OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY JULY 17, 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. (HE GON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER M. J. BROWN, A. E. FROST, OWNERS. Subscription Price $1.50. Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1 Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co 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 May 1, 1912, to May 1, 19 13, has exceeded 2,000 copies, and that these papers have been printed ana 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 PLAY IT SAFE Here i3 a line of talk that has nothing to do with indictments, bridge contracts, county court or any other political game, but it won't do you a bit of harm to chase it down the col umn, and I hope it will do you some good. But it has to do with a problem that is too little considered a prop osition that men flinch from. How many men you will find to day who will back up and refuse to reason or think of a matter that is of far more importance than all the is sues in our country today. Am not going to spring it just yet, for you will catch the drift and drop it like a hidden patent medicine ad vertisement. But I'll lead you up to it. There is no law, nor elixir nor any any known means to stop a man from growing old. If there was, we would long since have had a national statute making it a crime to run past sixty. Every man absolutely knows that he must come down to the undertaker and the hole in the ground, yet so very many utterly refuse the attempt to solve the riddle of life and unflinch ingly meet the mystery of death. They pass it up. Won't think of it. Won't consider it. How many, many men do you hear say that they can't solve the problem of the hereafter and they won't think of it? I heard a bright man say recently that he would go insane if he allowed himself to think of death and the hereafter. And then this man, whom I have called bright, added to his re marks that when a man died that was the end of him, and what was the use of hastening that end by insanity. I have respect for tho opinion of any man who can sustain it. But when a man sticks up his piti ful, punny little intelect as an argu ment against a wonderful universe, against a sun that rises and sets against the law that moves the mil lions of stars in their courses, against a power that makes life and motion a power that makes a world teem with vegetation, that dispenses heat ana cola, showers and sunshine when a man will look these wonders of administration in the face and say there is nothing behind them, I believe the more he thinks of them and the sooner he becomes insane the better. It b human to dodge the hard prob lems of this life as best we can and take a chance on the next. What we can t understand, manv of us won1 believe, yet because we can't believe we have no right to condemn. I don't care how you may reason. what you believe or disbelieve. The cold clamy facts that we can't get a way from is that we must die. Christianity tells us tl ? end is not in the grave. If you can believe you ure alive, you you can believe in a power that gives you ma. If you can believe in that power you can believe in a life and a hereafter beyond the grave. And where's tne wron in playing if safe? Tho man who believes in a uoa ana a hereafter plays it safe at ootn enas. In the judgement of the Courier there was absolutely no excuse or jus tification for the shooting down of the Portland boy by the man with a star last Sunday. As we understand it the boy had a gun in the pocket of his motorcycle and when a dog attacked him on the hiehwav he shot that dog. He had a right to shoot that dog It was an act of self -protection. Mad dogs are running at large in western Oregon. Only last week man died in horrible convulsions in Portland, the result of a dog bite. Overtaken by the officials in an auto the boy was arrested, his gun taken away and he was taken in charge of the deputy sheriff. The number of the motor cycle was known, or should have been known. The charge was trivial, and in a point of fine law it would be very doubtful if the deputy had even the right to make the ar rest, as he made it on hearsay evi. dence of the man whose dog had been shot. And when the boy jumped onto his motor, after he had been arrested and started away, this deputy opened hre on him, shooting him once thru the leg an dagam through the back. and one or more shots went wild. This official had no authority to shoot this boy. At its worst the offense the boy had committed was but a misdemeanor. There was ab solutely no justification for shooting him through the vitals or even shoot ing at him. And the story of the mother of the boy is that the dog had been hit by the first motorcycle and. injured and that the second by (the one shot) shot the dog to put him out of his misery. It is said that the deputy's defense is that he did not intend to hit the boy, but to cripple his wheel, but in view or the serious consequences this is absolutely no justification. If the boy had shot a dozen dogs and deliberately tried to escape there would have been no justification for an official to shoot him. Human life is of more value than every dosr in America, and this official should have known it. The matter is a serious one, and one that should and we have no doubt will, be probed to the very bottom una lun justice De rendered. A TIME TO LAUGH When a man can satisfactorily ex plain to me what is the dynamo to life ana tne power that runs this great world, explain