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Will fee otif 23d Annual Holiday Opening
and Sotiveni Day. This is the day we
want to welcome yoti all to oaf store the
old friends, the new friends and those per
haps who are not acquainted with the Hantly idea of
service, qoality and fair prices we want yoa all here
As usual we will have a worth while musical program from 2 to 5 P. M
Our Souvenirs, we think, surpass in beauty and value anything we have
ever before given away. With a purchase amounting to 50 cents or over
we will give a beautiful hand painted cup and saucer. '
For those who spend $f .00 or more we have provided a handsome Eng
lish Tea Pot. so desirable in shape and color that you would expect to
pay more than a dollar for it if you were allowed to buy it. In order to
insure a souvenir for each customer we are obliged to make these rules;
No Souvenir given out before 9;00 A. M. December 4th
Only one Souvenir to a customer
None given to children
No Souvenirs reserved
But whether a purchaser or not we want yon to come and enjoy the
music and the jolly crowd and have a look at our Holiday Display. You
will be cordially welcome.
A MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY OF CHRISTMAS GOODS
Everything in this big stock has our 23 years experience in Christmas buying back of it. That means both up-to-date goods
and right prices if nothing more. It is impossible to mention here but a part of the Holiday line we earry but here are a few
Toilet Sets
Manicure Sets
Shaving Sets
Traveling Sots
Jewelry Cases
Glove Boxes
Handkerchief Boxes
Collar & Cuff Boxes
Watches, Jewelry
Umbrellas
Knives, Pictures
Holiday Stationery
Perfumery
Brushes, all kinds
Mirrors, Pipes
Pyrography Outfits
Kodaks, Candy
Late Books
Cigar Cases
Athletic Goods
Photo Albums
Post Card Albums
Brass Ware
Fountain Pens
Talking Machines
Military Brushes
Bibles
Suit Cases and Bags
Ladies' Leather Goods
Gold Pens
Razors
Jewelry
Calendars
De Luxe Books
In Sets
Pocket Books
Juvenile Books
Toy Books
Sectional Book Cases
. Pottery
Thermos Sets
Diaries
Aged Twenty-Three
Yes, we have been right here on the job since 1891 some old; but
it's the age where we appreciate and understand the genuine friend
ship that has existed between ourselves and our customers, many of
whom started witn us at that time twenty three years ago.
Our opening days we have had one in December for the past 12 or
15 years make us realize how much friendship counts in business,
when we see our old friends coming year after year to these opening
day events. It makes us mighty happy and proud and tends to im
press upon us the responsibility that really does exist between a store
of our kind and it's permanent customers. We sure 1 y will appreciate
your being with us on this day.
Books for Xmas Gifts
More and more are books coining
to be considered the ideal gifts.
Whoever ' has enough books? You
may get too many toilet sets too
many silver cake dishes too many
nick nacks of various kinds but
did anyone every get too many
books?
A carefully selected book will
convey as much good cheer and af
fection as an article costing many
times as much.
We have discontinued several
other lines to enanble us to increase
our book stock. We have many
thousand volumes to select from
and experienced book clerks to as
sist you.
Prices as little or as much as you
wish to pay 25c 35c 50c $1.00
for cloth bound books; 35c 50c
$1.00 $1.50 $2.00 for leather
bound volumes; $1.50 for 2 vol.
sets up to $20 for library sets in
sumptous leather bindings
Opening Day Bargain
For Opening Day only we place on
sale a line of Boys' and Girls' Books
the equal in type, paper and bind
ing of any 50c Juvenile Book at
35c or 3 for $1.00.
" PICTURES
You will enjoy looking through
our big line of framed pictures.
Hundreds of them hung on swing
ing wings for quick inspection.
Trices 25c to
Picture Fraiming
We get many compliments for our
artistic picture framing. We have
hundreds of mouldings to select
from if you order now, and we
guarantee to please you. Framing
orders on opening day entitle you
to a souvenir,
Victor Victrola
The instrument by which all ,
other musical instruments are meas
ured. There should be a Victrola
in your home this Christmas. Don't
say too expensive we will sell you
a genuine Victor Victrola for $15
$25 $40. Make a small payment
down if you prefer, and pay the bal
ance in easy payments after Christ
inas. A Practical Gift
is a good umbrella. We try to ex
cel all others in umbrella values and
we stand behind every one with a
guarantee of quality.
