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About Weekly Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1900-1924 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1905)
C2Z3C1T " BTAT2I . v.aLiYcniccri states: won.).. . , .,... , rL , UL ij-Lnjuu. Pb tl!iii mry TttMtey M Friday by the , bx aiuhaJI FUBLIfiHTNa COMPACT . auBacKirnoa atzs. r year 1n edvsnee....... ........... intas. Instance... .,........ 1 en months, la evanoe......... V . Att tl MA .-'- .23 . 7 EUteemas ku ben established krittrlt t ft wo yni- mud UfeasKHBesabeer-berswbo rertvwi it swrly thi loat, and BABy bebi ntd it lor gener-LUoa. Horn et 1 otfe t tunas te paper Uie-oiiUuned t i&e I; ue of explrmuua of tkirlr sabeeripOona. t or tb benefit of these, and 'or other fMtogt bAreeoDCioded to43oaUnoe nbertptoni o!y weu O-Kifled to do so. AH peraona peyi f scbecrlbng, or perlEf ta adraaee, wUl tvs the benefit of (be dollar rate. Bat Jitney Co not per f..r six montht.U-e rate will be $L25 a year. - Seraa-ie. wo will send the paper to ail r pern ,. persona who ordr ft, though tbey aay not aeod the money, with too adersUod 1 3 g UiaUhey ore to pay 11.20 a year, la ease tbey li tbs rabecrlpUoa. account ma ortr Hi nootijs. in order that there may be no mlsaa 4erundng. we will keep this notice ff irillni at tbta place In tho paper. " " CIHCULATION (SWORN) OVER 4000. INlOhl LOVE IN SILENCE. As the great sea holds in her dusky heart ' - - The wealth-' of native pearls and vir , gim gold;.. The .splendors heaped ot galleons un ' told, ' - " That" lost great London or the Spanish . mart, v , ... And gained the ledges noted of no chart- ' Rubies and opals with their hearts "grown cold, Bpieesand oils ami ambergris ont . ' r rolled, A deep-sea summer where' the great ' ribs part. So is my lore with silence all en shrined, " And thou canst never know bow in the deep, That' passion which was never to , be won, ' That service which for use was ne'er designed, That' vearning heart of things tin- mentoried sleep, " ' Hid at the core of bleak oblivion. 7-Duncan Campbell Scott, in ttmart Bet. ' - Say tie hop men: "Let us spray." , , A common topic of conversation yes terday -was the . weather. ' . i Hop men shonld remember that con stant spraying is the "price of liberty from the hop louse. " 4- V '. ;.' - :; -v;. I. as stated, radium generates life, it might be demonstrated by trying it on some of our latent industries. We notice by the society column of the Washington Post that George Uewey is atill admiral of the navy. ;'. - 1 ' The bankers of Oregon have organ ized. Now let's organize the borrow ers, as the latter will make much the larger association. j: , A Brooklyn girl was wooed and won in a bathing suit. The Nashville Ban ner suggests that the man was prob ably from ' Missouri. - oajy and shipped, back' acroef the Bio Grande when they have deposited their ballots. - Hence these Texas tears. N. TVHeraidV- t ? v' L ' :'-: - '7 The Statesman is always willing to give every side of t a question full and satisfactory;, hearing, but its columns sometimes are so filled, with news that it is imposaible to give space to long communications in any one issue. Some wheat dealers declare that the price of that cereal is too high; but they would never get s farmer nor an agriculturist to agree with their posi tion..; !i " ( - - "'" taking up the question of railroad ex tension to that district. California is after it, though. . - , It has. been suggested that the gov ernment cotton reports suould be ex cluded f ron the mails. - Peary's ship certainly made a mis take if , it sailed without one of Mrs. Woodcock's Eosenfeld battle flags nail ed to its mast head. I M Company or the Oregon National Guard, hailing from this city, has cov ered itself with glory, as was to .be expected, at the annual eneampment. s, ta asui vo.ue um the season 1 best 4UscipUnea eompanyf in ine ja tional - Guard, a? thing' having a ten dency to cause a feeling of pritle in the Capital City : ' J i ' j :."" . Are not the correspondents of the press pitching the congressional cam paign of the firs congressional district in rather too high a key for so early It would really seem that China had some interest in the outcome of the peace congress, as Manchuria, the bone of contention, belongs legitimately to her. ' - 'i Smith of Josephine is going to be the Democratic candidate for congress, it is said, i Smith of Josephine is at least a campaigner and will give zest to the campaign. An exchange says laborers on the Panama' canal have eight hours