THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR R: :t. .".nt: garded as c caught by eu There art- ; ..v. ii ,n i MifOld be: re iki old f sense as to be AN INDIiMsNDCNT MiVVSPAFl-R 'i trat h. bout f0 members of Shi- Ion Pott and I know of but one Cham Mil IT - "-.lW Published Weekly at Independence, Folk County Oregon, cn Iriday. Entered as Second Class Matter August 1,1912 at the Post Office at Inde pendence, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor NINA B. ECKER, Associate A5A Ii. RUB' SSQli JjI. nocrutb C d'dnte For COUNTT CLEHK OF POLK COUNTY Your subpart for My re-election to secorsdlerm will be kppreelMte.l. (Paid Advertisement) 7 Suoscriptlor. Rates: One Year $1.50 Strictly in Advance THIS PAPER RCPRrSCNTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING B H THE i V u GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES Independence, Oregon, Friday, October 16, 1914 VViiero ia Judge Holmes? An tli-ciiuii every U-n years would h . w I i u lent himiiP'SH. be better. CalamiU Ji .1 Meik i hImjuI as high now as it was when th tow jumped over the moon. .Senator Chamberlain is home. The senator is wise. Me runs a great deal better when he is hero. E. M. &M1TII Republican NomlnrB For COUNTY CLKHK, POLK COUNTY. Vote for efficiency and economy, (I'uid Advertisement) S - .. - i j V 1 I 1 By (lie way Salem is heintf kicked around in this cam lin, one would imagine it was locaied in Kansas. berlain man am'r.ig them. There may le two cr i'.i' i: others, but I do not know them. Aa regards myself there can be no better man for Senator than Mr. Booth. I have known blm for over 30 years with Increasing respect and admiration for him. N. E. BRITT, Past Post Commander of Shlloh Post No. 77. Department of Oregon, O. A. R. Students Grateful to Booth. Student loan funds, established to assist needy students through college, have long had the attention of R. A. Booth, Republican candidate for Sen ator. Having had a hard struggle to earn his own education. Booth has en deavored to make the path a little more smooth for young men and w en who are in the same position. Paid Advertisement by the Republican Moo res, Chairman, Portland, Oregon. Dead through this LETTER and sec if ft is not fair than THINK OUT YOUR OWN OPINION By JOHN 0. TUHHER, tttsntf? zrA K$omitom, Saiaffl, On Ssjt.21 SNAPSHOTS AT NOTABLE PERSONS General Smith-Dorrien, Noted British Commander. All Ana B. Robinson lias to do is to continue to circulate anions the ueonle and make himself nirreeable. The voters will do the rest. No, Beatrice, Joe Cannon will not come to Oregon and take the stump for his old pal, Willis ilawley. Joe has all the trouble he wants at home. There are peveral candidates in Polk county who will lave to load the newspapers with advertising if they ex ect to get anywhere and then that won't be very far. FRED J. KOLMAN Republican Nominee for TBEASUkEK OF, I oLK COUNTY. A full day's work and faithful survice, Your vole is boliciU'd. (I'uid Advert iemei,t One, Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs, who came to Oregon to (ell our women how to vote, h being generally repudiated Jessie will, however, stay with uh until after election us her pay check does not stop until then. C. R. CAN FIELD Kil'UliLlCAN NOi 1NLK FOE COUNTY SURVEYOR Eollclls your vole on a platform of Efficiency, Kcoimuiy and Science. If ducted all latrons will receive fr mi t atitiituiii and tht ollire will be open during buninoes bours as ex pec tud. (1'aul ndvvi tisoment) All houth Oregon, regardless of polities, is backing Fred Ilollister because he is a live wire and a booster. The Willamette Valley should do likewise and profit thereby. No political or sentimental reasons should prevent the dis carding of a dead one. Ihe balem Statesman is mutiny; in behalf of our do- nothing congressman, and in its desperation is not particu lar what it says. If Mr. Hawley can persuade three other newspapers in the district to do as the Statesman is doing, he will have four newspapers enthusiastically supporting hi in. CHAMBERLAIN NOT PRIMARY FRIEND C. E. S. Wood Reviews Sena tor's Record Recalls Re fusal to Help Bryan. A. (JOhN vv. oimzz KrjiubUcnn NuMum J for, i SHERIFF OFPoLK COUNTY t: k My osth i f 1 rekpecliuii, my (i! itl'oi n Hit S JJ lUlt. (1'nu.i Ailv ) MONITOR $1.50 BEST BUY With a long momni-y, Colonel C. K 8. Wood has tn'.