4 OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1908. Oregon City Enterprise CITY AND COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER. Published Every Friday. Subscription Rates: Or year 11 50 Bli months Trial subscription, two months.. 25 Advertising rates on application. Subscribers will find the date of ex plratlon stamped on their papers fol lowing their name. If this Is not payment, kindly notify us. and the matter will receive our attention. Rntered at the postofflce at Oregon City, Oregon, as second class matter FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16. 1906. SIGNIFICANT. The passage by the House (if the Hepburn Bill with only seven nega tive votes is significant. The time when corporations and railroads can override the people has reached a limit. These injustices have been tol erated until the patience of a long suffering people has been exhausted and now relief Is to be afforded throudy legislation. This practically unanimous action of the House is decidedly significant. It should serve as the handwriting on ti e wall to men and attorneys right here in our own midst who are in the aire and service of corporate Inter ests. H is a matter of physical Im possibility for these men to serve both the people and the corporations. Their position Is inconsistent and to le honest with both they should ter minate their relations with one or th'! other. The people are awakening to the real situation. They realize that they are not being considerately treated by the corporations or their hired agents and attorneys. They will see to it that such double dealers are shelved. The services of such men can be dispensed with. 0 REGISTRATION IS GOOD. Registration of Clackamas county Toters is progressing satisfactorily. To date 1834 voters have registered. This represents nearly one-half of the Toting strength of the county which ranges from 4200 to 4500. No one thing Is doing more to en courage this registration than the meetings that are being conducted throughout the county for the purpose cf explaining the details of the Direct Primary Law. If voters continue to register as lively in the ensuing eight weeks as they have to date, all of the voters of the county will have regis tered. This should be the case. The voters themselves constitute the nom inating convention this time and they will best show that they appreciate the responsibility conferred upon them by complying with every feature of the Direct Primary Law. o SHOULD BE ADOPTED. If no one other of the several pend ing constitutional amendments to be voted at the general election is adopt ed by the voters, that which proposes leaving to the interested electors the adjustment of all municipal charter alterations should receive a unanimous vote. In the past there has been no one class of legislation receiving the attention of the state legislature that less properly belonged to that body than the amending of city charters and the changing of county seats. These are questions entirely foreign in interest to the members of the state's legislative assembly. othfr than the representatives from the dis tricts directly interested. The dis posing of these questions should most certainly be left to a vote of the vot ers who are directly Interested. What possible interest can a rep resentative from Coos county have in the proposed amending of the charter of an obscure Eastern Oregon town? County seat fight3 no more properly should be settled in the State Legis lature where the bills relating thereto are generally converted into trading stock, regardless of their merits. There is a painter by the name of Reddaway who had the sub-contract for doing the painting when Porter built his house. The contract and specifi cations called for white lead and oil. Reddaway wanted pay for lead and oil and put on ochre. When Porter ob jected to the ochre, it cost him $25 ad ditional to et rid of Reddaway. Now Reddaway thinks he has a grieance and is going around with his hammer out doing all the knocking he can. ; u The machine docs not want Porter to go out to the political meetings. It and some more that are trying to stand on both sides of the fence evi dently think that unless they sanc tion it, only their side has any right to be heard. 0 Either Brownell or some of his strik ers are circulating the report that the Federal indictment against the Clackamas county Senator has been dismissed all of which is not true as one may learn. o PROSPERITY REFLECTED IN OUR IMPORTS. The growth of our export trade re ceives a great deal of attention. It has been stated again and again that wo are making rapid progress as a manufacturer and exporter of commod ities that enter Into competition with the manufacturers of England. Ger many and other countries. Last year's export total amounted to $1,599,420,000 the excess over the total for the pre vious year being $137,7000,000. But the United States as an import er and consumer of foreign goods re ceives less attention.,. Yet the record of our Importations is equally remark able. In the short space of seven years' time our imports have nearly doubled In value. Last year we took $1,179,000,000 worth of foreign com- modules, as against a total of but $035,000,000 for the year 1898. The great Increase In Importations Is generally regarded as among the best evidences of prosperity. The consumption of the American people Is undoubtedly the largest In the his tory of the country. The Increase Is distributed' through all classes of goods and all articles. To reverse a Shakespearian phrase, it is our will, not our necessity, that consents. We buy abroad more than ever because we can afford luxuries, comforts and additions to our individual and family budgets that we should have to deny ourselves under a less prosperous state of Industry and commerce. An official statement shows that the increase in Imports since 1S9S is dis tributed as follows. Food stuffs (sugar tea, coffe, etc.) a gain of 43 per cent; manufactures, an increase of 7 per cent; manufacturers' materials, a gain of 117 per cent; luxuries, a gain of 90 per cent. To take some concrete examples; Wines, spirits and malt liquors show ed a total importation of J 10.000.000 In 1S9S; last year the total was $1$. 