OR
CITY
COUlffil
The Farmer Society of Equity it
spreading over this county and the
Courier is spreading with it. Its ad
vertising columns are good as gold.
A factory pay roll of $100,000 a
month makes some town. Oregon City
is the best city in the state outside of
Portland. .Keep it on the move.
30th YEAR.
OREGON CITY, ORE., FRIDAY, MAR. 7 1313.
No. 43
,. ' NOTICE.
Until the smallpox cases ure entir
ely recovered the public library will
not issue to or receive from any per
son or family having the disease or
being under quarantine, any books of
the library.
Grange Meeting Tuesday Next.
The county Grange will hold a
meeting in the court house Tuesday of
next week to elect delegates to the
state convention in May, and for
other business that may come before
the meeting.
Come to Oregon.
A rainfall. of over five inches with
out cessation has caused some dis
comfiture down at Los Angeles, that
land of "eternal summer" (nit.) It is
about time the southern Califomians
emigrated to the Willamette valley to
enjoy real nice weather during the
whole 12 months of hte year. Salem
Statesman.
Will Go To Gettysburg.
The legislature passed an act ap
propriating $5,000 to defray the ex
penses of the participants in the bat
tle of Gettysburg to the battle ground
and return, according to information
in possession of grand army head
quarters. There are about forty vet
erans in Oregon who are entitled to
take advantage of the appropriation.
H. S. Hull and Faxon Hagford of
Meade Post are expected to go from
Oregon City.
The Closing Scenes.
Salem, Or., March 4, 1913.
Editor Courier: The house adjourned
sine day at 11:30 P. M. and the sen
ate adjourned a few minutes earlier.
All of the salary increases for county
officers were granted, notwithstand
ing the veto of the governor.
The bill emasculating the recall
failed in the senate. The bill amend
ing the presidential primary law was
defeated in the house. A bill prohi
biting minors in saloons failed and
Hill's hop tare bill failed. All other
vetoes were sustained.
F. M. GILL.
Common Sense.
One of the needed, common sense
laws passed by the recent legislature
is that giving people an opportunity
to vote at special elections called in
various precincts to determine wheth
er or not stock shall run at large.
This is the only right way to take
care of the matter. Counties like
Clackamas have entierly different
conditions in the Willamette valley
and, the eastern part In. the eastern
part it is a-hardship to restrict cattle
running si 'large, and in the western
it is an intolerable nuisance to per
mit them to roam. Each precinct
should govern.
Big Smoker BigJSuccess.
Three hundred members and guests
. of the Commercial Club had a splen
did time and all kinds of fun at the
annual smoker Tuesday night. It was
a splendid success in every detail.
President Taft was represented by
C. J. Buchanon and he handled over
his toga to Pres. Wilson, alias J. P.
Lovett with impressive (?) ceremon
ies. John, Moore, of Mt. Pleasant
brought his donkey down and he was
one of the leading gentlemen on the
programme. Both the Star and Grand
theatres took a hand in the enter
tainment by furnishing vaudeville ar
tists. The Swafford quartet and
Busch's orchestra rendered splendid
music. After the entertainment a fine
supper was served in the Masonic
dining rooms.
Space forbids an extensive notice of
the entertainment, but it was one of
those jolly times that do men good,
and it is a certainity it did, not do
the commercial club any harm.
THE LOGICAL MAN.
Appointment of Mr. Hedges Conceded
by both Democrats and Repub
j Means
Republicans and Democrats alike
conceed that Gilbert Hedges is' head
and shoulders above any other -candidate
in his chances of being appoint
ed by Governor West as county at
torney under the new law passed by
the present legislature.
Hedge's ' remarkable run for dis
trict attorney last fall, and his big
majority in the Republican county,
makes him the logical candidate, and
aside from this lead he has the ability
fitness and experience for the posit
ion. This county has for long been at
the disadvantage of having a dis
trict atorney unfriendly to the sher
iff a condition decidedly against the
team work necessary between these
two officials to get results and the
appointment of Mr. Hedges would do
away with this condition, would insure
co-operation between the two offic
ials and be decidedly to the advantage
of the county.
