OREGON CITY COURIER,.. THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1914
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M. J BR.OWN, - EDITOR '
It takes some dragging in to make
President Wilson responsible for a
killing of a foreigner across the Rio
Grande. '
If George C. Brownell should be
the Republican nominee for governor
wouWt the Oregonian be in some
hole? - '
The Oregonian opposes the U'Ren
proposition -to have the estates of
dead men pay for Oregon roads. Now
the rank and file will favor it all the
more.
If it becomes necessary to disci
pline Mexico, The Enquirer's choice
for disciplinarian lies between Col.
Roosevelt and Miss Fern Hobbs.
Buffalo, N. Y. Enquirer.
A lady voter said to a party of la
dies at a home gathering the other
day: "One thing is certain. If Mr.
U'Ren is elected governor when Ore
gon goes dry this fall, OREGON
WILL BE DRY AND KEPT DRY."
When Geer finally marches into
the political arena, the bands play
and his former appointees cheer but
the assembled multitude turn their
thumbs down, and the candidate is
fed to the lions. Again in May, 1914,
will Geer be butchered to make a Re
publican holiday and he will play the
same part in the political drama at
the following election. As long as
Geer has the breath to announce his
candidacy he will be numbered among
the active or receptive candidates for
the governorship. Newberg Graphic
Under a cartoon showing a row of
autos on one side of the street and
a bread line on the other, the Buf
falo N. Y. Courier, prints this com
ment: A civilization which will per
mit people to freeze or suffer or
die in a country where there is
coal enough and food enough and
doctors enough for all is a
queer civilization, isn't it? And
yet it is the best civilization
that the human race has devel
oped in many thousands of
years.
IT HAS COME
We knew it would.
. It has taken the Oregonian and the
silk stocking bunch five weeks to
think up something but they have
done thinked. .
The U'Ren proposition to build
Oregon roads with a percentage of
the fortunes left by dead Oregonians,
and give work to Oregonians who
want to live, will never do.
"It will drive rich men out- of
Oregon."
Sure.
And when they go they will take
their timber tracts, their sky scrap
ers, their speculative land holdings
and their mortgages (on which they
pay no taxes) with them.
They said if the income tax be
came a law it would drive rich
men out of the country.
They said if the country adopted
the parcels post it would drive every
country merchant out of business.
They said when Oklahoma passed
a guarantee of bank deposits il
would chase every bank out of the
state.
What "they say" and what hap
pens are just a little different.
Oregon has too much that capi
talists want to scare them out by
the awful threat that when they die,
and their bodies fire covered with
"damnable mold" the tax man is go
ing to levy an assessment on the for
tunes they left of over $50,000 for
the public good of Oregon.
But if the predictions of the scare
squad were literally true, Oregon
would be far better off.
It is not tho rich men who are
developing Oregon they are abao-.
lutely locking it up and holding it
back.
If we could pry the millionaires
from tho state and use its wonderful
resources and riches; Oregon in
stead of being a tax-burdened, lock
ed up, empire would be the greatest
state in the Union, for it has every
thing everything tied up.
U'Ren's idea of state development,
through hard surfaced roads, paid
for by dead men's fortunes, put into
operation would do more for Oregon
than the Panama canul and the plat
form of every other candidute for
governor on top of it.
When men quit letting such big
business mediums as the Oregonian
think for thum, and use their own
heads more, they will work for and
vote for this U'Ren idea.
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GOING, GOING
Notice how little one hears
of party these days . in state
politics. Portland Journal.
Every year you will notice less.
What difference does it make to
the average voter what the brand is
on the man who is elected?
It's childlike, s this party enthusi
asm. A candidate's pledges are what
count.
On election night the bulletins
flash out the results. The victors
shout, throw their hats in the air and
act crazier that the inmates of the
bug ward at Salem.
The losers gets mad, rave and cuss
a plenty and go home to bed.
Next day it is all over.
The old officials step down, the
new ones up, and things move along.
Men and women must absolutely
forget party and brands and vote for
men and principles before they will
get the relief they are demanding.
Bolting the party nominee used to
be an unforgivable sin. To-day it is
a credit.
In a half dozen years there won't
be any established parties.
Voters are "using their beans."
They have swapped political enthu
siasm for horse sense.
FORESIGHT
That Benson killing in Mexico has
put England in a devil of a hole, and
has shown the long head of President
Wilson.
Benson, a hot-headed English ran
cher, whose stock was being confis
cated by the rebels, went over into
Mexico and went personally to Villa
with his wrath. He was killed.
England, which boasts her flag
protects her subjects in any corner of
any country, wanted to know forth
with all about that killing.
