OREGON C1TV COlJJjJE rSSSoSSXrJVKnjAj 1913
OREGON CITY COURIER
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this 6th day of May, 1913.
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MEN CARNEGEE DON'T KNOW
Andrew Carnegee has a few bushels
of bronze medals always in stock, and
when some fellow takes a long chance
and rescues a glass-eyed grass wid
ow from a burning tenement, Andrew
of the Libraries comes forward with
a piece of medal and both he and the
hero get their names in the newspa
pers. And again some fool girl rocks the
boat and some fool medal hunter
jumps into the brine and drags her
out. More advertising.
I don't know whether my Scotch
friend wants any of my advice, but
he's got to have it.
It's the easiest thing in the world
to give, and the Courier office has
more of it on hand than print paper.
AnHrAW. thev tell me vou are lv-
ing awake figuring how you can
ease your conscience and still- keep
your income ahead of the expense
list. )
They say this medal stunt of yours
is long on advertising and short on
expense, and you think it is the best
ever.
They say you think it encourages
bravery makes paid heroes as it
were.
But I want to tell you where there
is a bunch of heroes, men who every
day in the year earn one of your
bronze medals as big as a pie plate,
but who wouldn't take it if you sent
it to them by parcels post.
The bunch I mean is the common
laboring men the poor under-dogs
who work for $2.00 a day to keep
food in the bellies of a family of chil
dren, clothes on their backs and shoes
on their feet.
When I see such a man bucking
against what the combinations hand
out to him in living prices, and forced
to play the cards as the interests deal
them, I wonder that we don't have
more anarchists and blask hands in
this country.
It's a hard proposition gentlemen,
but one that men like Carnegie can't
grasp, for he knows nothing of it.
I want to tell you that the man
with a half dozen children and a $12-dollar-a-week
job is up against the
spikes these days, if he keeps clear
from debt, keeps enough in the house
to eat, and the children looking fit to
go to school.
There is little to look forward to
mighty few stars of hope shining for
him end he either gets into the rut
of don't-care-a-damn, and plugs
along at marking time, or ho becomes
one of the great army of unrest an
army that will, unless conditions
change, force the government to take
necessities out of the hands of mil
lionaires in short, force government
ownership.
No charge for this, Andrew, and
you won't see anyway.
If I were to register you the article
it would never reach you.
The men who fatten off you will
take care that you shall not be wor
ried by anybody but grand-stand lier
ocs. Keep on with your mcdul stunt.
Make 'em as big as the soft spot in
William Taft's head.
It's cheap. It amuses you.
If ever city newspapers mado a
garbled mess of things, the Portlund
papers did of the so-styled labor
troubles in this city. Th e Oregonian,
Journal, Telegram and News all mado
amateur messes of reports and com
ments. It would seem that papefrs
published within 13 miles of this city
could have gotten within 13 miles of
the real conditions here.
A Check Book
is much more convenient to carry than
a large wallet filled with legal tender,
and if it ia lost 110 loss falls upon its
owner, as would be tho case if he lost liis
wallet, for the checks aro valueless un
less signed by the depositor,
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1
EDITOR
THE POOR RICH
Take it from them, the railroads
are not any more than meeting run
ning expenses, and they are implor
ing the privilege of raising the rates,
The manufactories are all on the
bum, not making a cent, and they
are running just to give the dear
laboring man work. Why it almost
brings the tears to one's eyes when
the New England woolen mills give
out the condition they are in, and I
feel so sorry for them when every one
of them at exactly the same minute,
close down for exactly the same num
ber of days and the price of under
shirts go up the same notch in every
mill.
Meat goes up, but you want to, bear
in mind that our import duty is but
$15 on the cow, that we can't raise
the meat we consume, .nd that prob
ably all the fellows in the tann-pro-tected
combine haven't got $5,000 au
tomobiles 1 yet, and you want to be
considerate. Wait until the boys all
get fixed out give them time to be-
come Morgans.
