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OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY AUGUST 20, 1914. OREGON CITY COURIER Published Thursdays from the Courier 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. i Telephones, Main 5-1 ; Home A 5 Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co M. J BR.OWN, EDITOR TTverv time vou buv a bill of (TO ceries you pay a war tax, yet the U. S. is at peace with tne wona. If prices continue to go up we will soon be as bad off as Europe we will almost think this is our war. If the profit was eliminated you wouldn't be paying eight cents a pound for sugar and 30 cents for bacon. This country should not grab the South American and other foreign trade bargains that Europe has been forced to let go of. For years we have been brought up on the arguments that great armies and navies insured peace. See how it is working out over in Europe. Commodities far removed from war's effects are going up every day. The war simply serves as a pretext to exploit and reveals the strength of the combinations that control prices. The results bids fair to bring about a war in this country a war against combinations. It is charged that an Oregon City councilman was banqueted by a pav ing company at the Commercial Club, after that particular paving concern had cinched a contract without com petition. Sure did you think a Com mercial Club was just to boost Oregon and aid settlers? Portland People's Press. this state congregated in Portland and other cities will read this promise of a right to demand work and have a tax on estates over $50,000 pay the bills and vote for it. Then what.' Last week the Enterprise had an editorial pleading that opposition to the railroads cease, and the next day a big cartoon picturing the inter state commerce commission leading the thug (New Haven Railroad) to the bar of justice. Someone Bhould read proof on the Enterprise's boiler plates. The fourth page disputes the editorials. Let's seel . Wasn't there a man by the name of Withycombe nominated for something or other at th May primaries? As we remember it, a man of that name was running for Governor a few weeks ago. For days past nothing has been heard of him and it may be that, being a native of Old England, he has gone back to his native land to fight the Germans. A reward should be offered for his dis covery, for this silence is appaling. Salom Messenger. The Oregonian prides itself on its beautiful English. Here's one that got by last week. It was aimed at Smith and that paper hates Smith so that most any old English is good enough: But he rarely almost never manifested the slightest in terest in keeping down extrava gance. He rarely almost nev er voted no on any proposal to spend the state's money, no mat ter how unreasonable or inexcusable. PERHAPS The Right to Work measure does not suit a good many people. It is avowedly a Socialist measure, and the special interests do not like it on that account, and some people in every community judge everything by the label, even to their butter, regardless of what it actually is. Others object to it as crude and in sufficient. It hasn't detail enough to suit. If it had the detail others would fall on some minor point and oppose the measure on that point alone. But here is the situation. By next November there are almost certain t be 5,000 idle men who will be hungry and have neither dime nor credit. What are we going to do about ft? Admit that the measure proposed is crude, insufficient, Socialist-fathered, altruistic and dangerous. Why have not our big patriotic statesmen, our labor leaders, our wise men, tak en warning from the conditions exist ing last winter in Portland and pro posed some remedy Charity? Of all the fakes that exist "organized charity" is the damn dest fraud in civilization. It gets there too late and does not stay long enough. It promotes what it pre tends to stop, and does nothing to stop future and continuous robberies that are back of all want and need in this world of plenty. Perhaps the "Right to Work" mea sure will not pass, and millionaires can live or die in peace, undisturbed by the thought that their unearned woalth will build any roads, water power dams or irrigation aquaducts when they are dead. Perhaps thousands of idle men in THE SPINLESS PAIR It has been openly charged for months that Dr. --smithy Democrat! nominee for governor, is Governo West's candidate. If this is true, the governor is lia ble to defend a charge of non-support So far he hasn't jumped into Smith's campaign with any degree of enthusiasm in fact he hasn't jumped in at all. There are various