OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, JU LY 16, 1914.
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OREGON CITY COURIER
PATENT MEDICINE HUMBUG
People who are sick will buy almost anything in the way of
medicine if it is put up in an attractive bottle and properly
labeled.
In investigating a recent case under the Food and Drugs
Act the Department of Agriculture found tlmf
3Um CITr COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER Water" which was being sold as a certain rv for
human ills contained so little lithium that it would be necessan
for a person to drink about 200,000 gallons of water a day in
Published Thursdays from the Courier Building, Eighth and Main streets,
and entered in the Postoff ice at Oreg on City, Ore., as 2d class mail matter
M.J. BROWN, A. B. FROST, OWNERS.
Subscription Pries $1.50. Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1
Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
M. J. BROWN,
EDITOR
order to get a medium dose of the drug,
Will some one who is quick at figures please tell us how
much it would cost to cure the average case of rheumatism with
this stuff, at 25c a pint?
ine raient Medicine numbug is
another blot on American civilization.
When a person is really sick he needs
first class medical advice, and self
treatment is dangerous in the ma
jority of cases. Any drug prepara
tion which is powerful enough to
interrupt the course of a serious dis
ease is powerful enough to do great
THE "FURIES" '
How e'er it be, it seems to me
Tis only noble to be good,
Kind hearts are more than coronets
And simple faith than Norman blood.
Tennyson.
Queen Maey of England has called the Militant Suffraget
tes by a new name : "The Furies." Now, as everyone knows, the
Furies were, according to Greek mythology, a horde of demons harm if improperly used; any drug
personifying all that men most loath and dread, coming up from w.hlf . is s weak e ncaPable
, Tr i , . , ., , , ' , b 1 of doing harm is likely to be worse
iiit: iioumi; oi iiauex, io nuunu me evil uoer 10 ms uuoiu. than useless as a remedy.
remaps ine Militants nave a similar mission to perioral. Millions and billions of dollars
The English aristocracy have not been above reproach in the past have been abstracted from the pock
and probably still need an occasional reminder of their shortcom
ings. We believe the English Queen has given her tormentress an WHEN THE WORM TURNS
exceedingly apt name.
Writing in the early part of the
last century Victor Hugo, the great
French philosopher, statesman and
humanitarian, has given us a picture
of conditions in England at that time,
when men were begging for an ap
portunity to work in order that they
might keep their families from starv
ing, but were denied the right to
labor, forced off the land by the
lords and compelled to lead lives of
beggary and crime. ,
The same social conditions which
provoked Hugo to write his bitter
condemnation of the ruling class in
England may still be found in many
parts of Brittain, notably in the east
end of London, where, associated with
the snobbery and incalculable wealth
ets of poor and suffering dupes by
the army of medical fakers of this
land. Their pernicious goods are
everywhere, and American newspa
pers are saturated with their adver
tisements. Of course the quacks are
absolutely pitiless, but it seems to me
that kind hearted editors who print
their stuff must heeds sleep with a
candle near their beds to ease a sear
ed conscience, and must wake from
troubled dreams to echo the cry of
Lady Macbeth as she frantically tries
to cleanse her hands of Duncan's
blood
The rapacity, stealthy brigandage and selfish insolence of
of the metropolis, may be seen the lu.c s rapiuiy unngiug uuoui conditions WU1CU con-
most unthinkable conditions of pov- stitute a national menace. The constant flow of millions and
erty and vice. billions of dollars into the pockets of a few unscrupulous indi-
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it we coma eaten out one glimpse viduais wlio use their financial power to eYnlnit. tho nmr anA
of that cesspool of human degrada- unforturjate, cannot go on much longer, or "the worm will turn."
tion, we should no longer wonder at , , , . ... . ,, , ' 1 '
the heroic efforts of English women Juft wLat wlU come of the norm's flip-flop nobody knows, but
to gain the ballot. Private letters lt 18 Prellv sale 10 predict that it Will be a performance well
from England state that the burden worth watching.
r a i : au - ; i n i 1 I
ui WMuun upon me imuuie uu lower ipu prpnf,v, nonnlo
classes is becoming unbearable.
