THE DAILY JOURNAL, 8ALBM, REON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1003. '" i -l.H .1.11 IHIIIUIIWIIWIH.HIMIIII r - . jc 1 m h THE DftlLY JOURNAL it Serines NeVys Aesodatlon Telegrams. y 3 and 6 O'clock Editions. BY HOFER BROTH ERO. Dally Ono Year, 14.00 In Advance. Dally Three Month, 91,00 In Advance. Dally by Carrier, 60 Cente Per Month. Weekly One Year, 81.00 In Avance. ' i mm in i n !'- -I'" -i ! JOURNAL 8PECIAL DELIVERY. One Week 10 Oae Month S5 Thrm Months 1.00 At Journal office. At Daue's Grocery, 8outh Salem. At Bewersox Qrooory1, Yew Park. Asylum Avenue Grocery Store, Bleotrlo Grocery, Eait 8tata 8L "'- ' ' ' I 1 1 0 HI I I H I I 1 1 H I I 1 I li iiiiiiinmninimirH OREGON COMING EVENT8. Executive commlttea mooting of AmoHcna Mining Congress, Portland, December 10. Dalryinon'ir anaoclallon, Corrnllli, Docombcr 15-16. Poultry and pot stock show, Salem, December 17-lft. Special soanlon of tho legislature, Salem, Docombor Bl. National., livestock.. coHroatlon, Portland, January 12-1C. AnRora Goat . bIiot, Dnllne, Janu nry 14-1C. The Tonight, fair; ing oloudlnoHs. Weather. Wednesday Incrons- AN ELEPHANT ON THEIR HANDS. Tho party, that won this olootlon has an olophnnt on its hnnds. Tho demand for improvomonts from tho now wards will bo porsis tont, and hard to moot with tho rev onuoB of tho city. ' Tho territory Is vory large, nnd, with twloo tho revenues, tho expecta tions of tho citlzons could not all bo mot. Their necessities aro going to ox col any amount of money, and tholr oxpoctntloiis will bo disappointed by tho host disposition can ho mado of tho taxoii With all tho good Intontlons In tho world tho now wards will bo full of kicks tlint will manifest thomsolvcs at tho vory first opportunity against tho pnrty In powor. They will do that with a vengeance, nnd not a llttlo of tho disappointment they will reel at not getting all they thjnk they ought to hnvo will fall on tholr aldermen. So thorb Is no path of roses boforo tho mon who will undortake tho gov. aromant of Greater Salem, Mon who sorvo without pay, and who cannot, dlrootly or Indirectly, onrich thorn Holvos under tho prosont chartor, aro ontltlod to sympathy nnd encourago mont. THE PRESIDENT'S ME88AGE. This document wlsoly takoa tho lino of safety by Introducing no de mands fur innovations or disturbing legislation on the ovu or a presidential oleotlou Iloosuvolt plays hi trump cnnls for tho Itopubltcun ndmlulqtrntion by giv ing promlnonoe to tho Alaskan bound nry and Pnnnma canal troatles. The Republicans -have won renown for national glory by their successful dealing with thoso groat questions. Thoy have been fortunnto achieve ments from a party standpoint, nnd nppeul to natiounl prldo. In uvery department of the govern inent he demands tho groatost econ oniy, and, under Speaker Cannon, ha will get Ham help. Tlijre Is not much demanded among official circle on till line, but the people want re. lief, Ritowvelt riamaiuls that our conn try kult closer relations with the Philippine In tariff legislation, nnd thero lie droits the tariff question, Ily securing n, reciprocity treaty with Cuba, Uio administration has taken one ureat nmctlcal aten toward opening our mnrkeU to that inland's product, nnd for the relief of their people. Jit meaentt mnkee hii nppenl fni HWiter eafety upulftiucee on railroad trains fur savins human lives. VALE, CITIZENS. You nr liurlttil nfter a good light, hut your good deeds, will live aft ' you. In tliH words of the scriptural "Uejoloo, (lint your name aro wrlttu In httaven." Fortune favored you In many mat tent, like JEGC0 on tho Anson bond, $7000 for tho postafflao lot, tnaroaslng revenues. You went in nt ft favorable tlmu, and go out whou tho Job Is bo opining conipllontod. Tho Journal was with you for five years, nnd stayed with you whllo you did rjgut, and e(t you when yon djoj wrong". But you cQuld not