0RE(10NT CITY ENTERNIISK, FUIPAY, AlHH'ST 25, 1905
Oregon City Enterprise
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1P05
SENATOR GEO. C. BR OWN ELL
At a picnic at Canby last Satur
day, State Senator Goorgv 0. Brown
oil announced that he vonld bo a
candidate to succeed himself at the
election to be held next June.
In thus announcing his candidacy
and inaugurating his campaign.
Senator Brownell must necessarily
submit to the people his record. We
would ask what has it been in the
past and what does the future prom
ise? And in criticizing the Sena-
tor and his record, the Enterprise
bears no malice towards that gentle
man whoso continued manipulation
of Clackamas county politics is,
however, a matter of indifference to
this paper. But we propose to pub
lish the facts for the information of
the voters of Clackamas county.
Senator Brownell has always ap
peared on the official ballot as the
Republican nominee although his
election has each time been due to
Democratic and Independent votes.
But a pirate, politically, indeed is
the man who sacrifices the entire
ticket for the perpetuation of him
self in office. What sort of Repub
lican is he who will assert that it is
a matter of no serious objection to
himself if George E. Chamberlain is
re-elected Governor of the state, that
he would not make any serious com
plaint if the Democrats of Clacka
mas county elected one or more coun
ty officers as well as a part of the
legislative ticket, so long as they as
sist to elect himself to the office to
which he aspires ? Can such a double
dealer inspire confidence and the
unanimous support of the party he
so readily sacrifices and has sacri
ficed in years pat for his own selfish
interests, politically? Can such a
man command the respect and suf
frage of a sincere Democrat or a
consistent independent voter? Such
tactics should be repudiated by ev
ery honorable voter.
Senator Brownell in twelve long
years of continuous service in the
state senate cannot point to a single
bit of legislation for which ho is
actually responsible, that has operat
ed in the interest of the common peo
ple of Clackamas county or the state
at large, lie is a man of great pro
testations, but there is a deplorable
deficiency in net results. I lis elee-
tion has always been materially aid
ed by the influences of the railroads
and allied interests. The hireling
of corporate interests, what may be
expected of him by the common jteo
ple whose interests he must neces
sarily oppose. Measure after meas
ure of remedial legislation relating
to corporations and calculated to re
lieve the burden of the individual
tax payer by enhancing the state's
revenues, have at each session of the
i gislature k'On quietly consigned
t a mysterious burying ground by
( i mmittees to which they had been
referred and of which the Clacka
mas county senator was either chair
man or a prominent member.
What is the natural consequence?
The rate of taxation in this county
has for a numlor of years been ex
ceedingly high. And who has been
paying the bulk of the taxes? The
producer. The monied interests
have been assessed on a minimum
basis, considering the large capital
invested.
Senator BrownoH's announcement
that he will be a candidate to succeed
himself was not unexpected even fol
lowing the positive declaration a
short time lie fore that under no cir
cumstances would he again ask for
the office at the hands of a long-suffering
constituency. It was generally
believed he would run again. But if
one's usefulness to the people can be
demonstrated at all, there certainly
should have developed some slight
evidence of it in twelve years' ser
vice. What the people desire is fewer
promises and more legislation in
their behalf; less profession of a
sincere regard for the interests of
the "dear people" and more substan
tial results; a less intimate relation
ship between legislators and corpor
ate interests and a closer fellowship
with the common people. It is about
time that some definite results wore
being attained along this direction
and such cannot bo reasonably Ktx
ected from those who manipulate
their political office for their-own
selfish advancement and gain to the !rc- not few.
tion to obtaining and disseminating
bxal news than the sphvnx does to
the movement to consolidate reli
gious svts. For one, The Journal
refuses to indorse this wholesale eu
logy of the "country press," because
there are these exceptions, and thev
detriment of "the popular govern
mem.
Under the diroet primary, the vo
ple have bvn delegated the power of
remedying thtse conditions, for a
further continuance of which they
will themselves lv directly responsible.
NO FREE DELIVERY.
If there is another community in
the state that is short-changed more
frequently at the hands of the feder
al authorities than is Oregon City,
we would like to become acquainted
with its location. On the recommen
dation of a few special land office
officials, and apparently for no other
reason, the Oregon City Und Office
was removed to Portland in the face
of a largely signed protest represent
ing the people of every county con
stituting this I-and District. Prom
ise after promise has been made that
with each succeeding session of
Congress an appropriation would lie
made available for a public build
ing in this city but as yet there is
nothing doing in that direction.
