OREGON CITY COURIER,.. THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1914
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' Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
M. J BROWN,
EDITOR
. The state grange will meet in its
41st session at Monmouth May 19 to
22.
The Prohibition party, will hold
its state convention in Portland May
5 and 6.
Six Republican candidates for the
house in this county, and not one
one Democrat. Whatsthematter?
They told us Oregon City would
be full of "blind pigs" and drunken
ness when it went dry. Where are
they?
"Justice," "efficiency," "economy"
and "enf oi cement" are words that
are working a double shift these
spring days.
Commissions and boards need
swatting. Pledge your candidate for
the legislature to swate them, or swat
him at the primaries.
What has become of that Hi Gill
effort of the Enterprise? For two
days it did its best to start some
thing and then quit.
When we' get jobs and expenses
back to the nroDortion of DODulation.
Oregon will be about the best corner
of the country to live in.
If everv Dublic official in Oretron
had to actually earn his salary, what
a lot of leeches would be pulled off
the pay rolls, and how taxes would
come down.
Two more years of the kind of tax
ation we now have, and the time will
be ripe for an initiative bill to fix a
minimum tax rate in Oregon and
abolish what will be left of the leg
islature.
How does it hurt a city to abolish
saloons that hurt their patrons? How
does it hurt a city to stop the abso
lute waste of money in liquor buy
ing, and divert it into legitimate
channels of trade?
There is one candidate for gover
nor who isn t worrying much ovdr
the primaries' outcome, and yet he is
worrying the whole bunch of guber
natorial candidates. And he isn't
Will E. Purdy from Newberg.
Ignorance of the law excuses
no one,, but it ought to excuse
a few of us when it takes half
a dozen lawyers and a year's
time to find out what the law is.
McMinnvillo Telephone Register.
Remember a fellow named Hilles,
who managed Taft s campaign .'
Well, he has come out of it and de
clares Wilson is an usurper. Hillis
carried Utah and Vermont for Big
Bill, and -he is certainly entitled to
an opinion on Wilson.
It was the state tax commission
that slipped one over on the voters
of this state, under a misleading
title, and caused them to give away
the rights they had to protect them
selves on taxation laws. Remember
this, you taxpayers, and insist thut
the legislative candidates you vote
for are pledged to work for the abol
ishment of this tax-eating, useless
commission.
U'Ren's idea is to have individual
responsibility for tho introduction of
legislative appropriations, to have
the governor introduce these give
away bills; forbid the legisla
ture to increase thorn, but give it
the power to reduce them. Under the
present system a majority of the
counties want a piece of the fodder,
and these legislators form an appro
priation combination that simply
cannot be broken up. The fear of the
complete abolishment of legislature:
may hold the spending squad in
check a little at the coming session,
but it is certain to start up again
and keep on the job of spending mon
ey just as long as the trading sys
tem is permitted.
Attorney General Crawford's ini
tiative bill, which provides that only
initiative measures that have receiv
ed 8 per cent of the legnl votes at
the primaries shall go on the Novem
ber ballot, is a dangerous power
granting and disfranchising propo
sition. It would absolutely forbid
Prohibitionists, Socialists and Inde
pendent from hnvinir a vote on meas
ures to bo put on theb allot, as they
have no primaries. Or it would force
these voters to forsake their parties
to gain the ritrht to vote on initia
tive measures in the primaries. Don't
sign this petition. It should be depriv
ed of a place on the November bal
lot, as should the name ef its author
for governor.
GROWING
(Christian Science Monitor.)
Recent discussion of the single tax
has brought out the fact -that not
only is the single tax idea growing
in favor, but also that several vari
eties are already in operation. These
several forms of the single tax,
which, so to speak, are now in the
market and bidding for favor, are
simply the result of an attempt to
adopt the single tax idea to the par
ticular needs and conditions of each
community where the single tax ex
periment is bging tried. Eventually,
it is belipved, these different varie
ties, together with any sub-variations
which may be tried out hereaf
ter, may be reduced to the simple
Australasian-Canadian iform, which,
because of its very simplicity, is like
ly to be the one finally to prevail.
THE BOLTING STAGE
One after another the men and
women pay their taxes at the court
house and then dron into the Cour
ier office and register their protest
against the exhorbitant assessments.
"I am paying more taxes on my
fifty acres each year than my fath
er paid lor tne land trom the govern
ment," said one farmer, "and every
year they force me to pay $10 more."
This one of many, many protests.
And every election we send men
to the legislature and state offices
under the strongest pledges of econ
omy.
And every year state expnses and
taxes go up.
"I am Kpublican by inheritance,"
said one man, -"and up until four
years ago I never split the ticket.
