OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, MAY 9 1913
OREGON CITY COURIER
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J. Bruce Walker, emigration com
missioner, sys 200,000 people from
the U. S. will go nito Western Canada
this year. And there is something
dead wrong with this western Amer
ica that they do.
Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
M. J BR.OWN,
EDITOR
Affidavit of Circulation
I, M. J. Brown, being duly sworn,
say that I am editor and part owner
of the Oregon City Courier, and that
the average weekly circulation of that
paper from May 1, 1912, to May 1, 19
13, has exceeded 2,000 copies, and that
these papers have been printed and
circulated from the Courier office in
the usual manner.
M. J. BROWN,
- Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 5th day of May, 1913.
GILBERT L. HEDGES,
Notary Public for Oregon
And now the meddlesome people are
asking that power rates on the. P. R
L. & P .Co's entire system be investigated.
There are 96 senators in the Na
tional house and 74 of them are far
mers beg pardon, lawyers. And
some people want to abolish the U. S.
lawyers.
High protection has driven the far
mers to Canada and now they say a
low tariff is going to start another
exedous. This is getting the hook go
ing and coming.
American products find markets in
every country in the world, in open
competition, and yet they have the
nerve enough to ask for protection
from foreign competition at home.
Saturday last an auto speeder in
Chicago was convicted of murder,
second degree, and sentenced to 14
years in prison for running over and
killing a man. The day is coming
when an injury by an auto will bring
just as ready a verdict as an injury
by tram or street car, and auto speed
ers are hurrying that day.
The present tariff bill will cut eigh
ty million dollars a year from protect
ion, it is said, and give the products
this much less to the users. This loss
of revenue will be made up by the in
come tax and increased importations
because of a lowered tariff so the
Democratic papers give it out. If Am
erican manufacturers keep out this
increase of importations by selling as
low as goods can be imported then
some predict we will fall short of rev
enue and will have to resort to a di
rect tax. But if taxpayers can get low
er priced goods through competition,
they won t kick on the tax.
They hung Parkinson in effigy up
at the university of Salem last week
and the students couldn't have done
more to boost along the referendum
cause. This demonstration was an in
suit to every man who voted down the
appropriations last fall, and many of
them will resent it. There is no argu
ment in tactics.
two old line insurance companies
in Missouri, who carry about ninety
per cent of the fire risks of that state,
have given it out that they will quit,
because of drastic laws passed by the
legislature. And the governor gives it
out that if they do, the state will or
ganize its own insurance business
And here's a hundred to one that th
companies stay on the job.
The University of Oregon has many
friends throughout Yamhill county
among its graduates, students and pa
trons of higher education. This loy
ality is commendable. The movement
for invoking the referendum is bas
ed, mainly, as an attack on the msti
tution but more strictly as a rebuke
upon the legislature to override the
peoples wishes as expressed at the
late general election on certain ap
propriations for buildings at that in
stitution. Most of us are believers in
higher education; some, however, are
of the opinion that the state is only
duty bound to give its children a well
rounded practical high school educat
ion and beyond that every ambitious
young man ought to be able to work
his or her way through college with
out aid from the state. McMinnville
Register.
I read an account the other day of
how Charles Dawes of Chicago, a mil
lionaire, will build a big hotel for the
unemployed in that city, and then I
thought of Harriman and Morgan and
wondered if this hotel wouldn't be a
memory monument long after the
people had forgotten the nnmes of the
financiers.
Dawes proposes to give unemploy
ed men beds for five cents a night and
food at absolute cost.
If Rockefeller would skip a college
endowment and Carnegie a library or
two, and put money into such enter
prises as this, the country would have
a little less education and many less
criminals.
Every city in every stale needs such
a hotel. There are times, when men
ure pretty nearly down and out, when
a dime lodging might prevent them
from resorting to the sund bag or jim
my. No matter whut brings a mun
down to the necessity of a five cent
lodging, when he is down there he is
a mighty dungerous proposition. At
this point criminals are made. Charles
G. Dawes knows it, and he hopes his
hotel will turn these men back. And
so do I.
