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OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 16 1914
Number 14
LAST DAYS OF CHAUTAUQUA
HUERTA GIVES UP
COUNCIL DECIDE
FIRST MARKET
FRIARS ARE GUILT! SAYS JURY
AFTER ONE HOURS DELIBERAT
WILL BE BEST ON PROGRAM
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Record Breaking Crowds Will Continue Till Fina
Day is Belief. Choicest Intellectual
Treats Yet To Come
Ng Poon Chew Chinese Orator to
Speak Friday
Replete With Splendid Features
Watch Sunday's Program
Only three more days and the 1914
Chautauqua will be a thing of the
past. Yet in these three days are
crowded three of the greatest pro
grams of the entire Chautauqua.
Ng Poon Chew speaks Friday
evening. He is the famous Chinese
orator who last year charmed 4,000
people at Gladstone Park. Five
thousand people should hear him this
year.
Saturday will be a "world beater" i
at Chautauqua. The famous Simp-1
son College Songbirds will give the
E GETS
ANOTHER OUSTING
At a meeting of the State Board of
Health in Portland Thursday even
ing, July 9th, it was decided to once
again oust Dr. J. A, vantsrakie troir.
the position of health officer of Clac't
amas County, and the County Court
has received a letter to that effect
that is, that Van Brakle has no legal
right to hold the office and must be
removed and a medical doctor ap
pointed to take his place.
The County Court however can see
no good reason why Van Brakle, who
is a highly educated young doctor of
the osteopathic school, should be put
out at the behest ot the state board,
unless they are able to present good
and sufficient legal reasons for doing
so in other words the County Court
will not remove their man unless com
pelled to do so by the courts.
In this fight between the osteo
path and the disgruntled medical
doctors of Oregon City, the people of
Clackamas county are entirely in
sympathy with the former. It is
known generally that Van Brakle is
a brave and energetic young fellow,
competent to perform the duties of
his office thoroughly and well, and
the movement to oust him is gen
erally looked upon as a piece of spite
work on the part of certain Oregon
City pill doctors.
The Courier believes that the
people of Clackamas county are to be
congratulated upon having VanBra
kle to look after matters of public
health. It is a well known fact that
medical men of the same school have
a sort of professional free-masonry
which causes them to defend and sup
port each other in a general way. No
matter how bitterly one medico may
hate another personally, should on
get into a professional difficulty the
other is ready and willing to swear
the accused is an infallable saint with
wings sprouted. But the magic cir-
W. J. Smith
W. J. Smith, candidate for Govern,
or on the Socialist ticket was sched
uled to address the voters of Oregon
City at 8 o'clock Saturday, but ow
inf to some delay little in procuring
a suitable "soap box" the speech did
not begin till a half hour later. ,
Mr. Smith is said to have obtain
ed his education as a divinity student,
having been an ordained minister of
the Methodist Episcopal church; then
a school teacher; an editor, and fi
nally a politician. There is consider
able difference of opinion as to
whether this progression has been
upwards or downwards.
W. W. Myers introduced the
speaker with a brief talk .stating
that, since the Socialists had not been
invited into the church along with
the other parties who had addressed
the people of Oregon City from the
Methodist pulpit during the past few
weeks, the best they could do was to
get as near the outside of the Church
as possible.
"You hear a great deal about pro
hibition," said Myers, "but if you
will listen to what is to be said here
tonight I think you will find that we
are fighting the liquor interests the
same as the balance of the profit
system. Remove the profit.
Mr. Smith gave an excellent talk,
and deserved a much larger audience
than hi had. We are all socialists
in a modified sense (or ought to be
if we are not) but most people do not
have much taste for the radical so
cialism preached by many of its over
zealous enthusiasts. Smith's talk
was, however, both sensible and in
structive and those who heard it
were favorably impressed with the
speaker's evident sincerity and fair
mindedness. Following is the gist of
his remarks:
"We Socialists do not believe in
waste we believe that the world con
tains abundant wealth and happi
ness for all if the wealth and happi
ness of the world were not control
led by a favored few. There are
many great mysteries in life and I
have pondered a great deal upon
some of them. I never could under
stand why the workingman should go
on voting for the conditions which
produce the wage system.