000.000. The Increase in our "con sumption" of diamonds was from fS. 300.000 to $:!0.500.000 during the seven years, while cigars and cigarettes show an advance from $ 1.750.000 to JG.C00.000. if we Include Porto Rico. , which was "foreign" in 1S98. Thor r h. hn wnrn us of the! danger of overconsumption. but with-!"1 out going into the general question of extravagance one thing la certain: If we buy less of the foreigner, he can not buy as much of us as he does now. By increasing imports we create a greater and more effective demand for our exports. Exchange. o OUR RELATIONS WITH THE NEW JAPAN. A distinct change has oecured In the East as a result of Russia's de feat In that quarter. For many years the chief oriental question centered in the aggressive movements of the czar. Russia had planned to be the dominant power there, and spent hun dreds of millions of dollars to estab lish firmly Its powerful advance. But Its colossal project has failed. Russia has been reduced to an inferior naval rank, and its Internal disturbances, as well as the recent war experiences In the field are an end to present schemes for distant territorial con quest. What about the new status? Is there already a yellow peril? The courage and skill of the Japanese armies and fleets in the war with -Russia were a surprising revelation. A nation of 40.0oo.0iK) Japanese, it may be argued, has a limitation that forms a permanent safeguard. But these are 400,000,000 Chinese, of much the same race, near at hand, and the Japanese mingle with them far more intimately than with any other people. Should Japan attempt, or be able to work in China the same transformation ex perienced by Itself In the course of comparatively a few years, there would be a yellow peril from sheer weight of numbers, and probably for other reasons. , Several Americans familiar with af fairs in the East, state that the recent Chinese boycott against American goods was the result of the Intrigu ing spirit of Japanese residents In China, some of whom are at the head of Chinese newspapers. American ob servers on the spot declare that the boycott was inspired by trade rivalry anil not by our Chinese exclusion act. Shanghai was the starting point, and no laborers come from there to this country. Sympathy with it was dis claimed by Chinese officials and Chi nese business guilds. In the treaty ports are published many newspapers under Japanese charters. They' are practically Japanese organs, though published in the Chinese language. Report has it that the leading boycott newspaper, which has a Japanese edi tor, Is inspired from Tokio. Our con nil has called attention to its crusades against American business interests and to its advance knowledge of what the boycotters propose to da Japan ese officers are reorganizing the Chi nese army, and Japanese Buddhist priests are admitted to remote places in China from which all other for "igners are excluded. China has many thousand students in Japan who re turn home full of the boycotting spirit. (The Shanghai incident is one of the symptoms of organized hostility to American and perhaps other foreign productions. England may suffer as well, and there is more than appears on the sur face In the statement that the English government is about to send 10,000 marines across Canada to a port on the Pacific to be held in readiness in case of a new emergency In the East. A conditional treaty exists between England and Japan, by which the lat ter is bound to assist its ally in case of an invasion of India. The leaders of a party in Japan have suggested that England Improve its army, and the manner In which they brought the proposition forward caught the atten tion at once of the British public. .la- nan Is not without Its jingo element. The terms of the treaty of Portsmouth caused riots in Japan. Though the outbreak was suppressed it looked se rious for a time. Subtlety of pur pose is an oriental characteristic. Ja pan has a propaganda In China and a great opinion of its own prowess on land and sea. Its levelheadedness as a successful armed power is yet to be tested. The United States -must be vigilant in the drift of events in the East. There is amity with the orient, but no race tie or deeply rooted sym pathy. St. Globe-Democrat. Just why any Oregonian should go to California to spend the winter is a conundrum. This is particularly true this year. A more delightful month than February is proving has not been experienced in years. Street sprink ling is necessary if the dust is to be dispensed with and the weather is typical of the Spring season. Ore gon's climate at all events and at all seasons is not to be surpassed. Mrs. Yerkes explain that she at first denied the report of her marriage to avoid publicity. She is now won dering if she could have done any thing to bring her more of It. The Jar of Coughing Hammer blows, steadily ap plied, break the hardest rock. Coughing, day after day, jars and tears the throat and lungs until the healthy tissues give way. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral stops the coughing, and heals the torn membranes. The bot kind of tetlmonll "Sold lor otm alty years." A Mtd fey 3. 