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PAGE EIGHT Let Us Do Our Balloting Reason, Not By Hate THE CAPITAL By ( (From the Portland News) r K little while ago we Oregon ians were a prosperous, happy, harmonious people. Today we are (till prosperous, but we are far from happy or harmonious. Hate and distrust of one another are In : our hearts, why? Because a erouD of shrewd men living in Atlanta, Georgia, work ing upon the racial prejudices of that state, built up a secret order. r sold memberships and regalia to the white men of the state, and made for themselves a great deal , ct money. Because these men, strangers to ns. organized their klan ' in Ore ; on. set Protestant aeainst Cath olic. Gentile against Jew, native- born against foreign-born, sold memberships and regalia, made great deal of money and slipped . away, laughing in their sleeves, Profiting by Hate Because, before thev deoarted they delegated to Oregon men of ; the same ilk as themselves author ity to carry on the nefarious work of the klan. These men we have till with us one an ex-llneman ; one a labor renegade, one a road- ,; house proprietor, one a dis-barred i lawyer, and so on, adventurers all, living by their wits, hiding behind pillow cases anil high- sounding titles. These men, pretending a Telle Jous conviction they do not feel however sincere their followers may be, would seize the reigns of government in tbls state. They would give us, not demo cracy, but rule by an "invisible empire." , That must not be! The News can say these things .' because both the Pope ' af Rome and the Imperial wizard at At lanta are less than nothing our young livesl . A governor of Oregon Is to be elected on Tuesday. November 7. Forget for a moment the bom bast of professional politicians Forget partisan sophistries. For get considerations of a "relielon which has been injected Into the campaign, where it doesn't be long. ' This Is the simple fact: A can dldate for office is an applicant ror a job. There are two applicants for the job of governor of Oregon Ben W. Olcott, who seeks re-elec tlon, and Walter M. Pierce. Olcott Is a quiet, methodical painstaking executive, who has in him a streak of courageousness you might almost call it stub oornness r when opposed in course he considers right. He has been a good governor. What about Pierce? Pierce Is an englma. He is at once a hard-headed and success ful dirt farmer and a visionary He loves to advocate fine-spun theories, but lacks the nerve ti apply them to his own business. At the 1919 session of the lee islature Senator Pierce, who now ays he will, if elected, cut Ore gon's tax burden In half, Intro duced a measure so wild, so Uto plan that a Trotsky would have viewed It with alarm. None was more glad than Pierce himself when the crazy proposal was hilled. He proposed a soviet. He did not call it that In the bill, but in Bad Breath Js Vsually Due to, r.nnjttiiMitinn When you are constipated, a u m ..-'. lubricating liquid is pro duced in the bowel to keep the food waste soft and moving. Doctors prescribe Nujol because it acta like tliia natural lubricant and thus replaces it. Nujol is lubricant not a medicine or laxative bo cannot gripe. vliry it today. i A UWIMK-ANT-NOT a I ax aiivc) im i' mummmmmmwmmtfwmammmrwmrm'', ''service of supply department." He proposed that this department should supply Jobs for Jobless men. : . Supply and demand? Tut, tut! If a man is willing and abls to work he is entitled to work, at good wages, eight hours a day. If such a man cannot get work in private employment, the statu must employ him. To do what? Anything. Work must be f mi nil for the poor fellow. Fierce was not in an economical mood in 1919. The trouble with Pierce' If ha may be analyzed by one who has Known mm long and held him in high regard, is that he suffers from a consuming itch for hitrh public office. He loves .the llmellKht and an- plause. He has personality anil magnetism. He speaks in a round, Dooming sonorous voice. Loving applause, he tells his audiences the things they enjoy hearing. I believe he does this uncon sciously sometimes. Livestock men borrow Se he tells a gathering of live stock men in eastern Oregon : 'I'm against 8ner cent, it fan't in the business." The livestock meen cheered the utterance. Yet it is of record that Piu lends money and takes mort. gages at 8 per cent. The