I am here to preach a message of
freedom from wage slavery, and we
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afternoon program, 50 voices, and all
good . ones, and in the evening will
come Frof. Grilley s great athletic
Carnival, and which will be followed
by the great annual Fireworks dis
play, wHcn is to be bigger than eyer
this year.
Sunday closing day will feature
a great sermon at 2:00 p. m. by one
ot the Diggest preachers ot the west
Watch the papers for his name.
At 4:00 p. m. as a crowning feat
ure the Chautauqua chorus will give
"trams Holy City, a beautiful sa
cred cantata. Over 100 voices will be
heard in this great chorus. In the
evening will be Mattie Hardwicke
Jones' great recital "The Divine
Tragedy."
VOTERS AND BABIES
Miss Dorman Says Suffrage for Wo
men will Blight the Baby Crop
Miss Marjorie Dorman, of Wash
ington, D. C, secretary of the Wage
Earners Anti-Suffrage League, says
that giving women the ballot is a
menace to the "American baby crop."
This is about the most idiotic state'
ment voiced by the Antis thus far.
The average voting woman will spend
just about one thousand times as
much time and effort upon dress and
society as she 'will upon politics.
Woman's devotion to insane styles of
dress and the time she spends in
working them out, as well as her de
votion to enervating social practices
have cost the American baby infinite
ly more than it will ever suffer from
female politick.
Besides, what is the sense of wo
man devoting her whole time to her
babies if they are to be surrounded
upon every side by corrupting, de
moralizing,, influences as soon as they
escape from her watchful care and
protection.
Miss Dorman says "the baby crop
is the most important product of this
country." If she really thinks so, and
if she is half sn solicitous as she pre
tends, we think she should first get
r,id of the prefix "Miss" at present
attached to her name, and second get
the ballot and use it to impress some
of her views upon our political mas
ters at Washington.
The House appropriations com
mittee recently recommended that
the budget of the Federal Children's
Bureau be CUT FROM $164,640 TO
$25,640. At the same time they
asked for $165,000 to spend upon
seeds to give their farmer friends,
and $400,000 to be used to remedy
HOG DISEASES. HOGS $400,000,
CONGRESSMEN $165,000, BABIES
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cle is broken when you set doctors of
rival schools to watch each other.
The people of this county should
to the last man (and woman) support
the County Court in their defense
of Van Brakle.
Lectures
have ample precedent for coming
out on the street corners to preach
this doctrine, for it has been taught
in that way since the beginning of
history.
"We are living in a decadent age
and a corrupt age the whole world
is in a state of decadence and corrupt
ion. Take religion, politics, society,
business, industry, etc., and you will
find that they are in a state which
is the reverse of a normal and hap
py condition.
"It. has been conservatively esti
mated by competent men that (witn
the help of our modern machinery)
but two hours' effort daily on the
part of those who are fit to labor
would be sufficient to supply every
need of every man, woman and child,
and that the balance of the effort ex
pended by the working classes goes
to swell the fortunes of the million
aires and to support those who will
not labor.
"We socialists say that there
ought not to be any poverty that no
one ought to be forced to go without
the things that they need. And it is
certain that we would not have to go
without them if we had co-operative
management instead of the profit
system.
"We are not here to interfere
with any man's religion, but we know
that we can,t depend on church mem
bership for happiness in this life we
must depend upon our job. We must
get down upon our knees to the
"boss" because if we do something
he does not like he has the power to
discharge us. You have made wealth
for him you have exhausted your
vitality in laboring for him and when
he has done with you he "fires" you
and puts a younger man in your
place, and probably that is happening
ritrht. JiAr in Orpcon fit-.v Thp Vian-
ninoca rtf trio umi-Vintp man onrl na
wellbeing and happiness of his wife
and children depends upon a miser
able job over the holding of which
i he has no control; and yet you talk
about freedom! There can be no
j freedom for the worker till we have
abolished the present system of wage
! industry. Our message is a message
to the working class we are preach-,
ing against serfdom and slavedom, so
we are preaching the abolition of
wagedom; and until that shall be ac
But Clings to 4 Million Pesos
of Boodle Stolen From
Mexicans
Hucrta has resigned, according to
latest dispatches from Mexico which
say:
General Victoriano Huerta resign
ed from the provisional presidency of
the Mexican republic tonight, (July
15,) and his resignation was accept
ed bv the senate and chamber of de
puties by a vote of 121 to 17. The
resignation was accompanied by the
announcement that it was actuated
by highest motive of patriotism and
complying with supreme duty to his
country.
