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Oregon Senatorial campaign, and the
annual tiddlewinks tournament.
If the burning questions of the day
are only those I have read of from the
Chamberlain and Booth sides, then the
quicker Oregon amends its laws to make
the Senatorship a draw-a-number lot
tery, with every Oregon voter an equal
participant, the better. Let us see
whether I overdraw the picture. The
burning question of the hour is: "The
cost of the American people's living. Is
it or is it not greater than their income ?
Why is the cost on the increase? Why
is their income on the decline?"
This is the question of the hour. It
is so big, so vital, so interwoven with
the affairs of every voter in Oregon, as
well as every voter in every other state,
that, all other questions should be
put to the rear until this one has been
answered and answered correctly. Why?
You ask. Because this is the situation
and it is not possible to get away from
it.
THE COST OF LIVING EST THE
UNITED STATES MUST GO DOWN,
OR THE INCOME OF THE PEOPLE
MUST COME UP, OR THERE MUST
BE REVOLUTION. There must be and
will be enacted in every city of the
United States the same terrible class
war as has just been fought in New
Jersey, Virginia, Massachusetts, Mich
igan, Colorado, California, Illinois and
elsewhere. There must and will be,
because the American people will never
sit and wait for death by starvation,
without first trying to wrest from the
ones who robbed them and who have
wealth beyond the dream of ancient or
modern kings, what they produced but
were pillaged of.
I want to say here to any of the
law-abiding, prosperous voters of Ore
gon, who may, from their lack of
knowledge of what has been taking
place of late in other sections of the
United States, think I am drawing the
long bow, that if they will read the
government reports of the recent Massa
chusetts, Michigan and Colorado class
wars, and the court records of the Los
Angeles dynamiting, they will see that
I have under, rather than over, pictured
conditions.
WHAT IS THE PROBABILITY, THE
POSSIBILITY OF THE COST OF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE'S LIVING DROP
PING OF THEIR INCOME RISING
AS THINGS ARE GOING? I will
answer the question for I am, from long
study of, and active participation in,
the causes of high cost living, familiar
with the subject. If things continue at
the Oregon Senatorial campaign stand
ard, there is as much chance of the
cost of living dropping or the income
of the people rising sufficiently to meet
it as there is of the moon showering
the people of the United States with the
fresh cheese of which we are told it is
made. The cost of living and the
people's income are both galloping the
other way.
I would not have Oregon voters think
from the above that I do not believe
that the Wilson administration's new
laws, cuH-ency, anti-trust, etc., will not
lower the cost of living. Undoubtedly
they will, but the amount will be fully
offset by the drop in the people's income,"
unless the real, the foundation causes
of the present conditions are destroyed,
and they can only be destroyed by the
election to the Senate and Congress of
men who will recognize their existence
and will battle for their destruction.
Does any Oregon voter believe that this,
the greatest problem of modern times
the problem that calls for the most
intelligent treatment any man or woman
is capable of can be illuminated with
Senatorial campaign Chinese eggs or
local butter, with the dead and moulded
trading secrets of this man, or the
PHONE CHAIN TO BID
ALL ATTEND SHOW
Commercial Club Adopts Novel
Plan to Have Entire Mem
bership at Armory.
EXHIBIT PLANS RUSHED
Siig Structure Is Busy Scene in Prep
aration for Manufacturers' Land
Products Show, Which Will
Open There Monday.
To have every member of the Port
land Commercial Club present at the
Armory Monday night, when the Man
ufacturers' and Land Products Show
will be opened formally, a special com
mittee, of which Dr. E. A. Pierce is
chairman, has undertaken the task of
personally notifying- 40 business men
of Portland, members of- the organiza
tion, of the hour set for the opening
of the great event.
Every member notified will, in turn,
call up 40 persons and by that means
it is hoped to reach all the 1500 mem
bers of the Commercial Club with a
direct personal appeal to attend the
show.
The committee, of which Dr. E. A.
Tierce is chairman, consists of H. D.
ltamsdert. George L. Baker, C P. l!erg.
J. C. English. W. J. Hofmann, J. Fred
I-rson. J. D. Abbott, S. D. Vincent, R.
