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CITY COURffi "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. NOV. 1, 1912. No. 25 OREGON FUSES THAT DO NOT HOLD FIRE NICELY MADE, BUT 8IMPLY WON'T DO THE BIZ. A WET SEASON IN OREGON And a Poor Time to Shoot Copy righted Dynamite Bombs. Under the heading "Some Sin gle Tax Dynamite", Charles D. Shields issues a little booklet of little sayings. Lot'8 touch off the fuse to a few of them and see what conies fo it. Here's the first one: "Under the application of the graduated single tax,, $95,000,000 worth of person al property owned by public service corporations would escape taxation." ' Then WHY is every public ser vice corporation in the state fighting a trial of it to the last ditch? "All the holdings- of the ' Portland Railway Light & Power Co., would be exempt from taxation." Then WHY isn't this corpora tion working FOR it, instead of leaving no stone unturned to de feat it? "The holders or stock and bonds and mortgages who are gentlemen of leisure and who reap great returns by reason of the fact that they loan their money, all get off scot free yet commerce can't get on without them." Then WHY are the Ladds. the Corbett3 and other Portland mil lionaires putting up the money YOU are using to fight single tax? You admitted in your speech here in Oregon City last Saturday night these men WERE furnish ing the funds for your fight and you yourself stated they were doing it for "their own preserva tion. If these men would get off "scot free" under single tax, WHY are they fighting to defeat it, "for their own preservation?" "It is the man who deals in the necessities of life which would escape paying taxes under the Graduated Single Tax." WHY SHOULDN'T HE? Does'nt the consumer pay his taxes for him? Doesn't the consumer pay the tax of every grocery store, ev- ei'v rtrv ernnds a torn in Oregon? Doesn't the consumer pay the i advertising, the salesmen s salar ies and the trusts' profits? "We may have reason to complain oi the present sys tem. Most certainly we will have reason to complain un The At der a system of tenantry. How do you know? Why have'nt YOU presented an initiative bill to' relieve the PRESENT system that we HAVE reason to complain of, if you are so interested in the tax burdened and poor men of Oregon? HOW will taxing water powers, franchises, land grants, railroads, and speculators bring on a tenantry system in Oregon? "Can you not see that the moment the larger land holders are broken up under j the application of the gradu- 1 ated single tax. which evi dently would be the case, there will then remain no i graduated single tax but sin gle tax?" ! But wouldn't there be hundreds of producers on the large land holdings, men making the land 1 into farms, and hundreds of men ' paying taxes where a half dozen pay now. Would there bo any need of specific taxes when there were no large land holdings to levy them on? "The burden will continue falling more heavily upon land all lands until the confiscation of the rent is secured, and the small land v 1 holder suiters equally as much as Uie larger. It only takes so much money to run Oregon, and HOW are we going to impose taxes to the ex tent of confiscation? HOW are we going to collect any more than the state needs? What rot? "Nowhere is there in exist ence any such a system as is contemplated in the gradua ted single tax." Once upon a time there was no where in existence any such system as the Oregon system and there never would have been if every state had waited for some other state to start it. Precedent is a petrification. The little booklet the above ex tracts are taken from, Mr. Shields has had copyrighted. He was no doubt afraid his "dynamite" might get wet. It's 'great stuff great argument.- Now don't you let a grain buy ers' trust in Washington tell you Oregonians how to vote. Every reform that Oregon has wa secured through the People's Power League. Every last one of these reforms had the same awful predictions of ruin, prophesied to follow them as the graduated single tax is de luged with now. In his -twenty years' work for the plain people of Oregon, did you ever know W. S. U'Ren to double-cross you? Do you know of a single measure of the many he has been instrumental in bringing about that wa not for the greatest good of the many? Don't you believe you can trust him further than an imported Se attle grain dealer. Vote 34XYes next Tuesday. Don't moan over present tax con ditions, but play the first thing that offers relief. Vote 364 X Yes and 376 X Yes. Vote for single tax and a change Tuesday. Best Lihi the Lowest Cost ELECTRIC LIGHT is the most suitable for homes, offices, shops and other places needing light. Elec tricity can be used in any quantity, lar:3 or small, thereby furnishing any requirvd amount of light. Furthermore, electric lamps car be located in any place, thus affording any desired .Vstrlbuti ra of light. No other lamps possess those oualificatio.i t, there fore it is not surprising that.electric lamps are rapidly replacing all others in modern establishments. Portland Railway, Light & Powef Company MAIN OFFICE SEVENTH & ALDER. PORTLAND Phones Main 6688 and A. 6131 T II 21 DAYS? ISN'T AN OCTOBER 4 QUESTION STILL ONE OCTOBER 25? MR. U'REN WANTS TO KNOW. Asks Mr. Noyer and Mr. Schnoerr to Kindly Explain. To Whom It May Concern: In Sunday's Enterprise and in some issues since then, there ap peared a signed article from P. S. Noyer, of Molalla, democratic nominee for representative under the heading "Noyer Repudiates Paid Advertisement," which is as follows : "To Whom it may confcern: An article appeared in the Oregon City Courier of date October 25, 1912, marked "Paid Advertise ment," and purporting to be sign ed by me. 1 did not authorize the publication iff this article and did not pay for said publication . 