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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1913)
0 A P lu Ha. fern a otamal 17 - o.xcs,19 i rage ok i The Capital Journal PUBLISHED BY The BarnesTaber Company GRAHAM P. TABEE, Editor ud Manager. An Independent Newspaper Devoted toAmerican Principle! and the Progress and Development of Balem in Particular and All Oregon in General. PnhlUhed Brerr Bvenlns Uicept Uundar, Bslun, Onion SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Invariably la Adnnea) Dally, nj Carrier, per jear ...$5.20 Per month.. 45c Dally, br Villi, per ear 4.00 Pr month.. 86c Weetlr. by Mull, per ytar .... 1.00 8I month -BOe FULL LBAHfOD WHIM TKI.KOIiAPH BBPOKT levy a tax that the person supposed to pay it, actually pays, few taxes that cannot be paused along to some one else. They are of the There are daily more than S00 street cars crossing the Oregon Electric road in this city. There are less than a dozen electric trains, yet to accommodate these, all the street cars must stop, the conductors run op to the track, tell the motorman there is nothing in the way of his crossing the track other than a blamed fool order of some pin-beaded official, and order Mm to try it. The system is almost foolish enough to make one believe it might be the result of a city ordinance. The order, however, emanated from the railroad commission. The dome of the capital was the only thing big enough to give the idea birth. ADVERTISING BATES. Advertising rate will be farniibed on application. "New Today" adi strictly- cash In advance. 'Want" ads and The Capital Journal carrier boyi are instructed to put the papers on the torch. If the carrier doe not do this, missel you, or neglects gettliig the paper to yon on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this Is the only way w can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone Main 82. PER CENT CEASED AND LARCENY BEGAN. WE STATED EDITORIALLY yesterday that the Wells Fargo Express company had doclarod dividends in California amounting to 800 per cent. This was not entirely truo, for while the commission showed that the earnings in some casos wore that much, the actual dividends were only 136 per cent. The exact figures as given by the California com missioners are: "Totul amount of monoy invested by Wells Fargo in the state, which include the value of all horses, delivery wagons, depots and ev erything used by the company in its business in the state, is. $612,233. The earnings In the state, excluding interstate business entirely, left It a net profit of $842,097.84. How does that strike you as a first-class cinch on the publicf A clear profit of 136 per cont In a year, and the original investment still at work. This does not include its profits on interstate shipments which wore no doubt greater than on its businces within the Btato, for it ships California pro ducts by the carload out of the state, and much the greater part of its business is interstate. This is the company that wants to act as middleman for the whole United States. Wouldn 't it havi a snap when it got its grip on the food supply of tho countiyf But this is not all of the compony's profits, for the commission shows that the company besides paying those tremendous didivends has in a few years ac cumulated property in California alone that is valued at $27,000,000. No oth er people on earth except the Americans could stand such robbery, and it might bo added, that no other people would stand it. The railroad commission has ordored a reduction, if it can bo called that, of 00 pur cont. It says in doing this that the express company has boen charg ing $1 for what it should have charged but 10 cents, In other words the com mission says tho company has boon simply robbing the people of 00 conts on every dollar's worth of business it did for thorn. On top of this the commission finds that tho express companies aro but leeches on tho railroads, making tho railroad manngors parties to tho crime. Tho railroads should do this express business themselves, and tho earnings should go to tho railroad companies if it wore allowed to bo collocted at all, for this would help lower rates for freight. Tho commission intimates that tho railroad managers aro the ownore of the express companies, and that they rob tho railroads they are supposed to man age, putting Into their own poekots the earnings which the rood should make, but which under covor of tho express companies is turned over to thorn as thoir private ralio-off instead of going into the funds of tho railroad. Tho commission nlso finds that Wells Fargo & Company gather each year in tho state of California ulnno, counting its intorstato business $2,500,000, which should go into the pockets of the railroads. On top of this is the additional evidence furnished in tho action of tho in terstate commerce