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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON 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 CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER M. J. BROWN, A. E. FROST, OWNERS. Subscription Price $1.50. Telephones, Pacific 51; Home A 51. Official Paper for the Farmers M. J BR.OWN, You help pay for the war in Europe with every bite of bread you eat. Why not stop exporting anything to any war-crazy nation? Great Britain and Germany were recognized as world powers in naval and military strength. They were prepared for war and they have it. A legislature of one house, with all commissions and boards abolished, is coming. Every session of a two-housed legislature justifies the creation of one commission to govern one state. The way to get the taxes down is to vote 'em down; and the way to vote 'em down is to vote to abolish useless offices by title and to limit the power of appropriations, contingent expens es, travel pay and salaries of those left Just to help along the horrors of 1915 Dame Nature kills 50,000 Itali ans with a vigorous shrug of her shoulders in the mountains of that beautiful country. The old dame will have to hustle some to beat the armies of Europe! ' The legislature is not discussing the taxation issue, as some of the papers nv. All it in discussine alone this line is when, and where taxes shall be paid, and the penalties for delinquen rv. Snph triflinc details have no more to do with the real question than the tassels on a dress have to ao witn the relief of the famine in China. 1 A great stock gambler has come to Oregon to improve the breed of cat tie. Welcome, reformed robber! But why not reflect upon the fact that in those provinces of Canada where cattle are not taxed comes the finest cattle of the world. Oregon has all that Nature can give her to produce fine cattle. Man must do the rest. The governor of this Common wealth says he wants to encourage manufacturing. Sure! Any horse doctor ought to know but many don't! that where manufacturing plants are not taxed they will flourish more than where they are taxed. Baltimore does not tax manufacturing plants because she really wants them and she reallv (rets them. too. Pittsburg is trying out the same thing slowly, and it is working the same wav. So is Houston. Texas. Some people however, are so prejudiced that they are bereit or norse-sense. Former Congressman Elbert Bede, of Minnesota, in a speech at a re cent get-to-gether Republican love feast, said he had received a letter from his son out in Oregon, in which he stated that "they had things so damned fine in Oregon that it was impossible for a decent man to get an office." Son Albert has just been elected to a ten dollar clerkship at Salem and will now probably change his mind. A WAY FOR PEACE '' What we need is a great, big war, lots of wounded, and rivers of gore, a million killed, or maybe more; but never mind what the war is for, and any old war will do. ' But firBt to the front let the mil lionaires go, with congressmen in the lead, you know; ah say perhnps a bri gade or so; such a war as that would not be slow! and the victories not a few! Next, bring up the legislators dear, and office-holders from far and near, of them the enemy needs have fear; as they went to the front we all would cheer, and food them on canned horse stew! Next make a thorough officii draft of preachers and teachers and all their craft, who glorify war and all its graft, place them aboard some old iron raft, and bump a mine or two! Yes, what we need is a great big war, millions of orphans and widows galore, the country wrenched to its very core; all that some powder trust may score, only that and nothing , more plunder for a few! But if we start as I've just now said, there won't be many wounded or dead; there won't be debts on the worker's head; all talk of war will goon havo fled, with peace for me and you. Alfred D. Cridge, Portland, Ore. Accidents to the Machinery of all kinds should be given some rest. Even with rest and the best of care a mnchino will some times break down or get out of order. ' When this happens it must be repair ed and the careful man provides a fund for such contingencies. The human machine is no different from any other inasmuch as it is subject to breakdowns and needed repairs. When this occurs the income general ly stops and in addition there is extra expenses for physicians, medicines, etc The Bank of Oregon City Oldest Bank in Cleckamas County Society of Equity of Oregon EDITOR THOU SHALT NOT A Washington dispatch says after Secretary Bryan had conferred with Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British ambassador and representatives of American