1). Carpenter. W. U Morgan, Leo Fried.
Sam Luders. . Fred Spoeri, George D.
Lee. A. C. McMicken. Dr. J. F. Beau
mont. Frank E. Smith. J. H. Dundore,
Jule Kramer. T. J. Seufert, A. B. Stein
bach. R. Williams, .1. H. McDermott, Dr.
K. B. McDaniels, W. J. Patterson. Dr.
R. L Gillespie. James Muckle and J.
'Mitchy.
With several hundred carpenters,
electricians, exhibitors and decorators
at work, the Armory now presents a
lively scene. Booth building is pro
gressing rapidly and the theater annex
In the temporary building will be ready
by Saturday. Thousands of tons of ex
hibits from manufacturing plants and
soil products from counties over the
state have been received in th'e past
24 hours and exhibitors will work night
and day to have everything in readi
ness by next Monday.
The United States postoffice exhibit
and the City of Portland exhibit will
be among the first displays completed.
David M. Dunne, president of the Man
ufacturers' Association of Oregon and
also president of the Manufacturers'
Show, is giving a great deal of his
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gastronomic and other personal habits of
that man, ' with Senatorial campaign
yappings and yarlings that would not
do justice to a marionetted Kilkenny
cat fest?
Does any Oregon voter consider, in
this enlightened age, which is hurricaned
with the merciless madness of the mob,
the raw, red ragings of a robbed and
raped people, the crimson corruption of
courts, the stenchy scabbings of state
craft, the criminal conspiracies of
capital, the lecheries of labor, the gan
grened graftings of the great, the
piteous pleas of the poor, and the rabid
rottenness of the rich in this enlight
ened age when he is solemnly or sullenly
watching his living cost mount and his
income drop, consider he is being
honored by either of the Senatorial
candidates when to his demand for the
whys and wherefores of his condition,
he is told that old, old tariff yarn, that
ancient pork barrel tale, that mossed
Mexican war story, or that new canal
toll conundrum.
Messrs. Chamberlain and Booth are
the candidates of mighty parties and the
mighty parties have a mighty press.
Either could have given Oregon voters
a campaign worthy of a Senatorial
candidate. Mr. Hanley has no press.
He and his helper can only get to you
as I do, by buying expensive advertising
space; but, even with this almost pro
hibitive handicap, I will give you my
idea of the kind of educational matter
which should be submitted to Oregon
voters at this critical election
As you read my facts recall whether
you have been shown any of them in
this campaign. Then ask yourself, is it
possible that they are facts, and if they
are, should Oregon miss this opportunity
of sending to the Senate the man who
understands the real conditions of the
country, or the man who knows nothing
of the burning question of the times?
And if they are not facts how can
their fallacies be punctured?
This latter will be simple.
THE QUICKEST AND MOST FEAS
IBLE WAY TO PUNCTURE THE FAL
LACY OF MY ASSERTIONS WILL BE
FOR SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN AND
MR. BOOTH TO DO SO IN MY PRES- ,
ENCE, AND MUCH AS I WOULD '
DREAD THE ORDEAL OF MEETING
THESE SEASONED DEBATERS, FOR
I HAVE NOT BEEN ON THE PUB
LIC PLATFORM, EVEN FOR A
SINGLE SPEECH, IN OVER THREE
YEARS, I WILL AGREE TO BE ON
ANY PUBLIC PLATFORM IN ORE
GON, UPON NOTIFICATION THAT
MESSRS. CHAMBERLAIN AND
BOOTH WILL BE THERE, BETWEEN
NOW AND ELECTION.-
Why is the Cost of Living high?
Because these is of the country's sixty
billion dollars of stocks and bonds r
drawing 5, three billion dollars annually
thirty billions which are fictitious,
fraud-made, mere printed paper created
by a trick.
This means that a few tricksters who
created them, take each year from all
the people, one billion, five hundred
million dollars and they give to the
people absolutely nothing of value in
return for it. It is as though these few
tricksters had power to levy on all the
people for their own benefit a tax of one
billion, five hundred million dollars.
These same tricksters levy and collect
another one billion, five hundred million
each year by the trick of making addi- '
ional fictitious stocks and bonds.
