THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL1. VoRTfAND, SUNDAY. MORNING. JANUARY . 12, 1C03. it ADVOCATE RADICAL CHAWGE IN TAXATION '''('r';. J ' A Oregon Reform "Association Wants IeTyr Abolished on '.. J) welling: Houses, Manufacturing Plants, Farm Im-j v ; ;;Jprovements,, lives tock, etc--Taxing: Industry, f. v . , If "proposed constitutional amend ' ment fathered by the Oregon Tax Be- - form association ahould bo adopted by the people In June, the effect win be to ' exempt from . taxation all: dwelling 1 bouses, manufacturing plants, farm lm ' provementa, livestock, household furol : ture aad worklngmen'a tools. Advo cates of the measure argue that taxa tion on theie reforms of property la a tax upon industry. The following olr- cular letter, setting forth their reasons for the adoption of the amendment will , ' be sent out today "Dear Friend: ' Soma days ago the ' Oregon . Tax He form association sub- '. , mitted to you the following proposed amendment to the Oregon constitution: " 'Excepting Hhat all dwelling houses, bams, aheda, outhouaes, and all other : i appurtenances thereto, all machinery ;A and buildings used exclusively for manufacturing purposes,and tha appur- tenanoas thereto, aii xences, zarm roa ; ' ehlnery and Appliances used as such, all fruit trees, vines, ahrubs and all other improvements on farms, all Uvea tock, ; all houaehold furniture In use, and all tools awnea tv workmen ana ro use, I snaii ie exempt rrotn taxation.' - -Ve now 'wlah to call jvur attention ,,- propositions , , , '' f, h Tax en Zadutrr. ' "First--A tax noon any and all af the things that w propose to exempt la a tax upon industry, and haa always :i : been a hi tod upon labor. - We. believe T that labor ahould be free from all taxes, bacauaa a tax Is, in Its nature, a fine, and tends to restrict and obstruct inx ' provements that beautify and attract, as well as to discourage industry. For ; example, if a farmer, paints, his houre , lust cefara the aaseasor cornea around, , tils -valuation will be raised anywhere from 100 to $800. If at the same time '. be ahould fix up his barns, fenoea and ' other appurtenances to his farm tha as ' aessor will raise bis tax valuation still further; in other words, increase his - fine; while his neighbor, with a farm 1 naturally aa valuable, neglecta his house ' and barn, fences and pother . appurte . nances, thereby permitting his farm to become an eyesore to the community, ' baa hie farm valued for tax purposes at from 2j to SO per cent less, "Second In our cities, onder' the present policy of taxation,' men are dis. cou raged from building good housee, and modern business and office build ings, because they can secure a very large Income from ahacka and fire ' traps, and thereby escape their lust pro- Fortioe of tax burdens, well knowing hat if thv talt the lot devoted to tin ; cans and rocks or worse, occupied with , a shack, fit den for brothels, gambling -. and other vices, and erect a vaiuame building thereon, they will be heavUy ; taxed, a., fined, for their enterprise.. So Hot Zxeprova XanA. . ' 'Third If a manufacturer Invests a large amount of money In allocation where land values are low, at once the land speculator capitalises the Increased i value that his plant gives to the loca tion. These speculators do not Improve the land, , they simply capitalise Ita value and hold It out of use. paying taxes on a valuation of perhaps 1200 a lot while theyvhold them at a selling price of fl.000 or more. It a purchaser eracta a 13.000 houae on one of these lntu ha la hrnmnll taxed On a 15.000 valuation. Note that theae apeculators do not create tbla value; it is treated by the manufacturing plant and the population Incident thereto. , With this lncreaaa of population tiers la an in creaaa of nubile expense; and thla value ahnniA h tatten to meet thla lncreaaa. "Fourth Tha railroad corporations aet lare-e- timber land grama unaer a nnnir.ni ta mill ta settlers at a maxl mum price of $8.80 an acre? they avoid paying any tax at all for a long period of years, thon arbitrarily refuse. to sell at the agreed price at all; procure a tax valuation of a few dollars per acre, and hold the land at from IIS to $160 an acre. Other large capltallate gobble up millions of acrea of our beat timber land, procure a similar valuation for tax purposes, and for selling purposes bold It at similar prices. ... Yaluee Created by People. "Tlfth-While Tall road corporations, tclarranh and ' telephone companies. elactrlo plants and atreet railways have secured enormously tuuiuh lruncinnea, which are land valuea, and have capi talized theae