OREGON CITY COURIER,.. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1914.
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HHE LOSING GAME
M. J. BR.OWN,
EDITOR
The New York gunmen got the
chair. Becker, the employer, got a
new trial. Tis most ever thus.
Benton was a British citizen, a res.
ident of Texas and doing business in
Mexico, and the Oregonian wants us
to declare war over him.
"No interest to serve but the pub
lic interest" is the slogan filed by
Congressman Hawley. Mr. Hawley
may be a failure as a congressman
but he is certainly some joker.
Wouldn't be a bit surprised if thou
sands of Oregonians, who have play-
ed false hones to about the limit,
might take a chance on U'Ren's plan
of governing Oregon, lor a change.
Thev sav President Wilson will
appoint Taft to the supreme court.
He is recommended by New Hamp
shire and Utah, and repudiated by
every other state in the union.
Apathy marks the campaign for
governor ana state on ices, mere is
no enthusiasm and little interest. The
neonle of Oreeon have voted for Re.
publican and Democratic promises to
about the finish.
Jonathan Bourne gives it out flat
ly that he will not be a candidate for
United States senator in the May
primaries, and Mr. Booth fefels a
whole lot easier. Now the Oregonian
bunch will put Booth over and Cham
berlain will defeat him at the polls.
Governor West could sweep this
congressional district pretty clean of
Congressman Hawley, and the people
regardless or party, should get hack
of him and get him in the race. Haw
ley is a big business, stand pat rep
resentative, and the Oregonian wants
to put over a side partner for him in
Booth for senator. It's time to come
alive. '
T. T. Geer won thousands of votes
in 1898 through his inimitable ridi
cule of the direct primary, the initi
ative and referendum and his cheer
ful allusion to the "riffraff, ragtag
and bob tail." From a strictly party
stand-point we trust he will get the
nomination he is seeking and will
conduct his campaign along the lines
that brought him such success six
teen years ago. Salem Democrat.
The men who forcibly return
ed Vcgara's body from Mexican
soil show how easy it is to do
things when backed by a little
aggressiveness and willingness
to act. Oregonian.
The editor should read the press
dispatches. The body was returned by
Mexicans and they were paid $400
by the American brother-in-law of
the dead man, to dig up and bring it
across the river.
SONG OF SPRING
Everywhere about us these days
are to be seen signs of Spring. The
humble house-owner goes home from
work at night and toils in the garden,
and in the morning before going
downtown he gets out and mutilates
his rose bushes. Spraying outfits are
reaping their annual harvest, and
farmers are considering what to
Jilant in the back ten acres. And the
ittle birds are singing "cheep, cheep"
everywhere in the landscape.
That is the surest sign of spring
in Oregon, when the little birdies
sing "cheep, cheep" all day; and
when, on alternate years, candidates
for office likewise sing a similar
song. In fact "cheap, cheap" seems
now to be the slogan among the mod
est hordes who are willing to have
the people thrust honor upon them.
Witness the insides of some of the
political campaigns, for instance.
Witness one of the gubernatorial can
didates, who is sending out form let
ters to all registered voters, and
asking them to write back to him at
their own expense and pledge sup
port. And his own stenographer and
the stenographer of an attorney in
an adjoining office are dolnjr all this.
What a fine campaign! Witness an
other candidate, also running for the'
gubernatorial nomination, whose
sole move to date has been to bemoan
the present high taxes, and to lay
upon them his inability to "spend any
money in the fight."
Of a verity the birds are chanting
"cheep, cheep" in the springtime, and
so are the professional politicians.
And then they wonder at the lack of
popular enthusiasm. How can an Am
erican public get enthusiastic over
an election if there is no red fire, no
brass bands and even no free barbe
cues and speeches?
PARTY BY FORCE
In lauching his boom for governor
at Milwaukie Saturday night, Attor-
ney, General Crawford beat all the
boys to it in slipping over a new and
novel one a proposition that no
candidate has covered.
In his hunt for something new,
Mr. Crawford dug up this and car
ried to a law it would build up the
old narties bv compulsion.
He has started the criculation of
an initiative petition, which he backs
as one of his planks, which provides
that initiative petitions shall do abol
ished; that initiative proposals shall
be presented to the voters at the pri-
manes; and only those proposal
which shall receive eight per cent
of the votes of the state shall go
on the ballot at the regular fall el
ection.
Looks good on the face of it, does
n't it?
