OREGON CITY COURIER
Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Eighth and Main streets, and
tered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as second class mall matter.
OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER
M. J. BROWN, A. E.
Subscription Price $1.50.
Official Paper for the Farmers
M. J. BROWN.
Although the election is over a year
away, county politics is already stir
ring, and many candidates for the dif
ferent offices are looking things over.
If that young Mitchel, the fusion
candidate for Mayor of New York
wins out, its good night to Murphy
and Tammany.
Mexican matters bid fair to come to
a cricis soon. Huerta has stacked
tilings up so that something has got
to be done.
There are few Marshall Lazelle's in
Clackamas county, and the death of
this splendid young man, just in the
prime of life and vigor, is generally
morned. And the fact that he died of
typhoid, a preventable fever, makes
the blow all the harder.
Now that Huerta has imprisoned
most of Mexico's Congress, the long
head of President Wilson and his
keen foresight in refusing to recog
nize the government, is apparent. And
the foreign countries that were in
such a rush must now feel somewhat
cheap.
When the dock commission in Port
land wanted to buy the Mock Bot
toms, the owners asked $3,000 an acre,
yet the property was assessed for $G00
an acre this year. Is there anything
wrong with Oregon's taxation sys
tem? Is it rotten? Does it play the
game of the grafters ?
The Courier heartily agrees with
the Twilight correspondent, that there
should be no open season for killing
China pheasants. It is a wicked shame
to slaughter these beautiful birds, and
where is the "sport?" Long protected
the birds becomo so tame they visit
the farmers' homes and the barnyards.
Now the law says kill them. It's wick
ed. Walter M. Pierce, member of the
0. A. C. board of regents, and a can
didate for United States senator on
the Democratic ticket last fall, makes
the statement that the farmer is not
going to pay eight per cent for loans
very much longer, but that President
Wilson's rural credit board will pro
vide the money to the farmer as
cheaply as anyone can get it. May
Mr. Pierce be a true prophet.
Many of the cities of Oregon are
considering the adoption of manager
ial form of government a commission
that hires a general manager for the
whole city. La Grande has voted it.
Pendleton will vote on it, and other
like sized places are agitating it. With
the right kind of a charter, Oregon
City will vote it. We will got this kind
of a charter if our live men will only
get behind the matter. Now will they?
The Independent can see no reason
why each county in the Btate should
not have a county attorney, as provid
ed for in the new law we are to vote
on in November. The plan of having
one prosecuting attorney in each ju
dicial district, with deputies in each
county, has nothing to recommend it
except that the district attorneys get
larger salaries than they could as
county attorneys in their own
counties and this does not appeal to
voters generally as any reason for
continuing an out oi aato system.
Woodburn Independent.
Here are a few lines of pjetty solid
advice the Marshburg Record gives to
the voters of that city for tho coming
city election:
The thing to do is to remove
from public positions in the city
all those who are tied up with
corporations and to put in men
who will give the corporations
exact justice and fair treatment.
Keep out of the council all who
have a corporation halter on them.
They will simply embroil the com
pany's interests and make tho
public an enemy of tho company
locally.
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Party linos are pretty looso in Ore
gon, and it is my guess the men the
primaries nominate in April will be
the men who have most to oirer the
people, the men who stand for what
the people want and who let the
people know long before the primar
aries, just what they will do. And un
less the candidates do show a hand
and take a stand, then look out for
an independent to get in tho final act
at the polls. Oregon is made up of
voters who do things and want things
done, and recent history has shown
us there can be a big change between
April primary and a November election.
The Farmer Should be a
Business Man.
He has to calculate profits and losses
just as any oue engaged in grocery,
hardware, clothing or any other kind of
business. He should, therefore, conduct
his business as all other business men do
that is, with the help of the bank.
This bank will be glad to help you.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
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FKUST, UWJNiiKS.
