OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE,, FRIDAY,' DECEMBER 29, :1905.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1905.
PURITY IN POLITICS.
There is much being said and writ
ten these days of purity in politics.
If it has been an absent quantKy, and
there is no question but it has in
many sections, public sentiment de
mands a new deal. The succesful
careers of Roosevelt, LaFollette, Folk
and Jerome are instances of a remark
able change of sentiment among the
people who now demand and expect
honest and competent puDiic omciaia,
men of whom something other than
the support of corporate interests may
be expected. The election ana sue
cess of these men and their retention
in tmblic office in the face of organiz
ed and systematic opposition from
corrupt sources that have heretofore
dominated the administration or puDiic
affairs, is a renewed declaration of the
people that a change is appreciated.
Under the present system for nom
inating public servants, blame for
continuing corrupt and unfaithful offi
cials in power rests entirely witn tne
people. If a continuation of mis-rep
resentation and failure to legislate in
the interests of the common people is
desired, retain in office those who
have repeatedly demonstrated their
undeserving qualities by failing to
stand for the common people.
It is up to the electors themselves
now. If a public official has proven
unworthy, oust him and substitute a
man who stands for definite policies.
It is the duty of every voter to parti
cipate in the direct primary nomina
tions. Electors have it within their power
to repudiate corrupt officials and if
they do not take advantage of the sit
uation they need not complain if
at the general election, these same
mis-representatives are chosen to long
er serve the public in office.
Get up and assert yourself for a
new deal. Take an active participa
tion in the selection of the candi
dates on your ticket. You will then
have done your duty.
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EDUCATION IN UNITED STATES.
remain, there. As regards sugar, the
i ways ana means committe oi tne
House has been told recently that if
it were put on the free list, or. if the
tariff on it were greatly reduced, the
acerage of the cane would greatly in
crease, and the islands would produce
more than the total consumption in
Their actual production in 1903 and
the United States.
1904 was 100,000 tons. In the year
1903 the consumption of the United
States was reckoned at 2,549,642 tons,
or 71.1 pounds per capita. The Phil
lipines production was inferior to that
of Porto Rico, Louisiana, Hawaii. It
was much less than the beet sugar
output of the United States and one
tenth the product of Cuba. It would
have to. develop out of all proportion
to its present relative importance in
Philipines industries. Hemp is not
only the largest export to this country
but much the largest item in the gen
eral exports.
Gloomy forecasts of the sugar catas
trophe ignore such facts and condi
tions and pass by the other side of the
account, which is of some little impor
tance. Our exports to the islands
have increased since the annexation
from $250,000 to 86,000,000 the esti
mate for this year.- A glance over
the complete statistics for ten months
reveals a great variety of items which
appear as evidence of new business.
Ayefs
Your doctor will tell you that
thin, pale, weak, nervous chil
dren become strong and well
by taking Ayer's Sarsaparilla.
Small doses, for a few days.
Sarsaparilla
The change . is very prompt
and very marked. Ask your
doctor why it is. He has our
formula and will explain.
"When '13 years old, for many month no
onethoutrht I could live becanaeof thin blood.
But, in a few weeks. Ayer's Sarsaparilla com
pletely restored me to health." ,
juks. jl. jsuckminstkk, vineiana. 74. J.
i f 1.00 a bottle.
Ail fln!Tn.t.
for'
J. O. ATBR CO..
1,nwfM. Maaa.
Aiw
OF THE SUGAR TREE
AN OPINION OF ROOSEVELT.
Secretary Hitchcock directs atten
tion in his report to the gratifying
progress i which education is making
in the country. Twenty per cent of
the entire population are enrolled in
the common schools, while the per
centage rises to over 23 when we add
to the number of common school pu
pils those attending private schools,
higher institutions of learning, night
and business schools and other educa
tional agencies.
As has often been said, the Ameri
can people have a passion for educa
tion. No taxes are more cheerfully
paid than those going toward the sup
port and development of the school
system. Our negro population and
the unprecedented assimilative task
entailed by immigration at the present
rate abundantly justify the keen in
terest and profound faith of the peo
ple m education as the chief Ameri
canizing ' influence. Education has
made us vhat we are, and education
will carry still further the process to
which we must look for national unity
and solidarity.
A recent belated census bulletin giv
ing the statistics of illiteracy in the
country for 1900 and 1890 shows that
the goal has by no means been reach
ed. There is still plenty of work to
be done.- "While we are ahead of sev
eral European countries in the matter
of literacy, we are considerably be
hind Germany, Switzerland, and little
Norway. One person in ten could not
read or write in 1900; but ten years
before the proportion of iliteracy was
133.4 to 1000.
