BIG MONEY BUT
WELL EXPENDED
OIL-BOUND MACADAM ROADS
ASSET TO COUNTY
Linn County Officials Loud in Praise
of Our Road System
"If the voters of Linn county
could only see the kind of roads
Clackamas county is building; if
they could only know their tax money
would get the value received your
county is getting, we would have
eome roads in this county."
This is what one of a committee
said Monday after he had driven
over twenty or more miles of the
permanent roads this county has
built during Judge Anderson's tonn.
And he said further:
"Linn county is out of debt. We
have but a lSHnjll tax, and we have
not a mile of manent road in the
county."
"We have seen the useless waste
of money on the Pacific highway
scheme; we have seen how Colum
bia county has been extorted, until
the people simply have no confidence
in the good road propositions and
will not vote money to build them."
And here is something else:
Time and again it has been re
' ported to the Courier office that the
expensive stretches of permanent
road between this city and Portland,
built during the past 12 months, and
some just completed, are already go
ing to pieces under the heavy traf
fic, and are full of ruts.
Monday, with the gentlemen who
came from Linn, county, who came
here to see our roads (one of them
a county commissioner) the Courier
editor went over some twenty miles
of these roads.
The party went over the river road
from this city to the other side of
Milwaukie, returning by the Clacka
mas road, going over the contract
stretches built by Cromer and Coun
sell and over" many country roads the
county has improved.
The oil-bound macadam roads
built by Counsell and Cromer, main
traffic roads between this city and
Portland, are as smooth, as hard and
as free from ruts as a billiard table,
and far more perfect roads than any
the writer ever saw on the miles of
state improved roads in New York
state, the famous improved toll roads
of Pennsylvania, or the macadam
rnndn of Ohio and Michigan.
These roads have cost money, but
a taxpayer has only to ride over
them and Bee them to know they are
worth the money.
Bfiinc main traffic roada between
the two cities, and the main roads for
all auto tourists up and down the
valley, there have 1been many ex-
TMwmvie cuts, fills and retaining walls,
Some sections have coBt at the
rate of $16,000 a mile, others down
to $4,000, depending on the excava
tions necessary to cut down baa nuis
But the roads are BUILT TO
LAST. They are pavements, and
with proper care will never wear
out. They have the bottom, the top
nnH Mm Hrninaco. The surface is
almost hard surface. It Is oil bound
and becomes better and harder with
use and when the traffic wears out
the surface an expense of $100 per.
mile will re-dress it and make it as
crood as new.
While this may seem a fish story
to the scoffers and critics of Judge
Anderson, boys were using these
roads for roller skating, and they
were almost as smooth and hard as
the cement sidewalks of Oregon City
These county paved roads are a
credit to the county, to the county
court which had sand enough to
build them; to County Engineer
Hobsnn and the contractors Cromer
and Counsell.
To those who have so persistently
knocked and criticised the expendi
tures on these permanent roads, we
ask them to eo and see them, dig in
. to them as our party did, ride over
them, and then you will be bound to
admit, as the men from Linn county
acknowledged, that it was money
well expended.
MUL1NO
A commercial club was formed
for Mulino Saturduy nieht There
was a fair attendance despite the dis
airreable weather.
There is considerable cord wood
being cut for shipment over the W. V,
S. railway.
Mulino is losing a number of
young ladies. Miss Gladys Snod
grass has married Mr. Herman of
Beaver Creek and her sister, Miss
Inez Snodgrass, has married Mr. Ver
non iLarkins, while Miss Gludys Mer
ry, has married Mr. Cicero Grimm of
Aurora. It is now up to Mulino bach
elors to hurry up and import some
young ladies to take their places.
A number of our young people are
skating upon the mill pond, which is
a rare treat for this part of Oregon.