And now to cap the climax, free de
livery of mail is denied the city al
though every requirement of the" pos
tal laws, essential to the securing of
this service, has boon complied with.
It is provided in the postal laws
that when the population of a city
reaches 10,000 or the gross receipt's
of an office exceed $10,000 then the
postofflce department "may" estab
lish a free mail delivery service. Ac
cording to the report of Postmaster
lutnilall for the year ending June
30 last, the receipts of the Oregon
City office aggregated $10,300. Ap
plication was at once made by Mr.
Randall for the stablishment" of a
free delivery service here and this
was forwarded to the proper authori
ties at Washington, from whom the
pleasing, information is now receiv
ed that the service cannot In grant
ed. The reason assigned is that in
granting the service, the use of mail
boxes at the post office will le large
ly abandoned. The aggregate of the
rental of these boxes is aWit $1100
per annum and deducting this item
from the gross receipts of the office,
it is held that the revenues of the
oregon City office fall Mow the re
quired $HVi)0.
This objection appears unfair. It
is not recorded that any such consid
eration figured when a similar ser
vice was granted Albany or Eugene.
Then why should such a ridiculous
proposition enter into consideration
at this time. Oregon City people are
right in feeling displeased with such
treatment and they have splendid
grounds on which to ak the indorse
ment of the Board of Trade and en
list the services of Senator Fulton
in presenting the matter before the
post office authorities at Washing
ton. But if protests and petitions
in this particular instance avail no
more than similar action did in the
Lind Office removal, we may as well
sit back and fold our hands and say
we like the situation as it is now
presented.
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PRAISE OF THE COUNTRY
PRESS.
An encomium of the country press
is going the rounds. It is something
on the Champ Clark style of eulogy
of the country press fulsome, or
nate, exaggerated, insincere, yet as
to a large portion of the country
prc.-s largely true.
Every city exchange editor knows,
however, that there are country pa
jkts and country papers. There are
those that rustle for local news; that
discriminate between news and no
sense, between sense and bosh ; that
watcn lor and ha.-te to narrate oc
currences of local interest; that if
they venture to write or reprint ed
itorials do so with good judgment
and with a sincere effort to instruct
and enlighten their readers. Such
papers are well worthy the encomi
um spoken of, even though it be ver
bose and vulgarly baited.
But there are others some of
them in Oregon. The week through
"ye editor" can find no news worth
printing, has not ideas worth pre
senting; month alter month, year
alter year. There are specimens of
the "country press in Oregon" that
are not appreciably hotter than thev
were ten, fifteen or twenty yers ago ;
they use the same type, have the
same makeup, don't know that the
world in that time has moved faster
than would a snail in running a
race.
There are other country papers
that "start," merely to get a few
land notices and sheriffs advertise
ments and some little pickups of
patronage, and pay no more atten-
Bnt having said this much, and
kicked out the lazybones and pre
tenders, we cheerfully indorse all
that lias K'en said laudatory of the
country press. When we get hold of
a ixijK'r like the Mod ford Mail for
instance, or the Saniiam(Seio) News
or the Hood River Glacier, or the
Echo News, or the Klamath Falls
papers, or the Grant County News
(John Day City), or the Oregon
City paors. or the Dayton Herald,
or if it can be classed as a country
jvjper. the East Orogonian we know
there is work, effort, enterprise, ap
pnviation of a country editor's and
publisher's duties, behind those' pa
pers, and that they deserve to le sup
ported and upheld and praised. We
do not mean that there are no others
equally or nearly equally worthy,
nor that all those not mentioned are
unworthy. We do mean to sav again.
however, that a considerable portion
of the country press is not worthy
of the laudation mentioned.
As a whole the country press is
worthy, admirable, influential, de
serving of warm approbation and
cordial hx-al support; but when we
come to individualize and differen
tiate we mujst discriminate. There
is a scale of the country press, run
ning from do all tip through re, mi,
fa, sol. la, si. up to do again all the
way from A to Izzard. Portland
Journal.
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A SOUND OF GROANING.