Would do away with all petition
circulation, and have votes take the
place of signatures.
But use your bean a little, and see
what the real result would De and
what the real object is.
This law would disfranchise every
Prohibitionist. Socialist, Hndfepen-
dent or any other voter who did not
register as a republican or demo
crat. In other words it would give the
power to initiate petitions to these
two parties.
It would force voters to leave the
other narties and become Republi
cans or Democrats, in order to have
a part in initiating laws.
It would make the ""Republican
party the one big dominant machine
ror law making in ureKon. lur un
der nresent conditions double regis-
ter as Republican that vote vote the
ticket.
The bill is a constitutional amend
ment. therefore would make const!
tutional the right of party to dis
franchise.
And this bill is drawn and backed
bv a man who is the attorney gener
al of this state and who wants to
be governor.
It would be a strange decision if
the U. S. suDreme court should allow
such a discriminating law to stand,
even if the people passed it, for it is
in conflict with the country's consti
tution declaring all men equal.
Because a man or woman register
ed as a Prohibitionist he or she could
have no neht to vote on an initiative
law that might affect hia or her tax
ation, because, his or ner party is in
the minority and not large enough to
have a primary election.
It would disfranchise any man or
wnmnn who would not forsake party
or principles and register under the
two old parties.
This bill should bury Crawford tor
governor.
No man who believes in fair play
can conscientiously vote for such a
raw deal for the neighbor wno aoes
not belong to his party.
A MATTER OF TIME
One of the excuses Rockefeller's
clerks pave out for the delay in pay
ing the income tax, was that the list
ing of the billionaire's securities was
too great a loo ior tne adding ma
chines.
This was printed in the same news
papers that gave out there were
300,000 men in New York city who
could not find work.
It's a dead wrong system that will
nernut these extremes.
It's a dead wrong system that will
permit a man to own so much of a
country's wealth that he can't begin
to spend the income, and so much
that even adding machines can't list
it.
We should have an income tax
that would take every dollar any man
gets or makes over $1,000,000.
He has no right to more of the
world's wealth than his needs; he has
no right to pile up money he has no
use for.
And it is but a matter of time
when he is going to be forbidden.
LITTLE BEHIND IT
In Yamhill county there has start
ed an initiative movement to prohib
it the legislature from repealing any
act passed by the initiative. The
Courier believes this is a waste of
energy. The legislature is not going
to disfranchise the voters of Ore
gon. If it should there would be no
more legislature. The people have the
right to rule Oregon and the legisla
ture isn't going to dispute that right.
Oregon City Courier.
No one in Yamhill county except a
few radicals, places any faith in
such a scheme as above referred to.
McMinnville News-Reporter.
If a man should walk out on the
suspension bridge every week and
toss a four bit piece of silver into the
river, soon the people would say he
was "queer," "wasn't right in the
head."
It would be his money, honestly
earned and the only harm it would
do to give the silver to the salmon
for a plaything, would be its loss in
purchasing power to himself or fam
ily. But to carry the illustration fur
ther, suppose that six or eight hun
dred men went out on the bridge
every day and each man tossed a half
dollar to the fishes.
Governor West would call a spec
ial emergency session of the legis
lature to appropriate funds for a lun
atic asylum to house Oregon City's
"bugs and the associated press dis
patches would carry "crazy" stories
to all parts of the country.
We have had fourteen saloons in
this city and the lowest average re
ceipts we have ever heard made was
$35 a day, or an aggregate of $490
a day for the sale of liquor.
And we want to ask any man who
ever exchanged a dollar for booze if
he would not have actually been bet
ter off and his family better off if he
had walked out on the bridge and
tossed the dollar into the Willa
mette? The matter of drunkeness is go
ing to be solved, not only in Oregon,
but in the United States.
The manufacturers of booze rea
lize it, and only hope to stave it off
until they can plug through some
legislation that will make the states
pay them for their investment.
Nearly all intelligent men know
this issue has come to stay, that it
will not die out, and that it has ab
solutely got to be met and settled
settled right.
The man who would deliberately
drop his booze money off the bridge
would be BETTER off than if he
spent it for liquor and drank the li
quor.- . . .
There is aDsoiuieiy no aeiense ior
booze, and there is almost every
crime against it
There is no more reason for sell
ing it over the bar than there is for
the druggist to sen morpnine or co
caine over the counter.
