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OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY AUGUST 13, 1914. OREGON CITY COURIER Published Thursdays from the Couri er Building, Eighth and Main streets, and entered in the Postoffice at Oreg on City, Ore., as 2d class mail matter OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER M. J. BROWN, A. E. FROST, OWNERS. Subscription Price $1.50. j Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1 Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co M. J BICOWN. EDITOR Every day Oregon is more dry. When the European war is over, won't there be some fun with pie cutting? With export markets closed and the greatest wheat crop in history, flour goes up, up. Why? Betting is even between Hawley for Congress and Purdy for . Gover nor, as to which will get the near est to the tail end. MUST LINE UP With millions of bushels of pro duce for sale and millions of Euro peans clamoring for it, the U. S. has no ships to deliver it. "The exposure of the influences that are fighting to wrest the con trol of Oregon from the people, should make some of the level-headed residents of Clackamas county think a little. USE COMMON SENSE When Lloyd George proposed tax land in England whether bring' ing in any revenue or rent, or not, what do you suppose the land specu lators, lords ana tax dodgers said I Up to two years ago in England if a man had an absolutely idle plot, tract or lot of land, he paid no taxes on it worth mentioning. Land worth hundreds of thousands of dollars an acre paid but a few cents taxes on valuation made two hundred years ago. If a lord owned a row of rickety, leaky, dilapidated buildings that did not rent, he could hold the land for a rise and pay practically no tax be- cause the poor fellow was deriving no income trom the property! The following is a part of a state- Land useful for factory sites was ment sent out by J. P. Newell, state allowed to" grow up to weeds and chairman of the Prohibition party, as marsh because it could be held for representing the views of that party speculation. The rents asked for and the W. C. T. U. organizations of such plots was excessive beyond the state, and you will note that it reason but as it cost nothing to hold is in direct opposition to the press that way the lord continued to do so. stories that are being sent out by the there was no possibility of an ar- Anti-Saloon League, which advised gument against Lloyd George s pro voters to vote for the state wide posal that such land be taxed the amendment, and for "any old candi- same as used land, according to value, date for governor." But the lords, and the hirelings and And you will note that the advice patriots that always stand up and of the state chairman does not ap- fight for special privilege could make ply singly to the candidates lor gov- a noise and get otf a string of words, ernor, but asks the temperance voters They could and did appeal to preju of Oregon o see that "no man is dice, and use epithets and beg tho elected but those whose PUBLIC question and holler. What did they DJiCLAKATlUNo and past records holler ! Six nominees for the legislature are out for a dry Oregon, Schuebel, and JJimick, (Rep.) Clyde and Olds, (Pro.) and Thomas, (Soc.) Spence (Ind.) There is room for the Demo crats to kick in. Mr. Hawley has been almost a fail ure as congressman. He not only has failed to do anything for this district, but he has ever misrepresented a pro gressive state by stand-pat actions. .He has not made good. Even the Oregonian does not, print his record at Washington and his votes on roll calls. It looks as if Mr. Hawley was at his end. In Oregon the very first thins: the .territorial legislature did was to pro vide that land should be taxed wheth- er used or not. If it was good enough to own it was good enough to pay taxes on, eh? Of course. Theree were no lords and but few specula- The editor of the Woodburn Inde pendent says he has always been hon est with Mr. U'Ren in tendering him advice, and he now honestly advises him to retire. Several other men we can think of feel the same way, only they are not quite so public with it. No doubt Mr. ILRen will appreciate their sincerity. The farmers will bury that eight hour measure, and they should. A fac tory that fixes the selling price on its output may be able to get along all right on an 8-hour schedule, but the farmer who has no say as to the price or nis output, he cannot stand the 8 hour law. Every farmer should register and vote it down. There are a few candidates for the legislature who do not consider it is any of your voters' business where they stand. If you voters are wise you will teach these men something. If it is none of your business where they stand it is none of your business to elect