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THE MONIXG OREGOXIAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1908.
GRAND JURY MAY
nvolve mm
Senator Mentioned in Connec
tion With Charge Against
Southern Oregon Men.
NAME USED BY LAND FIRM
District Attorney Tells Court of Evi
dence Obtained by Postal Inspec
tors Against Prominent Men.
Grand Jury Is Called.
MEMBERS
FEDERAL,
JURY.
GRAND
I.. C. Stratton tforeman). Albany.
Unn County.
Franklin E. Turner. Portland.
I. N. Krtmlston. McMlnnvllle. Yam
hill County.
Danle! T. Sherrett. Portland.
James Olson, rortland.
:. A Frants. Kings Valley. Ben
ton County.
Fred Holiapfel. Tangent, Linn
County.
Svlrester B Paddock, Cleone, Mult
nomah County.
Frank M. Orr. lone. Morrow
County.
A. C. Miller. Kinka Valley, Benton
County.
Charles O. Woodward. Portland.
Otto K. Rummel. Portland.
George Ormsby, Portland.
Gordon Voorhlea. Portland.
E. M. Savage. Brooks. Marlon
County.
Joseph P. Newell. Portland.
Georre G. Vaughn. Portland.
George S. Stoddard. Kern Tark.
Portland.
C. H. McFarland. Brownsville. Linn
County.
S. V. Barr, Sweet Home. Linn
County.
Alexander Wagner. Portland.
Benjamin Scholfleld, Cornelius,
Washington County.
Slda B. Walker, Independence,
Polk County.
United States Senator Tillman, of North
Carolina, may be connected unfavorably
with a charge against certain Southern
Oregon men, alleging fraudulent use of
the malls, that will be Investigated by the
Federal grand Jury which was called in
the United States Court yesterday. The
first intimation that the investigation
would Involve men of such prominence as
Snator Tillman came yesterday, when
United States Attorney Bristol, speaking
In the Federal Court, made the following
announcement when discusing the urgency
of a grand Jury:
"A large number of criminal cases are
pending, and in addition to them a num
ber of important matters await investi
gation. On a recent trip the postal in
spectors discovered evidence Involving
men high in the counsels of the United
States that should be presented to the
grand jury."
Nature of Charge Not Known.
JTelther District Attorney Bristol nor
Pustal Inspectors Clement and Riches
would shed any licht on this sensational
announcement, but it was learned from
reliable authority that the prominent offi
cial alluded to Is none other than the Sen
ator from North Carolina. The nature of
the charge with which he may be asso
ciated can only be surmised, but In view
of the recent disclosures it undoubtedly
relates to the scheme of various citizens,
through a Southern Oregon organization,
to acquire tracts of valuable timber land
included in the grant to the Coos Bay
Wagon Road Company in Ccms and Doug
las Counties.
Several months ago Mr. Byron R. Dorr,
as representative of the St. Paul &
Pacific Timber syndicate. located in
Portland, where he was visited later hy
agents for Rceder & Watkins. attorneys
at Marshfleld. and induced to represent
that Arm. which was general counsel for
an association of prominent men who
had united in a scheme for acquiring
some of the land included In the land
grant to the Coos Bay Wagon Road
Company, now held by the Southern
Oregon Company. The scheme Involved
the payment by the individual of $200 as
the preliminary expense for filing on a
quarter section of the land and tender
ing payment at the rate of $2.50 an acre
to the Southern Oregon Company for the
land. When tender was refused, the plan
proposed that when a sufficient number
of applicants had been secured a suit
was to be brought in the courts to com
pel the company to dispose of the land
in accordance with the terms of the
grant by which the land was received
from the Government.
