Public
Letters From The People
LIVES AHEAD OF MONEY
Dr. Turner Urges Oregon City to
Get Pure Water Supply
By Dr. W. A. Turner, Naturopath
I would again urge the people of
Oregon City to get together on the
water question and secure pure
mountain water as soon as possible.
You will never be safe from epidem
ics of disease as long as you drink
Willamette sewer water.
I resided and practiced in Los An
geles, Cal., for twenty years, where
we were compelled to drink water
from the Los Angeles "river," a very
pure stream compared with the Wil
lamette, but sickness frequently came
and the supply was also getting in
adequate, so they went up into Neva
da and tapped Owens' Lake, just such
water as Bull Kun.
They built an aqueduct and tunnel
ed through mountains and desert for
270 miles at a cost of nearly twenty
five millions dollars, but she now has
not only an inexhaustible supply of
pure water for a city of over a mil
lion people, but sells water to other
localities.
Good drinking water is high class
life insurance and with that spirit of
progrecsiveness, which abounds in
your citizens, I am sure you can all
pull together on the water question.
Your recent typhoid experience
should teach you a lesson. It is well
to remember that the lives of the
community are more valuable than
money.
An Answer to "B."
"B" asks me, through the Courier,
to explain the death of a man in
Portland last summer, who was sup
posed to have had rabies Frank
Griffith, owner of "Seeing Portland"
auto busses, was bitten by a pet dog
last summer. Following a supersti
tious custom the dog was killed and
its head examined, if I remember cor
rectly, by the State Board of Health,
which said that the dog did not have
rabies.
While the details of the case are
somewhat obscure owing to the se
crecy maintained by the doctors, who
attended Mr. Griffith, the efforts of
the Health Defense League to get
the facts, were impeded, but in five
or six weeks it was announced by the
attending physicians, of whom I be
lieve Dr. Calvin S. White was one,
that Mr. Griffith was dying of rabies,
and that "medical science" could do
nothing more for him.
The symptons, I was told, indicat
ed spinal mtningitis and tetanus or
lock jaw, which are frequently ine
results of the injection of the Pas
teur "liubio" serum. Mr. Griffith
died and on the following day Dr.
White announced through the Port
land papers, that a serum for the
cure could now bo purchased in Sac
ramento, Cal., for $20.
These are the facts as nearly as
I can remember them. The dog was
healthy and Mr. Griffith was healthy.
Did the serum or fear kill him?
Smallpox in the ISuvy
The Army and Navy Journal, de
voted to the interest of the military
service, is a most excellent paper of
its kind. In its efforts to praise the
work and efficiency of army and
navv officers, which is entirely com
mendable, the toadying sycophance it
displays in trying to elaUorute on the
work of the medical departments of
the services, -is nauseating.
A recent issue deals largely with
the wonderful success (?) of com
pulsory vaccination, alleging that it
has practically "stamped out" small
pox and typhoid in the army and
navy. With the U. S. government's
unlimited resources behind them the
medical officers of the army and navy
are enabled to select men who are
practically physically perfect and
thus in a large measure are immune
to disease. Through military disci
pline they are enubled to absolutely
enforce cleanliness, hygiene and san
itation. All eating places are models
of cleanliness. Sickness is a rare
thing among the men.
To mako doubly sure of protection
by "preventive medicine," the men
are repeatedly vacciiuited.
Now, nlong comes the battleship
"Ohio," returning from a trip to the
Mediterranean. Before she landed it
was reported by wireless that small
pox was epidemic on board. ISlio had
reported several deaths among the
sailors and that hundreds have been
down with the disease. Can the med
ical officers explain this condition
among men protected?
An American warship is the clean
est place on earth, painfully clean
and no smallpox could be "caught"
on it or from it. It is simply the old,
old story. Smallpox is a filth disease,
caused by internal filth, helped by
bad atmospheric conditions, and these
Bailors have been at the mercy of
the medical faddists until their sys
tems aro rotted by these filthy se
rums and outraged naturo 1ms finully
rebelled and expelled the filth in the
shape of smallpox.
