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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1906.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1906.
REGISTER PARTY AFFILIATIONS.
The registration books opened Tues
day and every voter should lose no
time in complying with the provisions
of the law in this regard. Before an
elector can participate In the primary
election in April he must have regis
tered with the County Clerk.
There Is also presented another In
teresting situation In the matter of
registering. The law requires that
each elector in registering must state
his political affiliations. There is be
ing shown a disposition on the part of
Borne voters to register as "Independ
ents" but the Primary Law does not
recognize any such political organi
zation and it is quite probable that
such a registration will not qualify
the voter for participation in the pri
maries. It is very essential that voters reg
ister. Since this duty must be per
formed, voters should get In and reg
ister early. Do not put it off. The
books are now open. Call at the
Clerk's office and register at once.
Mr. Brownell and some of his mach
ine managers are reporting that Porter
is entitled to no political favors be
cause everything he ever has done
for the party or Its candidates has
been paid for. Porter will give $100 to
any man who will come up and say
that he paid as a candidate of the
county ticket anything to Porter or
the Enterprise for their support during
the time he owned the Enterprise
which covers the last four or five
campaigns. Neither has the organi
zation paid Porter or the Enterprise
anything except the actual cost of a
few extra copies of the paper.
AN ATROCIOUS ASSASSINATION.
Ex-Governor Steuenberg, of Idaho,
assassinated at Caldwell, Idaho, on Sat
urday night, was a rare man, who had
rendered his state and the whole
country a great service. There can
be no question that the assassination
was the work of revenge for his sup
pression of the criminal outrages in
the Coeur d'Alene mines, some six
years ago.
That district was terrorized by an
organization of assassins, working un
der cover of the name of the West
ern Federation of Miners. There was
a dispute over wages; the mineowners
refused the demands of the Federation
and some of them undertook to oper
ate their mines with other labor.
The direction of the Federation fell
into the hands of men who undertook
to settle the matter by murder of work
men not of their order, and by blow
ing up mines with dynamite. How
many murders were committed never
could be ascertained. The great mills
of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines
were destroyed by dynamite, causins
immense loss of property and several
lives.
Governor Steuenberg resolved to ex
tirpate or expel this gang, and did so.
using the powers of martial law and
calling for assistance on the United
States. Some of the ringleaders were
convicted, but none executed. By his
vigorous proceedings, the Governor
broke up the Federation in Idaho. The
men of its inner circle, who directed
the crimes at Coeur d'Alene, have now
at last taken their revenge. It Is the
price that many a courageous man has
paid for his devotion to the cause of
public order and the highest inter
ests of society.
Besides the motive of revenge, there
is probably another, namely intimida
tion of other officials in Idaho and else
where, who may take a stand similar
to that taken by Governor Steuenberg.
Officials and ex-offlcials of Colorado,
in particular, where there have been
transactions similar to those in Idaho,
and where many of the man now are
who were driven from Coeur d'Alene,
will scarcely fail to take warning, and
to redouble their vigilance for their
own preservation.
Governor Steuenberg's measures
'were very rigorous. But the criminal
conduct to which they put an end had
toeen extreme, horrible and long con
tinued. Very probably injustice was
done to some who were associated
with the Federation, yet not guilty of
the crimes perpetrated or inspired by
its leaders.
But the Governor believed that no
measures less thorough than those he.
employed could abate the evil; and
from the esteem In which he has been
held ever since in his state, this doubt
less was the belief of the great body
of the responsible and law-abiding peo
ple' of Idaho.
Natural feeling of indignation and
horror over a crime so atrocious as
this assassination should not exhale
merely in empty denunciation of its
authors, but should inspire all our of
ficials and the whole people to do their
full duty for protection of society and
public order. Whoever occupies a high
place In a state that has rough com
munities is likely at any time to have
his courage and constancy put to
trial. Governor Steuenberg lies dead,
but in the emergency he was forced
to meet he was not afraid. Oregonlan.
NEW DEAL DEMANDED.
Sunday's Oregonian contained a
cartoon in which the citizen was pic
tured as giving a "New Deal" pill to
the political boss. The cartoon was
I especially timely, A "New Deal" Is
demanded and what Is more it must
be conceded. It has been demanded
In other sections of the country and
the demands have been granted.
There is required at this time a
"New Deal" for Clackamas county.