Now I am going to bolt it and try
U'Ren's ideas of government. We
can t be worse off, more poorly gov
erned or more highly taxed, and I
know it he is governor he will cer
tainly do SOMETHING."
There are many voters thinking
the same way.
Oregon has tried Republicans and
Democrats for governor; Republi
cans and Democrats for state ottic
And each and every year boards
and commissions are added to, legis
ative appropriations increase and
taxes iro higher and higher.
W. S. U'Ren's platform promises
relief from these conditions, and the
people of Oregon know that a U Ken
declaration means more than a bait
for vote catching. The people know
that Mr. U'Ken DOES THINGS.
And smarting under conditions
that grow more and more burden
some every year, there is likely to be
an army of voters like the farmer
quoted above, who will try a man
who does what he says he will do.
BACK THESE
Monday the first petitions for' the
abolishment of the state senate and
for proportional representation were
circulated in this city, and they start
oft with the names ot candidates tor
office, county office holders, busi
ness and professional men, is indeed
significant of the way the wind is
blowing.
Proportional representation means
just what- the two words signify
represenation in proportion to party
or classes.
Clackamas county today has ON
LY Republican representation , three
representatives, one joint represent
ative and one senator every man a
Kepuulican.
Proportional representation would
give the Democrats, Prohibitionists,
Socialists, and Independents repre
sentation in tho legislature in pro
portion to the vote behind them.
It is simple justice. No man who
stands for fair play can logically op
pose the proposed law.
The initiative bill to abolish the
senate is the protest of the people
against the legislature, and its wild
extravagance with the people's mon
ey.
It is notice to the house that it
will come next, unless the members
get down to common sense and
economy.
Both those initiative bills give
more power to the people.
Abolishing the senate will stand
the house members up where they
cannot dodge or hide and make their
responsibility more direct and open.
The Courier office has both peti
tions. If you favor them, come in
and Hign them, or write in for peti
tions to be sent to you for circula
For your benefit we would state
the state tax commission drew the
present tax law, and it was introduced
by the committee on taxation and as
sessment. It is said that house rep
resentatives voted unanimous for it.
Showing what varieties we have
in this country, the Christian Science
Monitor remarks that Oregon has a
"wide area of rich swamp land to
drain, and a wide area of dry land to
irrigate.
In the New York legislature a bill
has been introduced providing a fine
of $10 to any person who -does not
register or vote it physically able to
do so. Such a bill should be intro
duced in Oregon and passed. We have
too many minority decisions. Voters
should be compelled to vote.
Woodburn has about as much
trouble as Oregon City. At the last
city election J. R. Landon was elected
Mayor over P. A. Livesley, but Lives
ley found out Landon's father was
not naturalized back in Minnesota
about 60 years ago, and had the
Mayor ousted. Now Landon claims
that Livesley was not elected mayor
and has no legal right to hold the
office of mayor.
Stevens, considered one of the
strongest candidates for the Repub
lican nomination for governor, has
stepped down and out of the race,
and his move keeps the politicians
busy digging for the reason. Per
haps Governor West has it about,
right, that the "wet" vqte may be
more compact and that Crawford
may be nominated by the liquor in
terests Crawford, like Robert Booth,
may be nominated, but that is all he
may be.
GIVE HIM A FAIR DEAL
With :!0,000 voters already pledg
ed for prohibition in this state, it
begins to look as if John Barleycorn
was Roing to get his next November.
Just Say, "Meet Me At
The Bank of Oregon City"
Whenever you wish to meet some one in Oregon
City or make a business engagement with them
tell them to meet you at this bank. We have two
rooms equipped, with telephones, writing paper,
pen, ink, etc., for the convenience of our cus
tomers and we offer these for your full use when
ever you wish to take advantage of them. Just go
into these rooms any time; make yourself at home.
This is only one of the many conveniences this
bank gives its customers without charge. Come in,
get acquainted; you'll wonder how you got along
before without using the facilities this accomodat
ing bank offers.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Last October, when the county
court tried to make an appointment
of a county health officer it found
there was a "frame up,"
Not a county medical physician
would accept the appointment, the
too obvious object being to force the
court to re-appoint the physician
who had been removed,
i And the court; refusing to be dic
tated to by the medical association,
appointed an osteopath, Dr. J. A.
van Brakel, to the position.
Is there another "frame up" now
to oust this official the first osteo
path to ever poach on the sacred pre
serves that have tor ages been con
sidered the medical doctors'?
Two weeks ago the Courier stated
it was rumored that charges to re
move Dr. van Brakel would soon be
brought, and through the state board
of health.
