OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1913
GON EQUITY
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FOR FARM PRODUCTS
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Official Representative of the Farmers Society of Equity
No 22
Vol. 1
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
M. J. Lazelle, Oregon City; R. C.
Brodie, Canby; E. Ochlschloeger,
Clackamas, R. 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. BuchEnan 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
Pres. 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.
LOCAL OFFICERS OF CLACKA
MAS CO.
Alberta Pres. Jesse Mayfield. Sec.
Ferris Mayfield, tfpringwater R. 1.
Beaver Creek: Pres. Fred Kamar
ath; Sec. W. W. Harris, Oregon City
R. 3.
Canby: Pres. Geo. Kochler; Sec.
R. C. Brodie, Canby R. 3.
Carus: 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. J. C. Royer; Sec.
II. T. Burr, Clackamas R. 1.
Eagle Creek: Pres. W. G. Glover,
Sec. C. C. Longwell, Barton R. 1.
Highlund Local Pres. M. E. Kan
dle; Sec. S. S. Palmer.
Laurel Ridge Local Union Pres. G.
C. Heiple; Sec. N. E. Linn, Estucada,
Rt. 1.
Logan: Pres. W. E. Cromer; Sec
P. M. Kirchem, Oregon City R. 2.
Macksburg: Pres. C. D. Kcesling,
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. Staehcley;
Sec. C. B. Riverman, Oregon City, R.
1.
Needy: Pres. J. D. Rilter; Sec. E.
Werner, Auroru, R. 2.
Shubel: Pres. Chas. A. Menke;
Sec. Elmer Swope, Oregon City R. 4.
Stone: Pres. T. E. Brown; Sec.
M. J. Bycrs, Clackamas R. 1.
Sunnyside: Pres. R. P. Grady;
Sec. E. E. Oeslsclilager, Clackamas R.
1.
Wost Buttoville: Pres. James Par
ett; Sec. J. K. Woolworth, Newberg,
R. 2.
Wilsonville: rres. M. C. Young
Sec. R. B. Seely, Sherwood, R. 5.
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EDITORIALS
The Farmers Society is for farm
ers. Others join but they WORK FOR
farmers.
The coming fall and winter will
see several siaies wim tsuaie
zations.
It was with the intention to rob the
farmers that other combines were
formed. '
We farmers have been a huge lot
of suckers for not organizing several
years rooner.
We hope to see our Equity Ware
house Company in operation in a few
weeks, may be days.
If anyone can make our Warehouse
Company a success it is Brother T.
A. Harper of Dundee. No man in
the state is better qualified and every
member has confidence in his open
honesty.
At. nnr first state meeting a reso
lution was nassed in favor of the gov
ernment loaning money direct to the
farmer at a low rate of interest and
since that a party of 100 men have
been sent to Europe to find put how
to do it. Why not call up a few Equity
members by phone. It is cheaper and
no doubt a better plan would be ob
tained. Wo kovo Vippn told that more of
Oregon City mills have adopted the
eight-hour plan. We Jarmers nice
to see this as there are. about five
million idle men and we now have
so much improved machinery if we
rlnn't. Khnrten the hours we would
soon have more millions of idle men.
The farmer already has his eight
hour day but he seems to be working
two shifts in one forenoon and anoth
er in the afternoon but he has just
begun to organize and he may later
nn arlnnt oulv one shift a day and
avoid an overproduction by raising
less and increase the quality ana sell
ing price.
The evil of the combines against the
farmer are being exposed in Con
gress in a wholesale way of late, in
fact Congress has done little else but
invpstio-flta organizations who have
been plundering our treasury for
years. We cannot depend on mis
kind of men to legislate for us, we
must become better judges of good
congressmen.
Thfi Farmers Societv of Equity has
been organized to secure for the
farmer more of what he earns in fact
he ought to have all he earns for we
are perfectly willing to grant that
to all who. work even to some oi our
people who do not work as they would
get nothing.
How many locals will act on Pres.
Casto's suggestion and report to him
as soon as your locals meet (
What local would like to show all
other locals how to entertain our
County Union at the next County
Union meeting date? These banquets
seem to get better and better.
The people of Clackamas county
are to have a recall election August
1(1 if the luwvcrs find all the words
and periods in the correct legal spot.
Rrnt.hnr Smith is a candidate and
tlio Fnuitv Societv can vouch for his
honesty and sympathy for the farm
ers as ho has been a most iaitniui
worker for us without pay and we
appreciate it, but each Equity mem
ber has the right to vote for his
choieo and is under no obligation to
vnto for n brother. We risk the
judgment of the Equity people every
time.