to me thac ft is all run liKe a gasoline engine or an auto mobile, then I will say tonr down the cnurcnes and burn the bib'es. But until these thousand and one wonders can be explainu 1 then will I say piay sale. When a business depending on the patronage of Clackamas county for support, and depending very largely on tho farmers of this county tot that, goes outside of its business to try to injure the Courier's business we want to give that manager a gentle litttle tip that he had better drop it. It's hot. And we would al so tell this gentleman that the Cour ier is now running two extra hands in tho dullest months of the year. (Emporium, Kan., Gazette. ) ' .Kansas City, Kan., has voted to con struct a municipal lighting plant. Judge Hook of the federal court has approved a plan looking to the muni cipal ownership of theKansas City street car system. Last week Attorney John Dawson declared that ice, being a public ut ility, should be controlled by the state. Last month a bill favorably consid ered by a committee in congress, pro vided for the construction of a gov ernment railroad in Alaska, and for the government ownership and lease operations of coal mines. All these things have happened in the past thirty days. If you were a Socialist wouldn't you hunt a cool shady spot between two buildings where the air poured thru, and sit down in a kitchen chair and chuckle and chuckle and chuckle? The really interesting part of the situation is that about half of the American Socialists platform for 1904 is now on the statute looks of one third of the states, and much of it is in the plaforms of at least two of the great parties. The Socialists are ecttinir too con servative for this country. They will have to get a move on themselves or they will be without an issue in 1916, for the Bull Moosers have stolen the Socialists thunder, and the progress ive Republicans declare they are just as progressive as the Bull Moosers, and the Democrats say they are more progressive than the Progressives themselves. Unless the Renublicans and Progressives are lying about how progressive they are, and unless the Bull Moosers are as short-lived as their enemies declare they are, the IS MIGHT RIGHT? I believe in justice, seven days in every week, just as much if it were the street sweeper as the millionair, and no more. Up in Coos county county last week 600 citizens waited on the editor of a newspaper at Bandon and told him to leave town at a certain date. The news disuatches state the business daces closel during the notification I have seen conflicting statements as to the charges against the editor. What they were or were not doesn't matter in this argument. The editor said he was not guilty of the charges and this DOES not matter. If he is guilty of violations of law, if he is euiltv of inciting riot in con nection with the lumbermen's strike that has lone been on in that county: if he is guilty of any unlawful acts or violation of statutes, then he may rot in iail for all the defense tnis DaDer will eive him. But this man says he is not guilty, and until his defense is heard and a jury of twelve men has rendered a verdict on his guilt, that man has a right to defy that six hundred, and tne ngnt to protect nimseu. Todav there is I. W. W. agitation from Seattle to San Deago, and all kinds of trouble and expense resulting The main charge against the agita tors is that they would get by force instead of by law that they have little or no regard for law. That is the sentiment against this organization that they council force, that they advocate get what you are after by numbers, by right of might. And because ot tms, citizens rise up and by exactly the same means by right of might fight them and drive them out. Now what are we coming to when both sides adopt this method. The citizens of Bandon did just ex actly what they are running I. W. W.'s out of town tor doing using lorce in stead of law or justice. Editor Leach was entitled by the laws of Oregon and by state and na tional constitutions to trial 'by jury to determine his guilt or innocence, and when the citizens would force a man to leave his home and business would "run him out of town" without trial, those citizens are advocating and practicing plain anarchy. This is no way a defense of Editor Leach. I don't know what the charges are. I only know he told the com mittee who ordered him out of town that he was not guilty, and I know he has a right to defend that plea. the one plain point sticks up like a sore finger. We have laws enough in Oregon to put any man in jail when he goes wrong or becomes dangerous to the peace and security of the community. And we always have laws that give every man a right to prove .his innocence. Are both sides going to lfass up law on the Pacific Coast and fight it out by right of might? it seems to me the whole matter is in bad, and that there is a different TEAM WORK. This summer strawberries sold at White Salmon, Washington perhaps 75 miles miles away as the crow flies, for $2.75 a case; while all the Woodburn growers could realize was 75 cents. The reason for the difference was that the Washington folks had a fruit growers association, and at Wood burn it was every mar for him self. Woodburn Indepcnden. The Japs out at Gresham had the Oregonians skinned a mile and a half on prices and markets for the berries they control a big acreage and they an marketed together, while as the In dependent says, with the farmer was every man for himself. blowly, but it now seems surely, the