The Republic hears a sound of
groaning in the land. "Hie whole
country for several years," says' the
Republic, "has groaned under the
burdens of the Dingley tariff." The
Republic is the victim of an auricu
lar illusion. There is groaning in
all our. cars, but it is the groaning of
machinery in mine and manufac
tory, of the loaded trains, the en
gine's throbbing under ground, the
rumblings of traffic in a thousand
directions. The groans of the work
ers are heavy and incessant. By
day they are enutted through a
great forest of smokestacks, which
darken the skies of great cities, and
burden taxpayers with the employ
mint of smoke inspectors, whose
work is all in vain for the clearing
of a clouded firmament. This may
Ire "the burden of the Dingley tariff
referred to by the Republic, which
roniemlers that during the last
Cleveland term the burden of smoke
inspectors was not necessary, thus
effecting a saving which was the
most brilliant stroke in the financial
policy of the last democratic admin
istration this country will ever see.
The Republic seems to understand
that the groaning it hears is not from
the jx-ople. With its ear close to the
ground, it is unable to distinguish
a voici1 of the masses in the noise it
hears. Speaking of the reciprocity
convention which meets in Chicago
next week, it says that the call for it
"did not come from farmers or cat
tle raisers, or cattle feeders, but from
cattle dealers, who want wider mar
kets for the dressed and salted meats
turned out by the packing houses."
The Republic is disingenuous. As
one affiliated with that party in
which the trusts have found the only
refuge they have had, the Republic
uses a multitude of words to cover
up the fact that it is the beef trust
which is behind the reciprocity
movement. "But behind the meat
packers and the railroads," it says,
"are the masses of western farmers."
So far liehind, dear Republic, that
they are not yet in sight; so far be
hind, in fact, that they will never
catch up.
If the Republic is uncandid at the
first it is certainly candid enough
at the last. "Democrats will look
approvingly on at the efforts of the
reciprocity champions," it says, and
there can lo no doubt of that. Dem
ocrats will not only "look approving
ly on," but they will doubtless parti
cipate largely, under cover or open
ly, in the proceedings of the Chica
go convention. The Democrats in
the convention may mask themselves
Ixdnnd a specious pretense of public
good, but the Republic disdains such
limitation. No pent-up Utica con
tracts its powers. It looks lieyond
the public interest to see the old
democratic party rising Phoenixlike
out of the ashes, the lire at which
the country burned its multitudin
ous fingers in 18!)2. It throws open
the doors to reciprocity republicans
whose "eves may lie opened to the
real merits of thh old Jackson poli
cy of a tariff for revenue with inci
dental protect ion." 'When the eves of
enough republicans are opened in
that woy, their ears will he no long
er afflicted with a groaning, for it
shall cease. The burden of the
smoke inspector will be lifted and
we shall le no longer frightened by
the moans, screams or roars of a
vulgar traffic. Globe-Democrat.
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OREGON CITY TRANSPORTATION CO.
Office and Dock:
Foot Taylor Street
Phone Main 40.
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Transfer and Express
Freight and parrels delivered
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RATES REASONABLE
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All the BatiHfaction of i
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DiHtance no efTect to
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Hardmir's Draff Store.
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL
Maintain unexetrlled m-nlre from the
Wc-Bt to the East and Houth. Making
clone connectloim with trains of all trans
continental lines, pafnenjrerH are Klvcn
their choice of routes to Chicago, IxiuIm
vllle, Memphta and New Orleans, and
through these points to the far Knst.
Prospective travelers desiring Informa
tion as to the lowest rates are Invited to
correspond with the following represen
tatives: B. II. TRUMBULL, Commercial Agent,
142 Third Street, Portland .Oregon!
J. C. LINDSEY, Trav. Passenger Agent,
142 Third Street, Portland, Oregon
PAUL B. THOMPSON. Passenger Agent,
Colman Building, Beattle, Wash'.
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TOWER CANADIAN CO.. LIMITED,
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tOUEaty
Deierves Your Patronage.
The growth of a community and the
success of Its local Institutions dr-pendl
entirely on the loyally of Ita people. II
Is well enough to preach "patronise horn
Industry" but except the service ilv"tl
at a homo Institution equals that of out-of-town
enterprises, this argument car
rlea no weight and Is entirely disregard
ed, an It should bo. Hut with Oregon Clt)
people It Is different. A few months
ago E. L. Johnson established the Cas
cade Laundry. It Is equipped with the
latest Improved machinery and Is dally
turning out work that la equal to an
atid superior to much of the laundiy
work that Is being done In Portland
Being a home Institution and furnlshlns
employment for many Oregon City people
I It la enjoying an immonse patronage.
I he high standard of the work bml
done commends It to the general puhlla
Laundry left at tha O. K. hnrher shoo will
j be promptly called for and delivered to
'any part of the city. Telephone 1204.
I E. L. Johnson, proprietor.