The Courier and this county hopes
and expect to see Mr. Hedges ap
pointed. Entertain Derthric Club.
Mrs. C. G. Miller and Mrs. Thomas
Burke entertained the members of the
Derthick Club at the home of the for
mer on Friday afternoon, and this
Droved to be one of the most enjoy
able meetings ever held by the club.
Ferns and Oregon grape were used
with artistic effect in the rooms of the
Miller home. During the afternoon
Mrs. Burke rendered several vocal se
lections, her numbers which were
beautifully rendered, being highly ap
preciated. Mrs. Anna Sickler Hayes
read a story from the opera the Club
had for the afternoon's discussion
Current events were given by Miss
Marjory Caufield.
The hostess served refreshments
Hurino- the afternoon. There were
about 20 members attending.
OF
T
ROBERT SCHUEBEL SHOWS HOW
BEAUTIFULLY IT WORKS.
HERE'S A FIELD FOR REFORM
Our Courts and Other Faults as Seen
By a Rancher.
-Editor Courier:
When I was a young man I felt
that I was called on to preach the
gospel and so made some preparat
ions along that line. This morning I
seem to hear the call again and will
obey to the best of my ability.
My text will be: "Woe unto you
lawyers and doctors of law for you
pervert the judgement of the people."
Apparently the lawyers of Christ's
time were perverters of the truth and
justice. I propose to show you that
they have not changed for the better.
I am going to prove as a rule they
are unfit to act as judges or attorn
eys in the courts.
First three or four hundred of the
most learned lawyers may pass a
law such as was done in Cleveland's
administration the income tax law and
one supreme judge after having voted
for the law in the daytime overnight
changed his mind and knocked the
law sky high and so was declared un
constitutional. What a sweet morsel
that word unconstitutional is to that
class of varmints. The majority of
that court were unfit to be judges.
But let us get closer home.
Some years ago we had a case in
Eastern Oregon where two men beat
a woman with a strap until she was
black and blue. The lawyers for the
defense argued that the men were not j
guilty because the complaint stated
the fact that the men had used a
strap to beat the woman and the law
read that you must not beat a woman
with a rawhide, a stick or whip and
the Court held as that they had used
a strap or piece of hide that was tan
ned they were not guilty.
Another case from Roseberg where,
in a road case the court decided that
if in your affidavit before the county
clerk you tell the truth your case will
not hold, but if you tell a lie it will
hold, but maybe you are from Miss
ouri and want evidence from there.
Well, in a case in Missouri where a
man employed by the railroads had
had both his legs cut off near the
hips and it was proven that the rail
road company was to blame, as it had
not lived up to the law as to safety
appliances, he won his case five times
and the company was granted a' re
trial five times when on the sixth
trial the time had rolled around, so a
judge had been elected to suit the
railroad company's taste and he was
beaten and not allowed one re-trial.
In a case in Oakland, Cal., a child
was killed by the railroad company.
In the trial for damages the judge
decided that the child being the son
of a poor man and would likely follow
the same kind of labor as his father
therefore the judge considered he
would be more of a burden to his par
ents than a help up to the age of
twenty-one, so the judgement of the
court was that they were not entitled
to damages.
A case was settled in favor of Mrs.
Grover Cleveland about a year ago
that had been in the courts for over
twenty years. Another one was in the
courts for ninety years.
I know of a case in this county
where a widow was robbed of her in
heritance. The money was payed out
contrary to the will without a contest. .