them. Leave any man at home who hasn t kidney enough to line up booze. either for or against the If it is worth $100 and upwards to vne weanny men connected with the trust companies, real estate agencies. lumDer ana machinery caf-porations railroads. insiiruncA fmrnnriifiina Af, to defeat the $1500 exemption,' pro portional representation and inheri tance measures, how much is it worth to you who do not belong to this class to CARRY these measures? Think it over. The Portland bunch have never yet played your game. WAIT At tho time of the south African war Paul Kruger said the English might win, but it would be at a price Mini wuuiu stagger humanity. This saying will apply to Germany in the present war with France, En gland, Russia and Belgium. The dispatches would indicate that so far Germany has had the worst of tho European slaughter, but those who are familiar with that country, its wonderful army resources, know that the war has not commenced as yet, ana lr she is ever compelled to yiBiu to overpowering numbers, it will be only after a resistance the line oi which the world has n seen. uuiiiuiny mis a wonderful army oiiu every aoiuier is a patriot. While her losses so far have been terrific, yet the thousands as reported dead, wounded and captured will hardly be missed in tho millions ready to take their places. Germany may be beaten by the big odds against her, only time can tell, but you may bo sure that time is far distant, and if she is conquer ed, the victorious armies will have pam an awiui price for what thev get. ' ..Th?re 'f no nrmy on earth that will fight longer and die harder than Germany. Tho war has hardly begun yet. pledge them for state and national prohibition. Mr. Newell says: "We believe that when a measure is pending whose moral, social and financial effects will be so far-reach- ing and so universally felt, common sense and political decency demand tors to object then. that every candidate for office take a What did the English lords say to definite stand on one side or the the same proposition? They said the other. The people have a right to same things that b . W. Mulkey says know who are their friends and their about the $1,500 home tax exemption enemies. Mr. U'Ren has done good measure the same things to a dot of service lor the amendment by fore- an l, ing the fight along this line. If the They hollered S-I-N-G-L-E T-A-X Democratic and Republican candidat- Did they give any reason why the es lor governor, like the Independent idle land should not be taxed .' and Progressive, would declare them- Did they tell what single tax was? selves un-reservedly in favor of the Did they prove that it would de- proniDition amendment, there can be populate, tne country, drive away no question that it would be carried capital, shut up factories, increase by an overwhelming majority. 11 it taxes on the poor tarmer laus, these gentlemen cannot escape Not on your life! tne responsibility tor its defeat. Like Mulkey, and like the Won- 1 he passage of the amendment Partisan Plutocrat League of Port- however, will not destroy the liquor land, they didn't have any facts, nor traiuc in tnis state, it win only reasons, nor examples to point to, Out instruct the administration to destroy they could holler epithets at the top it. Whether the voice of the people of their voices, and they could proph will be obeyed depends on the offic- esy all manner of disasters and sud- mls elected to power this fall. To put den death, and they did in office men whose interests and con- Just as in Oregon the same inter- vicitions are opposed- to the prohibit- ests get the same kind of eminent ion policies is only to invite the same men of ability who ought to know disastrous results which have follow- better, and who probably do know bet ed such action in other states. We ter, to call out S"-I-N-G-L-E T-A-X!" beg the temperance people of Oregon The British parliament passed to see thtt no man i selected except this awful single tax measure, which such as are committed bv nast rec- was not anvthinir like the sinerle tax. ord, public declarations and political any more than our present law in connections to overthrow of the chief Oregon is like the single tax because enemy of our happiness and pros- it provides for taxing idle land and perity." MODERN BARBARITY When the great Titanic went down and a thousand lives were snuffed out, there was a protest of horror throughout the country that it should be possible for accident to take so Yet in two day's' fighting between emption measure is a simple step to tho r:n nA .., " wards justice. The taxing of idle (haVylnd n we e and ' 'he f the Terri" killed and mangled, and since this toly of TT8 simpl COrTn the dailv toll of dm t.h nml t.h nwfl sense. No further steps have been idle lots