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Farm credits, which have
been championed by the
farmer’ s unions for many
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years have at last caught
EDITOR A N D O W N E R
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President Wilson is expected to favor the plan
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presented and rushed forward in order that
congressmen who hail from the large agricul­
S ubscription R ates in A dvance .
tural states can go before their constituent dur­
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ing the fall elections and point with pride to
their efforts in securing an early passage of
P hone M ain 502. the bill.
O ffice on M ain S treet .
The bill has so much general merit that there
This week the P ress has re- is little likelyhood o f it becoming a party measure
THE LABOR ceived at least 5 communica- and it is a foregone conclusion that some legis­
PROBLEM AND lions relating to the growing lation whereby the farmer can secure credit on
THE PUBLIC problem of the unemployed. special terms of security and time o f ma­
Several o f these letters are turity and the creation o f credit associations
printed in this week’s issue and more will fol­ by which farming communities can finance
low. This unsolicited attention to the welfare their own operations, is assured.
of the American public indicates that the people
of all classes are paying heed to the cries o f the
People are just learning to think. The
unemployed. One communication comes from a young men are forsaking ‘ ‘Top Notch” maga­
redhot socialist who criticises the solution sug­ zines for ‘ ‘Popular Mechanics” and t h e ‘ ‘Scien­
gested by the editor in last week’s issue. While tific American.” The dime novel is being crowd­
socialism may be the final solution, however we ed back by modern fiction and essays dealing
will reach socialism not by any one direct over­ with the great problems of humanity.
The
throw o f present conditions: but when human­ people have realized that thev must save them­
ity becomes capable of benefiting by the co­ selves and are rapidly learning how to go about
operative proposals of the socialists we will it. The people mean most o f us.
find our form of government to be socialistic.
Let us have more communications on this or
other subjects. Discussion is the greatest re­
A few years ago the announcement that
former of the world, and always preceeds and the W. G. T. U was to hold a meeting would
indicates an early satisfactorily solution. The attract little if any attention. It is quite differ­
editor appreciates your contributions, whatever ent today. Every W. C. T. U. has a ballot, not
your viewpoint, and is anxious to print sincere only the ballot she individually casts but her
letters upon any subject.
influence is equal to many additional votes.
No less than ten candidates for governor
and possibly that number may be doubled before
the primary election.
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T R T T Rs r tA V
There is no race suicide in the family of t}ie
P ress readers. It it is growing every day.
years, making millionaires at one inieresieaness om me
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end of the line and paupers at the jority o f the people. They spared our
other.
city the shame tnat will always at­
President Bushnell, in his inaugu- tach to the places that turned them
ral address, said the sociologists o f away. Therefore, 1 think we should
the country were studying these tender a vote of thanks to Mayor
questions as never before and cited Sanford, t he city council and all
the fact that “ J. P. Morgan at the i those who assisted them in their hu-
time o f his death had control o f nine mane work.
Respectfully,
billions of dollars, or one-fifteenth of
MRS. ALICE J. SCHEETZ.
all the money in the United States.
A woman died not long ago arid
Adi ( K a l e Sotialism.
left an estate o f $40,000 to found a
home for eats and the som o f men
(Editor Press).— The writer wishes
haven’t a place io lay their heads. to commend the editor on his heroic,
However, with all these wrongs if unsuccessful editorial attempt to
which I believe have now .almost solve the problem o f unemployment
reached a culmination. I believe we [ and hopes he will not be disheartened
have cause to be optimistic. I’m not a if the writer hopelessly punctures his
Democrat, but I have real faith in the “ Practical Solution.” Many wise and
distinguished men for many long
I present administration.
Already the J. P. Morgan syndicate years have sought diligently for a
is being dissolved and the interlock­ solution of this growing problem, but
ing directorates abolished and there success has steadily refused to crown
will always remain a few misguided their efforts. They have failed be­
people like the woman with the cats. cause under the present system of
The administration has disposed production and distribution, there is
I satisfactorily o f the tariff, currency no solution.
Under capitalism, labor is a com­
bills and are now ready to regulate
the trusts. The new income tax law modity o f which the capitalist is the
will do much toward abolishing the sole consumer. To insure profits it
building up of large fortunes and in is necessary that there be a wide
that way will provide a more equal margin between the price o f labor
distribution o f the wealth o f the power (wages) and the price of
labor’s products. In order to main­
country.
Many good books are on the mar­ tain this margin it is absolutely nec­
ket today educating the people along essary to have, even in seasons of
humanitarian lines, among which prosperity, a large reserve force of
two of the latest, “ The Inside o f the workers compelled by necessity to
Cup," and the Call o f the Carpen­ compete with their more fortunate
ter” will surely do much good as they brothers for a job. It is this sharp
are popular and are being extensive­ competition for jobs between the
workers that enables the employer to
ly read.
Another hopeful phase, there never keep wages down near the point of
was a time in the history o f the race subsistence. Without this competi­
when the people were hungering for tion labor would be in a position to
a real, live, vital, livable religion as demand more and more of its prod­
they are today. They are looking to ucts until the profits of the capitalist
a religion alive with the sense o f a were eliminated.
