OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1?, 1914.
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Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Oregon
M. J. BROWN,
EDITOR
When Oregon goes dry put a man
in for governor who will keep it dry
U'Ren.
Wisconsin sent a timber baron to
the U. S. Senate. Don't you make
that mistake in Oregon.
That "boycott" stunt is a pippin.
Business must be very much on de
cline at the Enterprise office.
The Enterprise should know that
martyrs are out of date and that si
lence is more potent than the shriek
of pain.
It seems to the Courier editor that
a dry Oregon with a coward governor
would be a lot of hard work largely
wasted. . ,
In 1903 Booth had the one vote
needed to defeat the direct primary
law in Oregon, and he defeated it.
That one act should defeat him
bury him. We don't want any more
Stephensons in the U. S. senate.
There are too many there now.
The Woodburn Independent says
all political organizations in Oregon
are heading toward oblivion. As a
substitute we will have individual
platforms, each candidate for prom
inent office having a seperate manager.
'ine senate is a sure goner.
Try U'Ken lor more business anu
less expenses. Xou can t De woi
oil".
If ever an issue lacked for a foun
uauon it is tne uooze issue, ah
me issue Were is thai, tne breweries
and salons want your money.
In Great Britian tne women pre
sent wrnie learners to tne male cow
aras. 'ine women of Oregon stioulu
uo tne same to our nominees lor gov
ernor.
Portland wets are having a hard
time to make any arguments against
prohibition sticK in tms city. Their
obo open saloons and iSOSo vacant
places Kick back too hard.
Proportional representation will
break up the one-party legislature
which at the last session introduced
bills to the amount of FIFTEEN
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
If the $1,500 exemption measure
carries November 4, twice more it
must be passed on by the people be
fore it becomes a permanent Oregon
law. And a measure that will give
the voters these safeguards can't be
a dangerous one to try for taxation
relief. Do you think so?
You won't be sorry if you send
Charles Kisley to tne legislature,
He has always been a progressive,
liberal-minded hustler, and the Cour
ier knows he will make Clackamas
county good at Salem.
The Cottage Grove Sentinel says if
the $1,500 exemption measure be
comes a law the Oregon City Cour
ier would evade taxation. Guess
again. The Courier is a corporation
and is not entitled to a dollar of ex
emption.
The Oregonian takes "up the sep
arate measures and advises the peo
ple how to vote. But when it comes
to prohibition it says "No recom
mendation." It is the biggest issue
in the state and yet the Oregonian
dare not take a stand. There's
reason.
The Courier has opinions. They
may not be right, but they ARE
honest. And we grant any , reader
the right to differ with us, if he or
she is honest. We have fully ex
pressed our opinions of candidates
and measures. If you cannot see
them in our light, then use your own
spectacles and vote as you feel
right.
Now that Chairman Moores has
found that Horse Doctor Withycombc
will not debate issues with Drug
Doctor Smith, he is vociferous in his
demands for a debate. Wonder why
he doesn't fill in by accepting U'Ren's
challenge an offer that he did not
even dare answer?
In the news items of the Portland
dailies we note that Lewis & Myers,
an employment agency, have been
warned that their license would be re
voked unless they refund the trans
portation money taken from 500 la
borers who were sent to the Celilo
canal expecting to find jobs, and
there were no jobs there. Is not
this an awful punishment for de
frauding laborers ? Warned that un
less they returned the boat fare to
The Dalles their license- would be re
voked! The agency should be pros
ecuted to the limit for this dirty
deal.
The Oregon Life Insurance
Co., is making a generous offer
to its agents. All agents pro
ducing a certain amount of busi
ness during 1014 are offered as
a prize a trip to the Panama Ex
position, together with two
weeks' hotel bill paid for each
agent und his wife. McMinn
ville Register.
But who pays for this generosity?
It isn't the life insurance companies
who pay for the entertainment of the
hustling solicitors, but the iimured
men and women. If the Htate of
Oregon insured tho people at cost the
profits of the insurance companies
and Ruch pleasure trips would go in
to reduced premiums.
