OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER' 12, 1916
S
WHAT THE PRESIDENT ACTUALLY
DID TO AVERT STRIKE DISASTER
Rcfore I consulted with tbeni (the railroad executives and repre
sentatives of the employees) I made myself acquainted with the
points at controversy.
The first thing I. told both sides was that I stood for the eight
hour day. We believe In the eight hour day because a man does
better work within eight hours than he does In a more extended day.
J said to the railroad executives: "You are asking that the result of
the eight hour day be predicted, and the prediction be arbitrated. The
reasonable thing to do Is to grant the eight hour day, not because
the men demand it, but because it Is right,, and let me get authority
from Congress to appoint a commission to observe the results arid
report, In order that Justice may be done the railroads in respect of
the cost of the experiment."
That was the proposal which they rejected and which Congress
put Into law, a proposal which I made to them before I conferred
with It. which I urged upon them at every "conference and which,
when the one side rejected and the other accepted, I went to Con
gress and asked Congress to enact I did not ask eiiher Bide
whether it suited them, and I requested my friends in Congreis
not to ask either side whether it suited them. I learned before
the controversy began that the whole temper of the legislative
body was in favor of the eight hour day.
In the House of Representatives the plan was passed, was sanc
tioned by a vote which Included seventy Republicans as against
flfty-foiir Republicans. In the Senate the Republican members held
a conference In which they determined to put tio obstacle In the way
of the passuge of the bill. Now this was because the proposal was
reasonable and was based upon right. From President Wilson' t Speech
to Wew Jersey Business Men at Shadow Lawn. Long Branch, iV. J., Sept. 23
ROBINS DECLINES TO MEET ,
; MRS. FUNK IN DEBATE.
Brilliant Woman Progressive Support
ing Wilson Had Challenged Hughes'
Convert to Match Reasons.
Raymond Robins, who was chair
man of the recent Progressive national
convention lo Chicago, has declined
the challenge of Mrs. Antoinette Funk
to meet her In public debate tin the
reasons why Progressive voters should
be asked to vote for Charles E. Hughes
when President Wilson Is in the field.
' C Harris ft Ewlng, Washington, D. C.
MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK.
In his refusal Mr. Robins indicated
that he would decline all offers to
match logic with opponents on the
question of Progressive activity In the
presidential campaign.
Mrs. Funk Is a lawyer In Chicago
and was one of the prominent leaders
of the Progressive movement so long
as Colonel Roosevelt remained at the
bead of It. She and Mr. Robins fought
side by side for Progressive principles,
and she was one of the most active
campaigners for Mr. Robins in the
senatorial campaign In Illinois two
years ago.
Mrs. Funk now Is a member of the
Associate Committee of Progressives
co-operating with the Democratic Na
tional Campaign Committee. She put
her challenge to Mr. Robins on the
high ground of public service, asking
that her former associate submit the
case of Wilson versus flughes to popu
lar juries.
In her letter to Mr. Robins Mrs.
Funk Raid:
"In 1012, endorsing the Progressive
party with my whole heart, I left be
hind me a tradition of middle western
nd New England Republicanism, and
when the end came In the Auditorium
last June I followed Theodore Roose
velt to the door of the Republican
camp with faith that, the Republican
party of Will was In somewise d .Ter
ent from the Republican party of 1912
that he and you and I condemned, and
I waited for a sign that would point
the new way.
"It did not come, but events mo
mentous In their import did transpire
and against my inclinations and tra
ditions and against my associations
and prejudices I was forced in honesty
to myself to admit that Woodrow Wil
son, greater than his party, a leader of
his party, had in large measure kept
for the Progressives their contract af
firmed by them and entered into with
. the people.
"I am Inviting you now, Mr. Robins,
to join me In a series of debates, the
question to be resolved and the ar
rangements to be made through our re
spective committees, such debates to
be held during the campaign, It being
understood that the resolution of the
question shall comprehend all matters
properly at Issue in the minds of Pro
gressives Reeking their political affilia
tion for 1918"
WHO OWNS MEXICO?
(Continued from last week)
By Robert M. LaFollette
These privileged interests are not
taxing the people of the United States
for their great army and navy scheme
to fight England, Germany or Japan.
They have other plans for the pres
ent. They have the irons on the
American people. They control the
prices of labor and the products of
labor. They control the cost of every
necessity of life. They own the coal,
the oil. the timber, the water powers.