1 make this statement in justice to myself and my friends. "P. S. Noyer, "Candidate for Representative." This ad interests me, not only because I ordered the republica tion of Mr. Noyer's letter in the Courier, and am having it repub lished herewith as a paid ad, but especially because of the nasty words "Purporting to be, signed by me." Mr. Gus Schnoerr? Willamette, Ore. Dear Sir: On your trial in September for libel, you stated under oath that Mr. Schuebel wanted you to sign (he following statement to the voters of Clackamas county: "It has been staled that I am under obligations to the corpor ate interests in CIackamas coun ty and would work in their inter ests if elected as a member of the legislature. It is a fact that Gor don E. Hayes, B. T. McBain, Wm. Sheahan and other prominent citizens urged me to become a candidate for the legislature. They did not ask me for any pledge to support any legislat ion in the interests of the corpor ations or otherwise. If nomina ted and elected, I pledge myself to the voters and taxpayers of Clack amas county, that I will at all times work for such legislation that will tax the waterpower and public service corporation fran chise in the same manner as oth er property; that I will at all times do all in my power to pass such legislation that will help bring about conditions for the la boring men in the mills in Ore gon City so that no man will be w 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 pa per I would make a traitor out of myself. 1 can never do that." On that trial you"did not deny that you became a candidate at the request of B. T. McBain, Wm. Sheahan and Gordon E. Hayes. Mr. McBain was manager, Mr. Sheahan was superintendent and Mr. Hayes was political attorney of the Willamette Pulp and Paper Co. To WHOM would you have made yourself a traitor by sign ing and publishing tho above pledges to the people? WHAT obligations or promises did you make to the paper Com pany that would conflict with the above pledges to the people? Sincerely yours, P. S. Noyer. (Paid Adv.) . I was informed by M. J. Brown, editor of the Courier, that Mr. Noyer took that letter to tho Courier office, and that Mr. Brown and another prominent business man in this city saw Mr. Noyer sign it, and heard Mr. Noy er ask that it be published. It was published as a letter in the issue of October 4.- I had it republished as a paid advertisement on October 25 be cause I thought the letter should be answered, or that as many of tho voters as possible should know that such a" letter had been written. Mr. Schnoerr has rfiade no public answer to Mr. Noyer's questions. Why? Almost immediately after the publication of that- letter Mr. Schnoerr retired from tho active campaign and since that retire ment has not again gone'with the candidates to the public meetings. Why? Now Mr. Noyer's repudiation makes the question quite as in teresting as to him. If that let ter was good October 4, and de served a public answer, why is it not good in October 25. What has bappened to Mr. Noyer? All these questions certainly ought to be answered to the satisfaction of every voter before election day, both by Mr. Schnoerr and by Mr. Noyer. Respectfully yours,' (Paid Adv.) W. S. U'Ren. HACKETT'S "ECONOMY." Wants to Know Why This County . Couldn't Have Paid Expense Mr. Hackelt, republican nom inee for sheriff, wants to know why Sheriff Stevens came up from Multnomah county and took Rob erts, (the man who shot into an automobile) to that county and tried him. This is rather an embarassihg question to other candidates on the republican ticket, and no doubt if Mr. Hackett had consult ed with them, he would not have asked it. Sheriff Mass says there are two reasons why Roberts was tried in Multnomah county. The shooting occurred in this county and the death in Multnomah county- either county had a claim to the murder. "Sheriff Stevens told District Attorney Tongue's deputy, Fitz tterald. in mv hearing, that he did not like the attitude of tho district attorney in this district, and that he wanted Roberts to nave 'his hearing in Multnomah county That's one reason," said Sheriff Mass. "Another is that if Multnomah county wanted to bear the ex pense of this murder trial I could not see any reason wny tne coun t.v should not have it. and if Mr Hacked, will road the editorial in the Portland Journal following this trial, and showing what it cost Multnomah county, it would seem that his "economy" cam paign was a little weak in its joims. nuiieris was wicu aiiu convicted. 