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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, APRIL 11 1913
OREGON CITY COURIER!
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Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
M. J. BR.OWN,
EDITOR
SUCKERS!
Congress has opened and now comes
the big scrap and the long scrap for
free wool and free sugar.
And we will have log-rolling button
pulling and vote trading for weeks.
You will see southern sugar senat
ors swapping votes with western
wool growers; you will see the
sugar trust, the wool trust and the
whole bunch get into this scrap; and
no doubt when you get through with
it you will see the senate compromise
on a bill that won't be worth the fuss
and a bill that the wool wearer won't
notice.
How much wool goes into the suit
of clothes you take a chance on in this
1913?
How much does the Oregon sheep
grower get out of the wool that goes
into a $25 suit of clothes sold today?
He could stick the amount he got
for the wool that went into that suit
in his left ear and it would not bother
him to hear or cause him earache.
Colliers showed up that bunco deal
two years ago, and showed up how
the grafters were simply using the
"poor wool grower" as the same old
goat to hang a sympathy bunco game
on.
Won't we ever wise up ?
When a manufacturer makes a but
ter counterfeit he has to label that
tub of grease for what it is.
He has to tell the purchaser "this
is counterfeit, and being such we sell
it cheaper."
The dealer has to tell his customer
the same thing; that the grease is an
imitation of butter, and the customer
may take his choice.
If the hotel or restaurant serves the
oleo on its tables it must have signs
on the walls telling the eater that
the counterfeit is being served him.
Now why not handle the wool bus
iness in the same way and we won't
need any tariff protection.
Handle this way, let down the gates
to Australia, and ' the result will
be better prices for the growers' wool
and better value for the wearer's coin.
Pass a law that will make the man
ufacturer label that suit of clothes
and state just how much wool, cotton
and shoddy it contains.
Can't do it? SURE you can do it,
and do it just as tight as the pure
food law does it.
The result?
You know what it will be.
You know you will buy the WOOL
suit because it is cheaper in the end.
You will get a WOOL suit when
you pay for one.
The cotton and shoddy will not sell
as it sells now, because NOW you let
them rob you, YOU can't tell the diff
erence. When you GET what you pay for
you will get wool.
When you get wool the demand for
wool will increase beyond all expec
tations, and the result will be that
- wool prices will go UP, at the same
time the wearer will get double for
the money he pays now, because he
will get HIS MONEY'S WORTH.
There is demand enoueh for wool
in this country alone to take the coat
off every sheep's back in the U. S.
or Australia and yet keep the prices
up and you may keep on your tar
iff or you may take it off.
The present system of clothing
graft is a hundred times worse than
passing counterfeit money. The man-
uiacturers and the wholesalers and
the jobbers get it, and the wool rais
ers at one end and the wool wearers
at the other pay the rotten steal
which our government sanctions.-
Never thought of getting together
and telling Oregon's Washington
bunch to frame up such a law and
stand by it, or you would kill them off
at the next election.
Well, take the gaff, you suckers.
Let them throw the spear in. Let
them skin you, and swear you like it.
The Chinaman still plows with a
crooked stick.
IN THE NEST OF THE FUTURE
Some day, as we grow, learn and
shake off mouldy precedents, cities of
our size will have a city manager, and
will be run as our big mills are run
on a business plan.
When that time comes, one man
will run and be responsible for the
city, just as a superintendent is re
sponsible for the success of one of our
mills. .
Politics will not give him his job
nor pull keep him. He will be hired
because of what he has done and he
may come from Portland, Ore., or
Portland, Me. .
It will be a business . idea, and a
man who knows the business will car
ry it out, just as one man who knows
his business is putting through a
work at Panama that the whole
French government couldn't put thru
on a political plan.
Get one man, one good man, one
who comes high because he knows the
job, and hand over to him all the ex
ecutive work of Oregon City, includ
ing the appointments, and make him
simply responsible for everything un
der him, the framing and execution
of policies, enforcement of laws in
short, make him make good.
Some day we will run our cities like
this and we will look back and laugh
at the haphazard present system of
giving the jobs to men because their
names are filed as candidates, who
may not know any more about city
government than a hog does about as
tronomy, and to men who serve with
out pay and who make the city gov
ernment a side line a job to' be done
at odd hours.
Some day we will revise our form
of government and our charter, we
will make it business, and the people
will vote on it.