for labor, eight hours for sleep and eight hours for meditation on what they left behind tbem. Law son ' admission that he wronged the American people out of the mil lions be possesses sounds like the rant ing r of the reformed drunkard and gambler, whose sins 4 have been as scarlet, but who now is like snow, to hear him tell it. Yet up to the present time' no one has heard of Law Hon giving any of, his millions of wrongfully be gotten 'gains back to the dear people. He needs them in his present campaign of education to pay expenses. The Walla Walla, Statesman calls Sec retary Bonaparte the ideal insurgent of America. It says Republican leaders like the appointment because well, they just ean't help themselves. Tom Law son ' advieee.to everybody to sell stocks does not mean that those who have none shonld sell short. At least not without putting Tom himself next to the tip. i Walter Wellman says the life insur ance companies of New York have tak en '300 millions of dollars more from the people during the past half a cen tury than they should have done. -We are sorry, but if we had time We'd go and take our share of that sumlet back, but this is 'our strenuous time' waiting for our winter's wood. 1 v . Easing, onions, as advised by New York physician, mighf aid the one eat ing them to remain eool, but bow about those who get eaught in the highly fla vored rustle of his breath 1 ;' , inside our; income, , and rebuild .theso bridges as we have in the past," and I f let's take from our road tsxv money every year and demopstrate ibis perma nent plan on such smaller bridges where the saving is by far more marked, where spans that are now from twenty five to thirty-five feet long, ean do re duced to a ten and twelve-foot -con crete span arched and filled. Let us do Mr. Witte, would prove more witty if be talked Iess. VAfter the peaee con ference much of what he has said to newspaper, reporters is liable to look like he bad been playing to the gallery. There' is no doubt that the simple absence of a. gun from his pocket has saved many a. man from trouble. The presence of it there has gotten lots of men into trouble. - The moral is obvi ous. ' There are many who believe Elibu Boot the coming man, and . that bis ambitious hopes for a career as presi dent of the United States had as mueh to do with his giving up a law prac tice with a quarter of a million a year, as his idea of the public duty of. a . - ', v.. 1 party to adopt it as a party plank able man, a, true Republican and , his f f, ..v EDITORIALS OF THE PEOPLE! , (Continued from page 3.) Dust In the Eyes. Editor Statesman r, notice by the papers that an effort is being made to confuse the voters on the matter of the bond , issue for our new bridges. A statement, signed by half' a dozen' Democrats baa appeared to,linnr m itnn votinv as muehr US DOS- t mfrrht'rH -kd if these baii 1 To the Editor: dozen lawyers voluntarily got together , It is to be regretted that in the suit and examined the law thoroughly, or brought, against D. Clinton, a foreman did they sign the statement at tho re- of the Pacific States Telephone & Tcle ,Mt r .nm nther nartieaf Whv did srapM Co.. for mutilating shade trees in not these courteous gentlemen who pro-, this city, that a verdict of guilty could LEFT FOR DEAD TIMBER LOCATOR MARSHALL IS " , : CLUBBED BY ENEMY NEAR ' TOWN OF MARSHALL. something practical first will ' "etazes nonr toT9 AJd Com(K we are collecting, and demonstrate that i . . - - we are capable of doing things. - l axaiyxsa ana wear unw ueain urn iicspccuauy, I is mn who jjrove uirae Mccarty Trees Most Be Prctocted. cured the signatures have an opinion from the city attorney on the subject! Did they intend to insult him by seek ing outside opinions! It was a very diecourteous thing to do, to , say ;the least. Salem has an attorney employed for just huch purposes and pays him a salary, for examining into these legal matters. Why go to the expense ox em STEVENSON, Wash., July 2 . Club bed into insensibility and until the low er portion, of his lody was paralyzed, Edward Marshall, timber locator and the man who . three ; months ago dri-e Miss Birdie McCarty, of the Heryfor.l not have been had, . XV uvAFtl vam niaf If line lhAit flt custom of the telephone- company to of promise fame, from a claim in ruthlessly cut and slash shade trees the Uig Basin country, lay thirty hours whenever tbey saw fit, with perfect in the brush half a mile from Steven disregard for the rights of the owners, j sou aud ia now nere, with slim ehanfen The suit