E&torial P
age oi The Salem Capital Jotsmai
THURSDAY
OCT. 23, 1913
nPl f n " A mrr i If tmi & Tne timber-grabbers again have possession of the immense tracts they ille
1 HE CAPITAL J OURiNALny gt om the railroad.
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EVENING NEWSPAPER LEADS IN CIRCULATION AND POWER.
THAT THE EVENING newspaper is best from every standpoint is recog
nized all over the country Bnd especially on tho Pacific coast. The fact
Is so woll known that few will argue from the morning nowspaper stand
point. In discusiiing recently his purchase of the San Joso, Cal., Herald,
and his decision to combine the Morning Times plant with that of tho
Herald and run an evening newspaper to bo called tho San Jose Times Star, E.
J. Finneran, who ij also owner of the Eugene Guard, said:
"Tho evening nowspnpor is daily growing, to surpass the morning papers,
both in circulation and in power. Especially is this true because of the great
difference of time botwoon Now York, Washington and our great news contors
and the Pacific coast which makes it possible to publish in the livo afternoon
papers of this coast of America all the news of the day, on tho very day that it
happens you don't have to wait twolvo hours or until tho next morning for
a chronicle of that day's ovonts.
"The morning paper is a relic of tho stago coach days, when they sent mail
by pony express, and when they set typo by hand, and printed on presses that
took all night to got out tho edition edition. That's why tlioro woro morning
papers then. It took nil day to gathor the nows, and thon took all night to
edit and print it.
"But with praises that print 30,000 papers an hour, with linotype and inter
typo machines that set two thousand lines of ordinary newspaper typo a day;
with leased wire news sorvico putting tho events of tho day inlo tho offices of
the evoning papers five minutes after it happens; with tho telephone, tho tele
graph, the fast mail trains and all tho many inventions that give speed and
service in the editing and printing of a daily paper tho people lire refusing to
wait until next day for that day's uows, they want it quick and they aro go
ing to the ovening papers for it.
"That's why I am changing tho Times from a morning to .in evening pa
per bemuse my experience Ims proven t ) u,o that an ovening paper gets clos
er to tho people, is more of a power and is a better advertising medium. Why
shouldn't it bet It goes into tho homo nt night when the fain'ly is more dis
posed to read and when tho members have moio timo to consider what they will
need for tho next day and where they will buy it, Tho influenco of tho evening
paper on tho homo is greater than flint of tho morning paper for the same rea
son. It goes into the homo circlewhen tho. entire family is gathered together
and it is passed from one to tho other until nil, from the eldest to tho youngest
have read it. On the other hand, tnko the morning paper how ninny' of them
go down town, out of the homo in tho pickets of the men of the family It's
the paper that stays in tho home that is tho most, powerful most powerful for
thiv general good, nnd most powerful fi.r the advertiser."
The government gets less than one-thirtieth the actual value of the lands.
The "actual settlers," the common people, get nothing.
And now listen again. By virtue of this samo act, log-rolled through in the
intorest of the timber-grabbers, the small tract owner, who bought his 160
acre parcel in good faith, and paid the railroad for it years ago, loses his land
unless he goes through the same procesi invented by the timber-grabbers to
cinch their grip upon their illegally obtained holdings.
IIo must go to court, file a stipulation of forfeiture to the government and
buy back his land from the government at tho original price of $2.50 an acre.
And no matter whether he paid the railroad company $3 or $30 an acre for
his land, the railroad keeps the money he paid it and he must again pay to the
government the price originally fixed by congress in the grant to tho railroad.
In short, the government of the United States, having forfeited the Oregon
and California Railroad company's land grant because that corporation dis
obeyed tho plain direction of congress that these lands Bhould be sold only to
actual settlers in 160-acro farm lots, now adopts the exact methods of the of
fending corporation and soils the same lands, in the same huge parcels, to the
same limber corporations, in the same disregard of the original instrument of
grant, and with the same defeat of the common people's rights to settle upon
and homestead this public domain.
