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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, DEC 20 1912
OREGON CITY COURIER
Published Fridays f rota the Courier Building, Eighth and Main streets, and en
tered in the Post office at Oregon City, Ore., as second class mail matter.
OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER
M. J. BROWN, A. E FROST, OWNERS.
Subscription Pric $1.50.
Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 3-1
M. J. BROWN,
EDITOR
That Lilly case was a "corker"
and the Courier would suggest
that in the future such cases he
tried in a glue factory or slaugh
ter house and behind closed doors
The matter of hanging four
murderers last week stirred the
stale of Oregon. More lives will
be taken in Oregon City by ty
phoid, and we refuse to take any
steps to remove the cause.
If we had one case of smallpox
or spinal meningitis in the city,
our people would be taking every
possible precaution f,o stamp
them out, but this matter of ty
phoid and death seems to be tak
en as a matter of course.
When a fellow gets to the
point where he admits he is
wrong, he is on the high road
to success. Polk County Ob
server. How long since have you been
driving your auto on this im
proved highway, Bro. Foster.
Editorially the Enaerprise is
given over entirely to the ad
vancement of the city, without
regard to the political, relig
ous or financial bias. Morn
ing Enterprise.
Yes, I couldn't help but notice
it. It is really a fearsome exhib
it the way the Enterprise has
ripped things in the past without
regard to "political, religous or
financial bias. "
Oh prunes, fudge, fiddlesticks,
and all the other harsh things I
can't think of.
It costs this country three and
th e newspapers. The congres
the political and other speeches
through the mail annually. And
you taxpayers pay this expense
your congressmen roll up.
What earthly good do they do?
Do you read a hudredth part of
tho political stuff that is sent you
from Washington stuir sent out
to boost your congressman's can
didacy, and that he does not have
to tiay for?
Ninety-niiio per cent of this
stuff that loads down the mails is
never looked at or read. When
the voters want polities they go to
ths newspapers. The congres
sional frank is tho biggest graft
in national politics and one that
should be aboolished.
Twelve dollars per head for ev
ery man, woman and baby in this
great country to run the United
states government, mat is tax
ation. But the protest arises over
the belief that this vast sum is
not needed that we don't get
the value of our lines.
The new Baptist bible, which
John Stark recently refered to in
his letter, cuts out the'word hell
and substitutes the word under
world." This may be all right but
it is certainly going to be awk
ward at the start telling a man
to go to underworld."
Already the gubernatorial cam
paign is' being talked of. The
most likely candidate for the Re
miblicans seems to be Grant B
bimick of Oregon City, if the
sentiment in this community is a
fair sample of the feeling throu
ghout the whole stale. Dimick
was a candidate in the primary
election two years ago. witn Jjow-
erman as an opponent, and lost
by only three voles. Many -wno
supported Bowerman at that
time feel that Dimick would have
been the stronger of the two.
Amity standard.
Tho Democratic administra
tion could not make a bigger mis
take, in my judgment, than in re-
cinding President Taft's political
order, and putting the fourth
class postmasters back in the po
litical pot. mere are ao.uuu oi
them, and every postmaster has
his bunch of friends and backers.
ThiM makes an army that would
would fight the administration at
every turn and never forget to
vote against the ticket.
The way 10 nanuie posiomces
the peopfrdlu wkyp wkpord 11 uu
is under tho civil service got a
good man and keep him and this
should apply to all postoflices.
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Did you know that thirteen of
our states have abandoned the
grand jury system? 1 man i,
until I ran across the statement,
and then right on the heels of it
I snw another statement by one
of our high up judges that more
than half the failures attributed
to tho courts for suppressing of
crime is duo to the grand jury
system due to the men who re
fuse to hold a suspect for trial,
And this judge could have gone
'.ack a. little farther and made an
.niual truthful statement for the
iustic.es of the piece for refusing
'.o hold suspects for the grand
ll could have said with
1 col.) rl'.nui .-li. till! bu I 'ruth that tho country had many
' (,.,.' ii ... i, ' . ! nhn a four onlrt niPf.OS
would blind the justice eye. ,
The justices arid grand juries
xeep many a guilty man from trial
and our juries keep many of them
from punishment.
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trust than it did to tho Standard
Oil or tobacco trust.
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crry CHRISTMAS
and ;i H ippy and
erous New Year.
Once human beings were cave
dwellers and life was a survival
of the fittest. If a hungry hound
wanted something to eat he went
out and hustled for it, took it
away from his weak brother if he
had the chance. We lived the
longest who was the s-trongest
and who could swing a big stick
he strongest and quickest.
