OREGON CITY COURIER .THURSDAY, MAY Q, 1914
OREGON EQUITY NEWS
P. W. Meredith
Editor
Farmers are hard working people
Farmers create wealth in life's ne
cessities,
It does not pay the farmer to cre
ate weaitn. .
Prices paid the farme"? are too low,
Why?
The ' only remedy is organization
ana co-operation,
Bankers organize and get big
prices lor money.
Railroads organize and get good
prices for hauling your crops.
Boards of Trade, organize and
make big money buying and selling
your crops.
Merchants organize and make
money, buying and selling your crops.
Doctors and lawyers organize and
got good prices for the time and wise
appearance. v
The trusts are well organized and
have no trouble in making millions.
the farmers -society 01 Equity is
to exterminate it. Can we ? Let
the lawyers make the law and it will
be made for lawyers.
Up here in Mt. Pleasant since we
united with Twilight for political
purposes, we have become the most
progressive people-in the county for
economy.' Mt. Pleasant- elected Bro.
Ward B. Lawton, committeeman on
the Republican ticket and Twilight
was not to out done, so they elected
him- precinct committeeman on the
Democratic ticket nd nominated him
for Justice of the Peace also. The
Progressives and Prohibitionists are
outdone so far, but the stock law
passed and the Socialists meet the
23rd. '
President Wilson, by appointing
the presidents 01 our largest banks
fmonev trust) to positions on the
federal reserve board has turned over
the money and its management to
the Morgans and Rockefellers.
Another significant piece of news is
? rS t0 benefitl Rural Credits will not. come up this
farmers
Every farmer should join and help
to put larming on a paying basis.
There is a strong sentiment now
to organize the consumers. Can it
be done as an auxiliary to the
Kauity? k
A great many prominent people
who are in sympathy with the farm
ers would like a conlerence of all
farmers to discuss questions of im-
- ' portance.
We should . make arrangements
with some German paper to get our
' movement understood by the german
speaking farmers. Let us hear from
" your local about this.
The question of a Fourth of July
- picnic is before us again. What will
we do about it. Go to the next meet
N ' ing of your local and help decide this
matter. Let us know. x
We have a County Fair .and al
' ways, will and why not make it more
useful to the organized farmer. Why
, .- not have a day for the organized
' farmer. The Equity and grange
Grange could furnish the speakers.
Why not? , '
Thousands: of farmers co-operat-
ive undertakings have failed, and
yet of .late thousands are suceceding.
When farmers organizations start
their enterprises they are prone to
give the management and good sal
eries to other than farmers, and the
enterprise fails. Farmers -must do
these things themselves. No one is
"going to work for your interests but
' farmers. The Marketing congress
-V " y tried to unite all farmers organiza
tions in a national marketing scheme
with F. A. Curtis, of Chicago, as
chairman of the committee. Farmers
- will do this in timet Give them
time.
We do not know what is being
done with that $150,000 we appro
priated to 'the World's Fair. Who
can tell us?
The State Highway Commission
says we can't have our share of the
road fund unless we vote bonds. Well!
Well! Well! Wouldn't we be better
off without that kind of commission.
Let's try it. We have com coming
frnm Arirfintina free and the Areren-
tine corn weavel came too and we had
session of congress, but must go
over until, next winter. farmers
wake up! Take the government out
of the hands of these murderers and
grafters. .
Secretary Houston, after an ex
haustive investigation in our best ag
ricultural communities finds that of
less than one hundred acres do not
pay. What are we to do with the
neonle who live on smaller farms?
Are we to let them join the army of
the unemployed? Why can't people
on smaller farms make a living?
These are questions to think "about.
Why do you vote large sums to our
colleges, when you can t maice enougn
money "to send your boy to school?