The straw votes in certain sections
of Portland put the awful fear into
the liquor dealers' hearts. If that
city can't come across with about
2,500 majority of real wet ones it's
alL off with John Barleycorn in Ore
gon.
Oregon has strict laws against the
sale of cocaine, opium and other
drugs, and you never hear a writer or
speaker condemn these laws. But a
law that would forbid the sale of
whiskey "restrains personal liberty."
Some people think in a circle.
After many months of litigation in
the courts the Chase elevator propo
sition has been settled by an agree
ment. Now why couldn t this mat
ter have been settled months ago, and
huve saved all the expense and ill
feelings?
A national law forbids even the im
portation of absinthe into this coun
try. This drink is more common
with the French than whiskey with
Americans. But it is rank tyranny
that a law be passed by the people to
forbid liquor in Oregon. Some "per
sonal liberty" people can argue on
almost no grounds.
Promises, promises. Had them
for the last 20 years. "Economy,
economy" it has been sung longer and
louder than "A Greater Oregon." It
was wise old Barnum who told the
truth. Will you voters ever get wise
and back up? You will get some
thing besides promises if U Ken is
irovernor. Better try voting for a
change this fall.
The Appeal to Reason takes up all
the congressmen to be elected this
month and gives a 20-word review of
their work. Here is Congressman
llawley's outline:
IIAWLEY, W. C, Rep. 1st.
Ore. For gug rule, 1909; for
cotton future gambling; for
speaker and vice president; for
interlocking directorates; for
Cannon czarism.
Constable Jack Frost restrained the
"personal liberty" of four Chinamen
last week when he raided the opium
joint and carried off thoir property.
There is but a degree of difference
between a pipe dream und whiskey
runk, and no difference between de
lirium tremens and a "hop death."
Yet they toll us closing a saloon is
"confiscation" and closing a pipe
joint "efficiency." Somehow we
can't make 'em jibe.
The Portland Journal says the
$1500 exemption amendment applies
alike to the big property owner or
the little property owner. It can
have no effect on the propertyless.
It repeals the exemption provision
under which household furniture is
exempt, whether it no the $14,000
worth of furniture of the mansion or
the $100 worth in the cottage. If
the people prefer an exemption which
exempts more for the wealthy man
than for the little follow, they should
vote against the $1500 exemption.
I
I
Our business in tbe jinst bus
been very satisfactory, but we
realize (bat (here tiro men, wo
men and ebiblron, at our very
doors, Avbo could ami sbonbl
bave n bank aeeonnt, who have
never deposited one rent in a
bank. Wo are now after this
class especially, and will not be
satisfied until we bave interest
ed them. We want you to call and investigate our
methods and be convinced (hat it is to your advan
tage to open an account with us.
The Bank of Oregon City
Oldest Bank in Clackamas County
Some
People
Without
Bank
Accounts
ine $iouu exemption is gaining
fast, and looks like a winner.
It looks as if Hawley had carried
his pitcher to the well once to often.
Smith is not a dry candidate.
Withycombe is not. We defy either
of these nominees to deny this
charge.
Four aces Dimick, Schuebcl, Ris-
ley and Spence. Send these fellows
to Salem and the gang will have a
sweet time slipping anything over.
State Grange Master Spence will
be a power in the legislature. He is
a friend to the worker, and the
workers of this county should never
think of party when they find his
name on the ballot.
What a campaign of cowards. We
hope the voters of this county, at
least, will vote down every last one
of them as a protest against men
who leave their backbones in the
spring primaries.
If the Republicans had hunted the
state over to find a more pat repre
sentative of big business, the timber
combines and the Southern Pacific, it
would have failed. The Oregonian
did a splendid job. Now you voters
do another.
Senator Dimick and Representative
Schuebel gave the best accounts of
themselves of any men this county
ever sent to the state capitol. If
the voters should turn either of them
down, they should never again wail
over legislative looting.