Candy Department
We finally just had to come to it
on the BULK candy. For years we
have had the best in Uox Candy we
could get, but only the last year
have Ave put in bulk goods. With
our own candy factory in Portland
turning out the very finest candy it
is possible to make Ave are in a po
sition to supply fine fresh candy,
any kind, any quantity, at the low
est price.
THE REXALL STORE HUNTLEY BROS. COMPANY
Christmas Headquarters
OREGON CITY CO URIER
Published Thursdays from the Couri er Building, Eighth and Main streets,
and entered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as 2d class mail matter"
OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER
M. J. BROWN, A. B. FROST, OWNERS.
Subscription Price $1.50. Telephones, Main 3-1; Home A 5-1
Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Oregon
M. J. BROWN,
EDITOR
Here's betting that before the next
legislature is over Governoor "Oh my
Friends" Withycombe will wish 615
times he was buck with his cows and
chickens at quiet old Corvullis.
The spoilers are camping on Gov-ornor-elect
Withycombe'a trail, and
he will probably discover thut all
rivers do NOT flow to the sea.
Oregon City shines once more.
The city attorney asked to have his
salary cut in hulf, and the city coun
cil refused the reduction. "Where's
that Lima bean?"
Tho Oregoninn has broken out
again for intervention in Mexico.
We wonder how many of the rela
tives of Pittock and Piper would vol
unteer to go down and kill Greasers
and fight fevers. .
If every property owner was
made his own sworn assessor tho tax
ation system would be greatly im
proved and the real estate middle
men would be scarce in Oregon. And
for these reasons the new system
won't be made law.
There is a fight all along the line
in the coming city election.
California wants newcomers. A
year from now she will get them-
the kind she will not want the bums
from Washington, Oregon and Ari
zona. It will not be long, we predict,
when the golden state will vote pro
hibition to protect herself from the
bum element the surrounding dry
states will dump onto her.
Two million Chinese are on
the verge of starvation and
$2,000,000 is needed to save
them. Tho United States is
the only great Nation that can
be charitable this winter. Ore-goniun.
Will the Oregonian please advise
by what lino of reasoning this coun
try should support China, who has
sent its rice and eggs to this country
and thereby starved its people? Let
China take the money received from
these products and buy them back.
The U. S. has enough hungry to feed
without being aid societies for China,
Belgium or any other foreign nations
FOUR REASONS
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0
Why you should have a bank account and pay
with checks:
II
FIRST; your check is a receipt for bills paid.
SECOND, you have no difficulty in making
change.
THIRD, your money is absolutely safe from
loss, robbery and fire.
FOURTH, it gives you a credit that is of great
value in times of need.
The Bank of Oregon City
LOldest Bank m Clackamas County M
HERE'S A PUZZLER
Fred Tronson of Portland murder
ed a girl because she would not marry
htm.
It was premeditated, cold-blooded
murder. The murderer confesses to
it and tells all about how he planned
it.
Naturally a grand jury will indict
him for murder, first degree. It will
simply be a matter of form, for there
is no doubt of his guilt and there are
no extentuating circumstances.
And after he is indicted, let us
suppose that Tronson demands an
early trial and pleads guilty to first
degree murder confesses how he
deliberately planned the crime and
carried it out as he has already con
fessed. There could be but one verdict
the jurors would not need to leave
their seats to render it murder, first
degree.
New comes the peculiar situation,
and the question
What could Oregon law do with
Fred Tronson?
The statutes provide that death by
hanging shall be the penalty of mur
der. This month the voters of the state
abolished hanging. The count is
close but there is little doubt but that
the amendment to the ' constitution
has carried.
The grand jury could do no differ
ent than to indict the murderer for
murder first degree and abide by the
law.
The trial jury could do no differ
ent than convict him on the indict
ment. But the judge could not sentence
him to hang, because there is no law
ful hanging.
He could not sentence him to ttie
penalty of second degree murder, for
thee rimo was not of this degree nor
was the conviction.
Under the state constitution the
murderer cannot be held and tried
under laws tho incoming legislature
may make, because this would be
making laws to cover a crime com
mitted before tho laws were made,
and the state constitution says no ex
post facto laws shall be passed in
Oregon.
And here you have a peculiar situ
ation and problem.
What disposition can be legally
made of Murderer. Tronson is a hard
one to answer.
AND THIS IS LAW
When a man is arrested for a ser
ious crime the sheriff, detectives,
county attorney and others at once
pounce onto him with the "third de
gree tortures and keep them up
until he confesses to something.
The something he has owned up to
is then presented to the grand jury
on which he is indicted.
