vt OREGON CITY COURIEjj, JUNErfft 1913 eou: NEW UNITED WE LIVE DIVIDED WE STARVE PROFITABLE PRICES FOR FARM! PRODUCTS Official Representative of the Farmers Society of Equity Vol. 1 No 17 OREGON ITY s OREGON EQUITY NEWS Published every Friday in conjunc tion with the "Courier" in the interest of the "Farmers' Society of Equity." ADVERTISING rates given upon application. PUBLICITY COMMITTEE M. J. Lazelle, Oregon City; R. C. Brodie, Canby; . E. Ochlschloeger, Clackamas, K. No. 1. SUBSCRIPTION Special Low discount to Any Man who Farms. ADDRESS all communications to M. J. Lazelle, Manager, Oregon City, Oregon. Call on Saturdays to see Editor. STATE OFFICERS President Wm. Schulmerich of Washington Co." Vice-President Wm Grisenthwaite of Clackamas Co. Sec. Treas. F. G. Buchanan of Clackamas Co. Directors: A. R. Lyman of Mult nomah Co; F. M. Hall of Columbia Co; P. H. McMahon of Yamhill Co; J. W. Smith of Clackamas Co; E. E. Hellyer of Washington Co. The Pres ident and Vice. President are direct ors also. CLACKAMAS COUNTY OFFICERS prea,S. L. Casto of Carus Local. Vice. Pres. J. H. Bowerman of Da mascus Local. Sec. Treas. F. G. Buchanan of Mt Pleasant Local. Directors: W. J. Bowerman of Sunnyside Local; J. C. Royer of Da mascus Local; Wm. Grisenthwaite of Beaver Creek Local. MEREDITH'S OBSERVATIONS July 4th is always on time. County union meeting July 18 Mul tnomah County courthouse. State UnioiF July 18 Multnomah county courthouse. The men we sell to and the men we buy from are all organized. A gallant band of 500 sturdy far mers of Clackamas Co. are organized and they stick and they grow and they see the benefits and are more feared by the enemies of the people than all,, the rest of the unorganized farmers in the state. Praying for society does no good as long as so many are preying on it. The city man who went back to the farm has disposed of his potatoes and strawberries and gone back to the city a poorer but wiser man. With the second short prune crop and prices low, knocks the over pro duction theory out on the first round. The over-production theory scien tifically accounts for hungry and starving people to the low prices of farm produce. A modern politician is very easily changed into a disguised scientist on a diet of public pie. Once upon a time a king Jevied a tax of 3 cents per pound on tea and it caused an eight year war and gave to the world a new nation without a king. He should have cornered the tea market and gone to cruising-timber. Baseball players, come to New Era the 4th and bring your suits and don't forget the ball and bat. Games can be arranged for after you get there. The American Can Co. owns the patent on sanitary cans and they now charge $32 per thousand for No. 2 and a half cans. No wonder canned goods are to be higher. It may be a good trust. The big papers tell us canned fruit is to be higher this coming winter. They do not state the cause but we ought to know it is because we rais ed too many strawberries. A poultry dentist ought to see that. At our next county union meeting there will be introduced, a plan to push our Equity over the rest of the state. We all ought to know where every cent of the $2.00 goes. Reports come from our leading ag ricultural states in the east, of grass hoppers, floods, drouth, potato bugs, cold weather, frosts and locusts, but Oregon moves over the calendar with its usual sunshine and showers and is no wise responsible for the disap pointments caused by machine made low prices on good crops The Equity has three states organ ized and organizers working in many others and the benefits will come in proportion to our strength. By the time we have completed our organiz ation we will have established good prices, good markets and good sys tems of producing and distributing. We will have good farmers, good laws and a good, contented people. Worth sticking for. The money question is the most im portant question before the American people and I think I am safe in say ing the least understood question of politics today. The report of the Pujo committee is the most important document and most instructive to the farmer and business man. Those v;ho would like to be informed on the causes of fi nancial depression and how a few col ossal fortunes have been taken from the working people and are being us ed to perpetuate these conditions, read this report. . Write to your congressman. You have already paid for it and it will pay you to read it. Meredith The Farmers' Society of Equity is a cooperative organization and cooper ation means, do yourselves what is costing you so much to buy what the other fellow does, and put the profit in y6ur pocket instead of his. The people of. Clackamas county own millions of dollars in water pow er that is going to waste. All it re quires is labor to build the dam; labor to build the machinery and labor to install it and not as much labor as it takes to prepare the wood that is consumed. Stop cruising the other fellow's timber and build yourselves a dam, heat and light your homes with el ectricity. We have a money trust that be gins to assume serious proportions. Numerous labor troubles in every state,- and all foreign countries. The Bank of England has a discount rate of four and a half per cent for ex change the highest for this