OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIdA :, NOV. 8, 1912! SOME AFTER EL- I candidate for president was, The votes are all safely counted and nothing to lose. JOHN F. STARK. ECTION HQUGHTS THINGS JOHN STARK SEES TER IT'S ALL OVER. 'AF- Weekly Letter of Comment -Matters in the Public Eye. on When you see this in print the ballots will have been counted and 1 wonder how many mien wil wish they had "it to do over again so that I would vote differently." Well then start now and prepare for the next poll. Study politics, find out the why and wherefore. Polities is not a riddle to be guessed but a problem to be solved by careful investigation. It will require all your spare time from now till the next elect ion, for, unless I miss my "jruess" great changes in industry, which will be reflected on the political canvas, will lake place. I would advise all farmers and mill -workers to lay in a good supply of diamonds for I have a "hunch" that a higher rate of duly will be put on this winter or at a special session of congress next sjiring. Now don't wait until too late, for us farmers cannot spare the time in spring to go over to Europe personally to buy them out and save the high tar-ill". Did you ever think of how much of what we call progress is the direct result of co-operation? Look at the big mills on the river bank, all built by a number of persons putting money in one en. terprise. Had it been left to one person not one among the stock holders would have been able to finance the undertaking. We often talk of llarriman as the owner of the great Southern Pacific system when nothing of the kind is true but, thai wizard controlled the system. Vet he said that 80,000 persons, I think that was t he number, . held stock in that company. Now imagine each one of the stock holders build ing a railroad. What a mess it would be, but working in a col lective manner it is a great suc cess from many points of view. The same rule applies to other induslries as well. Had the farm ers taken to the idea of cooperat ion when steam as a motive pow er was adopted, tho farmers would still be the manufactur ers as they were during the days of the hand loom. Not so many generations ago tho farm was in a large degree, practically, the factory, which has now gone to the city. They have, taken so many people Willi tlieni anil peopio are still loiiowing city ward. The cry of "back to tho land is nothing but trying to turn the wheel above the lalls. Of course it has enough magic to keep an army of real estate fakerH from doing something useful but the travel on the industrial highway is toward the city, but that is di gressing. Mazzini said, "the next great word is assacialion. It is now up to thi! larmcr to take up the prob bun. Already the Farmers' Soci ely of Equity is being organized even in Clackamas county. Keep your eye on mail He fore me lies a paper report ing a synopsis of a speech by (iovernor Marshall at. Albany, Ore., in which appear these words: "I am frank to say that if we (meaning (lie Democrats) do not win Ihis election; if the people do not see fit to lake the government out of the hands of the lew who control it, we will reap the whirl wind and four years from now the Socialists doctrines, which, to my niiiid are destructive of American character." What is "American character?" Will anyone please explain so common clod crusher will know it when he meets it? That, seems an important question until we know what American character is like we are not sure whether it could be destroyed or not. Again, it the Socialists win four years from now" it will be only because I lie majority are ready lor Socialism, lor to my mind Socialism will never win by MANILA. As Walter L. Bailey of Gladstone Sees It. mere plurality, then having a majority who will save us or who will prevent (he majority from ex erosing the function of govern ment. Will it not, be by "consent of the government?" There is something strange about socialism three great big parlies fighting so hard, nil crying "I he Socialist will get you i . . . i i .. i , i i ii ii ji'ii nun i wiiirn oui. on wen, we are sale yet. as I lie capitalist lias us now alright, thanks to our saviours three. The country has been saved again in spots. Three campaign managers told us it would be sav ed all in one chunk and had the - figures to prove it. It would be in teresting to compare all the for ensts with the returns. It is really sad !o see so many point men defeated at the polls. It would be belter In nominate only had men, then those elected would not go to the had