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OREGON CITY COURrER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 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 CIH COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER M. J. BROWN, A. E. FROST, OWNERS. Subscription Price $ 1 .50. . Telephones, Main 5 -1 ; Home A 5-1 Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Oregon M. J. BR.OWN, EDITOR U'Ren IS a dry nominee for gov ernor. Ho has sand enough to take a stand. If elected governor Ore gon and the voters make the state dry, it will be dry never doubt that. One way to reduce taxes on your self is to vote to abolish offices. The abolition of the state senate will sweep away 30 directly and 300 in directly. Swat em. 350 x yes. We need honest AND capable men in the legislature. We get very few that answer to both qualifications. The proportional representation am endment will give us a legislature in 1916 the majority of which will be both. 348 X yes. If a nominee so fears the influ ence of the liquor interests before election that he dares not let the Vot ers know whether he is wet or dry, don't you believe, if elected, that same nominee would be to some ex tent influenced by the liquor vote that made him governor? Republican nominee for Governor, Withycombe, is NOT a dry candidate. We challenge him to deny this state ment. Democratic nominee for gov ernor, Smith, is NOT a dry candi date, and we dare him to declare he is. Are you temperance voters go ing to vote for these men ? Are you going to set a precedent in Oregon for straddling and cowardice? The U. S. senate doesn't need any more lumber kings. When we contemplate a fellow ctizen rtrunk and asleep in a vacant aiiey, moutti open and full of ilies, we are again assured that this is free country and full of liUerty. Kichmond (Cal.) Herald. The Federated Societies of the German speaking people of Oregon has passed a resolution opposing the Rainless Parker'' dentistry bill and asking its members to aid in the de- teat of the bill. The U. S. report shows the Booth Kelly Lumber Co. owns 324,000 acres of land in Oregon. What a warm friend of the little fellow Mr. Booth would be in the U. S. senate. And you little fellows can stop him with the x mark. We doubt the propriety of letting anyone fool around our mouth with a crowbar or drill who hasn t had a pretty thorough training, and, we do not believe anyone can get the skill in twelve short months. Mt. Scott Herald. The recall stands in Oregon. It is self operating, in working order, and the people may recall officials who do not obey orders or represent constituents. The supreme court has so held, and that settles it. Any other opinion was hardly considered, for the supreme court of Oregon could hardly overrule the expression of the people through the ballot. The recall is now absolutely established law in Oregon. "Swat it hard" says the Central Labor Council, speaking of the infa mous attempt to hamstring the pri mary, restore the auction block me thod of nominating public officials and putting another election on the back of the taxpayer. Make it unan imous with a big S-W-A-TI 355 x No Whack it with a ciub the last measure on the ballot. Starts out with a lie. Calls itself an exemption measure. Exempts nothing. Joker is to establish the two-thirds rule on the people to amend a tax law. The legislature would amend with a bare majority. The idea of a majority of the people providing that hereafter two-thirds of the people shall be re quired to change some infamous law that a trickey, blind or foolish legis lature might put over on us. 357 x with it on that end for fear you might forget. The Courier believes with Ilev. Mil liken that the dentistry bill should be killed. It believes that Oregon should give as much protection to the human mouth as it does to the horse's mouth. It bclieyos that the initiative should not be sued for an individual benefit. It believes that Oregon should not open its doors to all who want an easy opening to prac tice dentistry. Its a "Painless Par ker" bill to legislate "Painless Park er" into practice. It's a bill that would have a short shrift before the legislature. If there is a dental trust admitting Parker won't dissolve it. Dead men are not worth a cent a dozen ecept to a medical college, and the market soon breaks in time of pestilence or war. But you can tax 'em. Indeed you can. Place a ten per cent tax on all dead men's es late over $50,000 in value and there will be plenty to employ the idle this winter at road making.. 