OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 1913 3 THE FARMERS SOCIETY OF EQUITY OF CLACKAMAS CO. National Headquarters, 227 Washington St., Indianapolis, Indiana. J. A. EVERETT, President H. F. CUTTING, (PortlandvOregon), Organizer COUNTY OFFICERS: S. L. Casto, President, Oregon City, Route 3 F. C. Buchanan, Secretary, Oregon City. E. E. Brenner, Organizer, Oregon City, Route 3 CONDITIONS REMEDY A Plain Talk on Things that are Fast Coming. Some crops are raised at a profit and others at a loss. It de pends on the price and the price depends on the system of mar keting. Light crops as a rule, bring more profit to the farmer than the bumper ones. Agricultural Colleges leach us how to raise big crops and why don't they teach how to sell these big crops at a profit? It is strange but true that the smaller crops bring the most money and the cause must be that the big crops are not marketed with any sys tem. Just to illustrate; in 1912 there were .250,000 cattle less on the Kansas City market than in 1911 yet they brought $3,000000 more. The big crop of 1912 has lost millions of dollars to the Americ an farmer. Indiana had a big crop of on ions of excellent quality and could not be harvested at a price as low as the market offered. They will rot where they grow. At Stockton, California, the on ion growers threw part of their crop into the San Joaquin river as it was impossible to sell them at any price. They have given six car loads to the poor of eastern cities. There is something terrib ly wrong when big crops drive the farmer from his farm with low prices and the city laborer is pauperized with high prices. Take the eight leading grain crops, with potatoes for the last four years : . Year 1909 1910 1911 1912 No. Bu Value 3,186,362,000 2,811,933,000 2,989,782,000 2,945,691,000 4,943,454,000 5,320249,000 4,621,071,000 625,861,000 The 1912 crop was 1,404,790, 000 bu. more and worth $41,091, 000 Jess than the 1911 crop. The 1912, crop was 1,082,407, 000 bu. greater than the 1909 crop and worth 240,671,000 less, join the Farmers' Society of Equity and use their plan to make the big crops and get profitable prices. Mr. R. A. Soulhworth, our or ganizer in tho adjoining Slate of Idaho, says the farmers over there have good crops of hay, graia and potatoes, but cannot live and pay their interest and will have to move out. We Jearn an awful lesson by these figures and that is when we raise a big crop. It would be millions of dollars in our pock ets to destroy about half of it if we have to market it under the old system. And the consumer pays about the same with a big crop as a small one. Now that is robbing Peter and Paul both. Congress has passed the Lever Agricultural Extension Bill by this time no doubt, unless the Senate ignores the report of its committee. This bill proposes to raise a fund in your county by taxes to match a big state fund to be raised by taxes equal to all the county funds and all this to equal a fund by the Nation Gov ernment that you must raise by indirect taxes' and all to be spent on an army of experts to teach you how to raise bigger crops. How are we to defend our selves if we don't kill Oregon's part of this scheme with the ref erendum? If our Agricultural College will co-operate with us in getting profitable prices for what we know now to raise, they can make themselves useful but to put another heavy tax on us just to ruin our markets and raise crops to rot in the fields is agri cultural suicide. If they try to fasten this on us, here in Oregon, we will have to do a little tinker ing with the reverse lever of our political machine. I am more than pleased to an nounce that one agricultural col lege president has taken hold of this marketing question with a vim. President H. J. Waters of the Kansas College has just had rur sar ar ij Sat A I is a congress of farmers from al! over the state. This college was a great help to the farmers of that state in marketing their big 1912 apple crop. Even the railroads of Kansas have taken hold of this question. The "Frisco" system is going to organize tho producers ajong its lines. The Southern-system all ready has four market agents ap pointed one each in St. Louis, Atlanta, Cincinnati and Washing ton. These will help the organiz ations of farmers to prevent such disastrous results as we have just had. with the crop of 1912. The railroads make no money on crops that rot in the fields. The consumer seems to get but very little benefit from these big crops, as he has the freight and express and many profits to pay, lhat have been added to tho pro duce after it has left the farm. If the consumer could organize and co-operate with the producer a great deal of freight expense could be saved. There is no need of canned corn being shipped to 'New York from Mo., and to Mo., ! from New York, and yet that is 1 what is being done by the can-t neries; and there is no need of Oregon ' shipping canned corn here from. Mo., or Iowa. That ex tra freight expense could be di vided