OREGON CITY COURIER,.. THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1914
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M. J. BR.OWN,
EDITOR
. Plenty of time yet . Find a differ
ent kind of a plank and kick in.
Plentv of candidates for the house,
but few for the senate. It is in the
air that there isn't going to be any
senate.
The legislator who will cause to be
erased from the state's payroll the
greatest number of names will be the
headliner and shining light ot Ure
gon.
They say the stand pat friends of
Congressman Hawley are sending
out the "C. 0. D." signal and that if
Hollister is nominated they know our
big business representative has the
fight of his life on.
W. S. U Ken has been chosen on
the executive board of the National
Voters' League a place that every
man can't get. This place is chosen
from men and women with brains
and ability.
Ex-Senator Bourne will not
be a candidate before the pri
maries. That insures the nom
ination to Lane County. Eu
erene Guard.
And this is all it does insure or
come anywhere near insuring.
F. J. Denney, of Jefferson, a na
tive son of Oregon, was visiting in
the city and looking up old acquain
tances last week. Mr. Denney lived
near Hmsboro years ago, and is well
known in western Oregon. He is
farming on an extensive scale at Jef
ferson,
"Mr. Chairman, I believe the time
has come when it is the duty of Con
gress to pass a resolution or law pro
hibiting army officers from making
and publishing statements reflecting
upon the etticiency of our army or
upon our preparedness for war. (Ap
plause.)" Hon. Kenneth McKeller
of Tennessee, speech in Congress,
taken from congressional record.
The way to stop drinking is to
stop it. In the same way that China
stopped the opium business by pro
hibiting its cultivation or importa
tion, lie says we have made a great
success of not leaving arsenic,
strychnine, typhoid germs lying
around to destroy our children. Treat
John Barleycorn the same way. Stop
him. Don't elt him lie around licens
ed and legal to pounce upon o
youth. Jack London.
Now, the truth of the matter is
that, if any district in Oregon was
ever so badly misrepresented at the
national capital as the first district
is at the present time, we should like
to have the particulars pointed out.
Furthermore, it would be most in
teresting to have some ardent sup
porter of Mr. Hawley point out a
single reason why he should be re
elected. Wishing to be absolutely
fair, we ask for just one, lone reas
on. Who will give it? Salem Messenger.
Last year, so the report of the
state insurance commission gives it
out, above $4,000,000 was paid out in
Oregon for life insurance premiums,
while less than $1,000,000 came back
in death losses. If Oregon operated
its own insurance, as Wisconsin does,
there would have been a credit bal
ance of $3,0000,000 half the sum the
last legislature appropriated. But
the man who advocates Btate insur
ance will at once be called "a damn
ed Socialist."
The Canby Irrigator concludes an
editorial in favor of a road bond is
sue thusly:
We buliove that when the
average , voter comes to think
the matter over in a fair-minded
way, he or the majority of
him, or her, will suroly vote in
favor of the issue.
Perhaps a majority of he, him or
her will vote for road bonds, but
from the way the wind is blowing
there won't be enough of average
him or hers.
That President Wilson will appoint
ex-President Taft to the next vacan
cy on the United States supreme
court, seems to be definite, and Wil
son in so doing will make a danger
ous blunder. Taft is u down and
put. His repudiation by the Amer
ican voters was a national record.
His judicial opinions and expressions
have made him hated by millions.
It doesn't seem possible Wilson could
take him on now.
PROBLEMS
Some weeks ago the Courier had
a comment on working conditions
that would probably follow the open
ing of nte Panama canal, and stated
that probably 300,000 people would
come to California, Oregon and
Washington from Europe. .
Several exchanges poked fun at
this estimate and stated it was a
dream, etc.
Here is one paragraph from an
article in the Oakland, Cal., Tribune
Authentic information is at
; hand which tells of over a quar
ter of a million of one-way tick
ets to California already sold
upon the installment plan in
Europe.
This quarter of a million, accord
ing of the Panama canal, and stated
forma alone, how many come to
Portland and Seattle is to be seen,
' As the Courier has repeated, if
these people had means to buy farms
and develop the waste land of the
coast, their coming would fill a big
need.
