OREGON CITY COURIER, jFRID A V MARCH 14 1913.
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STARK'S HOT SHOT.
Terse and Timely Comments With a
Hunch Behind Them.
If I were to tell you that I was "up
a stump" for copy material you would
not believe it possible when such tre
mendous news is exploding around us.
. Well, it is this way. I try to keep
close to about a column of matter,
not because the editor has set me that
limit, in fact it is understood between
us that if any new contributors should
bid for space I am to be set aside,
because it is more important to hear
: what you have to say than what I
will say. For you may have an idea on
puBlic questions which are of more
benefit to us all than what any con
tributor has as yet brought forward.
And unless you speak out we can
never know what that idea is. You re
member the remark about putting
your light under a bushel well don't!
Just compare the Courier of say
Feb. 28 with the papers a year ago;
at that time the Editor was appealing
for the public to use the paper with
but few subscribers. In fact nearly all
the matter of real interest, which was
of home product, was by the editor.
Let me assure you, no matter how I
happen to know, he had a hard job to
hold down. But look at it now. You
would think some muckrake magazin
es or the metropolitan dailies had lost
some large part of their staff.
That is the result of united effort.
We have co-operated without any
form of organization, outside of the
regular print shop force. Don't you
think it has been a grand success
men tmnK, suppose we had a com
pact organization, we would still have
done better and we will do better in
the future, now that we have got
started and are getting a little train
ing and some courage coupled with
the thought that our inermost thota
will be heard in so many homes in
this county.
Won't you join us? The swimrnin'i
fine.
Who said the Democrats would do
nothing for the common people? All
ready they have passed a bill to coin
a carload of half cent pieces. Getting
close to China, eh? If my guesser is
in working order I will say if all our
legislators, State and National, past
and present, were paid one of those
pieces each day our money would have
been ill-spent that is to say we
would not have value received.
We are informed that President
Wilson was opposed to military dem
onstration at the inaugural but was
over-ruled.
Let me see who was it that we heard
was to be chief executive the next
four years, was it Ryan or some such
person or what was that New York
er's name who was at the convention
in Baltimore? You see my dear and
verdant Democrat, there is a power
behind the throne even in such small
matters.
What will it be when it comes to
rapping big business across the fing
er nails? Do you see the finish of
your cherished Democracy? If you
don t then indeed you are dead.
We are told that Wilson's anti-
monopoly bills, seven in number,
passed the New Jersey legislature
without any opposition, yes and they
are, by that same token, absolutely
worthless so far as being of benefit
to the people. Nothing but a sort of
blue sky flim flam. Now keep your
shirt on just a little while and you
will see for yourself.
You have heard a lot of noise about
cold blooded assasination of Madero,
Yes. It would seem to be something
like that but let us who live in stone
houses be careful how we throw glass
Did you ever hear about Bill Goebel
being shot in the back? Did you hear
that a Republican politician fled to
Indiana and the governor refused to
honor extradition papers? Did you
ever hear that this same gentlemun
was finally pardoned without a trial
and pardoned of the crime of mur
der but never tried for it? Funny pro
cedure, eh, my country men? Yes in
deed I
Bring out a bruum and let us clean
our ouwn premises awhilo. It may
serve to Bteady our overwrought
nerves a little. Besides if we want to
fight anybody there are the miners in
West Virginia who are out on strike
for a little more pay. Let's go shoot
them, they are unarmed and we will
find it safer.
I really wonder what the U. S. min
ister Wilson had to do with the aff
airs to suggest what should be done
with Madero? Was it any of our bus
iness? You remembered whut happened to
Lord Sackwell West, when he express
ed an opinion concerning presidential
election ? He got his passports P D. Q.
Of course the American exploiters
in Mexico are not overlooking any
thing that we can see at this distance,
which may account for the sudden and
successful palace revolution. I am of
the opinion that it was not entirely
purely lofty statesmanship which
maintained neutrality in Washington.
Let us wait and sue.
Meanwhile let us not forget that
Taft made a special trip to shake the
hand of the Gila monster a few years
ago, for reasons we may guess, that
Borne of the captains of industry need
ed an official understanding.