Then we evoluted a few. We
bunched up and scrapped for ex
istence collectively. We killed
more in bunches and less often.
We oritanized.
Then we bunched up more and
formed vilages, elected men to
head them and the fighting and
survival of the fittest was con
ducted on vet a lartter scale.
And so from the cave dweller
to the cliff vilages, to the later
pueblos, and on up to our pres
ent great cities we have evolved
and now when we have got up to
where we build forty- story build
intrs and have existence down to
a pal nicety when we think there
is -nothing more new under the
sun then some of our greatest
of thinkers are advocating that
we hit the chutes back to tne
cliff days; that in those days
was there real living; that the
community that has the least
government is the happiest com
muiuty to live in, and mat we
must get back to nature and the
simple life if we would llnd the
span worth the living.
All very nice philosophy on
paper but it won t work out.
Once we were happy apes to
gether. We knew not when the
noon whistle said it was time to
eat. Our stomachs were our only
clocks and our bodies our only
care. We were hanny. because
we didn't know enough to be un-
nanny. We were hanny because
we didn't know any better.
But we couldn t stand still, so
we went forward we civilized.
It has taken thousands and thous
ands of years to make an Ameri
can out of a little cliff man, and
the America can t go back and
he can't stand still.
What the end will be of this
wonderful civilization we have
raised ourselves up to, none can
guess. We can t go back and it
is dangerous to go farther for
ward.
about fifty yearsf rastrd lln nnn
Wouldn t you tike to take a lit
tle Rin Van Winkle snooze for
about 50 years and then come
alive some morning?
ANYTHING. THE MATTER WITH
KANSAS?
If there was ev ;r a state that
has been maligned and ridiculed
it has been "bleeding Kansas."
Erom "Sockless Jerry" down
to Carrie of the Tomahawk she
has ever been in the lime light for
ridicule. But the other day I ran
across some statistics of Kansas.
Head the following list, and then
go make a reputation for Oregon
like it.
Not one poorhouse in 80 of the
105 counties.
Eifty-two of the counties do
not have poor farms because they
do not nod tnem. .
Sixty-one of these counties do
not have any prisoners in their
jails and 17 counties have no jails
because they have no use for
them.
Eighty -eoveu of the counties
did not send one inmate to the in
sane asylum last year.
Tho ratio of illiteracy is the
lowest in the United States.
This is a record any state may
be proud of and the other states
who jeer at Kansas have another
in ink coming.
WHAT'S. THE USE.?
The beef trust, the ' food
trust, the clothing trust and the
fuel trust should all be swated
by the common people upon ev-
' ery possible occasion, for they
have taken an unfair advantage
. of the necessities of the poor.
Associations of consumers
should be formed to devise
means and ways of lighting
" these devils by fire. Contra
Costan, Richmond, Cal.
But what's the use of the use?
Hasn't our great and powerful
government been lighting them
lor years, and if it cannot get
get them, can we poor little suck
ers? Guilt is personal, so they tell
us, but show me the one that the
government has yet cot. .
Look them over:
The sugar trust prosecution
was stopped two weeks ago and
the indictments quashed, with the
consent of the attorney general.
One jury 'disagreed, and the gov
ernment says there is no use of
trying further indictments for the
reason that there is nothing new
in evidence.
The beef trust. It was acquit
ted, yet every man woman and
child who knows anything knows
they were guilty. -..
The bathtub trust, as tight a
combination as ever winked at
the Shermananti-trust law. Jury
disagreed, and that ended the
great "prosecution." " . '
United States vs. Kissell, jury
disagreed dropped.
The wall paper trust prosecu
tion, acquitted.
Railway and wharf companies,
four indictments for a combiuaT
tion to monopolize transporta
tion "demurers sustained."
The shoe machinery combina
tion same as above.
Nation Cash Register Co on
trial. .
But on the other, hand the
"night riders" who were indicted
for conspiracy to prevent the
shipment of tobacco in interstate
commerce by violence and intimi
dation, alllrnied.
That s a great record.
When our government can't
get even one in these many years,
what good will our feeble little
protests and swats amount to.
bo long as the trusts can fret to
juries and judges, what in the de
vil are we fellows going to do to
help ourselves.
MAKING. ENTRIES.
If newspaper reports are true.
there is going to be some Held in
the primary race for governor in
luu. Here is the list of starters
the form sheets givo out:
W. S. U'Ren, Grant B. Dimick,
Mayor Rushlight of Portland,
Sheriff Slovens of Portland;
Judge Benson of Klamath Falls;
Col. Ho for of Portland; Bill Ha
ney of Hums; State Treasurer
Kay of Salem; Judge Bennett of
I lie Dalles; Dr. .. J. Smith of
Pendleton; Tom Word of Port
land; O. P. Coshow of Roseberg;
Clarence Reamcs of Med ford; J.
