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t- b If 3 ... . rAcrcus' .Ufim i aon "No Favor Sways Us; Ko.FeafShM Awe.19 ' - From ITixt Statesmen, March 23 1SS1 . THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. J Chables A. Snacx-a, Shxxdov F. Sxrrr, PaWWters - Chasus A. SrtifiDB Sromk F. Sacxrt - . Mtmbr of the AJomtW Press . v The Associated Press is exclusively entitled te the use for ; anblicatioo of 11 news dispatch credited to it ot not atherwi&e ...credited la this paper. - - ' -... . - . Suttnd a U Patloffic ei SofeM, Orggon. as ScetU-CIass Matter, Published eeanr wrniir esecept Jleaaaa, Basis fe fi5 5, CwMtwefal Styet. . , . - , . Pacifle Coast Advertising Representatives: Arthur W. Stypes, Inev Portland, Security Bid. San Francisco, Sharon BLfe; Los Angeles, W. Pac Bid., ttern Adverting Representatives: . . Ford-Parsons-Steclier, Inc, New York, Z71 Madison At.; Y Chicago, 850 N. MIchfeaa Are- The Hawley-Smoot WjS note the papers keep referring to the Hawley-Smoot tariff bilL There is no such animaL There is a Haw ley bilL Then again there ia a Smoot bill." More correct it would be to sav there is a house tariff bill and a senate tariff bilL Since the senate bill was ley has kept perfect silence about It So we conclude he must think daggers about the way the senate manhandled some of his schedules. When and if the senate passes a tariff bill, and when and if the conference committees of the two houses agree on a tariff bill, then we may speak correctly of a Hawley-Smoot tariff. Until then there are two separate meas ures. We note that the allied farm organizations are demand ing boosts in the senate schedules on farm products. Among -the products singled out by these farm leaders are sugar and tobacco. Of course raisin? these schedules wouldn't help tii farmer anv because there sume sugar and tobacco than produce these, products. But on the good old rule of the three musketeers, it is "all for one and one for all If rates on corn and cattle are to be raised then rates on sugar and ..tobacco should be raised in order to get votes from other sections if for no other reason. Raising the tariff rates reminds us of raising a house by means -of jackscrews. If an equal number of turns is made for every jackscrew and the turns are -made at the same time the house is raised all right, but it is still leveL The ppliti- cat scneme oi course is to get mure iuiia uu uucs jackscrew than the other fellow gets on him. Then you are higher than the other fellow. The trouble this time is that most everyone has learned the trick and it is mighty hard to get in those few extra turns of the screw. Look at the sugar industry for instance. The Cuban in dustry i3 almost as much ah American industry as the beet sugar industry. But for the idealism of letting Cuba go semi-free in '98 it would in fact be American industry. As it is there is probably nearly as much American money in vested in Cuban sugar lands and mills as in American beet sugar lines. The difference in labor is that in Cuba the Cub an peons and Jamaican negroes do the manual labor. In this country it is the Mexicans and Russians who thin the beets. The Underwood tariff made the rate 1 cent a pound on Cuban sugar; Fordney-McCumber rate was 1.76. The house bill proposes 2.40c for Cuban and the senate bill 2,2c If the increase is granted the effect would be largely to stimulate production in Porto Rico and the Philippines which can ship duty free rather than to increase production of domestic beet. Sugar is naturally the product of the tropics. The best course for this country to pursue, we are convinced, would be to let the tropics be the sugar storehouse f5r this country. .We will profit more by trading with a prosperous Cuba than by trying to turn lands suitable for much other production in this country, over to sugar beet growing. The tariff battle in the senate does not promise to be so much of a battle as a stampede. Every senator wants to write the tariff bill himself and is especially belligerent at anything any other senator has written. The farm leaders urged the senate to pass the bill before the regular session convenes m December. From the look of things now the sen ators are digging in for an all-winter battle. The end may be a sort of mongrel production that nobody will be satisfied with ; or