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AN INDEPENDENT DAILY
PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOP
MENT OP GREATER SALEM.
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What Should Be Done With the
State Printing Office?
HCCOUDINGIo flguroa printed In this paper tbo total ap.
proprlatior-a for state printing and binding for four year
ending villi 1002 wore $130,4(33.31, not including deficits
that may appenr at tho end of this period.
Besides tills thoro wero othor printing bllla and ofltimatod ex
penBi'8 for water, fuel, light and contingent exponsea amounting to
$10,744.82. Thlt would mako an annual expense of $38,400 for this
purpose.
The rxpp.neoof stato printing and binding has constantly in
creased and the above does not includo expenses for prlutlng and
blank books dono in tfome of tho dopatttnents of tho stato govern
mont,
Tho ofllco of jtatc prlntor is created by the constitution and tho
printor Is elected at tho coming June election for the next four
years. Ills compensation is fixed by tho legislature and it it pro
tided that it shall not bo raned or lowered during tho period for
which ho is elected.
This clause has always boon used to provont any change in tho
pay of this officer and tho pay is computed under an old law that
was passed when hand presses wero in use and printing was counted
by tho tokon.
It is tho most lucrativo ofllco in the stato. State prlntora have
sublot the stato printing for 40 per cent of tho proceeds and got rich
out of the proceeds.
At preeont tho state printing ofllco U owned by Frank Baker, tho
ex-etato prlntor It is kopt ront free in tho stato houso. hoover
is elected state printer wi'l havo to rent thoplant of Mr. Baker and
pay him about 25 percent of tho proceeds for tho use of the same.
Tho Secretary of State is custodian of tho stato houso and su
pervises tho printing and binding and buying of paper. Tho print
ing ofllco was never located in tho stato houso until Mr Baker was
eloctcd etato printor. .
Undor a business administration of tho stato prlutlng and
binding tho work roally required by tho stato could, In tho opinion
of competent judxoe, bo done lot $10,000 to$20,000 a year.
Ton-) of printing nro sold for old junk and tho office l conducted
more from tho htandpoiutof swelling tho voluuio of business to tho
largest possible amount than fiom tho standpoint of printing actually
ncedod.
An active ttate priutor can swell the business ten thousand dol
lars at each beaslou of tho legislature, becauso the ofllco is one of
foes instead of tlxoil salary.
Tho printing olllco Ieu menace to tho stato houso in othor way 8
thau financially. The i roes shako the wells and tho largo stores
of paper and waslo ualuratod with oil aud ink are a source of fire
danger.
Tho stato printer should be put on a flat salary and tho olllco
should be removed from tl.o stato house. At $2600 a year a com
petent man could bo secured by tho peoplo no candidate wuuld
refueo tho ofllco,
Then thoro would bo several large printing establishments in
tho city of Salem employing labor and paying rent and taxes The
ofllco would not bo used to corrupt state politics aud iullneiiL-o tho
legislature.
At present printers come from all ovor the itato and with a
little political pull are employed during tho legislature aud become
part of tho lobby that extends its pornicioue influence to all de
partments of statu.
Tho state priutei and tho ex-etate printor aud tho prospective
state prln tore uro always at Salem when tho legislature is in session
and oppose all efforts to put this office on a salary.
Thoro is not a newspaper in tho stato will tell tho pooplo tho
truth and tho whole truth about this graft in tho namo of tho ait
preiervativo.
Thoro has been great progress in tho inventions connected with
printing, such as fast presses, typeBOttlug machinery, stereotyping
processes, but the state has no bonofltfrom theso inventions.
Thoro Is not a particle of doubt that tbo state ft paying twice as
much as should bo paid for stato printing. Labor is not getting this
compensation. It goes to maintain a corrupt and unjust system.
This system should be changed and a mora just and business
like plan adopted. Tho county and statu conventions should do
claro for putting tho state printer ou a salary and namo the amount,
The nomlneos should accept nomination on a written agreement
to take that salary and tho logislaturo should enact the eamo.