always re main in powor, and thoro aro honest citizens outsldo your ranks. Tho defeat of tho candidates on your ticket this tlmo was not tho de feat of thoso men as individuals, but the repudiation by this community 'of your mlutakos of Judgment and errors in public policy. Not a word has bon said reflecting on tho character or charging corrup tion pn anyone on tho Citizens' ticket. Tho Republicans know they had a fight on tholr hands to beat you, and had to fight hard For Itov. P. S, Knight, who stood the brunt of tho Citizens' battro, tho people of Salem will continuo to lmvo their old-fashioned rospect and tondor regard as a Christian gontlo-man. WORKING FOR THE FUTURE. Tho groat task of building tho Greater Salem of tho futuro should now bo ontered upon In tho right spir It by thoc lty fathers and tho people Thoro is too much to do to spond any tlmo In litigations over the city chnrtor, or testing tho constitutional! ty of tho poll tax exclusion. Tho poll tax fcaturo of tho chartor should bo struck out, or it will be used at tho next city olectlon for tho further corruption of tho voter. What a shameful introduction to a political career for tho first voter whq had to stop up and have ?3.00 laid down for him by some committee. Thoro should bo definite stops tak on Uiat tho people of Salem shall bo ablo to accomplish tho permanent im provement of at least ono street. It Is a groat victory for progress unu a city govornmont has boon oloctod that will oncourngo progress on tho pait of tho pooplo. It was a blow to that mossbackism that sneers nt public spirit, nnd makes it almost a crimo not to bolonc tc tho calamity brigade. Tho Republican city administration will hnvo It to show to tho people that progress and good business admlnis. tratlon aro not Incompatible with oach. other, and thnt Oroator Salem can bo as honostly ndmlnlstorod ns the county and stnto aro under Ropubll can rulo, and they will do it. MEN WHO DESERVE cneni-r. In tho city campaign Just closed thero woro many who did offcctlvo work for tho succoss of tho Ropubll can tlokot, who desorvo credit. Tho Young Men's Republican Club comes In for genorous compliments, and all tho young mon fool a prldo In belonging to such an organization. Tho Republican city commlttoo do servo great crodlt for starting tho campaign light under tho direct nom ination system of making a tlckod Tho Republican pross committed composed of Messrs. Prescott, Toovs and AbrnniB, of tho Salem Pross Club, snowed great ability and political sa gacity In thplr troatmont of tho situa tion as it dovoloped. Thoso nowspnpor mon enjoy groat proatlgo for tholr skill ns political! wrltors, and thoy will bo in demand in otlior campaigns. Tho material that was shoved at thorn by tho Citi zens' pross commlttoe was more than mot and domollshod. Tho old Ropubllcnn boys, a woro sought to bo drlvon Into tho Citizens' camp, ahowod tholr staying qunlltlos, and deserve the crodlt that nlwnys bo longs to unflinching votornns. Q9WWW90m I JOURNAL X-RAYS MseaceMaGeHaaae "Wo have met tho enomy, and wo are theirs." Suggostod bb an obltu ary Have ou not, why not. paid your poll tax? If Dinger Hermann, without commltUo clmlrniansliIpH. will bo worth moro to Western Oregon than some men would be if they hnd them. Democrat didn't rellih paying J3 for voting the Republloan ttaket, but some of them did It. The election show that there are more than tin aw mon In this town who nre unselfish patriots. It Is the largest poll that knocks the political persimmon, and a thrte- dollar tnx don't matter, either. - It tntiee a good lawyer to win on both aides of the case before the same Jry. The men who went to the polls and were refused n vote because thoy had not paid their poll tax, having foregone thnt privilege, will not be called on to pay the tax. If that la not the case, the law Is what Judge Burnett would call unilateral. The