Telephones, Main 5 -1 ; Home A 5 1
Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
EDITOR
CONSISTENCY
Last week's Oregonian had a leng
,Vil.'tn T.Iifinr nut. fn thn dear
Lily CIUWIW" jv.iw..(3 v- " -
people what an awful thing it would
be for the state to initiate the W. b.
II'Ren measure to exempt $1200 from
taxation on personable property and
improvements on land.
At the last general election the
ot-.. fov frtmmiufiinn initiated a bill
otitic . : . ,
to exempt all house hold property
from taxation, ana tne uregonmn wb
f.ret nnii foremost in advocating its
rxnaaa tra
Tiiia hill Wame a law. Under its
provisions many rich men are exempt
from taxation on more value than
n umall fii-m ia wnrth.
many a diiihii it...
But when a bill is proposed that
would exempt a larmcrs improve
ments; that would forbid taxing him
ho not-, nut. an orchard, clear
ed his land, bought a team, or dug
draining ditches, this would never ao,
it would work an awful hardship on
v, rnarii rf IncrirpH nff land that
lays idle and increases in value -as
the farmer improves arouna it, ana
is fined for the improvements,
it nahaa a Int nf difference to the
IV llUAI.a I " " -
Oregonian whether the State Tax
Commission or w. a. u iten is ueimiu
a bill, and it also makes some differ
on, utinthni- the exemDtion more
benefits the silk stocking crowd or
the laboring man. ,
Tt ia nil vprv true, as the Oreironian
nrcrnoa thaf it. ia neeessarv to raise
so much money to run the state. But
if this exemption amendment carries
it simply means that the uninmprov
,t tUa illn acres will have to come
through with a little more taxation
along with the big reiiows.
To the worker, the improver, the
mnn who makes two blades of erass
grow where only one has grown, this
pxnmntion measure win lessen nis
Tv. tVio nrnnnrtv owner who does
not work or improve, and the wealthy
class wmcn mis maue its piie, mese
will have to pay the exemption from
Any good reason why they should
not t
The U'Ren exemption amendment
should carry, for it is a relief for the
masses.
And it will, if the masses under
stand it.
CUT THE BACON THIN
Eighteen years ago today, bacon
sold for 10 cents a pound in Minne
apolis. Eighteen years ago, the big pack
ers had not yet fully capitalized all
the possibilities of that sort of co-operation
which makes the anti-trust
laws look silly.
Today bacon is selling for 40 cents
a pound in Minneapolis with other
meat products up in proportion. And
the packers at Chicago are about to
give a banquet at which the guests
are to be attired in hunting costume
and one of the stunts will be the
hunting down of real live small game
released from cages in the dining
hall.
Meantime the packers' small game
in other parts of the country will cut
their bacon with a safety razor to give
it area, if not substance, and every
body will be wondering at tho growth
of socialism and other more radical
movements looking to social revolu
tion. Minneapolis News.
What kind of morality is it
when the law commands that
property be assessed at its "true
cash vulue," and the public is
asked five times to ten times
the assessed price when it wants
to buy? The public should never
pay more than double the assessed
price for property for public
uses. Portland Journal.
This is simply stating a fact a
demorable truth. But what is the re
medy ? The workman who has a little
homo doesn't sell it for five to ten
times its assessed valuation. The far
mer who has his acres out there in
plain sight isn't assessed for one-
fifth what he could sell tor.
It is the valuable speculative hold
ings that grow in valuo while the
owners sleep, that gets the one-fifth
true cash valuo" assessments, while
tho littlo fellows and the farmers put
up the speculators part of the state s
taxation,
It's all wrong, this Oregon system
of taxation it's rotten and wholly
dishonest.
Make every ownor his own assess
or. Mako him put his own valuation
on the property and give a selling op
tion on it at that price, and you can
bet your head off thoro would be more
taxation where it belongs in Oregon.
WHOSE $21,000,000 PROFITS?
You have probably been reading
more or less about the miners' strike
at Calumet, Mich.