which has iust terminated of 'r2'ovrry. Marhall was found lat was brought by myself reluctantly. ' rUinv night. He was undoubtedly left The trees in front of mv I residence . Ior 'd y his assailant, an. I was in a ploying six busy-lawyers to look into were butchered against my vigorous pitiable condition when found. the matter when the exact status could have been learned .for nothing! Does it not smack of narrow minds and aim- Tirtktamt n Twl T sootn J1 if a Antv mm m f - - - - " "V Marshall had been in Stevenson' on resident and an officer of the city to Thursday, aril about 8 o'clock in thi af Justice The way the Democratic press of the United States approves the reciprocity I theory," and calls on the Republican candidacy has mueh back of it that is popular. ; ' ; ! :;. :J': .' should ; certainly . make Republicans afraid of it if .nothing else did. The Washinfttoa Post quotes that part of Judge Bennett 'a speeen in de-1 m a a ae-f. B a si 1 Henry Litchfield West .writing in The Forum for, July on American -politics, ir. at a lam r iv. fense of Senator Mitchell wherein the. judge touched on politics, alluding to v.out, . . ' iml uii thiit fit a rsviiinmit will T- hia xrv ia fa the Demne.ratie tiartv . J ' i a a. ai a t .1 A a ' at a.d .aceredita it to Senator Thurston. I lura luc The Post naturally was surprised to find Thurston posing as a Democrat, but. if it will look the matter up it will no doubt encounter its error. Tnurston is a pretty good Republican. I brinST the GTUlitV Parties tO lUSUCe. in ' ternoon left for n - eabin on rri.,.V ilar motives when such discourteous . the criminal court, if possible. ; (where he has. ?n stopping. This ca- bome measure must be adopted by the bin is about half a mile from the tutrn. legislature or municipal bodies for. the 'It was 10 oVhwk the next night before protection of ornamental and shade j be was picked" up bv Henry Uarwood. trees, or serious trouble will surely f el- A bruise on the head showed wnere a low, for to ignore tne rights of others dub had Hvn used with gotxl effect t may not always be accepted by some knock him down, and on his body were people without resistance. j several other bruise-, caused- by" heavy x was pieaaeu 10 reau in ma columns I Mown. Hw wa searcely able to move. methods are resorted to! Salem, July 21, 1905. rilng at ' 'Englewood.' r Editor Statesman: ... I see the taxpayers league -is up in arms soakinar . the administration, in the absence of V Eleven and a half per , Jr Pf nr. uownmg, a Xhe victiin wa brought to Stevenson, eent," Englewood takes the firing line, councilman irom the rirst ward, had it wag supposed in a dying condition. ike the taxpayers league the admin- introduced a resolution at the last meet- jre ua9 uot Kiven ation has already stood and now , in8T f tbe common council, instructing taiant but am it the city attorney t . draft an ordinance jho was -dissatisfied, with Marshall's to protect the beautiful trees of Salem. . rwnnectiaI, witu the timber situation in the nan if his im- wm a Portland man Unl istration stands ready to back every proposition it ma ires for the Dublic food. When- o ' X I . - vsaas . VKHI n I I U till IHIM" ii,. Aw,..AU;tnM 4 vnalr I 1 AfTt nmtA anrn Air Tnntnn -urilf ml.. ... Cirtrr LUC UUUUBniuu Mlsca a IU laaau i i ... u..u ...... - 4 Iha Ifiw I! 13m ihf rnt n lu.nt ai.voii the iMlministration is there with the j th ordinance , keep in mind the miUn nortn of ntevenson. Marshall goods." Should the taxpayers league ; best interests not only of -th4 eity. but he has wen the alleged aKg -or or any one else ask for evidences of i " citizens, and I trust the same may ia"i'crnAn,m with renewed confidence. He says all voters will want to know "why thj policy (of f.ree purchase abroad) pre scribed by the president -(in the pur chase of. canal supplies) for the rich nation is not also an excellent thing The accident to the' Bennington was - for the poor individual." The answer, The New York World's writer who said it would take 200 years to build the Panama canal is eligible to the office of president of the National So ciety of Organized Knockers. 