OREGON CITV COURIER, MAY 23, 1913 OREGON CITY COURIER Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Eighth and Main streets, and en tered in the PostofiSce at Oregon City, Ore., as second class mail matter. OREGON CITV COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER M. J. BROWN, A. E. FROST, OWNERS. Subscription Price $1.50. Official Paper for the Farmers M. J. BROWN, 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 Bth day of May, 1913. GILBERT L. HEDGES, Notary Public for Oregon OPPORTUNITY You voters of Clackamas county, have the opportunity before you to change the management of the coun ty, and now it remains to be seen whether you are all talk, or whether you will back your play. Every time you make an effort to change things and then fail to get away with it, you weaken your pow er, and you might far better have never started a protest than to start one and fall down. Six hundred voters attended a mass protest meeting in this city April 12. If one-fourth of these men would jump in now and make this protest good, there would be nothing to it but a recall for the county court, and a special election should not be nec essary. But just registering a kick, and leaving George to do the work, won't get you anything. Two years airo a recall movement against county court officials started in this county, but for the want of funds for investigation, for lack of newspapers to take up the taxpay ers' cause and for want of men who would work more than they talked, it was abandoned. The entire movement was left to a half dozen men to do, They could not do it. Today the taxpayers of this county are openly and loudly rebelling at the enormous funds collected and the val ue received for this taxation. They know the county could be run for thousands and thousands of dol lars less and the county get far more for the money. The great sums expended in this county during the past four years is astoundinir $714,048.81. What have you to show for it? Take out every bridge expense during these tour years and then you have over one-half million dollars expended on roads alone. And what are the roads i nClacka- mas county ? What has this $500,000 you fellows bucked up, gone for? Are your roads a bit better than be fore these hundreds of thousands of dollars were dumped in? We need less politics, less favorite- ism, less jobs. We need more work, better management and a county court that gets close to the people. Here's your chance, but you, and every man of you, has got to take a hand in and help. Leave it to the other fellow and it won't be done, for the other fellow may be leaving it to you. Now we want to say to the taxpay ers of this county who want to change things, go to it and muke the change. Everyone of you get in the work. Take a day off. You'll get good pay for that day s work when we get a new county court you'll get it in bettor manage ment at less expense. Fill up the pe titions, contribute a little money for the work, talk with your neighbors, get on the job and stay on until you get what you are after. Do this und the recall will come easy. If you sit down and just damn it, it may not. The Westcliff (Colo.) Tribune says that a constitutional amendment will be submitted to the people at the next general election with a view of plac ing newspupers under the control of the public utilities commission. This is certainly a novel one. It is claimed that the big interests so control the press of that state that it is impossi ble to have popular movements brought before peoplo in true light. But would it not be an easier way to Pbss a law making each newspaper publish on its oditorial page the name of every man who had an interest in it? It would help. No Self-Respecting Man can afford to take CHANCES on being dependent in his Old Age, or on leaving those dependent on him unprovided for at his DEATH. Every man who works for a living ought to lay aside a certain part of his IN COME as an Lmergency Fund and a provision for the future. A good way to do it is to have a SAVINGS ACCOUNT. The Bank of Oregon City OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1 Society of Equity of Clackamas Co - EDITOR The present assembly is California's red, white and blue legislature red light, white slave and blue sky. Oakland Tribune. By looking over the work and con tracts in the court house it appears that the county court believes in pat ronizing Multnomah county, In March, $9,062; in April $5,582; this month $7,626.17 for timber crus ing. It doesn't matter what the bene fits. The point is it could have been done for less than a fourth of this cost and could have been done by men who live in this county. By the way, Editor Brodie, if you keep on with your misquotations and false statements, I am afraid that during some of these hereafter day you will go where ice is more needed than salary to a climate where they don t need stoves to fry eggs on. Governor Johnson of California should take a Colt's 45 and go gun ning for the editor of the Contra Cos tan of Richmond. Isn't this about the worst: In speaking of Johnsons, be careful to make plain whether you mean Jack or Hi. Do it to please Jack. A WRONG APPLICATION They say no law can be framed that it can't be beaten when things shape up right. In California it is proposed to ref- erend the Japanese anti-resident