OREGON CITY COORIERr'.'FRIDAY JAN. 31 1913.
OREGON CITY COURIER
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Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
M. J. BROWN,
EDITOR
The Courier will gladly give space for Clackamas County's
three representatives in the house to justify their votes in pass
ing the widows' pension bill, so called.
It is said that Oregon paid out over $30,000,000 last year for
automobiles. Every dollar of this was Oregon money sent back
East. It helped to drain the state. It is the mail order proposit
ion on a great scale. Why don't we make them here?
The legislature may go ahead with the naval militia and its
appropriations; it may keep on with its general appropriation
lills, i tssession extravagance and raising of judges' salaries,
and when it has ended its forty days then the people will take a
referendum on the thickest of them and do what they elected
legislators to do.
now los o will we stand for this?
Ileforc the ways and means committee in Washington this
week, , Joseph Holmes, a wool manufacturer, admitted that the
average $12 and $18 suits actually cost the factory $3 and $1, and
lire are sold abroad for $8 and $10, but he argued for a contin
uation of the tariir duties on the ground that these goods would
not be a cent cheaper if the tariir was lowered or entirely re
moved. .,
Isn't this a statement to set you to thinking? This man admits
the people are being robbed, but he says we will he robbed any
how, and so long as we arc to be, we. might as well give the gov
ernment the benefit of the tariff duties for expenses.-
And here we have open defiance. We have a manufacturer
telling us we MUST pay a certain price for clothing, regardless
of cost, we MUST, I5ECAUSH NONE WILL SELL TO US
LESS. -
Time to stop, look and listen.
THE SAVRFD GRAFT.
The air at Salem smells of reforms and economy, and every le
gislator is hunting for something that makes a noise like graft
that he may use his ax on and get his name on the newspaper's
front pages.
But have you seen any of these legislators (mostly lawyers)
putting the probe into anything that would clip the graft corners
of their business?
Have you noticed any bills, and lawyers fighting to pass them,
that would do away with the loan shark departments that most
of these lawyers operate at home. r' ,
I know legislators in the legislature at Salem today who are
posing as the friend of the poor m;tn, and fighting for economy
that the poor man's taxes may be less, who when they make a
ioan to the poor man charge hi in seven per cent interest and then
a discount of $50 on a $1,000 in addition, forcing the borrower
to pay 12 per cent interest. And these same men are posing as re
formers. r
You don't see them fighting for a six per cent interest rate
with a state prison penalty for usury, do you?
You don't see them working their heads oil to reform our
grafting court system, do you? You don't see them introducing
bills that would keep petty cases out of the supreme court; re
form bills that would stop the abstracting graft; bills that would
block the hundred and one lawyers grafts.
Why don't some of these fellows begin at home?
There are ninety men at Salem yelling economy and trying
to find some printers bill they can cut out, and 89 of them have
private stenographers (wives, relatives and sweethearts) draw
jng $5, Sundays and all. In one day, Saturday last, this legislat
lire, which is trying to find Economy, introduced appropriation
bills, its session extravagance and raising of judges' salaries,
total almost $4,000,000.
There is a measure before the legislature at Salem providing
that cold storage products shall be labeled with the date they
are incarcerated and the time of liberation. It probably will not
pass, but it would be interesting to watch the justification of the
men who would vote against it the excuses the packers will pre
sent for them. The man who has to eat the stuff has a right to
know when it died and when it was embalmed, and it is his right
to buy it or leave it, and it is not the right of any packing bouse
to try to fool him by passing off on him something a long time
dead for a strictly fresh ranch article. In justice to the consum
er and the producer this bill is only justice, but there will be so
much noise and bustle in the capitol city when it dies that it will
rot be noticed.
YOU MAY EXPECT MOST ANYTHING NOW
I want to tell you there is a change in the wind when old Tom
Piatt New York state ratifies an amendment providing for the
election of United States senators by the people, by a vote of 128
for and four against. , '
To one at all familiar with boss-ruled, stand pat old New York,
this action is significant. It means that the old order is passing,
and the Barnes, Wadsworths and their kind can no longer stand
between the people and what they want. It means the passing of
the Depews, the Roots and this class of men, and it means the
coming of the majority into rule.
