Maple Lane Editorials.
JOHN STARK'S COLUMN OF
QUESTIONS AND COM
MENTS. Interesting Review of Big and Little
Things in State and Nation.
Since "Outlaw" Reed died there
seems to be some difficulty to find
some way to fill his place. Why not
Bond Caruso's famous monkey; he is
used to the antics of good society.
The Oregonian says that the ten
embassys pay $17,500 each "but their
incumbents are required to spend so
much money in order to uphold the
dignity of the country on the scale
but millionaires can afford to accept
the posts and these must be content
with glory as compensation."
I am aware that I will be laughed
at as being from the country, espefr
ially by some jays who have heads
for no other purpose but a convenient
place to put a mouth, so as to avoid
the trouble to feed them by hypoder
mic methods.
However I want some one to tell
me if this government Is in duty
bound to furnish the millionaires with
a "reputation" so that these guys
will have enough social standing to be
permitted to spend their money
among these two legged blow flies.
We habitually say "their money" but
will it be out of place while discussing
such an exalted position, to ask if it
is by right their money when their
countrys workmen are starving?
Now don't tell me I am impertinent
and that our best people do it so it
must be right; for I never like poll
parrots during the moulting season.
Have you ever noticed the waste
fullness of the capitalistic system, the
many duplications in business, say
for instance the delivery of milk.
How many wagons will deliver on one
street? You will see if you care to
look, that the city postmen do not run
around each other in the delivery of
mail.
In the large cities the milk business
is becoming trustified, with the result
that the city is laid out in districts,
which eliminates the waste of effort.
Right here let me say that perhaps
I am the only friend the trusts have,
for the trusts are labor saving devic
es. Those fool politicians who propose
to smash the trusts are just like the
journeymen tailors were when sewing
machines came into use. They smash
ed some machines because they lost
their jobs. Had these tailors but se
cured the ownership of the machines
they could have mastered the situat
ion. The same rule applies to giant
corporations. Let the nation own the
trusts!
Speaking of another form of fool
ish waste, eight years ago thruout
the south. Ever so much cotton, al
ready harvested, ginned and in bales
was deliberately burned, right here in
the smartest nation on earth, all in
order to raise the price. Had these
men no better plan? It seems not,
yet if the price was to be low, why
not plant less the following year and
save the labor of the cotton already
produced? A Siwash would have
known that much.
Have you farmers taken notice
how our government is worrying be
cause we are paying such high rates
of interest? A nice scheme is on tap
to charter bonding and loaning com
panies. When the aforesaid govern
ment provided the banks with cheap
money no bonding compunies were re
quired. The Socretary just hande'd
out the long green to the banks. Why
not do that way to us? We are all
equals in this country you know!
But why does the government hand
out the real stuff to the banker was
what puzzled me in years gone by.
Then I observed that the bankers
were all in politics and the farmers
were not. Right here let mo put a
bug in your ear, Mr. Equity man, who
is afraid of politics in the union? The
bankers union is above ull else a po
litical club, not a partisan organizat
ion. No, they are wiser than party
lines, but when they meet they frame
up whatever they want in the shape
of laws and then go after them; send
bankers for their attorneys to con
gress and got what they want. Now
we must do likewise, then we can el
ect fifty five per cent of the congress
men. See the point?
"Divino Sarah" in Portland. I did not
go, neither did any of my near neigh
bors. Th'5 bent va fiirniers can do is
to go to a "movie." Not so with the
non-producers, for they can enjoy the
best in everything. The next time
anyono tells you about the prosperity
of tho farmer set the dog on him.
Have you read tho report of the
Consumers' League of Portland? If
not, you should. If that don't make
you want to fitfht something, then
there is no red blocd in your veins,
nothing but Willamette water; and
hook worms in your heart.
Competition is the life of trade.
You've heard thut have you not? Did
you notice that success follows strong
on co-operation?
Recently the retail merchants, at
their convention, took steps to get a
law enacted to prevent the scheme of
trading stamps, as a means of coax
ing trade. You see it is this way:
competition is real nice if it don't
compete with you.