and no pood ones would become weary of trying to save Hie counlry, only to meet defeat. Did you'vole to "give them one more chance?" That is nice. Sur ely your patience will he appre ciated, in fact ttiat was all that was expeeletl of you, besides in so doing you did not incur the risk of being classed as an undesire able citizen. It also shows you are not "loo radical" and you are in the same class as our best people. W ill you kindly lake my card and hand it to Mr, J. Pierpont with best wishes when you call on him next time? A .Bohemian couple propose lo produce "the perfect child by the will power alone." All of which is interesting as a theoretical ex periment no doubt, and quite harmless; but it seems to me a wanton waste of raw material and opportunities. The storm is over. Come out and announce who your favorite "All passengers on deck by six o'clock for . quarantine inspect ion," was the order and we reluc tantly left our hunks and came up. Fresh from Hong Kong, where custom inspectors are unknown and quarantine ollicers satisfy their curiosity by questioning the ship's doctor, these strenuous measures for keeping out dis ease seemed odious. We were lined up on deck and given individual examinations and then told to hare our arms for the pretty little vaccinating knife. The Chinese and Hindus with the quarantine ollicers. Then were put ashore to spend a week we cast loose from the station and steamed into Manila hay. From the starboard side we could plainly see the gray, rocky slopes of Corregidor the (lib ralter of the Philippines. On that little island the Americans would make their stand in case of invas ion by hostile armies. Not far from Corregidor lies lies another island, the top of which has been cut away nearly to the level of the water, On this slim little target arc the guns which guard the entrance to the bay Running in past Cavile we passed two small vessels of a pe culiar pattern, "Are those sea going vessels?" I asked of an old resident of Manila. "They used to be," lie said. "Now they are us ed as ferries. Those are two of, the vessels which Dewey captur ed from the Spaniards. I looked at the two little tubs as they crept by a lino of American cruisers. Tho comparison and I lie memory of the noise we raised over Dewey's victory made me al most ashamed of our victory. After two hours of sultry waiting at, the customs dock, we were finally admitted into the Philippines. The first thing I . noticed was the new means of transportation. Japan has rickshas, Hong Kong, chairs and rickshas and I lie Phil ippines have carromatas. Ihe latter are two wheeled vehicles drawn by one pony and carrying from two to four persons. From the seat ol a carromala I look a look at the city. Manila has a business air. Street cars rattle incessantly and the old familiar advertisements are ev erywhere. There are many well equipped American stores. Auto mobiles are much in evidence and large factories hum and grind out large quantities of cigars and cigarettes. Yet amid the hustle are un- mislakeable signs of an old I i fo- the quiet, easy-going mediaeval life of t he Spanish limes. Big dun colored carahous creep along wall creaking, wooden carls, or one of the wide-horned, patient brutes steps deliberately along Willi a brown faced, broad halted Philippino silting placidly on his back. Urea, stone churches, whose ages must be told in centuries, lift their giant crosses into the blue sky. A high stone wail more I han a rod in thickness a. id boar, ing little round guard h us"s, hints at the old times of strife and disorder. Just outside the old walls, along the harbor, lies a wide plaza, with drives and hand stands. This is the famous Lun etta which was couslrucleil by the Americans. In the evening the major part of the population conies here for recreation and a more gay scene of lights, laugh ter and music would be hard to find. Manila is clean, healthful and prosperous. II has a good harbor and is in Ihe direct line of F.aslcrn shipping. Willi a lillle more of American capital, American en ergy and American brains, it may be made the metropolis of the Or ient. WALTER L. JUILUY. T THE MEDIGIN E I MODERN METHODS ARE USING MORE SENSE, LESS DRUGS. Some Practical Thoughts by One of the Men Who Thinks. Editor Courier: A man can mend a broken jug because he can mkae a jug; but be cannot mend an injured or ganic body, because he cannot create one. It is true the sur geon can put, a broken bone back into ils place, but this, like jug making, is a mere mechanical op eration. Be cannot heal it. The modern physician