thanks of the peoplo aro duo to Harmon Snook, Jos, Wright nnd George S. Downing, and other Demo cratic Judges of oleatlon In tho next wards, who refused to enforce tho un- American and un-Demooratlc poll tax. exoluslon ordlnnnoo of the Cltlteus' administration. AN EFFECTUAL "TAX DODGING" REMEDY Wo havo for several years studied tho subject of assesment and taxation and havo observed tho effect of many lawB onacted by our legislatures for the purpose of bringing about a fair listing of all proporty Hubjoct to as sessment and taxation in this Stato. A groat many tax-pnyers, in nearly all stations of lifo, havo talked with us about tho prevailing practice of ovad- ing asBttsmont, and the consequences that follow. Thoy generally consider that tho prosont habit of prevarication In listing assessablo proporty is a mis chlof that most isorlously retards our advancement, and that it moro than ovorcomos all our efforts mado at the public expenso nnd by private enter prise to lnduco immigration to our Stato. That our tax-rolls show scarce ly a tenth of tho real valuo of our proporty, and a3 it is upon tho amount of this low valuation of prop erty, as shown on tho assessment rolls that our tax rates aro'Iovicd, our tax rates appear to bo high and exor bitant to peoplo coming to tho Pacific coast; and as a consoquenco many aro deterred from locating in our Stato. If all proporty wero assessed and listed at its true cash valuo it would not require anyono to pny a greater sum than ho now pays; but, on ac count of now proportion which would bo added to tho roll which now es cape taxation, many would not bo compelled to pay as much taxes as thoy do now. Many frankly admit that thoy stretch their conscionco ?omo whatllnglvlnglnallstof proporty to'tho assoBsor, and thnt thoy aim to emit from tholr list as much proporty as tholr neighbor, according to custom, will omit from his assossmont. That they would cheorfully list all their propor ty i.t Its truo cash valuo if all other property woro assosoed in tho sarno mannor. That thoy desire to boar tholr Just proportion of tho public ex penses, but, undor tho present prac tice, If thoy llstod thotr property fair ly, they would bo compelled to pay moro than their Just share That whllo they aro willing to do their part to ward tho paymont of taxes yot thoy aro determined to do no moro. Wo find tho peoplo unanimous In tho do Biro for good govornmont, nnd that thoy aro willing to pay their Just pro portion for its maintenance. This notorious usage of "tax dodg ing" haa becomo a most virulont ulcor upon our body politic. An Oregon tax-roll is tho olghth great wondor of tho world. Its study proves to ono that conscionco has been often discarded, and that many must surely trust that thol Makor on that final day of judg inont in casting up tho final account of thohr doods dono on this earth will forget to senn thoso tnx-rolls. Tho cause ho does not Hko to have It ap rockioss mannor in which tho propor- 'poar In print that ho has attempted to ties owned aro forgotten by many when defraud tho county. But It nppears to tho nssosor calls on thorn Is remajkablo uu that this law doos not go far Whllo It Is truo that people know qulto gonornlly that thoro is a habit-1 ual evasion of tho assessment lawa to a cortain dogreo, yo fow havo but a faint conception of tho extent to which this practice 1b carried, unloss I thoy powonnlly oxnmlno tho tax-rolls, If nowspapers of oach county would publish a list of oach taxpayer's prop- orty, as given to the assossor, it would strike many a good and well moaning cltlzon with consternation, and wo would find that tho tax-roll of noxt yoar yoar would be increased many fold ovor that of our prosent yoar. Publicity la the only remedy to bring about a truo roform In this mattor. Adoquato laws may bo enacted upon VW tho taxes to moot tholr paymont. any subject, yot If