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The Capital Journal
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chicago Store. No mercy shown to prices for August clean-up. We must have '
for our fall stock.
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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
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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.
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A sensible man is one who figures
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taking hold.
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