franchisee for multiplied millions of dollars, they have almost wholly escaped taxation. Tat theae val ues are areated entirely by tha people. And the larger the population the larger the value. "Sixth Thua the' state of Oregon. like every other state in the union, haa been driven to extremitlea in aeeklng revenue for the support of government and publlo utiiltlee and convenlencea And every increaav-itv taxation naa been aa Increase or ouroen u?on laoor ana the products or labor. The proposed amendment will reverse this order of thlnga. It will tend to put the taxea upon franchises and apeoulatlve valuea In unuaed hind, thereby encouraging Improvements en farma ' and in the clues alike; stimulate manufacturing, thereby employing more labor, which will' mean a larger consumption of farm products: not only so, but It will turn capital to the state of Oregon to lnveat in other manufacturing enter prtsea than those w have here how. Enoourag-e Improvements. Then farmers will not be afraid to Faint their housea and barns, build up halr-fencee and trim-up their hedge rowa, because of dread of an increase in taxation. At the aame time it will re sult in a less tax burden upon the pro ducing farmer, snd will discourage the holding of land out or use. The exemp tion of . Improvements on farms and residence cropertv. live stock, furniture i and workingmen's tools, will reduce the taxes on farms and small home-owners in cities at least one third, and will re duce the cosf of rent and other family expenses, which means Detter nomes. It will also build up our cities, replace tha old ehacks with decent buildings and substantial office blocks will rise upon business sites now devoted to tin cans and rocks; in short, it will be the beginning of the day when Oregon will governmentally take the foremost place in he sisterhood of states for justice and the square deal to every one, even tha humblest of her cltlsens. OriEGON REFORM TAX A8S'N. AiDREAM; A PIPE, A DREAMER'S r PIPE AND A PIPER'S DREAM i rortland la now divided Into two Classes of men those who received fneerschaum t!pea for Christmas, 'and tboaa who didn't V, ; flpes of the pretty, pure, white var- . lety and-whlch even look expensive . gnd their looks are not deceiving are always particularly plentiful for a few weeks following. Christmas. i i Gradually they disappear. Soma are put away in drawers. , Others are mere ly neglected. , but the majority of the dear little thlnga meet the fate of all thlnga that axe dropped they are ' broken. ... . - t There la always great excitement When the man of the houae f lnda meerschaum In his aock on Christmas morn. He hunts up a swarm of bees gnd gets some beeswax 'Then he looks around t6wn for silk worms, silk, so the enthusiast say, being particularly fine . to covar a meerscnaum wun, to seep Off the finger marks. Or if he doesn't - find tha silk worms, he looks for goata not goats either but kid skin gloves. This li another, protection that la fine, aay the smokers. But thla is only tha beginning of their troubles. Special tobacco must be pur chased; And above all; tha pipe must be smoked, -handled, and attended to Just as If It were human. ' "I find that a meerschaum Is more NtrpubleVi bachelor -. -said - yesterday, I TRan a baby. I own a meerschaum. never tne' otner,. tnougn." But yesterday ths meerschaum crop . Busted! , By Thunder! began to decrease. Now they are go ing down down to the pavement-ap' Idly. . Within a few weeks there won'l be but. a few hundred left. And still they will be dwindling, becoming less and leas, until well, until -the last one ia gone out not xorgoiten. EK; WAS-EKSJREMELY EKSCITED AS - HE EKSECUTED HIS. EKSILE PAPER A aurnama . of two letters, and a front name with only four, a total of six In his name thla la the mark that distinguishes Gust Ek among his fellow men. . Air. ; Ek Is feeling ekceedlngly proud Just nowbecause. he Is a bride groom. He procured ft license yester day to marry Slgue Elgstrom, whose 4 surname contains more letters than the entire name of her husband. By signing his name "G. Ek," the possessor of the short name can still further reduce its length. Ek is no doubt an adherent of phonetic spelling but it is probably only a coincidence that he lives on RoOsevelt street, which was named for the strenuous exponent oi eimpiuiea spoiling. .. RUNAWAY-SAILORS RUN INTO UNCLE SAM, DECIDE TO GO BACK : Jean Tavernnec and Reva Pleyber, Bailors what romantlo names to .. ba Just plain sailors! tired of the aallor life and ran away, in otner words. they deserted. .:. ' ' , Jean pronounced the same as In Olga JNetheraole'e 'Sapho" and