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DAI1I C1P1TA1 JOURNAL, SALEM, OBEG05 HOXDATr APRIL 29, 1012. PAGE TWO. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL t. HOFER, Editor and Proprietor. K. M. HOFER, Manager JhuUpe Kient Newspaper Devoted to American Principle and the Progress and Development of All Oregon Vii i?" S imojuud bar Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Ore. iu ytors, . SlioSCBlPTION RATES. vvNSSK (Invariably In Advance) V CIS22C3, fl.IV. by Carrier, per year- 6.00 Per month 60c L) V"w.v'LXVtj Mly. by Mall, per year 1 4.00 Pet month Kc T NTA. Weekly, by MaU. per year LOO 6U months -,60c i -y pei FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT THE RAILROAD SITUATION AT SALEM. The announcement of the transfer of the Salem traction lines to the Welch system on May ,1 is a very important matter to this city. The close relations of the Southern Pacific company with the Welch system indicate that there may be a still greater merger on foot. The traction lines of . the Portland Railway, Light & Power company in this city are merged with the Portland, Eugene & Eastern. ' The Southern Pacific and the P. E. & E. are occupying common-tracks on Front street and are planning a union depot to gether. Thi3 plan, if it is carried out, means that the Southern Pa cific will have a down-town passenger station and trackage all over the city. The location of the union station indicates the taking over of the Salem, Falls City & Western and a triple combination of tracks. This will certainly be a great coup over the Hill system that has only one line of road through the city, with freight lines on Front street. The location of these tracks and the development of these terminal properties are matters of the greatest importance to the city. The whole matter should be well considered and the interests of the city carefully looked after when a plan so f or-reaching is adopted . The electrification of the West Side lines, with a new bridge across the Willamette above Oregon City, are also an assured fact. With a line to Dayton and a new connection with Silverton by way of Fir station, east of this city, Salem will be in the center of a web. It looks as if the Southern Pacific might have it in mind to make Salem the great interurban center of the Willamette val ley. The indications are that these railroads have transferred their activities to Salem, and that it will be, next to Portland, a railroad town. s The location of the new union station, the proper trackage fa cilities for handling trains in and out of the city are important matters. While there should be nothing placed in the way of proper de velopment of Salem as a railroad center municipal interests are first. The building of a beautiful Capital City, with all the com forts and conveniences of a modern community are all import ant. The city government, the manufacturing interests and the jobbing and business interests should be considered. The progressive railroad representatives will be willing to confer with those in authority in all matters. But just at present there is urgent need that all municipal wel fare Interests be not overlooked. o THE TROUBLE WITH THE CLARION. BIG BUSINESS" CONTROLS TAFT, SAYS GRISTOW Standard Gil Got 'What It Wanted." Some of the ministers of the city have objected to the tone of some of the stories in the Clarion, published by the Salem High School. It is explained by Principal Kirk that the errors they objected to were merely typographical, and that hereafter that would be remedied. There has been more than typographical errors in the Clarion, and the objections of the miniates are well grounded in several wavs. The Clarion hereafter is to be censored by the department of English, and that will probably give it better quality of product The same objection to the Clarion holds that applies to other so-called "student body activities," that should be abolished. The time of the children is taken up with matters that are not conducive to proper development of the youth in an educational way. The pages of the Clarion are the best proof of the poor quali ty of the English work done in the high school composition and rhetoric. ' Sarcely a page of it but contains errors in grammar, arrange ment of sentences, and, what is worse, absence of literary taste Indeed, it needs censoring badly, and, as a publication, the ed itors are not to blame for the poor quality of the product that is furnished. Bad language work and absence of literary quality is made up for by furnishing an opportunity to get money out of the stu dent body. The business man, on top of his high school taxes, is held up rnch month for advertising contributions on pain of not getting the business. o THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Following are the fields of education to be covered in an agri cultural college : Scientific agriculture. Scientific horticulture. Scientific stock raising. Scientific dairying. These four, and no more, would seem to be the proper field of an agricultural college. It will bo contended that the net of congress providing for ag ricultural colleges authorizes t) e present wide scope of activities If that is true the federal law should be amended and the state relieved of tho ever-incrensing load. About all the higher technical and scientific education real farming requires is efficient men in one of the above four lines. How many young men from the Agricultural college go at work on the above four linos of activity? How mnny secure a professional education and never go