Oregon City courier., February 04, 1915, Image 2

OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON
PLANNING BIG COMBINATION
"Universal Inspection" Scheme Doc
tors are Working For
Portland, January 25, 1915.
Editor Courier:
It is time the people of this whole
state were waking up to the necessity
of displacing medical health officers
with sanitary engineers. If State
medicine continues to grow as it has
been doing in the past few years, we
shall eventually have something only
comparable to the Spanish Inquisi
tion. Healthy persons, clean and law-
abiding, are already imprisoned (se
gregated is the euphonic medical
term) on the charge that they are
"healthy disease carriers." The
"germs" alleged to be in their sys
tems are admitted to be harmless to
themselves, by the crooked medical
logic, but, they make the carriers a
"danger to the community!" Such
persons have already been quarantin
ed in Clackamas Uounty ana aiso in
Multnomah. We have not yet reach
eH r.hicatro's record, where from 30
ti ir.0 Ruch Dersons are found and
Quarantined weekly.
But this is not the worst of it.
firant the healthy disease carrier
hypothesis, and it follows that a
large number of such persons are
now at large and spreading disease
broadcast; therefore to be uetecteu
and quarantined as soon as the public
. nan ha "educated" to the point of
standing for it. And the education
is going on at public expense thru
health board bulletins ana reports,
and through the medium of articles
in the dailv nress. To locate these
dangerous citizens it will be neces
sary to have universal meuicai in
spection. In fact, it looks as if the
"carrier" idea had been hatched on
tn cet the inspection. For
this will be a nice fat job, involving
much more than mere stripping and
physical examination. It will require
in addition to that the taking from
each individual of a sample of his
sputum, blood, urine, feces, etc., and
the making of "cultures" irom eacn
of these. Finding the healthy
disease carriers is the modern substi
tute for the ancient pastime of hunt
ing heretics.
"It can't be done!" somebody re
marks. Not all at once, of course,
but word has gone forth from medi
cal headquarters in Chicago to talk
a line of talk that shall prepare tne
public mind to gradual acceptance of
the whole program. The plan is,
first, to segregate the diphtheria
carriers from among known contacts,
typhoid carriers in the same way. At
the same time begin on any handy
Dretext the examination of bakers
and cooks. So far the plan is already
in operation. Universal inspection
advocated in much of the medical
literature today is a logical conse
quence of these first steps, if cer
tain classes can be thus subjected to
inspection and to being put away by
our medical priests, then be sure
there is no safety for anybody. Nor
should there be if we the people stand
behind outrages committed on the
few and helpless.
The high and mighty attitude of
our medical overlords was recently
illustrated in transaction in a village
not a thousand miles from Oregon
City. The particulars were given me
by the parties involved, with the re
FOR FARMERS TO THINK OVER
Nuts to Crack and the Hammer
Crack Them With
(P. W. Meredith)
Go easy, legislature is in session.
to
Senator Dimick has quite a large
slashing. Several large dota trees in
the appropriation forest he has slashed.
The legislature passes horticultur
al laws that causes the farmer to pay
out good money and the prices cause
the farmer to grub his trees and plow
under his berries.
At the national apple show at
Spokane they took the view that there
were too many apples on the market,
which was the cause of low prices;
also that too many acres had been
planted to apples. We do not take
that view as long as so many millions
of people are too poor to buy and the
road from consumer to producer is so
expensive. Otherwise they were cr-rect.
Farmer Hunt of Clackamas county
is making good in our legislature.
He has introduced several bills that
if passed will greatly improve our
road laws. He has improved our law
regarding doctors' prescriptions, and
they will be written in English here
after if his bill becomes law. Latin
died during the dark ages when most
everything died except war and
theology. Doctors and druggists
must learn English if the bill passes,
and it should.
"The prosperity of farmers depend
not so much upon the amount of pro
duction as upon the total amount of
money received fr what they pro
duce." So says the Department of
Agriculture. 1913, the year of the
smallest production, the value was
highest, and 1912, the year of largest
production, the value was smallest.
Who said raise more stuff to make
prosperity for the farmer?
