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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
TUESDAY. OCTORER 21', 1930
CapitalJiJournal
Salem, Oregon
Established Much 1. 1M
An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except Sundj
hi 1U a Commercial Street. Telephone II. Nem a
OEOROB PUTNAM. Editor and Publisher
SUBSCRIPTION KATES I
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By mall In Marlon. Polk, Linn and Yamhill counties, one month to
cents; I months 11.25; I months 12.23; I year $4.00. Elseanera Mc
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of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper
and also local news published herein.
"Without or with offense to friends or foes
I sketch your world exactly as it goes."
Byron
Making Salem the Goat
The Portland Journal seems very anxious to see the city
of Salem get into the light and power business and is con
stantly urging this municipality to expend its millions in
such an endeavor. The Journal grills the power company
for having taken an option on the original filings on Marion
Lake made by Engineer J. G. Kelley which were offered to
fcalem and rejected repeatedly.
' The amount of power that can be generated at Marion
Lake and the cost of its development are unknown and can
only be ascertained by an extended survey. If the project
checks out as theoretically estimated by Mr. Kelley, and
proves feasible, the company plans development. If not, it
will let its option lapse.
A similar survey should be made by the city of Salem
before it plunges into the power game. It may prove eco
nomical and practical to generate this power and it may cost
more to develoo and deliver the power than it is now fur
nished for by private companies, in which case it would be
folly to attempt development.
The experience of Eugene is no criterion, for Eugene
has the McKenzie river in its backyard that has many times
the Dower Dotentiahties of Marion Lake and the North ban-
tiam, as its volume of water is far greater and its cost of
development far cheaper. At the best the amount of power
that can be trenerated by balem is out a traction ot tnat
available for Eugene. As far as water supply for the mu
nicipality is concerned, it will be increased rather than
diminished by power development at lake and in stream and
not threatened, if its use is desired.
Why is the Portland Journal so interested in Salem's
power development and so uninterested in similar develop
ment for Portland? For 17 years the Portland city charter
has permitted municipal development of power and during
all these years nothing has been done to secure it. Portland
can at any time acquire by condemnation the existing hydro
electric plants furnishing its power yet the Journal has
done nothing towards this end, contenting itself with dem
agogic attacks upon the power interests.
The Journal's present remarkable interest in Salem s
power development is just part and parcel of the racket
being worked to elect its largest advertiser governor by
fanning the flames of hydro-electric hysteria. That is why
it picks on Salem and lets Portland alone in the development
of "free power without cost to taxpayers."
Political Frankness
There is a refreshing frankness about Dwight Morrow
that is rare in politicians. In his speech opening his cam
paign for the senate from New Jersey he said:
All parties, Including the Republican party, have been wont to credit
themselves with whatever good times happened during their term ol
power, without looking for the deeper reasons that underlie the ebb and
How of prosperity. Any party which takes credit for the rain must not
be surprised If its opponents blame It for the drought.
That is just what is happening to Mr. Hoover and the
Republican party. In the last campaign the party was point
ed to as the source from which all blessings flow and Mr.
Hoover even guaranteed permanent prosperity and the abo
lition of poverty and things haven't worked out that way
at all. If they had, he would have taken the credit as usual.
And if Al Smith had been elected, he would have received
the blame by Republicans there is no doubt about it, just
as Grover Cleveland is still blamed for a panic that was in
full swing before his election.
So the politicians who claimed the government responsi
ble for good times find themselves hoist on their own petards
and the people, resentful at being flimflammcd, ready to
turn the rascals out for selling them a gold brick.
The blind former Senator Gore of Oklahoma, however
says, there is no truth in the assertion that the President
has not carried out his campaign promises: I deny the
charge. He has carried them all out on a stretcher. And
he won his greatest fame in feeding the starving people of
Europe. Just wait until we all get into the bread line and
then you'll see a wonderful example of engineering efficiency."
sugar trust plantations where they
are using thousands ol Mexicans to
"get the protected wages" than
the tune Is changed and wa hear
the slogan tb tariff must be high
enough to exclude foreign goods.
And tnat is what has Happened.
U. 8. Steel has grown until it Is
tha largest alngla tax payer la the
nation and what Is mora import
ant Co you It la tha largest single
inouta gatherer, no tribute gath
erer for old Roma ever fUled Caes
ar's coffers with gold as has tha U.
S. Steel corporation levied lta trib
ute upon us. What Is U. S. Steel?