Upon the basis o f statistics gath­
living and present God and therefore
efficient in dealing with physical and ered in the year 1890, a season of
moral evils, diseases and sin- The prosperity, Dr. Washington Gladden
age-long call for brotherhood is estimates that there must have been
sounding the length and breadth of an average o f 1,139,672 persons un­
the land as it never has sounded be­ employed during the whole of the
fore, and we are realizing more and year ending May 31, 1890. The cen­
more that it is only because we have sus o f 1890 6hows the number unem­
transgressed the laws o f nature and ployed some part o f the year to have
the teachings o f the Bible and the been 6,468,964.
Quoting from
Robert Hunter’s
meek and lowly example o f the
Savior that all this darkness and mis­ book, “ Poverty:” "So long as the sys­
tem of industry demands a surplus
ery has been upon us.
A word more, as this article is o f labor which may be but casually
growing lengthy. Forest Grove is employed, so long indeed, as there is
a clean, kindly, beautiful and intel­ such a thing as enforced unemploy­
lectual little city in which to live, and ment, just so long will the forces of
we should be thankful we were vagrancy be ever active. Neither ar­
spared the ignominy o f these men be­ tificial employment nor charity pro­
ing turned from our doors.
vision can remedy the evil. The work­
Our mayor and his council did the er himself is helpless. He is a
very best they could for them under wastrel begging to be used in a com­
the circumstances, handicapped as petitive system which, in its present
they were by public opinion and dis- form, demands his continued exist­
community like this o f exemplifying are foreign, that they are not a
how nearly our lives conformed to bunch o f idlers and ne’er do wells, but
these teachings and what did we do unfortunate men and boys looking
when word came that seventy-five for work.
In solving the problem of the un­
footsore, hungry, drenched to the
skin men and boys would be our employed it serves little purpose to
Articles Written to Press Discuss guests for the night. Did we rush dwell upon the undeserving, for those
as we would if word had come that are always with us even in prosper­
Social and Economic
some o f the prominent railroad offi­ ous times, and in the accounts of
Conditions
cials would be our guests and throw these men leaving their jobs after
open one of our best churches or au­ a few days employment wouldn’t it
Mudh discussion has been aroused ditoriums and spread a banquet for be well to see what is back o f them?
in local circles over social and eco­ them? No, indeed! This was misery At Salem we know the resident work­
nomic conditions since the coming o f squalor, and want coming among us men were antagonistic to their being
the 77 hungry men into
Forest and we stood appalled at it. We employed, ;o might it not be possible
sought to shift the burden. We brot they soon made it so uncomfortable
Grove last week.,
That the men were hungry and all our petty excuses to bear upon it, for them they were compelled to
foot weary everybody will admit, we drew o u tsk irts aside from these leave? And the ones who were em­
after having seen the men fall to poor outcasts who had walked many ployed here to cut wood among the
their rations. And another common weary miles or empty stomachs. We timbers found no one willing to fur­
ground for argument is the fact that cast about for excuses even as the nish them meals and sleeping quar­
the men were out o f jobs. Admit­ scribes and Pharisees had done and ters as the word had gone before that
ting these points as common ground said, “ These men won’t work, there­ they were I. W. W.’s and dangerous
for the discussion the argument in fore, they must take the conse- men.
Oh, the inhumanity with which
regard to the men’s condition has quences.’’ We didn’t go down into
been both pro and con.
j the secret recesses o f our hearts and these poor, homeless, discouraged,
The Press has received several | seek palliation for them, nor did we workingmen have been treated. Some
communications in regard to this even wish to bring to mind the ad- one evidently with a heart o f stone,
niatter, and this week- is printing verse conditions that had caused this made them the victims of a practical
two o f the letters. It is the policy deplorable state o f affairs in our joke before leaving Portland by in­
o f the Press to use part o f its col­ midst. We were resentful. These viting them to a dinner at the First
umns to the free discussion of ques­ men were disturbing our peace even Presbyterian Church, and when they
tions without bias to either side. as they resented the disturber o f the arrived there they were told it was a
Following are the communications: established order o f things in that banquet spread for the Rotary Club.
(Editor Press.)— “ Once upon a day. We constituted ourselves the How gracious and kindly it would
time, and a long time ago,” came rabble as the rabble before were not have been had they turned it over
Instead, policemen were
One who voiced the hope of the race the lowliest, or even the poorest, for to them.
with infinite love and compassion. He the intelligent poor loved Jesus, for called to disperse them.
Albany
grudgingly gave them
told o f a God the world had never had He not gone among them open-
known— the common Father o f the ing blind eyes, unstopping deaf ears sand-wiches and coffee and then
coming race. He dreamed o f a so- strengthing palsied arms, weeping threatened to turn the fire hose on
ciety strange and beautiful — the with them in their sorrows and joy- them, “ if they didn’t scatter in-
stanter.“
“ Brotherhood of Man.”