Clothing, shoes, hats, rubbers'
everything you eat, wear and use
are still soaring, and every day or
two prices go up another cent, cent,
cent. But these poor, fellows are in on
the ground floor of the trust busi
ness, and they emphatically state
they are just squeezing through un
der reduced expenses. Do you. dare to
question the statement?
Of course we all know the million
aires are right up against the rocks.
I am not denying their statements,
but I do think these poor millionaires
should show as much piy as they ask,
and remember that we poor men are
as sensitive to the prod of poverty
as they and that we should be con
sidered a litle in the pinches.
In my eye I can see Andrew of the
Libraries giving the chef orders to
have beef steak only once a week and
that it must be off the round. I can
see another poor fellow, the factory
employee, trying to figure out month
ly payments on a house and lot be
tween keeping a family clothed and
eating. I can see Senator Clark ask
ing the merchant if he is sure that
pair of boy's pants will wear, and
then he and Mrs. Clark figure what
they can "cut out" to help get thru
the pinch.
TOO FAST
Wednesday night of last week
street speakers were arrested and
jailed for attempting to make street
talks.
Thursday night a proclamation was
issued inviting street speakers to
come to this city nd make speeches
and the mayor said he would intro
duce them.
It is such scrambles as this that
make us ridiculous.
One of the two movers was a big
mistake and there isn't any doubt as
to which.
The first move should never have
been made, then our city would not
have been put in the light of having
shown the "yellow streak " of having
backed down.
When a street speaker councils vio
lence; -when he by a single word op
poses law, advocates "mob rule or
incites the people to riot, then the
better.
But arresting a man for free speech
arresting him because he would
quote the Declamation of Independ
ence, is pretty big authority author
ity greater than state or national con
situtions and it was as big a mistake
as it was illegal.
Level heads saw this. They saw
martial law and the riots and expens
es of San Diego and Los Angeles re
peuted, hencethe invitation to street
speakers to come here, and as long as
they remained within the law to talk
their heads off.
George C. Brownell says he dis-
pises the recall and the men behind
it. We gave this attorney credit for
having better sense than to make
such a break in the face of hundreds
of men who are behind it, Mr. Brown-
el! will probably hear from this nasty
crack.
Brownell doesn't want the recall to
po on. Don't blame him, for it would
recall him as well as Bt'atie.
If any of you take any stock in the
Phonograph's reports that the recall
is dead, forget it. It is the liveliest
corpse the Enterprise ever tried to
bury.
From the expressions of attorneys
and others, Justice John Sievers is
evidentally making fully good. The
attorneys say he is careful and cap
able and above all means to be dead
honest and fair.
At the risk of being called a "dis
turber" this paper will champion any
system that will tax idleness more
and industry less, and that is in the
direction of breaking up land or other
monopolies.
Before some bean-headed, society
sissy of gay Paree breaks into print
with the new winter modes for fashion-loving
men, we wish to say that
the styles along the border need not
to conform in the least to those
blooming idiotic ideas of the soft
soldered French pupperty. Last win
ter's breeches slightly embossed on
the baggy reverse with patches of a
similar color, will be worn in this
section without suspenders, while
either an old overcoat or a ventilated
pair of shoes will be tasty. Del Rio,
Tex., Herald.
Vive-President Marshall has com
mitted an offense against plutocracy.
He has publicly warned the wealtrhy
that unless some concession be made
to radical sentiment,, events of an un
pleasant nature may happen. What
is unusual is for an official in so
prominent a place as Mr. Marshall
fills, to publicly express himself so.
In doing this he has sinned against
plunderbund interests. Plutocracy
does not discriminate. The man who
publicly warns it against possibility
of a revolution is in its eyes as rep
rehensible as one who tries to foment
a bloody uprising. American Econ
omic League.
WEARING THEM OUT
Here is a little instance of how lit
igation wears out the little man.
Years ago down in Klamath county
a land company got posession of
large and valuable tracts of timber,
but it was shown that the acquisit
ion was not legal, and it was annul
led. Then homesteaders came in and
filed on the tracts, and the company
at once filed a contest in the land
office.
