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Oregon City Enterprise. Published Every Friday. CHAS. MESERVli, PPBU8HKR AND FROl'BIETOR. SUB8CKIPTION HATKM. t)n year, ..... SUmomhi, Trial auhacrlptlon two mouth, 1200 . 1 (X) Tiil.' r...lil l.,.t i. ..i f - I will (wl at that lactht lnrgcsl pork ik lug plant on CWt. Tli building lll b 2,'H) fwt si)tiaro mil cost $ 'W.ftHV Tin two mpttt companies of IVrtland havsnrvu packing on a small scale and atv planning toei.larK their tvilabltidioiiMila another yi'ar and to go into thf pork packing buaiheas on large seals. Oregon farmers yet have a reliable market for their hoga. A diaeoiiLt of Meruit on all iiiWrlpllom (or advance neyear, rtnli lor aix niuutha, if said lu advance. Advertlaiog ral (Iran on application. tntemi at tha Potl Office In Oregon City, Or., aa aerond claw matter. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY S, 1895. AGKNT8 FOR TBI INTKRPRI8K. Oawego, Canbr, Clackamas, alllwaukie, Colon Mills, Alma, Meadow Brook. Mew Era. Wlleonrllls, Park Place. Barlow, Gladstone, taftonl. . Mnllno, Cania. Molalla. - Narquarn, ButterlUe Aurora, Orrllle, Kagle Creek, Bunnyside, laniascns, Bandy, Hatnion, Currinsville, Cherryville, Marmot, 0. W. Pmirr Geo. Knliht A. Mather Gary 4 W tmtniier 0 J. Trullttiitf r E. 8 Braruhatl Chaa Holmau W. 8. Newberry Henrv Mtler Hamilton A Washburn - Mrs. Q. A. Sheppard T. M. Croat J. Q. liase. C. T Howard R. M. Cooper Annie Slutilu. E, M. Hartffian B- Jcnninga K. lileey L.J Perdu H. WillH-rn John Welsh J. C. Elliott F. OtKtM-h Mrs. W. M. Mclntyr Geo. J. Currin Mrs. M. J. Hammer Adolph Aschort Nini out of ten or the republicans of Clackamas county favor the retention of silver in our monetary system. Tha other tenth readonly tha Oregonian and are blind followers of its impracticable teachings. Til Oregon ian aya: " At last Cleveland has accepted ita advice on the financial question." Shades of Napoleon! What swelled head. i'ortland Chronicle. THE CHEAP TEACH KB. CI U0 The way to build np Oregon To thi Epitor: In the eternal fitness of things, it see mi that it has been ruled thai among the genus homo there must always be an element in whom the faculty of self exaltation is so little developed that they believe themselves an inferior class, their la bor an inferior labor, their productions in ferior productions not worth, in a pecun iary sense, as much as the labor and pro ducts of others. In all callings we find this class, and it may be truthfully said. that as a class they are right in their conclusions. Just as the employe of the nianulaclurer has the cheap alien laborer to contend with, have our teachers the cheap teacher to con tend with. Such teachers are the non-progressive element in the schools of Clacka mas county the retarding agency so appa rent to our better teachers. It is a common expression among those those familiar with the facts that the schools of our comity have made the most encour-1 aging progress in the last twa years, that CAUCUS BOLTI.XG. Speaking about bolting caucuses and con ventions the precedent for such action seems to be pretty well established here in Oregon. Col. Cornelius and I). P. Thomp son each owe their defeat for gubernatorial honors largely to men who participated in the conventions that nominated them. Judge Waldo, a man w hose candidacy was a credit to the republican party, was defeated by the bolting and treachery of Joseph Si mon, then chairman of the republican state central committee. Even here in Clackamas county the crime of bolting is not unknown, for several good men have been defeated at the polls by men who took part in the conventions that nominated them. The Ekterprisi believes that the will of the majority should rale, and holds that a eaan snonld stand by the nominees be baa helped to make; but it does make one tired to hear H. W. Scott, Joseph Simon, and several others of lesser note prate about the belnousness of bolting when they each have and will do so again, bolt a caucus or con vention nomination whenever it best serves their purpose. via to rive Oreiron titv neoole voor i " 1 6 " ' frrtltagf ' win. in aiirunance, me average en- . . ' I rollment, and theaveragoageof pupils have greatly increase. Without doubt t'ns is true. At the same time it may be not ice. I that the interest m the monthly teachers' association has greatly increased, that it is more vigorously upheld and advanced. It needs no logical reasoning, a priori, to make the connection apparent, to show all that the cause of the increase in the standard of elliciency of onr schools is the teachers' meetings. Yet there are teachers, too many of them, whom you never see present. These I must distinguish from the others by the appellation of -'cheap teachers," the only dark spot on a bright outlook, the re tarding factor, at which our