commission which recently ordered a reduction of 16 per cent on all express tariffs to go Into of foet October 15. Tho parcels post, for which the country has to thank Oregon's senator, Jon athan Bourne, Is responsible for the downfall of tho expross companies and the reduction of rates, for it demonstrated that the work could be done far more cheaply than tho express companies were doing it. The companies are howllug like a Pluto squaw over the death of her man, but not for tho same reason! for about all tho benofit the man was to tho squaw was that ho provided somothing for her to work for and support. The eomimnlos are justifiod In howling, Who wouldn't ki-yi ovor the loss of an Investment presumably good for all time that yiolded 130 per cont yearlyt That, in fact, paid as we stated yoeterday, and which the interstate earnings added to tho earnings within that state show were in round numbers 800 per cont. WHO IB THE TAXPAYER? CONGRESS 18 WRKBTL1NQ just now with tho income tax problem. As usual tho question bobs up: Who pa.VB tho taxost" Tho question soem's easily answered at first blush, but a brief examination into it rovcals that there is much doubt in somo cases and that in tho other tho answer Is "the consumer." For Instance the Portland Hallway, Light & Power Company makes particu lar mention of the fact that its taxes are $1,100 a day, iu defending its rates, Intimating that it must bo allowed to charge a rate that will pay fair returns after the operating expenses, etc., have boon paid and also enough to pay its taxes In addition. In other words it would have tho consumer, tho patrons of the road pay Its taxes. Who is there that will not any that this is only fair! Yet, when this is admitted, it results In the confession that tho tax on rail roads Is only a surreptitious taxing of the people, the patrons of tho road. It, like the tariff tux, simply gets the money with tho least kicking, because the fellow who buys a ticket dues nut feuli.o that ho Is paying a part of tho com pany's tax wheu ho does so. Tho consumer pays tho tax. It Is so lu every walk of life. The man who pays the tax ostensibly, as a rule, passes It along, charges It up to some one else and collects it, too. Sup pose some man owned ten houses in tho residence district which ho rented to others, and ho himself boarded at a hotel. He, individually, while supposed to pay the taxes on his property, dikes the tax Into account In fixing the rent, and the renter pays it. Tho property owner pays no taxed wliatevor only such as he pays incidentally in paying his sharo of tho tax of tho hotel keeper or the merchants whom ho patronir.es, His renters pay his tax, and he helps pay tho hotel keeper's. Every one passes the tax along, if ho enn, but there aro somo that cannot do this. One of those is the filmier, and ho is prevented from passing his taxes on to the next fellow, because he is tho only producor on earth who dees not fix tho price of his products. That Is fixed for him bv tho law of supply and demand, and tho cold storage sharps. Ho takes what ho ran get and (nys his taxes himself. The professional man, provided ho has anything to pay taxes on, Is another who pays a part at least of his own taxes, but never more than ho can help. Congress, legislature and city councils all get busy trying to make everything bear its just burden of taxation, and In tho greater majority of cases, at least, all they do is to levy a tax which the broad-hacked consumer pays. They sim ply aild to his burdens. For this reason the inheritance and the income tat aro both ideal. Thev The army and navy together have demonstrated that New York can be cap tured, but then it must be borne in mind that it was our own army and navy that so easily made the capture. We fancy that if some other array and navy tried the same thing, there would be a different story to tell. Some things work out on paper much more satisfactorily than in actual demonstration, and capturing cities with a lead pencil is quite different from taking them with real guns. The former king of Portugal has been forced to sell his father's decora tions in order to keep from going to work. So long as he doesn 't have to dig up his revered ancestor's bones and sell them for knife handles, or something of that kind, he is not in real distress. Sir Oliver Lodge, of England, asserts his belief in "an ultimate continuity of existence before and after death as essential to science." Of course, Sir Oliver cannot demonstrate the truth of his belief, for to do so would require that ho furnish a "solution of continuity," and tho doctors will tell you that this would be impossible for Sir Oliver. JEM Knights Templar Spectacle is Most Brilliant Since Present Conclave Began. OFFICIAL BANQUET OF GRAND ENCAMPMENT TONIGHT Plates for Several Hundred Have Been Arranges, and It Promises to