The working of this gigantic scheme
by which three billion dollars tribute
is annually levied and collected from
one hundred millions of people by a
few men is the most ingenious affair in
the history of the world, at the same
time it is simplicity itself.
Illustration. A Trust adds to the cost
of the article it produces, say b for
time to the undertaking and is a famil
iar figure at the exposition buildings.
The exhibit of works of art to be
held under the auspices of the Mutual
Art Association, the Society of Oregon
Artists and the Portland Art Associa
tion will be a feature of the exposi
tion. Paintings to be exhibited are be
ing received daily at the Armory.
One of the latest features added to
the exposition is the display of the
United States Forestry Service. Life
sized models of pack horses will be
shown, methods of extinguishing for
est fires will be demonstrated, and ex
perts will show visitors how to build
and properly take care of a camp fire.
Specimens of the woods of Oregon and
other forestry features will be dis
played. Charles B. Flory, assistant dis
trict forester, will deliver illustrated
lectures on "The Purposes of National
Forests and Their Protection."
The Progressive Business Men's Club
at a meeting held yesterday decided to
change its dates for the Progressive
Business Men's Club da,y at the show
from Thursday, October 29. to Thurs
day, November 5. This step was taken
that the club may arrange to entertain
prominent business men and officials
of the Commercial Clubs of Hood River
Valley. The entertainment affairs are
in charge of Chester A. Hogue and com
mittee. Woolgrowers day at the exposition,
October 29. will be largely attended by
woolgrowers of Oregon and Washing
Republican
ton. The programme will Include an
address on "Sheep and "Wool." by
Charles G. Adams; "Wool and Woolens,"
Thomas Kay, and "Clothing," by
Charles Coopey.
GIRL'S "KIDNAPING" TOLD
Chicago Woman Says She Took Child
to Movies Because of Love.
CHICAGO. Oct. 11. The "kidnap
ing" of little Lena Henpeniusv which
agitated Mount Greenwood and Mor
gan Park, was explained before Jus
tice of the Peace Grabt at Mount
Greenwood recently. Mrs. May Dwyer,
who was picked up by the Morgan
Park police while walking witn the
toward the Henpemus home.
she thought Lena had obtained
permission to accompany her to a
couple of picture shows.
i iove cnuaren just as 1 love my
own child, who now is buried in Mount
Greenwood." said Mrs. Dwyer, who
lives at 3702 West Harrison street. "I
took a fancy to Lena, especially. It is
absurd to-think I would steal her. I
thought her parents knew where she
was all the time.
Because of the absence of Lena'
father, a truck farmer, the case was
continued.
The Housewife.
(Pearson's Weekly.)
Master of the House (married to a
suffragette) What's happening about
the dinner. Mary?
Maid There ain't going to be none,
sir.
Master What! No dinner?
Maid No, sir. The missus 'as come
'ome from jail, sir, an' ate up hevery
thing in the 'ouse!
No home is so small there Isn't room
it for an argument.
dividends and interest on its illegitimate
its trick-made capital, in addition to
the 5 on its real capital. This thus-arrived-at
price is the price paid by the
people for the necessities.
At a time when the stock of the Union
Pacific Railroad sold at less than one
hundred dollars per share, and paid 5
annual dividends, it was bought up by
the few tricksters, who increased the
dividend to lOVfc and the stock rose to
over two hundred dollars and was un
loaded on the banks and insurance com
panies in exchange for the people's
deposited savings. The few tricksters
made hundreds of millions of dollars
profit. To get from the people the
extra 5 dividend the Union Pacific
increased directly or indirectly, the
charge for every pound of freight and
every passenger carried. This increased
the price of all the wheat, corn, beef,
and other necessities of the people which
were carried by the railroad.
Another illustration: The Steel Trust
has five hundred millions of common
stock. It dtoes not represent a dollar of
real money. It is only printed paper
.given to the tricksters who created it,
as a bonus for promoting' the Steel
Trust scheme. The Steel Trust pays a
yearly dividend of 5 twenty-five mil
lion dollars on this five hundred millions
of worthless stock. To get this twenty
five million dollars the Trust adds to
the legitimate cost of the rails it sells
to the railroads and the railroads take
the twenty-five million dollars from the
people in the form of increased freight
and passenger rates.
