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ORECION CITY, OIIEQON, Fill DAY, OCTOHEU 11, 1012.
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THE ROAST "BEEFING" OF OLD ENGLAND.
BARLOW VOTERS
ARE FOR TICKETlPLEA FOR SUFFRAGE
DIMICK
CAUSTIC
WIRES TO COMBA
BROWNE MAKES
IN REPLY TO U'REN
COUNTY
DIVISION
SINGH TAX ROLL IS NOT COR.
RCCT, DECLARES MAYOR
OF CITY
CURING ERRORS ARE REVEALED
Chief tssoutlvn of Municipality An
nounce That A lit gad Compar
ison! In Bookltt art
fall
Grant II. Dlnilrk, wbo ha beeu
challenged to Julnl debate on Single
Tin by VV H. t' lti'ii Saturday wrote
tint following letter lo Mr. li'Ken:
1 have received two letter from
you within llin laat fuw day request
luat I" I" meet you In Joint dlaiu
alon of Ilia Single Tat Hill, which
will appear on thn ballot at the
general election to be held on the
ecoud of November, next, and 1 wish
to Inform you that If you had printed
a true ropy of the aa-easmeiit roll of
Clackamas County for the year 1910,
aa you agreed to do, t would gladly
discuss thn Single Tax question with
you. using I fit ropy of the roll the
hitsta for an argument, and In fnrt
true ropy of the assessment roll for
1!M0 and a comparison of the asaca.
nienta therein with thn propo'ed Hln
iile Tat assessments, would be a suf
fliletit argument to ronvlni'e the aver
age tat payer whether be waa for or
against your HIiikIo Tax ayatem,
I have Juat received what purports
to be your ropy of the tax roll aoove
nieiitlotied and flud therelrom that
inure than three million dollar of
assessed property ou the tax roll for
sitld year hue been left out of your
purported copy of the roll, and wheth
er that has been done Intentlonully
by you and your employes, 1 am un
able lo atttte. but I am Informed by
the County Asseisor of Cliukumu
County that he called your attention
to the gross errors In your purported
roll before you circulated the same,
and you proml-ed hlmtouiake the cor
rections which you fulled to do, but
Bent out those purported copies of
tat rolls knowing- they were full of
errors.
You were Informed by the Aaaessor
thnt the Wlllnmetto 1'ulp & rawer
Conilmiiy had pnld 7.6Mi.32 tatea
more tli n you had given it credit tor.
The Crown .Columbia Pulp & l'uper
Company hd piild IWl'.&O moro tux
lin you had given It credit for.
The Klri-t National Hunk of Oregon
City had paid ItniiSt tax more than
you hud given It credit fur, and tlm
Hunk of Dragon CHy had paid il7.7u
more lux than you hnd given It credit
for, but notwithstanding the (net that
the AsucHsor hud culled your atten
tion to those errors before you circu
lated your roll, yu sent ll broud
cunt over the state knowing 11 to he
full of glnrlug errors.
I liavu found, with the assistance
of I lie Assessor, u large number of
mimes of tux payors which you have
left olT your purported copy of
the roll, whose namea appear on the
original roll.
In looking over your purported
ropy of lue lax roll 1 find you elate
that while the lluwley Pulp c Paper
Company pnld In 1910, $:i,r.M 75 tateo.
that under your ayatem their taxus
would hnve only been $7 i7 1. You
aluo suite thnt the Crown-Columbia.
Pulp ft Paper Couipuny paid In 1910,
$2.fiG:M0 Inxea, but under your sys
tem It would have paid only $19,111.
You further state that, In three ltem
the Willamette Pulp ft Paper Coui
puny paid $1,7111.00 taxes, but under
Hlnglo Tax It would have paid noth
ing. These figures given by yourself and
other employe of the Kels Fund, go
to show Unit you are working In the
Interest!) of tbo manufacturer nnd
against the Interests of the home and
lot owner, and to how you that my
position Is correct 1 would like to call
your attention to a few of tho ninny
nnHCH-mcnt In Oregon City, wherein
the owner of town lots has bis taxe
greatly Increased under your figures,
while the rich merchant and manu
facturer practically escape.