In a speech in the House of Repre
sentatives, March 6th, Hon. Thomas
L. Rubey, of Missouri, said, "We
must not neglect the man upon the
small farm. The small farmer should
be encouraged and helped , by both
state and nation. Take care of the
small farmer and the large one will
take care of himself. It is far more
important in this great country of
ours that we should have a large
number of small farms well cultiva
ted than a fewer number of large
farms."-
We farmers want good schools),
good homes, good rbads and all man
ner of good things. We cannot buy
these things now because we are poor
Just why we are poor we do not
know. We know what we have to
sell is cheap and what we have to
buy "is high.. We pay. six hundred
million dol ars in interest every year
that we get no good from whatever.
We pay freight charges so watered
stocK can araw a aiviaenu. we pay
intprest rent and Drofit to one thous
and and twenty trusts and we don't
vote to sop it.
Over in Kansas City, Mo., the hay
commission men raised the rate of
commission charges from BO to 75
cents a ton and the farmers are or
ganizing an association to sell their
own hay. If the state and national
governments would protect these co
operative institutions ' against the
combine ana trusts oi our cwea, uicj
would all succeed because they are
based on economical principles. Far
niers are in need of protective legis
lation and they will get it when they
unite,
The net earning for all railroads
in the U. S. for 1913 was greater
tnan any previous year, stocknolders
received $01,424,418.
. In face of all this railroads of the
East are intimating iu the Inter-V
state Commerce Commission that if
they are not allowed to raise rates
the government will have to take
over their ownership. Well! Uncle
Sam could run them O. K. and put
the $201,424,418, in new roads and
not have to pay so much for hauling
mail and Parcel Post
Farmers want a Rural Credit sys-.
tern as our new' currency law does not
cater to the farmers needs. The qld
Mational banking system never ca
tered to the farmers. All banking
systems ignore the farmer. Farmers
as a rule know very little about bank
ing and money. Not one in one thou
sand could tell what kind of dollars
were legal tender. Not many farm
ers know that bank notes are not
money no more than a farmers note.
Yet when a congressman introduces
a bill for a Rural Credit Bank it is
Preferred to the committee on banking
and currency, which is composed ot
bankers and that is the last -of that
bill. You might as well refer a bill
regulating horse stealing to a com
mittee of horse thieves. When we
send farmers to congress instead of
hanlcprs. hills affectinc farmers will '
be referred to the comittee on agri-l
culture and it will be reported favor-
able by the committee and congress
will pass it.
Farmers are feeding and clotnisg
the people and doing it for wages of
about one dollar per day and 29 per
cenWf the farmers get even less than
that. Rockefeller's income is esti
mated at fifty million per year. There
is too much law between the farmer
and consumer, too much law between
the salmon and the river, and the
people who consume them. There
is too much law to throw the fruits
of industry into the pockets of a few
individuals who could not spend their
income while millions' go cold and
hungry. Our farm lands are getting
poorer. Men, are quitting the farms
and those who remain on the farm
lead a life of drudgery. We spend
one hundred million dollars to make
one man down in Mexico salute the
flag, while John D. shoots it full of
holes in Colorado: too much law.
Fifty-two natives have formed an
internatiosal institute of agriculture
with headquarters in Rome, Italy.
The King of Italy has erected a fine
building for it, and besides donates
$60,000 per year for it's maintain?
ance. ine u. s. nas a aeiegate .mere
who draws $10,000 ner 'year salary
from this country. Mr. David Lubin,
is our delegate. He is the man who
originated the idea and founded the
institute. , ,
Nearly all the organizations of
farmers have endorsed National . Ru
ral CrediSt and even the Republican
party has gone on record in its favor.
We sent a body of men to study the
different systems in vogue in iMirope.
several bills have been introduced in
Congress. Our democratic Congress
seems to have its hands tied on ac
count of too many bankers and law
yers in it
As long as farming pays so little
to the farmer, bankers will not re
gard farmers security as good com
mercial paper. You see farming must
be put on a, paying basis before the
farmer can do business on his own
credit, like members of the boards of
trade and other people who are rob
bine the industries to maintain their
hold on Big Business. The farmers
must unite and work together politi
cally, to ever succeed in business.
