OREGON CITY COURIER, THURS DAY, MAY 21, 1914.
THE RIGHT TO WORK
IS MAN'S OWN RIGHT
No Man has Moral Right to Mono
polize Natural Resources
When that suposedly sacred docu
ment the constitution was adopted
it was soon found out that while the
"new breeches" a.s it was derisively
called, provided machinery for gov
ernment, no provision was made for
any rights for the citizen that even
a public official was bound to respects
Soon the "cranks" began to put up a
loud holler resulting in amendments
which are usually referred to as the
bill of rights. Among them are the
right of free speech and press, the
Ireedom jrom religious ouuguuuiis,
the right to bear arms and the sover
eignity of the civil home against the
soldier. It does not follow that be
cause the constitution guarantees
these rights that the citizen is at all
times secure.
Jfn later years after the trying or
deal of civil war, amendments guar
anteeing personal freedom and also
that the right to vote shall not be
abridged because of previous con
dition of servitude. The wisdom of
the amendments have been lately
questioned in the United States Sen
ate. In view of the present turmoil and
unhappy economic state of affairs in
this our common country it seems
another amendment is urgently called
for, one guaranteeing the right to
work to every American citizen.
Strange as it mav seem the right to
be lazy while not lundamentany ai
firmed is conceded to any one having
money or valuable property. Now 1
contend that in order to enjoy the
right to "life, liberty and the pur
suit of happiness" the right to work
must be guaranteed to each person in
order to life, etc. Now in order to
work one must be posessed of imple
ments and material to work with.
Under our industrial development im
plements are complicated, generally
power driven and very costly. The
material is also similarly situated be
ing beyond the ability of ownership
operation and possession of the work
er, consequently the worker must
make terms with the owner of these
necessary to employment conditions.
One phase is the factory, generally
speaking, where the wage system ob
tains, the other is the farm which is
also at times a wages condition, at
other times the process is .rent, the
worker paying for the privilege of
working a parcel of land which the
owner will not work but will demand
a payment before he permits his fel-
low man to work, in other words in
order that the landless person may
have access to the means to work in
order to live he must make terms with
the holder of land who will not use it
himself.
This is the second form of exploi
tation; in a recent paper, interest was i
the subject treated. Rent also ap
plies to human habitations which are
the result of human labor and the ocr
cupant should by right repay that la
bor, which however is at present not
the basis of calculation upon which
the rate is based, consequently we
hear the pitiful moan of an ancient
builder of houses who said "the foxes
have holes, and the birds of the air
have nests but mankind has no place
to lay his head." In my uneventful
career as a toiler in numerous forms
of industry I have observed the hard
est worked and most useful members
of society are homeless. According
to the eighteenth annual report of
the Department of Labor over 81 per
cent of wage earners are renters,
about half of the balance are home
owners the others are under mort
gage. Hut let us return to tho right to
work on the land which is not the pro
duct of any man or mankind, there
fore it is unjust, it is a crime for
any person to take rent of another.
If the alleged owner will not use the
land the land must of right be at the
service of any person who wlil, other
wise he will be deprived of life, liber
ty, etc. No one has any moral right,
no matter what legal privilege he
claims, to monopolize the natural re
sources of this planet that he cannot
use and which are necessary to his
fellowmen. Therefore I demand an
amendment to the constitution, that
the right to wrok shall not be abro
gated nor abridged by the United
States or by the several states or
bv territory acquired by them.
John F. Stark,
BACON
By Charles B. Clark, Jr.
You're salty and greasy and smoky
as sin.
But of all grub wo love you the best
You've stuck to us closer than high
est of kin
And helped us win out in the west.
You sweat with us down at Tucson;
You froze with us up on the Lar
amie trail,
When Injuns was painted and
white men was pale,
Then you nerved us up to grip our
last chance by tho tail
And to load up our colts and hang
on.
You've sizzled by mountain and mesa
and nlain,
Over camp tires of sagebrush and
oak:
Tho breezes that blow from the
Platte
to the main
Have carried your savory smoke.