between the producer -and consumerand give employment to our own people and can our home crop of corn. The Clackamas shop keepers have never worked to the interest of the farmer but always obeyed the dictates of the big fellows higher up and this is the case all over the country and if the farm er is compelled to. find a shorter route to the consumer the mer chant is entitled to no consider ation from the farmer or con sumer. The country merchant is doomed to be ground between the mill stones of his own making. The big fellows, like the harvester trust, are going into the- retail business and can Undersell and over buy the little fellow. The or ganized fanner is his best de fender and customer. Are you go ing to try to hold his tra.de? The farmers of Clackamas county fail to recognize Oregon City as a market worthy of notice and so far have refused to have a representative stationed here. I suppose it is on account of so many hitching racks and other conveniencenees and induce ments offered by the town. This does not injure the town in the least and even should this feel ing multiply to such an extent that farmers completely ignore the city it would do no harm or the "Live Wires" would bo doing something in the way of co-operation with the farmer to the farmers' financial benefit. You can't dowj the sentiment, with river water. The organized farmers will be compelled to own their own flour mills, cracker factories, operate their own slaughter houses and curing plants, run their cream to their co-operative creamery and establish depots to distribute their fruits and vegetables and own all of the produce of the farm until it reaches the hands of the consumer. He will then en joy the full benefit of what his labor has produced and who will be hurt? Just a few sap suckers on American labor who are mak ing billionaires of themselves and paupers of all other people. This is a lovely system we have now for -a very few. The Farmers Society of Equity is very much like the Irish Agri cultural Organization and known as the I. A. O. S. in Ireland. They started in 1889 with 50 members and did a business of 4,500 lbs. sterling. They have now 101,250 members and do a business of 2,750,000 lbs. They now have their own banks and a member must get the consent of his local for a loan. The local is the secur ity. They manufacture a great deal of the produce of the farm and take a deep interest in tho legislation affecting agriculture. MUST OWN MACHINE. People Must Control Produotlon and Distribution. Editor Courier: . Mr. Meredith, in his commun ication of tho 6th., refers to the various measures that have been passed by Congress. Why we do not get results is because the other fellows own the machine that manufactures and distrib utes it to the people. If the people owned the machine they would not have to pay on the watered stock. This proposed loan busi ness is one of the biggest steals from the farmers, that could be pulled off. They propose to bond the land. The bank that buys the bonds will take them to the com petroler of currency; he will say they am good security; the treas urer will issue 90 per cent of the face in U. S. currency and in five years the bank will own all of the land of course. That was the way the Panama canal was built. By issuing and re-issuing and de positing. As to the Society of Equity, when you get so you have any influence the courts will de clare you a combination in re straint of trade. The only way is for tho people to own the means of production and distribution and run them in the interest of all. the people and not for the profit. ' - , . M. "VV THOMAS. The farmers of Denmark are we'll organized. A laborer can buy a farm there by paying only one tenth down, the rest he gets from the farmers' co-operative bank at a low rate of interest. They co-operate in buying as well as selling. The co-operative sys tem is now a part of the national life o" Denmark. The Willamette hop growers have the opportunity of their lives this year viz., market your crop through the Farmers Society of Equity. All the hops of the U. S. except 31,500 bales in New York, are produced on the Pacific slope. How easy it would be to control the price of hops of the world right here in Oregon and get an nually a good price with little fluctuation. Organize. The Country Gentleman of Oc tober 5 says "peaches have rot ted on the ground while consum ers have paid,- two dollars per. bu. for the same grade of fruit. Market facilities and transporta tion problems have been neglected by the busy, producer." It also says the fruiC truck and vegetable farmers cannot secure better rates on account of the railroads owning the coastwise ships. The readers of this paper can see where the high cost of living comes in on this deal and what good will : the' Panama canal do us under, the same conditions? The Parcel Post law is a puz zle. If you send to the book store for a pound of books the postage is eight cents but on a one pound hammer it is only five. The Slate of Maine claims to be first to organize farmers on a stale wide basis. They have 13 local exchanges and one state ex change of $10,000 stock each. They are going to grade their produce better and expect better prices. They expect to do away with the dishonest middleman. E. S. Crosby, of Balh, is president. Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, u they cannot reach the seat of the dlaeafte. Catarrh la a blood or conall tutlonal disease, and In order to cure It you must taka Internal remedies. Hall'a Catarrh Cure la taken In ternally, and acta directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is not a quack medt cine. It was prescribed by one or the best physicians In thla country (or years and Is a renular prescription. It Is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purlflera, actlnj directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two Ingredients is what produces such wonderful re sults la curing catarrh. Rend for testimonials, free. F. i. CHENfcY CO., Props.. Toledo, O. Bold by Drugdlsis. price 75c. Take Hall's Family puis (or constipation. Accidents will happen, but the best regulated families keep Dr. Thomas' Oil for such emergen cies. Two sizes 25 and 50o at all stores. 1 ? Officers of Local Unions. Alberta Pres. Jesse Mayfield, Sec,' Ferris Mayfield. , . Beaver Creek Pres. Fred Kamerath, Sec. W. W. Harris. Canby Pres., Geo. Koehler, Sec. R. C. Brodie. Carus Pres. A. J. Kelnhofer, Sec. S. L. Castro. Clackamas Pres. J. A. Sieben, Sec. Frank Haberlach. Clarkes Pres. Albert Gasser, Sec. John L. Gard. . Logan, Pres. W. . E. Cromer, Sec, P M. Kirchem. New Era -Pres. Aug. Staehel ey, Sec. C. B. Reverman. Macksburg Pres. C. D. Kees ling, Sec. J. W. Smith. . Maple Lane Pres. H. N. Rob bins, Sec. G. F. Mighells. Mt. Pleasant Pres. P. W. Meredith, Sec. F. G. Buchanan. Shubel Pres. Chas. A. Menke, Sec. Elmer Swope. Sunnyside Pres. R. P. Grady, Sec. E. Oehlschlaegen Stone Pres. T. E. Brown, Sec. M. J. Byers. THE INTERNATIONAL BEN-HUR To Be Staged In Portland at The . Helllg Theatre All the Oriental splendor of the Indian Durbar which King George V of England journeyed to Delhi in India to take part in will be brought to the doors of Portland in Klaw & Erlanger's elaborate nfiw nrnduction of "Ben Hur." which inaugurates an engagement of one week at the Heilig theatre January 27. Never' before in the history of the stage has there been 'so much wealth expended on the presentation oi a nisioricai spectacle. Flashing jewels, daz zling armor, magnificent robes, superb draperies, the marvelous rugs of the far East, the costly furnishings of two thousand years ago all these things, are' combined and displayed in the wonderful revival. Klaw and Er langer, the owners of this most wonderful piece of theatrical property, have given it a produc tion which in magnitude and spectacular grandeur eclipses any production shown up to date on the American stage or in the the-, atre of any other country. The magnitude of the scenio settings is of such a nature that there are only a few. theatres with stages large enough to accomodate the equipment. Carpenters, electri cians, and a horde of other work men are now in possession of the Heilig stage, getting ready for this production, and when .- the curtain does rise on the solemn and beautiful scene in the desert where the Wise len are waiting for the signal, the Star o Belhle hem, to point them the way to the Messiah, the spectator will view he spectacular achievement - of American stagecraft. Klaw . & Erlanger taxed the enormous re sources of their theatrical plant in every department in building this new equipment. Their scen ic artists and costumers, their engineers and electricians worked for one solid year in combination and under the direction of artists and historians, antiquarians and scholars, to accomplish the seem ingly impossible the effacement of former memories of "Ben Hur" productions. With this new spectacle they have built for themselves a monument as en during as the name of Shakes peare in the glories and beauties of the new setting for the greatest story the world has ever known: "The Tale of the Christ." During Ben-Hur season at the Heilig matinees are scheduled for Wednesday and Saturday. ; For years J. S.' Donahue, So. Haven, Mich., a civil war cap tain, as a lighthousekeeper avert ed awful wrecks, but a queer fact is, he might have been a wreck himself, if Electric Bitters had not prevented. "They cured me of kidney trouble and chills," he writes, "after I had taken other so called cures for years without benefit, and they also improved my sight. Now at seventy, I am i inn- fina " Fnr rlvsnensia. in- Unoiiinn nil atnmnnh liver ana kidney troubles, they re without equal. Try tnem. uniy ouo ui Huntley Bros. 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Co., Druggists Oregon City Oregon. mm AT THE LEGISLATURE Initial Week is Remarkable for Work Accomplished. 