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OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, JUNE 13 1913
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OREGON CITY COURIER
Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Bighth and Main streets, and en-
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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 Mr.y 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
SHY ON THE GLITTER
With the same editorial para
graphs appearing in a score of
Valley papers, some miraculous
power must have been directing
the minds of the editors along
the same channel, or perchance
they have been investing four
bits a month with the same para
graph writer. However that may
be, the newspaper that is unable
to produce its own editorial opin
ion should abandon all pretense
to an editorial column. Aurora
Observer.
Ijf your advice was followed, Bro.
Westcott, there would be a lot of
blank-looking 4th pages in Oregon
newspapers.
' Of three or four dozen country ex
changes that come to the Courier of
fice but possibly half a dozen have
editorial pages that show any brains
or backbone. The most of the editors
pay 60c a week for someone to think
for them, and it certainly is laughable
to read a half dozen papers with the
same thinks on the same date.
When I see this line of stuff it al
ways reminds me of the drafted man
who paid some substitute $300 to go
down south and be shot in his stead.
If Roosevelt likes the advertising
these libel suits give him, why doesn't
he jump some of the papers for in
timating he is insane?
The widows pension business is get
finf A (rood start in Portland. Two
widows of one dead Chinaman are
both asking for pensions.
""Nearly 100 witnesses stood ready
to testify that Roosevelt was a model
of sobriety. Wonder if the Colonel
could testify as positively for them
on the same charge? , V
Oregon passed a law to sterilize
criminals, and now an effort is being
made to get a referendum vote on
it. Such a law is a relic of barbarism
and downright wicked. The mind that
devised it ought to be sterilized with
an injection of some sort of common
humanity elixir. Richmond, Cal.,
Herald.
Portland sold $100,000 worth of
water bonds at $12,000 less tljan par
last week, and this low price looks
very much like a get-together move
ment on the part of bidders. Some day
we will learn to break these bond IS'
sues into small parts and let the cit
izens have them at p ar.
SIMPLE JUSTICE
Wisconsin and Kansas are ever
.crowding Oregon for needed reforms,
and now comes the former state with
a new law that will give to the man
falsely imprisoned $1500 a year at
least for the time served.
It doesn't seem to me that such a
law is necessary to award simple jus
tice, and I do not believe it is.
Supposing an individual arrests a
man falsely. That man brings action
for damages and gets dumages. There
doesn't have to be law. It is law.
Many a man has served long years
in prison for a crime he never mv
mitted, railroaded through by the ef
forts of a prosecuting attorney who
wanted to make a prosecution record
And years later, when his innocence
comes to light, then the state simply
turns him out without the least at
onement for the years taken away
from his life.
If there must be law to make a
state pay for its mistakes, then let
Oregon follow Wisconsin quickly, for
if there was ever just cause for par
tial restitution it is to the innocent
man who has been punished.
And yet week after week goes by
and there are no defense to the open
charges made in mass meetings, in
the investigating committee's report
and charges made in this newspaper.
One of two things certainly should
happen: Some of the men who made
these charges should be put In jail
or the county court should be pulled
down.
It's up to the county court to put
the men in jail and failing in that
it is up to the people to pull down
the county court.
Circuit Judge Galloway of Marion
county, has rendered a decision that
the referendum flection provided for
by tho last legislature is unconstitu
tional, on tho reasoning that it only
permits reforundums to be voted on,
while our constitution gives the peo
ple an equal right with the initiative.
This he holds, is special legislation,
as there was no tchI emergency for
tho election and no reason for deny
ing the people tho initiative at the
!ir.nietime. This will now be taken to
the supreme court.
Here is my safe bet, that Oregon
has a white elephant on its hands in
the widows' pension law, beside which
the big appropriations will look like
thirty cents. Oregon is not in shape
to go into the private pension busi
ness yet. When a state like New York
backed up on it because of the enor
mous expense it would entail, Oregon
can not afford to take it on at this
stage of development.
Closing an editorial on the univer
sity referendum the Eugene Register
says:
In the referendum campaign
that will follow the issues are
plain. It is the decent people
against those who are opposed to
decency and goodovernment.
In this matter the Register is in
the same position as the Enterprise of
this city on the county court recall
it is doing more barm than good.