Francisco Carbajal was then ap
pointed president and took the oath
ot ottice at the joint session or depu
ties and senators.
The chamber of deputies convened
Wednesday afternoon with the set
purpose of discussing President Hu
erta's resignation.
Many candidates were mentioned
for places in a new cabinet, as it had
been arranged for all the present
ministers to retire,
War Minister Blanquet was known
to have made all plans to go to Eu
rope,
General Huerta and General Blan
quet left the capital tonight (Wednes
day.) They boarded a train on the
Mexican railway a lew miles beyond
the city. It is thought they are go
ing to Puerto. Mexico.
Following the convening ot the
chamber of deputies to consider Pres
ident Huerta s retirement it was de
clared an agreement had been reach
ed by j which Huerta would Tesign for
Foreign Minister Carbajal would be
come provisional president.
It is believed the Carbajal s accept
ance of the presidency is merely a
preliminary step toward the com
plete surrender of the government in
to the hands of Carranza or some
other Constitutionalist.
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President Huerta is sending his
family, relatives and friends out of
Mexico with the loot he has been
able to gather together since he mur
dered the Maderos and took hold of
the reins of government. During that
brief time he has only managed to
save the little, insignificant sum of
$4,000,000, (pesos) which his wife
and other relatives are now spiriting
out of Mexico via Vera Cruz. Dis
patches say that those whom Huerta
wishes to save from the vengeance of
the rebels, left Mexico City Wednes
day evening or Thursday morning by
special train. Preceding their special
ran two escort trains carrying 800
Mexican soldiers, and following was
another with 500 more troops, the
breach in the railroad between Mexico
City and Vera Cruz having been re
paired to give Huerta and his loot
free exit.
It i" believed the constitutionalists
are laying plans to intercept the run
away dictator on his way to Vera
Cruz, and General Carranza is on his
way to that port via Tampico to su-
perintend operations of the capture. I
However, the sly old tox, riuerta, has application oi u. n. uampDen, oi mii
probably laid his plans for escape waukie, for a 25 year franchise for a
with unusual care and will manage to street railway line on the principal
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Oregon City
complished there can be no improve
ment for working people.
"They say that Theodore Roose
velt stole the platform of the Social
ist party by advocating those things
which Socialism has been advocating
for a long time; but Roosevelt can
not steal the Socialist party Social
ism stands for the abolition of the
wage system, and Roosevelt does not
want to interfere with capital and
profit. To get political power the
other political parties will do any
thing except abolish the cause of
poverty. There are literally hun
dreds of men and women in this
country today who are starving; and
under such conditions men and wo
men are physically deteriorating.
With all the preaching and teaching
of morality our penitentiaries are
crowded and we are building our
jails and charitable institutions larg
er charity for those who are sur
rounded with every facility for pros
perity and happiness.
"By controlling the sources of
wealth the earnings of the working-
man have become the property of a
3mall select class in society and not
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of those to whom they properly be- I of thls T0rl her6 ;"d n0W" w
long, and thus the wealthy few con- j want to be happy and we want that
trol I the product of labor. Of the a11 the PeoPle under the sun should
amount that you men earn by your I be ,JlapPy. H0' j , m v .
labors every day they give you J "I" thw Land of The Free there
subsistence portion-just enough to ' 2 million little children working
keep you over from day to day and,? make Profl8f KtTJ 7? ft
able to go to work each Monday ' dre" who ouht to ,be at n
morning.