oil concerns, the govern ment sent a warning - to Carranza that "serious consequences may fol low" his threatened confiscation of foreien owned oil plants in Mexico. Robbed of its diplomatic softness that notice to Mexico is to keep its hands off Standard Oil or hell will be popping in Mexico. It is notice that confiscation of the nronerty of the "invisible govern. ment" of the United States will not be permitted, and if the Mexicans try it on the U. S. will confiscate Mexico. The Mexicans may confiscate the hyciendas of the Spanish rich all they happy please. The Mexicans may tear up Ameri can-owned railroads and blow up their bridges until their dynamite is exhausted. The Greasers may drive out the American owned ranchers in northern Mexico, and run off their cattle in bunches. These are "incidents of war" and the foreigner must take wars chances when he goes into a foreign country. A few months ago Secretary Bryan ordered all Americans out of Mexico; ordered them to leave for the safety of their lives, and let the Mexicans have their property. Our country did not protest. If Americans would poke down into a hot bed country they must take the chances. If war broke out they should be happy to leave their proper ty and bring out their lives. But touch not a gallon of Rocky John's kerosene. Jf you do, there will be a war of invasion. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice and the oil chiefs have asked for protection of the swag outfit, and the government is going to give it to them. Ever stop to think what protection to Standard Oil will cost this coun try? Billions of dollars and thousands of American boys. Clean up Mexico? Sure we can, but let this seep into your dome: It will be when the desert sands have licked up the blood of thousands of Americans, and after their bones have been picked white by vultures and coyotes. I know something about Mexico. I have traveled for days over the desert sands where there was not enough moisture in an area as big as Clacka mas county to put out the blaze of a match, and where there was not enough vegetation to keep a Harlem goat alive. There are fevers, venomous insects deadly snakes. From the California line to Santa Cruze the distance is over 2,000 miles. The Greasers and Yaquis know every hiding place every starve-out place, every water hole that could be poisoned. They would not line up and fight as we fight but would fight as desert rats fight, and we have only to look back and see how many years it took to conquer that little handful of islnads over in the Pacific to realize how long it would take, how many lives it would sacrifice and how much it would cost to conquer Mexico. And all to save dividends" for the Standurd Oil crowd quaranteening their profits at the cost of Amercian lives. American capitalists have been milking Mexico for thirty years. They have gobbled her oil fields, her mines and her lands defrauded the republic of them. If Carranza would confiscate every American holding in that country and the government follow it up by for bidding any American to own proper ty over six years (as a bill before our legislature would forbid a Mexican in this country) it would be far better for both countries. Now the fire-eating agitators and congressmen (who would not fight themselves) would have this country spend billions for war get prepared to fight something. After the European war ends the countries will all want peace and the wise thing for this country to do is to work out a univer sal peace plan in place of squandering millions for dreadnaughts and a greater army. Human Machine That being the case, is it not the part of wisdom to provide a fund to tide over the loss oftimo and income, and expense attending such cases? The simplest way to creat such a fund is to imagine that you owe the bank a certain amount of money which must be paid in installments and that the deposits you make are the install ments. The thought that thiss sum must be paid will prevent lapse of the regular habit of depositing and you will be surprised how fast your account will grow. Try it. THE MOVES Comments on Senate and Bad Bills and Weeks of Marion iVCUliDWllMWIV county has introduced a bill requiring ctrat.inn officials shall blia V w t ask each elector when he comes to register if he wants election lniormd tion sent to him. This is a law to compel election officials to asK voters questions that is none of their busi ness. Of course DacK oi n i th the election pham- plets being sent out to voters, the ..,. fottincr ton wise, hence a few election officers will report that voters do not care ior me ciclu.u.. booklet, and then an effort will be made to repeal the law. One of the really just bills intro duced in the house, and which should become a law, is that giving wives an equal share in the property accumu lated after marriage. This is only giving a woman what is hers, what sheh as helped to acquire. E. L. Amidon of Multnomah county, secretary of the Republican committee, wants a law so that the governor may fire any appointive of ficial, whether his term has expired or hot. This is spoils legislation. It is for the interests of the job hunt ers, not of the state. A more need ed law would be that the governor should not discharge any man who did his work well. "Economy" was something more than to be elected on with the Clack amas delegation. After Seriator Dimick's bill to cut down the cleri cal expenses was beaten, and it was ruled each member was entitled to one clerk, the lawmakers of this county only appointed one clerk, at state expense, for the four. Another bill in the freak class is that of Dana Allen of Maroin Co., which would require eggs and all food products containing eggs laid outside of Oregon to be branded to that effect. Discrimination should kill this bill. If it is well to brand a foreign egg with the date of its lay ing, why not as well a quarter of beef, a ham, a dressed hog, and so on with all foreign foodstuffs. If we are to build a fence around Oregon let it be made high enough to keep all foodstuffs out. And we would sug gest an amendment to have every ho bo who crosses the state line wear a tag giving the date he came in for the protection of labor. The job-makers in the house are being lined up to defeat benator Dimick's bill to abolish the worthless immigration commission. The abol ition of the bill would throw C. C. Chapman of Portland out of a soft snap. In the senate the committee reported unanimously in favor of it. Dimick showed up this string of ap plications for state charity to hold thn inh: Salaries of manager of farm land bureau $5,000; manager of foreign imigration bureau, $3600; statistic ians, $3,000; superintendent of ex hibits, $840; draughtsmen, $1,000; assistant at information bureau, $1,000; and also for postage, $6710; supplies and stationery, $600; travel ing expenses, $2500; information bur eau, $2500; for state publications in English, German, Swedish, Norweg ian, Danish and other northern Europ ean languages, $35,000; for exhibit expenses, $10,000. "This is simply money thrown away in English, Dutch, Swedish and every nt.her lnncnni'e tob rinir men over here while the war takes them back faster than we can bring them," de clared Senator Dimick. Representative Lewis has dumped in an unneeded bill, one increasing the number of challenges of jurors A man must pretty nearly acknow ledge he is a fool or illiterate to get on an important jury now, and the bill would broaden the field (as well as the expense) to take in more men who do not read or think. Representative Paisley has intro duced a bill that should be quickly hit with a jimmy. It is house bill No. 58 and gives the medical organization the tightest of all mon opolies over the people, and would prevent the practising of osteopaths, chiropractors, and other lines of heal ers not considered "orthodox." This bill requires that every physician or healer pass a 75 per cent examination in the following branches: Anatomy, physiology, surgery, obstetrics, ma teria medica, therapeutics, practice of medicine, chemistry, diseases of women, medical jurisprudence and , such other branches as the board mav I deem advisable! It simply gives an absolute monopoly to the "regular" physicians. Representative Schuebel has intro duced a bill abolishing the whole fish and game commission, and handing the work over to the governor, master fish warden and the game warden. The fish and game commission is in bad with the pooplo and is decidedly unpopular. It is printed that the commission expended $170,000 last year, and the people know it is far too costly for the results. Schuebel's bill cuts the salaries of the two state wardens from $3100 to $1800 and that all moneys received shall be paid to the state treasurer. The passage of this bill would give us just as good service as now and save the state a lot of money. Representative Blanchard has intro duced a bill giving the county court the power to fix all county salaries, except those of the county court offic ials, and a member of the lgeislature has asked the Courier what the voters of this county would think of it. We do not know how the voters feel, but it appears to us the county should fix AT SALEM House Bills Good Bills, "Just Bills. its own salaries, the same as a city should fix its, and that there is more direct responsibility in this way. Representative Lewis of Multno mah county, has a bill to tax auto trucks and passenger cars on a ton nage and passenger basis, motor trucks from $20 to $100 and passen ger cars from $40 to $60. This bill will be criticised on the reasoning that our highways are no longer free, and that it will be a precedent to es tablish the toll system. Yet the other point of reasoning is that rail wtarla ft Tin Rtrfiet cars are taxed for running over their own roads, while the roads for motor cars are paid for by the county taxpayers and the auto trucks ruin them faster . than any other agency. Miss Marion B. Lewis of Jackson pmintv. the onlv woman in the legis lature and the second Democrat in the house, has introduced a bill to put penalty of from $100 to $10,000 on conspiracy, with also imprisonment. She says there is no law in uregon to punish conspiracy. The bill should pass. Senator Vinton of Yamhill county might be a close friend or a stock hnldur nf a Davincf trust judging from the bill he has introduced, which provides that all vehicles driven Dy mechanical cower shall be prohibited from using "UNPAVED PUBLIC HIGHWAYS," outside of cities and towns during six months of the year, from October 15 to April 15. It pro vides that BEFORE a country road can be used by these vehicles it must be paved with hardsurfaced face of not less than four inches. This looks very much like trying to FORCE the county districts to vote bonds for navine". but it won't work. It is too plain. The bill won't come within a hundred miles of passage. A commendable action on the part nf the house was its action in turn ing down the many invitations of pleasure jaunts to inspect the var ious state institutions, university, normal schools, etc. The action was taken when an invitation came for the house to visit and inspect the univer sity at Eugene. Representative Schuebel led the fight against these free rides and banquets, and he said in rmrt.? "If we did go we would find the institution on dress parade, ana we would have a fine time, a nice ban quet, and all that; but would come Wlf with no better idea of the uni- vftraitv and its needs than we had before. We are not here to take pleasure jaunts. We would be wast ing time and money. I don't believe we would be earning our money if we went. Here's one that should be killed without a dissenting vote in either house, Representative Pierces bill to repeal a standing appropriation for bubonic plague. And following it, some one should demand a state ment from the state board of health as to what this money has been paid out for these many years. We all know there is no bubonic plague m Oregon, and we SHOULD KNOW what the bunch has been doing with the money. Whv will renresentative men make themselves ridiculous as the senate did when it passed a resolution that each senator be furnished with five daily papers each day? The interests behind the naval militia have gone back to Washing ton nnd cot Secretarv Daniels to come through with a protest against Senator Dimick's bill to aoonsn tne nnvnl militia, and the war scare is being worked for all it will stand to perpetuate the leech. The militia makes fat jobs and easy club lives for the few top-notchers. It would be of no more account in war than a feather in a cyclone. It's an expen sive playhouse and salary-making combination. The unanimous action of the sen ate in repealing the immigration, the county accountancy and the census laws are the actions the voters of the state like to see, and are along the line of pledges to the people. If Senator Dimick's repeal bills go t'irough these amounts will be saved to the state: census appropriation, $100,000;; immigration commission, $70,000; bureau of mines $50,000; naval militia, $25,000; county supervi sor law $30,000; weights and measures $11,000. Every one of these can be abolished and none will miss them but the job holders. But here is betting they won t all die. Represntative Hunt has introduced a bill to repeal a law of the last ses sion requiring that on permanent highway work of $1,000 or over the same shall be laid out by an engineer and let on bids. The country districts especially would like to have it repeal ed as it adds much to the expense of roads and prohibits the farmers from building them and using the stone and material they have. Senator Farrell of Multnomah will introduce a bill to reduo the salaries of all county officers. Why county officers? Why not a bill to cut the salaries of the state officers 20 per cent ? That would be more like it. We believe Representative Schue bel's bill to put the jack under the fish and game commission is a step in the right direction, yet at the same time the question bobs up before the Courier editor "why special officers to enforce laws?" What are our con stables, sheriffs for? Why do not they enforce the game laws as well as the criminal laws ? A fellow makes this suggestion: make every man who takes out a license a game warden, give him half the fines and we would get better law enforcement at no public cost. '',. Senator Garland of Linn county wants to break in with a bill pretty bad and he has. His bill provides that foot paths for the benefit of pedestrians on' all highways shall be maintained and paid for out of the general fund. Of course it win not pass. Representative Hunt of this county has introduced a bill requiring all physicians' prescriptions to be writ ten in English. This bill will find oil Hn,ia nf hapkinc amoner the rank and file. People seem to think they should have the right to know what kind of stuff is given them to swal low, whether the puis are paste ui strychnine, and there is no good argument why they should not know. in nlain Enerlish would put many a quack out of practice and would be a mighty good protection to the people. May it pass. THE SAVIOURS Thorn ia a sone' eoine around Ore gon that its composers are trying unA fnaVa nnniilar. liaiu .u x 1 , It hasn't any particularly sweet strains, and no two handle the words exactly alike, but the suDStance u "all the same-e." The first verse starts out some thing like this: "The abuse of the Initiative Mn at ha nrevented." rru:a V,00oa nrnnnd until a felloW catches the air, and then the second stanza shows up: "The abuse of the Referendum Mnot. hn stoDUed." This sinks into memory and the ainn-or ia inat. cettine ready to go out and stop something when the third verse comes along: "The Recall must be better Safe guarded for the People." I heartily agree with the senti ont tr,A air nf all three stanzas. The abuses must be stopped, the safeguards must be thrown arouna. But instead of taking the Oregon System to the legislature to have a wrench thrown into its works by a handy man of the Interests, I would suggest Enforce the law against forgery Vrfr.ma th neriurv statute. Do this and the Oregon system is protected. ahow us abuse af t5r abuse on initiative, referendum and recall petitions. But they DON'T point out the af io,,it nf the circulator who swears J.1UMV1V V . "I am personally acquainted with who have siened this sheet and personally know that their signatures thereon are genuine. They DON'T point out that sec tion of Lord's Oregon laws that de fines forgery, perjury and their pen- Put some of the forgers of names in Salem prison and see if the Ore gon System will need any more leg ioloinn tn nrotect it. Put anmp of the Deriurers in the pen at hard days work and see if the legislature will have to jump be tween the petition and tne people to stop abuse. Why doesn't the legislature pass a bill requiring every man who signs a nnte nr check tos iem it in the pres ence of the county clerk and swear that it is his signature? Mpn seldom foree names to checks, The reason is that the forgery law would be enforced and they wouia get a working job at Salem. Men don't make false affidavits to legal documents very often, for the reason state's prison stares them in the face if they do. Flnfnrca the criminal statutes against forgery and perjury and the initiative has protection enougn. RIDICULOUS Wednesday of last week the senate was in an economical mood. It had a 40-horse power yearn to tret the ax and lop something off. And while they were searching and thirsting for something safe and easy there bobbed up a $4-a-day bill clerk soft snap. Down fell the ax off rolled the $4 head, and the headsmen straightened up and repeated in chorus "We are for economy." Thursday they came to and got calm. They looked over the awful car nage of Wednesday saw where they had cut off the state $4 per day. Remorse set in. They were departing from prece dents. They were becoming musr cents. Only one stenographer apiece for the members. Only eight clerks, messengers and sergeant-at-arms. How could a well organized sen ate be expected to run as it should run without a full crew? It simply couldn't Senator Burgess said it couldn't So the senate recanted. It reconsidered. Reconsider meant have another $4 think, and on the second think 17 senators lined up for $4, and the $4 bill clerk was attached to Oregon. As the vote was taken Dan Kallaher of Portland looked over the lobby and said: "Well, if there are any others in the lobby who want to be put on the payroll this is the time to speak up. If we are going to keep on paying po litical debts in small driblets why in the name of heaven don't we put them all on at once?" It is such peanut plays as this that make the Salem legislature ridicu lous. It makes the members appear like a bunch of school boys. FORSALE Six cows; one mare; one separator. J. C. Underwood, Oregon City, Rt 3, Maple Lane Road. The Courier and Twiee Week Journal $1.75. JUST ONCE MORE Original prices have been lost sight of in our endeavor to reduce stocks during this Jan uary Clearance Sale. It's worth your while to come in and look around. Reduced Prices Plainly Marked, and you can figure the savings yourself. SOME SAMPLE PRICES: $1.50 $1.25 $1.20 75c 3 7 pt Oval Casserole .. 5 pt Oval Casserole y L 4tuuuu wioociutc pt Oval Casserole There should be a Casserole in itself by cooking cheap cuts of meat so that tney are as lenuei .m palatable as expensive cuts. Try an Irish Stew in w casserole. 60c 950-page Self Pronouncing Dictionary - $3.00 One Thousand Page Webster's 'Dictionary leather bound indexed, illustrated 35c Leather Bound Vest Pocket Dictionary c 10c Note Tablet, 80 sheets of good writing paper oc 10c Wide Tablet, 40 sheets good writing paper.... - Be 25c Letter Tablet, 8x10, ruled Jc 25c Box Paper t quire Paper & Envelopes, two for Zoc (Boxes slightly soiled 100 in the lot.) Any Post Card Album in the store at l0 price. 3 good 5c Lead Pencils for.... Jjc 35c Playing Cards for Z5c Drug Specials for Jhis Week Rexall Hot Water Bottle, 2 qut, Rexall 2 Year Guaranteed 3 qt. Rexall Fountain Syringe, 2 qt., 2 Hair Brushes Hair Brushes Combs, Assorted Tooth Brushes Liquid Smokem, quart bottles Razor Strops Razor Strops Razors, several makes Toilet Soap PAINT Cleaning up odds & ends of Cans for , These are a few only of our HUNTLEY Oregon City Portland Starve the crazy looters and fight ers of Europe into peace. It makes a lot of difference whether this country would protect legitimate commerce, or whether it would pro tect smugglers and ships carrying war contraband articles. If it tries to protect the makers of war supplies our chances are mighty fine for breaking in on the big war. Seeing the shadow of coming events Adjutant General Finzer didn't wait for what Insurance Commission er Ferguson got, but he got out of the way of events he resigned. He concluded he would rather raise wheat in eastern Oregon. And with a clear field Governor Withycombe appointed Capt. George White of Portland to succeed him. It is getting so that as soon as any misfortune, catastrophe, disaster, dif ficulty or trouble breaks loose in Eu rope somebody starts passing the hat in the United States. There is ample in Europe to enable the pepole there at any and all times to take care of themselves. There is plenty of food in Belgium, and plenty in England, and plenty in Italy. If there is not plenty in any of these localities it is because of some body else having acted the fool, or the hog, and not us. Every dollar sent to Belgium relieves the Germans of that much of a bur den in their side of the hell-war. Every dollar sent to Italy enables the Italian landlords and tax dodgers to be relieved of that much. The big gest fraud on God's earth is charity, and the biggest fraud among chari ties is this game of helping foreign people in disaster. They have plenty at hand to help themselves. Mark Twain advised the beggars of Naples to rob their churches when they swarmed around him, and was immed iately deported. Make The Dollar Stretch JUST NOW THE PURCHASING VALUE OF A DOLLAR IS A BIG CONSIDERATION IN THIS COUNTY. SEE IF YOUR MONEY WON'T GO FURTHER AND GET JUST AS GOOD VAL UES AT .i t I 2'i -Sl J J. fi. M&tley's OUR EXPENSES ARE LOW, AND SO ARE OUR PRICES NEW AND SECOND HAND GOODS OF ALL KINDS. SEE US FOR STOVES, FURNITURE AND ALMOST ANYTHING FOR THE HOME, Seventh and Madison Sts. Oregon City, Ore. rTNAT THERE IS oOMET PRETTY imKAUu PICKING LEFT IN OUR SPLENDID locts fiv WE. n-w i ow MADE A FLW MORE 5PARKS FLY OUT or the pmczwiouR CHANCE- l7 mi 98c .75c .75c . 7r every home and it will soon pay iui Reg. 2 years' guar $1.75 Bottle $2.00 years' guarantee....$2.25 35c 75c 25c 15c-8c, 75c 35c $1-00 $2.00 to $2.50 5c, Spec. $1.12 $1.29 $2.38 19c 48c 15c for 15c 63c 25c 75c 98c for 10c SPECIALS Varnish Stains, 25c, 35c, 40c 10c many January Sale bargains. BROS. CO. Hubbard WANTED ..Client wishes to trade unencumber ed property in the best towns in Ore gon, for a dairy farm, from 80 acres up. Would assume a fair-sized mort gage. Cross & Burke, Attorneys, Beaver Bldg., Oregon City, Ore. Strayed onto my premises, red cow. Owner may have same by prov ing property and paying expenses. C G. Evans, Milwaukie, Rt. 1, Box 172-B. "KNOCKED THE STUFFING OUT OF IT," and broke it into splinters, may have been the fate of your car riage when it was run into by something; but "there is balm in Gilead," or there is pleasure in knowing that in our shop you can have it made good as new. We do all kinds of car riage repairing and blacksmith ing in a skilful and superior manner. THOMAS & DAVIS 4th & Main Sts. Oregon City