-n tpilliiR the voters In Portland the history of Of-orgo K. Chitnihi'rliilu ri'minlini populnr lawa and li-sm-s. CdUiih'I W'onit has heeti unsparing of Cliainlicrlai !i's pcilitical record and ninhl after ni,;hl lie lias bivu diH'lai'iiiB t'liuMilx-i'liln ilmit)!.' doaltir, who wiihIh to ar.r.v with i . u- j plo on both hid.'M of cvor ipn : mei j and ho ImliU r.o opinion r t'.ian .that of porpetualiug t'lwnih. i lulu in I oifice. j la l!)(i. Wood and T. T Oocr wore ' rnndidates for ihe popular oi for ! fulled Stalfi Senator In that eiiin paimi Win. 1 .i:1 he wanted to make Mil aettve fie hi, tim that fliambei'hi'.n, fe.'i'iiiK W ee. I i n ikIk Jeopardiie t'ham berlain's li-aitoes. for eloetion us Uov einor, inn. led that Wood remain quui. As lieer rm-iinl ihe popular vote. Wood wrote the iemoera!i iiirmhers i-f ih l.cti.slainro itisklng them to Kiipiort tieer for Senator. When these I Vmoer.v.s asked 1'hain hi 1 1 en for adviee he tM them to !'' ive the Kepnh'.ieana f;( lit it out WMhont 1'emi.i rutie help. This tttti tude uu th,. t,.,,t ,,f fluimberlaiti, an- rriH oienei w oo.l. was In itireet fouflli t Willi ihe spirit und priuciple j of the primary. Pemocrat in l'JOH, Chamberlain posed j as a lion partisan, declares Colonel 1 Wood, knowing that only with Repub lican voles lie could be elected. At that time Koosevolt was Immensely popular In Oregon and Chamberlain announced that he was a Roosevelt Democrat. In lloeeniber, 1908, Roose velt met Chamherluln In the Kast and greeted III in as Senator -to-bo. When Roosevelt bolted the Republican ticket and much of his popularity waued, Chamberlain attacked Roosevelt, al though the latter, when President, had Hone ns far as he could to bring about CliHmberlaiu'a election by a Republic an I.OKlalaturo. in ihe ceinimiKu of lio!, eontiiiues Colonel Wood. Chamberlain refused to attend (he ltryan rally In Portland and again nhsented himself from I nn land when Judge Alton H. Parker ciiine to upeitk for ltryan. Chamber Iain was afraid that hia plea of noil-parth-aiiidiip would not hold sood if he was present at these Democratic rul Iii'm lor 1 1 1- an. Colonel Wood has stigmatised C1-, imh -rt:i 111 as selfish, as B man wli. se sole desire is to look lifter him hi If. lie calls aiteirtion to the Cham beilaiii cards displayed in this cam p.i:j:u whereon there is uo hint of any party designation. Somewhat similar talks are being nude by T. T. tleor. ex Governor, w ho Is also renewing the political changes which I'hainlierlain has assumed In his office seeking career. Colonel Wood is interested In defeating Cham berlaln beeause Wood does not con sider Chamberlain a Democrat. Oeer says Ch:imterlain is not a Republican, but Ib "a man of pretense." J : ft,. Ml : I -I a r :. -.o -i-K :.v ... a s Photo by American Press Association. When General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrlen was praised by Sir John French as the savior of the left wing of the allied armies in France It was not tbe first time that bis worth as a soldier had been recognized. In fact, it is quite an old story with Smlth OorricD. lie has been commended for meritorious conduct In many cam paigns. In the present war General Smith Dorrien commands one of the army corps sent by England to France to assist In repelling the German Inva sion. He la one of the favorite and most trusted lieutenants of Lord Kitchener, under whom be has served for many years. Ue was educated at Harrow and entered the military serv ice lu 1870 at the age of 18. During tils career be has received many med als niu) In 1900 was miide major gen ial and knlbt commander of the It.