The charges have been brought
and timed to come in jast before the
trial to determine the right of van
Brakle to hold a health office April
6, 1914.
It would appear that the doctors
bringing the charges were just a lit
tle uneasy over what the decision
might be, so concluded to get in
ahead of that decision with some
thing else.
The doctors want the osteopath re
moved because (they claim) his diag
nosis of disease were wrong, that he
didn't quarantine where he should,
etc.
The people in the audience have
watched the moves and develope
ments of this case with keen interest.
To them it matters little what
school a physician belongs to, so long
as he knows his business.
They care little whether a physic
ian cures with medicine or massage,
calomel or common sense, pills or
physical culture.
But they do want fair play; they
don't want any more "frame ups,
and they don't want a doctor "rail
roaded" because he doesn't write
prescriptions.
The people have not taken kindly
to this useless litigation and expens
es the doctors have brought onto the
county, and they will not relish the
state board of health being brought
in to assist the County Medical So
ciety to oust a man who has dared
to fight them.
Clackamas county doesn't think
much of this mighty expensive state
medical body at its best.
Clackamas county knows that it
would get just as safe health condi
tions if, the county ran its own health
business, and the state board was
abolished. ;
The people of Oregon City haven't
forgotten .the part that the health
board took (or DIDN'T TAKE in the
typhoid epidemic of a few months
ago, when we had 100 cases and the
state board, only 13 miles distant
didn't even know it for weeks after
ward, and during two serious out
breaks not a member of the health
board ever came near the city.
And the people of this county
won't pass any resolutions of thanks
because the board is going to aid the
attempt to oust Dr. van Brakle.
If he is not qualified for health
physician, if his four years' course at
Kirksville did not qualify him to dis
tinguish between tonsilitis and diph
theria, scarlet fever and malaria
then let him be removed.
But if he is competent and quali
fied, the people don't want to see any
"frame up" of the County Medical
Society jrive him the "short arm;"
they don't want to see any conspir
acy fret him because he is not alio
pathic and medically orthodox.
PLAY HOIXISTKR, GET 1IAWLEY
The play for Democrats is to come
down the line solidly for Fred Hol
lister for Congress, for if nominated
Mr. Hawley has the best prospects of
remaining at home of any congress
man in the coast stntis.
Mr. Hawley has ever been a wood
en man for Oregon. What recogni
tion we get from Congress conies
through our senators. He has ever
been a Joe Cannon, Taft, stand-pat
disciple.
Fred Hollister is a live one and
a clean one. His record stands the
acid test. Not one word has ever
been printed against him. He has
brains, ability and he will do things
for (.iregon.
The thing for Clackamas County
democrats to do is to come down in
a bunch for Hollister,
BROWNELL MAKES
PLAIN STATEMENT
(Continued from Page 1(
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Gladstone Real Estate
Association will be held in Room 10,
Beaver Building. Oregon City Ore
gon, on Monday the fith day of April,
1914, at tho hour of 2 o'clock P. M.,
at which time a board of directors
will be elected to serve for the ensu
ing year, and such other business
transacted as may properly come be
fore the meeting.
Orpha F. Cross,
Secretary.
March 20th, 1914.
meet the demand and requirements
of our farming, producing, commer
cial and business classes of the people
of this state, with this qualification,
that I feel that whatever plans are
adopted in the construction of roads
in this state and whatever methods
are used in the spending of the
people's money for such construction,
that the interest of the farming class
of the people of this state, should be
very carefully safeguarded and their
wishes a sindicated through the so
ciety of equity and the Development
League and the Farmer's Grange,
should be consulted and followed.
I desire also to say that I stand ir
revocably in favor of free press and
free speech, and that if I should be
successful in being nominated and
elected governor of this state, I will
see, so -far as my power will permit,
that no man or woman, rich or poor,
black or white, shall be deprived of
the opportunity of fairly and decent
ly expressing themselves anywhere,
in public halls, or upon the streets
of cities in this state, as long as they
conduct themselves in a lawful way.
The liquor question has got to be
fought out. Men will be compelled
to take a stand, for it or against it.
The saloon is either right or it is
wrong. If it is right it should be
maintained and perpetuated; if it is
wrong, it should be destroyed. I feel
that it is wrong; I feel that it is fool
ish for the moral societies of the. state
of Oregon, to talk about fighting vice
preach sermons against vice, pass
resolutions against vice, ana hold
banquets and make speeches and con
gratulate each other how they are
going to fight vice, and permit the
saloon to exist in this state, because
it is in the saloon to a great extent,
that the seed is sown and eventually
ripens into crime, and vice of every
character, leading in' the end to the
jail and penitentiary, to the insane
asylum and to degeneracy, say noth
ing about want and poverty to the
thousands and millions of women and
children in this land?