When you hear that president
Woods, of tho Woolen Mills Co,, of
Lawrence, is doing time please let
me know. He was indicted for plutit
ing dynamite; perhaps you remember
about it and perhaps not.
Did you get the year book of the
department of agriculture? On page
10 for year of 1911, you will read
"The consumer pays one dollar for
food. The farmer gets less than fifty
cents. Who gets the balance?"
Bring that up in the Equity.
Now that was some bill which
was introduced by Dimick, to abolish
the "melish." If the legislature would
have passed that and gone home with
out any other act, their names would
go down in history without any stone
monuments.
Did you ever just think real hard
what the object and occupation of a
soldier is? Just plainly speaking my
friend, did you ever realize that the
trade of a soldier is to kill? Now
don't go up in the air and tell me
the army and the militia protects us,
for facts are all against you.
When the tri-state encampment was
over the state of Washington was
called on to pay something like $700
for fields of grain the dough boys
had destroyed in their "maneuvers,"
and a lot of chickens they had stolen.
Some protection in that eh? Very
much like we are getting out of the
duty on import racket. .
JOHN F. STARK
How it All Started.
When Adam met Eve he was bashful
nnH Rhv.
And he stammered and blushed
pverv time she came nieh.
Till at last he grew bold and began to
nlav court
(You may put all your trust in this
faithful report)
And he murmured to her on an even
ing serene;
"You're the prettiest girl that I have
ever seen"
And that's now that Btarted.
When Eve, with a beautiful blush on
her face,
Yielded shyly and. sweetly to Adam's
embrace,
And put up her red lips for the true
lover's pact
(You may set this down as an abso
lute fact)
She enquired, while he breathed the
fond names on his list:
"Have you said that to all of the
girls you have kissed?"
And that's how that started.
When Adam asked Eve if she would
be his bride,
She looked up and looked down, and
she sighed and sighed,
And she let him take hold of her
lily white hand
(This is history, now, as you must
understand)
Then she said in a voice that was
dulcetly low;
"I must have time to think, .'Tis so
sudden, you know."
And that's how that started.
When they had been married a few
vpnrn nr fin.
Then Adam told Eve: "We're invited
fn trn
To a dinner and dance with some
friends down in Nod."
(This is truly authentic, although it
Rounds odd.)
Eve replied with a sad and sorrow
ful nir?
"I can't go. Don't you see I have noth
ing to wear?"
And that's how that started.
WHY MONEY IS MONEY. -
A Farmer's Answer to the Courier's
"If Iron Were Gold."
Editor Courier:
It seems from your editorial last
week that you mistake material for
money. Gold is not money, it is the
"fiat" of government that puts in the
dollar. If I owed you a dollar and of
fered you two half dollars you must
take them; they are "Legal Tender."
No one knows what gold is worth.
All the "civilized" nations have a
standing offer for all the gold in the
market. When obtained at that fixed
price the stamp of weight and qual
ity (finesse) is put on and the law
tender on the books put the ? in the
gold.
Lycurgus, "the U'Ren" of Sparta
500 years B. C. demnoatized gold and
silver and stamped Iron as money
and the country prospered because
the exporters could not use it abroad.
A $100 piece need be no bigger than
a quarter of Bilver.
That there is nothing in the quan
tity idea is illustrated by our silver.
Take four quarters or ten dimes, or
two halves to Seeley and buy as much
as a dollar while the "Brand" con
tains 412 and a half grains and the
subsidary" coin 887 grains. Ihe
trade dollar" contained 420 grains
but depreciated. Why? "Fiat" that's
all. Money is not the material, but the
law is money!
Brvan did not want to prop up sil
ver only with the props that had been
knocked out by law. in '73 silver was
not cheap from over production but
from anti-law.
First Brvan cot into the game as
stool pigeon to head off Populism and
to save the Democratic party, ine
Pop's had made the silver question an
issue and were taking the lead in de
stroying the Demo's who were badly
needed to keep capitalism afloat.
