;
that it favored the corporations,
and worked against the individ
ual; that it was the Wisconsin
statute with the teeth pulled nut
and was full of loopholes for tho
big man.
W. A. Shcwman, editor oi mo
Western Stock Journal, gave a
short but interesting talk in favor
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