And as an incident of this scheme of daylight burglary, the innocent pur
chaser, who bought his littlo tract in good faith, after having been bunkoed by
tho railroad with a worthless deed, is now held up with a legal pistol pointed
at his head by the very government to which he went for redress of his
wrong, and ordered to stand and deliver again!
One cannot sufficiently sympathize with a congressman who voted for this
lemarkablo plan of punishing a law-breaking corporation nnd safeguarding
the common peoples' rights to thoir own public lands. It must be an enormous
stiain upon his intelligence each morniLp to tell whether the head he is comb
ing is his own or that of a pin.
HOW CONGRESS CAME TO THU AID OI TIMBER GRABBERS.
IX Till- WESTERN WRESTS log rolUng is p,t. of Ji-s business of tho tin
ber corporations. 'i'horo they do the job with men, mules and donliey en
gines. In tho national capital log rolling is also part of tho business of tho
timber corporations. There they do tho job with, moneys, tools and don
key congressmen. Witness a round, unvarnished tnlo of facts: Among
the railroad coronations which obtained grants of laud on the public domain
in that period of congressional corruption nnd thieving following the close of
tho civil war, was the Oregon and California linilroad company, with lines
running south from Portland through the fertile valleys and timbered hills u'
western Oregon. This corporation was granted two million three hundred and
sixty thousa id acres, and of thnt immense area much wns covered with the
finest timber standing on this continent.
One provision of this grant wns peculiar to it. The act of congress stipu
lated that the Oregon and California Railroad company should sell theso lands
only to actual settlers, in lots not to exceed MO acres to each purchaser and at
a price not to exceed two dollars and a half nn acre. Tho stipulation was plniu
and concise. The penalty of violating it was forfeiture of the grunt.
The Oregon and California liailrou I took over tho lands and promptly pro
ceeded to ignore and to violnte the stipulations of the grant. It segregated the
lands into lets of any size that suited its convenience, and sold theso lots at
whatever price it could obtain; and the price was always in excess, and fre
quently from ten to twenty times in excess, of the figure fixed by congress.
In the year 1008, a joint resolution of the senate and house directed tho at
torney general of the Viiitod State to I'ring suit in equity to forfeit tho titles
yt tho railroad company, and of those holding by purchase from it, o tho lands
embraced in the grant. Tho suit was pressed to trial and tho government won.
On August 20, 1SU2, an act of congress was approved which provide that
individuals er corporations claiming by purchase from the Oregon and Califor
nia Railroad company lands embraced in the original grant, can procure a do
rnsi of final forfeiture snd re obtain title to the same laud by paying two dol
lars ami a half an acre to the 1'niteil Stat..
The usual verbiage nnd fouimidiihllc which distinguish statesmen's efforts
to write English when travailing in birth with a statute nro not absent from
the full text of this set, but the essence is s stated.
Having log rolled this bill through congress, tho tinihorgrnhhing rorioru
t ions have since been as busy ns s boy in a preserve pantry petitioning the
federal courts to declare their titles forfeit!, and then regaining title by pay
ing to the government ''.."0 an acre for their immensely valuable and illegally
obtained tract of timlKT. One corporation alone, the O. A. Smith Lumber com
pany, ha just obtained in this way in tho t'nited State district court In Port
land, wesion of more than 20,000 acre of standing timber,
It was the express directum of the act of congre establishing the original
grant that these timber lauds should be sold to actual settlers only and 111 lot
not to exceed M0 acre in sir.iv '
Ilcnus the railroad did sell theso timber lands in lots of thousands of acres
t timber corporations, the grant was d.vlnied forfeited. And having obtained
forfeiture on this showing, the government turns around, and by virtue of the
act logrolled through congress by the timber grabbers a year ago, conveys to
th same identical timber grabber the same Identical public timber land in
lots of the same identical Illegal sire.
Ho that, as the rsso stands
Th rilnd Keeps th money It obtained from the original illegal sale.