352 X yes The Sentinel hasn't the least bit of sympathy with calamity howling or "empty dinner pail" arguments in politics. The beginning of the war has temporarily disarranged some of our industries, but for others times were never better; and it is only a question of a short time when all will be on the up grade again. Ore gon is all right economically and the pessimist is an enemy of the public welfare. Coquille Sentinel. The way to reduce taxes on your self is to pile 'em up on soma other fellow. A few millionaires have been playing that gave in Oregon a long time. They exempt themselves from $400,000,000 at least of their just share. The $1,500 exemption meas ure would give 40,000 farmers in Ore gon exemption on about $110,000,000. Tho UN-taxed water power of Ore gon should be assessed that much alone. Vote 32G X yes. Many years ago in a New York jail the Courier editor saw the finest spocimen of manhood die in delirium convulsions. Tho Empire state gave liquor sellers the legal right to soil the liquor that killed this man; the suicido employed the "personal liber ty" of drinking it or leaving it alone, and delerium tremens got in their perfect work. Tho man was six feet five inches high and absolutely per fect in development. A prolonged debauch brought on tho nerve convul sions and after being roped to his cot it took a dozen men to control hiin. Ho died an hour afterwards. The writer was just of nge at the time. Ho has never voted for a li cense and never will. That man's death made temperance workers of ali who witnessed tho horrors. "The honest American working man is willing to pay his fair share of taxes!" shoults a paid advocate of the 200 corporations and individuals beating the people of Oregon out of tuxes on over $-100,000,000 of per sonal property. Of course he is; and ho is also willing to pay from five to ten times his share, and if he votes down tho $1,500 exemption measure (320 on tho ballot) he will have some more of other peoples' taxes piled on him in Oregon. Tho household exemption act udopled two years ago in this state exempts all the household furniture of any person in the state, no mut ter if tho furniture of a single indi vidual amounts to ten thousand in value. Tho people voted for this act becauso it exempted the furniture of those who had little, and it was that or nothing then. Now we have an opportunity to amend it by passing the $1500 exemption act. That will relievo not only the furniture, but all the personal property, building and improvements of every person up to the amount of $1500 but nothing be yond that. Coquillo Sentinel. une nunored and hity men were pulled off one train up the valley last weeK. rne immigration commission should now ssiue more new literature to send back East, and Withycombe should get a new hold of his "A Greater Oregon. The Ashland Tidings, for forty years a Republican paper, comes out flatly against Hawley and Withy- comDe. ui the itcpublican nominee for governor the Tidings says it be lieves him to be a spineless man; that he announces no principle, takes no stand, advocates no policy and preaches no doctrine that has not been censored by his managers and approyed by the machine. He says nothing, advocates nothing. - Probably the biggest fool measure on the ballot is that providing for a third tax commission. It is the lim it. The governor has appointed two tax commissions already. They do nothing. A third will do nothing more than the other two. Its spon sors are the Millionaires' Non-Parti san League. Some jokers in it; too. A suspicious thing in wording and a fool thing in import. We need few er tax comissions not more. 34o x no. TRY VOTING FOR THE MAN Charles Risley is a farmer with a mighty level head and a Democrat. A voter said the other day he would vote for him if he was "only a Republican." We feel a heap more sorry for this voter than for Mr. Risley. A man who let's "vote 'er straight" have more pull with him than brains and ability should move to New York state and bask in Barnes' halo. The Republican who votes for Mr. Risley for the legislature (and a lot of them are going to) won't have any regrets to eat later. He's big enough for the job. He'll make good. Never mind the D., vote for the man for a change. MOST IMPORTANT MEASURE W. S. U'Ren Says a Man has the Right to Work and Live Oregon City, Ore., Oct. 20, 1914. To the Editor: How are the wives and children ox working men to be sure of three square meals a day this winter unless husbands and fathers have work? In my opinion this is by far the most important question before the voters of Oregon, What do the Republican and Democratic candidates offer and promise for providing sufficient em ployment tor men who want to worn ; How will the "Single item veto" help the jobless and hungry through the winter? Taxes are much too high on the people who have work and have homes. What does Dr. Smith pro pose to do about that? Has anybody heard ( What does Dr. Withycombe say he will do about these things ? Has