4 OREGON CITY COURIER; THURSDAY, DEC. 4, 1913
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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.
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Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
M. J. BROWN,
EDITOR
It was current gossip that George
C. Brownell would announce as a can
didate for tnvernor at McMinnvillc
Sunday nitrht. Whether he wanted
to spoil newspaper tips or think it
over a little more, is not known, now
ever he did not announce.
A continuation of gambling
in eggs and other foodstuffs by
use of cold storage is liable to
precipitate public ownership
and operation of cold storage
plants, Portland Journal.
This seems to be the only remedy.
Ihe government is the only compet
itor these big fellows can't get to.
And not only the cold storage plants
need competition.
Salem will present the managerial
plan of city government to the people
and a charter commission is working
out a new charter that will place the
state capital under the most progres
sive and responsive of governments.
When will Oregon City take this
matter up? The people are almost un
animous for a change to either a
commission or managerial plan, yet
we only talk it. The quickest way to
start it would be by petition, then a
public meeting and a commission to
go ahead with the reform.
The National Conservation Con
gress should be abolished. It is be
coming socialistic and un-American.
Here is its last record, that
Hereafter no water power now
owned or controlled by the public
should bo sold, granted or given
away in perpetuity, or in any
manner remove from the public
ownership which alone can give
sound basis of assured and per
manent control in the interest
of the people.
This congress is dead right, and we
all know it. It is deplorable that the
country has already lost the most of
these great water powers that nature
provided, but we should hold onto
what is left.
THE NEXT STEP
Eggs, beef and lumber went onto
the free list, and prices have advanc
ed.
They should not have advanced,
tl;ey should have lowered in price,
Letting articles into a country free of
cuty should never have raised the
price.
The trusts are bigger than our
government that is the reason.
When etfgs were admitted free the
packers hid a half billion in cold
slorage cornered the imports and
put the price where they wanted it,
regardless of duties.
The same game is being played on
meat supplies the same game that
Sully played on cotton and Patton
played on wheat.
Control it, hold it out, and force
the people to pay any price.
The government has got to own or
control these trusts and combines, or
it has got to go into business in com
pletion, and give the whole country
what it has given the canal zone
food at far less price than the com
bines give it.
NOT A BIG PROBLEM
THE PLUNDKKERS
There aro plenty of men in busi
ness who would not think of holding a
man up at the muzzle of a revolver
and robbing him, yet they have no
hestitancy ubout plundering the peo
ple ,if they can do it within the law.
That is what many of the trusts are
organized for. They are composed
of rich men who have no other pur
pose in combining their interests, ex
cept to extort from the people the
greatest amount ot money possible.
By stilling competition they hope to
keep prices UD to the highest nosisililn
limit and reap enormous profits at
me peoples expense. The method
differs from that of the holdun man
but is nono of the less robbery on that
account. Morally the pnnciplo in
volved is the same, for it is just as
dishonest to rob because it can be
done by practices that are not pro
hibited by law, as it is to rob them by
force. Not all trusts are engaged in
this nefarious business, but that
some of them aro is too well known to
admit of denial. They are holding
the public up for the last cent it is
possible to extort. They are plunders
oi uie people ana nothing elso.
Editor Wosrnll. nf tli A imtii'o nii-
server, refused the free publication of
uiu couniy u-acners examination,
writing a letter to the superintendent
explaining wny me paper could not
cive the advei-l.iKinn- fmn uml olinnr
ing the Observer had during the past
yeur jiuunsneu uuriy-six columns of
freo advertising for liko public pur
poses. Mr. Westcott sent a copy of his
iui,ht to me ncw.ipapers ot the Will
amette Valley for opinions and com
ments. Hero is ours.
, We havo seriously contemplated
issuing one Courier giving every pub
lic concern that asked for it the free
advertising they solicited. While
there would be little In the paper but
this line of stuff, yet it would be the
best argument to turn down this free
advertising that could be devised.
Pay after day goes into the waste
basket columns of all kinds of dodges
to pay. Week after week every news
paper in Oregon is asked to give a
way its goods to help some charitable
or public concern get its goods. Kvery
kind of scheme is hidden under some
public pretext to avoid payment of
what a business man has to come thru
with.
The Courier would much rather
come thru with a cash contribution
for these needed causes, and be dealt
with likewise. Never ceasing demands
for freo publication are the hoodos of
newspapers.