You're friendly with minor or punch
er or priest,
You're as good in December as
May,
You always came in when tho fresh
meat had ceased,
And the rough course of empire to
westward was greased
By tho bacon wo fried on tho way.
We swear that you're not lit for
white men to eat,
And your virtues we often forgot;
We call you by numos that I daren't
repeat,
But love you and swoar by you yet
Here's to you, old hucim, fat, lean,
streak and rind,
All the westerners join in the toast,
From mesquite and yucca to sage
brush and pine,
From Helena down to the Mexican
line, ,
A"d from Omaha out to the coast.
IndigC V:i? Cor.' ..-(? No Ap-
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creases v :
tion; you .
spring to;.:
stomach '
whole systi:
ectric Bitle.
Peeble's stc
medicine he
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R uVcklcn's
ma.
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aptnlile; stops indiges
ca uvos-vthing. A real
';! livr'r, kidney and
kis. C'bames your
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tnr Mr. T. D.
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nv.'ibles than any
u'.i. Cot a bottle
Mi at your Dtug-
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Pay your inirscription in advance
and receive it-. Courier for $1.00. ,
GOOD ROADS WITHOUT BONDS.
George Hicinbotham Takes up Prob
lem after Bonds Defeat.
Editor Courier: . - ,
In the Courier of the 7th inst, in
the joint letter from King-Spence-rve
and Mvers. under the heading,
"Down With Bonds," they claim that
we are all condemning the bonds, and
kiurnilinfv tVio .nmlitinn nf thft rnjirls.
UCM."& - ,
but none were offering a remedy, or
way out of the trouble. Now this is
4-,m nvirl if io olcl IrilO i h O t if
VCly uuv, ttiiu n a mau w, v..v
we don't adopt , some other way of
1 -1 1 J .1- Al U iU
DUUUing gooa rouus inrvugn uic tuuii-
will have to fight this bonding bill
every year or two, ana inai we uuu i,
want to do.
Now, I have studied every feature
of this roaa prooiem ior a guuu many
ent kinds of roads that have been
built, and I have read, very carefully,
wfifof'a sncrrrpstinns about
building roads in Clackamas county
1 dont taKe any stock in j. xlih
V,,,illinn. hopnncp fill his
lUih. UI1 LU11U.,
talk is in regard to the very highest
grade oi roaus mat can no uum,, ic
,...,ll1.o f iha nnst anil it. is not
worth while to spend time talking or
dreaming ttuoiu ucn uayo( "diouoc
WC tail W vttw.r
We have got to adopt a system of
t t '1 1! J.U-i. U - An-Jnil An
roaci JJulIUlIlg Uiut tan ue taiiicu vu
exclusively. Dy tne mooring classes,
all over the county, and give each
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man 111 MIC CUUIlliy mat vyiii,o w.i.
..urt an Tinrtrilnit.v t.n TlflV his
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road tax in work on the road, right
in the district that he lives in and
that particularly interests him.
Now I like the principles of the
joint letter above referred to, in some
respects, but if it suited me entirely
I would not be writing this letter. The
hard surfaced roads construction
most all the work away from the com
mon laboring man, and throws it into
the hands of the high-priced, skilled
laborers, both for construction and
for repair work. So much of the ma
terial for this kind of road would have
to be purchased outside of the county,
and hauled to the place of construes
tion, that there would be a continual
stream of money 'going out of the
county all the time, and there would
be no end to it, and the cost would be
so great that bofore we got over half
the county the roads wo first built
would be all shot to pieces, and have
to be rebuilt. All this continual cost
of muterial, transportation- and high
priced labor and about, four dozen
bosses and overseers, drawing their
$4 or $5 per day, and soma of them
more, would all have to be dug up by
the taxpayers of the county. I am an
old teamster, and I have talked with
lots of other old teamsters and we are
of the same opinion, if we had heavy
hauling to do, when it was wet or
frosty we would prefer good crushed
rock road, like some we have out here
to the best hard surfaced road. This
piece of cruched reck road that we
L,.n stnf liAfa kno hapn Hnwn three or
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four years, and it has not cost us a
cent for repairs, and it is newer now
than when it was first built, but the
grading could be done a little better.