This place now has a meat mar
ket, a long felt want. Thomas Fish
and Joshua MallatJ are the proprie
tors. Sveml of our business men are
raising funds to build o business
block on the town site near the rail
road depot site. If their plans ma
ture it will have about 100 feet front
age on Broad Ave., and 80 or 90 feet
depth. It will contain three large
store rooms in lower story, besides
one or two smaller rooms for barber
shops and the like. The second story
will contain a large public hall and a
number of office rooms. We hope
they will succeed in this as the build
ing is much needed in Mulino.
MONEY TO LOAN
STATE SCHOOL FUNDS
On improved farm security, interest
6 per cent. '
W. A. DIMICK, OREGON CITY
A JUST WAY TO
EQUALIZE TAXATION
An Article for Thinkers to Read, For
getting all Prejudices
(The following article was writ
ten by Alfred' Bishop Mason, A. M.,
M. A., in The Real Estate Magazine,
which we reprint by request.)
The heart of single tax doctrine is
that land should be taxed enough to
make it unprofitable to hold it out
of us.
That a prior argument for the
singl tax is this: Land can be used
only (1) for buildings; (2) for parks,
etc.; (3) for transportation, 1. e.,
streets, roads, railroads, canals, etc.;
and (4) for growing food materials,
vegetable and animal, and clothing
material. If more buildings are put
up, rents will be lower; if there are
more parks, etc., the public health
will be better; if there are more
transportation facilities, transporta
tion will be cheaper; if there is more
food material, food will be cheaper;
if there is more clothing material and
cheaper factory rents, clothing will
be cheaper. Evidently, therefore, if
all usable land is used, the cost of
living will be reduced, because rents,
food, clothes and transportation will
be less costly. Evidently again, the
erection of more buildings, the laying
of more parks the construction of
more roads, railroads and canals, and
the growing1 of more food material
and clothing material will give more
work to the workless. (We always
speak of "giving" work, as though
employment were a beneficent boon
which the few kindly offer to the
many. It is, on the contrary, the
right of every man.) Hence, while
living-costs go down, wages will go
up. Involuntary poverty will cease
to be.
The real estate interests cannot
answer the a priori argument of the
preceding paragraph.
Nor can it be denied tnat u iana
is taxed enough to make it unprofit
able to hold it out of use, it will be
used. The first man who built a tax-
used. The first man who built a
"taxpayer" in this city proved a pos
teriori the truth of that statement.
It needs no proof.
The a posteriori argument for the
single tax la chiefly based upon ex
periences in Houston, Texas and Van
couver (and other cities) in western
Canada. In the able brier or tne
merchants' association printed in the
March Real Estate Magazine, it was
said that arguments drawn from the
experience of Houston and Vancouver
do not apply to New York City.
What politico-economic law is
there that ceases to operate as popu
lation increases? The only other ar
gument made against the Vancouver
statistics is that of the most eminent
opponent of the single tax. Professor
K. R. A. Seligman. He cans atten
tion to the fact that building in Van
couver decreased in 1913, when it
was less than in 1910. In other
words, when Vancouver had put up
all needed buildings except about
$10,500,000 worth, it invested only
that sum in buildings in 1913. No
body has ever claimed that the single
tax would create a skyscraper on
every corner of the city. Our claim
is that it would force land into use,
the barticular use being determined
by the particular conditions in eacm
case.
The reforms in Houston, Vancou
ver, et ai, ana tne reiunu piuyuoou
by the Herrick-Schapp bill which
the real estate interests of New York
city were so unwise as to order kill
ed in Albany the other day are not
the Bingle tax, but they are steps to
ward it.
The reason why the real estate in
terests were unwise in their fight is
this: If they do not accept tke single
tnv without confiscation, they will
have it with confiscation. Surely,
they cannot be so blind as to think
that they can maintain long the pres
ent system. As I said in a recent
number of the Record and Guide
"The slums of New York, the absurd
ly hiirh rentals of New York, the
H25.000 people out of employment in
New York, are a terrible indictment
against the land system in Now York.
