OREGON CITY COURIERTHURSDAY NOV 20 1913.
OREGON CITY COURIER
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Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
M. J. BROWN,
EDITOR
TIIE STONE WALL AT SALEM
And it all simmers down to this:
If the university wants the state to support it, let it produce
what the state wants, and let some of the other appropriations b
cut down so the taxpayers won't be so heavily burdened.
High taxation defeated Gary's salary increase and th
county library bill, and high taxation will result in the voters
of the state changing the present system of state appropriations,
That man Iluerta is some stand patter.
From the trial jury verdicts rendered, last summer's grant
jury was an expensive session for Clackamas county.
mi... vir:ii.f,i niir i.m.iu r vn tho nnlv -navt nf Ore- T'li hot .Tnnnf.liiin Tiourne wishes he had not tackled that ioh
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gon that isn't strong for the higher education. Time to wake to prohibit pay for circulating petitions. It will never make him
up Woodburn Independent. . a senator rroni uix-gun
tm, wiiim, to vnllpv TS nwake. and beinz awake is why the What do you know about it Ihe Kepublican senate commit
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nrnvitv nrmrcmriations were voted down. tee is out lor guaranteed uaniv deposits. our or nve years ago u.e
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Bro Youn". take a run back to 1901 and then come down ine party wa out tu iuu n. uui i-aiu auu. a..
;iue. And when you have finished, see if you blame the farmers
and taxpayers of the valley for voting down the university ap
propriations
In 1901, so the Blue Book states, the total legislative appro
priations, including deficiencies for 1899 and 19900 were $1,696,209.68.
And "a million dollar legislature" was the protest that went
up from the taxpayers of thinly-settled Oregon.
In 1912, the last lamented session, f(i,41u,000 of the tax-
Saturday of this week four Bepulnii an candidates for gov
ernor will meet. and speak at a ood jnermnen'; meeting at New
berg. They are Judge Dimick W. S. IKen, ltobci r Alitor an
Will E. Purdy. , .
I hope this congressional district will come alive and elect
n man who will represent us next year, congressman liawley is
payers' money was given away by the legislature, without the about the pattest of he standpatters and representing a progres
consent of the taxpayers, wve district he is absurd,
Now realize this, almost SIX AND A HALF MILLION
DOLLARS for a partially developed state to buck up in taxes
The coming state tax levy is going to be by far the highest
ever in Oregon.
A year ago taxes were. hard enough, but next year they will
be far higher high enough to make land owners want to sell out,
and high enough to discourage newcomers.
The people have got to pay this six and a half million dollars
the legislature ran them in debt for.
And another year taxes may be, and no doubt will be, again
Eight out of ten taxpayers in this city want a commission
government. All it needs is a leader, he commission appointed
by Mayor Jones months ago to revise a charter have never moved
It is now time to start it outside of the council and get some men
in who will move.
The next thing for the people to do is to re-establish the
southern normal school at Ashland Eugene Guard.
You mean the "combination," not the people. No reason why
ihe "Bitr Seven" should not plug this through. They have the
higher, because the gang is in absolute control, and there is no m,..uis and the people can't stop them
way to stop them from looting under the present system.
Now Bro. Young, here is the system. Insurance Commissioner Ferguson, who has been in Wiscon
See if you can beat it see it you have any more show than sin investigating that state's insurance plan, says he favors it as
the farmer with a three-shell came. a state law m Oregon and will ask tne next legislature to make it
Jackson county has two representatives. That county wants such. I'll bet it we ever nave state lite insurance at cost we win
some of the six and a half million. It wants its normal school re- 'tfct it through the initiative
established and an armory at Medford. And Jackson's two law
makers will hunt for others who also want. . When the states bump up against it proper and can find no
Douglass county has two representatives, and that county way to pry the bosses loose, then they turn to Oregon, "radical
wants a soldiers' monument.. Oregon" lor relief. The New York Journal in a leading editorial
So Douglass hunts up Jackson, and that are four ready to rays the Oregon system is the only means to break up Tammany
plunder the state for the good of the home counties. and Ihe other political machines, and recommends the initiative.
Lane wants the university and the big bundles of fodder referendum, recall and direct primaries
that hold it up, so Lane is dead willing to give Jackson and Don
Any fair minded man will stand by Gov. West in his effort to
ring the deporters of I. W. W's to justice at Florence.
If doesn't matter who the men or what the cause, there is no
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excuse lor moo law in uregon, una ucpuruiuou is we uuiucsl iuiiu
of mob law.
Governor West says : '''.
"If those who are responsible for the organization and
activities of these mobs think I am going to sit idly by and
permit them to go on and then in event of labor troubles,
which may come at any time, order out the militia to shoot
down workingmen, they have another guess coming.
lass what they want if they will help Lane. So there are three
more added to the Spenders' Combination, making seven.
Now comes Benton with a 40 horse-power yearn for the state
agricultural college. She has one and a joint, and she joins the
two onto the seven above and the combination comes down 9
strong and tvith hands open.