On pugo 115 of your tux roll, I find
that Jennie II. Harding pnld on her
home In 1910 ns tuxes the nun of
$'J!l2.f0, ami you state that her taxes
would be niiiler Single Tax ll'.U.Mi.
MIhs Nun Cochran paid on her lot
In Oregon City In 1910, 19.75, and you
state thnt under Single Tax she would
Harriett and Louise Cochran paid
on two lot-In 1910, $22.75, and you
alnto that under Single Tax their
tuxes would hnve been SI2.80. so It
ran be enslly seen thnt you "are ex
empting the manufacturer and plac
ing the entire burden on the land
ownor.
In the first place you have uot
made a correct copy of the 1910 as
sessment roll as you would like to
lead the average cltlxen to believe,
but you hnve changed a great many
assessments and In ome Instance
where peoplt were assessed with an
undivided Interest, you have charged
them with full ownership In the prop
erty, and also charged other undivid
ed owner with full ownerhlp In the
same property, thereby asaesslng the
same property for the full value to
more than one owner.
As a matter of fact, every paid em
ployee of the Fel Fund 1 working
In the Interest of the merchant and
manufacturer and are practicing de
ception upon the public when they
state that they are working In the
Interesta of the laboring man. I am not
basing thla statement upon my own
opinion, but am taking your own doc
ument as proof of my assertion and
desire to call your attention now to
the pamphlet Issued by the Joseph
Fels Fund Commission containing
record of the buslnea transacted at
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COMMITTEE TO MAKETHOROUQH
CAMPAIGN AGAINST SECESS
ION PLAN
POSTOFflCE IS CALLED UNSIGHTLY
Announcement Mad That Lock Will
Soon Be Transferred Drsper
Tills of Planting
Fish
Kffectlve urgiitilxutlou of the com
mittee of tho l.lvo Wlms of the Ore
gon City Commercial Club to fight
the division of Cluckamas County
was made Tue.duy. The committee,
composed of J, K. II Mines. T. W. Sul
livan, M D. Utourette. K. K llrudie
and tiraiit II. IHinli k. has planned to
make a thorough campaign In the In
terest of keeping the county Intact,
In opposition to tho movement to rut
off a generous slice for the formation
of the new county Cascade, of which
KittarniU Is to be the coun'y seat
District committeemen were appoint
ed In nearly every precinct and con
certed action will be tuken to raise
funds and circulate literature through
the state. In order to reach every reg
istered voter prior to election day.
The l ive Wires had an unusually
Interesting sen-Ion Tuesday, follow
ing Its regular luncheon, apiHilntlng
F. J. Tooie, M. 1). Ijitmirette and
Frank Hum h a committee to look
after the appearance of the front of
the postolDce building, which can
hardly be termed a an ornament to
the clt .
II I- Youtig and John Sievera were
elected to membership. A resolution
was adopted commending the Cluck
amas County Automobile Club for Its
action In offering 1150 In prize to
road supervisors for the best work
done on trunk highways during 1913.
T. V. Sullivan, Trunk Line, report
ed that the arrangements for the
transfer of the locks wus progress
ing latlsfactorlly. He said work
would be started soon.
Harry Draper, of a committee nam
ed to obtain and plant mountain
trout reported that the work had been
accomplished.
RECORD ESTABLISHED
BY EISH HATCHERY
The Little White Salmon station
of the Culled States llureuu of Fish
eries ou thn upper Columbia River 'to
date has taken more limn 28,000,000
Koyal Chinook salmon eggs, a record
for that nation, the largest having
beeu made In 1904, when 19,000,000
eggs were obtained. The Dig White
Salmon elation, also on the upper
Columbia Klver, bus taken 13,000,000
eggs to date. The eggs taken at Lit
tle White Salmon surpass that of any
other season In the hli-tory of fish
culture In the Columbia river basin.