The landlord must either bend or
break. It is his own fault if he does
not choose safety while he may." As
I write, it is announced tnat tne mny-
or's committee on unemployment
finds "only" 100,000 men out of em
ployment here now. And the women
and children who are vainly seeking
work and you will have close upon
825,000 unemployed, perhaps more.
Under the single tax there would be
no need of committees on unemploy
ment. There would be no need lor
such gatherings as the February
conference here upon unemployment
by the American Association for La
bor Legislation. That conference
was announced as one to consider
"constructive proposals" to prevent
unemployment. It refused to hear
the Manhattan Single Tax club. It
did not answer the club's official let
ter until long after the conference
had been held. Professorial discour
tesy and professorial unwillingness to
hear anything not approved by capi
tal could no further go.
It is a good mnny years ago since
Postmaster General Wana maker ut-
itered his famous mot: "There are
four good reasons against the parcels
post; they are the Adams' Express
company the American Express com
pany, the United States Express
rnmnanv and the Wells-Fargo Ex
During those years
press company,
the four companies succeeded in stif
ling in congress the public outcry
for the parcel post. Then the dam
broke. Today the express companies
are on the road to ruin because they
defied public opinion and stood pat.
Standing pat is the only thing that a
Bourbon knows how to do. The
American public is not a vengeful
one. It is almost too good humor
ed. But when it sees itself flouted,
wronged, robbed, after a long time
it loses patience and strikes hard.
It has struck down the express com
panies. It will strike down the real
estaU interests, aid will confiscate
the last dollar of ground rent if
these interests continue to flout,
wrong and rob it. ' The landlords
make a great mistake when they say
to this community: "You do not
know enough to vote on how we are
to tax you; we, backed by our alliance
with Tammany, will attend at Al
bany to this matter of taxing you,
not as you please, but as we please
We are your landlords, your masters.
Do you keep still and pay us the last
farthing of tribute." That in sub
stance is what the express compan
ies said to the whole community.
Forty years ago when "the-public-be-damned"
attitude of the lailroads
brought about the first attempts to
put state regulation into effect, the
railroads fought desperately to pro
prevent any change. When this
proved vain and the first state rail
road commissions werec reated, the
railroads dictated the names of the
commissioners or bought the com
missioners. The railroads went on
for years as they had gone on be
fore. Then at last the public lost
patience. Look at the railroads now,
good and bad "in one re-burial blent,"
regulated to death, harassed by class
legislation like the extra-crew laws,
with the stock of every one of them
a profitable sale, with many even of
their bonds quite bereft of relation
ship to Caesar's wife. The railroad
kings have been dethroned, as other
Bourbons were dethroned before
them, as landlords will be dethroned
if they still play the Bourbon role.
The single tax can be introduced
without confiscation by the simple
process of taking the rental value of
the unearned increment hereafter. As
I have elsewhere said: "It would
work out in New York City about
Myers
fiow about your B&rnDoors
Do they stick- Jump the track
or pull harder than they should
We hare the remedy 'n MYERS DOOR HANGERS.
Tutelar and Stay-on Styles. Get them now and put them
on while the weather makes it had to work outside.
WHEN WE SAY
We carry everything in Farm Supplies
WE MEAN IT
We Want Your Trade on
CmoBm Engiae Oil; Cream Separator Oil;
Axle Greete; Wire rendng; Post Hole Diggers; Oil Cans; Grind
Stone Single Trees; Hftekes; Pitcher Pumps; Pipe and Fittings.
Everything in Implementi and Vehicles,-and at tight prices
W. J. Wilson & Co.
Oregon Gty, Oregon
Canby H'dwarc & Imp. Co.
CANBY, OREGON
this way (I use round figures): Up- better conditions tend to better liv
on $7,500,000,000 assessed value of g. Jg? &
lands and buildings, we now collect manufactury ftt Detroit, Mich.