progressive teachers must look with a degree of pessim ism. Why Because they, to a certain ex tent, tear down the school structure belter teachers are trying to build. They do this by their incompetency lor the work, by teaching for a small salary, thus lowering the standard of the calling, and because very often they are young girls or boys who take up the work as a makeshift or are those absolute, fossilized "sticks," people fifty vesrs agone called "country school teachers" and who still vegetate in oar backwoods districts. A teacher who is cheap in price must be cheap in quality. The active, wide awake teacher must have money, and to spare, if he keep abreast of our fin de siecle times. We live In a fast age; an age in which the fittest only suc ceed, and in order to be of the fittest, we. Tins the energetic teacher can do only by appro- printing a portion of bis salary to school publications and school apparatus. If he doesn't he retrogrades snlo the eay-going, good-for-nothing pedagogue, who iulesied the globe in the days of Ichabod, and who may still be found in some of the schools of our county. Hence the better teacher must have sufficient salary not only to amply re munerate him for his services but also to warrant a liberal expenditure for school Hi- erature. Loiiseouentlv he is not found where a miserly salary is paid. There has been almost a general reduction of teachers1 salaries the past year. Well and good, times have been hard, and it has been necessary to encourage but in too many districts, in the effort to reduce the burdens of the tax payer, the schools have suffered. This is not true economy. When we hire cheaper teachers w certainly lower the standard of the schools. The days when anybody could teach are past. The true teacher today con aiders his work professional work for w hich he must thoroughly fit himself. Hence the cheapest teacher who offers himself cannot be tbe true teacher. As be underbids he has no professional courtesy. Because of this detestable practice, he merits the con tempt of those who try to be true teachers. There should be' no place for him in the teachers' meeting or in the school. We want tbe best teachers, not the cheapest. The best teacher will do the school more good in five months than the cheapest will In ten months. The most, stable govern ments today aje those in which education is most free. When we Increase the effi ciency of our schools we make more stable our government. A republic is not a sale government for an unenlightened people. Democracy depends upon education ; auto- cacy upon ignorance. Our teachers then are potent factors in determining the secur ity of the nation. Let hh fill our schools with active, professional teachers, able bv precept and example to teach love of our country and Hug and a knowledge of ilb laws. This we can do by raising the stand ard of the teacher's qualifications, and by generotisyet judicious expenditure in the school's behalf. School officers should set the salary they are able to pay, then secure the best teacher thev can for the money. And when some detestable nonentity in the calling, who has by some crook ohtuined a certificate, conies around and offers to take the school for less, they should kick him off the place. Finis Tri enactmtnt of a national income tax has called attention to the fact that the state of Virginia imposes and attempts to collect a similar tax. All incomes over i as teachers, must be up with the age. tiOO are asseesed at the rale of 1 per cent, but the resulting revenue has been very small, about $2,000 for the entire state. Less than 2,000 persons claim to be subject to the tat, although an income of f'Oia year is considered small, and it would seem must be enjoyed by a very large majority of the gitiiens of the Old Dominion. The law has never been rigidly enforced, and tbe payment of the tax has been merely a matter of choice on the part of superla tively honest people. For meekness and lamblike submission tbe people of Portland are entitled to the medal. Their latest display of abject hum bleness is in allowing Joe Simon to draft in the privacy of his office a new charter for . that city, and be is now poshing it through the legislature with every prospect of suc cess, while the revised charter drawn np by the committee of one hundred Is doomed to a prematnre death. Simon's charter makes several radical changes in the government of that city and legislates into office several men of his choice regardless of tbe wishes oi the people. For consistency the Oregonian is a jewel. That paper is now going into hysterics over the action of certain republlcana in bolting tbe caucus and opposing Senator Dolph's re-election. Twelve years ago this winter this same paper denounced the caucus and commended the bolters in their opposition to John