OEEGOM CITY
COUfflffi
"A MILE OF MILLS"
and more coming Is what makes
Oregon City the best on the coast
outside of Portland.
Oregon City ship 300 tons of
goods every day and receives 700
tons. That's why Its the best
olty In the state.
30th YEAR.
OREGON CITY, .OREGON. FRDAY. OCT. 18, I? 12.
No. 23
A STORY OF A .
SORE TOE CORN.
IT SMARTED AND THE OWNER
WANTED RELIEF.
"DON'T TOUCH IT" IS ADVICE.
"Don't Try any Remedies, for the
Corn Might Spread."
Ever have a corn on top of one
of your toes, about in the middle
of the row one of those big red
callouses that shines like a man's
bald-head?
Aren't they the real noise when
it (Mimes to concentrated agony?
Take one of them that has the
proper age and irritation and
draw a handkerchief over it and
you'll wince.
It's the real scream all right
this thickening of the epidermis
or rather it is a real scream
producer. . v
And some day, after perhaps
years of pain and profanity, a
man comes along and says ho can
cure that horny induration and
relieve the pain; that he will take
it out by the roots; that it will be
painless, and that if it does not
cure you do not pay.
And then along comes another
man and he tells you not to try it;
that if you put that corn salve on
the callous it will spread the irri
tation all over your foot; that you
will have to cut away your shoe;
that you will soon be all corn, and
to just let it alone and it will go
away after a while.
And the fellow with the smart
begins to wonder why two men
should present such widely dif
ferent remedies. Why one man
should say try a new remedy and
the other should say "stand pal
and let it wear off."
And the fellow with the burning
smarting agonizing corn will be
gin to get busy with his head. Like
the fellow with the toothache you
have got to do same tall convin
cing to make him let the oil of
cloves bottle alone. He wants to
know WHAT the fellow's object
is in keeping him away from try
ing a remedy. So he begins to
look this man up and see if he
can find his interest.
And ho finds he is a stand-pat
corn doctor, a specilist, one who
makes his money off of corns
from operating on them about
once every so often, and getting
a fee.
See any local application?
At
See any corn doctors in Ore
gon You fellows who have homes
and cultivated farms are the
corns.
The millionaires, the specula
tes, the idle rich are the corn
doctors who perforin operations
on you every year, cause a counter-irritant
to make you forget
the sting of the corn, and then
tell you to suffer it out and you
will - get well some day and
DON'T try so-called remedies.
You men on the under side
$10,000, I want to ask you
of
a
question:
WHO is plugging this fight
against trying a remedy on your
sore corn?
Is it YOUR class that is fight
ing it? Or is it the men who do
not work and don't want to?
If I were a newcomer to Ore
gon and knew something of the
graduated single tax, the million
aires opposing it would settle me.
They have never played your
game and they never will. You
can't find a big business concern
or a man who gets plenty of coin
without work, in all Oregon, but
what is fighting the graduated
tax; you can't find a franchise
holder or a corporation but what
is fighting it?
And I want to tell any man who
works, the thing big business
fights, is just what he wants to
fight FOR.
Don't let them work the scare
crow on you. You are going to
get just what you vote for. Hen
ry George and land coirfiscation
are not the issue.
As much nonsense in this as
to tell you that if you voted for
Tafl you elected William McKin
ley, or a vole for Wilson was to
help resurrect Grover Cleveland.
Here's article IX, Sec. la, un
der which you may try the corn
remedy.
"No bill regulating taxation or
exemptions throughout the state
shall become a law until approv
ed by the people of the state at
a general election."
You will never have "confisca-'
lion" until you ask it. And the
law further provides that anyj
time you want to repeal this
graduated, tax law you may call a
special election on a petition of
15 per cent of the voters. I
The proposed remedy will dis-
tribute taxation make some ofi
IV.n K.'it' frtlliil.ro 111inH fl flUlT rtf f h '
callouses. Try it.
Running for Governor.
Bourne cannot justify his in
dependent candidacy. In entering
the contest for the Governor
ship, he proves himself an enemy
of the direct primary of which he
is the professional friend arid de-
fender. Enterprise.
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PORTLAND
Phones Main 6688 and A. 6131
MURDERED GIRL'S
FATHERIITES.
COMMENDS SHERIFF MASS FOR
HIS UNTIRING WORK.
ECHO OF HILL FAMILY MURDER
"Honesty and Efficiency Above Ly.
Ing and Selfish Motives. "
TO THE LAW ABIDING CITIZ
ENS OF CLACKAMAS COUN
"TY: On account of recent attacks
made for political purposes on
the standing and official worth of
Sheriff E. T. Mass, I am impelled
by a sense of fairness and just
ness make reference in this
public manner to the revolting
crime that robbed me of a belov
ed' daughter and her husband
and two beautiful and innocent
grandchildren that were the joy
and sunshine of my declining
years. I refer" to the murder of
William Hill, his wife and two
children.
