OREGON CITY COURIER
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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 5th day of May, 1913.
GILBERT L. HEDGES,
Notary Public for Oregon
RUSSIAN TACTICS
Section 8 of Article 1 of the Con
stitution of Oregon reads:
No law shall be passed re
straining the free expression of
opinion, or restraining the right
to speak, write or print freely
on any subject whatever; but
every person shall be responsible
for the abuse of the right.
That is as plain as the words of
law can make a matter plain..
It gives every man the right to
speak, write or print, but it gives
state laws the right to put him where
he CAN'T speak, write or print if he
abuses these privileges.
Yet in the face of this guarantee
of our constitution an ordinance was
presented to the Portland commis
' sion governors last week, an ordi
nance that would annul these consti
tutional rights, a clause of which
would prohibit any person in any
street or public place within the city
of Portland from using any language
which might "create disrespect or
disregard for the governments of or
in the United States."
That is a vicious, unconstitutional
prohibition.
Just analyze it for a minute.
It would be criminal for a man or
a newspaper to make utterances that
would "create disrepect.' He might
state liberal truths, he might show up
graft and corruption, he might prove
an official was a thief, and-the proof
would create "disrespect and disre
gard" and the individual could be
jailed and the newspaper suppressed.
This proposed ordinance has the
thumb marks of big business all over
it, and every such an attempt to
muzzle free speech breeds I. W. W.'s
by the hundreds.
There are abundant laws in Ore
gon to put any man in jail who should
be there. The libel laws and the
criminal statutes provide ample re
dress. If an individual or newspaper
incites riot, reviles the flag or advo
cates anarchy or force, put them in
the jail, on the rockpile or in the pen
itentiary. But the right of legal free speech;
the right to expose grafting and loot
ing should not be denied because it
would "-create disrespect or disre
gard," for governments. This is
adopting Russian tactiej
State Treasurer Kay says there
will be a deficit this year of about
one million dollars and that the next
state tax will be about four mills.
Add this big increase to Clackamas
county's present excessive taxation
and next year's taxes will make you
all squeal. And you hud better vote
for men for thp county court that
will endeavor to cut down county ex
penses. J. W. Smith, as a , Democrat ran
against a Republican for county com
missioner and cut tho Republican ma
jority from about 1000 to 400. The
Enterprise is hard up for campaign
material when it has to twit a man
of SUCH a defeat.
Editor Leach, who was forcibly de
ported from Bandon has brought a big
dumage action against Coos county,
and the chances are the taxpayers
will have to pay for their illegal ac
tion. It is also said he will bring per
sonal actions against tho mayor,
marshall and others. ,
"Beatie made a pretty good sheriff,
but a mighty poor judge," is the pud
gement of many a man in Clackamas
county theso days. v
The Reason So Many
People Are Poor
is because thoy have uever tried to bo
be anything else. Call to mind all tho
people you know who are enjoying pros
perity who have money to get the
things they want. Quite likely you'll
find that every one of them has a sav
ings account. That's the only sure way
of becoming independent. One dollar
opens an account hero at 3 per cent in
terest. The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Telephones, Main 5 -1 ; Home A 5 -1
YOU CAN'T DODGE THESE
Saturday' night bids were opened
and the contract let to the lowest bid
der for the construction cf the Bar
clay school addition.
Supposing this contract had been
let on a private bid, without an op
portunity for competition. Wouldn't
there a howl have went up in Ore-
irnn flir.V?
Yet the county court let one after
another bridge contrcats without com
petition. The city council advertised for bids
and let the contract for the public el
evator. Supposing it had made a "pri
vate office contract" and let the con
tract without the knowledge of the
people? Why there would have been
recall petitions or injunctions out in
24 hours.
And yet the county court let a tim
ber contract that will probably cost
four times as much as the public el
evator, let it to an out-of-the-county
man, a personal friend of Judge Beat
ie, and let it without bids or compe
tition, and without the knolwedge or
consent of the people.
The city let the contract for a fire
alarm tower to the lowest bidder.
Supposing, after it had been let, the
city should reject all bids and let per
sonal friends do it at a far greater
cost? Public sentiment would have re
called the whole bunch.
And yet the county court, turned
down all bids on the Court house, did
the work itself, bought part of the
material through the Oregon Commis
sion Co., in which Judge Beatie has
had a financial interest, and the court
house cost thousands of dollars more
You voters can't get away from
than the bids.
these, and you taxpayers are paying
for Judge Beatie's private contracts.