Six years after I found out the at
torney of the administrators still had
some of the money and he made good
don't you forget it. The same parties,
so I am told by an old friend, were
hired by him to defend a case he had
and told him- that five hundred dol
lars would cover all the costs and at
torney fees. To make sure he would
have enough he mortgaged his place
for eight hundred dollars. The law
yers bled him for ten hundred and
seventy dollars. Two days before the
trial they notified him that he would
have to have eight hundred dollars
more before they could go any fur
ther, making eighteen hundred and
seventy dollars attorney fees.
I boutrht some of his machinery to
enable him to pay the interest on his
mortgage. He is ruined for life, too
old to start over.
When in California some years ago
I went to a banquet given by the Odd
fellows of Fresno. There I met some
lawyers and was asked to visit them
at their offices, which I did.
Now I had bought a small farm
near Fresno and had a chance to sell
it again at a profit -so I asked one of
those lawyers what he would charge
me for making out a contract in case
I sold. He told me eight dollars.
I went to the stationery store, and
bought a few blank contracts, went to
my hotel, filled them out and the man
I sold it to took it to his lawyers to
examine it He signed his name to it
as a witness and charged him three
dollars. It cost me ten cents. .
I was in the Lawyers Association
meeting some years ago' soon after
they had organized, and agreed on
certain figures to charge the people
for making out legal papers. After all
present had given their experience;,
stating how the new order had in
creased their incomes, brother George
C. came in and was called on to give
his experiences. He got up and told
this story:
Mr. B. said that "the other day a
farmer came to me red eyed and
wanted to know if I had joined the
lawyers' trust that was formed in Or
sira
GDUR
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I
egon City? Mr. B. answered 'Whatj
trust?' The farmer explained this
lawyers' trust that raised the prices
to be charged for services. Mr. B. i
ansewered, 'My dear man,' patting
him on the shoulder to be sure it
would take, 'You don't understand
this. Some of the lawyers had been
charging too much so we just got to
gether and fixed certain rates that all
must abide by.' He said the farmer
went on his way satisfied and rejoic
ing that his friend B. did not conspire
against him." ,
Another lawyer of Oregon City
tnlH nna of mv neighbors that for
fifty dollars each he would "furnish
witnesses from Portland that would
swear to anything that he wanted
told.
Again, two of my acquaintances
captured a horsethiof for whom a re
ward had been offered. An Oregon
City lawyer wrote a few letters to get
the reward and kept the money for
his services. The men who took their
lives in their hands and captured the
thipf, got nothing.
I was in an attorney's office lately
when the prosecuting attorney and
this lawyer were hunting through
those calf skin covered books with the
results of calf's brains inside and
vicious ones at that! They ere hunt
ing for decisions of the supreme
court to sustain the course which they
intended to pursue in a case they had
for trial, which was to bar the defend
ant from giving any evidence what
ever, except saying yes or no as to
whether he did a certain thing. They
found decisions of every variety of
the color of the rainbow and one
more that was black. I don't remem
ber seeing black in the rainbow.
They would pick out such decisions
that would sustain their course of
action on trial and discard all others.
Have I proved my statement that
they are unfit to act as judges or at
torneys in the trials of the people?
Again I say woe unto you lawyers
and doctors of law, for you still per
vert the judgement of the people. I
will offer a Temedy next week.
R. Schuebel.
THE WHEELS AT SALEM.
Representative Gill Gives the Line
up of the House.
The people of Clackamas County
should know who the political high,
binders are. The men who stood by
the steam roller, right or wrong,
were Abbott, Barton, Carpenter, For
bes, Hinkle, Mann, Potter, Smith
Spencer and Upton. So far as I can
remember these men never broke out
of the organization line-up. There
was another group who nearly always
voted with the steam roller, but who
occasionally broke out of the line-up if
the steam roller .undertook to put one
over that was too raw. They are An
dersn (Wasco) Handley, Meek, Mur
nane, Olson and Speaker McArthur.