back to the soil for an occupation? It would be interesting to know. The taxpayer should not be I urdened to produce a profession al nnd salaried class. Too mnny now go to the Agr'cultural college only to get onto a salaried job, or to follow a professional career. Why should the farmer be tnxed to educate engineers, phar inpclsts and bookkeepers? Why Bhould all such professims bo. supplied at the expense of the general taxpayer? The country hns an over-stok of tho professional and salary drawing class. The country is Rhy on produrrs, and is tnxed to the limit. If a farmer can measure a feld, is engineer enough to lay tile nr drain a field, and can h ep a record of the cost of a crop, or tho income from a herd of Btock, he can Bucceed in his occu pation. The Agricultural college Hoot's weeding out of professionalism or it will become top-heavy w tb. payroll and weak as a school lor training producers. Spring Ifledicinc There Is no other season when medi cine Is o much needed aa , in the spring. The blood Is impure and Im poverished a condition indicated by pimples, bolls and other eruptions on the face and body, by deficient vitality, loss of appetite, lack of strengtn. The great spring medicine, accord ing to the experience and testimony of thousands annually, la Hood's Sarsapanlla It purifies and enriches the blood, cures eruptions, builds up the system. Get It today In usual .liquid form or Jinrolnted tablets known asSarsataba. Kama 8nator Forcibly Arraigns the Reactionary Candidate Makes a Powerful "Case Against the Taft Ad ministration" Why Rockefeller Was Complacent as to Election of 1908. Washington, April 18.-That tbe Taft administration has entered Into an un derstanding with the great business combinations of the country and that tbe relations between those combina tions and tbe administration now are harmonious and directed toward a com mon end is the profound belief of Sen ator Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas, one of tbe foremost leaders of tbe progres sive movement In the United States. "If you take for a text the speech de livered In Philadelphia not long ago by President Tuft, in which he declared himself a progressive along with the rejoinder thereto delivered by Colonel Itoosevelt at Louisville and attach to these speeches tbe reasonable knowl edge of known facts and events, you cannot escape the conclusion at which I have arrived," said Senator Bristow in a talk on what might be called "the cobc against the Tuft administration". "Said Colonel Roosevelt: Taft'e "Progreiaiviem." "Four years airo the progressives sup ported Mr. Taft for president, and he was opposed by such representatives ot spe cial privileges as Mr. Penrose of Pennsyl vania, Mr. .Aldrlch of Rhode Island and Mr. Galllnircr of New Hampshire, as Messrs. Lorimer, Cannon and McKlnley of Illinois, and he was opposed by prac tically all of the men of the stamp of Messrs. OugRenhelmer and Evans of Col orado and Mr. Patrick Calhoun of Ban Frnnclsco. These men were not progres sives then, and they are not pronresslves now; but, unlike Iha president, they know who Is a progressive ond who is not. Their Judgment In tho matter is good. After three and a half years of associa tion with and knowledge of the president these and their fellows are now the pres ident's chief supporters, und they and the men who feel and act as they do In busi ness and In politics give him the great bulk of his strength. The president says he Is a progressive. These men know him well and have studied his actions for three years, and they regard him ns being pre cisely the kind of progressive they ap prove. "Study thut extract from Colonel Roosevelt's speech, If you please. Get at Its meaning. Why docs the crimi nal on trial for bis liberty or bis HI gotten property seek to select a Judge by asking a change of venue? Why does he discriminate so closely In the selection of the Jury which Is to try blin? The law provides these expedi ents for blm that be may get Justice: but, being guilty, be does not resort to tbeso expedients to secure Justice, but to avoid It. When the great combina tions which have piled up enormous aggregations of money by Illegal and criminal means select and stand for a candidate for president, they have a motive, a motive that It seems to me ought to be plain to all men. John D, Was Informed. "Let me next call your attention to the Interview which John I). Rocke feller gave out at the Standard Oil of fices In New York, Oct. 30, l'.HiS, a few days before the election In which Mr. Taft llrHt ran for tbe presidency. Mr. Rockefeller had not been near his of fices for several years, and when be appeared there for tbe express purpose of making public In the most effective j and farreaehlug way this interview, Colonel Roosevelt and all the other progressives were of the opinion that It was done for the purpose of hurting Mr. Tuft. But I have changed my mind about that since that time. I have become conriuced that Mr. Rock efeller then bud Information about the complacence of Mr. Taft regarding 'Big Business' that the progressive did not have. "As oue Indication of this, I have been advised that not so very long be fore the Rockefeller Interview the sug ar trust approached Mr. Taft tbroagh Mr. Charles B. Warren of Michigan, the personal representative of the sug ar trust In tho beet sugar Industry In Michigan, on matters vital to that Ini quitous coiubluatlon. That the confer ence was eminently satisfactory to the sugar trust was Immediately shown by tho fact that Mr. Warren and his as sociates wore for