The Portland Journal says of Call
fomia's anti-Jap law:
The Dili is a violent assertion
of state contempt for national
obligations. It is scarcely less a
a disregard of the authority of
the United States than were the
average expressions of the slav
ery secessionists.
Why doesn t the Journal protest
over practically the some laws in New
York, Deleware, Kansas, Minnesota,
Kentucky, Washington, Missouri and
the District of Columbia ?
This is California's business. If
the Japs were flocking to Oregon and
were crowding into our cities and pub
lic schools; if they were taking the
place of our workmen at a less wage
scale then it would be Oregon s bus
iness. 1
What are we going to do with the
man who howls but won t vote ?
The Oregonian says but a few over
23 per cent of the voters of Portland
passed the commission charter last
Saturday.
At a recent city election in Boston
65,000 voters stayed away from the
ballot.
In this city not half of the voters
vote.
And yet the country Is in a turmoil
of uneasiness and protest over mis-government.
If voters will not take enough in
terest in their country, state and city
to help govern them, then they should
be compelled to.
I would like to see a law passed
that would put a punishing fine on
every voter who could vote and did
not, and this failing, a period of dis
franchisement.
The gangs that mismanage and
their backers always vote, and if the
other voters will not they should be
compelled to.
Eastern railways will ask the inter
state commerce commission for a five
per cent increase on rates. They say
expenses are so increasing that the
action is necessary.
If granted, then the price on all the
stuff these railroads haul out will
have to be boosted to the extent of
the increase, and those who buy it will
have to pay it.
Then the buyer will say that he
must have higher wages, as the in
crease of products makes this raise
necessary.
And you are back to the starting
point again and where the railroads
will want another increase because
they have to increase the salaries of
the workmen whose necessities are in
creased.
And what have you gained provid
ed each in turn gets the necessary in
crease ?
It is simply chasing around in a
circle, and each time around the dol
lar conies easier and buvs less.
We have got to get deeper in this
matter. We have got to find the cause
for all this increased expense. And
when we dig deep enough we will find
that speculation the buying of prop
erty for $100 and selling for $200 is
one of the big reasons, with the next
men selling it at $100, $800 and so on.
When land has a producing value of
$100 an acre and gamblers run it up
to $200 or $400, some one is going to
pay for the gambling.
If it is good for the eaters and
wearers to have free manufactured
products, why would it not be yet
better to have free raw materials ? If
the Democratic doctrine is good on the
finished product, why not on the raw
goods ?
There is $1,000,000,000 invested in
automobiles in this country today,
Buy a machine today for $2,000 and
sell it next week and you can only get
$1,000 for it. In two or three years it
goes on the junk pile.
It is said that if we had absolutely
free sugar the price to the consumer
would not drop. This remains to be
seen, but here is just a tip that if it
does not come down the American
people will mighty soon find out why
and abolish that why. They are get
ting mighty tired of the gaff.
The Courier is some swelled up. A
marked copy of L action Republic-
aine, published in Paris, has been sent
to this office in which is quoted an ed
itorial from this paper regarding the
refusal of the U. S. to allow Edward
Mylius to land here.
California passed a law Tuesday
that, while it was brief, it was the
needed. It makes criminal the action
to destroy any produce or food, when
we recall that that state recently
dumped car loads of cabbage into the
ocean, Texas followed suit with onions
and Oregon with farm products on
1 ront street in Portland last fall, the
necessity of such a law is only too ap
parent. Destroying necessities to
Doost prices to commission men or
any other men is criminal without law
to so state.
Some weeks ago the Courier print
ed an editorial "The Making of a
Convict," a true story of a down-and-out
who in his desperation was look
ing for a criminal means of relief.