E. Hedges of Oregon City, Will
Carter and L. P. I.epper of Port
land. These are men who the
newspapers and politicians state
are likely candidates. Some of
them are already announced can
didates, some are "considering"
and now doubt some of them
never thought of the matter, but
their friends thought of it for
them.
THE SWAPPING EVENT.
Last week John Stark of Maple
Lane had an article on the mod
ern Ofiristmas spirit which this
paper heartily endorses.
J he true old. Christmas spirit,
that spirit that plays on the heart
strings,, has been dumped into the
discard, and today it is a specula
tion. The day for the token of rem
embrance, for the loving purpose
for which the fjift was sent has
been changed to "I wonder what
I will get in exchange." an an
nual swapping event, and hoping
to get a little best of the deal.
And when it is all over and the
inventory is taken, you have to
admit that it has not been a sat
isfactory business and you wish
we could go back to the old days
and the old Christmas spirit that
went with them.
Isn't it tho truth?
Regarding the editorial in the
Courier about state insurance,
and the question asked, if it was
good business for tho state to in
sure its own buildings, would it
not be equally good to insure the
buildings of the farmers and the
business man, the Woodburn In
dependent says :
The foregoing from the Ore
gon CityCourier is worth think
ing about. We have for a long
time believed that the state
ought to furnish the people in
surance at cost. In our own
case, as in that of many busi
ness men, the fire insurance
bill equals the average tax for
all purposes state, county and
school purposes.
Young Astor has inhirited sixty-five
millions of dollars. He
never did a hard day's work in his
life and never will. Others earned
this money, not Astor. Ho could
not earn $50 a month. And I am
in favor of an income tax that
will cut deep into such a fortune.
it should bo cut in half. No man
has any right to such wealth, ev
en if he earned it.. When sucji
kids as this have such fortunes
fall on them, there are thousands
of deserving that simply have to
go without, for thero is not en-
ough to go around in suchbunch
es. The income tax would take a
little oft' of such a fortune, and to
its taking extent it is good.
Facts
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Shoes!
Oregon City Bayers Shoold Read Every Word of This.
JTTHE OREGON CITY SHOE STORE
is not a department or a clothing store. It deals in shoes, and shoes exclusively. Its
- owner knows shoes, and the shoe manufacturers who sell to him know that lie knows
shoes.
THE ORECON CITY SHOE STORE
has made its reputation on SHOES, and Shoes alone. Its success depends upon its
Shoe reputation, for it handles nothing else.
THE OREGON CITY SHOE STORE
does not buy shoes that will admit of "marked down" or any other sort of sale. It
charges just enough above cost to pay expenses of haudling and give a reasonabfe pro
fit. That's why you never hear of the OREGON CITY SHOE STORE having any of
these "special sales" fake or otherwise. The Shoe buyer gets a hundred cents on the
dollar at the Oregon City Shoe Store, and that's all he is entitled to; no more, no less
WHY NOT DEAL WITH A GENUINE SHOE STORE
If you want beef, you go to a butcher's shop.lf you want shoes you go to a shoe shop. The
Oregon City Shoe Store is the only exclusive shoe store in Oregon City. Doesn't it
stand to reason that a store that sells nothing else but shoes, can give you better value
for your money, than can a store that carries shoes only as a side line? Of course it does.
BIG XMAS VALUES IN FELT GOODS MAKE DANDY PRESENTS
The world's greatest felt manufactury is the Alfred Dolge Felt Company, now known
as the Standard Pelt Company. Their Ladies' Felt Slippers are standard. The big New
York Stores are featuring tliem. They are the latest thing in Felt Foot-Wear. Dainty
designs; big wearing value both warm and comfortable. We have them for men and
bovs also. Come in and see them.
OUR LEADING LINES
THE CELEBRATED HOLLAND BOYS' SHOE
Made in" Holland, Michigan. If there are any better boys' shoes at the price, the Ore
gon City Shoe Store never heard of them, and it is certain no one else ever did. Lace
and button . -
THE STACY-ADAMS SHOE
Everybody knows what that means. The Oregon City Shoe Store has a complete line
naturally. .
LADIES' SHOES
for ail occasions and all weathers. The very best makes andJbrands, at the very lowest
prices. The biggest line in Oregon City by far. The biggest possible choice.