We have new candidates for con
gress and before we give them our
votes we would like to know what
thev DroDose to Jtive us in the form of
legislatin in return for our franchise
Our nation is facing a beef famine
and we already have a money famine
in the rural . districts. Millions of
working people are idle, crops are
rotting where they grow and millions
in cities hunerf. Out of every dollar
the consumer pays the farmer gets
40 per cent; farms of less than one
hundred acres do not pay. Are we
to have? a famine of fruit and vege
tables too? -
Now Mister Candidate for Con
gress, if you have the knowledge, in
telligence and inclination to help the
people you want to vote for you this
Fall, give us your solution of these
very vital- questions. It matters not
the snap of a finger what party you
are masquerading under. Let us
hear from you, or you might fail o
hear from us.
JOHN BARLEYCORN
EQUITY STATE OFFICERS
Proa. W. - Grisenthwaite, Oregon
City, Ore., Rt 3. .
Vice- Pres., J. Schmitke, Banks,
Ore., R. 3. ' ' ,
Sec.-Treas., F. G. Buchanan, Ore
gon City, Ore. .
Directors:-. F. Campau, Aurora,
Ore, Rt. 2: P. W. Meredith, Oregon
City, Ore, Rt 1.
CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICERS
Pres., S. L. Casto, Oregon City,
Ore, Rt. 3. ' ,
Vice Pres., J. H. Bowerman, Clack
amas, Ore, Rt. 1.
Sec.-Treas., F. G. Buchanan, Ore
gon City, Ore.'
Directors
W. J. owerman, Clackamas, Ore,
Rt 1
J. C. Royer, Clackamas, Ore, Rt. 1.
W. Grisenthwaite, Oregon City,
Ore, Rt. 3.
FOR YOUR DEN
5 Beautiful College Pennants 5
Yale and Harvard, each 9 in. x 24 in.
Princeton, Cornell, Michigan
Each I in. x 21 in.
' All best quality felt with felt head
ing, streamers, letters and mascot ex
ecuted in proper colors. This splen
did assortment sent postpaid for 50
cents and 5 stamps to pay postage.
Send now. ,
- Howard Specialty Company
uayion, wniu,
J. L. Jones of Estacada and How He
' Would Handle Him
There is a plot being sprung to in.
volve the nation in civil war about
prohibition, for that is what it will
practically amount to. The tariff
is getting played out; some other
game must be played in to divide and
conquer the peqple. Meanwhile taxes
and debts continually increase and the
fetters of capitalist law are being
fastened still more hrmly on the help,
less people.
Jack London wrote a book, the
trend of which is to favor govern
mental prohibition. But he keeps on
booze.hghting himself. This is in
line with a certain theory of Social.
ism which minimizes individual re
sponsibility and seeks to make the
people all wards of the state.
There are as many knds of So.
cialists as there are of Christians or
chickens. Personally I am a Social
ist, but not a governmentalist in the
sense that the state should assume
the functions of the church and pre.
scribe what we shall eat and drink
and believe, and f urnish us with com
pulsory employment under national,
guardsmen. This doctrine, in part,
was long ago defeated as a religious
assumption of authority. Now we
are called upon to face it anew in
a more aggravated and dangerpujs
form as a political assumption.
or national function. It belongs to
the community or municipality. It
is a matter of home rule, local self,
government and personal freedom.
The Federal government should get
out of the whiskey business. It is
the interference of the Federal gov.
ernment by licensing and taxing that
is the cause of the evil.
Each community should have
complete control of all such personal
matters without Federal or State in.
terference. Then a Prohibition com
munity could entirely expel the whis.
key business from . its territory and
make it as dry as Sahara. On the
other hand the booze fighters should
be equally free to control the terri.
tory in which they are in a majority,
even to the length of expelling a man
for being found in a state of sobriety.
This would separate the wheat from
the tares and let the tares .rip. It
would save the righteous from the
unremunerative task of governing
the wicked. Then the wicked would
probably repent of their own accord.