law, just passed, not with any hope that the people will kill it with their votes but with the one object, delay, to stave it off for a eighteen months, in the hope that some other solution of the problem will work out. This power was not intended to be given in this law power of minor ity but it is one of those matters hard to keep out of a law that gives people the right to make law. WHY? Senator Works, of California has a scheme to adjust wages nd prices. The big papers poke fun at and rid icule the scheme, but you will have to show me the place to laugh. He advocates that the govern ment regulate both prices and wages of corporations doing an interstate business, and that each state regulate its own prices, wages and hours of labor in conformity to the federal law. Where's the joke? Why can't prices and wages be fixed by law and our strikes, riots, tie-ups and other troubles be ended? Is there any more reason why law should not tell a manufacturer he should make a certain per cent profit on his goods than a law that fixes railroad rates? Is there any reason why law should not fix a man s wages? Any reason why it should limit to a reasonable profit mens necessities? If there are, these columns are open to any man to shatter Senator Work's theory. WILSON'S LOGIC There is an old saying that smart men change their minds, but fools never do. Some months ago a magazine ar ticle related how W. S. U'Ren of Ore gon City, called on Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey, and they dis cussed the initiative and referendum. Governor Wilson told Mr. U'Reri the scheme would not do at all for this country; would not work out as adver tised, and ho was so thoroughly con vinced. Mr. U'Ren told him it WOULD work, because it HAD worked and WAS working. And now many months later, under a Washington date of May 8, 1913, we read this statement from Presi dent Wilson: "I can prove conclusively, without the shadow of question, that the initiative and referen dum won't work, but the dis tressing part of the demonstrat ion is the indisputable fact that they do." DEAD MENS POWER That extract from a speech of Vice President Marshall last week, which he "stated that it was only by permission that a man was allowed to hand millions down to his heirs, will cause many a live brain to work There are no pockets in shrouds, man can't take his millions with him. so he does the nearest thing. He wills his fortune to others, and many times he so loves that pile of wealth that he provides it shall not be scattered fixes it so the ones willed to can only use the interest. No man can make a million dollars honestly, because life is not long enough. He may accumulate millions legally, but he can't do it honestly. without robbing and making others suffer. When a man dies, he ends. Jf you write a check today dated it ahead a week, and died tomorrow, that check would be worthless. The bank would refuse to cash it on the ground that a dead man could not write a check, Now I know that my constitutional friend, G. L. Hedges, will say this will not stand, but here is predicting that the time will come when law will say a dead man shall not direct the use of the money that he left to heirs; that law will put a limit on the fortune he shall leave, and that the rest shall become the property of the government and used for its main- tainence. And when we have such a law there won't be any Astor kids inheriting half a billion; there won't be Morgans Goulds, Belmonts, Carnegies and that class, for there won't be incentive to accumulate the great fortunes for the country s good. And wouldn't our country be a thousand times better off if it were thus? HOME TO ROOST Oregon is being flooded with circu lars and advertising matter, inviting Oregonians to come to Western Cana da and share in her prosperity, and the advertising, sent out by the Albion Trust Co., and indorsed in an open let ter by Pierce Ellison, Minister of Fi nance of British Columbia, says that prosperity and the great emigration there is largely due to the partial ap plication of Henry George's single tax ideas. Last summer speakers pawed up Oregon and the newspapers were fill ed with dire prediction if Oregon took the first step toward single tax. The voters, frightened at Shield's pictures of calamity, turned down the proposition. And now we have the provinces of Canada, which adopted the taxation reforms we turned down, using the means to induce emigrants and Ore gon farmers to come to Canada. Well, its funny and serious as well as funny. It is estimated by the labor commission, that 200,000 pepole will go from the United States into Cana da this year, while Oregon has every natural advantage, far better climate, and millions of acres unsettled. Here's the way the circulars reach out to Oregon farmers, and as you read it, think back to the time Char les H. Shields, the paid patriot stump ed this state to boom western Canada In enumerating the reasons for the great prosperity the advertising says: But is also very largely due to common sense in tax laws and the immigration these induce. The partial application of Henry George's Single Tax ideas in Vic toria and Vancouver worked so Well that every town, every city, and every province in Western Canada is working for their full adoption. Here it is no longer a greater crime to build a