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OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1914. A GREAT SCHEME "You See" has New Idea to Procure Necessary War Revenue I have thoroughly made up my mind that this temperance move that is being agitated over the country, and especially Oregon, if not of a Socialistic nature, is a deep-laid plot to give the Democratic administra tion a black eye and the standpatters a strangle hold on the reins of gov ernment again, and I think at least John Stark will argue with me when he has time to digest my simple and effective plans to help the Govern ment out of the financial hole we have got ourselves into. We that is the government has got to have money and anybody can see it will not do to collect our debts from the banks for they need it in their business and besides, Mr. Wil son says the people are loyal and and anxious to help make up the 100 million wanted, and I am fully satis fied it is going to be a pleasure to assist. I do not think from the start we have made that it is going to be necessary to put stamps on potatoes before we eat them if my plans are carried out. I shall not go into min ute uetans cut think any common brain such as Underwood or Bryan or maybe Stark, could work them out when the general plan is outlined. We that is t he government struck the keynote to prosperity when we made beer and perfumery bear the brunt as revenue raisers. Beer with the Cc discount for cash will raise CO million at once. But that is nothing to what it can be made to do with a little boosting All we that is the government have to do is to offer a small reward both to individuals, counties and states consuming the most beer in the shortest time. Now here is where we show what a long head we have got. Breweries will have to be im mediately enlarged to supply the de mand and it is going to take money to do it. But all they will have to do is to go to the banks and draw on the 75 million we, the government, has on deposit. AH the bankers will be more than glad to assist the admin istration to help bring back prosper ity by loaning out their money for 182 percent and collecting the inter est. which this letter from Mr. Robbins came out, there also came a letter from F. W. Bates, in which he tries to make out that some of my asser tions, in regard to the $1500 exemp tion measure, were wrong. Without referring to the different paragraphs that he objected to, I will just make a few plain statements covering a few remarks, that the paid were wrong, to show that I was right. Mr. Bates can't understand why I think this bill is bad for the poor man when he saves $208 in 16 eyars in taxes, and in the same time I would save $600. It is plain to see that most all the poor man's saving in tax es, is made in the last 6 or 8 years; and that during all the forepart of his time in home making, he had almost no help at all, and right at the first it worked right against him. Then Mr. Bates claims that the poorer a man is the more this bill would help him. Let us see: Suppose two men, each having a piece of wild land, assessed at $1,000 one of the men has a family, and is not able to make any improvement on his place. His taxes are $25 each year. The ottysr man has a good situ ation, and is making ' good wages, and is able to make $500 worth of improvements each year. In three years' time this last man has made all the improvement necessary, to get the full benefit of the exemption, while the other man is paying out $5 extra tax each year, just on ac count of this bill, and is not getting any exemption. Who is geting the best of the deal? Mr. Gill's argument with Mr Cridge, on this bill, suits me fir rate. It shows the straightforward honest disposition of the man, and he is a very safe man to stay by for Governor. George Ilicinbotham. STEPHEN A. LOWELL'S VIEWS When taxes deminish taxes will decrease.- The criminal courts, the jails the penetentiaries and the reforma tories are all tax eaters pure and simple. Seventh: The liquor interests generally oppose any movement look- I ing toward improved moral and civic Noted Jurist of Pendleton Urges that Liquor be Banished Pendleton, Oregon. October, 14, 1914. Editor Courier: This communication is offered for conditions, and their engine of opera publication as expressing the re-! ''on, the saloon, must be eliminated in results of a dispassionate study of -ne interest of progress, just as the liquor question pursued by one slavery, lotteries and open gambling who is not radical, and who neither have been eliminated. It was a long, regards prohibition as a panacea for , outer nght to accomplish the sup- A REVIEW OF THE MEASURES will all evils nor anticipates that a pro hibitory statute, if adopted, will be thoroughly enforced. Nevertheless, upon moral grounds the conclusion has been reached that the state can not longer afford to lend counten ance to traffic in intoxicating li quors, and upon economic grounds that the commonwealth will be im proved by the elimination of the sa loon. Weighed by the rules of evidence which govern courts of justice, the following facts have been proven by an overwhelming preponderance of evidence. They are sufficient to in duce the writer to espouse the drv Rev. Milliken Writes how He Vote on Several of Them Editor of the Courier: A study of the proposed constitu tional amendments reveals