larmers are comming alive and are bunching up for protection. The Equity Society in this county shows the sentiment working out. With all kinds of obstacles and drawbacks to overcome this organization of farmers has kept trying and today they are becoming a power in Clackamas county and are getting direct pocket dook results. Ihey have been doing i work and getting results that the gen eral public does not know of, and they now have under way and practically working out some plans that will re sult in a solid organization of the farmers of this county. Playing politics with human health is a mighty dangerous game, and the people of this county should stop it once ior an. Gladstone sets an example that larger cities might follow with profit, mat city does all its own street lm provements, owns its own gravel pit. street grader and other machinery and making its own streets at actual cost. The street contractor will not get rich in Gladstone. A $1500 exemption on improve ments should look good to the man who is improving and developing Ore gon, it should look bad for the hold er of idle lands, timber tracts rail roads and big business generally. The question is which are you and how many are were of you. Pomona Grange of this county has gone on record in protest against ex cessive taxation, and the manner in which the county court is conducted, And it looks as if Pomona Grange had full cause. Clackamas county has got to be run for less than six hun dred thousand dollars a year or it will soon be a good county to stay away from. President Wilson is trying as no other president ever tried to make good, and regardless of party the people as a whole believe in his hon est endeavors to bring about relief to the little man. But he has against him the power of money and the old Kepub'lican party and they are a power that will make any man go some. Senator Lane is making good. He makes it his business to dig into the vitals of every bill that carries coin with it that comes before his com mittee, and to know just where that money is going and what it is going for. For a new in the upper house he has got onto the job with surprising quickness, and the working class are getting wise that he is on the job for their benefit. An initiative law that exempts a man's improvements to the extent of $1500 will do much to incourage workers and develope the state. This exemption from workers taxes will have to be raised from some other means, it is true, but it will be raised from those who have means to pay it, It is simply a bill for the working class, for the little man that class that does the bucking up for Oregon, And that is the class that needs re lief. The words Democrat, Republican, or Socialist never enter into the re call matter. It is not n party fight. Politics is never mentioned in connec tion, and in the matter of considering candidates to run against the county court party has never been the least considered, pr the party of the men even known or asked. An illustra tion of this is the signature of T. L. Turner to the Pomona Grange pro test printed on page 1. Mr. Turner is one of Clackamas county's staunchest Democrats. Socialists might as well go out of nusiness, for all the great parties will uu swiping ine oociausts planus, Which is funny. But it indicates tho people have begun thinking along economic lines, ana that the politic ians are beginning to capitalize the popular tendencies. Men are up in rebellion all over the country because they are paying far too much tor the benefits they get. It is a three shell game that is being worked on them, and they are getting wise ana wrntny. Ana out ot it will come a weeding out of unnecessary The more power the rulers have, the less liberty the people have. Patrick 1 love. Taxation has reached a piont where t is almost public looting, and it is time for men to stop it. Nail It Down While You Have It. There is only one time to save your money before it is spent. If you have a feeling that you wish to accumulate something for future needs, come to this bank today and start a bank account. One dollar will do for the first deposit. The rest is easy deposit a part of your earnings regularly and you will be sur prised at the results No time like NOW to begin. The Bank of Oregon City OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY bureaus, departments, commissions and "made jobs; out of it will come a system that will force the man el ected to office to do the work he is elected to do, instead of appointing a string of deputies to do the work; out oi it win come more honest govern ment and more economy in public af mirs. Ana lacKumus county pre sents tne nrst opportunity for change m Oregon. You voters will have a chance for a new countv court ana a cnange in county management next month. You will have an op portunity to go on record for a chance or as Deing satisnea with the pres ent system and the present results. Chautauqua lecturers are not to be taken too seriously for they usually give what will please their audiences. What they may say on public questions is not always to be considered as expressions of their real sentiments McMinn ville Register. In other words a plain bunco. T that it ? . . And are the people of Ore gon fish enough to lav down their coin at the box office to hear not what they should hear, but what they want to hear? And are our celebrated Chau tauoua speakers on the market with any kind of a doctrine the manage ment will pay for? Do they lay out a variety of arguments, put a price