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OREGON CITY COURIER, THRUSDAY, JULY 1913
GON EQUITY NEW
UNITED WC LIVE
DIVIDED WE STARVE
PROFITABLE PRICES
FOR FARM PRODUCTS
Vol. 1
Official Representative of the Farmers Society of Equity
No 19
ORE
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
Clatskanie local of Columbia Coun
ty, are doing things these days. They
have incorporated a produce company
and will operate a canning factory in
connection with their other . enter
enterprises. In this way they can se
cure better prices for their produce
and it will not be necessary to pay
dividends on the stock to get a profit.
M. J. Lazelle, Oregon City; R. C.
Brodie, Canby; E. Ochlschloeger,
Clackamas, R. No. 1.
SUBSCRIPTION -
. Special Low
who Farms.
discount to Any Man
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' a,re direct
ors also.
CLACKAMAS BOUNTY OFFICERS
Casto of Carus Local.
-J. H. Bowerman of Da-
Pres. S. L
Vice. Pres.
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. .
ALONG EQUITY LINES
Bankers organized and got rich.
' "Then Bankers all vote together for
their own interests.
The Bankers command respect and
act the laws made to suit them no
matter what LPartyjsjn power.
Will the farmer ever get to that
state of progress where he can do tne
same thing in the same way?
ion in the place of private ownership
of the avenues to a livelihood.
The Farmers' Society of Equity is
not a political party and never will
be. We are cursed with too many po
litical parties now.- If we had less we
would be better off. We have people of
all parties in our Equity and we DE
MAND JUSTICE Irom all political
parties and we will soon be strong
enough to get justice from any po
litical party that may succeed to
power.
If the farmers all over the U. S
will organize they will get all and
every thing they ask for, no matte.!
what political party is elected to pow
er, and if there are necessary chan
ges to be made in our system of pro
duction and distribution, we, as an or
ganization, can make them independ
ent of National or State politics like
they did in Europe. No party will op
pose the organized farmer . and "re
main long in existence.
Will the American people ever learn
that the farmer will quit producing if
it doesn't pay ? And when he does we
will have a famine and everything
that goes with it.
Now there is not a rop that the
farmer grows that pays -a profit suf
ficient to justify a life of toil by he
and his family.
There are six million farmers in
the U. S. and the people are depend
them for food. They are the
-i -.- - , -
only men who unaerstana practical
farming and if they should go on
strike there will be no scabs to take
their places. They could get profitable
prices for everything if the consum
er had the money.
The farmer is master of the situ
ation right now if he was organized.
He could get anything he' wanted by
the asking because the people would
know he could get it himself without
help or charity from any one but he
must organize and work in conjunc
tion with other farmers. There is a
brighter day coming.
Our government has loaned to the
sufferers of the flood at Dayton,
Ohio, $400,000, and the worst of it
is they boycotted their own postal
Kanir anii cr vp a nrivate banker a
rake-off. We have a few useless mid
dlemen that will have to go.
A few retail dealers have already
gone just to please a panic They will
get their demit from the retail as
sociation and join the hoppickers'
union.
There is one lesson the Equity niust
learn and that is this. You must start
your enterprises on a different system
altogether from stock companies and
dividends. Capital is something you
have. NOT and if you did have a little
there is so ' much capital in opposit
ion that the capitalists wuld freeze
you out on their own plan aesily.
if you can t .use tne necessity tor
your produce to raise the price -you
can not do it in any other, way. And
the only way to use your produ5efor
a lever is through a strong organ
ization strong enough to control your
own business and take a few kinks out
of the other fellow?', schemes. Keep
Politicians have given thousands of
reasons for the poverty of the work
ing people and they have all proven
false in time.