It is about 8 or 9 feet wide, it has a
heavy rock foundation in the bottom,
then a layer of coarse crushed rock
on top of that, rolled thor6ughly with
a road roller, then a layer of finer
crushed rock thoroughly rolled, and
then the top dressing is the finest of
the crushed rock, well watered with
.,A cnvinliloi- Vipfnrfl the last roll
ing, the center is well rounded, and
the drainage is very good. This road
will, undoubtedly, need redressing oc
casionally, to keep the road in proper
shape, so that the water will not stand
on the road, and if the drainage is
made perfect before the road is built,
and then the construction work pro
perly done, I don't think the cost of
keeping a road of this kind in good
repair would exceed $10 each year per
mile if it is looked after carefully dur
ing the wet season. We have plenty
of material in the county for building
all the roads we want of this kind,
and the common laborers of the coun
ty can do all the work, both of con
struction and repairing, and if we can
get the county court to select a man
that has had experience in building
these crushed rock roads, and knows
just how to do it, and put him in as
county roadmaster, so as to make the
matter of grading, drainage and con
struction all uniform in every dis
trict, and then make all the districts
as near a uniform size as they can,
and then levy a road tax each year,
sufficient so they can give each dis
trict not less than $2500 or $3000 to
be used exclusively for building per
manent roads in each district, and al
low the taxpayeis of each district to
decide by vote, at a regular meeting
each year whether they want hard
surfaced roads or good crushed rock
roads, and also lot them decide by
vote at this meeting what road they
will improve and let them elect their
mini uiiitnvir itinva This comnlaint
about some of the supervisors not
carrying on tne roaa won in u uum-
,,,.,1,1.1,,. ia mnt nil lUSod
m:fn in,,,,v. ... -
bv them being appointed by the court
, i l ' . ... ..1 1,. nv
in place oi ueinir eiutusu uy um ".-.-.,.,..
,r tho iiislvii't. If a suDcrvi-
sor tries monkeying around when he
is elected nv tne taxpayers, me nov
year he will be apt to have a chance
to stav at homo and they all know it,
too. I would also suggest that the
court set aside each year, about 25
cents per rod for all the crushed rock
road that each district has built to
help pay for keeping these permanent
roads in good repair, through the wet
weather. And each district should
voto a special tax each year to keep
the other roads in their districts in
repair, nnd I think if we should adopt
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Unfiling rniiL'h i.flrl be
relieved by uslne
Ballard's
Horehound
Syrup
Its effect 1 the lunRS Is
soothing and healing, very
Rratlfylne to thoso who ore
racked by a painful cough. Ito
lleves tightness, loosens
It phlegm, clears tne voice oi
fc hoarseness and quiets all lrrt-
Vm .lll.,n, an 4t,nt thA
lUbL'U fun"'"", .'.
sleep Is no longer disturbed at
night.
Trice 33e, BOo and fl.OO.
rtuy tho 11-00 slxe. It con
tains lv times as much as the
2C-c sire, and you got with each
bottle a Dr. Herrlck's Red Pep
per Porous Plaster for the chest.
JmF.Ballrd,Prop. St.Louli.MO.
6tephni Eye Salve Is a healing
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ointment ror eor eye.
JSotoAwoRtcowMtNOtflBv
Jones Drug Co., 'Jiegou City.
this plan of working that it would be
better for us to get this last road law
changed so that we would not be com-
peled to do this work by contract.
This road construction above every
thing else needs to be done just right
and we all know how the average con
tract woik is done. I think a good
road master is saier and perhaps
cheaper and bv allowing the road
master to superintend all this work,
he could arrange with the supervisors
of each district so that every taxpay
er in the district would be looked af
ter and a chance given to them to
work out their road tax each year at
one thing or another whatever they
were best fitted for, and by so doing
they could stand a great deal heavier
road tax and hardlv feel it, than they
could if they had to scratch up the
cash to pay the contractor with. We
have all got lots of muscle but not
much cash, and if you wilj arrange
thing3 so that we can all use our
muscles to build roads with, in place
of having to scratch around after
cash, things will go lots better. All
the little difficult points can be easily
adjusted in a short time with a good
man at the wheel,
' Yours for good roads all over
the county,
George Hidinbotham.
