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OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 30 1914
Number 16
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TIE PAUSE
OF TIE PACIFIC
HONOLULU AND THE WRITER'S
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
NOT A CITY IN WORLD LIKE IT
Fifteen Centuries can be Seen in a
Fifteen Minutes Street Walk
J A friend once said to me, that when
he had finished with the cares and'
vexations of a business and political
life; when he had played the game to
the ninth inning and couldn't make
good any longer, that he hoped to go
over to Hawaii and play the bench
for the rest of the season to finish
the game along the lines of least re
sistance where there were many
grand-stands and few pinch hitters.
After about two days in Honolulu
I have come to the ' conclusion that
when I pass out, I would rather have
a choir that could sing, "We will
Meet Him Bye and Bye," mostly in
English, v.
In the early forenoon I walked
down one street in Honolulu counted
until I saw an American, and there
were 64 to 1 against the States, and
that isn't a ratio in favor of wanting
to die over in an easy-going country.
Of course I may have strayed into
a street that gave Uncle Sam the
worst of it, but when I finally did
see a Panama hat, I asked him what
state he was from.
In the fewest minutes one can see
the greatest varieties in life in Hono
lulu of any place I have ever
visited.
On one street car (they have them
in Honolulu) I heard as many differ
ent languages as there were seats in
the car in a ride of a half dozen
blocks.
The native Hawaian, Japanese,
Chinese, Portuguese, and some I
thought must have been Limberger
Cheese. The Filipino, the Cuban ne
gro, the Malay, Korean every na
tion on the globe, I think, can be seen
in a walk of a block in Honolulu. But
the most amusing scramble was an
early morning scene a big Dane (or
Swede), a walnut-colored Kanaka and
a little Jap. The Oriental may have
bee'i sober, but the other two, sailors,
were too drunken to walk alone. Each
had an arm around the son of Nippon.
Vainly he tried to break away and
beat it, but the sailors had him fast,
and the street spectators had a free
show.
The States may say they own the
Hawaiian Islands, and really thing
so. Uncle Sam may run up the stars
and stripes on these stragetic dots of
the Pacific, and mail out post
cards at the domestic rate. He may
have his thousands of tons of coal
laid by and his 8,000 soldiers drawing
pay, but when it comes down to prov
ing up the cash register the Japs
own the islands, run the islands, dom
inate them, and have everything but
the deed. And the sailors tell you
they don't need that that they have
a sort of a tax title they are satisfied
with.
They are the whole thing. They
simply run the islands. In every line
they wedge in and crowd the other
fellow out. From beer rustling in the
wharf saloons to head clerks in the
best department stores, the little
brown men are there with the glitter
and the goods. There is hardly a line
of business they do not dominate,
from sugar plantations to shoe shines.
Quiet, persistent, cutting in, staying
in and never quitting, the Japs have
the Hawaiian Islands. Uncle Sam
may have them on paper, and pay
the expense.
Yet there is such a contrast. The
Japs snap up every American cus
tom and style. You will see them
with the latest wireless in fashion,
while their wives hobble along the
streets in sandals of the time of
Christ; holding up the oriental sun
shade and clattering along with heels
dragging, with a baby strung over
the shoulder, like an Isleta Indian.
Such is life in a cosmopolitan town.
It's all so different in Honolulu
that is you can see something differ
ent any time you care to.
After Old Sol had quit the job and
the city was cooling off, I went down
to the (what shall I term it?) the
foreign quarter; where two or three
acres were laid out in what white
men would call a park. And for an
hour I watched hundreds of people
play almost every American game,
from baseball to tennis, and I never
heard an hnglish word spoken.
After business hours you will see
the Japs, Chinamen, or whatever they
are, pull oft their shoes and stockings',
and hang their feet over the railings;
while the mother will take the half
dressed kiddies along the sidewalk,
and I suppose teach them how to
swipe a bunch of islands while the
owner isn't looking.
Honolulu is worse than Boston.