The election of senators by popular vote of the masses is but a
few steps in the future. It has come slow, but change of opinion
that is now sweeping the country has brought it finally, and from
now on the people are going to rule far more than they ever liaye,
and we are going to have a more representative government. Af
ter the election of senators has been secured then will come the
recall to hold over their heads, and then will come legislation
that the trusts can't stop so easily.
When the legislature of rock-ribbed old New York has but four
assemblymen that dare stand out against the popular election
of senators, you may expect most anything.
ISN'T OREGON WELL REPRESENTED?
It was through the Oregon system, and through no other
agency, that the Republican Legislature of 1900 elected a
Democratic United States Senator and the Republican Leg
islature of 1913 elects another United States senator. Ex
cept for the Oregon system it is unquestionable thaj: those
Republican Legislatures would have chosen Republican sen
ators. Oregonian. 1
If we are to judge the legislatures of 1909 and 1913 by prev
ious legislatures in Oregon and in other states, the Republican
legislatures of 1909 and 1913 would if they could have sold the
office of United States senator to the highest Republican bidder.
The Oregon system of popular rule stopped the auction sales,
iind the man who is not a seller or a buyer knows that it is far
better for Oregon to have two Democratic senators elected by the
people than two big business plutocrats who have bought and
paid for the office. 1
And by the way, is there anything the matter with Senators
Chamberlain or Lane? Hasn't Chamberlain made fully good
and don't you believe Lane will? Ls Oregon clamoring- for a
change?
- . V IF IRON WAS GOLDWHATty :
If iron was money, we'd all have our woodsheds and basements
full because it would be easy to get. .: .-'.! ;".''..
But if a fellow paid cash Jfor a farm,' he would have to make
same in carload installments.-1 '' ". .,- ,
The only place l ever thought Mr. Bryan got in . very wrong
u as when he advocated standing silver up with gold and making
it a standard by propping it. Silver was plentiful and cheap, and
the result was bound to be a cheap dollar, because of over-production,
just the same as cheap potatoes. when every state raises
a big crop. ' -
Up until a dozen or so years ago it has been said that the pro
duction of gold has kept pace with business and demand. -
Men have, had to work for it, dig for it, suffer hardships and
privations to get it, and they say every dollar of gold up to 1895
was earned in days' works, hence its scarcity kept its value up.
But of late years the yellow stuff has been coming easier.
Wonderful deposits have been found in Africa; Alaska has pour
ed a golden stream into our country and wonderfully rich mines
have been found in the southwest and in Mexico.
Now to illustrate what I am driving to, let us just suppose
that out here in the Cascades a mountain of gold was found,
enough to supply the world's demands, and that could simply be
shoveled out.
What would the result be?
That it, would go down in value because of over-production ;
rhat it would take a lot of it to fill a purchase price that IT
WOULD BE CHEAP MONEY.
And this is just the condition yye are coming into (or are al
ready to) today, and it is one of the factors of the high" cost of
living. '-. , '
Money is losing value.' and purchasing ability, hence higher
higher prices are put on goods sold to make up the loss.
And if on the other end-all wages must be advanced in propor
tion to the raise in products, then how much better are we off?
Everything will cost more and everybody will have more n:on-
.y to pay with; and if we will have to carry our gold in a sack
vhen we make a grocery purchase.
This is the Courier-editor's-way of looking at it. Some do not
agree with this view. ;
O. W. Eastham, what do you think of it?
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
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Signature of
Oregon Observations
J "- a . A 4" M lift
By A. COULD
There are r very few men who
noose the exemption of improv
ements and personal property to
Hie limited extent of one thous
and dollars. The few who do ad
mit that such a proposition, if
unnconnected with any other,
would pass by a large majority in
Oregon. Why not get busy and
draw up an initiative petition for
uch a provision :
There is a roar going up over the proposal to amend the elec
lion laws of the state to permit any candidate being placed in
nomination by the payment of two hundred dollars to the secre
tary of state and filing bis nomination. But I can't see where the
place to protest comes in.
