Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, May 28, 1909, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text;xttjm:,;a.-.-aa DATLX CAPITA! JTOURNAIi, SALKM, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1000. 1 j! it THE CAPITAL JOURNAL E. HOFKC, Editor Mid Proprietor Independent Newpper Derpled to American Principle! nnd the PioRreu and Derelopement of All Oregon. Published Brery Krenlng Except Sunday, EMem, Ore. SUBSCRIPTION JtATBS. (Invultblr In Advsnce.) Dtir, by wirier, per yer W.00 I'er month.. DaIIv. br mull, per rear. .. .0O Per month Weekly. lr mail, per jroir...............,.00 Six monthi evOo i V y-vz Ko A rO .m..sOo Nf MONUMENTS TO THE MEN WHO ABE DEVELOPING OREGON Men have inscribed their names on the history of Oregon in imperishable monuments. On the banks of the Ricreal (La Creole) stands a noble shaft in honor of Colonel Nesmith, first United States Senator frjom .Oregon and friend of Lincoln. There is a monument erected to the memory of Col. Victor Trovett on Mefnaloose Island, friend of pioneers and Indians. This publication would honor the men who did things for the glory of Oregon in the past. It would also erect with loving hands the tributes of appre ciation due the men who are doing things for the glory of the commonwealth today. Promoting better transportation facilities by land and by water are the problems of the hour. To this cause the best efforts of the Oregon-Idaho Devel opment Congress are dedicated, We generally wait until men are dead and then begin to engrave the tributes of praise on their tombstones, Postmortem eulogies will never reach the ears of the de parted. ,'.,,., i How many a citizen battles loyally for the common good and is burled as soon as he dies In the ruck of oblivionl How many contribute all their lives in some great cause only to be forgotten beoause it did not reach full fruition!. How few are remembered who fought the battles of water transportation on the Willamette and Columbia fifty years ago. How few can recall the names of the men who pioneered railroad construction in the sixties and seventies in Oregon. One would think their names would be lisped on the lips of school children of the present day out of mere gratitude for the blessings we now enjoyl But they are forgotten, or nearly so, in the onrush of a hurrying generation. So I proposo to bring to notice the labors of some of the private citizens who are doing. the present-day development worki . , , Lest they be forgotten amid the clamors of noisy politicians, overlooked in tho throng of greedy grabbers of gain, from time to time lot us print these slight mention of their labors., Lot It be romembored, the great work of developing the western commonwealth is not performed by public officials, nor even by tho high-salaried professional boosters. Behold what a monument of progress tho development fight ers of tho present day are erecting: Harrlman Is building into Klamath Falls and Tillamook. He promisos to build up the Des Chutes and is surveying anew from Ontario to Burns. J, H. Somors and Jacob Haas of Marshfield ask a franchise from Roseburg to Coos Bay, F, M, Swift is promoting a lino from Oregon City to Silverton. A railroad is being survoyed from Central Point to Chetco, Win. Grimes, Henry Sengstacken, J. T. McCormack, I. S, Kaufman, H. C, Diers, J, R, Smith, F. A. Haines, Patrick Hen nossy (much power to Pat), L. F. Falkensteln, J. C. Gray, C. C. Cartor (the latter of Myrtle Creek) are surveying, rignt-of-wnylng and pro-paying a railroad from Coos Bay to Roso- Two hundrod thousand dollars Is bolng raised to put through a railroad from Eugene to Siuslaw harbor,, a project promoted by H, W, Thompson, L, E, Boan, Sten Lund, A. F, Campbell, J, M. Shelly, Chas, H, Fisher, Freo Thomas, Thos, M, Svarvo rud, Dr, Wm. Kuykondnll and F. M. Wllkins, John R, Alton, 49 Wail street, New York, Robt, S, Towne and Col. J. F, Mundy aro tho now owners of the Pacific and Eastern, a coal and lumber railroad from Medford. The Salem, Eugene and Eastern is building at Albany and Eugene. Tho Salem, Falls City and Western is building from Salem west. Are not all these movements monuments to the men who are making the present-day fight for development in Oregon? If this fight for development is kept up, Oregon will navo 2000 mllos of railroad under construction by the ond of 1910. The people of Oregon should uphold the hands of these present-day heroes of development. Lot us not wait until they are doad and then speedily pass thorn Into the oblivion of forgotfulness, Their battle Is for hotter business conditions, to enhance the value of evory foot of land, to burst open the double-barred doors of opportunity NOW. CAPITAL NATIONAL BANK J, H, Albert, Pres, E. M, Crolsan, Vico Pres, Jos, H, Albert, Cashlor SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Pays Interest on Savings Accounts It you want to feel well, look woll and bo well, take Foloy'a Kldnoy Remedy. It tones up tho kldnoys ana Dimmer, purines tno Diooa ana restores health and strength. Picas ant to take