IN THE NAME OP JUSTICE
Do you remember some months ago
of the horrible disclosures that were
uncovered in Portland in the vice in
vestigation?
Do you remember that Harry A.
Start, E. E. Wedemayer and others
were CONVICTED of the foul crimes
and sentenced to the penitentiary ?
You remember all this you cannot
have forgotten it.
Here's something else to remember:
The supreme court of Oregon has
REVERSED THE CONVICTIONS
and DISMISSED THE CASES.
A technical point let these degener
ates escape punishment and turned
them loose on society.
The excuse given is that the last
legislature in amending the law, fail
ed to provide for crimes committed
prior to the amendment.
And the perverts go free!
What a parody on justice!
Found guilty of the vilest crimes
that men can commit; guilty of de
generacy that hogs would not get
down to!.
Yet the verdicts reversed and the
men ( ?) dismissed.
And this is Oregon's highest jus
tice! Lincoln County has organized a tax
payers league, one member in each
precinct, and they are taking hold of
tho matter of excessive county ex
penditures. This county should also
have such an organization to work
with tho county court. Who will start
it?
The Industrial Welfare Commis
sion of Portland determined that $40
per month was the lowest wage scale
that a woman could live on respectah
ly. Now let us see if this would am
ount to anything more than "just a
finding.
II. S. Anderson and J. W. Smith
will lower expenses in Clackamus
county and there won't be any "star
chamber" government. If you are
smarting under present taxation, vote
for a change.
The next county judge won't use
the road machinery and road improve
ments to punish his opposers.
Four hundred thousand dollars a
year paid out in Clackamas county.
Go out and see if you can find out
what for.
J
OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1913
BIGGER THAN THE LAW
The laws of Oregon plainly provide
that bridges of a county shall be ad
vertised and let to the lowest bidder,
nr t.Vip miintv court under certain con
ditions may build them under a fore
man.
The county court of this county
DID NOT DO EITHER.
Bids were let at PRITAVE CON
TRACT to the big Coast Bridge Co.,
and under what conditions you all
know, as exposed "in this paper, over
the signatures of responsible men.
Is Judge Beatie bigger than the
laws of Oregon ?
WHY didn't he let the many bridge
contracts, the timber cruising con
tract and the court house contract to
the lowest bidder?
There must have been a reason. Do
you expect Judge Beatie will tell the
REAL reasons?
Was it to your interests, Mr. Tax
payer, that the big bridge trust got
the bridge contracts AT IT'S OWN
PRICE?
Think it over.
Friday night at five o'clock the
registration books close You'll have
to hurry.
With H. S. Anderson and J. W.
Smith on the County Court there
won't be any plundering or waste of
county tax money in this county.
Those who said the women would
not vote if they could, may prophesy
again. The big registrations show
they are vitally interested in the re
call and are going to vote.
Ask any reputable attorney in
Oregon, ask any circuit court or su
preme court judge if Judge Beatie
has not openly violated the laws of
Oregon in the letting of bridge con
tracts in this county.
The press dispatch headlines state
that Ambassador Wilson says he will
demand an investigation of the en
tire Mexican situation if he is re
moved, and President Wilson should
call his bluff. The Mexican ambassa
dor talks too much and too often for
one in his position.
When the senate investigating
committee had Rockefeller on the
stand, he was seized with a sudden
illness and could not testify. His
physicians said it would be dangerous
to continue him. He is now recover
ed. When justice sent Morse to a
federal prison his physicjans told
President Ttaft he was dying, and
he was pardoned. Last reports say
he was yet alive enough to gobble
a fleet of Hudson river steamers.
Don't arrest a man out of work
for being a "vag." If there is nothing
o'er1 for him to do, give him an a ov
s".w and put him to work on a mu
iiic pal wt (id-pile at i decent salary.
Then if he refuses to work, let him
starve if that beh is choice. There
is about as much sense in arresting an
idle man on a vagrancy charge as
there is in denouncing.a negro for be
ing black when he can't help it. Sa
lem Messenger.
There is at least one candidate out
for the governorship next year who is
not "Hiding his light under a bushel."
This is W. S. U'Ren of Oregon City.