DRY SOX SHOE
for men, made by the Washington Shoe Company. Double stitched. Two full double
soles. Rubber" interlined. Water and weather proof. A complete line. Genuine foot
comfort.
DAYTON WORK SHOES
Made in Pennsylvania. The very best shoe for the worker who needs strong durable
shoes that will keep his feet dry and warm. A. Champion Shoe at a comparatively low
price.
RUBBER GOODS
Of course you know that rubber goods do not improve with age. The OREGON CITY
SHOE STORE carries none but the season's output. Better still, they're made for this
season's styles in shoes. Be wise and buy your rubbers where you know you are get
ting new rubbers.
There are on hand a few odd pairs of shoes, mostly odd
sizes, left over from broken and sold out line, which can
be bought cheap. You will find them on the front table.
THE OREGON GIT! SHOE STORE
Exclusive Dealers in HIGH GRADE SHOES
Opposite the Post Office
and Next to the Telegraph and Telephone Office.
MAIN ST., OREGON CITY, ORE.
fWTRADINC STAMPS GIVEN WITH EVERY PURCHASE
CUT OUT THIS COUPON
' Free Stamps at
THE OREGON CITY SHOE
STORE
In addition to all stamps given
with regular purchases this cou
pon entitles you to
IS SCREEN TRADING STAMPS FREE-
with each 50c purchase. COUPON
NOT GOOD AFTER JAN. 3 1ST.
By taking advantage of tho lib
eral methods we offer to collect
ors you may 1111 your stamp books
very easily.
Here's one from tho Portland
News. Because it is from the
News many of you will not go
much on it, but I can't see what
difference it makes to the truth
of a statement whether it appears
in 'the Police Gazette or the Chris
tian Advocate. This doctrine is
sound, anyhow:
The day of editorial prosti
tution, of editorial lickspittle
pandering, of editorial genu
flection to the idol of gold coin;
the day when an editor dared
' not tell the people when they
were being robbed for fear he
would lose advertising and his
job as well,, that period is
passed. Only those organs who
iirefer to be partners with pub
lic plunderers, and that would
rather be unclean than clean,
rather bo the humble slave of
Big Business than a man stan
ding on his own legs only
such organs as those still find cases to trial can eat crow for a
the call to bunco the public for
a varlt's wage.
That congressional committee
that has been investigating where
the Mexican revolutionists got
the money to stage their monthly
uprisings with, is discovering that
American big business has been
financing the outbreaks. And
some of these days, when our
country calls for volunteers to
protect American lives and inter
ests in that republic, what a rush
there will be to the front. It will
be asking our men to die for big
business.
After a week's trial tho jury in
the Dr. Harry Start sodomy case
in Portland, brought in a verdict
of guilty, and now the interests
that tried to put the News under
for its work in bringing these
while Dr. Start will he sentenced
Friday, and in the meantime other
cases will come on. There are
about 25 indicted for the same of
fense, and many more that will
get it when the police can get
them. If the judge will only fill
Salem prison with these degener
ates as fast as they are convicted,
and keep them there as long as
the law will permit, then perhaps
this festering nest in the Rose
City (save the mark!) may be
broken up.
"Suffered day and night the tor
ment of itching piles. Nothing
helped me until I use dDoan's
Ointment. II cured me permant
1." Hon. John R. Garrett, may
or, Girard, Ala.
Tho Courier gives you the news
nseirv&tiive Mvestaent
More than 400 citizens of Clackamas and Marion Counties own and are constructing the Clackamas Southern Railway,
extending from Oregon City through Maple Lane, Beaver Creek, Mulino, Liberal Molalla, Yoderville, Monitor and Mt. Angel
Sufficient subscriptions of stock have been made to complete the grading and bridges from Oregon City to Mt Angel and
the rails have been provided. The switches and crossing on P.R.L. & Co. and S.P. Co. are in, and the rails are being rapidly laid
toward Beaver Creek. Four additional carloads of r ails arrived on Monday.
The company is selling additional stock to lay and ballast the track and in a short time will he operating to Beaver Creek.
This is a safe investment and will bring good returns to the purchasers of stock. Other. roads pay big dividends on four
times the capitalization, and in a less developed country. The wood sawlogs and piling adjacent to this line to be hauled will make
the road pay from the first year. This stock is selling for $50 per share and business men consider it a first class investment.
If each stockholder of this company will take just two shares of this stock it will provide sufficient funds, in addition to the
amount now provided, to lay and ballast the road to Mt. Angel, which can all be done in 1913. leaving a quick return on the in
vestment. For further information call at the Company's office, RCOM 17, Beaver Bldg., Oregon City.