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THE JURY QUESTIONS THE GOOD JUDGE AND GOES ITS WAY
SUPPLY OF LIVE
STOCK INCREASES
For -the first time in many
ears, information collected by
the department of Agriculture
fshows that all classes of live
.stock in the United States are
increasing in numbers. Thus the
. real facts contradict, absolutely,
sensational reports ' that prices
for meat and shoes would rise to
unprecedented figures in the im
mediate future. It has even been
, said that a Government statis
tician predicted meat at 50 cents
a pound and shoes at $10 a pair
Tvithin the next two years. Such
a prediction, the real Govern
ment statisticians say, is quite
unwarranted.
On January 1, for example,
the number of beef cattle show
ed an increase of 3.4 per cent
over the number a year ago, and
an actual increase of 1,212,000
head. Hitherto the number of
"beef cattle in the United States
has declined steadily since 1910.
There are also more milch cows
specialists, while ridiculing the
notion of a horse famine, nro
convinced that farmers will find
it profitable to use good work
mares for breeding more stock.
1 As for hides, the situation 13
jnot quite so clear, but even here .
there has been much gross ex
aggeration. From two-fifths to
less than one-half of the leather
used in this country Is imported, ,
about 25 per cent of the foreign ,
hides coming from Argentina,
jl5 per cent from Canada, 11 per
I cent from "Mexico, sya per cent
from European Russia, and 7
per cent from France. Since
the outbreak of the war impor
tations have shown a certain
falling off; those for September,
1914, for example, being only
34,000,000 pounds, instead of 45,
000,000 pounds the year pre
vious. There is, however, little
reason to suppose that this de
crease will be permanent or of
sufficient importance to create
any real scarcity. Since the
great bulk of the imported hides
comes from countries that are
not at war, shipments are not
j interfered with in any way, and
the only new factor to be con
sidered is the possibility of an
! increased demand by the war-
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Jn the country than last year the ,ring countries
.macaw, uwub yei m ux R Jg
iuarbo uV.awiu,- fte United states
crease of
however, that
is now in a
hnftpr ponrtltlnn tn fnrf snoh n
all classes 9.G per i ... F , of
1 sirimtinn rnnn fnr vfinrs nnsr.
cent On January 1 1914 there he t s hag turned
were on y 58.038.000 swine , in fld Qf Uve gtock st eadl, de
the-country; on January!, 1915, lcrea. m&
64,618,000. Thisisacountedfor' f e firsfc ag has
by he fact that the production beQn saId M dasses shmy an
ot swine can be increased more .,. . ,,,
5,ii n, r -h appreciable, increase. Including
rap dly than that of other classes horses mu, mHch CQ beef
of live stock and consequently sheep and swjne there
more readily.
The prediction of 50-cent
meat and $10 shoes was accom
panied by the declaration that
France alone has taken from
America nearly 300,000 horses
within the last five months and
that the other countries at war
have drawn upon our resources
in the same proportion. The
.facts are that more horses were
on the farms of the United
(Were on January 1, 1915, 7,712,
'000 more farm animals in the
United States than on January 1,
1914. The increase in the total
( value was $78,024,000, or 1.3 per
cent. It is quite true that this
increase is not yet proportional
to the increase in population,
,which is approximately 2 per
cent; but the fact that there is
an increase, that the tide seems
definitely to have turned, is re-
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MEASURES PASSED
cnrrlprl hr a Riifl1flint nnswpr tn
States on January 1 1915 than aarmlng exaggeratlons ana mis-
leading figures.
. there were a year before, the in
crease being 233,000 head or 1.1
per cent. So far from France
alone . having taken
horses from us, the total exports
since' the war began have cer
tainly been much less than 100,
000' and very likely not over 75,
O0d, Since there are approxi
mately' 25,000,000 horses alto
gether, in the -United States, the
drain on account of the war is
jscarcely alarming.
,-lt is, in fact, pointed out by
Silvertnn A new Lutheran
300,000 jchUrch to be i,uilt'40 x 90.
State Conservation Commis
sion costing $5,000 goes to wall
as an "adjunct of Pinchotlsm."
Senator Moser has introduced
a bill to regulate the manufac
ture of matresses.
With a 20 day limit in force
in the House and bills unfavor
ably reported immediately kill
ed, the volume of new laws will
Government statisticians that! be smaller than in 1913.
the market value of farm horses
"has actually declined' to such an
extent that the average is now
ahout $G a head less than a
year ago. This decline is most
aioticeable in the cotton states
,and in those states which make
a business of breeding horses
for sale in other sections. Mules
have declined even more than
horses, their value being npw
$11.50 per head less than a year
ago. The explanation Is to be
found Jn the depression on ac
count of the cotton situation in
the South, which is the great
market for mules. An improve
ment, in this respect will do
much to restore tho demand for
horses, so that Government
Dorenbecher Furniture Co.,
Portland, will enlarge plant with
0 story concrete factory.
An orphans' home is to be
established at Ashland.
Continuing appropriations
amounting to $849,900 repealed
in House.