perhaps no bill at alL It win take much time and much trading of votes before the Hawley bill and the Smoot bill are joined in holy wedlock, 'let no man, not even the president, put asunder.' Not Guilty T is the difference in trading stamp to sell a spool ot thread, and giving away a premium to sell a newspaper subscription? Is giving away a trading stamp any woree than giving away a flag, or a jack-knife, - a safety-rasor. circus ticket, an airplane ride, a set ot dishes or an Insurance polior? Is rivinr awar a trading stamp any worse than giving awayms a bonus an out - of - to take the. Statesman!" Salem The resent management ting itself on the back for doing very commendable work in cleaning up bad practices in circulation promotion. We have done away with contests absolutely, wnicn were lormeriy em cloved here in circulation building and still are by some news papers. We have done away; with premiums. We do not "give away a single thing as an inducement to subscribe to the Statesman. Subscribers must pay the full quoted price, which by the way is slightly higher than the Capital-Journal. We do not frit away to any subscriber pocket knives, circus tickets or insurance policies, or anything eke. We do sell a limited accident insurance policy exclusively to our sub scribers. ! We do sell a Portland paper at a combination rate, made possible by the Portland paper. M But the Statesman isn't in the "give away business. Like the Capital-Journal and other progressive papers-we do stimulate circulation sales among carriers by offering them prizes for their work in getting subscribers; but that is quite a different matter from giving something away to the sub scriber. The Statesman is an applicant for membership in the Audit Bureau of Circulations, and is using only such circu lation promotion as meets with the approval of that body. The Capital-Journal's comparison of the Statesman's circula tion selling with green trading stamps Bimply doesn't fit -' ; Church News Notes , The Statesman owes a humble apology to the Presby terians for the social item of a few days ago which recorded their church picnic as on Sunday,' when in reality it was.on Monday, Labor Day. So we make the apology. We attends ed that church on the Sunday in question. Confidentially, ' the mistake could easily have been made. Where else were the people? " '. Is a family picnic on Sunday sacred and a church picnic on the same day a desecration? Now that Dr. Tully is home we can depend on it there will be no stray , sheep of Sunday mornings. ' ; , Besides the picnic season is about over. Last Sunday we shopped around and visited the First Congregational church. Dr. Ward preached a very good ser mon showing a wide range of reading and ft warm and kindly philosophy. The gist of his sermon was that this is not such a bad world after all; and sermon like that goes a long way toward making It better.' George Brown and Mark McCal , lister were ushers and they were very thoughtful Seated 'everyone at the back of the church. That kf t the front half wZfsi. -..-w' - - EdittmZlnagr " Unmgig Editor Tariff announced Congressman Haw- are more farmers who con as Charged , - principle between airing away a town newspaper as an Inducement capital journal. . s of the Statesman has been pat i - I mi wow ; - V 'vv w?i to fh .) m empty for the Sunday picnickers so the regular attendants could see just who they were. Dr. .Ward fooled his congregation Sunday by reversing the order of service. The sermon came early and the usual chores trailed along afterwards. This plan was recently giv en publicity by Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, author of "In His Steps" in an article in the Christian Century. The late-com ers were somewhat embarrassed to find themselves arriving in the middle of the sermon. Amonsr them the two Bits for Breakfast got in about midway it Don ts. lor Dinner. The collection came just Ward's church that is probably some churches and heard some preachers where a fellow would be justified after listening to the sermon to take a coin from the tray as it passed him to reimburse him for nis time. We wonder sometimes why fine. liberal churches like the Congregational do not thrive more; or in these days of theology-desertion why its half-brother, the Unitarian church doesn't grow very fast. These churches permit a man to believe pretty much as he chooses, and that oturht to appeal in times of credal breakdown: It seems though that when a man fmds he can think - - 4.1. 