COURIER
Oregon City ships 300 tons of
goods every day and receives 700
tons. That's why Its the best
city In the state.
"A MILE OF MILLS"
and more coming Is what makes
Oregon City the best on the coast
outside of Portland.
OREGON CITY., OREGON. FRIDAY. OCT. 11, 1912.
No. 22
30th YEAR.
OREGON
CITY
THEY'RE SMOKING
IE
PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW YOUR
POLITICAL BRAND.
ANYTHING YOU'RE ASHAMED OF
If Not, then Come out and Take
a Plain Stand.
Mr. Schucbel, you candidate for
representative on the slate ticket,
why will you not tell the voters
whether you are a Taft or Roose
velt Republican this year, and
which you will support at the
polls?
Mr. Gill of Eslacada, why will
you not take a stand and let the
. voters of this county, now lining
up between the two Republican
candidates for president, know on
which line you stand?
And you, Mr. Schnoerr, will you
not tell the voters whether you
arc a Taft or Roosevelt Reepubli
can, that they may have, some
choice in the matter of which va
riety of Republican they shall
vote for?
What's the matter with you
fellows? Isn't your sand as bis
as your patriotism?
Haven't the voters as much a
right to know where you stand as
they have a right to know whether
1 a candidate is a Democrat or Re
publican? Isn't there just as much an is
sue between the two wings of De
mocracy as there is between the
Democratic and Republican par
tics? ' , .
. Mr.Gill of Eslacada camo in
with a public letter some weeks
ago in which ho plainly took a
stand on several of, the matters
wey are all interested in, 1 and
plainly told the voters where he
stood. It was good stuff, and the
kind of stuff the voters have a
right to know from men who ask
their votes.
But Mr. Gill said it was no
body's business who he should
vote for for president,.
Then he qualified that a little
by saying he supported LaFolette
at the primaries.. , ,
Mr! Schucbel made about the
same statement. He told the vot
ers just. what he would work for
if electwd to the state legislature,
and there is no getting away from
the fact that these things are for
tie good of the plain people. But
when it came to lining up for one
of the presidential candidates, he
used the same dodge by telling us
At
0
1
UT
The -'Best
that he voted for Roosevelt in the
primaries.
Now what a lot of Democrats
in this county would like to know
and you fellows ought to know
there are a lot of theui this ye,ar)
is why you haven't as much sand
to tell the voters how you stand
before the voting as you did af
ter the voting.
Are you fellows ashamed of the
candidates you are going to vote
for? Must you support them se
cretly? Are any of you working
for or saying a good word for the
national -Republican ticket? Are
you Republicans?
Of course the fround that you
men think lets you out is that
you are not running for presi
dent and that your work will not
in any manner have relation to
this office. You line up and tell
what you will do and what you
will work for at Salem and that
it is no one's business further
than that.
As the old farmer said
"Now maybe it ain't and then
agin, maybe it is."
Some of the Republican papers
of Oregon (very few, wo are glad
to state) take the same position,
and all you have to do to find out
what the people think of them is
to ask one of their subscribers.
' Peter Noyer of Molalla wasn't
afraid to tell what Democrat he
stood for president, before the
national convention, and if there
was a like division in the party he
wouldn't be afraid to come out
and show you which flag he was
under.
Some of you will say this is a
little pin slicking from a Demo
cratic source. Well, perhaps it
is, but it is the editor's honest
opinion that it would be better
for the candidate's chances if he
would come right out in the open
and let the volters know they were
not ashamed or afraid to take a
stand on a matter as important
as the election of a president of
the United States.
Line up fellows l
This is the smoke out ago..
The Abuse, Not the Use.
Governor West was given a
rising vote of thanks at Pastor
Ford's church in Woodburn re
cently for his sland on the liquor
trallic. During the course of his
remarks tho pastor said that
Governor West was a man who,
ho understood took a drink when
ever he wanted it, which he had
a right to do as an individual. It
was not the use of liquor the
people objected to but the abuse
of.it. ..
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PORTLAND
Phones Main 6688 and A. 6131
DON'T ASK JUST TRUST.
The City Council Knows Best
What Is Good For You.
M. J. Brown:
'Weeks ago in an open charge
before the Live Wires and pub
lished in the Courier was the
statement that none knew of the
condition of the city's finances.
Weeks ago before the Live
Wires, a city councilman made
the open statement he would in
troduce a resolution in the city
council for an expert to examine
the books and. make a report.
It is understood that an expert
was employed. It is said he made
the examination and has been
paid.
