OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON
A CHANCE FOR THE LANDLESS
Squat on a Piece of Railroad Land
and Take the Big Chance
Eagle Creek, Ore'. Feb. 3, 1915.
Editor Courier:
I note your invitation in a recent
copy of the Courier asking for sug
gestions from readers of this paper
as how to make it better serve the
best interests of the people and Ore
gon in general.
Did it ever occur to your mind that
you could do a grand work for the
landless man, the jobless, by giving
the people the tip that there are
good homes in Clackamas county if
one only has the courage to get out
and get onto a piece of the 0. &. C.
R. R. land? And why not? If the
government wins, can anyone think
the government will be so unjust as
to kick off the man who is trying to
make a home when they are taking
the land away from the R. R. Co. be
cause the company did not sell it
actual settlers for $2.50 per. acre, and
if the R. R. wins, will someone please
explain to my weak brain how long
Oregon is going to sit still and ai'
low them to hold it and keep settlers
off of it?
There is room for lots of good men
who are not afraid of work and that
want a home, here in the Dover
country. Will someone please ex
plain why not to
A.
FARMERS' PROBLEMS
(P. W. Meredith)
Insects and some animals live on
each other.
Humanity has made its greatest
mistake trying the same thing.
Humanity has made its greatest
successes in helping each other to
live. Co-operation is the word..
Society, like the bee hive, has its
workers and its drones. When food
becomes very scarce there a some
thing doing and now the drone ques
tion is up.
Our new commissioner, Mr. Knight
promises to make Clackamas county
an economical and efficient officer.
Mutt.
FOR USE, NOT FOR PROFIT
Aurora Man Shows Local Illustration
of Benefits of Co-operation
Editor Courier:
I notice in the Courier of recent
date, where you speak of The Molalla
Telephone Co., and The Beaver ween
Telephone Co., charging only 50 cents
a month for service, which is a fact.
Then the Question is asked: 'If
little company of about 250 phones
charge so small a sum for service
why do large companies charge three
times as much '
The answer is this: The Molalla
Telephone Co., and The Beaver Creek
Telephone Co., are run for use only
and not for PROFIT, as the large
companies are.
The Molalla & Beaver Creek Co
are mutual telephone companies, run
on a co-operative plan for use only;
while the large companies spoken of
are private companies run for profit
only.
The co-operative companies have
no high salaried officials and no graft
in the management of the company
business and give splendid service for
50 cents a month. It's each for all
and all for each.
Question If the people CAN have
telephone service for USE only and
not for PROFIT only, why can't all
of the wants of the human family be
served for US ONLY and not for
PROFIT ONLY as under the presnet
private, haphazard way?
U. Helgerson,
Mr. Helgerson has no doubt asked
these questions time and again, and
they have never been answered.
The Courier editor has asked simi
lar ones year after year, but silence
is the only reply.
The question is, what benefit is
for the most good, dividends for a
few, or lowered expenses for the
many?
You can't argue against it, dodge
it or forget it, that the co-operative
use of these telephones is a mighty
nice and economic system for the
people who own the system.
And if so much benefit on a little
concern, why not of proportional ben
efit on larger ones?
Once more, won't some of you
men or women who oppose govern
ment ownership of railroads, steam-
ships, telephones, telegraphs, mines,
life and fire insurance, water powers
and like public service concerns are
for the best good of the many, the
best good of the state or country.
Please do pretty please.
ELDORADO
Mrs. Will Inman, who has been
very ill with la grippe, is much better.
Miss M. Bond and little Gertrude,
spent Saturday and Sunday visiting
friends and relatives in Portland,
making the trip by rail on the W. V.
Mrs. Robert Schoenborn had the
misfortune of falling down stairs
Saturday and injuring her anklo.
Hiram Cordill, of Molalla, who has
been visiting with his grand daugh
ter. Mrs. Harry Schoenborn and fam
ily, returned home Saturdny.
The Sunday School, which was or
ganized tho latter part of December,
at thes chool house, is progressing
raP'dly- I ,tU
Mrs. Robert Schuebel and Mrs.