But will they have the means, or
will they be the class to swell the
idle armies and lengthen the bread
lines I
As a rule the Europeans who come
here are those who hope to escape
poverty and oppression. Given help
to get hold of land, at least half of
them make fully good in a few years.
The other half flock to the cities
as job hunters.
If the Tribune s story is correct,
and that paper states the informa
tion is from steamship managers and
reliable, 250,000 people will land on
the coast within a few months.
They will be entire stranerers to
our country and standard of living.
Very few will be able to speak our
language. The great majority will
have far too little means to purchase
our high priced land.
So they will be work seekers in a
country that has far too many men
for the present jobs.
They will work for less than the
American standard wage because
their standard of living is less.
They will lower wages and bring
on labor troubles.
If there could be some means pro
vided whereby these Europeans could
be helped to get onto the land, and
the price of the land lowered to the
proportion of what it would pro
duce and the market price of the
products, then the immigration to
this coast would look more like a
benefit than a menance.
But if these people have to earn
enough money to get a start on the
land, then there is big trouble in
store, for Americans cannot and will
not compete in a European wage
standard on the Pacific coast.
The Courier is $1.50 year, but to
the subscriber who pays a year in ad
vance it is $1.00.
TAKE IT AWAY
Follows an editorial from the
Richmond, Cal., Herald. It is along
the U'Ren nlan of Drovidinz work
for the needy for the benefit of the
state and at the expense of fortunes
left by the dead. You can't get away
from the arguments brought out:
"When a man shall have accumu
lated a million dollars' worth of this
world's goods and its money,- or the
half of it, why should he desire
more? Why should he not then, hav
ing got all that he needs or for the
good of society should have, give to
his country and his fellow man the
benefit of the rest of his endeavors?
He should, but he does not, because
of this human greed. Then, should he
not be made to do it.' We hold that
he should, for here lies the real re
medy for this awful, heart-breaking,
damnable world-wide problem now
confronting us.
"The income tax is a start in the
right direction, but it should be add
ed to bv graduation, until the richer
a man gets the more he shall be tax
ed for the common good, until the
tax becomes so large in its percen
tage that after a certain amount of
wealth should be accumulated by a
individual it would be impossible for
him to accumulate very much more.
Take the wealth so accumulated by a
taxation upon those who in all hu
man decency should pay it, and with
it provided work for those who want
work yet have it not, at wages suf
ficient for them to provide for them
selves and their families something
more than mere existence such as
the horse, the dog or the hog get,
and above all sufficient to relieve the
backs of the wives and mothers from
the burden of manual labor, and to
make it possible for the little chil
dren to have and to enjoy freedom
education and all of the joy and glad
ness and sunshine and playtime that
God wants them to have, and which
is theirs by every rule of equity, of
fairness, justice and humanity that
can be presented.
THE OTHER 1 SIDE?
There has been much comment in
the papers over the published stories
from Portland that of the hundreds
of men idle in Portland only a few
accepted the offer of steady work on
the Cascade locks at $1.50 a day.
, An attorney from Portland wa
in the Courier office this week and
he presented the other side.
He said out of this $1.50 per day
the men must furnish 75 cents per
day for board and furnish their own
bedding; that at this season of the
year four days are the average for
out of door work days, and that at
the end of seven days the workman
would have 75 cents left.
This is the other side of the story.
How many of these men could have
furnished their bedding to start with,
and how many could feel like a real
patriotic American citizen on less
wages than an office boy or girl
clerk gets, and have 75 cents left at
the end of a week?
' GUESSES
A MAN TO BEAT HAWLEY
Fred Hollister, of North Bend U
Democratic Candidate for Congress
against Mr. Hawley.
From what the Courier learns re
garding Mr. 'Hollister he is a man,
who if nominated, will give our stand
pat representative a run for his life,
and that is the only calibre of a man
there is any use in nominating ad
we have learned by experience.
