OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSAY, OCTOBER 1, 1914.
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M. J. BROWN,
EDITOR
Why a senate? None.
The liquor dealers won't send out
any "paid advs." telling how old Vir
ginia went dry last week.
There will be no state senate after
November 3. The voters are almost
unanimously for its abolishment in
this county.
How the Oregonian
these days.
does sqeal
Smith and Withycombe are boost'
ing U'Ren's chances with every tick
of the clock. In Portland today both
organizations are in a frenzy of fear
over U Ken s great progress.
The listener to Governor West's
address Saturday night couldn't help
but think (if he or she thinks at all)
that the ideal candidate the governor
showed, was W. S. U'Ren, the inde
pendent nominee.
Last week Columbia county recal
led its three members of the county
court and the county attorney. Sev
en public officials in Oregon will
learn they must represent the voters
who make them. Judge Eakin va
cated his injunction at the last hour
and let the election go on.
"Oh my friends, Oregon is a won
derful state; its broad acres should
be cleared and the fair land opened
to settlers and happy homes." Tune
national Chinese air. Copyrighted
by the Portland "harmony" club;
words by "Dr." James Withy, music
by the Oregonian. All rights re
served by Portland "Non-Partisan
League."
Congressman Hawley is not find
ing the present campaign the bed of
roses that he has enjoyed in past
campaigns. Newspapers ail over the
district are free in their criticisms of
his do-nothing policy at Washington.
They dig up his shortcomings, they
expose all his disqualifications, and
with remarkable unaminity agree
that the district has not been ade
quately represented the past eight
years. Aurora Observer.
Many influential Democrats
who wanted A. S. Ben
nett as the gubernatorial nomi
nee of that party, knownig that
he would have been elected be
yond a doubt, are not proving
very loyal to the Smith stan
dard. Woodburn Independent
What? What? This from a
Withycombe Republican booster, de
claring that a wet Democrat would
be preferable to a sit-on-the-fence
Republican mute? Honest, isn't the
raco between the old party nominees
a ghastly parody l
No sane reason can be ad
vanced why Republicans should
not this year vote for the en
tire Republican ticket. Several
reasons could be advanced why,
everything else being equal, it
is to their interest so to do.
Woodburn Independent.
Splendid! No sane Republican
should fall out with a candidate who
is dumb for there is nothing to dis
agree about. Please don't "advance
the several reasons." This is not
campaign of reasons. It's a mute
campaign. Use the sign language,
but don t make a noise like a reason.
It might disturb.
The Oregonian asks if Governor
West is insane? If he is, may the
ionn become epidemic.
Noticed any leading editorials in
the Oregonian of late denouncing the
recall movement against Mayor At-
bee?
The party newspaper are now busy
trying to show readers that the other
party's candidate is a bigger coward
than theirs.
"Look out for Koehler," is the
warning the Republicans are hoisting.
and the Democrats are very conii-
dent the Oswego man will win out as
sheriti.
A postal card from Portland to
the Courier reads that the Socialists
of that city will extend a vote of
thanks to the Enterprise for favors
inadvertantly rendered.
Organized labor in Portland is out
squarely against R. A. . Booth for
Senator and "Pat" McArthur for
congress for organized labor knows
it is lighting its enemies.
How1 Governor West can take the
stand against booze that he does and
yet ask the voters to elect Coward
bmith as governor over a dry state
is a line of consistency that the
Courier (Jan't go to the end with.
Read the clear cut declaration of
a courageous governor on the booze
issuo on page 1, and you will be
ashamed to look the pictures of the
two dummy candidates for governor
in the tace.
Governor West clearly revealed the
inside machine workings that have
long ground out the prepared pro
gram at Salem, but he DID MOT tell
his listeners that Dr. Smith ever led
a charge to break up the machine
when he was in the senate.