But where is that report and
wha did he find?
And again; The city council
took up the subject of different
telephone rates for same service.
A committee reported (so the
Courier stated) that t he Pacific
Co. be ordered to restore the old
rale. And this seems to have
dropped into the same hole with
the financial report. Why?
JUST A TAX PAYER.
Shi Don't ask these embarass
iner nnostinns lust now. No use.
Take it from me it won't do any
good and they, will say you are
"after something."
Mayor Dimick said not one of
the city officials could tell how
the city stood financially and that
only one official was under bonds.
Councilman Tooze said at the
next council meeting he would de
mand that an expert report be
mnrln. In 1R84 Theodore Roose
velt "demanded" the tariff be re
duced downward. ,
These matters are none of you
taxpayers business apparently.
What do you suppose this some
class council was elected for?
Just pay and shut up.
DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS
Schedule of Places an dDates for
Addresses this Month.
Commencing, next Monday the
Democratic Central Committee
will open a whirlwind campaign
in this county and ru6h things
for Democratic success next
month. The ! county officials and
the several Democratic nominees
will ' make addresses. Following
are the dates and places:
Tualatin, Monday, October ll;
Barlow, Tuesday October 15;
Needy, Wednesday, October 16;
Marquam, Thursday, October 17;
Missouri, Friday October 18;
Mulino, Saturday October, 19.
.Dates of further meetings will
be published next week.
Lihos, Buttons, Literature.
The Courier has a supply of
Democratic campaign matter
yours for the asking.
10 INTERESTS TO SERVE BUI
THE PUBLIC INTERESTS."--
AND THEN TAKE THIS ARTICLE
WHERE HE GAVE YOU VOT
The Following List will Show you .Whether he voted for Oregon's
Interests 'or Whether he Betrayed the People.
Four weeks from Tuesday you voters will say who shall represent
this district in congress. t
An.t I want to ask you who are out against trusts and ttie big politi
cal ring at Washington whargood will it do you to vote for a Dem
ocratic or Progressive president and then send a congressman back
to Washington to fight him. -
. Now get right down to brass tacks and do a little reasoning, think
When a public official asks you to return him to.any office, I don't
care whether it is that of president of the greatest country on earth,
or game warden for Clackamas county, that man should only ask
it on the record he has made and you should only give it to him on
that record. .
Don't you know this?
The man who has made good, who .has done what you voters have
elected him to do who has represented you by his vote and his in
fluence that man has a claim on you. and I don't care what his
politics are, you ought to return him and keep returning him as long
as he rings true and delivers the goods.
And the same argument inverted should apply to the man who
gives you the Judas Iscariot double cross.
Now then let us look at Congressman Wilis Chatham Hawley
of this district and see how he has represented you men who made
him congressman.
Let us look at his VOTING RECORD in the house of representa
tives, lake him down the line on tho important bills before congress,
and see whether he voted in the interests of progressive Oregon
or whether he throwed the harpoon into you.
Let us go back a couple of years ago, to March 19, 1910, to be ex
act, back to the.time there went up a howlall over this land to take
away from Czar Cannon his autocratic power, through which he
praclically controlled legislation.
And on this famous roll call, which would limit the speaker's pow
er, and give to the minority a voice which would bo heard
WHERE WAS HAWLEY?
. HE WAS WITH CANNON 1
He was AGAINST the resolution.
And then on the resolution to remove Cannon, to declare his office
vacant, that a speaker might bo elected who was not doaf in the ear
turned toward the people
WHERE WAS HAWLEY? i;
He voled NO. He stood by the stand pat Czar, while sentiment
of Oregon was for deposing him. And Hawley KNEW whatthis sen
timent was.
Where was Mr. Hawley on tho passage of the Canadian recoprocity
bill a bill that would have had the same effect as reducing the tar
ill', on many articles?
HE VOTED NO. '
On the matter of creating a tariff board president Taft's excuse
to dodge duty and favor the trusts. He voted YES and congress
has since abolished this board of politicians.
Oh the admission of Arizona to statehood. You haven't forgotten
this, 'have you? a matter with so vital a principle involved that ev
ery newspaper in the land had editorial comments on it. Taft VE
TOED this bill because it gave the Arizonians the recall of judges.
Where was Hawley on the motion to recommit this bill and elimi
nate the recall provision.
. "NOT VOTING." .
