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2 VfflHV CZt&ZH STATESMAN J X ublished ivery ..Tuesday sad Friday .... ; by the . STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. . - SUBSCRIPTION BATE3. ; ' : One year in advance. . '. .... ...$1.00 Tx months, in advancw....,...r. J50 Three months, in advance JZ5 One year, on time....... ........ JL25 The Statesman ha been established for nearly fifty-two 'y;ar, and it baa some subscribe n who have reeeived it nearly that long, and many woo have read it for a generation. Some of these object to having the paper discontinued at th-3 time of expiration of their gob serlptions. ,Kor , the benefit of these, and for other reasons we have conclud ed to discontinae ' subscriptions only when notified to do so. All persona paying when subscribing, or paying in advance, will have tb benefit of the dollar rate. But if they do not pay for six months, toe rate, will be $1.25 a year. , Hereafter we will send, the paper- to all responsible persons who or der it, though they may not aend the money with the understanding that they are to pay $1.25 a year, in ease they let the subscription account run over six months.' In order that th;re may be no misunderstanding, we will keep this notice standing at this place in. the paper. ; CIRCULATION (SWORN) OVBR 4000. '-It is now, suggested that a dual tar iff might not be so bad if the Dingley tariff is made the minimum. The hop industry will prove the sal ration of the Willamette valley this year. Woodburn Independent. Re spectfully ; referred to the W. C. T. U. J A Washington paper says toe Repub ifcan party hoards 'and employs its good sense at tho right time. That editor forgoc about Oregon. Here it board it up, but fails to use it. A numjer of candidates for congress . throughout the country who are talk ing for a low tariff in favor of foreign countries should remember that for eign countries have no vote on con gressmen. As the Washington I'ost well says, the country is not nearly so clamorous for yellow statesmanship as it was last summer. The times are too good, and good times and the yellow colored statesmanship don't work well at the same time. tit left to farmers, the present tariff schedules would not be touched. But it is easy to guess what will happen if the importers, who sit by the seaside and take, toll, are to decide the tariff policy of the United States. Burling ton Hawkeyc. A Georgian member of the class who always votes the Democratic ticket said in. a speech the other day that there was no Democratic party in Georgia. "VVe are a lot of white aris tocrats," said he. He will be admired for his frankness.' No one- .will question that voters ought. to know how to vote intelligently on all questions that arc apt to come before them, but mnny voters are sat isfied to let some one else tell them how, without making personal studies of these questions. i, Eugene Bosse suggests that the gov ernor, turn his attention to the flax fibre question with a view to having the convicts operate a flax fibre manu facturing establishment. This would nave a better moral effect on the com munity than to put the convicts out to work in public. Under the direct primary nominat ing law in Virginia, Senator Martin was nominated by the Democrats to succeed himself. It is not unlikely Governor Chamberlain of Oregon wiU be renominated by the Democrat! in Oregon. Thus is the new law a vindi cation unto itself..' One of the best evidences of the times in the navy investigation is found in the faet that Secretary Bona parte is dissatisfied with the report of the court. of inquiry tnat would lay all the blame for-the Bennington explosion on one juvenile ensign. The secretary Half- Sick I first used Aver's Sarsaptrilla in the! fail of 1848. Since then I have i taken it every spring as a blooa - purify In g and nerve strtajthenlng ledicne.,, S. T. Joaes, Wichita, Kans. If N you feel run down, sitT easily tired, if your nerves are weak and your blood is thin, then begin to take the good old stand ard family njedlcine, Ayer's SarsaparilU. : , UV a regular 'nerve lifter a perfect blood bUilder." Uafcslt. AtUraaM- as V laek of discipline,' i ana tn u was Diameawe to some one 'ii-i.. i . t . . -. . signer in rana; iaan ine ensign. inn, peopl think so, too. a - - ,r i ji - SHOULD PEOITT BT EXPEJujUTCE. Y Harvey W. Scott, the fitting disciple of the late Bichard Cobden, comes out j in his newspaper, The Oregonian, in an I other diatribe against the protective I tariff. He says "The aim of protection is to exclude foreign goods and to se- , core profits, on . the manufacture of goods at ; home, 'f and taen he screams, 'But who geta the profits f " The for tunes of the steel and copper and sugar kings will tell you." ; Like all free-traders, Mr. Scott points only to the few men whose remarkable ability and genius for organization have ted their companies to amass exception al wealth. But why does he not also point to the thousands and thousands I of producers