-ith He was promoted to lieutenant nerai in I'.MXl and general In 1912. lien he wns created grand com pandor of tbe Hath. A Gtrman Field Marshal. Field Marshal Kolinar von der '!:. whit was appointed military "lei nni .it Die i oniiiered portions of o!iJ nil after the invasion of that ua i I i the Uei inaii troops. Is oue of ; ie, i stniiegistK of the kaiser's i.oni s-i eniv oiif years ago, he it in Cn- war itli Austria In lStHi. 1. 1 ihe l-'ran.-o Prussian war he .. i-.eiiera! staff of the Bee tle made a reputation as et while tie was the coin-tin- l-'irst army corps on the h-inuli-l between YXKI and FOR a statement concerning the effect of the dry policy on Salem, and in answer to the article by K. B. Lockhart, published in the Saloin Statesman August 23, 1914, and in the New Republic under date of September 11, 1914, I sum mit tho following: December 1, 1913, Salem closed her fifteen 63 loona, three restaurants, two wholesale houses and withdrew liquor permits from eight drug stores, thus denying herself the annual revenue of 15,400. The saloons employed sixty-five men, the restaurants twenty-five. Together they had a payroll of $5,700 Dec month. Practically all those who conducted saloons an 1 those employed by the saloons and res taurants h .ve left town. All the building3 occupied a year ago by saloons are vacant, except six that hv ben occimied br tenants who left another :,uilHnr vanant. moving onlv to better their location ftpverni nf tho bpst hiiildlncs In town have their windows b isrded ud to serve as billboards. There are now n ore than five hundred modern dwellings for rant in Salem. Rental l.ituma have ereatlv depreciated. Store wrnnortv n i Statn Street, which for five years had rented for H85 Der month, was re-lcased within four months after the city went "dry" for two years at the rate of $110 per month. This Is but a fair sample of the redt ction all through the business section ou property t) at waa up for re-leasing or renting since the city went "dry." BUSINESS UNBEARABLE. Everr merchant In town, except one a radical PmhC. has eomDlalned of the poor business done this year, end In order to keep going have dispensed with all their surplus help, thus throwing a good many clerks out of their regular monthly stipend. Many of these have now left Salem, seeking work some place else. Three shoe stores have been closed, two by the sheriff and one voluntarily. One of the largest dry goods stores has been sued for the first time in Its twenty years' existence. Salem has been the closing of fourteen places of business, other than saloons, since the first of January, 1914. Does this look like big improvement? Now I will show you how Mr. Lockhart fixed up his prohibition article. The $20,000 public market building had the roof on before the town went dry. The only work that has been done on the building this year was the lathing of the first story and the plastering of one room, which is now occupied by four stalls, constituting the public market. The $40,000 insurance block is being built by Geo. F. Rodgers under a permit which gives the estimated valuation at $30,000, and for which the contract was less for less than $13,000. BUILDING DURING DRY PERIOD. Compare these facts with Mr. Lockhart's statement: For the last wet year the building permits from January to August, inclusive, totaled $388,925, and from the first of November, 1913, to the twentieth day of September, 1914, $268,160. I start with November first in order to show some real prohibi tion facts. During the campaign of 1913 J. G. Vo get, a howling prohibitionist, published a statement that if the town went dry he would build sixteen new houses. So immediately after the election in November, 1913, he procured from the City Recorder sixteen permits, and under those sixteen permits he began the construction of nine houses of