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OREGON CITY COURIER, FfilDAY, MARCH 7 1913 -.J 3 I -3 ri i OREGON CITY COURIER Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Bihth and Main streets, and en tered in fhe Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as second class mail matter. OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER M. J. BROWN, A. B. FROST, OWNERS. Subscription Price $1.30. Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1 Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co M. J. BR.OWN, EDITOR The SHOULDN'T WE? olcTconvention system. Many others, and especially the government owns the Dost- farmers, openly favor the abolish- office departments, and they are sue- ment of both houses of the legislature cessful. and laws enacted by trie people direct Ihe government owns the Parcels by means of the initiative. post system and it is a splendid suc cess. Th'e, government owns the postal banks and they are popular success es. Others would have a commission form of law making. And so on. Now let us see. You will have to hunt some to find The government has had a little a reDresentative man who would stand country of its own down by the big up where all can look at him and de canal, and its splendid success has clare the Oregon system is a failure. made national comment. They will all tell you that the sys- Any reason now why we should tern works well and redeems promises not take over the telephones and tel- except as to state ' legislation, but egraphs? there it is a cripple, and doesn't And then hadn't we better run the make good, isn't representative. railroads? ' ... Now the reason the legislature And shouldn't we own and control does'nt obey the voters' wishes is be- the sources of the common necessit- cause almost every last man in the ies ? bunch is Dlavimr for his own partic ular locality and trading the shirt loir his back to land the croods. TAFT. I And if he can't land the croods his I district will send a man to Siflem I doubt if a president ever went in- who can. to the White house with more confi- One county wants a normal. All the dence and left it with less than prSi- other counties are opposed to it. dent Taft. Tho renresfmtative from this eountv He Went in With the Republicans be-lmimt hunt, iin t.hn.sR from nt.hnr enun- hind him unanimousty. He went out ties who want a college, insane asv- with only Utah and Vermont left. ium, D00r house, bridge, fish hatchery He Started wrong at the passage of t.rnrin Hrhnnl. Ralarv innrfiRses. armorv the Payne tariff bill. He played golf soldiers' home or some other form of while congress patched up a montros- private benefit at public expense, ity that repudiated platform and Then the tradini?. back scratchinir promises and when the job was fin- an(i dickering commences, and the re- iBncu no aigneu it wiuiout a proiesi. suit j3 that such a majority of the Had I aft found a backbone and mnmhers nil want Hnmethinir it is told congress he would veto the joke easy to form a Legislative Exchange RUMBLINGS. Abolishment of the legislature might leave us politically in "chaos and dark night," but are we- much better off now? Portland Journal. Barret's road bill was passed by the legislature and is almost sure to become a victim of the referendum. Its greatest objectionable feature is that it does not conform to the grange idea in that the people of the various counties will have nothing to say where the roads are to be built, but the kind of road, location and cost, are left to the county courts. The law will have but little effect in Multnom ah county, but the paving trusts which dominated the passage of the bill are practically all located in Port land and Multnomah has a good many thousand votes that will support the other counties of the state. The state grange session in May will take the matter up in some man ner and there is a good change for the people to have something to say on the subject. It is oniy justice to say that senator Kellaher, Joseph and Dimick and Representative Gill stood with the people when the law was up for consideration. Gresham Outlook. true representatives of the people and sooner than that, the people will ask for the privilege of doing their voting direct. The voters of Oregon are fast getting in the mood to abolish the legislature, call for the making of laws by direct vote and limiting those laws to few in number at each elect ion. Pendleton East Oregonian. they were building he would be pres ident today, Bureau, where all get what they want where all can dodge responsibility, But he laid down and let them put and where the taxnavers can foot the it over, and the people lost confidence bills and can't protect themselves. For in unit iiuin mat uuy. since men ne the rceall would have to be invoked nas continued to favor the Interests. on a majority of the legislature to hit xuuajr no win Ko oui, ut unite ana ne DaCk on even one bill, will be forgotten in thirty days. The Now would you abolish the legislat- masses have nothing to remember ure or woui, y0U take away from the m J0' .. . legislature this trading stock of ap- U'K "'an, a urainy man ana propriution bills? a winner, but he has everlastingly Either wouiti atop the horse-trading done the wrong thing at the wrong all right, but which would you try wine, i iv inuue iiiuisuu unpopular, u'- first? imea ana tne American people gladly Bee him step down and out. WILSON. Do you remember that last sum mer W. S. U'Ren made the proposit ion to take from the legislature the power to introduce appropriation bills, let the governor alone introduce them, Nn man ovo- J,.,In,l tha and to abolish the senate? v..v ,...i.j ...... .l TV UU UUU VUtVU it now, tYlfinfr. of nur nnnnlrv -wifl mnra inn fMansa em .aonont ko.L- f hi-, 4U don't VOU ? n vvuivvv jt noun, auu iiu uicaiuuiltl - .. 