$100,000,000. The increase of land .Effects of the Ford Motor Pom
value is $150,000,000 a year. A tat pany's profit-sharing plan, which has
of 7 per cent per annum on this un- been in operation one year, were an
earned increment would yield $10,500- nounced. It was disclosed that the
000. By lowering the tax on build- f ?m 'homes
ings by this amount, annunlly, in live vamed at imost $5,000,000, which
years all taxes would rest on land they bought on contracts. They are
values alone. The land owner would depositing in banks or investing in
retain all the land valu ho hag now homes and lots an average of $48.76
and would pay upon it in taxes what a month for each employe,
happens now. No mortgages would "The gain for ench man in bank
be disturbed. The public would take deposits is 130 per cent over the
the income from future increases in 0)d system; in life insurance 86 per
value with their present owners." cent; in homes owned, 87 Vj per
cent. ' ' !
Professor Soligman believes in a "Between 1,000 and 1,100 foreign
tax on the unearned increment So empi0yees 8re learning English at
docs Professor Joseph French John- tne yord antt taught by other em
son. In my letter to the Record and pioyeegi wh0 have caught the spirit
Guide I call attention to this latter Qf the co-operative movement and are
fact, but that esteemed organ of real j0:- the teaching on their own time
estate public opinion suppressed that
part of the letter. Neitner oi tne "There is a marked increase in
two professors mentioned believes in the numbcr of natUralized citizens
taking the whole rental value of the a marked improvement in the ten
unearned mcremont They would dendM of them toward thrift and
doubtless accept such taking how- economy. in their habits morals,
ever, if the only alternative were the h , h d h kal attributes."
entire confiscation of ground rent.
That is your own alternative, land
owners of New York, hear reason, or
stand stubbornly defiant, as you
do now, and then see every vestige of
your ground rents seized by a multi
tude maddened by many years of
your monopoly. It will create its
own monopoly instead of yours.
ChooM quickly, aowevar, er t land-
OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY,
less will choose for you.
The re-
sponsibility is yours.
CHERRYVILLE EDITORIALS
Former Newspaper Man Comments
on Current Events
The old reactionaries or stand-pat
ters think they are on top to stay.
Lay not that flattering untion to
your souls as the better sense of the
American people will assert itself if
you become too bold in your old hog
gish tricks, whereby a few of you
intend to absorb the wealth of the
land. The upheaval this fall was
merely a protest against the slavish
hard times and the awful poverty
that is confronting so many of our
people and in their blindness the
voters were about to kick something.
Miss Frances Willard, than whom
a more noble and unselfish woman
never lived, said she used to say that
drink caused poverty, but in her lat
er days she said poverty caused
drink, as many forlorn and ship
wrecked brothers, robbed and ground
down, takes to drink to drown his sor
row. A poor way, but for a while
they forget the terrible struggle for
a wretched existence. This kind of a
state of affairs will not last forever
and that the people are becoming
aroused is shown by their running
from one party to another in an
eager desire to bring about some
kind of a change. They hope for the
better but they will find out sooner
or later that it is no use to put new
wine in old bottles. The better and
Deacable. as well as wiser way is to
render social justice to the laboring
class like Henry Ford in proof that
w,thout intrinsic reward.
This bears out Miss Willard's idea
that poverty causes drink and that
when the door of opportunity is open
ed many heretofore hopeless waifs
abandon their dissipation.
Try and help your unfortunate fel
low brings on this holiday season
OREGON
and don't rob them hereafter.
It is not enough that you feed the
poor on Christmas day but give them
a chance to get a living every day in
the year. The railroads do business
on the principle of charging all the
traffic will bear and many employers
pay as little as will barely allow
their workers to live in the most
humble manner, and there they hire
priests and preachers to tickle them
with a hope of a home in the skies
in the sweet bye and bye.
One party says he asked a num
ber of apparently strong, hearty men
out of a job in Portland if they were
married men and they invariably re
sponded in the negative, as they
could not support themselves on the
infrequent jobs they were able to ob
tain, much less support a family.