of farm products, of wool, also protected by tne protective tariff, made comfortable in circumstances, wealthy j in' point of fact, by the same policy which perhaps has aided these other men in the amassing of their for tunes. ; If the editor of The Oregonian were honest he would recognize what the pro teetive tariff has accomplished. He knows that the wage earner of the United States is getting more wages, lives better and has more satis rectory, employment than the wage earner ' of any other country in the world. He knowa the country was nev er more prosperous than it is today and that its prosperity is steadily growing. He knows that our exports are increas ing as are also our imports. He also knows that when an effort was made to reduce the tariff to a rev enue basis some years ago, the country fell into a state of absolute financial ruin. He knows' that an effort to re vise the tariff law today along tne same lines would lead to the same results. If he does not know this it is only neces sary for him to go down stairs into the business office of The Oregonian and look over the books of that concern during the years 1892-3-4. Even The Oregonian felt the stress f hard times consonant on an effort to adopt the pot icies of its editor. Its business office should profit by its former experience, THE HOP SITUATION. The hop situation at this time is full of interest to all growers. Both the bears and bulls, the men who would buy cheaply, and the men who would sell at high prices ' are working strcnu ously, each with a view to gaining his particular point through a manipulation of the market That the crop of the world is nor mally , abundant seems hardly to be doubted. That it is a bumper crop no one believes and no conservative man claims. The claim, however, on the part of certain growers and dealers in Washington that Oregon will have to exceed 103,000 bales is apt to be re ceived with a great deal of credulity; in fact, with much doubt. Herman Klaber tc, Co. and Isaac Pin ens k Sons, who are publishing the bear hop news from Tacoma, are fully as anxious to push the price down to the very bottom as are Mr. Krebs and oth ers interested in the growing of hops here and in California anxious to boost the price of the product. Among the conservative prognostica tes, men who know the hop business and who have reasonably reliable data covering the yards of this state, there is a belief that the crop of Oregon will not exceed that of last year, and in fact Will range from eighty-two to eighty seven thousand bales. All advance fig ures on whatever crop are sure to be based largely on guess-work. .There fore not any great quantity of confi dence is placed in the figures of men interested in the. manipulation of tne market. The Statesman this morning has per haps as full and complete a report on the hop situation all over the world ns any paper has published so far this year.' The information therein, as that published in The Statesman ever tries to be, is gathered from the most reli able sources possible. This paper does not pretend that everything published within its columns is the troth, but it does declare that where it makes a statement of this kind, every effort is made to secure that such statement shall be reliable and shall be based on reliable information. Where statements are to the contrary, the reporters and news writers of this paper have been misled either wittingly or unwittingly, by men in whom they have placed their confidence. . WAS NOT GASPING. . : The Statesman s editorial 1 of a In few days aince regarding the railway situation in Oregon, this paper waa not showing particularly a carping spirit but; was simply making a statement of well recognised fact.. This paper is perfectly in aceord with the Portland Journal in the following remarK of that paper: "The work ahead calls for uni ted effort. It is something in which the ; whole state ia interested and it cannot be done unless the people of all the state work in harmony. ' .This harmony,, however, ca,n,onlybe brought about by that kind of effort which sends back to the country some thing which the towns and especially the large cities take away irom it- l ae wealth of - the state cornea not from Portland, yet the wealth of Portland comes from the state. ' ' v , 'The complaint i moi made by the Sa 1ot Statesman only, ud The Statesman denies that it is made through n short sighted policy.' This paper is inking to day a far broader view of the necesai sies of the entire state of Oregon than is say paper i published in Portland, from the fact that the Portland papers think that nothing will serve the rest of Jhe'gtate that is not primarily for the benefit of the metropolis. Desire on the part, of the Portland street railway company and Portland hotels to get all the money brought west by eastern visitors to the fair, has prevented the Lewis and Clark fair managers and others in Portland who should have been interested deeply in the growth of the whole state, from en