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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23. 1914.
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DOMESTIC
I
LURKING BEHIND THE
TALK OF ITALIAN WAR
King Victor Especially Anx
ious'to Prevent Struggle to
Save His Wife From Shock
WAS INJURED AT MESSINA
HurVto Her Arm Keceived Then !
lop Into Cur; Bh Expects to
Bwonu a Mother Before long.
(United Press Lated Wire.)
Rome, Oct. 3. (By mall to New
Tork. Behind Italy's official attitude
toward the European war situation
there lurks a tragedy of domestic sad
ness which unquestionably has had
much to do with King Victor's efforts
to prevent his country from becoming
Involved In the great conflict.
It is known In official circles In
Rome that Queen Helena expects to
RAGEDY IS
become a mother early In December.
This; prospective event in the most do.
mestlcr of European royal families Is
tinged with a sorrow which was any
thing but characteristic of the preced
ing occasions on which the queen pre
sented Italy with three princesses and
the present heir to the throne.
It has ben acknowledged by the
court physicians that her majesty la
suffering from cancertf the arm. Her
- delicate condition makes an operation
for Its removal Impossible.
At the time of the Messina disaster
the queen worked among the unfortu
nates of the stricken city untiringly.
While engaged thus she accidentally
received a severe blow on the arm.
' Later the Injury, caused her serious
discomfort and a few months ago her
doctors diagnosed the case as one of
cancer.
Despite the fact that an operation
might Jeopardize the life of the fu
ture prince of princess, the king has
favored having one performed rather
than permit her disease to make fur
ther headway, but to this his wife
will not consent.
Indeed, his majesty's illness, report
ed at various times in the past two
months as grave, is said to be due to
worry over the queen's plight.
Indeed, It Is the accepted fact that
'King Victor's refusal to permit Italy's
participation In the war was due par
tially to the fear that the shock might
have a bad effect upon her majesty.
BELGIANS, WITH
KING ALBERT AT
FRONT, SUCCEED
(Continued from Page One.)
line sometimes In his automobile and
sometimes on foot. In addressing his
soldiers! he uses the familiar "thee"
and "thou," comforting And cheering
the men.
In the fighting Thursday he was
where the fire was hottest, refusing
all his staff's pleas to leave the
trenches. One shell burst but 10 paces
(Continued From Preceding Page.)
of the people rising sufficiently to
meet it as there is of the moon show
ering the people of the United States
with the fresh cheese of which we
are told it lsrnade. The cost of liv
ing and the people's Income are both
galloping the other way.
I would not have Oregon voters
think from the above that I do not
believe that the Wilson administra
tion's new laws, currency, anti-trust,
etc.. will not lower the cost of liv
ing. Undoubtedly they wUl, bu the
amount will be fully offset by the
drop In the people's income, unless
the real, the foundation causes of
the present conditions are destroyed,
and they can only be destroyed by
the election to the Senate and Con
gress of men who will recognise
their existence and will battle for
their destruction.
Does any Oregon voter believe
that this, the greatest problem of
modern times the problem that calls
for the most Intelligent treatment
any man or woman is capable of
can be illuminated with Senatorial
campaign Chinese eggs or local but
ter, with the dead and moulded trad
ing secrets of this man, or the gas
tronomic and other personal habits
of 'that man, with Senatorial cam
paign yappings and yarllngs that
would not do Justice to a marlon
etted Kilkenny cat festT
Does any Oregon voter consider,
in this enlightened age, which ia
hurrlcaned with the merciless mad
ness of t mob, the raw, red raglngs
of a robbed and raped people, the
crimson corruption of courts, the
stench y scabbings of statecraft, the
criminal conspiracies of capital, the
lecheries of labor, the gangrened
graftings of the great, the piteous
pleas of the poor, and the rabid rot
tenness of the rich In this enlight
ened age when he Is solemnly or sul
lenly watching his living cost mount
and his Income drop. Consider he is
being honored by either of the Sen
atorial candidates when to his de
mand for the whys and wherefores
of, his condition, he is told that old,
old tariff yarn, that ancient pork
barrel tale, .that mossed Mexican war
story, or that new canal toll con
undrum. Messrs. Chamberlain and Booth
are the candidates of mighty parties
and the mighty parties have a mighty
press. Either could have given Ore
gon voters a campaign worthy of a
Senatorial candidate. Mr. Hanley has
no press. He and his helper can only
get to you as I do, by burring ex
pensive advertising space; fet, even
with this af prohibitive handi
T(D)
VIEWS OF THE KAISER'S
away from him. Realizing his danger,
the Belgians fought ferociously, pour
ing a terrific rifle fire among the
Germans and then charging with the
bayonet. German losses were 'enor
mous. Belgian and British officers declared
today that If the allies win decisively
in the pending fight in the north, Al
bert will be able to return to Brussels.
