OfiEGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1914.
Our Correspondents' Views
A YANKEE HURT
Thinks the Editor has Forgotten Hi
Colonial History Lessons
Editor Courier:
In vour naner July 9th you men
tioned the burning of witches in New
England. Now 1 lived in New En
gland many years and I never heard
of it. i neara were was a vtiwu
hurned in Georeia but not in New
England. I heard they hanged 10
witches at Salem. Mass., but that
was a long time ago. A. C. R.
The editor is very glad our corres
pondent has called our attention to
this matter. We should be very sor
ry to be guilty of any injustice to
ward the estimable New Englander;
who were conscientious in their per
secution of the supposed witches 250
years ago. We can scarcely be mis
taken as to the facts however, unless
the compiler of the writers' old school
history was at fault. We still re
member that particular history les
son very perfectly and even recall the
incidents of the day it was studied.
It was one of those hot sunny day
in early June when the air was full of
the fragrance of the woods, the duz
zing of bees and songs of birds
it was one of those perfect summer
days when the call of nature is most
alluring and the river bank is most
inviting, and incidentally a history
looann mnst detestable: and as the
hot sunshine poured into the school
room through the south windows
could not keep my thoughts from
wandering away to the old swimming
hole under the shady weeping wil
lows. I could not help noticing the
vacant seats of certain brave youths
who I well knew were paddling their
canoes along the margin of the lake
and hooking bass and croppies, and
I wondered with much anxiety whetn-
er those conscienceless individuals
had discovered where my precious
first pole and bait can were hidden.
And as I thought of all these
things and studied the lesson of the
witches. I thought bitterly of the in
justice of theworld the injustice of
torturing witches with hre and ooys
with school lessons, and I resolved
then and there to pay my respects
some day to Rev. Cotton Mather and
his crowd of witch torturing fana
tics. Considering that there is 20
years' interest due on account I think
I let them off very easy m stating
that thev burned their victims when
they only hanged them. I might have
stated with a clear conscience that
tha colonist not onlv cooked their
witches but ate them as well; only
the thought did not occur to me at
the time I wrote it.
However there can be no doubt
that persons suspected of being
witches have been persecuted in
America, and as persecution and fire
are pretty much the same, the par
ticular modus operandi of our early
forefather does not greatly matter;
and the fact also remains to be con
sidered that while we may think with
contempt of the men of old who were
so ignorant as to believe in such sil
ly notions as witchcraft, yet we of
today have a brutal way of persecu.t
ing those whom we dislike, because
thev are old. helnless. poor and
wretched, or because they differ with
us in the color of their skin, the lan
guage they speak, or in their relig
ions or political ideas. We are not
so very much better than the ma,n of
old Salem after all.
THE BEST
Fruit Varieties for Willamette
Valley
(Contributed)
This is one of the hardest valleys
concerning which to give advice as
to the variety of fruit to plant, due
to the large area of the valley and
the many varied conditions that are
found, and owing also to the fact that
with apples especially, the industry
is still in its infancy.
Apples: Yellow Newton, Jonat
than, Grimes Golden, Rome Beauty,
Gano, Rhode Island Greening, Grav
enstein, Ortley, Wagoner, Spitzen
berg, Vanderpool Red, Northern Spy.
Pears: Bartlett, d'Anjou, Cornice,
Patrick Barry, and Cluirgeau. Wor
thy of trial are Glou Morceau, Beuur
re Hardy, Bosc, Howell, President
Drouard, Duchess Bordeaux.
Peaches: Early Alexander, Ams
den June, Waterloo, Triumph, Early
Columbia, Halo's Kurly, Mamie Ross,
Lovell Champion, Early Crawford,
Early Charlotte, Tuscan Cling, Gol
den Cling, Muir, Late Crawford, El
berta, Globe, Fitzgerald, Salway.
These varieties are Mimed in their
fruit order. Some of the moxt prom
ising of the list are the Amsden June,
Early Crawford, Early Charlotte, Ma
mie Ross, Muir, Elbcrta, Globe and
Salway.
Prunes: Italian; Plums: The
Peach Plum and the Satsuma. The
Maynard is a good home plum.