1 11- il tui&i,uuuunK aibugeuier, goes m i or goii. men people seem to preier to be tola what Dr. Payne has told us he swallow the whale or vice versa. So the next rainy Sunday we are going over to the First Baptist church for a demon stration. BITS for BREAKFAST By R. J. HENDRICKS Colonel William Thompson Soon after Us return to civiliz ation embarked In his first news paper restore. He was employed In the office of the Eugene Guard as compositor and foreman, and after the expiration ot the first month had to take the "plant, fixtures and good will" for his pay; in fact, was given the paper on a promise to ran it. After a year and a half he sold oat, clear ing, flaw. That paper is still pub, llsh, and is a property worth upwards ot 1200,600. :::.....V V , From there he went to Rose burg and started the Plaindealer, which w a a years afterwards Changed to the News-Review and is a valuable property now. His success was phenomenal, his sub scription list running up to 1200 in two years. He had the moral support of General Joseph Lane and pthr leading citizens. The net of the story as to Roseburg Is told in his own words: - ; "Bat at la all else in this world, success was not attained without gaining the enmity and bitter hatred of my would-be riv als In Dullness. Theirs was an old established paper, conducted by two brothers, Henry and Thomas Gale. They soon saw their bus iness slipping away and sought to regain it by indulging in abuse of the coarsest character. I paid no further attention to their at tacks than to occasionally poke tun at them. One Saturday eve ning I met one ot the brothers in the postoffice. He began, aa abus ive harangue and attempted to draw a pistol. I quickly caught his hand and struck him la the face. Bystanders separated us and he left. I was repeatedly warned that evening to be oa my guard, but gave the matter ; little concern. The next morning, Sunday, June 11, 1871, X went to my office as Was my custom, to write my let ters and attend to some other matters before going to church. Oa leaving the office I was joined by a young friend, Mr.! Virgil Cena. (Still living: in Roseburg.) As we proceeded down the street towards the postoffice X saw the brothers standing talking oa the street One looked up and taw me, evidently spoke lo his brother, and then started toward me., X saw at once that it was to be a fight and that I must defend myself. Some said I could have avoided a meeting by turning la a differ r a r; if - o.u of the sermon. Almost made before the benediction. -In Dr. safe; but we have been in for himself about religion he . , . to believe." They feel safer. can convince us that Jonah did ent direction. Probably I could, at least for a time, but I had started for the postoffice and there X in tended to go. As we approached the young men, one of them drop ped "behind, and as I passed the first one he dealt me a blow with a heavy cane. At the Same instant the other drew a pistol and fired, the bullet taking effect la my side and passlng.partly through. Stun ned by the blow on ay cheek, X reeled and drawing my pistol fired point blank at the breast of the one who bad shot me. I was then between the men, and turning on the other one with the cane, lie threw up his hands, as if to say "1 am unarmed. 'As X again turned he quickly drew his revolver and shot me la the back of the head, and fouowed it up with another shot which was aimed at the butt of my ear. I felt the muzzle of the revolver pressed against my ear, and throwing up my bead the bul let entered my neck and passed up through my mouth and tongue and lodged back ot my left eye. As X rushed at him he fired again, the bullet . entering the point of my shoulder, while another enter ed my body. That was his last shot. vv ... 