7 : NO APT TO UNDER ASK. The remark of a writer that Japan will demand a thousand millions of dol lars from Russia and that she would at least try to ask enough to cover the cost of tho war has led another to say that. Germany -has long regretted her modest indemnity demand from France. fThis reminds the writer of the pro pritor of the Hotel de Los Leones at Granada, Nicaragua, on the occasion of the visit of Admiral .Walker and his canal, commission a few years ago. The commission remained two or three days at tho Hotel, and on leaving ttio' paymaster asked for the bill, re ceived it, and immediately drew a cheek on the government for $1200 in pay ment..;;.... ." " 1 A short . time afterward a friend of the proprietor found the latter gentle man walking up and down the inner corridor of the hotel, making very evi dent gestures of anger. -What is' the matter, friend!" he asked of the hotel man. 'r. , - 4. ' 4 Matter! Matter hd! There's all kinds of things, the matter. There's that dn commission sent down here front the United States government. I made out " a bill for $1200 expecting them to kick at paying me so much in Nicaraguan bills, and he gave me a check in gold. I am ad n fool that I did not make that bill $1800 in Amer ican dollars. He'd have paid it just the same and just as quickly.'.' The difference between $1200 in gold and $1200 in" bills of the country was then about $700O in bills.1 Japan, is not likely to make the Gra nada hotelero 's mistake about the in-demnity. Colonel Bryan certainly can't be serious when be suggests that free sil ver have another chance! However, it is about as worthy of serious reconsid eration as the question of tariff reform. The Schuberts, Belasco and Minnie Maddern FiakhavaorganizeL a earn bine to fight ihe theatrical trust. Now look nut for barn storming .and other attacks Of a peculiarly theatrical char acter. ' There is talk of having everything wide open on the canal strip. As it is only a short distance to the Panama line anywhere, and as Panama is wide open day and . night?, tlie necessity , is evident. Hair Failsi ' . . m : - - '" . I tried Avar's Hair Vigor to stop my bair from falling. One- Dair a borue cured me." : J. C "Baxter, Braldwood, IU. A'ycr's Hair Vigor Is ccrtsinly-the njost cco nonsicalprcparttionof its kind on the market. A little of itoes a long way. : It doesn't take much of it to stop r falling of the hair, make the hair grow, tnd restore . color to gray , There is talk of Togo making the trip from Japan via Frisco to Washing ton. He will see how America admires a 'hero if he does. He will probably wait till he has helped take Vladivos tok, however. one' of those things which could have been avoided had it , not been for the length and crookedness of the govern ment red tape. It was known that the boiler which exploded was weak ami ahould have been repaired before any further use. was made of it. The pain however, will likely be made by the voters of the country that the policy is not good, either for the nation or for the people. ; A QUESTION OF FREE TRADE. CoL C. ti. S. Wood in the Pacific Month- of -the department at hearing of the Iy Put" in P,e for freedom, of ped- accident might have been materially dlers' privileges because peddlers offer lessened bad it not been so slow -in o dering proper repairs in this ease. As this paper has ' contended, the ed to sell ".good stoves and good wa gons" to the farmers of eastern Ore gon and Idaho a little ebeaper than the country merchant of that district offer- people of Germany will pay the in-' ed them the same line of goods. crease I taxation on meat imported into I ; The plea is one of those so, often that country and the price has risen j heard of the specious class; of a plaus f rom twenty- to twenty-five per eent . ible appearance at first sight, but on sioee the new tax wan put on. A tenable in the actuality. 'The average strong agitation, is being raised there peddle? takes from the country and for the return to the lower tariff. Thus .gives nothing back to it. Being nomad- r. " . . . . . . l I m is the wind being taken out ' of . the sails of the tariff reformer in the Unit ed States who wants us to adopt a reciprocity treaty with ; Germany, .on the ground that Germany would shut our meats out. J ' ' Law son says if he lives he is going to .lake the American people sell every bit of stocks they hold, and also make tbem refuse to buy them back. Prob ably have them sold to the natives of Bool a Boola, Ga. t Joban Hoch, convicted of murdering his wives, has written to Rockefeller, Helen Gould, and. others asking for money to pay for his appeal. He still says he is not guilty. My, he must have a handy sort ot a memory.. : I V A "dude's dope" bill is proposed in the Georgia legislature, "A speaker de voting j some attention to cigarette smokers said they look like a cake of tallow and smell-like a polecat. Which no doubt will be approved by some non smokers. ' The