The egg have been secured from fish
which are of line quality, many ot
them weighing more than CO pounds
after being spawned. Four year ago
the (ioverument fed a lure number or
salmon try at these two stations, and
this excellent run of fish may possibly
be due to thnt experimental work.
The collection of egg Is also under
way on the Clin kn.nas River and In
dications are good for a fine season
there. At the present time the Gov
ernment hatcheries at Little White
Salmon and lllg White Salmon are
tilled to their capacity, and the Bur
eau of Hatcheries has been shipping
eggs an soon as spnwned to the Ore
gon State Fish Commit slon hatchery
located nt Hohnevllle. As high as
2.000,000 eggs hnve been shipped at
one time during the past week. The
work of the llureuu of Fisherle In
this territory Is under the direction of
Superintendent Henry O'Malley.
U'REN 10 DEBATE
PORTLAND. Oct, 9.. (Special) In
a itatetuent bo sent all over the state
W. 8. U'Ken. Felspald Single Tax
worker, charged that Charles li.
Shields was afraid to meet blm in
debute. It Is now three day since
Mr. Shield, who I secretary- of the
Oregon Equal Taxation League, chal
lenged not only U'Ren. but every Sin
gle Taxer in Oregon to meet blm at
any time during the last two week
of the campaign.
Nelthet I" Ken, fridge, llenbough,
Coulton, McAllister. Orton or any
of the other numerous Fels-Worker
have replied to this challenge. The
challenge covers every single taxer
l Oregou aud I addressed to any or
all single liixers anywhere. Mr.
Shields wants to meet three of four
of them at a time but they are
strangely silent. There are no airings
to the challenge.
"The next time I am accuse! of'
cownntlre,"naid Secretary Shields to-1
day. "1 want everyone to know that
neither V'Ren nor anyone of hi j
friends has tho manhood to take up!
n straight from the shoulder chal
lenge, "la It not obvious that Single I
Tax la a trick when these people fall
absolutely to back up their state-,
hients in debate." I
INGL
E TAX FOE
CONVINCES SCORES
CHARLES H. SHIELDS ANSWERS
ALL QUESTIONS CONVINCINGLY
STRONG ARGUMENT MADE BY HIM
Meeting Exciting Throughout an
Propaganda of Fel and U'Ren
I Given Hard
Blow
Although heckled and interrupted
repeatedly hy Single Taxers, Charles
H. Shields, secretary of the Oregon
Kqual Taxation League, and who is
given much of the credit for the vot
ers of Washington having defeated
single tax, in an address at Willam
ette Hall Monday night made a fine
impression. Me addressed an audi
ence of between 200 and 300, and
it is safe to say that when he had fin
ished not more than eight or ten per
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FOR PAPER PLANT
U. T. Mclluln, president of the Ore
gon City Commercial Club, in let.
ter Friday, announce that there is
fin prospect of the Eaton, Crane ft
like Paper Company, of Massachu
setts locating large finishing plant
here. Mr. McBaln, wuo ta in Boston,
has called upon the officer of the
comnanv. who announced several
j weeks ago that they would establish
;a plant In the West. He write that
f the company will not erect the plant
I before Spring and the officer Inform
' ed blm that the opportunities and ad
vantages of Oregon City' would be
thoroughly investigated before a lo
I cation Is chosen. Mr. McBaln prob
! ably wlJJ return in about a week.
COURT HEARS EVIDENCE
IN LAND LITIGATION
REPUBLICAN NOMINEES MAKE
FINE IMPRESSION AT
MEETING
LAWYER'S ADDRESS AT METHO
DIST CHURCH CONVINCING
AND ELOQUENT
ECONOMY IN OFFICE, IS SLOGAN I URGE AUDITORIUM IS THRONCED
Superintendent of Schools, Gary,
Make Strong Speech For High
School Fund
Law
There was a large attendance and
enthusiasm was at a bign pitch at
the meeting held at Harlow Saturday
evening, at which the Republican
Candidates for office spoke. E. P.