Hawley, Supposed to be representing pioneer Oregon, in the recall
of public officials; Hawley, now posing like Ben Selling as a "pro
gressive;" Hawley living under the laws of a state that provides for
the recall of judges, NOT VOTING on this bill, which was a topic of
discussion in nearly every man's mouth.
Did you men send him down to Washington NOT TO VOTE? Did
you send him there to dodge, when he hadn't sand enough to betray
you?
And the bill to enlarge congress from 391 to 420? You voters were
against this, were you not?
Where was Hawley? '
"NOT VOTING." s ' "
And on tho passage of the bill to put agricultural implements on
the free list a law that, would have directly benefited every farmer
in Oregon , ;
Where was Hawley?
"NOT VOTING."
Did you send Mr. Hawley down to Washington to give tho trusts
half a vole on this bill that would have permitted YOU to buy a har
vesler as cheap as our trusts sell them to the Canadians? Did you
elect Hawley NOT to vote on bills that would benollt you?
. And the vote to pass the farmers' free list bill over tho presi.
dent's veto, and let in the many trust-controlled articles
Where was Hawley?
Ho voted "NAY."
And the wool bill, to reduce the tariff on wool articles. This bill, if
a law, would have reduced the price of every article from the stock
ings you wear to the hat on your head.
Where was Hawley?
"NOT VOTING."
Did you elect him to go down there, and dodge these most import
ant matters the most important that ever camo up in congress?
Did you? '
Did you elect him to vote half a vote for the high protected wool
en mills of Lawrence, Miass., with it $8 per week average pay roll?
And on the issue of passing this bill over the president's veto, af
ter BOTH houses of congress had passed it
Where was Hawley?
"NOT VOTING." , j
Wouldn't it have answered every purpose to have had Mr. Haw
ley stay in Salem, Oregon, during the most of the 62d congress and
have sent his "nay" and "Not voting" proxy down to tho Joe Cunnon
disciples? Oregon would have gotten just as much on these tariff
schedules, and would have saved 20 cents per mile for hauling
a "not voting" congressman.
And then on the vote to agree to tho senate amendments and pass
the cotton bill
Where was Hawley?
HE VOTED "NAY.-
And the bill to put sugar on tho free list one of tho most import
ant bills that ever came before congress, and one that would have
taken $100,000,000 tribute from the sugar trust and given it to the
people
Where was Hawley?
"HE ANSWERED PRESENT." ,,,., .
Did you voters send Mr. Hawley down to Washington to vote to
lower sugar two cents a pound, or did you send him down there to
"answer present" when this bill came up?
Wouldn't you have thought more of him rf he had come out and
squarely turned you down, than to have sat like a dummy when men
",.,,ih T.n,i hiruwl in their veins stood un and fousrht?
Tho iron and steel bill, to reduce
factured products
Where was Hawley?
tiw vrvrii'n "NAY"1
Did you send him down there to act as handy man for the steel
trust that great octopus that even its maker, Carnegie, says does
not need further protection? t
On the bill to tax while phosphorus in the use of matches so high
that matches of this variety could not be manufactured in this coun
try because it bred the deadly "phossy jaw" in workers who handled
' 'where was Hawley?
vrvp VOTINfi "
Did you send him to Washington to help tho match trust? Was
he supposed to half represent a corporation or wholly represent a
laborer on a matter of health and life?
What is your opinion of a "not voting" congressman representing
a state where men lead?
And tho tarill Dill inn rayne
tribute today)
' i. foa watinnvV
Against placing hewn and squared lumber on the free list--"Nay."
Reducing house rale on plain or finished lumber "NAY.
Admitting lUmnei II ee iroin
,n,uri 1 1 1 ml I.. r- 1 1 ii IIir
itrht limit of 25
' " .,t oil hirloa nn tho
p TlnrfLV tn re-commit Payne bill and place trust-controlled
fnoo Hat "NAY."
',r. tf,iin rnl for information on foreign wages-"Present."
Final vote on passage of Payne bill NAY.
How many of these were for the interests of tho voters of Oregon
hat Mr. Hawley voted against or refused to vote on?
Here you have a list of the impportant matters that Mr. Halwey
r.....tf v,TL' OV anA HIH vnfA fin.
How many ot them were against
rUHowUrnanyeorf them were for the interests of the beef trust,, the
t iho fiii trap trMHt.?
'ow long are you gi.ing to sen!
Ihern 87,500 a year auu rcms a
V. . , . f'.L i.;.. ....... l...l....ii
John V. Campbell of Roseburg
cross you.