Dear money must make cheap men.
An article may be cneap in product
ion but high in price to the user.
Even a "mountain of gold" is not ex
empt, just control it. For answer
read your article on wooien suus.
Prices are said to have risen because
of more gold. Nonsense, not very
much at least; wages did not, because
uncontrolled. Coffee (on free list)
rose because of the "Valorization
scheme financed by Morgan, so claim
ed, and backed by the Government of
Brazil.
Did you ever play poker? Were the
$1. chips bigger than the 5 cent ones?
Were they of different material? No.
Just "fiat."
STARK.
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OREGON
A Field for Temperance
Oregon City As An Oregon City Lady
Sees It.
In looking over the field for tem
perance work I find none better than
here in our own city, and every good
citizen ought to see that the spirit
of temperance should imbue every
element of their every day work. The
W. C. T. U. should not be alone in the
upbuilding of society and rooting out
the evil. When' I overheard a party
say a few days ago that one certain
saloon of Oregon City took in 100
dollars a day, and there are sixteen
in the city. Supposing that all dp not
do as much but get 40 or 50 dollars
on an average daily, we can see at a
glance what it costs to humanity to
give up each day this amount of
money, at 40 dollars to each saloon.
640 dollars a day for all of them.
How much comfort this would af
ford to needy homes and how many
men who visit those places give as
much to the loved ones at home?
One saloon keeper said he had
travelled the Pacific coast and had
found Oregon City the best saloon
town he had ever gotten in to make
money in his saloon. Some people say
the license is needed to run the city
government, but fail to state the det
riment it is to the morals of the city.
Scarcely a day goes by but some one
is seen drunk. A lady remarked not
long ago that she had seen more
drunken men in Oregon City than she
had in a mining town in which she
had lived a few months and she has
only been here a short time.
Intemperance has been the vice
generator of the nation; it engenders
feuds; fils the almshouses and fur
nishes supplies for murder and leads
the way to the penitentiary. Nine
tenths of the criminals who are led
to the scaffold are lead there by in
temperance. It kills peace; scorns
virtue, slanders innocence, slays rep-
til;,'!
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utation and then curses the world
and laughs at its ruin. Now is the
time to train the youth to storm the
saloons and make for the future a
better Btate of society.
One man said he could drink or let
it alone. That was years ago; he has
not let it alone yet and his wife is
making the living.
We are full of confidence in the
good honest men of our state and
the votes of women to make it a bet
ter state in the cause of temperance,
and to them will come a grand future
in the realization that the work has
not been in vain.
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CITY COURIER, FRIDAY,
REDLAND.
The recent snow storm did about
$150.00 damage to the C. C. M. Tel
ephone Company's lines, also consid
erable damage to old and new or
chards. Our cream hauler lost a cow and
horse by a shed caving in on them
weighed down with snow. A house
opposite the Benson place also caved
in. No one was hurt as the placji
was vacant.
Charles Burghard is running the
saws at K & K. mill.
Could some of the railroad people
have seen the sight at Clackamas
Lane last week when 9 Heavy loaded
teams went into Clackamas station
with potatoes and hay from Logan,
they would fall over themselves to
get first to tap this territory. This
don't happen only once a week .but
nearly every day at this time of the
year. What is Oregon City doing?
The parties who have purchased
the Richardson place are improving
the same by -putt'if? up woven wire
fences.
F. A. Allen is grubbing and clear
ing more. land.
Mrs. Countright contemplates
building a barn and hog house in the
near future.
Mrs. Andrews, who had her leg
broken some time ago, is getting
along nicely.
Mr. Powers is improving his place
by blowing out stumps.
W. H. Bonny has a contract of
sawing wood for R. X. Davis.
Mr. Ripley has traded off his Jack.
Grandma Storm is very sick and is
not expected to live.
Will Barreth is back at his old
trade buying cows after a year's ab
sence in Europe.