Dorr afterwards learned from what he
considered reliable authority that Sena
tor Tillman in October. 17. applied
through the Marslifield lawyers for ten
quarter-sections of the land for himself
and members of his family. He recog
nized In the fact splendid advertising
matter for commending the plan and did
not fail to incorporate in his circulars
an announcement of the participation in
the scheme by so eminent a man as the
Senator from North Carolina. These cir
culars were distributed generally through
out the state and resulted In letters of
inquiry being forwarded to Senator Till
man at Washington. It was then that
the Senator reported the matter to the
portal authorities, vigorously denying
that he had had anything to do with
the transaction or had consented to the
use of his name in the circulars for ad
vertising purposes.
In this way the matter was referred to
the local postal Inspectors who. after an
investigation, caused the mail for the
Paul syndicate and its president, Mr.
Dorr, temporarily to be withheld from
delivery at the Postofflce. That embargo
lias since been raised, Mr. Dorr ap
parently having convinced the Govern
ment officials that lie was acting In good
faith. The Inspectors, it is learned, after
wards visited Southern Oregon where it
i supposed the operations of the firm of
Reeder & Watkins and their clients were
Inquired into, also the relation of Sena
tor Tillman with that firm. It is the
results of that investigation undoubtedly
that will be presented to the grand jury
this week or next. While the incident
may have had no connection with Senator
T'llman's alleged relations with the
Marshfleld legal firm, it will be recalled
that the Senator and members of his
family passed through this city last Fall.
Mr. Dorr contends that SVnator Tillman
made his application for the ten-quarter
sections through Reeder & Watkins last
October.
The retirement of Mr. Bristol as United
States Attorney, If it should take place
before this case reaches the grand Jury,
will not prevent its investigation. Evi
dence In all such cases has been collected
by the Postal Inspectors and the task
of presenting the facts before the Jury
will fall on District Attorney-elect Mc-
Court.
Judge Wolverton convened court
promptly at 2 o'clock yesterday after
noon when a grand jury of 23 members
was selected after the following jurors
had presented valid excuses and were ex
cused: William P. Van Bibber, John
Ogilbee. Prank C. Waeserman, Louis E.
Swetland, Thomas J. O'Brien, of Port
land; G. H. Coshow, Brownsville: Fred
Crawford. Dayton; G. H. Bodine, Albany.
Several others were disqualified from
serving on the grand jury for various
causes. They were: William' M. North
rup, Charles G. Oberg, John A. Versteeg,
George R. Stephenson, John Jielson. Ad
rian MeCalman, George W. Patterson,
of Portland; J. F. Goode, Salem, and
George F. Bayne. Slredds. Linn County.
When the usual oath had been ad
ministered to the members of the grand
jury by Clerk Sladen. Judge Yvolverton
appointed L. C. Stratton, of Albany, fore
man and. at the request of District At
torney Bristol, the oath was adminis
tered to Mr. Stratton in that capacity.
Retiring to the grand juryroom. the
jurors received their preliminary instruc
tions from the United Slates Attorney
J and adjourned to meet at 10 o'clock this
morning when . the examination of
witnesses in the cases awaiting investiga
tion will be taken up.
The same exhaustive instructions that
were presented to the last Federal grand
jury a year ago, were read .by Judge
Wolverton to the jury selected yesterday,
at the request of Mr. Bristol. Aside from
the usual instructions as to their duties,
the jurors were given a detailed inter
pretation of the land laws, particularly
the timber and stone act. The in
ference is that the jury may be asked
further to investigate the public land
steals in this state.
Bristol Calls for Delay.
"If the court please," interrupted Dis
trict Attorney Bristol when Clerk Sladen
had completed the rollcall of the jurors
and Judge Wolverton had directed the
selection of a grand jury, "I desire to
call the court's attention to a matter of
great public concern. I am advised that
the judiciary committee of the Senate this
day has confirmed the appointment of
John MoCourt as United States At
torney for Oregon. I am further in
formed that confirmation of that appoint
ment, ratifying the action of the com
mittee, will be taken by the Senate on
Wednesday.