Their profits are so enormous that
they must ldvrer interest rates or else
invest in foreign countries. The tim
ber, oil, coal and mineral wealth of
Mexico and of the Central and South
American countries are most inviting
in every way. The governments are
poor; the labor is cheap as slave la
bor. ' .
There is just one risk, and that is
a large risk. The governments are
most of them weak. Revolutions in
many of them are frequent; property
rights are insecure.
But a scheme has been worked out
by the masters of finance to' make
foreign investments as good as a gov
ernment bond. Just put the Stars and
Stripes back of them!
There was a time when the slogan
of munition makers was, "Trade fol
lows the flag." That put the com
mercial interests behind the navy.
But, "new needs, new deeds." That
slogan has been completely reversed.
The cry now is, "The flag follows the
investment."
We will protect our citizens abroad.
Assuredly! That is our bounden duty.
if we are to uphold the standing and
dignity of our government among the
other nations of the world strong or
weak. But if the protection of "citi
zens" were our only concern there
would be no "border raids," no mobi
lization," no "war talk." There
would be no occasion for the clouds
that daen so many American homes
today. "Investments," in these plu
tocratic times, are vastly more im
portant than "citizens."
These American "investors" in
Mexico millionaires are using ev
ery instrument they can control
their money, their newspapers, their
magazines, their political influence,
all their "dark and devious ways"
to bring about "intervention." Inter
vention means .war. War means
blood and killing and bereaved fam
ilies and unmentionable horrors. And
all for what? Profits! Privilege
profits!
Privilege exploits us folks right
here in our own United States. And
privilege makes so much money out
of us that it creates a huge surplus.
Privilege, never satiated, wants this
surplus to be at work bringing in still
more profits. Weak and undeveloped
(and unexploited) countries offer the
biggest returns. So privilege buys a
foreign "concession." Cheap! The
system looks to that bargain. But to
maintain the great profits it is ordi
narily necessary to resort to "strong-
arm" methods. Sometimes people,
like the workers in the mining dis
tricts of Colorado, Michigan and West
Virginia, resist oppression and ex
ploitation. Machine guns become the
order of the day. And after all our
present "Mexican situation" is only
a "Ludlow" on a bigger scale. Priv
ilege is today trying to shape public
sentiment so that "our boys" shall be
made to march down into Mexico and
offer up their lives for the purpose of
placing the guarantee of the United
States government behind, those gold
mines and other concessions and .to
make the profits of privilege secure.
Who owns Mexico? Really owns
it?
Let us glance at a few figures.
Dollars, they are millions and mil
lions of them. And they tell the sto
ry. What follows shows the wealth
of Mexico, according to nationality of
ownership. It is taken from the Unit.
ed States Consular Report No. 168,
issued July 18,1912, by Consul Martin
Letcher, of Chihauhau, who, according
to the statement of this consular re
port, "has had long experience in
Mexico as a mining engineer:"
Nationality Amt. of Investment
American $1,057,770,000
English 321,302,000
French 143,446,000
Mexican 793,187,242
Other nations 118,535.380
Hold fast to these figures. What
ever may be urged upon you m these
trying times by way of justifying in.
tervention, keep in mind this big, out
standing fact:
American financiers have more
money invested in Mexico than the
Mexicans themselves have $264,582,
758 more.
American investments are biggeBt
of all in that unhappy, system-ridden
country.
This American money is found in
railroad stocks and bonds, mines, oil,
national bonds, ranches, smelters,
timber lands, factories, rubber, insur
ance and other enterprises.
Let us glance at a few more figures
from the same authority:
Railway stocks: Mexican money in
vested, $125,440,000; American money
invested, $235,464,000.
Railway bonds: Mexican money in
vested, $12,275,000; American money
invested, $408,926,000.
Mines: Mexican money invested,
$7,500,000; American money invested,
$223,000,000. .
National bonds: Mexican money in
vested, $21,000,000; American money
invested, $52,000,000.
Smeltur3: Mexican money invested,
$7,200,000; American money invest
ed, $26,500,000.
Timber lands: Mexican money in
vested, $5,600,000; American money
invested, $8,100,000.
Factories (miscellaneous): Mexi
can money invested, $3,270,200;
American money invested, $9,600,000.
Oil: Mexican money invested,
$650,000; American money invested,
$15,000,000. .
Rubber: Mexican money invested,
$4,500,000; American money invested,
$15,000,000.
Insurance: Mexican money invest
ed, $2,000,000; American money in
vested, $4,000,000.