Dedman, Republican nominee for re
corder, promised the voters. If elect
ed that be would serve with the least
possible, expense to the tax payer.
C. Schuebel, nominee for representa
tive was the first to speak.. E. C
Hackett, candidate for sheriff, said
the Democratic administrations were
extravagant and that If elected he
would conduct that office at a less ex
pense tban It bad been conducted by
Democratic Incumbent.
J. F. Nelson, candidate for assess
or abo spoke on the same line and
promiitd strict economy if elected.
T. J. Gary, County Superintendent
of schools, ipoke for the High School
Fund Law, telling the andlence that
thla bill would be carried, a it was
for the benefit of the rural district.
This law, he (aid, was not an experi
ment, as It had been tried successful
ly In other counties. Hi principle
reason for advocating this bill, be
said, was that be did not think it
wife for the parents tq send children
during the most critical period in life
to a city, where they only spent six
hours in school, and the remainder
of the time, the parents' would not
know where they (pent their time.
! Judge Campbell ha heard evidence
In the tult of J. H. Coll against the
Mountain Irrigator Company and the
', Ilolman Fuel Company to determine
the ownership of land In the Philip
! Foster Donation claim. The plalutifT
, alleges that the defendants have no
, Interest In the land and asks that
! they be enjoined from entering upon
jit. He further asks that he be de
clared the owner In fee simple.
CONVICTS APPEAL TO
OREGON CITY HAN
Henry Hughes, of this city, a few
diiy ago, received a hiindxomely
made horse bridle from the stute pen
itentiary, which I tho hnndlwork of
a young mun who Is serving "time,"
nnd who 1 anxious for Mr. Hughes
to sell the bridle so as to obtain
money to secure books on civil engi
neering. The young man Is desirous
of becoming a civil engineer when
his term expires. Mr. Hughes, al-,
though a stranger to the convict, will
endeavor to aell the bridle. I
TAX COLLECTIONS
SET NEW
Tax collections In Clackamas Coun
ty this year have set a new record.
About $43,000 ha been received in
second payment and It I expected
that the amount will be above S60,-i
000 when the time limit closes next ,
Monday evening. A larger per cent
age of property owner paid all their
taxe thl year In time to receive a
discount than ever before. 8heriff j
Mais and hi deputies say the prompt ;
paymenta are due to a more prosper-!
ou condition of the people than ever j
before, More than $22,000 wa col
lected Friday and about half that
amount Thursday.
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MOLALLA IN LINE FOR
REPUBLICAN TICKET
Onej of the most successful meet
ings held by the Republican candi
dates for county offices was that at
Molalla Thursday evening. The ball
was crowded, and the , candidates
made a fine impression. Senator Wal
ter A. Dlmick was to have been one
of the speakers, but because of an en
gagement made several weeks ago be
was unable to attend. E. C. Hackett,
candidate for Sheriff; J. F. NeSon,
candidate for Assessor; E. P. Dedman
candidate for Recorder and Gustav
Schnoerr and Cferia Schuebel, candi
dates for representative in the State
legislature made addresses. They de
clared that they would do their best
to serve the Interests of the county,
it elected. The candidates say the
sentiment throughout the county is
largely in favor of the Republican
ticket
Speaker Asierta that Best Way to
Improve Morals of Country la
to Let Women
Vote
Declaring that eu,ual suffrage is nec
essary to give women an equal cbance
in tbe battle of life, and that It would
be adopted by every date In the Un
ion eventually, George C. Brown
ell made an eloquent and forceful
addresa In the Open Forum of the
Methodist church Sunday night Ev
ery aeat in tbe edifice wa occupied,
and there was no question that the
audience wa in sympathy with the
argument presented. Mr. ISrown
ells tubjret wa "Should Women
Participate in Politic?"