Selfish men are often so greedy
that they stand in their own light,
What are they going to do for cannon-fodder
or for cheap help in their
factories if their employes are unable
to raise families? The "Bohunks"
from Europe are being killed off.
What then?-
Bismark, in his old days gazing
back upon the active days of his
life,' said "he regretted in being the
cause of three wars in which 80,000
men lost their lives." And that isn't
the worst of it. He will go on thru
all eternity regretting it, for that "is
the worm that dieth not and the fire
that is not quenched." You can not
escape from your own memory and
can never forget the horror you have
caused others to suffer.
Talk about marble being hard, or
battle-ship armor plate they are not
in it with the heart of a thoroughly
selfish person, for many of them go
about daily with immense wealth, yet
Myers
OUR WINNER
do nothing to relieve the awful suf
fering they see around them on every
hand. They make give a little on
Christmas Day but it will be a very
small sum in comparison with their
wealth. '
Many persons, as in olden times,
"put burdens on peoples' backs griv
ous to be born but do not as much as
lift their little finger to help.
A regular cold snap.
This makes the third week
wind has been in the east.
the
The clear, cold weather has made
the roads like a boulevard in every
direction.
About 20 degrees above zero is
not cold, as it is known in the East
and Middle West, but the east wind,
cominc from the eternal region of
ice and snow on Mt. Hood makes it
chilly.
A raravis or rare bird in the shape
of a spotted or pinto pheasant has
been seen in this vicinity this winter
and old timers say this is the first
one of the kind ever seen her. Thy
think it indicates a heavy fall of snow
later on as the goose or ptarmigan
in Alaska always become white in
the winter.
POWDER
Are you going to use any? If
you are you want the best. No head
ache. Use Trojan. No thawiner. It
is safe end will do the work. If you
do not understand using powder we
will give you expert advice on stump
blnsting and save you money.
C. R. Livesay (agent) .
Rt 6 .Oregon City, Pacific states
phone, Farmers 217.
THE NEEDS OF OREGON
Extracts from a Talk by C.
Spence Before the National
Grange Meeting
Followinir is part of a talk State
Grange Master Spence made at the
National Grange Convention in Mas
sachusetts last month, clipped from
the national organ.
"It is a well known fact that bonds,
mortgages and many other kinds of
personal property do not pay taxes
on one tenth their value, and no one
seriously believes that they will. If
it wore not for the incvitiable hard
ship that must result from the tran
sition from the one system to the
other, many thoughtful peoplo would
favor some system of single land tax,
or at least limit all tax to visible
property. And yet if invisible person
al property is to escape taxation, why
shall not visible personal property
escape also?
"It is advocated that lower rates
be assessed on accumulations of in
dustry and higher rates on graduated
inheritance and income taxes, while
others advocate reducing the tax on
necessities and increasing it on lux
uries. Still others would place the
same valuation on undeveloped land
whether farms, town lots or other
knd, held for ' speculative purposes,
as land which has been improved and
brought into use and service."
"The Oregon State Grange stands
6quarely with the Nationl Grange in
the position taken at Manchester on
the road question, and I desire to em
phasize the necessity of local control
of roads and funds. The Western
states need a credit system, control
led by the government and not by
private interests. Inducements for
postal savings should be increased
and the funds loaned direct to the bor
rower at a rate of interest sufficient
to pay expenses.
"The Oregon State Grange favors
the extension of the rural mail deliv
ery system with salaries of carriers
carefully adjusted to meet conditions
on different routes. It would oppose
the contract system of letting rural
delivery routes, and believes that the
extension of the rural system is of
more importance and benefit than
penny postages. Wo should receive
from Congress as speedily as possible:
A rural credit law; further denatured
alcohol legislation; power to regulate
ocean freight rates; government own
ership and operation of main tele
phone and telegraph lines; measures
leading toward abolishment of mili
tarism. The Morning After
After spending a day in Oregon
City, partaking freely of the city
water, a man awoke the next morning
and said: "Dear me, what a head
ache." He screwed up his face in
disgust. The taste in his mouth was
horrible, he thought he would have a
look at his tongue, and reaching out
for the hand-glass, he took up by
mistake a silver backed hair brush.