Word comes to us of guile a drouth
in the middle west and the bumper
crop thut was looked for three weeks
ago is being rapidly cut down, bouth
Dakota seems to be hit the hardest
just noyi with a good deal of dam
ago in nearly all the big crop grow
ing states. And some think the farm
er has nothing to risk. They have
another think coming.
M. J. Brown, editor of the Courier,
who has done such tfood work for the
Equity in Clackamas county is now
a member of the society and in mak
ing a fight for the farmers. He of
course had to fight our enemies and
he did so well they are now HIS
enemies and have hud him indited for
a typographical error and he has the
whole bunch indited by tho peopjefor
levying'heavy taxes and then spend
ing it so foolishly.
It is not the amount the farmer
ruises thut puts money in his pocket.
It is tho market price over tho cost
of producing it thut counts.
A commission has reported that
tlip i'Hv nf Now York mild for e.ifht
articles of food for 11)12 the sum of
101 million dollars. The farmer re
ceived 219 million. The freight bill
was 25 million. The middlemen cost
more than they are worth.
B. F. Yoakum, a prominent rail
road man connected with the 'Frisco
system made the statement that tho
cost of running all the railroads of
tho U. S. is about two billion and
thut these railroads receive about
three billion so we subtract two from
three and we find they make a clear
profit of one billion every year.
Enough to run our government. Lots
try it.
Last year the food dealers of New
York dumped ono million dozen eggs
into New York harbor just to pre
vent the price from coming down.
This crazy market system of ours
is robbing the farmer and the city
consumer and if it is ever changed
the farmers will have to organize.
Try the Equity plan. Iy you investi
gate it you will join it.
When we farmers sell anything we
sell to an agent for a dealer and the
dealer sells to a jobber who sells to
a wholesaler, who sells to the fac
tory. And we will suppose it is a
calf hide. It is made into a pair of
shoes. Then the factory employes a
salesman who sells to a jobber, who
sells to a wholesaler, who sells to a
retailer, and you buy it and pay all
the profits you got on the hide and
all other profits to all these men and
dealers pay their refft, interest and
profit, and even the" bribe they pay
congressmen to make laws to pro
tect them in their business under this
crazy market system Read the
Equity system and see how simple it
is. Under the market system that
we now have sweet corn is canned
in New York and sold in Iowa and
Iowa corn is sold in New York. Stoves
made in Texas are sold in Michigan
and stoves made in Michigan are
sold in Texas, and that is not all we
will go back to that calf hide and it
is raised in Oregon, the hide is tan
ned in San Francisco, made into shoes
in Massachusetts and sold in Alaba
ma. Some who have studied along
;hese lines say we could save over
thirty billion dollars a y.ar to the
producers and consumers by adopting
a plan to cut out all the useless
freight and middlemen And Tom
Lawson says we are paying interest
and dividends on forty billion dollars
of watered stock. Lets quit.
This winter ought to see the farm
ers of Oregon well organized and not
only Oregon but a good many other
states and if you can use a few fig
ures you can see we are robbed of
over $2,000 each per year at least by
big salaries to men who are useless to
us; paying double freight charges
and thousands of other ways that
cooperation under a same system
would save to you.
My neighbor owns 2G acres of
land valued at $300 per acre. His
rent amounts to about ?4, and his
taxes last year about $5, so you see
it costs him about one dollar per acre
to be able to say he is a land owner.
The renter is one dollar per acre to
the good over the ownei. Taxes are
so high in Clackamas county that it
is better not to own property here.
We can lower taxes. In nearly every
county in the state there is a small
group of county officers called tjje
courthouse ring. When a bridge
company finds a man who will let a
bridge contract at a big price' and
take a small part of the big profit as
a sort of commission (not bribe) they
contribute to his campaign fund and
he can hire lawyers regardless of
what party they belong to, to tell
the dear people how well they have
handled the public business. If you
read Successful Farming you can get
the whole story. Or you might get
some good home made information
from ex-Commissioner Lewellyn, who
has had some experience here in our
home county. Some men can hold of
fice and self-respect but not eorr,'
sions. The great trouble with the farmers
is they do a whole lot of kicking
about their taxes when they pay
them but after they have turned in
the money they do not look after the
spending ,or those who do the spend
ing. This is not good business. It
is the people's business to know where
all this money goes. If you don't
you will get no good of it.
The Oregon City Courier is now
the official Equity paper for ' the
state of Oregon. The editor, M. J.
Brown, is an Equity member. Our
national president is an editor. Our
Equity News is edited by farmers who
ire members. The officers of every
local should subscribe. The Courier
s planning for better and bigger
Ynirs for the Equity.
MEREDITH.
