0REG6N CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, NOV, 1 1912
A LETTER FOR
1HHNG IN
AN APPEAL TO REASON BY GEO
OGLE OF CAN BY.
A Letter that Voters Should Read
and Think Over.
Editor Courier:
Amidst the , multiplicity of
nrcriimnnl.R nn Iho various ihsiihs
now before the voters for decis
ion, it is sometimes difficult to
always remember the fundament
als and not be side tracked by
arguments on minor phases or
imaginary possibilities, especially
as the opponents of important
measures exert all their efforts to
lead investigators away from bas.
io propositions and lose them in
mazy by-paths. Especially is this
true of two of the most import
ant measures; Equal Suffrage and
Graduated Single Tax.
Regarding the first Question
the wily anti will attempt to
argue that women do not want the
ballot; that bad women would all
vote; that women would neglect
the home; that husband and wile
would quarrel over politics or
just the opposite; that they
would vote exactly alike, thus
doubling the vote without chang
ing tho result, and a score of
other minor arguments which the
suffragist feels compelled to
stop and answer and usually does
satisfactorily, but all this has
crowded the ONE GREAT FUND
AMENTAL QUESTION into the
background. The only really im.
f ortant proposition in-this con
roversy is "Is voting a natural
right?" And even THAT is
scarcely an open question, for
the basic law of our state has de
cided it in the affirmative, by al
lowing suffrage to MEN of all de
grees of illiterateness and almost
all of crime. Were we working on
the basis of suffrage, - a duty, or
a privilege, there should certain
ly be some moral or educational
qualification but such not being
the case we are living under a
condition not only UNJUST but
logically indefensible. When the
antis can make even an attempt at
answeing the REAL questions,
"BY WHAT INTERPRETATION
OF JUSTICE, A NATURAL RIGHT
IS DENIED TO ONE-HALF THE
PEQPLE MERELY ON ACCOUNT
OF SEX? Shall ALL citizens be
equal before the law, or shall
they not?
It will be time to consider the
matter of expediency ana an ine
imaginary difficulties of admin
istration conjured up, but until
such time, such objectors are not
EVEN talking to the question.
The same is true, though not
in so great a degree, of the so
called single tax measure. The
.fundamentals are that laws
should be first based on justice,
second on expediency; that we
have here a concrete measure to
BE considered on its merits; that
OUR PEOPLE have the opportun
ity to amend or REPEAL at any
ensiiine filor.tinn. while the con
tention of single taxers IS that
the general property tax is both
UNJUST and inexpedient; that it
is no t and cannot be enforced
equally; that, even were it pos-
orial enough to list all property,
much of the burden would be
shifted, just as the tariff tax is
now; that land values aside
from improvements, differ from
labor values, being in the larger
degree the creation of society;
that this 6pecies of value being
created by society, and not by
Ihu individual owner, is the nat
ural source from which social
revenues' should be drawn, but the
-spokesman of the land speculat
ors wish to conjure up the ghost
of what Henry George said or
what they think he might have
meant thirty or thirty-five years
YT ' 1 11V i 1, nnA 4V IV.B
ago.: neie auaui nicy aic
question. Do not the people have
the right to take just what degree
of single tax or socialistic theor
ies they desire, rejecting the bal
ance, just as congress holds the
power to favor just what degree
of absolute free trade or of pro
hibitive protection they please?
It always has and will no doubt
continue to be the tactics of the
beneficiaries of special privilege
t.i set up a man oi straw, auacn.
end pose as tho brave champion
. of the common people.
GEO. OGLE.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED
BEFORE YOU VOTE.
Some Pretty Good Advice from a
County Ranchman.
Editor Courier:
I saw in the Courier of a few is-
enno mn a mioatinn hv finmrado
C UU J UQvr, " i uin .
Myers, "Is there not a greater
iooiio than' Iho cinclA tax?
I say yes, there is, but the
r t-v 1 ,4 h r. i-a ho an an lnrur n rid AT a
representative government that
tne most oi iiiem aic m ic n.m
fnp it i lnne the ec
onomical 'lines that they must be
educated. Perhaps wnen mey see
how that works they will not shy
at something else. Single tax is
just a short step in the right di
ii,n I tuill nnt hurt anvnne
very much nor do any one very
A it feBoma that thfv
skipped me in sending out the
state pamphlets, but I got one
from another fellow that did not
want it. ....... -n, ,
t .hot lha first ta the Knnal
Suffrage Amendment. Now the
argument againsi 11. is me doj
there is always an active minor-
i. i n it If thpv WOllld
a Tx-mild find tnal
is the case with most great re
forms. . .