Reve pro- nounoed Ra-ve were on the French bark -Jugrena Schneider. Think of a French ship being called Schneldeal No wonder the two fellows deserted. - . Anvwav. a.i It wu belna said. Jean and Reve ran - away,- The captain of I tJe tFrench vessel with the German Tiame took the matter up' with . the f renca oonsui, mo r rmua cuhbui cvu suited the United States marshal, Result deputy marshals were soon patrolling the waterfront in search of Jean and Reve. They heard the two were on another vessel somewhere 1 hot-footed It over to the other boat It soeg the. Business. '-- Mf. E. E. Chamberlain of Clinton," Ma aaya of Buoklen's Arnica Saiva: "It dsaa the business; I have used It for piles a it old sore and it healed it without ana it cured them, lisei ii for chapped lands and It cured them.- Applied it to an a Vrvg ig a s Co.'s drug store. And there they Jean ind Reve were, all ready to go to work. ' In tow Jean and Reve were taken. The deputies piloted them to the county ituu Ana mere iney are. xesteraay Jean and Reve were before the United States commissioner, He ordered that they be held. And they are held. When the Schneider sails Jean and Reve will oe aDoara. . Buch Js th International law. COMPANY'S NAME 4 " , A JAY BREAKER - Something new In names was sprung or has been sprung with the filing of articles of Incorporation papers of the jorsarog investment company. .;. The rog Word .- Jorraroa" is made ud from the nrst syllables- or, the names of each of the Incorporators, C P. Jordan,' T. A. Garbade, and G. L. Rogers. The capita stock of the company has been fixed at $30,000. .r.,. .,.:.i.,.J..:v. Articles Of . Incorporation have l.n been filed by' tha -Columbian - Hnanltal association, which has been Organised by H. H. Newhall, Hamilton Meado and vfi illaf d A. Roberta. - The California 1 State Federation r.t Labor "will, hold Ita Vnnual convention in - Vallejo, beginning January .i.v i." : ii, . f :" i-' U ;tv, M t , t 1 -f . 1 Some Were $85.00, Others at $40.00, $45.00, $55.00, $60.00 and $65.00 Novv $25.00 The Lower Priced Oiies Have Not Been Spared. We! Qive Y(6 Your Unrestricted or Rain Coat, Semi or, Tight Fitting Coat, Long or Short Coat for These reductions on Suits iand Coats will inake brisk buying in out store tomorrow. You cannot afford to be without , a new suit or coat at these prices. All are the new , est and latest fall styles. Every suit is exclusive, as we carry no two suits alike. Some ' Y ' ; heavily braided, others are strictly man-tailored. Tt is be - cause we always lead in style and prices that we have made the biggest sacrifice in prices of any sale- yet had in Port land. Be sure to see these suits tomorrow. U ;;:T--V,:...'Cm-,: JACKETS are from 26 to 50 inches. Correct lengths for all women. STYLES are the popular Military fitting and semi fitting, Prince Chap and cutaways ; every one becom ing models. , MATERIALS are Broadcloths, Worsteds, Serges and Cheviots. COLORS are Black, Virginia, Garnet, Brown, Green, Gray, Pearl, Navy and Co penhagen Blue, light and dark mixtures just the shades that are worn now. Remember no two alike and only to be seen in this store. Me ttfli Successor vurt 141 Sixth Street, to OEVURTZ & WORRELL-:. Alder, Opp. Oregoniah CITY CANNOT AID LOYED Street Cleaning Fund Not Sufficient to Give Work n to All Who Ask. No action has been taken in ths mat' ter of placing idle men at work in the city street cleaning- department because there are already more men. at work In the department than there- are- positlona There are Iso 15 on the waitins; liet of the civil service commission to fill 17 vacancies as soon as they occur, while Mayor Lane would like to see every man- In Portland who is out of work placed on the street with pick, shovel and broom he realizes that such action cannot be taken without spending nearly xne enure appropriation 01 the street cleaning; department in the first few months of the year. Not only ara tneee lacte stumoiing; blocks in the way of putting a large army of men at work, but the city council has not yet made an, appropriation xor the department. - Stony Want Employment. Superintendent Donaldson asked for an appropriation of f 161,000 to spend ia cleaning up tha city streets and cross lngs, .but the ways and means com mittee has not yet made any recom mendation, in the way of departmental ppropriauona ast year the street canine aeDartmem was aiiowea iiiu.. uuu ana it is aouptrui whether the com mittee will recommend so large an in crease as Superintendent Donaldson asks for. - J - - There are about ISO men In the city who have been annlvlna daily to tha associated charities for relief. If these men and the 16 on tha waiting list of the d 9 Dart ment were nut to work with possibly 36 more- who might apply in case the city should throw open the gates to the unemployed, the cost of the labor for the extra men alone would be something like $600 day. There would still be the salaries of the car manent employes ; besides the regular operating expenses of the department to be paid which would deplete even the large appropriation asked for by Mr. Donaldson long before tha year la Hara ,1 "fass .:arta.