He stared at the bristles a long while,
then he shook his head and said:
"Fergy, my boy, you certainly do
need a shave."
Witnessed by a Beaver Creek farmer.
SNOBS AND SNOBBERY
Christmas Meditations on Kings and
Flunkeys
Reading a "piece" in the Oregon
ian about the Kaiser's income started
me on a train of meditation, and
when I get free transportation there
is no telling when or where I will get
off. It was Tom Carlyle, the cranky
old Scot, who said that the popula
tion of the United Kingdom consisted
of 29,000,000 people mostly fools,
and I could not help thinking of that
in connection with the Kaiser s in
come. .
The Kaiser owns about forty
castles and country houses, valued at
ten million dollars. I suppose most of
his loyal subjects do not realize that
the expense of keeping up all these
establishments is taxed on them; and
that all the flunkeys and servants
employed in such places are with
drawn from useful productive indus
try into a parasitic employment that
impoverishes instead of enriching tlie
world.
The Kaiser is said to be the rich
est person in Germany. His income
is estimated at five million dollars a
year. This is quite small compared
with the incomes of some ot our
American kings. Germany only
sports one Kaiser, while we have to
support maybe 100,000. We have
oil kings, railroad kings, cattle kings.
lords of the lard can, potentates of
the pork barrel, merchant princes and
high and mighty dignitaries of more
kinds than I can think of. . Many of
these are absolute rulers, monarchs
of all they survey. They exercise all
the powers and authority of kings.
And the income of these rulers ij
collected off the people just as cer
tainly as the income of the Kaiser
and the Czar. It is taken out of
wages or it is added to prices. It is
taken out of- what we sell or added to
what we buy. The toiler sells his
labor at a sacrifice. The price of it
is beaten down to a minimum. The
prices of the things the farmer has to
sell are squeezed down, but interest,
rent and profit are added over and
over again to the prices of the things
we buy.
We are the people and the sheep of
the pasture. We sell on a bear mar
Strength
(or Motherhood
MOTHERHOOD is not a
time for experiment, but for
proven qualities, and nothing
I exceeds the value of good
I cheer, needful exercise and
SCOTT'S EMULSION.
SCOTTS EMULSION charges the
blood with life-eustalning richness,
suppresses nervous conditions, aids
the quality and quantity oi mm
and insures sufficient fat
It. COD LIVER OH. fecdi A rw "
KU eelk. lis UME and SODA kelp
mmi rickets ud make teething eay.
ltf Avoid Sabttitatt: No Alcohol '
4
ket and buy on a bull market. The
market is manipulated to skin us
a-goin' and a-comin.' The Lord in His1
infinite wisdom no doubt ordained
that lambs should be skinned.
Our earnings are abstracted by
the innumerable and invisible fingers
of law. The law is the great pick
pocket If it does not get the stuff
ahead of us, it follows into our pock
ets after it. The most artful of the
Artful Dodgers are those who do
their lifting legally. The small pick
pocket, who, when pinched by hunger,
swipes some small coins, is pinched
again by the cop. He must face the
awful majesty of the law and meet
his doom, a branded criminal, cut
the big abstractor owns and runs the
machinery of law. The people are
crushed and ground in the mills of
law to make a grist for the mill men.
Our Kaisers and Czars also have
their palaces and csstles and country
nouses by the thousand. Just thinK
of the armies of flunkeys employed in
the ignoble occupations of being per
sonal servants for our dollar nobility.
One polishes the knob on the big
front door. Another pompous per
son extracts the corks from bubbling
bottles with artistic effect. Another
gentleman, subdued but dignified,
nas the important trust of leading
milady's Pomeranian out to take his
exercise. We are fast becoming a
nation of flunkeys and snobs worse
than England.