John Anderson called on Mrs. Grace
Lewis Sunday afternoon. Quite a
number from our burg attended the
swell dance given at tho old Gardner
place by Mr. and Mrs. Norman How
ard. All report a fine time and re
turning home at a lute hour.
There was a pleasant surprise
party given for Mr. and Mrs Hurry
Schoenborn lust Thursday evening.
Games were played. Those present
were: Mr. and Mrs. Howard Nation,
Mr. ana Mrs. Herman Dietrich, Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Spangle, Mr. and Mrs.
Otto Striker, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Schoenborn, Mrs. Robert Schoenborn,
Misses Gladys and Grace Schuebel,
Miss Myra Bond, Miss Hazel Bullurd,
Gertrude and Bernet Nation, Miss
Elsie Schoenborn, Harvey and Earl
Schuebel, Norman Bullard, Sidney
Smith, Robert Snodgrass, Frank and
George Anderson, Donald Schoenborn
and Richard Schoenborn.
Just as long as the county court
is responsible for the expenditure of
our road money just so long should
they appoint all supervisors regard
less of the wish of others.
The only remedy for this road sit
uation is township organization. Di
vide the county into 8 or 10 townships
and assess all property, collect all
taxes and keep road money at home.
It is a very expensive occupation
to build navies but Europe seems to
find it a great deal more so to de
stroy them. "Safety first."
If we are not prepared for war we
are not so apt to indulge. We are
not prepared for education because
we Bpend less for education for our
children than for means to kill them.
Our best road superviser is neither
elected or appointed. His name is
Dry Weather.
President Wilson made a speech in
Indianapolis recently and told how
utterly worthless the Republican
party really was. Ever since that
Republican senators have been tell
ing the people the same about the
Democratic party. Neither has said
that the other told any untruths.
In 1912 both Democratic and Re
publican parties promised us rural
credit. Now if these parties can
break their promises year after year
and go before the people and get
their votes just the same as if they
had kept them then the people them
selves are to blame for the failure
of our popular government.
We aim to have 85,000 soldiers in
our standing army, 120,000 militia.
Our military schools turn out about
26,000 trained soldiers every year so
it appears to us that our army is suf
ficient to kill everybody that comes
to America in the next one hundred
years that wants to be killed and it
is awfully expensive killing people
that don't want to be killed and might
destroy the market for spuds and
$4.00 per hundred flour.
Secretary of State Bryan admits
being tangled up with an invisible
power in San Domingo and then is
sues his ultimatum to Mexico to keep
hands off of the oil property or the
U. S. will interfere. When did Bryan
get authority to declare war? We
all get an insight now as to who is
the invisible government of the U. Si
The next time the Oregonian prints
a cartoon of Uncle Sam you can see
it is John D. with a mask.
Our agricultural colleges have
been a great help to the farmers in
teaching them how to produce big
crops, but after all we find ourselves
being sold out of house and home to
pay taxes to keep up our agricultural
colleges. This will be remedied when
our colleges teach us how to market
our crops at a big profit like other
well organized business institutions.
Under our new banking system
Russia has borrowed $26,000,000, and
Germany $12,000,000, but peaceful
American farmers, after giving the
banks the use of their deposits free,
cannot borrow a dollar on long time
and give real estate security. Few
people know that our U. S. has
granted rural credit to the Philip
pines in 1907 and it is very success
ful over there. We are not capable
of self government over here.
Oregon has 12,632 mortgaged
farms, which is 33 per cent. There
re 6.8C9 mortgaged farms operated
by tenants. Iowa, the leading farm
state, and 51 per cent of the farm
ers are mortgaged. Wisconsin shows
the same amount. 50 cities of the
U. S. have 4,46,326 homes, 3,196,941
being rented. This shows a wonder
ful amount of prosperity for the few
who own and collect rents.
i i mi i
except nsn. iny norse-power is
sometimes strengthened by a cow and
by added spice of the Courier is thy
generous substitute fo r milk and
honey and thy currents unenvied are
controlled more by the meek and
lowly of Salem than by the mighty
legislature. Thy praises will ever
be sung by the allopaths and rod
and gun club.
nair of our
year. They
Farmers add about
national wealth every
own umy auout one-tnird of our
nation's wealth. They constitute
over one-third of our population and
our credit system is so arranged by
law that the fanner gets only about
one-tenth of our nation's credit, and
pays a larger percent than other occupations.