"Now 1 do not wish to embarrass any
body in the discharge of the Government's
business, but I consider it a matter of
serious inexpediency to select a grand
jury and at this time proceed to an inves
tigation of the pending cases. Such a pro
cedure might embarrass the Incoming offi
cial, who might not approve of what had
been done. It is not my desire to shirk
any responsibility, but in making this sug
gestion I feel that I have only the best
interests of the Government at heart. On
December U I received a telegram from
United States Attorney-General Bonaparte
instructing me to continue my duties as I
You don't believe the Lab or -Social 1st
"class" are really trying to take away
the savings and property of the thrifty,
Home-Owning "class," do you?
Probably there will be a loud chorus
of. wails and entreaty when the new
laws go Into effect and the "Home
Ownprs" wake up to find themselves
bound hand and foot and "trimmed"
of their saving's and property by the
deft h:ind of the leaner-Socialist "class'
and aceordltiK to laws paused while the
H o me-Ownera slept, and which the
courts mnnt execute.
"Impossible" you say. but the game
Is on and the Labor-Socialists are right
now actively at work before Congress
and the various State Legislatures, and
will establish these laws quickly unless
stopped.
Their plan is based on one principle.
If any man has worked and been
economical and self-denying and has
bought a home, take it away and divide
up the proceeds among those who are
unthrifty, drinking, profligate or sim
ply "failures."
Take money away from the man who
has it.
Give it to the man who hasn't.
But th!3 must be done cunningly and
by passing; some shrewdly drawn laws
which hide the real meaning.
The Labor-Socialists are working
hard to frighten and force public men
to pass at least a dozen bills, each of
which has, away down at the bottom,
a pian to take away a part or all of
the thrifty man's savings and give
them to the unthrifty.
They will surely succeed unless the
'home-owners" wake up and protest
In numbers enough to win.
"Don't believe a word of it," the
average reader says.
Naturally, because the average read
er seldom examines bills offered to
Congress and the Legislatures and if
he casually reads of these bills they
look harmless enough.
Some will only wake up when, under
the new laws, (if the Labor-Socialists
succeed in having the bills passed)
they find their property and savings
ooze away and the courts powerless
to prevent.
This is a contest between the un
thrifty "class" trying to wrest money,
property and power from the Home
Owning "class."
Now let the reader sort out the dif
ferent characters in society and as
they are defined, locate each man in
one or the other of these "classes."
One class earns and saves and the
other seeks to take what it doesn't
earn.
The discontented, surly and botch
workman tramping from one job to
another.
The Labor Agitator.
The man who poured acid in the
mouth of an independent workingman
in Chicago after he had been beaten
unconscious.
The steady, well-trained mechanic
who owih a home.
The tramp.
The professional criminal whose pic
ture the police keep in the rogues
gallery. TVhen you see him reading a
newspaper in & saloon, you can not
only name the newspaper that nour
ishes his criminal instincts but can
accurately locate him In his class and
probably make a close guess at what
ticket he vote.
The Successful ' Merchant.
The Well-Trained Physician.
The Wild-eyed-dirty-f inger nail chap
over his second pot of beer.
The Labor-Socialist.
The Farmer.
The Minister of the Gospel.
The Anarchist.
You see you can pick them out and
put each one in his class. There are
only two "classes. One thinks thoughts
of hate, jealousy and revenge, seeking
money it docs not earn, property which
has been earned by the sweat of other
brows, and in disappointment and
anger, these social "failures" natural
ly tend towards disorder, law-breaking
nnd a general upheaval in which they
hope to take away the savings of the
other clas-
The members of the "Other Class"
think thoughts of work, sturdy, well
directed, intelligent work; work which
brings good pay, because it is good
servic to mankind. The sober, re
sponsible Locomotive Engineer. The
Skilled Mechanic, The Farmer, Mer
chant, Doctor, Lawyer. Banker. School
Teacher, and Minister.
The capable, successful and well es
teemed among these belong to one
class. The failures belong to the
othrr.
The "Home-Owning" class seek
peace, steadv operation of industries,
protection for every man who wants
They
United States Attorney until my successor
was appointed.