according to value, and there was nothing happened along the line of direful prophecies made by the conservatives. . Farmers farmed, and the rents did not go up. People built factories and worked in them just about the same, if anything a little better. The proposed $1,500 home tax ex- WHERE nn liJ S UNLIMITED Will Give You as Good Results as Grass, if pro perly fed. For Sale By i J Q 1 1 th and Main Sts. OREGON CITY destruction of property has eone on. And the horror of it is that it is LLGAL. None will ever be nirest- ed or tried for the wholesale slaugh ter. The rules of civilized warfare taken "towards single tax since." To relieve the burden of tax -on the small farmer and home owner means bet ter times feir them to that extent di rectly. To encourage men to hold and sanction the planting of mines, the to yf. a h?mV8w encoul:a8e the hurling of bombs, the mowing down Productl?n ?f a11 that to make with machine iruns and Winchesters and the running through with bayo nets, me sucKing with Knives. Civilized warfare sanctions butch ery if done on a large scale. It is almost inconceivable that civilized men, men like you and I, homes lumber, paint, paper, furni ture, art, lighting plants, etc. That makes a demand for labor. "What I want is a JOB!" shrieked a workman to the writer recently. "Damn your tax laws! I want a JOB Job J-O-B! D'ye understand!" I workers in the shnn -nrf iiiw. f ti, Ulea P" uc w mm mat 11 we soil, could line un and hntnW thoir popped fining men for giving him a brothers, because by birth they lived !.W-T- aVe mr J on the other side of a li we nting a YOUR PAPER FOR SALE? The exposure of the interests fighting the $1500 exemption and proportional representation measures, should be of considerable interest to the newspapers of . Oregon. There will be a great campaign fund behind this fight. One hundred dollars apiece is the least contribu tion that is solicited from the silk stocking bunch, AND "AS MUCH MORE AS IT MAY BE WORTH" to them. The .Oregonian has lined up with this bunch and is fighting these in itiative measures. Do any of you Oregon newspaper men think this big newspaper is tak ing this stand for sweet charity, when there is a big war chest with the cov er open? If you do, forget it. And you country newspapers that CASTO DEFIES FLOSS Challenges him to Malie Good his Li belous Charges Against U'Ren Editor Courier: Some time ago I chanced to come across the following article, which appeared in the May issue of the Pacific Grange Bulletin. It appeals to me as being so un-American that I cannot help but making a few com ments upon it: in the atlasses as dividing two gov ernments. Ancient history tells us that back the stone age the cave men who died natural deaths were those who were quick and strong with the hitr club. It was the survival of the fit test, and we look back to these people as "barbarous" and nride our selves that we have evolved to a civi lization so high that where the cliff dweller killed singly with the club, we Kin in tnousands with civilized ma-, chines of destruction. But the time will come, and the present wai will bring it, when the masses are going to say "let those who make war lead it," and they are going to refuse to slaughter. house there will be more houses are copying the Oregonian's editor- painted and more houses to paint. This man was a painter out of a job. He saw the point to some extent. ihis $1500 home tax exemption measure will stop the game played ials, boosting the game for nothing while there is a great publicity fund to pay you for it don't you think you are some sucker? Adam Bede of the Cottage Grove by our county assessors of punishing Sentinel and H. A. Darnell of the a man more for building a neat look- Beaver State Herald are opposing the ing hen house than the justice of the $1500 amendment with energy and en peace will fine him for robbing one. thusiasm worthy of a good big piece It will reduce the taxes of the many, j of the Portland campaign fund, increase the demand for not only the Perhaps they are getting it. If products of labor but for land. too. 