1 t li o hoJ o Kvii,t ,.,.. t 1, you would vote on n wouicin i you: e.00j it tne gvernor aione naa inis jou, " 1L. ..1 1,1 Urt WiO Mntir Tai.oair on vf UB KUVtJI IIUI" U1UIIU WUUlUUttVW ' l"" 1.TI VVtDbV WUVMIIIO OU I VI I 1 'till 11 1 ten that it smelled to heaven, the po. sponsioiiity, ano witn me reca.i auove litical machine, as a forlorn chance, 1118 nfa Vou ca".Df yu,r sno.es ";ne,e nom mated W son. nom mated him be- wouiu nut ub i..... cause the voters did not know him bills ver lve Tllon ?"urB and he might get away with it. appropriations Deen jammed mrougn He did .and his first jump was to this session. A governor who would turn rimirtl tho trrnft nr hunch thnf "" "". an iunKci nm.i o u-. u. uF . . ... ..v... ...uv r.,n found him because he wouldn't stand r"' . V . , i. i And wnn me senate auoiisnuu, ie I hair mnrin hitvi yniroiriM ont ho I r . ".: house, and every man where you could IT a IMnu, laroflii mirth a n annmr. an it ' . see him and see whut part he took in the game What do you think of it? Taks awav the saw-mills and there TIT ! 1 . T 1 1 wnsons iew jersey record mauo wn h m no oc ro ne. him president. The people watched put the Dublic crib bevond the reach him and he looked good. of the individual legislators and tho Republicans and Democrats alike rascal from Lane wouldn't be trading have confidence in Mb ability and a vote to the grafter from Multnomah judgement. There is no fear, no pan- so one could get a school appropriat ic, no hard times over the shift in ion and the other a bridge, and it government. would break up the big educational President Wilson has some big combine in Oregon. nrob ems to trot awav with. Whether mink It over, he can make the riffle remains to be seen, but it is a certainity that he will try for all that is in him. And here's to President Wilson. Ho DIMICK'S LAST FIGHT. The Courier believes in giving any man full credit when he makes good, regardless of his policies or color of his hair, and Senator Dimick certainly did splendid service for Oregon when he made his midnight fight against passing the Thompson swamp bill over Governor West's veto and hand ing the state's property over to the looters. The senator was sick in bed and so hoarse he could not speak, yet he left orders that if the bill should come up in the night to send for him, It came up, and Dimick, despite the doc tor's orders, dressed and was driven to the capitol, and his appearance was like an apparition to the debators. Those working for the passage of the bill over the veto knew Dimick had the goods, but they knew he was sick in bed. A special writer tells the rest of the story: "Except for the unusual stillness in the senate chamber while the debate was in progress, Dimick could not have been heard. Starting' in little more than a whisper his straining voice grew sufficiently in power to en able all that he said to be understood as he drove his words home with in tense earnestness. "First he sent to the Mesk a his tory of the fajnous swamp land certif icate "No. .144," under which all the title sought to be confirmed in the Thompson bill derived, was through "Hen" Owens, the "Swamp Land An gel," showing how the Courts have stamped that certificate with fraud Then he read a list of the owners of the land in question, which he had ob tained from the records of Lake coun ty- "The list made a telling indictment against the Thompson bill. It showed that the owners of the land involved are not "poor settlers" who are being denied justice, but are large-and wealthy land owners, many of them not residents of the State of Oregon. "He showed that the holders of the 12,000 acres are the Lake County Land and Livestock Company, 7225 acres; W. Z. Moss, 985"acres; The Warner Valley & Stock company, 974 acres, Warren C. Laird, 801 acres Mrs. Ellen Kennedy 539 acres; Keef er family of SanFracisco 739 acres; Dr. Gustave E. Bruere of Portland will hereafter be "goodbye" to the 280 acres; G. L. & J. A. Wilson of legislature. Nothing will hasten that SanFrancisco 240 acres.; W. H. Brad event quicker than the attempt which frtl timber speculator, 1G0 acres; J. is now apparent to circumvent the N. True, 313 acres; F. B. Wilson 160 governor in his prerogative of the acres, and miscellaneous, 131 acres. veto by extending the session. When "We were told here two years ago for political reasons men seek