OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JAN 17 1913
THE OREGON CHTY COURIER
M. J. BROWN, Editor.
To live long live in Oregon.
Oregon passes a legislative act making 14 hours the
limit of a railroad man's days work, and the United
States district court as promptly annuls it as uncon
stitutionul.
Six deaths from drinking Willamette fiver water is
the price Oregon City has paid this far and the bills
are not all in yet. And yet some men will hang on and
fight for the same old sewerage with a little flavor
hiir added.
Johnson, big, black plug-ugly bruiser says he has
"done gone broke," and his creditors have closed his
cafe and taken his automobile. Ko more chicken for
you, Little Arthur. Yo'se down for the count and I
can hear the man say "ten."
Some day the time may come when Oregon City and
Clackamas county will shake off the little cliques and
plotters who run the financial and political steam
rollers about as they please. The time will come just
as soon as the people want it to come.
Idaho disgraced the state when it imprisoned three
newspaper men for criticism of the (supreme court,
and refused them trial or appeal.
The United States disgraced its flag when it refused
a landing to Edwards Alylius, the English editor who
was sentenced to a year's imprisonment for criticising
King George.
If there is one sentiment in American life that
sticks out prominent it is that for a square deal. This
country was rightly called "The land of the free
and the home of the brave," but a few more doings like
this and a few more disfranchisements because a
man's politics do not agree with the judge's and the
old song will be a joke.
!ut American blood won't stand for many more
such llussian tactics.
OKEGON ULAZES THE WAY AGAIN.
Some months ago the Courier stated some day we
would consolidate our churches, have one fine church,
one' big preacher, well paid, and more bald heads fill
ing the seats.
Uow many thought well or the idea Ave never Knew
for but one man ever expressed an opinion, but several
who opposed the plan expressed theirs, all right, and
told the editor of this paper such things could never
be, that Methodists, Baptists, i'reshyterians, and so
on could never scramble, and such editorials only
caused useless agitation.
Yet last week here in Oregon, in Wallowa coun
ty, at Enterprise, four Protestant churches have con
solidatcd; one pastor will serve the union church and
three of the churches will lie closed as churches.
Why not?
Any more reason for 57 varieties of Protestant
churches than for that number of Catholic?
The Catholics have one church, one great church,
and they have the Protestants skinned forty ways in
strength.
The country is full of ministers who are paid from
ftSOO to 1,500 salaries. Why not have one big union
church and a man like Uiissell to lill II.
All eyes are on Salem this week.
Pure water for Oregon City. The people will not
stop for anything less, and the sooner it is gotten the
cheaper and the less loss of life.
The ' Old Guard" element of Oregon want to haii" a
weight oa the initiative and referendum and limit it
power, and before the present legislature ends you
will see some joker proposition to this end. Judge
Lowell has already proposed one, an amendment to
limit the number of propositions to go on the ballot
but it wouldn't last fifteen minutes if a constitution
al ruling was made on it. A man as bralnv as Ju.lgc
Lowell ought to know that a ballot that permits one
proposition to be submitted to he people and denys the
other will not stick on our present constitution. Yet
will be strange if the old starid pat gang doesn't fine
something they can use this ax on.
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One of the laws that should come out of the present
session of the legislature at Salem is a state compen
sation law a statute that will remove the shyster
that stands betwen the injured and he employer and
takes his rake off. We should have a law framed af
ter the Washington statute, a law that rates each in
jury, ami when a man gets hurt he will know to a cent
how much he will get for his injuries, and he will
know that he has not got to bring a long drawn out
damage action and give his lawyer the most of the
verdict. The workman wants this law and the em
pi oyer wants it. The lawyer, the ambulance chaser,
is the only one who does not want it. It is simply a
matter ot drattng a statute that will be fair to both.
1 read in an 15ns tern newspaper the other day how
a live opposuni was sent through the parcels post and
delivered m good shape.
You see there is a great national demand for .'pos
inns and the parcels post gives these niggers' favorites
a medium for distribution. Jf there is one thing more
than another we American people are clamoring; for
it is 'posuin. And now we can mail 'em. The postoffiee
will accept them and quote you the rate in the zone to
which it is to be delivered.
l'.ut take some printed matter down to the P. 0. and
the P. M. will tell you nothing doing in that line in
P. P. He will (ell you that whiskey, books, dynamite
and such articles are debarred from the new carrying
schedule. j
When you stop to think of it, isn't it a funny one?