Mr. P.rownell declared that th)
church, atanding for tht betterment
of society wa the best place to dis
cus equal suffrage for its adoption
would mean the betterment of socie
ty. He declared that if the gambler,
tbe white slave dealer, and men who
engaged In other line ot vice were
allowed to vote there certainly should
be do reason why the women who
would help put down vice if they bad
th opportunity should not be enf ran-
chif-ed.
"Men who are battling to destroy
tbe social fabric are voting," laid the
speaker, " and y t the women have
bo means of putting down thli traf
fic. Tbe right of suffrage to women
would check the growth of gambling
and v the saloons. It has In states
where ll has been adop ted checked
the white slave traffic and raised the
age of consent. It seems strange
thai there is an organization for the
purpose of capturing girls against
their will and imprisoning them, but
there 1 a remedy. It women could
be given the power tbe direct inter-
REPUBLICANS HAVE
. " l
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George C. Brownell, who made con
vincing and eloquent argument for
equal suffrage.
1 George C. Ilrownell made a stirring
address at the Republican meeting
held in Oswego Wednesday evening,
i The speaker urged the election of all
I the Republican candidates, declaring
! that Republican o (lie la 1 3 as a rule,
: gate a better account of themselves
than Democrats. He also urged his
hearers to vote for President Taft.
All the candidates for county offices
spoke. An enthusiastic meeting of
he Republicans was held at the
, achoolhouse at Frog Pond Tuesday
: evening. All of the meetings are be-
inK attended by large crowds and the
Republican candidates fay Bentlment
' is In favor of the entire ticket.
I
WILSONFILLE RALLY
! George C. Brownell was the prin
' ciple speaker at the meeting conduct
ed1 by the Republican nominees for
county offices at Wilsonville Mon
i day evening. Mr. Brownell did not
criticise the Democratic incumbents,
, but said Republicans usually gave
j more efficient service than Demo
crats. Those who spoke were E. C.
Hackett. candidate for sheriff; Gus
i tav Schnoerr, and Chris Schuebel,
I candidates for representative in the
legislature; J. F. Nelson, candidate
for assessor and E. P. Dedman, can
didate for recorder. The attendance
was large.
REV. KRAXBERGER'S LITTLE
j DAUGHTER SERIOUSLY HURT
i Ruth Kraxberger, daughter of Rev.
and Mr. W. R. Kraxberger. who fell
and sustained fracture of her left
I elbow is improving. The little girl
' was playing with several children
! near the Kraxberger home and was
I swinging from a tree when she fell
I to tbe cement sidewalk.
est they would take would right
this wrong which the men with their
votes have failed to do."
Mr. .Brownell scouted the idea
that the women would not apperciate
the responsibility of the ballot,
and said they would take even great
er interest in voting and vote more
intelligently than the men. He drew
a vivid picture of how men come
here from other countries because of
a better opportunity and a freer gov
ernment, but said opportunity would
be greater and the country would be
freer if the women were placed on
an equality politically with the men.
"The greatest benefit arising from
equal suffrage would be to the work
ing girls," continued the speaker.
They would have something to say
then regarding their employment,
hours of work and remuneration and
best of all the conditions under
which thousands of them exist would
be improved. Women, it has been
demonstrated, vote more independ
ently than men, and the result of
equal suffrage would be the election
of a. better quality of officials. Vot
ing gives dignity to citizenship, and
the women exercise the best qualty
of dignitv.
"In Germany are 9,000,000
women making their own way in fac
tories, store, fields, etc. Should they
not have a voice in making the laws,
and in electing the officials? In
this country there are 8,000,000
girls and women wage-earners.
These facts must suggest to any
thoughtful person that women have
come into a new time and have to
deal with a new condition, and that
these conditions demand a new view
by their double responsibility. The
working woman carries a double
burden, that of the home, and that
of the factory or wherever she may
be employed. These new duties can
not be delegated to the men but must
be shared with them or the wage
earning women and the future
homes of the nation will suffer.
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