Otherwise they will never do it, be.
cause it is unnatural to drive people
to virtue by force, "v
This is the New dispensation pro
crrAm. but it cannot be Dut in force
under our present machinery of law
and government. Our whole absurd
and antiquated machinery of law and
government must be aoonsnea ana a
NTF.W ORDER established. The
present system is not a state of order
but of disorder, which is constantly
becoming more disorderly and vl.
olently destructive. The sooner the
people get their eyes open to this
FACT, the better it will be for them.
The password of the New Dispensa.
tion is "Come out of her, O my
people, that ye be not partakers of
her sins ana tnat ye db not visiu
with her plagues."
J. L. Jones
Estacada, Oreg. May 25.
CANBY
EAGLE CREEK
Mr. Harry Cochran and wife are
busy these days picking their straw
berries. They have a nice patch of
berries as one can find. The vines
are large and the berries, are thick
on the vines, and are of nice size.
Wat ren Kendall is laid up at pres
ent with rheumatism. We hope he
will be improved soon.
Mr. miton has the clearing tnat
he is doing for Mr. Rope, about fin
ished.
Richard Skinner is helping his
father to get out timbers to build
a new barn on his lather s place.
Rollins Porter is working at Cor
vallis in a cannery. He expects to
be gone for some time.
Mr. Henrickson is hauling gravel
on the roads.
Mr. Monroe Irish, of Union Hall,
was in Canby on business a few days
-It is better to eat strawberries
and cream than to favor the road
bonds. I am glad to see that the
voters did not forget to vote for
Anderson for judge.
Mr. Hunt has boueht a span or
horses and he can do his own work
now. '
Edward Bradtl has the finest piece
of clover in this vicinity.
The Want Column
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Woodle were
Estacada visitors last Thursday.
Mrs. R. B. Gibson was in Estaca
da last week having some dental
work done
Sam Eddy of Portland, was a week
end guest at the homo of R. B. Gib.
son.. , y ,
Dan Erdman j and family, Mrs.
Howlett, Mrs. A. J. Kitzmiller and
son, Walter, George Kitzmiller and
wife were the dinner guests of Guy
Woodle and wife Sunday by Mr. and
Mrs. Guy Woodle.
Roy Douglass and wife attended
the ball game at Estacada Sunday
afternoon. ',...
Mrs. Viola Douglass was a guest
at the home of her son, Will, Sunday.
H. S. Gibson killed a big skunk ,
Monday night.
CASTOR I A
For Infanta and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
: Bears the
Signature of
FOR SALE Chalmers touring car,
1910 model, first class running or
der. See W. W. Myers, Sixth and
J. Q. Adams streets, or H. A. Mil
ler, Falls View.
WANTEr Piano or furniture in ex
' change for $550 equity in 10-acre
tract. Address J. H. Bellan, Ore
gon City, Ore.
FOR SALE One span good work
mares; one farm wagon, cheap;
one Oliver Chilled plaw, No. 40;
one Harrow, one 3 year-old colt;
one 1-year-old colt. Geo. W. Cone
Maple Lane, near schoolhouse.
Dr. Pierces Toilet set, 11 piece set,
retail value $3.45; 1 carving set,
value $1.00, all for $1.50, by mail
15c extra. Lady agents wanted.
E. M. Kellogg, 606 Northwest
Bldg., Portland, Ore. '
STRAYED Team from pasture,
black and grey mares, Saturday,
May 25. Reward for return or
information. Gus. ; Engebricht,
Oregon City.
Spring Chickens Wanted
All' the time. Will pay Oregonian
market price. Clackamas Hotel.
(A. Erickson.) Oregon City, Rt. 2,
Box 175; Phone Main 3051.
Dull Feeling-Swollen ' Hands, and
jet Due to Kidney Trouble
Your kidneys need help when your
hands and feet thicken, swell up, and
you feel dull and sluggish. Take Fo
ley Kidney Pills. They are tonic,
stimulating and strengthening and
reotore your kidneys to healthy, nor
mal action. Try them. Sold by all
druggists.
A.
.A. - a-
TOM J. MYERS andE. A. BRADY
The only RESIDENCE Undertaking
Establishment in Clackamas County
Day and Night. Service
Tenth and Water Stt.