Have they told you how our mil
lionaires got their big accumulations
of the peoples' money ? Have they
told you how the bankers got hold of
more money than our government has
made and how they have the power to
charge 25 per cent now for money. If
you are compelled to borrow a nun-
dred dollars and they make out the
papers and you sign everything ex
cept the pound of flesh nearest your
heart and they hand you only $80, in-
stead of a hundred you see the other
$20 is the first interest paid m ad
vance and so called other bonuses
commissions hard labor and then they
tell the farmer that the reason he
doesn't get rich is because he is lazy.
And when he has a big crop they
tell us we worked too hard and the
cause of our poverty is overproductioh
and so it goes. The fanner, if he is a
fool, can do his own thinking witb
better reasoning than that.
The county meeting will be held at
Beaver Creek next Saturday and will
be the most important that has ever
been held in the county. Many matters
of interest to the society will be pres
ented. All delegates are urged to
to come early so as to give time for
a long morning session.
It has been mentioned by the var
ious members that resolutions will be
presented upon the matter of county
organization and organizers, Equity
Warehouse Company and other ware
houses, county business manager and
the Clackamas county recall matter.'
Equity Celebrates at New Era
One of the largest crowds that ever
was seen at New Era gathered on the
Fourth of July to take part in the
Eauitv Fourth picnic. The first dele
gation arrived early in the morning
and represented the Macksburg Local
and members and friends from all
parts of the county soon followed..
Some came in wagons and some in
autos and the Wilsonville people came
down the river on a steam boat fifty
strong. This was probably the larg
est delegation from any one local. The
program started promptly at 10:00
o'clock and was presided over by Lou
is Kelnhofer, president of the Carus
Local. Among the prominent speakers
of the day were Honorable Robert
Schuebel, S. L. Uasto, county Presi
dent, anti Mrs. Griffith of Oregon
City.
It was very lamentauie mat .Nat
ional Organizer, Cutting, failed to ap-
n?ar as a great many were aisap-
fnninaA Knt nthor anpnlrpra fillprl the
program equally as well and. every
one seemed to be happy all day.
The dance in the afternoon Was
largely attended and the young folks
made merry with this popular pass
time. The music was furnished by a
Portland Union orchestra and all were
pleased by the catchy airs provided
by the musicians.
Mr. John Wallace was chairman of
the committee on arrangements and
deserves great credit for his untiring
efforts to make the day a success that
it was. He has worked constantly up
on the affair for the past three weeks
and was on hand early in the day and
carried out his part of general super
vision during the entire day.
This is the first picnic that the
Equity has given but it will undoubt
edly not be the last one. Since the
plan meets with such, general approv
al, it has been suggested' by many,
that another picnic be held some time
this fall.
LOCAL OFFICERS OF CLACKA
MAS CO.
Alberta Pres. Jesse Mayfield. Sec.
Ferris Mayfield, Springwater R. 1.
Beaver Creek: Pres. Fred Kamar-
ath; Sec. W. W. Harris, Oregon City
R. 3.
Canby: Pres. Geo. Koehler; Sec.
R. C. Brodie, Canby R. 3.
Cams': Pres.- A. J. Kelnhofer; Sec.
S. L. Casto, Oregon City R. 3.
Clackamas: Pres. J. A. Sieben;
Sec. Frank Haberlach, Clackamas
Oregon.
Clarkes: Pres. Albert Gasser; Sec.
John L. Gard, Oregon City R. 4.
Colton:Pres. J..E. Sandall; Sec.
W. S. Gorbett, Colton, Oregon.
Damascus: Pres. JVC. Eoyer; Sec.
H. T. Burr, Clackamas R. 1.
Eagle Creek: Pres. W. G. Glover,
Sec. C. C. Longwell, Barton R. 1.
Highland Local Pres. M. E. Han
dle; Sec. S. S. Palmer.
Laurel Ridge Local Union Pres. G.
C. Heiple; Sec. N. E. Linn, Estacada,
Rt. 1.
Logan: Pres. W. E. Cromer; Sea
P. M. Kirchem, Oregon City R. 2.
Macksburg: Pres. C. D. Keesling,
Sec. J. W. Smith, Aurora, R. 1.