Tho constitution will bo relied upon to provont this but as the
people elect the state printer they havo the first right through their
representatives to say what ho shall receive,
No citizen has a vested right in a condition of things which has
arowu to be a colossal abuse and which can be corrected in no other
way.
An Appeal to the State Grange.
y?III8 edition of Tim Jodu.val goes to all tho members of tho
Jtate grange about three hundred officials of that oldest
fanner's organization tho Patrons of Husbandry.
Tns Jocuxal makes an appeal to them to take a still more
active part in shaping up a good policy (or our state government
a better policy than has prevailed. It is very much needed.
The officers of the ntate grange, if thoy will take the facta wo
publish and digest thorn, will see the urgent necessity for a groat
chango in the policies of our state government.
The thrco hundred officers of the state and subordinate granges
can take tho facts here presented from a non-partisan standpoint
and mako good uso of them with tbeir patrons and secure a change
of policy.
Under tho present system tho state officials are compelled to
stand in with other grafts to hold their own against a legislature
that has all sorts of clubs to wield over them.
A flat salary system with all feet and earnings of each officer
covered into the treasury would relieve eur state officials of this
pressure and make them free to serve tho people better.
The grange should not be deceived by the theory that the in
itiative aud referendum will cure all the abuses. It might be of
some uso and we are in favor of it as a help to good government.
But it is not a cure-all.
The boodlo politicians and grafters who besiege a legislature
would find many ways to promote their schemes in spite of it.
Direct Legislation will not furnish good administration nor make
man honest.
Grangers, do not bo deceived by the cry, "Adopt the initiative
and referendum and all will be well." Business administration and
executive ability must still corao from men of character and Intelli
gence. Sustain direct legislation but keep your powder dry for good
business administration. Study what has been dono in Marlon
county, with twice tho wealth of Clackamas, and run for $44,000 as
against $00,000 in Olaqkames.
Plans for City Improvement
'7Tr.K FORMATION of improvement leagues in eaeh
2 ward of the olty baa len undertaken by the Salem Push
club on tho. plans advocated by the Springfield, Ohio, Mun
clpal Lgue a national organization.
Tl o purpOEO Is to have an organization of ladies and gentle
men in each pection of tho city who como together and confer about
bjautifying their own property and the public streets and pleasure
grounds.
Resolutions wero adopted and will como beforo tho council as
aphasia of action for a thorough cloanlug and Improvement of tho
alleys in the business parts of tho city.
Privato entorprlee can do a groat deal toward improvement of
tho Capital of tho stato. Removal of largo and unsightly trees will
let in Uio sunlight. Bettor lawns and more shrubbery and roses
will follow.
Tho Oregon Wholesale Nursery Co. havo generously offorod to
help this movement. Thoy havo beautified tho promUosaboutthoIr
o Jlcea and in this paper proaent ono of their attractions in shrub
bery, Bovoral parts of tho city aro to bo treatod to tho tklll of tho
landscape gardener and ornamented with drives and granito sand
walks. In this manner tho clovated residence parts of the city
co lid bo made very attractive.
Tho Salem Woman's club; ias bjon honored with tho appoint
ment of a membor to the loderation of clubs in their civic leaguo
work Mrs. Dr. Calbroath having beon named.
Tho boautiflcatiou of tho city is very important in viow of the
coming Lewis and Olarko Contonnlal in 1005, when tho visitors
from tho wholo world will bo drawn to Oregon aud will soo tho
Capital of course. . '
olectioiiB on measures referred to tho peoplo of tho stato ahall bo
had at tho biennial regular gcnoral elections, except when tho leg
islative as lombly slull order a spscial o'oction. Any measuro ro
ferrcd to tho peoplo shall tako effect and becomo tho law when it
is approved by a majority of tho votoa caBt thereon, and not othor
wlto. Tho aiylo of all bills shall be: "Bo It enacted by tho peoplo
of tho State of Oregon." Thla section shall not be conatruod to de
privo any membor of tho legislative assembly of the right to intro
duce any measure. Tho wholo number of votes cast for justice of
tho supremo court at tho regular election last preceding tho filing
of any petition for tho initiative or for tho referendum shall bo
the basis on which tho number ol legal votors necessary to sign
such potltion shall bo counted. Petitions and orders for tho iuitl
tiatlvo and for tho referendum shall bo filed with tho secretary of
state, and in submitting tho eamo to the peoplo ho and all other
officors shall bo guided by tho genoral laws aud tho act submitting
this atneudmont until legislation ahull bo especially provided therefor.