chicken house than to rob one, as it is in every county of every one of the United States. Men are not punished for building homes, stores or factor ies or for raising crops or cows. Homes, factories, cattle and all personal property are exempt, and taxes are levied on land val ues and natural resources. This tends to prevent monopoly and to increase wages profits and interest. And Oregon still assesses the man who makes two bludes of grass grow where only one grew, and lets the man who holds idle lands for specu lation off at half price. GET BUSY WITH THE CZAR (Aurora Observer.) It seems probable that where there is so much smoke there must be some fire. Whether the county affairs have been mauulministered we are not pre pared to say; but when open and un- efutod charges of the violation of the aw is made against the highest ad ministrative body in the county it is well perhaps, that the people should be given an opportunity to express their views cither in approval or dis approval as the case may be. A county judge is no czar. He does not own the office (nor even the court house.) When the court gets the idea that it is the whole thing in Clack i mas Co,,' or anywhere else, that is the ime for the people to get busy. The Independent is glad to note thut there is some liklihood that the Southern Pacific will build big car shops on the west side of the Willam ette at Oregon City to employ per haps 1,500 men. Everything that helps o build up the towns between this ity and Portland will make more business for Woodburn. Remember ing how the growth of the City of Chicago has made the country for fif ty miles south from that metropolis continuous line of towns, we have no doubt mat tue time win come when there will be nothing but cities, factories, orchards and gardens be- ween Portland and Salem. Wood- burn Independent. The assessor of Tilamook county in answer to a reply Irom Assessor Jack, says the timber cruise of that county is the real desired goods, while the taxpayers of Tilamook coun ty write to the investigating commit tee here to find out what means Clackamas county is taking to got rid of its county court. Going out of the county to get com mendations for county court proceed ings is in harmony with going out of the county to get county work done. The people of Clackamas County want county government that takes the voters into consideration and it pretty much looks as if they were go ing to get it. There is a Swede Congressman back in Michigan, who has a right idea. He has introduced it in Congress and when public opinion pushes strong enough it, or something on similar lines, will become law. He says 75 per cent of our country's clothing is ad ulterated for no other purpose than to make an unjust profit. And he has introduced a bill that wearing mater ial must be labeled with the quality of goods it contains. The Grange in state session at Al bany last week, showed which way the wind is blowing in Oregon, when it went on record by a vote of 74 to 11 to abolish the state senate; resolved in favor of preferential voting and de clared against the school supervisor law. And State Grange Master Spence rather took the crimps out of Prof. Shaffer of Eugene, when asked why the half-mill tax for the common schools was killed, he replied that in his judgement it was killed by the University of Oregon. WHAT WE -PASSED UP The march of American farmers to the Canadian northwest keeps up de spite the hue and cry in some quar ters this side of the line to induce them to remain. Government and rail ways work together to make the new region attractive. Fertile land that grows large crops of grain san be had on long time with easy payments. The tax system is generally different from that employed here. Improvements are exempt from taxation and the farmer is encouraged to plow and build, in the knowledge he thereby increases his income without mater ially adding to his tax. This is sub stantially the single tax which Oreg on farmers rejected last fall. Enter prise Chieftain. . . PETERING OUT About one year ago Medford buci ness men made it mighty hot for the newspaper that advocated a public market. And now the press dispat ches are giving it out what a big boom the public market is for that city; how it has reduced the cost of foodstuffs to the eater, and at the same time paid good prices to the grower, by cutting out middle profits; how it has shut out produce and poul try from California; widened the range of trade and increased the pros perity of farmers. And above all, the dispatch says, it has increased Med ford's share of business from the sur rounding country. Farmers bring their products for 20 miles. They know they will find a market for them, and while in the city they spend the money for necessary articles of clothing, hardware and the like. It has increased the range of fresh food stuffs in Medford and it has driven the tin can out of the city. Two years ago, when the Courier gently hinted that a public market would be good for Oregon City, we re ceived such a chill that it brought on bronchitis. They said it would ruin business in the city. A year ago they told us the parcel post law would ruin the merchants of the country. A few years ago they told us that taking the duty off denatured alcohol would raise the devil in this country. They told Oklahoma and Texas