The Lend a Hand, the magazine pub
lished in the Salem prison copied the
editorial and made this comment:
Lengthy comment on the above
article would be entirely out of
place it speaks for itself but
we cannot help remarking upon
the pity that the world contains
so few men like M. J. Brown of
Oregon City and the gentleman
from San Francisco. They have
permitted heart and hand to join
in an understanding of temptat
ion one thru bitter experience the
other by means of a sense of fair
judgement and belief in human
ity. And that's all.
California's sob legislators are am
using in their zeal to abolish the hor
rid, brutal and debasing prize fights.
A bill introduced in the present sen
ate prohibited all boxing of over four
rounds for money or a medal costing
over $ao.
Now that is "some" restraint and
reform. That is what I would call sift-
ting or qualifying crime getting in
nape to label and handle according
to orders.
It is legal to pummel one another
for four rounds of fast and furious
slugging, but if it goes five rounds it
is criminal.
It is legal for a couple of bruisers
to punch noses for a medal valued at
$34.99, but put another two cents on
the bronze thing and the sluggers are
criminals.
Wonder if they haven't any fool kil
ler in California?
The Use of a Dollar
Determines your financial success in
a large measure. No man can ex
pect to become independent from his
salary alone. It is the dollars that you
save and put to work that add a per
manent increase to your income. We
Invite you to save; give you every ad
vantage, convenience and encourage
ment. SATRT NOW.
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Very often I hear a man say "I am
going to rent until taxes get lower.
What difference does it make to this
man whether he owns or rents? He
pays the taxes.
It is just as much to the interest
of the man who does not pay a cent
of taxes to work against the waste of
public money as it is to the interest
of the man who owns a string of tene
ments.
The owner of a renting house is go
ing to make the renter pay his taxes.
insurance, repairs, water rent and at
least six per cent profit after these
bills have been paid and you know it.
Twenty years ago rent was but half
what it is now. As taxes and expenses
on the property increase, they are
put onto the house in increased rent.
and the renter pays them.
, The tenants should have a louder
and longer howl against unecessary
expenses than the property owners
for the tenants can't get back at any
one.
CRITICISES PASTOR- RUSSELL
What Rev. Milliken Thinks of Pastor
Russell and his Connection with
the Tabernacle
When Wall Street wants money to
run its gambling joints, it simply gets
it, und gets all it needs at three per
cent.
When a farmer wants money, and
his broad acres are security, he pays
from seven to ten per cent.
And yet Oregon spends $25,000 to
send Harvey Starkweather and
Eugene professor over to Germany
to "investigate" the advisability of
giving Oregon farmers the same priv
ileges thut New York gamblers have
That foreigrf junketing trip is the
most absurd in its purpose of any of
the bills of our dear legislature.
Going to Germany to determine
whether Oregon shall loan money to
Oregon farmers!
Going to Great Britian to find out
how our Panama Canal shall be op
era ted!
Going to Japan to see what state
rights we have!
One of each of many couples who
go gaily and jubilantly to Vancouver
goes angrily or sorrowfully a little
later to Oregon City. Portland Journal.
This Interests Every Woman
A family doctor said recently that
women come to him thinking that
they have female trouble, but when he
treats them for their kidney and blad
der, they soon recover. This is worth
knowing, and also that Foley's Kid
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Editor Courier:
I have always admired a fighter, a
man of convictions who strikes
straight from the shoulder at every
form of cant and hypocrisy. Such a
man I believe the editor of this paper
to De, ana i am sure that he is will
mg to treat all charlatans alike. For
this reason I wish to call his attention
to a few facts regarding "Pastor Rus
sell" of the "Brooklyn Tabernacle"
whose sermons are given so promi
nent place in the paid advertisine of
tnis paper. 1 am not objecting to
Pastor Russell's" doctrines. A man
has a legal right to teach any old
tning trom transmigration of souls
to free love, so long as he keeps his
conduct within the law, and his lan
guage within the lines set by Anthony
Comstock. It is the character of the
man's reputation that I object to, for
tne loiiowing reasons:
1. The name Brooklyn Tabernacle
has become so closely interwoven
with the ministry of the late stalwart
and godly Dr. Talmadge that its men
tion always calls up a vision of his
clear-cut gospel. Knowing this, and
well aware that his jumbled hash of
theological odds and ends would gain
scant hearing otherwise, under the
cloak of Talmadge's reputation Rus
sell sought to obtain the wider hear
ing his own ability could not procure
for him. This is something no repu
table "orthodox" preacher would de
scend to do.-
2. "Pastor Russell" like other
great men, decided to tour the world.
