AGE TWO
DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OKEGOX. THURSDAY, FEDKL'ARY 0, 1911
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL
E. HOFER, Editor and Proprietor.
R. M. HOFER, Manager
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the Protrrfsi am! Develop merit of All Orearon
rublUhrc! Kvery Evening Kxcept Sunday, Salvm, Ore.
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FULL LKASED WIRE TELEGRAPH IlKPOKT
Whether this legislature will adopt the proposed optional
workmen's compensation ant remains to be seen. The organiza
tion that got up the employers' liability act seem to fear that
they will stop industries and keep capital out of the state. Now
the same people get up this compensation act to pull the teeth
of their first act. Well, it may be all right, but there are so maiiy
of these acts that the average man who is in business or trying
to carry on an industry is figuring how he can get out of the
atate. There are so many organizations of a parasitic nature
that live off the workmen, and they must be kept busy, and so'we
suppose .they will keep on pa-wing acts, as they do not want to
work for a living. So long, Mary. A straight eight-hour day f r
all employes would do more for laboring people than all the nos
trums combined.
There is going to be an enormmous volume of legislation on
three lines educational, insurance and for the judiciary. The
latter is mostly salaries and deputies' fees. School taxes are
not yet high enough In Oregon, so there must be a few twists on
the jacksrews on the theory that the people cry out least about
what they are paying for education. Well, if they could get rid
of all the other political deals, and spend all the taxes on educa
tion it would be all right. But the educational deal on top of
all the rest makes life a burden to the Oregonian. But there is
one recourse for satisfaction, that we have more land and wealth
per capita than probably any other state, and, according to the
single taxer, the more you burden property with taxes, the more
you force its distribution.
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So Salem i3 going to have twelve cluster lights! Well, that is
a starter in the right direction.
The Semi-Centennial Oreginian was an historical event in
Northwestern Journalism. The continuous domination of one
newspaper by practically two men is so unusual for such a long
period of time that it attracts national attent ion. When coupled
with ability shown by Pittock and Scott the achievement is all the
more remarkable. Oregon has great reason to be proud of the
fact that such a newspaper as the Oregonian is published in the
state. The two men who are today the active factors in making
the paper a still greater success are Leslie Scott and E. 15. Piper,
Ori'goninns in the double sense of having been developed in the
atmosphere nnd born in Oregon, and impregnated with the tra
ditions of the journal and its relations to the commonwealth.
'They are not strangers in a strange land, but are part of the
possessions of the state, and their mentality is in touch with ev
ery fireside in Oregon. With the newer and greater Oregon.they
' are as fully abreast as were the founders of the paper in their
vigor and prime. So we cannot see but the paper has a greater
future than its glorious past, and all our readers will join in ex
tending congratulations on this occasion.
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Too bad the Single-Tax and Hari-Kari bill cannot be ratified
ly the legislature. But there is the initiative and referendum
to fall back on, and any outburst of radicalism that falls by the
wayside at the hands of an unintelligent and unappreciative leg
islature can be revived and put through with a little application
of the Fels fund. Oregon has hopes while the soap holds out.
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Editor Jackson's bill to cut down all the legal advertising rates
in all the newspapers of the state was yesterday shamefully and
indefinitely postponed. It was the Ambrose bill, and that gen
tleman said it was prepared by and introduced at the request of
Jackson. So kind and clever of Jackson to protect the public
against the outrageous extortions of the newspapers. The last
legislature enacted a law for the publishing of delinquent tax
lints, and this same Jackson had the governor veto it. Jackson's
will should be law in Oregon, and if it were not for his extending
his protecting hand, as the guardian angel of the people, what
would become of them. By the way, he is not making much
headway with the $080,000 good road hills, and the $10 000 for
estry commission bill? It is toobad that where $20,000 was
raised to educate the people, it should all be thrown away. But
the $100,000 forestry conservation commission bill, when the
state has no forests, that should go to h 1 with the little coun
try newspapers,
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BILL TO EXTERMINATE VEKMIN
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The Chase bill to provide for purifying school children from
vermin has some merit.
Speaker Rusk, who is a humorist, sent it to the game commit
tee. From a sanitary standpoint, if the senator is serious in pro
posing this bill, it may have some merit.
It will be found impractical, however, to otliciallv declare that
any child is infested with vermin.
First the school children, or some teacher, or parent must file
an accusation that a certain child is infested, and be prepared to
make proof and identification.
Then there must be a hearing and investigation and official
scrutiny and determination of the facts in the case, with samples
of the vermin.
By this time if the whole school district is not at war, action
can be taken.
MR. BROWNIULI, HAD A GOOD BILL.
Brownidil, of Yamhill, lost out yesterday on a mighty good
71T T "1 have coughed and coughed
lYllI JLUTIQS untiI my lungs are sore and
J ZJ weak." Co at once to your doc
tor. Do not delay another hour. Ask him all about Ayer$
C'rry Pectoral. Then take it or not. as he says, f 0 ,VV,
bill to give the people power to remove troublesome local ap
I pendices.