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
f THE OPEN FORUM I
The Capital Journal Invites pub
lic discussion In this department
Let both sides of all matters J
be fully brought out It Is not f
the purpose of this newspaper to
do the thinking for Its readers.
THE SALOON AND LABOR
Editor of Tho Capital Journal: the
organized laboring people aro being
told by those of their number who arc
led to favor saloons that prohibition
will mean tho loss of a considerable
following hero who aro employed in
tho liquor industries, such ns bartend
ors, brewery workers, etc., many of
whom aro valuable workers in the labor
movoment.
This is very true, nor is it as signif
icant as the further fact that many
such workers stand to suffer unem
ployment ns a result of voting out the
saloons. This is, truly, ono of tho most
potent arguments that can bo brought,
loenlly, against abolition of the saloon,
a well as against prohibition.
To strengthen the sympathy for the
saloon it is shown that saloon interests
aro invnriably generous in dealing with
labor, whereas the churches, whence
prohibition sentiment usually comes, are
tardy with their favor for, and the
support of labor's struggles.
If there .is no other principle invol
ved than ono of direct material reci
procity, between the suloon man as an
employer nnd tho laboring man ns nn
employe, there would be no gainsaying
tho proposition, much ns wo regret to
so.y it.
Hut the church is not nn employing
institution. It partakes more ofthe
nntnro of the labor union than of a
business corporation. Its relation to its
membership is liko that of tho union
to tho union man. It is merely an or
ganized for mutual study nnd self
improvement. Its doors are more truly
open to those who labor than to those
who do not labor. If not, its precepts
nre outraged and it is the supremo
business of the laboring people to come
forward and drive the thieves from the
temple.
The church was founded by a carpen
ter. It was the first carpenter's union
and If labor is denied its fraternity
nnd benefits labor should bestir itself to
demand and secure the restoration of
its own,
Hut wlmt of the modern saloon f
It is A social center in a way, but
one where the social instincts are coin
moreinlir.ed and the lwser nature de
veloped. It is the reluge of the brawl
er, the rendezvous of profanity and ob
scenity and of crime, the place where
nobody is proud to go, nor in which
anybody Is glad to be found.
Thnt the saloon men is often generous
to labor is trie, and it would be menu
to impugn the motives of the goticrom
whatever their calling. The saloon pro
prietor Is often generous, synqiathctic
and public spirited to a degree and
true generosity is always noble.
Hut without questioning motives at
ll it amy truly be said that all the
generosity of the saloon is roe'procatod.
J As a pure money making proposition
it pays enormously. Every farthing of
Its generosity is tho very best sort of
business investment.
Hut there can well be unions concern
for the future of those dependent upon
the liquor business for employment. I
Is nobody's wish or thought that they
i should be driven from tho community
or left stranded, and efforts to rein
state them in other profitable pursuits
should find a hearty reHno.
WM." l CIMMINOS
DOES COUNTY ATTORNEY
BILL CONTAIN "JOKER"?
rosiKinsiblitios; and that ns wo now
have deputies, it would not necessarily
increase the official class, or tho ex
pense. I would ask, does not section four of
such act provide for the county attorn
eys to select deputies? And if a dep
uty or deputies are selected in each
county, would we not have the same
number of deputies ns now, with an in
creased force of elective officials.
It is rather reniarkablo that section
four of such net provide that a dis
trict attorney may appoint a deputy
for his county any time; while section
six provides that tho county court shall
authorize and empower him to appoint
deputies.
Why does one section provide that
the county court shall authorize and
empower him to do, what another sec
tion empowers him to de outright!
Does the law contain a joker or does
it not!
rEKPLEXED VOTER
Salem, Oregon, Oct. 22, HH3
Mnl M Sk ISfi5
Another New Shipment
OP LADIES' COATS AND SUITS just received by express. No such val
ues offered elsewhere in Salem.
COfVTS $4.95 $7.50 $10.50up
SUITS $7.50 $10.50 $12.50 up
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20,000 Yards
Of new Silks and Dress Goods now marked out on our counters for quick
selling. Come and sco the values.