I know what kind jf battle this
will be. I fully realize the power of
the liquor element and the Retail
Liquor association of this state, who
are always on guard and ready to
battle for their position, I know how
hard it is to make merchants, bank
ers, and business men take an active
interest in the movement, because
they frequently fear that it will in
jure the market, the store, and bank,
and in other words, all trade. The
facts are that if every saloon was
driven out of business in Portland,
inside of six months or a year, the
merchants and business, men would
be congratulating each other upon
the advance in every line of business,
and better payments of the bills of
their patrons.
To illustrate this, I herewith quote
an extract from a letter written to
me November 17, 1913, by Hon. Silas
Porter, who is one of the judges of
the Supreme Court of Kansas, and a
man who has lived in Kansas during
the life of the amendment to its con
stitution and a man of great ability
and high character, Mr. Porter
writes: Our town, Kansas City,
Kansas, has over 100,000 population.
It is a city of manufacturers. Six
or eight years ago, when they started
to enforce the law rigidly, there was
something like 250 "joints" running
practically wide open. Many of the
bars were fixed up in a luxurious
manner and enormous ' sums were
paid over the bars every day. Many
conservative business men, bankers
and members of the Commercial Club
wore at first opposed to a rigid en
forcement of the law because it
would leave vacant hundreds of build
ings and apparently would demoral
ize the business interests of the city.
However, the law was rigidly -enforced;
not by a trial of cases before
juries, but by injunction suits against
the property owners and upon affida
vits before a judge who granted the
injunction showing a violation. Af
ter the court had adopted the plan
.of enforcing its orders by putting
padlocks on the doors of the buildings
and prohibiting the opening of the
building until the owner should give
a bond that it should never agaia
be used for the illegal purpose, and
sending the proprietors of the joints
to the jail for large sentences, not on
convictions for the sale of liquor, un
derstand, but for violating the order
of the court, there could be no jury
trials and convictions were easily ob
tained. After these things had been
done, the owners of tho buildings
gradually found other tenants and
in the course of a few months or per
haps a year, ..the same business men
who had protested against the rigid
enforcement of the law, came to the
Assistant Attorney General and apol
ogized . No disintrested business
men in the city would now be willing
to have the city return to the old
plan. I remember instances where
grocerymen and other merchants
said that since the enforcement of
the law, and this was said within a
yearthereafter, children came to their
stores, with five and ten dollar bills
to purchase provisions who had, prior
to the enforcement of the law, never
seen that much money in their lives;
that the children that formerly came
barefooted had shoes for the first
-time in their lives; that the poorer
class of people were able to pay and
paid their bills at the stores where
formerly it was difficult to obtain pay
ment. Of course, our city adjoins
iKansas City. Missouri, and the first
block over the line is known as the
"wet block," and "it is said to con
tain something like a dozen or two
saloons ready to greet the Kansas
man when he comes over. But only
those, who were so addicted to the
use of liquors that it was almost im
possible for them to do without it,
wouia in vne evening uikb me uuuuic
to go to Missouri for liquor. The
large majority of them, and the aver
age man, turned and went to his home
without having spent his money for
liquor. Prior to the enforcement of
the law, the joints always procured
from the banks large sums of money
on every pay day, because a very
large percentage of the pay checks
were cashed over the bar, and of
course you know, and I know, that
the laborer would naturally feel
called upon to spend some part of it
under those circumstances, and it fre
quently happened that his wife and
children saw but a very small part
of the proceeds, All that was done
away with when the joints were
closed- Kansas City, Kansas, in
creased in population the first three
or four years after the laws were en
forced at a wonderful rate. There
-was marked improvement in the pro
sDeritv of the merchants and the busi
ness of the city increased, and in
stead of a decline, there was a great
increase in business and in popula
tion. Most of the buildings that were
formerly occupied by joints are occu
pied by 'legitimate business.' "
In closing I desire to say that I
favor the $1500 exemption from tax
ation, now before the people of this
state. "In addition thereto I wish to
say that I feel that the people of the
State of Oregon and in fact society
generally, rarely appreciate the debt
and obligation that they owe to the
school teachers and instructors, from
colleges down to our district schools,,
The Fact Remains
No amount of misrepresentation by the
peddlers of alum baking powders, no jug
gling with chemicals, or pretended analysis,
or cooked-up certificates, or falsehoods of
any kind, can change the fact that ,
Royal Baking Powder
lias been found by the offi
cial examinations to be of the
highest leavening efficiency,
" free from alum, and of absolute
purity and wholesomeness.