some in teresting attempts at legislation. To several of these I shall vote a de cided "NO", for reasons which I shall present more at length. I shall vote 319 NO because I do not see why any member of the leg- trouble and expense than it Is worth. VOTERS, THINK THESE OVER Trie Uregonian denies that it has any connection with nionarchial govern-1 Farmer Robbins Gives you a Few ment, but any student of history ' Paragraphs to Consider knows better. First, the king ruled The State of Oregon' is very gen absolutely. Then the nobles became erous to a few poor beginners in the pression of these recognized evils, and islature should be allowed 10 cents it might be profitable to remember that their supporters made in their day substantially the fame, appeal to business men as the liquor men are making now. Respectfully, Sfc phen A. Lowell. QUESTIONS FOR MR. RILEY W. S. U'Ren Asks him Some about the $1500 Exemption Amendment Oregon City, Oregon Oct. 19, '14 To the Edi tori Mr. E. F. Riley is opposing the $1,500 Homes Tax Amendment. He cause in this campaign, and are pre-! says the payment of taxes is a sacred sented. in the hope that their consid- j obligation and "voting for exemption eration may aid others in reachinc i from taxes will be a repudiation." a conclusion lem. First: The best authorities in upon this vexed prob- When it comes to repudiating taxes it is worth while to examine Mr. Riley's record. Mortgages have not been modern medical science declare that! taxed in this state since 1893. A TRIBUTE FOR KOEHLER Lifelong Friend says he Would Make County Splendid Sheriff Osewego, Oregon, Oct. 17, 1914, To the Editor of the Oregon City Courier: Win you allow me space in you paper for a few lines in behalf of my friend Henry W. Koehler, the demo cratic candidate for sheriff. I have 28 resided in Oswego precinct for Can you imagine anything that years, and have knownn Mr. Koehler will relieve the situation sooner or for 23 years. bring unlimited prosperity to us sur- I am a republican generally speak er? ing, yet in local and county politics Now as to perfumeries. Anyone I am for man and not party; and familiar with the aroma of a hecr- is for this information of such voter soaked hide or breath is aware that it throughout the county, that are not sometimes necessary to disguise both personally acquainted wijth Mr with some othor kind of a smell. Koehler, that I write these few lines, When going into the presence of wo- Hy honesty and industry as a skil men for instance, for I am not con- fu blacksmith and wagonmaker, Mr sidering the men oin this deal for I Koehler has acquired considerabl do not consider that they have any property here and has not hitherto business meddling in politics any- aspired for any county oflice. way. It is easy to see if the first No man in Clackamas County ha is handled properly that it will make attended better to his own business a great demand for the latter. Aho, or dono more conscientious work. William, it's too easy. The scheme looks as simple to me as falling from a foot log into the creek, for it is on a down grade. lie has instructed two or more of Che young men of Oswego in his trade and they are now doing busi ness for themselves. One of them at But what surprises me most is to the old stand. He takes pride in do see a dyed in the wool Democrat like '"(? his work well and in having all Gov. West boosting a scheme to help things orderly and convenient, and in make a "hard times" Democratic ad- making things pleasant and beautiful ministration. around his own home, which is one of P. S. Most of the premiums offered '-ho best in Oswego. Although not a by the government in a short time '"ember of any fraternal order, hi can bo paid in beer checks. P. S. What a stimulant it will be to the hop industry, giving employ ment to so many of the unemployed. These also could use beer checks. You See. IS AGAINST THE BEGINNER Mr. llicinbolham Thinks Tax Exemp tion Would not Help Him Oregon City, Ore. Oct. 17, '14. Editor Courier: My old friend and single tax oppo nent, O. D .Robbins, I see, is still fighting for single tax, and for the $1500 exemption bill, although he plainly admits, in is letter in the Courier of the 1st inst., that it is a a question of principle, of right and wrong, of justice between the poor, the rich and well-to-do, between those at tho beginning of life's battle, for a competence, those at the middle, and those near the end." heart and purse are open to those in need, and he has often given freely to save some poor unfortunate from a pauper's burial at the expense of the county. He is not "burning any fire works" or making any "whirlwind campiuga but quietly und in a dig nified way has tried to get the people acquainted with him, and I hope many republican voters will see fit to vote for him at the cocming election. A. J. Thompson. VIOLA Mr. Gibbs of Portland, who trad ed places with C. Clayson of Viola, is moving his household goods to his new home. lhe Viola people are glad to welcome him In our midst. Mrs, Gil'ford of Seattle, who made short visit last week with her friend Mrs. J. A. Randolph, of Viola, has returned home again. Mrs. Ilarve Mattoon of Viola, has Now this returned home from the Oregon City part that he admits, is just that part hospital and is gaining slowly. Miss I object to, in this $1500 exemption Brown of Rodland is