The Oregon Journal is of the
opinion that Dr. Withycombe is
muzzled. Not so much as his
leading opponent, Dr. Smith,
who has so far failed, upon ear
nest and repeated solicitations,
to state his stand on certain
important questions. Wood
burn Independent.
State issues now are down to the
question of which is the greater cow
ard. And this in Oregon, the stale
that has dared to blaze the way for
the whole Union. Don't you fool just
' a little ashamed that you are either
a Republican or Democrat? Can you
you vote for either of these dummies
and still think you are exercising the
right or an American citizen ?
Tho annual "shoving them along"
system of handling tho unemployed
has already commenced. Abnu t' 75
have been passed along south from
this cily this month, and the press
dispatches tell us that California of
ficials stand at tho Oregon line and
turn them buck as fast as Oregon
passes them down. It's a splendid
solution of tho unemployed problem.
All this while Oregon must feed
these men, either thru theft, begging
or in the ponitentinry and jails. And
if we have to support them, wouldn't
it be n thousands times better to have
them earn their board by working on
public projects in Oregon? Won't
we ever use horse sense in this
state?
Tho Courier editor admires Franz
Kraxberger's sand more than his
logic. By comparison with his "per
sonal liberty" reasoning we should
not have laws forbidding theft to all
because a few have been caught
stealing.
Concluding a lengthy argument for
the abolishment of the state senate,
the Estacada Progress says Oregon
was among the lirst to adopt the in
itiative and referendum, the corrupt
practice act, and other progressive
laws, it is now to be hoped that the
majority of he voters at the coming
November election will see far
enough in the future and vole on the
affirmative side of the state senate
constitutional amendment.
That the Sentinel would cure more
for progressive principles than for
party organization and that its re
publicanism would not be of the stand
pat or hidebound sort was the state
ment made when the present editor
took the helm last January. We
must confess It is sometimes diffi
cult to distinguish the sheep from
the goats; but the candidate who
says Taft was a great statesman
leaven no doubt about the fact that
his vision is mostly backward. Co
quillo Sentinel, Republican.
The Enterprise thinks it robbery
of the state for Governor West to
leave his desk and make public
speeches, but it doesn't protest
against Withycombe, as head of a
great state school, doing the same.
And it thinks it awfut for the gover
nor lo assail certain Republican mem
bers of the legislature for trickery
and jobbing, but it doesn't use any
editorial space in comment on West's
praise of the three Republican mem
bers from this county; who he de
clared were faithful representatives
and above bribery and jobbing.
Even (hat pattest of all stand-pat
publications, the Hillsboro Indepen
dent, Republican, is ashamed of the
spineless nominees and manes tnis
comment:
Could these cowardly ones be
given tho necessary backbone
there would be an era of throw
ing light in shadowy places, an
alysis of results as compared
with claims for certain meas
ures by their promoters that
could have no result but the re
form so much needed. But un
fortunately it. Is easier to be a
coward than a reformer, and re
form will not come until the
mass of the people themselves
have forced upon them by sad
experience tho truths it would
be so easy for the cowards to
point out.
The officials of Columbia county,
who were recalled last week refuse
to vacate the offices. Some men
care little for the contempt of the
people.
Three men are dead, and other
may die, as the result of an auto
smash up this week. All had been
drinking. A dozen empty bottles
were in the auto. It was an awful
price for the booze.
There doesn't seem to be half as
much confidence that "this is a Re
publican year" as there was in May,
and the Republicans realize they
have a lot to win yet to land the
county offices. W. C. Green the
Democratic nominee, for county clerk
is worrying them some. He is
working hard and gaining fast. He
is known all over the county; the
people know he would give full sat
isfaction and party doesn't cut much
ice in this county now. Mr. Green
looks like a winner.
It has been reported that because
of the indiscretions ot Mr. Withy
combe in the early campaign (when
he assayed to say something) and
which were construed as tipping of
the Oregonian's hand, that paper was
peeved and refused hearty support,
However it appears that the reports
are untrue and libelous, lor this weeK
the Oregonian comes out aggressive
ly for the Silent One with this state
ment:
Dr. Withycombe is to visit
Salem this week, where he will,
take up his official residence
early in the year.