In the New Dispensation this kind
of ignoble toil, these parasitic occu- ,
pations, this base and disreputable
servitude will cease. The gentlemen
and ladies, whose function in capital
istic society is to humble themselves
and bend their supple backs in men
ial service will be emancipated.
There will be different social cus
toms and other ways of making a liv
ing. Industry will be organized so
that all can be employed in useful
occupations in which they can pre-
serve their self respect.
The diversion of such multitudes
of people from productive to parasit
ic employment is not even tha worst
feature of the capitalistic disorder,
millions are crowded out entirely on
to the armies of the unemployed, and
reduced to disgraceful extremity of
having to become recipients of "char
ity."
The Socialist party remedy for
this is to tax somebody to raise mon
ey to employ them at building roads.
Great idea! Suppose a man had two
sons and left a great estate to be di
vided between them. Suppose by
fraud and legal technicalities the old
er manages to get the whole of it
and disinherit the other entirely.
Then in the course of time when the
ouj; cast brother has become so de
graded and humiliated that he is
wilfihg to accept employment in the
service of his enemy, the rich man
gives him a job cleaning stables or
building roads or walls and hands him
out old clothes and mouldy victuals?
Does that make everything square?
Does that remove the "immemorial
infamy" and right the "perfidious.
wrong?"
Is it any wonder that people don't
take, much stock in the Socialist
party political dope? Such a remedy
as this is only an aggravation; of the
disease. A good lawyer in a case of
this kind would find some way to re
cover the inheritance and restore the
stolen property with heavy penalties
and damages. Socialism is all right
if you get the right brand of it
Christianity is all right if you can
find the true Christian, but may the
Lord deliver us from fakers and fus
ionists. In a system of society in which
the real teachings of Christ are en
tirely repudiated by church and state,
it is fitting that the celebration of
His birthday should be turned into a
pagan festival. There is a differ
ence between festival and holiday.
Holiday means holy day, but there is
not anything especially holy about
eating and drinking to excess. Nor
is the Christian spirit shown very
distinctly in loading folks with use
less presents, who are overloaded al
ready with sOch trash, glutting the
mails with junk, working mail car
riers and sales girls off their feet
and making an effect as if the
Christmas spirit was an epidemic of
illness or a drinkers' orgy.
But I have something to be thank
ful for in that I am not compelled to
be a flunky for a capitalist or a king.
I would take to the woods like Joe
Knowles, or do like John the Baptist,
chase grasshoppers and rob bees'
nests for a living sooner than wea
the collar and livery of a servant for
snobs. I can't see where it is any
more dignified than to do time on a
rock pile or wear stripes in the pen.
I am really and truly thankful that I
am neither a flunkey nor a snob, but
there are a great many things that I
am not thankful for and I don't in
tend to be contented, nor comforted
'till there is a distinct improvement
in the conditions of human life. So
long as other people are suffering I
do not feel that I have a right to be
happy.
J. L. Jones.
Keep it Handy for Rheumatism
No use to squirm and wince and
try to wear out your Rheumatism.
It will wear you out instead. Apply
some Sloan's Liniment. Need not
rub it in just let it penetrate trough
the affected parts, relive the soreness
and draw the pain. You get ease at
once and feel so much better you
want to go right out and tell other
sufferers about Sloan's. Get a bottle
of Sloan's Liniment for 25 cents of
any druggist and have it in the house
against Colds, Sores and Swollen
Joints, Lumbago, Sciatica and like
ailments. Your money back if not
satisfied, but it does give almost in
stant relief. Buy a bottle to-day.
The Courier and the twice-a-week
Portland Journal, three papers each
week for $1.75 is some bargain.
U'REN SCHUEBEL
Attorneys at Law
Will practice in all courts, make
collections and settlements of es
tates, furnish abstracts of title,
and lend you money, or lend your
money on first mortgage. Offloe
In Enter rl B!dg., Oregon City.