THE COST OF LIVING CANNOT
DECLINE UNTIL THESE THREE
BILLION DOLLARS OF ANNUAL
TRIBUTE HAS STOPPED.
This is the greatest question before
the American people, for it means that
if it is not stopped if it continues the
people will, when they realize, as they
are , beginning to realize, that they
cannot meet the cost of their living with
their income, revolt against its collec
tion. Notwithstanding this is the' greatest
question of the times, can any voter
of Oregon recall a single reference to-,
it . by Senator Chamberlain or Mr.
Booth? Their campaign has given
voters all sorts of worn threadbare
"tariff, etc.," arguments as the reason
for high cost of living but it will be
noted that the cost of living has steadily
mounted whether under Democratic or
Republican rule and regardless of tariff
changes.
The everyday people of the United
States have saved up and deposited in
Savings Banks over five billions of
money (there is less than four billions
of all kinds of American money). For
this money the people receive 49fc two
hundred million dollars annually. They
received the same rate, 4, forty years
ago when the two hundred million
bought what today requires four hun
dred million to pay for. That is be
cause the high cost of living has cut
(to pay the few tricksters their three
billions of annual tribute ) , the purchasing
power of the income of the people's
savings in two. At the same time the
National Banks and Trust Companies
owned or controlled, . directly or in
directly, by the same few tricksters who
levy the three billion tribute, borrow the
people's savings from the Savings Banks
at from 3V& to 4, and reloan it to
the people at "any old rate." This "any
old rate" charged the American people
by the System, the few who annually
levy three billion tribute, for the use
of their own savings, can best be ascer
tained by glancing at the National Bank
and Trust Companies' advertisements.
"Capital, one million dollars. Surplus
and undivided profits, five million. In
business twenty years, during which
time we have earned sufficient to pay
Paid Advertisement
HTAHTHUR IN OPEN
Mr. McArthur and his colleagues be
lieved that the general welfare of the
people should be considered over and
above the welfare of the special inter
ests. They realized that the bill as it
was passed was not-perfect but a step
iff the right direction. The bill was
held up on a referendum, but was ap
proved at the 1912 election by an over
whelming majority of the people.
Other measures from which the work
Legislative Journal Cited to
Disprove West's Charge.
ing people benefited and which Mr. Mc- 1
Arthur supported were:
An act requiring all intrastate, in- ;
terurban and city electric passenger
cars operated in Oregon to be provided
with, good, substantial seats for motor
men operating such cars.
An act prohibiting persons, firms or
corporations from employing any per
son under 18 years of age to run an
elevator. This measure put an end to
the practice of hiring inexperienced
boys to do the work that men should do,
thereby endangering not only the lives
and limbs of employes, but also those
of the general public.
An act relating to the safety of em
ployes and passengers on railroads, and
providing the number of men that shall
constitute a train crew, commonly
known as the "full crew' bill. This bill
was opposed by the railroad companies
on account of the expense of furnishing
additional brakemen and flagmen.
An act requiring railroad companies
to equip their locomotives with elec
tric headlights in order to protect the
lives of engineers and firemen and train
crews, as well as the traveling public.
A bill requiring transportation com
panies to file with the State Railroad
LABORING CLASSES AIDED
Nominee for Represent
ative in Congress Shown to Have
Opposed Bills Aimed to Add
to Corporations Strength.
Contrary to the recent utterances of
Governor West that C. N. McArthur,
Republican nominee for Representative
In Congress, as a member of the State
Legislature, voted and worked to favor
the corporate "interests" an investiga
tion of the House journal of the ses
sions of 1909 and 1913 shows that Mr.
McArthur supported more than a score
of measures designed to benefit the
laboring classes and against numerous
Commission the
bills intended to strengthen the posi
tion of the corporations.
He was the author, while'a member
ot . the House, of several measures
which the laboring people were partic
ularly eager to have enacted into law.
One of the most important pieces of
remedial legislation for which he voted
was the act creating the Industrial
Welfare Commission, which now is in
operation and of which Father E. V.