a deposit guarantee law would drive the banks out of those states. The people don't go quite so much on scare stories as tney once aid. They don't believe in ghosts nowa days. SHUT 'EM OUT Governor Johnson and the Califor nia legislature have given the World something to talk about, and in my udgement it is much ado about a lit tle. It is easy enough for the state that doesn't have the problem to face, to stand back and criticise. It is easy enough for a man in Ore gon to denounce the action of Texas in "posting" counties against negroes. But send your kid to school and let a Jap share his seat and see how loud you would yell. Live ii) Louisiana and have a negro rent the next door residence and see how quick you would want to stick up the "nigger sign." It depends on whether it is your or the other fellow's bunion that is smarting. There are certain countries to which we should absolutely put up the bars against. The Chinese, the Japanese, the Italians and that class of people are no good to this country. A Japanes will live on a dime a day, and he will compete in the labor mar ket with a free born American cici- n. A Togo will buy a rancid piece of meat, a cow's head, or other meat market refuse and grow fat on it. He will take labor away from a white man; he will stick a boom under a business block or stick a knife be tween a man's ribs striking from be hind. Of the three, the meek Celestial, who eats swallows raw, and can live 4 hours on five cents worth of rice, is the most desirable. But this is, or should be, a white man's country, and the Governor is white man enough to know it. His action in California is for the best gpod for Americans. It may not be for the best good of big business, and probably boycotts will follow, but it is best for a state that has far too little employment now for its work men. The California law should have been tighter that's its only fault. Money to Loan. Oregon City Abstract Co., 617 Main street. FAST GROWING ORDER Moosa Handsome Home Attracts Many Members to Join Order The hall of the Loyal Order of Moose No. 961 of Oregon City, was filled to its capacity Thursday even ing of last week, the occasion being the initiation of 12 candidates. The initiative work was in charge of the Portland Order No. 291, when two special cars from that city brought the members to Oregon City. They were met by the local order at Eigth and Main streets and over 300 mem bers marched down Main street as far as Fourth street returning to the hall on Sixth street, where the meet ing wa3 held. After the work of the order was completed the remainder of the evening was devoted to a soc ial time and a buffet luncheon was served. The guests from Portland returned to that city at a late hour. The hall of the Moose is one, of the most attractive lodge headquarters in the city. The interior of the main hall having just recently undergone extensive repairs and was artistical ly decorated for this occasion with the colors of the order, red and white predominating. Festoons of red and white crepe paper were caught ir. place in the center of the building with clusters of electric lights whilt the officers' headquarters in thit room were beautifully arranged. At archway was formed over the chaii of the dictator, and over this wert the letters "L. O. O. M." in red and white roses.. A back-ground of simi lar colors was formed of streamers, making a very pretty effect. A canopy formed of red and white was arrang ed over the vice-dictator's chair, in the centre of which was suspended a heart of roses. The walls of the hall are ornamented with scenes appropri ate to the order, handpainted moose roaming through the wilderness with snowcapped mountains in the distance and with them and the decorations, which were in charge of William Rey nolds and H. H. Bowers, the latter who is a member of Portland lodge, was the cause 'of much favorable comment, among those attending. The buffet room and also the bil lard room were similarly decorated. In the buffet room was recently in stalled a handsome mahogany buffet with a mirror and supported by heavy pillars', this alone costing over $600. Clusters of electric lights ornament this handsome piece of furniture. The two billiard tables are of the latest design, being made of mahog any inlaid with ivory. The walls have been tinted a chocolate color and cor respond with the furniture recently purchased by the lodge. This room is in the addition recently bum at tne rear of the building. The officers of the Loyal Order of Moose are as follows: C. S- Noble, dictator; D. F. Skeene, past dictator; Ralph Sheppard, vice dictator; Ralph Sheppard, vice J. McDonald sergeant at arms; Guy Reddick inner guard ; J. McDonald, Calvin Price, inner guard; Pat Shelly attendant of sick. " MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM Outline Program and the Committees in Charge of the Day's Observance in this City. All Anmrndpa And old soldiers are hereby notified that Memorial Services will be held at St. Johns Roman Cath olic Church, Sunday, May 25th, at 10:30 A. M., Rev. Father Hildebrand officiating. Comrades will assemble at Wil lamette Hall at 10 o'clock and will be escorted by part of . the Drum Corps and Company G., Oregon National Guard, Sons of Veterans and Women's Relief Corps, to the church. May' 30 Post and Relief Corps will assemble