workinir for her bill. This bill would give mo an ex- "t present. emption every year of $1500, and sev- Tom Eadon our merchant, went oral of my neighbors, right here by with his family to Logan Saturday me, that have secured a piece of land evening to visit their son Arthur. for a house, but have not been able Saturday evening a daughter of to mako any improvement on it, Mr. and Mrs. A. Schmnlley of Stone, came over to surprise her parents with a visit. Well, election will soon be bore, and nearly all the residents of Viola desire prohibition, notwithstanding some of the devil's agents of Portland I find alcohol is a poison, and that its use ' on the record more than 150 mort undermines character and lessens vi- j gages for money loaned by Mr. Riley tality. Any step, therefore, looking and he has not paid a dollar of taxes toward its ultimate disappearance is ! on these mortgages. Docs he count per mile mileage when the railways carry him for the same rate that they do the ordinary person; and I am not yet convinced that the average legis lative assembly earns more than he gets at the present time. I want to see them sufficiently wide-awake to prevent the railroading through of any "Free Text Book Bills" with "Jokers" allowing private schools to drop into the Public School Funds be fore I vote for a further increase in legislative salaries. I shall vote 321 NO. I favor eight hour legislation, but it must be dis criminative. I was brought up on the farm, and I know what effect it will have upon the farmer if this law goes into effect. In harvest time if he goes into the field with his "hands" at 7:00 in the morning, countinng one hour off for noon, he must let his men quit work at 4:00 in the after noon, or leave himself liable to a hne of not less than $100, or a jail sen tence, or both. He cannot even allow his sons, or his relatives to help him Myers m fa Myers SaraD oors ow about vour Do they stick- Jump the track or pull harder than they should We have the remedy 'n MYERS DOOR HANGERS. Ttibtila and Stay-on Styles. Get them now and pot them on while the weather makes it bad to work outside. WHEN WE SAY We carry everything in ?arm Supplies . WE MEAN IT We Want Your Trade on Gasoline Engine Engine Oil; Cream Separator Oil; Axle Greese; Wire Fencing; Post Hole Diggers; Oil Cans; Grind Stones; Single Trees; Hitches; Pitcher Pumps; Pipe and Fittings. Everything in Implements and Vchicles,--and at right prices w J. Wilson & Co. Oregon City, Oregon Canby H'dware & Imp. Co. CANBY, OREGON OUR WINNER strong enough to wrest class-privilege I way of taxation, from him, and an upper house is formed. As the people becocme stronger they seek representation and get it in the second house with limited powers, like the "Third Es tate" of France before the revolution and the present Kussian "L'una. After while the people gained the upper hand and the "upper" or "class: house takes a secondary place. Mor oiten it proves an anchor than balance wheel, and when a predatory interest is seeking power it has double chance where there are wo houses, because if it canot block leg islution in one house it can in the other. During the last twenty years I think I am safe in saying that the senate of the U. S. has been more in the public eye for measures it has blocked, than for those it has advanc ed. Some of the great provinces of Canada do very nicely with one house and why could not we? The death penalty is a sort of an anomaly in the twentieth f-entiiiy, Why not abolish it by voting 334 Yes The NON-PARTISAN JUDICI ARY BILL is a move in the right dir ection, Our judiciary should be re moved from partisan politics, and placed upon a perfectly neutral plane Canada secures this by having her judges appointed for "life or good conduct" by the dominion parlia ment. 334 would still leave the selec tion of judges to the people, and, at the same time, would remove any ob jectionable partisan features, I was opposed to the PROPOR TIONAL REPRESENTATION plan until I found the Oregonian in one is- would not get ono cent of exemp tion, but on the other hand, they would have to pay more taxes every year, until they were able to make improvements just on account of this bill. Do you call that justice be tween the well-to-do and the poor? You say "some are worrying for fear tho percentage of property ex empted would be too high, and do not realize that the higher the percent age, the more taxes will wealth pay, and the closer will tho lino come to the middle class." On this same line of reasoning, the higher the percentage of prop erty exempted, the harder it will Lo on the poor beginner, and there is only one limit to the percentage of exemption in this case, and that is straight single tax. The rate of taxation will get higher every year; every division of real estate, increas es the rate of taxation, and every one ought to be able to see that it would run itself into almost straight single tax. and the rate of taxation on land would soon be doubled, or maybe more than- doubled. Then how would your new beginner fare? In the Courier of the 1st inst., in, the saloon element are sending out circulars to us asking us to vote for the saloons and not to take their liberty (to make more drunkards and turn a man into a beast that is what they want.) Hope Oregon goes dry. Mrs. T. Jackson of Viola sprained her wrist badly while turning