OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY APRIL 4 1913..
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Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
M. J. BROWN,
EDITOR
"WILD GUESSING."
Last week this paper stated on
"good authority" that the state Gran
Ke would submit a measure to the
voters to abolish the senate.
The Oregonian says the "good
authority" is W. S. U'Ren. It was not
from Mr. U'Ren, but that doesn't
make any difference. The Courier
editor has never passed a word with
Mr. U'Ren on the matter since last el
ection. The information came through
the farmers, members of the Grange
and the Equity Society and it came
straight.
The Oregonian then goes on to ex
plain how the movement to abolish
the senate will not be any more pop
ular than voting to abolish fourth of
July, and it sustains this argument
by the result of the vote on the prop
osition last fall.
By the same reasoning the equal
suffrage victory, which gave the vote
to the women of Oregon, was a slip of
the cog, was a mistake of the voters,
for it had been repeatedly snowed un
der and the voters should not change
their minds.
Abolishment of the senate was de
feated last fall for a number of reas
ons. The proposition was? not standing
alone; it was overshadowed and over
looked by the single tax and other big
propositions before the people, and it
had arrayed against it big business,
which used every scarecrow possible
to line up the voters against anything
w. S. U'Ken proposed.
And since all this happened THERE
HAS BEEN ANOTHER SESSION
OF THE LEGISLATURE, and it has
done more to bring about the break
ing up of its own nest than anything
Mr. U Ren or the People s Power Le
ague could do.
ine matter isn t entirely an issue
of Mr. U'Ren. It is becoming an
issue in several states. Governor
Hodges of Kansas openly advocates
doing away with a useless senate
California is clamoring for the abol
ishment of both houses; Idaho
.starting a movement to kill the sen
ate; Washington newspapers (the in
dependant press) are urging the
same action.
The Oregonian says that the Cour
ier's statement "that just as surely as
the matter is ever given to the vot
ers, just as surely is the senate go
ing to the discard," is a wild cruess,
We have clipped the editorial from
the Oregonian, and some of these
later days we will re-publish it and
see which paper has the laugh.
COMICAL BLACKSMITHING.
THE "DISTURBER."
Here is on W. S. U'Ren may take
as a complement or as a slam.
a travelling man lor dairy sup
plies, etc., who makes every county in
the valley said he would stake Clacka
mas against the rest of the state for
starting things, and he gave as his
reason that it was the home county of
W. is. U Ken and the incubator of his
ideas.
He said this county watched every
political move in state and nation and
that nine out of ten farmers could
give you a remedy for political evils
at the drop of the hat; that when they
thought they were being given the
worst of any deal or being imposed
upon in any manner, they simply
went to it and remedied conditions or
scared others so they remedied them
He said tho referendum against the
half million appropriation for the Eu
gene University would not have been
invoked if it had not been for the
protests of Clackamas county start
ing It, and now, he said, the county
was going to take the- initiative in
abolishing the senate and referending
tne salary increase laws passed by
the last legislature.
"Clackamas against the rest of the
state for keeping the kettle boiling"
said the travelling man, "and I will
bet on Clackamas and win."
The last legislature passed a law
to regulute weights and measures,
and I would suggest that the scales
of justice in Portland be tested about
the first thing. In one duy one mun
got a year on the rock pile for petty
larceny, and another man was turned
loose after having been found guilty
of living off the earnings of a wo
manhis wife.
Oregon isn't alone in its appeal
be delivered from its legislature. Cal
ifornia, Idaho, Washington, Kansas
and several other states are endeavor
ing to shake off at least half of their
law factones. And here is what As
semblyman H. C. Bagby of Santa Ma
ria Cal, gives to the public as his ob
servations of the California legislat
ure. Possibly you can find its applic
ation to Salem:
"The state wastes half a mill
ion dollars every two years giv
ing 120 men the chance to tinker
with the laws . It . is all wrong.
Why we keep up the absurd cus
tom is beyond my comprehension.