We learn from the same bulletin
that the girls had caught up with the
boys, by 1900, although they were dis
tinctly backward in 1890; that the
changes point to a time when women
and girls will enjoy educational su
periortity over men and boys, in spite
of the increasing employment of wom
en in industry, and sthat the South is
jstill greatly handicapped by a high
per-centage of illiteracy. For the ne
jgre the proportion in 1900 was 444.7
alliterates per 1,000.
All our states have been reducing
their illiteracy, but the "West has been
most active and successful in this
direction. The next census will prob
ably report very substantial gains for
education throughout the Union.
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TRADE WITH THE PHILIPPINES.
Mr. Roosevelt has done much to es
tablish unconventional thinking in
America . In theory a rather extreme
party man himself, his example has
helped men to extricate themselves
from slavery to party. His freedom
from restraints of method and manner
has sometimes run into freedom from
just limits and obligations, but in the
main it has taught people to look with
freshness and independence on what
lies before them. He has used the
American racy directness and care
lessness of form, not with Lincoln's
genius, but with a popular vigor ana
profusion that have made the example
The Children)
Biliousness, constipation prevent re
covery. Cure these with Ayer's Pills.
"Don't you think. Miss Sharp," said
the clergyman, "that since marriage
is such a holy thing it is singular
marriages are not made in heaven?"
"Perhaps sir," replied the young
woman, "it is difficult to find a clergy
man there." Boston Transcript.
BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CA
TARRH THAT CONTAIN MERCURY.
As Mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely, derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except
on prescriptions from reputable phy
sicians, as the damage they will do is
carry far. History will probably be ten fold to the good you can possibly
. It will find in him a type, derive from them. Hall's Catarrh niire
good to him
easily made interesting to the imagin
ation. There will perhaps some day
be a great biography written of him,
by a man too full of the humor of
undeestanding to make his work a
silly overstimate, but yet a man whose
talent for portraiture shall fix for the
world an individual of of unmistak
able flavor, volume, timeliness and
use. Since Lincoln no President nas
had so much of the quality that ex
cites the interest of the mass, here
and in other lands, and combines with
it the approval from the well-informed
independent and judicious. Cleveland
may or may not loom larger in the
end; on that question we hazard no
opinion; but Mr. Roosevelt is fairly
certain to stand before posterity as
one of the most interesting and clear
ly marked of all the Presidents ex
cept the men of real greatness who
have held that office, and they perhaps
are not more than four or five, which
may be selected, according to taste.
from Washington, Adams, Jefferson,
Madison, Jackson, Lincoln, and
though not as a President Grant.
Collier's Weekly.
IDEAS OF STUDENTS.
It is estimated that our total trade
Reports of cruelty inflicted by col
lege students on selected victims of
their number appear in the press with
disgusting frequency. One would
think a youth who was interested in
the endurance of physical hardship
might go off and exhibit it himself
instead of combining with a dozen
of his fellows to torture some member
of their college, as younger males are
accustomed to torture dogs or beetles.
Analogous indications of student intel
ligence may be extracted from these
expressions in a private letter from
theatrical manager in answer to a
request for information about news
paper accounts: "The students did
cut up pretty roughly Saturday night.
We cut the show down considerably,
as they threw all kinds of things, pro
grammes, etc., on the stage, the climax
being just before we rang down, when
one of them threw a small glass onto
the stage. It struck one of the chorus
girls in the forehead and cut quite
a little gash, but, being a light gash,
the blow was not such as to stagger
her or anything of that kind. We
thought it was then about time to close
up, which we did. One of the students
also took one of the automatic' candy
boxes off the back of the seat and
threw it on the stage. You know,
these are quite weighty I should say
weighing a couple of pounds each
but fortunately, this did not strike
any one." Why fortunately? The stu
dent's joke was incomplete. His idea
was to strike some one, and thus car
ry out his views of a diverting inci
dent. Exchange. ,
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The school teachers of Oregon City j
are making an effort to nave tneir ,
salaries raised. Here's hoping they j
succeed in their worthy and just de- j
mands. If there is a profession that j
should be well paid for the work done,
we believe it is the teaching profes-;
sion. The responsibility of the teach- j
er is great, and the result of his or !
her work has much to do in shaping i
the welfare of all coming generations. ;
Pay the teachers the best wages, and .
insist on them giving their best pro- j
fessional and good moral services in j
return. Estacada News.
derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure
manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co..
Toledo, Ohio, contains no mercury, and
is taken internally, acting directly up
on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh
Cure be sure you get the genuine. It
is taken internally and made in To
ledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co., Tes
timonials free.
Sold by druggists. Price 75 cents a
bottle.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Deserves Your Patronage.
The growth of a community and the
success of Its local Institutions depends
entirely on the loyalty of its people. It
Is well enough to preach "patronize home
industry" but except the service given
at a home institution equals that of out-of-town
enterprises, this argument car
ries no weight and is entirely disregard
ed, as it should be. But with Oregon Citj
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 'daily
turning out work that is equal to any
and superior to much of the laundry
work that is being done In Portland.