Backing the Warehouse
Tho Beaver Creek local met in reg
ular session last Saturday evening,
July 20. Another interesting meeting
wus enjoyed and every member pres
ent was a booster for the Equity
warehouse company. Some more se
curity was pledged and it is practical
ly certain that the total will be rais
ed to a thousand dollars or more
when all the members are represent
ed. The followin resolution was adop
ted at our meeting on the evening of
July 12:
Resolved: That the Beaver Creek
local does hereby go or record as
heartily endorsing the worak of the
board of directors of the state union
and the Equity Warehouse Company.
Be it further resolved; That we
urge all other locals and each mem
ber to boost the warehouse proposit
ion by subscribing to stock and pled
ging crops for support.
W. W. Harris,
Secrretary
If a substitute is offered you for
Foley Kidney Pills, it means a cheap
er medicine is pressed upon you for
the dealer's profit, not for yours.
Foley Kidney Pills cost the dealer
more than a cheap substitute but they
give better results than any other kid
ney and bladder medicine. Ask for
Foley Kidney Pills. Huntley Bros .Co.
For regular action of the bowels;
easy, natural movements , relief of
:onstipation, try Doan's Regulets. 25c
it all stores.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
WHAT FARMERS MUST DO
Sound, Logical Arguments from the
Hillsboro Independent
Following is part of an article and
argument written by Editor S. C. Kil
len of the Hillsbor0 Independent, and
while it was not written particularly
for the Equity Society, yet it covers
the same ground they are fighting for
and an Equity member sends it to the
Courier with request that it be re
published: Organization is the only thing that
will change wasted product sinto bank
accounts. What individual growers
cannot accomplish alone they can ac
complish when united, and this is a
truth that must sink in before any
thing is done. One man with a five
acre patch cannot employ a high sal
aried manager who will seek out in
advance the places where the crop
can be sold and during the market
season keep in touch with the condit
ions as to route his products to the
place where they are wanted and pe
ople are willing to pay a fair price,
but let 100 unite and bind themselves
by rigid rules and the case is differ
ent. Suggest this to the average
grower and he wilL admit it is all very
well, but he is poor and cannot afford
organization and the expense of the
manager. He somehow manages to
afford the loss of a large part of his
crop, and probably never figured that
the highest possible priced selling or
ganization would bring him more
money than he now receives.
One thing an organization with an
intelligent manager could do would be
to regulate production with demand.
Whoever heard of a manufacturer in
vesting his capital in expensive ma
chinery and proceeding to fill his
warehouses with his product before
ascertaining in advance what he was
going to do it with it or what it would
sell for? But that is just what the
small farmer does. He may pay $500
an acre for land that is worth every
dollar of it from the standpoint of
what it will grow, and then proceed to
plant it to strawberries or some other
fruit regardless of the fact that doz
ens of growers are doing the same
thing, and probably not one of them
has given a thought to the disposition
of the crop beyond a vague idea of
shipping to Portland or trading with
local merchants. Getting down to a
fine point, farming is manufacturing
and the land is the farmers' factory.
Why not apply manufacturing me
thods and principles to it then? Now,
every man thinks he knows his busi
ness best, every man for himself plan
is not developing this valley to the ex
tent it should be developed .Oregon
land when intelligently used can add
wealth and population for years to
come. Washington county alone
should have three times its present
population. Prove that Washington
county can do what California is do
ing and more and we will have that
population. But the every man for
himself plan won't do it. Growers' or
ganizations with the united support of
the whole community behind them
must take up the work. State and lo-
fcal promotion organizations whose
sole idea in the past has been to se
cure the homeseeker must be prepar
ed to make the homeseokers prosper
ous and happy, and they can best do
this by assisting in the formation of
a statewide market organization. We
all know what Oregon land will do,
and show the grower where he can
dispose of his crop at a profit and he
will do the rest.
WHY NOT STRIKE?
Don't you Think the Farmers Have a
Cause and a Right?
Some people think that union men
should not go on strikes They know
nothing about the conditions which
these people exist and we as farmers
must remember that they are the pe
ople who buy our produce. These pe
ople do not live on quail, frog legs,
mushrooms and French words. They
live on spuds, flour, meal, vegetables
anod cheap fruit.
The Journal of the American Med
ical Association inspected 204 homes
where these people live anjl found in
the factories where they work that
one-fourth of the workers were be
tween 5 and 10 years of age. Half
were under 14. One-fourth of these
children worked 5 hours per day af
ter school and the whole family earn
ed less than 10 cents per hour.
About one to the family is afflicted
with some contageous disease. We
buy thee andy, cloth, gloves and un
derwear for our children and wonder
what made them sick. Is it not to our
interest that these people secure bet
ter wages and more healhful condit
sion? These children should be in
school.
There are men in Clackamas County
who cannot read or write and who are
serving on juries and is it any wonder
that innocent people are sent to jail
and grafters go free?