LOGAN
The grange anniversary picnic will
be held at grange park on June 6th.
There was an entertainment by
the pnpils of the North Logan School
on the 14th, under the management
of the teacher, Mr. Dambach. The
sale of tickets brought $23.
Three women served on the Logan
election board during the day; Laura
L. Kirchem, Sarah I. Wilson and Ef
fie C. Kirchem.
Logan gave the bond issue an af
firmative 'vote of 7 and a negative of
110 rather a decisive mr.jority.
Judge Anderson had 85 votes on
a r o to -frdf 'if -! f!Mft5a;s-i 3 ?! 41- 55
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his own ticket besides some on other
Bert Corless is working on L.
Kohl's house.
Fred Gerhor recently completed a
gniinery for Jacob Minder.
Several Loan people went to the
Eagle Creek Gran go picnic on the
Kith and heard Gov. West speak.
Fred Gerber, road supervisor has
been smoothinir some of the wrinkles
out of the road from the gravel pit to
the main road and will soon begin
gravel hauling in earnest.
Henry Babler is the next on the
list and now owns an automobile.
Mrs. E. N. Barrett has been ser
iously ill but is improving.
Mrs. Thompson's health is slowly
improving.
W111. Tonkin has been suffering
from having the small bone of his
leg broken above the ankle.
F, IT. King is now president of the
Eipiity Warehouse Co. and will be in
Portland the last two days of each
week on business for the company.
Rev. A. J. Ware commenced revi
val meetings on the 17th and will
close on the 22nd. He is an eloquent
preacher.
Child Cross? Feverish? Sick?
A cross, peevish, listless child,
with coated tongue, pale, doesn't
sleep; eats sometimes very little,
then again ravenously; stomach
sour; breath fetid; pains in stomach,
with diarrhea; grinds teeth while
asleep, and starts up with terror
all suggest a Worm Killer some
thing that expels worms, and almost
every child has them. Kiokapoo
Worm Killer is needed. Get a box
to-day. Start at once. Yon won't
have to coax, as Kickapoo Worn:
Killer is a candy confection. Ex
pels the worms, the cause of your
child's trouble. 20c, at your druggist
DOUBLE CARNIVAL
OPENS SATURDAY
(Continued from Page 1)
character, $5.00; best Plug ugly
Division B Pure bred and regis
tered. Best Coach Stallion, 4 years
old or over, $5.00; best Percheron
Stallion, 4 years old or over, $5.00;
best Belgian Stallion, 4 years old or
over, $5.00; best Clydesdlae Stallion,
4 years old or over, $5.00; best Stan
dard Bred or Morgan, 4 year sold or
over, $5.00.
Best Daft Mare Best Percheron,
$3.50 best Coach, $3.50; best Belgian
$3.50; best Clydesdale, $3.50; bqst
Standard Bred or Morgan, $3.50;best
Draft colt 1913 foal, $3.50; best
Coach colt 1913 foal, $3.50; best
Draft Gelding 1911 foal, $3.50; best
Draft Gelding 1912 foal, $3.50; best
Draft fillie 1911 foal, $343; best
Draft fillie 19192 foal, $3.50.
Division C Best five years old or
over all purpose Stallion, weight
1200 to 1500 pounds, $5.00; best five
years old or over all purpose mare,
weight 1200 to 1400 pounds, $5.00.
. RULES
All grades or cross bred, over five
years old must weigh between 1200
and 1400, (mares or geldings.
All colts under five years shall
not weigh over 1400.
The offspring of Sire and Darn
whose combined weight shall be less
than 2400 or more' than 2800 shall
be barred from this class.
When' colts are entered in this
class the name and weight of both
sire and dam must be given.