Now Marion comes in, wanting all kinds of kale for the state
buildings. She has five representatives. She joins the 9 making
14 hungry representatives.
Now Multnomah takes a hand in the milking She has 13
12 representatives and a joint. She wauts the Columbia river
bridge, babies home, and other charitable institutions. She joins
the combination and boosts the membership to 27,
Only needs a few more and the Charter can be closed, so in
comes Lmatilla county with hands open, for the insane asylum
in eastern Oregon. She has three and one joint, added to the
above, makes 31
AND 31 IS A MAJORITY OF THE STATE LEGISLA
TURE,
Seven counties of the state, all wanting appropriations, can
absolutely force the 31 counties to pay tribute. Impeaching Sulzer came high in graft-burdened New York
The senate has the same proportion of yearns, and is mucn state high to both old parties that took a hand in the frame-
a lead pipe cinch as the house. up
Twenty-seven counties may protest until thev are black in Out of seventy-nine Assemblymen who voted to impeach Sul
the face, but the Big Seven can absolutely force them to come zer only seventeen survived the ordeal of the primaries or the
It is rumored that Senator Bourne will again be a candi
date for the United States Senate. If persistency is a virtue
in politics Bourne stands an exceptionally good chance of
obtaining the Republican nomination. Albany Democrat.
Mr. Bourne appears to have something besides persistency.
It would look as if he was making up with big business, which
defeated him.
through and pay their benefit bills
There's the beautiful system !
This is why Oregou voted down the appropriation a year
ago, aim wny the Willamette valley voted them down this year
I here is a limit to what taxpayers will stand. Oregon is too
sparsiy developed and too poor to take on six and a half millions
of dollars.
And when the taxpayers have stood the gaff long enough.
lliey will change this system of back scratching and horse trad
ing.
And one other reason for the Willamette valley's protest is
polls.
Sixty-two failed of renomination or re-election.
Only forty-six of the seventy-nine were renominated and of
that number twenty-nine perished on election day.
Not one up-state Assemblyman who voted to impeach Sul
zer was re-elected.
Political gossip in Portland has it that ex-Governor Geer of
Portland is the dark runner the Republicans are training to beat
V. S. U'Ken for governor. This may be only gossip, but the story
oes the party thinks Mr. U'Ren has a mighty good chance to
that the university of Eugene is tu'iiiug out a rist bu'ch of wedge in and. get the pole if there are a bunch of starters, and
iiu) nope is u urmg me eonnm jiowu to u nuucneu race, wnen
oociors iiiKi lawyers.
The voters of tlu
valley want industrial rilnrnrimi Tlmv
uont think they should be taxed to make law)ers and doctors.
Then are plenty of factories in the shite where they can be made.
they think the Oregou City man may be nosed out. Tinie will tell
whether this is a pipe or a combine.
The political prophets have Judge Galloway down, for re-
election next iau.
Limit Your :t is better to
SrwiHinrr yur spending
r o bave the rest,
to-limit your saving tud spend the
There's a difference. You never
know how much mouev von wnste
you keep track of your spending. Try it
ior a mourn, miy good lood and good
clothes be liberal, but not extravagant
but save. Learn to say "NO,"and stick
to it. Quit spending and get the saving
habit. Put a limit on your spending
aim iay me rest away. You never
know what you can do until you try
limit
and
than
rest,
will
until
will
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
NOT GAME, BUT A YELLOW STREAK
Nearly every city in Oregon that went dry is carrying the
matter to the courts in the hope that a technicality may be dug
up that will thwart the verdict of the voters.
To my idea of playing ball, his is a yellow streak it is an at
tempt to get to first base on balls, by working the umpire.
The people m these several towns expressed themselves, and
't doesn't add to or take from that verdict a whit, that there was
come little irregularity in calling the election ; that there may not
have been the required number of polling places, in some eitv,
or that the recent election was a "special ' rather than a "regular
affair.
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xuv u.iiai u ituii-i, nun in inmost everv case a decisive
one.
No judge should set himself above a clearly recorded verdict
of the people.
No judge should let a technicality become bimier tlmn major
ity expression.
The saloonmen should be game and plav the cards
1 hem.
If a. year's experience proves what thev claim will result
from a year of dryness, then the voters will no doubt go wet amiu-
jmh it isu i gaiiu-10 u-y to nnmu tins month's verdict of the
voters, and the liquor men will not gaiu any friends by resortino
to it.
"ARGUMENTS" THAT LEAK.
Molalla Man Presents Queer Views of
Proportional Representation.
Editor Courier: In your editorial,
"A Voice for All," you say C. E.
Spence and others will put one over
on the people next year. Now I am
not for saloons but I wonder if they
won't give them proportional repre
sentation, too.
Just try this, Mr. Editor: Give the
majority in Oregon City the right to
let booze alone and the minority the
right to use it, just as they voted.
According to the last presidential
election the majority (by electing
Wilson) seemed to be for free trade,
the minority for protection. Why not
give free trade and protection propor
tionate representation?