11 cost Multnomah county thousands of dollars. Is Mr. Hackett sorry this county could not have paid this exp ense? An Explanation. To the Editor of tho Courier: There appeared in the Oregon City Enterprise a denial mat an article anoearimr in the Oregon Cilv Courier of date October 25, 1912. was signed by me. I want to state that the second appear ance of said article in the Cour ier was unknown to mo and I did not authorize its publication. I did not intend in any maner to reflect unon the editor of The Courier or anyone connected therewith. Mr. M. J. Brown un doubtedlv ran the article as a paid advertisement and the pub ieat.ion of the same was authoriz ed by someone known to him. I appreciate the Courier's support and it was far from my inind to give offense. P. S. Noyer. Next Tuesday Kill It. A minority, a small few, in Eastern Clackamas, want to make a now county next Tuesday. More public buildings, more taxes, more office holders. There is only one chance of it carrying, that just you fellows who are reading this will not vote on the proposition at all. The voters outside of this county as a general rule will pass this up entirely because they don't know anything about it. The voters who are trying to split this county will vote to a man. And the . danger is your negli gence. Every voter in this county wants to get busy with the "X. ' Get the full vote out in uregon City, and EVERY man get on the job between now and Tuesday. You can bet the other fellows are hustling. "BLUE RIHROV BREAD," The loaf with the nutty flavor. Your grocer sells it for 10 cents. LIB FIVE YEARS BERTH WHAT A CLACKAMAS COUNTY FARME RHAS TO SAY. OF KOW SINGLE TAX WORKS. Here Is a Letter That Is Direct Evidence on the Single Tax. Editor Courier: If you will kindly give me space in your paper I would like to say a few words in favor of single tax for which you are making such a valient ilifht. after reading such rot as confiscation of land, and thft farmers and smaall land owners having to bear the burden of the taxes. I would like to tell my brother farmers how I liked it af ter living undor it for live years. I will begin with our road law up there, as one of our lights here is good roads, and we got very littlo of them here. In Alberta the Province is divided on into dis tricts of from five to eight town ships; each of these districts are divided into three precincts. The hrst of each year they elect a councilor as they are called in eash precinct, the salary of these men are not to exceed $20 per year. Councilors advertise lor some one to act as cierK ana treas urer of the district.and the lowest bidder, if competent, gets it. He also gives suillcient bonds to cov er all money handled. The last year I was there the total sal aries oi these lour men was yu for the year. The clerk notifies each precinct to meet on a given day and levy a tax in their re- spoctive parts. Tho government will not allow loss than $2 per quarter section, and not more than $8 per quarter section. Levi ed, this tax is due as soon as voted, but not delinquent until December of that year, to be paid in the currency of the country, but the councilor will notify you that he will employ you at $2 per day of ten hours, if you wish to labor. Perfiap8 you will say we did not get efficient work done by men at these salaries, but I dif fer with you, as to that, as we had tho best men in the district and elected them to councelors. We did not have a man appointed against the petition of eighty per cent, of the tax payers as they did out in our vicinity. The Province has one inspector who travels over the state giving estimates and helping the road work in gen eral, being a civil engineer and annointed on his merit. I could say much more if space would per mil. Next to the school system. Districts are organized when there are ten pupils of school age. The government pays 70 per cent of the cost of building, also 70 per cent of tho teacher's salaries, and their educational system is good. I still wonder how it was that I only paid $1.97 on my quar ter outside of my road tax which I help to levy myself., having good buildings on land well fenced. 25 tlead of horses and cattle and 40 acres under cultivation. I noticed when I first went to the country, tho absence of Court Houses Also there was no sheriff, clerk commissioners, and the best of all no assessor. Then I commenc ed to understand. One set of men at Edmonton done all the work cutting out the $200,000 to $100, noo Court House and about $15,- 000 each year for salerios of those ofllco holders and their host of assisstants. Do you won dor your taxes are high? And now they want a Lieutenant Govern or because his salary will be only $200 per year ana tney want to split this county so they can have another set of officers to pay and another Court House to build. I, myself, rebel. You will say that if they don t nave a snorin now uo they keep order and where do they go to prosecute the offenders? In districts about as large as this county there is a Justice of tho Peace appointed ana witn tne aid of the mounted police he tries the petty offenders, while other offenders are taken to Edmonton and the mounted police don't get mileage either. Their salaries are $15. per month and they act as name wardens, fire wardens and in the absence of the Justice of I hn Peace, can do his duty. This county would have three mounted police detailed from the regular army. We have to clothe and feed thorn and why not use them