In the ownership of Mexico we find
the real menace to the peace between
Mexico and the United States. Amer
ican capitalists are desperately at
tempting to have the flag follow their
investments.
Those who own Mexico are the ones
who want war.
Shall these powerful interests be
permitted to, succeed in their plot?
About the State
Resume of the News of the
-Week from AH Parts
of Oregon
Combined deposits of the four
Hillsboro banks on September 27
totalled $1,014,0441.76 and the total
of the combined resources of the four
institutions on the same date was
$1,373,152.19, The increase over the
corresponding date a year ago is
about 10 per cent.
One of the biggest things of the
harvest festival and western Oregon
Round-up at Albany will be the pa
rade at 10 o'clock on Friday morning,
Oct. 13. It will be full of novelties,
more than has ever been attempted
there before, and as well an industrial
affair that will speak for the city. At
7:30 in the evening there will be
pulled off a second parade of a hum
orous character that will be a com
plete show in itself. ' J. A. Howard is
marshal of the day, to be assisted by
Sheriff D. H. Bodine.
Sportsmen of Eugene will be lucky
if they get many Chinese pheasants
this season, say farmers who have
observed conditions during the past
summer. They are unanimously
agreed that the birds are very scarce
this year.
Indian weather forecasters and
hunters who have killed bears this fall
are predicting another hard winter for
the mid-Columbia district. Herman
Pregge, a Hood River county resident,
killed a 450-pound bruin that had in
vaded the orchard district. The rolls
of fat are declared to indicate a long,
severe cold winter. Indian George,
90-year-old patriarch of redmen,
who foretold the big snow last year,
warns his white friends against com
ing cold. George bases his forecasts
on the condition of moss on trees and
the great crop of acorns. ,
"Higher up snow coming than last
winter," he says.
The first fox farm as a business
enterprise in eastern Oregon is. being
started by P. A. Snyder of John Day.
He has secured a special use permit
from the Whitman National forest to
launch the enterprise near Dixie
mountain, northeast of Prairie City.
He is now erecting buildings and fenc
es, and will start with three pairs of
genuine black foxes from Prince Ed
ward Island, which he purchased for
$600 a pair.
Quite a number of Chinese pheas
ants, frightened at the bombardment
in the fields near Eugene during the
last week, have sought refuge within
the confines of the city. Several were
seen on the streets and in back yards,
most of them being females. One was
seen perched on the roof of a livery
stable.
J. A. Berrian, superintendent of the
new fish hatchery . which was estab
lished last year at Butte Creek, re
ports fine progress being made with
the fish fry, which are now finger
lings and ready to be liberated in the'
streams of Jackson county.
Approximately $1,000 was raised
by the rummage sale held at Medford
the last three days of last week for
the purpose of. raising funds for the
aid of the Red Cross work in France.
The sale was well patronized by Ash
land people.
Following an investigation made
by Superintendent Briscoe, it' was
found that 215 boys and girls from
the Ashland high school worked for
wages during the summer. The to
tal amount of money earned by the
students amounted up to $8,924.95.
The highest individual amount earned
during the summer was $315. .
In common with the hunters all
over the state the Washington coun
ty nimrods were out in force the first
of the week to hunt the "chinas" and
other game birds, the season opening
on October 1st. All report a scarcity
of China Preasants, as compared with
former years, but many also modest
ly acknowledged that they had suc
ceeded in bagging the limit on the
first day.
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I We Buy in Car Load Lots Direct from the I
S lie $m i hi Mm
At the McMinnville Commercial
club rooms Wednesday evening a
meeting of farmers and town folks
was held for the purpose of discuss
ing the great opportunity that is af
forded in this community to establish
a cannery. H. B. Miller of the state
university addressed the meeting. He
is a man of large experience and wide
travel, and spoke intelligently of the
possibilities there.
Mrs. Robert Cooley of Cottage
Grove, who has long been a success
ful chicken raiser, has a five-months-
old White Leghorn pullet that is lay
ing a full-sized egg every day. Mrs.
Cooley keeps books on her biddies and
last year her hens averaged $3 each in
egg production while the cost of feed
was $1.20 a hen, leaving a neat pro
fit of $1.80 a hen.
Recognizing the fact that park and
mineral waters should be placed in
the hands of a new board to have
control of both, and also that pro
vision for funds for the maintenance
and vitalization of the resort pros
pect should be made.the Ashland city
council turned down the request to
place the amendment before the peo
ple, and followed with the passage of
a motion requesting the president of
the Commercial club to call a meeting
of the trustees and city council and
city attorney for the purpose of for
mulating an amendment! which would
be suitable.