Being a home institution and furnishing
employment for many Oregon City people
it Is enjoying an immense patronage.
The high standard of the work being
done commends it to the general public.
Laundry left at the O. K. barber shop will
be promptly called for and delivered to
any part of the city. Telephone 1204.
E. L. Johnson, proprietor.
UPPER WILLAMETTE
RIVER ROUTE.
SALEM, INDEPENDENCE, ALBANY,
CORVALLIS AND WAY LANDINGS.
LOG CABIN
MAPLE SYRUP
The Quality Is There
FOR SALE BY
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e
P. BRIGHT BILL
Phone 1261
503 MAIN STREET.
Half the ills that man is heir to
come from indigestion.
Blood Bitters strengthens and tones
the stomack; makes indigestion im
possible.
Burroughs-
"Sav. old man. ther
Burdock Lwas a time when you promised to
share your last dollar withme."
Richley "That's all right; I have
not got down to it yet."
Leave Portland 6:45 a. m. daily (except
Sunday) for Salem and way points.
Leave Portland 6:45 Tuesday, Thursday
ana csaturaay for Independence, A1-;
bany and Corvallis.
Regular service, courteous treat
ment and prompt dispatch are our
specialties.
OREGON CITY TRANSPORTATION CO.
Office and Dock:
Foot Taylor Street
Phone Main 40.
Ill,
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Eastern Clackamas county is go-
c. I -Grin
PIONEER
Transfer and Express
Freight and parcels delivered
to all parts of the city.
RATES REASONABLE
rZifAM RM1V
Say
-with the Philliplnes for the calendar j ing to ask for a representative in the ;
year 1905 will amount to $20600,000, ! county court at the election which .
as against a little more than $4,000,000 J takes place next spring. This portion ;
in 1897, the year next preceeding the of the county, more than any other, j
355
Amoi-;9T, iwiinitinn nf thv islands. Js eoine to reamre tne services oi a
says- an exchange. With this estimate i commissioner during the next few
goes the statement that the imports j years. New roads and new bridges j
in 1905 have been chiefly hemp and are to be4 built in this part of the coun- ;
Bugar, the figures on these articles lor , ty, maae necessary oy me sewing , ...
ten months being: Hemp, $10,376,528, ; here of hundreds of new and perma-, CLT S VsREAlJI KJ ALF1
,and sugar, $2,212,249. I nent residents, a - man snouio. De
Jls statics are likely to be discussed s chosen who is well acquainted with
r nnnoftinn with tho nuAsiiinn of the the situation and the county, knows
This Remedy Is a Specific.
Sure to Give Satisfaction.
e Your loney
And Boy yotir Groceries at the
ELECTRIC GROCERY
For CASH only
We nave a large stock of Dried and
Canned Fruits and Vegetables, Tea,
Coffee, Baking Powder, Rice, Most,
Flour, Feed and Cereals and every
thing belonging to a First-class Store,
such, as Tin and Granite ware, a fine
line of China ware.
( Everything will be sold for CASH
only for the next 30 Days at strictly
wholesale prices. Come now. r
Do Mo IClemsen
'
There is Money in it
FOR YOU
during; Plumbing Job. Why not
take the hint and g-et oaf estimate
before handing out your contract?
xA. MIHLSTIN,
Main Street, near Eighth
Ma
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Pronounced by World's best
experts The World's best
Whiskey.
Grand Prize Highest Award
St. Louis World's Fair.
For Sale oy
- E. MATTHIAS -Solo
Ag.ney for Oregon City.
tariff, it will be interesting to go into : its people and their needs one who I R eIeanses soothes, heals, and protects the
the subiect in greater detail. The will be fair to all parts of the county. ; AiMas m' , ' tTKTa
fact Is that aside from hemp and sug-; Estacada News. . . drives away a Cold in the Head quickly.
ar there is very little left in the table Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell!
of imports, since they make up i Auctioneer "Going! going! gone! Easy to use. Contains no injurious drags.
$12,588,777 out of a total of $12,652,262. ! Here, sir, its your. Great barkain sir. Applied into the nostrils and absorbed.
The value of the tobacco imported The frame alone is worth the price." Large Size, 50 cents at Druggists or by
was only $1,801.' i Connoisseur (ripping out the pic- mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. '
Hemp is on the free list and will ture "The frame was what I wanted." ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warran St., Naw York.
JAYNE'S
the standard cough and cold cure for over
75 years now comes also in a
7TXp?rTprx A ynn Convenient to carry with you. Don't
X -'rHt I I I kf A FX! 'I be without it Ask youT druggist.
25c
size
1906 ALMANAC FREE. Write toDr D. Jay n & Sob, Philadelphia.