GELDING Under one year,
$2.50; over one and under two, $2.50;
over two and under three, $2.50; over
three and under four, $2.50; over
four and under five, $2.50.
FILLIES -Under one year, $2.50;
over one and under two, $2.50; over
2 and under three, $2.50; over three
and under four, $2.50; over four and
under five, $2.50.
Division D. Best Jersey Bull,
three years or over, $5.00; best
Guernesy Bull, three years or over,
$5.00; best Ilolstein Bull three years
old or over, $5.00; best Jersey Bull,
one year old and under two, $2.50;
best Guernsey Bull 1 year old and
under two, $2.50; best Holstein Bull,
ono year old and under two, $2.50;
best jersey calf over six months and
under one year, $2.50; best Guernsey
calf Over six months and under one,
$2.50 best Holstein calf over six
months and under one, $2.50; best
Jersey calf either sex under six
monts, $2.50; best Guernsey calf
either sex under six months, $2.50;
best Holstein calf either sex under
six months, $2.50; best Jersey cow
three years old or over, three Loud
den Cow Stanchions worth $5.25, giv
en by Royer Implement Co.; best
Guernsey cow three years old or over
three Louden Cow Stanchions worth
$5,25 given by Royer Implement Co.;
best Holstein cow,' three years old or
over, No. 1, 2(!0 pound M. P. Milk
Scale, price $1.00, given by Monroe
& Crisell.; best Jersey cow under
three years, $3.50; best Guernsey
cow under three years', $3.50; best
Holstein cow under three years,
$;.50; best Jersey Heifer, $2.50; best
Guernsey Heifer, $2.50; best Hol
stein Heifer, $2.50; best grade cow,
$5.00; Total $60.50.
The winner of the greatest num
ber of cash prizes will receiv ea Tay
lor Fresh Butter Pan.
Division E. School and Children's
Farnde to organize. School (largest
number in line) 1st prize $10.00; 2nd
prhe $5.00; Hoop Drill, 1st prize,
rarriago, 1st prize, $3.00, 2nd. $2.00;
Bov's Express, 1st prize, $3.00, 2nd
$2.00; Bov's Bicvcles, 1st orize, $3.00
2nd, $2.00; Mav Pole, 1st prize, $7.50.
2nd, $5.00; Children's Commercial
float, 1st prize, $7.50, 2nd, $5.00;
Parasol Drill, 1st prize, $5.00, 2nd,
$2.50.
Division F Will organize on Main
street between Twelfth and Sixteen
th street on right side of street at
2:30 p. m. . ' -
Grange float, 1st prize $20.00;-2nd,
$10.00. Lodge float, 1st prize, $20.00
2nd, $10.00. Commercial float, $15.00.
Out of town float, 1st prize, $20.00;
2nd, $10.00. Lodge: greatest num
ber in line, 1st prize, $10.00; 2nd,
$5.00. Decorated hose cart, $15.00.
Cow boys on foot, 1st prize $3.00,
2nd, $2.00. Plug ugly on foot best
sustained character, $3.00. Most
unique make up best sustained char
acter, $3.00.
Division G. Auto Parade at 3:30
p. m. to organize between Twelfth
to Sixteenth street on right side of
street. Best decorated city auto,
1st prize, $20.00; 2nd, $10.00. Best
decorated out of town auto, 1st prize,
$20.00; 2nd, $10.00.,
The judges of the roses are to be
E. B. McFarland, Alfred Tucker and
Mr. Ladd, Jr., all of Portland.
HENRY ZIRBEL
Henry Fred Zirbel was born Nov.
27, 1900 at Port Edwards, Wis., and
died of pneumonia May 16; 1914 at
West Linn, Ore., at the home of his
parents Mr, and Mrs. August Zirbel.
He came to Oregon City April 9,
1909. He was a pupil of the West
Linn schools, 7th grade. He was
popular with his companions and
helpful about the home. The funeral
was held Monday May 18, 1914, at 2
o'clock from the German Lutheran
church, Oregon City, Ore. The school
presented a beautiful floral pillow
with the inscription "West Linn
School." Interment was at the Ore
gon City cemetery.