as they do up there, and we would have a police service that would be equal to Canada and if you have read much bdoui inom you will find them the terror to evil doers. I am not writing this in regard to the government of large cities as tney are in a ciass ly themselves, uui r.amonion irrew from a town of 3000 in 1902 to 55,000 now and Calgary from 5,000 to 05,000 with a graduated tax on incomes. They do not seem to be on the retrograde much and then thev have the Torrens sys tem of registering deeds and for the sum of 50 cents one can una out if the title to a piece of land is good as all liens, Judgements, and mortgages are recorded on deed, nrevious deed being de stroyed. You don't have a host of lawyers ana aDstractors to pass on your papers and pay all the way from $10 to $luu. I believe one good business man, or clerk with assisstants at Salem, could, , unoer me biukib lax, handle the State with but lit tle more trouble than in one county under the present laws, at least with all these offices cut out and no assessor to come around and fine you for improv ing your land. One of my neighbors built a fine barn this summer, I think the best in the county, with gas lights and modern improvements and a credit to this vicinity, en hancing tho value of surrounding farms. But I see his finish when the assessor gets there. As you go along the highways you see pictures of men, who are asking you to vote for them as they can handle the County's money to great advantage. Do you wonder the people of the United States are flocking to the north and stand the rigor of that climate? Would they do it if we had those laws in effect down here? Perhaps some will say I am a Socialist or a Bloomin' Britisher but I can truly say I am not, being of Holland Dutch and Scotch descent. My people coming to this country with Peter Stuve ysant, colonizer of Nw York, and I have been helping to fight her battles up to the present time. I think of tho editors of our papers and those men that are speaking and working in our bo half and you think they are put ting some joke on you, but we have the Initiative and Referend um and we don't like it. I weary you in my efforts to ex plain what I know of the single tax and I will close hoping we will be started on the right road after election. v Yours very respectfully, CIIAS. D. IIAYMER. Just a Word. Before you vote Tuesday just think a couple of times you fel lows who are feeling the punch of tax extortion. Fifteen per cent of the voters can call a special election and do away with the graduatod single tax if it doea not make good. Isn't that enough guarantee against Slick Shields "confisca tion" scarecrow? The single tax will take taxes off from farm improvements from the products of hard work and put it on the incomes of those who don't work and don't have to work. Try it, men. See if it won't relieve you from the present burden of taxation. It CAN'T make your condition worse and it CAN make it a lot easier. Vote FOR it next Tues day. Expression of Sorrow. Oregon City, Oct. 26. Tho Editor: I' am sorry I hurt my clerical friend's feelings with my letter of lasi ween. Apparently its uie oiu old story of the infallible pulpit, and immunity from criticism, yot the schoolboy effusion published over his name the othor day was but further evidence of his lack of good taste. No wonder the churches are disturbed over the lack of men in their congregation. However, it's not worth discussing further. Thomas Didymus. The Last Card. A leak has it that the Republi cans have "a card up tho sleeve" and they will pull it out Saturday night. What do you think of tho fel low who waits until 11:30 to ."spring something?" Don't you wonder WHY he held it back so long if it was good. Don't let the last minute jobs influence your vote. You know. or ought to know Republican ring tactics in Oregon taty. Vota It Straight. The democratic county ticket is one any man can support next Tuesday. The country is going for Wil son, lot Ulackamas county fol low. Vote tho ticket straight Tues day. Gladstone Items. Mr. and Mrsfl Guy LaSalle loft Sunday lor Long Beach, ualiror nia, where they will spend . the winter with tho parents of Mr. La Salle. Invitations are out for a Hoi lowe'en ball to be given at Miller's hall Friday evening, by several of Gladstone s young people. About twenty-fivo couple will attend the dance. . The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy A. Cross underwent an op eration at tho Sellwood santorium Wednesday, for an abscess. Tho little follow rallied from the op eration very well and is getting along nicely. He is about two weeks old. - Miss Georgia Cross and Mrs. T. A. Burke attended tho recital of Madam Gadski, given at the Heilig Wednesday night. At the council meeting Tuesday evening, the matter of improving Dartmouth street was taken up, and an ordinance passed to that effect. This means that before the Chautauqua next year, the street running to Gladstone park will be completely improved and a sidewalk built from the station clear out to tho park. , The Harvest Home super given in Miler 8 hall 'luesday evening by Gladstone ladies, was largely attended. A T Dnitntt n T) I) nnnrinAnn l&. U. iJnilC. a 11. It. ell 1 iii; 1 , Batesville, Ark., says: "I suf fered with kidney and