An 01d:IowaINewspaper.
"3jl'HE JOURNAL is in receipt of on old Iowa nowtpanor ro
L- producod In a current number of tho Elkader, Iowa,
(JT Argus, a paper published at the county teat of ono of tho
oldest and richest countlct in that ttate.
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I Ad Appeal
MiinniTfliiniiTiimiiiiiiiiiw
to Tbe State Grange 1
tnpaw'IE JOURNAL has devoted a pngo a week in its datl and weokly lisuea and has sont out thousands of aamplo coplea
f to educate tho peoplo of thla stato to demand a luilnoaa administration of state affairs. This is not saying that
I our present Btate officials havo not dono tho best they could undor a bad system ond with a reckless legislature
ps debauched by senatorial politics. In epito of careful attention to their dutlot and close management of tho stato
departments thoy aro compolled to levy nnd collect Btato royonue of $1,110,000 for 1002. Whllo Marlon county baa
shown what can bo dono by a busluuss program, has wiped out $100,000 dobt, haa reducod tho county lovy, state lovloa are higher
than ever before.
This edition of Tuk Jouknai. goes to all tbo officers of tho stato Grango and to tho officers of tho fifty odd subordinate granges.
Tlioto organizations aro usked to tako up nnd discuss tho situation.
With itu powerful oducational organization, the etato grange, tho poimna grangos, and the subordinate granges of thla Btato
control thousands of voters.
They should master tho facta and lntlst on a business program in our state affairs and in the legislature. As well try to build
a houBO without a plan and specifications at to run a stato without a definite program,
What Is tho program? It is just audi business prlnciplei aa would bo employed In tho uiariagomont of any good faotorr, bank
or corporation in tho intoreat of its stockholders, How can this bo dono?
By putting all stato officials on u salary, and covering all fees nnd porqulsltos into tho stato troasury a saving equal to $50,000
a year can bo effected
By placing a limit on the total amount that ehall bo appropriated for educational purposes above tho common echools, and
limiting tho extravaganco of tho legislature in othor waya, $250,000 can bo saved.
By extending tho tax on tho gross earnings of corporations, that Is now collected on insuiance corporations alono, an incotno
from indirect taxation can bo derived of about $200,000 a year.
Saving $50,000 a year on state offices, saving $250,000 on tho logislaturo, adding $200,000 a year to tho rovenuos, moans a total
of $500,000 to tho good silo of tho ledger.
A business program such na tho Republican party of Marion county put into operation when It was driven to do so by a vlgor
our opposition, would reduce the stato taxes one-half the very first year.
It would moan lu four yeara a eavlng to tho pooplo who pay taxes of two million dollars la not this worth fighting for at tho
beginning of a four years torm of stato administration?
Then put this biiBinoss program into tho stato and county platforms andmako those who took officos at tho hands of tho peoplo
accopt nominations on those tonus and enact those- terms Into law.
BUSINESSLIKE RECORD OF MARION COUNTY.
1099
H Total State and County tax 178,384
e Countv exDenses frr. vearl bo,17o
P County debt on April 1t ; 1o2,7o3
i ax levy in nuns ior year ,jj
1902
11 0,000 J
44,682
oo,ooot'
20.00
ANNUAL EXPENSE OF FIVE OFFICES.