THE TRIO THE CHOICE
If U'Ren was governor, Oregon
would have permanent road con
struction, built by the "bread line"
men, which the state now supports in
idleness.
It would have lower taxes.
It would have less appropriations.
It would have a great thinning
out of boards and commissions.
It would get something near to a
dollar's worth of service for the dol
lar paid public officials.
It would have a governor tne leg
islature couldn't scare, bulldoze or
force.
It, would have a governor who
would see that Oregon WAS dry, if
the peoDle vote it dry.
it would have a governor wno
would work in the legislature for a
state marketing system for the ben
efif, of farmers.
He is working hard for proportion
al representation, which would break
up the one-party "organization" in
the legislature that Governor West
so graphically portrays.
He is working hard tor the exemp
tion measure that will force the
rich to pay their proportion of taxes.
He is workmg hard to abolish a
useless state senate, behind which as
sassins hide and stick the knift into
Oregon.
He is working hard to drive the
worst enemy, Oregon ever had out
of the state liquor.
What is Withycombe doing?
Playing "A Greater Oregon" on
a worn out slide trombone, ana
dodging anything that looks or
sounds like an issue.
What is Smith doing?
Yelling himself hoarse about "law
enforcement" and still singing "The
Single Item Veto" in high G.
Is "A Greater Oregon" a state is
sue ;
Is "The Single Item Veto" or "Law
Enforcement" to be on the ballot
next month?
Did Mr. Smith get out and work
a day or sper.d a dollar to put the
single item veto into an initiative
bill?
Size them up, the three men, and
vote for the one who stands for
something and who tells all the pow
erful favored interests that they will
never put a muzzle over his mouth
or crack the whip over his head.
LAST RESORTS
Why should the farmer be
discriminated against in the
way of taxes? Why should he
be compelled to pay double his
just proportion of the burden
of public expenses? It would
be a most terrible blow to the
stato if he were required to
shoulder all the burden that the
$1500 Exemption Bill will ef
fect. This is from the Cottage Grove
Sentinel, edited by a man who was
Republican candidate lor the leg-
slature at the primaries.
This is the way they light the bin
down in Lane county, while in Mult
nomah the "non-partisan league
asks tho special privilege bunch to
come down with not less than !)iuu
each to fight this bill, and it seeks
to put the fear of taxation into the
hearts of the rich bunch through a
circular letter the "league" sent out
line li), in which this significant
armng was made:
THIS COSTS MONEY. BUT
THIO WORK MUST BE DONE,
IT WILL COST US A LOT
MORE IK WE DO NOT DE
FEAT IT NOW.
"Us" means tho big interest bunch
of tax dodgers in t'ortland and else
where in the state.
So in Lane they work the farmer
scare and in I'ortland the big busi
ness scare.
And the farmer and workman
knows that a tax taken off of indus
try won't hurt them.
DON'T PLAY HORSE
If Senator Chamberlain hadn't
made good, if there was any good
reason for a Change, then the candi
dacy of Mr. Booth might appeal to
voters.
But he HAS made good, and it
seems to the Courier that it would
be tho silliest move Oregon ever made
to change senators and put in a new
and untried man whose sole recom
mendations are that he has a mil
lion and was brought out by the Or
egonian. Here's a point and an important
one:
Europe has a great war and Mex
ico is trying to keep one going.
President Wilson is using every
effort to keep this country out of
war and both houses, Democratic,
are backing him solidly.
Send a Republican to the senate,
one nominated by the Wilson-hating
Oregonian, and that senator has his
work cut out for him to oppose the
Wilson policies.
It's a part of the game. He is ex
pected to do it, and as a Republican
he would do it.