It seems that every move President
Wilson makes and every word he says
brings him closer to the people. Read
ing his own message of eight min
ute's length was his hits stand-in.
The Enterprise must have run
short of "O's" when it said there
would be 50 farmers in to attend the
mass meeting lust Saturday.
WHY?
Here's a new and novel one thi
country will keep its eye on.
Some will call it municipal expans
ion and some will call it Socialism.
Cleveland, Ohio's, city council has
purchased 94 acres of land in the city,
paid $122,000 for it, and will build'
hundreds of moderate-priced houses
for the laboring and poor people, the
houses to be rented at a price that
will pay the city an investment and at
the same time much lowar than the
rent of places owned by private par
With honest and efficient manage
ties. ment this idea is bound to be an eye
opener. The Panama Canal has shown the
world what government control and
co-operation can do, and a city-controlled
project can show just as pro
portionally big benefits.
The devil of it is, if the Ohio idea
makes good, some fellow who does
not know any better will stick his
head up and ask if a municipality can
operate 94 acres to the advantage of
tne people, why can't it run and con
trol the whole city?
And there you go. If the people
can run a city why not a state, why
not the railroads, telephones, tele
graphs, coal mines and manufacture
their own necessities?
YOU PAY THE LOSSES
Some time ago when the state leg
islature first convened, a bill was pre
sented, or disiussed, regarding state
fire insurance, and Governor West en
dorsed it. Among the comments and
criticisms I clipped one, which show
ed deep thought, but . neglected to
note from which paper it was taken.
The publisher will doubtless recall,
however.
The criticism goes on to tell the
taxpayers they have responsibilities
and taxes enough, without having to
pay the lire losses of Oregon and take
over another loan --and along that
line of bunk.
It is to smile.
Do you fire insurance policy payers
think the insuranca companies pay
fire losses?
If you do forget it.
The fire losses are absolutely paid
by the men who have insurance polic
ies. There is no argument on this
point. The insurance companies are
simply the agents that collect, and
disburse your money, and as middle
men they take a big rakeoff in sal
aries, expenses and profits.
State insurance would cut these out
and you would get your insurance less
the middleman's share, and you would
have a policy that would be fully if
not more secure.
"THEY'RE OFF."
LET POLITICIANS RULE
Woodburn Independent)
Because the initiative and refer
endum have done away with the old
log-iolling tactics by which appropri
ations from the state treasury could
be secured in almost any amount and
for almost any amount and for.al
most any purpose, the Eugene Guard,
whose ox was badly gored bv the vot
ers lust fall, wants the judge to be
given power to say what measures
shall be referred to the voters and
which shall not. The voting down of
the big university appropriation at
the' last election, showed that the
people did not want that half a mill
ion spent for new buildings at the un
iversity; but the Guard wants it fix
ed so that the university will got the
money whether the people are willing
or not. In other words, it wunts some
power in government superior to the
will of the people. Our opinion is that
it will have to wait manv a lone rlnv
before the pcoplo will voluntarily di
vest themselves of the powers they
have taken into their own hands by
the initiative 'and referendum provis
ions of our laws and our constitution.
Monday the Democratic tariff bill
was introduced in the house and it is
some bill in the way of letting down
the tariff bars.
It is the most sweeping bill in the
history of the United States for free
trade relations and the American
people will watch every move and the
move of the men who push it or hold
back on it
The time has come in this country
when the masses have lost faith in
protective policy which does not pro
tect the masses, and last fall's vote
was notice any man could read that
our people want to try a change.
And certain it is that if the admin
istration tariff bill passed in anything
like its present form the people of
this country will soon after find out
whether lowered tariffs will lower
duties, or whether big business will
even then be able to regulate supply.
demand and prices.
Here are a few of the changes the
tariff bill includes:
Congress, by a majority vote, may
open reciprocity agreements with any
country. On the free list are lumber,
and a long list of manufactured arti
cles from lumber. On the articles
known as necessities there are sweep
insr reductions on soap and flannel
and the free list -embraces bicycles
cutlery, hogs, bran, bread, eggs.
meals, saddlery, leather goods, build
ing stone, iron ore, nails, horse-shoes,
typewriters, sewing machines, cash
registers, posts, laths, pickets, shing
les, timber, hewn, sided or squared,
fish, milk, lard, flour, potatoes, salt.
flax straw, wood, pulp, Bibles, coal
coke, hides, boots and shoes and ag
ricultural implements.