no longer claims to cure, but only to assist nature. Even this claim is disput ed now by an increasing number of skeptics. Especially that meth od of treatment which has a drug at hand for every ill, is viewed by suspicion by those who see that the greatest stumbling block for the medical practitioner is in the fact that there are a.s many phys ical constitutions as there are persons. Even the same stomach is diferently affected by the same food under different conditions, and one could hardly expect mod. icine in a sick stomach to be an exception. The logical conclusion is that no fine can foresee lo a cerlainity the effect of a given drug. Of course only a small per oentage ' of the sick cases end in death and if is part of the doc tor's business, to see that he gets the credit for it. To expect a man to adjust medicine so nicely to the needs of the patient as to bring good results in a majority respective medicines deserve the name of remedies. We have reas on to hope that with the growing enlightnient of the peopio the time will soon come when the risk and uncertainty of medicine will be apparent to all. Then the physician will concern himself chiefly with hygienic measures, having prevention for his object; and during the progress of a mal ady he will assure proper nursing. ANDREW . FHAN.EN. . Maxburg Philoslphy. If you don't like the school teacher, the preacher, or the neighbors, your children won't either. Disliking folks is a germ disease. If you have it, your chil dren are sure to catch ltl We notice it is pretty easy to break a retired farmer of the early rising habit. Signs of prosperity tho ma nure spreader and the silo. When you reach the other shore, what you have piled up won't look so good to you as what you have given away. Aurora Observer. r EAGLE CREEK. Last Friday night, Nov. 1st, a goodly crowd of interested farm ers gathered in the basement of the new school building and made one progressive move by organ izing with fourteen members a Farmer's society of Equity. Mr. ItowclifT was chosen president, Mr (.1 rover Judd vice president and Rev. Mr. Bond secretary and treasurer. II. F. ' Cutting of Portland, : . j..i ,4 s iranti uuu oi guni.i'i , ueuveruu HE COURIER IS YOURS USE IT OPEN COLUMNS FOR THE WITH AN IDEA. ' MAN needed new laws, and unneeded present ones, talk litem over and be the wiser and readier to act when the time comes to act. Urge your readers to use the columns in the future as in the past, and you will certainly have a newspaper worth Ihe reading during Ihe coming long whiter evenings. . J. E. B. Writer Says Open Columns have Been Very Popular. . The - following personal letter came in Wednesday's mail, and while we know it was not written for publication, yet we know the writer would nave -no objections to publishing a part of same, for it has some good suggestions and is well worth producing. Ed. . . ively how necessary it is for farmers to unite in order to com pete with other organizations in the matter of marketing their crops, and gelling just returns for their labor. That Ihey are the only unor ganized class, nt the same time being the most important; upon Brother Brown: Now that election is over, I am curious to see what you will fill up the many columns of the bright Courier with now that all the writers will not be coming in with their weekly letters on the many different topics of interest. I don't mean that, tho Courier will be dry reading, for I will let you alone for that, yet at the same time I will miss the letters from my friends throughout the coun ty, and this is why 1 am writing you that you will take tho mat ter up with them and let us con tinue the forum, I believe the Courier made the most popular hit that It could a very peppery and nigniy amus possibly have made when it open ing speecn, snowing most eneci- ed its columns and said that- it would print any man s letter on any topic, if the letter and the topio were decent, and I am sure you will make the Courier the most popular weekly in western Oregon if you will continue the fair treatment you have given to all sides in this campaign. The trouble with most of tho IN THE EARLY DAYS. In Little Inoldont of Justice Oregon 50 Years Ago. The Ilecord-Chieflain of En terprise, Ore., is running a ser ies of early day historic lei tors. written soon after the war by Albert Richardson. The following is on interesting extract: I he lirst sel tiers ol Oregon crossed the continent'lhrongh Ihe South Pass in ISH'.l, nine years In? fore the gold discoveries in California. They were stimulated by the richness