Royal Baking Powder is indispensable
for making finest and most economical food.
for 4he efficiency and the work that
they do and if I should be honored
with this nomination and election, it
would be a source of great pleasure
to me, in every legitimate way, to
aid and advance the different school
interests and institutions of this state
and the material welfare of the in
structors and teachers thereof. .,
I also strongly favor giving aid and
all assistance that is possible, towards
helping the people of eastern Ore
gon and other parts of the state
needing irrigation, to get water upon
their lands.
I also favor giving the Governor
power to veto separate items in ap
propriation bills passed by the Legis
lature, and this 1 advocated for years
when a member of the State Senate.
It is now being taken up as a new
matter by some of the candidates, al
though I used it as an argument on
the floor of the state senate, foir
many years endeavoring to induce
the legislature to pass a bill calling
for. a Constitutional Convention, so
that the constitution could be amended
giving the Governor this power, as
well as many other changes which
were then vital to the interests of the
people of the state.
I am opposed to useless and expen
sive kid-gloved commissions that are
sapping the taxes and resources out
of the people of the state.
' I am also radically opposed to the
attitude of the National administra
tion in its wool schedule and wool
tariff, which is a direct slap to the
great sheep industry of the state of
Oregon, and the country at large.
If nominated and elected Governor,
I will veto any bill which may pass
the Legislature, compensating 'saloon
keepers and breweries for money in
vested in their business, in case pro
hibition carries or is adopted or other
wise, or under any circumstances
whatever. -
I also favor the abolishment of
the Fish and Game Commission as
now constituted, but favor reasonable
laws protecting game without so much
red tape,
I will stand for the abolishment of
all useless commissions, , believing
that the responsibility for the expen
diture of the people's money should
be fixed in such a way that the public
will know just where, when and whom
to hold responsible for the heavy tax
es and expenditures. I therefore be
lieve that the responsibility should
rest with the Governor, Secretary of
State and State Treasurer, so the
people will know who to exercise the
recall on, in case it is desired at any
time. -.
I favor separation of church and
state in this state and nation.
Sincerely Yours,
GEORGE C. BROWNELL.
(Paid Adv.)
A Valuable War Relic
Capt. W. Rawlings, of Meldrum,
brought a rare old relic to the Courier
office last week a confederate battle
flag he captured at Black River, Miss.
May 17, 1863, as Captain of the 23rd
Iowa Infantry, Co. F.
The flag is pierced with bullets
and torn with shells. It has eleven
stars and stripes.
The story is told that when Cleve
land issued an order for all Confed
erate flags to be returned Capt. Raw
lings replied that if the president
wanted this flag he would have to get
it as Company F,got it, "fight like
hell for it."
Summons
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for Clackamas County.
James H. Jackson, Plaintiff,
vs.
Helen L. Jackson, Defendant.
To Helen L. Jackson above named,
defendant.
In the name of the State of Ore
gon you are hereby required to ap
pear and answer the complaint filed
against you in the above entitled
court within six weeks after the
date of the first publication of thin
summons, and if you fail to so ap
pear and answer, for want thereof,
the plaintiff will apply to the Court
for the relief demanded in his com
plaint to-wit: For a decree of abso
lute divorce from the bonds of matri
mony now existing between you and
the plaintiff.
This summons is published in per
suance to an order of Hon. J. U.
Campbell, Judge of the above entitled
court, made and entered on the 25th
day of March 1914.
Date of first publication March 26,
1914. Date of last publication May
7, 1914.
Robert Scoular,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
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the patient almost invariably is, "Are your bowels regular?" Yet there's not one person in fifty who
takes proper care of the bowels. And the result of this foolish neglect is nine-tenths of all ill-health.
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Ask anyone who has ever used them they'll
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a gentle laxative in the form of a chocolate-tasting tablet. One of
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of taking that tablet (or say two, if your case is ob
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it. mi .in "i i ii.
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cause, insteaa oj annng
filature, tney simply help
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to
Sold only at the more
than 7,000 Kexall
Stores and in this
town only by us.
In vest pocket
tin boxes,
10c, 25c,
This
Is Our
Guarantee
You
Risk No Money
If Kexall Orderlies do not make
your bowels act right, tell us so and
we'll give back your monev without
x asking a single question. There is no
red tape to this guarantee. It means
just what . it says. You sign nothing.
we won t nesaate, or ask you any ques
tions. Your word is enough. If Rexall
Orderlies do not do all you expect them to
if you don't feel better after usine them and
find that they are the pleasantest-acting and best
laxative you have ever used, we want you to
tell us and get your money back.
Huntley Brothers Company
Ot egon City, Oregon