reason.3 guesse at lor Ibis t'.c3ertion, but if this na;t .vai ccjiig to risk cne, it wj .;ti be unit West doesn't like a yellow stie, in any man, and he can't swallow the M. D a. side-stepping on tne several issues particularly his dodge on the liquor question. Governor West is not a Prohibition ist, but his administration has shown him a foe of the saloon, and it has always shown him a man with plenty of sand and nerve a man alway ready to stand up and be counted on any question. If he has been disappointed in Smith it is Smith s fault. If smith doesn i stand for much of anything and the governor can t back a paregoric can didate, it is Smith, not the governor, who is to blame. Robert Louis Stevenson once said "The weak brother is the worst of mankind," and in the Courier's judg. ment no weaker candidates were ever nominated for a statels1 governor than Withycombe and Smith. Neither stand for anything. Their platforms are but a string of words. and neither has the moral courage to face the people of Oregon on the big issue. If Governor West is ashamed of what he has helped to produce in the candidacy of Mr. Smith, he' has cause to be. If the temperance people, who made possible Mr. Withycombe's nom ination, are ashamed of their judge ment, they also have just cause to be. Oregon should show both these nominees that the state has no use for cowards. If Governor West can't father his ward, and the Republicans say Withy combe should be kept in a cell until election time, why should the voters be called upon to line up and sustain them. WHY NOT? George Hicinbolham honestly be lieves the $1500 exemption bill would be an injury to the state. The Courier editor honestly belieV' es it would be a great benefit and de veloper. Mr. Hicinbohtom is a man the Courier holds in highest esteem. His is a splendid character . Absolutely honest and honorable, he stands high in his neighborhood. He has con. siderable property and he made it by hard work, made it honestly. There is never an issue on which all men agree. No doubt Mr. Hicin botham and this writer are in full ac cord on the issue to abolish the sa loons from Oregon, and on several other matters. But on the $1500 exemption mea. sure we do not agree. We look at the results from different viewpoints, and because we cannot agree, and be cause there are thousands in Oregon who cannot agree, the Courier would present this proposition of arbitra tion. Mr. Hicinbotham knows, and so does every taxpayer in Oregon if he is honest enough to admit it that our tax system is absolutely unjust and unfair. He knows that wealth does not pay anywhere near its just proportion; that mortgages, notes, diamonds, jewelry, wild land holdings, and so on, sneuk out of just assess ments and taxation under our sys tem. Now if there was something better than the $1500 exmeption to adjust this condition, the Courier would be for it, but there isn't. There are a half dozen half-breed tax measures before the people, but none of them will survive November 4. The sur-tax bill is the only one that has any right to live. Now here is the arbitration point on wnicn n wouiu seem that any dissatisfied taxpayer of Oregon would feel safe in taking the chance. Under the provisions of the $1500 exemption measure this bill MUST HE submitted to the people again in l!U(i, one year after it hus been in effect. Again in 1918 it MUST BE again submitted to the people for ratifica tion or .rejection three years after it has been tried out. Now, who is the man, smarting un der the present rankest tax system that will not TAKE UN TKIAL promised remedy, with the privilege of returning it if he does not find it works out as recommended? Where is the man who can in rea son reject such a proposition? And for an added guaranteee, he may return it at the end of three years, if he is not sure of the result at the end of one year. The $1500 tax exemption bill has to be passed on by the people THREE I1ME.S betore it becomes a FliHMA NENT Oregon tax law. In the face of a present taxation system that simply exploits one class and exempts another, WHAT argu ment can a man present against the proposition to try out the exemp tion measure? What argument can Mr. Ilicinboth- an present against it : AMERICA FOR AMERICANS A million or more residents of this country, not citizens, are returning to Europe to fight with the different counnes. What were these million men doing over here Just getting our money. They were transients. They thought our country so much better than the conditions at home for getting a living, enjoying liberty and making money, that they came here and have lived here. But