The day is not far away when all
these chickens wil 1 come home to
roost. We now are paying 3 dollars a
pair for gloves that these workers get
one dollar per dozen for making. It is
about time we struck too, isn't it?
Meredith.
Lumber! S
Get it direct from the mill and
save money. AH kinds of rough
and dressed seasoned lumber.Write
or phone us before you buy.
Sager & Clark
Old Superior Stand.. Oregon City
Route 4, Phone Beaver Creek
Mutual.
A local Farmers Society of Equity
was organized at Liberty school house
near Independence last week by A.
I. Petty of Clackamas county. This
society will organize locals in other
sections of ' the county. Falls City
News.
Mt. Pleasant Local
Mt. Plesaant Local will meet Aug.
1st, 8 o'clock P. M. Our county bus
iness agent will be with us and if you
wish to buy anything he can get you
prices. The better we get our business
organized the more we can benefit
ourselves when our Equity Warehouse
Co. is ready to help in the good work.
Everybody invited.
P. W. M.
AND WHY NOT?
Frank Beard Wants the Farmers to
Use Electrici'y
Editor Courier:
A word to the wise is sufficient even
to the good or, evil thereof.
My subject (and I wonder that it
has not been discussed before) is el
ectricity for the rural or farming
districts.
Electricity, commonly called arc or
electric lights, could be carried out
into the country to light up the roads
and farmhouses. Not only for light
ing but for general use. The farmer's
wife can cook, toast bread or use an
electrical flatiron as well as the
housewife of the city.
The farmer can, by installing a
small motor, run a washing machine,
cream separator or do his churning.
He can do his pumping or even run
a small woodsaw or grindstone or one
and a dozen other things.
What? Some people say it is not
practical. Why not? Is it is not prac
tical in the city?
There was a time when they said
the same thing about the telephone,
when the farmer wanted it the cost
was too great.
But now look the farmer who has
no 'phone in his house is not up to
the times. The time will come when
the same thing will be said of the
farmer who hasn't the electric lights
in his house.
But how did he get the telephone?
Thes ame way he will get his
electricity. First by discussing it in
the papers and arousing the ambit
ious by pointing out it's good prin
ciples. Second, by discussing it in their
various orders, principally the Grange
and to waken up the sleeping ones.
Third, by calling special meetings
and appointing committees to look in
to the costs of material and etc.
Electricity is cheap the only trouble
is that it is patented and trust bound
as were the telephones at one time but
the demand for cheaper service brot
them within reach of the farmer.
And so it will be with electricity.
When the farmer makes up his mind
that hew ants i.t
The farmer can build his own elec
tric line to the city limits and there
be taken in, or meet (as was his
telephone lines) by the larger com
panies. The next thing is to install meters
and hep ays for what he uses.
Think not? Why the automobile,
once the luxury of the rich man, is to
day becoming a common toy with the
progressive farmer.
Electricity for the rural districts?
Sure. The thing that looks too gi
gantic for the farmer today will, like
the telephone, be the plaything of his
children tomorrow.
Yours for electricity ir. the country,
Frank W. Beard
Just Saw Wood
The Amity Standard has the fol
lowing pat article regarding the
trials of city councilmen:
"Men who serve the public in of
fice get very little thanks for their
efforts. We believe the average man
who takes an office that will cost him
hours of hard work and worry, and
that without any compensation what
ever acts in all instances as he hon
estly thinks is best in the matter.
He may make mistakes, but who does
not? Sometimes one feels aggriev
ed that suggestions made to public
bodies are not adopted and made use
of, but when you figure out that these
men in public positions are approach
de and advised by people of every
shade of opinion one can see what
would be the result did they attempt
to carry out the opinions of all. Such
is the case of every city council. Ev
ery bit of improvement taken up by
them is criticised by the people, no
two of whom agree as to the manner
in which things should be done. But
the council cannot afford to stand
back for this reason. Take into con
sideration the size of a town, its pos
sible future growth, the ability of
property to stand the expense of
proposed improvements, and then go
ahead and you will find that in the
end your records will be all right,
and the majority of the public spirit
ed citizens will be with you."
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
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and completely deranffo the whole system when
enuring It throunh the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except on prescrip
tions (rom reputable physlclAns, as tho damage they
will do Is ten told to the good you can powibly de
rive (roin them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. J. Cheney A Co.. Toledo, 0.. contains no mer
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Sold by nriiKirlata. Price. 750. per bottle.
Take lull's Family Pills lor constipation.
P. A. Efird, Conejo, Calif., gives a
pointer for others to profit by. "I
have sold Foley's Honey and Tar
Compound also other lines of cough
medicine for a number of years, but
never used anything but Foley's Hon
ey and Tar Compound for myself or
family, as I find that it produces the
best results, always cures severe colds
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