Narrow, crooked streets, and you
don't ' know whether you are going
or coming from school. Wander
around for a half hour and you will
meet yourself. And while you are
burning up under the tropical sun,
you can look a mile up in the moun
tains and see all kinds of a squall
raging, rain pouring down from the
fog clouds that almost hide the hills.
Without reference to any scientific
works, I would state that the five
principal islands of the Hawaiian
group are simply peaks of a mountain
chain, the highest peaks submerged.
They are all volcanic A folder tells
me that Lanai is the oldest by about
six million years, but I haven't taken
the time to verify the figures. Any
how centuries ago the smokepipes got
busy, kept vomiting up the lava and
millions of years after had a family
group of islands, nicely inhabited,
waiting for Captain Cook to come
along and find them.
My reasoning is that the original
Hawaiians were Chinese the same
as the original American Indians and
the same as all the Pacific islanders
were. How they first found root on
the islands is a matter we can all
guess over. Tell you more about this
later on.
But Honolulu today is some town.
You can't find any town like it. In
it is everything you want to see, and
some you don't care to see. There is
the up-to-the-minute, and there ije
the middle age, all in a block or two
and back in the hills and valleys
you will find Polynesian life; - the
thatched huts of the natives, ruined
sanctuaries, old historic spots with
history forgotten. And in Main street,
Honolulu, you will see a native son
with his sign up that he has opened
1914 headquarters and wants to rep
resent the territories in Congress,
Washington, D. C.
It's a land where little work is
done. The natives can't work. They
are swimmers, musicians, easy-going.
It's a land of tomorrow. A
land of abundant time.
The girls will sit along the side
walk and offer beads, flowers, and
fancy work for sale. They get enough
change during the day to buy a meal
of poi, and are happy and content.
But there is one subject I simply
could not get any information on
the leper colony. "Yes, there is one,
or WAS one, on Molokai, but it has
been pretty much stamped out," and
along these lines everybody will
dodge.
That one word "leper" doesn't go
in the Hawaiian Islands, and I found
it out after vainly trying to get a
little information for two days, all the
way from the best hotels to the wharf
rats. There is a leper colony, but the
people want to forget it; they want
you to, and a more unpopular sub
ject could not be mentioned. But
there is a way of getting over to this
shunned bit of earth and I am going
on.
I saw a Jap or Chinese mother,
with her brood of three, stowed away
in a lemon box, and the box on a sort
of a wheelbarrow, and she wheeled it
up the street, giving them the benefiv
of a bit of fresh air. The oldest
couldn't wedge in, so he sat on the
handle-bars and I suppose told mother
where to guide the auto. She wore
the pajamas and sandals, barefooted,
with a string between the two great
toes to hold the sandals on. She took
the youngsters down to the public
square and turned them loose and in
less than five minutes the oldest (I
figured he was a boy) had been hit in
the nose with an American grounder
hit out by a Portugese. Mixing 'em
up some.
And in the next letter I will try to
give you something of the real life
of the Hawaiia;i"-of the way they
live, etc., that should be interesting.
This letter is simply first impres
sions of a strange town just side
lights written from notes as one jots
them down on the street.
DRY COMMITTEE MEETS
Will Try to Make Thorough "Oregon
Dry" Campaign in this County
At a meeting of the "committee of
twelve" who have charge of the "Ore
gon Dry" campaign in this Co. held
in Oregon City last Friday, it was
decided that the campaign should be
organized precinct by precinct. A
special committe having each pre
cinct in charge.
Geo. C. Brownell, chairman of the
Committee of Twelve, will appoint
those committees, each being com
posed of five members two women
and three men, and special meetings
will be held in each precinct with a
view to effect a thorough organiza
tion. Prominent speakers from var
ious parts of the county, as well as
outside points, will be present to
make addresses.
An innovation will be a series of
good citizenship picnics which will be
held under direction of the precinct
committees from time to time.
The officers of the committee of
twelve as it was organized at the
meeting Friday, are: Geo. C. Brow
nell, chm.; L. Adams, treas.; Mrs.