Troops Cheer Xing'.
After the Germans had been re
pulsed Thursday he arrived at head
quarters wet to the skin, his hands
and face4,grlmy and his uniform cov
ered with mud. The troops cheered
him wildly.
In appearance he presented a re
markable contrast to the same man
when I last saw him in Paris, Just be
fore he became king. At that time his
face wa boyish and smiling. Today
it is the saddest I ever saw. There
is no fear in It, however.
Aviators reported today that the'
Germans were preparing new en
trenchments along the Liege line, ex
tending as far northward as Ant
werp. They were of the opinion that
the Teutonic troops were making ready
to go into winter quarters.
VERDUN IS NEXT
OBJECTIVE FOR 4
KAISER'S ARMY
(Continued from Page One.)
and It Is out of the question for any
living thing to cross the fire zone.
Fogs Aid Germans.
The Germans have driven a wedge
into the French front in the neighbor
hood of Saint Mihiel. They were able
to do this by taking advantage of
several of the heaviest fogs of the
year. They afforded splendid cover,
under which the sappers advanced the
German trenches.
In the wooded region of Apremont,
and again in the vicinity of Verdun,
there are places where the opposing
trenches are only 70 yards apart, and
cap, I will give you my idea of the
kind of educatonal matter which
should be submitted to Oregon vot
ers at this critical election.
As you read my facts recall wheth
er you have been shown any of them
in this campaign. Then ask your
self, is it possible that they are
facts, and if they are, should Ore
gon miss this opportunity of sending
to the -iBenate the man who under
stands the real conditions of the
country, or the man who knows
nothing of the burning question of
the times? And if they are not facts
"how can their fallacies be punctured?
This latter will be simple.
THE QUICKEST AND MOST
FEASIBLE WAY TO PUNCTURE
THE FALLACY OF MY ASSER
TIONS WILL BE FOR SENATOR
CHAMBERLAIN AND MR. BOOTH
TO DO SO IN MY PRESENCE, AND
MUCH AS I WOULD DREAD THE
ORDEAL OF MEETING THESE
SEASONED DEBATERS. FOR I
HAVE NOT BEEN ON THE PUB
LIC PLATFORM, EVEN FOR A
SINGLE SPEECH, IN OVER THREE
YEARS, I WILL AGREE TO BE ON
ANY PUBLIC PLATFORM IN ORE
GON. UPON NOTIFICATION THAT
MESSRS. CHAMBERLAIN AND
BOOTH WILL BE THERE, BE
TWEEN NOW AND ELECTION.
Why is the cost of living high?
Because there is of the country's
sixty billion dollars of stocks and
bonds, drawing 6, three billian
dollars annually thirty billions
which are fictitious, fraud made,
mere printed paper created by the
trick.
This means that a few tricksters
who created them, take each year
from all the people, one billion, five
hundred million dollars and they
give to the people absolutely
nothing of value In return ' for
It. It is as though these few trick
sters had power to levy on all the
people for their own benefit a tax
of one billion, five hundred million
dollars.
These same tricksters levy and
collect another one billion, five hun
dred million, each year by the trick
of making additional flotltlous
stocks and bonds.
The working of this gigantic
scheme by whioh three billion dol
lars tribute Is annually levied and
collected from one hundred millions
of people by a few men Is the most
ingenious affair In the history of the
world, at the "same time Itls sim
plicity itself.
Illustration. A Trust adds to the
cost of the article It produces, say
& . for dividends and Inter-
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Top German infantry In trenches on the Russian frontier.
Bottom Germans rush to check Russian advance. Even the coal tenders of trains bound for the bat
tlefield of East Prussia are jammed with the kaiser's fighting men.