O'Hara is the active chairman.
This is regarded as one of the most
progressive acts ever passed by a leg
islative assembly in the state. Its
benefits are incalculable to the women
and children who must toil for a liv
ing. By its provisions the hours of
labor for women workers have been
reduced materially, their wages have
been increased substantially and their
working conditions have been Im
proved generally. The work of the
commission is not yet complete. It is
seeking constantly to improve further
the lot of ths women workers.
Mr. McArthur has supported this
measure from the start and has
watched with interest and satisfaction
the operation of the rules promulgated
by the commission.
Of equal importance with the indus
trial welfare bill was the working
man's compensation act, which Mr. Mc
Arthur also supported and which now
is a law. This id considered by legis
lators in all parts of the country as
well as by students of social science
one of the most meritorious and bene
ficial laws in effect anywhere. It pro
tects the unfortunate victim of acci
dents, and, in case of death, gives an
assurance of protection to widows and
orphans.
This bill was opposed vigorously by
"ambulance-chasing" lawyers who make
a specialty of personal injury cases, but
of witnesses to accidents. The purpose
of this measure was to prevent un
scrupulous claim agents from gjetting
witnesses out of the way before trials
for personal injuries. Mr. McArthur
spoke for this bill from the floor of the
House, and materially assisted in se
curing its passage. The bill was, how
ever, defeated in the Senate.
An act declaring
the State of Oregon
workers, fixing the
service in certain
vidlng extra pay for overtime. This
bill met with bitter opposition from the
lobbyists of milling and industrial con
cerns.
HUMBLE COW
Hair From Ear
ported Camel's
CHICAGO, Oct,
yards cow has come to the rescue of
American art, it was announced a few
days ago, and water color paintings
will continue to fill gaps in the art
stores, despite the
A despairing paint manufacturer,
who 'also manufactures paint brushes
for water colors,
cago Chamber of Commerce that be
must close up shop because all his
brushes came from Germany, where
they were made by a secret process
from either camel's hair or rabbit's
hair.
Investigation of
veloped the fact
cow s ear makes
Importations from
It len t as a
are looking; for
our stockholders 20 yearly and in addi
tion have 'made 4009c, which is now on
hand." If this will not explain what
"any old rate" is, one has but to turn
to the Pujo Congressional Report and
read the testimony of the New York
bank presidents, that their banks had
earned 2800 on their capital in twenty .
years. And if one is still puzzled, - he
has but to observe the marble palaces
in the different American cities which
have been built to get rid of the oceans
of profits made from borrowing the
people's money at 4 and loaning it
back to them at "any old rate." One bank
in one of the big cities was driven by
its accumulated earnings to put $350,000
into bronze doors. If the Oregon voter
is still puzzled about the "any old rate,"
let him automobile through his state as
I have done and listen to the hardest
working men and women on earth
pathetically ask: "Why is it we are
compelled to work like slaves and only
allowed to retain enough of our earnings
to keep body and soul together that the
holders of our 8 to 12 mortgages may
take the balance?"
This, too, is the burning question of
the hour and yet who in Oregon has
heard any reference to it in this
Chamberlain-Booth campaign ?
The everyday people of the United
States have billions of their hard
earned " savings in the Life Insurance
Companies, which, notwithstanding the
reforms I forced eight years ago, are
still dominated by the System. These
billions return to their owners, the
people, about the same yearly rate as
their savings in Savings Banks. The
-Life Insurance Companies, like the
National Banks and Trust Company
custodians of the people's savings, accu
mulated them so fast that to get rid of
them they were compelled to invest in
bronze doors and such bric-a-brac as the
crowned heads of Europe cannot afford to
buy. One of ' them, which collects its
premiums fifty cents and a dollar at a
time, has put millions and millions of
its surplus into an enormous marble
tower which these thrifty custodians of
the people's money proudly boast,
eclipses all its competitors' spendings.
The part that Life Insurance Companies
play in the wholesale robbing of the
American people is most interesting.