REDLAND
John Hughes is getting ready to
take part of his herd of Gurnseys to
the Booster meeting at Oregon City
the 23rd.
The Redland Literary Society gave
a basket social Saturday evening and
literary program, which was well at
tended. At the last annual meeting of the
C. C. Mutual Telephone Co. a new
rule was adopted whereby patrons
desiring extra calls or long distance
must have paid in advance at central
before such service can be given and
this rule goes intyJ effect July 1st.
The company had to do this to pro
tect itself, as there were quite a
few bills out on which payment was
refused.
Wanted Some one with hounds
to get a pair of coyotes and their
pups which are giving nightly con
certs in this community.
E. N. Brock has assumed central
at $35.00 per month. He is to fur
nish operator.
J. T. Fullam has a force of men
and teams doing road work.
A. Allen in District No. 55 is run
ning the rock crusher on the Spring
water road.
Considerable corn is being planted
here this spring. Mr. Bateson is put
ting in 12 acres. J. Funk has 6 acres
Mr. Funk has been raising corn for
the past fifteen years with a success
ful each year, some years receiving
as high as 40 bushels to the acre,
which certainly beats grain raising.
Mr. Hubert" has his barn about
completed.
W. H. Brow our sheep shearer
says there is at least 50 per cent less
sheep in this community than last
year. Those that were scared out on
free wool certainly got fooled, con
siderlng the price of mutton and wool
Miss Iva Powers has returned
from Portland, where she has been
visiting for several. weeks past.
Mr. E. Evanston had the misfor
tune to have a limb drop on his head
last week which leaves him partly
unconscious but hope for his recov
ery 80011.
FARMERS EVUITY NEWS
Buying and selling is the business
end of farming.
The piosperity of the farmer de
pends on the prices more than the
quantity he raises. "
From government figures we learn
that the farmer makes more money
from a short crop than a large one.
The market is so manipulated that
a large crop heneflts the speculators
railroads and dealers, but not the
farmer or consumer.
The politicians have always made
laws for the speculators, railroads
and dealers, go farmers expect no re
lief from them.
There is only one way to remedy
this and that is for farmers to stick
together, organize, buy and sell to
gether and vote for better laws.
The ladies . vote now and they
know how cheap straw, cotton and
feathers are on the farm, and they
havo to pay $6.00 for a handfull of
this stutt to the millinery trust.
What will they do?
A traveling man who had been
over Oregon reported that Oregon
was ninety-nine per cent climate. If
this is true, the other one per cent
is Big Business, which can be rem
edied by organizing all the little bus
inesses, and from what we read and
forty years, experience of ithe cli
mate in the middle west, we should
say it was one per cent climate and
99 per cent Big Business a terrible
big job to fix either back there in
Colorado or West Virginia.
Senator Lane, of Oregon, again
comes to the protection of American
honor in the senate making a strong
plea to spurn tho gift of tainted
money 01 John JJ. senator Lane
said this money was "covered with
blood and tears of women and child
ren shot down in the Colroado
strike." Does John D. Rockefeller
have to pay the government em
ployees in our Agricultural Depart
ment? How do you like John's way
of governing the country, anyway
W. C. Hawley, congressman from
this district, is on the committee on
agriculture of the house, also at the
head of the committee on Forest re
serves, and is the most influential
member in regard to the O. and C.
Land Grant. Mr. Hawley writes us
that he favors Rural Credit at low
rates on long time loans. If we
fail to get a good Rural Credit law
law htis time we are going to insist
on getting the inside information and
know who to blame.
Miss Pearl Joloy, Red Cross Nurse
who was one of the first who went
this time we are going to insist
masacre, became so incensed at the
scenes she; saw there that she pro
poses to raise an army of women to
shoulder arms against the murder
ers of those women and babes. If
the people are going to stop being
governed by millionaires . and their
gunmen the Ludlow massacre is the
beginning of the end.