Povertv. want, crime, sickness and
hunirer are the consequences of li
quor selling, and the only half breed
justification is that the license mon
ey Drovides a srreat revenue for
state and national expenses.
Licensing the right to make
beasts of men, paupers of his family;
licensing the right to take suitable
food and needed clothing from the
children to provide a revenue to run
a city, state or country is terribly
high priced revenue.
The one ritrht action is to stamp
out the manufacture, sale or ship
ment into Oregon, and join other
states in adding strength to a nat
ional movement to stop the great
est curse to a country's civilization.
CRAWFORD AGAIN
Cultivated and uncultivated
land of the same character and
quality similarly situated, shall
be assessed at the same value.
This is Oregon law, Chapter 184,
laws of 1913.
"It is only where the tracts
are practically similar, as far as
cultivation is concerned, that
they are to be assessed alike,
ami not when one is in a high
state of cultivation and the
other remains practically as left
by nature."
This is Attorney General Craw
ford's law.
It's mighty handy to have a handy
attorney general to write into a law
what it does not say, but what idle
land owners want it to say.
The law says land of the same
character cultivated and uncultivated
shall be assessed at the SAME VAL
UE when similarly situated.
Crawford says that only when the
lands are CULTIVATED THE
SAME shall they be assessed alike,
The object of the law was to as
sess the speculative holdings at their
PRODUCING VALUES, whether
cultivated or left to erow to weeds
But Crawford says HE KNOWS
BETTER than the law. and renders
an opinion in favor of the speculator.
MAKE THEM VOTE
THE OREGONIAN'S BURDEN
THINK THIS OVER
PROSPERITY
dates from the first dollar saved. Per
haps the best reason for saving money is,
that practically nothing can be accom
plished without it. You must have it
to start in business, to furnish your home,
and to educate your children, and to
protect you against sickness or misfortune,
and to provide for you a comfortable, in
dependent old age.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Many and many a man approves
of the church, who never enters the
door.
Many a man annroves of relierion.
even if it is for the other fellow.
The church is the cheapest police
force on earth. It has made the
world better if it has not increased
the morality of the individual.
There are men who are avowed
enemies of the church who would be
out of business if it wasn't for the
church.
The early missionaries, who camo
into this country faster than the In
dians could kill them were making a
place for you and me, and whether
we are for the church or against
it we can't deny the fact that but
for the church this country would
hardly be worth while.
Many a man who is living far from
his God and who refuses to bow to
his Master is willing and anxious
that the church survive in order that
his children may absorb its pacific
influence.
Whether we sro to church or stav
at home we must acknowledge the
church as an influence always for
good.
There are men who admire the
church and believe in the church who
have very little use for its members-
There are men who stay away from
church because they believe the duty
of the church member is to live such
life as will advertise the church.
These men stay away from church
not because of lack of faith in its
institutions but because they are
ashamed to mingle with those who
prostitute the church by living a lie
n tne face of men..
Yet these same men will belong
and attend regularly orders and lod
ges, which have some members they
would not care to associate with.
Take the churches out of Oregon
City and you and I would not care to
live here and bring up our children.
uo into a town where there are
no churche spires and you will find
conditions as existed at Copperfield.
CARPING
No one wants war with Mexi
co. But the best way to do what
must be done is to do it swiftly.
What a different situation a
stern policy toward Mexico
might have developed. Ore
gonian. There are only two ways to set
tle the Mexican trouble. One is to
keep hands off, Wilson's policy, and
let the Mexicans fight it out
The other is to kick in and play,
to invade the country and quell the
anarehy at the price of American
blood.
The Oregonian sits on the fence,
straddles. It yells "no one wants
war," yet never misses a chance to
urge it. It has not sand enough to
come boldly out and advocate that
American boys be killed in place of
Greasers, but continually carps at
Wilson's policy of "watchful wait
ing." If the Oregonian would each day
run a little of Maxmillan's history,
and each day a few facts and figur
es of the size of Mexico, its readers
would not clamor for intervention.
If the United States ever goes in
to Mexico it will come out at an aw
ful cost of money and human lives.
"What will West do" is a burning
question that a lot of good people
are trying to their own satisfaction.
But almost every man one meets de
clares it to be his belief that the
Governor will be an independent can
didate to succeed himself. We shall
know more about this when he re
turns from Washington where he has
gone to confer with Senator Cham
berlain. Salem Messenger.
Sixteen varieties of governors. 1
A bill has been introduced in the
New York legislature for compulsory
registration and voting" providing
penalties for the voter who does not
exercise his franchise.