Raw wool. goes in the free list, cot
ton schedules are cut deep, all iron
and steel get the ax, schedule "K" is
shot to pieces, clothing goes down 30
per cent, carpets 35.
An income tax clause provides for
1 per cent on all incomes of over
$4,000 annually, and an additional
surtax of 1 per cent on all incomes in
excess of $50,000 with 8 per cent on
all additional m excess of $100,000,
Sugar, molasses, all chemicals,
brick, tile, asphalt, etc., take a big
fall; fruits get big cut; olives and
olive oil, figs, raisins are on the down
cut. Fish are free, all print paper and
books are lowered; rice, hemp, flax
and hundreds of other articles are re
duced.
DAGO DOINGS
INDUSTRY
usually lias its substantial reward, but
all the industry in the world amounts to
nothing if the reward is thoughtlessly
squandered, A small portion of your
earnings deposited regularly in this
bank will by your mainstay in time of
trouble.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
(Morning Enterprise)
The interested public had its eyes
opened Saturday at the meeting call
ed for the purpose of condemning the
Clackamas County Court. The frame
up, for it was nothing else, was plan
ned to a nicety, as was evidenced by
the reading of the names of the mem
bers of the resolutions committee
from a paper that Chairman Smith
promptly extracted from his pocket,
It must be admitted that several hun
dred farmers were in bad company
but they did not see the game. Credit
for the arrangements must be given
E. D. Olds, who for years grew fat on
the country pay roll, and who had
a natural peevish disposition over be
ing separated from the county exc-chequer.
The Enterprise has no idea that the
people of Clackamas county are going
to let Olds, Bob Schuebel, S. L. Casto,
et al do their thinking for them. The
divorce of Olds from the pay roll is
too recent for that. Mr. Casto, as
president of the Society of Equity,
has a deep rooted grievance because
the County Court declined to permit
the courtrooms to be Used as a meet
ing place of the society. We don't
know what pains Mr. Schuebel, but
maybe his neighbors do.
As we understand it the plot is to
make a report scoring the members
of the county court and to recommend
their recall. Perhaps a sufficient
number of signatures can be obtained
in Clackamas county to bring about
a recall election, but we don t think
so. If the leaders in the movement
had been disposed to have been fair,
they would have appointed one of
their own number of an investigating
committee, permitted the county
court choose one member and let the
two choose a third.
So the public will not sit by in eag
er anticipation of the committees' re
port. If it has not already been draft
ed, it is not because the committee
has not outlined its contents.
The other day I saw a lank, lean
hound, who had eaten too much from
some garbage box, let nature and in
digestion get the best of his stomach
and he lost his dinner. He ran across
the street, settled his stomach and
went back to it again.
And the above editorial made me
think of the dog who returned to his
vomit.
It is hardly understandable that a
paper would make such scurrilous
charges against a committee which
had never met or passed a word in re
gard to the matter to be taken up.
I tseems almost unbelievable that
a paper which asks the public to
take it for value received, would
charge two men who have lived for
many years in Oregon, and whose rep
utations for honor and honesty have
never been assailed, with deliberate
dishonor in violating a public trust.
Who wrote the above editorial you
may guess, but it was unfair, dirty,
and a disgrace to the sheet that moth
ered it.
Between the paragraphs of abuse it
asks why the mass meeting -did not
appoint one member, the county court
another and let him choose a third.
The county court already has its
own appointed investigator at work in
the court house Mr. Hackett.
Mr. Smith, chairman of the mass
meeting, appointed W. W. Myers of
this city, a relative by marriage of
Mr. Beaty, but he refused to serve
and Mr. Casto was appointed in his
place,
Mr. Smith appointed Mr. Myers be
cause he had faith in his dead honesty
in a matter like the one under con
sideration. On refusal of Mr. Myers
to act, he appointed Mr. Casto for the
same reasons and this paper would
like to see the color of a man's hair
who will stand up and say he will
make a report in advance of investi
gation. Only a vulture is happy in digging
his beak in a carrion.
The committee of three met at ten
o'clock Tesday morning and an hour
later took the matter of a larger com
mittee up with Live Wire members
and at noon, in the Live Wire meeting
asked that body to appoint a committ
ee of three to work with it in the in
vestigations. O. D. Eby, W. S. U'Ren
and John W. Loder were appointed.
Does the Enterprise think these men
will help to draw the findings in ad
vance? Was this action of the first commit
tee railroading? Was it a "plot?"