Then they say Democracy is not
FROM
CQLTON
PHILOSOPHER
IX 1 Ull LI 1 V . . . .
look up their dictionaries and
fii..r. i thin tnpv nan ueiier
see tho meaning. They have only
to look at some of the bills that
are refered by the legislature,
all of them in fact, to see wheth
er tne people nave ruiea in me
last fifty years or not. I claim it
nlunva hn linon a failure and
another thing I say is that any
person wno win laite a uueriy
and not allow every other person
tne same lmeriy is a iniei anu a
robber morally and you know it.
The next is that they don't re
gard it as a privilege but as a
duty.. Now I would not force them
to vote if they did not want to.
They might belong to as many
associations as they please and
try to block the wheels of Pro
gres, but I don't think they will be
successful. . "
I was talking to a man tho other
day who is about fifty years old
and who can neither read nor
write, and who said, "what is the
.loo nf an mnnv npw thincs? Tl. is
UOO KFV " " J v - " " - - - .
good enough." Lots of progress
aoout inai, eni u everyuuuy au
always been that way we would
nnm ho livincr in trees nr caves
with a club , with a stone tied to
the end oi it, ior a weapon oi ue
fense. Along about 73, when the first
self binders were used in Iowa,
there were some fellows who
piled some bundles around one of
them and set it afire because the
binders - were robbing them of
their jobs. Now they were fighting
nm.niinDo ' Vl.lt tllVl Q t ofToPt. did it
have? It robbed the farmer of the
money, or the note, that he put up
fnr that, binder that is all. The
right way for those fellows to
have done would have been to
make a plan wherein they would
h o ra Tonaivad a nnrt. nf that m a.
ohino'a nnrninsrs and then no one
would have been hurt.
"Mark TTnnnn osiid Rome vears
ago. "If anyone gets in the. way
of progress, they will surely get
run over, and 1 believe it.
The next question l am going
In write about is Capital pun
ishment. I see in the Journal
where a minister discussed the
subject and he took tne oiu mos
oin iou "un ova fnr an eve and
a tooth' for a tooth" etc. But I
claim these laws were man made
laws and no man or sei oi men
hovo otiv richt. tn make anv laws
contrary to God's law; no man or
set or men nave any rigiu iu lane
that whicn tney cannoi return, n.
queer make-up that minister
must have had. He is teaching the
people that Christ so loved the
world, or people, that he died to
save sinners, but he forgets what
he said wnen ne was nauuu iu
iha irnni And whpn the. men
were doing everything they could
think of to make it uncomfortable
for him, he said ' un iamer, 101-
give them, for they know noi
what they do." That don't sound
much like an eye for an eye and a
i i 1 1 ml 1,1
tOOtn tor a lOOin io me. me luca
ta in otnn miirdAr Well, vnu can't
ston murder by murder; that has
been tried for ages and it has
failed. So far it has given up tnai
the man that takes hi3 own life
is mioni Woll tho man who takes
anothers' life is just as insane
as tne one mai laites uia uwu mc.
He don't think or care ior uie
consequences. He has brooded
over some wrong uoue uuwi ne
he is on tne verge oi insanity anu
ihn Ann, ia rfono P.nn vnu make
people good by law? That depends
Upon wnai Kinu 01 law. 11 ;uu
should pass a law stating that
M.. Tnhn Smith ahniild hn Bond it
1.1.1. U Ul'J" .. . ... . " X I.
would not have any effect on John
Smitn more man me ones we nave
now. But if you were to pass a
law that John Smith should be
surrounded by a good environ.
ment and then carry ine law .hhu
actual operation , John Smith
hoD-ln tn cpt hfiftfir rieht
away because men are the creat
ures oi tneir environment.
I am sorry to say mat, rar. uim
int in nnrtiv tniA ahnut men read
ing the state pamphlet. One man
1 intnnnolAit in nnii mnaalirp
IS Ulll llliciunwiu in ,.w.u--"
ihn tiuioinn of lha cnnnt.v. anoth
er did notice the majority rule but
did not study h ciose anu su un.
Now if they neglect their duties
In r-aaA an A Cltlldv AVAPV mfiaSllte
l,u 1 cu Mi.i. w-j v . -
and note every one it may not
only De tneir loss uui u may uo o
loss to their children and their
children's children.
So it behooves every man io
look sharp and vote on every
measure. , ,., .
T am oTiiner fn he like the fellow
that wafl playing ten pins. After
he nao inrowu ins unco uauo o
said "set 'em up Johnny; they are
on Hnvirn hut. nine." I am troiner to
turn them all down but nine.
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If
AND DENOUNCES MAYOR DIM
IC FOR HIS ABUSE.
Caustlo Letter by S. L. Castro, on
Mayor's Recent Speach.
Editor ourier:
I respectfully ask space for a
few words oupon the alleged
"Talk Upon the Merits of the
Single Tax" given by Mr. Dimick
at Warner Grange last Saturday.