Recently the Courier showed how
seven counties of the state, pulling
off a mutual appropriation deal, dom
inated the legislature and forced six
and a half million dollars onto the
taxpayers of Oregon, to which the
Uregonian says in part:
The Courier lays the whole
burden of large state taxes on
the system of back-scratching
and log-rolling in the Legisla
ture. It is not true: but enough
of the charge is true to make it
necesstry to agree that log-roll-
. ing for appropriations to benefit
various localities is the curse of
any Legislature.
We are prepared to hear from
Oregon City that the way out is
commission government for the
state and the single tax. The
single tax is, indeed, a panacea.
Under it nobody would have any
taxes to pay but the landowners,
which includes the farmers.
Since when did the Oregonian take
out a mind reader's license?
The Courier has never said that a
commission government was ne re
medy, and it is silly for the big Ore
gonian to drag in single tax.
The Courier holds that there should
be direct responsibility for appropri
ations and that this combination
should be broken up.
We have the same curse in our
rational capital, and we will have it
in any big or little capital so long
a. tho present system is tolerated.
One head should introduce all op
propriation bills, and the people
should know that head, and it should
be where they could use a club on
that head.
Let that head be the governor, a
commission, the house speaker, the
senate president, but let it be a source
the people can see and a responsi
bility that men cannot hide.
And when we get some such a sys
tem we will break up the spenders'
combination.
WHAT WOULD FOLLOW INTERVENTION?
LEGALLY BUNCOED
Here follows a part of an editorial
from The Public on the Mexican situ
ation. Will the Oregonian please
copy:
"Suppose a belligerent had oc
cupied tho White House at this time,
a man fond of notoriety and seek
ing personal aggrandizement. A word
would have been sufficient to bring
on tho clash. And once started, the
struggle would havo been drawn out
until thousands of men had perished,
vast amounts of property had been
destroyed and tho national debt
doubled, And after the miserable long
drawn out war hud been brought to a
close, we should havo had the inevi
table crop of widows, cripples and
pensioners, together with the undy
ing hatred of a neighboring people.
And for what? Merely because ambit
ious chieftains in a partially civilized
country had substituted the bayonet
for the ballot. War thrust upon us at
mis time would mean a display o
noisy patriotism, big contracts for
army and navy supplies, cheap null
tary heroes, and a debauched Con
gross. In a trice we should be in the
passion and tumult of .he reconstruc
tion days that followed the Civil War,
The tariff wall would bo rebuilt, and
(liiestions ot taxation, public utili
ties ami political reform would be
swept away by tho greed and sel
fishness that iiccompnny military op
orations."
Where You Waste
11 cents a day you are throwing away
what would amount to $ 11,000 by the
time you are 70 years old. In saying
this, we assutie that you are twenty now.
If so small a start will make you inde
pendent, why not open a savings account
with this bank NOW, and lay the foun
dation for future prosperity.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Judge Galloway of Salem, says
every local option election in Oregon
held on November 4 is void, because
the day in a tecnical sense was not a
general election.
It was a state wide election, gener
al to every precinct in Oregon. Every
voter in the state had an opportunity
to vote, and the virdict of the voters
is just as fully representative as if it
was held on a day when a president
was elected.
But there was a "tech" and Judge
Galloway saw it, and according to his
ruling, only a half of the voice of the
people November 4 should be listened
to. .
Isn't it petty, unreasonable, ab
surd?
The people had a full and legal
right to pass on several referendum
measures of big importance on this
aay, and these virdicts stand.
But on the matter of deciding
whether or not liquor should be sold
in certain localities in 1914 this is
illegal, the voice of the people shall
not count. The election should have
been held on another day, when there
would have been more expense.
Here's another.
The supreme court of the state has
declared our recent expensive regis
tration law void.
Under it thousands of people reg.
istered, and that registration is just
as (rood as if the United btates sup
reme court had held it valid because
the object was registration and the
people registered.
The Supreme Court holds that the
act is invalid because it is not con
ititutional, and at the same time the
court s decision becomes unconstitu
tional, for under it thousands of vot-
ers were practically disfranchised in
many Oregon cities because the At
torney General declared the only way
they could vote would be by swear
ing in.
" The supreme court knew months
fgo what the law was. They could
have pointed out the unconstitutional
tpots and saved the State of Oregon
thousands of dollars. But no, they
let it go, let the thirty-four counties
of the state put in the expensive card
system and let the thousands of peo
ple be to the trouble to register, and
then they declare the registration in
valid.j If they had declared the parts of
the law void that butted into the con
stitution and the registration stand,
but little harm would have been done,
but they dumped the whole kettle out.
