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MORNING! ENTERPRISE
OREGON CITY, OREGON
E, E. BRODIE
Entered as second-class matter January 9, 1911, at the postoffice at
Oregon City, under the Act of March 2, 1879.
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neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the office. This
is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following
instructions. Phone Main 2 or B-10.
CITY OFFICIAL
THAT HOWL OVER The Enterprise is considerably amused over the
LAW BREAKING constant veil that the "boosters for booze" have been
making of late about the appearance of law violations in those towns where
the people have awakened to the constant drain of the saloons and have run
the liquor traffic out of business.
, The booze boosters seem to be exceedingly worried that this city will
show up with a larger number of cases of drunkeness without the saloons
than with them and declare over and over again for the edification of the tax
payers that there will be a whole swarm of blind pigs and dives and other
dreadful things just the minute that the people see the light and vote as their
judgment directs.
It is not to be wondered at, even if their contention is correct, that there
sre cases of law breaking shortly after the prohibiton law goes into effect.
It is hardly to be expected that some of those who are constant customers of
the bars should find that they needed their booze regularly even if the city
is on the prohibition list. And it is probable, too, that those who are such
steady patrons of the saloons and whose contributions go such a long way to
fatten the bank accounts of the liquor dealers in Portland while their families
s-uffer for groceries and other necessities should patronize any blind pig joint;
that might be started in the city or anywhere else that has 'been given over to
prohibition.
' Whenever the law officers of the county begin to enforce the law, there
will be cases of law violation. As long as they pass up every violation of the
law, those cases never appear on the books of the county courts. Just the
minute, however, that the officers really
enforced whether they personally like those laws or not, just that minute will
the boosters for booze yell that there are more violations with prohibition than
without..
The prohibitive force of prohibition
the officers to enforce, the law. It is to
courity will do what he is sworn to do
enforce the statutes as they are given
T. . f u: l :
iu nave mem. xi is nunc ui ins uusiucss
or not. It is merely his duty to enforce
to enforce.
Just because the communities where
' tiave a few officers with backbone and general stamina enough to enforce the
'law as that law is given to them to enforce is no reason why prohibition is a
failure. Neither is it a reason why some of these booze boosters should be
gin to yell about prohibition when cases
ly more striking than they are when
-of the various cities and are fined.
Drunks get fined almost every day in Oregon City. Nobody pays much
attention to it because the people in general have not seen that tremendous
blight upon the city's welfare that the saloon gives. But, just the minute that
- a drunk gets hauled before a court for violation of a law in a prohibition sec
tion, the booze boosters put up a yell that would do credit to a Panama canal
celebration about the number of cases
If so much is sold in dry territory, why on earth do the boosters for the
traffic fight so hard to the last ditch against the placing of the towns in the
dry column? Why are they so eager to keep a town wet that is not buying
the amount of booze nor having the flourishing liquor trade that does a dry
town? Their arguments are "bunk" from start to finish and they have not
. yet through this campaign produced one thing that can stand in the way of
the reasonable voter in going to the polls and forever damning the traffic ift
' this city and the drain that the saloons have been to the community for the
years that they have cursed it. . .
The same old song has been sung in this city that is. sung wherever the
people try to fight against the outrages of the saloon and the mist of an in
creased tax levy is thrown up into their faces to dim their vision as to the
course that they should pursue at the polls. It is the same old game that
Make Voting
By JOSEPHUS DANIELS, Secretary of the Navy
WE have too large a class of citizens, generally well educated and well
to do, who ABDICATE THE KINGLY RIGHT OF SUF
FRAGE. - A WAY SHOULD BE FOUND TO MAKE IT EASY FOR THEM TO
.VOTE AND THEN REQUIRE IT OF THEM. THERE IS HARDLY AN
ELECTION ANYWHERE IN. THE COUNTRY OUTSIDE OF PRESI
DENTIAL YEARS WHERE THE ISSUE IS NOT CARRIED BY A MI
NORITY OF THE ELECTORATE.
' There should be a law by which all officers and enlisted men in the
army and navy, all other pnblic officers who are employed away from
their place of residence, all college students who are of age and alt
drummers and railroad men could VOTE BY MAIL.