There was another group of hon
est, conscientuous men, who had a
strong feeling for the Old Guard in
Republican politics and voted a good
many more times with the steam
roller than against it. These were
Applegren, Carkin, forsstrom, Helt
zel, Hughes, Latourette, Lofgren,
Massey, McDonald, Mitchell, Nolta,
Parsons, Stanfield, Stranahan and
Westerlund. Westerlund says he is a
Progressive.
Those who could not be classified
on either side were Bonebrake, Chap
man, Childs, Graves, Hall, Johnson,
Lauehlin. Llewelling, Schnoerr and
Thorns.
The insurgents, who almost invar
iably voted against the Roller, were
Anderson, (Clatsop,) Belland, Blan-
chard, Brunk, (Dem.) Eaton, Gill,
Haygood, (Dem.) Hill, (Dem.) Ho
man (Dem.) Hurd, Lawrence, Nich
ols, Pierce, Porter, Reanses Dem.)
Schuebel and Weeks.
The engineer of the steam roller
was Jay Upton, and Barton was its
water boy. The orators of the roller
aggregation were Forbes, Hinkle,
Olson, Upton and McArthur,
The chief speakers of the insurg
ents were Belland, Blanchard, Eaton,
Gill, Hapgood, Howard, Reames and
Schuebel. Schuebel probably struck
the hardest blows of any of us who
fought the steam roller crowd.
The most dramatic event of the in
surgents' fight was Eaton'i speech
upon a smuggled resolution. Speaking
"personal privilege" tn an impassion
ate tone of voice, he brought yelps of
agony from the roller crowd with all
most every sentence. In replying Up
ton went to pieces and was roundly
hissed by the crowded lobby.
It is tobe hoped that the next house
of representatives will be one-third
Democratic, one-third Progressive and
one-third Republican. Then there will
be no organization with a big U, and
the people may get better results.
. F. M. GILL.
Abolish It.
Editor Courier:
You want to know what to do with
the legislature. Abolish it. We have
no use for it. While there were a few
sincere men in the legislature, if we
had 90 of the inmates out of the in
sane asylum I think they would have
passed better laws than that gang at
Salem.' All they did was to mane
new jobs for their pets. Think of them
raising the judges' salary irom
000 to $4,000 per year while the work
ing man's salary is on the average
of less than $1,500 per year. And ev
erybody talking about the high cost
of living.
There would be no danger of any
man or woman going to hell if they
voted to send the same gang to make
laws for them because anyone vot
ing for them would be too green to
burn.
M. V. THOMAS.
Jennie Wise, wife of John Wise,
who recently died in Pennsylvania, ter of great importance to our dusi
wa brought to Portland for burial ness interests and our business men
Wednesday of this week.
AFTER 11 SEARCH
OF 13 YEARS
OREGON CITY BOY FINDS HIS
FATHER IN CALIFORNIA.
A STORY OF HUMAN INTEREST
Commencing 13 Years Ago in Colo
rado, Search Ends Here.
Nineteen years ago there lived in a
little town nestled at the foot hills of j
the Rocky Mts., in Colorado, a family
named Smith, consisting of Father,
Mother and 4 children, three girls and
one boy. The father worked at odd
jobs and when they failed he placer
mined along the stream that flowed
through the town, and coming from
the snowy range, bringing gold from
the mining towns higher up in the
hills.
The mother took care of the home
and the children and all were happy
and content; well liked by the town
people. The children were always
neat, clean ' and courteous and were
well treated and loved by all.
Another baby was born, a boy, and
in two weeks the mother died. The
father, who had been so happy, was
almost heartbroken. Kind friends
came to their assistance and it was
discovered that they were poor and
that there was no money for funeral
expenses.
A hotel keeper took his hat and
went around town and collected
enough money to more than pay for
the burial; a grocery man donated a
lot in his own block in the cemetery.
All was taken care of except the lit
tle boy baby. The neighbors didn't
seem to take kindly to the idea of
taking care of the little half dead
baby and Mr. Smith was helpless at
this stage.