At the Albany furniture factory
the juice is going, belts are on and
next Monday work will be begun on
stock, preparatory to getting out five
hundred, extension tables on an order
already on hand. The dryers have
been in use for some time getting the
lumber in shape. While it is the in
tention to make several hundred
dressers in order to clean up some ma
terial on hand, this will not be done
until the extension tables needed are
taken care of.
Forty years ago one of the famous
camp meeting grounds of the state
was situated on what is now a part of
Gresham. It was in a stately grove
of firs and cedars and covered the dis
trict between Powell street and the
fair grounds. Its main entrance was
somewhere near the post office, and it
was used every summer for many
years for revival meetings of the old
time sort and everybody went to them.
Wilson is the favorite as a candi
date for president among the frater
nity men at the University of Oregon
as shown by straw votes in six of the
seven fraternity houses, which give
Wilson 73 and Hughes 68. The sent
iment in general is reported to be
about evenly divided upon the camp
us, both among the men and women.
The molds are now being construct
ed for the cornice of the Coos county
court house annex. After these cor
nices and the walls of the upper story
have been poured the molds for the
roof will be built, for the roof like the
rest of the building will be of concrete.
We may be wearing potatoes for
watch charms and shirt studs before
spring if famine predictions made by
Oregon farmers materialize, say Ore
gon papers. Market experts fore
casted an acute shortage of spuds in
the United States as a result of bad
eastern crops. California and Idaho
abandoned tthe spud for the beet and
the bean this season. The Washing
ton crop is also small. Kansas and
Nebraska already are bidding for Or
egon tubers. California agents are
in the field gunning for big shipments,
using caution so as not to start an
immediate boom.
The Courier $1.00 per year.
Dmdtd Jin Operation
fllort than Jf n f thing
TRIED FRUITOLA AND TRAXO
AND HAS NEVER SINCE
BEEN TROUBLED WITH
GALL-STONES
Mrs. Mary E. Franse. whose ad
dress is West Point, Nebr., Box 411,
has written to the Pinus laboratories
a very strong endorsement of Fruit
ola and Traxo. In her letter, Mrs.
Franse says: "About ten years ago I
was about to undergo an operation for
gall-stones when I heard of your med
icine. Dreading an operation above
everything I determined to try Fruit
ola and Traxo and have never been
sorry I did so, as I have never been
troubled with gall-stones since."
Fruitola is a powerful lubricant
,for the intestinal organs, and one dose
is usually sufficient to give ample evi
dence of its efficacy. It softens the
cnncefit.eH mfiRapa. rlininf aornfpa fho
'CKE1D&R hnrdpnpd nnrtiplpa thaf npoainn an
much Buffering, and expels the accumulated waste to the great relief of the
patient. Following a dose of Fruitola, Traxo should be taken three or four
times a day in order to rebuild and restore the system that has been weaken
ed and run down by constant suffering. It is a splendid tonic, acting on the
liver and stomach most beneficially.
Fruitola and Traxo are prepared in the Pinus laboratories at Monticello,
111., and arrangements have been made to supply them through representative
aruggisiH. in uregon wiy, rortiana, UinDy and Hubbard they can be ob
tained at the Huntley Drug stores.
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READ THE DESCRIPTION OF OUR FENCING
MATERIAL. The wire used in our Fencing is drawn from high carbon basic open hearth
steel, the strongest and best steel for fence wire. The top and bottom wires are spring coiled,
which keeps the fence stretched tighter under all conditions of weather and strain.
GALVANIZING. The wire is heavily galvanized with pure spelter by a patent process in which
aluminum alloy is used to make it smoother and more durable. -
CONSTRUCTION. The top and bottom wires are heavy gauge high carbon coiled spring steel.
The line and stay wires are open hearth steel, with stay wires 6 inches apart, which makes a
strong durable fence for all purposes. The stay wires are one continuous piece from top to bot
tom, with no cut ends or pieces to start rust and no sharp bends to break the galvanizing. Just
a simple twist that holds the stay and line wires always in place.
47-Inch Field Fence
A heavy field or line fence, made es
pecially to turn stock.
35c
THE CONSTRUCTION
The construction is such that it stretches
perfectly, especially over uneven ground,
the strain being distributed from top to
bottom every line in the fence stands its
share of the strain.
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26-Inch Hog Fence
A heavy fence made especially for
hog fences and other places where
a fence is required to stand excess
ive strain.