It is not generally known that con
gressman Lafferty of Portland has a
good rural credit bill that he intro
duced some time ago. Congressman
Lafferty has one of the best records
in the House of Representatives,
judging from the nature and objects
of the bills he has introduced. The
Congressional Record contains many
literary gems and very useful and
entertaining remarks of Mr. Lafferty.
Robert Schuebel, state purchasing
agent of the Equity, is organizing the
Farmers' Union Grange and any
local organizations into a chain of
warehouses or stores, which will be
able to buy at wholesale and also to
supply consumers of farm products
direct from the growers. This is
what we are organized for. It re-
FOREIGN COMMERCE
"The greatest need, not of this
county only, but of the wholo world,
isr more ships to carry commerce."
This is from an Oregonian editorial
published a few days ago.
Some time before that my heart
strings were wrenched by an awful
wail of woe coming from a Montreal
paper. It was spread over a whole
page in large type and was so lpud
I could see it and hear it and feel it
even in the bosom of my overalls.
There were over a billion dollars
(mostly English money I suppose)
invested in manufacturing industries
in Canada. There was a high tariff
to protect these industries and worse
than that, in many cases the people
had taxed themselves to give big bus
iness to get factories established.
And in the face of all this those
ungrateful Canadians had spent 700
million dollars buying goods made in
foreign countries while their own
factories were idle and then people
were unemployed on account of psy
chological depression. Would not
that jar a fellow? Is it not enough
to discourage manufacturing and
drive people to train robbery?
Now why is this? Why such a
paradox? The cause is as plain as
day. The workers in these industries
don't get wages enough to buy back
the stuff they produce or its equiva
lent. After paying rent they have
only enough left to buy back a cheap
er grade of foreign goods, and the
capitalists who get their money away
from them in rents and interest and
profit take the money to Europe to
spend it or they buy foreign made
the world, by bringing it into the
same slavery they are in themselves.
J. L. Jones.
ANOTHER BROWN'S OPINIONS
The Way a Clackamas Subscriber
Looks at Courier and Other Things
Clackamas, Ore. Feb. 3, 1915.
Editor Courier:
I see that you would like to know
what your readers think of the con
duct of your paper. I think it is
just about right. I don't see why it
does not suit everyone. It's columns
are open to its critics as well as its
friends. It is about my ideal of what
a paper ought to be a clearing house
for ideas. But, of course, if every
one agreed with everything that was
in it, it would be a dead one.
It's editor is honest and fearless,
and dares to say his own soul is his
and dares to say that he owns his
own soul; which is more than most
editors can say, so let the good work
go on. I read it more thoroughly
than any other paper I take.
Your stand for cutting down ex
penses is alright. Why so many tax
eating commission? What good is
a fish and game commission to the
general public? Even in the aristocracy-ridden
old countries people
who hunt must supply their own
game keeper and hire the land to
hunt over. And I don't see why a
person with a hunter's license should
expect to trespass on every farm he
comes to. Or why should we be tax
ed to furnish fire protection for the
property of the timber barons. Does
OPPORTUNITY
If you favor war, dig a trench in
your back yard, fill it half full of
ater, crawl into it and stay there
for a day or two without anything to
eat, get a lunatic to shoot at you
with a brace of revolvers and a ma
chine gun, and you will have some
thing just as good, and you will save
your country a great deal of expense.
Six Per Cent Money
Loans may be obtained for any
purpose on acceptable real estate se
curity; liberal privileges; correspond
ence solicited. A. C. Agency Co.,
758 Gas, Electric Bldg., Denver, Colo.
In the midst of Life we are in
Debt!
Some time ago Oregon City sent
the Belgians a lot of charity and wo
live exported millions of bushels of
heat and millions of pounds of flour
until the Belgians and our charity or.
gamzutions are forced to pay $2.00
per 48 pounds of flour in Oregon
City. Those who have a corner on
wheat are singing solos with the gun
makers while our charity institutions
are closing their doors.
Congress has been in session al
most continuously for two years and
they cannot spend the money as fast
as our government collects it and by
devoting all their time to the job.