any body heard? It 1 am elected governor 1 will do my utmost from the first day to see that honorable employment is pro vided by the state for the citizens who need it, and at wages at lesast suf ficient to clothe and feed their fami lies. Bismark was right when he said every able bodied man has a right to demand employment of some kind from the state, when, he cannot find it for himself. I will use the utmost powers of the governor's oflice to establish perma nent conditions under which there will be no hunger and poverty for willing workers in Oregon. The governor can lo much along this line it he is willing and knows how. If I am governor, I will propose and support such increase as may be ne cessary in the graduated inheritance tax to secure from great estates suf ficient revenue to pay a large part ot state expenses, including such public employment as may be necessary eo prevent sultenng. There are some people who thinK there is no involuntary idleness, and no mothers or children in Oregon to day hungry because the fathers can not get work, r or such 1 quote the following from the Evening Telegram of October 10th: "Dead broke, with his rent due and no food for his children, both less than 10 vears old, a former soldier is daily visiting the ollices of the Associated Charities in search of work of any kind. His story is only the story of scores of others who have daily be seeched the Associated Charities with appeals for aid. Three similar cases ot hungry hildren are given in the same news tern. Ask the other candidates what they will do for these people. What will they do to make it certain that every itizen can work it he wants to and earn bread and butter for Molly and tho babines ? Any candidate for gov ernor really ought to offer something better and more practical for that pur pose thnn the single item veto. bincerely yours, W. S. U'REN. E ICE 3 What Compound Interest Is E When we advertise that we com pound interest every six months on our Savings Accounts it means simply this; that on the 1st of Jan uary and July of each year we add, the interest that is due on an ac count, to the principal, and the next six months interest is figured on this new principal,, thus paying interest on interest which is Com pound Interest. THE BANK OF OREGON CITY Oldest Bank in Clackamas County o H The Man to Elect Sheriff Do you want a sheriff who has sand enough to stand for law endorse ment? lias any of the candidates come out against the booze business? Leiser, the Socialist candidate, came out against the booze business. He will enforce the law. He is out squarely against booze. As chief of police in Canby ho has earned a just reputation for law enforcement and decency. Can the dry forces afford to elect a man who tries to carry water on both shoulders? Mr. Leis er is 40 years old, a married man with wife and twoc hildren. The people will make no mistake to elect him. W. W. Myers. Sec. Campaign Com. (Paid Adv.) THE "X"-WHERE? You voters have only a few days before election and the responsibility of passing on the measures is equal to picking the state ticket. Study the measures, take them one by one and be thoroughly informed before you vote. The Courier has taken these meas ures up one by one during the past weeks and given its opinions. Fol lowing is th e summary as we see them. Then if you do not agree with us, vote as YOU think, but do not vote until you have thoroughly stud ied the measures and the arguments on both sides. Bills to Kill Creating the office of lieutenant governor 303 x no. That state may lend its credit to incur indebtedness in excess of $50,000. Bonding scheme 307 x no. Two tax laws submitted by the legislature regulating taxation 309 x No, 311 x No. Tax to maintain normal school at Ashland 313 x no. To maintain normal school at Weston 317 x no. Raising pay of legislators to $5 per day with ten cents per mile car fare-319 x No. Universal eight hour day 321 x No. The dentistry bill 341 x no. Extending terms of county offices 343 x no. Creating tax code commission 345 x no. Primary delegate election bill 355 x no. Equal assessment and taxation amendment, has "joker" that requires two-thirds vote to amend or repeal taxation laws 357 x no. Make These Laws Requiring voters to be citizens of the United States 300 x yes. Non-Partisan Judiciary bill 342 x yes. The $1500 tax exemption amend ment 326 x yes. Public docks amendment 328 x yes. . Municipal wharfs and docks bill 330 x yes. ' Prohibition amendment 332 x yes. Abolishing death penalty 334 x yes. Graduated tax on real estate over $25,000 in value 336 x yes. Consolidating corporation and in surance departments 338 x yes. Abolishing desert land board 346 x yes. Proportional representation 348 x yes. Abolishing state senate 350 x yes. Creating