OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, NOV. 8 1912 OREGON CITY COURIER Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Bihth and Main streets, and cn tered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as second class mail matter. OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER M. J. BROWN, A. B. Subscription Pries $l.SO. M. J BROWN, WILSON. The expected happened. Wood row Wilson is elected president by a sweep of the country. His election was an American protest against trust legislation and trust government. The people have given the party another chance to relieve oppressive con. dilions. Wilson has a great opportun ity before him. No man was el ected president with more con fidence hack of his election. He is a splendid type of American citi zen and he has brains and ability. He is a thinker, an actor. He does things. He has a Democratic house be hind him, a progressive Demo cratic congress and every means to make good with. That be will make good the vote of the people is prool. mere are nig pronieins before him. but he is a nig man, big enough to meet them. TAFT. It was a national mistake to have nominated Tafl. He is fit ted for a judge, but not an ad ministrator. His administration has been a failure in the eyes of Me people, lie has been too easily led and mlluenceil. lie lias not been a popular man not a peop le's favorile. He has acted too much in favor of tho big interests and too little for the plain people. Tuesday's vole was" a repudiation of hi.s administration you can't make anything else out of it. Taft's great mistake was when he allowed congress to jamb through the Payne Tariff bill. II was treachery to promises and platform. There was his oppor tunity to have glume, hut he lacked tho courage to sland up and tell congress to make good its pledges or he would veto the bill. He pluyed golf while the tar ilf was revised upward, and when he signed that bill he killed every chance he ever had for a second term. ROOSEVELT. He was counted out by the ref eree Tuesday night, and from now on ho will he a Jeffries. He thought he wus several kinds of a white hone and could come back. Hut he had lost- his wallop-rho hadn't the judgement to null when hu. was well oil' and he lias gone down und out. He got Tafl, Taft got him and Wilson got' them both. Roosevelt has had a remark able career and has bad success thrust upon him until he thought ho could not fail. Four years ago the people clamored for him, and had he consented to have run, nothing could have prevent ed his election. But he refused in favor of Taft, and then repudiated the man he made. Ami that re pudiation sourced the people, and defeated Roosevelt and killed the Republican party. The "Paid Adv." will now have a vacation. And cvciw.loc Cannon was bur ied with the rest. And old Oregon went cratic. "We (old you so." De 'Che next house will be whelniingly I lemocral io, And don't forget to give full credit to William .). Bryan. Jle made Wilson president. Thousands of men voted for n dead man for vice president, ami just fooling you, never intend ed lo say it. Willi a Democratic house and senate the parly has a free hand every opportunity to carry out its pledges. It must make good now. ' In comment ing on W. S. U' Ren's announcement for govern or the Oregon Portland Journal concludes wilh this: "tlood busi ness. Here is a paper that is Willi IJ'Reu from I he jump-off," The Enterprise is out against U'Ren for governor. This is prob ably the first definite sland that paper ever look and it is refresh ing. Wonder how long it will be before a "Jocular" printer will break into I lie wrong box of plates? IT is impossible for some men to climb into a moid. plane or biplane and soar olf into the atmosphere and break the world's alliludo records, but I hey also break something else their necks. The man who invented the aerial "spiral glide,, paid Unit penally too. Us hel ler to walk Ihau to soar too high, lis belter to put one dollar safely away in the bank than to have a milllion in castles in the air, for there is always an uncertain glide from air castles lo on rl li and few can do the trick without ac cident. Its heller lo have a bank account ihau a broken wing, remember that. The Bank of Oldest Bank in FROST, OWNliKS Telephones, Main 5 -1 ; Home A 5 -1 EDITOR I read an editorial from a New York paper last week which stated that after election was over, the president and cabinet would take up the Mexican situation ami go into it tnorougniy. Tluil nmimiMl me. Mexico would keep until after election ami men it wouiu ne nee essary to intervene perliap nut nifikn ri wnr. s, There are ever two sides to this Mexican affair and a man can find ample grounds to sustain eil her position. Tluv will tell vou there are mil lions of American capital and thousands oi Americans in niex ieo, and that it is up to Americ to protect these men and these in inraJr lli:il. if I. hn Mexican eov eminent can't or won't protect Americans, then it is up to this country to lo declare war and force protection. And when 1 hear a man make this crack I ask him if he would be one of the volunteers to go down across the Rio Grande and I,, I Km i KfiTo carve him un. for the "protection of American interests?" How many of the Americans ...I.,. ...in, r,iArxitlv in MnYinn Willi uvyii jm ujjn ij would bo up on the firing line if the ll. S. intervened and we rtiiflil Mi'viruiV A one-armed man could count Ihem on his fingers. They are hiking out of Mexico as fast as they can get nuung material, and then they rush In Kuc.rnlnrv Knox and ask that the government send Ameri cans down there to die to pro tect their interests and they ui-iv in Wash infrlnn and rend the press dispatches of the killed arm wounuoa. Until a bunch of these' trust Mi!wiintis whu are m ilkinc Mex ico, get right up at the head with a Winchester, I don't believe the government is justified in asking its .standing army soiuiers, who ii fii irnllinir $ I fi n month, to CO down there and be killed to pro tect American trusts mines uuu investments. Do you? The 1J. S. didn't force these ennil.alisls to take chances m Mexico. Mexico didn I pull them own there witn ropes. Whv iln mil these millionaires finance their own defense? Why .liiii'l llinv tnl.