Two men met in town and while
talking, one of the men, a ditch sup
erintendent, mentioned the fact that
he was helping Smith to get straight
ened around but they couldn't get any
one to touch the baby. The other man
told his wife with the result that she
sent him straightway to bring the
baby to her and she would keep him
for Mr. Smith until he could get the
funeral over. Anyway the wife was
buried; the older children taken to
Colorado Springs to the home of the
Smith's father. They kept them for
2 weeks and then sent them to Chi
cago to the wife's folks.
Smith seemed crushed and heart
broken by the trouble that had come
upon him, but insisted that he would
soon rally and get the children to
gether and arrange housekeeping, and
his neighbors believed him. But Smith
went away and as the weeks length
ened into months the people began to
inquire for him, but he had left no
address.
The man at whose home the baby
had been left became nervous and be
gan to write "Smith's" relatives,
but could get no word from him. Two
years passed and the boy was now a
bright, curly headed, laughing little
fellow and was liked by all. A well-to
do blacksmith in the town offered the
man $150 cash if he would let him
adopt him, but too late for the fos
ter mother had to be reckoned with
and the man and his wife had let th?
baby grow into their affections un
til itwould seem like parting with
one of their own.
After three years had elapsed the
man took out adoption papers for the
boy and the county judge, knowing
the circumstances, donated the pap
ers free. The man never gave up the
search for Smith. Hired detectives
traced him to the State House Hotel
at Sacramento The trail ended there.
The man sold his home in Colorado
and with his wife and 6 children came
West, finally locating in Oregon City.
He" never quit looking for Smith, and
the children at Chicago, now grown
into man and womanhood, kept up the
cry, "Wish we could find our father."
This cry had been floating out over
the land for the past 13 years.
One dav the man told Chief of Po
lice Shaw and that officer became in
terested. There were Smiths and
Smiths, all kinds; but with his char
acteristic liking for justice and his
willingness to help those in need of
services in his line, he took up the
trail and began a systematic combing
of the Coast country.
Finally word was received from the
Chief of Police of Santa Rosa, Cali.,
that a Smith at that place answered
the description. Further correspond
ence proved him to be the man want
ed. He was married and living with
his wife and mother-in-law, and doing
well in the furniture Business. When
visited by the police he owned up and
straight way wrote to Oregon City
and also Chicago, thus the mystery
of 13 years is cleared up and the
children have found their lost father,
and the other people, who have been
waiting so long in the little town in
Colorado, will at last hear what be
came of Smith.
The Barents, who moved here from
Colorado, who adopted the little waif
and who have, for thirteen years,
been searching for his father, are Mr,
and Mrs. Charles F. Terrill of Divis
ion street.
Next Tuesday Night.
Don't forget the public dock meet
ing at the Commercial Club rooms
next Tuesday evening, xnis is a mv-
should b there.
I Moving Up Some.
( In one day this week 32 new
, names, bona fide subscriptions, were
' put on the Courier's mailing list. The
paper is having a suprising growth in
circulation, and from 5 to 30 new
subscribers have been coming in daily
I for the past two months.
A HOT SESSION.
Prof.
Tooze and Civic Committee
Have Hot Words.
There were things doing at the
Tuesday session of the Live Wires.
The Civic Improvement committee
started something. Councilman Tooze
took exception to it and there was
viterol in the Live Wire room for an
hour.
The Civic committee is composed of
the following men: Dr. A. J. Van
Brakel, G. L. Hedges, M. D. Latour
ette, Dr. L. A. Morris, Dr. Clyde
Mount, F. A. -Olmsted, Dr. L. L
Pickens, E. Kenneth Stanton, Livy
Stipp.