Vaccination makes disease does
not prevent or cure it. It is only a
medical superstition and a climax of
the crazy "germ" theory, which, if
abandoned by the medical profession,
will leave them nothing to "cure,"
with, as both "medicine" and "mod
cm surgery" have been pronounced
failures by the most eminent men of
the medical profession.
Preventive Medicine
Tho paramount env.o with the
medical fraternity just now is "pre
ventive" medicine or "curative" med
icine for sick people and "preventive"
medicine for well people. We also
have "scientific" medicine, but I
confess that I don't know just what
it is, for science is exact and medi
cine is experimental. Still, it is really
pathetic, this effort of the Ameri
can Medical Association, though its
tools in tho various state health
boards and legislatures to snake
"preventive" medicine compulsory.
This philanthropic spirit seeks to
even deprive the doctors of their pro
fession and living, and in their mad
desire to keep the people from being
sick. They will be close to the throne
in the end.
The Rockefeller Institute is the
home of preventive medicine and Dr.
Simon Flexnor the high priest. Ser
ums are "preventive" medicines, and
he. has invented practically all of
them, and he has also practically an
nounced his lack of faith in them.
Formerly it was said that vacci
nation protected against disease for
seven years. Now the doctors say it
protects for only one year. Some
say for only six weeks. . ,
Dr. Flexnor has been reported as
Opinion
Safefects of General Interest
saying that diphtheria antitoxin is a
failure because Nature expels it in
three or four weeks. This wide diver
gence of opinion is embarassing. In
the meantime the small fry country
doctor or "health" officer is right on
the job when a panic or scare is
worked up.
In Joliet, Illinois, a few days ago
thirty thousand people were inoculat
ed with "preventive" medicine. One
doctor in The Dalles vaccinated near
ly four hundred in two or three days
at $1.50 per. Nine thousand were vac
cinated in Centralia lately for ty
phoid and hundreds in Oregon City,
and the noble work of planting seeds
of cancer, consumption, diphtheria,
meningitis, lockjaw, paralysis and
other diseases in well people goes
cheerily on by the use of "preven
tive" medicine, making sure that bus
iness will be good later on. But what
are you going to do about it?
Every board of health in Oregon
is a violation of the state Constitu
tion, and that of the U. S. Allopathic
me'dicine is rammed down your
throats by illegal state doctors and
boards. Why don't you stop it? You
have the remedy in your own hands,
but don't use it. Don't be deceived by
these political doctors.
First of all legislation should be
passed wiping every board of health
and health officers in the state out of
existence. Put sanitary engineers in
their place. Vital statistics can be
reported to any state, city or county
officials. Wipe allopathic medicine, as
it now stands, from the map so far
as it is saddled upon the people by
law. Let every medical or healing
tub stand on its own bottom.
Those who want vaccination, pills,
scrums and operations, give it to
them. It is their legal right. Those
who want drugless methods, give it
to them, for it is their legal right.
Christian Scientists, who want
neither should have their rights re
spected. Allopathic medicine and political
doctors respect nobody they are out
strictly for the "stuff." Abolish ille
gal medical inspection in your
schools. Let your family doctor at
tend to that if needed.
The medical fraternity has no use
for you except for what it can scare
out of you and to keep you in ig
norance. Drastic laws, that are pass
ed by the legislatures are not de
manded by "the people," but by the
doctors, ostensibly in the interest of
"health," but in reality to fasten
their theories on you by law and to
increase medical practice. "Preven
tive" medicine is a fake a crime,
and should be prohibited. Will you do
your part toward this end?
(Questions relating to health mat
ters will be answered if addressed to
me care of Hotel Edwards, Portland,
Ure.)
HIC1NBOTIIAN COMMENTS
Sarcastic Reply to Alfred Cridge's
Proposed Taxation Reforms
Editor Courier:
In the Courier of the 8th I read
a couple of letters from Mr. Cridge
in which he proposes to call a mass
meeting and give the County Court,
the Assessor and the Board of Equal
ization their order and make them
obey orders or else recall the whole
bunch, and put in a bunch that will
obey orders.
