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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1926)
EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1<*26. Eastern Clackamas News W. A. HEYLMAN, Editor, Entered at the postoffice in Estacada, Oregon, as second-class mail. Published every Thursday at Estacada, Oregon, by the ESTACADA PUBLISHING COMPANY, (A CORPORATION.) S ubscription R a t e s : One Year Six Months . . - . . - • II.bO .78 D E C L IN E O F O R A T O R Y live under the Constitution of the : mouldering beneath an apparently city administration that this same United States and who will take th calm exterior. A tiny breath of the ministerial a: ociation liked so well Constitutional oath as an officer of an- of greed and favoritism, parti that it got b'hir.d it at the last elec this government, flaunt their u tte r; ality and injustice, may any day tion and was responsible for contin disregard, their own dishonor—and make the recent explosion in the uing it in power. They have al ppcar on the streets a walking ad U. S. arsen 1 look like a “dud,” for ready gone on record as not in fav- vertisement of the ir own debase once started, ncthir.g can quench o>- of the method or mc-ans employ ment. What respect for law or com the fires >.hac will revolt against the ed by Rev. Clement G. Clark in ex mon decency do they expect to in- system tiiat is prostituting th-se posing conditions in Portland under st.il in the minds of the rest of the United Stat s to its own greed and the city administration of their populace? The poor man who is elfishne.s. Bolshevism and Facis- choosing. supposed to possess no political in i3m wiil be ns ice bergs to the fires fluence is haled before the bar of of hell that will be turned loose. There seems to be a strong senti justice and heavily fined and given Then will the poor say with fervor, ment with many politicians that Sen a jail sentence for an infraction of “Blersed be he who has nothing.” ator Charles McNary is standing be the law. The wealthy man, or so- Impartial.y administer the law, let tween the Devil and the deep 3ea. called prominent citizen, is haled be- justice use her sword and permit no If he gets behind the irregular fore the same bar of justice for a other influence than right and nominee of his party he will be criti- like infraction of the law, and is wrong to temper her decisions. j cised by the regulars. If he does not given an apology—while the officer Her scales too frequently are unev i he will be critised by the same in- making the arrest is slapped on the enly balanced by the gold on one fluence that made the nomination. wrist three times, and admonished to side against the copper on the go and sin no more. Senator Reed other. “Ma” Ferguson seems to have Smoot, in a recent speech, declared lost her grip on the majority of the that the United States is growing Oh ye of little faith draw nigh electorate of the Lone Star State. better They say an ostrich wall put and listen to the deliberations of Wijl she pay the bet, or will she his head in a hole so as to be able i tjje Portland Ministerial Associa- make a proclamation declaring ail to say he did not see that thing tion A committee has called upon bets off? which frightened him. The Senator the city administration, more spe must have done likewise in Wash cifically upon the mayor, who ,.**X M,***XHX HX * * X HX **X **X MV X MX HX 'Mi ington so as not to see, and be able flanked his position with his city $ to truthfully say the United States attorney and his faithful chief of is growing better. The violation of police. These officials separately their Constitutional oaths of office; and collectively held the committee B A R B ER S the discrimination practiced against spell-bound with their tales of BATHS the poor who violate the law, the valor in law enforcement, citing the favoritism shown the wealthy cor specific instances. Statistics of ar ■> L ad ies’ an d C h ild ren ’s H air- I- C u ttin g a Specialty. £ porations, the prominent, tend rath rests, convictions and fines—minus er to prove the opposite, We are jail and penitentiary sentences— * Shop on Broadway, Estacada, ► • X ^ X « > X 'X ‘v v X « X told statistics show that there are a . were produced. It’s a saddle-girth greater number of uneducated men j c i n c h t h a t n o a t a t i 8 t i c g w e r e p r e . per thousand in our penitentiaries pared ghowing !aw violations known than of educated men. This may be t0 the city administration in which true; but it is true only because the no arrests or prosecutions were in eclucatecl man of wealth or promin dulged in. Neither were statistics ence who has been caught violating prepared showing the changing of the law has managed to keep out of charges of “driving while intoxi Broadway Garage statistics. If the law were enforced cated” to “reckless driving”. Nor impartially statistics would show