department of public works ("Right to Work" measure) 352 x yes. DEPAR FOLLOWING U'REN (Ashland Tidings.) W. S. U'Ren spoke at the city hall this afternoon. He is an Independ ent candidate for governor, and the $1,500 tax .exemption abolishment of the senate and proportional repre sentation were his main themes. Mr. U'Ren put over the initiative and ref erendum on- the people of Oregon a number of years ago and this state soon became a labaratory for the ex perimentation of social and political ideas with the result that Oregon be came famous throughout the Union as a people that did not fear to en ter upon and carry out the broadest possible democratic form of govern ment. Repeated efforts either, thru candidates or political intrigues to kill or cripple this comprehensive system of government have been de cisively defeated by the people. The Oregon system has been etxensively introduced in many states and is steadily gaining ground and there is- no present limitations to its wide sweep. To consider this in the face of the fact that Mr. U'Ren was an obscure citizen of a state of small population and somewhat isolated from the larger cdmmonwealths shows the power of the people as well as their desire for democratic ideas when they are at once intelligently oriranized and presented. No citi zen of Oregon will leave as large an impress upon the history of his time as Mr. U'Ren, a modest and unassum ing personality. HOE E D 3 "NEVER AGAIN" If there is ONE lonesome reason why Congressman Hawley should be returned this paper has never seen it. His past voting record absolutely condemns him, and that dodging Mrs, Wilson's funeral to go on a salaried business trip to Denver places him in a most contemptible position. Paper after paper, the most of them his own party papers, have con- mned him, and given their reasons, and no denials come. He has played the big business game, been caught at it, and the Re publicans are repudiating him. Fred Hollsiter looms head and shoulders above him as a worker for Oregon. The people are simply go ing over to him. Mr. Hawley has at- aended his last session at Washing ton as congressman. It's political history. Oregon has changed in the past eight years, and Mr. Halwey has stayed with the old reactionary crowd. A man has been nominated who is congressional size and who stands for a progressive Oregon, And this man will take Mr. Haw ley's seat. There can't be any doubt about this now. New Era Grange Meeting Warner Grangeh olds its regular meeting the fourth Saturday of this month, 24th. Brother Spenci-&rr waster, will meet with us on that day and will talk on the various issues up for next election. Grangers and r..:.,.,.io i,., ..it..,1 a i I i ivttiif, ui- purr lu niiniii, n Dili I . . . . - . . dinner and a good time for all will be 1ulcker by Pa'lnK for the ur assured. advance. FOR SALE House and four lots. Price $950. Will take Oregon City warrants or bonds to $700 . Bal. terms. Macdonald & Van Auken. You can't make a half dollar any ADAMS TMENT STORE SMART STYLES in MEN'S SUITS NEW Hatt, Schaffner & High-Gtade All-Wool Suits 20.00 dams Special Very Excellent Grade Men's New Fall Suits for $12.50 Boys' Suits, sues 5 to J 6 Special Price $2 90 Adams Department Store Oregon City's Busy Store Ask tor Red Trading btamps.J Ccpyrlirht Hart SehaHncr 4 Uiirx CAN YOU BETTER THIS? With such candidates as Spence and Scnueoel lor the house it does not seem necessary to urge voters to support them. Men who want hon est and vigorous representatives can not even Hesitate over tneir selection. Both of them are too well known in this county to neeed boosting, lime and again they have been tried out and have made good made good ior the masses, the workers -and the neavily taxed. Clackamas county has a state-wide reputation of having honest and ca pable legislators. The men who have helped make it should be returned and men of spence's calibre should be fill ed in the vacancies. Break up this county's stone wall and the men who work the political machine will laugh with glee. Clackamas county won't have much slipped over on it with such men as Schuebel, Spence, Risley and Dimick at Salem. They will constitute a bunch the machine can't run it over. It's business. Vote business. Don't weaken the line-up. Forget the label. What do YOU care to what party they belong. Two Republi cans, an Independent and a Democrat but they are men who can deliver. Elect them you can't better this four of a kind. A STEP BACKWARD The measure known as the Dentist- rv Bill should be defeated, because dentists who have not kept up wan the progress of dentistry and sanita tion, and yet who hold a diploma from a shortc ourse college, could be grant ed a license in Oregon without ex- inferior colleges with an insuffic ient