There are lots of men who
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you lose all you could possibly have!
saved, and if you don t get
u don't get "fired"
for absence from the job you get
docked.
"Employers say that a working
man is no good after he reaches the
age of 45 or 50 and they don't want
you any more; then you have got to
go and be a subject of charity while
all the wealth that you have created
during your lonyears of labor flows
into the pockets of your employer so
that he can spend the winters upon
the shores of the Mediterranean.
"There are many working men who
are making wealth for their employ
ers, whose wives and children are not
jetting what they want and need.
"The Socialist party stands for
those men and women who create the
Man) Important Questions Dis
cussed By City Dads at Last
Night's Meeting
It has been definitely decided to
refinish Main St. with a 2-inch layer
of Bitulithic paving compound over,
rolled crushed rock. This decision
was reached after an hour's discus
sion of the subject by Hizzoner May
or Jones and eight touncumen, Mr,
Hackett being absent.
The council will now call for the
final bids. The greater part of the
discussion was in an effort to word
the motion calling for bids and the
motion accepting the report of the
committee so that competition could
be secured. The bids will call for a
high grade bituminus pavement, two
inches thick, laid on a foundation of
rolled crushed rock. It is thought
that by making several changes in
the wording of the committee's re
port, so that bitulithic, a patent pave
ment, is not specified, but bituminus,
a name applied to a general class of
pavements, the city can secure the
advantage of competition in the bid
ding.
After several weeks of delay, the
electrical inspection ordinance was
passed Wednesday night, the vote be
ing 5 to a. ine measure manes tne
city engineer city electrical inspec
tor,-with the power to issue permits
for all electrical work done and certif
icates of inspection when it is com
Dleted. The national electrical code,
approved by the National Board of
Fire Underwriters, is to be used as
the standard for inspection, and all
electrical wiring in new buildings
must conform to its rules.
J. W. Shea, th econtractor for the
High street improvement, asked for
an extension of 60 days and his re
quest was granted.
The ordinance creating a new
sewer district in Fallsview addition,
passed its second reading.
The ordinance making the speed
limit for automobiles 18 miles an
hour, passed its second reading
without discussion.
CARS MUST STOP
Milwaukie People Have Built Fine
- Walk', and fmit Trim Con-,
nections
The Milwaukie Commercial Club
has decided to appeal to the State
railroad commission in its fight to
force the cars of the Portland Rail
way, Light & Power company to
stop at Washington street, Milwau
kie. Definite action was taken at
the meeting of the club early in the
week. The matter was reterred to
the street car company some time
ago but the request was refused, al
though the company ottered to stop
Milwaukie local at Jefferson street.
The cars formerly stopped both at
Jackson and at Jefferson streets, but
at present the only stop is at Monroe
street. The property owners have
constructed a substantial sidewalk at
Washington street."'
I At a meeting of the Milwaukie
City council Wednesday evening the
Folk on Meaning of The Word "Socialism"
wealth of the world and not for
those who spend it. We- stand for
the abolition of the wage system, and
those who profit by the wage system
try to arouse prejudice against us bj
saying we are anarchists, free lov
ers and agitators. But we want nei
ther bombs nor bloodshed we are
preaching a peaceful revolution.
, "We stand here to represent the
grandest movement the world has
ever seen to represent the interests
and the happiness of 40 millions ot
workers. We are hece to appeal to
the intelligence of men and women
and not to their passions. We have
to fight ignorance; for the capital
istic system is built upon the ignor
ance of the workers. They want you
to go on working for a mere pit
tance, and try to console you by
pointing to the happiness which you
will enjoy in the life to come, and
ask you to consider what is the suf
fering you endure in this world com
pared with the blessings in the world
to come. But we have no patience
with such doctrines we believe that
the working man and his family
should enjoy some of the happiness
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to maKe money ior
somebody else,
You know that unemployment is on
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ing machines, for children can run
them, and this means that with the
going in of the new machines a little
child will be taken into the factory
and 10 men sent home. And for
every child taken into the factory 4
or 5 men are tramping the roads.
