OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, JAN. 28, 191-f
OREGON CITY COURIER
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Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
M. J. BR.OYVN,
EDITOR
"TO HELL WITH TOMORROW."
The Courier editor was at Beau
mont, Tex., when the great oil gush
ers came in as fast as the drill
could be pushed down to the oil lake.
Some of the producers seeing the
awful danger should a fire get to one
of these gushers and uncap the
others, called a meeting one Sunday
to enact some tringent precautions.
One big producer Jiointpd out the
dangers of the carelessness and con
cluded with "Tomorrow we may
have a fire here all Texas can't put
out."
An oil-crazed speculator who had
just struck a gusher the men were
trying to cap, and who had another
well almost in, yelled out: '
."To hell with tomorrow we may
all be dead. Let's get the grease
while it is running."
It is but a matter of a few weeks
when the Panama canal will open,
and it presents a situation that the
people of the Pacific coast seem to be
absolutely side stepping.
The hiehest estimate of the num
ber of emigrants that will be brought
here in the opening months is 3UU,
000. The lowest is 150,000.
These people will "be distributed in
California, Uregon and Washington
Probably not one out of ten of
these people can speak hngush.
They are the poor people of Eu
rope. They come here to get away
from pauper conditions at home.
Today we have bread lines march
ine ud and down the coast.
We haven't work enough for the
men now here.
Let 50.000 or 100,000 more come
to Oregon, of a class to which a dol
lar a day looks like- big wages, and
where are uiegonians going to be.'
Very few of these emigrants from
southern Europe will be able to buy
our waste land and make homes.
They will be work hunters, and ig
norant of our ways and standard of
living. Oregonians cannot compete
with them in the wage market.
And what are Oregonians going to
doY
It's a matter of dead seriousness
and should be met before it reaches
us.
"To hell with tomorrow" may find
us with tomorrow and a hell.
HOW WOULD THIS DO?
$300 A DAY IN TAXES
If 5,000 families should leave Port
land it would make a big difference
in the values of land and the market
gardening business in Clackamas
county. If 5,000 more families come
to Portland it would make a big dif
ference the other way.
To exemnt the home from taxa
tion up to $1,500 will undoubtedly
result in that many new homeg being
built in Portland within the yeur 1915.
People who live in homes, and
people who build them eat stuff that
grows in the ground, .
Clackamas county has stuff grow
ing in the ground that it sells to
Portland people.
No eounty in the state will benefit
more from the exemption of the home
from taxation than Clackamas.
Its people should rise unanimously
and put that measure on the ballot,
What is needed now is 6,000 more
names and SliOO.
In every rural neighborhood there
should be one hustler, or more, se
curing those signatures. The farm
era of Clackamas county alone could
furnish them, Their wives and sons
and daughters could furnish signa
tures enough to complete tho peti
tion. Farmers will pay more than $300
every day to the tax collector of
Clackamas .county in 1915 that this
measure would save them if it Is
adopted in Nov. 1914.
The Courier will receive donations
of money to help this measure out.
It will furnish a list of volunteers to
circulate tho petition to the secretary,
Alfred D. Cridge, 954 East 2'id
NORTH, Portland, Ore.; or any per
son can send to him direct.
Our attorney general wants to be
governor, and comes out to say so.
lie endorses the idea of exempting
the home from taxation. Well, gen
eral, send in a check to help along
the Home-Tax Exemption amend
ment. Practical sympathy NOW will
do more than after the election. It
won't need you, then,
To exempt $1,500 of the home from
taxation is none too much.
One candidate for governor has
contributed cash to help the measure
along and lent his assistance to its
drafting. He would have no objec
tion to good company. Better get
aboard.
It rather looks as if there would
be tilings doing at" tho coming state
election.
Here are the ideas of a young Re
publican in Oregon City.
Not so bad. Think them over.
"Abolish the senate, re-apportion
.the house with a smaller represen
tation lown to 25 or 30.