With a Republican congress this
country would now be at war with
Mexico, and its mighty hard telling
where we would be with Europe if
we had a Mexican war on, or if
Wilson did not have the solid peace
oacKing ol both houses.
the Kepublican newspapers and
party leaders have vainly tried for
a year past to iorce Wilson into in
tervention in Mexico, and but tor the
steadfast backing ot Democrats in
congress we would now be down
across the Rio Grande.
Governor West showed up the
proposition in his talk here Satur
day night. He absolutely proved how
Chamberlain has made good irom the
day he was elected governor up to
the present and against this record
he showed how during his two terms
in the state senate Mr. Booth voted
against Statement No. 1 and never
stood for constructive or progressive
legislation.
The voters of Oregon will never
turn down George Chamberlain; they
will never come anywhere near do
ing so.
There isn t a ghost of a good rea
son for doing so; no more reason
than a business concerning firing a
manager because he made a success
of the business.
Mr. Chamberlain is standing by
President Wilson and staying on the
job in Washington, regardless of his
campaign.
The people owe it to mm and to
Oregon to stand by him.
Oregon doesn't want to play horse,
and turn down its good men. If it
does, it soon will find it hard to get
good men. Chamberlain is a power
for Oregon, keep him on the job.
BiMBHPMfpMllllimmjIllil
L ADAMS
nr.PADTMKNT STORE
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TRY A DEMOCRAT
It has been many years since
Clackamas county has had a Demo
crat in the state legislature.
The house is almost solidly Kepub
lican, and every year appropriations
go higher and taxes bigger.
This county can elect one oi tne
squarest, able and capable Demo
crats next month if the people will
forget party and look Charles Risley
over.
We need more Democrats m the
legislature. The senate is going to
be abolished and we should not per
mit the house to be a one-party ma
chine. .
You will look a long time before
you will find a man who has the
good of this county more at heart.
Absolutely honest, honorable and ca
pable, Mr. Risley would make fully
good.
Try a Democrat lor a change.
The MUG
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Thttc are none better made. We
ate selling more of these Shoes
each sacceeeing year. Let yotif
winter shoe be a Daogher ty ot a
Bergman.
The Daugherty Dress Shoes
For Men are the
Princto, Buttor or Lace - - $4.00
Yale, button or- lace - - - $4.50
Harvard, button or lace - - $5.00
If you will vote the way Theodore
Roosevelt advises you to the way
you think you will vote for J. O.
Staats for county treasurer for if
you DO think, you know that a man
more qualified for the place doesn't
lve in Oregon, and that qualifica
tions alone should be considered for
public office. Mr. Staats is an of
fice prodigy. His life's work has
fitted him for such an office. And
above all, he is dead honest and is one
one of the most courteous, good-na
tured obliging men in Uaekama
county.
FOR FIRST CLASS VALUES in city
property, beautiful homes, lots.
houses and rooms to rent and fur
nished or unfurnished. Call for
particulars at Macdonald and Van
Auken, New Courier .Building.
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All Shoes will wear out but these
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Do you realize that a considerable part
of the service by a bank to its customers is
without cost to them?
First, there is protection. This bank
charges you nothing for guarding your
money from loss by fire, theft or careless
ness, although it has cost us a lot of moiney
to provide the proper safe-guards.
Then there is the handling of your
checks, AVe do all your bookkeeping so
that you can know at any time just what
your balance is.
Start an account here now and take ad
vantage of this splendid service.
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Oldest Bank in Clackamas County"
SEND SPENCE TO SALEM
Without ever considering party or
politics, the voters of this county
should send State Grange Master C.
iK. Spence to the legislature for the
one reason that a more capable man
could not be sent there.
He is running on an independent
ticket. Long after the primaries
tho people forced him into tho cam
paign, r armors, business men and
the churches got behind a movement
and insisted that he run.