Ocean freight rates from New York
York to Liverpool was in 1906 two
and six-tenths cents per. bu. In 1912
it went up to 9.8. Last July it was
8.9, and last month it was 14.7. It
seems as vessels get larger and trans
portation costs less, instead of the
price going down it goes up. Loco
motives are larger and haul cheaper,
but the price goes up. Remedy
government ownership.
289 cold storage plants are report
ing to the Department of Agriculture
that they have apples to the amount
of 3.530,987 barrels. This is an esti.
mated to be about 60 percent of the
total in cold storage. Apples were
stored on account of the low price,
which is but little better now, and
the prospects for cheap apples is
good. What is the cause? If the
neonle who raise other crops could
buy apples those who raise apples
could buy other crops.
The government spends millions ot
money collecting and distributing
crop news and always will we sup
nose, but it does not benefit the
farmer, and is a great benefit to the
speculators and gamblers in farm
produce. The result is that we have
to call up the board of trade to find
out what the price is. farmers
quest to give them to the public for should organize and force the board
the public good.
A schoolboy named B
ed
enter-
neighbor's kitchen for a few
of trade to call them up for prices
on what they produce
minutes when, in another room of the
house, a boy was ill and as it proved
coming down with smallpox. Ihe
next day (Sunday) the case was quar
antined. On Monday the B
boy went to school as usual, but on
Tuesday the health officer visited the
B home and put a card on the
house on which he had scrawled the
words, "Exposed to Smullpox." He
told the family they were under quar
antine for two to seven days, explain
ing that "obstinate cases" whatever
that might mean required the latter
term of quarantine. When ten days
had elapsed, Mrs. B. left the
house and went to a phone and called
up the health officer, inquiring why
he had not released her and indig
nantly demanding it. Thereupon the
doctor at tho other end of the wire
became warm under tho collar, told
the lady she was "getting smart and
fresh" and would get herself into
trouble if she kept on; that now lie
would give her tho limit and keen her
under quarantine for fifteen days.
When tho fifteen duys had expired,
an inspector went to the houso to
fumigate, though there had been no
disease of any kind in the house and
actually no one therein had oven
been in contact with contagion. He
also wanted to insist on giving tho
children a bi-chloride of mercury
bath. Mrs. B. however i
I used to permit this una sum une
would bathe her children herself,
which was graciously allowed.
This is a sample of the high-handed
imbecilities of health boards. It
is portinent to ask Why were not the
school children exposed by the B
boy on Monday ? but it gave a small
medical priest a chance to show his
power. Likewise there is no such
thing as a healthy disease carrier,
outside the brains of the dangerous
ly insune medical politicians.,
Lora C. Little.
Our Panama canal has cost about
400,000,000. It costs our govern
ment from $1,500 to $4,000 to pass a
vessel through the canal. This sum
with interest will have to be paid
mostly from our national treasury.
Freight rates have not been lowered.
In fact, railroads are asking for in
creases in freight rates. Many rail
roads with these vessels compose the
shipping trust and get the benefit of
our canal.
The Department of Agriculture
states in its December Outlook that
tho purchasing power of the farmers'
acre has decreased since 1909. T he
Portland Railway, Light & Power Co.
has increased both its gross und net
incomes each year since 1907. The
records of this Co. show that it issued
its stock 65 percent paid, with only
per share being all the cash ever
paid. (95 per cent being water.)
Yet these shares collect dividends ns
though $1,000 in cash has been paid.
In 1913 this company's gross earnings
were $11,723,742. It cost taxes and
all other expenses $3,298,310, so it
cleared a profit of $3,425,432. It is
a tax of $26 per head on every citizen
of Portland, ( and all this profit goes
back to eastern millionaires who own
tho stock and live in London, New
York and Philadelphia.
Cleveland, Ohio, owns most of its
car lines, ami has z ami one-nan
eat. car fares. San Francisco, since
owning tho Geary street car line, has
demonstrated that it costs less than
2 and oue-hulf cents to carry a pas
senger. We gleaned those figures
from remarks from Congressman
Laf forty of Portland in Congression
al Record of Jan. 13, 1915. He
ought to know about the P. R , L. &
P. Co..
build a railroad across the continent
and pay for it out of the increased
value of real estate that the road it
self produced. They are doing these
very things in Denmark, where the
farmers are thoroughly organized.