klan and the feriemtari . cleties endorsed him. The pulsory school bill is popular tn mose circles. Bo he issues a statement for Portland consump tion only: "I favor ATI A vnfa for the comnulHorv erinpoti bill." And the klansmen cheered. But the bill Isn't SO lloniilnr In eastern Oregon. So the candi date sends hia brother Charles to eastern Oregon to tell the elect ors there that "Walter had t! say that to get the ku klux vote." xne tact is that Plrc um for office, has thrown a sop here and a sop there to rt vnt. A good word for sory education bill was the price he paid for the klan's support. tie WOUld have tho rant nf ... forget this doubtful indnraa. ment by roaring up and down the state that "taxes are the issue." Taxes aren't the issue, al though perhaps they ought to be. "Religion," God help us! is the issue. That Pierce could reduce taxes If he wanted to is doubtful. That he wouldn't if he could is certain.11 He never has. His long legislative record proves this. Preaching economy, he has been a spender. We will have more to say about this later on The eyes of the nation are on uregon. Materially, ours is a new state. Its resources have not been scratched. We need ma terial development more rail roads, more highways, more in dustries. We are planning an exposition for 1927 to advertise Oregon. We want substantial people to come to our state and to invest their money here. I do not know what nromiaes Pierce has made the klan. " I do know what unholy, immoral promises the klan has exacted from candidates for lesser offices. And I do know this: that, if Pierce is elected, the great Amer ican dollar, always a coward, will shun Oregon as it would the plague. I know "lBat thought ful men will not want to come to Oregon or Invest their money here. I know that, if Pierce is elect ed, the klan will claim credit for his victory, and that the word will go out over America that Oregon haa been seized by the lorces or Digotry. And Oregon will be well adver tised then with reverse Eng usn. There won't be anv need nf fair if Pierce is elected. And there won't be anv mnnnv In Hra gon for Pierce to sav But more important even than our material nroHneritv la m, L.M.HUM Care of YickSoTong Chinese Medicine and 'Tea Co. haa medicine which , will cure any known dis ease. Not open Sundays IBS South High Street Salem, . Oregon. Phone 28 J spiritual trell-being. I do not mean this la any ehurchly or theological sense, t am pretty well sickened of churches, .all kinds. I told yon long ago that T V l - . I , TT. 1 "...II . x wan uilAipiscupaiiail. II would take; an eloquent divine to convince me that churches do not do more harm than irood in Oregon. .. t ' . Let us shake off this obsession planted in our hearts by those Georgian mischief-makers who. caring nothing for Oreenn. have set friend against friend, neigh bor against neighbor. Let us nut hate and distrust out of onr hearts. As we were before the invad ers came, let ns all be friends and neighbors again I JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON HUNTER IS FINED $25 HERE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Subscribe for the Journal John Welz, a resident of Gervais, n tanned to Iav a tint of $25 and eosts when he pleaded guilty before Judge G. E. Unruh in the hmticB court this morning to a charge of hunting game birds with out a license. Weiz was arrested early in the week by Boy Bremmer, deputy state game warden. ME ADO YVLAWN DAIRY Phone 90F12 Inspect our dairy. The state Inspector says "It's one of the best in the state. Investigate the source of your milk. Subscribe for the Journal '1 Capital Junk Co. ANTS All kinds of junk and second-hand goods. We pay full value. gl5 Center Street Phone 398 Cooking Utensils t; CLE For quick results on aUmetalwareuse sapouq Cleans . Scours . Large cake No . wastff Munf tctonr bock Morfu'i Soni Ce. , NnrYork, U. S. A. DOC Grass' WANTED Beef, Hogs, Calves, Sheep, live or dressed; also chick ens, Eggs and Sutter; lest cash price paid. PEOPLE'S Meat Market 155 H. Liberty Street. Phone 994 mm FREE LECTURE On the COMPULSORY EDUCATION BILL by Wm. McDougall Noted Orator and Educator of Washington, D. C. ARMORY Tonight, 8 p. m. Come and learn why this bill should be passed . & A. S. It. School Commission, 721 Gasco Bldg., Portland, Ore; (Paid Adv.) Ford Prices Greatly Reduced Now Lowest in History. Read the Salem Prices, Then Act Chassis Complete . . . .