"The United States Supreme Court has
held that the confirmation by the Senate
of the appointment of an officer nominat
ed by the President completes that ap
pointment and clothes the appointee with
the authority of the office for which he
has been named. In view of the probabil
ity of the early confirmation of my suc
cessor's appointment, it seems inexpedi
ent at this time to select a grand jury
and proceed at once to an investigation of
the cases awaiting consideration. I would
suggest that a grand Jury be selected and
an adjournment taken until next Mon
day, by which time Mr. McCourt undoubt
edly will have been confirmed and be
ready to assume the investigation of these
matters personally."
Judge Wolverton would not consent to
any adjournment "of the grand jury, inti
mating that the congested condition of the
court demanded immediate relief. He an
nounced that if any condition should
arise affecting the regularity of the Inves
tigations of the jury, he would order an
adjournment, but until such a contingency
should be presented, insisted that the jury
proceed to discharge its duty with the
greatest possible expedition.
AUCTION FIRM AVIXS POINT
Court Holds -as Regular Complaint
Against Furniture Trust.
In the Federal Court yesterday the Gil
man Auction & Commission Company
won the first preliminary legal skirmish
in its suits against F. S. Harmon & Co.
and other f-lleged members of the furni
ture trust under the anti-trust law for
$150,000 daTiages. Judge Wolverton an
nounced a decision overruling the motions
of the defendants demanding that parts
of the complaint be stricken out and
that the complaint be made more definite
and certain. In dismissing these motions
Judge Wolverton held that the terms and
nature of the alleged conspiracy charged
by the plaintiff had been adequately set
out in its complaint.
The defendants demanded that the
plaintiff be required to set out in its
complaint the names of all associations,
firms and corporations that combined and
conspired to create the monopoly com
plained of. Tn overruling this request,
the court held that "it is competent to
sue one or more of the persons or asso
ciations engaged in the tort, as the
pleader might see fit. and It is enough
if the complaint shows that the parties
.sued are- liable without combining all
others who may also be liable. So it is
not absolutely essential that the pleader
should set forth by name all persons,
firms or corporations that might be as
sociated in the commission of the tort.
The defendants are presumed to know
more of their associates than the plain
tiff and no surprise can come to the
parties sqed that the names of such as
sociates are not set forth."
to work, and a guarantee of his right
to enjoy the fruit of his labor; just
laws which hold each and every man
accountable to the law and to do his
share towards the support of public
worke and charities.
The Labor-Socialists are opposed and
their measures are right now beta a;
pressed with ureat strength to make
them into laws.
The intent underlying each one of
them is to directly, or in a round
about way. take money and property
from the Home-Owner.'
Now let's have a look, and in con
sidering each bill or act, keep in mind
the underlying plan.
"Extract from the thrifty and home
nwntnsr people at least a part of their
savings, to be divided among the un
thrifty Labor-Sociallsis."
You may have to search step by step
through the apparently harmless part
of these proposed laws, but carefully
follow the steps and it will be seen
that the final end and aim Is to take
money away from the House-Owning,
thrifty "class" and give it to the un
thrifty "class."
Let's first consider the "Employers
Liability" movement. They have
adroitly sought to have It apply first
to Railways for it is now popul ir to
attack them. Any employee hurt, even
by his own negligence, is to be paid a
sum to be extracted from the stock
holders. There are over 77,000 stock
holders in one American Ry. Many are
widows and in some cases their hard
earned money and savings invested
thus. Is the main source of their bread
and butter. But a part at least is to
be taken from them to be given to the
unfortunate "Unthrifty."
That would be benevolence if it was
not a legal robbery of some to make
gifts to others.
Then it is the plan to extend this
forced benevolence to the individual
employer, just as the Labor-Socialists
have succeeded in doing in England.
It is an active working law-there now
in operation under which, if, for in
stance, a house servant has an acci
dent no matter whether about the
house or elsewhere and becomes dis
abled, the employer's property is held
to pay one pound (about $5.00) a
week for the balance of the life of the
servant.