I desire to say as emphatically
as it is possible for human utter
ance to make it, that in the of
ficial investigation undertaken
by Sheriff Mass imediately fol
lowing that foul crime, and which
has been pursued with dogged de
termination and without inter
mission 'up to the present time,
he has done all and more than
could be expected of an honest,
intelligent and efficient officer.
More than this, he has accomp
lished that which, had he been
given the support and assistance
to which he was entitled by right
and by law from the state's of
ficials, would have enabled him
to bring to justice the perpetrator
of the foulest crime ever commit
ed in the state.
These statements are made by
me with a full and . intimate
knowlege of the facts. That which
is done cannot be undone, and no
human agency can return to me
and mine the loved ones so brut
ally slain. But I can and do ren
der the tribute of appreciation to
the honest worth of Sheriff Mass.
As a sorrowing father and
grandfather I thank and honor
him; as an old lime resident of
Clackamas County I commend'
him to my friends and to those
residents of the county who hold
honesty and efficiency in an of
ficial above the lying utterances
ight
and selfish motives of petty pol
iticians. Thomas F. Cowing.
No. 334 Worcester Bldg.
Portland, Ore.
October 12, 1912.
r'A .;'--M'.J
TO THE LEGAL VOTERS OF
CLACKAMAS COUNTY:
Being a candidate for re-election
and believing my first dutv to
bo to attend to the duties of the
office to which I was elected and
therefore being unable to inter
view the voters in person, I take
this method of familiarizing the
public of an outline of what has
transpired in the sheriff's office.
I desire to call attention to the
fact that the 1910 tax roll was
$75,000 larger than 1909, the 1911
tax roll $150,000 larger than 19f0
that owing to the increase of
population , etc., of the county,
1,000 more lax receipts were is
sued in 1910 than in 1909 and
3,500 more than when my oppon
ent was last chief deputy sheriff.
Therefore this ofllce waited on
1,000 more tax payers than did
the sheriff of . 1910, and 3,500
more tax payers than when my
opponent was last chief deputy.
There were 30 more cases in the
Circuit Court in 191 1, not in
cluding County Court cases, such
as non-support of Tamily or con
tributing to the delinguency of
minors, etc., that there were 20
more in jail in 1911 than in '1910.
As shown by the records kept by
my opponent, there were only
T01E EiQTIE'S TADL ;
There has been some criticism of the Courier be
cause it is supporting a Progressive candidaate for
congress and the Courier always likes to explain.
Go out on-the street and ask the first dozen men
you meet who the Democratic nominee is, and not one
of them can tell you. They don't know not ten in one
hundred DO know.
When the Democrat was nominated it wasn't in
tended anyone SHOULD know.
lie was NOT nominated to be elected. He had no
hopes to be in fact did not even file his acceptance
until 11 :30 when John W. Campbell was nominated
by the Progressives at Itoseburg.
The Democratic nomination was simply an aM
society to Congressman Hawley's stand pat machine,
and the nominee was simply a tail to Hawley's kite.
And the Courier isn't very strong on kite tails.
The nomination put up to the Democratic papers
of this district a bucketful of whitewash and a brush
and told them to use it.
It was a situation forced on them, one in which
they could have no sympathy and mighty little inter
est. You know Mr. Hawley's rexmf. irou know how
he got into Joe Cannon's Sunday school class in less
than fifteen minutes after he got down to Washing
ton, and how he forgot Oregon under the smile of the
politicians and became a Big Business Preacher. His
record published last week speaks for him and for
itself.
And now when the Republicans nominate J. W.
Campbell a man who stands for what we all stand
for is it the duty of this sheet to hang onto Hawley's
kite tail?
Well, not the way the roads are!
We are not that quality of a politician not quite
"regular" enough yet.
The Courier editor wrote the Democratic nomi
nee July 27, asking if there was any truth in the rum
or that he had not qualified for the nomination; as
suring him that if he was in the race to win the Cour
ier would work hard for him, but if he was not going
to make a canvas there was no use.
This paper never got the courtesy of a reply from
Mr. Smith.
Before the Roseburg convention nominated Mr.
Campbell, this office phoned to the secretary of state
and was informed the Democratic nominee had NOT.
filed his acceptance at that time. Four months after
the primaries, and he hadn't made up his mind wheth
er he would accept or not !
And now with a voice that sounds as if it needs
machine oil on it, once in a while a Democrat will
moan "the Courier isn't standing by."
If you Democrats can pull any pathos out o fthis
situation go to it.
. The Courier is out for a man for congress who will
stand by the voters of Oregon. He's a ReRpublican
a Bull Mooser, if you will but he towers a mile over
the Big Business Handy Man we are sending down to
Washington.