(the remainder of this paragraph
was 'deleted by the censor).
French sallies from Toul against the
est on Us illegitimate Its trick made
capital, in addition to the 6
on itso real capital. This thus-arrived-at
price Is the price paid by
the people for the necessities.
At a time when the stock of the
Union Paclflo railroad sold at less
than one hundred dollars per
share, and paid 6 annual div
idends it was bought up by
the few tricksters, who Increased
the dividend to 10 and the
stock rose to over two hundred and
was unloaded on the banks and in
surance companies in exchange for
the people's deposited savings. The
few tricksters made hundreds of mil
lions of dollars profit To get from
the people the extra 6 dividend the
Union Pacific Increased directly or
indirectly the charge for every
pound of freight and every passen
ger carried. This Increased the price
of all the wheat, corn, beef, and oth
er necessities Of the people which
were carried by the railroad.
Another illustration: The Steel
Trust has five hundred millions of
common stock. It does not represent
a dollar of real money. It Is only
printed paper given to the tricksters
who created it, as a bonus for pro
moting the Steel Trust scheme. The
Steel Trust pays a yearly dividend of
5 twenty-five million dollars on
this five hundred millions of worth- '
less stock.' To get this twenty-five
million dollars the Trust adds to the
legitimate cost of the rails it sells to
the railroads and the railroads take
the twenty-five million dollars from
the people in the form of Increased
freight and passenger rates.
THE COST OF LIVING CANNOT
DECLINE UNTIL THESE THREE
BILLION DOLLARS OF ANNUAL
TRIBUTE HAS STOPPED,
This is the greatest question be
fore the American people for it
means that If it is not stopped if
it continues the people will, when
they realise, as they are beginning
to realise, that they cannot meet
the cost of their living with their
Income, revolt against its collection.
Notwithstanding this is the great
est question of the times, can' any
voter of Oregon, recall a single ref
erence to it by Senator Chamber lain
or Mr. Booth? Their campaign has
given voters all aorta oS worn thread
bare "tariff, etoV arguments as the
reason for high cost et living but it
will be noted that th eost of living
has steadily mounted whether' under
Democratic or Republican rule and
regardless of tariff changes.'
The everyday people of the United
States have saved up and deposited
in savings banks over five billions
German line holding the position on
the heights have been repulsed with
heavy losses.
of money (there is less than four
billions of all kinds of American
money). For this money the people
receive 4 two hundred million
annually. They received the same
rate. t, 40 years ago when the two
hundred million bought what to
day requires four hundred millions
to pay for. This is because the'hlgh
cost of living has cut (to pay the few
tricksters their three billions of an
nual tribute), the purchasing power
of the Income of the people's savings
in two. At the same time the Nation
al Banks and Trust companies owned
or controlled, directly or indirectly,
by the same few tricksters who levy
the three billion tribute, borrow the
people's Bavings from the Savings
Banks at from ZVt to 4 and re
loan It to the people at "any old rate."
This "any old rate" charged the
American people by the System, the
few who annually levy three billion
tribute, for the use of their own
savings, can best be ascertained by
glancing at the National Bank and
Trust companies' advertisements
"Capital one million dollars. Surplus
and undivided profits, five million.
In business twenty years ago, during
which time we have earned sufficient
to pay our stockholders 20 yearly
and in addition have 'made' 400,
which is now on hand." If this will
not explain what "any old rate" is,
one has but to turn to the Pujo
Congressional Report and -read the
testimony of the New York bank
presidents, that their banks had
earned 2800 on their capital In
twenty year. And if one is still pus
sled, he has but to observe the marble
palaces tn the different American
cities which have been built to get
rid of the oceans 'of profits made
from borrowing the people's money
at four per cent and loaning It back
to them at "any old rate." One bank
In on of th big cities was driven
by its accumulated earnings to put
$360,000 into bronze doors. If the
Oregon voter is still puzzled about
th "any old rate." let him automo
bile through his stat a I have don
and listen to the hardest working
men and women on earth, patheti
cally ask: "Why is it w are com
pelled to work lilce slaves and only
allowed to retain enough of ouf earn
ings to keep body and soul together
that the holders of 8 to 12 mort
gages may take th balance?