A great cry is being made over the
killing of Madero but nothing is said
of the thousands who took no part in
the affair yet were slaughtered and
perhaps carted out to some ditch. I
wonder why we hear nothing about
these ? Can it be that they wore poor
and therefore unimportant?
Some of the government's talk
about government by murder. Yes,
that's about it all right. Only I would
like to know where "government by
tfty" that is the the infalibility of the
courts.
You have, no doubt, heard that it
takes a high grade of intellgience to
hold down the important political jobs
in consequence of which we must pay
big salaries. You will observe that
Taft is no longer intelligent as his
pay is reduced to $5,000. It is not un
likely that the ex-president gets? 3,500
of that and Taft $1,500 and then per
haps he would not have gotten the
job at all had it not been as a piece of
advertising.
Now you see it was proposed to
give him from $17,000 to $25,000 for
loafing around congressional halls as
a lobbyist for big business under the
high sounding title of adviser. It was
nothing but a steal. When he is
thrown in private life none will pay
much for his superior wisdom.
Nothing is so important to the hu
man race as knowledge. Nothing is so
feared by tyrants as knowledge.
During chattel slavery times it was
unlawful to teach the slave to read,
for through reading he might find out
his true condition and the crime of
slavery. At present, while most of us
can and do read, the exploiting class
has control over most publications,
either books or periodicals, so while
we may read freely our information
is doctored so we fail to reach actual
truth. Only recently the New York
Call published article s on sex hy
giene and the most important one was
prohibited by the postal deportment.
You see knowledge is still a crime; ig
norance is still legally a virtue. So
the Call printed three columns blank
under the heading "What every Girl
Should Know" nothing, by order of
the postoffice.
A long time congressman is author
ity for the statement that this coun
try has paid out for war purposes
since 1886 over $5,500,000,000. or, as
he says, this sum of money would
have built one hundred lines of rail
road from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
But I suppose the railroads are at
present mismanaged are more desir
ous to life than war.
At the time this is written I have
no positive information as to the per
sonell of the cabinet but if can find
one that is a working man please im
part the information. You see working
men furnish the most or the votes
and pay all the taxes; do all the use
ful work but never sit in the convent-
ione nor do they hold offices. They
are nobodys.
LAW STUDENTS PAY.
The moral atmosphere of Portland
has also reached the sky-scraper alti
tude. Only the other day a bunch of
women of the underworld were ar
rested and had their pockets picked
by the police department. This ex
plains the opposition to the convent
ional type of macque who, it would
seem, beat tne ponce to u at nines,
which is highly immoral of course.
JOHN V. BTAKK.
Abolish the Lobby.
Editor Courier:
We hear a great deal of talk of
law and justice, legislation and lobby
also and some talk about the governor
too.
I think perhaps an improvement
would be made by cutting out the lob
by as it seems to have made more
trouble and expense than anything
else and I think the legislature would
be better off without its service. They
have done some good work and I think
there would have been more if there
had been no lobbying except with
members of the legislature.
I heard a man say yesterday that
he believed $50,000 would buy any
man. I do not think that, or any other
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sum, would Duy some men dui wny
should we make temptation so strong
unnecessarily? I have never been to
Salem and I do not know how they
line up there but I imagine the law
yers are in the majority ana tne
granger in the minority, and possibly
differ in opinion a little as to justice.
do not belong to either but would
take the chance if they ever were left
to make the laws. The governor may
not keep right on the line all the time
afj4-wab i f off a ittlp hut as I sni'
when he was running for governor I
could not help him out much but
vote for him and I did and would do
it again.
K. M. U. IS.
VACCINATION.
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Won't Need Blood Poison.
Editor Courier:
Is vaccination healthy and good for
the healthy blood ? The so-called pure
vaccine virus with which one is vac
cinated is the running sore of a sick
cow, which is poison to the blood and
if anyone but a doctor would attempt
to put that in the system of a healthy
human being aand furthermore ask
the law to help him, he would bo put
in a lunatic asylum. You cannot, sow
disease in the blood without reaping
disease. Nature tries to throw out of
the body all foreign matter but the
doctors plug the disease p'
into it. Vaccination causes telannus,
(lockjaw) and many other diseases.