time of year for 23 years. Paris is 4 per cent in other than gold; Germany has a six per cent rate. It has all the indications of a con spiracy of the big banks of the world to force a panic. We hope President Wilson will be able to wrest the con trol of our money from the banks. The American people could be in dependent if they would. Congress, through a committee of the House, has investigated the ship ping trust. They say all foreign and coastwise vessels are in the trust and rates to all foreign points have doub led in the last seven years. The German government seems to own a controlling interest in the trust. This is a trust over which the Am erican courts seem to have no control. The Brazilian government with a few American millionaires, forms the cof fee trust. Congress cannot make a law regu lating other governments and enforce it by constables. About the only rem edy in sight is for Congress to' fur nish national competition. An exchange says: "Farmers co operatives are gaining strength in America at a speed that will some day astonish the world." You see here in Clackamas county we do not get all the news about farmer societies be cause the papers owned by million airs will not print it. This paper says we will cut out the midJ'eman by the thousands and it wants to know what is going to become of the mid dleman. 1 do not know, do you? If he cannot find employment at good wages he cannot buy our produce at good prices and will have a tendency to lower prices both of produce and labor. Those who like to solve knot ty political puzzles can have this one and we would like to have your solution. The Farmers Society is a school for farmers. It is a business organiz ation in which he learns to put his produce in big piles to sell it and buys in large lots to make and save money. As we do this we learn conditions of trade markets, money and other things as they are forced before us in every day affairs. It is the poverty of the farmer that caused him to organize. What is your local doing to find out the cause and furnish the remedy? We are paying too much for "our favors or charging too little or both. Can we farm and compete with the other fellow in his business too? Must we quit our pro fession because there is no demand for food? Have people quit eating? The Farmers Society of Equity could not interest the producers in times of prosperity but when he works hard; produces big crops of first class articles of food and goes to market and nobody wants it at any fair price and he has to beg some body to make a low bid on it he has hard work to retain his self respect. Then he is interested. The farmers of the U. S. produce one-half of the pork of the wprld and one-fourth of the beef , three fourths of all the cotton. The wage earner produces one third of the coal, iron and manufac tured articles and one-fourth of the world's gold and silver. I was just writing about what the poor people do. The rich hire this done for about one-fifth. That is why we sell wool at 20c per pound and buy an all wool suit that is half cot ton at three or more dollars per lb. And when we run out of dollars be fore we get another wool crop it leaves the rich with a lot of clothes on hand that they can't sell and we call that a panic because it is no picnic. TAXES Our national government is a cham pion money spender as it manages to get rid of about a billion dollars ev ery year and the big bulk of this goes to the God of War that has been of no benefit to the farmer. The farmer has- no fears of the people of any Christian nation doing him any harm and if they did they had better trade some of their Christianity off for a little paganism. There have been mod ern wars but the farmer carried the musket in defense of his flag while the gold gamblers bonded him and and his family and farm to cheat him out of his liberty so dearly won. Our liberty would be better guarded with out an army and navy. There is the big internal revenue tax that is only partially paid when the stamps go on the original pack age. We also have the court costs to pay in convicting the criminals it makes. Also the penitentiaries to build and maintain and we would be better off to legislate all the profit out of the liquor business and then see who would spend time with it. Our national agricultural depart ment gets a part of what is left and spends it in teaching the farmer how to produce more and has never spent a cent in trying to make farming profitable. So the farmer has received more injury than help from his taxes. Now comes his state tax, which must be paid in money direct. It mak es no difference how cheap produce is on the market, our state tax must be paid in money. And now our legislature has paid out a big sum for a big show in San Francisco and we farmers will have to stay at home and work while others view the samples of things produced for the rich. How many farmers educate their children in our state institutions? Yet all farmers are taxed alike, to keep them up. Our agricultural college is turn ing out a horde of professional men but no farmers, only those who live off of the farmer. The legislature always tries to make a lot of commissions with fat salaries instead of doing away with useless pie hunters. It is the county tax that got so