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Oregon city courier, Thursday, October 22, 1914. COWS OR DIAMONDS? Which is it More to Farmers Interests to Have Taxed? Oregon City, Ore., Oct. 21, 1914. To the Editor: This is my last letter to you on the $1500 Homes Tax Exemption amend ment, and I hope you will not only print it, but all your subscribers will read it. This measure will exempt neces saries of life from taxes, but not lux uries. Cows are necessaries for farmers and mortgages are not, but cows pay taxes now and mortgages go free. Homes are necessary for working people and diamonds are not, but homes pay taxes now while diamonds "in actual use" are exempt by law. Money invested in land clearings and farm implements is necessary for farmers and must pay taxes now; but nearly all money in the bank dodges the tax. This Exemption amendment will save more than a million- dollars a year to farmers and wage workers. The owners of great wealth in cor porations, water powers, skyscrap ers, and the land and timber specula tors will pay all that the exemption saves to the farmers and wage work ers. Vote once for ballot number 326 x Yes and try the Exemption of Little Homes for one year. Sincerely yours, W. S. U'Ren. "WET" LEAGUE IN FIGHT OVER COIN Only Two "Taxpayers and Wage Earners" BREWERS PUT UP FUNDS LOGAN The Democratic candidates were at the grange hall on the 3th and ad dressed a fair sized and attentive audience. Nearly all the candidates were present and gave their claims for consideration of thev oters, but the most extended talks were by Cook Staats and Starkweather. F. P. Wil son, precinct committeeman, intro duced the speakers. The Republican candidates had a date set last week but cancelled it for some reason. George Clark, who died at Alsea, and was buried at Oregon City on the 14th, lived at Logan for many years, and was well known to all old resi dents. He was strong in his friend ships, strong in his likes and dislikes of men and their affairs. He took an active part in the organization and management of an Orange lodge here for some years and was the first Master of Harding Grange. He was generous to the needy, hospitable to all and his mistakes are "writ in sand." Carl Kirchem has joined the Ford automobile brigade. CARUS The R. R. is here and all are hap py if the whistle doesn't blow too long and loud, as we can't sleep when dis. turbed. The Parents-Teachers Club is put ting up a playshed. Mrs. Curtiss is getting quite well now. The Stuarts had callers Thursday evening, and our set is progressing fine. Farmers are getting their grain in as quickly as possible for we may have showers soon. The Curtiss family spent an even ing with the-Shepherds recently. War is bad for it makes prices go up our sugar and flour, but war does not raise the prices on the farmers' spuds, wheat and hogs. liens have gone on a strike also and no eggs for market as eggs are scarce. News is now scarce as hen's teeth A re-union was held at the home of Mrs. Jennie Curtiss September 6th when her four brothers, who have been separated for nearly 50 years, were united. A pleasant time was enjoyed. Keep Stomach and Liver Healthy A vigorous Stomach, perfect work ing Liver and regular acting bowels is guaranteed if you will use Dr. King's New Life Pills. They insure good Digestion, correct Conatipntion and have an excellent tonic effect on the whole Bystcm Purify your blood and rid you of nl lbody poisons tnru the bowels. Only 25c at your Druggist. Accidents to tho flesh -will happen, no matter now caruiui you art). Ballard's SNOW LINIMENT Kept Always In tho houso la a ttuarnnteo ot prompt treat ment whenever tliore la a cut, burn, lirulHo or othor injury to the fleBb. of any mcmbor of the family. Tho sooner these wounds are treated, the creator certainty that they will heal without much rain or loss of time. It Is equally certain that the torture of rheumatism, neuralgia and sciatica, lame back, stiff nock and lumbnRO will be rased, and the dlneass speedily driven out of the body. If vou have It on hand the suffurlaar U short and thd CUT Is speedy And complete. Price 25c, BOo and $1.00 per Dottle. JamaiF.Ballard,Prop. CtLouU.MOb Stephens Eye Silvs Curss 8er tyos. Jonea Drug Co., Oregon City. Residence 612 Center St. Phones: Main 1 101 M. 172 Dr. A. McDonald Veterinary Surgeon Office, Red Front Barn Phones: Main 116 B-9 OREGON CITY KNOWING THAT OREGON DRY MEANS BETTER BUSI NESS FOR ALL LINES SAVE ONLY SALOONS. BY ORTON E. GOODWIN, Publicity DepartmenCommlttee of One The great campaign to make Oregon "wet" has failed. The exposure by Dr. Oora Talbott, secretary of the "Taxpayers' and Wage Earners' League," that the organization consisted of two Eersons, Mrs. Duniway and r., Talbott, and was fi nanced by the brewers and distillers to make Oregon "wet," threw the fat into the fire. The brewers and distillers know that all kinds of busi ness save theirs is better in a dry town. They know this has been proved by figures and facts from Salem, Oregon Cily, Roseburg, Albany, Ncwberg, Ashland, Corvnllis, Pen dleton and many other towns. Organization Spreads Untruthi. So they organized the "Taxpay ers' and Wage Earners' League" to spread misinformation about Ore gon dry. They know bank deposits in dry towns have increased in number and amount. They know bad debts are almost unknown in all dry towns. They know collections are better. . They know arrests from drunkenness are almost unknown. They know every dry town in Ore gon it prosperous. So, they became desperate. Taxpayers' League Is "Joke." Then they organized the