Will some one please tell why we
should not abolish the senate, or the
house either, for that matter? A
commission form of government with
the government and secretary of
state would have these political sap
suckers skinned by a mile.
What's the matter with a referen-
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We carrry a big stock of Spray l'umps, Power Sprayers,
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PAY US A VISIT
dum vote on our school superintend
ent with a $(300 salary raise and a
$5,000 side partner, graft to begin
with?
Then a call down on our represent
atives as to their votes on mothers
pension bill? A nice graft for irres
ponsible persons that want to come to
Oregon, in fact a premium on illiter
ancy. But what's the matter here at
home? Is the county court greater
than the people whose servants they
are supposed to be? Judge Beati's
plea that they got their bridges as
cheap as some one else won't go. The
question is, did they pay more for
those bridges than they could be
bought for elsewher? If so are they
going to continue to do so, as the re
port is out that the Baker bridge
will be rebuilt this summer, methinks
this would be a matter for the grand
jury to investigate.
If the court has been soaked it
should be honest enough to say so
and not try to fool the people as
they have a right to know what's do
ing with their money.
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FEB 7 1913
Must Own our Riches
Then Will We Have a Land of Com
fort and Plenty.
Editor Courier:
In the editorial column of your
last issue, as well as in the editorials
of other newspapers, 1 note the re
Ivival of the "cheap" and "dear" dol-
lar controversy. The contention being
that a dear dollar is the dollar for
the distressing condition of American
1 life. How anyone, after some reflect
I ion and after receiving to himself the
business condition of our ' present
time, can convince himself that a
dear dollar can bring peace, plenty,
and happiness to EVERY t man, wo
man and child in this land, is certain
ly a problem that cannot be solved
by philosophy or mathematics.
Pray, what difference does it make
of what a dollar is made or how many
of them are made, if I own all the
golden deposits, silver, iron, coal,
forests, minerals, factories, railroads
all the banks, stores, etc? In short if
I own all the means of production
what difference will it make to the
other 99,999,999 people in ths country
if I coin in my own mints, of gold,
silver, iron, steel, leather or paper,
one million or one billion dollars? I
do as I please with my own property,
I allow just enough of my dollars out
of my mines as are necessary to fas
ten upon the unsuspecting; my hold
upon their labor and lives by making
my dollar bring back to me at the
end of each' year tribute in the form
of interest, rent or profit. Beautiful
system of business!
The truths that are being revealed
by congressional Investigations, as
well as state and city, are appalling
in their sinister and melancholy rev
elations. The Socialists of this country have
for a quarter of a century called at
tention to these robberies and
Jgenchs
wrongs; they have suffered calumny
of every description. Many have been
imprisoned for their rashness, others
have been tortured in other ways
that fiendish Capitalism alone could
devise, in the disguise of patriotism.
We are a wonderful people in more
ways than one. We boast of our great
statesmen and pay loyal tribute to
their memory. We glory in the
achievements of our Revolutionary
forefathers, and are proud of the ac
complishments of our inventors, phil
osophers and literary men. But from
the earliest history of our country
down to the present time, persecut
ion, robbery by due process of law,
poverty and misery have been the
common lot of the many who have
upheld the system that has condemn
ed them.
So long as private property in the
things that we all need, is upheld;
so long will this condition remain,
and in proportion as we depart from
that .age cursed principle and adopt
more and more of the collective or
Socialistic theory of ownership in the
things we all need will we become
a happier freerand a eontented gov
ernment of men, women and child
ren. In conclusion then may I say that
the function of the "dollar" is two
fold. It is both a receipt and check.
It is a receipt from the person to
whom you have sold something,
whether it be days work or a horse.
iL
i It is a check in that it show3 to Soc
iety the amount the holder is entitled
to, of any production or pleasure.
If a farmer sold a certain amount
of wheat to a grocer for $10 in gold
or silver and the grocer gave the
farmer $2 as pay ment in full for the
$10 worth of wheat, imagine what the
farmer would do. But this is exactly
what our system of private business
is and always has been doing. For
every $10 worth of labor $2it gives
in return to the laborer $2. And it
makes no difference whether you be
a farmer or mill worker or what not.