They fear they cannot shovel it out
of the treasury by March 4th, and
our president will be compelled to
cull an extra session. For ways and
means out of the dilemma we refer
them to the Clackamas county dele
gation in the Oregon legislature.
Stop collecting.
Thou bountiful, STRONG end ever
generous Willamette from thy mys
terious treasures we partake freely,
Myers
Myers
How about your Barn Doors
Do they stick- Jump the track
or pull harder than they should
We have the remedy n MYERS DOOR HANGERS.
Tubular and Stay-on Styles. Get them now and put them
on while the weather makes it bad to work outside.
WHEN WE SAY
We carry everything in ?arm Supplies
WE MEAN IT
We Want Yotst Trade on
Gasoline Engine Engine Oil; Cream Separator Oil;
Axle Greese; Wire Fencing; Post Hole Diggers; Oil Cans; Grind
Stones; Single Trees; Hitches; Pitcher Pumps; Pipe and Fittings.
Everything in Implements and Vehkles,-and at right prices
W. J. Wilson & Co.
Oregon City, Oregon
Canby H'dware & Imp. Co.
CANBY, OREGON
OUR WINNER
The Golden Pacific is Opportunity for
the Man Worth While
(By C. A. Reese)
San Jose, Calif., Feb. 3, 1915.
Editor Courier:
It has been said that opportunity
knocks but once at every man's door
and once gone it is gono forever,
Yet there, are those who tell us
that the door of opportunity is al
ways open, and a man doesn't have to
wait 'till it knocks, but go right in
and knock the persimmons.
Either saying might be correct
under certain environments.
There are some environments too
great for any man to lift if he has
once got started on the toboggan
slide, but on the other hand there are
others that it's best to get away from
and once away one can try again and
stand a fighting chance of succeed
ing. ,
Some men will succeed in any old
place on earth, no matter how un
favorable the outlook or how over
cast the skies.
Without a doubt there are success
ful men in Kalamazoo and Oshkosh
But the whole race cannot" cast
their lot in pleasant places.
But when a man knows that there
is an Eden somewhere that can be
reached by a little calculation, he
cannot lay it to the door of fate if
he fails to lift or get away from an
environment that is holding him
down to bed rock.
Every man is to a great extent the
maker of his own handicaps. He
may have been born under a handi
cap but it will lift by a little hustling
and the proper kind of pride.
If I couldn't do well in Kalamazoo
or Oshkosh I'd go to Milpitas or any
old place on the Pacific Coajt where
I could make good.
If I was getting a hundred plunks
per month in Kalamazoo and was not
certain I could get it in Milpitas or
elsewhere on the Pacific coast Id
stay in Kalamazoo and Detroit and
face the blizzard. A hundred dol
lars a month doesn't grow on every
bush, even in California or Oregon,
or Washington.. But if I was as
young as I used to be and was as
full of ginger and certain that I knew
my trade or what is better yet my
self I wouldn't stay in Kalamazoo
or Oshkosh or even in Detroit, but
make a hike for the palm trees of
California or the orchards of Oregon
and Washington, away from the
chilling blasts of winter and the coal
bills.
It's every man's duty to crack up
the community in which he makes
his bread and butter, but duty to
home interests does not compel him
to stay there and freeze to death.
These reflections are caused by a
letter from a nephew in Michigan,
which is here appended.
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 5, 1915.
Dear Uncle Charley,
No doubt you will be quite sur
prised to get a line from me, but I
will try and fill a page of things 1
hear and see. Now mother down in
Florida sent me your Exposition song
and though I never criticise tthe
verses are quite long. The average
song as I have found, must be short
and to the point. E'er you gain the
publisher's consent to run it thru his
joint. Your rythm tho' I like quite
well, because it held me in its spell,
and I think I could do quite well to
put it to the crucial test, and follow
up your good advice: "Come West
young man, come West." Now here
in Michigan I can't at all complain,
but I should like to go some place
where profit means a gain, for tho
I toe the century mark each month
'tis but in vain. And then again
those fuel bills with which one must
contend, just keeps a fellow busy and
makes him spend and spend. Now
young "Aunt Cal" appeals to me be
cause her glossy slopes gives one a
chance twelve months a year, and
fills one full of hopes. No wolf
comes howling 'round the door with
winter's chilling blasts, but gentle
zephyr- and bright sun alluring mo
ments cast. I long to gather peb
bles on that great Pacifio shore, and
wander 'neath the palm trees as I
have done before; to sit and watch
the surf all day and think out lines
in peace, and pen them on my paper,
my endwoment from a Reese.