Now that begins to sound like
business. Mr. Cridge did not say just
when he was going to call the mass
meeting, but when ever he is ready
let us all know and we'll be there, if
possible. The idea of Mr. Cridge is
to make the assessor assess the rich
fellows the way we want him to, and
then to favor the little fellow, also
the way we want him to, and then
the county court is no tto interfere,
and the Board of Equalization is to
legalize the assessment rolls, as
made out by the assessor, and then,
by getting his Home Tax Exemp
tion bill passed, ho will have the
wholo tax problem solved, and every
thing will work along smooth and
nicely.
Those rich fellows won't dare to
say a word, but will just have to take
their medicine and keep still, for the
Hoard of Equalization has passed on
the assessment rolls and Wnlizeil
them, and the law is just what we
want to mane it.
Now this is one of tho most in
teresting propositions I have heard
for some time, and appeals directly
to the poor, burdened taxpayer. But
it is a very important question in my
mind, whether the present Assessor
and the other county officers, com
posing the Board of Equalization,
can be depended on to obey orders
of the mass meetinir. and if thpv
don't the only way that seems clear
to my mnul is to recall the whole
bunch, and let Mr. Cridge pick the
candidates to fill their places, and
not have any candidate who will not
take oath to obey orders, strictly,
and elect Mr. Cridge for county As
sessor, and let him run the assess
ing to suit himself.
As a matter of course, after we
tried that plan for a few years, if it
did not suit, we uild make a change,
but I think it would eivo nn-ttv p-m,.
eral satisfaction to a good many, at
least, and I think it is about the
only way to insure the satisfactory
working of the Home Tax bill. I
have created a little, imaginery coun
ty of my own on paper and I have
created all grades of property holders
from $100,000 down to $l'00, or $:i00,
and assessed the whole bunch at a
certain rate, without nnv pvimintinn
and then I took the same assessment
and gave each man the benefit of as
much exemption -as I thought he
would bo apt to have, under the
Home Tax Exemption bill, ami then
compared the difference in the tax on
eaen man, and after quite an exhaus
tive amount of comparison I came to
n. vi mm IU.-.IOM iliac under tne ex
emption bill there are two classes
of taxpayers that I did not caro to
oeiong to.
The first class would be those as
sessed at over $r,.omi or !i:mi .,.)
the other class would bo the poor
class, which had just secured a piece
... 1111111 io muiko a nome of and had
perhaps, paid part down on it and
gone in debt for the rest, and was
working out for wages, trying to
support family and pay for land at
the same time, and had no improve
ments to exempt.
This is the man that the Home
lax Exemption law would hurt the
most, nmuii'ditlv. f,v iilil.,,..k ;
would hit the big follows a good deal
heavier, they would be able to stand
it, but the Door nmn inuf do-;.,..
and not having any improvements,,
or hardly anything else, that the
present exemption law does not
touch, would be strictly up against
it.
If we could get Mr. Cridge in as
Assessor, and let him run things to
suit himself, it will, perhaps, be all
right.
George Hicinbotham.
YOU HAVE THE POWER
If You Don't Want the Capitalist
System, Change It
A few days ago I was thrown into
a reverie not by the private secre
tary to the spectacular resident of
Salem but was thrown into this rev
erie perhaps you wonder what a
reverie is; to be confidential, I can't
tell you but I have heard people use
the word who had their minds finished
at one of those Institutions of higher
educations, so I will just use it too.
In a recent issue of the Courier the
editor calls attention to the act of ex
ecutive clemency extended to one J.
Thorn Ross. You all have read the
editorial and also are familiar with the
history which dates back to 1907 dur
ing a time when the obliging pre
descessor of the present incumbent
earned an honorary membership in
the Millionaires' Club, the American
house of Lords, by proclaiming holi
days for the banks, thereby saving
many a wreck and perhaps some sui
cides and undoubtedly prison pro
spects for a large number of our most
substantial citizens when the best
banking system on earth was wobbly
on its hind legs.