they didn't think well enough of it to become citizens and swear al legiance to the U. S. There are many men who are re turning to Europe to fight, who are citizens of this country. To such we can only admire their patriotism. But the hundreds of thousands who live here, who are just transients, who come here to compete with our citi zens and take the money they earn back home, the Courier has mighty little use lor. If this country is good enough to live in, its good enough to become a citizen of. If it isn't good enough for a for eigner to swear allegiance to, its too good a snap for him to come over here and be a leech. Let the men who come here be come citizens, or let them stay at home.' A white man who comes here only for the money is little better than a Chinaman for the country s good. Let men stand by the country that provides tor them. America lor Americans. TEN PER CENT Ort, 100 PER CENT OFF There are sure to be many idle men in Oregon this winter but the candi dates for governor other than U'Ren have not proposed nor are they dis cussing anything whatever to pro mote the well being of the working men and women under the conditions to arise again. There are two measures that are intended to produce immediate rei- sults. One is the "right to work" measure, which may do so. The other is the $1500 exemption measure which will create a demand for everything produced in Oregon from shingles to babies. The big tax dodgers who are dodg ing taxes on mcny time;, more pro perty values this measure would ex empt, are circulating appeals to per suade the small home owner and tax payer to save themselves from the awful fate of hr.ving to pay ten per cent more on their little land holdings and 100 per cent less on their im provements and personal property. Wouldn t it be just afwul, Maud, if John Jones with a little farm worth, without improvements, $500 and ln- luding improvements and the live tock and tools, worth $500 more, should have this awful calamity fall upon him? borne seemingly sensible and un doubtedly honest men are fighting this measure for N01HING. The big nterests are willing to pay big for ny good arguments industriously disseminated against it. The only DR FORD PLANS SURPRISE SERVICE After an absence from his pulpit for two Sundays Dr. T. B. Ford, pas tor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church returned and will conduct "A Surprise Service" next Sunday morn ing. The nature of the proposed ser vice has not been explained to anyone, and the announcement has awakened much interest. In the evening an "Old Time Re ligion" service will be held. Spirited singing, earnest appeal, and after ser vice will be features of the service Everybody welcome. Everybody taues part. "Uome thou with us and we will do thee good." c JJjr-VBlfjbESTUDY-ON Bpi LABORERS IN THE VINEYARD. Matthew 20:1-16 July 5. Be makelh Hit sun to rise on tin evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the lust ana on tne unjust. 'Matthew S.tf. HIS parable is difficult of Inter pretation so as to make all its features find fulfilment. The Great Teucher gave It as a parable of tbeJUngdom; hence it ap plies to the Ofiweh's experiences dur ing this Gospel Age. If we apply the different Intervals to different epochs In this Age, we have dllHculty; for the Apostles and others called early In the Age did not labor throughout the en tire period. Again, in so applying it, we face the proposition that only those at the beginning of the Age bad defi nite promise as respects a reward that all others received merely the assur ance that they would get what would be right. Another difficulty in Interpreting the parable Is bow to apply the murmur ing of those first called and last re warded. Other Scriptures show us that the Apostles and others of the early Church will experience their res u rrectton change before those " living at Christ's Second Coming. Fur thermore, It Is unthinkable that the Apostles and others of the early Church would murmur at their reward. All these difficulties must be borne in mind when we attempt to fit this parable to the experiences of the Church as a whole during the Age. If we apply the parable to Individual experiences, we have trouble also. Ap plying it thus, we might say thut those who began a Christian Ufe early, and are found faithful In the Lord's serv ice at the evenlng-timo of life, would be those first called and promised a reward. Others coming in later and serving the Lord with only a portion of their time, strength and talent would correspond to those called later even at the eleventh hour. If we In terpret the parable' as meaning that