The Brooklyn Eagle showed that he
prepared a series of articles before
hand, labeled this one preached at
Rome, that at Jerusalem, or some
other place, and had these published
at suitable times. The fact was (and
the Eagle says Russel knew it) a man
of his calibre could not even get a
look in upon the pulpits where his de
lighted dupes supposed their cele
brated "Doctor" was holding forth
An ordinary minister who would do
such a thing would be classed as
plain, unvarnished liar, but possibly
Pastor Russell' is to be measured by
some other standard.
3. He was sued by his wife for al
imony in the divorce courts, with
counts that would fray the reputation
of a tenderloin bartender, and she won
a true bill.
4. The Brooklyn Eagle showed
that "Pastor Russell" had a very con
venient revelation that a new variety
01 wheat was so incomparably super
lor to anything heretofore existing
that it could not possibly be sold at
$60.00 per bushel. The Eagle and the
department of Agriculture investigat
ed the wheat, and the Department
found the wheat a fair average yield-
er ranging between third and six
teenth in tests among common vari
eties. A better wheat could be procur
red for twelve bits per bushel, but the
faithful paid sixty plunks for the
miracle." Russell sued the Eagle for
the expose, and the newspaper won
the case.
5. Rev. J. J. Ross, of Hamilton
Ont., prepared a pamphlet purporting
to give the history of the "Pastor's
skullduggery. He promptly sued Ross
for libel, but the jury returned a ver
ict of "No bill."
Now, Mr. Editor, if an ordinary
man of the Gospel persuasion were to
do any one of the things mentioned
above you would not rest until you
had hung his hide out on your back
fence to dry. And you would be per
fectly justified in doing it. But, un
less you have inside information that
Pastor Russell" has a special dis
pensation from the Almighty to do
those things, why not give him a dose
of the same medicine, and, like scores
of other papers I can name, let him
use some other medium for attempt
ed propaganda than your excellent
journal? .
Sincerely yours,
W. T. MILLIKEN
TEN YEARS OF
ROAD PROGRESS
How Sauk County Farmers Got
Out of the Mud.
ST1CK-T0-IT-IVENESS DID IT,
THE CAUSE THE REMEDY
A Point Mr. Myers Thinks the Ladies
Overlooked
Editor Courier:
Allow me to congratulate the la
dies of the make-up of the last edition
of the paper. Only one fault to find
that part of Mrs. Shannon's article
where she says "there is plenty work
for all the inference being that all
w,ho tramp could get work if they
would try.
Here let me say the tramp is (under
the competative system) an absolute
necessity.' There are two classes, 1st
the tramp who carries the blankets
going from place to place seeking
work and will work if they can get
a fair wage, (and if they can't get a
fair wage, I don t blame them but the
system.)
As a rule they are made up of hard
working, honest men.
2d The hobo that is made up (as
a rule) from the trades college prod
ucts and professions. Why? Because
they know but one job and if they
can t get work at their trade they
have not the courage to tackle ditch
digging or hard work, and could not
think of carrying blankets.
Should ' we condemn them or the
system? Something caused the tramp
and hobo. Which is best, remove the
cause or effect? We can't remove the
tramp. If we do, railroad construct
ion would stop or harvest work not be
done, and last but not least all the
strikes would win out from the fact
if everyone was working their would
be no scabs to take their places.