the cream separator recently. Wm. Hubert and wife of Bethel, were calling on Mr. Babe White and wifo Sunday. There will be a basket social at the Viola school house on tho evening of Nov. lith. Evervone is welcome. Como and have a gooi time. Mr. F. Cockerline of Viola made a business trip to Portland on Wednes day. Ho took a load of chickens and eggs, going by tho auto truck. worthy support. ! himself to be guilty of repudiation of Second: The experience of life his moral obligation to pay taxes? insurance companies through a long It is strange that the capitalists series of years has demonstrated that and money lenders like Mr. Riley and the use of alcoholic beverages short- the members of the Non-Partisan ens life, and decreases the desirabil- League, mostly very wealthy men, Hy of insurance risks. j should be so well satisfied that ex- Third: The great employers of emption of $1500 worth of Jersey labor have concluded that alcohol cows , other farm live stock,, build- (hnunishes efficiency, and they are ings and improvements, will be so bad refusing places to men who drink, for the farmer, while they themselves There is no sentiment in business, get so such pleasure out of the ex In the future sober men alone will emption of mortgages, the dodging of hnd employment. Labor and capital tax on money, and the complete ex have common interest in the banish-' emption of all their household furni ture, diamonds and other jewelry. ment of the saloon. fourtn: ine utnietic world no longer stands sponsor to the drinking num. and proclaims through its lead ers, that clean living and quick think ing, tno prime essentials to success Sincerely yours, W .S. U'Ren. Rev. E. A. Smith will preach Sun- i .! (1..f or.fV, f r"i.,..i, . II 1 M in athletic sports, are impossible in , . . ' , , ... , ' and at Alberta at 3 P. M., and will be at Beaver Creek Grange hall at 7:45 with Dr. Milliken of the Oregon City Baptist Church and G. N. Taylor of Anti-Saloon League. There will be a mass meeting at Beaver Creek hall. If you wa"t to buy or sell gee Ale Donald and Van Anhen. They hunt buyers, they advertise your property association with alcohol. Fifth: The general business of a dry town, its collections, its morals, are all universally better than in the presence of the saloon. When pay day come before them, have their source purchase supplies for family use, and .bills are paid promptly. Careful in vestigation in any town which has passed through yet and dry periods demonstrate this. Sixth: Prosecuting' officers will testify almost without exception that the majority of criminal cases which cmoe before them, have their source in the use cf intoxicating liquors. POWDER Are you going to use any? If you are you want the best. No head ache. Use Trojan. No thawing. It is safe and will do the work. If you do not understand using powder we will give you expert advice on stump blasting and save you money. C. R. Livesay (agent) Rt. 6 .Oregon City, Pacific states phone, Farmers 217. after the eight hours without getting into trouble. This amendment is the very climax of freak legislation. 1 shall vote 341 NO to the Dentistry bill. There is no reputable Dental College with as low a standard as that described in the bill. While I have no more use for a dental trust than for any ether trust, I have a great deal of respect for the gentle men who are endeavoring to safe guard the health of the community 1 would not put into the hitnds of a quack, or a short-cut dental student a matter so necessary to the health of my children as work of this sort, and I believe in helping to protect my neighbors. Why should we put down the bars for individuals wno cannot qualify for dental work in this state to come in and make money and prac tice on us ? I shll vote 355 NO. Because the propised PRIMARY DELEGjATE ELECTION BILL means a return to the notoriously corrupt convention; system. And it will be safe politics i for the public to vote against every j item of legislation proposed by the group who favor so flagrant an at tempt against Oregon popular gov errnment. Hence I shall also vote 357 NO. j On the other hand there are some very meritorious measures proposed. 350 X Yes is worthy of note. The State Senate is a sort of legislative vermiform appendix that gives more sue opposing it because it would per mit the strongest political party to elect all the legislature, then in the net issue it objects that it would al low the small parties "socialists and prohibition, to nominate short legis lative tickets, and obtain represen tation in the house out of all propor tion to their strength." Now it must be a fearfully and wonderfully made measure if it can enable the strongest party in the state to manipulate things entirely to its own advantage, and to give the smaller parties representa tion, far beyond their strength at the same time. I think the Oregonian has made me a convert to the meas ure, and I am curious to see the thing work. I am under the impression it will seriously interfere with partisan politics, and will play hob with all the machines. When the average citi zen has the privelege of voting for but one representative he will think more of the man than the party, and it will "do things" to the. machine. I shall certainly vote 332 YES for State Prohibition. No state has ever been hurt by prohibition. The Inter national year book shows