E. B. Andrews, Sec.
BRIDGE SAFE NOW
Recent Repairs Have Made Suspen
sion Bridge Better than Ever
Two years ago the then County
Court had the suspension bridge over
the Willamette at Oregon City in
spected at a cost of some hundreds of
dollar's. That inspection failed to
show anything wrong with the struc
ture. But during the past week, in
making certain repairs it was dis
covered by Co. Road Eng. Hobson
that an entire series of heavy bolts
were missing, and that they always
had been missing, since the bridge
was first made.
The lack of these bolts caused the
bridge to sway when an automobile
or heavy load passed over it.
The bolts have been put in place at
last, and now we are to have a real
bridge, complete and sound (in spite
of electrolytic disintegration; etc)
whereas, heretofore, we only thought
we had one purely psychological,
don't you know.
W. H. Counsell Gets Contract for
Road
The county court awarded W. H.
Counsell, of Milwaukie, the contract
Friday for the construction of a mile
and a quarter of oil-bound macadam
roadway running from Clackamas
station toward the Multnomah county
line for $9,000. The road to be im
proved is on the main highway be
tween Portland and Oregon City and
is one of the heaviest traveled roads
in the county.
DON'T OVERLOOK!
The fact that TAXES BECOME
DELINQUENT ON SEPT. 1ST.
when 10 PER CENT PENALTY
MUST BE ADDED, besides the inter
est accrued.
Get in early and avoid the rush!
This is to your interest as well as
ours. J. A. Tufts.
County Treasurer.
THE S150D EX
EXEMPTION 8ILL
ALFRED I). CRIDGE PRESENTS
THE MATTERS TO VOTERS
ASKS VOTERS TO USE REASON
Shows that the Monied Interests are
Trying to Frighten the People
Editor Courier:
A Clackamas County farmer writes
to the Oregon Journal that the $1,500
Home Tax Exemption measure would
make it hard on the man just get
ting a start on a home in the coun
try. How? John Jones buys twenty
acres of wild land for $2,000 (assess
ed at $1,000 and proceeds to improve
it. He will have no taxes to pay for
a year. In that year he will certain
ly put in some licks "clearing, ditch
ing, and draining." Let us assume
he fixes up, clears, levels and fences
a two-acre patch out of his 20. He
will not have to be very industrious
to do that. An idle month or two will
enable him to accomplish that much.
The assessor now will value that land
so improved at $100 more than be
fore. Under the exemption meas
ure that $100 will be exempt. The
aforesaid John Jones must have a
shack of some kind. He will prob
ably have a horse or two, a cow or
two, some feed, some shed of a barn.
It will not take the average assessor
very long to put $200 more valuation
on that poor little home than he puts
on tjenty acres of wild land adjoin
ing and belonging to N'Yorker who
holds 2,000 more like it that he ob
tained by subordination of perjury
and 25 cents an acre, and will not
sell nor allow any person to make
use of. If the $1,500 exemption
measure cuts off taxes on that $200
and spreads it over that 2,000 acres
of speculative holdings where will
John Jones be discouraged? . Jones
works for his money and the three or
four dollars thereby saved him will
buy baby some socks and get some
curtains for the windows.
Perhaps it will increase the taxes
on John Jones' land a little perhaps
as much as ten per cent; opponents
say as much as 16 per cent. They
say that to scare John Jones and
stampede him into voting to retain
more taxes on his back. Bugaboo
yarns have scared the Oregon farmer
and pioneer that way before. It
pays certain vested special privileges
in Oregon to spread indefinite and
false bugaboo yarns.
A candidate for governor denounc
es the Exemption measure oh the as
sumption that a man buying a run
down farm assessed at $3,000 would
only be exempted thereon to $100 of
improvements. There are no such
farms. No man could buy such a
farm assessed for $3,000 for less than
$4,500. He would have to put at
least $500 in live stock and tools,
buildings and fences upon it to use
it, and he would not invest so much
in land unless he had either money
or credit to that extent. Even such
a run down farm, with its buildings
burned off and its fences rotten and
its well caved in, has more than $100
in improvement and labor values up
on it, for it has been cleared of brush,
possibly stumps, leveled, stones taken
off, etc.