The first thing that started me on
my Life Insurance crusade was this odd
happening. At our annual New York
Horse Show meets I noticed that one
of our young millionaire directors, who,
if he was in the country at this time,
I am sure would take delight in sneering
at Mr. Hanley as a Senatorial Joke,
each year decorated us with costly
bunches of violets. Upon investigation
we found that his annual expenditure
for such necessities was $30,000 and
that they were paid for by the great
Life Insurance Company of which he
was a high official. Can the hard
working Oregon rancher voter who each
year pinches out of his earnings his $30
Life Insurance premium, imagine the
fun of blowing in a thousand such yearly
premiums- for violets ? I wonder. At
the end of my reform crusade we found
that the office furniture of one of the
great companies had cost considerably
over a million dollars of the policy
holders' money 560,000 rugs, $12,000
desks, chairs at $2000 apiece. The whole
was sold at public auction and realized
old junk prices.
"And what has this ancient history to
do with high cost of living and other
questions of the day?" I hear the Ore
gon Senatorial candidates ask. Only
this. These depositories of the people's
savings are today, notwithstanding the
reforms forced a few years ago, domi
nated by these three billion dollars trib
ute collectors. Don't believe it? Let's
see. "
When the lid was lifted from th rot
by Thomas W. Lawson
ARSON CASE
Charge Against Albert
to Jury Today.
MANY MEMORIES
Recollection of Tiny
Complete Forgetfulness ot Major
Happenings Noted in Testi
mony Witness Assailed.
Max Albert's case will
jury by noon today. For
he has been on trial
McGinn charged with having set the
furnishings of his home
fraud, insurance companies.
fense closed its case yesterday after
noon and opening arguments
by Deputy District Attorney Ham-
mersly for the state and
names and addresses
ble for the defense. Final arguments
on both sides will be made this morn
ing, and the court will Instruct the
jury.
Failing memory troubled witnesses
for the defense yesterday to an alarm
ing extent. Strangely enough, these
lapses came on cross-examination.
When they testified to Alberfs alibi
or the alleged theft of the
the public policy of
pers and gloves of Mrs. Albert by the
daughter of Philip Davis, memories
relating to wage-
maximum hours of
were found to be remarkably keen.
industries and pro
The narrative fitted together like the
parts of a jigsaw puzzle.
Witnesses were able to
ink spot on the toe ofthe
.
shoe of Mrs. Albert, by
cation of the shoes was made certain.
But in more important points, memory
SAVES ART
played tricks upon those
For example, Minna Richensteln. sis
ter of Albert, could not remember
whether she had received any money
Substitute for Im
Hair Brashes.
from the insurance companies after the
fire, although she had
12. An humble stock
her effects in the house
She did not know where
had been purchased. She
her brother bought them
whence they came she
European war.
conjecture.
Mrs. Albert, too, was
dark as to where her
reported to the Chi
burned in the fire, came from, other
than that her husband bought them
for her. Apparently she was not a
woman who window-shops before her
purchase's are made. Tbe husband,
strangely enough could not recall
where be bought even one of the 11
dresses, or. for that matter, a single
one of his own suits burned in the
fire.
Davi.' ReputatioK Attacked.
The fire happened on the day follow
ing the engagement of Minna Albert
to A. Richensteln and this fact may
several weeks de
that the hair inside a
brushes that equal the
Germany.
rule, the trouble you
that happens.
ten New Haven Railroad cauldron the
other day by President Wilson's inves
tigators, one of the Life Insurance
Companies was found to be the largest
holder of the New Haven stock, $7,000,
000. How did it happen the tribute
leviers who still dominate this great
people's saving institution loaded up
with New Haven stock at $100 a share
and dumped it on the company at around
$200 a share; and now that it is practic
ally worthless, millions of the people's
savings have disappeared into the pock
ets of the tribute collectors. Any Ore
gon voter versed in two-two-four math
ematics can ascertain how much was
added to the Life Insurance section of
high cost living by these honorable trus
tees' New Haven deals and by scores of
similar ones.