government is going to build forty-two echool houses along the Pana ma canal route. It is to be hoped it is for the 'purpose of educating the people how not to have yellow fever. Or are they for the edification of the mos quito! i Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte has ' returned various railway . passes kindly offered to his position by num erous Hues.' He will pay his railway fare when the government transport service" can 't reach the point' he wants to go". If " '' ic he has no home, supports no part of the government where he -works; is a consumer -of the products of (the coun try where he works for only a day. Making no improvements in the coun try, supporting no producer of tle coun try, inaintaining no establishment, hav- . It seems. that the late jury that tried - ng but little or no capital invested, Congressman . Williamson, Mr. Biggs there is no argument in favor of per and Dr.' Gesner is , having a hard time . mitting his calling without special tax ation, that will hold water. ? The eountry road, or the city street, are his store, the railway depot his warehouse. These he demands shall be good faith on the part of the council in its efforts, I doubt not but it can make a satisfactory showing. ''There is no effort to keep anything under the eover and an itemized : account of ev erything can be shown when wanted. Fear ox exposure accompanies every be speedily and unanimously passed. Mrs. D. 3; Fry, President Salem Park i Board. BENT. f HER DOUBLE. "I knew no one for four weeks when f .. !. : a. i- a i i " ' i . step of the league, and its challenges, wn .ypnoio : ana xianey although eoming from.dark corners, are i """" ' , ? V 1 . 1 OI met and genenUly set at naught. Hon- i P,,"bHrgVPj, '1 and Tf " ? got J"""' .. ,..,nw-. r-o, ..rr..,.. although I had one of the best doctors and are always ready to be investigat-! f uI I lnt double.and had nmt An the ri&ht .id - r-ntlemei- f re8t my hands on my knets when II and heln nush Salem to the front. The ! walked. From this terrible affliction I', in The bond issue reduces taxation over $200 per year. -Taxpayer. getting squared before the people.. It Is rattier unusual for. the daily papers to pretend ability to keep the public informed of the doings of a trial jury while it is supposed to be deliberating. . freely given him, while the merchant One or the jurors is now quoted as say-1 with whom he comes in , competition, ing that on the first ballot there were' who has the "stove and wagon ".in his five who favored the acquittal of Wil-j stock constantly, along with the other namson and three who favored the ae-t things the farmer demands every day, qnittal of alL It is also stated that.for the farmers' constant convenience, those of the jury who were favorable j aids in the construction, of .these roads to conviction labored with the others.! od streets and their maintenance. his strenuously for the purpose of turning tbem to their own point of view. Salem might 'get in touch with Castro of Venezuela, and thus be able to lay aspnalt instead of selected gravel or broken rock on its main streets. An exchange is authority for the following: President Castro of Veneuzela is now selling asphalt in the open market and in consequence anybody with a know ledge of the paving business can bid for contracts. The city, of Buffalo is reported to have let contracts for as phalt repair work at 74 cents a square yard, against $1.23 a square yard paid one year . ago.. The Barber Company, well known as the trust, came down as low as 80 cents a yard for repair, said to be by far the lowest price ever made for paving of this' kind in Buffalo. - In the good old days before there were any trusts the old-fashioned gold en (sic) C sugar sold for about seven to ten pounds for a dollar. Now that the mean old trusts, have gotten in their direful work, real genuine refined sugar is worth ' less than 6 cents A pound. Down with the sugar; trust, and let's revise the tariff. . " ' '. t ir rT 't eanaet anrly . ..4 JM .k. Z : ,vur aeare-t e "?JH'&lr. J.CAl iu-i. CO-, hOWtA, mimm. ' Hanejoek certainly was right when he said that; the tariff was a local -issue. Some Webb county (Texas) onion grow ers now want a protective tariff to keep out - the peon produced onions of Mex ico. -Galveston New - It would ; be more effective to keep out the peons who are imported for voting purposes . Kev, Dr. Gunsaulns, in his speech on Gladstone at . Gladstone Park, ( Friday, beame rather fulsome. He likened him to no other diplomat, scholar, arch