The editorial makes a striking com
parison between our friend the fren
zied financier and some one of the
lower classes doing a little odd job
of turning an easy penny and just
how to dispute his line I will leave to
our best people to solve as I have
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answer to. But I want to make an
observation which you may have over
looked. That little gallery play put
on the stage about the Copperlield sa
loons looks to my tired eyes as if it
was for the express purpose to make
us forget the J. Thorn incident. Of
course the governor is safe from a
suit for infringmont, for Teddy the
groat poser is now far away, while
our es'eemed Secretary of State is
boosting tho morals with grape juice
and the chief clown uses four gold
pens in signing tho biggest gamblers
license on record. ' Barnum's ghost
still walks.
There is however another phase to
this question which is highly impor
tant to think about. That is, that
while this prominent person has been
given the immunity bath, of what
good would it be to shut him up in
prison? Kirst of all, prisons are
built by working people under the
direction of the exploiter and pri
marily for work people to occupy.
Then why should one of the exploiters
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I live miles from on road near
I have acres of land.
There aro ...acres under cultivation. There is an incumbrance of
$ against the property due on 191....
I would like to borrow $ for years, giving this prop
erty as security. Do you want to sell your farm?
If you have a mortgage on your farm, or if you wish to bor
row money for development purposes, or if you want to sell your
farm, it will be to your advantage to fill this out and return to us at
once.
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OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY,
be put in contamination with vulgar
workers? Of what use would it be
to have the governing power if not to
protect the interests of the capitalist
class? When the working class will
elect themselves into power then they
can administer the government in
their own interests.
Next comes the great question
greater than the clash between the
two economic classes, namely, the ex
ploiter and the exploited; that is, the
l great human side of the prison ques
tion regardless of the person or eco
nomic class! I have just read a sketch
of Julian Hawthornes prison experi
ence. It will be remembered he
served six months in the Federal
prison at Atlanta for improper use of
the mails in connection of some min
ing scheme. Theie is nothing like a
prison experience of the real sort for
our best people to learn what we of
the lower classes are up against.
Furthermore all betterment in human
affairs must come from below, nothing
in human affairs ever come from
above but oppression.
Hawthorne like all other students
of criminology finds that prisons do
more harm than good. He being a
man of high intellectual attainments
perhaps could see the contrast better
than the slum convict; he says
"prison obstructs or altogether closes
every door to genuine moral reform
.of the prisoner." I will quote one
verse of the bitterness one feels
against the prison system I should
like to give the entire poem, which he
wrote in prison.
"From the Couldron a' cry why
are we here alone?
Are not all men brothers in sin?
Why must we for others atone?
Comes answer: All flesh is a prison,
whose jailer is time;
More grievious the sword falls on
the veiled than the unveiled crime!
The hurt you now take may be
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here,
Wear robes snow white before men,
hiding ulcers of evil and fear"-
"And our Christ on his cross
amidst them there;
Is he dead? Will he rise?
Does he hear our prayer?
Will he leave, us to perish in our
dispair?"
In my childhood and youth I be
lieved the clanking prison doors were
the- dead line between "good and
bad." That was the inevitable re
sult of rharisceism, having never
been taught Christianity, and grow
ing up among church- people, in a
limited social circle, the outsider was
the unredeemed. The holier than
thou spirit becomes dominant. That,
specially having no personal acquaint
ance among society's victinjs, of
course I heard "I was in prison and ye
came not unto me," and that at a later
time he met a felons' death. But
having been told that this revolution-
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ist was not a human working man
from inevitable necessity, but a God
who was going through the trials of
poverty and enduring the hatred of
our best people of that time just for
the fun of the thing, besides that, he
was doing this free gratis in order
that I might have a full book of sal
vation trading stamps, in my childish
thought it was a spectacular affair
worth seeing. I believe in a general
way that is what everybody be
lieved in my surroundings, conse
quently my early impressions were
that honest men were on the outside
of that uncanny pile of masonry.