Villa, sly old rascal, referred Great
Britain to Carranza, the rebel gen
eral. Great Britain rushed in months
ago and gave recognizance to Huerta,
and she could not ask anything from
Carranza without recognizing his
army and his cause.
All that country can do now is to
appeal to Huerta and this general
has troubles enough to save his own
head, without digging up dead En
glishmen. So England must fold her arms
and get what it can through the U.
S., a country whose president had
foresight enough not to rush in ana'
have his own hands cuffed.
And puny old Mexico laughs at the
country on whose possessions the sun
never sets.
WHERE'S MOSES?
Assessors come and go.
The law requires that property be
assesser at its true cash value.
The asessors take the oath of of
fice and play horse with its sanctity.
Big buiness property and specula
tive holdings are assessed from one
seventh to one-fourth of what they
sell for.
The worker, the little man, comes
through with the big end of taxation.
The Portland Journal has be,en
showing up for months this exploit
ing game.
And yet not a candidate for office
has proposed a remedy.
BACK TO SURVIVAL
A writer named' C. N. Hess, in the
Portland Journal advocates interven
tion and war in Mexico to furnish
employment to millions of workers
and keep the wheels of commerce
turning.
This is a splendid suggestion, and
how Mr. Hess beat the Courier editor
to it is to be explained. But we'll
raiso the ante.
If killing off surplus Americans
will make good times, why not play
the "Made in Oregon" and "Trade at
Homo" ideas and have the killings
done pn American soil, the shooting
done by American workmen, with
American guns, and give the Ameri
can undertakers, doctors, surgeons
and nurses the benefit?
Why not compute about how many
American boys would have to give up
their lives in the conquest of Mexi
co, apportion them according to the
number of unemployed in the differ
ent states, and have regular "killing
days" to thin out the workmen and
provide work to those who were not
shot ?
This has Hess' scheme beaten a
mile. It would keep trade at home,
make demand for "home seeker" rat
es on the railroads, strengthen John
Manning's "back to the soil" guber
natorial plank and solve the problem
of the unemployed.
Back to the survival. If a man has
nnf a Inh he has no rierht to live.
Stand 'em up, shoot 'em down. 'Raw
for good times.
DAMFOOLISHNESS
Attorney General Crawford, a can
didate for governor and famous for
his many lamous opinions, nas
"handed down" another one, that the
fish and game commission "has au
thority to delegate the appointing of
deputy wardens to the master fish
wardens and the state game warden."
How wonderfully interesting. Now
if he will only hand down another to
the effect that deputy fish and game
wardens, under the fish and game
warden, who are under the fish and
game commission have power of ap
pointing assistant deputy wards to
the game wardens of the fish and
game commission, then will we soon
have offices to go all around, and no
one will sign an initiative petition to
abolish the fish and game commis
sion, for he would be abolishing his
own job.
If there is a bigger joke on Ore
gon's payroll than this fish and game
business, it is the state tax commis
sion. If there is a bigger one than the
tax commission it is the railroad
commission.
If there is a yet greater one than
the punk railroad job, it is the naval
militia joke.
If thorn is a hifcer and more ex
pensive one than the militia leech, it
is the state Doara oi neann.
If but what's the use?
Vnn rrn nn with "The House that
Jack Built" and then wonder how he
ever paid for it.
THE AXE
There are four Republican candi
dates for the legislature announced
from this county and every man of
them promises to cut out useless
boards ana commissions m una
state.
Almost to a man the fifteen Re
publican, Democrat and Independent
candidates for governor pledge them
selves to the same cause.
State expenses are going to be cut
to the bone in the coming legislature
there is little doubt of this for,
unless such action is taken and state
expenditures and taxation lowered,
the people will certainly do away
with the legislature entirely.
There is open rebellion against
high taxation. You hear it every,
where.
A Springwater farmer was in the
Courier office Saturday and he said
his taxes had advanced from $20
twelve years aeo to $100 now.
He said the roads were no better,
the school in his district no better,
no more or better law protection
and that he had absolutely no value
received for the extra $80 of taxa
tion.
Another man said he had a claim
in Linn countv and that beside the
regular stale and county tax levy
his property was assessed $17 extra
for "snecial road and school tax."
"And there isn't a road or school
within 40 miles of my claim," he
said.
This state is entering a New York
state race for Oregon purses, and we
can't stay with it. The legislature has
made law after law and appropria
'von after appropriation as if there
were no end to money supply, and
now we have leached the "back up
period.
We are where there must not be
expended a single unnecessary dol
lar, and where every man who draws
a public ottice salary must give a dol
lar's worth of work for every dollar
he draws.