This, too, is the burning question
of the hour and yet who In Oregon
has heard any reference to it in this
Chamberlain-Booth campaign 7
The everyday people of th United
States have billions of their hard
ened savings in the Life Insurance
Paid AdTsrtissmsat
Under cover of one of the fogs al
ready referred to. General von (the
name deleted) took me to within 400
dDF
Companies, which, notwithstanding
the reforms I forced eight years
ago, are still dominated by the Sys
tem. These billions return to their
owners, the people, about the same
yearly rate as their savings. In sav
ings Banks. The Life Insurance Com
panies, like the National Banks, and
Trust Company custodians of the peo
ple's savings, accumulated them so
fast that to get rid of them they
were compelled to Invest in bronze
doors and such bric-a-brac as the
crowned heads of Europe cannot af
ford to buy. One of them, which col
lects its premiums fifty cents and a
dollar at a time, has put millions and
millions of its surplus Into an enor
mous marble tower which these,
thrifty custodians of the people's
money proudly boast, eclipses all its
competitors spendings. The part that
Life Insurance Companies play in the
wholesale robbing of the American
people is most interesting.
The first thing that started me on
my Life Insurance crusade was this
odd happening. At our annual New
York Horse Show meets I noticed
that one of our young 'millionaire
directors, who if he was in the coun
try at this time, I am sure would
take delight in sneering at Mr. Han
ley as a Senatorial Joke, each year
decorated us with costly bunches of
violets. Upon investigation we found
that his annual expenditure for such
necessities was $30,000 and that they
were paid for by the great Life In
surance Company of which be was a
high official.' Can the hard working
Oregon rancher voter who each year
pinches out of his earnings his $30
Life Insurance premium, imagine the
fun of blowing In a thousand such
yearly premiums for violets? I won
der. At the end of my reformTru
aade we found that the office fur
niture of one of the great companies
had cost considerably over a million
dollars of the policy holders money
$60,000 rugs, $12,000 desks, chairs
at $2000 apiece. The whole was sold
at public auction and realized old
Junk prices.
"And what has this ancient his
tory to do with high cost of living
and other questions of th day?" I
hear the Oregon Senatorial candi
dates ask. Only this. These deposi
tories of the people's savings are to
day, notwithstanding the reforms
forced a few years ago, dominated
by these three billion dollars tribute
collectors. Don't believe it? Let's see.
y When the lid was lifted 'from the
rotten New Haven Railroad cauldron
the other day by President Wilson's
Investigators, one of the Life Insur
ance Companies was found to be th
by Thomas W. Iawsoa.
yards of the French trenches. They
are of great strength, and the Germans
are making no effort to carry them
by frontal attacks, on account of the
losses such an attempt would involve.
Instead, they are satisfied to hold the
French line at this point, preventing
the Toul and Nancy armies from ad
vancing. Kaiser Visits rront.
The kaiser has frequently visited
this section of the battle front, as
well as the point where the crown
prince is engaged; He personally gives
cigars and cigarettes to the men in the
trenches, speaking to them as "Melne
brave Junge" and asking what they
bear from their families and if there
is anything he can do to help them.
Naturally a wave of enthusiasm
sweeps the trenches following such
visits.
The kaiser has also spent much time
In the' main hospital at Montmedy,
comforting the wounded.
The crown prince is idolized by his
men because of his courage. He la en
tirely indifferent to personal danger,
going from trench to trench and mix
ing with the soldiers democratically.
The health and spirits of his troops
are excellent.
Automobiles are constantly arriv
ing at the front filled with "ltebes
gaben" or love gifts, for the men.
There seems to be an inexhaustible
supply of fresh troops and all gaps are
filled immediately.
Plainly the Germans are preparing
for a supreme assault on the French
line at a point I am not permitted to
mention, and on this assault much will
depend.
OVERWHELM BACKERS
AND ASSEMBLY BILL,
URGES DR. C. J; SMITH
(Continued from Page One.)
hers of society, and not become drones
or drifters.