Now we can register again, and the
again will be no more a registration
than the one dumped out, for both
will be registrations. However, one
will be, a distinctive registration.
And once more.
Up at Woodburn J. R, Landon was
elected a dry mayor. For forty years
he had held public office more or less
and had sat on many juries. i
But after the election as mavor.
some person discovered that sixty or
seventy years ago Landon's father
came to this country and was never
naturalized.
Suit was brought to oust him and
Circuit Judge Kelley held that he was
technically not a citizen; P. A. Lives
lay, defeated by Mr. Landon, was de
clared mayor.
The virdict of the people was set
aside because Landon's father neg
lected to become naturalized back in
Wisconsin seventy years ago and the
"drys" had to accept a "wet" mayor.
It is said law and court decisions
are based on reason. If you can find
any reason in these three cases show
them.
The people are .very tired of courts
defeating their expressions on teen
meal points.
The registrations at the county
clerks office were good and you know
it.
The decision of the attorney, gen
oral, that because of the obeying of
the registration many people were de
prived of their votes in the recent
election was Daa ana you Know iu
After tho people of Oregon had ex
pressed themselves with secret ballot
at a state wide election, Judge uai
loway should not have declared the
expressions void because in his con
struction of the law the day was not
technically a "general election day
LOOKING 'EM OVER
i Closing an editorial on the way it
sees the governor situation to date,
the Salem Messenger writes:
"There is Mr U'Ren of Oregon City
who knows more about the different
forms of popular government than
any man in Oregon or anywhere else,
Then, hailiner from the same town is
Grant B. Dimick, principally dis
tinguished as a defeated candidate
for the Republican nomination in 1910
but who made a irood run.
"So far. Oreeon City has but three
candidates out for the Governorship
the latest being George C. Brownell,
a reformed Republican who is lying
awake nights considering the mat
ter. His platform will be, in the event
he is a candidate, 'using the Mate
militia to keep out the Hindus.' He
also believes in prohibition. It Clack
amas county has any other candidates
they have not yet reported.
"Portland also has three men who
are anxious to become public serv
ants.. One of these, T. T. Geer, held
the job once upon a time, though only
a few can tell the exact date without
going to history to refresh their
memories. It is evident, though, that
he liked the position of public serv
ant. Another Portland man is Col
Robert A. Miller, a Democrat, by the
way. Col. Miller is firm in the belief
that no once can serve the people so
well as a Democrat, and no Democrat
so well as Col. Miller. But the Colonel
is going to have some opposition, for
the Hon. John Manning, ex-prosecut
ing attorney for Multnomah County,
has openly and above board declared
that he will be in the race for a
chance to become a servant of all the
people of the great State of Oregon.
"But it is almost six months vet
until the primaries; so if any of the
gentlemen here mentioned are objec
tionable to any, there will mobablv be
plenty of others, for up to date, the
surface only has been skimmed."
WEST
Tom Kay is reported to have said
that Governor West would again
run for governor if in his judgement
the people wanted him that is if
there was strong enough sentiment
shown.
t-, i.:i. .., .,i- it Hint if a
V rom Wim:u vvu wwe
petition with enough signatures was
presented, Governor West would
think it his duty to get in.
The Democrats of Oregon will look
long for a candidate who can come
down to the polls with more votes
than West.
The criticism against him is that
he gets too busy, that he tackles too
many things he can't get away with,
but many will reason that it is bet
ter to have tried and failed than
never to have tried.
In the Courier's judgement there is
not a Democrat in Oregon who can
poll the women vote West can, and if
he is a candidate for re-election he'll
crivp his KenuDllcan opponent a iuu
for the money.
"MUST TOGETHER STICK"
Banks Equity Man Says Members
Must Follow German Proverb
In an article of your boosting pa-
ner of Nov. 28th. I saw a suggestion
from Mr. W. S. Daywalt, where he is
starting out in the right direction,
Keep right on, Brother, ana aon 1
stop until you get to your destina
tion.
If all the locals that have to go to
Oregon City for their necessities of
life, would combine and build a ware
house and store in Oregon City, they
would then realize the benetit and the
meaning of Equity. But as long as
you are only members in name, you
can not accomplish much.
Clackamas County has about 25
locals, but we never can see that they
do any business.