All indications point to the chas
ing of John Barleycorn out of Ore
gon. The great registration of wo
men voters is most significant. And
the same vote that makes Oregon dry
should make U'Ren governor to keep
it dry. A dry state without dry of
ficials to enforce the laws will be the
joke that the wets are hoping for.
BEFORE AND AFTER
The Oregonian has been singing
Chinese eggs and tariff revision un
til they are almost as familiar as "A
Greater Oregon" and last week the
Polk county Itemizer furnished it
with some new music, which that pa
per says were editorials in the Ore
gonian in March, 1909. Here they
are:
The Oregonian is a believer
in a tariff for revenue only. Not
for protection at all.
To the people who bear the
principle burden of the Ding
ley duties a cent or two added
to the cost of a pair of shoes,
a butter ladle, a tin cup, is a
pretty serious matter. It means
the - difference between a sur
plus and a deficit in the family
budget. In the last analysis,
the protective tariff, as we
now have it, makes it harder for
the shop girl to live without
selling her virtue and for the
workingman to feed, clothe and
school his children. At the
other extreme, it adds to the su
perfluities of the Pittsburg mil
lionaire and swells the revenue
of Standard Oil.
I
HOW TO MEASURE THEM
This is a square with which to
measure up any and all initiative
measures. Does it create unneces
sary burdens or place unnecessary
offices on the backs of the people?
Does it give any power to the people,
or does it take power away? Does
it relieve labor and the products of
labor from taxation, or does it tend
to retain taxes or to impose new
ones on evidences of thrift, industry
and love of home?
If in doubt, do not vote NO, unless
the proposers of the measure are un-
known, or known to be enemies of
popular government.
The proposition of a Iriena snouia
be given the benefit of a doubt.
Nothing is perfect. Vote YES if you
believe that your friend is to be re
lied upon, even if flaws are picked
in his proposition.
There is nothing to prevent tne im
portant measures before the people
from being sized up in a few min
utes by any man of average intelli
gence. Remember, tnat a million
aires League nas put in eignt argu
ments on measures before the people.
Why are such men butting in?
Where do they get their coin? Why
are they opposing certain measures?
Why are they supporting certain
measures : Measure tnem up uy tne
square of more power for the people;
less tuxes for the people; tewer
offices; no going backward.
WHERE IIAWLEY WAS
Recently the Courier copied from
the Congressional Record that Con
gressman W. C. Hawley asked Speak
ed Clark to excuse him from attend
ing the funeral of President Wilson's
wife, as he had to leave for Oregon.
The Courier stated that Mr. Haw-
lev did NOT come to Oregon, and
asked where he was during the fu
neral.
A. M. Dairyman, editor of the
Salem Messenger, has found out
where Congressman Hawley was. He
says he went to Denver on a little
vacation trip. There is absolutely
no doubt about it, for on page 13 of
the September issue of the official
organ of tho insurance organiza
tion of which Mr. Hawley is one of
the directors, or managers, we find:
"August 10, 1914. At 9 a. m. the
board of head managers met pursu
ant to adjournment. Present: John
Pattison, head manager; W. C. Haw-
lev, head manager: John II. Altom,
head manager."
So much for that. Then we turn
to page 14 and find this in the ex
pense account:
"W. C, Hawley. railroad fare
Washington, D. C, to Denver and re
turn and sleeper, $100.42. W. C. Haw
ley, 9 days, per diem, $45."
Now does this look as if Mr. Haw
ley has "No interests to serve but
the public interests?" It takes a
lot of nerve for even a hardened pol
itician to make such an assertion in
the face of such an array of facts.
Why did he tell Speaker Clark that
he was going to Oregon? Was he
ashamed to have the speaker and his
colleaugues know he was going off to
Denver for nine days to attend a
board meeting? What right has Mr.
