OREGON CITY COURIER, FfilDAY, MARCH 7 1913
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OREGON CITY COURIER
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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?
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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,
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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
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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
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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. .
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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. Judge
Beatie held the man in $2,000 bail for
a hearing Monday on a charge of con
tributing to the delinquency of a
mindn Constable Frost took the girl
to the Boys and Girls Aid Society.
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gave New Jersey such a cleaning as it
never had and never will have
again. They say he drove the mo-
squttos out.
TAFT'S LAST BREAK.
If President Taft had hunted for
1 nnfl mnrn npf tn whirl nr. hia sirlminiH-
rings true, he assays high, he looks traion ag unpopuiar) ne couldn't have
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Regular Price
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good.
LET US TRY THIS.
found a better one than vetoing of
the bill to prevent shipment of liquor
into dry counties.
Ho said that it was unconstttutton-
Think this over a little
Unconstitutional to protect a state's
There is a great unrest in Oregon al.
over the present legislative system
and its results.
People are asking for a change, a own laws! That's a great version for
remeuv. and are custing about for a common sense to assimilate.
plun. 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.
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