all will get a similar reward regard less of the time spent in the Master's service, we still have difficulty with the fact that those called earliest were dissatisfied. How then ran we apply this parable consistently, In harmony with other Scriptural teachings respecting the re ward of the Kingdom class? The only . way of which we can think Is to apply It entirely to present-life experiences of the Kingdom class, especially of those living at the close of this Age. Privilege of Disoipleship the Penny. For sixteen hundred years and more the Jews awaited Messiah's Coming and the blessed opportuultles which It would bring. When Jesus began His ministry, He preached, "The Kingdom of God is at hand," and gave the Jews the privilege of entering into It. . That privilege was a "penny" a reward for their faithful endeavor to keep the Laborers In the Vineyard. people who stand to lose by it are u.b u u.g speculator mm u.e r But when the offer of the King habitual and systematic tax dodger , ,.j i. and not all of them. uu"' V'""'"'"1' Sometimes a county assessor, with- ",ld sinuers were attracted. These new out any change in the law, but by laborers were received by the Lord assessing improvements at a little Jesus nnii clven opportunity to become less rate and land at a little higher His disciples. ate on true values, causes a greater The Scribes and the Fhnrlsees, faith- tax burden to fall on land than this ful to God all their lives, murmured at measure will cause, and nobody cares, any arrangement as unfair which na nonouy notices it, and nobody wniilri net ev thorn tho first- nnnnrtn- icks. It is only when the little fel- ih, f n, T,-i,,,inm if nnhUmma low is likely to escape on his accu- Bud slnnerg were f0 ob(ln the b,essed owners of big vacant and valuable surely, they thought, some still higher tracts of land wake up and pungle ut, favor should 001110 t0 them- to stop the awful devastation threat-1 Aa tue Kingdom was offered to the eneil. i Jews in Jesus' day, and those newest We are invited to pay taxes on our In Divine service received the same op little cottages, our cows and our lit- portunltles for a share with those long tie holdings to help out automobile engaged, so apparently It is to be in race tracks all over the state; we are the end of the Gospel Age. As greater told that it is all right to build roads knowledge of Present Truth Is now and tax the horse and hog of the comlllI. HS a rwnrd t0 all ln tha farmer to make ten idle acres more valuable that are owned by Philadel phia speculators, but to exempt the very people, and the very things we say we want to come to Oregon from tax up to a few hundred dollars to Lord's vineyard, let us not be surpris ed if this shall be equally distributed, to those recently coming in and to those long lu the Master's service. Lot not our hearts be angry because WHILE YOUNG An early start and a definite plan goes far toward assuring success to the young person starting out in life. There is no need to be niggardly or penu rious in your efforts to economize and save, neither should one be prodigal in his expenditures. The sensible and easiest method of creating a fund for your future needs would be to open a savings account with this bank: deposit whatever amount you ran each week or month. Stick to it, and in time your success will be assured. Begin today; you will never regret it; The Bank of Oregon City Oldest Bank in Clackamas County" each taxpayer, and let the speculative 'he Lord Is gracious to those who have holdings and the idle water power of entered Ills service even during the the state pay the difference that is eleventh hour. Are they not brethren? devastation and deplorable robbery ' Anv f.vllnir on Hip nnrt- nf those loner of the poor, innocent, foreign invest-1 1 Divine service that they must have wii r .... ' niore manifestation of the Lord's favor Will some of the opponents of this nn.m 0.,i,1oti , measure point out what the effect of, ' 8' similar exemptions has been? Nobody suffered when Oregon had an exemp tion of $300 per taxpayer. By a' stretch of interpretation many people in Oregon paid no taxes on teams, ' tools or live stock becnuse of this little $1100 exemption. The only per- son that felt itself aggrieved because 1 ot this if.iuO exemption was that poor, suffering, persecuted, poverty-stricken widow the Southern Pacific company. It found a lawyer to take up the cause of the widowed and orphaned and knock this exemption out. That was some years ago. Any exemp tion of the small home owner can find somebody to oppose it on behalf of this well known "town widder." Any person, paper, politician, candidate, oflico