The bill will no doubt get the
axe, for there will have to be con
siderable agitation and more public
sentiment behind such a drastic bill
before it will be made a law.
But when you stop to think, it is
no more drastic than our jury or
some otner laws.
Any man or woman who can vote
should be compelled to vote, and if a
tine or ifiu or $20 was the penalty
for not voting a minority would not
so often rule.
OVERLOOKED
A writer signing himself W. J.
Garrison of McMinnville, writes of
the unemployed pioblem and closes
with this:
Now let us be honest. If any
healthy man can't earn enough
in seven months to feed himself
the next five months, he surely
should go without. If a man who
has no wife or children to sup
port can't provide for himself
alone, the state is better off
without him.
All very good, but this only pro
vides for the man alone.
Suppose he has a wife and three
or four children to clothe, feed and
pay rent for. Can Mr. Garrison take
care of such a family at day wag
es and lay off five months in the
year ?
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Last week the Courier printed an
editorial paragraph that as the Ore
gonian was opposing the U'Ren plan
of building good roads at the ex
pense of Dig estates, that the rank
and file would favor it all the more.
Under the heading "Who Bears
the Burden?" Wednesday's Oregon
ian picked up the paragraph, stat
ed the plan was impractical, insane,
silly and confiscatory.
It's all of these to men who are
piling up big fortunes and who will
try to direct their disposal even after
they are dead, but to the man who
works hard to support his family and
pay the exhorbitant taxes of Ore
gon, it is none of these.
It is NOT impractical, no more
impractical than levying an income
or inheritance tax to pay government
expenses as are levied now, and
the Oregonian knows this.
It is not insane; it is not silly. The
Oregonian is, or has been, one of
the loudest good roads boosters in
Oregon, but it wants the great cost
and bond interest to be added to the
present almost unbearable taxation
of Oregon, rather than to be paid,
or at least partly paid, by a gradu
ated tax on the fortunes of persons
who die and leave over $50,000.
It is not confiscating any more
than the income tax is confiscatory,
and we would like to call the big ed
itor's memory back to last summer
when our Vice-President Marshall
said in a public speech, in substance.
that it was by grace of PERMIS
SION that men were allowed to
give away or direct the disposal of
their accumulations after death. The
laws bf England do not permit a man
to will his property as he pleases.
The laws tell him where it shall go
' in order to hold intact great esta
tes.
The Oregonian says if taxation
was heavy enough on fortunes of
over $50,000 there would be nothing
left by any decendant.
It would not work so, but if it
should, it would have accomplished
much for Oregon, for it would at
least break the big fortunes and big
land holdups into parcels of less than
$50,000. .
Ihe most menacing feature of
the U'Ren proposal, says the Orego
nian, is the heavy load it places on
thrift and industry and the premium
on vagrancy and idleness.
is amassing fortunes beyond needs
thrift?
Rockefeller is dodging a $12,000,000
tax today. Is that fortune of $900,-
000,000 thrift, and is that tax a heavy
load?
Isn't the man or woman who dies
and leaves a big fortune the man or
woman who should pay the greater
part of Oregon's taxation expenses
on the amount left of over $50,000
an exemption sufficient for the needs
of any decendent's family?
The concluding arguments of the
Oregonian's editorial, that there
would be a great army of tax eaters
working when they willed at $3 a day
is simply silly?
Who has fixed the price, and
where is the great army?
- These facts we know they are
staring us in the face every day; we
MUST give men the means to earn
a living or they will find a means.
This coast has thousands of men
without work. They are living, for in
their mighty expensive ways the
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states are supporting them.
Granted they must be given a liv
ing, is it not a thousands time bet
ter for Oregon that they work for
that living, and that work build good
roads for Oregon? i
The men will , work on the roads
under the U'Ren plan as men work
on the roads in Multnomah county
today under the present plan when
there is any work for them.
A man won't break rock if he can
find any other job, and state employ
ment on public roads will help the
man who is up against the last wall
and it will help the roads.
And the Oregonian will have to
come mere often and longer, before
it will ctnvince the man who reasons
that the big fortunes of the rich
dead are not the right means to pay
for Oregon roads and give work to
the man who must have work.
The van Brakel trial April 4 will
be watched by the whole state of
Oregon. It's a question of whether
a competent official who does not be
long to the order of "regular" medics
can hold a public, health office in Oregon.
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