Hera is a little more in connection
with it that you haven't read. The
nwAoi! Aianni-fV.aa liHn'fr nrint. this.
The strikers demanded $3.00 per day
for eight hours underground work.
They had been getting $2.20 for ten
and twelve hours.
The mining company said they
simply could not pay these demands;
that the earnings of the mine would
not permit it. So the state militia was
called out.
A New York paper sent a man to
Calumet to find out the dead inside of
the matter, and the justice and in
justice of the demands.
Here it is boiled down. What is
your verdict?
The Calumet & Hecla Company
was organized in 1871 with a cap
ital stock of $2,500,000, of which
only $1,200,000 was paid in. Dur
ing the past 40 years the com
pany has paid 121 million dollars
in dividends, an average of three
million dollars a year, besides
paying over $40,000,000 for equip
ment, including railway and tele
phone stock, and also investing
$25,000,000 in other mines and
leads. In one month in 1907 the
company earned over one and one
half million dollars, or $300,000
more than its original investment.
It has paid three dividends 100
times the original investment or
10,000 per cent, which is 250 per
cent a year since its organization.
Just think of this let it soak in:
On a paid in stock of $1,200,00, get
ting a profit of $1,200,000 IN ONE
MONTH, and refusing workmen $3
per day for working miles under
ground.
Here's another point:
The Calumet & Hecla Copper Co.,
never made this mine or produced the
copper in it. They acquired it by dis
covery, purchase or "freeze out."
No company or individual should
own' this rich deposit, any more than
they should the coal mines any more
than a company or indiviidual should
be given the right to corner wheat
or control any other necessity.
The government should own the
earth's deposits and the people should
have the benefits of the great wealth
nature, not man, has stored.
Don't you think the people and the
government would be far better off
if this $121,000,000 had been for thtir
benefit, rather than that of the mil
lionaires who own the Calumet cop
per mines?
INDEED FORTUNATE!
The Canby Irrigator reprints a
"tribute" given to Congressman Haw
ley by the Chairman of the Republi
can committee in Maine, for Mr. Haw
ley's "fine work" in campaigning the
third Maine district. The committee
says Oregon should be proud of him,
and that the result of his speeches
"assures early return of Republican
rule and repeal of iniquitious Under
wood tariff." The "tribute" closes
with "Maine Republicans will never
forget the services of Congressman
Hawley."
And this will make some of us
question whether Congressman Haw
ley is representing this congressional
district of Oregon, or the third con
gressional district of Maine?
Do you remember of Mr. Hawley
stumping Oregon and speaking
against tariff reduction? Rather think
not, for he had not nerve enough to
openly misrepresent his district.
But he goes way back in Maine
and works his head off denouncing a
tariff bill that the people who elected
him stand for.
And the comment of the Irrigator
is certainly amusing:
Oregon is indeed fortunate m
having a Congressman who
stands out among his fellow con
gressman as does Mr. Hawley.
Yes, indeed fortunate. Clackamas
County for the first time in twenty
years went Democratic because the
people wanted a reduction in the tar
iff wall, and we are fortunate in hav
ing a stand-pat, old line, Joe Cannon
Congressman to represent the third
congressional district of Maine.
A YAMHILL VIE
(News-Reporter)
Amontr the measures coming up for
the referendum of the voters is the
county attorney bill. This measure
appears to be in line with the slogan
of "home rule." One of the cogent
arguments for the bill and one which
should appeal strongly to tne voters,
ia that each countv is entitled to have
a prosecuting attorney to attend
promptly to all law violations as they
occur in tne county, an onicer wno
will be on the ground and get first
hand knowledge of the facts and cir
cumstances. This is well-night impos
sible when the district attorney lives
in a county seat,-two or three or four
counties away.
Again, why should some favored
county and county seat have a salaried
stute official, spending his money,
taken from the taxpayers in another
county, to build up that particular
county or town in which he resides at
the expense of the taxpayers in the
remainder of the towns in the dis
trict? Home rule should be the slogan.