Cherries: Sweet Royal Ann,
Bing, and Lambert; sour Olivet,
Montmorency and Early Richmond,
and May Duke and Late Uuko for
Dukes which are especially fine for
local cherries.
Walnuts: Franquet, Maycttc, and
Meylan.
Grapes: Worden, Concord, Niag
ara, Duleware and Breighton.
Apricots and almonds are rarely
grown, but such almonds as Grosso
Tender and Languedoc should bo
tried.
Red 'Raspberries: Cuthbert, Marl
boro, Supcrlutive, Antwerp.
Blackberries: Evergreen, Snyder,
Mammoth.
Gooseberries: The Oregon, Down
ing, Industry, Smith.
Currants: Perfection, Fay, Vic
toria, White Grape.
Strawberries: Gold Dollar, Six
teen to one. Magoon, Clark's Seed
ling, Autumn Bell, Marshall.
EDD OLDS SCORES HIS
POLITICAL ENEMIES
Writes Withycombe a Letter Which
Gets a Very Queer Answer
I still see a great deal said m
your valuable paper about the liquor
question, which 1 think is a very live
issue. I see that Brother Spence has
come out and taken a stand on the
question, which I think is absolutely
right. But, Brother Spence, will not
the German Verein hold another
meeting and instruct their society to
snow you under because you are a
dry man, the same as they did before
the primaries .' I hey came very
close to getting Chris Schuebel, but
he happened to have too many Ger
man followers, being a German him
self.
Now I know that was what beat
me in the primaries a simple case of
a man taking a stand between right
and wrong. J. had the nerve to take
the stand for the interest of the wo
men and children as Mrs. J. L. Mum
power asserts in her article of the
16th, of which she is correct .
Now you booze fighter's and beer
drinkers ot Ulackamas county, go to
it. I am on the ticket again this
fall as a progressive candidate; beat
me again if you want to. 1 will
laugh at you just the same, but don't
you forget it 1 am still here and am
progressive and have got the nerve
to fight you on any old turn of the
road on the -whiskey question.
You hop growers you 15 cents a
pound hop growers don't you know
that the brewers are the ones that
make the money out of your crops?
You don't make it. How many of
you in the state in the last 24 years
dug up your yards because you
couldn t make it.' Ihe price was so
low? And during that time how
many breweries did you see dug up?
(Not a one.) And they still charged
you b cents lor Deer li your nops
weren t worth 2 cents.
You Oregon City political rings, if
a man has got a mind of his own and
won t let you dictate to him of course
you will snow him under. You speak
of Oregon City going dry and Mil
waukie wet, and it hurting Uregon
City. Live along the line awhile and
see the class of people that take their
money to Mil waukie. Who is it? It
it about 90 percent of the kind that
will do just what the political ring
sters of Oregon City want them to
do, and of course they don't want a
man that has got a mind of his own
in office. ,
Now voters and taxpayers of Clack
amas County, you allowed yourselves
to be beaten by a certain clique, and
you have got Hunt and Kraxberger
for vour nominees, and you can have
them if you want them, but here is a
man who has got nerve enough to
openly say that he is not going to
swallow a pill that he doesn't like;
for I want to state to you that the
world wouldn't stop going 'round if
you didn't get that revenue off of
whiskey.
You wouldn t have me because 1
was too dry, and anybody that drinks,
leans that way, or has not got Jthe
nerve to get off the fence on the
question, need not apply to me this
fall for a vote, for you won't get it.
I am just as firm in my belief about
the liquor question as you are and am
going to stand pat.
The loilowing is a letter to Dr.
WitJivcombe written by me (and an
answer) to explain where I stand.
And I am a little bit afraid that he
won't get my vote this fall. But
say, you .Democrats, don t swell up
now for your candidate won't get it
either, for he is just as bad if not
worse. He is on the fence too and
has not got the nerve to get off, but
believe me they will fall pretty
soon and are liable to light pretty
hard.-
The time has come when a man has
got to take sides just the same in
Oregon as they did in Kansas years
go, according to William Allen
White, as ho writes in the Post.
Yours for a dry State and Nation
nd cleaner and better politics,
. E. D. Olds.
Withycombe To Olds
Oak Grove, Ore. July 13th, 1914.
Hon James Withycombe:
Corvallis, Oregon.