SEE
the -duties on motals and manu
riuniiutsci xjiu uuuui mnni o yaj
nurm omu ouum niiwnvo
free list "NAY."
pounds on hides, which would have
fp lint "NAY."
the Cannon stand pat bunch that
men down to Washington and pay
num in'w - j
i.i.w ami November 5.
will not sell you out or double-
DOWN THE LINE AND
ERS THE DOUBLE CROSS.
ARE THEY AFRAID?
Why Won't Any Man Meet Single
Tax In Debate?
Frank Jaggar is the only man
in Clackamas county who has had
sand enough to stand up and face
the single taxers in debate.
Mr. U'Ren has repeatedly chal
lenged Mayor .Dimick to a joint
debate nothing doing.
Alfred D. Cridge, through the
columns of this paper, asked any
man or men in Clackamas county,
to meet him in jomi debate no
thing doing.
W. S. U'Ren has repeatedly
challenged Chas. H. Shields, Sec.
of the Oregon Equal Taxation
League to meet him nothing do
ing.
And we have men here in Ore
gon famous as orators, all op
posed to the graduated income tax
men like Goo. C. Brownell (who
has plenty of time to talk for
women suffrage;) Mayor Dimick'
(who is ever ready to campaign
the county for politics;) Gordon
E. Hayes (talk on any subject at
the drop of the hat and the best
hand shaker in Oregon, but you
couldn't get him into a single lax
debate with rope and pulley;)
and, but we are running out of
( marks. There is J. E. Hedges,
Senator Dimick, both forceful
speakers on any other topic; H. E.
Cross, plain spoken and caustic;
Livy Stipp, logical, resourceful
and convincing; Gilbert Hedges, a
natural orator and so on down
the line, any number more.
But say, they shy away from a
singlo tax debate like a kid from
prayerineoting.
Isn't it just a liltlo peculiar?
Don't you wonder why, and when
that eternal why creeps in about
a hundred times, don't you begin
to' believe that these bright law
yers are afraid of tho case
afraid they haven't a case, and
that the jury ((.ho audience) will
render a verdict against them?
Don't you believe this is why
they keep appealing?
U'REN TO SHIELDS.
A Case of Fish or Dig Bait With
. . Portland Man
Mr. Chas. ,11. ' Shields, Portland
Oregon.
Dear Sir:
I have not receinved an ans
wer from you to letters of Sept.
20th, 20th and Oct. 5th asking you
to debate wit h me tho tax measur.
es on wbich tho people of Oregon
vote n November, and in which I
staled that I would maintain the
Graduated Singlo Tax Amend
ment and oppose al7 tho Legis
lative and Tax Commission bills
and amendments. . - ;,
In tho daily papers of last Sun
day I notice that you challenge mo
and all other Single Taxers to do
bate . wilh you tho Singlo Tax
philosiphy of Henry George and
some other questions on which
the people of Oregon are not vot
ing this year. Your proposal to
debate such subjects is about as
silly as a challongo to debate a
resolution that the moon is made
of green cheeso. I certainly would
not waste timo in any such idle
discussion with you or anyone
else"!
But I would bo glad to debate
the question "Resolved, That the
Graduated Single Tax Amend
ment should bo adopted by the
people ' of Oregon. As you will
not do this, will you he cannin
enough to answer the following
questions?
Who pays you for your worn m
Oregon? What salary are you
promised? Who aro tho fivo per
sons, corporations and estates
who have promised tho largest
contribution for your campaign
against tho Singlo Tax measures?
How much have they agreeu to
pay towards the cost of the cam
paign against tho Singlo Tax
measures? What is the total ex
pense of your campaign lodate?
Give the names of your hired
workers.
Rospectfully yours,
- William S. U'Ren.
Look 'em Over.
F.verv natre'of the Courier is a
live one, every page has interest
ing letteis and articles, mis is
not a "one page paper." Look
them all over.
Answer to Mr. Shields.
To those who heard' Chas. H
Shields "exrioso" singlo tax Mon-
day night, tho Courier asks you
to turn to page 3 and read what
O. D. Robbins. a farmer of this
county has to say.
Immensely Pleased.
1,000 copies o The Irrigator
were disirinuieu iasi rriuny m
the fair and but few were seen on
the ground. Everyone took them
home, annarently. which pleased
The Editor immensely. tanby
Irrigator. y
It Is to Laugh.
The Morning Exaggerator has
a report of tho Oswego Republic
an meeting and outlines the
"stirring address" given by Geo.