'not it is there for them, for the big It will better the condition of the fund is raised for publicity, and the workers and give the shirkers a i newspapers are the best medium, chance to take hold. The most of the newspapers have Never mind epithets; calling been letting the exemption amend names is no argument. If you want ment and proportional representation A week ago you could buy 18 pounds of sugar for $1. Today you kbv out i pounds lor this money. Either the Spreckles crowd is tukintr a big rake off, or free sugar was a migiuy good thing tor the country. Will some of our Republican readers, or any readers, explain. Fred Hollistor of Coos Bay is go ing to be our next congressman. This district has been unrepresented long enough. Send Your New Address For Our 1915 Calendar On account of the constant changes be ing made in mail routes, we find every year that a large numher of our calendars have been mis-directed and are returned undelivered. To make our 1915 mailing list more complete and be sure that our friends re ceive their calendars, we want those of our customers whose addresses have heen changed since last year, to notify us of their correct addresses. The Bank of Oregon City Oldest Bank in Clackamas County- lower taxes on builders and diggers and workers, and good times, vote for No. 320 x yes on the state ballot and see that all your freinds, and rel atives of your wife and your half uncie do tne same alone. Now, as we understand it, that the publicity fund is ready for distribu tion, it will be interesting to see how many of the country newspapers CAN BE BOUGHT with this Portland It is money in your pocket, fellow campaign fund. It will be interesting citizen, to vote taxes off the home, to see how many editorial columns I would be pleased to show any audi- are for sale at so much an inch, enoe how it would benefit any and all The "Non-Partisan League" made in a community of passably honest a bonehead move when it sent out people, just such people as go to make that damaging circular letter, up the average community in Oregon. A ten year old boy should have Alfred D. Cridge. , better sense. Its falling into other hands has CAN'T YOU SEE IT? 'exposed the scheme, and it has Dut A publication has started at Rose- the newspapers of Oregon, (those burg called "The Tax Liberator," that stand for something) in a very out its real object is to tight the emuarassing uosition. $1500 tax exemption bill. j The newspaper that now conies out it wouldn't do to spring anything for this Portland .bunch will certain- r more in l ortiand, so to avoid sus- iy oe under grave suspicion unless the picion tins was put on at Roseburg. . 1 aid Adv." lets them out. It costs a lot of money to put out an eight-page paper like the Libera- City Creamery Leads Market tor. The Oregon City Creamery has As it isn't eligible to the second been leading the market for butter class mailing privilege, a one cent ft, Wednesday's quotations for the stamp has to be attached to every creamery here being 34 cents, and 33 paper. , ; cents at the creamery's stations at If the paper has any circulation the Aurora, Molalla, and Gervais. This stamps are another big expense. price is said to be 2 cents above Port How ninny of you workmen, you 'alld prices. women, and you farmers have con-j tributed to the fund to cut out this Uamara f n;nfmAn. 7' r, Lv J T UJL V VA VUlliUbUlJ llll We will bet not one of von has ever """ mcicui y been asked for a nickle to fight the "2 m"ry will surely destroy the sensa hnnmo oo,.ti .... 5"le" ami completely nerange the homes exemption measure. whole system when entering It throuch llien who IS putting up the boodle the mucous surface. Such articles should to put out an S-page newspaper under stamp postage to fight it? You ought to know that what the Non-Parisan League bunch of Port land fights, you should be FOR. lou ought to know that if the capitalists, the speculators and the big property owners of Portland raise thousands of dollars to fight the U'Ren $1500 exemption measure, 1.1 i . . . . . . . tnui. you ougiii to Know tnat it is a measure for the benefit of the lit is fellow, for the farmer and work ingman. Big business never fights itself. never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage uiey win no i ten loin to tne good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.. contains no mercury, and Is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. In buying Hall's tatarrh Cure be sure you get the genu ine. It is taken Internally and made In Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Tes timonials free. Sold by Druggists. Price 75c per bottle. Taka Hall's Family Pills for constipation. The Courier and tho twice-a-woek Portland Journal, three papers each week for $1.75 is some bargain. Another View of Tax Exemptions I can not help but send you my hearty approval of the answer you have given to Mr. W. S .U'Ren, on page 100 of the April P. G. B., in re gard to his $1,500 tax exemption bill, as this man apparently seems to judge all others by his own charac ter, evidently without knowing "that this is an insult to all just and hon est men." No just and honest man ever asks. demands, gets, takes, or tries to force by law, trom others something for nothing, but always is ready and willing to pay the due price for it, even if that something is only such a trifling thing like good govern ment, good protection of life, rights and property, good public service, courts, schools, education