at Wil lamette Hall where they will receive, pupils of the public schools and pupils of McLaughlin Institute. Short adres ses will be made by Father Hildebrand and Patriotic In. structor Mead Post. - Post and Corps and Sons of Veterans will be formed on Main Street at 9:45 and escorted by the Oregon Vet eran Drum Corps and Company G, Oregon National Guard, will proceed to the bridge. Following the exercises at the bridge the column will proceed to Shively's Hall, where the following programme will be rendered: Music Oregon Veteran Drum Corps Prayer..." Rev. J. R. Landsborough Star Spangled Banner Mrs. Imogen Harding Brodie Introduction by Commander H. L. Hull Mayor Linn E. Jones President of Day Solo "Tenting Tonight" Mrs. Nellie Cooper Address H. E. Cross Quartette Alldredge Brothers Taps, sung by Mrs. Imogen Harding Brodie The column will then reform and move to Mountain View Cemetery, where the ritualistic ceremonies of the G. A. R: and W. R. C. will be rendered as follows: Dirge ...... Drum Corps Address ritual, page 8 Commander Prayer, ritual, page 11 Chaplain Crowning Monument Officer of the Day Response "Our Unknown Dead" Hon.W. A. Dimick Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg Ted Miller Ceremonies of Meade Relief Corps No. 18. Roll of Honor Adjutant Taps, with Bugel Ed McFarland Benediction Rev. T. B. Ford Decoration of Comrades' Graves By Comrades H. L. HULL, Commander. Conference Commitee Meade Post H L. Hull, H. S. Clyde, Geo. A. Harding, J. Doremus, Frank Moore. Conference Comittee W. R. C. Amelia Mattock, Nellie Alldredge, Minie Donovan, Pauline Schwartz. Visiting Schools by Post and Corps May 19, at Barclay School, 10 A. M; High School 2 P. M. May 20, at Eastharh School 10 A. M.j Mt Pleasant School 2 P. M. May 21, at Canemah School, 10 A. M.; West Side School 2 P. M. May 22, at Bolton School, 10 A. M.; Willamette School 2 P. M. May 23, Gladstone Park, combined schools of Gladstone, Oak Grove, Milwaukie, Parkplace, Jennings Lodge and other schools. May 27, McLoughlin Institute at 2 P. M. University of (Oregon SummerScbool CVU Twenty-five Instructors Fifty Courses Distinguished Eastern Educators added to Regular Faculty University Dormitories Open. Board and Room at $3.50 per week Reduced Railroad Rates. For complete Uloitrtted Catalogue address: The Registrar, University of Oregon, Eugene 3AKIHG PIOTER Absolutely PurQ The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE THE SAME STANDARD The following was handed in for publication, and any man or woman who is fair cannot but see the injus tice of our present double standard:. We all have a heart for the prodigal boy, Who was caught in sin's mad whirl, And we welcome him back with songs of joy; But what of. the prodigal girl? For the prodigal boy there's an open door And a father's bounteous fare, And though he is wretched, sick and poor,' He is sure of a welcome there, But what of the girl who has gone astray, Who has lost in the battle of sin? Say, do we forgive in the same sweet ' way We've always forgiven him? Does the door stand ajar, as if to say, "Come, enter, you need not fear, I've been open thus since you went away, Now close to the second year?" Or do we with hand of hellish pride Close and bolt the door, And answer, "While heaven and earth Mrs. O. J. Culbertson received by abide parcel post Monday, a setting of fine She will enter here no more?" -Indian Runner duck eggs from her sister, Mrs. Geo. Houx of Sunnyvale Oh, Christ! it seems we have never i Poultry Farm, Bos worth, Mo. learned I Some people are declaring they The lesson taught in the sand, - I never saw such a spring as this be For even yet the woman is spurned f0re in Oregon. We haven't lived here And stoned in a Christian land. very long but we have seen the like Down into the slough we hurl her back, Then turn around with a smile, And welcome the boy from the sinful track, Though he may have been more vile. We all have a heart for the prodigal boy, Who was caught in sin's mad whirl, And we welcome him back with songs of joy; But what of the prodigal girl ? "But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. But when they continued asking him he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground. And they, when they heard it, went out one by one, beginning from the eldest, even unto the last." John 8:6-10. UNION MILLS The sun was visible in Webb Valley today. Charles Albright has moved into his new house. R. P. Wallace, of Mulino, is haul ing logs for D. L. Trullinger. Hultz Bros, are finishing up their , l XltCiC Will DUUU MO tt" UHU,"J ciety organized at Molalla. A. Durst and family spent hunday in Portland. Some plowing and quite a lot of seeding to be done yet. The Liberal Store is having a ten day's slaughter sale. Several from nere nave taken adavntage of the great bargainer. j J. D. French's large frogs, which he had imported from the East, are badly crippled up with rheumatism. before and here's one that the farm ers will have enough stored away in their granaries this fall to make the middleman smile. The Live Wire report was just what we Rubes were figuring on. The wires committee wanted the county court to be whiter than snow, yes whiter than snow. Our vote now is to melt the snow off of them so they will be a little shaded. 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