"X think we should teach the boy
largest holder of th New Haven
stock, $7,000,000. How did it happen
the tribute levlers who still dominate
this great people's saving institution,
loaded up with New Haven stock at
$100 a share and dumped It on the
company at around $200 a share; and
now that it is practically worthless,
millions of the people's savings have
disappeared into the pockets of the
tribute collectors. Any Oregon voter
versed in two-two-four mathematics
can ascertain how much was added
to the Life Insurance section of high
cost of living lay these honorable
trustees'- New Haven deals and by
scores of similar ones.
Nothing has a greater and more
direct effect on -the cost of the peo
ple's living than railroads. Every
dollar they take from the people in
the form of freight and passenger
rates Is so much added to the cost
of the people's living. This is so
fundamental and obvious to the Ore
gon rancher, manufacturer, store
keeper, that I have only to call at
tention to It. A railroad is entitled
to take from the people Its running
expenses, necessary improvements
and a fair Interest upon Invested cap
ital, but it ia not entitled to add to
the people's cost of living by taking
from them in freight and passenger
charges, interest on fictitious capi
tal, capital which represents money
directly or indirectly stolen by the
ones who dominate the management.
Here is one of the most Important
branches of the great question high
cost living.
There has been stolen from the
railroads Of the United States during
the past thirty years billions of dol
lars. Oregon voters know this. It
is common knowledge now, for the
investigation of the Frisco, New
Haven, Boston - & Maine and
Rock Island wreckage and rob
bery, by which over a billion of dol
lars was stolen in such nasty, sneak
thieving ways as to compel criminal
prosecution, is now under way. -
Ten years ago, when I publicly
pointed to the New Haven and Rock
Island railroads as the gigantic
swindles1 they have since been de
clared by th government to be, I
was called a madman, for the stocks
and bonds which are now nearly
worthless were then selling at fancy
high prices and were eagerly sought
by conservative Investment buyers.
THE RAILROAD SECTION OF
THE GREAT . QUESTION OF THE
DAY, HIGH COST LIVING, IS ONE
OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO EV
" ERT MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD
IN OREGON.
Today the railroads of the count;
T
and girls In the lower' trades the prao- j
tlcal things. Not all of them can go
to the higher institutions. XII such
should be fitted in the moat practical
way for what" they are to encounter
in the life struggle. "
"The people do not begrudge the
money spent on schools, if It be wisely
spent and not frittered away or squan
dered." Speaking- of taxes, Dr. Smith pointed
out that in 1910, Polk county paid Into
the state treasury as state taxes
$29,407, and in 1914, 174.670. an . in
crease in four years of 155 per cent,
or almost 40 per cent Increase a year
for four years.
Curb to X xtrav aganoe.
"How long- can you stand that T" be
asked. "You need- the single item veto
so that your governor may be In posi
tion to curb legislative extravagance.
Look up the 1913 legislature and see
how the hired lobbyists of the . brg
1 nterest a put deals through that cost
you heavily.
"Oregon is no longer a border state,
Oldtime indifference and disrespect for
law should have no place In this state.
If a law is state-wide in its applica
tion, it should be state-wide in Its
enforcement. I pledge you that If I
am elected to succeed Governor "West,
that I will use ray best endeavors to
enforce the law and curb extrava
gance." The speaker gave his views oh all
the other vital questions of the day,
and closed his address with an appeal
for a careful consideration of the
state's best interests, so that progress
may not be halted, or corruption and
corruptionlsts be encouraged and
strengthened.
Burglars Captured
In Sublimity Store
Sheriff Sach Says Ken Are Kembersl
of Oang, of WWoh Sheriff Word of
Multnomah Em Part.
Salem, Or.. Oct. 23. Fred Peterson,
alias the "Big Swede," was caught in
the act of burglarizing Dltter A Bell's
general merchandise store at Sublimity
at 3 o'clock this morning by Marshal
Henry Smith of Stayton, who also ar
rested Charley Wade, who was acting
as lookout. Smith covered them with
his gun, and they gave up without a
struggle. Peterson had collected a
number of pairs of shoes In a gunny
sack. Sheriff Each brought the men to
Salem. He says they are members of
the same gang as Brennan. O'Nell.
Taylor and Adams, who were arrested
here recently, all but Adams being
taken to Portland by Sheriff Word.
Wade and Peterson used skeleton
keys to enter the Sublimity store. They
had aroused the suspicions of resi
dents, who telephoned Sheriff Ksch at
2 o'clock, and also notified Marshal
Smith- The latter arrived first, and
captured the burglars.