Farmers can furnish security for all
the money needed to finance their
own business with a rural credit sys
tem built for that purpose.
The value of Oregon timber that
belongs to the state is $400,000,000
If the ripe timber was sold each year
and brought in three per cent that
would mean twelve million dollars to
the state. The only serious objection
to this would be that it would require
an extra session of the legislature to
spend that amount of money .
In 1907 a suit was filed in Port
land to recover 2,300,000 acres of land
given to O. & C. railroad (Southern
Pacific) by our national government
Congressman Lafferty has success
fully fought this suit for the people
of Oregon until it has reached the
supreme court of the U. S. 30,000
acres of this is in Clackamas county.
The supreme court no doubt has put
this suit into national cold storage.
Twenty million people in our cot
ton producing states on the verge of
starvation with over seven billion
pounds of cotton to clothe the world
in their possession for security. Con
gress refuses to help them yet. A
few over-rich were in Europe when
war came and American gold on
American war vessels were dispatch
ed immediately to hunt them and to
bring them back.
To protect speculating shipping in
man Bathrick of Ohio has introduced
such a bill.
ihe kind of credit the cotton
farmer has now is illustrated by
lew brokers of Savannah, who form
ed a pool, floated bonds to purchase
vessels. 'Ihey bought cotton at (
cents per. pound, shipped it to Ger
many and sold it at 25 csnts per
pound, and cleared above all expense
14 cents per pound. As long as the
money power of this nation gets all
the profit from farming, farmers
will remain just ordinary serfs.
There are 15 states paving
higher tax to the number of people
than Uregon, and 32 pay less. Ne
vada is highest over $10 to the
person; North Carolina lowest, $1.50
per person; South Carolina pays less
than 10 years ago, and all other
states have increased their cost,
Oregon has increased 161 per cent,
or from $2.47 to $5.08 per person.
r . . .
expenses or our national govern
ment have about doubled in the last
ten years. If we had to pay our
national and state taxes all in cash
on the same day there would not be
enough, legal tender money in circu
lation to pay half the sum. Every
body sees where we are drifting and
that something must be done which
gives rise to opinions differing wide
ly. For the sake of discussion on
this subject we wish to advance
some new thoughts on the question
with a view of finding a remedy.
The principles of government as set
forth in our Declaration of Independ
ence is O. K., but our constitution is
faulty. We notice this in our voting
system, and have made several im
provements, and we notice the bad
Thousands more could be employ
ed at a profit and be a great benefit
to all the people, taking care of the
salmon and other fish from hatch
ing to canning, and selling, and in:
stead of raising our taxes would low
er them. The individual should do
only what he can do better and
cheaper than the state corporation or
partnership way.
CHERRYVILLE COMMENTS
Former Newspaper Man Fills a Col
umn with Interesting Editorials
(Continued from Page 1)
WOULD STOP SHIPMENT
OF MUNITIONS OF WAR
Senator Chamberlain will Support
Senate Bill for This Purpose
Washington D. C, Jan. 19, 1915.
M. J. Brown:
I have received within the past
few days a great many letters and
postal cards requesting me to give
my support to Senate bill No. 6688,
having for its purpose forbidding the
exportation of arms, ammunition, etc,
from the United States during the
existence of war between nations
with which the United States is at
peace, to be used against a cpuntry
or nation with which the? United
States is at peace. , In addition to
that petitions have come to me sign
ed by two or three hundred citizens
of Clackamas county making the
same request of me, but in some
cases there was nothing on the en
velope to indicate by which particular
petitioner the paper was forwarded
to me; and therefore I do not know
to whom I should acknowledge the
receipt thereof. , I wish, if you can
do so, that yo.u would let it be known
through the columns of your paper
that these petitions have been receiv
ed by me, and give the signers there-
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Myers
Myers
How about your Earn Doors
Do they stick- Jump the track
or pull harder than they should
We have the remedy n MYERS DOOR HANGERS.
Tabular and Stay-on Styles. Get them now and pot them
on while the weather makes it bad to work outside.
WHEN WE SAY
We carry everything in Farm Supplies
WE MEAN IT
We Want Yout Trade on
Gasoline Engine Engine Oil; Cream Separator Oil;
Axle Creese; Wire Fencing; Post Hole Diggers; Oil Cans; Grind
Stones; Single Trees; Hitches; Pitcher Pumps; Pipe and Fittings.