My experience in January at the
legislature was an eye-opener. I
found little more than a handful
of men who knew what they were
trying to do. Some of the 'solons'
couldn't tell you the nature of
even the bills they fathered. Most
of the men were frankly ignor
ant of their work, and worst of
all, they cared precious little
whether they knew about it or
not. It was a farce, a sad exibit
ion of a lot of useless men, floun
dering around in a sort of daze,
frittering away the public's mon
ey, ripping up what their prede
cessors did and making no appre
ciable improvement. The state
never gets value for its expendi
ture on the legislature. What
with contingent expenses, the
cost of his biennial drain on the
state treasury comes close to half
a million. And all the state gets
out of it is comical blacksmithing
on the statutes."
JUST NOISE.
The Hillsboro Independent says the
Courier is still growling over the de
feat of the governor's pet flat salary
bill, wants the people to, vote on sal
aries, and then goes on to state that
a very large majority of the counties
favor the defeat of the governor's
bill.
The Independent's editorials are us
ually pretty fair and pretty sensible,
but once in a while Editor Kellien
gets hold of the wrong end.
The Courier never had a line in fav
or of the flat salary law, hence it is
not growling over -its defeat. This pa
per believes that the men who pay the
salaries should have a say as to what
the salaries should be; that every
county should fix its own salaries
through the ballot, and that the sal
ary bills passed over Governor West's
veto should be referended.
The Independent editor should ob
serve a little closer before he criti
cises. When he is wrong he is ridicu
lous.
THERE ARE TWO KINDS
A Clackamas county man writine
in the Oregon City Courier says he
thinks it is time a farmer were elect
ed governor of Oregon, and mentions
the name of C. E. Spence, master of
the state grange, as a suitable person
for the office. A good farmer who
would make a good governor would
be all right; but the last farmer gov
ernor Oregon had didn't make a very
creditable showing. However, he was
not a good farmer. -Sulem Messen
ger.
With the referendum already under
way on the Eugene university; with
the Grange and Equity going to start
work for abolishing the senate; with
the movement to start the refer
endum on the salary increases in this
county to be launched the 12th, and
mass meeting to be held in this citv
baturday of this week to investigate
iieged county extravagance well
the people are pfetty much alive to
things doing in Oregon, and they are
serving notice that the men who pay
are going to be considered as to
where the money is spent from now
THE AX. The city council should lead, not
have to be forced by the Live Wires,
The movement to invoke the ref- Ministerial Association, or injunctions
erendum on the Eugene university to do its duty. Reform by force gets
has started, and the result will be just little credit.
what it was last fall when' the peo
nla anwtraA it tinOT
The late, lame and lamented legis- , WiI1 E- Pu.rdy, of Newberg a well
lature appropriated over six hundred known man in this county, has an-
U.,Dol IrJlara in run thin Bxhnn '"- muioou. u miiiuuih iui
As near as I can determine there governor, says ne win later an
are about 1,600 students, 1,000 from
the city of Eugene alone, and 600
from the outside.
And Oregon will have to pay about
one thousand dollars a piece for the
education of these students.
Pretty high priced education this.
The legislature thought it was putt
ing over a very smooth one when it
made a half dozen separate approp
riation bills for this university.
nounce his platform. And he further
says it will not be ratified by the
several political parties.
Guesses are cheap, and mine is
that the Republican party has lost
his wallop and can't come back. For
years the voters stood by the party
they were once so proud of; stood
by in the hope that it might get back
and be reperesentative. Then the rep-
mi. t: J il... ;t u
cost about $1,200 each to get the ax left the n mQst of them win
Ull H1CDC BCI-CIOTO "U "'" Klr
. J.1 1. 1J 1 i l.iv.wi bv.liw MMV1V,
stringing mem out wouiu nave a ten
dency to discourage the referendum.
liut it really had the opposite effect. Kansas is uneasv. Like Oreeon it
They might better have jammed them wants a closer and more representa-
tnrougn in one Daie, ior mere are five eovernment. and the voters are
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many voters wno wouiu nave nesicat- willing. Governor Hodges recom
ed to Kill an support to tne state mends this remedy:
scuooi wno wm gmuiy vow lo uiu kni, iiit,. wfu
lish state commission'" govern
ment. Elect one or two commiss
ioners from each congressional
district to make the laws. Make
the governor an ex-officio mem
ber of the commission. Keep the
commissioners at work all the
time. Pay them salaries adequate
for the place. Give them four or
six-year terms. Make them sub
ject to recall.
off four or five of the wings.