'I was taken te my home in a blanket and few thought that 1 would Ure to reach it. X was not, horerer, done lor yet, and the next Thursday was out riding with one of my physicians. The affair created the wildest excitement, a noted surgeon. Dr.. Staples, com ing from Eugene city to attend to fr:ert!tThey calls him' by hU "givea" there was comment by , various publications, referring to the af fair as nbe Oregon style." I re fer to the matter here because ot the many distorted - and unfair stories that have appeared from time to time. It is In no spirit of braggadocio, but simply to ' give the tacts. That I deplored the af fair, aad deeply, too, I freely con fess, but only for the necessity that compelled me ta defend my life." : (Beginning about eight years later, the Bits man worked on the Roseburg . Plaindealer, and had charge of that paper good share of tie time for three years, as printer, reporter, editor and man ager. During part-ef that time he boarded at the house of the wi dow of Thomas (TommieM) 3ale an estimable woman. Henry Gale was for a long time and up to a year or so ago ' connected with newspapers in southwestern Ore gon and northwestern California probably is yet. In the following February (1872), CoL Thompson received an offer to take charge of the Sa lem Mercury He. says: 'Traders of the party, among them three ex-senators, the governor ot the state and many others prominent in the affairs of Oregon purchased the paper and plant and tendered me a bill of sale tor the same. Ex-Senator Kesmith, ex-Senator Harding, Governor Grover, ex- Governor Whiteaker, General Jo seph Iane and many others urged me to the step. They argued that I could unite all the factions of the party (democratic) in support of a party paper at the capUai o"t the state. To a young maa scarce ly 23 this was a tempting and flat tering offer. X sold say paper, therefore, at Roseburg, and with $4009 in money and good iaper, and a biU of sale of an office cost ing 12000, started to Salem:'' S H The office ot the Salem Mer cury was in the building now oc cupied by the Peerless bakery, at 170 North Commercial street, though the buildings in Salem were not numbered until years afterward. Rather, the office was up stairs, where the Shanghai cafe is now. The Statesman office was there, too, and afterwards oc cupied the whole building, up stairs ana aown, and the upper floor ot the one next to it. The Statesman was published there tor about 60 years. It was known as the Stewart buUding, the property of Mr. Stewart, who had been a high tone gambler in the Salem ot long ago, and was a resident of Washington. D. C, ia the 80's and f 0's, having retired. His agent In Salem was William Dumars, who had the telegraph office, and also the first telephone office, before there was a telephone exchange. The Stewart building had been also a saloon, at one time a pala tial affair, and at another time ot lower degree. The furniture store ot A. T. Teaton was in the down stairs part ot the building for a long time, la the tea and vO's. In the days ot Col. Thompson in Salem, the office et the governor aad other state officers were in the Turner block, diagonally op posite the Marlon (then Caetneke ta) hotel, and the legislature held Its sessions ia the second story of that (tha Turner) building. The state library-was on tha second floor ot the present Statesman of fice, across the street. What was known as -the "Ore gon style" ot newspaper life did not necessarily involve the killing or shooting up of editors, though there were a number of other per sonal encounters ia the early days, besides the blooody and fatal oae at Roseburg, Tha "Oregon style" is better defined by the habit in pioneer times of calling a spade a spade and a hoe a hoe, or worse, aad going after what tie writers thought abuses rough-shod. Near ly every pubUe man in those days had a nickname. His political en emies never called U. 8. Senator Delaaoa Smith by his right name. name, "Delusion Smith, and so the epithets went around. There were many fighting names baa died around, but this did not in ev ery case lead to some one being beaten up or te having "a maa for breakfast, as the ; saying went. There were enough personal encounters, however, to make up a good many pages ot racy history. THE TAIXB OF ADVERTXSIXa Does it pay to advertise? Some business men used to ask. that tuestlon. ; 2?ot many do now. For, not many who doubt sufficiently to neglect to advertise are left in business. But the National .Bu reau of Economic Research ans wers the Question rather f uUy and simply when it presents fig ures showing the amount ot mon- Editors Say: mr aaaat for advartXsins ia ti Unite States, ia It 27. tka last year tor whlci eostpleta reports ara available.