aeologist, orator,! or ehurehman, and claimed for him the peerage of all in versatility, detail and character. This matter ? will perhaps be questioned by a. great many ' who ' have, ever recog nized Gladstone's worth, ability , and character. ' It ,1s very difficult to esti mate the' general rating of great, men in comparison to other great men. The world, however, . will oftentimes differ as to the value-of men and as to their position in public lite. Therefore, while Dr. Gunsaulns is no doubt absolutely sincere ; in believing Gladstone ; the greatest man in public lines he inbound to meet - the difference - of - opinion of which we speak. - ' - - -. This merchant of course sells wares for a profit. His profit must pay many expenses not borne nor contract ed by the peddler. He carries in his stock many articles only demanded oc casionally, but which he must have on hand when required. A great deal of his' capital lies idle -for a great part of the year. This is at the demand of the farmer, and the allied interests of ag riculture, which include every other of the arts and sciences. Thus the store, the business of the merchant is held a legitimate one, because all insist on the conveniences of the place to trade. But unliae the peddler, he is stable; is constant; is always there. The lat ter, is volant; a hapf a corae-by-chance. He i not io ; be depended upon, nor looked for. If the farmer or other pur chaser wants credit he gets it from the merchant; if as a producer he has pro duce for sale, all. the time, he sella it to , the merchant. The imerchant is there always ready to buy. Why then demand this immunity from taxation of the peddler on whom the producer or consumer . ean count for' only an occa sional or periodic visit f ' . Who' Englewood '7 Editor Staesman: Is Englewood a -voice from the peo ple or a voice from t'ae taxpayers league! He is free and ready to jump J uaiu LUC prupusitivu ui uuuuiuk vuv for new bridges." Uy! Will it de crease the value of his building one cent to have it located in a city with modern avenues of ingress and egress! Will the tenant who pays him a smart rent every month object to having the city fitted with ' good safe bridges whereby the farmers ean bring in their familiee and buy More goods at the store! -Will not the additional trade sure to follow this improvement of the city's structures bring in more rent to the landlord! Where is the business policy of blocking this intended im provement! Would a paved v street en hance the value of his property! The writer has lived in Engleewood for twenty years and feels a gross injustice in done when the idea is suggested that it is not for progress. We are always ready for improvements. We feel that Salem's administration is progressive and we stand ready to support it in the matter of badly needed bridges. ' Englewood Resident. Salem, July 20, 1905. ' was rescued by Electric Bitters, which restored my health and strength, and now I ean walk as straight- as ever. Tbey are simply wonderful."- Guaran teed to cure stomach, liver an kidney disorders; at Dan'l J. Fry's drug store; priee 50c. : For -sorn 'time there has been ronsid--eraM? bard feeling over Big I la fin tim ber, Marshall troie Itinlie MeCTarly and George Howland from a cabin- lie claimed was his about April 20th of tli'n year. For . this 'ho was arrested and bound over to keep the peaee at $.'00 on April 22.. Marshall wa said at tlx au time to le holding1 the claim im der '' instructions . from Frederick A.1 K'rils, of land fraud celebrity; Two Portland girls have been living a cabin near Ste-enon for two or tnree weeks, and Marshall In hu'kI Io hive l-ven . in their company. It ii elainvd, however,, that this );i4 nothing to lo with the attempted murder. STAT FX MAN CLAKSIKIKD A US BKINO gtJH'K .KKSl'LTS. r Notwithstanmng drer four millioa dollars is to be spent in improving the agricultural character' of the Klamath basin eountry,1 up to the hour of going to press we have heard nothing about Portland capitalists or other interests WANT TO REDUCE INDEMNITY. PARIS, July 22. The Russian pleni- Ktentiary had a two-hours '.talk .with emier Rouvier today and was receiv ed in audience, 1); President Lou bet at the Liysee palace. No 'authoritative statement was given out concerning the meeting. One report is M. Rouvier and M. Witte went over the prospective peace negotiations; . dwelling particu larly on the influence France eoold ex ert on Great Britain to induce the lat ter to moderate the Japanese demands. It is also accepted