heavy that the man with the hoe was forced to lay down his proverbial we slayer and investigate his burden,' He sees no benefit in cruising timber the 17th time for the fellow who could give in his property for taxes the same as the farmer. He sees no benefit in bridges that no one can usev He sees no benefit in hiring professional school visitors and no harm except the cost. And as long as the nation, state and county compell him to furnish so much mon ey he proposes to demand protection and benefits in accordance and a man or two who understands tin situation to administer the affairs and all he demands is justice and who are the men who would deny that to . him ? Woe unto them! The farmer has not lost his self respect far enough to ask the grafter for charity but he now demands justice. Good Roads Good roads benefit the rich and poor alike and everybody seems to be harping on good roads. The best plan the writer has seen is to bond the state and cut the bonds up into 1-2-5-10-20-50 and 100 dollar pieces and use them the same as bank notes. Have the state receive them for tax es and make them legal holdings for state banks and good roads. I'av for all labor, brick, cement and all that has to be purchased or build the plants with these bonds to be owned by the state. When we have all roads good ones, the bonds can be received by the state and cancelled and no high taxes to be paid in money that is locked up in Wall street. P. W. Meredith Go to New Era July 4 Gladstone will have a Fourth of July celebration at the Chautauqua grounds and ail tnose wno receive a complementery ticket are Welcome Another picnic will be enjoyed in the Canemah Park by the Willamette Paper Mill employees, but everybody is invited to come to New Era and will be welcomed by the farmers who have the picnic in charge. There will be many places to spend the Fourth of July, but none will have as beautiful a grove to celebrate in as will the Equity Society. Basket dinners will be in order but those who so desire may take advantage of the best of hotel accomodations right on the grounds . Also refreshments will be served from the confection ery stands. The gates will be open to all on July Fourth and arrange to come. is a great agricultural country and raises produce of all kinds in large quantities, it is very probable that this will be the location of one of the Equity Warehouses as soon as the Clackamas Southern Railroad is completed. ALL READY FOR NEW ERA Arrangements for the Equity 4th at New Era are progressing nicely. The posters have been sent all over the county and have been posted by the members and now the whole country is talking about New Era, the place of the picnic. Louis Kelnhofer of the Carus Local who has direct charge of the pro gram is very much pleased over the prospects of a good crowd of not only members but of others who are com ing to enjoy the day. He states that the program will start promptly at 10:00 A. M., and will begin with the "Star Spangled Banner," led by a se lected chorus and the Declaration of Independence by Mrs. Griffith, fol lowed by the address of welcome by A. J. Kelnhofer. County President S. L. Casto will deliver the opening ad dress and will be followed by many prominent speakers among whom will be Manager Robert . Schuebel, State Organizer Wolfsen, and Nation al Organizer Cutting. Among the fea tures of the day will be an Equity composed and rendered by a promi nent member of Clackamas county. The Baby Show will be held at 1 :30 P. M., and will be in charge of John Wallace, after which will be the ath letic events including the auto races, horse races, foot races, tug of war contests etc. A special time will be set apart for the big tug of war con test between Mt. Pleasant Local and the Carus Local. It has been said for years that the men grew bigger and stronger at Mt. Pleasant than at any other place in the county, at least they have a team of nine men that .veigh 1800 pounds but Carus has taken upon itself to pull them down off of their high horse and as it is said that whoever wins will have free lemonade the rest of the day. The Beaver Creek Way The Beaver Creek Local received twentv-five sacks of sugar in their last order and saved from 45 to 95 cents per sack. This is just some of the business that Beaver Creek is do ing. There are some good live Equity men in this local and they are set ting the pace. Others should arrange to save money as does Beaver Creek. The individual locals should not be buying sugar by the 25 sack order from mail order houses, but the com bined locals of the county should buy by the wholesaler or better from the refinery if possible. Juat wait awhile and this will be the way it will be done. Business Committee Meets The business committee of the Equity Locals met in the Court House last Saturday and considered many maters of business. Manager Schuebel was present and reported much pro gress in the work. "Prospects are good for future business," said Mr. Schuebel, "and we are now arrang ing to sell potatoes this fall, Colo rado and California will have a short crop of potatoes and we expect to receive a good price." Any local in the county is invited to take part in the business operations at Oregon City. Although the plan of a business manager was fostered