A book goes in the same class with a brick of lini
berger cheese it is objectionable to Uncle Sam and
his express system won't carry it. Of course you can
pay a higher rale and have the book carried in the
same rig with the opposuni.
Debar the books, put them in the class with the ob
jectionable. The people are being educated too fast.
The new system is (). K. for 'possums, but not for
print ing.
man.
It works more for the negro than the white
The Fmt Hundred
It is well known, that the first hund
red is the hardest to save. Why? Be
cause after having saved the first hund
red, the habit is formed ami saving there
fore becomes easy. A good way to get
together your fust bundled is to open
an account with us today right now.
A start with one dollar and two dollars
added to it every week will give you
your first hundred in less than a year.
The Bank of Oregon City
Oldest. Dank in Clackamas County
Joint Uepreseutative Lofgren of this and Multno
mah counties, is going to endeavor to enforce a stand'
ard of weights and measures in Oregon, and if he can
make it good the people will see that he goes back to
Salem in 1914 if he wants to. J. E. Iledcres stated
it a Live Wire session recently that false weights and
short measures costs this community from f 15,000 to
0,000 a year. This is a matter of-just plain hones
ty. The man who lays down his money should have
full measure for that money, should have all that the
money pays for, regardless of whether it is a pound of
leans or a cord ot wood.
The Farmers Society of Equity looks as if it was
,'oing to make the state of Oregon sit up and notice
things. It has in it much that that is hound to work
ut for the good of the farmers, and if they -wilf only
hold together and play team ball, they will certainly
have a power that will make some of the big concerns
squeal.
Take every public institution in the state out of
politics by creating a non-political board to man
age them. Petty politics and politicians have no
business m state institutions. Salem Messenger.
WAKE TO OPPORTUNITY.
If the editors throughout the country and the store
keepers throughout the country will combine, if they
will use the parcels post instead of opposing it, they
will soon find themselves possessor! of a new pros
perity, and competitors on a real and successful scale
with the great mail houses that have done so much in
jury of late years to the prosperity of the local mer
chant.
No mail order house can possibly succeed in a com
munity as well as the local merchant, if the local mer
chant plans his business as intelligently and econ
omically as is done by his big distance competitors.
Hitherto the great mail order houses have had the
advantage in buying and distributing.
Manufacturers were compelled to deal through job
bers and mail order houses. They could not reach the
consumer direct.
Hut, with the parcels post and through the parcels
Farmers Not to Blame if Their
Products Go to Waste j
By EDWIN TAYLOR. Agricultural Expert of Kansas
HE probability is that we have in America passed already the
mtnt orUsJavmA limit In All r fVUlflll mntion of meat. Our
UIUD V, WUUHJOUIUC iniwu v w 1
physical necessities REQUIRE NO MORE THAN A
MEAGER MEAT RATION. Consider the brawn Tf the
whole civilized world. It is vegetarian for the most part.
IN EUROPE AND ASIA THE HARD WORK IS DONE BY PEOPLE
WHOSE FOOD IS MAINLY VEGETABLE. IN THIS COUNTRY ALONE,
OF ALL CHRISTENDOM, DOES THE NOSE OF THE COMMONALITY
QO UP AT THE MENTION OF CABBAGE AND ONIONS AND CAR
ROTS AND SPINACH AS STAPLE ARTICLES.
Only within the past year, when every paper you took up was ring-
post, and with the aid of the country newspaper and ing the changes on the high cost of living, cabbage pnougli aud toma
the country storekeeper, manufacturers hereafter will toes enough and apples enough went to waste ROTTED OX THE
be able to deal direct with the consumers, and the nrcnrrNrn rttpattsp tttfv nnni I) NOT ME' SOLD FOR
great mail order houses will find that they have real TOnmn Tn PAV TrfV msT nF p,rmxn Til KM OX THE
cotnpetition-aii excellent thing for everybody.-New MAr?Tri7T , t . , . . llt ,, .tphnn ,, annIo but-'
... i . . ., m f j LIS UiniU t( U1M iUUUi Jl I" HUl umi ""' --- -- ( ,
ter. Why this neglect and loss ? The farmers did their part. They
produced the goods. The fault, if fault there is, LIES WITH THE
PEOPLE who didn't utilize what the farmers produced.
Many of the reproaches put upon the farmer belong upon the busi
ness men of the towns. What hand have they raised to serve their
fellow citizens cheaply and well from the surplus store of perishables
York Journal.
I5URXING THE CANDLE AT 150TII ENDS.
Ever knw of anybody to die of old age? Ever see or
hear of a death certificate that did not give some dis
ease as a cause of death?