This paper is not against education
al movements, but it IS against the
Eugene way of plugging,
The Courier wants this $600,000
spread around Oregon, and not made
a benefit for Eugene.
Look at our country schools, and
what they have to do with. Look at
the wages paid teachers, and judge of
the quality such wages will get,
As children grow up the farmer has
to leave the farm and move into town
to educate the children, and when
they once go to town they seldom go
back.
We want more money paid to the
rural schools and less to the Eugene
university.
One half of this huge
Harriman (do you remember him)
left $68,000,000. and Morgan left
many times this great sum. You and
I know no human being has any moral
right to accumulate the shares of
hundreds of thousands of other men
appropriate and have an income he cannot possib
PRINCIPAL PORTLAND AGENTS FOR LADIES HOME JOURNAL PATTERNS, ALL THE LATEST
STYLES IN ALL SIZES AT 10c & 15c EACH FULL LINE OF EMBROIDERY PATTERNS PRICED
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ALL POINTS WHERE CHARGES DO NOT EXCEED S PER CENT OF THE PURCHASE PRICE.
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ion would give many times the bene- iy spend. These huge fortunes will
fits and results if spread around Ore- soon swallow up the country if allow-
gon and the rural schools were made ed to accumulate. When beyond any
more efficient,
The people will do to .the appropri
ations next fall what they did last
fall and they will continue to until
the legislature gets down to
business and realizes that this edu
cation must be spread around.
Let the university and the agricul
tural college combine, cut down the
enormous expense, and give the rest
of the state a show.
possible personal needs, then there
should be a tax on the increase so
heavy it would almost confiscate. If a
man will pile up millions because he is
money mad and has the power, then
let him pay a mighty big fine for
that power so big that it will effec
tually discourage a hog from rooting
up the earth.
LAW-MADE VACATIONS
There is nothing that works against
the liquor business harder than the
liquor dealer who violates the law un
der which he was granted a license.
There is nothing that makes public
sentiment against the liquor business
faster and the man who lives up to
the letter and the spirit of the law
has to suffer for the sentiment the
law breaker makes.
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$1.25
The state legislature in Wisconsin
refused to re-submit the Woman's
suffrage amendment on the ground
YOUR at would cost too much. Miss Ada
james men appeared oeiore tne sen
ate and fired thig at them:
"We have enquired of the secre
tary of state and find that resubmis
sion will cost exactly $75. We find
also that the beautiful new brass
cuspidors here in the Capitol cost $24
each. Are you not willing to pay the
price of three cuspidors on the wo
men of Wisconsin?
Years ago a bucaneer named Mor
gan died. He robbed on the high seas
This week another Morgan died, he
was no less a pirate. Tho difference
was only in their social positions.
When You SelhYour
Produce
How do you get your pay? Is it in var
ious silver or gold coins, or a check on
some bank? Remember that all of these
are good for full value when presented at
our teller's .window. We will take a
. check on any other bank, and give you
the money for it or deposit it to your ac
count, just the same as if it were a bank
note. It doesn't cost you a single cent
to get your outside checks cashed.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY '
The papers state that H. G. Stark
weather of Risley, has received the
appointment by Governor West to be
one of the commissioners of this state
as per our new law, to go on a trip
through Europe to study the credit
system for the benefit of farmers,
The tour of investigation includes It
aly, Austria, Hungary, Germany,
Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium,
France, England and Ireland.
This, dear Clackamas farmers, is
for your benefit AND AT
EXPENSE.
The legislature knew what was best
for you. It realized you needed a trip
abroad by Harvey G. Starkweather
proxy.
The legislature knew you were long
on spuds but mighty shy on credits,
so it has sent Harvey over to see how
the foreigners worry along: to have a
few month's swell vacation trip, and
come home and read you a string of
statistics and data that anyone can
get in two weeks for the asking at U Reverent Moving Picture Life Story of Jesus of Nazareth
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Every since I can remember they rTOdUCea in AUICMIC LOCailOlUn raieSIine and tgypt
have been sending personally con
ducted summer excursions abroad to
dig data, and Washington has it cord-
ed up.