Carried to the interior department
it was decided in favor of the settlers.
Then the case was reopened and
once more it went through the inter
ior department, and was once more
decided in favor of the homestead
ers. Then it was taken to the federal
courts of Oregon, with same result.
Once more it was taken to the cir
cuit court of appeals, and once more
the decision was in favor of the set
tlers. And now the case will be carried
to the United States supreme court.
This illustrates how a big corporat
ion will get the little man, even with
courts and decisions in his favor.
The homesteader can't stand this
costly defense for years the corpor
ation can.
The result is, as in this case, many
of the claimants have had to sell out,
or be frozen out
And is this American justice?
Shouldn't there be a means' to pro
tect the little fellow from being put
on the rack and worn out ?
Don't you think we need a short
ening up of our court roads?
REVERSE IT
If those two words "single tax'
could be annihilated and that close
relative "confiscated" could be for
gotten for a little while, Oregon vot-
ters would get over their fright and
work out some system that would
take taxation off of industry and put
it on wealth and indolence.
It's all so dead wrong now. It puts
a premium on speculation and idle
holdings and puts a fine on clearing
and improvements.
I know a farmer in this county, one
of many, who has his farm partially
cleared, who says he cannot afford to
improve any more, because increased
taxation and interest on the money
and work to clear it would be more
than he could get in crops. He says it
is growing in value as the people
come in and it is more an investment
to let it grow brush than crops.
There are any number of such
cases. The farmer clears and cultivat
es enough to live on, and lets the rest
lay idle and increase in value.
The system is wrong dead wrong.
The IDLE land should be taxed and
forced to improve and improvements
should be exempt from taxation, as
a premium to the man who improv
ed the country.
And if men wouldn't get scared
by Charles Shield's confiscation talk,
they would initiate a law that would
put taxation and support of county
and state where it belongs, a system
that jwouldi 'equalize it ;and Make;
men pay in proportion to their abil
ity to pay.
One farmer works twenty years to
Improve, plant, build, ditch and clear,
and every month's work he does he
is assessed for.
Another man, the speculator, simp
ly buys piece of wild land or tim
ber and squats on it, letting the man
who improves make his property
more valuable, and some day he will
sell a piece of property he never
touched for as much money as the
working farmer has made in twenty
years' hard work.
The rich dodge and the poor pay.
There are many rich and the bur
den falls heavily on the poor.
When men get to doing their own
thinking, this condition will be changed.
How do you taxpayers like it? $5,
519.25 more for this month for the
timber cruising contract. $28,389 to
date, and the end is far away. The
court certainly slipped a nice one over
on you.
WANTS TO KNOW WHY
Senator Works of California has a
scheme to adjust wages and prices,
The big papers poke fun at and
ridicule the scheme, but you will have
to show me the place to laugh.
He advocates that the government
regulate both prices and wages of
corporations doing an interstate bus
iness, and that each state regulate its
own prices and hours of labor in con
formity 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 troub
les 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, mans' necessit
ies? If there are, these columns are
open to any man to shatter Senator
Work's theory. Oregon City Courier.
The comment of our Oregon broth
er opens up a long line of thought and
chance for argument, which we have
no time or space to devote to this
evening, but it certainly has its mer
its. Senator Work's theory sounds
much like socialistic doctrine, so we
will turn it over to Brother Gibbons
to discuss, as he has a few more
wheels than we have, which is use
less for we have enough. The only ob
jection we can see to this pipe dream
is that it smacks too much of pater
nalism, but are going to admit, as
said before, that it has real merit and
is worthy of consideration. If it is
good law to regulate the prices of a
railroad it is certainly just as good
to regulate the prices of a manufac
turing concern or any other line of
business endeavor, including the price
per quart, box or peck for the berries
Brother Gibbons raises out on his
home ploce b'yant th' creek. Rich
mond, Cal., Herald.