-n n rhnnen with some of the factions down there ii id! do what they want our soi liors to do? if vnn wnrn e-ivon n cun and forced to go down in Mexico and till uiuiiii hhw'lr fncpil man would you pulf up very big with American patriotism? How much confidence have you in American justice? How much do you want to bet that Becker, tho New York police captain, who has been found guilty of murder, first degree, will ever get (dose enough to the electric chair to see what it looks like? I'm betting they never execute him, or come anywhero near it Are you game? John Melnlyre, Becker's law yer, says there are over 4,000 "objections" to the judge's rul ings, and only one of llnjso lias got to stick to give the court of appeals a ehanru to reverso and grant a new trial. Behind Becker is politics, mon ey ami influence and here's n hunch this trio will see that the electric current isn't run down Meeker's spine. The same influence behind Roberts, (the Clackamas county murderer) would have saved him just, as it saved murderer Thaw, and ninny another murder er. The poor murderer dies, the rich man escapes. Such are our modern jusl ice mills. If Jack Johnson can he put in prison and kept there, justice will have li i L it right for once. There is not a man, black or while, who is so universally de tested as this big black animal. Because lie had the wallup and put Jell'ries down for the count, money lias rolled into him, niui the fool thought money wus a li cense. He has flaunted his vices be fore he eyes of white men; he has boasted of his immoralities and defied decency; be has brag ged that he was as good as any while man ami could have any while woman lie wauled. An 'enraged public is after "Mislah Johnsin" and if looks as if this- public was going to get him. His nasly record has been tol erated loo long. Oregon City The County At I. ill In li'nlls N. Y . there has been a strike on in the knitting mills for some weeks, and two weeks ago the strikers asked Mayor Lund, the Socialist of Schneetady. to come there and make an address, in hopes that it, might help to settle the strike. When he started to talk he was arrested and jailed. The result hundreds of men who believe that the Constitution should guaran tee free speech, are Socialists. It would seem that big business is bent on making Socialists or anarchists. How many of you Courier read, ers know there is a state of our Union that is doing its own in surance business? Not many I'll bet. And doesn I it seem just ii little peculiar that such a radical change should not have made more noise? Hut you see Fighting Bob La l'ollette had a hand in this change anil big busines and big business news papers haven't been making first page news stories of it. Wisconsin has stale insurance ti operation and the state is issu ing life insurance at cost. Anything wrong about this? There are no solicitors and big commissions to agents. If a man wants insurance he sjmply calls for it, he knows there is simply one rate and that rale is actual cost. Tho credit of the stale of Wis consin is back of this insurance, and it is as good and as safci as the old lino companies. Now I would like to have some Now 1 would like to have some one tell mo why this would not be a good idea for progressive Ore gon if they can. I would like to know wli ylhis would not he just as good, an idea as will be the parcels nosts or as are the postal savings banks? And 1 would like to know why this idea could not be applied to fire insurance and many other things. If this Wisconsin idea doesn't spread and be adopted by other stutes, then I am a poor guesser. You know this country is sapped by big preinuinis for the many life insurance companies. Some day ciflies of this siw will have ONE Protestant church; it will be supported by all denom inations; it will have brainy, edu cated pastor and it will have one beautiful ffhurch building. This asking a city of our size to support fourteen churches seems all very silly and wasteful. They are all working for the same end, and what niatt,er tho dif-l feront means? The same broad viewpoints that are abolishing political par ties are going to abolish denom inations, and it isn't going to matter whether a man is a hard or soft shell Baptist; a close com munion or universalis!; a Metho dist or an Episcopalian. iAnd when the time comes when wo shall have one big church and ono brainy preacher, then we Will see more bald beads facing the pulpit; more intrest taken in re ligion and church services less a "duty." And you may bet and win that this change is coming not quite so fast as political reforms (for churches move slow) but just as surely. Tho campaign just closed, -has demonstrated that the field for tho nartisan newspaper has be come mighty small and spotted, and that ireo thinking men, vvnne they may tolerate the "organ" from the viewpoint from home patriotism they refused lo be in fluenced or led by it. The paper of the hereafter, or tho nresent, if you please, is the ono that gels close to its audien ce and slicks around. Of tho thousands and thous ands of Republican newspapers in this country, it