Nothing has a greater and more direct
effect on the cost of the people's living
than railroads. Every dollar they take
from the people in the form of freight
and passenger rates is so much added
to the cost of the people's living. This
is so fundamental and obvious to the
Oregon rancher, manufacturer, store
keeper, that I have only to call atten
tion to it. A railroad is entitled to take
from the people its running expenses,
necessary improvements and a fair in
terest upon invested capital, but it is
not entitled to add to the people's cost
of living by taking from them in freight
and passenger charges, interest on fic
titious capital, capital which represents
money directly or indirectly stolen by
the ones who dominate the management.
Here is one of the most important
branches of the great question high
cost living.
There has been stolen from the rail
roads of the United States during the
past thirty years billions of dollars.
Oregon voters know this. It is common
knowledge now, for the investigation of
the Frisco, New Haven, Boston & Maine
and Rock Island wreckage and robbery,
by which over a billion, of dollars was
stolen in such nasty, sneakthieving ways
as to compel criminal prosecution, is now
under way.
Ten years ago, when I publicly pointed
to the New Haven and Rock Island rail
roads as the gigantic swindles they have
since been declared by the government
to be, I was called a madman, for the
stocks and bonds which are now nearly
worthless were then selling at fancy
high prices and were eagerly sought by
conservative investment buyers.
THE RAILROAD SECTION OF THE
GREAT QUESTION OF THE DAY,
HIGH COST LIVING, IS ONE OF VI
TAL IMPORTANCE TO EVERY MAN,
WOMAN AND CHILD IN OREGON.
Today the railroads of the country
are doing more to paralyze the coun
try's business than any other industry.
They are deadlocked with the govern
ment over the question of increased
rates. They have stopped construction
and threaten to keep it stopped until
they are allowed to add further to the
people's cost of living. No Oregon voter
should allow himself to be fooled into
believing that it is possible to raise rail
road rates without raising the cost of
living. An illustration which will be
easy of comprehension by Oregon vot
ers: The late Mr. Harriman so juggled
the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
railroads as to rise over night from
povertv to phenomenal riches, $200,000,
000. Nothing like his wealth-wizarding
has taken place in the history of the
whole world.
Harriman's operations were taken to
the courts and decided illegal and the
Union Pacific was compelled to disgorge
the Southern Pacific and other railroads.
Union Pacific stock now owned by the
people who exchanged their savings for
it has dropped from away over $200 per
share to about where it started from,
have driven all other happenings from
the girl's mind, but Deputy District At
torney Collier, who questioned her on
cross-examination, said he could hard
ly believe it, particularly when she
helped build up Alberfs alibi by dis
play of a perfect memory.
l'hllip Davis was assailed and his
reputation was declared by witnesses
to be absolutely worthless. One banker
and Philin Sax. lately freed from in
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dictment in an arson case in which
was charged jointly with Albert, testi
fied to the general worthlessness of
Davis In the afternoon and there were
other witnesses along this line in
TRICKY
morning. It was agreed generally
thafc Davis was a bad lot.
Deputy Hammersly, in his opening
argument to the jury, explained the
state's theory of the lire and declared it
was incendiary, which the defense
Things and
mits.
He said firemen and neighbors
broke into the Albert house and put
out the fire told that the place was
bare, and yet the defendant in bis
proof of loss to the insurance compa
nies made a claim for the loss of goods
to the value of $1000.
Attorney Dibble made an earnest ap
peal to the jury not to send Albert to
the penitentiary on the testimony of a
man like Davis, who, he said, had
bought his own safety by delivering
Albert to the District Attorney. He
declared the Albert fire was investi
go to the
four days
before Judge
on fire to de
The de
gated thoroughly b.y detectives and the
insurance companies before the policy
were made
was paid two "years ago and said Al
bert should have been brought to trial
at that time if at all, as then he could
by A. t. Dib,
have made an adequate defense, with
evidence and witnesess available.
Circumstances were pointed out as
white slip
remember an
left white
which identiii
who testified
a policy on
at the time.
her clothes
only knew
for her, but
could not even
wholly In the
11 dresses,
$100. Everyone has lost but Harriman.
He lost none of the oceans of money
which he secured by his illegal transac
tion, his family still has it. By the way,
Mr. Oregon Voter, did you notice that
the wife and family of the poor devil over
in Washington, who borrowed a few dol
lars from his bank, intending to repay it,
had everything but their clothes taken
away from them and that he was rail
roaded to prison for a long time ? And
that there were convicted and sentenced
to prison last year a large number of let
ter carriers whose stealings averaged a
few dollars apiece?