It's time to slip the halter, pull off the tag and
vote for men who ring true.
Give Ilawley the" harpoon and elect John W.
CamplH'll. Rend a man to Washington who will rep
resent Oregon.
four men in jail in four years
when he was last deputy sheriff,
against 81 in my first year. The
les for serving civil papers in
one year were one half more than
the whole four years my oppon
ent was deputy last.
That owing to the increase of
population there was a general
increase in crime. There were
t.wn blind mnrdnr eases, one very
brutal and atrocious, in which I
made every honest and possible
effort to apprehend the. guilty
parties, for which effort I was
commended by the grand jury in
their final report and the forogo
ing letter which I herewith submit
If you approve of this record, I
solicit your support for re-election.
E. T. MASS.
Sheriff.
, (Paid Adv.)
Whose Turn Next Week?
The political campaign is
between President Taft and
Professor Wilson. This fact
is absolutely established.
Rosevelt is out of it. Ore
gon City Enterprise, Oct. 2.
One of the most encour
aging features of the cam
paign is the fact that thou
sands of democrats have an
nounced their intention of
suporting President Taft and
the Republican ticket. Ore
gon City Enterprise, Oct. 13.
We reprint the above as
significant statements, an
nouncements of vital im
portance to this country.
Just think if the Enterprise
should take Taft out of the
race next week and give the
country to Debs.
This matter has gone far
enough. The editor should
leave us a little something
to guess on. Presidential
campaigns only come once in
four years.
J
S SNAKE.
HELP KILL IT.
IF YOU DON'T IT WILL KILL
THE OREGON SYSTE.M
TAKES AWAY VOTERS POWER
And will Put State Back In the
Hands of the Looters.
Editor Courier:
There are some people in Ore
gon who do not like the great
common citizen to have any pow
er in the making of laws. Oregon
City has several almost states
men who are hoping that the
Glafke League in Portland will
succeed in putting over the fake
"majority" rule amendments,
numbers 311 and 323 on the bal
lot. In every state where every'
worthless citizen, every indiffer
ent citizen and every uninformed
citizen who does not vote one way
or the other on a proposition put
before him is counted as voting
NO provided he votes for some
candidate- the constitutions go
unamended for 40 years at a time.
In a Cincinnati, Ohio precinct
mostly inhabited by illiterate
blacks and whites, out of 300
voters but one voted on an inm
portant. tax measure, and we are
asked to so change our constit
ution as to count the remaining
200 as against a proposition in
such a case.
The measures with the above
numbers, if the people will carry
them, wril effectually kill the in
itiative as if it was wiped off the
face of the earth and forgotten.
Perhaps about the year 1052 an
amendment might be passed, or
a law, by the people, the old po
litical machine would be in the
saddle and the old game of an ir-
'esponsible legislature passing
aws for the higgest bidder at
public auction be the rule in Ore
gon once more. That .is why a
small-fry commission merchant
and a real estate capper are
pushing the infamous, sneaking
and lying things. Where do they
get their enthusiasm? Out of the
same bottle that the Beast al
ways puts to the lips of its ser
vants. If this commission mer
chant lands the pelt of the initia
tive with this trick, the commis
sion paid will beat skinning farm
ers.
A commission merchant, some
commission merchants sent the
farmers back a bill for the freight
and confiscate the entire ship
ment for their commission in
handling it. Here Is a shipment
for which the returns will run
for wheh the returns will run
somothing like this:
'Messrs. Big Business Grafters
of Oregon:
Gentlemen We regret to state
that your consignment of two
fake majority rule initiative
amendments were so rotten they
spoiled on our hands. We shipp
ed them up Salt River November
5. Please remit expenses for
freight as follows:
For securing initiative pe
tition 115,000.00
For literature and travel
ing expenses 25,000.00
For etceteras, incidentals
and other office expen
ses not otherwise men
tioned 100,000.00
Have drawn sight draft on
Wall street for the amount which
we expect you to cover without
question. Better luck next tune.
Respectfully,
Fake Majority Rule League & Co.
Tt. in nil right to have a good
time at the expense of the farm
ers when they make snipmenis
for, produce, but it is blankety
blank robbery to make such re
turns to Big Business.
People of Oregon, are you so
easily fooled by a commission
morchant, or has Big Business
gone to the right commission
merchants to got your hido nung
on the fence?
A. C. CHILDS
A LOSS OF NERVE.
Mr. U'Ren Says Mayor Dlmlok
Dare not Faoe Issue.
Hon. Grant B. Dirnick:
I read a few days ago in the En
terprise and in the Sunday ore
gonian that you will not hold any
debate with me on the lax ques
tion. I am sorry to see you have
lost your nerve. The boys told
me not to drive you too hard at
Beaver Creek last spring lest 1
should never get another chance
at you. It seems they knew your
weakness better than I did. I
hoped and expected you would
have courage to meet me in Ore
gon City as you promised then.