to pre- that this bill was the relief for actual vent the lawful operation of the safe- settlers," said Dimick. "I voted for it guards provided for the good of the then, because I believed that it was state by state law, they seek to be true. But there is the list and it shows Before the legislature adjourns let us call to mind a little controversy of last fall. An election was held, at which some forty measures were vot ed on, under the initiative and refer endum. Everyone admits the number was too great, that voters could not master all the bills and mark them in telligently. But think of the legislature. Hun dreds of bills have been pouring in the senate and the house. A pile of new bills is laid on the desk of each mem ber every day. There is not a man liv ing who could do justice to the task of sifting out these hills, deciding which ar desirable and which are vicious, silly or superflous. Weighing legislature against init iative does not the latter show up to the best advantage? Law making in tho Oregon legislature is a haphazard matter, a gamble, a chance. No one knows what is going to come out of the session, or why this is done and that is forgotten. The task is too big for any men. The system is faulty. Enterprise Record Chieftain. The greatest problem in Oregon at this time is how to transform the leg islature from an organization of spec ial agents and petty jugglers into a real lawmaking body for the people. It is a difficult problem but an import ant one and it is worthy of earnest consideration by thoughtful, patriot ic citizens. Perhaps the solution will be what Senator Kellaher has predict ed when he said that if the present session does not pass good laws it that the actual owners A the most of the land are large corporations. "Why should this legislature confer title to these owners? We do not know how much of that land the state land board may be able to save for the common school fund. The land board can issue confirmatory deeds whenever it finds that the holders should have such deeds. "If you will read the breef of Gov ernor Lord in the swamp land case you must be convinced that the title to this land is based and conceived in fraud. The legislature is no place to Dnng a lawsuit. "The senator from Lake in connect ion with another bill on this floor, said, The school fund needs the mon ey, and needs it now.' Let him take these words back to the Warner Val ley Land Company and the other own ers of these lands, 'The school fund needs the money, and needs it now. And the bill failed to pass over the uovernor s veto. . The Mothers' Favorite. A cough medicine for children shoul be harmless. It should be pleas ant to take. It should be effectual. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is all of this and is the others' favorite ev erywhere. For sale by Huntley Bros. Co. ' HO T BISOOIT ihe large appropriations made by the legislature for our two big state educational institutions are going to be widely discussed by the people uunng inenext year or two, and referendum of the university appro priation is already threatened bv H. J. Parkinson, who secured the refer endum petition which defeated the big university appropriation last year. As a counter move to this threat comes a vicious attack on the state agricultural college at Corvallis by a Eugene paper, accompanied by threat that the O. A. C. appropria tion should also be subjected to the referendum. These two schools have nothing to gain by antagonizing each other. Instead it is our" belief that they ought to be consolidated and that one big state school, such as they have in Wisconsin, Illinois and a good many other states, is better than two rival institutions jealous of each oth er unu overlapping very largely in their courses of study. Woodburn independent. No man desiring, seeking and ac cepting an office has a right to ask tor a raise of salary during his term There is always the avenue of resig nation lor relief. Portland Journal. Stopped an Elopement. Chief Shaw arrested John Davine and Alma Summerfield on the Port land passenger train Tuesday morn ing, thus preventing an elopement. The girl lives at Canby and the man is a brakeman on the S. P. 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A national law prevents absinthe The Courier receives any number being shipped into this country from of letters on this subject, some are foreign countries. printed, some are personal, some are Isn't this just as unconstitutional crowded out. as shipping liquor into a dry state? A half dozen men have personally But a congress that rends the signs said to the editor that they had been knew it would not do to put this over. workers and voters for the present and both houses made respect and his- Oregon reforms, that so far as egis- tory by passing the bill over the Lug ative results go they would prefer the man's veto, and it is law. 1 -31 f : Advertised in women magazines You will uso "Wear-Ever" Aluminum Utensils always, if oho such utensil is placed in your homo so the manufacturers believe. 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