While it is true that when there is
an onergetic deputy district attorney
in the field the work is done just as
efficiently and at a less cost to the
taxpayers, this condition does not
exist in evorv county under the pres
ent system. Better efficiency and not
cost is what the people demand,
prompt and efficient enforcement of
the law will save the taxpayers large
amounts of money besides the protec
tion it affords. If each county has the
choice of its prosecutor, a close su
pervision can be had of the affairs of
that office and a more populous county
is unable to force upon the smaller
county a prosecutor against the will
of its electorate.
A NEW CAMPAIGN WAY
It is doubtful if Oregon ever had a
campaign conducted as the present lo
cal option fight in this city is being
managed a campaign without public
ity on either side.
'The contest so far has been conduc
ted on both sides by silent, individual
work. No speeches, no demonstrations,
just man to man, woman to woman
work.
It's a new method of campaigning
in Oregon, and perhaps it isn t such a
bad way after all perhaps it is the
most effective way. Certain it is that
the old way of using the last month
before an election in burning the air
with statements, predictions, promises
etc., are losing their potency fo fright
en or enthuse.
The outcome of the new method of
campaigning is being watched with
interest in this city.
OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, OCT. 16, 1913
THE COURIER'S VIEWS
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This is the way the Courier rizes up
the five referendum measures to be
voted on next month. You may dis
agree. If you do, vote as you see
them.
The workmen's compensation act
Vote it yes No. 308. It is needed leg
islation. It should never have been
held up. No person or party will own
to holding it up. No one dares father
the referendum. It cuts out the mid
dlemen's (the lawyers) graft in dam
age actions, and the injured man gets
every dollar of damages- paid with
out litigation. Vote it yes.
The sterilization act Vote as you
think best.
The County Attorney Act Vote it
yes, No. 307. This bill was passed by
the last legislature to give better
county government and to place di
rect individual responsibility. Under it
there can be no dodging by the district
attorney and turning over to deputies
the cases he does not care to prose
cute. It abolishes the deputyships and
stops the sub-prosecuting of cases.
It gives every county an attorney and
he must make good or the people
will remove him. He can't hold the
job by having two or three outside
counties vote him in. This bill is for
better government in Oregon. The
opposition to it is that the present dis
trict attorneys may hold- their fat
jobs, draw heir present big salaries
and let the deputies, who also draw
salaries, do the most of the work.
Vote this yes.
University of Oregon New Build
ing Appropriations This one bill
would vote $100,000 on the state for
new buildings, and its companion
would vote $65,000 more for repairs,
additions, etc. Combined with the ag
ricultural college great sums could
be saved to the state. As it is now
conducted the people do not get value
received for the immense sums it
pays. Vote 303 No, 301 No.
Bear in mind that in voting on these
propositions you vote on the bills, the
measures as passed by the legislature,
yes is a vote for the bill as passed by
the legislature, and no is against it.
STRANGE DISAPPROVAL
Referring to the referendum of the
University appropriations to be voted
on next month the Hillsboro Inde
pendent says:
"The University is said to be
crippled for lack of funds, and
the people showed their disap
proval of the hold-up of appropri
ations when a former bill went
to the referendum."
A queer kind of disapproval certain
ly, that showed a year ago when the
people voted down the appropriation.
If they disapproved the holding up of
appropriations in that way, how, pray,
could they show their approval of a
referendum ? Woodburn Independent.
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NOTICE
A full line of every kind of
Sewnig Machine
REPAIRING AND SUPPLIES
Singer Sewing Machine Co.
S. A. BOARD, Agent
Hogg Bros. Furniture Store
Between Ourselves
-THEY ALWAYS
COME BACK"
is a remark we overheard one of our
clerks say to another, when a customer
left her to shop around on coats.