Kather a serious problem when you
come to think about it Swat the fly?
Better remove the breeding places.
What causes the tramp and hobo?
Improved machinery with no provis
ion for the misplacement. I am not
my brothers' keeper all trying to be
come parasites.
What's the remedy? Government
ownership of public utilities; abolish
ment of interest, rent and profit;
every man woman and child the full
product of their toil; no parasites, all
useful workers; no competition; all
co-operative brotherhood of men,
fatherhood of God.
,And this spells (don't get scared at
the word) Socialism.
Yours for humanitv,
W. W. MYERS
After Generation! of Climbing Through
Swamps and Ruts on Market Dayi
Southern Wisconsin Citizens Banded
Together and Worked Hard.
For two generations the farmers trav
eled bud roads in Sunk county, one ot
the progressive agricultural counties of
southern .Wlsconsiu. The second geu
eratlou and their sons have rebelled
and are now conquering the steep.
muddy hills and long, sandy stretches.
says a writer In the Country Gentle
man. From a county with perhaps the
poorest roads In the state to a county
with an unexcelled system of county
highways Is the proud achievement of
less than ten years.
A definite system of county highways
has been established and plans made
for their permanent Improvement Five
complete road Improvement outfits con
sisting of rock crushers and gasoline
road rollers are owned and operated by
the county under the direction of the
county highway engineer. Wheeled
scrapers, road graders and gravel wag
ons are purchased by the county and
furnished to the Individual towns for
use on large jobs.
A single example of what Is being
done by this county may serve to spur
other counties and communities on In
an endeavor to emulate or even surpass
the thrifty farmers of Sauk.
The fertile valley of the Honey creek
and its tributaries lies in the southern
port of this county. Grandfather, father
and son living in this valley have been
compelled each market day to face the
problem of bad roads. Bad roads have
meant to them, us they have meant to
thousands of other farmers, an Inevit
able big hill. In the early sixties and
seventies, when grandfather raised
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wheat, neighbor helped neighbor to
"double np" the big bill.. A grade In
many places of nearly one to six, or
fifteen in a hundred feet and a sticky,
miry red clay have brought many a
faithful farm horse to his knees and
have sorely tried the patience of the
driver.
A narrow road, hemmed in on each
side by overhanging trees on the north
side of the hill when winter's snow
lingered long into the spring the state
of the big hill was the factor decidlug
for or against the projected trip to the
market town. Conditions slowly chang
ed. The road grader came, and with
power furnished by horses or in some
cases by a traction engine the hill road
was soon widened. Better drainage
was provided. Trees were cut away.
giving the sun and wind an opportu
nity to dry out the ever present mud.
The rise of the dairy Industry, the
weekly marketing of hogs, the coming
of rural free delivery and the purchase
of automobiles have all been factors
contributing to a demand for still great
er improvement Even though a hill
223 feet high with a 15 per cent grade
in many places interposed Itself be
tween the Troy and Honey creek farm
ers and their market, the stage was at
last reached where they could no long
er afford to hesitate. Under the splen
did leadership of a county highway en
gineer and with the advice and assist
a nee of the state highway commis
sioner they resolved to conquer this
ancient foe.
A survey showed that much of the
grade could be reduced to eight feet or
less In a hundred. The roadbed was
carefully prepared for the laying of n
limestone macadam nine feet wide and
from twelve to fifteen Inches deep
Four thousand three hundred and thir
ty-two dollars has been expended In
crushing limestone rock, hauling the
gravel and In the laying of the mac
adara limestone on one and a quarter
miles of rood. Of this sum the town
has furnished $1,706, the county a slm
liar sum and the state $S0O. The con
quering of the big hill, Including grad
ing and macadamizing, has cost about
$4,500 a mile.
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