Taft and have been for him over since. Indeed, on this point 1 have only to roe;: II to you that Mr, Warren was accredited In tbe press reports of a few days ago with being the person who at midnight pluced fifty huskies from the Michigan beet sugar factories In the hall where the Michigan Republican state conven tion was to be held In order that the ball might he controlled In the Interest of Mr. Taft nnd against Colouel Roose Tolt the next day. Oil Octopus In Touch, "Now, If such a conference could muko the sugar Interests the devoted vipimrtor of Mr. Taft the nucstlon nut orally arises why something of the iimn kind might not have Influenced Mr. Rockefeller. There are not t he seen rate data In regard to the Standard 01; compnny that their are relative to the meeting with tho sugar trust, but there Is some Intere'ltng collateral evidence tending to show that somewhere and somehow tbe oil octopus got In touch with the Influence that controlled thi then candidate for president. You will remember thut after bl election, but before his Inauguration, Mr. Taft spent tome little time at the Virginia Hot Springs, from that resort we received the ttrst lutlmatiou ever emuuatlug t orn any president of purpose to tibltsU the commerce court, "i reuieuioer 1 wus gieuuy buipused. When' Presldeut Roosevelt forced the rate bill through congress, restoring tbe interstate commerce commission to power In the enforcement of its rulings, tremendous efforts were made by Messrs. Aldrlch. (iallluger and tbe rest of the reactionaries to Include in tbe luw a provision for a court review of the commission's decisions. The pro gressive tendency of the time was dis tinctly against any court review, for it was the courts which hud emasculat ed tbe commission of Its power under tbe old law. The people generally feared a repetition of this. They want ed to control the railroads. They want ed to obviate forever tbe possibility of a continuance of tho processes by which such concerns us tbe Standard Oil company hud used tbe common cur riers to collect rebates on their own business and on that of their competi tors at the same time. The reactionaries-succeeded In getting a form of court review into the law, but not as free a one ns they desired. .Trust and Commerce Court, "Now, you will remember that W. R. Hearst during the campaign ot 1908 reud from the platform in different portions of the country letters that bad been procured by some meunB from the llles of the Standard Oil company. It wus charged thut tbe letters were stolen, but their authenticity was ac knowledged. They were genuine let ters, however procured. In reuding them as they appeared In tbe papers I wus one day not much surprised to learn that tbe idea of a separate court of review for interstate commerce com mission decisions bad emanated from tbe Standard Oil company. They were the first people to Invent the idea of a commerce court. The proof of it was found In a letter written by Joseph Sib ley of Pennsylvania, member of the house and confessed congressional lob byist for tho Stnndard Oil company. Ho was not the only lobbyist employ ed by that company we may believe, but lie was one. "In this letter, written by Mr, Sibley, at Washington, on Feb. 21, 1905, to Mr. John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil company and read from the platform by Mr. Hearst at Memphis, Tenn., on Sept. 19, 1908, Is found the following paragraph relative to a certain 'Senn tor B.,' who is described ns 'wholly and unalterably opposed' to President Roosevelt's policy regarding corpora tions: "In re power to fix railroad rates Mr. B. is for giving power to make rates, but will fiiiht the Idea of a separate court I WAS SOU It Y NOT TO UK ABLE TO CHANUE HIS VIEWS ON THAT TOPIC. Lobbying In the Senate. "Here Is documentary proof thut the Standard Oil company hud conceived the Idea of a commerce court ns long ago us before February, 1903, and that Its lobbyists were engaged at that time In trying to gain support in the United States senate for the establishment of such a court. On Oct. SO, 190S, only a week before tho election that was to decide the fate of Mr. Taft, John D Rockefeller takes most unusual pulus to serve public notice upon nil friends of bis kind of business throughout the country that Mr. Taft was the niun to support for president. Now, what In formation illd Mr. Rockefeller have that caused 111 in to take this very unii luul means to pluce his attitude on the presidential election before the busi ness world? What could It have been? I myself do not know, but I do know thut very shortly after his election Mr. Taft gave notice that he had the com merce court idea In his mind; I do know that before Mr. Taft had been long In the White House he caused a bill to be drawn providing for such a court and be used tbe power of bis administration to enact tbut bill Into law. Mr. Rockefeller evidently wanted a commerce court. Mr. Tnft hastened to give him one ns soon as he was safe ly elected. The plain Inference must be that the sugar trust wus not the only one of the great combinations that found a way to get at Mr. Taf. I can only believe that the Standard Oil com pnny had lis friend who could slip Into Mr. Tuft's presence and get what It wanted, A "Working Arrangement." "Hut, more than that, the selection of Mr. Tnft's cabinet and the general attitude of the Taft administration In the tnrllT session and later convinced mo that the administration had some sort of m working arrangement with 'Big Business.' I am certain 'Big Business' thought It had such a rela