Prisons under the present economic
system are certainly a necessity as
much so as all unnatural inovations
such as gambling, prostitution, lying,
cheating, stealing and. all the stupid
devices to prevent, or punish the per
petrators, and the army of persons
employed at repression. So also is
that -great army of out of work, hun
gry and cold "and ye fed me not."
The vast army of policemen, detec
tives, soldiers, time locks. Even the
president of this pretended republic
though an alleged democrat, is con
stantly guarded by gun men, consions
of the unrighteousness of the whole
system. As Hawthorne says, "It
sounds like a jest, but the men are
here, the thing is done. In some
moods I would say to myself, 'It's
too preposterous it can't be its an
hallucination a bad dream!' But
there it was, visible and palpable."
The capitalistic system is a pro
ducer of crime, the tree is known by
its fruit, it cannot be otherwise and
no amount of reform anodyne will
ever avail, the axe must be laid to the
root' of the tree. Before me lies a
paper with an item credited to the
News-Journal of Evansville, Ind.,
which gives "the annual cost of main
taining our courts, our jails, and our
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per head for every man, woman and
child in the country." Now then add
the cost of war equipment, the great
hordes of men employed at the very
humane occupation of killing their
fellowmen by "legal" methods and de
stroying property. Then think of the
irony of that bunch in Washington
employing a commission to inquire
into the whyfore of the high cost of
living. Then contemplate they open
that stupendous humbug and graft in
the name of the prince of peace.
Barnum's soul goes marching on!
What ever may be said against
Governor West pardoning Ross, he
was true to his class. If the workers
are dissatisfied with the way capital
ists administer the government they,
being the majority, can take the gov
erning job into their own hands and
have any kind of government they
want. If they will not do that, let
them take their medicine and stop
blubbering!
John F. Stark
CLYDE'S SUGGESTIONS
Editor Courier:
Here are a few ideas along the
lines of, economy in state and county
affairs.' I agree with the movement
to abolish the House of Lords or state
senate, and believe it would be for the
best interest of the state to send only
farmers and business men to the Le
gislature, as our lawyers have made a
large expense to the taxpayers in
passing the Registration law. I be
lieve that all laws contemplated should
be submitted to the Supreme Court
before passing the Legislature, or it
might be wiser to have a referendum
on all laws passed and take the power
from the Supreme Court of declaring
them unconstitutional. We would
have less taxes to pay if our county
and state officials from road overseer
to governor conducted the public af
fairs ' as economically as they would
their own business, or in other words
if they cut out the grafting for their
selves and friends and considered they
were elected to serve the people and
(Jo all of the business they could, and
-not have so many clerks and deputies
drawing salaries that they should earn
themselves.
H. S. Clyde
SOME ROAD QUESTIONS
Louis Frink of Redland Wants to
Know about Bond Issue
Twenty years" ago when I came to
this country to locate, what did we
find in the road line ? About the only
decent piece of road we found was
about two miles out west of Salem.
That was good macadam made of
fine river gravel and sand.
As for other roads out here they
iwere nothing but cow paths, impas
sable in winter. Many was the time
I have been stuck in a mud hole with
a one-half ton load. You had as your
choice of roads to town, the Holcom,
Abernethy or Walker roads. Which
ever one you took to town, you wish
ed, before you got back, that you
had taken the other,
i Those days the roads were kept
iup principally by toll tax and if one
call did not fill a mud hole, you could
expect 2, 3 or 4 calls through the
eeason.
From that we went to subscription
work that worked fairly well as long
as George was willing to do it. This
went along until it got to be a bur
den. From that we went to a better and
the only system of building roads,
viz., by levying a special tax on all
property. By so doing we got results,
we got what money we wanted, and
put it where we wanted it.
Now come certain gentlemen from
town telling us that the present sys
tem is all wrong, and our money
spent as good as wasted. Let us look
back a ways and see if it has been
thrown away.
In the first place, after getting on
a sound basis, a good share of the
road funds were spent in locating and
surveying and establishing - grades.