Yard 25c 35c 49c 75c and up
LADIES' WINTER
UNDERWEAR
Now on salo. AH underpriced
for fast selling. Ladies' union
suits now
25c 35c 49c and up
D
I'd it or Journal: 1 wish to call at
tention to and ak some ipiostion
about the county attorney act.
Those advocating the passage of this
bill claim that it would be better and
more satisfactory to have local county
TRANSACTS A OINZ1AL BANKING BUSINESS. lArBTT
POSIT BOXES. T&AVELEBS' CHECK 1
Ir-NITED I'llKSK IXABKU WIHH.1
New York, Oct. 2,1 Edward E. lie
Call, Tammany candidate for mayor,
was reported today to have retained
ex-District Attorney Jerome to seek the
indictment nt .T,,l., A II. .. .
- - ... Jn-i:iiri.i.( till il
criminnl libel charge. It wns known '
positive that a rapid exchange of mes-!
sages was in progress bciwecti Tnni-1
many Hull, Jerome nnd District Attor
ney Whitman's office.
Honnossy, who was special giaft in
vestigator for ex Governor Willinm
Sulzer, charged in a speech here that
MeCnII acted as go-between for Tam
il any I'oss Murphy in his negotiations
with Sulzir
1r imtfmWmWNB, 2
I value. I STORE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY ff'-l Sarvic9 I
ll SrilSSttiwilIn 'mi Wmiiiiiliilin ml Im ijii'n ii , ,t i --j-vt fr' n'nii nil I 'nvl E
THE ROUND-UP.
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Now is the season when the frost is
on the sidewalk and the ice
on the bum, as the Condon Time puts
it.
What manner of church workers
Uikeview is blessed with is shown bv
biu it. ,i, in In. ..i...... UTk. t...i:... I
-..mi ... ,.i.' At.ui 1 ,1,', , in, lies
of the Presbyterian Aid last Tuesday
sacked about 500 bushels of potatoes
en the O'Neill & Duiilap ranch a few
miles west of town, receiving for their
labor about '$.
The Scout mimes two of the most
urgent of Vnions long felt wants, say
ing, nmong other thiugs: "All that is
needed is a few factories. There is
plenty of capital if it could only bo in
terested. With tho addition of a good
hotel we could clnim a modern city.
The next few years will tell the
story."
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Joseph Herald: Harl Adkins wns in
town a few days ago with a remedy
for sore eyes in the shape of a bottle
of gold nuggets, taken from the 1m-
c renin is naha placer mines, owned by Harl and
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Ttlf fln.UaroiiA !
Syrup Wilt Surprise You
Co! I.lllle, but there I N th
ins; llctler mt any Price,
fully Uuaranleed.
Here Is a home-made remcdv that
takes hold of a couth almost instsntlv,
and will usually conquer an ordinary
eiiih in 24 hour, llus rccii makes a
pint enough for a whole familv. You
couldn't buy as much or as good ready
made cough syrup (er $i..W,
Mix one pint of uranulutnl sugar with
li pint of wnrm water. nd stir 2
minutes. Cut !!'4 ounce of I'inex I fifty
rents' worth) in a pint bottle, and dd
the Sugar Svrup. Thi keeps perfectly
and has a lcnt taste children like
it. Hrcc up the appetite ami i
slightly laxative, which helps end a
Cvllgll.
You prohnMv know the medic! value
of pine in trtntim; bronchial asthma,
bronchitis, spiisinndic croup nnd whoop,
iiitf cough. I'inex Is a most valuable
concentrated compound of Norway
white pine extract, rich In guainod and
cllicr natural healing pine element.
Other prci'srationt will not work in
this combination.
Th prompt results from thi inexpen
sive remedy have made friend for it in
thousands of home In th Vnited State
and Canada, which explain why th
plan has been imitated often, but never
uccessfully.
A guaranty of absolute satisfaction,
or money promptly refunded, B"e with
thi preparation. Your druggist ha
Marx jar will rrt It for you, If not,
swod to Th I'lata CV, Ft. Wayne, lnd.