No doubt the purpose of the original nomination law was to
make the oflice seek the man, make his friends get out with peti
lions and put him in nomination. But purposes do not always
work out according to program. The office does not seek the man
and the office won't chase him in Oregon for some time to come
yet, and until we get to this stage of the game we might just as
well deal W conditions as they are.
Today the petition business and nominations simply simmer
right down to buying them to paying five cents per name for
men to get out and get (lie required number of signatures. On
an average this means f 200 to put a man in nomination. It goes
to the professional solicitor, the man who makes a business .f
nominating men nt so much per nominate." And you might bet
ter hand over this ijfL'OO and be nominated, let the state have the
money, than to pay it to (lie circulator and be longer getting it,
and then have a pet Hon that the secretary of state may throw out.
The time will conic when the weak spots in the Oregon system
will be made strong, but only operation will show the remedy,
the route for a candidate (for he will be nominated if be has $200
and wants to be) and trust to the people to hunt the candidates'
weak spots at the polls.
Brighten Your Future !
You know your present earning capac
ity. Yon know that you can, if you
will, save a part of your earnings every
month. Your inability to do this, shows
a lack of economy, thrift and determina
tion a mental condition that is a sure
forerunner of an old age of want. Act
upon your own initiative open a SAV
INGS ACCOUNT now while you are
regularly employed and can save a little
every month.
THE BANK OF OREGON CUT
Oldest Bank in Clackumns Counly
The bills are coming so thick and fast that one simply canuot
i rep tab on ihem now. Over tlu-te hundred have already iiecn
introduced and the Im;s are just getting itarted. But among
them, one will occasionally see one that interests and calls forth
especial attention. Such a one is Speaker McArthur's biU
provide for a longer legislative sesion, to sixty days instead of
the present session of forty days, and a raise in pay for the legis
lators. '.,
Let us suppose that it was a business deal that the people
wanted some men to manage, what would they do? They would
kick men fitted to handle that business and they would pay them
mighty well for the work. They would get the best men that
money could hire, They couldn't get good men without, and they
know it.
But when it comes to the matter of hiring men to manage and
direct the business of a big state, then we take everything that
comes along that can get a nomination.
What Oregon should do is to pay wages that big men can af
ford to work for to make going to Salem for a month or two an
object for a man to leave his business. Today we see the sorry
pectacle of a legislator's wife (who has been put over for a clerk
ship) getting more money than the representative she waits on
If we had thirty days sessions and had them every year, and il
we would pay the legislators about eight hundred dollars for the
session, Oregon would make money.
Last week the Courier protested as strongly as it could against
rhat discriminating mothers' pension bill, which the bouse at
Salem passed as "a compliment to the women," and we are glad
to note the following comments in Sunday's Portland Journal :
"The bill proposes to gie $ 10 a month for the first child and
$7.50 a month for each additional child to every mother whose
husband is dead, incapacitated, or an inmate of some state in
stitution, including the penitentiary.
"Did the house have authentic statistics on which to base a
fairly accurate conclusion as to how much of a sum the operat
ion of this law will require? Did it base its action on some know-
dge of the number of persons to go on this pension roll, or did
it vote more on a basis of political buncombe to the women?
"I low many of the members figured out the posibilities of the
bill? One thousand pensioners with an average of five children
ach would require an expenditure every year of about o00,000
of public money. A pension roll of 4,000 with an average of three
hildren, which is not impossible, would mean an expenditure of
f 1,200,000 a year. How many members are certain that the total
expenditure will not exceed the latter figures.