Then a good share of the funds was
spent in plank roads, which was all
right for that time, as planks were
cheap, often being placed on the road
at $3.00 per thousand. Was this mon
ey thrown away? We think not, as
in most cases the grade is left for a
hard surface road. Now to say that
the crushed rock road is a success is
a long way from the truth, as past
experience has proven.
While good cement gravel properly
put on is no doubt the best road that
can be built for this country, outside
of a concrete track.
Now that being the case, how are
these certain gentlemn from town go
ing to build 100 miles of good, per
manent hard surface road at $0000,
per mile as some have stated with no
eravel at hand. Of course they will
tell von that the county by bonding
itself for $600,000, we can get our
roads built cheaper than at the pres
ent time. Will we ?
Will we get the money on the
roads that will do the farmer most
good? Or will we simply go in our
pockets to cay our share of this pro
posed bond issue, its interest and
commission and take what we can eet
or work under the special tax plan
and get what we pay for?
Louis Frink.
Let Women Dress Decent
There are so many women kick
ing the saloons and saloon men now.
Why? If they are bound to wear
slit skirts, tight form fitting dress
es, and vulgar hobble skirts, and the
younger ones to dance the boll wee
vil wiggle, Texas Tommy, tango, the
bunny hii" the bear dance, the calf
canter, the kangaroo kick, the buz
zard lope and so on down the line,
the men folks might just as well have
their saloons and the whole family
go to hell together.
I hate the saloon as badly as any
one, but men make all the sacrifice
and the women none. When it is the
mother's hand that rocks the cradle
and rules the world, then why will
she lay herself liable to insult?
Let a woman dress respectable and
the man will respect her.
Mrs. Owen Hattan.
CANBY COMES IN
Business Men's Association Favors
East Side Pacific Route
Whereas; At the last regular ses
sion of the State Legislature an act
was passed authorizing the levying
of a State tax of one-quarter of a
mill each year, for the purpose of
aiding in building a first class Main
Trunk road or highway across the
State from -the Washington state
line on the North to the California
State line on the South. Said Main
Trunk road to connect with similar
Main Trunk roads provided for and
now being, built by the States of
Washington and California the whole
together will form a great continu
ous highway from British Columbia
to Mexico known as the Pacific
Highway, and
Whereas; Such Main Trunk road
or highway to be of the greatest
benefit to the greatest number and
to the state at large, in times of
peace or strife, should be laid in the
most direct line, consistent with
easy and practicable grades, between
the most populous sections of and
the important trade centers and mar
kets of tho 3tate, and
Whereas: We believe that the best
and most direct line for such main
trunk line between Portland and Sa
lem consistent with good, easy and
practicable grades lies -on and along
the eastern side of the Willamette
river and south of Salem to the Calif
ornia state line along and over the
roads or highways substantially as
now indicated and marked as the Pa
changes may be necessary to make
the line more direct and to improve
the grades, and
Whereas: Immediately a iter the1
returns of the taxes collected or
about Aprild 1st, 1914, a large part of
this state fund for this highway work
estimated ct about $238,000 each year
will be availablo for use by the state
Highway Commission under the dir
ection of which this work is to be
dona and which commission we hope
and Irust will be ready to immedia
tely begin the work without delay
and in the best organized and sys
timatic manner and will secure to the
state and its people in the least pos
sible time and at least before the fall
of 1915, the completion of this Main
Trunk load of the Oregon section of
tho Pacific Highway.
Other permanent roads and high
ways to be built throughout the state
as rapidly as possible, and as needed
thereby securing to the people of the
whole state the greatest economic
need of the present or future time.
Resolved: That we, the Business
Men's Club of Canby, Oregon, in
meeting assembled, pledge ourselves
to render every possible aid and as
sistance possible to the State High
way Commission and secure the co
operation of tho various counties and
communities to be traversed by this
highway in locating and construction
this main trunk road or highway.
Bo it further resolved: That these
resolutions be made a part of these
minutes and a copy thereof forward
ed to the Oregon State Highway
Commission the County Court and
the public press.