It is useless to tell the people of
this county what Mr. Spence has
done for Clackamas. You all know
him, and know his work. You know
he rings true. You know he would
fight for tho good of this county and
the best interest of tho many for the
stato. You know ho would work
against useless appropriations iand
that he would wield the axe on! the
many useless, salary-drawing boards
and commissions. ;
Governor West praises Clackamas
county for honest representatives.
Two of them are not candidates this
fall. Send the same kind in their
places.
Never mind party, send Spenqe to
the legislature. , i
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200 ACRES 5 miles out, 60 acres
cultivated, r irst class stock or
C. W. RISLEY
4i f
Democratic Nominee for Representa
tive
(Paid Adv.)
THE MEASURES
There is no need to go into areu
meats over the "Oregon Dry" amend
ment. The one sentence of Gover
nor West covers all:
Oregon should go dry be
cause there does not exist a
single reason on earth why it
should stay wet.
The sale of liauor is simply a ben
efit for saloons and breweries at the
expense of the homes. It is but a
question of time when every state
will go dry. 332 X yes will hasten
tho time.
dairv farm.
CO sheep, 2
good team.
Good house, barn etc,
milk cows, 48 hogs,
?G5 an acre.
An amendment to again submit
the abolishment of the death penal
ty is before the people. It has been
voted down once, but so had woman's
sutfrage. The Courier does not be
lieve any man has the right to take
human life. It believes hanging is a
relic of the savage days. It is far
more horrible than beheading. Life
imprisonment is punishment enough
for any crime. Hanging adds mur
der to murder. S34 X yes is a vote to
abolish the barbarism. x
bill that will be put before the voters
this November the one providing
that all county officers shall hold of
fice for four years. At present
many of them only have two-year
terms, with the understanding that
they are at perfect liberty to run
for re-election for another two-year
term; and the backers of the meas
ure, including the Oregonian, say that
by increasing the term to four years
the public will be saved the needless
expense of printing their names on
the ballot every two years.
This touching consideration of the
public expense is what is making
many people suspicious of the meas
ure. Office holders in the past have
not always been so solicitous for the
public purse. And it appears that
there is another purse that is being
considered in this measure, too the
purse of the office holder. Financ
ing campaigns for re-election every
two years is a severe drain upon the
poor ouice-holder, he can hardly
make enough in the short term . to
show a profit at the end of the sec
ond campaign.
Backers of the movement have
kept much in the dark, but- itnow de
velops that professional office-seekers
in Multnomah county are largely
responsible for the measure. They
don't want to spend campaign money
every two years, they'd rather have
four years in office, so they can
make something. Those who will
benefit by the bill are mostly the
members of that sweet fraternity
that are now managing Multnomah's
affairs, and they hate to think that
fieht for re-election will net them
but two years more of a grip on the
public nurse. So there is clamor for
a four-year term, to "save the pub
lic the expense of printing the same
names on the ballot every two years.
Mavbe the tour-year term would
save the expense of ballot printing;
but maybe, also, it would save the
public the greater expense of trying
to break up political machines that
had been perfected bv those who
would take undue advantage of the
four-year term if they could get It.
It appears to be a Dill that might
just as well be killed as not; if it is
lulled the public won't suffer very
much, while if it is not killed they
may suffer a great deal.
t he man who is efficient in a coun
ty office will be re-elected by the
public whether he makes much of a
campaign for re-election or not the
man who is not efficient ought to
have to pay heavily for a re-election
campaign; it may deter him from
trvinsr to hold down an office for
which he is not giving just returns.