deavoring to see that these eastern vis itors look the rest of the state over and thus satisfy themselves that the conn try offered everything in the way of beauties, ia the way of topography, of climate and soil conditions which our most excellent exhibits at Portland would indicate. ' - The average man is not fully aatia- fied when he ha a seen a big pumpkin; he wants to see that it waa not grown someone 'a back yard, but is the pro duct of broad fielda and of extensive valleys. , ? Tnus it should have-ueen the effort of J hose connected with the Lewis and Clark fair to have sent at least a good ly numocr of these visitors into the valley; out where they could see, our majestic prairies and our verdant hills, our pleasant farm homes and the gen erally attractive conditions which rule outside the city of Portland. Failure to do this is what is complained of, not only by this paper, but many, others throughout the state and the complaint will be recognized by many of those in Portland aa being fully just. The Portland Journal says that the real awakening has been a very recent affair. Unfortunately it has left us still under a weight of tlrowsiness which prevents us stepping out and taking our position in the procession marching along the path of progress, which has been so ably trod by our sister states to the north and south of us. We have been aroused, but we are not yet fully awakened. But the time is here; the trumpet is sonnding, and the thing to do now is to barken to its clarion tones and catching the step, advance bravely to a position at the head of the eolumn. CAN'T MAKE Tt GO. In line with what the editor of this paper suggested recently, the necessity for a change of our land laws becomes more and more apparent as time goes on. There is very little public land yet remaining in Oregon on which a man can make a living, or even "im provement expenses," (hiring the first few years. Xearly all this land has to undergo a formative process first, and this requires an expenditure of capital. A number of -people well known in Salem have laid claim to lands throughout the state under the homestead act, who can not possibly do anything with it for lack of means, and who have not been able to earn enough money off the land to support it even as a homestead. Two gentlemen employed in this citj have recently written the following let ter to the United States land office at The Dalles, and the refrain therein will be re-echoed by many other homestead ers who have tried it, gotton hold of an octopus, and are trying to remove its tehaelcs: i Register and Receiver, United States Land Office, The Dalles: Gentlemen In the year of our Lord, 1903, on the 24th day of the third flionth thereof, the undersigned, to gether with others, desiring to assist in the reclamation of a portion of your Uncle Samuel's deert in Morrow county, and at the same time to obtain a h"me for ourselves and families, did, under the guidance and recommenda tion, of a certain gentleman who shall be nameless, and at the same time blameless, file upon certain tracts of land in said county, thinking that in the due course of time your Uncle Samuel would assist us in making homes, by sending a perpetual stream of water' down the hillsides in close proximity thereof, wherefrom we could slake the thirst of the sands of said homesteads, and as the water flowed and .'the alfalfa grew, and the stock became fat, we could see ourselves sur rounded, in our old age by our chil dren and grandchildren, who would call us blessed for , our forethought in pro viding them with plenty, whereby they might enjoy the good things of life without having to brave the perila of the coyote, jaekrabbit and sheepherd era "that : infested , the country in the time of our youth. But, alas, we parted with our good money, have spent our time in vain endeavors to. make a semblance of home, have builded houses and found them stolen either in part or wholly,' have planted and reaped not, have had our, orchards and fences de stroyed by ' the jaekrabbits and the sons -of man,' and still were it worth Jthe white ' we would not murmur nor eompjain; but it seems that your uncle will not send us the stream of water asked for, neither can we earn enough money to ' more than keep up the re pairs, and support the aforesaid coyote, jaekrabbit and sheepherder; therefore do we humbly pray for some method by which we raaj back up and to-, linquish our claims, and nave our home-j to re-establish, one normal achooL pre stead right returned unto us. We have sumably at the capital, in conformance neither individually nor collectively tiiiiiAf iwmfit from our endeavors, nor are we liable to, aor do we think that your Uncle Samuel would give ua patent for it at the end of five years, as it is impossible to make a living thereon. : i Any information would be greatly appreciated upon the questions . asked in the foregoing, aswe wish to again become citizens of Oregon, in the coun ty, of Marion, and .the city f Salem, and