Mountaindale Local has bought
thru the Equity Warehouse Co., in
the last six weeks, $1,503.00 worth of
merchandise. And other locals have
done the same. We saved from 15 to
25 per cent on a dollar and that ia
only the beginning.
If you members in Clackamas
would come through how long would
it take until we would be able to get
our stuff direct from the manufactur
ers and producers?
We need no wholesaler to buy our
coffee from Brazil, and other foods
just like it, and pay a middleman's
price. Our warehouse manager can do
the same thing and save us all kinds
ot money. Ihis will not be hard to do,
But we Germans must together
HT1CK.
Rt. 3, Bx 36, Banks, Oregon.
Maple Lane Local
The Manle Lane Local nf Hie Far.
Trier's Socipt.v nf Fnnifv mpt. in r.imi.
j ...WW ... 'bH
lar session Nov. 19th, with 3 officers
and 14 memhprs nrpspnt.
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The reports of delegates were read
ana accepted, ine motion was made
ana carnea, tnat utto M. riunzman
he nccpnt.pH ne a mpmW nf fVila lnol
The following articles are for sale by
4.U.. .1
me meiuuers;
All sizes and aces nf hocro V V.
Parker; one Jersey bull calf, register-
eu slock, n. ivi. KoDDins; s. (J. K. 1
cockerells. G. F. Afiirhnlls
This local also WlfihpS tn TlnrpVmen
about 1,500 lbs .red clover seed.
it you have any clover seed for
saie, piease notuv the secretarv. n sn
siaung price.
G. F. Mighells, Sec.
Oregon City, Rt. 3.
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A Little Paris Shop
Now in this City
A LITTLE FRENCH SHOP has been opened in our
store. A new section showing over Six Hun
dred Pieces of Artistic Jewelry such as you see
in the little shops in Paris. Here a dollar or two, and
even fifty cents buys a piece of jewelry worthy to be
worn with the most elaborate gowns.
The Fact Remains
No amount of misrepresentation by the
peddlers of alum' baking powders, no jug
gling with chemicals, or pretended analysis,
or cooked-up certificates, or falsehoods of
any kind, can change the fact that
Royal Baking Powder
has been found by the offi
cial examinations to be of the
highest leavening efficiency,
free from alum, and of absolute
purity and wholesomeness.
Royal Baking Powder is indispensable
for making finest and most economical food.
FOR SALE work horse, also one
9x12 rug and one 8x10 nearly new.
J. H Bellan, Route 6, Box 64 on Pa
cific Highway on South road.
Taken up Black mare, about five
years old, weight about 700, taken up
Wednesday, Nov. 26. J. S. Goulds,
Oregon City, Rt. 2.
Lost Red leather purse, containing
something like $17.00 in gold and
silver; a money order receipt for
$7.15. Finder please leave at Courier
office. Reward.
FOR SALE 5-room house and twn
lots; good well; fruit; bam and
wood shed. Terms reasonable En
quire at 507 Mt. Hood street!" city
FOR SALE CHEAP-Fine grade
Jersey cows and heifers. Two miles
south of Oregon City on rivet
Phone Main 2013. J. H. Zan Meter
For any pain, burn, scald or bruise
Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil-the C
hold remedy. Two sizes, 25c and 60c
at all drug stores.
Special Announcement
WILLIAM GARDNER
the well known JEWELER of Oregon City
announces to bis many patrons that
he has succeeded in procuring
the services of
Hint n. Schilling
Eye-Sight Specialist
of portland
Every Monday and Thursday, beginning
Itionday, December i, m
from 9 o'clock a. m. to 5 p. m.
PRICES REASONABLE
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A dollar buys a piece of this fa
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The wearing of this artistic but
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wealth buy and wear it because
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We have many surprises in store
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The design and workmanship of
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Thus you are sure of getting not
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Wear the Latest Styles
In buying this artistic but inex
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latest of novelties and you get
superior wearing quality. Thus
you can "keep up with the chang
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A dainty necklace or lovely brooch
is almost a necessity to give the
right finish to low collars. Short
sleeves invite a bracelet to set
off a pretty arm.
What $1.00 Buys
Here are a few of the many
beautiful pieces you can choose
for a dollar or even less.
Apendantsetwithartificial pearls,
diamonds, and amethysts on
a dainty silver chain.
Friendship circle pins with hand
tracery designs.
Cloisonne enamel brooches, collar
sets of three pins plain or
with artificial pearl and dia
mond settings.
Artistic cuff buttons and stiek
pins for men and youths.
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