Maple Lane: Pres. H. M. Robbins,
Sec. G. F. Mighells, Oregon City R. 3.
,' Mt. Pleasant: Pres. P. W. Mere
dith; Sec. F. G. Buchanan, Oregon
City, Oregon.
New Era: Pres.. Aug. Staeheley;
Sec. C. B. Riverman, Oregon City, R.
1.
Needy: Pres. J. D. Ritter; Sec. E.
Werner, Aurora, R. 2.
Shubel: Pres. Chas. A. Menke;
Sec. Elmer Swope, Oregon City R. 4.
Stone: Pres. T. E. Brown; Sec.
M. J. Byers, Clackamas R. 1.
Sunnyside: Pres. R. P. Grady;
Sec. E. E. Oeslschlager, Clackamas R.
1.
West Buttevilie: Pres. James Par-
ett; Sec. J. R. Woolworth, Newberg,
R. 2.
Wilsonville: Pres. M. C. Young;
Sec. R. B. Seely, Sherwood, R. 6.
. Dr. Withycombe July 18
Dr. Withycombe of the state agri
cultural college, and one of the best
agricultural ' talkers in the state will
be at the state convention in Portland
July "18 and address the Equity dele
gates on the subject of marketing
Farm Produce. This lecture will be
well worth attending the convention
for.
WILSONVILLE INTERESTED
The government is the people and
the people is the government, and
just now the people cannot get the
bankers to furnish a plan whereby the
people can get their own money issued
to themselves at a low rate of in
terest without paying a big rakeoff
to some private banker.
A bill was introduced into the leg
islature of Wisconsin authorizing a
commission composed of representat
ives of farmers and labor organizat
' ions to devise a plan for a state' co
operative market under state super
vision. This ought to teach the far
mers how they can make the polit
icians make the law. Just organize.
The Kansas ' agricultural college
marketed the Kansas farmers' apple
crop last year with such success that
they now propose to help the farmer
market all his produce and they don't
ask the farmer what his politics are
but they know he is organized.
Congress has so many committees
investigating so many different abus
es in government that it is hard to
keen uD.with all the graft that has
been uncovered. Now they propose to
show us how the trusts edits the press
news sent out to our big papers to in
fluence public sentiment. ,
Rumor has it that a friendly attor
ney to our county court was peddling
news from the secret work of our
grand jury and we wonder that a set
of men who would be intrusted with
the duty of investigating crime that
would get so confidential with a cer
tain lawyer. The farmers can now
- proceed to investigate the grand jury.
Who are they 7
Backing the Warehouse Prospect
With $16000 of Business
Equity Editor:
Several outside members have ask
ed what we are doing at Wilsonville,
so I take this opportunity t6 write to
you in regard to the same.
At present we have twenty mem
bers and we believe in quality as well
as quantity.
The aim of the members at present
is to get the clearing house in Port
land as soon as we can.
When Mr. Lyman made us a visit
some time ago and asked how much
business the members would give the
Equity Warehouse. It took about five
minutes for them to hand in a state
ment of the crops they would con
tract. When their value was summed
up it amounted to over $16,000. As
several members were not there two
or three reports were missed. Mr. Ly
man said they would like to have
$200,000 signed up before they went
ahead. If the other locals in the coun
ty and state would do half of $16000
he would have two or three times
that much. ' .
It seems to us here that the first
and most important thing to do is to
put the Clearing House in Portland
on a business standing. We believe
that all the locals should help and do
it at once. Delay only means that it
will take more money to get it start
ed and create dissatisfaction among
some of the members.
After the main head is establish
ed in Portland we can soon put up
places to do business in the smaller
towns, but until then the warehouses
in these towns will be working at dis
advantage.
At the last county meeting most of
the time was spent in talking of sub
jects that would be helpful to a few
ocals back of Oregon City. We have
no objection to this at local meetings
but we believe the county meetings
should not be taken up entirely with
out local propositions.