.
Parcel Post Hits
Railroads Hard
Salem. Or., Oct. 22, General Man
ager Charles H. Early of the Mt. Hood
Railway company, and President Davi
Eccles of the Sumpter valley Kauroad
company, appeared before the. tax com
mission yesterday afternoon to plead
for a decrease in assessment this year.
Both complained of the Inroads made
by the parcel post in their earnings and
profits. Formerly they were paid by
the express companies on the basis
are doing more to paralys th coun
try a business than any other indus
try. They are deadlocked with the
government over the question of in
creased rates. They hare stopped
construction and threaten to keep It
stopped until they are allowed to add
further to the people's cost of liv
ing. No Oregon voter should allow
himself to . be fooled Into believing
that it is possible to raise railroad
rates without raising the cost of liv
ing. An illustration which will be
easy of . comprehension "by Oregon
voters: The late Mr. Harrlman so
juggled the Union Pacific and South
ern Pacific railroads as to rise 'over
night from poverty to phenomenal
riches, $200,000,000. Nothing like his
wealth wizard in g has taken place in
the history of the whole world.
Harriman's operations were taken
to the courts and decided illegal and
the Union- Pacific was compelled to
disgorge the Southern Pacific and
other railroads. Union Pacific ftock
now owned by the people who ex
changed their savings for it has
dropped from away over $200 per
share to about where it started from,
$100, Everyone has lost but Harrl
man. He lost none of the oceans of
money which he secured by his il
legal transaction, his family still has
it.
By the wajJMr. Oregon Voter,
did you notice that the wife and
family of the poor devil over In
Washington, who borrowed a few
dollars from his bank, Intending to
repay it, had everything but their
clothes taken away from them and
that he was railroaded to pris
on for a long time? And that
there were convicted and sen
tenced to prison last year a large
number of letter carriers whose
stealings averaged a few dollars
apiece?
Amongst Mr. Harriman's many, ex
ploits was the building of the Des
chutes railroad. It cost about four
teen million dollars, and "as we .of
Wall street got the news back there
in those maglo money making days,
it was to be such a success that its
effect on Harriman's stock and
bonds brought to his corkers fifty
to sixty millions of profit Now here
is th proposition that I would Ilk
to put to you Oregon voter!
Mr. Hill's Deschutes railroad runs
up on side of th valley and' Mr.
Harriman's the other. I am told
that they together eost $38,000,000.
One of them vill supply th
wants of Oregon for say on hundred
years. Should the opl of Oregon,
be compelled top th. additional
freight charges-be ompjled to sub-
of the amount handud. but the gov-
ernment figures its 'parrels cost on!
the basis of what thi traffic hannens
to be during certain; months of the
year selected by unclf Sam for weigh
ing the mall carried? .
The Sumpter Valty has carried
whole carloads of suar consigned by
paivei post 10 tiurne, ju nines djt stags
from Canyon City, thi end of the rail
road. It happened tat none of this
heavy traffic was sens over the Sump
ter Valley while thU weighing upon
which the year's contract was fixed
was going on. Incidentally it Is
claimed the parcel ?post Is breaking
the man who has stage contract
from Canyon City " tor Burns.
ueneral Manager ISarly complained
particularly of the tack of profit re
sulting from apple sVjpments over the
Hood River line. Carloads of boxes
of apples are sent oit by parcel post
and the company - tila to reap the
benefit. . .If
The tax commissiptt took the ques
tlon of a reduction pnder advisement
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New. KchooMGo tp.
C1 "S . . - Ail M . I. 1
buildings have beenj!recteri at Scott
Mills, costing 250(10 ifst. Paul, costing
$6000; Aurora, c-osi not given; be
tween Qulnaby and Ijjopmere, cost not
given, and In a new Jdistrtct at Cedar
Camp, according to special report ,to
Biate superintendent enurenju rroro
Superintendent Smitlf, of the Marlon
county schools. ' Srrjlth recommends
that the law be so changed that a part
or all of the county rjhool fund be ap
portioned to the district only when th
district has met ceijjlain standard re
quirements of the stijte department of
education. The schools of Marlon
county have opened jith increased at
tendance at nearly evsry school. Smith
reports. g '
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Ixst Money; f&ividenda.