Tom Adkins, Charley Rico and Albert
Wurzweiler. Many of the nuggets were
worth each, ,nnd the ground be
ing worked averages about $2 to the
vnrd.
If all the Wheeler county fanners
who are talking of it go to raising
hogs,' the Fossil Journal says, "the
railroad will have steady work ship
ping them when it comes. With its
rich grain and alfalfa lands, and its
countless springs, Wheeler county is
made to order for hogs, and, with prop
er transportation facilities, there
would hardly be a limit to the bacon
and lnrd it would produce.' '
world's convention of the Women's
Christian Temperance I'nion opened
sessions which will continue through
Tuesday. The union is the largest or
ganization in tho world in which wo
men alone hold office. The American
membership exceeds 300,1100, and the
British i.lO.OiiO, Among tho more
prominent delegates will be Lady Hold
er, Australia; Lady Aurea llownrd,
second daughter of the Countess of
Carlisle, and Lady Hope, of Manches
ter. China and Japan, Coren, Russia,
Turkey, Spain, New Zealand nnd
Franco nlso were represented today.
Titled delegates will be formally pre
sented at the banquet nt the Hotel As
tor tonight. There were 500 accredited
delegates in attendance todnv.
The Automobile Club of America,
through its bureau of tours, is urging
autoniobilists to use caro with fire in
timbered regions.
Daily Horoscope
OCTOVER 23.
1'cople born on this dute are natural
ly energetic, ambitious, generous and
inspired. They nre bold and daring in
all enterprises nnd stand losses and Ill
luck better than any other person. The
men are self-reliant and seek their own
way, and choose their own companions.
They seldom seek advice, nnd It it
better to leave them to follow their
own ideas. They trust to their intui
tions, which aro very keen, and seldom
lead thorn on tho wrong trnck.
Both men nnd women of this birth
date, when once they hnvo heard the
late records on tho Yictrola aro almost
certain to purchnse these records. In
ninny instances they buy a Vlctrola,
after having it demonstrated by R. F.
Peters, .121 Court street.
W. C. T TJ. (lONVT.UTinW
vsi-rro russ 10 . X
New York, Oct. 2.1. Delegates from
the I'nited States nnd 3.'i foreign coun
tries met in the Academy of Music, in
Brooklyn, today when the great
Sacrifice Sale
A I am going away I will sacrifice
my home. A beautiful modern bunga
low, six rooms, casement, electric fix
teres, bath, toilet, etc., wash tray-
wood lift, largo lot, lawn, flowers, gar
age, cement walks, paved street, all as
sessments paid. Price only 2230, half
cash. Would be a good buy t $3000.
doing to leave the city, will sacrifice.
See my agents, Hechtel i Pynon, for a
real snap.
HOUSES TOE BENT.
Largest Reiitl Department In the Citj
W Writo All Kinds of Insurance
FARMS.
We have the largest list of farms for
sale In the valley. Any mini ber 0'
icre to nit.
WlU Pay 8 rr Cent.
Wanted, 12000; good security.
W buy, sell, rent or exchange prep
erty.
BECHTEL k BYN0N,
MT State Street
Extra! Extra!
For the first time in tho history of Salem the people
of Marion and Polk counties can secure all kinds of
sacks at right prices in this city, instead of spending
their time and money in going to Portland. We are pay
ing one cent a pound for all kinds of rags. We also are
paying $13 per ton for all kinds of cast iron. Highest
prices paid for all kinds of old clothes, household goods
and furniture. We buy and sell everything from a
needle to a piece of gold. All kinds of tools and ma
chinery and pipe bought and sold. The house of a half
a million bargains.
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H. STEINBOCK JUNK CO.
233 State Street. Phone Main 224
Salem, Oregon.
STRICTLY HIGH GRADE FINISH
on Autos, Pianos or Carriages. Satisfaction
guaranteed or no charge. Leave orders at
468 Ferry Street E. L. Campbell
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