Some doctors think that the great
spread of cancer is due to vaccination.
Ask some of the old ladies of 50 years
ago when they were vaccinated how
it made them feel when they were
vaccinated and how it made them
vaccinal and where the doctors got
the vt.cvi.i virus an dread and find
out all about vaccination before you
consent to have your innocent and
healthy children vaccinated. Just try a
little fresh air, sunshine, exercise,
dieting and bathing and see how many
ills it wil cure.
There were 90 items in the Wed.
mnrniiur Rntprnrisn of filthv nlaces to
murder" is not the rule? It must be be cillimej up. That is the root of
some Dart of the earth not yet pene
trated by such Christian influences
as twelve inch guns Bibles and brandy
bottles. Show us the spot in the
"jawguffy" oh editors wise and good.
It is just as well to remember that
the federal judges are nearly all ap
pointed by Roosevelt and Taft. The
courts are u a position to block all
useful legislation; bIso do not forget
the Democrats have upheld the ."sanc-
this smallpox. Vaccination is danger
ous to health and even life. Our Unit
ed States Army during the Spanish
War is the best argument obtainable
against vaccination.
The soldiers were vaccinated every
six weeks but there was smallpox
just the same.
Mrs. G. E. ROGERS.
J. Lammers, of Beaver Creek, was
in Oregon City Sunday.
University of Oregon Does Not Give
Him a Free Education.
Editor Courier:
The writer of "Is it Worth the
Price?" in the last issue of your pap
er: may be right in stating that
"When' a state gives a boy or girl
a high school education, it has done
enough," for we all know that most of
those, who get a higher education,
could pay for it. And there seem to
be no other but local and personal
reasons to cause opposition to the
consolidation of the two state schools;
but he is misinformed and blunders
concerning his main topic: that the
taxpayers are paying $1,000,000.00 or
more a year mainly to loose a drove
of lawyers and doctors.
Our friend is not aware that our
legal and medical schools of the Univ
ersity of Oregon are in Portland and
that the students in these branches
pay tuition. He gives the list of this
year's appropriations for the Univer
sity, yet it seems that prejudice has
misled and blinded him, for in his
splenetic haste he never notices that
the Legislature has not given a dollar
for law or medicine. No doubt Nem
esis will some day bring him into
court and also lead him to his grave.
The catalogue of the law school of
the University gives an enrollment of
187 students for the year 1910-1911;
and since all fees are payable in ad
vance, these students paid between
$12,000.00 and $13,000.00 It is there
for not suprising if the law depart
ment is self-sustaining; indeed these
could, and perhaps should, be a sur
plus since private law schools charge
less for their instruction than the Un
iversity does. Although the latter has
IN DEFENSE OF THE O. A. C.
Writer Says it is Doing Good Work
and Should be Sustained.
Editor Courier:
Tho Farmers Society of Equity is
all right and has an important, much
FFROM ALASKA.
Interesting Letter from an Oregon
City Girl.
Juneau, Alaska, Feb. 23,1913.
Editor Courier:
My father writes that you would
needed work before it. Still it does j like to hear from Alaska occasionally.
not appear to me that we will help
our cause by knocking the agricultur
al college. While the total production
may be great enough there is certain
ly room for greater efficiency of pro
duction. But few men want to culti
vate two acres to grow that which
they could grow on one. We must
have efficiency of production before
we can make reasonable interest on
the investment in land together with
fair wages. Getting a fair proportion
of the price that the consumer pays
will help but we must have some sur
plus before we can get any price.
It is not the amount of money that
an institution requires that is impor
tant but what it returns for the in
vestment. It may be truly stated that the col
leges have not established a market
ing system on a national basis but
they are eager to support and encour
age co-operation among farmers. I
have to hear of the first man con
nected with an agricultural college
that is opposed to co-operation. I be
lieve that the authorities of the Ore
gon Agricultural College will be found
ready to assist and encouroge any
fair co-operative movement.