FIXING THINGS UP
(Salem Messenger)
At this early date it is impossible
to tell how the political situation is
going to be arranged for next year,
but that it is being, or will be, fixed,
there isn't a doubt; for already the
signs are out.
Next year Oregon elects a govern
or, state treasurer, United States
senator, three representatives and a
whole list of minor or less important
officials. But the real interest cen
ters in the election of governor and
United States senator and it is
around these two offices that the bat
tle will rage. Chamberlain's term as
senator expires, as does West s as
governor. Governor West states em
phatically that he will not again be
a candidate for the office, and the
names of Judge Wm .Gatens and
John Manning of Portland, are being
mentioned by ardent friends for the
democratic nomination. As to Senat
or Chamberlain's probable successor,
there is much speculation. His friends
say that if he does not secure an im
portant federal position he will again
be a candidate for the senatorship;
but nobody knows anything about
Chamberlain's future plans, for he
doesn't divulge them in advance.
Then there are two other well known
politicians who are said to be willing
to measure political swords with "Our
George" Jonathan Bourne and C. W.
Fulton, both ex-senators and past
masters in the art of politics. Not in
the history of Oregon politics do we
remember a time when so much in
terest was shown in an election so far
in advance, and it behooves every
party to get out the strongest and
best men, for the people don't vote
many straight tickets any more and
they don't vote with their eyes shut
either, and a candidate who ' can't
"read his title clear" won't have a
look-in.
WASTE OF WAR.
I agree with you perfectly in
your disapprobation of war. Ab
stracted from the Inhumanity of
It, I think It wrong In point of
human prudence, for whatever
advantage one nation would ob
tain from another, whether It be
part of their territory, the lib
erty of commerce with their free
passage on their rivers, etc.. It
would be much cheaper to pur
chase such advantage with ready
money than to pay the expense
of acqurlng It by war. An army
Is a devouring monster, and
wlieu you have raised It you
have, in order to subsist It, not
only the fair charges of pay,
clothing, provisions, arms and
ammunition, with numberless
other contingent and just charges
to answer and satisfy, but you
bare all the additional, knavish
charges of the numerous tribe
of contractors to. defray, with
those of every dealer who fur
nishes the articles wanted for
your army and takes advantage
of that want to demand exorbi
tant prices. It soeius to me that
If statesmen had a little more
arithmetic or were more accus
tomed to calculation wars would
be much less frequent Benja
min Franklin.
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but it must be safe and harmless and
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TtECOMVENSE.
In the long run we get what we earn.
Payment may be deferred, but In the
end the account Is balanced.
To believe this confers a certain deep
comfort, for it gives us a sense of
faith and security.
We can rest our case In the convic
tion that ultimate justice will be done,
that the law of compensation is at
work.
' Tuero shall be recompense recom
pense for good, recompense for evil.
This law of retribution is recognized
the world around. In the orient it Is
called karma. In the Occident It Is
known as Justice. In both the belief
Is praetlcully universal that If the
scale Is not balanced In this life then
it Is balanced In some other.
Herbert Spencer has laid down the
proposition that widespread belief In
any given Idea Is an argument In Its
favor.
The belief in ultimate justice, in the
law of compensation, Is as wide as the
world. It has persisted through all
ages. It Is a part of all creeds.
It Is impossible to think of a phys
ical universe In which there Is not ab
solute balance and adjustment
If we meditate deeply enough It will
become plain to us that It Is Just as
Impossible to think of a moral uni
verse In which there is not absolute
balance and adjustment
As above, so below; as within, so
without
Henry Drummond once wrote a book
on "Natural Law In the Spiritual
World."
My own belief is that there is but
one law and that If we see its work
ings on any plane we may find the
analogy to them on every other plane.
We find absolute balance In the ma
terial world. The analogy to this In
the moral world Is Justice, compensa
tion, retribution.
Be careful, therefore, of the causes
you are setting up, for sooner or later
the effects will come back to you.
There Is nothing more certain than
this that some time and some place
yon will get yours.