and beauty of the wailamet Willamette) valley. whose fame has penetrated even to Missouri and Ohio, and by our national tendency to go lo the farthest place. They were not equal in intelligence to the pi oneers of California or of Kan sas; but their history affords sinking examples of the capac ity for self government among our "plain people of that in grained respect for law and or- ler and decisions oflhe minor ity, which forms Ihe bed-rock of American stability and greatness. In eni'lv ilnvs Ihe imiwrtt of Jacksonville elected an aleade. A parly to a contested case, thinking himself wronged, ousted this notice: "Whereas, the al- ide has given me an unjust and orrupt decision against me, on Sunday next 1 shall take an appeal lo Ihe Supreme' court." Sunday I saw a hundred miners convened. Iroin curiosity lo learn what Ihe supreme court was. I hey I hem selves were thai august tribunal. The aggrieved nartv orirnnied them inlo, a mass meeting; they retried the case and rendered a verdict revising the alcade's de cision. All acquiesced in Ihis as size of original and final juris- liclion. armers Look Up Your FALL Requirements in Farm Tools NOW If you need a new Plow or Harrow, Fed Cut ter, Waj?cn, Buggy ANYTHING in Imple ments or Vehicles, you will find it in the Mitchell Dm The Best for The West mm See Us! CANBY HD WE. IMPLE MENT CO. Canby, Ore. Implements and Vehicles of Quality H a in -in That Never Fall Down Hoosier Drills Positive Forced Feed Bloom Manure Spreaders Double Steel Reach J. I. CASE PLOWS The Plow a Man Can Pull Dick's Feed Cutters A big line, and good Drew Litter Carriers A genuine labor saver HARROWS ;Disc, spring, spike-tooth Water Systems ; The Mitchell Wagon Monarch, ol the Road See Us ! W.J. WILSON & CO. Oregon City Ore. EIG FREE IMPLEMENT CATALOGUE SENT YOU UPON REQUEST It Xjl CAHRV&masA. at Right Prices FallGoodsl ..About a year ago, when--the present managers took over the Courier, it was decided to run an open sheet where every Ron of a pun looked alike as long as ho was decent. In talking over this proposition with a business man of Oregon Cily he said we would make, the mistake of our lives, that such a paper would lose its personality, and that the people would ride it to death. ' "That kind of a paper may work in New York hut it won't do hero," said the advisor. It was tried in the southern part of the stale, and it was necessary to change ownership to save it from its friends. They deluged it, and after it had once started this wholesale business it was im possible to stop it. I don't be lieve it will be good policy. One man can run a newspaper, but a hundred can't. You will lose the hold you are getting, and the pap er will be with out preslago or iji lluence." But we wanted to try it. just the same and we did. Not one of the predictions of this man has come true and he was honest in his advise, speaking for what he thought was for the best gooAof the Courier. This opening of tho column.., of the Courier has proven a splen did success and it will continue just as long as decent men with decent opinions want to help fill tlieni. And acting on ihe advice of our friend from Macksburg, we do in vite any man who has something lo say on any topic of general in terest to say it through the Cour ier. We don t wain locainy scraos. town differences and this kind of lights, for they are not of public interest, but if you have an idea that will give the other fellow a new thought or that you think would work out lor netlering any condition, the Courier is open to von go lo it. So many men who can think, but, cannot, put the commas and the right letters in the right plac es. are shy about, sending in a let ter. And we want to tell you fel lows that we - are here to put these in the right spots, and if we miss occasionally I here won't be any great harm done. Just bear in mind that we want something inleresl'ing and then let I hem come, . Expression of Sympathy. Hallof Maple Lane' Grange No 200., P. of II. Editor Courier: At a meeting of Maple Lane, Orange held on November 2, 101 the following motion' was moved and carried: that the W. M. name a committee to tender I he -good will and sympathy ot the mem hers of Maple Lane Orange to our dearly beloved sister Sarah A. Oillelt, who is confined to a bed of sickness, in the Oregon City Hospital and who we greatly miss hope and 4ray fo.r her complete and speedy recovery ami con sentient restoration lo her form er station in our midst. Committee named by Master of Maple l.ane urange: William Heard, Sister Anna J. Lewis, and Sister Levina Splinter. it. . A Farmers' Gold Mine. W. II. Hair shipped a single carload of clover seed last week that came lo over $7,500.00. And Ihis is but one nf many that have been shipped during the past two weeks. When it is considered that raising clover seed is practically a 'side line with our farmers, in other words the clover seed being raised from the ground that had been previously cut' for hay, it makes a valuable crop.