Everything in Implements and Vehicles, and at right prices
W. J. Wilson & Co.
Oregon City, Oregon
Canby H'dware & Imp. Co.
CANBY, OREGON
OUR N
In the
Debt!
Cut This Out Now
If you don't want it today, you
may next week. Send this advertise
ment and 5 cents to Foley & Co., Chi
cago, 111., writing your name and
address clearly. You receive in re
turn three triul packages Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound for coughs,
colds, croup and grippe; Foley Kid
ney Pill3, for weak or disordered
kidneys or bladder; Foley Cathartic
Tablets, a pleasant, wholesome and
cleansing purgative, 'just the thing
for winter's sluggish bowels and tor
pid liver. These well known standard
remedies for sale at Jones' Drug Co.,
Oregon City, Ore.
Butter wrappers, you must have
them. Get them at the Courier.
There is less than three and one-
half billion dollars in the U. S. Yet
farmers ami small home owners have
borrowed from the money trust eight
billion dollars on which five hundred
million is paid in interest EVERY
YEAR, Some people talk like the
only salvation for the farmer was to
keep out of any union and to keep the
union out of politics, and let this
continue year after year.
We will say for the sake of argu
ment that it costs $80,000 per mile
to build and equip a transcontinental
railroad. If so, the $,r00,000,0000 we
are paying in interest every year
would build two railroads from New
York to San Francisco, and wo would
have $20,000,000 left. A rural
credit law, if properly made, could
pull us out without confiscation or
other radical means. '
The people of the U. S. could
Europe during the war congress
immediately appropriated $i,100,000
to insure shipments. In 1007, when
the panic came and J. F. Morgan was
threatened with loss, our treasury
was opened and forty millions rushed
to his aid almost without security.
Congress has just passed a law rais
ing $105,000,000, not because the
government needed the money, but
because the big banks did not want
to give up the $75,000,000 of govern
ment money they had on deposit.
Congress appropriated nearly 9 mil
lion dollars to buy silver at a cer
tain fixed price per ounce.
Our government has for many
years loaned money on whiskey and
even has been known to relieve the
pig iron situation with loans. Farm
ers will never get relief until they
organize for commercial and political
relief. Organize! Educate!
We have two rural credit laws be
fore congress formed from the re
ports of the European junketing com
mittee. One is the Moss-Fletcher
hill and the other its substitute.
These are different only as to the
independence of the member banks,
and both laws are based on our new
regional banking system that is not
proving a success.
The farmers of the U. S. want a
rural credit bank as solid as the
government itself. We do not want
our rural credit institutions based on
anything but the power of labor
coupled with land to produce all the
material wealth of a nature of free
and independent people. Congress-
effects in our tax systems and must,
as good citizens, devise the proper
remedies.
Nationally the revenues are collect
ed every day as spent with no neces
sity for a large sum at any one time.
idle. Our state government should
pattern from this we think.
Our constitution gives our nation
al government a monopoly of money,
or credit, and it should reserve and
protect that monopoly and derive a
the revenue from that monopoly. No
corporation or individual' should be
allowed to manufacture money or
loan it for revenue. The states could
borrow this money or credit from the
people who borrow from the state.
Here is another thot that both the
national and slate governments
should charge the people taxes in
proportion as they are useful to the
people, or in other words so manage
state and interstate business so as to
benefit both producers and consum
ers, and take a just portion to sus
tain the act. We could pay the state
for insuring our houses about half
what we now pay and the state would
derive a profit What is wrong now
is that the state charges the com
panies $160,000 for just the right to
do business nnd we have to pay it
extra to the companies over their
other charges and profits. We are
not giving our government the right
kind of jobs.
It is not the number of people em
ployed by the government or state
that burdens us but their useless, un
profitable employment.
of my assurance that I am in entire
sympathy with the purposes of the
resolutions referred to.
I agree with the President that we
ought to maintain the strictest
neutrality in the conflict that is now
raging on the continent of Europe,
and there is no better way to show
that our country does not intend to
aid in prosecuting a most destructive
and devestating war, than by legisla
tive declaration that munitions of
war shall not be shipped to belliger
ents. I am inclined to believe that
reports are very much exaggerated
as to the shipment of war material
out of the United States, but it ought
to be prohibted entirely.