on mem, ana advocate tne ones paid for ? Can this be so? Rev. Henry Spies is handing out some facta and questions that burn. What do you voters think of them and tho way public health has been made politics of? Why do not some of the otticials of this county defend them selves against his charges if they can? The reason is they cannot. Mr Spies has the goods on them, and he is showing up a condition that white men should not long tolerate. It makes men grit their teeth when they read column after coulmn of the disclosures of past congressional rot tenness and worse than theft. Look at the disclosures of that manufacturers association, maintain ing a great lobby at the capitol, ex pending a quarter of a million dollars yearly, buying and bribing represen tatives, defeating just laws, and giv ing the working class the worset of it. And then we wonder at the unrest in this country. LABOR. So far as my observation goes, few men work themselves to death. They may worry themselves to death or dissipate while working and so burn the candle at both ends, but good, hard, honest work Is a tonic rather than a health destroyer. Don't be afraid of doing too much. If you get the work habit the exertion will not exhaust you. It Is the men who work by fits and starts that are worn out by the unaccustomed effort rather than those who keep plugging at It all the time. The only thing is to keep up your Interest, buoyancy and spirit If your work ever becomes drudgery, then It will wenr you out. but not otherwise. Moreover, we become capable to do by doing. Man has an almost limit less capacity to adjust himself to what ever task Is before him. We must economize In work as In all other things, make no false motions and conserve our nerve force. There Is a secret about efficiency, and happy Is he who finds It. A man can Invent new and better ways of doing things, Just as he can Invent a machine. 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Christian in fluences, excellent surrounding. Jfaw endowment fund of quertermlllion dollars. WHITE II. M. CKUOHS. President. Albaar CoUetre Albany. Oregon I note the Methodist conference passed a resolution favoring direct legislation, and I ' haven't seen any protest that the church keep free from pontics as yet. Direct legislation is the people's power and 1 don t know why the Methodist church or any other church should not endorse it and stand for it just as earnestly as they would for a temperence measure. The action of the Methodist con ference is to be commended. It is simply an endorsement of majority rule. If ever a man went up against a stone wall it is Governor Sulzer of New York in going up against Mur phy and the Tammany bunch in his efforts to give New York a direct pri mary law. Tammany Hall is some ma chine. It controls the legislature, be the members Republicans or Demo crats, and the legislature will not al low the people to have the laws and the power they need to clean up. But it will come. No power on earth can long stand against a public senti ment, lammany dies hard, but it has got to die. Hughes had the bunch against the ropes when he was gov ernor, and the people thought they had Tammany shaken loose, but Taft tne handy man, cave him a judgeship and Tammany and big politics tight ened their hold for another run. THE GOOD OLD SUMMER TIME. When the green gits back on the trees an' bees Is hummln' aroun' ag'ln In that sort of an easy, go as you please, OI' way they bum roun' In, When you ort to work an' you want to not An' you an' your wife agrees It's time to spade up the garden lot. An' the green gits back on the trees, Why, I like, as I say, sich times as these When the green, you know, gits back on the trees. James Whltcomb Riley. I quote from memory, not having seen the poem In fifteen years, so do not mind If there should happen to be a comma misplaced. Hut, at any rate. the sentiment is there. Well, It is coming again, the "good old summer time." You can feel It la the air right now. And I like It don't you? Every sea son Is good, but summer well, sum mer Is the wine of the year. Tbe bees like summer, and the bees have more sense than some people, The birds like summer. So do the flowers. So does the small boy. Some people picture heaven as a place where summer never ends. Well, they do not have to go to heaven to find that condition. Tbey can get it In southern California or down around the- equator. But there can be too much of even as good a thing as summer. These little winter absences heighten our enjoyment of it, Just as we appre ciate home the more when we have been away. Winter Is a good thing because whets the appetite for summer. The sun is a magician who by mere ly looking upon tbe fields and trees covers tbem with verdure and bios soma. He Is an artist who uses the earth as a canvas and places thereon colors co m pn red to which man's best crea tlons are but weak imitations and daubs. He marches northward, and a belt of green advances before him announcing his coming. When he has reached his farthest north our bleak climate has the miracle of June. No wonder the ancients fell on their faces before the rising sun. When summer comes man would cense work, so enraptured Is he with the mere luxury of living. Tbe sun looks upon the wbent fields nnd they grow golden Into harvest upon the flowers and they turn their faces toward him with pleasure, upon the fruits and they blush red In ripen Ing. The sun Is king ilud summer Is hh queen. 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