Mr. U'Ren was a visitor in Salem
this week and made' bold to say that
his present intention Is to enter he
race for he Republican nomination
for the first office in the State at the
primaries next Spring. He was not
bold enough to assert, however that
he expected to be the only candi
date. Salem Messenger
I don' care what a man's party or
politics is, any man who heard W. F.
Reis, ex-mayor or Toledo, in his Soc
ialist address in this city, knows that
ho cited and proved a lot of condit
ions that Americans should not toler
ate. He showed that one hundred
bushels of wheat made into graham
crackers, sold for $1,200, while the
cost of producing the wheat, grinding
and making into crackers was not
more than $200, giving a clear prof
it of $1,000 between the producer and
consumer. In the waste by competit
ion he showed that a cowhide raised
in Oregon was tanned in Boston, made
into shoes in St. Louis and sold, to the
used in Maine or California. By anoth
er turn into thee ontrol of the shoe
making machinery where every oper
ator made twelve pairs of shoes, he
received but four of them for his
work.
CAN'T THEY SEE IT?
It docs not lesson the plausibility of
Colonel Mulhall's remarkable story of
lobby corruption and perversion of
pubic interests by wholesale, in
Washington, to read that nn agent of
certain manufacturers in Ohio has
confessed to the attorney general of
that state that he has been paid by
an association of Ohio manufacturers
to forge some 70,000 names to a ref
erendum petition which would place
in jeopardy the workmens' compen
sation law recently passed by the
Ohio legislature.
Tho corruption of the functions of
popular government by men of weal
th, high social. and financial standing
is a greater menace to legitimate bus
iness than all the Haywoods and Et
tors multiplied by 1,000 because it is
done by men who should set an exam
ple in decent citizenship and is done
in such nn insidious manner as to de
ceive the public.
If such corruption of men in high
places were not known or believed to
bo done the Haywoods and Ettors
would have no followers. If it is con
tinued the Haywoods and Ettors will
some day be in the ascendancy. The
privilege seeking class in this country ;
must be entirely blind to the future
if they believe these things can be
continued indefinitely. Thev are sovv-
"K VJ1 vuciiicirt.r? .iviu . infill, a
toeth that will grow a harvest of de
struction to the country and their own
MEXICO AND MONEY
Things are nearing a showdown in
Mexico, and the time is near when
this county has got to kick in, or Eu
ropean countries will.
It's a bad situation. In a way it's
a cat's fight and the sentiment of
Americans, who are not interested in
the cats and who have not trimmed
the Greasers out of their lands and
mines, is to let the cats go to it
But the Monroe doctrine butts in.
Big Business pushes it in. Germany
says to the U. S. if you can't guar
antee safety to life and property
owners in Mexico, then get out oP the
way and let some country do it who
can.
This country could not stand for
this. Mexico is our neighbor and it
is up to us to interfer if there is to
be interference. And it looks as if
there must be.
The whole row, from Diaz' jump
out to the present, is really a fight
between big looters to see whlcn
shall gobble Mexico. They have fui
nished the coin and the trouble and
keep the insurrection going.
Now all the pressure that millions
an squeeze is being put onto our
overnment to have it recognize the
fuerta government to have a au..
tion the assassination of M-dor
.ecognize a president that three
fourths of the Mexicans themselves
will not recognize.
The Courier could never think that
ha thing to do is to send an army
if invasion into Mexico and sacrifice
thousands of American lives to pro
tect the property of capitalists who
have taken the chances of war to
i mdl-ons to protect the prop
erty of men, not one of which will
shoulder a gun and take a hand in
he killing.
Yet if we don't take action, for
eign countries will, is the argument,
nd of course American pride and
dignity cannot be measured against
the lives of the soldiers of the stand
ing army.
And doubtless our country will be
forced to take possession of Mexico,
establish a government for them, turn
it over to them when they submit and
quiet down, and then every little while
do it over again.
And the Greasers will carve up and
shoot up hundreds of Americans;
fevers will kill hundreds more; the
expense will be tremendous, and in
the end it will be for the sake of for
eign capitalists.
THE LIMIT
Most anything may be expected
from now on, but that attempt to cir
culate a lying story that Mr. Ander
son would be taken out of the candi
dacy by the Clear Creek Creamery
Co., was as nasty a bit of work as
ever disgraced a campaign, and it
shows to what ends desperate men
will resort.
This paper will not print the story
circulated. It is too contemptible, too
dirty for decent politics, and the ob
ject, to frighten the Clear Creek
Creamery Co., to induce Mr. Ander
son to resign, was about the last re
sort of a frightened "ring."