I It gave counties the powers over offices and salaries that cities
i now have.
Under this bill the people could abolish any office but clerk
,iudge, sheriff, assessor and coroner.
Such offices as the people !ci superftous like county road
master could be aboli;?h'?d.
This bill did not interfere with any existing constitutional of
fice. It left county courts free to do anything they can do now.
The bill gave the people the right to veto any new office cre
ated and forced upon them.
When the legislature authorizes county courts to create all
kinds of new jobs, there must be some check, and that can be
safely vested in the people.
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THE ROGUE RIVER FISHERIES.
By an initiative measure the salmon fisheries of the Rogue
river, worth half a million dollars, were wiped out, an act of the
rankest injustice.
Representative Pierce has finally got a bill perfected which
meets the objections and interests of all parties.
This compromise protects theangling rights on the river
under the law enacted by the people,
The whole river is open to angling at all seasons.
It allows the salmon to be taken for canning that will not bite
a fly' or spoon and would die.
The destruction of valuable property by popular vote is a se
rious matter, which this bill aims to correct.
If the fishing industry on the Rogue river can be destroyed
without recourse by popular vote, then it can be done on any
river in the state.
Not even the people have a right to do violence to industries.
This 'bill by Pierce aims to preserve the industry, based upon
justice to ill. .
Steelhead salmon cannot be taken with nets or seines or traps,
or otherwise than with hook and line at any season.
This is the only game fish salmon that takes a fly at any sea
sons. The river is open for net fishing from the steel bridge at Sixth
street, Grants Pass, to the Illinois river, from April 15 to Au
gust 15.
This part of the upper river is closed to net fishing at all other
times, but is always open to angling.
There is no commercial fisliinjr allowed in the river abovu
Grants Pass at any season of the year.
On the lower river, west of the Iillinois river, the open season
is from April 15 to August 15.
This is for gillnets alone having a mesh of not less than eight
indies.
There is a fall open season on the lower river from September
10 to November 1.
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Incorporated under the laws of the State of Oregon by responsible business men of Dal
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N. Smtih.
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tent men to handle the same,
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THE COMPANIES
ANGUISHING TO
REDUCE RATES
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FOH THE lTKI'OSE OK MVKIMi
LESS MONKY.
fUNITBD PRESS UUMD WIM.
New York, Feb. a.--That telephone
and telegraph communication In the
1'nlted States will soon be so cheap
that letters nnd postal cards will be
come things of the past Is the opin
ion expressed here today by President
Theodore N. Vail of the new tele
graph and telephone merger, which
the government may prosecute as a
combination In restraint of trade.
Mr. Vail declared' that contracts
had been signed by which telephone
and telegraph wires would be used In
terchangeably In future and that con
sequently greater return for the capi
tal Invested by both the American
Telephone and Telegraph company
and the Western I'nlon would so de
crease the comparative expense that
sweeping reductions In tolls for both
telephone and telegraph use was a
certainty of the near future.
"At $72 per mile for a telephone
wire," snlil President Vail, "whenever
a man In New York calls up Chicago
he has use of our property, counting
poles and equipment, to the value of
$125,000. At 6 per cent this must re
turn $."0 per day. And the charges
must be high enough to cover this,
l'nder our new contracts these tele
telephone wires will also be used for
telegraph and with the fixed charge,
the same reduction In tolls will be
great."
JOE BENNETT
ON WATER
AND LIGHTS
'Old Joe llennett" which Is his pet
name down on Coos Pay, where he
started In as a newspaper man, then
became lawyer, banker, land owner,
and all-around sport, U In town, lie
had several cases to argue before the
supremo court, and among them one
for Elijah Smith, of Hoston. owner of
the Coos Pay Wagon road land grant,
who is worth a million or more just
In trees. Smith went to the hospital
yesterday at Portland to have a ser
ious operation performed, .and Ben
nett telegraphed him, how was he
getting along? Back came telegram
from Smith at the hospital In his bed
which read: "Not xt, but toon.
Smith." Probably the moat laconic
answer ever wired from nu irfco
was going Into the linnils of the anes
thai'.sia fiends.
Wilier a:;;! I.iirhl.
llennett happened to meet up with
Mayor l.aohmund, ;ind the subject of
city water came up. "You man," said
Bennett, "take my advice and get hold
of this water plant. Then tap the
mountains and you will always have
a nice stream of money pouring Into
your city treasury and health for
your people besides." Although own
ing a water plant In Coos county, Mr.
Bennett believes In public ownership
of water.
Kldleules Our Lights.
"You ought to get rid of those
dinky stringer lights on your streets
and put In the modern cluster lights
like we have at Marshfield. We have
a cluster post every 50 feet on our
business streets. The post costs $45
Installed at the expense of the prop
erty owner. We Just passed an ordi
nance requiring property owners to
put them In and that was the end of
it. The lighting and maintenance
costs us two dollars per month per
cluster, and our streets look fine. We
have the same posts they have there,
except we have three lights Instead
of five, with room on top for another
tr we should ewr take a notion to
have It."