for chil dren, roads, streets, markets, etc; and this undeniable fact proves be yond the least doubt "That only the lowest, most unjust and dishonest creatures among us can make such demands and can try to enforce them by laws," like Mr. U'Ren is trying to do with this tax exemption law and his many single tax schemes, since it is a law of nature "That never the smallest, but always the greatest dishonesty and injustice leads in all unjust and dishonest schemes." This man U'Ren seems to be per fectly empty of any honesty and sense of justice, as he plainly shows tnat by his actions and schemes; as he would rob anybody of his savings and earnings by certain law schemes, if he could, to use it for the benefit i of himself and all those who did not earn it. His law proposals are ap peals to the meanest and lowest of what is in humans; they are appeals to this to do injustice and dishones ty to others for the sake of selfish ness; and to offer such proposals to any just ahd honest man and voter for approval, that is of course an out rageous insult to them. And the fact that Mr. U'Ren can not see this in sult, that is the positive proof "That he does not know at all what jus tice and honesty is and that he conse quently can not feel when he gets in sulted." Yours truly, L. FERDINAND FLOSS. in the State of Oregon who has and tion Amendment" by your vicious at who is doing more to hasten the day tat'k upon the character of Mr. U'Ren. when the common people will come s this 'ic?1 argument? No. The into their own and be freed from the daya of such are long past and the yoke of industrial slavery, which has p,ers?" wh trles the arguments is become almost unbearable. I defy o"30'6- You are obliged in this him to name a politician who has ,d.?.y nd age to discuss the many po been so self-sacrificing, who, in the 'it'ca reforms upon their merits, face of adversity, insult and slander, Shula you thoroughly inform your has still retained the courage to stand se. UDOn the ,mer.lts. f this bill you and fight for that which he feels and not say that it is "An appeal to kiiows is right. It is to be' pitied if the meanest and lowest of what is the citizens of Oregon do not appre- ln humans. ciate the efforts of their greatest Loolf over he ,many reform meas statesman and give him that which "res adoPted by the people in the last he deserves, the highest gift in their T yea,rs', wnlch ,w,ere, drafted and p0Werthe governorship. defended almost solely by Mr. U'Ren Mr. Floss, lay aside your preju- Jnd.see lf yu car honestly say "That dice for a moment and compare the he ,do,es not know at a11 what justice political records of the four leading and honesty is, and that he conse- candidates lor the governorship to- M , """,ul1 weu ne geia in- day. What has any of them but Mr. U Ken to recommend that they are deserving of this great honorable and responsible position? Other states almost without exception, have re warded their most able statesmen with high positions and are the people of Oregon, the most progres sive State on political lines, going to lie down and fail to recognize and reward the man who has been the power in bringing about these most blessed conditions? You try to discredit the "Exemp- sulted." S. L. Casto. W. T. Greene, Hopkinton, N. H., writes the following letter, which will interest everyone who has kidney trouble. "Fod over a year, Mrs. Greene had been afflicted with a very stubborn kidney trouble. Foley Kid ney Pills did more to complete her re covery than any medicine she has taken and I feel it my duty to rec commend them." Sold by all druggists. and then subscribe for the Courier My first comment on the article is that Mr. Floss should first get acquainted with Mr. U'Ren before writing such a "prejucrtce leading" ar ticle as this. Also he should inform himself upon the beneficial results, (directly and indirectly, present and future,) to the common people of Oregon, of the many principles of government and laws for which Mr. U Ken has contended these many years. 1 have known Mr. U Ren ever since he came to Oregon, and will say that he is exactly opposite in disposition to that in which Mr. Floss would lead his readers to believe. Such an article could come only from one who is entirely ignorant of his subject, or who is most awfully rire- judiced. I I defy Mr. Floss to point to a man Sr. K MX f V I1 W 1 TUV-l .,;a ' fa Wouldn't you like some pictures of the home, the iarm, tne stock, the children, and all the things going on daily around you. You can get them with a Kodak that the children can take good room necessary. interesting They are so simple pictures. No dark BROWNIE KODAKS POCKET KODAKS $1.00 to $ 9.00 $6.00 to $25.00 Glad to show you all about them. 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