Thus in a few years with a bad run
of "luck" the home-owner might have
saddled on him a half dozen such
pensioners and his property held to
pay perhaps $25.00 to $50.00 a week.
Do you see how adroitly this ex
tracts money from the thrifty?
We will all admit that the injured
should have help; that is human
benevolence. Every permanently in
jured poor man should have a public
home to live in free, all the balance
of his days: he has, we will say, done
his share of the work of the world
and Is entitled to its care. The law
should provide that he had, during his
well days, contributed Ills share, small
or great, towards the support of auch
homes. That is the German law. In
other words, every man. La bo r-So-cfalist
and Home-Owner should con
tribute for this pension.
But the Labor-Socialist plans to
take only the money of one elass, the
thrifty, and give it to the unthrifty.
That would be a fine levied on the
man for being thrifty and offer a re
ward of immunity to the man who
would "drink up" his extra money. It
says, "don't own a home or you will
become a member of a class which we
propose to milk."
Later on we are to have 01d Age
Pensions for every man when he
reaches ray SO years.
That law is under consideration in
England now. The plan is a noble one,
for It would remove that awful ghost
of fear which haunts most people.
Every roan should pay a small tax
towards this desirable benevolence.
But notice, when the Labor-Socialist
leaders in England were asked if the
members of their class would con
tribute, the answer was, "Not one
farthing.'
They propose to secure the en tire
sum from the Home-Owner "Class."
Back again to their principle, you
see.
It seems benevolent to vote large
sums for public work for the "unem
ployed."' That class is made up large
ly of Labor-Socialists and incapable,
botch workmen. The worthy workmen
are seldom "unemployed." Many of
these "unemployed" are the noisy
chaps who called strikes during the
prosperous years. They wouldn't
work themselves and kept thousands
of good men from work.
They boycotted - factories and de
stroyed business, compelling other
WAR Ofl BETWEEN
QPPQSINGPACKERS
Independents Declare Com
bine Is Trying to Bar
Them From Portland.
POSITION OF ARMOUR & CO.
Smaller Plants Will Be Erected on
Peninsula if Abattoir Is Allowed
in the City, Says G. B. Robbins,
Director of Big Company.
That a packinghouse war is imminent
in Portland is suggested by the opposing
packing interests. Swift & Armour are
said to be waging an active campaign
against the Schwartzschild & Sulzberger
Company, which seeks an ordinance from
the Council allowing a packing plant to
be operated In South Portland. In the
hostile attitude of the two former pack
ers, the Independent company sees the
machinations of the beef trust.
Opponents of the Schwartzschild &
Sulzberger project urge that the company
should put up a bond with the city to
protect the municipality against imposi
tion by the substitution of an Inferior
plant for the modern establishment prom
ised by the company's agents.
In answer to this suggestion, J. S.
Heisey. manager of the Schwartzschild
& Sulzberger interests on the Pacific
Coast, thinks such a request is unfair
He said:
Thinks Bond Is Unnecessary.
"Considering the fact that we are not
asking a franchise from the city or a
bonus, -why should we put up a bond? I
do not say that we would not put up a
bond If requested to do so by the city,
but it seems to us that the request
should not be made. If we were to get
a bonus from the city, that would be a
different matter."
'.'We are satisfied where the opposition
is coming from and rival interests in the
meat packing business may be pardoned
workmen to lie idle.
They stopped the loading and un
loading of ships and Ry. cars: stopped
work on buildings, ' the mining of
gold, silver, copper and coal. Stopped
the manufacture of millions of dollars
worth of American articles which for
eigners stood ready to pay money for.