The people of the state of Oregon
buried the university appropriations
last year the majority of the people
voting and when the Register dares
to say this majority of voters is op
posed to decency and good govern
ment, it simply insults thousands of
voters and weakens the university's
cause.
It doesn't require men learned in
the law or one graduated from col
lege to manage Clackamas county as
it should be managed. The men have
n't got to be lawyers nor live in Ore
gon City. The situation wants men
who will put honesty above discounts;
who will put honor above money, who
who will manage the county for the
best good and best economy of those
who furnish the money; men of integ'
rity," men who will take pride in re.
suits men who have been successful
and who will give the county the
same careful . attention they have
their personal business. There are
such men, and they can be brought
out. And when you get such men
there will be " less scandal talk in
Clackamas county.
The trade journals tell us that bus- j
iness is not going to the bow-wows
because of tariff revision, and that as
soon as it is settled and certainly is
established that times will be better
than before. There is no reason why it
should not and much reason why it
should. I never could believe that tax
ing ourselves on things we need made
prosperity.
HOW WOULD THIS WORK?
Here are a few ideas the Courier
has in its bean to remedy the pres
ent openly unjust taxation systems
we have.
It is simply a suggestion to set
you thinking. If you don't like it go
to it, shows its weak spots, and pro
pose a better one:
Assess only real estate the prop
erty which stands out in the open and
which nobody can hide.
Assess and tax the owner of that
property only so much of it as he
owns. That is, if the place was
bought for $2,000 and $500 paid on it,
assess the owner $500.
Initiate a law that all paper that
has a promise-to-pay mortgages,
contracts and promisory notes
be recorded with the county clerk, and
failure to record render the paper in
valid as to payment that is, if not
recorded the maker will not have to
pay when due.
And when a note, contract or mort
gage is recorded have a tax levied on
the amount, just the same as if the
amount was in real estate, and tax
it just as long as it remains unpaid
or just so long as the owner draws
interest on it. ' .
The man who is fair with himself
and his neighbor who is willing to pay
taxes on what he really owns and
draws an income from, and who only
wants the neighbor to pay on what
he really owns, will admit that a law
based on some such lines would be
justice, and only justice.
But the state is full of men who are
striving to get rich, whose only thot
is to get enough money out on in
trest the other man paying the in
terest so that they may live on the
income of their mortgages and notes.
And the result would be, that were
there such a law, a state law, millions
of dollars of Oregon money would
go over the lines into Washington,
Idaho, and California, where such
laws were not in force, and it would
be a mighty hard proposition for the
man with $500 to find a man to loan
him with $500 to buy a house and lot
in Oregon City. "
But were such a law the law of the
land, a national law then income own
ers would have to come to it, and pay
what the poor man pays for support
of our government.
But such a law never will come un
til public sentiment forces it, and un
til those in the majority the men
without incomes, and the men who
pay taxes on property not theirs
become interested enough to bring out
congressional candidates who are in
part sympathy with them, and who
will work for a law that will give
them an even break with the men who
hold their mortgages.
But the progressive fever that is
spreading over the country today is
going to remedy such conditions as
these because the men back' of this
movement have the power, and they
are beginning to realize tnd appreci
ate that power.
CAN SUCH THINGS BE?
George Hicinbothan, one of the live
farmer of this county, has a letter
in this issue on the recall movement
that is bound to make tho taxpayer
who reads it, stop and think a little.
It is bound to make them ask if the
county court is a business adminis
tration or within a hundred miles of
a business system. As Mr. Hicinboth
an says there may not bo graft, but
certain it is there is no want of op
portunity for graft in the way the
business of the county is conducted.
We need men to manage this county
who have honesty, honor and business
judgement, and the quicker we get
them at the head of this county, the
quicker will the hit-and-miss system
we now smart under be abolished.
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A Check Book
is much more convenient to carry than
a large wallet filled with legal tender,,
and if it is lost no loss falls upon its
owner, as would be tho case if he lost his
wallet, for the checks are valueless un
less signed by the depositor,
The Bank Oregon City-
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
A fellow down in little oF New York
says this matter of sleep is just a
silly habits our monkey ancestor
brought on themselves hundreds of
thousands of years ago, because
darkness came on and they had noth.
ing else to do, and that we enlighten.
ed hand-me-downs have followed the
jungle precedent.