Kalph Mounton.
There are cities in the West I trow,
Scattered along the coast
From the British line to Mexico,
Of which we proudly boast,
And each of them is sure, I know,
To prove a genial host
To an invited guest.
He'll come from Europe's stricken
land,
For hardships rendered fit,
And in this country take a stand,
That fact is surely writ;
And fortune he will soon command
As a reward of grit.
Come West, young man, come
West.
If he should come to San Jose
(Hosey)
Within the coming year,
Or any place upon the bay,
His search would end right here,
For he would surely want to stay
To breathe our atmosphere,
As millions can attest.
Soon the golden gate will open,
At the San Francisco fair,
And a thousand times a thousand
men,
Will hustle for their share
Of golden opportunities
To be unfolded there
To boom the Golden West.
LOGAN
Harding Grange held an interesting
and enthusiastic meeting last Satur
day. About thirty members were
present, and one candidate was start
ed on the road to membership. The
Lecturer, Mrs. Belle Frink had pre
pared a short program and there was
a discussion on co-operation and also
on the "Hoosier" letter in the Cou
rier. All agreed that Hoosier had
been misinformed about the lack of
prosperity with Clackamas county
farmers. It was1 reported that 15
Harding Grangers were at Pomona
and that the whole grange had a
special invitation to attend the next
meeting at Oswego.
Clear Creek Creamery Co. is en
larging the plant to take care of its
growing business and also to be bet
ter prepared to take' better care of
the business in general.
Henry Babler has been in Port
land on jury duty.
Ernest M. Gerber is improving
slowly in health.
Harry Babler has been on the sick
list.
Miss Frebold is preparing for an
entertainment at the hall in the near
future.
The Redland band will soon give
an entertainment.
Mrs. Rachel Ford from Sherwood,
visited her sister, Mrs. P. A. Rob
bins, last Sunday, accompanied by A.
Crisell of Monroe & Crisell.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. McKin on Feb. 5th, weight 3
pounds. Neighbors have been kind
to the family in their tribulations.
Only a Ford
There was an old man and he had a
wooden leg,
He had no money and he swore he
wouldn t beg;
He had an old piece of pipe and
a twelve-inch board,
And he said to himself I will build
me a Ford.
And with a gallon of gas and a quart
or on
An old piece of wire to make him a
coil,
With four big spools and an old
tin can,
He hammered them together and
the damn thing ran.
Shakespoke.
Courier:
For your further use,
So cut the thing loos';
Others will want to know
What makes the Ford grow.
M.
FOR SALE 14 acres, 4 miles
from Oregon City on Tualatin
Bottom, mostly cleared & cultivat
ed Best of onion and garden
ground, $150 per acre. Part cash,
balance on terms. Call at C. J.
Hood Lumber Co., 12th & Main St.'
quires but little cash.
CENTRAL POINT
. Not having seen anything from
this point for quite awhile we thought
we would write and let the public
know we were still awake.
The farmers are taking advantage
of tho nice weather to grub and clear
up land preparatory to putting in
crops.
Thes ewing bee, which was held
at Mrs. Fred Chinn's last week, was
well attended in spite of the bad
weather.
A bazaar and social will be given
at the M. E. church Feb. 20. Every
body cordially invited.
We are glad to hear that Frank
Engle, after a long illness, is improv
ing.
Eula Brown was visiting at the
home of Geo. Randull's, Jr. Sunday.
Will Gieger was vistiing Russell
and Charlie Chinn Sunday.
We are glad to see so many 1
turn out Sunday evenings to hear Rev
Coleman.
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
for less than the price of one county
paper. Send subscriptions to either
the Courier or the Progress at Esta
cada, and you will get both papers
one year for the $1.40.
goods that are more fashionable.