thoy aro Improporly ! Nwu-ly overy county court of this enforcod or oxocutod they will not no- stato now points with prldo to tho re compllsh tho purposo for which thoy ductlon of public expenses. Our coun- aro Intended. If tho peoplo aro kept in ignoranco as to Uio mannor In which an offlcor performs the duties Impoaed upon him by law. and the pooplo are aho kept In Ignoranco of the ovnalon of such laws by thoso whose duty It Is to observe them, ihon favorltos ward strlkots. polltlcnl hOMftj, and unscrupulous persons will evado our laws with Impunity Dark- uees is a moe t favorable place to brood microbes and foster deadly germs of disease, and unllg'ht Is their deadly foe. So sjecrecy In our body politic tends to produce an unhealthy condl- tion and oroatee a most favorable op- portunlty for the breeding of fraud and corruption, and their unrelenting foe is publicity. Turn the sunlight of the facts upon public abuses and the people will force Its porpotratore to desist The people demand an honast administration of public and private affairs, and fraud and corruption can. not long exist when brought In view for public Inspection. Twoed and his gang bribed Judges xyers and legislatures, (awe wore passed in their interest, public treasuries wore pillaged by them, and decisions vcre rondorod in thoir favor, and no such completo and oxtonsivo plan of fraud and public spoliation was ovor dovised in any country, yot publicity brought about the downfall of this powerful rlngL It was through tho columns of the New York pross that this vast system of fraud and corruption was exposed and broken up, and "Boss" Tweed, who wau moro powerful than any king, to languish and die in a fel on's cell. Tho nowgpapors aro the moulders of public opinion. It is through tho columns of tho newspa pers that public and private abuses aro disclosed, frauds unearthed and great reforms are brought about. It was Napoleon who said, "Four hostile newspapers aro moro to bo feared than ton thousand bayonets." Wo would, thoreforo recommend complote publicity as a certain reme dy against tho practice of "tax-dodging." The aojesment of each person llablo to assessment In a county should bo published as is dono in uev oral other states, before the county beard of equalization taeebs, in the leading nowspapers published in the county. Tho stato of Illinois now has such n law, and its effect is magical. Each porson is mado awaro of his neighbor's list of proporty given in to the assossor, and if such noighbor omits any of his proporty subject tc assossmont ho U compelled to hasten Its correction. This law has brought about a revolution in that stato with rogard to equal and Just taxation, and it Is almost Impossible for ono to os cape his Just proportion of tho taxos. Our stnto has a law requiring pub licity in tho allowance of bills against counties. This law was onncted in 1891, and require that all bills pre sented to or allowed by a county, ex cepting whoro the chnrgos aro fixed by law, to bb published In a leading nowspnpor of such county. Wo have observed tho practical offect of thle law with considerable Interest. This law saves ovory year many thousands of dollars to each county of this stato. Exorbitant bills, such bills as political plums for favorites, and bills for oth or questionable prlvnto motlvcu arc now scarcoly ovor presented or al lowed. Tho pcoTjlo keop posted upon tho business of tho county, nnd if thoy dlscovor a bill nllowod against tho county which thoy deem to bo wrong thoy Instltuto proceedings to stop its paymont. County courts are mado moro caroful In examining and paying bills. A porson is mado more cautious about tho presentation of exorbitant or questionable bills, bo- onough, and that it would bo moro'Df- flclont If It required . tho publication of all bills nllowod by a county. Tho peoplo should know everything for which their