Governor $ 6,950
State Treasurer Jv?J2
Stato Superintendent of Schools 7,827
Secretaryof State 22,352
State Printer and Binder 45,989
Total $91,330
LEGISLATIVE EXTRAVAGANCE EXPOSED,
Present Expense
! Salaries. Fees and Perquisites for two years 122,ooo
p Clerkship graft by legislature of 19o1 22,ooo
1 Higher Education, Normal Schools, Universities, etc 351,409
1 Scalp bounty for two years 115,000
UNBUSINESSLIKE RECORD LAST LEGISLATURE.
Total State Revenue Required for 1902 $1, 100,7 18
Increased stato Revenue Required ror iyuz . 4ou,S4j
All Bills to raise revenue were pltreontiolcd.
State tax levy higher than for many years.
On Fair Allowance
& 80,000
12,000
15o,ooo
000,000
242,000
Reduitloa Possible
102,660,
1 o.ooo 1
2ol,4o9
115,000
429,o69j M
Total Saving Possible on Four Items 671, o69
E: Tho appropriations made by tho logislaturo of 1001 approximate nearly two millions. Tho above ero only sample iteniB of reckless!
disbursement.
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Initiative and Referendum Amendment
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T THE coming Juno eh cllon tho people of tho Stato of
Oregon? aro to decide a very important matter. Thoy
heir votes either adopt or reject a Constitutional
Amendment embodylng.tho initiative and referendum, in what
may bo termed a "mild form."
The two lat Legislatures voted to submit the proposed amend
ment to the suffrages of the people at tho polls.
There has Wen organized the Dlroct legislation Loague of Ore
egon, whoso avowed object is the adoption by the people of tho In
itiative and referendum amendment to the Constitution of tho stato
of Oregon at tho general election in June, 1002."
Tho proposed amendment is short and eablly understood. It id
printed below, in full:
Proposed Amendment to the Constitution of the State of Oregon
Pection 1 of Article IV of tho Constitution of tho Stato of Oregon
shall bsand hereby is amended to read as follews:
8ection 1. Tho legislative authority of the stato shall be vee
ted in a legislative assembly, consisting of a senate and houso of rep
resentatives, but tho people reterve to themselves power to propose
laws and amendments to tho constitution, and to enact or re
ject tho same at tbo polls, independent of tho legislative assembly,
and also resorvo power at their on option to approve or reject at
tho polla any act ol tho leaislativo assembly. Tlt first power re
served by the peoplo is tho initiative, and not more thau eight per
cent of tho legal voters shall bo required to projmse any measuro
by such petition, aud every tush petition shall Include the full
text of the measure ro proposed. Initiative petitions shall be filed
with the secretary of stato not less than four months before tho
election at whleh they aro to be voted upon. The ssoond power Is
tbe referendum, and it may bo ordered (axoept as to laws neaes
B'ry (or the immediate preservation of the public peace, health
or safety,) either by petition, signed by five par cent of the le
gal voters, or by the legislative assembly, as other bills are en
aeted. Referendum petitions shall be filed with tho secretary of
state not more than ninety days after tho final adjowmraent ol
tbo session of the WgialaUve assembly whieh passed tho bill on
which tin referendum is demanded. The veto power of tho Gov
rnor shall not extern! to measures referred to tha pooplo, All
Clayton county, Iowa, is veritably the blno-grasa paradise of tho
finest part of Iowa tho northeastern corner, a land of fine pastures,
flowing springs and streams, lino building stono, grand timber, rich
soil.
This part of Oregon is full of peoplo from northeastern Iowa and
they aro all doing well and happy In their new homos In tho west.
One of tho latest arrivals ia L, Y. Ehrlioh, formorly tho Klkader
miller, who Is investing in a flouring mill In western Oregon,
Mr. Ehrlioh la a successful man of some means, and woks our
milder and more equable climate as many others have to get rid o!
catarrh. lie speaks in the highest torma of tbo Willamette valley,
Mr. Khrlich is Impressed with our cattle industry, wool and no
hairproductr, flax Industry, dairy and stock industry, grain and
fruit farms, hops and cannerlet, mining, flsherios, lumbering and
other money crops.