Get down to facts. Where is there
a farm in Clackamas county worth
$3,000 on the assessment rolls and in
use a year that has less than $500 in
labor and improvement values ?
Let any tax payer in Clackamas
county, or anywhere else in Oregon,
get out his tax receipt and figure a
little for himself. If his improve
ments and personal property amount
to more than one-tenth of his land
then he will in all probability pay
less taxes with the exemption meas
ure in force than he does now, unless
he is assessed for 'total values more
than ten times $1,500. Even the op
ponents of the measure admit that he
will pay less if his exemption values
are more than six times the values of
his land There is no farmer mak
ing any approach to the use of half
his land and whose total valuations
on the assessment rolls exceed $6,000
but who has more than $1,500 in
improvements, live stock, buildings,
tools, clearings, etc.
This measure will relieve the small
home owner encourage the man with
but little but his hands and skill to
get a home, and the difference will
be made up by taxation resting on
our corporations, water powers, tim
ber tracts, big down town properties
and speculators generally. Let them
worry. Why should the average
man?
Alfred Cridge.
Where Schuebel Stands
Oregon City, Ore., July 15, 1914.
Editor Courier:
Sometime ago I received an open
letter asking whether I favored State
and National Prohibition; also
whether I would be in favor of the
passage of a law to prohibit the im
portation of intoxicating liquor into
"Dry" territory. I answer yes to all
the questions though my position on
Prohibition is well known because I
have twice campaigned the county
for that issue.
I believe in majority rule. If
elected to the Legislature I shall with
great pleasure introduce and support
a bill to prohibit the importation of
intoxicating liquors into "Dry" ter
ritory. Yours very truly,
C. Schuebel.
V. Dean, a well known merchant
of Mulino, was transacting business
in the county seat,- Oregon City
Wednesday.
Let Us Hope
There is a peace movement on the
public elevator under way, and while
the details are kept under cover it is
said that everything promises a com
promise between the city and Mrs
Chase, and it is expected the long
fight will be adjusted and that the
elevator will soon' he completed.
"Very Emberassing"
Dr. Withvcombe, in answer to E.
D. Olds' letter asking him where he
stands on the liquor issue says:
"I find myself in a very emberass
ing position."
Poor old Doc.
He would like to come out as
against booze, but the Republicans
tell him it would mean suicide at the
polls, so he straddles and becomes a
weakling in the sight of all.
And a man who will let the bosses
steer him before election, will listen
to them after an election.
He has shown himself a weakling.
Chicken Finds Gold
Charley White, proprietor of the
Clackamas Heights store brought in
to the Courier office Monday morn
ing a piece of yellow metal of about
15 grains weight, which he declared
was-virgin Oregon gold. The nugget
was taken from the gizzard ot a
chicken and it was considerably worn.
White believes the gold came from
some gravel in his chicken yard,
which had been hauled from a local
pit.
WHO DARE ACCEPT?
Cridge Challenges Anyone to Public
ly Discuss $15UU exemption Law
Editor Courier:
Some statements concerning the
$1,500 Home Tax Exemption meas
ures are being made by men who
should know better. I hereby chal
lenge "Governor" Gill, or any other
candidate for office, or any person
opposing this measure, to meet me
before a public audience where the
statement made can be thrashed out
and perhaps the truth arrived at. I
want to discuss purely the merits of
the bill, regardless of isms, theories,
candidates. Owing to having to
make a living, I cannot get very far
away from Portland, but will do the
best I can to meet any one who in
gooth faith desires to consider the
measures and wishes to have present
ed to any audience or citizens the
reasons why it should be defeated, or
why it should pass.