The length of life is shortening, t.hev tell us. Tt. is
not doing anything of the kind we are' shortening that the farmer have produced ? LET'S CONSERVE, WHAT IS
life, that's all. . - . ALREADY RAISED before we plan too heavily on what we win
No one ever dies of oia age. I defy any of you to do with what we are "going" to raise
show one who has. There is an Indian in this state who
is now past 130, and who will soon die, and when he
does I'll bet a hundred dollars the death certificate
will show that disease, not old age, killed him,
In bible days men lived hundreds of years, and the
cause was that they were not sick every fifteen min
utes. You see these old patriarchs didn't open the day
with a cocktail and a cigarette and close it with ice
cream and black coffee. These men lived close to nat
ure aud didn't give the ailments much of a chance to
get them. - . ..,,.v;h
Uut we have degenerated and handed down our
weak spots until today if you would line up a thous
and men you would not find ten of them without some
ailment. ,- .. i-viTiifH
Nothing Is More Painful
Than an Ugly Woman
By INFANTA EULAL1A, Aunt of Klntf Alfonso of Spain
6
SAVE WHAT OREGON HAS LEFT.
Recently the Courier had an editorial on the mat
ter of what was going to be done with the thousands
of people the canal would provide a means for bring
ing to LhU const. It was written to set you to think
ing a little along these lines.
In Sunday's newspapers. I note a partial solution,
I he project to harness the Columbia river at Celilo
rind develop over i.'0(),000 horse power, to be owned by
Oit -on and Washington aud to be used for cheap
iiiiiDiuacuiring power.
There is one of the solutions'of the problem of what
the thousands of people who will come here in the
next ten years are going to do.
1 f there was ever a state that was gorged with water
powers it is" Oregon, and if there was ever a state
EAUTY IS THE HIGHEST AND MOST FAMILIAR SYMBOL.
WOMEN SHOULD BE BEAUTIFUL. AND NOTHING IS MORE
PAINFUL AND DEPRESSING THAN AN UGLY WOMAN.
A beautiful woman's face inspires joy and STIMU
LATES AND ENNOBLES HUMAN EFFORT. The woman
There is no telling how long we might live if it upon whora her tired husband cannot rest his eye? with joy, whose
children take no pleasure in looking at her, who, in a word, does not
beautify her home, misses the real, essential role of woman, that of
BEING THE CENTER OF HARMONY, the mirror of bounty.
Many errors aro pardoned in a beautiful woman because she lias
EMBELLISHED THE WORLD to which she makes a gift and
upon which she confers a favor, as Emerson says, by the effect of her
presence.
were not that our enemies killed us. No human being
knows the length of a natural human life.
Some day. we will give less attention to breedin
hogs, horses and hens and more to raising boys and
girls. And when we do we won't have old men at forty
and invalid girls at 25,
that should be making all that this part of the world
needs it is Oregon.
This Columbia project is but one of thousands that
are waiting tor men o harness. The Dechues
river is full of wonderful power sites; on the Clacka
mas river one power plant after another can be built
for miles; back in the mountains thirty or forty miles
ire never-tailing streams, almost running down hill,
that are wasting hundreds of thousands of
horse power that should be furnishing power to Ore
gon manufactories. All over the state you will find
these streams.
And it seems so starangc that Oregon should sleep
ind wait for eastern capitalists to gobble them up and
run them for the interests of eastern capitalists.
An Oregouian, a resident of this county, told the
Courier editor how the people of Oregon City a few
years ago sent men east and besrired capitalists to
oiue here and accept one of the most wonderful and
valuahlc water powers that ever God made. And how
fler it had been accepted and tied up, the city held
i celebrat ion in honor of having given away this great
asset. And now Oregon City nays for its own electric
light, and they tell me we actually nav for the water
( 1 should say sewage) that we take from the Willani-
t to.
The point is here: Oregon has water power suf
ficient to manufacture for almost the entire country.
i tit i give employment to the thousands of men that
will come here during the next few years. Now Ave
let the men panhandle, ioin the soap box armv and we
' v v
send back east for pretty nearly everything we eat,
use or wear. We Oregonians have got to come alive
to these things. AVe have got to look far enough
ahead to know that the mountain stream that has no
road to it now will be morth millions in the near fu
ture. Wo want to tie up these streams and these big
watcrpowers Uv the state of Oregon and for the man
ufacturing of O.'egou products.