. By reference to my notes of his
speech, I find that he devoted ap
proximately 25 minutes of the 43
minutes of his speech to insult
ing and abusing Mr. U'Ren, Crid
ge, Eggleston, Fels ' and the Fels
Fund, and especially did he dwell
upon that of Mr. U'Ren.
We have all known these two
gentlemen fur a number of years
and can conscientiously say that
Mr. U'Ren is as good, clean and
sane a man as Mr. Dimick any
time, ano mat tneir political rec
ords show that Mr. U'Ren has
done more for the people, in a po
iiticat way, ten times over, m the
few years that he has been in
Oregon, than has Mr. Dimick, and
Dimick was born and raised in
Oregon. Mr. Dimick as a lawyer,
knows that personal abuse is not
a logical argument and has no
bearing whatever upon tho just
ice of the principles involved. I
wonder then, why he persists in
using sucn anusive tactics. To me
it appears he does it to arouse
the prejudice of his audiences
against Mr. U'Ren and the moral
principle for which he is at pres
ent contending, the Graduated
Single Tax and Exemption
Amendment. It is evident that
there is considerable jealousy
amor.?: the lawyers of Oregon
City because of the fact that
when it conies to the discussion
of political issues, there is not
one that can hold a candle to Mr.
U Hen.
Mr. Dimick knows also that it
requires greater amounts of
money to establish new laws than
it does to preserve a law that has
long been established. He knows
also that the amount of money
expended has ' no bearing upon
the justice or injustice of a prop
osition. A further ten minutes of his
time was used in trying to con
vince his hearers that the Grad
uated Single Tax and Exemn-
Amendment is the Henry George
ineory oi taxation and that the
Henry. George theory-means con
fiscation of the land. He read ex
tracts from Geortce's books and in
remarks upon them, immediately
auer placed laise interpretations
upon tho meaning. Was this done
for any other purpose than to
create prejudice? No. The other
8 minutes was devoted to miscel-
aneous statements havinsr no
bearing whatever upon the "Mer-
ts oi tne single Tax."
Here's another one: Preceedine
his remarks upon the alleged
"Talk upon the merits of the sin
gle tax" Mr. Dimick gave a short
address upon the equal suffrage
amendment, and among other
tnmgs said Aoout lorty per cent
of the taxes are paid by the wom
en" and that he believed that
women "ought to have a voice in
the making of the laws under
which they are governed, and that
taxation without representation in
tyranny."
But. women, listenl Later in
his talk upon the "merits of the
single tax" he said.
If I thought the women of Or
egon would vote to establish this
principle of single tax I would be
as much opposed to suffrage as I
am now for it."
Fine sentiment this, isn t it.
women? I wonder if the women
of Oregon want this kind of a
man to be governor over them?
A man who wants them to have a
voice in the making of the laws
under which they live, and then if
they believe in and vote for a cer
tain law, that they know is best
for all concerned, (and there are
women in Oregon who DO know
tnat the graduated single tax and
exemption amendment IS for the
best interests of all), he would
have them all disfranchised So,
women, two' years hence, when Mr
Dimick is asking you for your
votes for governor, don't overlook
tliiS.
We see then that Mr. Dimick
did not only try to prejudice the
minds of the men. but of the wo
men as well. We find also that
the grand total of the above is
that Mr. Dimick did not say one
word upon "The Merits of the
Single Tax."
Eliminating all other good rea
sons this one alone stands out to
me as one why the single tax
amendment is a good one and that
reason is that all the wealthy in
dividuals and corporations are
bitterly onDosed to it.
It is a puzzle to me why most
all of our legislative candidates
are opposing this most vital
principle. Perhaps they believe
the principal is not of sufficient
popularity to win them many
votes, nignt nere i J m going to
make a prediction. Looking back
a few years to the strenuous days
of the flsrht for Statement No. 1.
we recall the fact that the Repub
lican candidates for the legisla
ture in Cladcamas county start
ed the campaign unon an anti-
Statement. 1 platform, and after
stumping for a few days dis
covered the favorable sentiment
of the people upon that issue, a
council was called an announce
ment was made that all legisla
tive candidates were henceforth
for Statement 1. tFollowing is
my prediction, that like the days
of Statement!, the sentiment ex
pressed by the voters upon the
graduated tax amendment this
year will be an eye-opener to all
future legislative candidates and
aspirants will be only too glad to
endorse this great principle.
Here's for a majority vote, and
if not, then a big vote for the
graduated single tax and exemp
tion amendment.
8. L. CASTRO .
Flagged Train With Shirt
Tearing his shirt from his
back an Ohio man flagged a train
and saved it from a wreck, but
H. T. Alston, Raleigh, N. C, once
prevented a wreck with Electric
TtiHovo "I nraa in a tprrihln nliirht.
when I began to use thern' he
writes, my siomacn, ueaa,
DEFENDS
CUT OUT THE
I EY
DINNERS
ALFRED CRIDGE TELLS WHAT
RICH WOULD HAVE TO DO
And What the Farmers of Oregon
Would NOT Have to Do.