We are where public expenditures
must be cut down to absolute needs,
The fish commission, the tax com
mission, the railroad commission, the
naval militia, the state board of
health and scores of others should be
lopped off, and the necessary work
of these commissions be done under
the tate officials who should al
ways have done it.
GILL "CAME BACK"
"Hi" C. Gill, elected mayor of Se
attle on an "open town" platform in
1910, recalled by the women voters
at a special election a year later, was
re-elected mayor of the Queen City
of Puget Sound Tuesday of this week
by a majority of over 14,000. This
time Gill ran upon a law-enforcement
platform, and polled a goodly pro
portion of the votes cast by women.
His chief opponent, James D. Tren
holme, "viewed with alarm" Gill's
former record throughout the cam
paign, but all his efforts to revive old
prejudices against Gill failed.
Early in the campaign Gill an
nounced that he was making the race
"solely upon nerve.'.' The week be
fore the election he told newspaper
men who asked him what he thought
jf his chances that "things are pretty
soft for me." His campaign through
out was notable for his own slangy
utterances and for the amused con
tempt with which he referred to his
rivals. Gill even wont so far in bur
lesquing politics as to choose the goat
as his campaign emblem; and judg
ing from results his serio-comic ap
peal made a hit with the voters.
Gill's re-election by the same wo
men voters who recallud him two
and a half years ago offers a delight
ful chance for those who would "ana
lyze the women vote" to commence
drawing conclusions. His return to
office also would seem to indicate that
Seattle was tired of professional re
formers, for regardless of his "law
enforcement" platform, Gill is known
to be personally inclined to the great
est amount of "reasonable interpre
tation" possible with the city sta
tutes. GOOD GRIT
That man Wemme is a persistent
cuss, and if Oregon and the U. S.
don't watch out he willoertainly give
them the Barlow toll road after a
while.
About a year ago he tried to slip
it over onto Clackamas county as a
cift with something like $60,000
and upkeep in way of acknowledge
ment. The Courier aired it, and it
didn't go through.
Now he has tackled the govern
ment, and begs the big U. S. to please
accept the road as a token of Wem
me's esteem, etc., with the little mut
ter of $60,000, as aforesaid, embrac
ed in the gift deed.
But Forrester Graves had his fin
gers crossed, and he tells our big
country that Mr. Wemme has noth
ing to let cn nf hnt n friA. f.n
Oregon for the collection of tolls.
borne of these days Wemme will
nm at ia miKl!..' ......
"LEST WE FORGET"
GEORGE C. BROWNELL
AND W. S. U'REN
Robert Ginther Compares the two
Men, the Work and Standings
To the Courier :-
Tonight as I sit by my humble
fireside here in Maple Lane my
thoughts go back to the days of '94.
Twenty years have passed since then,
and in this brief space of time his
tory has been made in Clackamas
county and in the state at large that
will leave its impress on American
government. I was just leaving my
minority in those days of political
strife and like many other young
men we took a deep and earnest in
terest in political questions.
Two men were then trying to ex
plain to us their views of govern
mental mistakes, and ach had a plan
which was expected to improve and
upbuild the American ideal of equal
ity and justice to all. The one man
came before the people of Clackamas
county, and for that matter I pre
sume, before every other assembly
of his fellow citizens in a quiet, cour
teous, gentlemanly way, and explain
ed his ideas without ever abusing his
opponent or holding him up to ridi
cule. The other man always came
with a flourish of trumpets, big brass
bands heralded his coming, a fluent
spellbinder, on election day he car
ried the day usually with much abuse
of his opponent and considerable
mud-slinging and ridicule. Great on
promises that were never intended to
be fulfilled, this man held others fast
by his fine deceptive oratory. The
one man during those twenty years
of quiet but earnest labor has revo
lutionized the government of Oregon.
While he hasn't held public office,
yet he has compelled politicians of
every shade to do his bidding. By
striving for equal and just laws for
the people, he has compelled his very
enemies (and these are the enemies
of all good government) to vote for
the laws he advocated. Notice the
Initiative and Referendum; the Cor
rupt Practice Act, the Primary nomi
nating law and many other la'ws for
the people. This man has been grow
ing in the esteem of his fellowmen
during these years. The other man
while seemingly victorious for a time,
soon began to decline. Clackamas
county became suspicious of him and
his methods till she finally left him
and his methods, forsook George C.
Brownell, and from that time has
been proud of that upright statesman
W. S. U'Ren. What a lesson for the
aspiring youth of this nation and our
time! This quiet, unassuming gen
tleman, unobtrusive, but still aggres
sive and firm in the great struggle
for human progress!