A reference was made on the
Equity page to the well dressed em
ployees of the college. They should be
at least neatly dressed. We do not ex
pect men teaching in even a country
school to go about clad in dirty over
alls and using a razor perhaps once a 1
I am sending you several copies of
one of our daily papers "The Dis
patch" from which I am sure you can
derive more news than any items I
could send. The enclosed pictures are
real and are the vegetables raised by
our Klukwan Indians, not from Skag-
uay. from this you can see that Al
aska is not all ice-bound, as so many
of our friends think.
The Courier is like a weekly letter
from home and is full of the news one
really cares about.
These pictures were taken by W. G.
Beattie, District Superintendent of
South Eastern Alaska Government
Schools, who was an Oregon City boy,
a brother of Mrs. C". Schuebel. He is
considered by all his teachers the most
efficient superintendant the district
has had.
Juneau has an ideal climate, and
while we have five or six feet of
snow lasting a month or so, the ther-r
mometer never reached zero and it is
really not colder than our Oregon
rains. The snow does not keep one in
doors at all and everybody enjoys
long tramps over its crusty surface.
Except on the mountain it has now en
tirely disappeared and we are enjoy
ing ideal spring weather. Yesterday
several of us enjoyed a twelve mile
tramp to the Gastineau mine power
house, coatless and clothed no warmer
than for ordinary Oregon weather.
Juneau is building up remarkably.
We have now about a population of
The Lull Before The Storm
FROM UNION MILLS.
Interesting Figures and Comments
From Courier Reader.
As no news from these diggins has
been seen for some time in the Cour
ier I thought a few items from this
place might be appreciated by the
outside world.
It does ye scribe good to see the
farmers getting on their fighting
clothes. They have lain dormant so
long that when they begin to assert
their rights, the graft class, which
has had both feet on their necks for
ages, hold up their hands in holy hor
ror. To think! the poor grovelings'
would have the gall to want what was
theirs by right! Not only the little
county grafter but the state and U. S.
grafters want to watch our smoke.
IS the time to make PREPARATIONS. Put in your
MYEKS QUAY QJNLOA1
NOW, and you will be in tip top shape to handle your crop
t year. Take our advice and come in and look them over next time you are in town.
A Lot of Time is Lost
Through BAD DOOR. HANGERS. Hang your doors on
MYERS STA YON HANGERS
or the new
Tabular Tracki Hanger
and you will have
NO MORE TROUBLE
other matter that should be attended to before the
busy season
OvMPION MOWERS, BINDERS, RAKES, ARE THE BEST
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W. J. Wilson & Co.
OREGON CITY, OR.
Canby Hdwe. & Imp. Co.
CANBY, OR.
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JIgencits
I see a little item in the Courier
where the average working man's
wages would not exceed $1,500 per
year. I will give my good friend a
few items of working mens wages:
Mill workers all kinds $1.75 to $3.00
per day; R. R., $1.20 to $1.50 per day;
construction work $2.00 to $3.00;
Farm work $25.00 to $40.00 per month
and bosses get a little better than
these wages. If my friend can figure
$1,500 per year out of these wages 1
would like to borrow his arithmetic.
By the way, what has become of
our late Union Mill's scribe ? He must
be dead, starved out or I guess there
have been no hold-ups or robberies
here lately. Hence no news.
Our sawmill man, D. L. Trulilnger,
is busy these days getting ties ready
for the new railroad.
Albert Durst, our miller, has moved
his family into their new home. It will
be a cozy house when completed. H. H.
Husbands is architect and builder.
Our road boss used a road drag on
our roads Saturday, which was a
great help to them.
Chas. Allbnght at odd times drives
a few nails in his new dwelling. Stay
with it Charley I The tortoise won the
race.
It is understood that our good
neighbor, John Keller, is thinking of
building an addition to his house and
getting married this fall. Get busy
with the cigars, John, the boys are
waiting.
J. D. French, living at Molalla Riv
er Bridge, is farming in this section
this spring. Dave is one of our best
farmers.
A. J. Culbertson is adding more
apples, cherries and berries to his
commercial orchard.