, "Have the house convene every 90
days, limit the sessions to 10 or 15
days,, and prohibit any bill introduced
from being passed at the same ses
sion it is introduced 90 days be
tween introduction and passage."
The people of Oregon might wait a
long time and do a heap worse than
adopt this outlined reform.
If we had one house and it so small
a man couldn't hide himself, there
would be a line-up where every voter
could see the standing.
With no senate to duck behind and
with the handy recall, there would be
direct responsibility, and a lot less
graft.
But these changes will come. It Is
a pretty sure bet the senate is going,
and when once gone, the people will
make the house sit up and be
noticed.
THE SCARE OF BONDS
(Aurora Observer)
The proposal to issue $850,000 in
bonds to build hard surfaced roads is
sure to arouse opposition from those
who have an unreasonable prejudice
against bonds for any and all pur
poses. Just why this prejudice exists
it is difficult to explain. Many public
and semi-public works and enterprises
could never have been carried on in
any other way. Scarcely a railroad
in the United States could have been
built without issuing bonds. Many
municipal corporations, to say nothing
of counties and states have built
thousands of miles of the finest roads
in the world in the Eastern States, and
all have been built by issuing bonds
to supply the funds. This method
distributes the cost over a number of
years, making future as well as
present users pay for the benefits re
ceived. By this method only can hard
surfaced roads be built for present
use, for the small amount of yearly
taxes is not sufficient when spent in
annual driblets to make even a decent
beginning.
It may be of interest to know that
$850,000, in 5 per cent bonds, can be
repaid, principal and interest, by an
annual levy of about 1 1-2 mills for
the next 12 years. During these 12
years we should have the constant use
of hard, smooth, dustless, mudless
roads, good in summer and winter
alike, roads that will reduce hauling
expenses and at the same time en
hance the value of our land ten times
th amount of our road taxes for the
12 years.
A considerable few of the promi
nent politicians of Oreiron are irointr
out of their way to say that they are
opposed to single tax, and some of
them in the next breath, or the breath
previous, will tell you that they are in
favor of exempting the home from
taxation to a "reasonable amount."
The flip-flop some gentlemen took
a few years ago on the silver question
nas kept them flip-Hopping ever since.
The time will come when we will
hear from every side the earnest as
surance of candidates for office that
they are and always have been de
voted singletaxers and read Henry
George's Progress and Poverty at
moir momeis Knee.
This may sound weird,' but it will
prove true.
CAN'T YOU SEE IT?
The wise ones now have it that tho
plan is for the Oregoninn and the Re
publican machine to drop Booth at the
last moment and run Bourne. It
sounds strange, but Oregon politics
knows stranger things. Cornelius
Tribune.
And if this change should come to
pass some horrid fellow would jump
and say Pou rod's proposition to cur
tail the initiative and his stand against
public ownership of railroads and tele
graphs might have had somethine- to
do with the change.
Three hundred cases of typhoid
and 20 deaths have awakened the
people of Contntliti to tho need of a
pure water supply, and the present
well system will bo abandoned and u
$150,000 gravity system will be in
stalled.
Four of the Supreme Court iudees
go out this year, Mollride, Bean, Mc
Nary and Ramsey. Circuit Judge
Benson of Lake county has an
nounced his candidacy for one of the
vacancies.
i no Aurora unsorver comni
the platform of G. B. Dimick
city, as "broad and ideal."
ents on
of this
A DROP OF
QUICKSILVER
Scatters in all directions, when ( you
touch it with your finger. Quicksilver
doesn't fly away any quicker when a
drop of it is broken than the silver dol
lar vanishes when once it is brokeu into
small change. Kach piece seems to
melt into the air. As jlong as it is iu
your pocket it is likely to be scattered;
but put away iu our vault it remains a
dollar as long as you wish.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
"Single Tax!" gasps out some of
our exchanges at the sight of the
Home-Tax Exemption amendment.