These gentlement have been comb
ing the city for the places that do
not smell right, hunting out the
places dangerous to health, and in
February they presented a list of 121
specific cases to Chairman Albright
of the city council on health and po
lice. And Tuesday Dr. Van Brakle, chair
man of the civic committee, handed in
the following additional report the
report which did the starting:
"The sewer committee wishes to
report that it has made a further in
vestigation of the Monroe street sew
er, to see, if possible, if the source of
the trouble could be located. This
sewer is supposed to be a closed sew
er in the sense that it is not to be con
nected with adjacent property until it
is connected with ne rumt sewer
which is to be constructed later.
The committee interviewed men
who were in charge of the sewer and
street construction, ana they stated
that the complained of condition was
due to the fact that the sewer was
connected with a defective septic
tank located upon the premises of F.
J. Tooze and that the discharge from
the tank was flowing through the
sewer and being deposited on the side
of the gulch about 20 feet below the
street level. On account of the mud
dy condition of the side hill the com
mittee was unable to approach nearer
than 10 feet, but that was sufficient
to convince them the complaints were
well founded.
"The former city engineer upon be
ing asked as to why this connection
was made, stated that he had made
the connection under instruction of
Mr. Tooze, who at that time was a
member of the street committee and
chairman of the health and police
committee of the council.
"We consider this situation to be
the menace to health and recommend
once.
that means be taken to remedy it at
"In a former report on the obstruc
tion to traffic occurring on Monroe
street, between Twelfth and Thir
teenth streets, the suggestion was
made that if the sidewalk on the West
side of Monroe street were kept ci-n
it might be best to delay permanent
improvement until weather conditions
warranted. While come effort has
been made by Mr. Cross to clear this
west sidewalk, the committee urgent
ly advises that sufficient dirt be re
moved to make this street passable."
H. E. Cross, president of the Live
Wires, took his medicine with a smile.
He said he would conform to the rec
ommendations of the committee, and
he said he had under consideration the
surrender of his property to the city
rather than to pay the excessive cost
of street improvements.
But Councilman F. J. Tooze didn't
come up smiling. He put the gloves
on and went to it. He said the report
was an infamous representation, was
a piece of personal spite work, a per
sonal attack and a personal affront.
He decked that the condition of the
sewer was all right; that his neigh
bors had not complained, etc.
"The 121 places in Oregon City that
have been reported as violating the
law, are as sweet as honey compared
with the proposition that this com
mittee is trying to put over, said
Mr. Tooze. "I am building another
house, and shall build another septic
tank, and if there is any way to stop
me I want to know it. The street
superintendent has been directed to
extend the outlet pipe to the lower
canyon and he is only waiting for bet
ter weather to do this. This infamous
misrepresentation will not bluff me
for a minute. I have committed no
nuisance hence there is no nuisance
to abate. I will not put a straw in
the way of prosecution, had I chal
lenge the committee of the Live Wires
to publish the 121 cases or violation oi
the law. accompanied with the names
of the violators, over the signatures
of the committee.
It was brought out in the discus
sion that Dr. L. A. Morris was the
man referred to by Mr. Tooze as hav
ing personal spite against him, and
Mr. Morris in denying the charge,
said:
"Dr. Pickens went with me and we
found a decided odor. The condition
was such that it ought to be remedied
The former city engineer, Mr. Mont
gomery, told me that before the con
nection was made the stench was so
bad the workmen threatened to quit.
We are not eoinsr to fight anyone on
personal grounds but we are going to
nublish facts. We are looking for
violatiors and we don't care whether
the violators are the most prominent
citizens or the poorest people in this
city. We are not playing any favor
ites and we stand pat on the report"
T. W. Sullivan offered a resolu
tion authorizing the publication of
the names and locations of the report
ed violations that had not complied
with the law after one week's notice
had been given. The organization al
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A DISCRINR11
Ail A PROTEST
ISN'T THE EQUITY SOCIETY AS
GOOD AS T EHFAIR?
MY NOT SAME TREATMENT?
Do We Want To Drive the Farmers
Out of This City?