The nomination of Mr. Anderson
was the one act dreaded by the Coun
ty Court supporters. His splendid
character, his high standing, his un
FRAN
MANUFACTURE!)
Made of the best hard steel wire, thoroughly galvanized. The locks will not slip,
they are ru driven down on the wire, hence not o wire is injured. 16 cross bsu
JO the rod. The heaviest woven wire standard farm fence cn it'? marKet-
I urn v MVMmmzmn
-iicstioned honesty, integrity and ab
ility, 'make him a nightmare to those
wirier recal'.
they can't find a weak spot in him.
1 e t.ppeals to the tax-burdened vot
ers. Something must be done, so the
dtfp'cable sto-y about the creamery
company he h..F made such a splen
did success of, was started.
Kiith tactics are despicable, foul.
Peccnt mei will resent them by. vot
ing to clean out the nest which hat
cles tt:m, win ever they have opportunity.
A BLACK PAGE
ci Robert M. La Follette.)
The country is indebted to Presi
dent Wilson for exploding the bomb
that blew the lid off the congression
al lobby. He hurled hi3 short-fused
missile directly at the insidious in
terference with tariff legislation but
it resulted in uncovering the whole
works. He touched it off at a time
and in a way to force a congressional
investigation.
The results to date are interesting.
The Wholesale Grocers Association,
crying aloud for free sugar for the
consumer, is found to be an organiza
tion of sugar refiners, with money to
spend f&r the "public good."
The Beet Sugar Growers' Associa
tion turns out to be a combination
of beet sugar manufacturers, with
false whiskers. It is the honest
voice of the granger pleading to re
tain the present duty on sugar, but
the hand in the hand of the sugar
combine proven to be vry free with
its money.
The Anti-Trst League, an organi
zation with a large membership of
honest, well-intentioned people ap
pears to have committed its legisla
tive activities to some agents who
were either very simple minded or
very adroit for they admit intimate
association with "David H. Leiwis"
a Wall street scavenger, who used
his connections with the agents of
the anti-trust league to inspire con
gressional investigatinos of trusts
and combinations for stock gambling
operations.
The National Manufacturers' Asso
ciation, comprising the leading manu
facturing corporations of the country,
is shown to be an organization pow
erfully financed to control state and
national legislation. It operated in
an open and dignified way for some
measures of real public interest. It
stood for the improvement of the
waterways for conservation, and for
a tariff commission. The chairman
of its tariff commission, H. E. Miles
of Racine did most valient work for
downward tariff revision prior to
1908. In the extra session of 1909
he made an effective fight for reduc
ing duties before the ways and
means committee. This is ful'y borne
out by the record of the printed hear
ing of that committee. He paid dear
ly for his attacks upon the over-pro
tected trusts as the country will learn
if the facts of his persecution by
these interests and his business sac
rifices to them are ever made public.
But the National Manufacturers'
association with its aggregate boast
ed capital and its respectable mem
bership, had an underground system
as dark and crooked as the Black
Hand. It did not use the knife or
the bludgeon. But, it destroyed the
The Man That Sells Fence
AT AG!KI . MlttHISAN .
STEEL RANGES AND COOK STOVES
What is the use of paying fancy prices
Stoves when you can get a good range
integrity and independence and char
acter of men with as little conscience,
as appears from the record evidence
which has been published. . If wit
nesses are believed it used its unlim
ited resources to bribe labor leaders
to betray their organizations. It cov
ertly bought the election memoers oi
congress who did its bidding, ana me
defeat of others who were opposed
to measures which would serve its in
terests. .
The National Manufacturers' As
sociation will have a page by itself
in the records of this investigation.
It will be a black page.
And the half has not yet been
told. Let this committee of investi
gation inquire into the collection and
expenditure of money by the "Na
tional Business League of America"
organized to create public opinion for
the Aldrich currency scheme and tor
"other purposes", and it is just pos
sible that it may add another inter
esting chapter to its illuminating
record.
Upon the floor of the senate, the
public platform and through the
pages of LaFollette's I have for years
exposed the sinister work of these
evil forces, in controlling congres
sional, legislation and the administra
tion of government at Washington.
Congress sneered. The interests
cried demagogue. The public believ
ed. The case is proved.