--Ja...ti.v-;4 Even if' the 'men were nut in ' wbrk they could not labor for the city until they nad passed a civil service exam inatlon which - would require a rigid physical test, "la addition they would not ba allowed to take the test unless they are American citizens. This would exclude many of the idle men from the wora it the authorities decided to ex tend aid In the way of city employment Mayor Lane stated yesterday that while he would like to see every idle man in the city put to work on tha atreeta that he had made no definite arrangements to carry out the scheme. Ha la In hearty sympathy with the pro ject, - but until aome suitable arrange ment can be made no steps will be taken. That nothing definite can be done un til after the council makes an appro priation and Mayor Lane and Superin tendent Donaldson can come to some agreement as to the amount to be ex pended for the emergency work ia cer tain. Inasmuch as the council does not meet aaatn until a week from next Wednesday the men can expect to se cure no work for at least two weeks, and probably much longer. LET CONTRACT FOR Sullivan Gulch Will Be Spanned at East Twenty . Eighth Street. CRETE BRIDGE WORD FILES IS JNIMPAPE8S Ex-Sheriff Now Full Fledged Runner for County Office. Members of the city executive , board will meet in special session next week to let the contract -for the concrete bridge across Sullivan , rulch, at East xwenty-Jiiightn street. The ma would have been let yesterday, to Backus, Glebisch ft Joplln, had the com pan filed their SDeclzicationa alone wit their bid. - - City Engineer D. W. Taylor-est mated the cost or the bridge at about ssi.ooo and tha company's bid was 177.000. Ef forts were made to have the contract awarded - Friday, but Mr. Taylor and Mayor Lane objected, stating- that if the award snouid ne made without apec- iflcationa, the city might, be liable for "extras" which tha same firm of con tractors tried to compel the city to par on other work. - f ;. L. T. Pecrv. member or the board. wanted the contract let without specifi cations, subject, to the approval ,of the city engineer. ' Mr. Taylor refubed to take- the responsibility and-the con tractor will have to submit their spec ifications at next week's meeting. - This is the bridge the Portland Rail way, Light A Power company refused to pay one 'fourth of the coat, accord ing to the terras of ita franchise. Both the council and executive "board believe the company will nay rather than have lUfrajichlsa revoked . . : "Try to do Jbetter than I did before" Is the declaration of principles that 'ex Sheriff Tom M. Word has placed on his banner in hla' campaign for the Demo cratic nomination for aheriff. His dec laration of candidacy was filed with the county clerk yesterday. Two years ago hla motto waa "Try to do better than I have in the past.' Besides tha terse inscription wnicn will appear on the ballot, Mr. Word haa adopted a declaration or principles mat follows tha exact wording oi nis an nouncement of two years ago. It reads: "If I am nominated and elected, I will during my term of office perform my duties as a publlo official in a- careful and business-like way, aa I have en deavored tn do In the Past." County Clerk Fields will file his an nouncement of candidacy for renomlna tion at tne nanus or tne uepuoncan Fiarty tomorrow. He had intended mak ng his forma! entry yesterday, but was so busy, that ha did not finish his day's program. He win aaopt tne same piai form as he used In the last campaign. "Honeaty, efficiency and economy." 'J. More names Beottlxed. . 