H. Mitchell who bad received the caucus nomination, the result of the bolt being that J. N. Dolph was brought for ward and elected United States senator and Mitchell was defeated. It makes all the difference in the world with H. W. Scott as to whose ox is being goured. An amendment to the state constitution of Washington, voted on and ratified at the last election, has gone into effect by the proclamation of Gov. MeGraw. It amends section 5 of article 11 so as to read: " None of tbe permanent school fund of this state shall ever be loaned to private persons or coriiorations, but it may be invested in na tional, state, county, municipal or school district bonds." It would be well if Oregon bad such a law. The funds would be much safer than now, and if school district bonds were given the preference it would belp out districts in their financial affairs. .Th bonded debt of Portland now amounts to $.M-00 per capita of its popula tion. Portland bas been rather lavish In her expenditures, but most of them will fully repay the money invested, especially the Port of Portland and the Bull Run water bonds. . AN OPEN LETTER TO 0. It. II. MILLEU. Th February meeting of the board of trade will take place next Monday evening. In addition to the annual election of officers several Important matters will be brought up for consideration. A full attendance is i pec ted of tbe members. Mr. G. R. H. Miller I have carefully read your letter addressed to Mr. William Barlow and published in the Entikphike. Taken in all its parts I have to confess that it is either too shallow or too profound for my understanding. On one point only I think I get a glimpse of your meaning. No doubt your deep researches and lucid ex planations of " tbe people's party side of the money question" are perfectly Intelligi ble to the mind of the average populist. It must be admitted that he baa capacity iiifll cient to see through a skimmer when It is full of holes. But ao it is not with the av erage republican. When lie attempts to peer through the populist skimmer to dis cover something beyond, his vision becomes blurred, ami he Is reminded of an old lady a directions for testing the quality of indigo: " Good or bad indigo," said she, " will either sink or swim In cold or warm water," Of course she, and all who relied on her dic tum, knew just how to select good Indigo in conformity with the directions given; but all was blue with the wash maid who was sent to purchase that article. Hlie under stood the art ol washing, and the best use of the hard dollar she received for every lob that want through ket hands, but her In tellect never lowered high enough to under stand the use of the formula given her for testing the quality of indigo. You tee, my good friend, the fix I am in. I lack the capacity to understand, much less to criticise and explain away the subtle ties of your profound money dissertation. Besides, come to think of it, it Isn't a job that I should perform, I believe In every hunter skinning his own game if be wants to; and I would not presume to usurp a right which belongs exclusively to our mu tual friend William Barlow. It remains for him to decide whether the pelt would pay for the trouble. But I do want to Ml you a little story which may serve to illustrate a point which populists generally do not seem to under- aland. But before telling the story I must quote a couple of lines from your "open letter." You ask, " How do you get $100 in gold now?" and then you answer your own question by saying, " By giving a mortgage on your laud." This, though addressed to Mr. Barlow personally, is Intended, of course, to apply not to one person alone, but to the usual method of obtaining gold. It is rik'ht her- where I thought I had ob tained a glimpse of your meaning, and my story Is to show another and quite different method of obtaining the yellow metal : 1 am well acquainted with a man who set. tied in the outskirts of this city Just seven years sgo. He was then nearly 70 years of age. His capital all told was alxiut $Xs, cash, a little plain furniture, anil sufficient clothing and bedding to barely make com fortable himself, wife and daughter. He had always been an industrious worker, and fiow he became so poor at an advanced age is of no interest to any one but himself. It is sufficient that he never squandered his earnings in viceanddissipatiotiof any kind. Willi this small capital this acquaintance of mine bought an acre of ground, paying only a part down, and had a house built thereon lMx2ii and an " 1." ll'xlil leet. To this he afterwards added a good wood house 14x10. His meansdid not ermit him to at once finish the house, and he had to move in when it was a mere shell. For nearly two years thereafter he could not obtain steady employment at his trails, only getting a job occasionally at