She had her daughter with her and
was just about to decide to make a
purchase, when a friend accompaning this
customer suggested, "Why not look
around before you decide?" They left and
the clerk, not at all disturbed, made the
remark, "They always come back."
In less than an hour afterwards the
customer did come back and compliment
ed our saleslady on her showing of coats.
We Welcome Comparisons
whether it be Coats, Suits, Silks, Millinery or any
other merchandise in the store.
The next time you shop, why not come into this
store and make comparisons with what yon have seen
elsewhere?
That's
Bannon &
MASONIC TEMPLE BLDG.
KICKED ON THE TIPS.
Te Waiter Thought the Rule Should
Not Work Both Ways.
"My bill at the cubaret restaurant on
Broadway was $25, and when I gave
tho waiter a tip of a dollar he frown
ed." The speaker was a banker from" Du
luth. lie continued wnrmly:
" 'What are you frowning about?" I
asked the waiter. 'Isn't that a gener
ous tip for a few minutes work ou
your part?'
" 'In New York,' the man answered,
'the rule Is always to give a tip of 10
per cent. Your bill, sir, called for a
$2.50 tip. So, naturally, I feel a little
aggrieved. lint It is easy to see, sir,
that you are not a New Yorker, and so
It can't be expected that you'd know
the rules.'
"Well. I pocketed the waiter's Insult,
and the next time I was In that neigh
borhood I dropped in on him again.
This tlmo I was alone, and, not being
hungry, I only ate a $1.15 meal. When
It was over I handed the waller a tip
of 11 cents. You ought to have seen
his face. It was worse than before.
" 'It's all right,' I assured him. 'It's
according to the 10 per cent rule that
you taught me. If a man's bill is ex
orbitant that makes no difference, ac
cording to the rule. Well, then, when
a man's bill is small, it should make
no difference, cither.'
"The waiter glowered at me. He
shook the 11 cents in his pnlm sar
castically. I suid, as I rose to go:
" 'And, by jove, It won't make any
difference either. If you waiters insist
on your 10 per cent for large amounts'
then you've got to take It for small
amounts, too. At least, by jingo, you've
got to tcke it from me. I'm from Du
luth, but I know my way about."
The Dulutli banker sighed heavily.
"But tho fact remains," he said, "thnt
ever since that waiter called me down
I give 10 per cent on big amounts like
a fool and like a fool I give 20 to 30
per cent on small amounts." Minne
apolis Journal.
FOUND A HIDING PLACE.
Then They Got a Big Surprise When
Daylight Appeared.
The father of Joseph Altsheler, the
writer of wur stories, was a Prussian
who came to this country a few years
Lbefore the war between the stutes
broke out and settled in Barren county,
Kentucky. By reason of his foreign
birth the elder Altsheler was not sub
ject to draft by either army when hos
tilities began, but his southern sym
pathies made him obnoxious to n group
of bushwhackers who, posing as Fed
erals, infested the vicinity of tho Ken
tucky-Tennessee state line.
One starless, moonless night in the
summer of 1803 a neighbor came with
the word that the busliwnckers were
on their wuy to kill Mr. Altsheler and
another resident of the vicinity who
had been outspoken In his approval of
secession. It was not certain, the mes
senger said, which road of two the
marauders would take to reach the
homes of their proposed victims; but it
was certain that they would bo along
soon.
Mr. Altsheler and the other threat
ened man gathered tip a blanket apiece
and went into the woods to hide. In
the darkness they speedily lost all
sense of direction. For nn hour they
wandered about, seeking a suitable
camping phice. Finally they came to
a spot that was free of trees and
where the ground felt smooth under
foot. So they spread their blankets
and went to sleep, secure In the be
lief that no bushwhacker could find
them there.
Tho rising Bun, shining in their faces,
waked them. They sat up and looked
around. They had been asleep all
night at the only place where the
raiders could not have failed to find
them hnd their plans been carried out
at the forks of the county road. Satur
day Evening Post.
all we ask
Company
OREGON CITY
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They Are Something In the Nature of
a Publio Function.