"Under such conditions unemploy
ment must increase prostitution
must increase. White slavery has
grown into a gigantic system in this
country, and in every large city in
the world it has been placed upon a
commercial basis with branches all
over the globe. The creatures who
conduct this hellish business must
have new recruits constantly they
must have your girl and they must
have her in the very bloom and beau
Farmers Get Away With Much
Coin at Friday's Sale and
Please Customers
Oregon City's first market day-
proved a grand success. About !0
farmers with some of the nicest coun
try produce ever offered for sale in
this town, were on the ground early,
and several had sold out their wares
and gone, before belated buyers got
around to inspect their goods.
Everything in the way of farm
truck, from sweet peas to spring
chickens was on sale at honest coun
try prices, and both sellers and buy
ers got into the spirit of the occasion
and treated each other generously and
on the square.
All the farmers expressed them
selves as highly pleased with the
day's business and said they would be
on hand next Friday with a larger
assortment of goods and goodies.
The success of the first days mar
ket surpassed the expectations of
those business men who had the affair
in preparation. They predict that it
will grow up into something big
which will prove to be of great bene
fit to all concerned, both in town and
country. ,
The livestock sale teature still re
mains to be worked out; and the plan
as it is being considered by J. J. lo
bin and others, is to have the farmers
drive in their salable animals while
the farmers' wives attend to the pro
duce market stuff, and make market
day one of general activity for deal
ers in livestock as well as for those
who purchase for the kitchen.
It is rust possible that we may
have two market days each week in
stead of one, if the Board of Trade
plans mature.
GRAINS AND GRASSES
O. E. Freytag Tells How to Prepare
Them for Panama-Pacific Ex
position O. E. Freytag left the first of the
week for Eastern Oregon, where he
goes in the interest of the Panama
Pacific International Exposition. Mr
Freytag has been very successful in
collecting fruit for the Oregon exhib
it at the exposition, and is now ar
ranging to collect grain and grass
es. The iruit ne nas prepared is at
tracting wide attention among the
visitors to Oregon City.
I have been asked to submit a pa
per on the preparation of sheaf grain
and forage crops for exhibition pur
poses, and in response I am giving
the necessary steps in gathering and
curing that exhibits may retain their
natural color and that they may be
kept from shattering while in the pro
cess of assembling.
In order to get the best results
and to have really worthy specimens,
the grain should be cut just before
the harvesters get to work, in other
words two or three days before the
grain is ripe enough to cut for thresh
ing. The straw should be very care
fully handled to avoid breaking or
kinking; where the straw is broken
near the heads it is rendered worth
less for display bundles. The next
step is to place the bundles in a shady
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ty of her life. Our girls drift w
the city seeking employment and
disappear. I hear' stories of little
.girls that make my blood run cold
and almost make me lose faith in hu
manity. If it were not for the faith
I have in Socialism I should want to
go away somewhere where I should
no longer be tortured with the Bight
of the selfishness and brutality of my
fellow men.
"In Portland within a stone's throw
of one of the great churches the re
cent vice commission found 14 houses
of prostitution. Are these great
churches championing the cause of
the working man? We believe they
are not, and therefore we are preach
ing a new kind of religion a new
kind of Christianity.
"Instead of a system which allows
a few to control for their own bene
fit we propose to substitute a system
which we o.urselves can control for
the benefit of all the people instead
of operating mills to produce wealth
for their owners we propose to oper
ate them to make clothes to put up
on the backs of the men and women
who need them.
"I am familiar with conditions in
England and I know something of the
awful poverty among the laboring
classes there; but when King George
was crowned there were thousands
of working men lining the streets
who waved their caps and cheered
madly as the king and queen passed
by men whose wives and children
were not properly fed were shouting
for thjs man and his crowd who were
nothing but great parasites robbing
the common people of the substance
of life.
No one in the universe is any bet
ter than you are (applause). We are
fighting for a change which means
emancipation of both mind and body.
We are going to revolutionize society.