Of course the New York notoriety
seeker didn't express it in just these
words, but he did declare that sleep.
ing was a needless habit we had bred
into and that we can breed out of it
and have a heap more time to notice
things between the cradle and the
grave ? .:
And why not? All things are pos
sible in this age of trust-made goods.
Some of these days' it will be a com.
mon matter for a flying machine to
alight while the operator takes on
gasoline, and the passengers will take
a shot or two of sleep substitute and
a few concentrated tablets of food, a
stock of gravity overcomer and a re
serve supply of atmosphere, and then
they'll off for a trip to Mars.
If we can get along without useless
sleep, why can't we cut out the feed
ing and then why can't we kill that
doath and decay microbe and keep
these old hearts from stopping?
And some day they will do just
this. All I am worried about is that
it won't be in my day, so that I may
get off that "I-told-you-so" on you
scoffers,
A farmer sent in a signed recall
petition this week with a note say
ing that every man approached who
had served on a jury or election
board refused to sign.
He says I wonder WHY, and asks
if it is not about time to change the
election board? It is about time to
change a lot of things in this county,
but the contest is between the people
and the ring, and that must be set
tled first. It is a fight between the
men who furnish the money and the
mon who spend it. We have got to
have dead honesty; who will see how
dead honesty and who will see how
much can be done for the county for
the least possible money. The was
ting of hundreds of thousands of dol
lars on many of the roads in this
county is an open disgrace a burn
ing up of tax money. We must stop
this useless extravagance, break up
this supervisor ring, and get a dol
lar's worth of results for the dollar.
And the way tob reak it up is to fire
the whole works by putting in a
county court who will fire the gang.
The young potato plants over the
county are lacking fine and do not
seem to be discouraged over the past
seasons prices.
Six years ago Milwaukie brought
action to compel a lower rate into
Portland. The supreme court has just
reached a decision. Five years ago a
Portland Chinaman appealed from a
murder verdict, and the supreme
court just decided. And it is this delay
that brings out so much court criti
cism and makes men feel like taking
shorter routes.
If, as is reported to this office, an
effort will be made to block the re
call election, there will probably be
something doing in old Clackamas.
It's a mighty dangerous undertaking
to try to stop taxpayers from passing
on the work of their hired officials,
and it is a safe bet that with the feel
ling in this county it will take more
than a handy injunction to stop
things.
Farmers of Forest Grove have sent
a long petition to the state railroad
commission asking them to enforce
the new law regulating commission
houses. The people elect the legislat
ure, the legislature makes the laws;
legislature makes the commission,
andthen the people have to petition
the commission to enforce the laws
the legislature makes. Smile if you
want to.
THE STANDPATTERS
Who would not harken to Noah, a
preacher of righteousness, and were
all drowned in the flood? The stand
patters. Who refused to let the chidren of
Israel go up out of the land of Eg
ypt? The standpatters.
Who had Daniel cast into the lions'
den? The standpatters.
Who rejected the teachings of Jes
us when "the common people heard
Him gladly?" The standpatters.
Who compelled Galileo to recant
his declaration that the earth revolv
ed? The standpatters.
Who put Columbus in prison after
he had discovered a new world? The
standpatters.
Who, after the globe had been cir
cumnavigated, still insisted that it
was flat? The standpatters.
Who believed it right to hang per
sons for witchcraft? The standpat
ers. Who decried the introduction of the
sewing machine, the cotton gin, the
self-binder, and other labor-slaving
inventions? The standpatters.
Who, north as well as south, oppos
ed the abolition of slavery? The
standpatters.
Who opposed the building of the
Panama Canal? The standpatters.
Who had continually fought all leg
islation in the interest of the people ?
The standpatters.
Who have always believed that a
public trust meant private graft?
The standpatters. .
Are you still a standpatter ? If you
are, it is time for you to heed the in
junction, "Come out from among
them, and be ye separate." Cleve
land Press.