to assist in the moral and political uplifting of the game. , DEPENDS ON POINT OF Vrxw. i point " That it all denends oa the boint of view is quite evident from the way the Polk Conntv Observer published at Dallas treats The Statesman proposi tion, for railway connection with that city. It 'also shows that the smaller towns in the country contiguous to Sa lem consider that any effort to extend lines from this city to connect with these smaller towns would be detrimen tal to them, however beneficial it might be to the Capital. It shows that these towns, if the press published in them voices their sentiments, will not aid in the construction of these roads, and if we want them, aa The Statesman' has suggested to the people' of this town in the past, w.e will have to get busy and build them ourselves. ' The Observer, in discussing the ques tion, does so in the following language, which, .while we do ' not agree there with, is published for the information of the people of Salem: "The Salem Statesman is again busy building a aky-blue railroad between Dallas and the Capital City. Toe road is a long way up in the air, however, and judging from past history it is likely to stay there awhile. Salem has had numerous opportunities to secure railroad connection with Dallas in the last ten years, but every ; proposition offered has met with indifference, or a downright refusal of aid. Only re cently a proposition was submitted by a railroad builder and capitalist to build and equip the road, provided the citizens of Salem would only subscribe for a reasonable amount of guaranteed bonds. No bonus was asked, and toe return of every , dollar subscribed was practically guaranteed to subscribers. This proposal, like all that had been made before, was turned down, and the project was abandoned. "The Statesman says that the latest proposition for a road between Dallas and Salem ' contemplates a loan of $65,000, and that capitalists of Dallas have promised to advance a considera ble portion of this amount. The Ob server doesn't believe a word of it. The people of Dallas gave liberal aid to the building of the road from Falls City, but there is no likelihood thai they will ever contribute a cent toward the extension of the road to alem. The building of such an extension will rest entirely with the people of Salem, unless some company should take up the project and build the road on its own account. The people of Dallas are interested in building roads into their town, and not out of it. "The Observer believes that event ually a road will be built between Dallas and Salem. The day is not far distant wnen the whoie Willamette valley will be a checkerboard of rail road and electric lines. The develop ment is bound to come. But the peo ple of 1 Salem will have to awaken to the fact railroads cost money, and lots of it. The monied men of Salem will have to show more enterprise than they have exhibited heretofore if they ever expeet to make their town a rail road center.' Cold-hearted maaufaetur-j era won't take not air in exchange for! steel rails, and six-bit donations will not build many miles of roadbed." . j THE DEMOCRATIC SLOGAN. The people of Oregon wiH.be very deeply interested in the campaign slo gan to be wielded George K. Cham berlain, Oregon's present governor, in the coming battle for the. gubernato rial chair. That Governor Chamber lain will be the unanimous nominee of his party for re-election to his present position, goes without saying. That Democrat who would attempt to secure the nomination away from Governor Chamberlain would snow a great deal of temerity, even for a member of that party f precipitancy and venturesome ness. So il is fully, safe to say that none will attempt it. Therefore, when Senator Milton A. Miller, who waa the governor's spokesman and leader of the Democrats in the last session of the state senate, makes a statement as to. the Democratic campaign plan, it is to be expected that his statement will be accepted as coming direct from the governor himself. , ' Taking this as a logical' condition, it is plain to be seen' that Governor Cnamberlain intends to make his cam paign next year on an opposition plat form directed toward the normal schools; that ia to say, be is going to advocate the repeal of the general ap propriation bill nnder the ; initiative and referendum,, and thus the abolish meat of the normal schools throughout the ; state, in so - far as . state aid to these . scnools ia concerned. It is not proposed, however, to have no normal schools, but to dol'away -with the var ious schools established at Monmouth, Drain, Aahland and Weston, and. later, with the clause in the constitution of tne state which says that all state in stitution shall be at the capital. s Mr. Miller says this normal school question will be the overshadowing is sue in the next campaign, and as such would play a prominent part in the gubernatorial campaign and the contest for other often." It can thua be said that "the campaign . has been