Main 123 A-37
E. 6. DYE
Lawyer
WILL PRACTICE IN OREGON
AND U. S. COURTS
SPECIALTIES: TITLES EX AMI-
NATION; ABSTRACTS, COL
LECTIONS MODERATE PRICES
NOTARY WORK
Farm and
Automobile Loans
OFFICE: OVER HARRIS GRO
CERY, SOUTH Off COURT
HOUSE
j PHONE, MAIN 43 AND C 153
' OREGON CITY
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MAY 30
This Wonderful Sale fall of real sensational bargains will continue thtoogh the balance of this week. We
still have thousands of bargains at heretofore unheard of prices many of which are cut below the actual
wholesale cost. Remember this is a Wholesale House ''Stock Reducing Sale' and when we tell yo the
prices ate reduced to less than the Wholesale price we mean every word of it.
UnflRTi the past week thotisaads--yes thotisands-pt goests visiteo our urs ut w
. wtttktta iLi. f nv4c t a x tself Afid sound las a dollar and the PRICE is less than 2nd Hand goods
If ::Z SX: COME QUICK fM the cwm of Ma Sale.
Remember the closing date is Saturday, May 30th. j - ' , ' ,
1 4-Qt. Granite Dish Pan ..' 33c
1 7-Qt. Granite Dish Pan 38c
21-Qt. Granite Dish Pan . 45c
. t . '
If you are canning fruit you need an extra
large pan.
No. 1 Galv.
Tub, usual
price 65c.
Our Sale
rfrr; trip- w
t I, lM J
Mrs. Pots Sads
Set of 3 with hand
le and stand.
809
$2.50 Wizard Mop
Outfit $1.50
54-Inch huidl
Wizard TriangU Poli.b
Mop "Uets In the Cor
ners." Cleans and pol
ishes floors. 1 quaM can
Wizard Polish worthll.OO
and one Wlwird Trlanple
Wojworth 11.60. gQ
11
Wizzard Mops worth
1 Quart Oil worth....
$1.50) All for
$i.oo($1.50
Or Mop only 95c
No. 8 Full Size Granite Tea Kettle.. 50c
1 2-Qt. Granite Pan . 35c
Our assortment of Granite is complete and
the .price, only half the usual market.
80 Rod Reel
Our Sale
usual price $2.25
price $1.75
Perfection I
Oil Cooks I
Positively the only perfect
Coal Oil Cook Stove on
the market. f
1 Burner - $4.(15
2 . 6.25
3 " ...... 7.75
Self Adjusting
Self
Sharpening
Drawcut
Bishop High Grade
One Man S aw"'
.31 It
$1.75
High Grade Buck
Saw
f 4 tfJS8'
all tools is the one
that should be the
best that skilled la-1
bor can produce. Wo
have therefore se-
lected the Draw Cut Ball Bearing
because It Is the
Be6t. And we guar
antee to replace ev
ery broken part free
of charge.
The Draw Cut
mower Is the costli-
out mntva.ln ltd nr.
iglnal construction of Lawn Mowers
any mower on the market. Yet with our system of car
load buying and water shipments we are able to sejll
thIs 8UPerD mof-
er at prices even
less r than the
much Inferior arid
cheaper con
structed moweris.
14-Inch, regular
value, $5.00; our
sale, $3.35. !
16 -Inch, reguWr
value, $5.50; sale
price, $3.50.
mJ
llth and Main Sts. F A
Sanitary couch
similar to this cu'
$2.65
SYLVAN COT
Strong enough for Army ser
vice worth $4.00
Sylvan Cot
-
$2.85
Si " "" folded
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fTPrarSBiffirrS EJtcepuonai v aiues in
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kmmmm - 0:11 nr -fy i
1AJA1 JL Up 'JL-fOlvo ,
Ranging in price from $13.85 to $30.00
Worth double the price.
TENTS
$6.85 ' 8x10
8.10 (' 10x12
10.85 (- 12x14
12.00 12x16
Oregon City, Oregon
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