But brought to trial the prisoner
is not given any "third degree," ask'
ed for any confession, or even com
pelled to tell the truth on the witness
stand.
The Sheriff's department forced
evidence out of him, used it to in
diet him, and the officials to whom
he confessed may become witnesses
and relate that confession to the
jury, may tell what the prisoner told
them. But the prisoner himself may
not be compelled to give evidence.
This is a relic of some old witch-
burning age of law making, and we
of this common sense age carry it
along as a dose of Solomon.
Once there was a law in Massa
chusetts that a man should not kiss
his wife on Sunday, and it is just as
sensible today as that which says a
criminal shall not be made to tell the
truth about a crime.
A criminal may testify to others
and they may repeat his testimony
to the court which is trying him, but
tho court may NOT make the man
testify direct.
And again we say the fool killer is
neglecting his work.
Instance after instance) follow
each other where the selling price of
land , is from two to ten times
its assessed value. Either the asses
sors do not do their sworn duties or
the land owners are the worst of
grafters. And because of these con
ditions we have the rottenest of all
rotten taxation systems a system
that is a rank parody on justice.
How much longer are we going to
tolerate it?
Oregon dry or Oregon wet
We'll stay by old Oregon yet.
If no booze, then buy shoes.
Bo a booster; don't refuse.
JUST A SUGGESTION
There is not much left of the
Democratic party but a few grease
spots and U. S. Senators Chamber
lain and Lane.
The reason is the uemocratic party
in Oregon is not democratic, and has
no fundamental democratic principle
to make sacrifices for, or upon which
to build.
While there are no offices to be
dangled before the eyes of the Demo
crats there should be a state con
vention culled and some democratic
principles with modern and specific
application, promulgated.
Then those not willing to subscribe
to live issues on such a democratic
party platform could go elsewhere.
They would be no loss, since they
have mostly gone anyhow.
If such a party adopted a lot of
platitudes the platitudinous kind of
Democrats would rally to their sup
port, and there would be no fewer
greases pots than now.
If such a gathering endorsed pro
portional r epresentation; or de
manded that men no longer be fined
for using land in Oregon; or en
dorsed public ownership of public
utilities; or proposed to bust the
meat, fish and fuel trusts with state
institutions; or demanded that true
prosperity be given to Oregon by en
couraging people in every way to
use Oregon, then perhaps a lot of
moss-back Democrats might leave
for the Republican camp but there
are not many of them to leave. Some
such democratic principles would at
tract young men and women looking
for definite progress and genuine
democracy. Running a candidate for
governor on no issue whatever, and
dodging every issue that is up, would
no longer be a useless pastime to the
Oregon democracy.
It couldn't possibly hurt the Demo
cratic party to try it. The last elec
tion showed that milk-and-water
Democrats, with spinal columns made
like store strings, and no other rea
son for asking for office than that
the individuals wanted the same, can
not rehabilitate the Democratic party
in Oregon. The party, can no longer
even trade off every elective office
in the state for governor. It can
but act like a modern soldier hiding
behind a cornstalk when it pretends
to be "non-partisan."
By next May there will hardly be
a Democratic customer at the public
crib in Orgon other than Federal
appointees.
The party will have nothing to
lose, and therefore it can safely
gamble what it hasn't got in the
hopes of getting something more
than a job lot of empty nominations
Why not try a dose of genuine
demcoracy to revive the Oregon De
oeratic donkey? It is surely sick!
SOME DAY
(By Alfred D. Cridge of Portland)
Every once in a while some emi
nent jurist warns the lawyers that
the administration of the law is too
cumbersome, slow, uncertain, expen
sive and complicated.
The lawyers will never do any
thing to make it otherwise. There
are too many of them in the legisla
tures. The practice of the law is a
special privilege. Like the saloon
keepers the lawyers will never clean
themselves.
Some day when the people have
awakened to their power and are
disposed to use it there will be such
a clean sweep made of all the old
junk called law proceedure as to
make the average lawyer utterly use
less in his calling.
The indications are that this peace
ful revolution will not take place for
some time. We love lawyers and
superstitiously worship courts as
something above and beyond human
wisdom and possessed of no human
frailities. That is, as a mass we do.
Of course most newspaper men know
what a hollow fraud the law is, ana
what a lot of uninformed, prejudiced,
wedge-headed asses are on the bench.
If we ever get started it will be
by a bunch of farmers, or working
men, drawing up a measure or two,
and the people passing the same.