Some of them are throwing connip
tion cat fits in an fcndeavor to scare
the farmers into the brush by telling
them cf the a-w-f-u-1 results of ex
empting from tax the house and barn,
live stock, tools, etc., to $1,500.
The opponents of the measure say
it will exempt one-sixth of the pro
perty from taxation. That is when
you can get them down to any esti
mates whatever. In fact the amount
it will exempt is different in different
counties. In a county like Douglass,
where land and franchise values and
rights of way amount to five-sixths
of the total assessed values, it could
not possibly increase taxes more than
one-twelfth. '
Old Granny Oregonian assumes
that it will exempt one-sixth in Wash
ington county; and it would probably
do as much for Clackamas as it would
for Washington. The indications are
that it would exempt about one-tenth
of the assessment roll, however.
If it did exempt one-sixth any 12
year old girl can figure out what the
effect will be on the farmer having a
total assessed value of $6,000, of
which $1,000 would be exempt. The
example would run like this: If
"John Henshaw" pays $120 in taxes
now on $6,000 what taxes would he
pay if he was exempted one hundred
per cent on one-sixth of it and had
one-fifth added to the remainder?
But "John Henshaw" might have
$10,000 in land values on the assess
ment rolls and nothing worth speak
ing of aside from that patch of land.
Well, in that case, this amendment
will greatly encourage him, for it will
bring him buyers and neighbors for
half his land and enable him to de
velop the rest with the capitaK
Most of farmers in Clackama3 who
work their own land for a living have
about $2,000 in assessed values on the
average. Their improvements and
labor values exempted by this measure
would be about half that at the very
outside estimate; the figures indicate
less than $750,
The small farmer with $1,500 of
exemptions allowed could have $7,500
of land values in addition and still be
about even on tho taxes he paid. If
he had much more property than that
he could afford to pay more taxes
better than his neighbor having per
haps $300 in exempted property and
land assessed for $1,000.
The small farmer pays very heavily
on his property in proportion to
values. A score of corporations in
Illinois dodge taxes every year on
more property than all the farmers
in Oregon own.
We have a score of corporations
doing the same thing in Oregon but
the figures are not fully compiled.
i AN OPENING
Three Democrats of Coos
county are said to be out after
Representative Hawley's politi
cal scalp. They are John D.
Goss, Hugh McLain and Judge
John F. Hull, of Marshfield. It
seems as if any live man ought
to be elected this year, as the
present representative of this
district appears to have about
as much influence in Washing- '
ton as a snow man. Salem
Messenger.
If a man of some prominence and
more principle would come out and
make an aggressive campaign, he
could down Hawley, but of late this
Salem politician has had splendid
luck in having the weakest of men
go against him so weak that it has
seemed more than luck.
So far as Oregon is concerned,
Hawley has been a dead one, but as
to representing big business and
stumping the New England states
for high tariff, he has been a lurid
and handy success.
Now see the newspapers and the
West haters "explain. Judire Ander
son of Baker, in a decision rendered
Tuesday, upholds Governor West's
action in the Copperfield matter, and
declares the courts have no power
to enjoin the governor trom pro
claiming martial law, when in his
judgement such action is necessary.
Here's about tho hottest one ever
handed out. The Richmond, Cal., Her
ald' never misses a chance to hand
one -to Chet. Rowell of the Fresno Re
publican. Here is the last chance:
The students of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, states a dis
patch", are staging a dramatic
version of the book of Job.
There is a chance for Chet.
Rowell. He could go on there
and take the part of the boil.
Let the matter of the sale of cigar
ettes be put up to the people of Ore
gon tor a vote and the little stinkers
will lose their place on the tobacco
shelves and it is coming at the next
session. Newherg Graphic.
It should come and will come when
wo have some representatives at
halem whoso children ties are stroncr
er than tho tobacco trust.' It is said
one representative is going to intro
duce a bill, and it will certainly be
inteiesting to see how the boys line
up.