The lah-de-dah clubs of milionair
es, near millionaires and would-like-to-be
millionaires in P6rtland are
afraid to discuss the measure, and
the workingmen's organizations are
arfaid to discuss the measure, and
the workingmen's organizations are
all in favor of it. Who among the
opponents of this measure are will
ing to have a discussion? Where?
When?
' Alfred D. Cridge.
954 E. 22nd St, Portland, Ore.
ABOUT BOOZE
Subscriber Asks Questions Regarding
Private Possessions of Liquor
Editor of Courier:
Will you kindly state through the
columns of your paper, (1) if it Is
a violation of the liquor laws of the
state of Oregon for a person to trans
port liquor from a wet precinct into
a dry precinct? If so (2) what is
the penalty? (3) Is it lawful for a
man to carry liquor from a wet pre
cinct into his own home for his own
use? Also (4) can a man be ar-
tj :e jr i i: i
resteu n lounu mm nquur in ma pos
session, in a dry precinct, i'f he have
no medical authority for it. Thank
ing you in advance.
A subscriber.
(1) In a recent decision in the
case of the state against Maurice
Kline and Benjamin F. Kline, family
liquor dealers at 253 Washington
street, Portland, charged with selling
liquor in dry territory, District Judge
Jones held it to be unlawful to sell in
toxicants of any kind for delivery in
prohibitory territory.
(2.) The defendants appeared be
fore him on a complaint charging
them with delivering to David Delano
613 Sherrett avenue, six bottles of
beer after the order had been solicited
by their agent. Delano lives in pre
cinct 102, which voted dry at the last
election. Each of the defendants wa
fined $50.
(3.) It is not,
(4.) No.
AWAY OFF
Oregon Messenger is Commenting on
Something it is not Wise to
Under the caption "Try the Re
call' the Oregon Messenger says:
"It seems as if Dr. van Brakle,
the health officer of Clackamas coun
ty, is about as hard to dispose of as
the proverbial cat with nine lives.
Ever Bince he went on the job, some
thing like a year ago, the doctors of
Oregon City have been after his of
ficial scalp. Only last week the
State Board of Health met in Port
land for something like the nineth
time and determined to separate van
Brakle from his job. As the appoint
ment was made by the county court',
and that distinguished body apparent
ly is satisfied with van Brakle who
is an osteopath he stands a fair
show of remaining on the Clackamas
county payroll for some time yet.
But then there's the recall as a last
resort, and then Clackamas is strong
on recall. So look out, Doc.
The Messenger is entirely on the
wrong track. There are few if any
persons in Clackamas County who ob
ject to van Brakle as county health
officer. The only protestants are a
a few local doctors of the allopathic
school and the State Board of Health,
the members of which are also of the
Allopathic persuasion, and their ob
jection to van Brakle is htat he is of
the osteopathic school. The people
of Clackamas county believe that
van Brakle is competent to guard
their health very thoroughly, and
present cats will have a chance to
live ninety-nine lives before he Is
subjected to the recall.
A PLACE TO USE
Mi
A LITTLE REASON WILL SAVE
PROHI PARTY FROM BLUNDER
LABEL IS OF LITTLE WEIGHT
Principle is the Point for all Temper
ance People to Stand Behind
Secretary of State Olcott has de
cided that a candidate for office can
only be the nominee of one party, so
W. S. U'Ren has withdrawn as the
Prohibition nominee for governor.
And now certain of the Prohi
standpatters are assailing him for
"leaving them in a hole," declaring
they will not support him and are
asking for another nominee.
How silly.
Long before the Prohibitionists
nominated Mr. U'Ren, he had public
ly announced himself as an Indepen
dent candidate for governor.
The Prohibition convention which
unanimously nominated him for gov
enror well knew that he was an In
dependent candidate, and that their
nomination would be a second one
or rather an endorsement.
They knew he was out and out
against the booze, and stood for nat
ional and state prohibition and that
was the kind of a man they wanted.
, And they nominated him.
When the secretary of state decid
ed that a candidate could not run on
two tickets, Mr. U'Ren had nothing
else to do but withdraw.
And now SOME of the Prohibition
ists would crucify him for this ac
tion.