and contains no harmful drugs. Why not commenco today? J. O. Terry. WM7X? JJS. C0UKOALSr STATE PRESS RESENTS PAYING INSPECTION TAX UNDER FACTORY ACT Records of Secretary of State Do Not Show That the Labor Commissioner Collects This Tax From the State Printer, But Little Country Offices Have Been Made to Pay. The Capital Journal presents correspondence and press clippings in regard to the attempt of State Labor Commis sioner 0. P. Hoff to make , one-press printing of fices pay the factory inspection fee of five do lars a year. Inauirv at the state printing office reveals the fact that he has never demanded this inspection fee of the state printer, who runs one of the largest power printing plants in the state and has fast presses, but he has collected the fee from some of the smallest printing offices in the state like the Freewater Times, which probably has an old army press not big enough to pinch your finger. We print a letter from Mr. Hoff, transmitting an opinion of the attorney general. The newspapers of the state have no quarrel with the attorney general or the secretary of state tor attempting to comply with Mr .Hoff's request that the one-press printing offices pay this tax. He is the labor commissioner and he has made the matter an issue by placing the collection of the tax in the hands ot the district attorney and ordering him to col lect the same, He cannot hide behind the attorney general or the secretary of state, If those officers have clone any thing in this matter it has been in pursuance of their duties and at the Instance of the- labor commissioner, We do not believe the labor commissioner should be so severely con demned, as some of the papers have condemned him, as he has probably done what he did under a mistaken sense of duty; Commissioner Hoff Defend. Stnto Labor Commissioner Hoff has lssuod n letter to tho press of tho stnto defending his attempt to collect troin every llttlo ono-press printing office flvo dollars n year Inspection fee. As thesO offices huvo but ono pfeco of machinery that runs but n few hours n week, tho collection of this tax does no ono any good. Ills Jotter mnkes several misstatements, as follews: "Tho Capital Journal is tho only Institution in Salem and tho ony printing offlco In Marlon county that has failed to pay Its inspection feus under tho stnto factory Inspection law." This In not true oecuuse Inspection of the record of the offlco of (lie secretnry of stnto s..owk tho Inspcc tlou fco has not lieeii paid by the Mate printing offlco, which In ii pri vate plant anil operate dangerous high-speed machinery. Many other offices lu tills statu report (hut they have not paid. Another Misstatement. "Tho Capital Journal counsels united opposition by the press of the stuto to tho factory law and tho bureau of labor." Thlw In false Iteeniise The Capital Journal only urges that n toot caw ho made to determine Mhether a one presw printing offlco comes under tho factory Inspection net. Wo do not believe n fair construction of tho law Intends that each year every Utile one-press printing olllce shall pay IhN five-dollar tnv. Tho Capital Journal Ih'IIcvon in a fair construction and u fair enforcement of the factory inspection net to protect Inlmr against dangerous machinery, and In prepared lo lcuo the matter to any Jury whether n one-press printing offlco Is a factory or workshop in (he meaning of tho law. The labor commissioner cannot mnko this a personal mnttor, as ho has placed his own construction on tho law and tho newspapers and tho job printing otflcos of tho stnto, which number botwoon two and three hundred, havo a right to resist col lection of a tax that was novor In tended to bo levied upon their industry. Opinion of Attorney General. Stato of Oregon, nurenu of Labor. Saloni, May 21. 1909. Mr. E. Hofer, Editor Dally Capital Journal. Salem, Oregon. Dear Sir: In your Issue of tho 19th Inst. I notice editorial comment on the action of this office In placing your newspaper printing plant under tho inspection law. As an officer ot the stute 1 have only done my duty as provided in the statutes nnd lu nccordanco with the opinion rendered by the attorney goncrnl, which opinion may bo found on page 181 of urn report for 190G-08 which reads as follews: "State of Oregon, Legal Depart ment. Saletn, September 13, 1907. "Hon. O. P. Hoff. Labor Commission er. Salem, Oregon. "Dear Sir: In answer to your In quiry of oven date herewith, as to whether tho mecnunlcal department of nowspapera and other printing es tablishments having motive power for tho oporanon of the presses and other machinery other than nana power, are Included in tho provision ot chap tot 158, laws of 1907. known ns tho factory inspection law. I beg to say that, in my opinion, they are. 