Salem., Or., Oct. .Although -the
express privileges de$it and operating
expenses Pf Ofo -ren rrvcnufi,
over $264,431.7 the American Kxpres
company paid a dl vlWid of 8 per cent
during the year endSng June 30, ac
cording to the annuaiireport which has
Just been filed with ijtie state railroad
commission. Accord frig to the report
ine company naa aii omces in in
United States June s30 1914. and. $i
offices outside the 13 jilted States. .
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Ardenwald Crowing Denied.
Knlam Or flft ?lith ilali raft.
roaa commission nasjaemea me appli
cation of the countyjeourt of Clacka
mas county for a grjkjle highway cross
ing near Ardenwald ver the .Southern
Pacific, alleging thallt would be un
usually hazardous artd further that It
would be possible to.qonstruct an over
ueu ur unuemruuiiB cruMinc mere?
Forty school chlldretf would cross and
an average or 4 traans pass dally.
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Shot Because jnf Woman.
Redding, Cal., Octlfw. Charles Alli
son im under arrest today charged with
the killing of Lkn jQ'Connor Wednes
day iight. O'Conndg recently arrived
in Redding with a wfman supposed to
be his wife. The aqSiorittes said they
learned after the killing that she really
was Mrs. Allison. Alison came to Red
ding looking for thu. went at once
to O'Connor's roomjj at the Railroad
lodging house and,-Jsceordlng to the
authorities, shot anjlkilled him imme
diately, if "
Trip Costs If git liberty.
Ban Franclsr-o, 0-t. 23. John G.
Wilson was sentenrd to 18 months
imprisonment for vitiating the Mann
white slave law through a trip h
made with Mrs. Jennie Austin from
Sacramento to Jacksonville, Fls.
mit to a further rjigc in their' eost of
living to pay Interest and dividend
on the $14,000,01 Harrlman bor
rowed to sink lnjhis road that he
might use Its bullllng as a. boomer
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for his Union Piflc stock, the
""booming of whlchf boomed them all
along the line? ojrlshduld the family
j $
of Harrlman, the Izard of railroad
jugglery, be com oil led to refund to
the people the $14)00.000 wasted Jn
duplicating the Hll road that the
$14,000,000 mtghtjje used In irrigat
ing (he now waterjjesa lands adjoin
irp and the balance used to replace
those cltles along Jte line of the road
which died for thfwant of water?.
One other proposition, Mr.- Oregon
Voter, and I am Jcie. As. you. go Up
the Deschutes vajley and observe'
that wasted $14,00(000 of the Ameri
can people's savings, and the world
of parched land j which is actually
sobbing for water does It occur'to
you if that tU.OOoJoo had been spent
for spreading th Deschutes river
over the valley's flaked agricultural
riches, the valley iow would be one
of the most prosperous spots on
God's earth and tfii Hill roaJ, having
all the business,': jwould give even
better service thaSow. ' Does it oc
cur to you when you observe th
struggling father,, iworn motherland
little assisting tpfs working from
sunrise to sunset build their horn
ana compel tneir :rjew born ranch to
give them the prohibitive cost of llv-'
ing and; the Shylok usurers of th
System the mortfckre. interest, and
.when you later ipserve the sullen
father, the frenzi4 mother and th
weeping tots navigating the dusty
roads for a new hme to replace the
foreclosed one, arjS when you listen
to th tales of hay sold at less than
cost and cattle sacrificed to meet
the loan company's queer 16
interest - and - yot sell -them-at-our--price
contracts, alio then you recall
the tales of the ilddle west pros
perity, and those oti the eastern banks
aburst with tfjpe-loaned-to-Wall-street-at-2
bliu4ns of the peo
ple's savings, aid then when you
read in the preSsf jh great east
ern cities of the otft Zeroing ot Nero
by the new rottf-f th-freshly-plll-aged-wealth
Amejricl royalty, 't do
you not feel llkea bplng to your
knees and praylnaf end us a Con
gress of Bill Hanlyseal men who
kindly hearts and' ar souls hay
fltted them to .maUe
our glorious
country the happy? hswnesour fore
fathers Intended 111-dsu Id kef -
THOMJH . LAWSON.
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