That word "fate" is a relic of su
perstition that I have little time for.
Its the coward's slip out and the
quitters clinch. That misfortune will
drop on onesman in bunches and the
l. - A. - i I-
ui-xi oi overyimng come in easy
suces to ins neigmior, are instances
wo very often see. but fate never
willed it so no over-ruling power
ever iramea up tne circumstances to
give you the worst of it. Darn this
ramui, s root nonsence. Nature gave
you Drains to overcome the circum
stances that line up against you. .The
man who is too shiftless to 'cart the
rotten cabbage leaves out of his cel
lar and then wails at a fate which di
rected typhoid fever to his home, is
of the class who prate of "luck."
These men go down wfth the first
inb on the jaw and stay down for the
count.
A man has a rigjit to buy booze
enough to get properly and thor
oughly soused. The law says he may
buy it and drink it from any licensed
bar. Then when he gets the jag nicely
to working, the law says he must not
irot drunk, and arrests him. Justice
tells him to pay a fine of five dol
lars for getting drunk at a place
where the law savs he may got
drunk. He has spent five dollars for
his drunk material, but must pay five
more for using it. If he can't he goes
to iail and the tax payers buck it up.
It is a great system, and its work-
inrs arc beautiful. The government
irets the coin from the man who
makes booze (in revenue,) from the
man who sells it (in licence) aid th
man who drinks it (in fines.) Nice
bvsinjss.
Clackamas county is going to
mako a noise like less taxes this year.
It doesn't appear'there will be any
senate for the elected to go to this
fall.
There will be little use for the
Republicans to hold a National con
vention in 1916.
Ex-Senator Bourn suggests that
the nation borrow a billion and lend
it to the states to build good roads.
To many that would seem like get
ting something for nothing. Buffalo
N. Y. Courier.
About 50 of our road districts will
expend over $1,000 on road work this
year. The last legislature passed a
law which plainly states such dis
tricts shall advertise for bids, let the
work by contracts and that the coun
ty surveyor is the county engineer to
prepare the specifications. This is
plain law. Now what?
Week after week come the load ex
penses from nearlv every district in
the county, and the question arises,
what CAN supervisors be doing to
the roads during the rainy season?
And the conclusion also arises that
our system is dead wrong.
Control of our railroad securities
separation of production and trans
portation, that individuals, not bus
iness be prosecuted and prohibition of
holding companies. These are the big
four of President Wilson's message
to Congress, and he is a big enough
man to see them through.
This paper is as open as a barn
door to any man or woman who has
anything to say from president to
supervisor. Honest criticism, backed
up with reason, will find a place, but
pin-sticking and personal revflnges
don't go. If you can write something
that will make people think, whether
it is toothpicks or the Mexican situ
ation, we will gladly print it. One
Courier reader will understand this
reference. This paper may be inde
pendent in general matters, but it
won't pull chestnuts out of the fire
for any individual.
It is to be hoped that the agita
tion for cheaper insurance for the
poor man will come to something
that the workingman may have a
policy at actual cost, without graft,
dividends, big salaries and big ex
penses. The trouble with the pres
ent day insurance is that the man
who can afford to carry it doesn't
need it, and those who need it can't
afford it. A man came in the office
last week, a man close to the sev
enty mark, a poor man and in poor
health. He is rounding out his life
in a struggle between work, sickness
and meeting monthly payments rang
ing as high as $9 a month. He has
paid in for years and years, depriv
ing himself of the little Jcomforts
that help to make life enjoyable,
and now must die to win or that a
wife or child may win. It isn't worth
the struggle. More happiness would
have come from the spending of the
assessment money than the family
will ever get from the use of policy
money.
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of Clackamas County on the Demo
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Mr. Koehler is a blacksmith by oc
cupation and has been a resident of
Clackamas county for over twenty
years.
He has served as Constable, and
is under no obligations except the
duties of the Sheriff's office, if nom
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