And say, why not have these water powers devel
oped by and for the state of Oregon, just as the state
proposes to develop Clear Lake for drinking water for
the Willamette valley? Any reason why we should
not use the credit of the state for the good of the peo
ple of the sttate, and the people refund the statt? If
we w.nild go after the matter in this way we would
iii) only gie employment to the thousands of men who
CAN THE DEMOCRATS BREAK IT UP?
. Tariff reduction bills passed by the next con
gress won't be vetoed. Portland Journal.
But will they be passed? Electing a president on a
platform, pledging certain things and then getting a
congress that will back them up are two decidedly dif
ferent propositions, and if you want a bill of partic
ulars you can get it from the last congress that tried
it and fell down.
The trouble of getting congress to do what it is i
pledged to do is the same trouble that crops out from
a precinct up to congress politics.
A congressman from Eastern Oregon is going to
work for'the people of his district, and he' Isn't going
to look much farther.
lie wants the tariff kept up on wool, because his
people raise more wool than they wear, so he rubs up
against a New York Congressman who wants to keep
the tariff up on cutlery, and they agree to swap votes,
to support each other's schedules. Then the sugar beet
man and the timber man hitch up; the orange grower
and the beef raiser get next, and so congress organiz
es along these lines until the matter is simply a trad
ing convention with every man trying to get the best
of the job for his own district. And the result is tariff
laws for the benefit of the producers for the few.
Perhaps Woodrow Wilson and a few men who are
bigger than their districts can break up this nest and
legislate for the people. It remains to be seen, and we
are watching.
Practical Training Essentia!
For Agricultural Students
By Dr. L. H. BAILEY. Director of New York State College of
t Atfrlculture at Cornell University
HE colleges and schools of agriculture are now confronted
with very serious problems touching the qualifications of
those who enter the institutions. Many of these students
are coming from the cities and towns WITHOUT 'Y
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE OF FARM LI FK OI ANY UFA I
KNOWLEDGE OF THE RURAL BACKGROUND
ONE CANNOT SECURE THIS KNOWLEDGE OR EXPERIENCE BY
READING ABOUT IT OR DREAMING OF IT. HE MUST ACTUALLY
HAVE BEEN A PART OF A COUNTRY COMMUNITY IN ORDER rr
UNDERSTAND THE 8ITUATION. if IS IMPOSSIBLE, HOWEVER TO
IMPOSE A GENERAL ENTRANCE QUALIFICATION IN FARM PRAr.
TICE. BECAUSE NO WAY 18 PROVIDED WHEREBv tunc cvbo,
ENCE CAN BE GAINED IF ONE IS NOT BROUGHT UP Om a on..
A certain number of town boys can find employment, on farma
but the opportunities in this direction are not sufficient to meet the
necessity or the demand. The farmers do not want city lmv I
nerd the work, but we could in addition to manufac
i turni ;' furnish' heat, light and power to almost every
farm in Oregon and heat and light (cheap heat and
: light) to every city resident.
Think this matter over while we have water power
; siies left. Let us save what we have from the corpor
ations, for they will use it only for the corporations'
good. Oregon presents a splendid field for this work,
but if we do it we must come alive quick.
"TAKING IT PROM UllEN.
(Buffalo, N. Y., Enquirer.)
A few years ago William Simon U'Ren made a
practically single-handed beginning at making things
over in the state of Oregon.
The character and purposes of U'Ren are best dis
losed briefly by reciting his connections Organizer
and secretary of the Oregon Direct Legislative league,
1S02-1902; organizer and secretary of the Oregon
Direct Primary Nominations league, 1904, and
People's Power league, Oregon, 190G and 1908; sec
rotary of the Oregon Single Tax league.
U'Ren was one of the authors of measures for direct
control of state government by the voters through the
initiative and referendum, recall, proportional repre
sentation, amendments to the constitution, direct pri
niiiry aud rigid corrupt practices laws.
The official count on the vote on taxation and elect
oral questions, submitted to the people of Oregon at
the last election, has appeared. The statement includes
the leading advocates and opponents of the measures.
The people defeated seven propositions opposed by
U'Ren. They adopted two that he disapproved and
turned down two that he advocated.
Two of the propositions on which the people dis
agreed with U'rten related to the single tax. They also
exempted household furniture, wearing apparel and
personal effects in actual use from taxation against
his will and refused to approve abolition of the state
Senate, proportional election of members of the
House, proxy system of voting on bills and other rad
ical propositions in accordance with his advice.
Nevertheless, acceptance of seven orders out of
eleven indicate that the people of Oregon are tl:!iiy. a
great deal from U'Ren. . j
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