Thanking you for giving this mat
ter publicity, I have the honor to
remain,
Yours very sincerely,
G. W. Chamberlain.
East and West Clackamas $1.40
The Courier has made a clubbing
arrangement with the Estacada Pro
gress whereby the two papers are
offered for one year for the bargain
price of $1.40. Through this com
bination you get both and eastern
and western Clackamas county paper
tor less than the price of one county
paper, bend subscriptions to either
the Courier or the Progress at Esta
cada, and you will get both papers
one year for the $1.40.
The Courier and the twice-a-week
Portland Journal, three papers each
week for $1.75 is some bargain.
Johnnie Rockefeller, Jr., says "he
aims to do good." He means aims to
do them good and plenty. In view of
the record a mighty crooked one
of the whole Rockefeller outfit, no
body has any confidence in what they
say.
Teddy has an article in a late
issue of the Metropolitan explaining
his connection with the Panama Canal
deal and Bryan's proposed plan to
pay the United States of Columbia,
who formerly owned the canal zone,
$25,000,000 for the stript which they
lost in the panama republic insurrec
tion. This is probably one of the
most absurd propositions ever ad
vanced by any public servant and will
knock Bryan from the Christmas tree,
but will in all probability drag Wil
son with him.
In the first place that bunch of
pirates who run the Republic of Co
lumbia never in their most impudent
mood asked more than $10,000,000,
and now we, with 4,000,000 idle men
in the country propose to give them
gratuitously $25,000,000. It is a safe
bet htey will never get it, as outraged
public opinion will not stand for it.
Something equally as bad if not
worse was put through under Mc-
Kinley after the Spanish-American
war, in which we paid Spain $20,000,
000 for the Philippines when we got
it by right of conquest, as for that
matter when Dewey got there Spain
had nothing but fortified towns of
Manila and Ilio-ilio and would soon
have lost them.
The writer was once sent to take
notes on a speech made by U. S. Sen
ator Mason, a Republican, from Illi
nois, was said he told McKinley on
the White House grounds that it was
a disgrace and an unparalelled out
rage to pay Spain this immense sum
for something they did not have, and
that the only thing it was done for
was to enable Spain to pay some
Spanish Wall St. bondholder, as that
was the only chance for them to get
their money.
Teddy was in a crooked deal him'
self in the Tennessee Iron & Coal
sale in 1907 when he allowed the U.
S. steel Co. to secure that very
valuable property for an insignifi
cant sum when compared with its
real worth. The Democratic party
makes some blunders but that Repub
lican bunch are a set of greedy
grafters who would steal candy from
a kid. His excuse that Frick and
Gary told him that they did want to
buy the Coal & Iron Co. stock, but
by so doing they could avert a panic.
Teddy is no fool. He knew that
Frick is a man with absolutely no
conscience whatever, the bastard 3'on
of a drunkard roustabout and that
Gary is a smooth proposition, who
would say anything to put through a
big deal.
Our political statesmen are out for
money and any person of sense knows
it, with no more care for the general
welfare of the large mass of the
struggling poor than a coyote has.
These are strong words but the times
demand plain speaking. For several
years an attempt has been made to
give cheaper money to our farming
class on a plan of a rural credit sys
tem which every civilized country in
the world has adopted but without
avail. In the meantime a pla to fur
nish money government money, the
peoples' money, mark you to a sys
tem of rich bankers with their hides
stuffed full of rich food, money at
2 per cent on collateral security
with the privilege of re-discounting
their paper. The farmers, with the
best of security cannot get govern
ment money at 4 per cent, or any
other terms, and not at these banks
without paying a ruinous rate and a
commission besides.
Congressman Lindbergh of Minn.,
in a late speech, which is printed in
the Congressional Record shows up
this whole rotten banking system
with its special privileges to bankers.
Wm. Fetzger, a rich man of Spring
field, 111., is out with the statement
that he will be a candidate for presi
dent in 1916 on a platform with
Rural Credit to farmers as the main
issue. Don't laugh. "Jim" Ferguson
a comparatively obscure man, ran for
governor of Texas last fall on a plat
form of justice to the tenant fanners
of Texas, who were being robbed by
the bankers, and what is more to the
purpose was elected.