As I understand it proportional
representation means to put represen
tatives in our house and senate in pro
portion to the votes cast for each and
every party.
I am optimistic to believe that by
far the majority of the American peo
ple are honest. ,
By proportional representation we
would have to allow a pro rata repre
sentation of booze and dope fiends,
robbers, thieves, murderers, etc.
Throw to the dogs our glorious con
stitution that says "majority rule"
and have a government just as crazy
as our asylumns are, proportional to
the rational citizenship. In other
words throw common sense away and
let pandemonium and chaos reign su
preme. Is that your idea ?
If a thing or principle is good, the
majority will be for it. If it is bad
the majority will be against it, but
you want it proportional. That is,
you have something up your sleeve so
stinking that the majority won't
stand for it. So you want it propor
tional so the people will have to take
some of it. You at least pretend to
be fighting the saloons, but at the
same time you want the liquor league
to do its proportionate amount of
business. Consistency thou art a
jewell.
C. L. STANDINGER
Molalla, Ore., Nov. 17.
Now let us dump in a little of Mr.
Standing's ore of consistency, and see
how it pans see if it shows a color
in the washing.
His first application to the liquor
vote in Oregon City is kiddish and has
no application to the proposed state
plan of proportional representation,
as that plan applies to parties only.
He says the majority (which elect
ed Wilson) seemed to be for free
trade. A majority never elected Wil
son, a majority never elected Senator
Lane, and so on, with any number of
our public officials. Wilson is a mur
ority president; as Mr. Standinger
should know. Bryan received more
votes than Wilson and yet Bryan was
defeated for president. Senator Har
ry Lane was elected United States
senator by 30 votes to the 100 cast.
Did you know that, Mr. Standinger?
Is our present system majority
rule? Do we elect our national dele
gates by majority? And did we
throw away our glorious constitution
when we elected delegates to the nat
ional convention, when . we elected
Wilson president and Lane senator?
Your picture of proportional repre
sentation allowing pro rata represen
tation for booze, dope fiends, robbers.
thieves, murderers, etc., is indeed harrowing.
Did you ever know of a national
party under any of the above titles?
And they would have to be a party
to have proportional representation.
Let us suppose there was a "mur
derers' party" started, or a "dope
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fiends'." party. They would get rep
rpsentAtion in nroDOrtion to the num
ber of Oreconians that voted for
them.
. About what proportion do you
think that would be?
You should have gone further and
shown it would have been possible to
have a "Rooster Fighters' Party, a
"Poker Players' " Party and the rub
downs in the bath might spring one.
These would be iust as likely (or un
likely to start new parties as the
list you trot out.
Mr. Standinger, your dirt isn't
showing a very high color. You had
better locate a new claim or the
school kids will be laughing at your
arguments.
"If a principal is good a majority
will be for it, you say.
Let us see.
Anti-slavery was good, but it took
a horrible war to get it.
Woman's suffrage was good, but it
has taken 40 years to get it in Ore
gon.
National prohibition is good, but we
haven't got it.
The initiative and referendum are
good, but many a state is forbidden
them.
And all these things were good fif
ty or one hundred years ago.
Look here, Mr. Standinger:
We have five parties in Oregon to
day, and it is possible under our pres
ent system, if about equally divided,
for 25 per cent to easily ELECT THE
WHOLE LEGISLATURE
Ever think of that?
Again:
Let us suppose we have but two
parties in Oregon and each has a vot
ing strength of 45 per cent, which
makes 90 per cent of the total voters.
Let us suppose each party candidates
were honest men and that the ten per
cent belonged to your "Murderers'
Party."
Who would elect?
THE TEN PER CENT MURDER
ERS WOULD. . . , it
And yet they would do it under the
light of our glorious "majority rule"
constitution.
Let us see how our legislature
would stand today, if under propor
tional representation;
Republicans .......36
Democrats
Socialists 4
Prohibitionists 3
Total 60
And yet today neither the Social
ists or Prohibitionists have the least
representation in Salem.
Would you wait until they should
have killed either the democrats or
republicans before you would recog
nize them?
Would you refuse to listen to the
49 per cent minority, and when it
got 2 per cent more, let it do all the
talking? 1 1 -i
There are hundreds of democrats in
Clackamas, Multnomah and Marion
counties, but they .have no voice or
representation in our legislature.
Is this right or fair?
Is it half justice to your own coun
ty which went democratic for Wil
son? .
Mr. Standings, you reason back
wards. You see ghosts.
The rascals will never cnntrnl Ore
gon under proportional representa
tion, but it would give deserving min
ority parties a right to be heard in a
legislature that gives away their
money and forces them to pay taxes.
We licked Great Britain for the
same principle.
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CASTORIA
AH Growing Children
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sry Their health as men and women la largely
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Flrrt It Increase their appetite, then it adds flesh-ttrengthena v
tne nonet makes' them sturdy, active and healthy.
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13-79
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