Tho old paper above referred to has a characteristic Item it was
printed Jan. 28, 18T3 relating to Oregon as follews:
In a letter from Dr. H. Taylor, of Fayette county, increasing tho
plains to Portland, Oregon, he tells of the fatigue, trouble and
danger, both from tho Indians and starvation which he oxperienord.
On reachlngdestlnation had all his horses stolen, and set up a board
ing hou e, board fO 00 per week, labor worth IU.00 to ft 00 per day.
Horn are some othor items that show how wo have made history
at a people in the past illty years:
Territory of Washington created by act of Congress.
Quick Tjmk Ockan Bkiivick: The atramer Atlantic made her
last trip to aud from Liverpool to Now York In jutt 30 dayt.
Issue M aucji Aru, 1858 --Revolution at Washington. M. Fll
moro will become President ex-ofllolo and Franklin Pferco President
do'Ueto,
Going out Whig office holders. Coming in Democratic oflloo
holders,
Thoro are six public rohoolt in Chlasgo with an aggregate at
tendance of 2,051 pupils.
John P. Krlebs A Co., dealers In general merchandise, stato no
thin-plasters will bo received in payment for goods, aad In another
column of this issue is a list of banks known aa Issuing "Wild Cat
Ourrenoy."
Humanity and Christianity triumphed over barbarism In the
Virginia Legislature. Tho homo of delegates refused to pass tbe bill
compelling free blacks to remove from the state or bo sold into slav
ery, and adopted as a substitute a bill appropriating 30,000 annually
for colonisation of Africans,
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Salem As the Center of a
Great Shipping Trade
T THE heart of I ho Willamette valley, Salem ia already
tho center of a groat fruit shipping business. Hundreds of -carloads
of apples, prunes, cherries, and atrawborrlea aro
aont out from hero nnnually.
Thoro haB been organised a fruit growora union that will make
n specialty of handling tho strawberry crop. Over ono hundred
acres aro held by mombora of tho union and will bo handlod by
tbo organization,
Tho busiu3B8 will bo dono by a board of flvo directors who will
employ nn agent during tho bony soason which lasts about air
mouths. The Union will deal diroctly with tho great distributing
factors.
The Salem frultgrowors' Union has not beon hoard from much
of late. But those who aro interested in making it a success havo
.mt boon Idle
Arrangomcnts havo boon'mndiBo that the growers ofltho country
tround Salem can havo tho privllego of putting 200 nratoaof atraw
borrlea onto refrigerator cars horo and shipping thorn through
to Great Falls, St. Paul and othor points in that region, nt car load
rates.
Arrangements havo also beon mado lor handling cnr.Ioadaof
ttrawborrioa at Butto, Montana, for tbo Union. A deal baa been
closed with a brokor who will handle thorn thoro. Willamette volloy
borrloa will go on tho eamo torma aa thoso grown at Hood Rlvor.
Tho growing and shipping of small fruits from this point is
going to be a big thing lor this country and city. Tho buslnoss will
row rapidly, onco It Is undor full hoadway.and it will bo put In flno
shape this yoar, by tho work of tho Balom Fruit Growers' Union.
Salem atrawborrlea can bo grown in unlimited quantity and
quality second to nono but havo novor boon handlod through au or
ganization to Bccuro co-or-orathn In packing nnd distribution.
Tho fight of the Salem borry growers union this coming eoaaon
will bo to mako a ropntatton for quality and firmness of product,
that will atand ahlpmont aud stand tip in tho rotall market nlong
sldo tbo Hood Rlvor borrloa. Tho 8alom Union brand must moan
cortain tilings. Our product will bo nt a promlum or a discount in
proportion to our tuccoaa in miking that reputation
Strawberry Industry at Newberg
fHE EDITOR of Tub JouitNAr. and tho Industrial Agont of tho
CI, 8. P. Co., oro at Newberg today to talk to tho fruit growers
of that town and vicinity on tbo possibilities of establishing
the strawborry Industry thoro.