Be Big Affair. rnxiTio miss lsisid wins. Denver, Colo., Aug. 13. Seventeen drill teams representing all parts of tho United States, today began the greatest competitive military exhibi tion over held at a conclave of the Knights Templar. The spectacle was the most brilliant prosented sinco the thirty-second triennial conclave began. Tho largest number of teams entered in any previous conclave was eight. It will require two days of drilling to dis pose of all the maneuvers and evolu tions on tho program. Tho best drilled team will get the cov eted solid silver 12-gnUon punch bowl with 30 enps and ladle. It is worth $1000, and is ono of the largest made. It is beautifully engraved and eU'hed with conos of Colorado. The second prize is a silver loving cup four feet high, cost $2,100. There are a dozen other magnificent prizes. The drill teams entored aro: Chica go Commandery No. 19 j St. Bernard Commandory No. 35, Chicago; Engle wood Commandery No. 59, Chicago; Co lumbia Commandery No. 63, Chicago; Woodlawn Commandery No. 76, Chica go; Joliet Commandery No. 4, Joliet, 111.; Ivanhoo Commandery No. 24, Mil waukee, Wis.; Raper Commandery No. 1, Indianapolis; Columbus Commandery No. 2, Washington, D. C; Gothsemane Commandery No. 3.1, Newton Mass.; Ascalon CommBndery No. 16, St. Louis; St. Aldemar Commandery No. 10, St. Louis; Oriental Commandery No. 3.1, Kansas City, Mo.; Mt. Olivet Com nundory No. 12,2 Wichita, Kan.; Now tr.i niendery No. 9, Newton, Kan.; ".! Commandery No. 2, Seattle, ' . and California Commandery Kg ..inn Francisco. Tho official banquet of the prnnd en campment will be held tonight at El .Tebel temple. It will be given by the loenl conclave committee. Plates for several hundred, nt $12.50 per pinto have been arrnnged for. This evening the fnmous battalion drill corps of De troit Commandery No 1 will give an ex hibition nt tho stadium. The Detroit organization is tho best known drilling association in the country. Fifty-one of the knights are more than six feet tall. They cannot compete for the prizes, n stnte law prohibiting it. One of tonight's features will be a con cert by a cowboy band of 100 pieces from Fort Dodge, Kansas, the same that led the parade in tho Templar con clave 21 years ago. LAPP & BUSH, Bankers TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. SAFETY DB- t POSIT BOX& TRAVELERS' CHECKS. AGREE ON POLICY OP AUTONOMY FOR ALBANIA rxiTn rsssa uascd wias.l London, Aug. 13. Sir Edward Grey, foreign minister, announced yesterday that the powers have agreed on a pol icy of autonomy for Albania and for the disposition of the Aegean sea is lands captured by Greece from Turkey, lie said he expected Turkey would heed the wishes of tho powers regarding Adrinnople, and Intimated that the powers had hinted that the Balkan tati could demand a cash Indemnity from the porte If it disregarded the will of the powers. Ho also warned the Ualkan peopples that they must not as sume that the failure of the power to interfere to date would not mean that they would not intervene if there is sufficient provocation. The extreme of woman's foolishness may be partly disclosed by her fool clothes. THE ROUND-UP. The Portland postal savings bank now has more than $S00,000 of deposits and this increasing at the Tate of $1000 a day. Six hundred little tots in the folk (lances at Peninsula Park. Portland, yesterday delighted a gathering esti mated at more than 1.1,000. Harold Randall, 23, drowned while in swimming at Holton Saturday. J. H. Woodyard, a prominent resident of Meecham, died at his home there Sunday, ne was 81 years old, and his death was due to paralysis. Work has begun on the new build ings at the Eastern Oregon asylum for the insane. They will cost $20,000. Dr. McNary has purchased 30 fine Ilolstein cows for use of the branch asylum at Pendleton. Iliston Mooney, 10 years of age, was shot and almost instantly killed by his brother, Floyd, 11 years old, nenr Leona, Douglas county, Sunday. The older boy pointed an "empty" shotgun nt his brother, and pulled th trigger. Tho charge took effect a few inches above the left 'hip, and death resulted ten minutes Inter. Sutherlin is preparing to resume work on the sand stone quarries at that place. La Grande's popular swimming re sort in the city park was destroyed Sunday night, when some vandal worked a hole through the dam, start ing the water, and letting it wash the dam away. The Heppner school director refuse to accept the new high school building just finished, claiming the workman ship is defective. Grants Pass is in earnest about I it railroad to Crescent City on the coast, and her citizens to a man are going in their pockets for the money necessary to keep the good work going. 