opened on the part of our Democratic bretnren, and the atand they have ta ken ia worthy the study anil, consider ation of Republican leaders who hope for the sueeess of their party and its candidates at the 'polls next June. The fight will be strenuous. The Re publicans go .into it with a shattered organization and with .their leaders suspicious of ach other; witn candi dates galore in every county in the state for every office under the sun, and therefore its chances are only better than those of the opposition from the fact that the normal . Republican ma jority in 'the state is so great as to make Republicans feel some hopeful ness because of this majority. POLITICAL CLIPPINGS. What Newspapers Throughout Say About Politics and - Politicians. State t Jphns Boom Launched. The return of If on. Charles A. Johns, mayor of Baker City, from a sojourn at the seaside, has impelled local poli ticians to presume that the time has now arrived for 'hard plugging. Mr. Johns launched his gubernatorial boom whole absent, and a very fair number of "enthusiastic hurrahs from the hoi polloi greeted the performance. In the seats of the mighty, however, in the inner circle of state political control, an ominous silence has prevailed. No imperial endorsement of Mr. Jonns' candidacy, has yet come from the lips of the big gnn3. But Word Votes Wrong. Sheriff Tom Word of Multnomah was in Baker the other day, and is quoted as saying that "the people are with Johns." Far be it from Maverick to override the valuable opinions of oth ers and to. assert that Charles Augustus Johns ia the strongest Republican gub ernatorial candidate in Oregon. There Are Others. ' No man is comparable, in point of strength, with Thoodore 1$. Wilcox of Portland. But Wilcox emphatically re fuses to allow the use of his name. The Tall Tamarack from the Waldo hills. Timothy Tecumseh (Jeer, ex-governor, is another strong man. Whether or not he ranks second is a matter of opinion. Malcolm A. Aloouy is a strong man, ine nniy ueiraciion irom hi strength being the bitterness felt to ward him by. the leafless limbs of th late Mitchell tree. Stephen A. Iowcil is a strong man, but because he fought j Furnish in the open, nd not in the dark, as cuter politicians did, there are tomahawks out for him down by the borders of the ITnutilla-Injun res ervation. Henry E. Ankeny is' a strong man, but eastern and southern Oregon are far removed politically. Baker City Maverick. Chamberlain Gains a Reputation. Chamberlain appears to be gaining a reputation a3 a politician, not a states man, lie is eorning to be regarded a " Vvon hi. fellow nartisans view his acts with '.suspicion, seeking for a hidden motive. Baker City . Maverick. 1 Executive Offlco More Profitable. Ex-Governor Oeer is quoted as say ing that be does not want 'to bp a United States senator for the reason that'there is no money in it. He says the office of governor is much mure profitable. Gwr ought to 1c now the possibilities of the governor's office. He filled that position four years, and can evidently see mre than -j,000 a year in the conotitut tonal salary or 1,500. Klse, why the comparison? Polk County Observer. Olad There Is On. Ex-Governor Geerf is quoted .as say ing he does, not wish to be United States senator. We are" glad to know that there is even one office the elon gated Waldo bills statesman does not covet. Roseburg Beview (Dem.) "Side by Each." Colonel E. Hofer, editor of the Halem Journal, is boosting Hon. Walter Tooxe of, Woodburn for congress to succeed the Hon. Binger Herman, but he is frank enough to admit that he would not decline the nomination himself should it be tendered him by the peo ple. Oregon Mist. IT IS SUBSIDING CHINESE BOLCOTT ON AMERICAN GOODS IS APPARENTLY- DY ING OUT AT SHANGHAI. Consul General Eodgers Reports That Northern Trade I Opening State Department Receives Copies of Boy cott Placards Posted In China. WASHINGTON." Sept. 4-Convd General Rodgers of Shanghai cabled the state department . as follows: ''Northern trade is opening, and the boycott is apparently subsiding." Through tne mails the state depart ment has received eopies of . the boy cott placards which were displayed in the principal Chi ues' ports.' Thy gen erally recite the nn just treatment of Chinese merchants and students seek ing to enter American ports aa a rea son why the Chinese at home should refrain from trading witn an Ameri can or buying American products. WANT GLASSrORD TOR MURDER. SPRINGFIELD,' Sept. 2. Governor Dinecx today issued a requisition upon the governor of Oregon for the return to Peotaa of Albert Glassf ord, under arrest-in Baker City, Oregon, on the charge of murder. It is. alleged April 26. 1904, Glassf ord shot and killed his wife. L .vN for Infants The Kind You Have Always llougbt has Ixjrne tho Ipna . tur of Chas. IT. Fletcher, and has heen iruulo under hU personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow no ona to deceive you in this. 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