The other $8 it claims as its own by
right of OWNING the means by
which you live.
Let a government of the people by
the people and for the people build
and own its own factories, its own
railroads, etc. Take back to themselv
es the gold, silver, coal and copper
mines; take back its oil fields and
its forests, and make things for USE
only and give LABOR its full product
and you will establish in this land of
ours a place for every man, woman
apd child; you will transform a land
now filled with crimes, dishonesty
and injustice,- into a common home
of comfort, plenty and progress, such
as the world has never seen.
ROBERT GINTHER.
WILSONVILLE.
Mr. George Seely has been quite
ill for the past month, but under the
able trtaement of Dr. Harry Little
field of Newberg and a trained nurse,
we are glad to say he is improving.
Died at her late home on the Day
Farm, Mrs. Ira McConnell, January
27., funeral Wednesday at Pleasant
Hill, Janary 29th.
Mrs. McConnell leaves a 3 weeks
old babe besides a husband and three
children, and many relatives and
friends.
The Wilsonville Athletic Club de
feated the Forest Grove High School
at Basket Ball 24 to 42, Saturday
evening in the A. O. W. W. Hall.
Miss Mary Brobst is home for a
few days.
Mr. and Mrs. John Brobst and two
small children returned to their home
near Seaside, Oregon, after a month's
stay in our berg.
A party of our young people went
to Portland Sunday to see and hear
Madam Berhardt.
M. C. Young is building a machine
shop and garage for their new car.
The dimensions are 66 by 24. Mr. and
Mrs. H. P. Aden, Mrs. N. Hers and
son and Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Young
were out on a short joy ride ground
hog day but did not see their shad
ows. A party of our young folks will
attend the basketball boys in a
launch to Oregon City Saturday even
ing, where they will play a game with
an Oregon City team.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thornton gave
a very delicious crab supper and pro
gressive five hundred card party
last Wednesday, to a party of four
teen of their many friends. Mr. Joe
Thornton and Mrs. Young as part
ners won. first prize while the booby
could not be found.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Thorn
ton was beautifully decorated and the
table loaded with all the good things
that go along with a crab supper, of
which all heartily partook, and which
enlivened ladies as well as gentlemen
to the height of enjoyment. All enjoy
ed the games until an' early hour,
when they departed to the tune of
Home Sweet Home and with many
thanks for the good time enjoyed by
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Aden, Mr. and
Mrs. M. C. tfoung, Mr. and Mrs. Jake
Peters, Mr. and Mrs. Norris Young,
Mr. D. S. Young, George Staugel,
Miss K. Wolverton, W. Young. They
took themselves home to meet again
in the near future at some of the
others' homes.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW.
Our community was again shocked
last Saturday afternoon when the
news was sen tout that Henry Leh
man had been found dead in bed.
Friends had seen him pass in the
morning on his way home from the
mill where he had been night watch
man, a position he had held for years.
When the time came to call him to
dinner he was found dead, from heart
failure. Mr.- Lehman was a good citi
zen, a devoted husband and one of the
best -home makers in our acquain
tance, his frail little wife has been an"
invalid for years and he cared for
her every want with patience and de
votion and always spent his time
when not at work, with her. The fun
eral was conducted by Rev. Ford at
the Mountain View church at 2 P. M.
Monday afternoon. A large crowd of
friends paid their last respects1 to a
kind neighbor and friend. Interment
in Mountain View cemetery.
Mr. John Gillett has been on the
sick list for several days.
Dr. Eleanor Beatty left' last Mon
day evening for Oakland, Cal., where
she will remain an indefinite length
of time with relatives.
Mr. Hubert and family, late arriv
als from Kansas, are occupying the
residence corner of Molalla and Roos
evelt streets. Mr. Hubert is a brother
of Mr3. George Gillett.
Frank Bullard and wife of Red
land, were here last week looking
after their property.
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CHAS. H.
LILLY CO.
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THE
1913 .