Was this the apt of a committee which
had already drafted its findings in ad
vance? The Enterprise article quoted above
is foul journalism a relic of the
ways and means of the old days
when men did not question but just
believed.
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LIVE WIRE CRITICISM
Writer Thinks this Organization is in
a Rather Embarassing Position
Oregon City, April 7, 1913
Editor Courier:
We find by refering to the Oregon
Daily Journal of Friday evening, Feb
ruary 7, 1913, under the heading of
"Griffith Dinner Causes Comment
which goes on to state that a little
dinner was given in the grill room of
the hotel Marion at Salem, the pre
vious night -in honor of the birthday
of Franklin T. Griffith, chief counsel
for the Portland Railway Light and
Power Co., said - comment came from
the fact that prominent members of
the Senate and House were present
at .the feast, and it followed close up
on the heels of a victory won by the
R. R. Co, over Senator Dimick's
bill to include the water power plant
at Willamette Falls, within the limits
of Oregon City .although the day be
fore Dimick had won a fight, substi
tuting a report in favor of the bill for
a majority report against it. And it
was noted that nearly all of the leg
islators who participated at the feast
were men opposed to Dimick 's law
making ideas.
bull lurtner significance was
attached to the gathering because it
was recalled that two years ago after
the defeat of the Dimick eight hour
bill in the senate a dinner was given
to many members of the legislature
Now we find, by referring to the
Morning Enterprise of Oregon City,
dated April 2d 1913 the article headed
"Griffith Endorsed by Live Wires,"
said article states that at a weekly
luncheon the Live Wires unanimously
endorsed Mr. Griffith for the presi
dency of the P. R. L. & P. Co., to
succeed B. S. Josselyn. In a letter to
the Board of Directors the Live Wirei
state among other recommendations,
that "you now have a man in your
employ, known and respected by all
and whom we believe would get re
sults from the start IN THAT HE
KNOWS WHAT THE PEOPLE
WANT.
Now we find by looking up the even
ing papers of the 7th of April, that
Mr. Griffith has been chosen vice-
president all right. Mr. Griffith is a
mighty nice man, a fine fellow and
cordially liked by his intimate friends
but is he the proper man for the Live
Wires of Oregon City to worry
about? Didn't he go to Salem to
fight Dimick and wasn't Dimick
fighting for Oregon City ? Didn't this
same man Griffith come before the
city council a short time ago at Ore
gon City and ask for a franchise?
Didn't some of his friends and relat
ives get a franchise ready to his lik
ing and had it ready for him ?
Didnt a certain member of the coun
cil say that as the ' corporation was
represented by one of the best law
yers they could get, it was up to the
council to look after the interests of
the people who elected them? Have
we forgotten it? And didn't one of
the old honest members of the council
get up and pace the floor and remain
firm and steadfast in his demands for
ustice for the people ? No, we haven't
forgotten it
And are we ready to hand the river.
falls and whatever else he wants to
the Hon. Mr. Griffith? We guess not.
We thought the Live Wires were
trying to work for us for by the side
of the article in the Enterprise en
dorsing Griffith, was another headed
Mills to Have Eight Hour Shift."
We know what this means to Oregon
City and to hundreds of tired women.
and men who work at the mills. We
know that Dimick did his level best
while at Salem to help us in this
matter and when his bill for 8 hours
was again snowed under he went to
Schuebel's aid and hebed Dull what
was left of the Schuebel bill through.
urinitn didn t help them or us either.
ay referring back to last fall, iust
about election time, we remembered
that a meeting of the Live Wires
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prominent members put up a strong
talk against this 8 hour shift, claim
ing that it must be hushed up as
capital was being scared away from
town and etc., that already the com
panies were moving their mills away
from here that it would be imposs
ible to operate the mills here on an 8
hour day basis.
Still, in spite of all that the Live
Wires can do, we are to have an 8
hour shifts at the mills and the people
rejoice that they are to be freed from
the long hours of labor and have a
chance to live while alive. So it seems
to us once in a while a "nigger" gets
into the woodpile at the Live Wire
meetings and there are moves made
that we 'don't believe the Live Wires
themselves approve of.
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Woodrow Wilson can force a govern.
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Our Socialist friends say the tariff
is only a scarecrow and a hoDe. It be
gins to look as if we are going to be
able to prove this contention Drettv
soon and determine whether it has the
key to a lower cost of living.
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