As the official paper for the Farm
ers Society of Equity for Clackamas
county, and in behalf of the organ
ization this paper stands for, we print
herewith a newspaper article in last
week's Enterprise, with our comments
on same:
A resolution adopted by Warn
er Grange declaring that Cir-.
cuit Judge Campbell and County
Judge Beatie have refused the use
of the court rooms in the county
court house for public meetings
has caused much comment. Judge
Campbell was not in the city
Thursday but Judge Beatie de
clared that the resolution was
misleading. He said that the
roome had not been refused the
granges and other bodies, but
had been refused to what was
considered business orgaanizat
ions. He stid that it had been sug
gested that they obtain halls in
the city or try to arrange to hold
their meetings in the Commercial
Club rooms. The court house, of
course, was intended for the use
of persons engaged in court work,
but the officials are ready and
willing to turn over the building
when it can be done to societies
working for a betterment of con
ditions. Warner Grange, before
scoring the judges, should have
made an investigation. There is
no question that the members can
get anything they ask in the
way of accomodation within reas
on. Enterprise.
The Enterprise quotes Judge Beat
ie as saying the resolution by Warner
Grange was misleading, and that the
Grange should have made an invest-
gation before scoring the judges.
Warner Grange s resolutions con
demned Judge Beatie for refusing the
use of the petit jury rooms to the
Farmers Society of Equity for a
meeting.
There is certainly nothing mislead
ing in this. The room WAS refused
to the farmers and Warner Grange
condemned the action. What mis
leads ?
The above report from Judge Beatie
says "The rooms had NOT been re
fused THE GRANGE AND OTHER
BODIES, but had been to what he
considered business organizations."
Now this is the point the Courier
takes exceptions to, and what every
member of the Equity Society is
mighty wrathy about.
Why does the County Uourt say
the Grange, the fair association, and
other like societies may have the
court house for meetings yet instruct
the sheriff not to let the Equity
farmers in?
Any difference between the Equity
Society and the Grange, except dif
ferent roads to the same end?
Equity members and Grange mem
bers belong to each others societies,
fight each others' battles and all work
for the same end.
The above article in the Enterprise
says the court house may be used
by "societies working for a better
ment of conditions, ana mere is no
question but Grange members can
tret anything THEY want in the way
of accomodations within reason."
YET THE SHERIFF IS ORDER
ED NOT TO LET THE EQUITY
SOCIETY IN.
What is your opinion of this kind
of a play?
What do vou think of the governors
of the court house who tell the Fair
Association, ( a private stock com-
Danv. a corporation) and the Orange
they may have the rooms, dui tne
Equity Society may not ;
The ONLY construction you can
place on it is that the Equity is NOT
society for bettering conditions, ana
is not eligible to a public court house.
The fail' association is NOT a "bus
iness organization", but the Equity
Society is.
Now here is just a little advice the
Courier would give to the county of
ficials and to Oregon City.
Advice is the cheapest thing the
Courier has and it likes to give it.
You can almost count the weeks on
vour fingers that the Farmers Soc
iety of Equity has been in existence
in Oregon and yet during this snort
time it has enrolled about 1,500 farm
ers and is growing every day.
Now the Courier's judgement is
that Oregon City had much better be
making friends with this organizat
ion than fighting it.
Just suppose that Canby or some
other town should take advantage of
this trouble and extend to the Equity
Society an invitation to hold their
meetings there, and offer to furnish
them free meeting place.
The Society, smarting under the
discrimination against them here
would naturally accept the invitation
and there would a lot more follow
that would be natural it would be
very natural for the farmers to do
their trading where they were wel
comed.
Our commercial orders can hardly
afford to let this matter stand as it
is: our merchants certainly cannot
This matter should be adjusted
with the farmers of this county and
not be alowed to become t bad sore.
The city has not any too good a stand
in with the farmers now.
THE DOG SESSION.
And the Way a Spectator Saw the
Council Session.
Editor Courier:
At a meeting of the council last ev
ening an ordinance was presented by
the Womans' Club relating to dogs.