Newbcrg haa a favorablo location to grow strawberries to per
fection' for shipping nnd for tho cannery, Fifty to ono hundrod
ar.roa of thla most popular of all borrloa could juatoa woll bo grown
thoro as not.
With tho Lewie aud Olnrko exposition coming on in a few
years, a numbor of localitloa in wostorn Orogon can bo profitably
employed growing this fruit for tho next fow yoars.
Any town located on tho rlvor or by rail wlhln a low hours of
Portland can do a groat big Undo In strawberries If tho peoplo will
only tako hold nnd organize- tho industry.
Newberg should put In fifty or ono hundrod acres of strawbor
ies and grow varlotles that will stand shipment and bo good for
canning, thon pack nn uniform product nnd can tholr surplus
and rofuso stock.
Tho industry can buostabllshod with little-or no capital and bo a
profltablo business for tho community by tho end of the first first
year. Itwlll employ all tho surplus labor of tho town during
tho borry soason.
Tho strawborrv comes bofuro othor fruits nnd when mou, wo
mon, nud chlldron want omploymont. It la tho natural concom
mttant of a town or city, nH tho labor employed at making tho crop
can live at home.
Tho strawberry helps tho dairy buslnoss bocauso moro oroam
and buttor aroused with strawborrlea than with any other one fruit.
Each gallon of borrloa tnko nt least a pint of cream. Each aero of
strawberries usoa tho oroam ol flvo to ton cows.
Btrawlwrrlos mako an Increased demand for ureatn and butter at
tho timo whon the moadowa ato luih, when tho flow of milk Is lar
gest, and if It were not for tho tho atrawborry the buttor markot
would bo broken nt that season.
This part of wostern Orogon will yot feed tho world on canned
strawberries. Tho fruit cin bu grown hero In tho greatest per
ffcllon and cheaper than anywlmro olso In tho world. Now only
fio refuse of tho crop la canned,
Whon proporly put up and flno fruit is med the canned straw
berry will bo tbo most popular caunod fruit sold, us 'tho frosh
strawborry Is now the most popular fresh fruit.
Tho location of Newberg la favorublo to tho strawborry ludustry.
It ia naturally as good a plaoo to establish tho Industry as Hood
Rlvor. Its proximity to tho Nuhalom mountains and to tho rlyor
aro natural advantagos.
Tho RotoburgPlalndoaler, a Republican paper, hits tho nall.on
tho head:
"Aboodlorlsa brigand andean claim no protection lu any
houest party. Hla exposuro Is a public boon, uud hfslunTshniont a
necessity for tho common good," '
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Tho pooplo havo lost faith In tha promising politician . Thoy aro
looking for tho man who says little nnd does something,
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Wo havo to havo sonio rain in Oregon, but thank God we don't
havo to pray lor il,
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Thoro are no moro pearl-handled ponknlfo administrations
needed in Oregon.
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Astorian : The Salem Journal ia trying tQ bring abfjut tho jlefeat
of Congrosaman Tongue. Tho Woodburn Injopondont thlnks,Ola"ud
Gatohof Salem, could wrest tho nomination from theHIHeboro
man.
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Albany D moerat: "PrQKre a ve kUleiu will grow faitor t(uut
any Interior town In Oregou this yoar," optimistically eaya the Jour
nal in Iho right kind of spirit. May it and all tho towns lu Oregou
grow to beat tho band this year. Wo mutt all grow together II
Oregon is to havo a permanent improvement; hut these, other
towns will havo to get up and tlghon their bolts if tUy got ahead
of Albany, It Is going to do some growing itself.
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Another uotlue should be printed and stuck up lu (ho theaters
besidet ono requesting ladles to remove tholr hutsr-ono. .to request
peoplo not to get up aud gu to putting on their wraps until i the play
ia over. 3
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The flag up over tho Ladd A Bush bank was as hard to null
down aa the one in the Philippine!.
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Ouoe moro the Boer delegate will orgawUe to gt . hjlp (join
thla government. How ridleuloual When wo havo long ceased to
eailst struggling Republics aud have entered upon a career of an.
Empire.
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