0. Afr Co.. T.owll, Mam. AllO BUUIMIurfrB SARSAPAWLU. lWf O HAIR VKMR. W km bo imhm t we puoiua the formulae of til our medioluee. Riiiouaneaa. constipation retard re covery. Curt) these with Ayer's Pills. ll iooks now very mucn as uumgn efforts of the President and the Secretary of State to arrange a modus lt'lltll Willi llVIIIlHliy (HI IIIV l H I 111 question would be abortive and that ! Congress would have to face the pros- ' pect of a tariff war that It had brought oh itself. The necessity for tariff . adjustment with Germany has loomed large for almost a year past but Con-1 gross paid no attention to the situ- j atlon and the President hail announc-1 ed more than a year ago that he would send no more treaties to the Kenute , till he was assured of their acceptance. 1 Even the comparatively small matter I of fiual meat exports to Germany was Ignored by Congress till It Is now too late to rush them through, aud the j country Is left face to face with a tar iff war simply because of the Indlf-' ference of the national legislature. It ; will be recollected that quite recently j the German imiorters were eager to get large shipments of lnirk. lard and i sausages from this country before the new duties went into effect on March ! 1. It was said by the packing houses 1 that there were orders waiting two ; month ago for the shipment of ' OOO.nOO worth of hog products that could not be dispatched because Con- i gross had refused to appropriate for enough meat examiners to do the I work and the Department of Agrlcul- hire could not allow the packing nous- j es to pay for thework themselves. though me packers were perfectly ; willing to do !. Congress was urged j at the time to rush through an urgent deficiency appropriation, but it turned its shoulder and let the whole matter j slide. Now the ultimate question comes of a relentelss tariff fight with our second best foreigner customer, j The Germnn tariff averages fifty per cent higher than the old rates under which we have been trading. It Is an agrarian tariff and our farmers will be the ones to suffer. All this is sim ply because Congress has refused to see the necessity, urged on It by the President, of new treaties or tariff revision. But perhaps a period of tariff war may bring it to a different way of thinking. How long the Im passe will last It Is Impossible to say. but It Is Just possible that the farmers affected, may have something to say on the subject at the next election. o The hazing trials at Annapolis have adjourned for a fortnight to allow the cadets to take the examinations. Per haps if they had run the trials two weeks longer they would not have had ti liother about any cadets or examina tions either. A press dispatch from London says that the English government Is about to Institute a searching investigation into life insurance matters. The same cable announces that Mr. James Hazen Hyde Is about to start for Paris. O The announcement ot Justice Duel that he will not resign his Judicial salary, arouses the suspicion that he may not have fleeced as many million aires as was Indicated by the evi dence. o Representative Sul.er's feat of de molishing the Russian government seems to have been simply a warming up heat before tackling the larger Job of the City National Bank of New York. n If the report that John D. Rocke feller has gone to Venezuela is true, the government ought to urge France to hurry up the blockade and make It permanent. , 1, Senator, Money has moved to strike out all but the enacting clause of the Pure Food Bill. Wonder how; he rame to overlook the enacting clause. 0 It seems a trifle inconsistent to find neither Dr. Osier nor any of his ad herents have yet applied for mem bership in the Suicide Club. 0 H. H. Rogers seems to have had the courts beaten about three weeks on their decision that he need not answer Mr. Hadley's questions. o As the coal miners and operators do not seem to be kept peaceful by arbitration, it might be a good time to try confiscation. o Senator Burton ought to follow the example of the packers, tell some body the worst at once and then claim Immunity. 0 Count BonI de Castellaine seems a fine example of the man who sat out on a limb and sawed it off next to the tree. . , , o President Roosevelt sent back his copy of "Fads and Fancies." Grover Cleveland has not been displaying his lately. Bishop Potter Is yet to be heard from. aflnaslibBBSkHfeMas) r The H.P. BRIGHTBILL Phone 1261 WILL LEAVE OREGON CITY. Captain and Mrs. Staynefts are fare welling from the command of Oregon City Corps. Besides their meetings held every night, and which have blr-ssed and helped a number of soiiIm to God. they have been able to assist many poor In the way of clothing and food. The shelter for the homeless, has been much sought after, as many as four different men, seeking such assistance in one night. They thank you. ttie citizens of Oregon City, for the wil lingness which you have shown in as sisting them In the work. Attend their farewell meetings Sunday, the IHth, anil say goodby. ITCH RINGWORM. E. T. Lucas, Wlngo, Ky., writes, April 25, 1902: "For 10 to 12 years I had been afflicted with a malady gen erally known as the 'itch.' The itching wan moi:t unbearable; I had tried for years to And relief, having tried all remedies I could hear of, besides a number of doctors. I wish to state that one single application of Bal lard's Snow Liniment cured me com pletely and permanently, Sinco then I have used the liniment on two sep arate occasions for ring worm and It cured completely." 25c, 50c and $1. Sold by Huntley Bros. Co. Accidents will happen, but the best- regulated families keep Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil for such emerge ncles. 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