No more nonsensical law ever got
through a nonsensical legislature
than this. Only four years ago Cong
ress sent a bunch of millionaires over
there on almost an identical mission.
I recall that Congressman Vreeland,
of New York was one of them. I nev
er heard that they brought home any
thing but expense and some novel
tiesfor their wives, but I have no
doubt they had some "credits" some
where, and as this stuff has never
been used it could be had at bargain
day rates from old Uncle Sam.
Going to Europe to get information
that the government has stacked up
at home.
It is to laugh.
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From The Mangter
To The Cross
5 Reels KALEMS BIBLICAL MASTERPIECE 5000 Ft.
In presenting to the public this
wonderful representation of the life
of Christ, we wish to point out a few
interesting facts in" connection with
its production. The tremendous un
dertaking entered updYi by the pro
ducers of this great film, containing
eighty thousand photographs, has re
quired eight months of artistic indus
try, the employment of specialists in
authorative research," forty actors,
hundreds of supernumeraries, droves
of sheep and a caravan of camels a
Kaleidoscopic procession no effort
or expenditure has been spared to
achieve the realization of a high ideal
For the pictures representing the
flight into Eqypt the company journ
eyed to the land of the Pharaohs and
these early scenes were actually pic
tured under the shadow of the sphinx
and pyramids. One notes particular
ly in these pictures the wonderful
grouping of the crowd. This success
is entirely due to the religious effect
which the play had upon the dwellers
in the Holy Land.
THE SUPREME COURT WAY
The supreme court at Salem hand
ed down one Tuesday that makes one
wonder what we are coming to.
The action was an appeal from
Multnomah to determine whether
justice of the peace was entitled to
marriage fees, and the action was
brought to have a justice return $!,
0(H) ho had raked in on marriage tips.
The court held that the justice had
no right to receive any pay for per
forming marriages, and because it
was illegally collected the county had
no right to the money.
In other word sit was a crime to
to collect this money, the justice had
no right to it, but as he HAD collect
ed it, it was his.
The same seasoning compared
would be that if County Clerk Mulvey
charged for work he .was paid by the
county to do and was caught at it, the
court would say that as the fees were
illegal, the county could not ask for it
(it would be tainted you know) there
fore Mr. Mulvey could keep it.
Great reasoning!
In some instances I have known
public officials who took money not
entitled to, to be prosecuted.
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As Mr. Eby stated before the Live
Wires Tuesday, the charges against
the County Court should be thorough
ly looked into, and that it was as
much the duty or the Live Wires to
investigate this matter as other mat
ters. He stated that if these charges
were true, we should know it Such a
stand is one any man is bound to ad
mit is simple justice and fairness, and
there is no doubt but what the com
mittee appointed by Mr. Stipp will
render a fair and unbiased report.
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Dr. J. K. Dixon writes:
"They are splendid examples of his
toric reality. The setings are dignif
ied, the action graceful. The devotion,
before you without a suggestion of
both to the letter and to the spirit, of
the one life lived on this earth passes
the outside world."
Dr. Chas. II. Parkhurst writes:
"I feel that I am rendering service
to a good cause in expressing to you
the pleasure and satisfaction afforded
me yesterday by the opportunity you
kindly put within my reach of wit
nessing the drama, entitled 'From the
Manger to the Cross.
The pictures are wonderfully good,
depict the customs and scenes of the
Holy Land and vizualize many things
that have seemed unreal.
They have great educational value.
"The Evening Sun."
This pictorial drama of the redemp
tion of mankind is designed to bring
the subject close to the hearts of
those who witness it. From the annun
ciation with its wonderful suggestion
of dawning realization in the eyes of
the predestined Virgin Mother, are
shown in quick succession the man
ger, the shepherds, the wise men and
the flight into Egypt. In the last
named scene a wonderful effect is
produced by the figure of the all
mysterious, solemnly impassive
Sphinx, keeping guard as it were, in
the pale moonlight over the group of
the Divine Child with Mary and Jos
ph lying asleep beneath. "The Balti
more American."
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