bladder trouble so bad I was unable to work. I had such severe pains in my back I could hardly get up. I tried several physicians with no result, but Foley's Kidney Pills have done wonders for mo. I rec ommend them to all." For sale by Huntley Bros. Co., Oregon City, Hubbard, Canby and Molalla. "Tells tho Whole Story." To say that Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is best for chil. dren and grown persons and con tains no opiates tells only part of the tale. Tho whole story is that it is the best medicine for coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis and other affections of the throat, chest and lungs. Stops la grippe, coughs and has a healing and soothing effect. Remember the name, Fol ey's Honey & Tar Compound, and accept no substitutes. For sale by Huntley Bros. Co., Oregon City, Canby, Molalla and Hubbard. i " 4 f I i .si.., i x K ' tWT-mn Tiirfr r 'ri-rm trrlnlffiii Iiiiiiiimi There aro five candidates for Congress from which the voters of the First District must choose when they vote next Tuesday; Hawley, for re-election on the republican ticket; Smith, demo crat; Campbell, progressive; Richards, socialist; Stillman, pro. hibitionist. If Mr. Hawley has truly repre sented the people of this district there is no need for a change, but has he? Mr. Hawley consistently suported "Uncle" Joe and "Stand pat" policies. He voted "no" or dodged when the measures which were championed by the progres sive element in the last Congress were presented. That program may satisiy tne predatory inter ests, but it is an insult to pro gressive" Oregon. Smith, tho democrat, has not even been supported by the remo- cratic paper ana lias made no campaign. His trouble with tne federal authorities has mado his election undesirable. Campbell, the Progressive, has only been a resident of the state lor two years, lie is not Known over the district and has no space in the state pamphlet. Richards, the socialist, has no chance of election, does not ex pect it, and would do no more for tho laboring man than Stillman, the prohibitionist. O. E. Stillman is a true pro gressive. Bis actions while . in the railroad construction work, his words of promise to the voters to tho votors o fthis district dur ing tho campaign, and his knowl edge of economic and social con ditions, make his a desirame rep resentative for progressive Ore gon. Mr. btiuman s canuiuacy on tuo Prohibition Party ticket proves that he is not a mere office seek er. Ho feerlessly recognizes that tho linuor question is a vital issue oven though ho is sure to lose the votes of tho ' undesirable citizen. Elect Stillman to congress and show to tho nation that Oregon is not only consistently progressive but does NOT demand that her reprekentalives keep silent on great moral questions. Stillman's effective campaign all over the district, the fact that he is endorsed by tho most promi nent old party men in the,district and the inactivity of the other candidates, makes him the logical candidate to defeat Hawley. If you believe in tho rule of tho people, VOTE FOR STILLMAN. (Paid adv., Congressional com mittee, First district.) CHANGE IS COMING. Old Barn Storming Ways aro Being Relegated to the Past The time is drawing near when men won't listen to men who got up and tell them what a devil of a follow ho will bo and what won ders bo will perform if the "dear people" will only boost him with their votes. Tho time is coming, its really hero, when tho only way a public speaker or a candidate' will bo ab lo to get an audience will bo to bring the other fellow with him. his opponent, try tho case and let tho people decide. During the campaign now clos ing, the problem has been to get audiences, and many a nominee for ollice has talked hifl head olf to a dozen people. Tho voters simply won't go. But the U'Ren-Shields debate Saturday night proved two things, that the single tax issue is the biggest question in Oregon, and that people will listen to argu ment. Altlio this was held on Sat urday night, with counter at tractions of street speeches, pub lic dances, etc., yet the big opera house was nearly full. Anil it was a contest that any man knew the more for the hear ing, for both men had something to say and knew how to say it. One man could not drag in an as sertion by the heels and get away with it, for ho knew the cross questioning would come and he would have to show down. The general opinion is that Mr. U'Ren had Mr. Shield's going from the first round, hanging over tho ropes in the second and down and out at tho finish. Mr. Shields is a bright man and a forceful speaker,, but his side of the tax issue is tho money side, and it is a hard position to defend under tho present high taxes und popular unrest in Ore gon. And Mr. U'Ron had tho side of the niasses, the plain people, and he had back of himself twenty years of hard work for these people, and theso with his sound, convincing talk gave him the game from the start, and there was no use for tho score cards which Mr. Shieulds had given out at tho door. The U'Ren-Shields debate was a decided success, and you may be sure that in the coming cam paigns the people of Oregon are going to insist on these two sides being shown at the same time, or they a going to let you can didates talk to empty seats.