course of two years could be es tablished in Oregon and graduate without examination as to qualifica tion. ' Inferior colleges with an insuffic ient course of two years could be es tablished in Oregon and graduate students with the least prepartaion required by any state in the United States. Hundreds of dentists who are not competent to perform good or safe dentistry are being lorced to suspeuo their nefarious practice in otner states, and they will seek such a lax state as it is proposed to make 01 Oregon. No other state in the United States admits a dentist to practice without an examination. The proposed meas ure throws down the bars to quacks, charlatans and other incompetent per sons unable to meet the requirement of other states. It will helD spread disease find in fection by throwing Oregon open to dentists with unsanitary methods ana dishonest practices, and this is some thing no good citizen can afford to have brought about Gresham .Outlook. OUT FOR PARKER'S BILL We have applications for money in sums of $500.00 to ?-J5UU."U on nrst class security at 8 per cent inter est. WTe will be glad to handle your business. Macdonald & Van Auken. Robert Guinther's Views on the Pro posed Initiative Amendment To the Courier: As election draws near, our inter est in the measures upon the ballot becomes more intensified. The friends and opponents of special measures are becoming more active. Among the measures that at first little was thot about but now has become prominent, is the proposed Dental Bill, know as Painless Parker's bill, which is aimed at what he denounces as the Dental Trust.. Now we all, or at least the majority of us, have good reasons to believe that such a trust exists. We know from expensive experience that the Dental industry in this state feels like a trust to us. The prices exact ed for the smallest service are an out rage upon a man's income. Take, for instance, the pulling of teeth. It makes no difference whether it's the baby tooth of a child, or the fully de veloped teeth of an adult, the charges are the same everywhere (50c). The common experience with other dental features is the same. And now here comes a man from the Eastern part of our country with a new methoa, from a new school, and our Dental Trust refuses to even tell him, we understand, what per cent he has at tained in his examination before the Oregon Trurst! Compare this with the fight being waged by our Doctor's Trust against the new school of heal ing as represented by Dr. VanBrakle. Ybu will find it identical. What aroused my curiosity were the names of the persons who are endorsing the Dental Trust. It is discouraging to sincerity to read these names. I am of the opinion that Whittier's famous poem "lchabod" very appropriately may be applied to these endorsers. When you find one of Oregon's great women authors, and an ex-president of a state university among the en dorsers of the Dental Trust, it makes us common people feel more repulsive about the upright pretensions of our so-called better classes (?). Painless Parker is no doubt the equal in "On line of business of the highest and ablest of the Dental Trust. He , introducing a newer, better and cheap er dentistry. That means something to us common clodhoppers these days. It would be interesting to know why these high-muck-a-mucks lhave lent the weight of their great influence ( ?) to such a simple thing as trying to present a man with a method to re move teeth, etc., without pain, from helping us poor sufferers. Not even this boon does our Aristocracy want to grant us. To be on the right sidu for our own good, let us vote for Painless Parker's bill, and in addition we must vote for those higher govern mental laws such as the $1500 exemp tion bill, the sur-tax, proportional representation, the right to work bill, and those other measures opposed to by the Non-Partisan League, signed by one George Mason, I believe. Yes and in conclusion I might add, that in my opinion, you cannot display your true patriotism and intelligence to greater advantage than by voting the Socialist ticket. ROBERT GINTHER. October 19, 1914. R. 3, Oregon City, Ore. C. W. RISLEY Democratic Nominee for Representa tive (Paid Adv.) GUY T. HUNT Republican Nominee for Representa tive (Paid Adv.) Notice of Annual Meeting Notice is hereby given that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Ogle Mountain Mining Company will be held at Knapp's Hall, Oregon City, Ore, November 2, 1914, at 2 P. M. All stockholders are requested to be present Ogle Mt Mining Co. J. B. Fairclough, Pre W. J. Wilson, Sec. 1 f ' Vyi'- j l 1 F 'irs f Turn a I J i : ! f - Our Next Congressman Fred Hollis 6ter of North Bend If you want to buy or sell gee Mc Donald and Van Auken. They hunt buyers, they advertise your property