He is none the less a Prohibition
ist and will work just as hard for a
dry Oregon.
If another "regular" nominee is
put in the place he is forced to va
cate, W. S. U'Ren will stay right on
the job and will work just as earnest
ly for a dry Oregon.
Withvcombe. flirting with the
brewery interests, has made a weak
straddle and the temperance people
can expect absolutely nothing from
him.
Smith, just a little more cowardly,
doesn't even straddle. He simply re
fuses to say anything. .
U'Ren is the only man running
for. governor, (that has a ghost of a
chance to win) who stands for what
the Prohis and temperance people
stand for. He is there from prin
ciple and conviction, and he has sand
enough to back them.
The Prohis may call another con
vention and nominate a man who will
be a "straight" Prohibitionist and
he won't have any more chance of
winning than will Will Purdy of New
berg. This is what they have been doing
for thirty years , and experience
should teach them something.
The temperance people will vote
for U'Ren.
He will get more of the womens'
vote than all the other candidates
combined.
He will get the votes of the liberal,
reasoning Prohis those who have
tired of wasting their franchsie.
The stand-pat Prohis may make
the big mistake of placing in nomi
nation another man, and sticking
their label on him.
He will rattle a little as an "also
ran" and be at the tail end of the
count.
The wise thing for the Prohis to
do is to endorse U'Ren and go on
with a campaign that gives them a
big chance to win.
The question is will a few radicals
be allowed to spoil their only chance,
or whether the brains of the party
will step in.
Following is Mr. U'Ren's letter:
Oregon City, July 27.
To the Members of the Executive
Committee of the Prohibition Party
of Oregon, Ernest E. Taylor, Secre
tary: Please accept this letter as my
resignation of the Prohibition party
nomination for the office of governor
of Oregon. I am advised by Secre
tary of State Olcott that a law pass
ed bv the last legislature does not per
mit an Independent candidate for
public office to accept a political
party nomination.
When I wrote my Independent dec
laration against the liquor traffic lust
February. I had no thought of being
honored with the Prohibition party
nomination.. When asked if I would
accent that nomination, if it was of
fered, I answered yes. It was clear
that your party nomination would
probably unite the "dry" force and in
crease my vote. One of my reasons
for being a candidate was, and is, the
desire to be elected. I have always
had the warmest admiration for the
sincerity and self sacrificing enthus
iasm of the members of your party,
and naturally was pleased with the
prospect of their support.
But I canot consistently accept
the Prohibition name and nomination
exclusively, because I am first an In
dependent. At the party convention
in May it was made very clear from
the platform that my candidacy as
an Independent was to precede the
Prohibition party designation on the
official ballot. The delegates were
clearly satsif ied that this should be
so. I believe I can do more effective
work for the Oregon dry amendment
and other measures that I consider of
very great importance to the people,
bv continuing as an Independent can
didate, rather than by becoming the
candidate of the Prohibition party
alone.
For the reason stated I must r
sign your party nomination, but 1
hope and believe we may work to
gether and rejoice next November
over the adoption of both the Oregon
representation
W. S. U'REN.
Brownell and Smith
Rev. E .A. Smith will preach Sun
day August -2nd, at Logan at 11 A .M,
and at Evergreen at 3 P. M. On
August 9th Hon. Geo. C. Brownell
will speak at the Logan Grange Hall
on the "Great Question of the Hour."
This meeting will be at 3 P. M., and
the Alldredge Quartette will sing at
this time.
Where were the Cops?
There has been considerable com
ment over the fact that a colored wo-
man, who was making a religious
talk on the street last week, was in
terrupted, hooted and pushed around
by a drunken man, and that there was
no protection given her by the city
police.
This colored lady was entitled to
just as much protection as any white
person in Oregon, and should have
had it, The disturbance was a dis
grace and it should have been atton
ed for by giving the drunken disturb
er 30 days in jail.