Amongst Mr. Harriman's many ex
ploits was the building of the Deschutes
railroad. It cost about fourteen millions
of dollars, and as we of Wall Street got
the news back there in those magic
money making days, it was to be such a
success that its effect on Harriman's
stock and - bonds brought to his coffers
fifty to sixty millions of profit. Now
here is the proposition that I would
like to put to you Oregon voters:
Mr. Hill's Deschutes railroad runs up
one side of the valley and Harriman's
the other. I am told that they together
cost $28,000,000. One of them will supply
the wants of Oregon, say for one hun
dred years. Should the people of Oregon
be compelled to pay the additional freight
compelled to pay the additional freight
charges be compelled to submit to a
further rise in their cost of living to
pay interest and , dividends on the $14,
000,000 Harriman borrowed to sink in
this road that he might use its building
as a boomer for his Union Pacific stock,
the booming of which boomed them all- -along
the line? Or should the family
of Harriman, the wizard of railroad jug
glery, be compelled to refund to the
people the $14,000,000 wasted in dupli
cating the Hill road that the $14,000,00r
might be used in irrigating the now
waterless lands adjoining and the balance
used to replace those cities along the line
of the road which died for the want of
water?
One other proposition, Mr. Oregon
Voter, and I am done. As you go up
the Deschutes valley and observe that
wasted $14,000,000 of the American peo
ple's savings and the world of parched
land which is actually sobbing for water,
does it occur to you if that $14,000,000
had been spent for spreading the Des
chutes River over the valley's baked
agricultural riches, the valley now wouM
be one of the most prosperous spots on
God's earth and the Hill road, having all
the business, would give even better
service than now. Does it occur to you
when you observe the struggling father,
worn mother, and little assisting tots
working from sunrise to sunset to build
their home and compel their new-born
ranch to give them the prohibitive cost
living and the shylock usurers of the
System the mortgage interest, and when
you later observe the sullen father, the
frenzied mother and the weeping tots
navigating the dusty roads for a new
home to replace the foreclosed one, and
when you listen to the tales of hay sold
at less than cost and cattle sacrificed to
meet the loan company's queer 10-in-terest-and-you-sell-them-at-our-price
con
tracts, and then you recall the tales of
the middle west prosperity, and those of
the eastern banks a-burst with to-be-loaned-to-Wall-Street-at-2
billions of
the people's savings, and then when you
read in the press of the great eastern
cities of the out Neroing of Nero by the
new rotten -with-freshly-pillaged-wealth
American royalty, do you not feel like
dropping to your knees and praying:
"Send us a Congress of Bill Hanleys,
real men whose kindly hearts and nature
. souls have fitted them to make of our
glorious country the happy homes our
forefathers intended it should be?"
THOMAS W. LAWSON
establishing the innocence of Albert
and pointing to Davis as the man who
lighted the fire to get even with Albert,
his enemy.
PHONE CALL SAVES LIFE
Man Stricken by Paralysis Is Dis
covered Xearly Asphyxiated.
NEW TORK. Oct 11. A telephone call
at the psychological moment recentlv
was the means of saving the life of
Frederick Rand, of 311 Macon street,
who is now in the St. John's Hospital,
unconscious, suffering from a stroke
of paralysis.
A neighbor called Rand' up on the
phone, and when someone else in the
house went upstairs tp summon him
he was found lying on the sofa with
the gas pouring out of a jet just over
his head. He had turned on the gas,
but before he put a match to it he was
stricken, and in a few minutes more
Rand would have been asphyxiated.
Xot Wanted.
(Washington Star.)
"That captive we took last week,"
said the trusty lieutenant, "says she
pos-i-tive-ly cannot drink condensed
milk in her coffee.'"
"Turn her loose!" roared the brigand
chief. "She's no captive. She's a Sum
mer boarder."
he
the
ad
wno
Ey connecting a hinged step with the
air brake system an Englishman has
invented a device to prevent a train
starting while its passengers are alight
ing from or boarding it.
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