Editor Courier:
' Friend Hicinbotham is off his
feed again. Got a lot of doctored
figures about M'utnomah county
this time. The fellows who get up
those figures ignore tho fran
chise values" that the local land
value tax measure puts on the
assessment roll. They ignore the
fact that with any approach to
an honest assessment there will
be more land values assessed that
are now left off the rolls than all
the improvements and ' personal
property that ia taken off by local
single tax. Assessor Pastorozi of
Houston, demonstrated this very
thoroughly. He is a single taxer.
and ' this kind know where real
values are located and where to
show them up. We have Wagnon
for next assessor in Multnomah
county, and he is a single taxer.
mat means a square dealer, one
Who will make the speculators
and tax dodgers toe tne mark, and
let out the widow's cook stove
and rag carpet.
mere are twenty millions of
land values in Mutnomah countv
collected by a few land owners
every year, most of it by 232 of
mem. rno puotic needs are less
than seven millions. The working
people do not own Multnomah
county. Only 14,000 own homes
m part or in whole, it is proposed
to take more of this land values
(in reality people made values)
for the , people, and let the few
land owners cut down their trips
to Europe and their monkey din
ners and that sort of thing.
Friend H. has an idea that it will
double the taxes on land. Who
owns Multnomah county? Not
tne people who .worn lor a living,
nor those who perforin useful
service of any sort. .No one who
is using his land yould be injured.
ior any one wno is using nip lanu
is un-taxed from what no is -using
on, or under it. If it did dou
ble the taxes on land no man with
a lot assessed at $500 and a house
and contents at ,$500 will be out
a ce nt.
In fact, however,. the franchises
will make up for personal proper
ty, the improvements, tho gradu
ated taxes will make up for them
over again and H. D. Wagnon will
dig up enough vacant lot and
down town shack covered specu
lative property to secure plenty
of revenue for needed public im-
Erovements without issuing , any
onds.
There is no farmer in British
Columbia paying as much in taxes
value for value of the farms as in
Washington or in Oregon. People
are leaving Washington by thou
sands to go to British Columbia.
Think ol a rarm ' witn tne nnest
herd of dairy cows on the Coast
paying nothing on . the cows,
nothing on the improvements and
nothing on . the implements and
machinery, and ; only a twenty
mill tax on his land values!
Across the line there would be
five times the tax. But there is no
such dairy herd in all Washing
ton ,and probably not in all Ore
gon. '
Friend H. is always inclined to
buck the reason of an average
Within a 15 mile circle around IMPERIAL there are now
several hundred prosperous farmers raising enormous crops
wheat, oats, rye, barley, vegetables, potatoes, etc THREE
large stock ranches, owning several thousand horses and cat
tle are also in this circle. Poultry raising is i8o' highly
successful.
IMPERIAL is now the trading point and will soon bo the ship
ping point (the railroads are now building) for the products
from thousands of acres surrounding it.
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18, 19, 20 and 21, with
final return limit of No
vember 25th
JOHN H. SCOTT, General
mind. His cows would probably
wandor over the line to where
they were taxed; his chickens
would probably ... lay eggs where
they were taxed; but ordinary
people and ordinary chickens and
cows prefer to go where unmo
lested. That is why the exemption
of improvements and personal
property MUST come. That is why
the holders of 70,000 acres of
land in Clackamas county in one
great block are so solicitous
about the poor farmer, and so
willing that the farmer's horses
shall be taxed instead of the
trust water power horses, the big
land grants and the valuable
franchises. If the farmer of Ore
gon ever finds out what the farm
er of Western Canada thinks of
him for paying taxes his ballot
can shift to the trusts and land
hogs, said Oregon farmer will
hire some dusky son of Ham to
kick him nine times a day for a
year.
' ALFRED D. CRIDGE.
Didn't Know His Methods Would
Find Him Out
' Just a few years ago, when but
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and exchanged at the town store
for sugar or muslin, says the
Western Stock Journal, a journal
devoted exclusively to the live
stock industry, and published at
Oregon City, Ore., a close . fisted
fanner conceived the idea of put
ing one over on the merchant by
placing a two-pound stone in the
bottom of the crock, covering well
with excellent butter. Of course
no nne ever found it out the
stone became soft, and spread on
some unsuspecting . person's
bread just as smooth but what
became of the wise farmer? He
still exists you can find him in
your own neighborhood slightly
advanced though out of the
stone age, we might say but
still practicing1 his . close-fisted
methods. He rejains cheap scrubs
on his place not apearing ,to
know the difference botween. ,the
pure blood and scrub stock, and
wonders why he cannot get the
prices paid his neighbor, for
what he terms "pigs."
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there is a difference in the stock,
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