I don't see any reason for your
refusing, because the debate
could not hurt any chance you
really have to succeed Governor
West. The fictitious reasons you
give are not good. Any half
grown boy who read your letter
would know that if half the things
you charged me with are true
you would be only too eager to
met me on the platform.
Sincerely yours,
W. S. U'Ren
A
8HIELDS FORCED TO STAND
W. 8. U'Ren Expresses Pleasure
at His Late Aooeptanoe.
. Oregon City, Ore.,
Oct. 14, 1912. .
Mr. Chas. H. Shields,
Secretary Oregon Equal Tax
ation League, Board of Trade
Building, Portland, Oregon:
Dear Sir:
Your acceptance of my propos
al to debate The Graduated Single
Tax Amendment, as published in
the Sunday Oregonian, gives me
very great pleasure. I certainly
shall not offer any objection to
your talking about the Henry
George theory, the Fels fund, the
election of Taft or anything else
that pleases you during the de
bate. I now desire to have this de
bate in as many towns as possible
and suggest Ashland, Medford,
Grants Pass, Roseburg, Albany,
Corvallis, Salem, McMinnville,
Oregon City, Portland, Hood Ri
ver and The Dalles, beginning on
Monday, the 21st, isnt, at any
town that pleases you. As it will
be a series I suggest that we take
turns for the opening and closing.
The fact that you have spoken
in many of these towns need not
deter you, because the debate will
attract at least ten times as many
voters as came out to hear you
alone. For insance, you had sixty-five
voters present in Oregon
City, but a debate will bring at
least ten times that many.
Sincerely yours,
W. S. U'Ren.
WHAT MAKES IT?
Think It Over and Then Play Fair
With the Wheels.
Everybody says Oregon City is
a "good town."
The traveling men say it is the
"best town" in the state outside
of Portland, and from the droves
who "make" it daily, it must be
be so.
Ever stop to think WHY it is a
"good town?" Ever think out why
we do business, property increas
es and every man is on the
jump while several other valley
cities are as quiet as an under
taker's? It's the wheels turning 'round
that makes it the big mills that
line both sides of the Willamette.
Let them quit turning and your
property would shrink faster than
a flannel shirt in hot suds.
This day it la in the air to de
nouce big business and corpor
ations but there's a difference in ,
big business and corporations'
and you should play fair. There Is
the dishonest big business that
fattens off the prices it controls
on necessities, ana mere s Dig
business that is run fairly and
employs labor.
This city wasn't much of a
squash until it got the mills, and
the grass would grow on Main
street if they would quit.
When I hear a man damn the
mills I wonder what he would do
if there woren't any.
When I hear a man want to
tax them more, I wonder what
his home would be worth if the
wheels should stop.
Think these things over and
play fair.
TAKING A JUMP.
Wilson Campaign Fund Is Finish
ing Strong.
The Wilson fund takes a jump
this week. Friends of the govern
or are beginning to realize what a
few dollars may mean at this
close of the game, and the list
of loyal Democrats has lengthen
ed out, as you not ebelow.
Now there s one more weeK.
Come in with a dollar. The nat
ional Committee is short of cash.
A few dollars are a big help now.
Judge Beatie, Oregon City, $10.00
J. W. S. Owens, Oregon City $1.00
O. D. Robbins, Route 3.... 81. 00
E. Frost Oregon City. . ..11.00
E. E. Baker, Parkplace. . . .$1.00
W. H. Timmon8, Gladstone$1.00
A. S. Brown, Oregon City, . .$1.00
M. E. Gaffnoy, Gladstone. . .$1.00
V. Groon, Oregon City ..i.oo
Miss Lonora Beatie $ -50
S. R. Groon, Oregon City ..$1.00
H. W. Croason l-PO.
B. J. Staats L00.
E. T. Mass 2.00.
F. A. Miles LOO.
Casey Jones 60.
V. R. Clyde 1.00.
E. Jack 2.00.
M. C. Strickland . .5.00.
M. Justin 50
C. H. Meissner 2.50
E. L. Shaw L00.
C. I). Latourette 5.00
R. Petzold 2.00
J. Myer L00
Cash LOO
E. G. Caufield L00
A. J. Knightly L00
L. A. Noble l.uu
W. E. Myers LOO
Jim Petty 1-00
II. Burgoyne 50
A. L. Beatie 1.00
U'Ren Shields Debate Dates.
There certainly will be some
groat crowds at the coming joint
debates botween W. S. U'Ren of
this city and Charles H. Shields
of Portland, on the issue of the
single tax. Following are the
dates:
Portland, October 23.
Hood River, October 25.
Oregon City, October 26.
Salem, October 28.
Portland, October 29.