Mr. Hollister stands ace high in
the Coos Bay Country, is a lawyer
of high repute and a most successful
business man. He is a progressive
from the ground up; a man who be
lieves Oregon is bound to be the lead
ing Pacific state if it can only be
given a chance to develop, and he is
an out and out advocate for the two
undertakings he thinks will hasten
the development good roads for the
entire district and for harbor and
waterways improvements.
Mr. Hollister is not a politician.
He has never been a candidate or el
ected to any office but city council
man. He has been a worker and a
thinker.
His many admirers have urged
him to run, and he is a candidate. If
the Democrats will nominate him in
the May primaries, there is every
reason to think he can defeat Mr,
Hawley, our present "dead one-'
congressman, for tnere are hundreds
of Republicans right here in Clack
amas county who will vote for any
man who looks good and rings true,
in preference to Mr. Hawley the
congressman elected from progres
sive Oreeon but whose work is for
stand Dat New bneland.
In the judgement ot tne (Jouner
Democrats can't go wrong on Mr.
Hollister. He has a splendid record
as an .honest man and clean citizen.
WHY WILSON CHANGED
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Are You Going Abroad?
If you are you should provide yourself
with a letter of credit. In every impor
tant town and resort in the world you
will find a banker who will cash drafts
for you on presentation of your letter of
credit. You should have also a supply
of Traveler's Cheques. They are self
identifying, Kood the world over and are
readily accepted by first class hotels. As
"pocket money" for your trip, they are
better than cash. Ask us for full infor
mation. The Bank of Oregon City
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"You need not be afraid to
change your opinion on the
question of the initiative and
referendum. President Wilson
changed his opinion and was
not ashamed. He said he had
long been teaching the stu
dents at Princeton that the init
iative and referendum were
wrong, but when he found he
was wrong he was not ashamed
to say so." Secretary W. J.
Brvan.
There is a 'little story connected
with the above conversion of Presi
dent Wilson.
W. S. U'Ren of this city was the
m ssionarv. Years aeo, when Mr
Wilson was governor of New Jersey,
so a magazine article of three years
ago stated, Mr. U'Ren called on the
eovernor. and they discussed the in
itiative and referendum. Mr. Wilson
said the reforms would not Work.
Mr. U'Ren told him they WERE
working and to come out to Oregon
and see them in action.
It was U'Ren who started Gover
nor Wilson to thinkine. watching- and
investigating, and it was President
Wilson who changed his mind and
advocated these popular reforms of
government.
BRUTAL
Last week at Sacramento the city
authorities ordered the fire depart
ment to turn the hose onto the half
fed army of unemployed, and these
men were drenched to the skin with
the cold streams.
They had no clothes to change,
no fires to dry by. They had to wear
those drenched garments, sleep in
them.
It was a barbarous act inhuman,
un-American. A man who would
serve a dog or a horse that way
would be arrested for cruelty.
The army had been "passed on"
to Sacramento. They were encamped
in a vacant field. They were ordered
off, had no place else to go, refused
and the fire hose was used to pour
ereat streams of water over them,
drenching them, drenching their
blankets, making mud holes of the
vacant lot.
The Courier is not defending the
undesirables because they will not
work, but it is condemning the law
less, illegal means of punishment.
It is a horror to use human beings
in this way.
As a last expedient to separate
bulldogs, who have the death grip,
the hose is turned on them.
Even a bulldog will quit at this
punishment. And this is what the un
employed got at Sacramento for re
fusing to "move on."
The had committed no crime.
They were peaceful. They were un
armed. And the law officers, the officials
sworn to obey the law, turned Anar
chists, and by right of might inflic
ted this inhuman punishment on
these thousands of men.
It was brutal, inhuman, unlawful,
and a crime California can hardly
let pass.
DANGEROUS
It is to be sincerely hoped the
next legislature will pass a law that
will call the count on the vile ciga
rette in Oregon.
Iowa is one of the states where it
is a crime to sell a cigarette or give
away or sell a cigarette paper and
you don't see cigarette smoking in
that state. Oregon should follow.