Perhaps it may take several elections
and defeats before the people will
muster courage enough to throw
down their legal idols.
We will provide for arbitration in
all differences of small value.
We will draw our Juries by abso
lute chance from the whole body of
the citizenship, and allow no excuses
on the ground of intelligence, urgent
business or having read the papers.
We will not allow one man to hang
a jury.
We will not allow lawyers to con
sume days in securing a jury.
No trial will occupy more than
half a day.
We will not allow appeals unless
corruption is shown, or that serious
invasion of inalienable rights is
shown to have made it impossilbe for
a just verdict to have been returned,
, All trials will take place within
ten days after apprehension.
All appeals within tnree days.
The judges will act as arbitrators
and not as quibble victims.
The whole graft of transcripts
and reproduction of proceedings of
various kinds will be trimmed to a
minimum.
We may abolish the collection of
debts by law. Certainly many of
the petty debts now collected by law
are run through mills that grind only
grist for lawyers and officials.
We may forbid lawyers sitting on
the bench, or in the legislature.
With a few fundamentals regard
ing law enforcement and the appli
cation of principles that would do
away with involuntary poverty and
the monopoly of land, we would not
need to maintain more than three
judges in Oregon, with perhaps 'a
justice of the peace for each county
as a matter of convenience.
Looks hazy. Looks cranky. Yes,
but stranger things have come to
pass.
Too many lawyers make our laws;
and naturally we have too ' many
lawyers; too many laws; too many
courts; , too many criminals unpunished.
THE RICH MAN'S "JUSTICE"
Henry Siegel, the big business
th'.ef, caught, convicted and sentenced
is now told that if ho will pay back
those who ho swindled, his jail sen
tence of ten years (joke, only ten
months) will be remitted.
It is seldom the prison doors close
on a big thief.
They take the chances of their
money being able to save them, but
if caught they must give back the
plunder.
This is a great system of justice.
The little thief doesn't participate in
it. He goes to prison.
Seigel won't serve any prison sen
tence. , Nobody thought he would.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has it doped out
about right
"It's the great big thief
Who gets out on lief
While the little one goes to jail."
DEFENDS LONDON
THE SLAUGHTER
War horrors grow each week.
Hundreds of thousands of men are
lined up and are jumping at each
others' throats like maddened beasts.
The loss of life, property and mon
ey staggers conception. Every line
of business and industry that does
not directly feed the war is paralyz
ed. Debts are piling up that can
never be paid.
And when it is all over, what will
have been gained?
There will be nations of cripples,
widows and orphans. There will be
taxation so great that payment will
be reused, and, repudiated. There
will be exoduses from all of the ten
nations at war, and the countries will
go backward centuries in progress.
"It will end war," we hear many
say, but what an awful price to pay
for peace.
Will Be Heard From
The Clackamas County delegates,
Hunt, Risley, Sehubel, and Dimick,
will all be heard from in the coming
session, in connection with wise leg
islation and enforcement of the pro
hibition laws. Estacada Progress.
W. Barzee Denounces the Com-,
ments o f'J. L. J." as Unfair
Portland, Nov. 24, 1914.
Editor Courier: .
"Why in thunder" doesn't "Serio
comic" J. L. J. come out in the open,
sign his name,' tell his business and
not hide away in the corner with his
special (mis) information?
Yes, the Socialists of New York
elected a member to Congress; one
of their own- class; a working man.
just as much a working man as tho
he digged in the ditch for a livli
hood. Under this system, which J.
L. J. seems to adore, of false econ
omy, where needless occupations are
created and therein human energy
wasted, a lawyer works just the same
as other people work. It make3 no
difference whether he works for a
corporation or in defense of wage
slaves of the down trodden mass of
humanity. Myer London has a
record that the unsigned writer of
this sneaking slur might envy as a
umanitarian; and there is no great
er sen-ice than that of the humani
tarian, in the estimation of a real
human.
If J. L. J. will dilligently keep
track of the work done by this lone
Congressman and honestly express
himself on what he does during his
term he will, mouse-like, crawl fur
ther in hos hole or man-like acknow
ledge that he had misjudged him as
to his class distinctions; whether he
agrees with the principles he works
for or not.
Yes, Myers London is a member of
the working-class.
C W. Barzee.
The new Clackamas County com
plete record report cards are now for
sale at the Courier office at 15c per.
dozen. Postage 5 cents.
CORD WOOD for sale, first class
wood. Call Pacific Farmers 46.