holder, or other patriot that op- J. L . T in . poses mis nome lax rJxemnt on Lesson of the Golden Text. Our Golden Text tells us that as our God is gracious, loving, merciful, kind, even to the un thankful, the un just, to sinners, so we should be kind, generous, loving, should do good unto all bs we have opportu nity, especially to the Household of Faith. The more wo nturiv this God of Love, the more we realize that He Is the I only loving and true God, and that our DrevIoUS tillscnnpmiHnna wurn nnrnnl I niea.suic neseives tne everlasting gra-: untrue-gods of our own manufacture i titude of this "poor widder,' 'and all 1 -Und the more do we see that clvlllz- j i m uanuruura poor wiauers ana none others. . . ? i I i Some Uurmurxd. ALFRED D. C RIDGE. Count that day lost, Whose low descending sun, Sees printing done for less than cost, And newspapers rim for fun. ed lands have mnde with pen. Ink and paper, creed Idols more horrible than any which the heathen ever made of Iron, stone, brass or clay. Let us hold fast the sure Word of God, and dis card the theories of the Dark Ages, which greatly misrepresent to us the I Divine Message. 'nrT-TH nnlnuua 1, ........ I.. rwl "Wiitac" la nna .-S: Jr t Jw: X or trie norizoiitiii compositions typirying trie tour , Jf & elements by Itobcrt I. Aitkin for the Panama-Paclflc Ok International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915. At the left K i - U run oe seen uie sculptors model irom wiucn uie ussisi :ints nmdo the enlargement. These four figures -will be placed at the descent Into the sunken garden of the Court of the Universe. w 5 fllKlIS 1 JiillllllpRllfcv Photo copyright, 1914, by Panama-Paclflc International Exposition Co. H. S. Crocker Co., oPjcial photographers. SCULPTOR FINISHING ENLARGEMENT IN STUDIOS OF PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION. HOW WAR AFFECTS PRICES ALL IMPORTS OF MERCHANDISE FROM THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE HAVE PRAC TICALLY CEASED. AS A CONSEQUENCE. THERE WILL BE A SHORTAGE OF SUCH GOODS AS NOTIONS, LINENS, KID GLOVES, IMPORTED DRESS GOODS, ETC, THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SECURING DYE STUFFS, WHICH ARE NEARLY ALL MADE IN GERMANY, WILL SERIOUSLY AFFECT ALL ARTICLES OF DOMESTIC MANUFACTURE, REQUIRING DYES, (BLACK HOSIERY FOR INSTANCE), PRICES IN THE WHOLESALE MARKET HAVE ALREADY RISEN, WITH A CERTAINTY OF GOING HIGHER. WE WISH TO MAKE AN EMPHATIC ANNOUNCEMENT TO OUR CUSTOMERS THAT NO ADVANTAGE OF THIS FACT WILL BE TAKEN BY THIS STORE, UNTIL NECESSARY. OUR PRESENT MAMMOTH STOCK HAS BEEN PURCHASED BEFORE PRICES WERE AD VANCED. EVERY ARTICLE IN OUR STORE AT-THIS DATE WILL BE SOLD AT THE REG ULAR CLOSE MARGIN OF PROFIT BEFORE ADVANCES WERE MADE, WE NEVER WERE IN SUCH A GOOD POSITION TO FILL YOUR WANTS AS NOW, We would suggest to the Buying Public that all Requirements, for at Once or the Near Future, be purchased at the earliest opportunity BELOW WE PRINT A LIST OF PRICES ON STAPLE COTTONS THAT WERE QUOTED BY JOHN V. FARWELL & CO.; CHICAGO JOE'BERS, IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 1864. IT MAY INTEREST OUR CUSTOMERS TO COMPARE PRESENT 'WAR PRICES' WITH THOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR, , PRINTED CALICOES AMERICAN PRINTS. CIVIL WAR WHOLESALE PRICE .45c YARD AMERICAN PRINTS, PRESENT WAR, OUR RETAIL PRICE 5c YARD PACIFIC PRINTS, CIVIL WAR WHOLESALE rRICE 46c YARD PACIFIC PRINTS, PRESENT WAR, OUR RETAIL PRICE 5c YARD GINGHAMS LANCASTER GINGHAMS, CIVIL WAR WHOLESALE PRICE 48c YARD LANCASTER GINGHAMS, PRESENT WAR, OUR RETAIL PRICE 7Jc YARD EVERETT GINGHAMS, CIVIL WAR WHOLESALE PRICE .47Jc YARD EVERETT GINGHAMS, PRESENT WAR, OUR RETAIL PRICE 10c YARD TICKINGS PEMBERTON TICK, CIVIL WAR WHOLESALE PRICE 72c YARD PEMBERTON TICK, PRESENT WAR, OUR RETAIL PRICE .25c YARD A-C-A TICK. CIVIL WAR WHOLESALE PRICE 62c YARD A-C-A TICK, PRESENT WAR, OUR RETAIL PRICE 19c YARD BROWN MUSLINS ALL STANDARDS YARD WIDE, CIVIL WAR WHOLESALE PRICE 72c YARD ALL STANDARDS YARD WIDE, PRESENT WAR, OUR RETAIL PRICE 9c YARD BLEACHED SHEETINGS PEPPERILL 10-4 CIVIL WAR WHOLESALE PRICE $1.60 YARD PEPPERILL 10-4 PRESENT WAR, OUR RETAIL PRICE 32c YARD PEPPERILL 9-4 CIVIL WAR WHOLESALE PRICE $1.50 YARD PEPPERILL 9-4 PRESENT WAR, OUR RETAIL PRICE 29c YARD PEPPERILL 8-4 CIVIL WAR WHOLESALE PRICE $1.32 YARD FEPPERILL 8-4 PRESENT WAR, OUR RETAIL PRICE 26c YARD SPOOL COTTON CLARKS SIX THREAD COTTON CIVIL WAR PRICE $2.00. DOZEN CLARKS SIX THREAD COTTON, OUR PRICE TODAY 5c SPOOL A STUDY OF ABOVE QUOTATIONS IS CONVINCING PROOF THAT TODAY IS A GOOD TIME TO BUY. IL 'Masonic temple bldo. OREGON CITY, WC.