' A RELIC OF OLD DAYS
Mrs. Waldron Thinks "Obey" Should
be Eliminated from Marriage Cer
emonies Most everybody will remember
reading the reports of the marriage
of our President's daughter about
three month's past. Some reports
stated that she requested that "obey"
bo inserted in the wedding ceremony.
Now I don't know if she made the
request or not, and I do not wish to
criticize the higher-ups, but in these
enlightened times the word obey has
no place in the. marriage obligation,
being only a relic of barbaric days.
AH obligations in marriage should
be be mutual. There should be words
binding them in loyalty to each
other and their common interests,
consulting together, advising instead
of commanding. If it is ever neces
sary for the wife t8 obey the hus
band, just as often the case may be
reversed and the husband should
obey tho wife.
Would it not seem ridiculous for a
man on his wedding day to take the
obligation of obeying his wife?
There is no way of knowing that
either one. will need commanding.
Then why should there be an obliga
tion of that kind? In business part
nerships one partner is never bound
to obey the other.
Marriage is only a partnership,
but encompassing greater interest
than any other partnership in the
world. When rightly managed it leads
to happiness and prosperity. In these
days it is just as ridiculous to re
quire the wife to obey as it would be,
to expect the husband to do so.
In early ages woman lived within
four walls, sometimes a hovel and
the men made the laws that ruled the
land.
Like Rip Van Winkle we have
awakened and find there is some
thing we must help to do. We stand
side by side with the men and are
equally citizens of the United States
and the privilege to have clean en
vironment in which to live and rear
our children will be the subject of
another article.
Mrs. A. M. Waldron.
DON'T MISTAKE 'THE CAUSE
Many Oregon City People Have Kid
ney Trouble and Do Not Know It
Do you have backache?
Are you tired nand worn out?
Feel dizzy, nervous and depress
ed? Are the kidney secretions irregu
lar? Highly colored; contain sediment?
Likely your kidneys are at fault.
Weak kidneys give warnings of
distress.
Heed the warning; don't delay
Use a tested kidney remedy.
Read this testimony, Portland.
Mrs. Henry Uankos, B02 Vancou
ver Ave., Portland, Ore., says: "One
ofm y family was troubled by attacks
of backache which prevented stoop
ing or lifting. Doan's Kidney Pills
for weakness and pain across my
kidneys and they haveg reatly bene
fitted me."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the Unit
ed States.
Remember the ' name Doan's
and take no other.
Wonderful Cough Remedy
Pr. King's New Discovery is known
everywhere as the remedy which will
surely stop a cough or a cold. D. P.
Lawson, of Eidson, Tenn., writes: "Dr
King's New Discovery is the most
wonderful cough, cold and throat and
lung medicine I ever sold in my
store. It can't be beat. It sells without
any trouble at all. It needs po guar
antee." This is true, because Dr.
King's New Discovery will relieve the
most obstinate of coughs and colds.
Lung troubles quickly helped by its
use. You should keep a bottle in the
house all times for all the members
of the family. 50c and $1.00. All
Druggists or by mail.
H. E Bucklen & Co. Philadelphia or
St. Louis.
PORTLAND PROPERTY
TO TRADE
For Farm or Acrea
8 room plastered house, ba ' , toil
et, gas, 3 lots each 25 x 100, uated
on graded street, cetnen i2
block from carline. $3,0 will
trade for equal value or r -t ssume
some on farm property.
DILLMAN & HOT AND
Over the Courier Uffice
Oregon City, Oregon
S.K.CHAN
CHINESE
f DOCTORS
V X 133 ft 1st St. 1!&L5
Ur. Alder.
Portland. Or.
Dr. S. K. Chan Mrs. Dr. Chan
The reliable Chinese Doctors, S. K.
Chan, with their harmless Chinese
remedies of herbs and roots as medi
cine, can wonderfully cure all sick
ness. They have cured many sufferers,
both men and women, of chronic dis
eases, and all internal or external .
sicknesses when others failed. No op
erations. Examination free. Ladies
treated by Mrs. Dr. Chan. Call er
write for symptom blink.
13S'2 First St., Portland, Or.g.n
(Opposite Oregon City Car Station.)
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