$420.32 Touring Complete .$492.72 Roadster Complete ...$462.56 ' , , Truck Chassis Comp. $471.52 Upe Complete ; -. V 635'20 Tractor ............. $484.60 Sedan Complete , . .$702.80 Each Model With All the Latest Improvements Phone 1993 Valley motor Co. N. High T E Ins sue an: xposition :ate Development OU ARE ASKED to vote November 7 on a constitutional amendment authorizing the city of Portland to levy within the city a tax of one million dollars a year for three years to finance the proposed 1927 Exposition. There is evidence that plans and purposes of the 1V27 Jixposltion are not juuy under stood and this message is being published to give a more complete understanding and to gain state wide approval of the Exposition plans. J It should first of all be made plain that the proposed three million dollar tax to be levied in Port land is contingent upon the raising of a fund of one million dollars by private subscription the men who are pioneering the building of the Exposition showing their own faith in a material way, J The one purpose of the Exposition is the development of Oregon and Oregon resources, J Oregon, twice the size of the state of New York and one of the richest sections of the world in natural resources,' has less than a million population instead of the four or five millions which the state can easily support and which in turn would contribute to the support of the state. J Oregon has fewer people than the city of Los Angeles. I Oregon has only eight people to the square mile. California has 22 and Washington 20. J Oregon is burdened with taxes and the one sure relief to the individual taxpayer is more people to develop more wealth to share the tax burden. CI Vast areas of Oregon soil, as fertile as the world contains, are untouched by the plow because the people of the world do not know of their fertility and opportunity. J But these are facts we all know, 3 We are all agreed as to the need of development in Oregon; now let us see what the 1927 Exposh tion can mean in bringing about that development: j It is proposed that the 1927 Exposition shall be the central feature of a ten-year development plart, for the state. J The first essential of this plan is that the people of the East who can better their own conditions by coming to Oregon be made to know what Oregon can offer. J It is planned, if the Exposition measure is approved at the polls, to begin, not later than 1924, a' campaign of advertising which shall cover all the rich states to the east of us. This advertising is to appeal to farmers, stockmen, orchardists, manufacturers and tourists, telling each of these classes of the opportunities which Oregon offers them and inviting them to come and see for themselves. All this advertising will lead up to the 1927 Exposition, but it will be intended to attract not alone sight seers but settlers and investors even before the Exposition. JJ It is planned also to continue this development programme after the Exposition is ended and until q It is proposed that the Exposition shall strongly feature the products and resources of Oregon, so that visitors will become interested in the state as a place for them to live and prosper. " JStl iTfelf"6 giVCQ PPOrtnity 10 Wfit b0th b' P"1-- exi: lnt J Those who sponsor the Exposition believe that these olanq will 0,. - j . , ,, . markets, more comforts and conveniences, with reduced taxation.' condition, better, j In the present condition of the United States and of tVi i will not e speedily unless well Sl to the Exposition measures to be voted on at the poTNovember I confldcntly e 7 approval Why the Exposition Has Been Set Forward From 1925 to 1927 The change of date from 1925 to 1927 has been made because it has 6,p a, possible to build an adeauate Exposition and to coordinate d it fea turZl , t plan for Oregon decent in the little more than tWO year, ! ihri? ifj, . Exposition Committee George II Baker, ice-Chairman Managing Committee MANAGING COMMITTEE P. r. Griffith, Chairman A. H.Lea George L. Baker, Vice-chairman. John F. Daly Guy W. Talbot Ira F.Power. W. W. Harrah F. C. Deckabach William Hanley Emery Olmstead FINANCE COMMITTEE GTyTTjd' Ch0iTman W Ira F. Powers John F. Daly A. Cranston fi. bmith Nathan Strauss PIIS ADVERTISOIEOT IS PAID FOR BY FIVE HUNDRED OREGON CITIZENS ijfUUUUI