It Is a colossal aggregation of a
hundred or more large concerns. It
dominates not only steel, but rail
roads, mines, bsnks it Is Wall
Street Itself. Last year It made net
profits of IS'4 per cent alter de
ducting every possible set off that
expert accountants and crafty
lawyers the beet that money can
buy could figure out for them. It
rivals the government in sire and
Its dominating Influence permeates
the very capltol Itself. Every citi
zen In America pays tribute to this
idol You pay In freight rates, for
rates are based upon valuation and
steel prices determine valuation.
You pay in taxes, for your bridges
cost more. You pay in rents for
construction costs more. In a hun
dred ways the people pay.
We are building eement bridges,
cemeni roaos, at public expense.
The tariff increases tha cost of
roads on an average of $1300 a mile
and you pay in taxes.
Sugar has been a beneficiary ot
the tariff since I was a baby. And
the party that gives it the tariff
has been a beneficiary by liberal
campaign contributions. It was
Orundy, who Just a few months ago
in the investigation by the senate
committee, replied in brutally frank
terms, "that tariff beneficiaries aet
only what they pay for." All your
me you nave been paying this trib
ute to the sugar Idol. And the Idol
attendants have fattened from your
tnotite. The stock of the sugar
trust has increased in value from
1100 a share to over $1000 a share.
Yet this idol stlU demand- evenJ
greater tributes and got it. They
got a rate of $2.40 a sack Instead of
the old rate of $1.78 throush the
efforts of the chairman of the ways
and means committee. The rate
was cut to $2.00 In the senate. That
means that every time you buy a
sack of sugar no matter what the
retaU price may be you pay the
tribute of $2.00. Oregon pays an
annual tribute of $2,000,000. The
people of the nation nay $300,000.-
000. That Is enough to buy every
acre of land used In the sugar In
dustry, pay $300 an acre for It and
BUY IT EVERY YEAR. Why do
we do It? Ask the heathen why he
onngs ms tribute to the idol. He
has been told it will appease the
Idol and break the drouth. Since
we import four-fifths of all the
sugar we use why should we tax
ourselves $240,000,000 on this four-
fifths In order to give the trust
their sixty millions of tribute? Why
aon r, we just give the idol its sixty
millions as a subsidy and keep the
outer Z4U minions in our pockets?
I'll tell you why. It would wash
the paint from the Idol and the peo
ple would see the sham and might
refuse to give the idol lta sixty mil
lions. It would be too plain. Idols
must be kept painted. Steel Idols
are mora worshipful when coated
with aluminum paint. And alum
inum also demands lta tribute. I
can remember when aluminum was
a new thing. It was back In Mc
Kluley's day. So a trtbuM was lev
ied to protect tha Infant. And the
babe grew. It's a lusty giant now.
It belong to Andrew Mellon and
his family. Mr. MeUon'a income Is
rated now at $100,004 a day. But
tha aluminum Idol atlu eriea lor
tribute and OET3 IT. Our chair
man ot tha ways and means at
tended to that.
Another idol we worship la the
subsidy Idol. This idol la very old.
Our grandfathers worshipped It.
They gave away mUllons of acres of
tha public domain as aubsidles to
railroads. Tha Union Pacific got
283,000.000 acres ot land besides
finances at the rata of $10,000 a
mile across the plains and $48,000
a mile over the mountains to Sac
ramento. Some little gift to the
Idol wasn't It? Canals got aubsi
dles, barge lines got it. And we've
kept it up. Right today wa give
subsidies to manufacturers by low
ering the freight rates on goods In
tended lor foreign shipment. Fer
tilizer costs our own farmers double
rates over what It costs the foreign
buyer.
When our war closed we found
ourselves the possessors of over
1500 ships. Some very line on re.
We Junked the whole lot. Most of
them brought three cents on the
dollar although they were brand
new. And then the subsidy Idol be
gan to wear a coaxing smile. And
our generous Uncle Sam turned
around and gave fat mall contracts
to the very buyers of our own ships.
And in addition to the regular price
for carrying the malls we added a
aubsldy of ten mlllionj a year to
keep the idol satisfied. And Presi
dent Coolldge signed a ten year
contract to that effect Just before
he laid down the sceptre and begun
punching the typewriter for the
news columns. $100,000,000 of sub
sidy given to 25 steamship lines.
Why it figures out we are paying
$1000 a pound to carry mall to
South America.