- - Editor and Publisher
NEWSPAPER
determine that the laws are to be
depends largely upon the backbone of
be expected that every officer of this
when he takes office and that he will
to him rather than as he would like
i lmv: i
wncuicr promuiuon is a goou tiling
the law as that law is given to him
prohibition has been tried happen to
are brought to light in a way slight
drunks appear in the municipal courts
that occur in a dry town.
Compulsory
MOHNINU ENTERPRISE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1913.
has been going on since the traffic became highly commercialized and the
liquor interests bound together firmly in a common band of mutual sympathy.
Speaking of taxes, reminds us that this city contributes every year $150,
000 in the way of taxes to the bank deposits of the Portland liquor dealers
to be spent in Portland or outside of the limits of the town that digs up the
cash. Figuring, roughly, on a population of 6000 persons in the city, this
means AN ANNUAL TAX TO PORTLAND OF $25 EVERY YEAR
FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD' IN THE CITY A
TAX FOR WHICH WE GET NO BENEFIT.
Again, doing a little figuring, this means that every man, woman, and
child in the city must' consume at least SEVENTY-FIFE QUARTS OF
LIQUOR EVERY YEAR in order to keep up the percentage. Of course,
that amount of liquor isn't much as a matter of consumption for the drinker
who pays the largest share of this tribute, but it shows just how far the
saloons of the city TAX THE PEOPLE to maintain themselves and TO
COLLECT THAT measly little $10,000.
Is it worth $150,000 a year to raise $10,000?. Wouldn't it even be better
to pay FIVE DOLLARS into the city treasurery in the way of an actual tax
than TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS through the saloons?
YOUR BUSINESS
IS desired, and we are disposed to
grant you every consistent favor.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
FORUM OfTliE PEOPLE
HALF TftUTH WORSE
THAN WHOLE LIE
OREGON CITY, Ore., Oct. 29. (Ed
itor of the Enterprise) The other day
I wrote a prominent citizen of Eu
gene, for information regarding their
tax rate. He answered as tol'ows:
"Eugene has been dry for about
seven years and the city has changed
so in population and improvements
that a comparison of tax rates would
Lot mean anything.
' The city has doubled ia popula
tion. Seven vears ago th:re was not
a Mock of paving in the city, vi,iio
now there is about ten miles of paved
streets and many paved alleys. There
was no street railways, now we have
thirteen mih-.s. About half a million
dollars has been spent in a vnti!r eys
tem and electric light plant. This
year about $160,000 has been pent on
sewer system. Bonds have been
voted to build a city hall. L'uder such
conditions it would be useless to com
pare present and past tax rates."
If their tax rate is higher can we
not see a cause for it outsidu going
dry? I want to add that when Eu
ger.e went dry it had no U13I1 build
ings. Now it has 3 four-alory buildings-
and this year building permit 3
for 9? edifices costing $.i .(i.noo were
issueu, and the total cost of construc
tion work of all kind within the city
is estimated at $1,411,4! I. Sirt".t;e
how the high taxes liavi killed Eugene
isn't it?
The letter goes on. "We think tho
best evidence of the advantage of a
ury city is ton! r. tl..s : . las
November, waei the tty vote 1 -Iry
by over three to cue. t'mi of 17 vot
ing precincts not on 3 voted wei. I
sent you a pamoul-jt with tli testi
mony of a lan; number ot Inisipe.?
men on tiie subject. Mr. Sn-gra&,
whom you will find -n 1 tie lis-, is - e
president and manager of the First
National Bank of Eugene. Last year
just before election I heard him say
at a large meeting that when Eugene
went dry he voted against 11 and
thought it was an unwise muvc, bat
says that now he will always be in fa
vor of a dry city. Many others! felt
the same about it, but ncT "re he.'irt
ily in favor of keeping'thn eit dry.
w. M. Green, one of our grocers
who runs a large double sti;re, had
his notice in his store windows for
weeks before election that this store
Will vote against the saloon."
"Our tax rate last year lor date,
county, school and other taxes was S6
mills, and then we had a special
school tax of 19 mills included there
in (this leaves 16 mills foi all pur
poses outside the special tax). You
might compare this with the lax rule
of some of the wet cities, but compari
sons are- not satisfactory on account
of the many different kind of im
provements that enter into tax levy.
"Sincerely yours,
" JEFF. H. IRISH."
What tax would we have, even with
ten saloons, were we to attempt cue
third of this improvement in oie
year?
Are those business men all crazy to
vote for a continuant of this thing?