The 15th the Kansas farmers meet
at Emporia to form an organization
for buying and selling. The Grange
and Farmers' Union will be repre
sented. Other organizations will be
represented also. The Lyon county
oiganization that we told you about
three weens ago,' has started some
thing in Kansas, and when those jay
hawkers get started at anything,
even those Kansas cyclones do not
stop tnem, and they' won't stop short
of one hundred thousand strong.
The Ludlow massacre has not
turned out just as the two John Dees
had planned so the Standard Oil Co.
now is paying 76 cents per barrel
for crude oil. A month ago they
paid $1.05 per barrel.
JNow look for gasoline to go up.
The people of Colorado want gov
ernor Ammons impeached, but we
to help the survivors of the Ludlow
islature to do something else. Pres
ident Wilson should handle this ques
tion with, care and good judgement
or , .
The National Board of the Equity
has issued two bulletins, one tells
where to buy almost everything, and
the other tells where to sell. . The
reason why we farmers do not take
advantage of these bargains is be
cause we have been exploited (which
is the polite word for robbed,) until
we have no money to buy with and
we sold everything we had to sell at
a low figure to get money to pay
our taxes. Our Equity Warehouse
Co. is calling on us to dig up again
with our notes.
The railroads of the country are
about bankrupt, and are calling on
us for more freight and passenger
rates. The steel trust has to borrow
money to pay dividends on stock.
We will have to make a big assign
ment to the money trust. Just turn
everything over to them and we com
mon people will get off the earth be
cause we don't wish to trespass on
property that belongs to the bankers.
The only thing to do is to have a few
more harmony meetings with injec
tions of mysterious circulars.
Clackamas county has lost a large
sum of tax money and the State of
Oregon has lost too by the O. and C.
land grant being in court to decide
Southern Pacific Railroad is the ow
ner. I heard our judge say the
State's part in Clackamas county
alone was $25,000, lost' to the state.
A Clackamas county man, who has
been over this land, says sixty per
cent of it is as good land for farm
ing as can be found in Oregon.
The Grange out at Eagle Creek,
wants the government to give this
HAPPY MOTHERHOOD
Thehappinessof motherhood istoooften
checked because the mother's strength is
not equal to her cdtes, while her unselfish
devotion neglects her own health.
It is a duty of husband or friend to see
that she gets the pure medicinal nourish
ment in Scott's Emulsion, which is not
a drug or stimulant but nature's con
centrated oil-food tonic to enrich and en
liven the blood, strengthen the nerves and
aid the appetite. Physicians everywhere
prescribe Scott's Emulsion for over
worked, nervous, tired women; it builds
up and holds up their strength.
Get Scott's at your nearest drug store.
land to the State of Oregon to Bell
to settlers at two dollars and fifty
cents per acre. One year's actual
settlement required before patent.
The money to go to the good roads
fund. If Uncle Sam gets this land
back in his possession can you think
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or a oeuer pian vo sei.uo muhj
Locals, let me know what you think
of it. We will wait for your action
at next meeting.
The articles in the Equity News
in regard to the fish and game laws
have attracted some attention and
your editor has received several com
munications from practical fishermen
and we are accumulating some knowl
edge on the subject. From what we
can learn salmon when three or four
years old come up our rivers to spawn
and after spawning they die. They
do not eat after coming into fresh
water. Some fishermen think the
hatcheries do some good and others
think otherwise.
They are all opposed to the present
law. .
Just what per cent of the artificial
hatch mature and return is not known
One fisherman thinks one out of a
inillidh . A licensed fisherman cannot
retail the fish he has caught without
I reaking the law. About the .only
way to make the law wor than U is
would be to require a license from
any one who bought a pound or more
of salmon. One fisherman writes me
that the fish law is just a graft and
if the people knew just how bad it
was they would repeal the whole
thing.
Bro. Grisenthwaite is attending
the state Grange as the fraternal del
egate from the state Equity. This
will be a help in uniting the two or
ganizations for better conditions for
the farmer. The campaign for bet
ter conditions for the farmer never
ends with the Equity Society. We
are going to keep everlastingly after
it until the grafters are choked off
and some of the benefits of big crops
go into the pockets of the farmers.