The loving ing with them in their joys,
Independence did a worthy act,
message He taught, the burden o f his
We lashed them with our criticisms
soul, can easily be found by those as it helped to ease our perturbed when she gave them meat and vege­
who seek for it. He was the lowly minds. One young
woman
said, tables with which they forthwith pre­
carpenter, the brother of the work- ' “ Only a bunch of I. W. W .’s, not de­ pared them a “ Mulligan" stew, com­
ers, the friend of men and champion serving o f any sympr.thy!” One o f ing the nearest perhaps to a balan­
o f women. The fallen and outcast our high priests in high places ced meal they had had in their jour­
Magdelen found in Him a defender wished for a horse whip to run them ney, coffee and sandwiches seeming
and with the other Mary and Salome out o f town. Oh,God, the pity o f it! to be the prescribed diet, and think |
went weeping to His ttimb. “ Call no And they had thought to enlist our o f the wealth o f this glorious Wil- !
Our cellars are j
man Master,” said this sweet-souled sympathy in their discouraged, #mis- hamette Valley!
carpenter, “ for all ye are brethern.” erable, despondent, hopeless condi- filled to overflowing with fruit, vege- |
He cared nothing for the traditions of tion. They had walked all day in tables, and dairy products, and the
the elders or the sacred books. » ith the drenching rain, had been driven nation as a whole is just as pros­
Him it was, “ It is written so and so, out o f Hillsboro at the noon hour, perous. The United States statisti-
but I say unto you something differ­ where they had asked for bread and cal report for 1913 says, “ Never as a 1
ent.”
He wrote no books, He been given a stone, were hungry and nation were we more prosperous, the ]
It was after crops never more abundant and the I
framed no creed. He simply trusted they fed them not,"
some day the words He spoke, the nightfall when they reached here cold granaries filled to overflowing with j
dreams He dreamed, would find ex­ and wet, hungry, and some o f them the wealth o f the land.” They should |
pression in the lives of men. Go ill, one o f them so much so that our have appended, and want and misery
after secur­ never so prevalent, stalking hand in j
with the carpenter to the humble kin hearted mayor,
home of Martha and Mary and listen ing treatment for him. returned him ! hand all over this fair land.
In last night’s paper (Januaary
with them to the sweet music o f His to Portland, and these were our
voice telling the simple story o f love brothers and human beings with 16) in one column it says, “ The idle
j army o f workers nubering between 1
and brotherhood as on the vine clad souls, "even as you and I."
A minister in his mistaken zeal, six and eight hundred who are quar­
porch He told it time and again to
these two women. Shrewd and wished to go in and read to them out tered in the Gypsy Smith tabernacle
crafty men sought to entrap Him but of his Bible, overlooking the fact that resent being called hobas. They say
He brake no law. Scribe and Phar­ men can’t be pious on empty stom­ they are simply unfortunate work­
isee laid pitfalls for His feet, but He achs, can’t pray when they are starv­ ingmen out o f money and out of em­
stayed close to their Scriptures and ing, nor love their fellow men as ployment. The city gave 400 work
never fell. It was not His religion they should whew they are denied the yesterday and each was given the
this chance to break one cubic foot of
nor the lack o f it that condemned chance o f making a living. If
Him to the cross, but His just laws minister, and I don’t know who he rock for which they received seventy-
I was, had only taken a suit o f under­ five cents. Many more applied than
fo r the poor and suffering.
He disturbed the peace of mind of wear in his pocket and given to the could be accommodated.
the ruling class composed o f the man who hadn’t a stitch on, how
In another column it said. “ Dr.
priests, the scribes and Pharisees. much more Christlike it would have Carl Jacobs :n a wealthy brewer, died
The money changers resented being been, as Jesus always looked after last Sunday and bequeathed most of
dri’ -en from the temple and the usur­ the physical condition first. Since his fortune of $40,000,0000 to art pur-
ers from exacting their bond. Last leaving here their spokesman has poses, and there yoa have the situa-
week we had the opportunity, as does made the statement they are not I. tion in a nutshell, the conditions that
pot often present itself in a peaceful W. W .’s, that only a small per cent have been busy the last twenty-five
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ence.
The editor is right when he says:
“ It Is not a problem for one city,
neither for one state, but for the en­
tire nation.” However, so long as a
system o f employment only where
profits can be realized, obtains, it is
scarcely within the realm of possi­
bilities that the millionaires and cor­
poration attorneys in our legislative
halls will do anything so suicidal to
their class interests as to favor legis­
lation which had for its object the
employment of this reserve o f labor.
The real solution of this problem will
be given by the writer at a future
date.
FRED F. HUGHES.
Cornelius, Ore., Jan. 19, 1914.
TRAIN SCHEDULE
Giving Correct Time of the Arrival and
Departure of All Forest Grove Train*
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•Jefferson Street Station.
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gon all wool suits for only $12.50
at Bailey’ s Big Store.
FRESH
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Delivered at your home
Morning and Evening
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Men’s Shirts
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