Must they not think things are uetter
dry?
As to Albany, the petition for return
to license had names representing
$100,000 taxable property. A counter
petition for prohibition was circulated
securing in 48 hours the names o
taxpayers representing over 2,000,000
of taxable property, or 20 times as
much. No sensible person would
accuse these people of working
against their own interests. V
Mr. F. E. VanTassel, recorder and
police Judge of Albany, says that of
the drunks before him nearly all have
co;ne from out of town, many being
drunk, wheri arriving. He says:- "Of
the occasional Albany residents up for
drunkeness never is there a married
man. Occasionally some callow youth
who "hopes he's bad' or some tin I.orn
sport,' who's faking , that he's 'dead
game' gets intoxicated and parades
the fact. But the dry city enables
the husband and father to keep sober.
No license gave married men back to
their families." . .
As to Long Beach, it is now a beau
tiful city of nearly eighteen thousand
population. In Oregon City you can
not get away frcm the effects cf the
drink. One day week before last, I
met a boy of not more than eighteen
between here and Canemah who was
too drunk to walk without help. We
constantly see men in various stages
of intoxication upon our streets. This
is too obvious to need more than a
comment. But in Long Beach the de
cent citizen comes and goes and sees
nothing of the effects of drink. 1'he
same is true of McMinnville, Eugeue
or Alanby. Probably in any city of
over seventeen thousand,' as has bren
said, one whose depraved tastes ran
in that direction might find some dirty
hole where he could get booze by
sneaking, like a whipped cur, up some
alley, and in through a back door. But
this would not affect the decent citi
zen who would not have the stuff con
stantly thrust upon his notice, and
would come and go unaware of its
existence. The law against theft is
over three thousand years old, and
that against murder almost from t'le
dawn of history. Yet almost every
town has its sneak thieves, and many
have mburderers. But this is no
reason why we should license theft
or homocide. Neither is a blind pig
in a dirty alley any reason why wo
should license the saloon. If it is
right it is a crime to tax it for ex
isting as we do no other existing busi
ness. If it is wrong, no amount of
tax can make it right.
One count more against the salocn.
The liquor laws are made in the in
terest of the saloons. Yet one-third
of our saloons in Oregon City this
year lost their licenses for breaking
those very laws. Every glass of liquor
sold to an intoxicated man is a breach
of law. Every drink given a minor is
a breach of law. Yet we see minors
drunk, and drunken men made still
drunker constantly. Hence we claim
that even with blind tigers there
would not be more lawlessness than
there is with the open saloon. The
corruDt practises act is very strict,
yet the writer has evidence that cer
tain saloon men in a city not very
far distant sent boxes of candy to tiie
girls working in the wollen mills to
help them to "vote right," and if the
committee of one hundred think it
worth while to use this I can provide
the evidence. What then is the logic
in their raising their hands in horror
at the the thought of the lawlessness
of blind pigs if the law-abiding saloon
is abolished?
W. T. MILLIKEN.
WILL PROHIBITION PROHIBIT?
OREGON CITY, Ore., Oct. 29. (Ed
itor of the Enterprise) When Mayor
Caufield told the saloons to hereafter
close on Sunday, "they" said, "It can
not be done." It was not done with
out pressure and some effort, but the
principal thing necessary was a man
to say the word. Saloons now close
Sundays and some people of our town
don't know but that they I ve always
been closed on Sundays.
If the people on November 4th, 1913,
calmly and deliberately but firmly
say, "No more saloons in Oregon City"
there are those who will say it cannot
be done. -There is that-negative de
grading undercurrent hi every nature.
The good in every Individual is con
stantly harrassed with that spirit of
"what's the use" and "It cannot be
done" and therefore "no use to try."
1 1
NEW ABSOLUTELY NEW
Bunglalow 5-rooms plastered
will be finished " tomorrow ; a
Dutch kitchen for your wife;
electric lights; bored well. Let
us show you this fine home and
you will want it at $1250.00 on
easy terms ,
DILLMAN & HOWL AND
It is not foT reasonable people at this
time to allow this apprehension to in-
ervate our best judgment. Ycu vote
to prohibit penury, stealing, murder
and crime, but there are those who
say "what's the use," "it cannot be
done." "no use to try." Perjury is
still prevalent, theft, murder and
crime are committed, daily.