the rate of 15 cents per hour. But when not thus employed he spent the time in digging out the big stumps on his acre, preparing the ground for, and planting out, berries, fruit trees, etc., and in working for his neighbors, hoeing and dig ging potatoes, and doing other light farm work, getting therefor ten " bits" a day and his dinner. One season he cut wood enough on .Miss Mollle Holmes's wood lot (she gave him the limber, God bless her!) to last him a yeir, and thus saved fS) which he would have bad to pay to a wood merchant or go without fuel if he had refused to work at anything but his trade. Finally he obtained for a couple of years steady employment ; and then came the " hard times," since when "the old man' ha been put on half time three days only each week. At this he does not growl, knowing his emplover cannot afford to do heller by him. In even- one ol the oil days, however, he manages to do something on his premises that makes a saving if it does not yield a profit. The profit, however, is really in the saving. He has (.lit Ins ground in such cultivation thai he raises all the vegetables needed for his family, all the fresh berries and small fruits they want, besides selling considerable quantities and canning enough to last lliem until fruits and berries come again, A good well under roof stands at the side of the house. Instead of the old rotten rail fence a substantial board fence surrounds the lot; the walls of the house are plastered and neatly papered and painted the wife doing the paper hanging and inside painting, be sides purchasing with her own earnings an ample supply of house furnishing goods and a parlor organ for her daughter. All is plain, of course, but for genuine comfort tbe little home equals the costliest palace. It has taken work to accomplish this, but more is to be sdded, and here comes In tbe point of my story : In these seven years, two of them years of depression and hard times, the man I am speaking of and his wife have managed not only to build up a property now worth JI500, but are free from debt and have been able to save, not " floO in gold," but three times that stun, and have it placed where it is drawing 0 per cent, interest. Had business continued as favorable as it was two years ago the sum would euaily have been five hundred instead of three. Just think ol It an old couple, one of them at least on the verge of the grave, earning and hoarding up gold (that article which you, Mr. .Miller, call a "thief and a liar' ) and thus aping, as far as they can, the wicked folly of the "gold bugs" I Poor, Inanimate, yellow stuff! If it were only a living, breathing, sentient being, how awful it would feel to have such epithets poured upon its head and from such a source, too, a crystal stream from a populist fountain. Its very eyes would weep blood, and its breast heave with groans of agony. To yield to its owner six per cent, per annum when the greasy, fiat, rag article might be had for two, and then to be loaned out again at a still higher premium, and be scattered given to them. No doubt our man fec-ls an honest pride that he has been w illing to work nt anything by which ho could earn an honest penny and thus avoid becoming a pauper in bis old age. Tho Inferem I would draw from hi course Is that every able bodied man in Oregon City and vicin ity can, if lie to wills, find something to do by which he mav earn an honest living for himself and family . He may not in all in stances be able to store up (or the future, but with health and strength It Is his own fault if he and his family sutler. I do not lose sight of the fact that there has come over us a great change from prosper ity to depression. He who meets It with a brave heart is tha one who will help to re store prosperity, and show how a man may obtain both gold ami silver without giving a mortgage on anything more than bis will and muscles. He who sits on the ragged edge of a nail keg In a country store Irom day to day, squirts tobacco Juice on a hot stove, ridi cules the Intlrmltlci of hit neighbors, damm Dolph and those who vote for Mm, lauds traitors to princlplo and waits for the gov ernment to loan him rag money, Is the man who, If there were enough of him, would clog every wheel of machinery, block all the avenues of wealth, become an excresence on the body of society, and finally slough oil Into the " last ditch," a victim of his own ciissedurss and conceit. Rest assured, Mr. Miller, there la an hon est Way of obtaining fluO of either gold or all ver. And It la honest money when ao ob tamed, and bears not the stamp of " thief and liar" on ita face. Every man who works finds It, ami if he has a little surplus he knows it Is a good article to salt down and keep In store against the days when heart and llesh shall fail him. If he has no work, rag or Hat