tionship. The president's complete change of front In regard to tho tariff, the commerce court legislation, the speech giving a clean bill of health to Senator Aldrlch, the administration's conduct of the Balllnger case, the Wl noun speech extolling tho l'ayne-Al-drlch law and many other things con vinced me that such an understanding existed. Tho country had honored Colonel Roosevelt for the enemies he made, yet those enemies became Mr. Tnft's most ardent supporters from tho very first. Figure It out for yourself. "Just to make It plain In a few ords, I mny sny that I am Informed that the dissolution of the Standard Oil company nnd Its reorganization by tho circuit court nnder terms to which tbe administration raises no objection have enriched tho stockholders of that eorMratlon Just about $220,000,000; lao that the stockholders of the tobac co trust hnve come out of their en counter with the Sherman law is ad ministered by this administration over 1100.000,000 better oft than they ware wfore." The Lh icago Store New Arrivals Just Received The very latest in Suits, Coats, Millinery, Dress Goods, Silks, Shirt Waists, Silk Pet ticoats. Dress Trimmings, Hosier), Gloves, and Fancy Neckwear. Come here and see the money we can save you in your purchases. I' ttfyA It 0 The CHICAGO STORE Ig Salem's headquar ters (or Fashionable Millinery at small prices. New Spring Millinery Now opened up and ready for your Inspec tion, Choice . models Just received. The latest New York crea tions. The saving you can make here in your millinery pur chases will surprise you. No millinery shop prices asked here. Stylish Trimmed Hats worth $5.00, $8.50 and $10 Now cn sale for 12.50, $2.9.", $3.50, np. Come here for the best LADIES' COAX BARGAINS in Salem. New Spring Coats JUST OPENED UP this week's arri vals from the manufacturers. When you see them you will say they are the prettiest and best values In Salem. r $15.00, $18.00 values now on Sale for $6.90, $7.50, $8.50 and $10.50 500 doz. Bleached Turkish Towels now opened up and placed on sale. No such values in Salem. Turkish Towels NOW ON SALE. We bought this lot at a forced Bale. We got the right price now you got the benefit. To appreciate the values you have to see. Price 10c, 12 1-2c, 15c, 18c and 25c (Big Ones) THE CHICAGO STOKE is Sulem's bciiilqunrters (or Stylish Dress Goods and Silks. Come here and see the difference in price. Dress Goods and Silks 1912 newest styles, weaves and materials NOW ON SALE Every class of Silks and Dress Goods that is up to the minute in stylo Is shown. Thousands of yards here for you to make your selection from. We are the makers of low prices. YARD 25c, 85c, i9c, C5c, 75c and up CHICAGO STORE Salem, Oregon The Store That Saves You Money If you want Stylish Suits at small prices come here New Spring Suits 1912 latest now on sale at Adver tised Prices. Come here and see the money you can save on your suit pur chases. Every garment up to the minute In style, material and work manship. Values up to $18, $20 and $25 Now on sale for $S.50, $10.50, $12.50 and up GRAND ARMY AIIO LADIES AUXILIARY WILL NtTEOST AGAI3ST A CIH (IS AT SALEM OX MEMORIAL DAY SO LAW ON THE SUBJECT There Is considerable feeling in Grand Army circles over the adver tisement of a circus at Salem on Memorial day May 30th. Past De partment President, Mrs. Joshua Smith, of this city, has taken up the matter and hopes to get official ac tion to prevent the Sells Floto circus from Bhowlng at Salem on that day. There Is a law in many states to pro hibit general sports and entertain ments on that day set aside for hon oring the dead but in Oregon there has been no legislative action and the day is fast becoming one of sports and amusements. The Grand Army Post and the Woman's Relief corps will meet Saturday at the Elks hall to take some action. The Ofllclnls Speak. Commander Stolz was called on by a reporter of The Capital Journal and said he deplored the tendency to make Memorial Duy a day of sports and amusements. A circus was not worse than a baseball game and the people seemed to want those things. Ho hoped some action could bo taken that would tend to preserve the day for Its Intended purpose, to honor the heroes who served their country and that this one day In the year should not be devoted to money-making and merry-making, or wurds to that ef fect. The Women Will Act Mrs. Oynthis Dnnlop, president of tho Belief Corps, was spoken to about the probable action of their organiza tion. She said they would protest most vigorously against the circus showing and having a parade on .Memorial Pay at, Salem. "We will ' have a meeting on Saturday at the! Elks hall and tbe matter will be' taken up for action. It is the one! day we all set asldo to decorate the groves of our dead both In military and civil life, The afternoon of that day all business is suspended and I families go to the cemeteries with flowers and I do not believe we ought to give up the day for a great Bhow to parade and carry on its performances." Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of tbe ear. There Is only one way to cure deafness and that is by constitutional remedies. DeafnoBS is caused by on Inflamed con dition of the mucous lining of the eus tachian tube. When this tube Is in flamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it is en tirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be de stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten re caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mu cous surfaces. 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