Selfish and grafting political Inter
ests have dominated to a deplorable
extent In this county. All the people
have had to do has been too submit
meekly to the demands of enlarged
taxes and say they like It. But they
have tired of this sort of extortion and
propose a change.
It Is up to the people themselves to
obtain a change in present conditions
and customs in this county. No more
corrupt and conscienceless gang ever
dominated any community than that
which has dictated the administration
of affairs In Clackamas county for the
last dozen years. The people have
stood quietly by and submitted to the
exactions of the powers that be until
they have tired. The change that is
desired is within the power of the in
jured parties themselves to asqulre.
Under the Direct Primary It Is up to
the electors to nominate candidates
for public office. Faithless public ser
vants may be retired from a continu
ance in their official capacities.
But having this power, will the priv
ilege be exercised by the electors of
Clackamas county? If voters remain
quietly at home and fail to participate
In the primary election in which is
offered the chance to replace corrupt
office-holders, seeking for a re-election,
then they should be content to
take what is measured out to them
when these officials are retained in
their official capacities.
With the remedy In the voters' hands
present conditions In Clackamas coun
ty should be corrected to the great
improvement of the pugllc service and
the reduction of the tax levy.
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PROGRESS TOWARD POPULAR
ELECTION OF SENATORS.
It will be something of a surprise
to most advocates of the direct elec
tion of United States senators by the
people to learn that In one way or
another, at one time or another, all
but two states in the Union have ex
pressed themselves In favor of this
reform. An investigation in which
this interesting fact has been brought
to light has been made by George N.
Haynes, who contributes an article on
the subject to the current issue of the
Political Science Quarterly.
It is true that these favorable ex
pressions have not been of such a uni
form type that they can be combined
into a mandate for constitutional
amendment. Nevertheless, their sig
nificance is great. The legislatures
of thirty-one states have communicated
to Congress their approval of the re
form, and of these the majority have
made formal demand for the calling of
a constitutional convention. The re
maining states, with two exceptions,
have cast the votes of their represen
tatives in Congress in favor of the
project on one or more of the five oc
casions when the lower house has
passed a resolution for the submls
sion of an amendment:
In view of these facts, it-would seem
certain that an organized movement
directed intelligently from some cen
tral headquarters could with little dif
ficulty bring sufficient pressure to
bear on the state legislatures to se
cure a concerted formal demand on
Congress from the requisite two-thirds
of the total number of states for the
calling of a constitutional convention.
Mr. Havnes does not confine his
tudy to this phase of the movement,
but describes also the various extra
constitutional measures which have
been adopted for reaching this same
end. In about a third of the states,
he tells us, either under party rules or
in accordance with the explicit pro
visions of state law, direct promaries
already name the candidates. Wher
ever a strong party is supreme this
recommendation is equivalent to an
election. In four states provision is
made for a popular "election," com
olete in all details, and carried out un
der the supervision not of party offi
cials, but of state election officials. Of
course, these "elections" have no ef
fect in law, and the experience of
xmie of the states shows that where
factional divisions are sharp they may
have little influence upon the legisla
tors. From the facts presented it can
hardly be said that the extra-constitutional
means of securing direct elec
tion are as yet a general success. It
is not impossible that some state may
take the further step of attempting
to bind the members of the legisla
ture under pledges to elect the sena
torial candidate successful at the pri
maries. In this event a constitutional
question will arise, the decision of
which may be decisive as to whether
constitutional amendment is neces
sary or not.. Mr. Haynes reminds us
that in ISfiG both Senators Sumner
and Williams argued that constituents
had a right to instruct members of
legisclatures as to their votes for sen
ators and had a right to be obeyed.
That would indicate that the lawyers'
arguments on the point will not be en
tirely one-sided.
At every session the Senate offers
stronger and stronger arguments why
its members should be brought more
lireetly under the control of the voters
of their respective states. It ought
'lot to ,be many years before this con
trol In one way or another is estab
lishedExchange. o
THE PATENT OFFICE.
The report of the Commissioner of
Patents of the Patent Office for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1905, shows
that there were received during that
year 52,323 applications for letters
patent, 749 applications for designs
for reissues, 184G caveats, 11,298 ap
plications for trade-marks, 123G appli
cations for labels, and 448 applica
tions for prints. There were 30.2GG
patents granted, Including reissues
and designs; and 142G trade-marks,
1028 labels, and 345 prints were regis
tered. The number of patents that
expired was 19,507. The number of
allowed applications which were, by
operation of the law, forfeited for non
payment of the final fees was 5154.