the showing what percentage of autos HENRY BOHN. Estacada percentage of educated men in the were impounded with the sheriff penitentiaries to be far in excess of under the charge of "driving while the uneducated men. It is upon intoxicated.” Nor yet showing the this rock, this rotten discrimination loss of the senses of smell and sight in the enforcement of the law that by officers who had arrested law vi the ship of state will meet its doom, olators they had seen driving in an The handwriting is on the walls of intoxicated manner, smelled liquor our courts of justice, and is being on them and seen liquid in a con P IP E and FITTINGS interpreted with savage growls, with tainer that smelled like liquor. Get our prices before you buy mutterings and imprecations. The Watch the proceedings closely, ever Dryer Pipes Made to Order fires of unrest and discontent lie i bearing in mind that this is the same A writer deplores the falling off of the art of oratory, that with the passing of W. J. Bryan and others of the old-time public speakers the phonograph and the radio have dis placed the personal face to face contact and magnetism of the ora tor, and we now sit comfortably and listen to mechanized reading from manuscript. It is, alas, true, and the enthusiasm we used to get from listening to some fervid orator who pounded the rostrum table and made the rafters ring and the plaster fall from the wall has gone from Us, and we listlessly bend an ear to the phonograph or radio to the words of some great man with not as much interest as we were wont to accord tho barker in front of the tent where the fat lady was on exhibi tion. Who that ever saw and heard T. DeWitt Talmadge, the great preach- er, on the platform and witnessed his wild contortions and stompings up and down the boards and felt himself fired with the same energy, could occupy an easy chair and hear the same words over the ra dio or phonograph without some- one standing over him with a club to keep him awake? And so with any so fortunate as to have listen ed to the words of the great Lin* coin in the Gettysburg speech. Can one imagine the same inspira tion filling the hearts of the peo ple who only read it or hear It re cited over the air or ground out from one of Mr. Edison’s contrap tions as those who sat and looked the great man in the face, saw his simple gestures and heard the soft modulations of his voice on that historical occasion? The words of Patrick Henry, of Daniel, of Daniel Webster, of Calhoun, of Beecher, of Bryan, of Roosevelt and hund reds of others without the physi cal presence of these men, no mat ter by whom recited or by what other means reproduced, do not car ry the same conviction nor create the same feeling within us that It did in those who actually heard them. We are truly living in a fast moving world, and many things are I' changing, they tell us, for the bet ter. But the decline of oratory from what it was in times past we shall argue is not for the best. We would rather hear an old-time “pulpit-pounder” or a red-hot polit ical speaker with no collar, his throat bare, galluses down, sweat ing bucketsful, and a voice like a Hereford bull than anything coming over all the rudios ever erected to squawk and fill the air with discord ant sounds when we had much rather go to sleep. We, therefore, herewith petition for a revival of oratorical classes in all our schools and colleges. IM P E N D IN G DOOM It does not need a Daniel to read the handwriting on the wall, nor yet interpret it. In these days of education, the public school student at least is taught to read and inter pret for himself. He may be thrown into the lion's den, he may even be kept a prisoner to “the system” for daring to interpret that system; still the seed which that system is re sponsible for implanting in his mind will take root and grow. It «-ill branch out, it will have sturdy stalk; it may even produce beautiful blos soms; it may have thorns concealed in it# beautiful foliage; its fruit may at first taste, appear as nectar fit for the gods. Ther, will come, how ever. a change in that taste—it will turn sour, then as bitter as worm wood and gall to those connected with the system. No country was ever blessed with the auspicious launching given th , U. S. A. No country was as free from the taint of greed, selfishness, graft, oppres sion and dishonor. No country as impartial in its administration of the law. Yet what a change, what a transformation in a short century and a half. Where it wa# consider ed an honor to be elected to office, it has become a question. Men of honor and standing arc refusing to permit their names to go before the people, because of the type of men holding office, and the scandal con nected with their names. Men who DENNY BROTHERS IK E ESTACADA MEAT CO. H. C. GOHRING, Proprietor ☆ Beef, Mutton. 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