Why didnt we keep the ships and
carry the mail ourselves? Ask the
heathen Chinese why he lays his
tribute at the idol's feet. And yet
you wonder why the postoffice de
partment has a deficit so large
that it Just lent polite to discuss in
open meetings like this, why your
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burning, aching nerves. Those stub
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Rats in the Idol
Speech delivered before Salem Chamber of Commerce by
W. A. Delxell, Democratic Candidate for Congress
Our missionaries tell us strange
stories of the customs of heathen
peoples, of their blind faith In idols
of wood and stone. The poor
heathen believes that bjr appeasing
the Idol with gifts and laying hi
tribute at Its feet that sickness can
be cured, pestilence banished,
drouths broken and prosperity as
sured. So the poor "benighted
'eathen with his hayrick head o'
hair" crawls on his knees to the
idol bringing gifts of his scanty
atock of rice In times of famine, and
the crafty prophets of the Idol fat
ten on the food thus brown hL
Over a hundred years ago a
church hymn was written which
has been sung by every generation
since then you recall it now
"From Greenland's Icy Mountains.
One verse I recall runs
"What though the spicy breezes
blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle
Where every prospect pleases and
only man Is vile.
In vain with lavish kindness the
gifts of God are strewn
The heathen In his blindness
bows down to wood and stone."
A story comes down to us from
the Chinese that two statesmen
were discussing the condition of
the realm probably they were
State Committeemen when the
younger asked of the elder: ,
"Sir, what Is the greatest danger i
to our country? and the elder re
plied "the rats In the Idol."
"What do you mean?"
The Idol the people worship Is
built of wood.
full of rats.'
It Is hollow. It Is
Can we not get rid of them?1 J
'All. that Is the problem how." Vt
"Couldn't we smoke them out?"
That would profane the idol."
"Could we burn them out?"
"That would destroy the Idol.
"Could we not drown them out?"
"That would wash the paint
from the Idol and the people would
discover It was only wood. They
would no longer bring their trib
utes to It."
There are political Idols in Amer
ica as well as heathen idols In Chi
na. Some of thorn are only wooden
well painted but full of rnts.
We have long worshipped these
idols Jiwt as blindly as any heathen
devotee ever crawled on his knees
to his wooden Idol. And the rats
have multiplied and the politicians Bm
havm twwm nfrniri tr m.ilrat tham aft"
out. or burn them out, or drown
tlvcm out for fear of "washing the
paint" from the Idol and the peo
ple would discover the lake.
One of our Idols has been the
tariff. It was argued when I was a
boy that a protective tariff was ne
cessary to protect "infant Indus
try." When the Infant grew up to
bigger than Its Pa and threatened
to kick the old man out ot doors
then it was argued that a tarlfl
was necessary to protect labor.
But when It was discovered that
In those Industries where the high
est protection was given tlie wages wt'
were the lowst. notably in the steel
Industries, aluminum and on the
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rates were raised on postage, and
why it is cheaper to tend goods by
express than by our own parcel
post. And ships have rats In them.
too, you know.
Democrat are such fussy terriers
lways pointing to rat holes I
But the people are murmuring.
They were promised that tf they
would briiif in an additional trib
ute of $40 per family and lay ft at
the tariff idol's feet the idol would
smile a painted smile and the
clouds would roll away and the
sun of prosperity shine again all
in 2ft hours Just like that I But
the same day when the morning
papers carried the news that Hoot
er had signed the Smoot-Hawley
bill, the evening papers carried the
headlines "Stocks sink to lower
levels," "Wheat drops four cents a
bushel, "Cotton market makes a
new low for the season."
And out here in Oregon we find
our wheat at 4ft cents a bushel at
Wallowa, wool at lowest prices In
years, our prunes unsalable, and
hundreds of lumber mills closed
down. In the Eugene district alone
out of 156 mills all but 23 were
closed down last week. Thousands
of men out of work.
Figures complied to September
26 seven months' experience under
the new tariff shows that ret alia
tory tariffs have been erected
agalnH us by many nations. Our
foreign exports business decreased
at the rate of $100,000,000 a month
and still decreasing dally. England
bought 43 million dollars worth of
cotton where she bought 73 million
last year. Our foreign grain mar
ket dropped 43 millions. Our for
eign automotive orders dropped 35,
500 cars to 14,700 cars. Argentine,
South Africa, Italy, the United
Kingdom all cut their orders In
hall or more.