'Two hundred and forty-five names are required on tha petitions of Repub lican candidates this year, as against 226 two years ax. Democratic candi dates need only 76 names, one less than in 1906. The number is based on the Vote cast for congressman at the pre ceding' election. Under the new law making one Jus tice of tho peace district in the city, about 230 names will be required on the petition of Republican candidates, and about 70 for Democrata The number has not been exactly determined because of the new territory taken into the city since the -last election. It 1 a peculiar fact - that in the vote on congressman two years aro lust four more votes were Cast in the precincts west of t the river than there were on tne east side. . -v-. yesterday ioaea-tne riret ww or registration, and a count at the xsloslng hour-showed 1.82S names on theroU. divided a follows: Republicans 1,483, Democrats ms. and miscellaneous , under "whlfh head at included Inde pendents, Prohlbitlonlstr and Socialists, At tha cfrtae nt tha first week of regis tration two years ago the total reached oniy i,o7, a gain uus year ox Bnsn fc Beglstratloa. If the present rata of registration la maintained. 24,000 voters will be on the liata during tha 11 weeks that they are open before tha primaries. Thia la Just about the number that la ax pec ted U reglater wu .ln that time. Although Thursday was tha day of heaviest registration, tha atreard of vot ers yeaterday was little less. The total for the day was tOi, of whom 242 were Republicans, 9V Democrata and f mis cellaneous. County dark Fielda haa prepared for still further systematizing the work of registration. Two railings have been placed in position to avoid confusion and to enforce tha rule of "flrat coma, first served," and there will hereafter be separate counters for the east side and west side voters. The bookcaaea have likewise been divided so that one set of clerka will handle tha east slders and another squad wiir accommodate the men of the west aide. . SOUGHT FOR GOLD ON COOS BAY RANCH . r, fry : " TO ESCHE17 CHTOlEME Teias Ciewing Gum Manu facturer Xikes Portland iieuer man uusines3. Prospector ; Gets Judgment Against Ivoman Iianclier Who Sjwl Conirct. i It required Just Itlmlhutea if or a lurv In. Judge Bronaugh'a department of the superior court yesterday , to determine that Mrs. Dannie T,' Montgomery ahould pay F. It Hasard. 2118- for prospecting for black saha on her raateh. - in Cnn countv. ,'.-..-.!. .. - . :- Mra. Montgomery ia navln a dW couragine tuna- in th ou,t day befor yesterday eha- appeared aa prosecuting witnesa against .Will Patton, whom she charsred with embesxlingTi while, he was Jnoating a timber land cwun iyr ner. i n jurr acquitted Pat ton, and;touay Haaard realised the full amount of his cl aim. s w f i-' Hazard t wentf to Coo Ji fconnty Land spent about three-weeks Investigating black sand en the land of Mrs. Mont gomery and on adioininr la?nJ.v, it, was reporUd that the sand waa rich In gold. He ' produced a eentraci - frnm Mr, Montgomcrr. promisinir ta pay blm I J per. day for the time ha wc one. Mra. Montgomery r claimed. rp r.urt!?atiort did not amount to aay t inns and rcfuusd to pay.1-., . , .-. .' Spectacles, 1 at liutxgor'a. ' : P., S. Steiner of Dai as. Texas, and. his brother, G. & Stelnei1, of Salem, ara at the Hotel Portland. Mr. fiteiner of Texas travels In tha south for tha Am erican Chicle company and la bare mere ly An a-Tpleasura .trlp After tha Ean Francisco-ttra the American Chicle com pany began manufacturing chewing gum Thl 8alm sMfc; Stalner Ja a re tired merchant. , ' . ,. "The people af this country haven't etopped chewing gum. for a second, it seems," the Texas man aald last night. XUr bUSlnesa hasn't hc,n Intllmil in tha least by . tha currency famine - which passed over the country a few woeka ago. , In fact JP believe that our bul- south, has been better of late than ever before. People seem to think and chew more during currency famines than at . Mi.-ommct-wm in roruuiq ourin the Lewis ft Clark exposition. II may locate hera aome day. ' 'it I Just' had a little home up on Dinaa hill, ".f. ci.u.. .iu i ing about making his future home in Portland,: ''J feel that 1 would be happy. I would even forget all about the cliuw ing gunir business, and everything else. "Lien during . the summer nights I would ba lulled to lep by tha minda of delicate breeses drifting throucn tha dear old Oregon pines. Then wake ui in the morning with flve.areat snow capped .-mountains in tha distance. Great I And beat of all, one would ba in Oregon and in Portland." " , The Prohibltioniata are the firt In the field in respect of aettllnjt whf ra their '. nomination convention 1!1 l, held, having fixed upon Coiumbua, Ohl , st a, date to be announcl by tha na tional committee. The I'rohiMi .!!. are aald to feel very much encoura?. by the proitreaa of -protiltiltion 1. . tion in the south, and exr t t r i. a siniflcant vote far their pr ; candidate. A wood-worldnar ail bn!'i!i? f and trim making mill own.- i ; a tad fcy the ciirfwuttTH ,-,t.f. . . .' r er J-Soston la bri'.tf r ': I hv the iii'iirirt c - . -4 -r ; t i.U . i