My Dear Doctor:
In reading the papers I see that
Hon. W. S. U'Ren has put the ques-
on to you direct how you stand on
the question of National and State
wide prohibition; and as yet I have
tailed to see where you have nnnonue
I yourself in favor or this State and
National prohibition. Now, as I am
liio long Republican, and commit
teeman in my precinct, and do not
ant to vote for anybody but a Re
publican, and would like very much
to vote for you on the 3rd day of No
ember next, winch l believe is go
nt to be a Kepublican day, (but 1
believe that the liquor question is
ono of the greatest questions that
confronts the people of this age, for
you can take most any corruption in
most nny line and lay it at the sa
loon door and be correct) but I have
remised mysell that I would not
oto lor a miin this fall that would
not get off the fence and state where
he stood on this creat question: and
then he would have to stand on the
y side.
Now my dear friend I want to vote
or you this fall and I believe your
cart is in tno right place; but I
oiuu line to see you come out square
nd ilat-footed and face the issue as
now stands before us; and I also
liove you will make votes by so
oing.
Now I take the privilege of writing
to you personally, to satisfy nivself
and will you kindly answer this to
t me know where vou are on the
question.
Sincerely hoping that you will
ant this favor and that vou will be
on tne right side this fall, 1 remain
lours truly,
E. D. Olds.
Olds To Withvcombe
July 18, 1914.
Corvallis. Oretron.
y Dear Mr. Olds:
Have vour verv interesting lottnv
nd in renlv beer to
been a temperance man all of mv
lc, but I find mvKflf in n i-oru
harassing position and linvino- tW
the situation over verv scriouslv nn.l
conscientiously believe that I should
not take sides for or against state
prohibition for the reason that it is
not a party question but a moral and
economic one. As vou know I am
the nominee of the RenulIi.n nartv
a party which has not declared it-
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R(.f nn t.hA linnnr nnpfinn nnri T fmJ
that I have no right as their candi
date to declare for them. I may be
wrong in this conclusion, but it is
my honest opinion. .
Now I will and do say that if pro
hibition is adopted by the people of
Oregon and I become Governor, the
law will be positively and rigidly en
forced and the state shall be made
dry even if I have to invoke every
power given the executive under odr
constitution.
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some time and talk this matter over.
Thanking you for your kindness
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Faithfully yours,
James Withycombe.
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Summons
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon for Clackamas County.
Daisy Y. Leisy, Plaintiff,
vs.
Perry Leisy, Defendant.
To Perry Leisy, the above named de
fendant:
In the name of the State of Ore
gon, you are hereby required to ap-
1 I. . i ?.
jL'ur unu answer uie I'uiupiuuit in
this case filed against you in the
above entitled court and suit within
six weeks from the date of the first
publication of this summons, and if
you fail to so appear and answer, for
want thereof, the plaintiff will apply
ior tne reuet demanded in her aom
plaint, to-wit: for a decree of ab
solute divorce from the bonds of mat
rimony heretofore and now existing
between the plaintiff and defendant
and for such further relief as the
court may deem proDer,
This summons is published in pur
suance of an order of the Hon. J. U.
Campbell, Judge of the above entitled
court, made and entered on the lGth
day of July, 1914.
Date of first publication, July 23,
uate of last publicantoin Sept. 3,
mil.
ABRAHAM NELSON,
Westbrook & Westbrook,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
307 Journal Bldg., Portland, Ore.
An Open Letter
To Mr. S. Macdonald:
I have before me what purports to
oe an "open letter" of June 30, to
which you ask a reply by return mail.
It is not an unusual thing for the
loafing class to expect prompt atten
tion from the workers. In this par
ticular case the real masters of
bread made a more insistent demand
upon my time and sen-ice so I saw
fit to delay reply to your "open let
ter." By the law of the land I am pro
vided with one vote and have no use
for any more. So those who have
votes to peddle must look elsewhere
for a market. By consulting the ros
ter of candidates of the capitalistic
parties open to negotiations can be
connected up with. Before the May
primaries the files of local papers
presented an album of "appoachables" be out of place to say a pious fraud
Lunemei wnn testimonials oi auer , was put .upon tne payroll contrary to
taking results sandwiched between the law and this "sober brow blessed
backache remedies and other patent this damned error and approved it
medicine ads, where it seems to me with a text."