It is believed by many that one of
the chief causes of the panic and pres
ent hard times was the persistent and
wide-spread interference with, and
stoppage of industry brought about
by these same Labor-socialists in driv
ing away business and preventing the
steady distribution or money among
the working ch?sses. Every million
dollars' worth of Steam Pumps. Farm
Tmolements. Boots and Shoes, Steel,
Iron, Locomotives, Cars, Cotton Goods,
etc., rtc., spnt abroad, brings back a
million dollars to be distributed to
the workmen, who dig ore and smelt
It: moulders who cast the Iron, ma
chinists, wood-workers, cotton mill
employees, etc., etc. But the Labor
Socfalfsts have time and again stopped
up the source of this flow of money
and have entailed on this country mil
lions upon millions of dollars in losses
and. consequently, much misery upon
work-people.
The Labor leaders have brought
strikes to force all employers to kick
out independent American workmen
and employ only "Union men, thus to
give absolute power to the leaders,
secure fees to pay tneir own salaries
first and. in order to keep their slaves
interested, force higher and higher
wages. Here we reach the foundation
fact again.
Now, when the jobs tho Labor-Socialists
threw away, are taken by
others, or the business has been killed
for the time, and they are "unem
ployed," do- they pay their own ex
penses or do they besiege the authori
ties to tax the class of Home-Owners
to pay extra money towards a public
fund to be used to pay the "class" of
unemployed Labor-Socialists?
Here the line between classes Is
clearly drawn and you get back again
to the same old spot, "Take from one
class and give to the other."
"Make the consumer pay extra money
and give It to the Labor-Socialists.
"Charge the Howe-Owner extra
wages for all labor which enters into
the building of his home."
"He has been saving, now let's take
away part of It." 1
High wage for skillful work is desir
able for all, but when a Labor Union
gains power enough to force home
owners to pay two, three or four
times what hod-carriers and other
workmen are actually worth it means
Just so much .extra money extracted
from the home-owner, more than the
service Is worth.
It pomes back to the same old place,
you see. Look at the purpose of all
the anti-injunction bills introduced by
the Labor-Socialists. Each and every
one seeks to tie the hands of the peo
ple's courts, and for what purpose?
No Injunction Issued In labor strikes
ever harmed an honest cltfsen In
tending to peacefully pursue his occu
pation. Injunctions stop mobs, Jntent on in
sulting, assaulting- and perhaps mur
dering other citizens, from congre
gating. The Labor-Socialist raises a
loud cry because he is commanded by
a court to keep off the public street
near a factory employing independent
men.
The injunction always directs the
man or men to stay off certain streets
or refrain from doing other things,
when it is reasonably well known they
Intend to go on those streets or do
those acts, to insult, or assault citi
zens or destroy property. The peaceful
citizen Is never hurt by an injunction
in a labor case and the courts have a
right to prevent injury to the interests
of any community. But injunctions do
prevent Labor-Socialists from terroriz
ing people into submission to the
Labor trust.
Therefore, in order to secure submis
sion and power to extract from the
employer extra money, they contend
the injunction must be done away with.
Every public man who supports any
incasnre seeking to reduce the power
of the courts in order to make It more
difficult for them to protect property
and the person of the common cltisen
is an enemy of Home-Owners and an
ally to the Labor-Socialists.
Watch such public men particular
ly those who want to revise the crim
inal code injunction laws. They want
to make it easier for mobs to do
damage and escape punishment. Their
names will be printed broadcast later
on so that the people may know.
Some public men are like some
After
You
for attacking us. for they doubtless real
ize that the site in South Portland -we
have selected is the best one obtainable
in this "locality. The dockage facilities
at the Zimmerman site and the ease with
which the buildings there can be erected
far above any danger of high water
make the location an ideal one.
"There is no danger that our company
will erect plant on the South Portland
site that will be anything but entirely
acceptable to everyone. We cannot afford
to antagonize the public, for we expect
our business to develop a market right
here for our products.
"The ordinance itself that we submit
shows that we do not expect to operate
a slaughter house, for it repeals th4
former ordinance providing for slaughter
houses and specifies that a modern pack
ing plant shall be operated."
Trust Would Rerise Plans.