- According to this authority. Americana la that year ipent Sl.e92,Q0,00a tor paid publicity, 6IMIM or mearty half of the amount having been paid U aewspapex. Surely these sivertissre found U . profitable. Tha amount spent by advertisers has been grawlag eaca rear, aad if buying advertising fPee were net a good investment, they would reduce or atop their expenditures for this purpose. The advertising bfll should be regarded aot mere ly as an investment by business. Xt is aa investment also by the consuming public. Ia the end, to ba sure, the publle pays , the ad vertising but, but ft is oae of the most profitable Investments" the public makes. There never could have been the mass production methods and an the modern sys tems o! distribution, had aot the demand tor commodities been greatly stimulated, and movement tn large volume assured. Adver tising has been the prime factor ia stimulating demand for a large proportion of merchandise ia use today. Through mass production, quick and economical transporta tion, and new methods of distri bution, the unit if produced much more cheaply and is sold at a narrow profitsHouston (Texas) Post-Dispatch, t EDITOR IiAVARRK AND TUB POWX21 TRUST "Things have come to a hell of a pass, When a maa can't waUop ku own jackass." That seems to be the situation dewa la South Carolina, where the Power Trust la being viciously attacked br William xvarre, ed itor ot the Columbia Reeord. About a year ago, whea the In ternational Power and Paper Co. was undertaking to create a chain store newspaper system, it pur chased the Record and turned it over to XAvarra and Harold HaU, two young newspaper men, along with several other newspapers. In return for this favor, the Colum bia Record, presumably; would deal kindly and sympathetically with Power Trust aims. Alas, following the disclosure of the deal before the Federal Trade Commission, Lavarre split with HaU and also with the Pow er Trust. Behold the Columbia Record now! Ia a recent issue ap peared a huge cartoon in which the Xvarre papers were pictured as the Statue of Liberty, from whose torch emanates brilliant rays which pierce the chaos and old night of Power Trust propa ganda. Again, the Record showed Old Man Power Trust, his pockets bulging with currency labeled "Gas and Electric Power Profits' tearing up a publle service eon tract. Ia its attempts to tamper with the press, the Power Trust has fared badly enough. In the Fed eral Trade Commission it found its Waterloo,- But the Columbia Record has administered the coup do grace. Once the Power Trust believed it coald propagandize the independent press, but now It finds it cannot even control a paper which it actually purchas- ed. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Tfa coal fire hep can b3 used as a IQtclicn Heater orasaltefuse Burner This range has the New Smooth Top UnivmalBmuM . With Coal or Wood IQtchen Heater . " ' z ' J TI3M!r8aI Balow Rane renders tho earns coaYcnlP find efficient ten of a PTrato mid eaiiSi Wtt coal cr woc4 ttoro to VzrUcately to the horaa where kitchen cpaca to limited, yet cae reoiirtoa a range of capacity the Urlis jrlll prore Ideaambining &s it doeafthe capacity ofa eXxSSiier nisr oae Tte tito hte compsrtmtat oSien a two-fold service as it can be used as an toctaerater to the dfcpccal of kltchea rcfixo cr us a coal or wood stOTe to heat theldlaieii. WM0 The lire dot is equal in capacity to the ordinary coal store and trrIVf?IJ?ow nan2 e! cast iron construction, IIltf1 S?1???1 especially fuel comumptionrhether it be fca. coal crwooda tLl .y00 to Tkit our Store Department xuid insncct to rcurcclf thh ntrr cjid (Incr ran. if!:i',?l Old OregonV Tows Talks from Tha States man Oar Fathers Read 'Bertember 11, t0a One of tha largest exhibits of farm implements at the state fair Is that ot Mitchell, Lewis and Sta ver, Salem branch. T, A. Ertron, superintendent of construction for the Lewis and Clark lair buUdlngs, earns up from Portland last evening. He says work is being pushed rapid ly and that buildings are within 2s per cent of completion. A liUte spider which is attack ing the hops this year aad which also attacks clover, is know as the clover mite, according tol. T. Reynolds, "who Uves en the Csr vais road. Two ears jumped the curve at tha east entrance to the new aid of the