And the people of Oregon are
learning to know him as oue of its
truest and ablest, and perhaps its
ablest public citizen. What a strange
coincidence that both these gentle
men after twenty years aspire to the
same official position! Opponents
again as of old. In the light of the
past, Mr. Brownell ought to take a
hint. A good man sometimes can
"come back." But, George, forget
it! I was amused, George, at your
little slam at that other George who
happens to be senator, when you said
something about him having one foot
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Methodist church. It brought my
mind back to the scene last winter
when I heard YOU preach a fine ser
mon in another Methodist church.
"Oh, Consistency, thou art a jewel:"
Of course, George, its possible for a
sinner to become a saint and fo" a
leopard to change its spots, but
well, George, you know the rest. Take
the advice, dear friend, and retire to
the quiet of your law office and there
spend the remainder of your days re
flecting over what might have been.
We'll all feel better. Pardon this di
gression, Mr. Editor, but my reflec
tions led me into a little friendly im
aginary talk with my friend George
C. I was surprised to read an "ad"
in the Daily News of the 28th the
Hon. G. C. Brownell of Oregon City,
would speak Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock p. m. in the Socialist hall in
Portland on his candidacy for govern
or. Its the same George as of old.
But your game isn't played in Ore
gon any more, George.
Mr. Editor, I am a Socialist and
have been for a good many years,
yet I rejoice to think that I may have
the opportunity to vote for W. S.
U'Ren for governor of Oregon in the
forthcoming election, as an independ
ent candidate. No progressive citi
zen should hesitate (to help a stafcei
man of his type to a higher stare of
usefulness. . Here's to Governor
U'Ren! We Socialists have nothing
better to offer in a constructive way
for the benefit of the toiling masses
that will at the same time help all,
except of course, the idle rich, than
Mr. U'Ren offers in his platform
Robert Ginther
A FOOL LAW OF A
BIGGER FOOL CONGRESS
If a Native Born Woman Marries
Foreigner She is Disfranchised
Two weeks ago a farmer came in
to the Courier office and asked if a
native born American woman mar
ried a foreigner if the marriage de
prived her of citizenship.
Without looking the matter up we
at once said "no" the very absurdi
ty of such an unreasonable law was
too apparent-for they tell us law is
founded on reason.
But there IS such a law, a nation
al law, that says marriage deprives)
a woman of citizenship, if she mar
ries a man who is not a citizen.
We have looked this matter up and
we find the law of the land deprives
a woman of the right to vote in Ore
gon and the right of being a citi
zen of this great and glorious land
of the free if she married a man who
is not naturalized.
Great wisdom this.
Carnegie should give Congress a
hero medal.
A MAN can run over into Mexico
and marry a half dozen senoritas and
yet remain an American citizen.
He can marry a Chinese if he will
and yet retain his citizenship and
have his vote count as much as Pres
ident Wilson's.
But a woman born here, a native
citizen, a property owner and tax
payer if she marries a man who has
not sworn allegiance to the govern
ment of the U. S., she becomes dis
franchised. It's great.
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William Wilson has filed his dec
laration with the county clerk for
sheriff of Clackamas county on the
Republican ticket and will be an ac
tive candidate for the nomination.
Mr. Wilson is pretty nearly a "na
tive son" of Oregon, having lived in
this county for thirty years, and is
widely and favorably known through
out the county. He has been coroner
by both election and appointment.
Mr. Wilson has many friends and
backers in his candidacy and he is
considered as a decidedly lively can
didate for the nomination.
GUY T. HUNT OUT
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
Garfield Country Man Asked by Big
Petition to Run
Guy T. Hunt, a rancher of Garfield
precinct, six miles from Estacada,
has announced his candidacy for rep
resentative and will be a candidate
before the. Republican primaries.
Mr. Hunt is a man whom the office
sought. He refused to run at the re
quest of friends, when petitions were
circulated, signed by nearly every
voter in his locality, he accepted ,and
has filed his nomination.
Mr. Hunt is a hustler and stands
ace high in his community. He is
one of the men who started and put
through the Garfield Country Club,
a rural social proposition that is at
tracting state-wide notice.
Mr. Hunt stands for fewer and
better laws; declares there is being
too much money spent in county and
state for results obtained; that the
code relating to roads and highways
needs thorough revision, also that tax
and labor laws need careful and
thorough consideration.
Mr. Hunt is a thorough temperance
man, and lives in a dry precinct.
' There seems to be a general sen
timent that that part of the county
should have representation in the
house, and -Mr. Hunt stands a good
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where he went on business.
Mr. Kraxberger is well and favor
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and Marion counties. He has served
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Mr. Kraxberger that a woman's club
was organized in the vicinity where
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being a mail carrier for 15 years, he
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