Hawley or any other congressman or
senator drawing a monthly salary
from insurance or any other organt
izations? He should be satisfied
with the $7500 a year he draws from
the federal government, for it is
much more than he would be able to
earn in any other capacity. Besides
a man cannot serve two masters and j
do justice to both. Do the people of
Oregon , hire Mr. Hawley to attend
board meetings in Denver? Perhaps.
We shall see on the third of Novem
ber if they approve his course.
A. M. Dalrymple.
PARAGRAPHS FOR THINKERS
(By Alfred D. Cridge)
Some day the people of Oregon
will learn what a hired mouthpiece
of treachery and graft the Oregon
ian is. Meanwhile it continues to
prevaricate and to deceive, mislead
and betray the people.
The only arguments that can be
made against the $1500 exemption
measure are the kind that the ut
terers of them dare not defend in a
fair deal. Recently at a grange
meeting a brother Granger opposed
it on the ground that it would in
crease the poor man-s taxes as much
as it decreased them, and that it
would be so satisfactory to every
body that it would force us to adopt
sinele tax! No opportunity was
given me to reply.
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DEPARTMENT S
The people may elect Booth to sue
ceed Chamberlain, but if they do it
will be one more pebble piled up that
shall some day become an avalanche
and sweep the imitation nouse or
lords out to the bottom of the sea of
oblivion.
The Labor Press of Portland has
included Withycombe in its list of
three enemies of the working people
of Oregon to be defeated November 2
Booth and McArthur are the other
two. Of course organized and unor
ganized labor is divided, as it always
is; otherwise such men as the trio
above named would never dare pre
sent their names for a public office
Proportional representation is the
most important measure on the ballot
because of its far-reaching eiiects,
It will put progressive, sane and sen
sible men in the legislature and keep
them there. It will give the preda
tory rich no more than their just
share of representation. It will give
us local representation when we want
that the most, and it will give us rep
resentatives of principles when we
think a principle surpasses local in:
terests, and in proportion as we think
so.
The assessor, of Houston, Texas,
refuses to assess improvements at
anv figure whatever, and tells his
deputies to forget about the working
man's team or cow. Next year he
will assess land only, and was elec
ted on that platform. The law is
the same as it is in Oregon, but it
has been discovered that the lawyers
have been fooling us all thse years
The assessor can do as he sees fit, if
the board of equalization does not in
terfere.
In Oregon the people may be sat
isfied with their taxes. They may
think ALL property is assessed now
at a just rate and the rich the same
as the poor. They may continue
thinking so. If they are satisfied
they will vote against the $1,500 ex
emption measure. A few days more
will show us.
Heard a candidate for the State
Senate talk to a lot of Grangers the
other night. Said the State Senate
was a very valuable part of the glor
ious American system of government.
Expects to be elected on the Repub
lican ticket. Could not be induced to
say a word about any vital issue be
fore the people. A perambulating
demonstration of the need for the
abolition of the thing he wants to
be a part of.
The attack on the recall engineer
ed by George C. Mason of the Mil
lionaire s League in Portland may
win out. If so we will have a legis
lature beyond recall, and a governor
the same. The emergency clause
tacked to every bill by a standpat
gang in the legislature will kill the
referendum, and emergency measures
that the people will have no say or
will so "protect" the initiative that it
cannot be used. Eh? Impossible.
Not much. A very similar program
has been worked to a successful fin
ish in Arkansas.
Some people talk of revolution who
cannot vote in unity with their own
fellow workers. If revolution starts
with workingmen shooting each
other as badly as they nullify each
other's votes, where will the revolu
tion lead but to despotism?
AS WE SEE THEM
Chamberlain for U. S. senator.
He has made good.
Hollister for congress. Hawley
has not made good.
Dimick for state senator. His
past record stands dead holiest and
clear. "
Schuebel. Spence and Risley for
representatives. Schuebel's record
could not have been better, and
Spence and Risley will stand with
Schuebel and Dimick.