26 in. high stay wires 12 in. apart
25c per rod
26 in. high stay wires 6 in. apart
30c per rod
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ANKER-HOLT.
Cream Separators
The Separator with the Self Balancing Bowl
Come In and Let Us Demonstrate It to You
Heating Stoves That Heat
We are showing the largest and most
reasonably price line of heaters in Clack
amas County.
Your old stove taken in exchange.
Bedding at Great Savings
$1.98
Full Size Comforts, Cotton
Filled at
Full Size Feather Pillows, Heavy CCr
Striped Coverng each OuL
FRANK BUSCH
Clackamas County's Leading Furniture and Hardware Store
WOMAN All RUN DOWN
Made Strong and Well Ey Vinol
ir.minil.nm Po T HI) flll TU1I AoWtt
after a hard spell of bronchitis so it waa
hard for mo to keep about. I had paina
In my client and took cold easily. A
friend aBked me to try vinoi. x am,
it built me up bo I am strong and well
and I am able to do my housework which
1 had not done lor lureo mouuia uciuiu
taking Vinol." Mrs. Xs & Uobbouqh,
Waynesboro. Pa.
Vinol creates an appetite, aids diges
tion, makes pure blood nnd creates
strength. Xour moncjr back It it falls.
Huntley bios. Co.,' Druggists, Ore
gon City. Also at the leading drug
stores in all Oregon towns.
SAVING SEED CORN
Most Mature Ears Should be Snapped
Off, Husked and Dried
In order to secure corn, much of
which has undoubtedly been very ser
iously damaged by the early frost,
suitable for seed for next season's
crop, farmers should go through their
fields before cutting the corn for sil
age and snap off all of the more ma
ture ears which show reasonably good
denting.
"The early frost has caught a good
deal of the early seed corn in the milk
and much of it will be unfit for seed
purposes," says G. R. Hyslop, spec
ialist in field crops at the Oregon Ag
ricultural college.
"Seed corn will undoubtedly be a
very scarce article next spring."
"By going through the field and
snapping off the more mature ears,
farmers will frequently be able to se
cure satisfactory seed. These ears
should be husked out within a few
days and stored on the drying rack
recommended by the college, in some
place that is warm with a current of
air. Most of the immature corn may
be dried in sufficiently good condition
to germinate and produce good corn
next year.
"This year has been late as to
growing and early as to frost. It
very forcibly demonstrates the neces
sity for an early to a medium matur
ing variety of silage corn, both from
the standpoint of quality of sileage
and ability to secure sufficient seed
to keep up the crop.
"Under no condition try to store
the immature corn in bulk or on
shelves or in sacks. If you do, it will
certainly mold. It should be put on
racks or on wires, or should be tied
up with string so that no two ears
touch and so that the air has access
to each ear. Put the corn in a place
that is warm and in a draught and it
will dry out quickly and without
sprouting. If put into a place that
is warm without ventilation the im
mature corn is likely to sprout at
once. If put into a cool place with
out ventilation, the tendency is for
it to mold and sour. Corn will suc
cessfully stand 100 degrees, F.
"Every farmer should save enough
of his best mature seed and dry it in
order to be sure of a seed stock for
next year."
State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
Lucas county, ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm of F.
J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the
City of Toledo, County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of Ca
tarrh that cannot be cured by the use
of HALL'S CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence this 6th day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1886. A.W. GLEASON.
(Seal) , Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter
nally and acts through the" Blood on
the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by all druggists, 76c.
Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Hughes is well on the road to be
come fully 1,000 per cent a candidate
or more.
We are still waiting to hear from
Mr. Hughes as to which of the many
laws enacted in the last four years
by a democratic congress he would
have repealed.
PER CENT
MONEY
$5,000 to loan on Clack
amas County farm secured
by 1st mortgage.
Dillman & Howland
'Elgth & Main Sts.
Oregon City, Oregon
Wanted for $2000 Cash
' A chicken ranch. Write descrip
tion and price to Ralph Ackley Land
Co., 210 Rothchild Bldg., Portland,
Ore. 2
Not everybody can achieve great,
ness but everybody can be clean.
A GOOD POSITION
The passage of the eight
hour law by Congress has cre
ated a big demand for telegraph
operators, both in railway and
commercial service.
Young men and young wo
men can obtain positions at
$75, $80 and $90 per month.
Write at once for full par
ticulars to the
Railway Telegraph Ins't.
Panama Bldg.. Portland, Ore.