The ordinance was all framed and
ready for passage, and if there hadn't
been some obstructions in the way
the steam roller would have put it
through. It appears that dogs annoy
some of the residents of Oregon City
by tearing up flower beds and etc.
Mrs. Norris said that the McLaugh
lin Home they caused a great deal of
trouble.
The ladies asked that the ordinance
be passed prohibiting the dogs fro
running at large at all, and if taken
on the street had to be kept in leash,
or otherwise led. One man said a
neighbor's dog howled continuously
and annoyed him. I fancy that one
howl wouldn't be a circumstance tto
thp howl that would arise if all the
dogs were practically jailed at home.
Mr. Howell said while talking dogs
talk kids too. The kids tear up my
lawn even playing shinny on it.
Mr. Caufield said he hoped the or
dinance wouldn't pass as he thought
a great deal of a good dog.
Prof. Tooze said that he was great
ly moved by the pictures that had
been drawn and spoke feelingly on
the matter. He said that about a doz
en kids used his lawn as a play
ground and while there wasn't quite
as much grass as there might be in
some spots and occasionally a rose
bush was broken. The enjoyment of
the children was first in his estimat
ion, and when you drive a boy or girl
from your lawn you are driving them
toward hell.
On the matter of dogs he stated
that we were none too friendly with
the farmers now and we didn't want
a dog ordinance that would steal a
farmer's dog from him and jail, shoot
or sell it as soon as caught inside the
city limits, as the dogs sometimes
follow the farmers in town in spite
of all their orders to the contrary,
and the subject should receive more
serious attention.
Now I know that the present city
ordinance relating to dogs is vicious
and confiscating and unconstitution
al in that it does not keep dogs im
pounded long enough before killing or
selling them. Neither does it carry
any clause for redemption by owner,
and the city council hadn't ought to
tack on any more such, or worse, laws
to it.
I have even seen dogs show sense
and the council ought at least to show
a little.
I know dogs that for the purpose
used are invaluable, and money
couldn't buy them and their owners
should have a show to keep them.
As far as children are concerned
they .will have their day. Sometime
this country will be ruled by the wis
est and most humane man that ever
lived and who said "Suffer them to
to come unto me of such is the king
dom of heaven."
A SPECTATOR.
S. Boyles, a timber cruiser and
well known throughout the county is
here for several days.
State Health Board Here.
The state department of health is
in the city making an investigation of
the health conditions here and to en
quire into the charges of neglect of
duty preferred against health officer
W. Norris. The city has had ty
phoid fever, scarlet fever, smallpox,
measles, whooping cough and dipther-
la the past year, and many citizens
here think there is a general cause
for this unusual sickness, that should
be determined.
THE LAST STRAW.
Legislature Defies the People and
Plugs Through Salary Increases.
The state legislature had a race
with the national legislature to see
which could quit the most censured
and unpopular and the difference is
the odds. Both have made good.
Both houses went back to Salem
Tuesday and passed 29 bills "Over
Governor West's veto, 19 of whicn
were just plain salary increases.
Public opinion up to luesday nignt
was that the legislature would not
dare to defy public opinion and pass
these bills over a governor's veto
which the people stood behind, but
the political back-scratchers wanted
the fodder. They had traded their
votes and gold bricked the state to
get to the trough. They could not
stand worse with the people; the swill
was so near, bo they pushed the gov
ernor aside, they pushed aside the
power of his veto which the cona
tion gave him for protection of the
people, and jammed through the pro
gram.
No acts of officials or individuals
could possibly have been done that
would have inflamed the people than
this act of the legislature in forcing
these unnecessary salary raises on a
protesting state, and this act will as
surely bring about a cnange in mo
legislative system that will stop this
looting, as that the sun rises and sets
in Oregon.
There will be things doing irom
now to 1914.
WANTED!
Girls and Women
To operate Sewing Machines
in garment factory.
Oregon City Woolen Mills