A Suggestion
The city council's action regarding
Main street's paving is becoming a
huge burlesque, and every session
boosts on the city managerial propo
sition. One night the Council goes on rec
ord as favoring concrete and the next
night it turns a sumersault and
pledges for bituminous depending on
which bunch has all its strength pres
ent, and broad hints of "inducements"
are handed to each other.
As a compromise proposition we
would suggest that the Astoria pav
ing plan be adopted paving of
planks.
Making Them Line Up
One after another the smudge is
being applied to nominees as to where
they stand on the liquor issue. From
governor down the smoke-out is be
ing applied.
Any man who asks the people to
vote for him owes it to the voters to
tell them what he stands for.
The liauor Question is the domi
nant issue in Oregon, and the man
who will not line up is too much of
a coward to be entitled to support.
The nominee who will come out ana
flatly declare he is against prohibit
ion is entitled to far more respect
than the coward or straddler.
The nominee who will not take a
stand can safely be put down as fa
voring the liquor interests at heart,
but lacking in kidney to stand Dy.
NO BOOZE MONEY
Courier Can't be Bought by Checks
Sent out by Brewers' Association
The Courier has received several
advertising proposals from liquor
Deonle and others, who are fighting
the Oregon dry amendment.
Some of these proposals were ac
companied by a check, the advertis
ers being willing to pay in advance
for space.
Money looks very good to me
nnwsnaner man. but we nave Deen
obliged to decline these offers with
thanks, and have returned the checks
to the senders with the explanation
that the Courier stands upon prin
ciple and can't be bought.
We are glad to note that many
of our exchanges are standing with
us, and we are also sorry to see that
some of them are printing the stuff
sent out by the brewers' association
and others. Civilization and moral
ity can never me to a very hign
standard ,in Oregon or elsewhere,
until the average citizen has learned
that it is necessary to sacrifice per
sonal benefits for the general well-
fare.
U'REN CALLS SMITH
Democrutic Nominee Cant voagei
Behind Anti-Saloon Agreement
Dir. Smith's letter, in reply to W.
& U'Ren's enquiry as to where he
stood on the liquor issue, was a com
plete dodge, and he justified it with
the statement tnat tne nominees ioi
governor had signed an agreement to
remain neutral in the liquor fight,
hence he could not state his position
on the liquor issue.
But Mr. U'Ken will not permit tne
Doctor to slide out this easily and
has written to him the following open
letter. His reply, if he does reply,
will be interesting.
Oregon City, Ore. July zv,
Dr. C. J. Smith. Democratic Candi
date for Governor, Portland, Oregon.
My Dear Doctor: Your tuvor oi tne
27th inst. at hand. '
You are mistaken as to the terms
nf vour airreement with the Anti-Sa
loon league, if it is the same that I
signed, and Mr. Hutton assured me it
was. i our agreement witn me
league is:
First: That you win not oppose
the Oregon dry amendment.
Second: That if the amendment
is adopted you will do all you can to
secure enactment of laws to make it
fully effective.
Third: That if it is not adopted,
you will use all your influence to pre
vent repeal or tne local option iaw.
In consideration of the above prom
ises on your part the Anti-Saloon
league promises not to oppose you as
candidate for governor.
There is nothing in the agreement
to prevent you from advocating the
amendment. I shall continue to
speak for it just the same as a who!
lv independent candidate for govern
or as when I was recognized as the
Prohibition party candidate.
The only agreement for neutrality
is on the part of the Anti-Saloon
league, but you are altogether free to
declare in favor of the Oregon dry
amendment. So is Dr. Withycombe,
and I hope you will both do so. The
signing of this agreement carries you
both so far towards prohibition that
it would seem that the wet forces
should not now be disappointed if you
both come clear over to the "dry"
side.
Sincerely yours.
W. S. U'Ren
dry and proportional
amendments.
Sincerely yours,
FJ. GILL IKES
PLAIN STATEMENT
TELLS VOTERS WHERE HE
STANDS ON SEVERAL ISSUES
STANDS WITH W. S. O'REN
On All Issues Except the $1500 Ex
emption Amendment
Dufur, Ore., July 24, 1914.