G. B. Robbins, director of Armour &
Co., and president of the Armour Car
Lines, who is said to be very close to
Swift Co.. so close in fact that t'.ie
two packing interests may use the same
plant on the Peninsula, advises strongly
against permitting the independent pack
ers to gain a footing in South Portland.
Mr. Robbins says both his people, who
may erect a large packing plant here,
and Swift Co., will build smaller
establishments if the Schwartzschild &
Sulzberger Company is allowed to build
a plant in South Portland.
"We 'will not openly oppose thef
Schwartzschild & Sulzberger people in
getting a location inside .the city limits."
said Mr. Robbins. "but we think the city
will make a mistake in permitting - it.
Portland will gain nothing in Industrial
importance by permitting the pew com
pany to operate its plants In South Port
land, for if the plant is placed outside
the city limits, the city will have all the
advantages resulting from it Just the
same.
"I can say with the authority of our
people and with a good deal of certainty
for the Swift people as well, that neither
of us will build on anywhere near as big
a scale if a rival plant is to be estab
lished within the city. We will either
establish smaller plants or use one plant
Jointly.
"Other cities are fighting the establish
ment of packing plants inside their limits
and the same may be true here after
the injury has been done. It is all right
to talk of sanitary plants being built and
operated, but it cannot be done so that
there will not be objectionable features."
Discuss New Packing Project.
There will be a meeting this morning
of a special committee from the Cham
ber of Commerce to discuss the ques
tion of the location of the new packing
plants in South Portland. The delib
erations of the committee will later
be contained in a report to the trus
tees of the Chamber for their consid
newspapers, they make the mistake of
believing the Labor-Socialists are a
majority because they make the most
noise, but it has been shown time and
again that when a public man prosti
tutes his ideas of right and justice to
the common citizen, and supports meas
ures which seek to take money, property
and liberty away from the home-owners
and the people find it out as they
will, the cowardly ofticial is generally
defeated at the next election, for the
Liberty-loving, peaceable Home-Owning
class of Americans heavily out
number the Labor-Socialists, and these
Home-Owners are the principal readers
and supporters of the newspapers.
The law-defiers are organized and
able to present organized effort
ogfilnst, ' heretofore, an unorganized
public. Now, however, the Home
Owners have effected an organization
known as the Citizens Industrial Ass'n
of America with a Central body in
New York and local oodles in many
towns and cities. Competent lawyers
are employed to watch the vicious
measures introduced In Congress and
th Legislatures and defend the
rights of the common Citizens from
these insidious attacks and to prevent
the enactment of laws which rob one
class, the Home-Owners, and pass' over
to the Labor-Socialists, money and
property which th-y do not earn, and
power which would enable them to en
slave the common people and force
them to "obey." All of this work re
quires money for legitimate expenses.
Every reader who feels a desire to help
in this organized work of protection
can forward to the National Citizens
Industrial Ass'n, St. James Building,
N. Y., such contributions as he de
cides upon, from .$1.00 to $500.00. The
work is now being carried on and
with gratifying results. It can be
widely extended and more certain pro
tection insured by employing a larger
force of active workers. The Labor
Socialists contribute liberally for the
support of their organization and the
common Home-Owners are but just
now beginning to learn that they are
in danger of most serious consequences
unless a determined organized stand is
made and the work of protection car
ried on intelligently, skillfully and
with means enough to make it ef
fective. The officers and directors of this
National Ass'n are sufficiently well
known to insure carerul and honest,
use of funds. A statement will be sent
to each contributor from time to time,
and the "Square Deal" magazine
mailed each month.
This is a clearly-drawn contest be
tween the Common citizens and Home
Owners seeking protection and the
Labor Trust seeking to obtain control
of affairs and take money and prop
erty from the Home-Owners.
The strongest organization will win
and if the Home-Owners fail to stand
together they will certainly lose at
least a part of their properties and
more or less personal liberty. There
are communities now where organized
labor has gained control and every
man must "bow" and. contribute and
implicitly "obey," quU . work when
toid. patronize those whom the labor
leaders designate, and in various ways
act the slave.