Now who is it that prohibition will
not prohibit? It certainly cannot ba
the law-abiding citizen.'The man who
says prohibition will not probibit is
either in favor of licensed saloons or
else he is unduly pessimistic. We
make no argument now with the man
who is out and out for the saloon,' but
the man who says he would be a pro
hibitionist if it only would prohibit.
, First of all the ordinary man will
never personally feel the prohibition
law any more than he feel tIo law to
prohibit stealing, perjury and crime,
for he is not a criminal. Thi3 class
of citizens is the best on earth and
the prohibition law will work perfect
ly with them, for they are prohibition
ists as a matter of principle.
There is another class of citizens
who are not criminal beeause of fear
of the law,. They would be perjurers,
thieves, murderers or criminals, but
fear of the law and its punishments
keeps them straight. This may or
may not be a large class. Certainly
prohibition would prohibit these peo
ple. The same fear of the prohibition
law would keep them in the proper
attitude.
A third class of citizens day they
will not be prohibited. This hapless
minority class of citizens is strictly,
unqualifiedly criminal and is in the
same class as other criminals. What
makes a thief is the fact that he is a
violator of the law." Only recently a
heinous criminal had to be declared
innocent before the law because no
law existed covering his crime. So
this class of - citizens who say they
will not be prohibited place them
selves in a class with the criminal
and will necessarily have to be JeaU
with accordingly. When they realize
the consequence of defying the law
they will gradually advance to the
class of citizens who fear the law, or
better still, they will likely become
Kw-abiding as a matter of principle
and never feel the prohibition liiw at
all.
GOOD CITIZENS LEAGUE.
By C. H. DYE, Fres.
OREGON CITY, Ore., Oct. 29. (Ed
itor of the Enterprise) Allow me to
call the attention of any who art
alarmed over the possible effect of a
no license regime on the finances of
the city, on its morals, or its business,
a few facts regarding the experiences
of Bellingham, Wash.
When Bellingham, a city of over
24,000 inhabitants, voted dry in 19l
there were 43 saloons running, paying
a license fee of $1000 each. The city
treasury on July 1 of that year showed
a cash balance on hand of $1050 and
a net balance available of $16,39. On
July 1, 1911, the cash on hand in the
city treasury was $5568 and the net
balance available $38,116. On July 1,
1912, the cash on hand was $24,351
and the net balance available $40,638
thus showing unprecedented improve
ment of the city finances beginning
and continuing under no licence.
The arrests for drunkeness in 1910
were 918, in 1911 255. Wilile the sa
loons were running in Bellinguan,
murder, homicide and manslauga.e:
were of frequent occurrence. Deaths
upon the railroad tracks and in other
ways caused by drunkeness ere fre
quent. Since the saloons closed in Bell
ingham, not a single murder has takfeu
place in the city and only one ':n
Whatcom county. A statement of the
four banks made September 4, 1912,
showed an increase in their total re
sources from $4,332,536 in January
1910, to $5,392,425, an increase of $1,
060,000 in a little over a year and a
half.
In the same period, the deposits in
these bands increased nearly a million
dollars, or about 25 percent.
It is notable also that Portland, Me.,
without any license, has a public debt
amounting to only $15 per capita and
a tax rate of $2 per $100 of valuation
while Seattle, Wash., with an income
of $315,000 from saloons has a public
debt of $75 per capita and a tax rate
of $3.38 per $100.
GEORGE NELSON EDWARDS.
LOSS OF APPETITE
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from lack of nourishment. Such a
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tonic. Jones Drug Co., sole agents.
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By Gross
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CUT FLOWERS AND POTTED PLANTS
Also all kinds of Fruit Tree b, Roses and Shrubbery for sale at the
new green houses at Third and Center Streets. Funeral work done
at lowest possible prices. Orde rs received over phone Main 2511
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Simon H. Covell and wife to Eliza
beth M. Foster, lots 2', 3, and 5, in
block 3, Covell; $10.
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Mary M. Charman and others to O.
M. Kunzman, tract in D. L. C. of S. W.
Shannon and wife, nine acres; $1500.
Clarence E. Ishmand and wife to
Oscar N. Blair and wife, S. E. V4 N. E.
M, section 29, T. 1 S R. 3 E.; $2000.
R. A. Wright to PorMand, Eugene
Eastern, tract in James Officer and
wift D. L. C; $1.
L. W. Robbins and wife to C. A.
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