225 BILLS ARE INTRODUCED First Time in History Bills Introduced First Day Senate Ahead of House On Vetoed Measures Appropriation Bills Large San Francisco Fair May Get Only $250,000. Salem. The first week's session of the 27th legislative assembly was re markable for the prompt manner in which the lawmakers got down to ac tual work and the great amount of business accomplished is in strong contrast to the time-marking proceed ings of previous sessions. In the past the first week has been frittered away with nothing accomplished aside from organization. The presiding officers were practi cally selected in advance, and the vote on C. N. McArthur for speaker of the house and Dan Malarkey for president of the senate was a mere formality that took up little time. Both presid ing officers promptly announced their committees and the business of legis lation began the first day of the ses sion, something heretofore unheard of. For the first time in the history of Oregon legislatures bills were intro duced on the first day bf the sesBlon and for the first time a bill was passed during the first week of the session. -, In the house 150 bills have been In troduced the first weekas compared with 30 bills at the preceding session, and in the senate 75 bills have been Introduced as against 36 bills last ses sion a total of 225 bills. No bills passed the house tho first week last session and none the senate. Four bills passed the house this week and one the senate. ' The house al-' ready has begun the consideration of senate bills and the senate of house bills. Last session the house did not reach the consideration of senate bills until the third week. . Senate Overrides Several Vetoes The senate is ahead of the house on the vetoed measures of the last ses sion, having acted on all of the bills originating In that body, and only one remains to be finally passed on. The house has acted on only a few of its vetoed bills. In overruling the governor, the members as a rule showed independ ence, exhibiting neither a friendly nor unfriendly spirit. The presiding offi cers, who have the situation well in hand, assert that In their opinion there will be no effort on the part of this legislative assembly to punish West for his past activities In the legislative domain, while on trie other band he will receive the consideration due his office if he does not attempt any en croachments. Appropriation Bills Large Appropriation bills making demands on the state treasury of $1,078,700 have been Introduced. This Is a re cord breaker, as it is the first time that appropriation bills have ever been introduced during the first week. It seems to be a pretty well settled fact that the appropriation for Panama-Pacific Exposition will not get past the $250,000 mark at the outside, al j though some of the members are DOOSling IOr $OUU,UUU. A bibuw uuuiuci of them have settled on $200,000 as the proper figures, while others are even anxious to go lower than that. Measures Passed Over Veto. The measures passed over veto of governor, In the senate were: , Forbidding spending where there is no available appropriation. Creating emergency board In time of need when deficiency exists. Providing livestock board; abolishing sheep inspector, state and county veterinarians. Meth od for dividing counties. Providing fish hatchery at Spring Creek. In creasing district attorney's salary in Fifth Judicial district. The vetoes sustained in the house were: A measure providing for second choice in piimary elections. A meas ure modifying law with regard to di verting funds from ordained use. . : May Abolish Purchasing Board. The appropriation of $16,000 for the biennial period, which has been intro duced in connection with McArthur'S bill establishing a state board of con trol, Is really a substitute appropria tion for a similar amount which Is carried In the state purchasing board appropriation bill, which was passed vnrrs ago. In event the McArthur bill goes through It will virtually do uwuy with the state purchasing board by placing the duties of that board with the state board of control. . The appropriation of $3000 a year which is carried for the salary of the governor's secretary Is practically a duplicate of the present cost to the Ftate for that office. Now he acts as clerk of several boards of the various Institutions. In event the board of control bill goes through these duties would be taken from blm and bis sal ary dropped to' $1200 a year. . While numerous acts for the repeal lng of laws which provide for puUIo offices and commUsions have been In troduced, at the snme time, for the first week of a session,' It Is fairly well holding Its own as to bills creating new pubMc otficcs. One bill creating the Accident In dustrial commission provides for three commissioners.each to receive a salary of $3600 a year, thus carrying provis ion in this bill for salaries alone of $10,800 a year, or $21,600 for a biennial period. ' Another bill, which creates a chair of logging engineering at the Oregon agricultural college, carries with It an appropriation of $65,000. A bill has also been introduced to provide for the examination of rural credits in Europearf countries which carries an appropriation for the : ex penses of the investigators. The bill providing for a BureaSi of Mines and Geology is practically creat ing a new bureau, although there la a Bureau of Mines at the Oregon agri cultural college which will be done away with if this bill passes. The bill creating a state board of control really creates no new board, but does away with a number of old ones and centralizes and expands somewhat the duties of the present state board, which is made up of the governor, secretary of state and state treasurer. Interstate Bridge Wins First Round Multnomah won the first round in Its battle for legislative consideration of an Interstate bridge between Wash ington and Oregon, jover the Columbia river, when the senate Indorsed a house resolution providing for a com mittee to meet with the Washington legislature. The resolution provides that a com mittee of two from the senate and three from' the house shall meet with a like committee from the Washing ton legislature to confer on the ques tion of the advisability of the bridge and the ways and means to secure the desired result. Invited to View Hill's Good Roads , Governor West nnd all the members of the legislature were Invited by Sam uel Hill to be his guests at his expense on a visit to Maryhlll, Wash., to In spect his seven varieties of good roads. It is thought favorable action will be taken, as the time set for the visit is either a Saturday or Sunday, when the work of the session will not likely be seriously affected. The legislature la given the choice of two dates, Sat urday, February 8, or Sunday, Febru ary 9. Changes in Oregon System Proposed The initiative and referendum and the corrupt practices act are being made In prospect the subject of nu merous amendatory acts at the pres ent session, but according to Indica tions the majority of the amendments to these acts which have already been proposed will meet with scant favor from the committees to which they have been referred. Among the acts is one that provides that no more than two constitutional amendments nor five general laws shall be submitted to the people at any one election. Another bill proposes that after an Initiative bill has receiv ed so many adverse vote It shall not go on the ballot again for a period of six years. , The corrupt practices act is also the subject of a large number of bills which propose amendatory clauses. Check on Campaign Expsnss Is Urged With the view of confining the ex penditure of money, either In behalf or against any initiative measuVe, to the publicity pamphlets and newspa per advertising, Representative Blan chard, of Josephine, introduced a bill In the house which, If passed, will revolutionize proceedings with rela tion to initiating measures and wag ing campaigns with relation to them. The bill, In brief, provides that it shall be unlawful for anyone tcexpend money in promoting a measure or de feating It, save in arguments In the publicity pamphlets and In the news papers. This cuts off all distribution of private literature, and also al' other moans of expenditures: Board of Control for Institutions A bill Introduced in the house by Speaker McArthur provides for a state board of control to take over ths man agement and affairs of 11 stats Insti tutions, some of which now have sep arate governlag boards. , The institutions included are the Oregon state hospital, the Eastern Oregon Btate hospital, the state insti tution for feeble minded, the Oregon state training school, the Oregon state penitentiary, the Oregon state school for the blindthe Oregon state school for the deaf, the Oregon tuberculosis hospital, the Oregon state soldiers' home and the oapltol and supreme court buildings. The board of control as provided for in the bill Is to consist of the gover nor, the secretary of state and the state treasurer. The board Is to meet on the first Monday of each month, and all Its meetings are to be open to the public. It shall be the duty of the members of the board under the law to visit each institution, with the ex ception of the Eastern Oregon state hospital and the Oregon state soldiers' home at least once In every three months, and to visit these Institutions at least ones every ysar. ; . Take the "direct road" to health ami strenulh by using Foley Kid ney Pills for backache, rheuma tism, weak sore kidneys and blad rli-r irrptriilariLlfis. Each insrred ient is chosen for its positive healing and curative qualities. Foley Kidney Pills are the beat medicine you can buy for kidney ci'n.l til.irlrlnr fprmhlpR. Mrs. .1. M. Findley, Lyons, Oa., says: "I took Lr;i.lnn. nill arA thou An ritl'J lMJuurj rJiin uiiii nmj tirely, cured me." Huntley Bros. Co. PAUL O. FISCHER Lawyer Deutscher Advokat Room 8 Beaver Building DEVICE RESUSCITATES SEVEN. Firamen Pronounced Dead From Suffo cation Saved. 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