It has gone so far that juries fear
to convict known murderers and
whole communities are terrorized.
U. S. Jadge Wm. H. Hunt, of Butte,
Montana, was brave enough to say:
"God geve man his hands, his back
and the right to us them as he pleases.
It is an inalienable right. No power
can take It away from a man. No
power can compel him to work. No
power can compel him to stop working
If he desires to workl When a man,
or any set of men, take It upon them
selves to say that they are the law,
and to defy the process of the courts,
to defy the police authority of the
land, to usurp the authority of the
established government, to upset the
very base of society in which we all
live, there is a power which will come
to the rescue of the man who Is
wronged In that way; and that power
Is that which protects you and pro
tects me. and must continue to afford
us all protection, else government is
destroyed."
For these principles our ancestors
laid down their lives. But they stand
In the way of the Labor-Socialists who
now seek to enact laws to overset
them.
The Common Citizen nas before him
the organized machinery for protec
tion. Will he support It?
Communications can go to The Nat'l
Citizens Industrial Ass'n. St. James
Building. N. Y. "There a Reaaon."
C. W. POST, Battle Creek, Mich.
eration. The members of the commit
tee are: S. H. Gruber. J. C. Ainsworth,
J. O. Rountree, John A. Keating, K. M.
Pendleton.
WORK FOR BETTER STREET
Owners fear plan to Block' Willam
ette Improvement.
Residents of the Peninsula are at pres
ent agitated over the proposed reg-rad-ing
of Portsmouth avenue, and the pav
ing of that thoroughfare with Belgian
blocks Or macadam from Willamette
Boulevard to the river. Those directly
interested in the project assert that there
Is an effort on foot to thwart the im
provement by resorting to a technicality
as to the abutting property on four of
the blocks affected. In order to watch
their case and to see that the matter is
given fair and Impartial treatment, com
mittees from the University Park Board
of Trade, the Peninsula. Arbor Lodge
and Willamette Push Clubs will be pres
ent next Friday afternoon at tbe meet
ing of the streets committee of the City
Council.
Those who are promoting the improve
ment of Portsmouth avenue maintain
that It Is "the only thoroughfare that can
be properly graded and made into a flrst
class roadway to the river, where it is
intended to build a dock, and that the
improvement would open up an immense
district now held back because there Is
no good graded street to the river. It
is the contention of those favorable to
the project that certain large owners of
realty along the street are trying to de
feat the plan by means of a remon
strance. whlh la said to lack the re
quired one-h ilf of the property-owners.
WILL OF BERNARD ALBERS
Estate or $175,000 Left to Rela
tives, Except $2500 for Charity.
The will of BemRrd Albers was admit
ted to probate in the County Court yes
terday. Tt disposes of an estate valued
at Stto.OClO. The executors of the estate,
as appointed yesterday, are: Mrs. Ida
Albers, the widow; Henry Albers and
Alfred R. Wascher. The executors are
to spend CSOO among charitable institu
tional which ones is left to the dis
cretion of Mrs. Albers. St. Joseph's
Catholic Church, the Home for the Aged
and St. Mary's Home for Orphans are,
according to the will, to be Included in
the Institutions which are to share in
the $2M0.
The remainder of the estate goes to the
immediate relatives of the deceased. Anna
Terheyden, sister of the deceased, is
to receive $10nn. Alfred R. Wascher, a
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brother-in-law. 20 shares of stock In
Albers Brothers Milling Company, while
to the widow is given the home at East
Twelfth and Schuyler streets, the house
hold goods and jewelry. The remainder
of the estate Is to be sold and the pro
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Albers. Three daughters, Agnes. Theresla
and Hermina. are to receive $16-) when
they become of age, and the children will
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to the widow when she dies. Mr. Albers
died at Arrowhead. Cal-, March 4.
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