Kansas ended 1912 (the last year reporting) with a balance in the treasury of $1, 289,209, and a debt of only $370,000, while wet Missouri, a state greatly richer in natural resources, and with just as good a people, had only $537 829 in the teasury, and $4,398,839 of a debt. Since going dry property values in North Dakota have increas ed 1000 per cent. In Maine, once the poorest state in the union, the depart ment of agriculture report Maine far mers the best off financially in New England. In Kansas one man in five ownes an automobile, in Missouri only one in one hundred own an automobile. Hundreds of factories are locating in West Virginia since it went dry. Leading business firms of Oregon are working for a dry state. The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. of Lane County, the Baker White Lumber Co., of Baker County, and the Grand Rounde Lumber Co. of La Grande among the number, also the North west Door Co. of Portland. A boozer can get no work on the railroads, no place of trust in the business world. no high salaried position in the mills nd he is the first man laid offff in the roust-about gang, and the last man to be taken on. Nothing good can be said for liquor, and every evil can be laid at its door. Only 26.2 per cent of the population of the United States use it at all. The would-be-represen tative of this district who put the pro portion way up near 100 per cent showed very poor qualification for the office he seeks, or he would be careful to verify his figures. Of this 20.2 per cent most would not miss it. The men who are raising the roar about prohibition are the saloonn grafters, who get more money with less investment in that business than they would in any other. The noise than sounds like Eppstein, the Hop Growers Association, etc., is merely a roar of the booze trust. Hence let us vote 332 YES. W. T. Miliken. Gives them a small present with a strong string tied to it and when they get something worth" while, pulls it back with double com pound interest attached, and gives the whole thing to wealthy parasites. Vote for the exemption measure and come much nearer jusflce. And the wealthy bunch are tired of having their "Personal Liberty" threatened by reform tax measures so often and want it fixed so it will take a two-thirds vote to reachthem. This is quite a contract to the authors of the exemption measure, who are willing, if it carries, to give the people two more chances to wipe it of the books by a big majority vote. The many poor people that the Oregonian says will be injured by the exemption why do they not tell us who they are andwhere they are, give us examples and why do not the poor people themselves complain, and give their percentage of exemption? The Oregonian says the exemption measure would only help the middle class that is able to pay the tax as it is. Yes, maybe we are able to pay twice as much for a cow as others can buy her for but somehow we do not like to do it, neither do we like to buy a cow and let some one else use the milk at our expense. If it was proposed to assess all land alike, acre for acre, without re gard to location, what a mighty howl we would all raise, but personal prop erty and improvements are assessed without regard to location and be cause we have become used to it, some think it the only way and howl against a change. Perhaps it is for the same reason that a prisoner be comes attached to his cell. It is said the rich have the most of the kind of property it is proposed to exempt. Yes, but they have a much greater proportion of the kind that is left after the exemption is made and that is where the shoe pinches. That is the patriotic reason- for the $100 contribution to beat the change. What they will have left to pay taxes on will be a much greater proportion than the rest of us will have left and they cannot hide it and that will pinch too. Well, I rest the case on the above issue and hope the surtax will carry, that the legalized booze business of Oregon will get a solar plexus blow, ditto for the disguised assembly bill. hope U'Ren or Smith will get a chance to use the sharp two-edged sword on single item appropriations, that I can bid goodbye to the sen ate, but if it does not go, that Stark weather will be there, that propor tional representation will carry and that Schuebel, Spence and other good Democrats and Socialists are elect ed to the legislature. O. D. Robbins. 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Constipation, headache, dull, tired feeline never afflict those who use Folev Cathartic Tablets. Only 25c. Jones Drug Co. The Courier aiid tho twice-a-week Portland Journal, three papers each vrck for SI. 75 is some bargain. ijssBsss&r to EH JOY WINTER Prof. Frankland strates that COD LIVER OIL generates more body-heat than anything else. In SCOTT'S EMULSION the pure oil is so prepared that the blood profits from while it fortifies throat and lungs! "Toore TibKcfloeoHk.od. Or tret: if wan Hiv I l , for on. Booth rd watch ibl rood fu. NO ALCOHOL 1-W REFUSE SUBSTITUTES lKiTJTf1i'.T?.-j-F,.-1:r.nnT- EXCUSES WILL NOT CUSE YOU EX- if you' have been injured or your family has been injured by the wreck of a carriage that needed repairing. Don't tako any risks of life or limb. If your carriage or wagon is de fective, bring it to us and we will make it sound and as good as new at Owen G. Thomas