Death has again visited us, and left
us enshrouded in gloom. The one
claimed by the almighty hand was
Richard Johnson, one of the most es
timable young men, who died at his
homehome Wednesday at 10:30 A. M.
Services were held at the family home
Friday at one o'clock and as the sun
was sinking lo-w in the heavens his
body was laid to res tin the Colton
cemetery.
"WHITEWASHING" SCARLET
FEVER.
(From Page 1.)
The Forty Year Test.
An article must have exceptional
merit to survive for a period of forty
years. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
was first offered to the public in 1872.
From a small beginning it has grown
in popularity until it has attained a
world wide reputation. You will find
nothing better for a cough or cold.
Try it and you will understand why it
is a favorite after a period of more
than forty years. It not only gives re
lief it , cures. For sale by Huntley
Bros Co.
and brimstone, and all because his
office has been criticised.
Your paper has gone before the
State Board of health also the testi
mony of your physicians, and the tes
timony of others. If the State Board
of Health feel like giving me a rebuke
or write me a (eulogy) of censure, I
will have it published in all the Port
land and Oregon City papers, but un
til then we will believe that not only
has the health officer failed in his
duiy, bat that at least two other
physicians by their own testimony
If you want names and dates we are
now prepared to give them.
My other article cites the cases for
ordinary purposes.
HENRY SPIES.
Large display of spring millinery,
Johnson & Linquist, corner Main and
Ninth St., Oregon City.
GREAT MASS OF PROOF.
Reports of 30,000 Cases of Kidney
Trouble, Some of them Oregon City
Cases.
Each of some 6,000 newspapers of
the United States is publishing from
week to week names of people in its
particular neighborhood, who have us
ed and recommended Doan's Kidney
Pills for kidney backache, weak kid
neys, bladder troubles and urinary
disorders. This mass of proof includes
over 30,000 testimonials. Oregon City
is no exception. Here is one of the
Oregon City cases.
L. Noble, 14 Main St., Oregon City,
Ore., says "Doan's Kidney Pills have
been used in my home and I am glad
to say that they are a good medicine
for kidney trouble."
Mr. Noble is only one of many Or
egon City people who have gratefully
endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. If your
back aches if your kidneys bother
you, don't simply ask for a kidney
remedy ask DISTINCTLY FOR DO
AN'S KIDNEY PILLS, the same that
Mr. Noble had the remedy backed by
home testimony. 50c all stores. Foster
Millburn Co., Props., Bufallo, N. Y.
"When your back is lame Remember
the name."
DO YOU ENJOY EATING
"Had dyspepsia or indigestion for
years. Mo appetite, and what 1 did
eat distressed me terribly. Burdock
Blood Bitters reached the cause." J.
H. Walker, Sunbury, Ohio.
Or Does Everything You Eat
Distress You?
Experts declare that the reason
stomach disorders are so common la
this country is due to hasty and
careless habits of eating. Stomach
troubles and run-down conditions also
usually go together.
John Llnd, of Oneonta, N. Y., says:
"I have been troubled with a bad ,
stomach trouble for fifteen years, and
became so weal: that I could hardly
walk or do any work! My appetite
was very poor, and it seemed impos
sible to get any relief. Since taking
two bottles of Vinol I find that it has
already made a remarkable Improve
ment In my health; my digestion is
much stronger,' and I have gained la
weight"
Vinol makes weak stomachs strong
because it strengthens and tones up
the weakened, tired and overtaxed
nerves of the digestive organs. Vinol
1b easily assimilated by the weakest
stomachs, and Is delicious to the taste.
Try a bottle of Vinol with, tha
understanding that your money will
be returned if it does not help you.
Huntley Bros. Co., Druggists
Oregon City Oregon.
Dr. L. G. ICE
DENTIST
Beaver Building Oregon City
Phonos Pacific, 1221. Home A 19
higher priced instructors and a larger
number of them, this should be oft
set by the largo attendance and the
number and length of lectures and
recitations; only three hours a week
or ninety hours a year. Furthermore,
until last year, the law school paid
little, if any rent, for the lectures
were given in the court house.