THE RAILWAY MAIL CLERK.
Old you ever see one of the fast mail
trains on a trunk line railroad?
It Is an Impressive sight even from
the outside. It is more Impressive if
seen from within.
Every one of these cars, whirling
along at fifty or sixty miles an hour, Is
a hive of Industry.
Mall clerks occupy almost every
available foot of space. With fingers
working with lightning speed they sort
the letters, each according to its des
tination or route, tie them into bundles
and put them Into their right pouches.
Each of these cars is a postoffice on
wheels.
I recall the case of one clerk who was
killed In a railroad wreck seventeen
years ago. I heard a prominent con
gressman say of him repeatedly that he
was "the best mall clerk that ever
slung a sack."
He won a national medal in two com
petitive examinations. He threw the
cards of bis entire division, then com
prising something like 18,000 offices,
with but nineteen mistakes and did it
In nn incredibly short time.
He went through several wrecks, but
happened to come out unscathed.
Finally be was killed In his car and at
his post of duty.
His case Is but typical of thousands
of others, for these servants of Uncle
Sam must not only be trained to a
point of efficiency superior to that of
soldiers, but they must face practically
the same chance of being maimed or
killed that soldiers face.
The railway mail service Is the back
bone of the postal system.
It covers practically every line of
road In the laud. On its efficiency de
pends the prompt and accurate deliv
ery of. the malls.
It requires not only quickness of eye
and of hand, but retentive memory and
alert intelligence.
Yet these railway mall clerks do not
receive particuarly high pay, and they
are practically unknown to the public.
They work at a killing speed and fre
quently for long hours.
Letters containing in the aggregate
vast sums of money pass through their
bands. Yet the cases of dishonesty
among them have been surprisingly
few.
Each missive they handle may be of
vital importance to somebody may
carry messages of life or death, of love,
of Important business transactions.
The next letter you receive, reflect on
what it represents.
It has been In many bands, all in
tent on serving you.
It Is carried to you by a vast busi
ness organization, a complex machine
touching every home in the land.
And-
The most important cog In that ma
chine is the railway mall clerk.
Domsstlo Bliss.
"I'm sorry I ever married your
shrieked the bride on the occasion of
their first quarrel.
"You ought to ber retorted the
groom, really angry and bitter for the
first time. "You beat some nice girl
out of a good husband l"-Clevelaud
Plain Dealer.
On of His Fault.
Mrs. Peck I must say you bare
more faults than any other man I ever
met Peck Well, you have plenty of
faults yourself. Mrs. Peck-There yon
go again, always changing tbe subject
when 1 try to talk to you. Boston
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DON'T MISTAKE THE CAUSE
Many Oregon City People Have Kid
ney Trouble and Do not Know it.
Do you have backache?
Are you tired and worn out?
Feel dizzy, nervous and depressed?
Are the kidney secretions irregu
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Likely your kidneys are at fault.
Weak kidneys give warning of dis
tress. Heed the warning; don't delay
Use a tested kidney remedy.
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Since then, I have taken Doan's Kid
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" The LIFE of a wagon is what counts
that's why I buy a Studebaker"
"That's reasonable, isn't it ?"
"A wagon that doesn't last is expensive no matter '
what price you pay for it."
"Suppose you buy three wagons, one after the
other, and the three of them don't last as long as one
Studebaker which is the best bargain?"
"I didn't find this out myself. I heard my grandfather say it
a good many years ago. He said he had proved that it paid to buy
a Studebaker. I followed his advice to my own satisfaction."
"A wagon can't have life in it unless it has the material and
work and finish in it. The Studebaker people have been making
vehicles for sixty years. They ought to know how to make wagons
right and they do. They have the reputation because they've
produced the goods. They don't put the name Studebaker on
until the wagon's right, and when you see the name Studebaker
on a vehicle of any kind it is your insurance of quality."
"That's why I buy a Studebaker. I trust a Studebaker wagon
because 1 trust the people that make them. . It's good business."
"A Studebaker promise is always made good."
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