The words of Hugo, as we read
them today are a lingering reproach
to England, a spur to Socialism and
a warning to America, where we are
fast drifting into those similar con
ditions which tend to make the rich
more corrupt and powerful and the
poor more helpless.
ARE WE CIVILIZED
The French people celebrate the
14th of July as their Independence
Day and the .spirit of that celebra
tion corresponds very closely with
our 4th of July festivities. After
centuries of patient suffering from
the tyranies of the nobility the com
mon people of Paris arose enmasse
and attacked the anfiient stronghold
of French royalty, the grim old cas
tle called the Bastile.
Constructed orieinallv for use as
Dr. John A. Wjtherspoon, of Nashville, Tenn., says that I a fortress for defense of the city of
future civilization will be horrified at the conditions of drunken- Par'8 the Bastile had long been used
ness, immorality, disease and economic waste which we of today as 8 milltary and political prison, be-
permit to exst amonir us. All this is nrfWr.lv t.rn u will h'nd the nm walls of which " n
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i,W,l l. ,,!., l.nwl 1,;,,: t , f ,1 vengeance upon uiose
... ..o.,.v..ui,V "lowiMiuo ui wic iuuuic Uitnv who ODDOSed their nota nf Kh.
just conclusions as to the particular status of our civilization, handed oppression and selfish brutal
J here are men and women now living who are as far advanced ty.
in culture and morality as the average man and woman of 1000 . The temPr of the French people
years hence. There are others who are uncivilized sis t.ho nvppnm. 18 10 endure P"16" to the limit of
mnr. nf nnn vi n,,n Tha ,.omon,l-,.,o j! w Patlenc "d then retaliate with mer-
- .ivU.i.UUuu uiowuw ucliyccii menc j AJ Ji. , .t.
j j - u . , . . . . i o"- j ow iu rraa vwii
lwo uiumei! oi culture. is wnat gives our present civilization the Bastile. In Julv i7q
sucn a low medium.
One of the strange phenomena i gon ladies enduring such treatment!
brought to notice in the course of
human events is that fact that while
the earliest civilizations have had
their beginnings in the East and ad
vanced westward it is the Western
peoples the most recently civilized
nations which have made most rapid
and notable progress, and which have
in turn become the teachers of the
East. Thus the old, conservative
(that is to say, . non-progressive) civi
lizations of Asia are being uprooted
and replaced by the more rational
kind developed in Western Europe.
Again European, civilization trans
planted in America soon developed
new and startling characteristics; it
raised the standard of human liber
ty (one might almost say, humane
liberty), instigated the French Revo
lution and was thus instrumental in
raising many of the European peoples
out of the bondage of Medievalism,
and into a new and higher plane of
life. Then, again, in America it is
the newer and more western commun
ities which have evolved the most
progressive ideas of government it
is the Western States which have set
the pace for those east of the Missis
sippi in political reforms.
An indication of the progress civil
ization has made since the discovery
and settlement of America may be
seen in the facts that in European
Turkey today women receive an aver
age wage of 15c for 14 hours work,
while in some of the most enlight
ened sections of Western Europe the
peasant still hitches his wife to the
plow, and makes her the beast of
burden generally. Imagine our Ore-
'
the op
pressed people of France and espee
lally the poor people of Paris and
All over the world the status of "Z.ZL 7i " j
,.f ,v,i:i ii j , 1 """i1""0 mojr hiuiu iiuu, mural'
v,...a.. ...u.ea me Kue oi civui- fi(1 tha nDt,fl, . . ,. ... ,.
zation attained and in this respect Fo,,og thTTaU T
Came the blooilv rmvn nf tormr fnr
Th yviieu me rrencn
I Dressors bv thn hllnrirMa nnH mili.