joke "Taxpayers' and Wage Earners' League." Dr. Talbott was secre tary. She became disgusted when she learned money was being col lected by the brewers and distil leries by the use of her name, und she resigned. Then Mrs. Duniway advertised lavishly, announcing that the money the "league" was using was pro vided by the brewers. The campaign of misinformation carried on by employes of the league, who are also employes of the breweries and distilleries, is now known till over Oregon. Brewers Spending Your Money. Every man, woman und child has to spend $20 a year with the saloons, If you do not drink, some one else has to pay OUIl share. So, it is YOUR money the Ore gon brewers and Easlcrn distil leries have been using to persuade YOU Oregon wet will do YOU good. It is believed they expect to spend over $200,000 of YOUR money. They know Oregon dry will put them out of business and help every other kind of business in the state. Allhough the breweries and dis tilleries know Oregon dry is for better business, prosperity und more work, they 'are fighting it. No Saloons; Better Business. We have had bad times with tho saloon, haven't we? Why not try no saloon? It can't make things worse and is certain to make things better. The reason is: Money spent on the saloon can not be spent for grocories. Money spent in the saloons much of it goes East. Money spent for dry goods and groceries stays in the towns and makes better business. The members of the Committee of One Hundred are all Oregenians. Most of them are business men. They ask you to vote Oregon dry, because they know, us the brew ers also know, that Oregon dry means belter business, lower taxes, more work and a return to pros perity. 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Sold by nil nriiKHlsts. 75o. Tke lull's Family rills for constipation MACDONALD AND VAN AUK EN Oregon Equity Dews P. W. MEREDITH, Editor. We never miss the water till the well runs dry. We won't miss our food 'till it is all shipped to Europe. Europe's debt is increasing every day and the men to pay it are decreasing. The world will soon look to the United States for food and a great many other things. Moses received the commandments on Mt. Sinai, then organized his ar my and killed or enslaved the Can-anites. This probably is the precedent that European kings are acting on to preserve the 10 commandments and Christianity by force of arms. The United States will soon have a corner on food, but it will not prove a money maker for the farmer unless he organizes and gets part of the profits that have been going to the middlemen. Join the Equity and get ready to help the American farmers Federation. Before the farmer can get what is due them they must organize. Far mers could have secured a big price for this vear's wheat crop had they been thoroughly organized for that purpose sooner. When they did make a start the price moved up. Amer ican farmers will make good another year. Get ready now. Join tne Equity. Our next State meeting will be November 21. Shall we send a del egate to the national meeting at Po- cotella, Idaho in December? Now is the time for every member to take a tight grip on the Equity for next year's market is ours for victory is in sight. All honor is due those who have stayed by and fought the good fight for co-operation. We are go ing to win out sooner than our leaders expected. . Close up the ranks and elect delegates. What is coming our way? Eu ral Credits, Parcel Post, Express rates, lower taxes, public markets and the greatest demand for food that the world has known. Two-thirds of the American farmers are ready to join hands for everything the Equity bo cietv has been working for. Ihe gold of the world is coming to Amer ica for food. Farmers organize and get what once went to gamblers and grafters. Join the Equity. The farmers now control over one thousand elevators. The organized farmers have representatives on every important market. Every thing is ready to market through our organization if we stand by, close up the gaps and march on. The whole world will be forced to adopt our plan or starve. Equity memebrs must buy and sell more and more thru the organization. There is a general revival all along the line. Clackamas County Equity has a county business agent that has done hundreds of dollars worth of business for Equity members and now he is better prepared than ever to sup ply you with any kind of machinery and can save you money. He will not be worth anything to you if you don't use him. Brother Steadman, county secretary of Washington Co., is doing good work for members of that county. Brother Smitke is another one who has the staying qual ities. Our state organ, the Oregon City Courier is always on the job and is gaining as many friends and readers among other classes as the organized farmers and it is the medium thru which all people learn the objects of the Equity and the necessity of adopting them. Other papers are be ginning to teach some of our planks, The Oregon Journal has championed our $1500 exemption. It is a good, independent city paper. Up in Columbia county the people recalled the County Court and attor ney. They refused to give up their warm places in the county's feather bed and have their lawyer hunting around for a higher power than the expressed will of the people. That such a power exists we will not deny but if it is found and proves to be alive and active it will be the duty of the Equity editor to furnish our readers with our very best picture of IT with descriptions and comments. The oreat war in Europe has prov ed all that