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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1920)
P Four Eastern Clackamas News E At* m l at the postoffice in Estacada, Oregon, as second-class mail. Published every Thursday at Estacada, Oregon UPTON H. GIBBS Editor and Manager. S ubscription R ates One year Six months T hursday, June *17, 19/!0 EASTERN C L A C K A M A S N E W S - $1.50 - - - .75 Thursday, June 17. 1920 M EM O R Y REVERTS How strange are the workings of memory. Sometimes it is so keen, sometimes so dull and yet other times so capricious. Does it ever really forget anything? It seems so, but yet some incident which for years lias been absolutely forgotten, will suddenly be brought very vivid ly to the mind as fresh as if it had only occurred yesterday. We were forcibly reminded of tills Saturday afternoon when attending the meet ing in the park of the Clackamas County Development Club. While watching the speakers and the audi ence, a somewhat similar occasion which happened thirty-two years ago in Minnesota recurred to us with a freshness, which showed that our memory had retained unblurred the impressions then made. Like Sat urday’s meeting, it took place in a park with the speaker’s stand and seats for tlie audience under leafy branches resplendent in their early summer green. We were addressed by a lawyer politician who was a state senator, an ex-state senator or a would be state senator, we forget just which, but perhaps lie was the three in one, the Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, a celebrated character in Ills time, lie had two special hobbies, both of which he rode very hard, one was to prove that Shakespeare was a fraud, and that Lord Bacon was the real au thor of the works attributed to the former. In other words, Shakespeare was Bacon’s bacon. To prove this he wrote a very erudite book entitled, “ The Great Cryptogram” , in which he showed that Bacon’s authorship was indicat ed in the plays by a cryptogram which he had discovered. Ills other hobby was ripping up the back, the preda tory corporations which ground down tlie common people and reduced them to helots. The especial corporation which served ns the target for his attack, was the Great Northern Railroad company of Minnesota, of which Jas. Hill was the head and absolute ruler. Mr. Donnelly however acknowledged that ills personal relations with Mr. Hill were pleasant, and it seemed to us, that whatever he might sav against the company, lie took especial care that those personal relations should remain pleasant. He related in his indictment bow that some years before while traveling in the Dakotas, he passed through a Scandi navian settlement. The people of the community, hail come over here with scant capital except their industry and willingness to work. On arrival they wore wooden shoes hut at the time of his visit. Inning prospered they hud discarded them for leather ones. He found that they had some grievances about markets and the freight rates, like nil farmers have, and that the Great Northern com pany was the sole line in that vielni- tv. Mr. Donnelly waxed warm and eloquent over the tyranny and greed of this corporation, and said that he had then predicted that if this state condition continued they would be forced back to wearing wooden shoe*’ . And he added very impresively, " I was back »here the other dev. and sure enough, one of the first things i saw, wns a pair of wooden shoes hanging up outside a store.” We wonder what he would sav now, when owing to the action of predatory shoe and leather concerns, wooden shoes are again coming into fashion. In those days, we were very much worked up about the corporations and the manner in which they exploit ed the farmers, for we were a sort ot farmer ourself. But time and ex perience have modified our views. We find the devil is never as black as he is painted, and often those who howl the loudest when squeezed or think they are being squeezed, will if they get the chance, outsqueeze their for mer squeezers. Two or three years later, we began our career as a devil in a newspaper office. The editor was a lawyer whose hobby was attacking the mayor and council, especially the mayor. He was never tired of pour ing out the vials of his wrath on the latter’s diminished head, exposing his trickery and graft. But we found that our supposedly high-minded boss would not scruple to trim to a finish the other fellow in a business deal. And so it goes. There is nothing new under the sun, and the cheats and steals of the present are those of past ages, and will be those of the future. Fifty years hence the babes of today, will he denouncing the same things in the same terms. What shall we say then? Are we pessimistic? By no means, for we have learned this, that in spite of all, there 4s a continued improvement. Abuses are corrected, wrongs are righted, and while things go back for a time, they never go back entirely to where they were be fore. The cause or confidence and assurance lies in two facts, first, that there is a moral governor of the uni verse, and second, to paraphrase a saying of the immortal Lincoln, “ You can put it over all the people some of the time; you can put it over some of the people all the time; but you can not put it over all the people all the time,” the truth of which the fates of Charles I of England, Louis XVI. of France and Nicholas II. of Russia are notable proofs. Given an intelligent people, wrongs will not long survive after they have once become appar ent. The die is cast, Harding and Coolidge are the chosen leaders for the republican cohorts. But in spite o f a very general dissat isfaction with the present ad ministration, it is by no means certain that the republicans will have a walk over. Already there are rumors of a bolt from one wing of the party and Gbmpers will try to swing the labor vote to the democrats, if they adopt a labor plank with which he is in agreement. Altogether the com ing election promises to be a most interesting one by reason of the uncertainty of the outcome. Jubilant republicans are confi dent that now will the winter of their discontent Be made glori ous summer by the son of Ohio. General Wood is another vic tim of too much kindness from injudicious friends. W ELL DONE Ken Bartlett will be graduated from the U. o f O., Monday, June 21st, with the degree o f Bache lor o f Arts in Economics. He is one of the most prominent ath letes in the University, having played three years on the foot ball team, during which he faced both the U. of Pennsylvania and Harvard. 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