'Sections 1 and 3, In enumerating tho establishments to which tho pro visions ot tho act are applicable, mentions actory. mill or workshop whore machinery Is used.' and 'fac tory, mill or workshop where nu chlnery Is used and m&hual labor Is j exercised by way of trado for the purpose of gain.' In a printing es tablishment, wnero there aro presses and other machines driven by motive power and there are persons em ployed in using such machines, there is no question, In my mind, that such establishments come within the term 'workshop where machinery Is used Thero is no denying tlio fact that it is a plnco where manual labor is per formed and tho physical or tanglblo products of tho press nro turned- out, and this fuliills tho definition of n workshop, wlilch is 'a shop where any manufacture Is carried on.' "Also other pnrts of tho act mnko it npplicablo to warehouses and stores nnd In fact It scorns to bo tho In tention of tho legislature that Its pro visions shall apply to nlmost any place where thero Is machlnory to bo guarded nnd Human Ufa protected. And, therefore, in my opinion, it ap plies to tiioso parts of tho printing establishments employing mnchlntfry which would bo liable to endnngcr human llfo nnd limbs If not proporly 8nfu-guarded. Very respectfully yours, "A. M. Crawford, "Attorney Gonoral. "Dy I. H. Van Winkle." Trusting you will give this letter as much publicity ns you have glvon your edltorlnl, I am, respectfully yours, O. P. HOFF, , Stato Commissioner of Labor. From Secretary Htnle Press Assn. Gcrvals, May 2C. B. Hofer, Salem, Or. I consider tho Imposition of tnx on one-press offices an unfnlr proposi tion. If our ono-press pcoplo would come to association meeting and con sistently work for all measures not favorable to tho press of Oregon, wo might accomplish nomething. I will donate my sharo to test tho law. WM. J. CLARK, Editor The Star. From Dougns County. Myrtle Creek, May 20, I have Just received a copy of Tho Journnl con taining your expose of tho One-press factory tax graft, tho Lnbor Commis sioner Is trying to work. 1 do not proposo to pay It. Am with you in the fight to knock tho thing in tho head. Would rather pay tho prlco of tho tax fighting this graft tnan to sumblt to Buch extortion. Fraternally yours, CHAS. W. IUCE, Publisher Myrtle Creek Mail. From Jackson County. Jacksonville, May 22. I havo Just read your article In regard to "In spection nnd tax on factories." I think tho Bchemo to collect tho tax from newspaper publishers is a graft, pure and Blmple, nnd wo believe thnt eovry publisher In tho state (outsldo of Portland) will Join you in resist ing it. As yet no demand has been mndo on us for payment of tho so-called tax but if made we shall certainly ob ject, as wo consider It both unjust nnd illegal. D. W. DAGSHAW, Ed. Tho Post. Small Paper Paid the Tnx. Freewater, Or., May 25.- Your ar ticle ro printing office nnd factory received. I havo paid by $5 for In spection and will gladly put up my share to test legality of Inspection. Thank you for chnmplonlng tho coun try press. D. C. SANDERSON, Ed. Tho Times. From a Job 1 rlntcr. Pendleton, Or., Mny 21. Editor Jeurnnl: Copy of your paper of 19th Inst, nt hand and cditorinl on tho Hoff tnx for 1908-09 read with In terest. I congratulate you. I havo not paid the tax and will help fight through all tho trlbunnls this sldo of hades bofore I will pay. Fratcrnnlly, JACK HUSTON. Docs Not lllamc Mr. Hoff. (From tho Albnny Domocrnt.) Tho Salem Journal failed to pay Its factory Inspection fco of 5 n year the past two years Blnce the law wm passed and kicks loud over It In a doublo column article with several largo types, Tho Democrat paid Its two years foes at onco promptly, nnd has tho receipts. Tho law Is unjust, and Is a direct steal when It Includes small printing offices, but Commissioner Hoff Is not to blame. Tho leglslnturo passed tho law. It Is an Infamous graft when it applies to making n factory out of n print shop, but It Is the law and Drothcr Hofer ought to pay his $5 a year Just as much ns tho Democrat man. Hofer's Irish Up Again. (Grants Pass Pacific Outlook.) Editor Hofer, of the Salem Capi tal Journnl touches a sympathetic chord In the breast .of ovcry pub lisher nnd printer In Oregon when ho uncorks his blue vitriol and turns looso unpon tho factory Inspection graft. Tho Colonel was recently touched for ton dollars In back tax es under this holdup enactment, and while ho does not mind a small pull like a ten dollar bill, his soul revolts at tho Injustlco of hnvlng every ono press print shop classed ns a factory and tnxed as such. Ho calls upon tho whole nowspapor fraternity to unite and flgh thlB schemo and all similar schemes to a finish, for there Is no degre of extortion to which I BpBpaptapfnsiHkBMBMBjHpjHBjH BBB flETl BlBV ABBH I Just Coffee, but perfect I Coffee. I Your grocer will grind it I bettor if ground at home not I too flno. I S I this inspection tax may not go, Tho law was drawn with n view to ap plying It to factories and mills where thero was such an amount of machinery that thero was always an clement of danger. Tho application of the act to on-prcss printing es tablishments is nothing more or less than a graft. It might with Just ob much Justico be applied to a wind mill, a feed-cutter or his wlfo's ro tary churn. 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