the Equity has stood tor. If the farmers are not organized and prepared to control prices on food stuffs it would make no difference to, t.hn American producer if wheat was $10 per bushel in Europe he would be forced to sell for 05 or 70 cents, just like the speculators and combines started out to do this year. But the Equity broke the combine and now we are ready to federate and control. Real Estate, Insurance, and Loans Courier Office Election day is drawing near and everybody who has registered should vote and study the 29 amendments sufficient to vote with intelligence. As to men we can recommend Judge Anderson, Commissioner Smith, and C. E. Spence for tho legislature. These men are organized farmers and have come to the front at the right time. They have made good and now during the crisis of the great war we are in need of men who can be trust ed to practice economy and curb the questionable customs of big and lit tle business. The Equity Society is for . the Homes $1500 tax exemption because it is a little help and encouragement to the small farmer. We contend that it is much better to have a great many small farm owners than to have only a few owners and all the rest tenants paying high rents to land lords. The time has come to pro tect the homes of the small producer for the big ones have always been able to take care of themselves. We need more such laws as this. Another amendment the Equity favors is the abolishing of the state senate. Only two provinces of Cana da have senates we have been told. It is an old fogy custom handed down from the feudal days of England with their House of Lords. There never was any use or reason for having two separate houses for making laws only to get the taxing power as fartfrom the people as possible. When we know exactly who to blame for bad laws good ones will be more plentiful. Recently an organized body of railroad presidents called on the President at the Whitehous and laid before him the financial conditions of the roads. Of course the President was totally ignorant of these things? And this gentile body of respectable nabobs painted the picture in all of its wretchedness and on their sup plication the President issued a proc lamation to the American people. These proclamations are becoming as numerous as referendum amendments so we pay but little attention to them so the Equity editor deems the situ ation so grave that he again calls your attention to the way our rail roads are headed for the jumping off place. Congress has investigated the many steals and corruption of the Hartford and New Haven and other roads to which we call your atten tion. The Interstate Commerce Com mission has amassed a huge amount of evidence of mismanagement, also to which we call your attention. . In face of all these facts the President urges you to show your appreciation of these railroads by doing all you can as citizens to make this finacial panic a bed of roses for our delin quent railroads. Now after you have paid your war tax and provided lib erally for our state ' commissions, please dig up all you can for the des titute water stocked bond mired, rot ten railroads. No matter what policies of Presi dent Wilson's administration should prove to be failures there is one of his policies that has proved a suc cess and that is the policy of peace. The horrors of war are beyond words of description. The painter's brush has never pictured the desolation of humanity thus caused. Civilization will yet shun a thought of wholesale slaughter with its famine and dis ease. Without peace on earth, good will toward men we have nothing but idolatry and barbarism. Maple Lane Resolutions Editor Equity News: Resolutions passed at the last meeting of Maple Lane Local were: Whereas there is at present a threatened crisis in this country ow ing to the high cost of living there fore be it resolved by Maple Lane Local F. S. E., that we memoralize Congress to immediately place in em bargo upon all agricultural products against all nations now at war ir Europe and Japan, permitting ex ports of agricultural products only to non-combatant nations and upon as surance from such governments that such exports are not Intended for the proscribed nations. Whereas there is at present in the principal Eastern cities a business beintr operated by certain express companies whereby the consumers of said cities may buy agricultural pro ducts co-operatively of the producer, thru said express companies, there by benefitting both producer and con sumer. Therefore be it resolved by Maple Lane Local F. S. E. that we do memoralize Congress to take steps whprehv the United States govern men shall be enabled to manage and handle this business. thru the Par cel Tost. Be it further resolved that a copy of these resolutions be sent by the secretary under seal to each of the following: Senator- Chamberlain, Representative Hawley, "Up-to-date Farming" and Oregon City Courier. G. F. Mighells, Sec. TRADE If you wish to trade your farm near Woodburn. Mt Angel, Hubbard or Aurora for a good 48 acres near a good town, one mile from carline, 3 miles from high school, R. F. D., cream route, and phone in house, 4u acres in cultivation, 4 acres in orchard 8 acres in timber. Pasture. 3 springs in pasture. Good 7-room house, two barns 80x50 and 38x50. Granary, prune dryer, wagon shed, chicken house, hog house, 6 cows, two good horses, 6 hogs, 60 hens, two wagons, mower, rake, binder, plows, harrovt, disc and seeder. Want to get in German settlement would prefer near Catholic church. 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