C. Brownell. Tho laugh is that
Brownell was not even present.
The Exaggerator tells about
the "large atetndance" at Wil
sonville at the Republican rally.
The laugh is thai lh'ie w,ere 6
Republicans and 4 Democrats
present.
THE GHOST OF
y
SHIELDS SAYS THIS IS WHAT
WE ARE TO VOTE ON.
SOME TOOK ISSUE WITH HIM,
And there Were a Few Minutes of
Lively Interest.
"Show me the color of the sin
glo taxer's hair that will dispute
this." "Let him stand up and
have his photograph taken."
These and similar expressions
Charles H, Shields used in his ex
posure of singlo lax Monday night
and he was called. Some of the
fellows here aro not afraid of
the color of their head covering,
and others just delight in having
their pictures taken.
And those dramatic pauses were
simply spoiled.
S. McDonald is from Scotland.
It's about tho samo qualification
as being from Missouri got to
show 'em, you know. He arose at
one of the hair color invitations
and tried to ask Mr. Shields a
question, but ho would not per
mit it. "Never mind, never
mind, we'll come to that later "'
was tho dismissal and tho Scotch
man was forced to sit down.
Later in his speech Mr. Shields
camo to "that" and so intimated
to Mr. MacDonald, but when ho
again asked a question Mr.Shiolds
interrupted. "We don't want any
quibbling answer my question,"
said Mr. Shields. As he , hadn't
asked any, M. J. Brown asked him
what the question was. He hes
itated, fussed and then stated ho
was a little confused and didn't .
just remember and somo of the
horrid men laughed.
Mr. Shileds dragged in tho ghost
of Henry George and told tho peo
ple this was what they would vote
on next month. Regardless of the
proposition on the ballot, ho aim-,
ply stuck to it that we were to
vote on Henry George's works and
that conllscalion of land, all tho
property lo be owned by tho slato
was the issue and that ruin ful
ly'seven feet deep would follow.
The main point of his talk was
along this line. Later in his talk
he tool? up the Specific tax on big
land holdings and there was
somo more fun.
Ho stated that thisjax twould
break up tho big holuingi and
oompel tho owners to sell, ". and
after they had sold and tho tracts
had been broken up into small
tracts bo asked where were you
going to get your specific tax
money? ....
Then Mac Donald cut in.
"We aro going to get it from
the taxes of a hundred men whero
one man is now; it is going to
give the landless man a cnancc 10
get a liltlo earth. Tho land mon.
opoly of today is a. curso, and'
(pointing his arm ai uie simm
er) the time is soon coining when
a poor man won't havo to wait for
his six foot of earth to own a lit
tle land." , , , , ,
Tho speaker said ho would ad
mit this, but ho held that instead
of the poor man owning the land,
tho slalo would confiscate it, and
he drew a shivering picture of tho
awful limes that would follow.
M. J. Brown asked him how this
"confiscation" and ruin could bo
brought about unless tho people
wanted it and permitted it. Ho
replied that it would be done by
deceit, by tho peoplo not under
standing what they were doing.
Drown asked him if they could not
change it back in 90 days No
reply !
Twice Major C. S. Noble tried to
ask Mr. Shields a question, but
that gentleman had closed his
public information bureau, and ho
would not permit the question.
Tho Enterprise stated that at
least three men went there wilh
the purpose of asking prepared
questions, "revealed their unfair
ness soveral times" and "wore
urged by others in the audience
several times to keep their seats'
What rot. None of tho gentlemen
would havo said a word if Mr.
Shields had not challenged them,
and then they hated to see thoso
pre-arranged, impressive mom
ents go to waste.
C. S. Noble, who tho Enterprise
stated, with Mr. MacDonald, asked
most of tho question, did not ask
any tho speaker would not per
mit. , ,
Mr. Shields, would never make
a revivalist. He perhaps pleases
his own believers, but ho irritates
the other fellows too much to
convince them.
lie closed his two boms' speech
with a defense of the trusts and
with arguments against making
them pay tho specitic lax.
There were just 70 peoplo pres
ent (not between 200 and 300 as
Iho Morning Exaggerator stated)
65 men and 5 ladies. Tho .chairs
would have sealed 81 if full. I he
reporter would make a good man
on a concus Job-.
Treasurer's Notice.
I now have funds to pay coun
ty road warrants endorsed prior
to March 8, 1912. Interest censes
on such warrants on date of this
notice. October II, 1912.
J. A. Tufts,
County Treasurer.
HEIR
GEORGE