by the Maple Lane and Mt. Pleasant Locals, it is meeting with support from the other .locals that are convenient. Sp ecial Jime Sale of at Mams Department Store Oregon City's Brsy Store WANTED, AN INSPECTOR Molalla Organized nrirnniiep TT C Wnl f sen renorts that Molalla has been organized and is one of the strongest locals in the county. Having a large membership and fine prospects for many more momlipfQ nf t.h rio-ht kind we nredict a great future for this Local. Molalla Stand a Guard over Rich Wood Haul er who is Cheating Poor People We notice a quarter column article in the Morning Enterprise a few days ! ago that crys for the need of an of ficial inspector to see to it that the wood haulers do not cheat the poor helpless city people. It is claimed that these peculiar creatures that have to eek out an existence by this money making life of luxury and ease I are only cutting their wood three ft. 1 long and giving short measure and i that there are holes through the piles. It might be admited that such stuff, will fill up the column but that is the extent of the credit that can be al lowed. Have any of you, who may chance to read this article, ever hauled wood to such foolish snobs that believe that the man that hauls wood for living is a lower kind of animal, they expect to get the wood at half price; they want it pulled into an alley that was never intended for a wagon. He is then expected to handle the wood over two fences and pile it at a cer tain angle behind the wood shed and not trample tne grass or molest tne flowers; he must endure the taunts of some woman who has not enough sense in her head to direct her in the house when it rains. She says that the wood evidently must have been cut from trees with limbs on for the wood seems to have knots in it and this same awful wood hauler must smile and say that most trees have limbs; and then the wood is rotten and worst of all the wood hauler is making big holes in the pile on pur pose and the wood is short and the pile is low, but perhaps she will over look all this and you can just wait un til pay day and you may get your money (and you may not) but prob ably there are many of you that have still got that pay day coming. Yes, the woodhauler has a snap and is getting rich according to some peoples' notions and should be perse cuted. . But just let them try it and see who works the hardest and gets paid the least and gets beaten out of payment the most. We certainly do need an inspector, but not to protect the city people. They are quite capable, but to adjust matters so that honest labor will be rewarded. 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Stanton District No. 55 II. II. Mattoon C. Jubb Ed Ficfcen J. A. Tidyman James Hamilton A. H, Meyer James Craft L. L. Manlove Ernest Miller II. F. Meeker J. H. Severe B. White District No. 56 David Moehnke California Trojan Powder Co. Chris Moehnke D. Mclntyre F. Rees Fred Brunner O. Fellows F. Hettman E. J. Swank John Wallace Nut Scribner District No. 52 C. E. Cleland J. W. Loeber Simon Becker Chas. Betz II, W. Kanne District No. 57 ' P. L. Schamel Geo. Schamel Wm. II. Stuwe P. T. Smith Aug. Rothenberg E .Bixel A. F, Moshberger J. C. Swaner M. Miller 16.00 12.00 4.00 2.00 4.00 81.00 47.50 48.00 44.00 20.00 26.00 22.00 11.50 5.00 10.00 3.00 4.00 1.60 152.50 4.00 7;75 6.00 5.75 2.00 4.00 2.00 8.00 22.50 . 2.00 22.50 22.50 13.00 27.00 District No. 58 D. L. Davis Fred Turner J. C. Miller , S. Lyons B. L. King W. H. Stone Geo. Foreman 2TT Ed Griffin John Rider C. Whitehead G. Stone J. F. McCrackin i General Roads Clyde Kunze Theo. Thyker Thursa Graham J. L. Stanton W. F. Stanton V. G. Calvin B. Calvin Oliver Yoder A. S. Kent O. Mahler Wm. Flegel Grover Kunze , W. G. Wolf Tom Leffler J. S. Fisher S. M. Long Walter Long , O. Mahler Clyde Kunze , W. G. Wolf S. M. Long Peter Esch , 2.00 11.00 21.75 . .7.00 12.00 2.00 2.00 1.00 1.00 B. Stanton Mervin Stanton Ben Casto Coast Culvert & Flume Co. O. A. Battin C. .EBattin J. A. Davis J. Brodie H. A. Battin Wm. Stragge J. Coates T. Keil S. Clark Wm. Mundion D. Gaffney Wm. Smart B. Davis Hult Lumber Co . . F. J. Reace Ivan Dimick . . .' Wm. Tice Joe Larson F. C. Herr A. Tice D. R. Dimick John Jackson General Roads John Bluhm Richard Davis Herman Fisher E. A. Swanson Nels Lundmark John Wicklund John W. Carlson W. Hettman , J. D. Crawford Louis Blomberg Hult Bros V. Thompson , R. W. Schatz , R. W. Oldenstadt C. C. Schroeder , A. II. Borland E. Rabick , J. Bushbaum G. Saum , Peters Hardware Co , J. P. Bartles , Oswego Lumber Co. Larson & Co R. de Neui Tualatin Mill Co R. de Neui R. Thompson C. T. Thompson , 1.00 2.00 6.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 23.55 2.05 . 3.85 6.00 5.25 13.65 45.50 3.50 2.55 2.00 56.00 , 13.50 38.75 32.50 2.50 13.50 TTT 25.00 25 00 .12.00 .12.50 11.25 21.00 32.50 8.00 33.00 37.10 16.50 16.50 16.50 6.50 34.25 12.00 4.00 17.00 10.00 20.00 10.00 6.00 12.00 12.00 12.00 21.00 12.00 12.00 6.00 6.00 20.68 83.75 33.75 62.50 67.50 67.50 62.50 29.25 21.50 28.25 28.25 22.50 25.00 4.60 . 8.85 18.00 16.00 11.50 . 8.00 9.00 9.00 11.25 2.25 13.00 12.00 3.75 11.25 3.25 11.00 11.00 9.25 . 9.00 3.00 28.72 4.00 28.00 26.00 14.00 26.00 12.00 14.00 .7.00 13.06 12.50 42.85 125.55 22.50 33.30 27.50 1.00 1.00 (Continued on Page 6.) V r. r h