is said DO per cent were lor ran. And you can see what they failed to do. They couldn't put him over and I hey only lessened their influence in Irving to drive the people. he newspaper mat will play a dead square game and play it long enough, so its readers will know it is on the level, that nevvs naner can build up an inlluence that will be fell, and its opinions will lead. Hut the nartisan newspaper, with its ready-made, contracted one-idea policy is becoming re diculous amid silly. ' Men want an open sheet and arguments; men want honest criticism and brains and the newspaper thai. lelivers these will get the readers. Nevada, famous for its prize llghls. easy divorces and rough necks, has a stale law that some of our ambitious legislators nuld make lame lor themselves by copying and presenting at Sa lem I lus winier. It has a law making it a crime to sell or give away eiigartlto papers to any man, woman or mid in uto siaie. Kverv stale in the union should have such a law. Public sentiment would back it, to a standstill. Why don t the states have it? See the giant tobacco trust for answer. F.lherl Hubbard, the famous Uoveroft editor and lecturer said: "I have seen many a smart man smoke cigarettes but 1 saw him, at hi smartest. "- This vicious cigarette habit lias I ho vices all skinned. It, is the front door to cocaine, mor phine, booze and the rest of the list. It will set a kid back more Ihau pneumonia. It will lessen any man's brain power Some fellow I hat is not afraid of a tobacco sign when be passes it, io- the great octopus that nut up the sign, should spring a lull similar to the Nevada bill at Sa lem this winter and see what would come f it. The people would rise up and say "amen" and the tobacco trust would rise up and kill it. But it would be worth the experiment and seeing which of our repre sentatives could be "got." And the government at Wash ingtou still lives. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind YouKava Always Bought Boars the Every man who can vote should be compelled to vide. It should be made compulsory with a penally of a fine or disfranchisement for a certain time for failure. There was many a man in Clackamas county who did not vide, Tuesday, who simply would not vole. There was many a man who did not even register. If you would tell these men they should not vole, why they would swell up with the spirit of George Washington and go bunt a gun. If a man hasn't enough inter est in governing bis state or country lo vole once in two or four years, his state or country should make hi'm smart until it developed some interest he should be handled.-as a juror is handled made to pay a fine for his neglect of duty. And you will generally find the man who will not vide is about a half breed anarchist, who has n't as much use for the American flag than he has for a horse blanket, and the man who yells the loudest and longest against present conditions. The lesson of the special char ter and bond election Saturday is plain to any wayfaring man. It is A warning that the people will tolerate no longer the overloading of the ballot with promiscuous measures: and the taxpaying public proposes to call a halt on all public expenditures not actu ally essential to the progress and developenient of city and state. Oregohian, Monday. Now you voters who handled a ballot as big as Ihe Oregonian's front page Tuesday, what do you think of the consistency of the above editorial? Just think back lo Tuesday and remember bow many of the prop ositions that loaded down the bal lot were there by and for the in terests of big business which the Oregonian has championed. Look back to Tuesday and re member how precious few of these propositions were put there by the people. , And remember again that the Oregonian has fought this right of the people to kill oil these pro miscuous measures and stop these public expenditures has fo.ught the initiative, tho refer, endum and recall all tho way down the line. ' The ballot was loaded down with expenditures and big busi ness aid propositions, in Port land and in the state by the frien ds of the Oregonian, but tho init iative and tho referendum gave the people the power to dump the load. I pole that Assemblyman Wen do introduced a bill in the New York legislature to amend the public health law by making it a misdemeanor,' punishment by im prisonment of not over six mon ths or a fine of more than $500, or both, to ropapcr or recalci miiio walls or ceilings of build ings for living or working pur ings fo r living or working pur poses, until all the old paper has been removed. This is done to keep the germs out, and to keep us well, And when I see such bills introduced and see the papers ap prove such measures, 1 can't help but soo the old box car on the siding, packed wilh Dagos to the roof, a kitchen, dining room, par lor and sleeping box, where men pack in like sardines. And did you ever see a sick Dago? Do you suppose it is because thqy are American germs? One of the most popular things the coining congress could do would be to pass a national di rect primary law and abolish the present national convention sys tem, and let the people vote for candidates just as Oregon votes for V. S. senator. The three national conventions last summer were disgraceful, scandelous. J hey were not rep resentative. Delegate s almost stood on the auction block and in vited bids, and the corporal ions were openly out to win. The American voters are not going lo stand for this long and support the means that sells them out, and the Democratic party in control of congress now has its shining opportunity to pass a law that gives a man a chance to vide direct and elimin ate the