monoy is expended. Tho oxcoptlon in this law, that bills in which tho ItemB aro based upon chnrgOB fixed by law need not bo pub Hahod, would seem,' to includo all bills presontod undor foo-bllls. Tho foo bill system In tho past has beon re garded as a sourco of tho groatost drain upon tho : p'ubllc treasuries. Without tho publication of such bills It allows tho officer's construction of Uio law and the amount of his bill to go unquostlonod by tho pooplo who ty courts aro almost without exception composod of vory competent mon, but wo cannot say that they aro In any way moro compotont than tholr prode cojsora iu olllco. Wo are thoreforo fprcod to tho fconcluslou that tho pub llclty required by this law In tho pre sentation and allowance of bills has 1)0on lll Kruat factor that has brought about tho prosent oconohiy In pub- 1!c affairs. ln conclusion we will say that the newspapers of our State have always hovn a public spirit, and gladly fur "lehed the news to tnelr readors. The legislature can place propor safe- guards upon this law which wo pro- I10 8i"aln8t the ovaslo'n of the as aeesment laws, by proscribing prlcos for publication, so that but little ex- will be qntalled In Us opera tion. We are thankful that we are alive ai duin. business at the same old stand, to tho contrary notwlthstand Ing. Datavia (Iowa) Watchman. Cherry Pectoral for hard colds, chronic coughs, consumption, oia cases, severe cases. Ask your doctor if he has better advice. J. O.TtrCa., Lawttf. Mate hesmssMmmaSBrmm JH mji 81 II 1 M I yttwMjjg U For Infants and Children. flBIe Kind You Have HtHHHi E Always Bought I If Aree4dIMJlk)nIbrAs- M iyftyadBovYoi3of m Bears tne i I Ir?H? I Signature Aw 1 1 EroatoaDigMHcKiheerrir- m Jf M lAT I BaMaandltesUnlalnsneilltcr nf fkJxtffl I !j Oy&KuMorplisM nor'Mmcral. H Ul j lM I I Not Haslc otic. eCiAl s .1 1 jwjW' 1 1 I I J&r I li W '"I I i5LJ Ifu gX Hqp I !cdBiTjforo;LSllvv IF wo I tbaaSotf 9toacli,Dktitoa g kj , 1 YAmimpatrvhioDaverisW- fM ly bTaks IIiiau 1 lmHdJjQ9BOr8LE!P. J U UVBl 1 YmUmmU Signature of I. ffS I Thirty Years 1 tmMmmmimzm p m W I IIfl 1 I exact copy or wrappeh. NSHLgFn f$ B.JM m m I H W HOLIDAY GOODS that are useful as well as ornamental, Unv brellas gloria silk black or colors, handles neatly mounted with sterling silver. Look like $5 value;, our price $1,75 to $3,00 Shawls 25c each that are worth 50c. we have others ranging price up to $2 50. Millinery late style and cood aualitv 40 per cent reduction A $2 Hat costing only 1.20. A $3 Hat costing you only 1.80, A $4 Hat costing you only 2.40. 50c Satins only 25c per yard, bright co'ors. ' Rostein & Greenbaum ! 302 Commercial Street E. C. CROSS Meats and Provisions PHONB Established 1884 -fri1"-11" am A Condition and not a Theory Confronts the fastidious man that baa soiled llnon, and don't know where be can haye It laundered with out Injury and In an irreproachable manner. Wo can rellove his mind right now by assuring him that his shirts, collars and cuffs didn't look bottor whon first purchased than they do when sont home from the Salem Steam Laundry. COLONEL. J. OLMSTED. Prop. DORUS D. OLMSTED, Mer. Phone 411. 320 Liberty St. Mr4aata(leiaittlO)tgg(f4gt)l4ajlg4)4saaietH I :::::::. G E N C li BALFOUR, GUTHRIE & CO.:; GR AINbOW AND 8H1PPHB80F CR AlNj : Oats For Sale. HOP 0RQWER3 SUPPLIES. Crede sad stick SBlphBr. HE J. I. Iffiriftm Arrant- ,5 -. . im, 6vu, eNHOfre)W Signs of Renewed Activity In the real estate world Indicate In creasing bulldlne operations Udf Spring, uxfl prompt us to remind yM that our facillUoe for eupplylng hard and soft wood, lumber, lath, shingle, and other bulldlns materials are e cepUonally good. We will be pleueJ to furnish estimates on oontracU, Urge or small. A car of UIU City shingle rooetred. GOO DALE LUMPER CO, mt.. Near S. P. Pae Dipet Phone Ul. ' Y O F:::::::: i i i it . .. wi uoauflua :, mm, vn. VI xatmmaiba