money will not help him. Government docs not and never will care for Its poor in that way. Yours truly, K. Wakxkm. gig Slaughter Sale! easts We must do it! Everything Goes! Sale Lasts 15 Jkiys! McKittrick, "The Shoe Man." Salo Begins Saturday, January 26th at 10 A. M. A bountiful woman must k licitlthv, and to remain healthy ami beautiful alio hIiuiiK! tuko I'r J. II. McUan's Streligtliiiitf Curdiul and Wood I'urillcr It iinp.irtH tone ami fluali to tlia skin, vigor and puro IiIimkI ; Is equally adapted for all ages, from the balm to the aged, of either aex. For sulo by C. li. Huntley, druggiat. I.a kcniicsse. A 10 cent cigar for a nickel. E. E. Williams, the grocer. Frevtag'a fine home made pickles are on sale ut E. E Williams's, Marr A Ktdi- eriHnii h, nmi r. l. Huriow s grocery stores. County and city warrants wanted by mict win uteri mi nana. A dollar saved is equal to two dollars earner, ray up your miliaription to the Kntkri'kisk and get tha the benefit ol th) reduction in price. Wedding stationery, tht) latest stylea and finest assortment ever brought to Oregon City at the hTKRrRi office. "What higher aim eaa man attain Than oooqueat over human palat" DR. J, H. MCLEAN'S VOLCANIC OIL LINIMENT IS THE CnEATEST CURE OF PAIN. It la a thoroughly reliable remedy for the cur- or CL'TS. BuwnS, LU M B('.g6, WOUNDS. old sorcs, Chafed skin itch. PAINS. ICAlOl, fcRUIStS, BLOTCHES. NEURALGIA. SCALD HEAD, RHEUMATISM. Also for tho various dlseaaea of llorsm and Cattle. 1'rlce &'), ducaudil.Oupnr bottle. THE DR. J. II. MrlKAX MEDICINE CO. KT I.OI'IS. MO. Eor sele bv C. O. Huntley, driiiyinf.. You Can Get Ferry's Heeda at vour dealers ' as frnah and fertafe aa Ihoinrli you irot them direct from Ferrv'i ' He:d Karma. Ferrys Seeds arc known and planted ever?- wnorD, Kua mn always tba m. rwrpnn aw lor inva Mils all snout mem, Fra. D. M. Farr A Co. Oetrolt,Mlati. SUMMONS la the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Clacknmaa county Lliftle N. Conner, plaintiff, va. Burl Conger, de fendant To Hurl Cnnuer. above-named defendant: In the nme of the Htate of Oregon, yon are hereby Hiiininoned and required to b and up near In the a hove entitled milt and court on or before Ihn flrnt day of the ueit regular term of .ild court, to- It: the l.'ith day of Anrll A. I), 1"OT. and aimwer the complaint filed aniiltim you In the above entitled mi It. and If you fall to an iiiimi-r Ilii- plult.tltr will apply to Hie court lor the relief demanded In the cmnplulnl. which relief la fo the illhHoIiitlnii of the iiinrriiiifc con trjet now exlatlmr between plalntlir and de fendant herein. Von are further mill Anil that tlin miminon In tlni iiilt la nerved upon yim by publication by older, dated November 9, lx!rt, of Hon T. A Mellrlde, Jinlvn of nalil court. 1 1.. rllKTKIl, Ally. lor I'lalllllir. Dated Jan. n, 1MH, 21. 8-15. 5 R 3 Qregon City Hospital. ...GLADSTONE PARK... Conveniently of niveau niul plt'iiHiint lociiti'il. Fri'O from tho noim and duat of the city. Skillful nurses, ami every convenience of a firft I'lllHH Iioh i t ul . A in pic room that uiticntH nitty have liens and rent. Special rooinn fur IlldieH. quiet- Services of tho lient hynii'iann of the county in attendance. TltHMH HICAHONAIIUC. R Address, MISS M. E. ! OWKdON CITY. LIIBKER, SUPT. OH. n r A YOU NEED f DOORS, WINDOWS, MOULDING, Or IBuiklinK Mnterinl? Go to C- H. BESTOW- Lowest cah prices ever offered for FIRST - CLASS - GOODS. Also combination wire and picket fence:, HARTMAN - STEEL - PICKET - RENCE. And best farm fencing inado. Prices to suit hard times. Shop Opp. Congregational Church, MAIN STREET, OREGON CITY. JHREE MONTHS ABSOLUTELY FREE. -H-THK-M- SUMMONS. In thi circuit court of the Slate of Oregon tor uie county oi uiacain-, a. Adam Quick, plaintiff, va. Annie K Quick, de fendant. To Annie E. Quick, aald defendant: in tne name or the Htats of Oreiron, you are ereby re'iuired to annear and anawer the com plaint Sled aitaitmt you In the above entitled around among laborlnf? men some of it , hereby rmiulred to appear and anawe percnauce panning inrougti tne hands or Mr. Miller himself it is a condition too sad to contemplate. But to my story: it points a lesson. The man of whom I have been writing, would not be thought a boaster. Heslmply did his duty, as have hundreds of other men in and around the city, while other hundreds, with more strength and means to start with, have waited for luck to come to them, and are how asking for the creation of some thing that would not buy their bread if tilt on the third Monday In April, A. I), im being the lAth day of aald month, and aald day mum me nrni any or tne neit regular term nl aald court, following tho expiration of the time prcacrlbed In the order of publication of this aumn.ona made by aald court. 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