You are with us, so just join us.
The directors of the state Equity
and the committee elected to inves
tigate the Equity Warehouse Co. met
last Wednesday with the directors of
the Warehouse company, and in joint
session agreed to seveVal change.
In order that the committee might
have represeentation on the Ware
house board, A. R. Lyman of Mult
noman county resigned and F. K.
King of Highland was elected to fill
the vacancy. President Harper re
signed as president of the board and
F. H. King was elected president of
the Warehouse board. The running
expenses have been cut less than half.
It is proposed to arrange matters so
that the President wil spend as much
of his time as is necessary at the
warehouse, establish an office there
and assist at all times in the econom
ical administration of its affairs. Bro.
F. H. King is a farmer and will look
after the interests of the shipper,
and at the same time is going to
make an effort to raise a sufficient
sum of money to enable the Ware
house to go on the 'market and by
such supplies as the farmers need as
cheap as the wholesalers. He also
proposes to make an effort to secure
better prices for farm produce. In
order for the Warehouse to sell on
30 to 60 day's time and buy for cash,
it requires more money than they
have ever had to work with. Man
ager Tees has proposed to donate
one month's salary, equal to $250
to help the cause along. Bro.Cam
pan is proving his ability as a busi
ness man in the intreess of the
equity.
It will require strict economy and
the best of management with the uni
ted support of the farmers to put the
Equity Warehouse in shape to save
the farmers dollars as it should. 'It is
up to the farmers.
Some farmers think that the agri
cultural college and the department
of agriculture are run in the interest
of the farmers. Just to prove to you
that you are mistaken I quote you
from the year book of 1912:
"The most effective move toward
the reduced cost of living is the pro
duction of greater crops. This is at
tributable to the work of the depart
ment of Agriculture, the agricultural
college and the experiment stations."
Now to prove to you that increased
production decreases the profits to
the farmer, I quote you words from
page 13, in regard to cotton:
"While the production of 1911
was greater, the value of the crop
was not correspondingly large and
was exceeded by the much larger
value of the much smaller crop of
1910."
In this case the smaller crop was
worth $127,000,000 more than the
large crop. On page 15, in speaking
of the potato crop, it says:
"This crop seems to be one of
those that are worth less in the ag
gerate when the production is very
high than they are worth when the
production is low."
On the same page, in speaking of
barley, it says:
"Perhaps in consequence of the ex
tremely high production the price of
barley has declined so as to make the
value of the entire crop below that of
the record vear. This year's crop is
valued at $125,000,000, while the crop
of 1911 had a value of $139,000,000,
although is production was 64,000,
000 less. 1
You can readily see by thee figures
and statements that increased pro
duction lowers the price, and when
that is done it is in favor of the con
sumer, and not the producer. It is
the same with the law governing ag
riculture, it is made in the interests
of the consumer or middleman in
stead of the nroducer.. The only rem
edy is organization. Join the Farm
ers Society of Ecraity and stand to
gether through thick and thin. Work
in the interests of each other. Learn
to stand toeether on measures you
want made into law, just as the
bankers do and the manufacturers.
Learn to pull together like the whis
key men and you will find victory
nerched on your banner and prosper
ity gingling in your pockets.
One fisherman says the seiners get
pll the fih out of the river here at
Oregon City in three days after the
Gooertn Anpns. Thp nnlv Ttlnp ti sell
j the fish in large quantities is to the
canners and the canners know it and
as they all pay the same price we
suppose t.hev have a trust and Set
prices. Salmon would be as cheap
as smelts if it was not for the canners
The fish and game law is going to be
repealed and we must make a law to
tike its place that will do justice to
the state, to the fisherman and to the
consumer. The states of Washington
and Oregon should do all the canning
of salmon and let the profits go to
he state and not in the pockets of
rien who' are millionaires made so
by our present fish and game laws.
The Courier nnd the twice-a-wcek
Portland Journal, three papers each
week for $1.75 is some bargain.