The big stores advertise that they
send their expert, highly priced buy
ers to Europe to get things that are
sufficiently stylish and expensive to
suit the cultivated tastes of the idle
gentry who live off the miseries of
the pauper laborers that produce the
home made stuff.
There you have it. Commerce
consists mostly in moving the pro
duets of pauper labor from one coun
try to another in search of markets.
But every country now is setting up
a howl to buy home made goods. In
that case why should we need more
ships?
The pauper Chinamen export their
rotten eggs to Oregon and buy some
thing cheaper. In Japan the indus
trious natives export their good rice
and buy a cheaper grade from China.
It's a common saying I have heard
it ever since I was a baby that far
mers never eat anything they can
sell. They certainly ship the best
and keep the worst. That is
economy. I am weary of economy.
Does anyone think the people of
Oregon could not raise enough eggs
to supply themselves if they were
permitted to use the unoccupied
land? Could not the people of En
gland raise their own apples if they
would kick the landlords into the sea
and recover the land stolen from
them over 800 years ago? Looks to
me it would be more profitable for
them and much more consistent to
establish liberty for themselves at
home before starting out to convert
as
insure
the state pay my insurance dues?
And yet I think my buildings are just
as much an asset to the state
their property is let them
their own property too.
Our Clackamas county delegation
at Salem are doing good work. They
seem to know why they were sent to
that place. Dimick and Schuebel are
live ones.
T. E. Brown
The peom which caused the above
poetical effusion on "The Exposition
Song, was sent to my sister, Mrs.
F. A. Moulton, of Eenstis, Fla., Let
ter Day of- the Exposition, Dec. 15,
and was offered by her to a local edi
tor in Eenstis, but he refused to
handle it on the grounds that it
praised the Pacific coast too much.
It is given below:
POTATOES!
Don't Read Too Much
Editor Courier:
Some of your correspondents seem
to think they have to read all that is Where people pick up money
"The Exposition Song"
There's a country with a golden clime
Where tempests seldom roar.
A land of rain mixed with sunshine
You've heard of it before;
Three states which form our border
line,
The grand Pacific shore.
Where mortal man is blessed.
Tis a land of milk and honey,
You may take a hunch from me,
in the paper. It is not necessary ar
more than to eat all that is in a cafe
teria. I would as soon attempt to
eat a barnful as to read all th.; stuff
in a Sunday paper.
Reading makes a full man, but it
is not good to get too full. The leg
islature has to regulate that. Some
think 15 quarts enough, but others
want 24. It all depends on the size
of the tank. There ought to be gov
ernment inspectors to measure the
tanks and prescribe for each sepa
rately. Next in order will be inspectors
to prescribe what we shall read and
how much, to secure a "balanced
ration." I draw the line at reading
a delinquent tax list.
J. L. Jones.
Butter w appers, you must have
them. Get them at the Courier.
From brooklet, bush and tree,
And the urchin with his bunny
A fortune great can see;
Come West, young man, come West.
Come West, young man, come West,
And with the country grow.
It's up to you to do your best
Come out and hustle with the rest
YouH win; YouH win;
You'll win your spuis I know.
Old Uncle Sam and young Aunt Cal
Want all to have a home, -
So he has dug a deep canal,
Thru which all men can come
To Panama from Aspinwall,
Then up the coast to Nome;
To find a better nest
Soon the fleet of all the nations'
Will come from oe'r the sea
To establish new relations
With our west boundary.
Well have new obligations,
And make new history
To meet the coming test
If you have any to sell get my price
before you sell
w. n. LUCKE
PHONE
Home A-72. pac. Main 448
Warehouses at Canby and Oregon
City
Dr.
ICE
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DENTIST
Beaver Building Oregon City
Ph.nM Paolflo, 1221. H.m. A IS
C. SCHUEBEL
LAWYER
DEUTCHER ADVAKAT
Oregon City Bank Bldg.
Oregon City
OREGON FIREJRELIEF ASSN.
Strongest Mutual in the West
GEO. W. H. MILLER., Agen,
216 ?th St, Oregon City.
H. M. THOMAS
VETERINARY SURGEON
DENTIST
Call Elkhorn Livery Barn
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