Our total automotive prdouctlon
decreased fifty per cent.
What's the matter with the old
tariff idol that it doesn't answer our
prayers?
Does rt not remind you of old
Elijah on ML Cannd taunting the
priests of Baal when their god re
fused to answer their prayers and
send down the fire?
Must we, like old Elijah, cry tn
taunting term "Cry aloud; for he
is a god; cither be 1 talking (for
campaign purposes) or he is pur
suing (some voter one Independ
ent) or lie is on a journey iw u.w.
convention at Denver, or neradven-
ture he sleepeth and must be
awakened."
Is It possible that this present
"slight depression", "readjustment
period" is actually like the gold dust
twins washing some of the paint
from the gaudy old idol? Are the
people discovering it Is only a
wooden Idol after all?
Mow hard It Is for a heathen peo
ple to lose their faith in the old
Idol of their forefathers. What a
lot of missionary work must be
done to get them to see the light
and break away from age-old
delusions!
The ritual ot our Idols tells us It
Is holy and righteous to give trib
utes to steel, to sugar and to alum
inum. Our money is sanctified
when we pay subsidies of millions
to shipowners, when we grant
freight subsidies to foreign ship
pers, when we settle with railroads
after the war and give thcra in
gold two billion dollars lor rehabili
tation, when we settle with war
contractors and give them one bil
lion six hundred million for unfin
ished contracts. It is incense to
the idol when we levy a billion dol
lar tariff tax upon the people. But
It Is sacrilege Itself according to
the high priest of the idol to give
even an indirect subsidy to agricul
ture by enacting the export deben
ture bill for farmers. Holy money
In our treasury must not be cast
before the swine. It is needed for
subsidies to shipping, for hundred
million mail contracts, for adjust
ments with railroads and war con
tractors, and TWO BILLION
EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-
ONE MILLION must be handed1
back to war profiteers ai tax
refunds.
Our boys can go to the front and
fight for old glory while profiteers
fatten. Wifcon can levy an excess
tag upon the profiteers and take
from some of their ill-gotten gains
but when the war 1 over, tlie rit
ual of our idol tells us "profiteers
must not be taxed" and Oregon's
idol votes to repeal the tax and
then proceeds to give back to them
much of what had been collected
trom them.
And when u was proposed to pay
our veterans their adjusted com
pensation cK $1.35 a day and 17
now In gold. The high priest of the
treasury says it would cost too
much. A billion dollars Is too great
a strain on the treasury. But a bil
lion wasn't too much to give tlie
war profiteers. Tliey have given
back nearly three billion already
and it will soon be four billion un
less the people wake up and dis
cover that the idol Is only wood
end full of rats. One of them a
lawyer in New York, got five mil
lion dollars fee for his share of the
pickings.
And while the idol wonhlpp?rs
blindly follow their foolish faith
we look out over America's fair
fields, ble&scd with bountiful crops
which cannot be sold and we real
ize what the old hymn writer meant
"where every prospect pleases and
only man is vile." We look out and
see thousands of farmers being dis
possessed by foreclosures, hundreds
of mills closed down, mil Hons of
men out of work, tramping tlie
highways begging for a job and
wives looking fearfully into a win
ter ahead, thousands of small mer-
chants struggling against chain
store competition mergers violat
ing the Sherman ant t-trust hun
dreds of banks closing and Wall
Street crashing with stock panics.
What a picture of our fair landl
And the idol worshippers offer us
as the only remedy "give higher,
tariff tributes to the idol; morel
subsidies to the favored contract-'
ors; less taxes for mill ions Ires and
more tax refunds to prof liters."
Are you an Idol worshipper, my
friend, or do you dare to think for
yourself.
Have I wastied a bit of paint
from your idol? Will you help me
restore tlie real religion of "equal
rights to all and special privileges
to none" the ideal of our fore
fathers who founded this nation,
the ideal of our fathers who fought
to preserve the union the ideal of
you veterans who fought to make
the world safe for democracy?
Or will you blindly bow down to
the painted Idol of special privil
eges for the few and tax burdens
for the many?
Let us add a new verse to the old
hymn:
From Siskiyou' snowy moun
tains From Oold Beach's sunny strand.
Where the waters of Rogue river
Roll down their golden sand,
From Uinpqua's peaceful valley
To Clatsop's breezy plains
They call us to relieve them
From Hnwley's tariff pains.
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