The constitution says the laws
must be uniform and of universal ap
plication and instead of that we one
kind of laws beneficial to the banker
and no laws benefitting the farmers
in the least.
As high as 300 automobiles load
ed with the idle rich and by the same
token the joy-riders were loaded too.
have gone through this little moun
tain hamlet in one day and these
idlers, so many of them, never did a
useful day's work in all their worth
less lives, and yet they are arrayed
in purple and fine linen and fare
A party of hunters, way out on
the trail of a cougar in our woods
lately, and while the dogs were hot
on the trail and treed several times.
it succeeded in getting away before
the hunters could catch up
Mr. Dillenbeck of Washington, was
here and has taken an option cn some
property here with the idea of start
ing a shingle mill here on a big
scale. He says if he could get cedar
on the so-called R. R. land, he could
run here for 20 years.
Only one more month of winter, if
anybody could call this winter which
we have experienced.
J. J. Luescher, who has been work
ing on a dairy farm near Willsdale,
the past season, returned to his R. R.
claim south of town last week. He
will start some improvements there
and return to his job later on.
The question at the Lyceum on
Jan. 22nd on Nation-wide Equal Suf
frage, was decided in favor of the
affirmative. The question of Jan.
29th was that a man will do more
for humanity than he will for money.
Parnell Averill. Oregon City
would have to pay its proportion.
And I believe, Mr. Starkweather
(I want to be dead safe in this .state
ment) you favored this bond issue.
I am told (this is hereby entirely)
that you worked FOR this bonding
proposition.
If this is true (mind you I do not
definitely state that it is, for there
are no records to prove it) how do
you justify your position then with
your present one in having each dis
trict build its own roads?
And how do you justify a atate tax
for state roads, under the reasoning
that backed your Grange resolution?
You overlooked a line or two in
the article last week when you quote
the Courier as stating that the roads
in your district "would be permanent
for many years to come." The omis
sion was "all this district will have
to do is to keep in repair this road."
If the auto trucks plying between
Portland and Oregon City are "one
of the greatest sources of wear on
our roads" it is hardly an excuse for
such districts to refuse help to out
lying roads.
If the freight traffic wears out
those roads, let the freighters re
pair them. The P. R. L. & P. Co. and
the Southern Pacific in competition
with the auto trucks, maintain their
own roads.
If we are ever to have market
roads back' into the county this west
ern end along the river and rail
roads must not fence itself off. It
must get in and help to build those
roads, just as the whole county has
helped to build our few main roads.
Anyhow that is the way it looks
from here.
Winter Doubles Work
In summer the work of eliminating-
poisons and acids from the blood
is helped by perspiration. In cold
weather, with little out door work or
exercise to cause sweating, the kid
neys have to do double work. Foley
Kidney Pills help overworked, weak
and diseased dkineys to filter and
cast out of the blood the waste mat
ter that causes pains in sides or back,
rheumatism, lumbago, stiffness of
joints, sore muscles and other ills
resulting from improper elimination.
Sold at Jones Drug Co.
Strayed onto my premises, red
cow. Owner may have same by proving-
property and paying expenses.
C. G. Evans, Milwaukie, Rt. 1, Box
172-B.
midst of Life we are
in
POTATOES!
If you have any to sell get my price
before you sell
w. H. LUCKE
PHONE
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Warehouses at Canby and Oregon
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Residence 6 1 2
Center St.
Phones: Main 1 101
M. i?2
Dr. A. McDonald
Veterinary Surgeon
Office, Red Front Barn
Phones: Main 1 16
B-9 OREGON
CITY
C. SCHUEBEL
LAWYER
DEUTCIIER ADVAKAT
Oregon City Bank Bldg.
Oregon City
OREGON FIREJtfLlEF ASSN.
Strongest Mutual in the West
GEO. W. H. MILLER., Ager
216 Tth St., Oregon City.
H. M. THOMAS
VETERINARY SURGEON
DENTIST
Call Elkhorn Livery Barn
Oregon City Oreeon
Geo. C. Brownell
LAWYER
Caufield Bldg.
Oregon