WANT THE OTHER SIDE
This Paper is Open to Any Voter to
Defend County Court
In the matter of recall of the coun
ty court we want to be dead fair, and
we open these columns to any voter
of Clackamas county to defend the
court, refute the charges and criti
cisms made or to express any opin
ions he or she may have on the sub
ject. This matter is becoming one of de
cided interest in the county, and we
would like to have it freely discussed
from all points of view.
And we invite, and urge, any voter
who does not agree with the position
this paper has taken, to state his
view of the matter, that "taxpayers
may be fully informed on both sides.
W0RN0UT FLAGS.
Uncle Sam Burnt Them Unlsii They
Have Been In Battle.
The government sets an example to
the whole couutry in requiring that
woruoiit flags slinll be burned and not
permitted to become mere pieces of
waste rag. Whether or not any special
law or regulntlon governs the disposi
tion of the flags, the universal practice
of the army and navy for generations
has been Unit whenever a flag Is no
longer fit for service it shall be de
stroyed. When a Aug used nt an army post or
on board a uaval vessel becomes un
serviceable requisition of tbe quarter
master Is uiado for a new one, and the
old one is burued. Tbe same disposi
tion Is made of dags used on public
buildings iu Washington. Custodians of
buildings outside of Washington buy
their flags outright of the government
Whether or not tbey follow the official
plau of disposing of old flags cannot
be stated
Flags borne in battle are invariably
preserved either by the commands
which carried them or under instruc
tions from the war department by the
government at Washington. A whole
roomful of battle fligs is on exhibition
at the war department
The government is a little thrifty,
however. In the use of the national col
ors. A flag is not put out of business
merely because it is torn or worn, for
contracts are maintained with men
who repair Hags, and if the Injury is
uot too serious repairs are made and
the flag is sent back to service. Boston
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SPLINTERS
Ridiculout!
"You should take exercise every
day," said the physical culturlst
"You make me laugh," answered the
seeker after health. "I work so hard
that 1 get too tired to take any exer
else."
"And you should take a bath every
day."
"What for?"
"What for? Why, It will make yoo
feel better."
"Take a bath every day Just because
It makes me feel better! Say, what do
you thlulc 1 am an epicure?" Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTO Rl A
(Richmond, Cal., Herald)
A colored boy at Great Bend, Kan
sas, stole three pies from a bakery
and was sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary. Just exactly the
sentence the Oakland banker got for
stealing $200,000. Pie must have val
ue in Kansas.
Trusts are protected by tariff; tar
iff is protected by politicians; politic
ians are protected by trusts; and
there's your endless chain. Who pro
tects the common people? Ah, "the
people be damned."
Another delinquent subscriber who
owed for several years has moved
away and left ho address. We do not
want to go to hell, and shall not try
to, but if ever we do we are going to
tell that fellow just what we think of
him.
Maybe the doctors will get hold of
a serum from a camel some day that
will fix a millionaire so he can jump
through the eye of a needle.
The acknowledged statement of one
of the biggest electric corporations
in America shows that it makes twice
as much profit per day per man em
ployed than it pays to the man. It is
things like these that are recruiting
the ranks of socialism.
Looking casually out at the thous
ands of aeroplanes, automobiles and
motorcycles over the country like hell
out for a recess, we would suggest
that the name of that rag song be
changed to "Everybody's Overdoing
It."
ABOLISH SUCH LAWS
In an address in Portland last week
W. S. U'Ren of this city, took up the
matter of better county and state
government to get efficient and econ
omical results.
He said the American plan of gov
ernment by 'checks and balances
worked fairly well, so long as the
only business of the state was to pro
tect the individual from personal vi
olence. But with the change in the
economic system and in the ideals of
the people, the old plan has broken
down at every point
"Government cannot be made effic
ient and economical in operation un
til it is organized on the two funda
mental principles on which all other
successful cooperative business is
built.
"First, for the making of the rules
and the laws of the business, it is im
possible to have too many minds.
"Second for the execution of the
laws there should be one mind, and
only one. That one must appoint his
own assistants and be directly re
sponsible for all their acts."
Mr. U'Ren said that it is the duty
of the people to . make and enforce
such laws that every person shall
earn every dollar he gets and shall
get every dollar that he earns. He
said that many men get rich by law
and not by labor. The people can ab
olish the laws by which some men get
rich through exploiting the labor of
others.
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