-Canby fi'viErator. Strayed. A brindle ' Jersey heifer, fine year old, has been in my pasture two months.- Owner -may have same by paying this ad. and pas turing. William Bruce, 01 h am! Division streets, Oregon City. MONEY, IT'S ALL II THE HEAD STRANGE INFLUENCE OF LITTLE PIECE OF PAPER. Happiness Through Something Never Touched or Seen. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA , Whal is Ihis medium we spell Willi five letters, this thing wo are all tumbling over each other to gel,' this asset that makes ras cals and criminals (f half of us? II is speljed M-O-N-K-Y. To illustrate what 1 want to state, I will give you a little il lustration: ' In ISull'alo, N. Y. I had an ac quaintance who worked in the sleel mills, a man with four chil dren. This man had that inbred Oerman desire to get ahead, to provide for Ihe "rainy day" which seldom comes with his class, and beside supporting and clothing his family lie had $500 in a sav ings bank, the savings of ten years. One day I went to his home, at the request, of a lawyer, and told him $1,000 had been left to him by a brother who. had died in Pen, nsylvania, which he could have by going after it and signing papers. When this man and his wife re ally understood that $1000 had been given to I hem their joy was almost madness, they were tem porarily insane with gladness. The man whooped and yelled like a woodsman after the fourth drink and I lie wife cried from sheer nervous joy, I went with Ihe man to get his money the next day He took the draft home to his wife, they look ed at it, fondled it and then put every dollar of it in the bank, on lop of that other $500. Now what I am getting at Is Ihis: That $1,000 has lain in the bank these ten years; drawing in terest lo it. So far as any possible benefit from il is concerned it has never clone that family the least bit of good and it nrobably will be still lying I here when the fath er and mother die. This $1,000 was nothing to them but a few ink marks on paper. II never bought them an extra meal: it never took a hard ship from the home; it never gavo I hem an extra privilege or com fort; Ihey never saw or felt one penny of it. Yet if this bank should fail to day and they lose this wealth Ihey have never earned, seen or touched, I hoy would go as crazy through frls'ht and disappoint ment over its loss as they did with joy at its gelling, yet neither its getting or loss would change that family one iota. ' Funny, isn't it, when you foL low it out? You may have a counterfeit $10 bill, so clever a piece of work that only an expert can delect it. You .believe it is good money and you horde it away for months per. haps,' until you get several more with' it, ami then you go to the bank and bury it. There you find it is worthless, and you are bit terly disappointed. It is worth just as much as 11 ever was. and s,o far as you are ooncernuu you liiigflt .'hot use it in ten years, but the figures in your bank book are not as big as you thought they winild he. And so this mailer of money and values are" largely in your head, and happiness or hell al so. . You are rioh or poor accord ing to your thoughts; sick or well, miserable or cheerful. 'That influence on the mind of those few words "Pay to the Or. der of" made a husband and wife insanely happy over the poses sion'of something Ihey probably will never use, see or touch and something that never will do I hem one part icle of practical good. . And why can't a fellow have his mind make him happy without having a dead relative leave him something? 