Koehler for sheriff the Courier
knows he will make good.
Judge Anderson and Commission
er Smith for the county court. It
would be folly to change them.-
W. C. Green for county clerk
square, honest and courteous.
J. O. Staats for county clerk not
a better qualified man in Oregon.
If you don't like this list, pick
your choice, but the Courier doesn't
believe you will ever go wrong on
this line up.
Notice
A telephone meeting will be held at
Logan Grange Hall on Oct, 20th.
1914, at 8 P. M . All that are inter
ested in securing good telphone ser
vice please attend.
DAM
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ANSWERED
(Salem Democrat)
The Democrat has heretofore ask
ed several questions which neither
Mr. Booth or any of the newspapers
which are supporting his candidacy
are willing to answer. The Demo
crat will therefore serve as a self
appointed proxy for the purpose of
turning on the light.
How did R. A. Booth obtain the
Republican nomination for United
States senator?
Because he was the chosen candi
date of the Morning Oregonian and
the political ring for which that pa
per is spokesman.
What has he to recommend him to
the people of Oregon?
Several hundred thousand dollars
which he accumulated while dealing
in Oregon timber lands.
What was his record while serv
ing as a member of the Oregon state
legislature?
He was a reactionary in all that
the name implies. He voted against
the direct primary law; against the
bill taxing timber lands; against
the people's choice for United States
senator and against the bill to limit
the hours of service of railway em
ployees to nine hours. A bill which
had for its purpose the assessment
of the gross earnings of corporations
died in a committee of which he was
chairman, and he voted in favor of
amending the direct primary law so
as to eliminate the provision by
which the members of the legislature
pledged thmselves to vote for the
people's choice for U. S. senator.
How did he acquire his vast tim
ber holdings?
The circuit court of appeals m the
case of the United States vs. the
Booth-Kelly Lumber Company has
answered that question in detail.
What is his platform?
Calamity and absolute loyalty to
the old gang that has been attempt
ing to break into office since its de
feat several years ago by Geo. E.
Chamberlain.
Will he be elected?
Not unless the people of Oregon
are willing to return to the political
stone age and turn their backs upon
one of the biggest, broadest and most
capable public servants who was ever
sent to Washington by a Western
state.
! Watch the voters of the Willa
mette Valley dump Hawley into the
hasbeenery November 3.
C. W. RISLEY
KEEP THE STANDARD UP
The measure known as the Den
tistry bill should be defeated, be
cause the laws regulating the prac- j
tice of dentistry, as they now stand Governor West came thru when
upon the statute books, are framed the Oregonian called his hand. Either
for the protection of the public and Booth is unfit for the U. S. senate or
not' for the special privilege of den- West should be arrested for slander,
tists. So far we haven't heard of any war-
We are asked to do away with this , rant being sworn out.
protection by lowering the qualifica
tions seeking to practice dentistry in
Oregon.
The efforts of 25 years to bring
the dentistry laws of Oregon to their
present standard will be destroyed.
The "joker" in the Dentistry Bill
is this:
Section 1. "The following persons
shall be entitled to practice dentistry
in the State of Oregon."
"First: A graduate of any repu
table dental college in good standing
which requires a course of study of at
least two school years, having a
yearly course of study of not less
than six months."
There is no longer a reputable
dental college in the United States
with a course of only two years of
six months each. All standard den
tal .colleges now require at least three
years of eight months each.
The standard should be kept high,
not lowered to accommodate a few
quacks. Gresham Outlook.
'A Woman Commends Mr. Green
Colton, Ore. Sept. 28, 1914.
To the Voters of Clackamas, County
I have known Mr. W. C. Green for
the last twenty-five years and have
always found him to be a straight,
honest and upright man. He is well
qualified for the office of county
clerk and I fell that the voters of
Clackamas county cannot make a
mistake in electing him.
Ellen Stromgreen.
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Our Next Congressman Fred Hollis-
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CONSTABLE "JACK FROST
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