the view "of .tte is favorable to a ISusso-Japanese under standing by which lasting peace in the must citner bond oar eity or close the far east will be secured. The prospects t bridges seems welL it seems "heao of this understanding are regarded as. damn funny." See. It does seem that Burning Question. Editor Staesman:' " . ' ' The burning question these hot days for the people of Salem to cooly con sider is this: Is it good business policy for Salem to add another bunch of, interest-bearing bonds - to our present bonded indebtedness. That is such bonds as we are now asked to vote on. A bond that will add $1500 per year to our present $11,500 interest budget, all of which bonds are for investments that give nothing in return to meet the interest. We now have in round figures $250,- 000 bonded indebtedness, the interest of which takes about one third of all we tav as taxes to' our city. No in come save and except the armory and the water company's rooms, lr we were at this time called on to vote ior me purchase of the present water supply system with the purpose of increasing tne supply to meet tne growing aemanu of the growth we are looking Ior and also to give the city a pure water sup ply. Say such bonds would aouoie our present indebtedness. Would it not be much easier to meet the interest of such bonds with the income the eity would have and would not such a move be much more practical and much more needed than to bond the city for what will be a dead letter and decidedly an unknown quantity! Tne arguments so far presented by those who seem' to be pressing this question on the people, do not seem to have the elements to grow in favor with men who have to struggle to pay their taxes on their homes. Who ever heard of bonding a eity to give employ ment to its paupered citizens! As well might a carpenter mortgage his home to go to Portland with his fam ily to have a good time. Tho latter would be about aa reasonable as to bond the city to give i employment. There is another point that should not be overlooked. We live where piling is the cheapest "and bridge lumber at $10 per thousand. ' If we were shipping this class of material from Alaska or British Columbia it might bo different. Then come . the- advocates of this bonding proposition and say that the bridges are xeady. to be condemned and no ' money to repair them. Well, tuts seems a corker. When this eity was much . ' Smaller than it is now these bridges were placed where they are br tne general .road tax money, which I venture, was not as high as. we are paying now, and by less people and less property. : Hence, to say that we now i - - ' - " Ik' w r,- for Infants and ChUdren, j The Kind You Have Always llouglit Iia lionio tlio signa ture of Chas. II. Fletcher, and lias been made under hi personal supervision for over SO years. Allow no ono to deceive yoa in this. Counterfeits, imitations and Jast-os-god,. are but Experiments, and cjidantrer tho health of Children Experience agralnst Kjcperimcnt. The. Kind Ton Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of S9 In Use For Over 30 Years. TO THE: (DILliD IffldDMIIHi ..... t .. .. ...... . ........ . If yoa are going liome--to your childhood's , home this year, remember that the NORTHERN PACiFlC leads to ev- erybody's home. You can go by way of St. Patil to Chicago, or St. Iaiuis, and thence reach the entice East and South, Or, you can to Dnlnth, and from there use either the rail lines, or' one of the superb Lake Steamer down the lakes to Detroit, Cleveland Erie, and Baflalo the Pan-American City. Start right and you will probably arrive at your destLia tion all right, and, to start right, use the Northern Pacific, and preferably the "NORTH COAST LIMITED" train, in service after MAY 5th. Any local agent will came 'rates. A. D. CHARLTON Assistant General Passenger A rent, POSTtAKD, OKBOOM. CUT THIS O UT To the Northwest Poultry Journal, Sajem, Or: : . Enclosed please find 10 cents for a three month' trial sub scription to the NorUiwest Poultry Journal. If I do not stop it at that time you mag conlinne to send it and I will pay 50 cents with in six months for a year's subscription: If not paid Ml the end of the year the price will be CO cents. one ebiet means by which Japan may be induced to abate tb severity of her conditions, particularly on tho question ot indemnity.- r -, - - - r ; - we would be taking hold of onr spirit of progress at a wrong point when wo add bonds to stare the newcomer in tho face. IS o don't do it, boys. Let's keep Name. City. State.