delegates who go to (hose national gatherings to trade horses, get jobs and sell you out. And we will watch with inter est, to see if congress lias sand enough to defy the big interests and president makers. No doubt hence no belling. With nearly all the papers in the slate pounding Latterly, lie won for congress. Latterly said it was a clear case of persecution. And Ihe vote sustains his claim. II looks like a case of too much newspaper abuse. Sheriff. Mass certainly got a handsome vindication. He had. or ganized politics to fight and the machine bucked him hard. But the machine doesn't cut much ice in Oregon it can't control Ihe man in the voting booth. (iovernor Wilson showed mi ghty good confidence in himself I uesday night, or lie has a splen did nerve. He went to bed at iuie o'clock and let the morning pa pers tell him lu had been elected president. Win. L. Cook, who was Post master at Neihart, Montana, writes: "1 recommend Foley's Honey and Tar Compound to all my people, and I hey are never disappointed with it. Foley's Hon. ey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds gives lite best possildo results." For sale by Huntley Itros. Co., Oregon Cilv, Canbv, Molalla and Hubbard. 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The strikes in progress or threatened, are of such propor tions that only national govern ments can deal wilh them. They can't deal wilh them soley by re pression; government must try something else. "There is but one thing to try, we are told. That is tho esWilish ment of a minimum wage. It may have to bo tried, since so many people cannot think any further than that device, but the mini mum wage will fail. The mini mum wage is only ,a stop-gap, which will temporarily relieve conditions only to make them worse eventually. "There cannot be successful wage regulation by law while conditions which the law cannot touch operate irresistibly to low er wages. The best thing govern ment can do is to make oppor tunity for work for every man. It can do this only by unlocking the land for the use of the people without their paying tribute to owners. That once done, the gov ernment can do nothing hotter than let wages alone; With a job open lo everybody, wages will go up every where. "Wages will go up because lab or will be in demand, and they will not go up at tho expense of cap ital, for with plenty of free labor at work they do nothing but cre ate capital. The minimum wage theory will not work in a world where there is no minimiatzon of monopoly of the only thing upon vvnicn laiior can ne exorcised ui redly or indirectly the land." - . I VOTE GGESTO WILSON Roosevelt Will Gain Second Place on Complete Count of State is Belief. Portland. Wood row Wilson, a0' cording to figures representing about one-half the vote In Multnomah coun ty and one-fifteenth of the vote up state, has carried Oregon, wilh Taft and Roosevelt contesting for Becond plaoe. ' For United States senator Jonathan Bourne has suffered a decisive defeat, According to early estimates he will run third, with Ben Selling and Harry Lane close contestants for first place. The earliest returns Indicated that Bourne would carry Multnomah coun ty and that Selling would have the state outside, but later reports show ed Lane making unexpected gains. In Portland It Is a clpse race between the three candidates, but in the state at large the closeness Is between only Lane and Selling. Bourne Is defeated by 8000 to 10,000 votes, according to early indications. In the state outside of Multnomah county, Roosevelt and Taft are run ning neck and neck, with Indications t ' v)L,-; '.::::v DR .HARRY LANE Probable Successful Candidate foi Senator From Oregon. that Taft will maintain a slight lead Roosevelt's plurality over Taft It Multnomah county of 2000 to 3000 in dicates, however, that Roosevelt will gain second place In the compleU count. If the present ratios shown li the early returns are maintained, Wll son will have a plurality over Roose velt iu Oregon, complete, ot about 8000. In many counties no returns wer available on initiative measures, but thoso that reported on woman's suff rage were almost invariably favorable It is indicated by the meager returni that the measure will have an affirm alive majority of about 8000. Single tax has been snowed under The returns uniformly show a decls Ive majority against the graduated tax amendment and the probabllltlei are that it has been defeated by 60, 000. WASHINGTON FOR T. R. Bull Moose Carry State by 30,000, Bu1 Governorship In Doubt. Seattle. Roosevelt has carried Washington by probably 30,000 plural ity over Wilson. The Progreislvl state chairman claims 45,000; the Democratic chairman ooncedes 20,000. Roosevelt has carried with htm ti victory the two Progressive candl dates tor representatives in congresi at large, J. A. Falconer and J. W Bryan. Robert T. Hodge, Progressive can didate for governor, may -have been beaten in the nice for governor. II is believed that all the other candi dates on the Progressiva ticket have i "V (A i. ! ' . w f. 4 Adds HealthfulQualitiestoiheltiofl Pro Prescott, of the University of Michigan, testified before the Pure Food Committee of Congress, that the acid of grapes held highest rank as an article of food and he regarded the re-, suits from baking with cream of tartar baking powder as favorable to health- Royal is the only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartan MUST BELIEVE IT. When Well-Known Oregon City People Tell It So Plainly. When public endorsement is made by a representative citizen of Oregon City, the proof is pos itive. You must believe it. Head this testimony. 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