?Jt0.lT'1ft C-uld have been found j while my efforts came to naught
for the dealer in political influence. ! before this body it taught me the
A large number of these saviours futility of all expedients. I there
of mankind are now engaged nurs- fore allied with a party having only
Ef iJ J 6 fSP Ti" Sme Pa.rt.u 0f ' wooing class interests for its pro
i L '?y a"dP x. lreco1."leJ the 1 gram. This party has seen fit to
to the services of the philanthropist piaCe my mmes candidate for the
out ot a jot). Maw making body, the object being
mvl. A i. V- I i granting any special privi ege to any
Sk,0 8 deliberative body con- person or association of pirsons so
wi fv, ' ""Y""' "M;rs that no one may eat bread in the
....v, . - vmm in neiga-, sweat of his neighbor's face.
boring state. Being a spokesman of To make the matter more emphatic
t ,,i .. V i 7 l 7 , Clear tne lssue. wi say, person-
fhyaione; 1 wastthf? butt rldl- ally, that I advocate the confiscation
cule by the representatives of the ex- 0f an industries by declaring the ti-
plo, ting class, tho as a matter of fact tie. null and void and taking pose -
all that I ever asked of this body si(m in the name of the people. Hav-
ZlLTJ' f T 7?L measui:es 1 el- i"g therefore title and possession to
iminate a few of the worst abuses these industries the workers may
from which the useful members of then do with them as they se fitto
society were suffering. It may not operate them at full capacity, reduce
tne output, or close them completely,
all under such rules as the workers
may see lit to apply.
HOW CHILDREN GROW
I am not interested in the nniml
between grouns of canitalistst as tn
who shall operate this or that scheme
Children grow by nourishment not
overloaded stomachs or rich foods but
JGTSoISTtSSL fn?the dtehbaUChT. f kers or ex!
digestive powers cannot procure these P.loltln the,m w"-h more refined de
qualities from ordinary foods which results vi5es f0 Plunder. Straight ahead
in weakness, dullness and sickness. ! shlnes the beacon light to freedom.
If VOUT children toward that is mv coal alnno- tho
weight, catch cold easily, are languid, pathway stand the jail and possibly
backward, pale or frail, give them Scott's the gallows, but as we do not control
Emulsion which is pure medicinal nourish- our opinion, but our opinions control
metit. It sharpens the Anrwtitiv hnilila us. it is nnt fnr the ui,aIm;u;i t
healthy flesh, firm muscles and active falter the call of duty. The special
brains. Scott's is crowing-food for nrnnao-amlUt r i
Children. Refuse alcoholic substitute.. ''7.' "1 l A
.3w iiwii oiicinuuu teas among
ner-room vafS
Plause of fools and the 'flatt ryf
edl .Safl'nW f..Whm "f
ea and all of them "respectable "
tw8?0??1!.?,8 WOrst Misfortune
that could befall me would be a cer
tificate of election and another trial
er7ngTh bU" Ch f PolitiI teaffiS
ers. There is not any cause for
SiHn,b,.r"eai!8t me th contes
will be arrayed every banker, capi
talist lawyer, real estate faker in
terest taker, salvation attorney tix
f'fV" S.h,rt . Pe-ons wnop-
fr,7t i y. , , t0 enjoy the full
i w ,thelr labor- There will also
be that long list of misguided and
terror stricken workers who have a
world to gain and nothing but pover
ty to lose; persons who have no
grasp of the word "freedom." As
an illustration of how large that num
br may be let me cite ou the caTe
of the chief officers of the four or
ganizations of work people in this
state, passing resolutions i regard
to so-caled "farm credits" fa which"
If686 'Sieaders reso'vei in favor
iw years. Had the rank and file of
the members understood those reso- i
lutions they would "have plucked the
double over their (leaders') heads to
show to the world what these foud
birds had done to their own nest "
Having on other occasinna f"j
my communications sim. V
Ia lthe 'iberty to pass it over your
head to the editor nf u y.r
publication. c "uuner Ior
Hopintr I hn
clear to "you and th"e vote TgZ
eral, with malice toward none '
frfJ" V1?W the- Perished hope of
freedom, I am sincerely vnnr.
John F. Stark.
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