American tourists when lliey visil
Paris find unexpected difficulties In
gratifying their desire for a bath. Con
ditions ore slowly changing for the bet
ter, however, nnd some of the hotels
bavo introduced bathrooms, nn innova
tion brought about mainly to satisfy
American demands. A writer-in the
New, York Sun tells how the bath is
usually enjoyed:
Like most intimate affairs in France,
tho bath partakes of the nature ot a
public function. Thcro is also a choice
in the matter. The ambulance bath
was one franc fifty a bath, or you got
a season ticket for one franc twenty.
A man wheels a Imntlcart, which car
ries a receptacle tilled with hot wa
ter, surmounted by a (lib, to your djor.
Flo brings the tub on his head to your
room and returns with the bot water,
two covered pailfuls at u time. He
then retires to i.lie courtyard aijd walta
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The Joys of Perfect Baking
Every housewife knows the joy of baking when the bread comes from
the oven in large, light, evenly browne d loaves.
But such results are not always obta ined even by the most experienced. It
takes a good flour-better than the ave rage to make bread that is a joy to
see and eat.
DRIFTED SNOW FLOUR
is taking insurance. You always get good results from "Drifted Snow."Suc
cessful housewives everywhere are insisting that the grocer deliver only the
Drifted Snow Flour they find it pays as you will find it after a trial. Your
money is cheerfully refunded if you are not absolutely satisfied with the
flour. Ask ygur grocer for it and ins ure your baking results.
SPERRY FLOUR CO.
Officephones: Main 50, A50; Res. phones, M. 2524, 1751.
Home B251, D251
WILLIAMS BROS. TRANSFER & STORAGE
. Office (512 Main Street
Safe, Piano, and Furniture Moving a Specialty
Sand, Gravel, Cement, Lime, Plaster, Common
Brick, Face Brick, Fire Brick
D. LATOURETTE, President
THE FiRST national bank
of OREGON CITY, OREGON
(Successor Commercial Bank)
Transacts General Banking Bus Iness . Open from 0 a. m. to 3
till vou have finished the buth. Ills
cheerful whistle lluuts up to ho win
dow to the accompaniment of. yut
splnsulngs ns a reminder that you
should not lluger-'which you are not
tempted to do In tho cramped quarters
of a French bathtub.
The foreign lady's buth Is a sort of
gala day for the neighborhood. If fre
quent, the event is discussed by the
neighbors across the way. "Truly,
that costs dear; they are bleu des mil
lionaires, cos dames AmerlcnlnesI"
And the children flock to count the
pails ns they are turned out. All of
this is well calculated to make the occa- .
slon one of keen embarrassment fo i
the foreign lady. I
Thee hahgeable waetlier of early
fall brings on coughs and colds that
have a weakening effect on the sys
tem, and may become chronic. Use
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. It
has a very soothing and healing ef
fect on the irritated and inflamed air
passages, and will help very quickly.
It is a well known family medicine
that gives results. Huntley Bros. Co.
Architect. Minneapolis, Minn.
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A PHOTOGRAPH.
This little bungalow has a capacity
of three chambers. The den in front
can be used as u chamber If one de
sires. It has a good piazza, large liv
ing room and a good sized dinlug
room, wltb built-in sideboard. The
kitchen is complete and conveniently
urranged for doing the work. There is
a full basement under the entire house.
First story, 0 feet. Red oak'Sr birch
finish in living room and dining room;
remainder In birch, with birch or
white maple floors throughout. Size,
28 feet wide and 42 feet deep. Cost to
build, exclusive of heating nnd plumb
ing. $2,000.
Upon receipt of $1 the ubllsher oi
this paper will supply a copy of Sax
ton's book of plans, "American Dwell
ings." It contains about 250 up to date
designs of cottages, bungalows ani
residences costing from $1,000 tt
$0,000.
F. J .MEYER, Cashier.