Constable Jack rrost correctly
states the habit is becoming almost
a menace. The inhalation of the
smoke from these doped and ready
made "paper things" is heart weak
ening and nerve destroying, and the
reform school at Salem shows 90 per
cent of the boys were cigarette
smokers. '
China provides the death penalty
for any person who grows, imports
or sells opium.
Let us try about 30 days in jail
for the man who sells or gives away
cigarettes.
Who is the legislator who is not i
afraid of the tobacco trust? .., . . ,
If both the primary and general
elections should be held next week
W. S. U'Ren would be elected gov
ernor of Oregon. This, at least seems
to be the concensus of opinion of the
"politically wise" in the state; and
their reasoning is based upon the fol-
1 : 1 n ,,
luwmg conciusiQns. ui course tne
primaries are not going to be held
next week, and much may happen
before then to upset the "dopesters,"
but the campaign to date is said to
shape up something like this.
Two strong candidates for the Re
publican nomination are Grant B.
Dimick and Robert L. Stevens. Ste
vens is making one of the quietest
yet most etticient campaigns ever
waged in the state of Oregon, and is
piling up a following that is sur
prising both his friends and his en.
emies. Dimick is also working like a
Tiojan, and is building up an army
or supporters that would make him
a formidable rival were it not for
one thing and that one thing is
George C. Brownell. The dopesters
have it that Brownell is soley in the
race to defeat Dimick, and they be
lieve that his violent prohibition de
clarations will be just sufficient to
enable him to spoil Dimick's chances.
So they have it figured that Stevens
will be the Kepublican nominee.
On the Democratic side the politi
cal weather-forecasters see either
one of two things Manning gaining
the nomination by a narrow margin,
or Manning and Smith destroying
eacn other, and leaving a weak dem
ocrat to carry the standard.
U'Ren, of course, will easily get
an independent nomination. That
makes the field narrowed down to
Stevens on the Republican side, Man
ning or a nodescript on the Demo.
cratic side, and U'Ren as the third
racer. With U'Ren the only "prohib
ition" candidate of any stlrength'.
the dopesters see him polling the big
vote at the final election, having his
own following, the major part of the
"prohi" vote, the enemies of Ste
vens and Manning and probably the
forces that are controlled by Brown
ell. . That is the way it looks at present
and all of the spectators are won
dering if late developments in the
primary campaign will change mat
ters very much.
Possibilities of a simon-pure pro
hibition candidate being sprung are
not taken into consideration by the
dopesters, as they figure it that the
"drys" will not care to weaken their
chances by splitting the universally
conceded large "dry" vote that can
be centered on U'Ren.
"JUSTICE (?)"
A real hot one, hidden away on
the inside pages of the Portland
Journal, was sprung bv Circuit
Judge Gatens before the Lents Gran
ge Saturday of last week when he
said:
. The Oregon supreme court
is a disgrace to the state and
most of the judges of the bench
should resign.
Judge Gatens referred to the ac
tion of that body in permitting the
degenerates found guilty by jury in
the Y. M. C. A. scandal about a year
ago to escape punishment.
Judges McBride, Aiken and Mc
Nary protested against letting these
two men, Dr. Start and McAllister
go free, but the rest of the bench
carried the point.
That Y. M. C. A. scandal was a
horror of degeneracy. News of
circulated all over this big country,
The men were tried and found guilty.
but the supreme court let them
sneak out on a technical point.
, Of this whole rotten mess but
one man was punished, and he had
to take the law into his own hands
and blow his brains out.
And when justice will let such
vile "higher ups" slip out after they
have been found guilty, such den
unciations as Judge Gatens' must be
expected.
And contempt for justice will get
a new start.
FRED HOLLISTER
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Democratic Candidate for Congress
for this District
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(The following was written
Bonnie Jones, a ten-year-old boy).
"George Washington was a little boy,
He had a hatchet for a toy.
He thought he'd try his hatchet fine,
When he was a little boy of nine.
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And chopped away right merrily.
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"Oh papa dear," he made reply,
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"I tried to chop it on the sly,
So ma could make a cherry pie."
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