Salem Light and Traction company. They Say... Expressions of Opinioa from Kccoere ara for Vsaxa tha All Letters Ma Writer's Nsaee, Tboagh This Heed Kit be Editor Statesman: X am surprised to see aay of our judges would do such a thing as Judge McMahaa has done la this Hadnot ease. He talks about his girls being left without a home it he was put where he belonged but has he not got forethought how many more there will be for the state Co take care of if such low dowa holes are excused he does not know suppose they would be a thousand times better oft to be brought up by others than un der suck tot, and what about oth er young lives ruined by such dives. Some young folk get kind of unruly at home and being kept straight then they come in contact with visitors ot such "hen holes' and Influenced to come and join them and when they read of even our laws will take sides with such and then wonder why our reform atories, rescue homes and peni tentiaries are filled. I think we have a law requiring punishment for such and why have some "one man" like McMahan to absolutely ignore it I think it is a shame for citizens ot such a state, and why are we paying out for such men to hold offices. Our prohibition officials are doing their duty, to bring such as him and others like him to the bar of justice that our laws might be iniorced and then instantly to no avaU could we blame them if they did not do their duty, I say not, sometimes even risk their lives te do their duty and then see such doing aft er bought in. 1 have never seen anything accomplished under such rules. I am sure if some helpless poor mother which is doing all she eaa to keep her boys and girls going straight aad would go to these supaesed-to-be law inforcers to stand by her to correct her liberal ACawance ca Yoar Old Store on tht Pcrchaso cf a new Unireisal ca&drfa If unruly and disobedient authority but other times oven the laws which aare beea rotcd la bp public sums can be tramped un- dpi tnnt- X fiAK their mini! will go a ltttf farther in the future. . a m .- 1 ... . m .. a. wm - a a . a jaanoa voiaiy tisaaeni, Editor Statesman: Some days age- aa Item appear ed ia the social eolumne of your paper stating that the First Pres byterian church picnic was held at Mehama Sunday. We wish te state- tho 'picnic was not held oa Sunday, but was held Monday, La bor day. While this may seem but a triv ial error to seme, yet to a good Presbyterian it is Quite serious as we believe la "Runemberlng the Sabbath day and keeping it holy" and we do not approve of pieaies, ball games or similar affairs oa that day. We do art went the Im pression to go out among the peo ple of this city aad state that this church would tor oae moment ig nore the cwnmaadmeats of Gad aad desecrate His Sabbath ia any such manner. ' We realize that the statement was only an error suck as might bo mads by any newspaper, and simple ask that you rectify ft by publishing this statement ia as conspicuous a place as the one ia which the erroneous statement was made. t Respectfully, , C. D. CHILDS. J. LINCOLN ELLIS, Committee. 122 Arrests in August Reported By Prohi Chief According, to the monthly re port .ot George Alexander, state prohibition commissioner, to Gov ernor Patterson, agents of his de partment participated in 122 ar rests for violations of liquor laws during August, resulting in fines aggregating 1 19,0 50 and jail sen tences aggregating 132S days. sA total ot 4S1S gallons of mash.-l-120 gallons ot liquor and 14 stills were seised and destroyed and tour automobiles used in the transportation ot liquor were con fiscated. NoMoreGaaL In Stomach and Bowels te ba permanent? ra ffs ta toaamch mmd bowel mana'a Caa Tablet, which pnmmnd pacta Uy for tomach gat if tha bad affacta reasitia frooj Sa praaaaaa. That ampry. growtna- faeUas at th pit of tha atonaca will diaappaar; that assteaa, aarvaaa faaUns with heart pat. itatioa win vanish, and jroa will again ha abia to take a deep breath withoat discomfort - . That drowajr. aleepy foaling aftai diaaar wOI be caplacad by a desire fog fntertaiameat. Siootn wBl cease. Yaw Uiaha, anea aad lars will aa feasor rod aeld aad t steep' be. aaea Baabaaaafa Caa Tablets promt fas frees infrforlno'with the circula noaa Cot tha aoauiao,te tha r0ew pack 's, ee aay geed drag etera mee i. Always oa hand at DANIEL J. FRY'S it-: