OREGON OITYICOURIER JUNE " 1913 OREGON CITY COURIER Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Eighth and Main streets, and en tered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as second class mail matter. OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER M. J. BROWN, A. E. FROST, OWNERS. Subscription Price $1.50. Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5- Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co M. J. BROWN, EDITOR Affidavit of Circulation I, M. J. Brown, being duly sworn, say that I am editor and part owner of the Oregon City Courier, and that the average weekly circulation of that paper from May 1, 1912, to May 1, 19- 13, has exceeded 2,000 copies, and that these papers have been printed and circulated from the Courier office in the usual manner. M. J. BROWN. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of May, 1913. GILBERT L. HEDGES, Notary Public for Oregon Is public office a private snap in Clackamas county? '' The only way to change conditions in this county is to change the condit ion makers. When Clackamas county will only spend money when it is absolutely necessary, and when it gets a dollar's worth of benefit for the dollar, then will we have lower taxes. Taxes will be a lot lower in Clack amas county when we get men man aging it who will give it the Bame honest management they would a pri vate business. And they won't be low er until we do. "Clackamas County is out of debt" but there seems to have been $163,000 lost somewhere in the shuffle. Isn't it mighty peculiar that this matter of the most importance in the cnarges has no explanation whatever ,' Charles W. Morse dies hard. Mr. Taft pardoned him so he could die outside prison walls. He has already got a controlling interest in the Hud son river steamship company and is after the Long Island Sound line, lie a live one for a dying man. Aside from a personal attack on the Couner editor, George C. brownell doesn't make any attempt to answer the questions asked, him of county court deals. Nobody makes any at attempt to answer any questions re garding court charges. It hasn't been the custom in the past to have to explain, and they don't understand this insistence. Instead of the danger theorists have expressed that the recall would be invoked too often, it looks to us as if in Oregon it has not been called into play naif as frequently as it should have been. People generally appear to be afraid to tackle the thing, as if it were loaded. Wood burne Independent. It is the sincere wish of a lot of Oregon City residents that at the special meeting of the council this (Wednesday) evening the elevator matter may be definitely settled in some way that the contract may be let and the matter finally settled, or the deal called off entirely. It has been nearly seven months since the people voted this bond issue, and the waiting and wrangling have become a city joke. Comes now doctor sustained bj the French Academy of Science, with the claim he has a vaccine that will absolutely prevent typhoid. His back ing is the highest, and his proofs look good, but the American people will go very slow on it, after the Freidman affair. The French physic ian says his vaccine will absolutely prevent typhoid, can be taken without any danger or inconvenience and is inexpensive, and that he has as proofs 44,000 people on which it has been tried with full success. It is now but a question of time, al most to be measured by weeks, when he great Panama canal will connect the two oceans and shorten ocean travel thousands of miles. And then we will see thousandcs and thous ands of Europeans unloading on the Paoific coast. What the result and conditions will be we can only guess. If the ships bring the needed class, the land clearers and home makers, you will see Oregon grow like a mush room. But if it brings the vagabond element we will soe trouble and lots of it, for Oregon only needs and has use for home makors. "DEFENSE" There is a man in this city who has been here but a short time yet who sets himself up as the oracle of all wisdom and the aug ur of the future. His mission is to tear down and to find fault, to impugn the motives of men who have been prominent in local af fairs for almost as many years as the stranger has lived. He is unfair in his statements, biased in his reasoning, obcaecate to his own pettishness and anile in his continual perversity. Pretending to be honestly criticising city and county affairs, he is in fact either being sadly led astray by dis gruntled friends, or else is capi talizing his own iconoclasm. The above was written by the new editor of the Enterprise a man who is not even a voter, and who has liv. ed here less than three months. He says we are unfair in our state' ments. Why doesn't he state WHERE we are unfair? Why doesn he take one single statement and prove our unfairness? Calling a man a liar is no argument, but PROVING him one is. Why doesn't the Enter prise get down to specifics and cite at least ON ft instance where this pa per has been uniair Repeatedly we have stated that this paper was open to any voter to ae- fend the county court and to prove our charges and the . charges of others groundless. Not a line has ever been offered, and men who reason know why THERE IS NO DEFENSE TO THE CHARGES Brownell can't make any; the county court itself can t make any. The charges were made weeks ago charges of extravagance, mismanag ment, favoritism, law violation. Not one of them has ever been nailed or specifically denied. Brownell says Bosom Friend Bob is honest but he may have made mistakes. That's all the defense there is. The Phonograph says we are un fair, yet doesn't say WHERE we are untair. IT (JAN 1 . it says we are biased in our reasoning, but doesn't say HOW or W1IEKE. We just A Kb), that's all and you mustn't question, but just be lieve. Here is one charge the Courier will not deny. It says the Courier editor is "obcaecate." We may have it; not under this name. If the Phonograph will translate this, reduce it to En glish, get it down where a physician can understand it, we will go up to ur. Mount and see if we have it. In the meantime we will trust in God and keep our fingers crossed. The Courier may not be right in all it advocates, but it IS honest, and tne man doesn t live m Oregon that can sup it a piece oi money. Where we are wrong, we ask read ers to point out, and when they can show us we ARE wrong, we will ad mit it. If we make a charge, that is proven false, we will retract with just as much prominence as we made ii. But denial is not defense; ridicule is not reason; whitewash is not wor thiness. Thero has never been a line of de fense of the charges made against the county court as yet; and until there s deiense made, until the county court can come iorwara with some' ining stronger wan woy's "exoner ation" and Brownell's bunk, the vot ers of this county are going to think they have had deals sliuDed over on them that fattened the individuals at the expense of heavy taxation, and they are going to think this paper is trying to give them a square deal. unee more, Mr. Enterprise: Explain that court house iob and tell the taxpayers where that $7,000 above the architect's figures, went to. Explain where that $165,000 went to over and above the previous county court's expenditures and receints on the same basis. Explain why that timber cruisinor contract was slipped over and given to an out-oi-tne-county timber com pany, when it could have been done for thousands of dollars 'ess by Clack amas county men. Explain why a free perpetual fran chise was given to a Portland gas company for all of Clackamas countv. and a franchise for a new railroad from Portland, to Stephen Carver denied. Exnlnin whv bvidirn nftor tiri.l.ru contract was let to the Coast Bridge Co., without advertising, without competition. I hose are the matters the taxnav- ers want to know about. Explain these, then vou mnv mil the Courier editor an I. W. W.. a Cu. ban, a liar or any other old thing, and it may stick, but until you do. we've got you and the people are with us. THE HUNGER CLUB Capital and labor are at it again in Chicago. It's another little civil war our government winks at and dares not take a hand in. Union marble laborers on a bank buildiner went out because the contrac tors put s,cab labor on the job with them. Then the Building Trades Associ ation. emlpoymg from twenty thirty thousand men on construction work, naid oir every man ana ais- charged them. They have put on a "starve out' lockout. They propose to force bi hunger the men to leave their unions in order to oDtam wont, iney win niot attempt to fill places with non union men. but rather to starve a un ion man until he will quit his union and become a scab. "We can stand it longer than they can." says money. "We have got to beat them out at this starvation game, or starve lor- ever afterward," says union labor. And this civil war will now go on tolerated bv our government. When two men have a difference thn courts arbitrate and settle it. When an army of men have a fall out our courts tell them to settle it themselves. Won't we ever get a little common sense pounded into us, and have a fair tribunal to settle such labor troubles as at Chicatro ? It's a horrible thought to me that hunger and want should be used to force men to yield. The horror of it is that the wives and babies must suf fer to make the husbands and fathers foreret their obligations and become scabs. And capital suffers by reason lost contracts and profits. It's a tough proposition to starve a man into submission for he's a dan gerous man and has mighty little re gard for his country in tnat condition. It's a mighty tough proposition to tell a contractor he shall not hire who he pleases to work on a contract he has taken big chances on. But it's a lot tougher to tell these parties to fight it out, that the strong er wins and win De called rignt. This biff old, rich world has an ab undance for all, and men should not have to starve and fight for the risrht to live and work. How much longer win our Doasteo civilization tolerate "hunger" lock outs" How much longer will the hungry men stand for it? of AGREED Ston the clock I The Oregonian and W. S. U'Ren are agreed! The Oregon ian sustains U Ken! The newspaper was caught in its own trap and had to, but that doesn't matter. It really does sustain Mr, U'Ren on an issue. A few davs aeo the Oregonian out lined a bill that should be made law to safesruard the initiative and ref erendum from such moves as is now holdinsr up the compensation law. The Oregonian editor, had torgotten recent legislative history, and Mr. U Ren mailed that paper a copy of House Bill No. 365, drawn by U'Ren & Schuebel, introduced by Represent ative Latourette, and killed by the house judiciary committee. This is the bill: Before beginning to solicit sig natures on any initiative or ref erendum amendment or a gener al law, or for any local law for a county or district composed of more than one county, the person committee or organization pro posing the same shall file ten printed copies thereof with the Secretary of State, and also the name and postoffice address of the person, the members of the committee and of the organizat ion, and the amount contributed or promised by every person contributing or promising to con tribute towards paying the ex penses of such initiative or refer endum petition and campaign for the measure. This bill was killed by a Re publican legislature whose members are now yelling their throats sore be cause of the weak spots in the ref erendum that permit hidden assas sins to knife and hold up needed and worthy legislation. At the time this bill was before the house the Oregonian wasn't burn ing the air with editorial support of but now, smoked out, it has to line up and give U'Ren & Schuebel this credit: We are to assume that this is the U'Ren view of the safeguards that should surround any initiat ive or referendum petition, It is also the Qregonian's view. It is to be regretted that the recent Leg islature did not accept at least so much of the Latourette bill. If the law made it imperative upon the Secretary of State to re ject all the initiative or referen dum petitions unless the facts and circumstances of their inspir ation are fully divulged, the skul king figures behind the referen dum on the compensation act would be driven into the light; or there would be no such referendum. A Gift For a Life Time contained in a savings account ia the pos sibility of future success aud independ ence. To present your sou or daughter with a savings account opens up the fu ture and aids in tcachtng the habits of economy and thrift. There ia no ques tion of your good intentions when you make a gift in the form of a savings account. The Bank of Oregon City OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY IF FARMERS SHOULD STRIKE Say, wonder what would happen if the farmers all over the United States would adopt manufacturers' tactics to secure legislation? You know if they don't get what they ask for they re fuse to play or work, ohut up their shops and squeeze the country into submission. Suppose all farmers would cut pro duction one-half, what then? Of course it is impractical and wholly unworkable without an oriranization far more thorough than any in the k!..t..... t .1. ....... u..i J... i. uioiuijr ui it(iiv;uii.uic; uui, just sup posing such an organization existed and such a scheme to coerce legislat ure so farmers could hold up the price of their products, was put in operation. Wouldn't it be awful ? Mer cenary, revolutionary, anarchistic, un patriotic! Well, why isn't it just as bad for steel, woolen, shoe or other manufac turers to attempt to coerce legislat ion for their benefit? Chieftain, En terprise, Oregon. put opposite his name for the punish ing list. But todav the voter doesn't care a darn for those little crosses of for the men who make them. He has his own ideas of policies, politics and is sues, and he doesn't care a darn who knows them. The day of poltroonery has gone by in this man's country, and with it the slavery to another man's opinions. The American people are not im pervious to advice and leadership, but us a cincn place Det tnat the man who leads them has got to' be a big General and able to get away with the job. But the day has gone by for the petty Dosses and the individual game. Dog-trotting behind band wagons has gone out of American politics and the free-born American citizen is going to run things. These new conditions do not mean that leaders and organizations must go, but rather that the organization must represent and leaders lead. Without organization and leadership the people are a mob and but weaken the cause they stand for, while with an organization and leadership of men wno ring true the people will be a power no machine bosses dare stand in the way of. WHAT? Did you ever stop to think that one oi the several reasons for high prices of everything you have to eat and wear is because we have cheap mon ey money that doesn't buy much? Twenty-five years ago you could take a dollar to a grocery store and buy an armful of groceries, while to day you could prettiy nearly brine the dollar's worth home in your pocket. In those days a man would take care of a good-sized family on a dollar a day. Money came slow and went slow. It was high priced money and oought a lot. Easy money breeds extravagance. Following that panic from 1892 to 18- 96 there came a reversal of condit ions, and for years we had prosperity so thick we fairly had to dodge it. Labor was in great demand. A man didn't have to hunt for a job, the job hunted him. He was the much-wanted labor, and he could name his - own price. Money came easy, and his credit was good, so he began to take on anything he wanted and live the life of the high roller. Fnces chased up easy money and stayed up. Business conditions took another tumble, wages went down, but prices stood pat, because the tightest stand-pat combinations in the country held them pat. if we were all producers on our own accounts and directly shared in the high prices of everything: grown or made, then the proposition would be as broad as long, and nobody would care if shoes went to $20 a pair so long as the income from his labor was in proportion. iiut only a comparative few set in the jack pot. Conditions are not al lowed to seek the natural level and the pinch comes. The man on a fixed salary finds the cost of liviner doub led with his income lust the same. In other words his salary is cut in two, or you may put it that his dollar is cheapened by half. Ihen comes the manufacturer who makes an article that is not really a necessity, whose output is such that people can get along without it. How bout him? He finds that he simply cannot compete with conditions. He can't lower his prices to make a mar ket, because the conditions have jack pocketed his raw material, and hold the prices where they choose. The re sult must be curtailed output, men laid on:; wages reduced. And we have a cheap dollar or a dear dollar, depending on which way you ioilow it out. Combinations won t et commodities come down, your dol lar is cut in two in purchasing power. and you are educated up to a stan dard of living where you think you cannot go pack. And WHAT are you going to do? and banks suspending payment of de posits. Then came the official announce ment that the bankers no longer had to look to Wall at. The United States treasury would, if necessary, issue ip to $500,000,000 in emergency currency to meet any crisis. This meant a federal war against Wall street. There was no need of the money after it was offered. One threat was enough. New York banks suddendly "found" millions, and dumped them on the loan market. The high call loan rate, (topping from 3 down to one and a half per cent, was cut in two in a few hours. One New York bank reduced its rates for time money, offered to lend freely ot its surplus reserve of $28,- 000,000, and in one day bought ?7, 000,000 worth of commercial paper; the day before this bank had been the loudest calamity howler about a mon ey shortage. Wall bt. has been jriven a terrible beating; and the panic has gone on over our heads like a black cloud probably for good. St. Paul Daily News. BALLOON JUICE THE PANIC THAT FAILED CHANGING Hasn't the past .three or four years brought about wonderful chan ges in the ideas of the peoplo of this country, and in the independence of the voters ? A few years ago the man who dared to raise his voice in criticism of the party in power was a bolter, a heretic, and a little black cross was A money panic, carefully planned by Wall st. bankers and beside which the 1893 or 1907 would -have seemed prosperous times, has been nipped in the bud. The panic, well under way, stopped when Secretary of the Treasury, Mc- Adoo, acting with full approval of rres. Wilson, announced that the Un ited States treasury was prepared to loan country banks $500,000,000 to paralyze the Wall street gamblers. The money trust inquiry will prob ably be reopened. And there will be no bankers feast on the carcasses of dead business. There is positively no doubt that Wall st. deliberately mapped out a panic to throw some of its enemies into bankruptcy and to give tariff and currency reform a black eye. i or three months paid represent atives of New York banks have been traveling around the country, spread ing alarm among the bankers and dropping hints to companions in lux urious Pullmans. Trust-owned newspapers have been following them up and seconding the motion py announcing a coming short age of money and a country-wide stagnation of business to result. All this time prosperity was on a sounder basis than ever before. Crops, steel production and exports have broken all records. Wall St., sulked then planned a panic. It sent forth its agents to scare business men. Then it began to hoard trold until the money market was almost corner ed. New York banks announced that money was scarce at the same time their vaults were bulirinir. One of the loudest tf the howlers had reduced his loans and increased its deposits by weakening securities, until it had increased its stock of money nearly $-u,uuu,uuu. The New York bankers began to re fuse loans. Their allies in other big cities ionoweo tnem. There was a shortage of credit, but no shortage of money. Country banks and business con cerns all over the country couldn't get money. A great Western railroad with over 7,000 miles of tracks was thrown into bankruptcy because Wall St., re fused to loan it $3,500,000 a loan that this railroad had often floated without difficulty. Such was the situation on Friday June the 13th. It threatened to be second Black Friday on the New York Stock ex change. A panic started. The stock market was almost in chaos; many good securities had al ready reached lower prices than dur ing the panic of 1907. Three weeks of thia would mean bread lines, factories closing down I note that the bankers' associat ion is taking hold of the matter of ex cessive prices for land values in Ore gon, and I hope they may be able to shake off a lot of the "boom" value and get land down to where farmers can make it pay interest on tne in vestment. Oregon has a wonderful soil, sou that grows almost anything bigger and more of than any state in the Union, but if it would grow oats as high as Jack's bean stalk a farmer could not make day wages and six per cent interest on a farm he paid $200 an acre for. Common sense tells any man this. At present market prices it can't be done along plain farming lines. And if it can't be done, then there is only one conclusion, that the land has a fictitious value, a value above its producing worth an inflated value. One of the most successful farmers in Clackamas county told me the oth er day that if he would sell- his entire farm and stock at what he could get for it today, then sit down and not do a bit of work, the interest would make him more money than he makes now. Understand, this man is prosperous and is making good money, but he got the farm 40 years ago, when land was cheap, and he is figuring interest not on what he gave, but on what he could sell for. But the newcomer, with a little cash to pay. down, and a lot of inter est to pay up, can t make it on $Z00 land. The land simply won't produce enough at present market prices. And that s what a newcomer is up against. Take a drive out west into this county and you will see the richest black land that lays out of doors less than half cleared. This part of Oregon could support ten times more people than it has, buty they won t come here and buy SZOO land, pay 6 and 8 per cent and get 3 and 4 per cent. If we would squeeze the water and speculation out of Oregon land, get values down to where a -man would find land profitable, then this country would become a beehive of industry and it won't be much of a beehive un til we do. The only Baldng Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Makes delicious home-baked foods of maximum quality at minimum cost. M&Eces home baking and profitable Couldn't Kid Him. W.nen the smart drummer got off the train at nickvtlle his attention wus at tracted by nn ancient cab between the shafts of which was propped the worst looking nng he had ever seen. An old negro was dozing on the box. "Hey." yelled the drummer, "ain't you nfrnld your horse will shy at an automobile and run nwny?" "No, sail," replied the Jehu. "Dis bawss Is got sense. lie don't shy at no automobeels Why, ho didn't even shy at rallrotid trains when dey fust come out" -Cincinnati Enquirer. 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True sun iss iih'iiiis innklng more out of niit'si'lt Hum out of others.--Philadelphia Ledger GET TUt SUCCESS HABIT. There U u whole lot iu atmosphere and attitude. Like attracts like. The uuu wha looks prosperous and acts prosperous will attract prosperity. Get the success bablt It Is Irre sistible. Dou't be too much of a shrinking daisy. Shrinking daisies have their place, but not In the modern world of Imxiness. The shrinking mun will usually bare ii slirlukiug trade. In the language of a former presi dent, "buck the line hard." Urea the in nn you buck up against will like yon the better for It I remember once bearing a rery ex pressive line, "Tlay Bp aad play the game." If you are going to get In the game at all you have to play it for all you are worth. I once beard of a business maa who was down to his last $3. He fortunate ly had a dress suit left, howerer, se he arrayed himself in bis glad habiliment, spent bis Inst $3 for ticket at a swell theater, nt beside a man wits whom he got into conversation and succeeded lu interesting this man in a busluesa deal that put the chap who bad spent his Inst three back ou his feet He kept bis nerve and played the gnme. lie bad the success habit Psychology may count for more than capital. Often the chief use of cash Is t put a man In the tight mentaj attitude to get more. He should have the mental uttltudo, however, even If he lacks the cash. After all, your mental capital Is your chief asset. Don't get bankrupt la that, whatever may happen to your bank accouut Look like a winner. If you do the doorman to the temple of success may think you belong Inside and let you pass. There Is moi" Ontnrrh In mm section of tot eountrj than all other (lis? put toKether. and until toe last few years was supposed to be Incurable. 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We have never thought of buying any other kind of a wagon." "It's true, we're continually being offered other wagons costing a little less, with lots of promises as to what they will do. But we know in our family what a Studebaker will do. A few dollars difference in price doesn't mean much. It's the service a wagon gives that we consider most." Long service for a fair price means more every time than short service for a few dollars less." jThat'a -why we stick to Studebaker and 'Stick to Stude baker' ia a pretty good motto for a man who uses wagons." "Studebaker wagons are built of good stuff. They're made right by people who've had yeara and years of experience in making them right people who are trusted the world over." "Studebaker wagona last, because they're made to last." "Look out for the dealer who tells you his wagon ia just as good as a Studebaker.' That'a my advice after a good deal of experience and the experience of all of my people. You get a Studebaker and you've got a safe investment. See out Dealer ot write ut. STUDEBAKER South Bend, Ind. NEW YORK CHICAGO DALLAS KANSAS CITY DENVER MINNEAPOLIS SALT LAKE CITY SAN FRANCISCO PORTLAND, ORE. Succesi. SiTvitnt (to bis master, an author) Sir. there are 13,000 people In the street who are clamoring to know what la going to happen In your serial tomor row. rele Mel. CASTORIA For Infanta and Children, Ttie Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the . JAG -JX" Signature of LMz7UJi4 Only 35c Per Rod In spite of high prices prevailing elsewhere we offer our 48 in. fence at just the same old price, 35c rod Frank Busch Oregon City The Courier, "It's Different." and it has the circulation