three and four rooms each. Only two were completed far enough to receive the windows and doors, and they have never been finished. No work of any kind has been done on these frames since last December. I met Mr. Lockhart last Saturday night in Mr. Bechtel's real estate office, whom he was trying to induce to give him an exaggerated statement as to busine-M in real estate, ana i a.meu una n u uu deliberately lied about the building permits, and be said the hoy who had given him the figures had made a Mistake and in his Stateman Sunday morning he makes a statement tlTat the figures of $415,085 In his article published in the Statesman August 23 should have been $219,160. He found his mistake mighty quick alter he knew I had a check on the building permits. CITY IMPROVEMTCXTS STOPrED. The $9,000 fire engine was purchased early In 1913, after the money had been appropriated by the City Council in 1912. The Capital Journal, the even inK nnner. chanced its location and installed a new press, the Statesman is in the same old quarters, and the only new things it has are a telegraph oper ator and some type metal. One new church, costing $500, has been built since the town went dry. The Capital Business College is at the old stand, while Willamette University is still looking forward to "the greatest year in her history." Let it be noted that tbe enrollment at the grammar schools opening day 1913 was 1510, and for the same day this year 14t;y. It would teem that closing the door of the saloons meant closing the door of the schoolB. CHKRRV Fill! AM) WHO MADE IT. During the campaign of 1913 a statement was published, purporting to come from the Ministerial Association, to the effect that if the people would voto dry they would establish a coffee club for those who could not afford to belong to the Illihee, Elks or Moose, and that the churches would finance th) Cherry Fair to the extent of the usual support from the saloons. The Board of Trade, which had al ways conducted the Cherry Fair, being unable to ob tain any aid front the Ministerial Association, re fused to go ou with the Fair. The Cherrians, an organ ization of 100 (no prohibitionists), rather than see a year pass without a Cherry Fair, became the spon sors. Each member gave a week of his time and. $5 in money in order to have a Fair. The attend ance was about one-half what it was In 1913. Not a concession took in enough to pay expenses. You can take it from one who knows, the Cherrians will never again finance a Cherry Fair. di;cki:asi:i hank deposits. The amount of deposits in Salem banks shows a decrease of $309,942.69 since the town went ary, and this in spite of the fact that $485,000 receive! for bonds sold in Boston was on deposit in the banks in January, 1914, statement. This money was distributed to Salem people and left here. It was used to pay a refund on sewer assessments and to cover warrants outstanding. NO WAGES TO GO. A leading schoolman told me that he did not know how the children would be equipped this year, but that he expected many of them would have to be aided with books, owing to the fact that so many parents have been unable to secure work this sum mer. Tho contractor mentioned by Mr. Lockhart I have been unable to find. A prominent but why continue? Tho list could be extended indefinitely. I have shown enough to those who will see. Clar ence True Wilson is reported to have said in a pro hibition speech that Salem last year had Bixteen po licemen and this year has only one. Common sense would tell anyone this statement was false. Just remember that it is the hypocrite, "the wolf in sheep's clothing," that always gets your goat. I regret very much the necessity of making public to the world the business condition of Salem, be cause I expect to live here for several years to comd, but with the hope that others may be saved I cast the city's future a Bacrifice upon the altar of th State of Oregon. Aro you going to voto io kill tho Hop Industry, to bring about thoso conditions? Don't you fool that timos aro hard enough now? HOP GROWERS AND DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF OREGON (PAID ADVERTISKMKNT. Old Soldin Admire Booth. rlranl llii.il.