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A SPLEXDID TOMO
Cora, Ky. Mrs. Iva Moore, of this
place, says, "I was so weak, I could
hardly walk. I tried" Cardul. and was
greatly relieved. It Is a splendid
tonic. I have recommended Cardul to
many friends, who tried It with good
results." Testimony like this comes
unsolicited, from thousands of earnest
women, who have been benefited by
the timely use of that successful tonic
medicine. Cardul. Purely vegetable,
mild, but reliable Cardul well merits
its high place In the esteem of those
who have tried It. It relieves wo
men's pains, and strengthens weak
women. It Is certainly worth a trial.
Your druggist sells Cardul.
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The Best Hour of Life.
Is when you do some great deed or
discover some wonderful fact. This
hour came to J. R. Pitt, of Rocky
Mt., N. C., when he was suffering In
tensely, as he says, "from the worst
cold I ever had, I then proved to my
great satisfaction, what a wonderful
Cold and Cough cure Dr. Kinz's
New Discovery is. For. after taking
one bottle, I was entirely cured.
You can't say anything too good of
a medicine like that." Its the sur
est and best remedy for diseased
lungs. Hemorrhages. I.aGrIppe,
Asthma, Hay Fever any Throat or
I.ung Trouble, 50c. $1.00. Trial bot
tle free. Guaranteed by J. C. Perry,
Druggist.
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A witty Irishman points out that it
Is a long ways. In several senses.
from the rail splitter to the golf.
player.
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THE NATIONAL BROKERS
HENRY H. TURNER, Manager
Reliable Dealers in Stocks, Bonds, Investments and Money-Making Property, References
Any Bank or Business Man in Salem,
1 35 S. Commercial St. Salem, Oregon
Peace la worth any price aav that
of sacrificing fcomor.
ITALIANS
OBJECT TO
HIGH RATES
(ITIZEXS IX MANY ITALIAN
CITIES ARE IN OPEN REVOLT
AGAINST THE INCREASED HIGH
COST OK KOOD AND RENTS.
tDNITID F1KSS ULaSCT WIBS.l
Rome, Feb. 9. Clashes with troops
In half a dozen cities of Italy oc
curred today as the result of mass
meetings to protest against the exor
bitant prices of food and high rents.
The general opinion Is that wide out
breaks are Inevitable.
The people take the position that
the government is to blame for the
high cost of living, partly through the
heavy taxes levied on all food pro
ducts and partly for its allowing the
formation of several oppressive
trusts. As a result of all these
causes, thousands of the poorer
classes are on the verge of starvation.
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ARIZONA TODAY
IS VOTING ON ITS
CONSTITUTION
Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 9 Voting is
In progress today throughout Arizo
na on the ntw state constitution.
There Is hardly a doubt that the peo
ple will approve the document, and
Its friends say it will have at least
90 per cent of the vote.
Those opposed to the constitution,
while admitting that It will be adopt
ed, predict that President Taft will
vtito It on account of its so-called pro
visions, particularly that providing
for the 'tvcall," against which the
piv&tdent has expressed himself.
PORCH CLIMDER
CLEANED UP
AMBASSADOR
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIKI.
Burlingame, Calif., Feb. 9.
RobtMd of $2,000 .n jewelry by a
porch climber who invadtid his home
in Millbrae last night, Ambassador
Whitelaw Reid today is congratulat
iug himself that the thief's booty
as not greater. Only his decision
to change his apartment and the
consequent transfer of most of his
belongings before the thief's visit,
prevented the ambassador's log
running into big figures.
Reid and his wife, with theti
daughter and son-in-law, Join
Ward, were at dinner when the rot
ber entered. The ambassador's
loss was not discovered until the fam
ily wwei about to retire.
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Plan the season's work now, and
stick as close to your plans as the
weather and incidental changes Id
detail will permit.
There is never any deceit about the
wag of a dog's tail, but there often Is
about a man's smile.
A little farming well done Is more
profitable than a whole lot attempted.
A good mixed crop consists of en
ergy, grit and brains. It is practical
ly sure to produce a full vleld of
profits.
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Tenant for good business building. Good j
proposition to right party j
Address MC Care Journal J
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To
Oregon Electric Ry. Points
Daily March 10th to April ' 10th
St. Paul $25.
Kansas City 25.80
Omaha. , f 25.06
Des Moines 27.83
Indianapolis SS.te
mca80 $33.00
Cincinnatti 8;90
Milwaukee gj,)
St. Louis 3.00
New York " ;tU)0
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on IJZJ CaSt f this PP'tunlty of moving west
Nor hern P " v UCketS Burlingtoft Route. Great Northern,
detsit J T !C ,0? BaDk" aDd T'S Electr' You can
1H give details on request.
C. E. ALBIN',
W. F COMVX Agent Oregon Electric Railway.
Gen l Freight & Pass. Agt.,
Portland, Ore.
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