The total receipts of the office were
$1,737,334.44, the total expenditures
were $1,472,467.51, and the surplus of
receipts over expenditures, being the
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everything goes wrong. You
are tired all the time, easily
discouraged, nervous, and
irritable. Your cheeks are
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Your doctor says you are
threatened with a nervous
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Keep tno howels regular with Avar's
Pills, Just ono pill each n'ftht.
amount turned Into the Treasury, was
I2C4.8C6.93.
The Commissioner states that the j
new trade-mark law of February 20,
1905, which took effect April 1, has
caused an enormous increase in the
trade-mark work of the Patent Office. !
The first three months that the law
was In operation 9710 applications for
registration of trade-marks were filed,
and it is apparent that the office will
need to increase largely the force en
gaged on this work. Already the di
vision of trade-marks has required the
assistance of examiners and clerks
detailed from other divisions from
which they could ill be spared.
The Commissioner calls attention
to the Importance of the work of
classifying patents, which Is essential
to the proper examination of applica
tions, and invites attentiton to the
necessity for an Increase of force for
this purpose. He states further that
in view of the increased volume of
work in the office, and Its expected
growth, there should .be a correspond
ing increase In the number of em
ployes and in the space provided for
the transaction of the business, In
neither of which particulars are the
necessities of the office adequately
supplied at the prosent time. Scienti
fic American.
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STEPS TOWARD A PARCELS POST.
Postmaster General Cortelyou in his
annual report discusses from a strict
ly business standpoint the possibility
of the government establishing a do
mestic parcels post to enter into com
petition with the private express com
panies. He makes it clear to begin with that
if the government should offer to car
ry packages of all kinds on the es
tablished system of a uniform rate of
postage, regardless of distance, the
Postofflce DeDartment would be at a
very great disadvantage in compari
son with the express companies, which
use the zone system in making their
tariffs. Either a high rate of postage
or a temporary deficit would result.
With a high charge the government
parcels post -would get all of the long
distance shipments, and would lose
money on them, while the companies
with their cheaper short-distance rates
would get the short-distance parcels.
It would therefore be necessary, he
argues, to put the domestic parcels
post on a basis similar to that of the
private competitors.
He does not ask Congress for au
thority to establish a domestic parcels
post, but he suggests certain steps
that may be taken toward it. For one
thing he wishes to see third and
fourth class matter consolidated at
the rate of 1 cent for two ounces. This
would give a greatly improved service
for parcels under four pounds in
weight, is assurance that this could
be done without any loss to- the gov
ernment should not be overlooked.
A second recommendation is that
when a parcels post is adopted experi
ments be first made with it on a lim
ited scale in certain carefully select
ed portions of the country.
The first of these recommendations
should certainly be adopted. If the
government can afford to carry a
small package of merchandise cheap
er than it now does, it should certain
ly begin to give the service at once.
As for the second recommendation,
it will be a good day for the people of
the country when the famous "four
reasons" against the adoption of a
parcels post ai;e so far neutralized in
Congress that even an experiment on
a small scale with a general parcels
post can be made. Chicago Record
Herald. A NEW TRAMP COMING.
A genuine tramp, a detective, a life
insurance agent, a wealthy rogue and
a deceitful husband, a persecuted wife
and mother, a beautiful daughter and
a village ne'er-do-well, are the prin
cipal! characters which go to make
up Manager IT. D. Newell's comedy
sensation. "A Jolly American Tramp"
which will be presented at Shively's
Opera House, tomorrow, Saturday ev
ening, January G. The play is from
i the pen of Mr. E. E. Kidder, a play
! wright who is responsible for more
tender, touching, pathetic, heart-in-
teresting plays than any other author
now before the public. His "Peaceful
i Valley" and "A Poor Relation" made
' Sol Smith Itussell famous and a mil
lionaire. In this work he promises
to surpass his other efforts and give
us a piece that for stirring situations,
startling climaxes as well as heart
, touching interest cannot be surpas
sed. Manager Newell has cast "A
Jolly American Tramp," with care,
selecting only artists eminently fitted
for their respective roles.
A MODERN MIRACLE.
"Truly miraculous seemed the re
covery of Mrs. Mollle Holt of this
place," writes J. O. R. Hooper, Wood
ford, Tenn., "she was so wasted by
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hours; when, at my urgent request
Dr. King's New Discovery was given
her with astonishing result that im-
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