-l. n, ........ . .,,.. ..... I ...n.mr-i ui jfc. i 1'iein i noon. I nnm-j tinoth vrruiui rnmseir wroto to A. O Still- m.-i-i, of I'mt'ilia. reei.mmeii.Hns that the llfnu-eniis hold an nsfemhlv lo ni.iko tii.tniiiHtiona Later heu' tho Keptlblloau-t liei.l nil assembly thy Were j.v.i;.-! tv thP Ch.iinbcrbiii n M-aper ami ihiirged with try ,:;.: to Uiideiiiune the direct pum.iry and rotiiru to lu.u-hir.e met! od. In Ir.s campaigns for Ooveruor. Ohamb. rlaln. Wood argued that th Lie.. -,t!.l Coventor should be of opposite poltlhal partle Cham berlain i oa aru. 6 that Cotsgrvsii tiiniiil be it ii,,. !-.,,u,i political Pl.xi. tl the i'ti-sd.-tl Ui-u uotien;i,.i tor Meuuuir com Republican nominee for United States Senator, has received th fol low lug communication : Newberg. Sept. 14. 1914. I am one of many members of Shi loh Post No 77. ii. A. R.. who received a loner commending Hon. George Chamberlain aa a friend of old sol diers Haw beard a number of th bov express themselves in regard to tb letter as a hug Joke. It will b Some lime before old soldiers look to Mississippi Democrats as special friends To mo the tetter Is sonrct of both pleasure and indignation; pleasure that It Is an assarwnce the fl the d of sverv vote tho can ooaalblv t 1- "1 : ' .1 ' i'ti . -1 at: l : '! : :. "lilt I i t.i.'--.--i:li f SI . -vTJ - . - i i . 1 ' A Pnoto by A met a n Press Association. BAHON KOLViR VON DER OOLT2. UH17. During tnls period he perfected a defensive scheme nt Koenigsberg. Enst Prussia. In 1SS3 Baro i von der (loltz went to Turkey to r habilitate the nrniy of Abdul llanild. He remained there tw elve years mi I brought order out of confusion In spi e of many ililllettlties Tbe army, howi ver. was not n success In the Balkan i nr As a writer Von (let Jolts has distlimulshed hl-n'elf. II f- Mist impel .tut work nun "Leon ii.-nil.i tla mid Ills Armies." published III !7T Ue Mho wrute "A Nation In Al ius.'' ivhlrb bis been tmnsluted Into w vera I languages. FRED HOLLISTER FOR CONGRESS Travels at Roots. Hoots travel unitizing- distances In earrb of their requirements. A tim Ih-i inert-haul, excavating for a sewer In England, found an elm root one and quarter Inches III diameter and sUty three feet luug. running through s bed ot sawdust from the tree to the uear eel wHter The aggregate length of root thrown out by some plants is almost Incredl Ide A cucumber will, within Its short lite of alHiot hnlf a year, throw out troin ten to fifteen miles of roots Clover roots will go straight down to a depth of sit to nlue feet In search ot moisture, and coltsfoot, one of the most powerful and fHTslsteut of weeds, sends Its suckers down to an even prvater depth. -London Stray Stories Jv I ., . V-4 A ' -J A r 4 -ifc '..' .-f.iVi4-1 Lost th Point. The Teacher Now, children, listen to this Thomas Campbell, the fa mous poet, once walked six miles to a priutlug otfli-e to have a comma In one of his itoeon clninged to a semi colon Why did be take all that trou ble? Bright Boy -'Cause be didn't have oo tellyphone. Cleveland Plain Dealer Publicity. "IPs bad thing to talk about your neighbors " ' " That right" replied the man who , la all bunlness "Pobliclty Is worth on.ethlng these days. I shouldn't t tniuk or talking about anybody eicvpt I at adTertudug rataa," - W ashuigtun htau. The congressional fight in the First District is not one on purely politics 1 lines. Men and women of all parties have combined to elect Fred Hollister be cause Western Orepon fhould nave a representative in Congress who can "do something and Hollister "fills the bill." Eight years of the "service" Hawley has rendered is enough. It is certainly tirre for a change. tFaid Advertisement by W. J. Ri,t) Mr.