4 Metollus' new school house contract has been let, at $073.1. The Bnker Democrat snys that Bak er county farmers are stacking the biggest hay crop for many years. The Medford Sun con be quoted as saying that all tho University of South ern Oregon needs now for a good start is some vari colored hatbands nnd B good college yell. The new town .of Ferguson, on the P. E. jt E., already has a commercial club of .19 members and, in the lnngunge of the Eugene Guard, is "a center of social and industrial lifo in the com munity." With the new train service to Mon roe promised In less than a month, and to tho Siuslaw country by the end of the year, tho Register is delighted to note that Eugene's trade zone is ex panding rapidly. SAYS HE IS EMPEROR AND WILL SEEK TO TAKE CHINA fCMTTO ruM UABtn win 1 London, Aug. 1.1. rekin dispatches received here sny General Chang Hsun has declared himself emperor of China and will fight his way to Nanking, which city he has selected as his capi tal. Reports also are current in Pekin of a coming uprising in which the Man chus will attempt to recapture the im perial power. Minister Praises this Laxative. Rev. 11. Stnbenvioll of Allison, la., in praising Dr. King's New Life Pills for constipation, writes: "Dr. King's New Life Pills are such perfect pillt no home should be without them." No bettor regulator for ths liver and bow els. Every pill guaranteed. Try them. Trice 25c, at J. C. Perry. ( nma on1 Saa I llll W inflow IlieviL m kib.b. i f i i hbbb.mbv t .h i i m if A J .. ... i - i - D-kxrDiriii niT nnu'M etir I it win snow you ai a giance wmi a w h -"- means at the V Chicago Store. No mercy shown to prices for August clean-up. We must have ' for our fall stock. ?V v If Advance Showing Of the latest New York models in Ladies' Suits and Coats Piling up on top of us are those new garments before we have made room for them. Come now and get a bargain. Intro duction low prices. COATS $4.95, $7.90 and $12.50 SUITS $8.90, $10.50 and $12.50 Every Garment Worth Double Children's Wash Dresses One thousand in the lot. Dainty dresses for children and miss es, priced about half. 25c, 35c 49c 75c and 98c Wonderful Bargains In Ladies' Waists, Middy Blouses, wash Dress Skirts and House Dresses. $2 WASH SKIRTS now 75c and 98c SHIRT WAISTS 39c, 49c, 75c up 10,000 Yards Of Fashionable Woolen Dress Goods, Silks, Velvets, Plushes, Corduroys, etc., now on sale. Wonderful bargains offered. 25c, 35c, 39c, 75c and up Ladies' Summer Underwear PRICED DOWN Knit Vests 8 c, 10c, 15c, 25c Union Suits 25c, 35c and up 20,000 Yds Domestics NOW ON SALE The greatest showing ol Wash Goods in Salem. Tlt prices are small. 4c, 5c, 8 l-3c and up We Are Here With The Best Values the STORE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY p . it Tn Berrid THE OPEN FORUM ! The Capital Journal Invites pub lic discussion In this department Let both sides of all matters be fully brought out It Is not the purpose of thlB newspaper to do the thinking tor its readers. fested in this new and wonderful light. Success to your up-to-date feature. I Kesnectfullv vonrs. MK9. I. HAGEN, 11 Napa Street. Sjioltane, Wah., Aug. 11. 1913. BELIOIOUS FEATURE OP CAPITAL JOUENAL PRAISED Editor Capital Journal: We note with pleasure and interest tho continuation of tho religious fea ture in your paper. From Pastor Russell's sermons we re ceive more instruction and light in or der to the understanding of the Scrip tures than all other religious works combined. In our locality great interest is ninni- "THE OLD RELIARLpu r c. IVi fc. P Y for MEN fLDJ'ilS?lBT8'0RT,,IAL B0 f"- MAILBOc STAEVATION DOCTOE MUST SERVE TEEM IN PEN united rnass lbisid wisi. Olympia, Wash., Aug. 13. The state supremo court yesterday upheld the con viction of Mrs. Burfield JIazzard, known as tho "starvation doctor," who was tried for first degree murder in causing the death of Miss Claire Wil liamson, an English heiress in Kitsap county, and convicted her of man slaughter and sentenced her to from one to twenty years in the state prison. Mrs. Hazznrd appealed from tho ver dict, which was returned at Port Or chard, February 4, but tho Bupremo court sustained tho lower tribunal on every point. Miss Williamson was a patient of Mrs. Hazard and tho prosecu tion alleged that death resulted from starvation and luck of proper medical attention. One of the most comnon lilic. that hard working people ire tilt: j with is ilams back. Apply Clit; Iain's Liniment twice a diritlu . sage tho parts thoroughly it Mtl plication, and you will get quitt re V For sale by all dealers. i A man is all right in hiiwim as he keeps out of your wir. A sensible man is one who figures out how he is going to let go before taking hold. Tako FOLEY KIDNEY Fill Tonic In Action Quick hh Got rid of your Deadly KMV Ailments, that coBtvouibtff", In endurance of pain, loss olffl" money. Others have cured Ukbs' , KIDNEY AND BLADDER nlS! by the prompt and timely nieofW-', , KIDNEY PILLS. 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