"You will have to think about pro
hibition, but all the prohibition in the
world will not mean anything to
these men it will bring about no
change in your condition we know
that it is not a cure for the evils of
labor.
"We want to develop the intelli
gence of the working man so that he
can take over the industries of the
world and use them for his own good.
"We want you to support the
Right to Work" bill with your bal-
District Attorney Hedges Makes Very Strong Case
Against Members of Club Operating in Clack
amas County at Milwaukie
District Attorney Hedges is to be
congratulated for the good work he
did in bringing the proprietors of the
notorious Friar's Club to justice. The
case went to the jury at 5:aU Tues
day evening, and at 8:10 they re
turned a verdict of "guilty." Mr,
Hedges conducted the case in a most
able and straightforward manner,
stating to the jury in his closing ad
dress that "no such place as the
"Friar's Club" can exist in Clacka
mas County while I am district attor
ney." This road-house at Milwaukie,
which has existed under various nam
es at various times, without ever
having matrially changed its charac
ter, has for years been a thorn in the
flesh of the decent people of this
county the more so as it has not
been maintained for the use of any
of dur citizens, but to serve the evil
purposes of an exclusive clique of
Portland sports who were anxious to
have a rendevous somewhere outside
of police limits, where they could
carry on their after-midnight carous
als without fear of interference. '
The testimony at the trial was an
exposure of the tactics of the club
patrons in evading police surveil
lance and in sowing the seeds of im
morality.
District Attorney Hedges based
his case on the testimony of Ester
Gibson, Josephine Gerhart and Mar
ian Hoffman, who are alleged to have
visited the club May 17. The com
plaint charged that Marian Hoff
man, a minor, secured liquor at the
Friar's Club between 1:30 and 4
o'clock on the morning of Sunday,
May 17. John Ditchburn, attorney
for the defense attempted-to prove
that the three girls were not in the
club that night and introduced two
waiters and several rortland men,
who testified that they did not see
the three girls in the place.
The defendants attempted to prove
that the party had come to the club
and' asked for admission, but were
refused. It was testified that they
returned later in the night and again
asked to be admitted and stayed out
of the club for some time.
Many of the alleged methods of
the club were aired by District Attor
ney Hedges. The defense claimed
that the club had a membership of
S00 and that no person was admitted
into the ground unless he could show
a card. Attorney Hedges Introduced
witnesses to prove that "a stranger
could become a member of the club in
five minutes," and that all that was
necessary to become a member was
the dollar initiation fee. The recom
mendation of two other members,
which was declared necessary for ad
mission into membership, was de
nounced a farce.
Attorney Hedges also attempted to
prove that the club had agreements
with taxicab companies to bring part
ies to the club. Tho statement was
made several times by Attorney Hed
ges in his address to the jury that
the club secured the patronage of
those who had been sent from Port-'
lot. The great army of unemployed
wandering about the country are an
injury to themselves and to those who
want to work. Out of that great
army of unfortunates the capitalists
get their strike breakers, their gun
men and their thugs.
"No man can rise permanently
above his environment. Take any
man 'and let him tramp the railroads
for six months, being treated as an
outcast and looked down upon and I
wouldn't give a snap of my fingers
for all the morality there will be left
in him. We want a fund to give the
unemployed a right to work.
"We want to abolish the state sen
ate. There may have been a time
when two houses were needed in the
legislative machinery, but today,
with the initiative and referendum,
there is no need for the upper house.
Probably we could get along just as
well without either, but certainly
there is no need for the people to be
burdened and bamboozled with two
houses.
"We want proportional representa
tion. At present the legislature is
nearly all republican only two mem
bers I think, who are not. There are
many different political parties in
Oregon and it is not fair that they
should be without representatives If
we had proportional representation
they would all be represented fairly.
"We are demanding shorter hours
and better protection for the work
ing men.
"We want you to develop your
own political ideas we want the
workmen to vote for their own inter
ests .
"Socialism is inevitable. Nothing
can be powerful enough to stop it or
even retard its progress materially.