Surely our friend ought to rejoice
and pay his taxes cheerfully, even tho
some grafter may get a share of them
for the law student at least must get
out and dig for it, and is not getting
his education at the expense of the
taxpayer.
PAUL C. FISCHER.
The Causes of Rheumatism.
Stomach trouble, lazy liver and de
ranged kidneys are the cause of rheu
matism. Get your stomach, liver, kid
neys and bowels in healthy condition
by taking Electric Bitters, and you
will not be troubled with the pains
or rheumatism. Charles B. Allen, a
school principal of Sylvania, Ga., who
suffered indescribable torture from
rheumatism, liver and stomach trou
blo and diseased kidneys, writes: "All
remedies failed until t used Electric
Bitters, but four bottles of this won
derful remedy cured me completely."
Maybe your rheumatic pains come
from stomach, liver and kidney trou
bles. Electric Bitters will give you
prompt relief. 50c and $1.00. Recom
mended by Huntley Bros.
Children Ory
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORI A
month.
If there are employees of the col
lege who have not further value than
to dress exceptionally well' and draw
salaries it would be well to mention
their names and have them removed
Any one having the desired informat
ion would confer a favor on all tax
payers by making the fact known.
"They can spend money, Gosh yes."
If the money is efficiently and prop
erly spent all right. If any one knows
of some of it being misspent he should
make the fact known.
The motto of the Farmers Society
of Equity is "Equity and justice to
all." So we should apply this to col
leges as well as other institutions and
individuals.
When something is wrong bring out
When something is wrong bring out
the facts and figures and not sweep
ing generalities.
Verv respectfully,
W. W. HARRIS.
Chronic Stomach Trouble Cured.
There is nothing more discourag
ing than a chronic disorder of the
stomach. Is it not suprising that that
many suffer for years with such an
ument when a permanent cure is
within their reach and may be had for
a trifle? "About one year ago," says
P. H. Beck, of Wakelee, Mich., "I
bought a package o fChamberlain's
Tablets and since using them I have
felt perfectly well. I had previously
used any number of different medi
cines, but none of them were of any
lasting benefit" For sale by Huntley
Bros. Co.
3,000 whites, which is practically
double of last year and doubtless will
be near to 6,000 a year hence.Mining,
of course, is the leading industry tho
dairying and truck farming are en
gaged in extensively.
Our first territorial legislature con
venes here early next month.
Very truly,
Everyone is eagerly awaiting the
announcement of who will be our next
governor. C. A. Sulzer, from Sulzer
near Ketchikan, is believed to be
slated for the office. I sincerely hope
he will be. He is a thorough Alaskan
and I see no reason why Alaska can't
produce her own governor. He's a
staunch Democrat too, but who
wouldn't be?
ELNORA G. GINTHER.
Best for Skin Diseases.
Nearly every skin disease yields
quickly and permanently to Bucklen's
Arnica Salve, and nothing si better
for burns or bruises. Soothes and
heals. John Deye, of Gladwin, Mich.,
says after suffering twelve years with
skin ailment and spending $400 in
doctor's bills, Bucklen's Arnica Salve
cured him. It will help you. Only
25c. Recommended by Huntley Bros.
Pneumonia Follows a Cold.
but never follows the use of Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound. It stops
the cough, heals the sore and inflam
ed air passages, and strengthens the
lungs. The genuine is in a yellow
package with beehive on carton. Re
fuse substitutes. For sale by Hunt
ley Bros. Co. ,
AT THE
Lowest Cost
ELECTRIC LIGHT is the most
suitable fef tomes, offices, shops and
other places needing light. Electric
ity can be used in any quantity, large
or small, thereby furnishing any re
quired amount of light. Furthermore
electric lamps can be located in any
place, thus affording any desired dis
tribution of light.
No other kmps possess these qual
ifications, therefore it is not surprising
that electric lamps are rapidly replac
ing all others in modern establish
ments. Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company
MAIN OFFICE SEVENTH & ALDER.
PORTLAND
Phones Main 6688 and A. 6131