Wilsonville will be there and their
object will be the establishment of a
Clearing House in Portland.
Damascus Local News
Damascus Local Union No. 6835,
met in regular session at Mellien's
hall with 12 members out of a total
of 31 belonging to the Local.
Several communications were read,
including a call for delegates to the
County Union July 12th, and one del
egate to State Union July 18th. J. C.
Koyer was elected to the state Union
meeting, and the following were el
ected to the County Union meeting:
J. C. Royer, H. T. Burr, J. W. Shat-
tuck, Frank Mellien and J. W. Bow
erman. A special assessment of 25c
was levied to pay hall rent and other
expenses. Our sales sheet shows the
following for sale: 14 head of young
horses, broken and un-broken, at very
reasonable prices; 1 6-acre farm with
43 acres under cultivation.
The meeting adjourned to meet in
two weeks.
H. T. Burr, Sec. and Treas.
Make Your Wants Known
If there is any locality that wants
to organize a local, or any individual
that wants any information regarding
Equity work, State Secretary F. G.
Buchanon of Oregon City will gladly
give any and all information he may
have. Spread the locals, and write him
for any information.
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Oregon City's Busy Store
Mrs. Griffith's lecture at New Era
was grand was even more than that
It wag an inspiration. bhe is a per
fect master of the social problems and
proposed remedy as propounded from
her school of thought, bbe is an ar
dent exponent of National cooperat-
A Good Investment
W. D. Magli, a well known mer
chant of Whitemound, Wis., bought a
stock of Chamberlain's medicine so as
to be able to supply them to his cus
tomers. After receiving them he him
self was taken sick and says that one
small bottle of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was
worth more to him than the cost of
his entire stock of these medicines.
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Sedentary habits, lack of outdoor
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BAGGAGE SMASHING.
It Russia Customs Officials Make It
Maddening Reality.
In the Railway Magazine Robert
Weatberburn flays the Russian ous
toms officers for the manner lu which
they abuse passengers' baggage iu
their ransacking examination. De
scribing bis arrival at St Petersburg,
Mr. Weatherburn says: .
."Amid vociferations and hoarse
shouting we at length moored along
side the quay of Washlll Ostroff (one
of the Islands on which St. Peters
burg Is btillti. -The babel of tougues
in various languages bad almost a be
wildering' effect From this 1 was
aroused by the customs officials, who.
seizing my trunks and boxes and de
mantling my hanRxrt. led me to their
superior. The examination was pretty
stiff."-and It Included the smelling and
tasting by a lot of dirty banded per
sons of certain Jars of preserves and
plum cakes which I bad taken in my
baggage, and it was not exactly amus
ing to see the hasty and Indiscrim
inate manner adopted In repacking
those innocent articles.
"Heavy boots and plum cakes, pre
serves, writing paper and Ink. well
ironed white shirts and collars, neck
ties crammed Into coat sleeves-all
that had taken weeks to carefully
pack and stow away were thrown in
a mass In a box or trunk, the gaping
lids of which, falling to reach the lock
by some Inches, seemed to remain
'open mouthed in silent protest against
such ill usage.
"Afterward the dirty bands were
held out for 'natchi.' or tea money, an
Institution of which 1 knew more
The quarreling of the Isvostchlks. or
cabmen, who, like sharks, had al
ready scented thi'Ji; prey, would at ariv
other time have been Intensely com
ical. ' '
"After some trouble ! succeeded in
getting the lids of my boxes closed,
but not until ..plum cake and boot
heels, burst preserves, white shirts,
tnk, castor oil and pills were all com
mingled in one glorious state of de
mocracy. Half an hour later found
me In the English hotel, where, after
recountlng"tny troubles. I was laughed
at the experience being of nearly ev
eryday occurrence."
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Foley Kidney Pills cost the dealer
more than a cheap substitute but they
give better results than any other kid
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