collected by the Bureau of Labor to ery, streets, automobiles and all such
show that in the year 1912 75,000 "fool proof," and to bring the public
lives were lost in the United States to a realization of the results of care
thru accidents, and of Ihese 35,000 lessness must be a process of educa
were destroyed in manufacturing in- tion. The State of Wisconsin will
dustries alone, and over 2,000,000 have ready for distribution within a
work men were injured. An average few weeks a "Safety Primer" for use
of 25,000 men a year were killed in in the Public Schools. In that state
battle during the Civil War, only a it is required by law that instruction
third of those who are sacrificed for one-half hour a week be given
yearly largely on the altar of care- along these lines,
lessness. It is estimated that 70 and j Mr, B, p. Boynton, of the Port
even 80 per cent of the accidents can land Raiiway Light & Power Co., is
be prevented, and Mr. Cary summed a Safety First enthusiast. During
up the situation in one pertinent the past year he has addressed thou-statementr-
Care essnesa is more sands of schooi children, urging them
deadly than war." - to not take chances in their play, on
The Safety First campaign has their wa throu h the street and m
been going, steadily forward for ! climbillon andB off cars. Heliverv
years, barly in October the Uhird ; w d autnmohila trade, ft
Annual Safety Congress will be held
in Chicago and nearly every interest
in the United States will be repre
sented. The Willamette Pulp & Paper
Company has a Safety First Depart
ment, with inspectors whose sole du
ties are to locate and remedy any un
safe places about the machinery and
plant. Cash prizes are awarded for
has been suggested that he be invited
City, and such an arrangement can
no doubt be made when school is fair
ly started.
While the movement was primarily
for railroads and manufacturing
plants, it can with advantage be car
ried into the shop, office, srteet and
the home. The world is full of ama-
t.h lipst. HiKwoBt.imta ninno- tViooo teur acrobats wno tnniK tney can
lines. Attractive watch fobs are giv-' nP and on a car wnen it is trav-
en lor all suggestions which are con-
sidred of practical use. The men are
urged o co-operate, and that they ap
preciate what the movement means
to them as individuals was shown by
the interest they manifested at the
first meeting held In the mill. Ma
elling twenty miles an hour. Millions
of boys and girls never walk on the
ground if they can possibly find a
fence or railing to walk on the high
er the better. Haven't you seen the
housewife with a bandaged wrist be
cause she reached over the steaming
chinery guards are placed wherever jtea Settle? Haven't you heard of
feasible, goggles are -furnished to
those working where there is danger
of eye injuries; on the bulletin
boards are exhibits of Safety First
methods, and in all ways the men
are shown its vita! importance to
themselves, their families, and the
men who work with them.
It is not possible to make machin-
her falling down stairs because a cor
ner of the carpet was loose? Then
there is the boy with the bicycle, and
there are thousands of Doc Yaks.
We all should use greater care;
we need to know how to use more
care, and this sketch doesn't begin to
tell you what the Safety First move
ment means and is doing for the
world.
Considerable interest has been
aroused in an apparently innocuous
CARELESSNESS AND WAR
Safety First! The words to many i
people mean nothing, to others some
thimr thev read in a Comic Supple
ment, but the general public does not
realize that they are the slogan for a
movement of greater economic and
humanitarian importance than the
movement for world-wide peace.
Stop the War! From every pul
pit, platform and page comes yie de
mand for peace. Ihere is no one who
cannot grasp the meaning of war
the loss of life, the suffering nad pov
erty that comes not alone to the sol
dier, but to the family. Yet at the
worst, war can last but a few years,
and the maimed and dependent ones
are cared for by the Governments in
debted to them; the soldiers are
honored as heroes. War is herrible,
but there are a few compensations.
Contrast with this the armies of
thosp killed and maimed in the ranks
of Industry! This was well brought!
out by Mr. Jas. H. Cary in an ad
dress before the employees of the
Willamette Pulp & Paper Company
at their meeting last week in the
large paper warehouse known as Mill
"F." Mr. Cary quoted statistics
MUSICAL AND LITERARY
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD HALL
At 8 o'clock P. M.
Saturday, October 3, 1914
by the accomplished blind Pianist
and Harpist
Miss Edith Proadar
Assisted by her mother a
Noted Elocutionist
No admission will be charged but
a collection will be taken