These disclosures will be followed
by legislation that will impose the
severest penalities upon any attempt
to secretly influence congressional
action. And any individual or asso
ciation that uses money, or contrib
utes money to be used, in the election
or defeat of any federal official, will
be required to make public oath to
the most complete account of such
expenditure.
Sunday's Qregonian ,told its read
ers what that paper thought of the
Courier's attitude on free speech. We
could not reply to it better than the
following from the Chieftain at En
terprise, eastern Oregon. The Oregon
ian will not agree with it, but thou
sands of voters in Oregon will:
Every individual is entitled to
absolute and untrammeled free
dom of belief. He is also entitled
to speak his belief without inter
ruption from constituted author
ities. His belief may clash with
that of persons about him. If so,
they should practice forbearance.
They should not oppose physical
violence to the expression of a
thought or creed. They should
remember they have no more
justification for pommeling their
fellow man for his belief than he
would have for slugging them for
, theirs. In sheer self defense, in
the interest of real liberty and of
ail mental progress, every man
owes to others the charity he
asks of others.
Open wide the windows and let
the broad daylight shine in on
each creed, dogma, belief and
whim. Those which have no val
ue or merit will wither and die.
Those worth while will flourish
and bear fruit for the benefit of
all mankind.
If the wives vote as the fanners
vote, it looks like a deluge.
Mr, Farmer:
If you wish to fence new land or replace an old, de
lapidated one with a modern, up-to-date fence, then
come and see us it does not matter if you are a mem.
ber of the Equity Club, we will make you a better price
right here at home than what ycu are paying East. We
ask for our 40 in. Field Fence
7 81 OOUnds to everv rod.
" " J
COMFORT COMES
FIRST
A Rocker may be ever so handsome in appear
ance ever so costly if it is not comfortable to sit-in
if it does not "just fit", it is not the rocker you
want around the home. It doesn't make much differ-
ence what you may want in a rocker, it's 1 ere we're
pretty sure. At any rate we'd like sh f f f
1 you to see, and sit in some of theni' jl I
&. Fine Parlor Rocker
line won't be a dozen votes fur
Beaiic in Harding precinct." 'phonM
m former after tho nomi.i:iHo:i
II. S ArOerson the c.ihi c1".''
n i...:v.f waaV mnn have filed
into the Courier office and commend-
il the action or tne recan i-uu.u.i-
fop iis nomination of two of the best
mui i;: Clackamas county. Then h
ye i :o be heard the first p-ctcst
a'.;vi'i st either nominee.
a v,;n ,.,viii, t Kttiinve should never
X UUL VYliiv.ll .ITU
have been referended, and which I be
lieve the people will vote down wim
a bang, is the county attorne ylaw
passed by the last legislature.
This bill was needed legislation in
rWcmn nnd if the neonle vote down
the referendum we will have a lot
more justice in Oregon.
Tt. does awav with the office of dep
uty district attorneys in the state and
gives in place each county ac ounty
attorney. It does away with deputy
prosecutors who are appointed ana
makes a prosecuting attorney directly
responsible to the people, and elected
by the people in each county.
Yon know how it is NOW. and how
it has been. The district attorney,
when he has reasons, can dodge and
shirk responsibility onto the deputy,
and the deputy can come back with
the same excuse. The district attor
ney is seen occasionally in the other
counties from whic hhe resides.
Clackam as county needs a resident,
all-the-time-on-the-job , prosecuting
attorney. The importance ot tms
county and its several lairge places
mnlcos this nhsolutelv necessary. In
the past two years we have had this
want sadly illustrated.
The thing Clackamas county will do
and should do, is to vote down the
referendum and for the bill with the
same big' majority that it gave to Gil
bert Hedges for districet attorney
last fall.
The county attorney law is needed
legislation.
A SEASHELL.
Iridescent with the tints of dawn
And golden dusk, it rests within
my bund.
High on the sun swept white
ness of the sund
It lay a vacant house with ten
ant gone.
With patient toll and rare ma
terial drawn
From green sen depths, the little
spirit spanned
Himself with pearl; with thought
ho could withstand
The touch of death that makes
nil life its pawn.
Where has he fled? And is all
well with him?
Where went his spark of life in
time's long night?
Where is he in the world's Im
mensity? The mighty sages of the ages
dim,
Tho deep browed dreamers with
the mystic's sight,
Are mute before this relic of the
sea!
Arthur Wallace Peach.
Oregon City
Oregon
33c per rod and it weighs
for
for
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illgotten wealth.