'J hat mind Is yoiu's yours to do 'about what you will with It. s n wonderful box of bones, and we are Just beginning to realize it's wonders. . So train yours to bring you happiness, not, the insane happi ness of piling up dollars for the iovs to spend, but the every day happiness that is worth your while. Itching, torturing skin erupt ions, tlistiguro, annoy, orivo one wild. Boon's Ointment brings Fiflv cents at any drug store. or c him ises would be attributing superhuman power. lo which rests I civilizat ion, Is your husband cross? An ir ritable, fault findinir disnosil ion is often duo to a disordered stom ach. A man with good digestion is nearly always good nalured. A great many have been permanent, ly cured of stomach trouble bv taking Chamberlain's Tablets. I' or sale by Hunt lev Bros. Co.. Oregon Cily, Canby, Molalla ami liuiiunru. Don't waste your money buy ing strengthening; plasters. .haniberlain s Liniment is cheap. r and better. Dampen a niece of flannel with it adn bind it over This however, touches on the very foundation of the medicine man's vocation. When man can not help himself in the agony of pain, lie looks for help wherever it is offered. The confirmed skep tic is likely to become a believer in extreme distress. Thus we find even in the most primitive soci ety, the medicine man concoct ing snake skins with all sorts of mots to heal (lie sick. He is a more important personage in his tribe than our physician is with us ami o t itn we tind uuu also en gaged ill the practice of priest craft, healing both body and soul. If the pain continues after the remedy is applied, it is difficult lo convince a patient that he is cured, but easy enough to prove that without Ihe medicine he would be worse. Perhaps a sick body, like a sick soul, is more re sponsive to faith us a remedy, than lo a medicine and' in many cases Ihe medicine may be the inst riiiiieiit of a faith cure. From life crude concoctions of ttie savage medicine man to the scientific preparations of Ihe modern physician is a long dis tance, and no doubt a century hence Ihe present methods of treatment will be anlniualed. They all rest on the instinctive desire of the sick lo b, made whole ami on his faith that this can be accomplished. With the exception of a few heterodox in dividuals, the people of each race believe that none but their own nations voi llii present the whole without starve burden of which Ihe but under "take what il can get system compelled to A Great Building Falls. When its foundation is under mined, and if the foundation of health good digestion is at tacked, quick oollapso follows. On Ihe first signs of indegestion, Dr. King's New Life Pills should be taken to tone the stomach and regulate liver, kidneys and bow els. Pleasant, easy, safe and only 25" cents at Huntley Bros., Oregon City, Canby, Hubbard and Molalla. "There could be no better med icine than Chamberlain's Cough Hemedy. My children were ull sick with whooping cough. One of them was in bed, had a high fever and was coughing up blood. Our doctor gave tlieni chamberlain's Cough Hemedy and tno first dose eased them, and three bottles cur ed them," says Mrs, . A. Donald son, of Lexington, Miss. For salo by Huntley Bros. Co., Oregon Citv, Canby, Molalla and Hubbard. Many ills come from impure blood. Can't have pure blood with fauty digestion, lazy liver and sluggish bowels. BurJock Blood Bitters strengthen stomach, bowels and liver, and purifies the blood. papers of Oregon, especially the weeklies, is that they arc one-idea papers, and will only give one side of matters at the same time expecting as a matter of right, that readers of all classes should subscribe for it. I have three papers beside the Courier and I of their unfairness during this shall forthwith stop them because campaign. I will not support a newspaper that is loo small to give place to a man's honest opin ion because it does not agree with the editor's way of (hinging. Hut what 1 want to urge you to do is to urge your subscribers to continue their letters, and keep (he Courier as interesting during the next two years as it ..as been during the past year. Oregon is a progressive state. Her citizens are ever blazing the way to new ideas and to trials of new things. In this we are sim ply following the ideas of the big successful business concerns who are ever trying new things and working for greater efficiency . And now because we have vot ed,' we should not burrow up for two years, but should at once start on new things, discuss them, exchange ideas and bring Oregon to (he front in many more ways. , I This does not necessarily nienn politics we have all had plenty of this in the last six months, but! rather a discussinon of Ihe bun-I dreds of other matters of individ-l ual and state rights that we are thinking of today. Let us take these niatters UP. the .matters of 1 3 I't-t! Hi mm) - Breakfast In a Good, Warm Roo m "PERFECTION i Smokeless A'Mwarra" breakfast the kind "that sends you out ready braced for a good day's work should be eaten in a warm room. You lose half the good of the meal if you are shiv ering in discomfort while you eat it. 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