Some of the greatest financiers in
the country are advocating govern
ment ownership. Socialism has ap
pealed to the highest intelligence of
the world the old dreamers and the
grand thinkers have all fav'ored So
cialism. The Old and New Testa
ments are full of Socialistic utteranc
es. Since the beginning of history
men have been looking for something
better, and as Socialism grows we
see all the other political parties
uniting against it; but in the end we
shall defeat them all.
"President Wilson and also Mr,
Bryan are good Christian gentlemen,
land grills after midnight and that
the principle time for business was in
the early morning hours.
Circuit Judge Campbell gave the
defendants 10 days in which to file,
a motion for a new trial.
Hitherto it has been difficult or
impossible to get efficient legal ac
tion against the corrupt road-houses
which cluster about Portlad, and
people of this county should be glad
that we have in Mr. Hedges a man
who has both the courage and ability
to bring evil-doers, to terms, so far
as Clackamas County is concerned.
The jurymen did their duty as
honest citizens and are of course en
titled to a large share of credit.
The members of the jury were:
Hiram Jackson, John Mullen-
hoff, H. N. Everhart, Chas. Live
say, W. E. Bonney, Wm. Schatz,
E. W. Smith, H. M. Hartnell, Da
vid Horner, L. P. Duffy, C. R.
Hunter, Jacob Grossmiller.
Praise for Hedges
, July 15th.
Editor Courier:
County Attorney Gilbert Hedges
will have the support of the people
of Clackamas County in his excellent
programme of making this county a
hard place for practiced libertines to
carry on their horrible business of
duping and destroying their girl vic
tims. The county attorney and jury
aro to be congratulated on the ex
cellent work dons in the trial of the
owners of the Friar's Club for giving
liquor to minor girls.
There is some more of this work to
be done and I feel after carefully
watching this case that Mr. Hedges
will successfully attend to it and that
the jurys of the county will do their
duty. "Safety First" is the motto
of fathers and mothers for the boys
and girls they love so well.
Yours for good citizenship,
S. MACDONALD.
FRANK S. REGAN
Shows People the Folly of Trying to
Lower Taxes Without Remov
ing Tax Thieves
Frank S. Regan, who gave an el-
lustrated "Chalk Talk" at Willamette
hall Thursday evening July 2, taking 1
as his subject, "The Fool Taxpayer,"
is one of the best informed men in
the United States on this particular
subject. He showed conclusively that
the high taxes of the present in prac
tically all states are due to the machi
nations of the corrupt element con
trolled and represented by the brew
ers and distillers.,
Regan proved that the 80 breweries
of Chicago has such a thorough con
trol of the tax collecting machinery
that they were taxed little' or nothing
for their immense property holdings.
He illustrated the point by stating
the case of a large brewing company
which had property holdings and in
vestments valued at $5,000,000, the
assessor had placed a valuation of
$10,000 on the real estate and $5,000
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and seem to be doing the best they
know how under the circumstances,
doing all in their power for the poor
man and the small business man.
"Heretofore 5 or 6 men have been
in control of all the financial resourc
es of the country. When he was
alive J. Pierpont Morgan had the
power to control the finances of the
country as he pleased, and produce
panics.
"Will socialism be able to control
panics?" asked somebody.
"Panics are periodical" said Smith.
"It would be just as sensible for me
to sayl could stop the sunrise as to
say I could avoid panics.
"Withycombe thinks the Chinese
should be brought back to clear up
these lands" shouted another. "What
do you think of it?"
"The Republicans have always
preached patriotism and the protect
ion of the Americans," replied Smith.
The textile industry is one of the
most highly protected industries of
this country and yet if has been prov
en that they employ the cheapest
foreign labor. It ia all a scheme to
cheat the working man out of his
rights and to pile up millions for the
rich operators.
In reply to another question Smith
repeated his statement that prohi
bition could not change the political
situation so far as the rights of la
bor were concerned.
John Stark, candidate for repre
sentative on the Socialist ticket fol
lowed Smith's speech with a short
talk, in which he said:
"We have nothing to lose but our
poverty and our rags, and the whole
world to gain, it belongs to the
working man anyway and he should
have it."
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