More freak marriage laws will
drive people away from Oregon.
Brownsville Force of men Is
clearing ground for large build
ing stone industry near here.
Between semesters tho O. A.
C. glee club members were giv
en a trip by tho railroad com
pany in payment for concerts
given for the company.
Trade Commission bill was
defeated in the Senate.
(Continued rrom Pago ..) ji, ,
desire to make a record for eqon-
omy. If this is preslsted in, it
will, in my opinion, do more to
discredit this Legislature than
anything else; ' especially", Jjc
cause the legislature has, in its
own operations, set a new high
water mark for extravagance in
the hiring of clerical help. We
have, at the middle of this legis
lative session, more clerks than
were employed by the end of
the session of 1913. I beljpve
there is yet time for the legisla
ture to show that there is no
economy without efficiency and
that if the legislature attempts
to make a record for money
saving without regards to the
real needs of the state it will
make the most serious error
within its reach.
As I am writing this, the
House has just had the good
'judgment to indefinitely post
pone five constitutional amend
ments which it is proposed to
put upon the next referendum
ballot. So far but one measure
has been submitted to the people,
by the legislature and that is the
single item yelo by tho Gover-
nor and for which there is a
genuine demand. I hope and be
lieve that the House will not as
sist In loading up the ballot with
bills and amendments for which
there Is no demand. The resolu
tion drawing the most fire this
morning was the one introduced
by Mr. Schuebel, proposing, to
limit land owning to cltf.enEhof
the United Stales. The Hoiisc
very sensibly refused to raise
this issue at tills tlino, tius
allowing a real consideratlon.for
the national administration and
government.
Tho plan for consolidation of
commissions which has bben
prepared by Senators Day and
Barrett and which lias been oil??
liner! Rnver.nl timed tn Mm nlfn'.'
gonian, undoubtedly, will bo pre
sented before the end of the ses
sion, but unless it is forthcom
ing soon it can hardly be expect
ed that it will be passed by the
Legislature, which already has
much more than It can possibly
do in the remaining days.
The greatest opportunity that
the Legislature has Is to segre
gate the Important from tho un
important measures and con
centrate upon the former In the
hope of getting something im
portant done. It will be appar
ent within a few days whether
or not this opportunity will bo
embraced.
ALLEN EATON.
W.C. T. U. COLUMN.
The Arizona Situation.
The Injunction ask'cd for by
the liquor interests, reinforced
by the hotels, drug stores and
the Catholic church, in their at
tack upon the prohibitory law
of Arizona, was refused by the
United States district courts of
Arizona and Southern Califor
nia, sitting together In Los An
geles. The judges ruled that
the evidence was not sufficient
to justify the granting of an In
junction preventing enforcement
of the law. The court also re
fused to grant a stay of execu
tion' until the Supremo Court
could pass on the case. Tho wets
havo appealed to tho United
States Supremo Court.
The liquor men, the drug
stores and tho hotel men aro as
sailing the constitutionality of
the law upon tho ground that it
Is confiscatory and that it ex
ceeds the police 'power of tho
state; tho Church upon the
ground that it interferes with
tho religious liberty to use fer
mented wines for sacramental
purposes.
Saloon Licenses an tho Bargain
Counter.
A saloon, liqensq In Chicago
costs $1',000; but tho holder, in
the palmy days of tho liquor
traffic, has often sold one for
$2,500. There has come a slump,
inoro friends In the United
States today than It had before
however, and licenses havo de-, tho fall elections of 1914 and tho
prociatcd In value forty per cent.
The liquor interests of Chicago
and of all Illinois feel themselves
to be under the shadows of com
ing events. The W. C. T. U. of
the state pertinently reminds
them speaking of last year's
spring elections that
"Mary had a llttlo voto
Which roamed tho Sato about
And everywhere that vote
got In
John Barleycorn got out!"
liquor traffic many thousand
moro foes even in rather es
pecially in Ohio" and California.
Reckloss Livers.
Prof. Charles S. Carter, lec
turing before a grammar school
on the nature and effects of al
cohol and pointing out particu
larly the result of its use upon
the liver, thus summed up: "Vo
perceive that alcohoj destroys
one of tho most important or
gans. " The reckless" liver, In a
word, winds up a livcrless
wreck."
"Do more laboring men own
their homes now than under the
saloon rcglmo?" This was ono
of sixteen questions sent to fifty
cities and towns of Tennessee
some time ago. Tho replies
showed an increase of 48 per
cent in the number owning their
ov;i homes since prohibition
went Into effect.
F. A. Taylor & Co., Seattlo,
building contractors, will erect
a number of new dwellings ut
Uaudon.
P r-ii i-fi m i v j r "i milt1- VriT T ' 1 f 11 " ' 1 -JWmm'
'All thBLtnthiraPthm
&Qsth&sjxiagaV&me cost
The average tax rate in tho
37G Incorporated towns of Kan
sas, including state, county and
city, is only $9.97 per thousand
assessed valuation. And Kansas
towns don't stint on improvements!
Wo venture tho statement that
prohibition has many thousand
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