1J .. 1 . jj. 1 1. . .' 1 a 1- " viwnii'
bition to furnish a good example for ryalty m
(i si 1 . . 1 ' ranee.
himoo ooiiu-uui uarians ease 01 us wno
Having purged France of the ob
noxious nobility, the French people
went mad with joy and with unpara-
lelled generosity offered to fight for
any and all the European peoples who
wished to be free. In reply to that
4
profess to believe that American-born
women have less patriotism and po
litical common sense than have ne
groes, Indians, and comparatively
ignorant foreigners. Certainly by
studying the politics of their state
and assisting intelligently in its gov
ernment our new-made citizens can
do much, not only for themselves and
other American women, but they will
thus greatly assist in the progress of
the movement for the emancipation
of woman which is world-wide in ex
ieni; me eastern woman who is a
slave, the European woman who is a
sei-f, the English woman who is a
martyr, and the large majority of
American women who are
non-entities, ull look to their sisters
in Oregon for inspiration and heto.
We have no need to tell the ladies H0IE F0R WETS
how to vote thev are nerfectlv ca- M1" Smith, candidate for
pable of finding that out for them- &overnor on. the Socialist ticket is
selves; but we believe there is need not at a" in favor of prohibition, as
to remind them of the tremendous re-1 hls 1-ecent Oregon City speech, re
challenge the royalty of all Europe
united against France, and France
under the leadership of the mighty
Napoleon marched triumphant into
nearly every stronghold of royalty in
Europe.
But the peoples of Europe outside
France were not yet educated for
self government, and, having fought
for them till she had exhausted all
her resources and vitality, France
gave up the struggle in despair and
saw the immense empire she had won
fall again into the hands of the hat
ed royalists.
cut today France is one of the
richest and ' happiest countries in
the world. In a land free from the
great trusts which are a disgrace to
American civilization, and which is
cultivated like a garden from border
to border, the French people have
given substantial proof of their
thrift and economy. When the gov
ernment recently ordered the loan of
$161,000,000 the people immediately
subscribed 40 times the amount ask
ed for or about" six and a half bil
lion dollars.
b ranee has a national debt of
nearly 7 billion dollars and yet she
is prosperous because the French
people control their own debt; the
government bonds are purchased by
ine peasants ana France is paying
the interest on her debt to her own
people. In France waste and extrav
agance are looked upon as a crime by
the common people. And they would
not tolerate the thieving and exploi
tation from which the American
people suffer. Let us profit by their
example. Let us storm the Bastile of
the American Monopoly Kings 1
PERSONAL LIBERTY
Confiscation of property'-' and "personal lihertv" are stereo
typed phrases in the vocabulary of the anti-prohibitionists. Their
constant references to "confiscation" gives one to think they
must have extensive financial interests in common with the
breweries.
KNOWLEDGE
American education is the main
stay of American civilization. It is
to the superiority of our systems for
placing education within the reach of
the common people that we owe our
superiority as a nation. The little
red school house has made it pos
sible for the American people to ac
complish mor for civilization and hu
manity in the last 50 years than Chi
na with its 500 millions of people and
its wonderful literature has been able
to accomplish in 5,000 years and
more.
Yet there are opportunities and
possibilities for great improvement in
our educational systems. Advance
ment is continually being made, and
we can confidently look forward to
the coming of a time when we shall
consider the school of today barbar
ous and crude.
Knowledge is the key to happiness
and education is the way to know
ledge. Education, good or bad, can
not be avoided every living person
must inevitably acquire education of
some sort knowledge of some kind
comes to us in the course of time,
either by our own experiences and
observations or by the teaching of
others. There is no such thinj?
known as an uneducated man or wo
man. We all have education of some
sort, but the question is, what kind
of education have we ? Is it the edu
cation of a person who would stand
in the forefront of civilization? or
is it the education of the savage,
or something between those two ex
tremes? What ' is the best educa
tion? What knowledge is really
worth having?
The cat educates her kittens to
be skillful at the business of catch
ing birds and mice, and that is the
best possible education for a cat;
but such training would be of lit
tle use to the average man; altho
there are plenty of individuals who
have been educated to be skillful In
arts which are of less value to hu
manity than the catching of rats and
mice would be. And yet we are
foolish enough to say that the life of
one man is worth as much as the
life of any other.-We hava tint vet
learned to appreciate fully the worth
of that man who has been properly
educated, nor the worthlessness of
that man who has been improperly
educated.
XT J.1- if
now ine nation can never rise
higher than the standard of its aver-
toward the solution of a great moral
problem would have been taken. Try
it.
age citizen, and the average citizen
communit
There is no such thing as personal liberty in any civilized
minify ltobiuson Crusoe being probably the onlv ivhir
iinnitn rf I 1 . . " 1 " v "
nolitica 1 lSm Wll m' CiUlgllt up Wltl1 the si"'ou-pure article, and was
i. . Ifl. J,,,1 to ll J'"t as he pleased.
sponsibilities which rest upon them,
and to urge them to put forth their
utmost efforts politically for the good
of humanity and the advancement of
civilization. Women of Oregon the
eyes of the world are upon you. DO
YOUR DUTY!
Here is the national roll of honor,
Georgia, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi,
North Carolina, North Dakota, Okla
homa, Tennessoe, and West Virginia
and aftor November third we Bhall
add OREGON.
CO-OPERATION
This bank wishes all of its customers, both
large and small, to know that its officers
hold themselves ready at any time to con
sider with them any business proposition
which they themselves are thinking of, and
to give each customer all the time necessary
to obtain a full understanding of the needs
and requirements of the business of each,
with a view to giving to each cooperation as
will insure the success of all worthy enterprises.
The Bank of Oregon City
Oldest Bank in Clackamas County
ported elsewhere in this issue, plainly
snows, this fact clears away a great
difficulty It gives to the wets a can
didate for whom they can conscicn
ciously cast their ballots.
Indeed, it is right and proper that
those who profit by the liquor busi
ness should vote for the candidate
who represents the workingman; foi
it is precisely this workingman who is
the mainstay of the liquor business.
We have known a considerable num
ber of laborers who spent for years
the larger part of their earnings over
the saloon bar. It would be decidedly
ill-mannered for the wets to "cut" the
only man who has the nerve to open
ly espouse their cause.
And, in fact, who else is there for
the saloon crowd to vote for? They
cannot vote for U'Ren or Gill, for
these two are so dry that the sieht
t ot anything that looks even political
ly damp gives them a species of hy
drophobia; they cannot vote for Dr,
Smith, for he is the man you know
who is going to take up the work as
West lays it down and prod the li
quor lion out of his lair with the O,
N. G. bayonet, and they will not vote
for Withycombe, for his peculiar
turtation with the brewery crowd has
niied them with disgust
rutting the pieces of this "Chi
nese" puzzle together in the way it
seems to us they should go, we find
that Mr. U'Ren and Mr. Gill will eet
the dry vote almost entirely; Mr.
Smith (Socialist) will get practically
all the wet vote, and Dr. Smith and
Mr. Withycombe will get what's left.
if there should happen to be any
thing left.
AWAKENING OF GREECE
The fine old American battle-ships
Idaho and Mississippi have been sold
to Greece and Uncle Sam has receiv
ed a cheek from that country for
12 i millions of dollars the origi
nal cost of the vessels.
We congratulate Greece upon the
purchase and trust she may be able
to give a good account of herself in
the approaching conflict with the
barbarous Turks. The famous lit
tie kingdom under able leaders, has
been gradually rising in power since
the successful defense of her rights
by the Greek soldiers and sailors
during the recent Balkan war. Greece
has grown ambitious with success
and hopes to regain her ancient pow
er. 10 do this she must drive Tur
key from the Aegean coasts and the
purchase of the Idaho and Mississip
pi is her first move in that direction.
For their part the Turks are get
ting even with Greece bv a Errand
movement to drive all Hellenes out
of lands which are in dispute between
the two nations. Already tens of
thousands of Greeks have been driven
out of Turkish territory in Europe
and are finding refuge in Macedonia
rrooably 200,000 Greeks have been
driven from their homes and their
property confiscated by the Turks.
Of course all the refugees are in a
destitute condition and Greece has
already spent nearly half a million
dollars for their relief. These refu
gees will never be able to return to
their homes in the Thrace and Smyr
na districts till the Turks have been
driven out for good. I
If the little kinedom of Greece
should be able to accomplish this, the
Hellenes will have gone a lonsr wav
toward regaining their ancient repu
tation as warriors. Thev onlv need
an Alexander ' - '
can never rise higher than his edu
cation and the opportunities of life
permit him to rise. Probably NA
POLEON was not the greatest Gen
eral ever born; probably BEETHO
VEN was not the greatest musician
who ever lived so far as natural
qualifications were concerned, but
education and opportunity enabled
these two to rise to the pre-eminent
places they have taken in the history
of the world.
Ihe man is the property of the
state, and it is the duty of the state
to educate him to the highest point
of usefulness to the state. Men as
great in intellect as Plato or Shakes
peare have been born, have lived and
have died, and the world has never
heard their names nor gained any
thing by their existence, because they
were improperly educated.
Tl ? . . . .
it is environment, education, op
portumty that makes the man. Per-
1 -I... 11 . .
naps we snail some aay nave our
educational system so developed that
it will be no longer left to chance for
the person of master talents to find
his proper place in the world when
each individual life will be trained
to yield its utmost for the happiness
of the individual and the good of hu
manity. That, it seems to me is the
ultimate purpose of education
DEGRADE OR ELEVATE
With all the wealth that is flow
ing 11110 ine pocKets 01 tne moving
picture concerns it is strange that
their work should retain such a low
standard. Is this a fact because of
a depraved popular taste? We be
lieve that the films were of a more
wholesome nature ten years ago than
they are today . It is rarely indeed
that one sees in the average theatre
nowadays a picture that is worth
looking at so far as decency and in
struction are concerned and yet the
moving picture is one of the greatest
educators in the world. No one
can attend a picture show without
being educated in one way or anoth
er. But usually the education is of
a very undesirable kind. The major
ity of pictures are very bad.
No one is to blame for this con
dition excepting those nice people
who consider a photo play as beneath
their notice. Since those who might
appreciate something of an elevating
kind will not enter their theatres the
picture men are compelled to cater
to the depraved taste of those who
are willing to part with their nickels
and dimes for the privilege of look
ing at pictures of the kind that in
spire vicious or depraved ideals.
Some time ago the proprietors of
a theatre in this city advertised the
beautiful religious play "Parsifal"
from the Wagner opera. No one
went to see it and he had to exchange
the film for another for the evening
show.
If those who wish humanity well
and who recognize both the evil and
the good which the movies are ca
pable of doing, would consider it their
Christian duty to attend those ex
hibitions which are of an elevating
character, and would make it known
to the show man that they would at
tend his theatre when such films
are run, we believe that a Ion? step
UNSINKABLE SHIPS
The royal commission which - has
been investigating the recent wreck
of the Empress of Ireland at Montre
al, Canada, have reported that most
of the blame for the wreck and loss
of 1,000 lives should be placed upon
Chief Officer Teftenes of the Stor
stad, the collier which rammed the
Empress of Ireland and sent her to
the bottom of the St. Lawrence river.
As a matter of fact no one can be
held strictly accountable for this hor
ror. It was due to the fragile charac
ter of the passenger steamer's hull for
the most part. Modern ships are not
made strong enough in proportion to
their weight and bulk. So long as
steamship companies are permitted to
build and use these fragile tubs such
accidents are bound to occur.
The big ships of English construc
tion seem to be particularly unfortu
nate or unseaworthy. Years ago the
first class British battleship, Victoria,
sank in the Mediterranean after a
slight collission, carrying to the bot
tom nearly all of her crew of several
hundred men.
Later the English built a monster
airship at a cost of more than half
a million dollars. It collapsed at the
first trial.
Two years ago the "unsinkable"
Titanic went to the bottom of the At
lantic after a slight brush with an
iceberg, while making her first voy
age to America, drowning 1,600 per
sons. Then comes the Empress of
Ireland with its aftermath of a thous
and funerals to prove that there must
be something wrong with the English
methods for constructing big ships.
Probably the craze for size and speed,
together with the purpose of build
ers to extract every possible dollar of
profit from the contract, lies at the
bottom of recent disasters. At any
rate, judging from recent events, any
one who should take passage on an
English built ship and entertain ex
pectations of reaching the other side
in safety must be nine-tenths a fool
and the other tenth intoxicated.
Mr. James A. Barr is director of tht
division of congresses and conventions
of the ranama-Pnclfle International
Exposition at Sau Francisco In 1915.
Two hundred and twenty-five conven
tions and congresses will meet tuer
What with the anti-Chinese citi
zens and the prohi agitators and ques
tioners, Dr. James Withycombe, can
didate for governor, will soon need
to take a rest at some vacation point
in our picturesque Oregon.' Verily,
this running for office is not an easy
job. McMinriville Telephone Register.
M. J. Brown, editor of the Oregon
City Courier, who goes away on a va
cation each summer and gives a
series of very interesting descriptive
letters, telling his readers of what he
sees ,is away on a trip to the Ha
waiian Islands. Newberg Graphic.
THE NEW INDIAN
In the good old days the plains
Indian used to be a worthless, lazy,
thieving, drunken vagabond. No ona
believed 20 years ago that anything
less persuasive than the Angel of
Death could tame the savage nature
of these children of the' wilderness.
But with the passing of the old
time whiskey peddling frontiersman,
and the coming of the agriculturist
and school teacher, prospects have
changed for, the red man, and from
Canada to Texas the Indian is fast
becoming one of our most well-to-do
and respectable citizens. When the
people of the great plains have hang
ed the last stock rustler and sent the
last bootlegger to the penitentiary,
the last barrier to complete civiliza
tion for the Indian will have been
swept away.
And in proof of all this word comes
from South Dakota that many In
dians men of intelligence and edu
cation are holding county offices in
that state, and that the Indian resi
dents of Millette county have organ
ized an "Indian Political Association"
under a charter from the Secretary of
State, the incorporators are:
From savagery to whiskey and
horse-stealing, from thieving and
drunkenness to politics thus does
our red brother follow close upon the
heels of the white man in ascending
the ladder of civilization.
TIME IS THE BEST TEST
No remedy without merit
can long hold a place in
public favor.
Ballard's
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LINIMENT
Baa Stood the Tent ot Time.
Another oroof of the croat
merit of this remedy Is the con
tinually increasing number of
eople wno use it; not for some
emporarv ailment of the flesh.
but as a regular family remedy.
It is a standard that never fails
when used for the purposes for
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Try it for cuts, burns, bruises.
sores, swellings, frost bites,
chilblains, rheumatism, neural
gia, sciatica or the many exter
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will do Its work so quickly and
effectively you will not be with,
out it.
Price 25c, BOc and $1.00.
JamesF.Ballard.Prop. St.Louls.Mo.
1
Use Stephens Eye Salve for
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MR. GUSTAV G. FLECHTNER
Violin Teacher ,
12th and Main Streets
Will resume teaching Monday,
July 13.
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For Long or Short Periods
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Beaver Building Oregon City
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TIRE RIGHT
DU1UNG the past year we have loaned more
than 1100,000.00 on First Mortgages on farms,
in Marion and Clackamas counties. Could we
have done this if our methods were not right'
We are in a position to place 100,000.00 ou"ap
proved security within the next ninety days. If
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within the next few months, it will he to Your in
terest to consult us.
If you have from 10 to 50 acres oi land you
wish to sell, see us about it, that is, if your price
is right. r
We have First Mortgages on Willamette Valley
Farms from ?300 up running from two to five
1.1.10 wuiu hC win sen so as to AET the
cnaser 0 per cent.
pur-
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