Editor Courier:
I have just received copies of the
Courier containing reports of the ad
dresses of the several candidates for
governor. I desire to commend your
fairness in giving a full report of all
the addresses. I am particularly
thankful to the Courier for the kind
words it has had to say about me.
I naturally expected the Courier to
support Mr. U'Ren. He is your fel
low townsman and holds more view3
in common with yourself than any of
the rest of us. I am supporting pro
portional representation and the ab
olition of the Senate. Being opposed
to Single Tax, and believing that the
$1500 exemption amendment is but a
big step toward Single Tax, I am op
posed to this amendment. In nearly
everything else I am working along
the same lines as Mr. U'Ren.
i But you will pardon me, I know,
for thinking I have, at least, as good
a chance of election as my friend,
Mr. U'Ren. Since Dr. Withycombe
and Dr. Smith have evaded the pro
hibition question and the first men
tioned Doctor says he favors the dis
credited Assembly plan and cheap
imported labor, Mr, U'Ren's and my
chances of election have been increas
ed very greatly indeed.
The people can be depended upon
to judge justly when they have the
facts. There are facts in connection
with my work on the Permanent Reg
istration Law that have never been
made public. In justice to me I think
they should be.
In the first place there was a de
mand for the kind of a law I wrote.
Then again it was a big job and I
spent months working on it. I had
to remodel and modernize the work
of a master mind, the author of our
present law. I received but little
help from the house committee, the
task apparently being too much for
them My purpose in writing it was
to make registration permanent and
a requisite of voting and thereby pur
ify the ballot. Hundreds of illegal
votes' are sworn in every election.
The law proposed to do away with
swearing in of voters on election day.
It would have saved the tax payers
of the state after the first registra
tion under it about $10,000 for each
biennium as less than a third would
need to re-register.
I asked Mr. Van Winkle, assistant
attorney general, if there were any
points in the bill that seemed to con
lict with the Constiuion. He said
that with the one reading he had not
noticed any conflicts. I asked in par
ticular about the alternative provision
that the. court afterward held invalid.
He said he did not know what the
court might say, but that other Btates
had similar provisions in their laws.
I talked over the constitutionality
of the bill with more than one attor
ney. The chairman of he senate com
mittee on elections, who had charge
of the bill in the senate, was W. Lair
Thompson, one of the ablest lawyers
of the assembly. I asked him if he
discovered any conflict with the con
stitution in the bill, to amend it, and
that I would have the amendments
concurred in by the House. He told
me it was a well drawn bill and a
good one and he thought from his .
limited study of it that it was' con
stitutional. He said his committee
favored it and would give it a favor
able report. The bill passed the sen
ate with every senator present vot
ing for it. Page 930 Senate Journal.
Carson, Day, llawley, Miller, Patton,
Von der Helleu, and Malarkey were
absent. It received 34 of 46 votes
present in the House.
What is a farmer to do about the
constitutionality of a bill when the
best lawyers do not know ? I did not
have the 150 odd volumes of supreme
court decisions necessary to look up
the muBty precedents.
The system is wrong, i think it is
Michigan that has a law which re
quires its supreme court to pass on
the constitutionality of a bill when
requested to do so by the legislature.
Why not such a law in Oregon
The money for this registration
law need not all be lost. The next
legislature will undoubtedly pass the
law in a re-drafted form to comply
with the courts' decision. By using
the same forms the bindings and sta
tionary can be used and there will
then be but little loss to the people.
it seems a strange instance of per
versity that a bill I intended should
save the people money should by
reason of actions of others over
which I had no control be thq cause
of their losing money. It illustrates
what Hums says in his poem "To a
Field Mouse:" "The best laid schem
es of mice and men gang aft aglay."
F. M. Gid,
Progressive nominee for Governor.
Girls Wanted!
(Over 18 years of age)
To OPERATE SEWING MACHINES
IN GARMENT FACTORY
Oregon City Woolen Mills