The bill does not seem to include women who have been de
serted by a loafer of a husband and left with half a dozen chil
dren on her bauds as is not infrequently the case, any less en
titled to a pension than the woman whose husband is in the pen
itentiary? Is the poverty of a deserted woman any less grinding than the
poverty of any woman named in the bill? Is it the fault of the
child that the father ran away instead of getting into jail? If
we are going into the pension enterprise, why hold the child re
sponsible for what the father does, and pension one child while
we deuy a pension to another child equally deserving?"
What earthly use is a state
senate when we have the refer
endum? It doubles the cost of a
legislative session.
In Arizona they are talking oi
abolishing this costly imitation of
the British House of Lords. Down
in Arizona the people there do
not talk very long before they do
things.
We are laying up trouble for
ourselves in Oregon in not taking
away from the Legislature the
power to pass "emergency"
clauses to laws by a bare major
ity. The clause prevents the ap
plication of the referendum. In
Arizona it requires a two-thirds
vote to declare a law an emergen
cy, and in California even that
does not prevent the referendum,
altho the law is enforced until
the people vote it down.
""The Oregonian does not like
the idea of W. S. U'Ren being
called a .lawgiver. It seems to
think that people have forgotten
that Inst week a U. S. Senator
was elected in Oregon with less
fuss than a page used to be ap
pointed by the Legislature. Same
in Nebraska too. In each case the
Legislature wa3 compelled to
elect a man of another party from
the dominant majority because
the people chose him. For four
years after the people of Oregon
adopted this plan the Oregonian
abused U'Ren for it, and thereby
gained him the title that it ob
jects to others' giving him now.
True, some measures this citizen
of Oregon City supported were re
jected at the polls; but the re
cent vote on woman suffrage
shows that there may be some
painful experiences yet in store
for the Oregonian. But in a cir
cular sent out all over the state
during October by the Peoples
Power League, the people follow
ed the suggestions of its secre
tary in 11 out of. 16 state wide
measures.
The organ of the plute daily in
Portland says that the attitude of
W. S. U'Ren was not known on.
equal suffrage before the election.
It knows very well that in com
mon with nearly all advocates of
political and economic' justice
U'Ren was advocating equal suf
frage when the Oregonian was
slinging mud at even the sister
of its then editor for her support
Some statesman to make him
self solid with the enemies of the
initiative, has proposed to forbid
the use of money from outside
the state to help the campaign
of any initiative proposition.
Might just as well propose that
all money coming into Oregon
shall be painted green from
Washington, red from Californ
ia, yellow from Idaho and pink
if from Nevada.
Look out for a knife 16 inches
long, slipped into the valvular
organism of the initiative of the
committees in the legislature can
find the opportunity.
Teaching young people and
old, how to farm is good, but get
ting them the farms would be
good, too.
An effort is being made to put
the mutual fire insurance com
panies out of business in Oregon.
These organizers have, compelled
the big old liners to cut down the
charges for insurance perhaps
twenty per centr. The trust don't
like 'em.' The people do. It would
be. well for the. lobbyists of the
trust to bear in mind that Major
General Referendum is always
o.n deck in Oregon.
The idle land held for specu
lation makes the high cost of
living.
- Water power is worth money
il sells for good money when the
title to it is good. It should pay as
much tax as the farmers' lands
when of the same value. It does
not do it now. and this makes
taxes high on all of us. Water
power can be held out of use and
an artificial monopoly price ex
acted for its use just as can any
other natural gift. The less it is
taxed the easier it is so held for
speculationThe holder performs
no service to posterity in hold
ing" it, for it will be there with
out him just the same as it was
there with him. It -would not be
confiscation to make the owners
of water power pay a just tax on
its just valuation. But this is pre
cisely, what some emminent at
torneys at Salem deny. Why?
Here's a Bargain.
Five Acres, throe improved, 1
acres a commercial orchard,
small house, . good spring, level
land, ? and one-half miles to
court house, one mile to car line,
price $1,300, good terms.
. Nine-room house, large lot,cily
and well, water, two blocks to car,
a snap for $000. For terms see
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Oregon City.
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Mrs. Frank H. Uline, of West Sand
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