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1 THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY' 2, 1911. .. pace rotni Editorial Page of The Daily Capital Journal SATURDAY MAT 2, 1914 III i 1 1 : in,. i i i I -' i ! 3h M : I PUBLISHED BY CAPITAL JOURNAL PRINTING CO., Inc. CHARLES II. FISHER, EDITOR GRAHAM P. TABER, MANAGER PUBLISHED EVERY EVENISO EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OBEOON SUBSCRIPTION HATES: r.:. v ....!.. . v.., 5.20 Per month ft1 A . 4.00 ic'.r.zrj::'7. 1.00 ... ... TTfVVM, llj limit, - v- 45c Par m f . Tl t h ........ 35C FULL LEASED "WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT The Capital Journal carrier boyi are instructed to put the paper on the porch. If the carrier doe. not do this, misses you, or neglect, getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only Hay we can determine whether or not the .uiers are following instructions. Phone Main 82. ADVANCE OF EQUAL SUFFRAGE: r.ODAY marks the close of a week of unprecedented I activity on the part of woman suff racists through I out the United States and is being (or is to be ) lit A tinriy observed with demonstrations everywhere more elaborate than ever before. Parades, mass meet ings, and speeches will terminate a week of monster peti tion singing to ask congress once again to consider na tional suffrage, and are calculated to fix public attention more generally than ever upon woman's struggle for the ballUpon such a day of activity and with the promise of another great parade of women in Washington a week hence, it is interesting to consider the continued advance of the cause of votes for .women in this country thus far in 1914 This advance has been notable. It has included a defeat in the United States senate, but the women point with pride to the fact that their cause has advanced to a point where the senate was forced to recognize and con sider it, although the vote was unfavorable. This, has done more than anytihng else to date to stimulate the leaders to renewed efforts and to plan today s nation wide demonstration which will crystallize in a national demonstration before .congress next Saturday. Women in Illinois and Alaska have voted for the first time this year and it must be granted that they voted ef fetcively. In five states the voters will pass upon amend ments this year to enfranchise women. These are Mon tana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota and South Da kota and here the forces are at work in strenuous cam paigns which will test the ability of the women to urge their claim. The five states form, peculiarly enough, a geo graphical district, nearly surrounded by suffrage states, a condition which points to probable enfranchisement. In itiative petitions are being circulated in Missouri and Ohio for submission to the voters in 1914. In five other states, Iowa, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts, the constitutional amend ment has passed the first legislature and in all but Iowa the vote may be taken by the people in 1915, the legislat ures meeting in the last four named states in time to ap prove the proposed amendments before the 1915 elections. Success, verily, is going a long ways toward crowning the standards of the suffrage forces. CAPTURING VERA CRUZ. nized Juarez as president, but the senate refused to rat ify it. The Juarez-McLean forces of rebels were allowed to import arms, however, much as Villa and Carranza have been permitted to do. Our sympathies traditionally appear to have been on the rebel side. England, France, Spain and Prussia intervened in Mexico in 1860 to protect Europeans, a joint action of a character that President Wilson may have foreseen re cently. The Europeons blockaded all the Mexican ports, as seems to have been President Wilson's original inten tion. Vera Cruz was again captured and "cleaned." Thus it will be seen that being caputred has become something of a habit with Vera Cruz. A Hindu gentleman, now a broker in New York, with a name that looks like a pie line from the linotype, has testified before a congressional committee that if the Hindus were permitted to settle upon the desert lands of the country between Nebraska and the Sierra Nevadas they would make it blossom like a rose. Possibly, but the trouble is that this country is not desirous of having that section or any other growing roses, for Hindus. It will be made to blossom wjth something sometime by the Anglo-Saxon or the races of northern Europe, and until that time it can safely be left unblossomed. . "How would you like to be the ice man?" This old question might be answered in several ways now that the officials have got after that person and said to him that a pound of ice contains sixteen ounces, just like other thingr, are supposed to -do and don't. Down in Port land a hard-heated man follows the ice man around and measures the pieces of ice left by him. Hereafter there is some hope that a pound of ice will not vary with the weather, and that it will weigh as much when delivered on a hot day as on a cold one. This will be a strange ex perience for the ice. The Colorado strike may lead to the government tak ing over all coal mines and all others, including coal oil. When dogs fight over a bone the simplest way to stop the row is to remove the bone. It may be possible the purse proud mine owners will soon have nothing to arbitrate about. The trouble with Mexico is that it is a popular gov ernment and such a government can be no better than the people who constitute it. The mongrel Latin-American races are simply incapable of self government. All the candidates are certain to be nominated in the coming primary, if we may take their statements for it. But wnat will the state do with fifteen governors and other officials in proportion? - ' ' Only fifteen days more of the primary campaign, and then most local papers will become commonplace and prosy with no candidates' pictures to illustrate their edi tion. ' day. They remained as long as there was a chaneo to aae the vessol, and were almost forced td leave by the life -saving crew. Hood River is planting corn quite plentifully, and this between the or chard troe. This is a great scheme, as a crop of corn is grown where oth erwise nothing would be produced, and the orchard is well cultivated besides. Thursday was the high water day for registration in Portland, 1951 get ting their names on the books. Of these there were 99 women and 902 men. Today will probably break all records, as it is the last chance, and that is the one most Americans like to take. . Pupils of the Arltta school at Port land are now the parents' guardians, or something of that kind, of 2)10 little downy chicks hatched in an iucubator is the basement of the school build ing Wednesday. The whole school is as proud of them as a man with a wheelbarrow income is when he gets hold of an auto. Reports from Umatilla coimty are to the effect that the grain crop, as well as the fruit, is somewhat injured by the heavy frosts. . A discrepancy having been found in the books and accounts of the city treasurer of "La Grande amounting to some (17,0(10, he turned over that amount to the city Thursday to cover the defidoney. Col. W. 0. Ayre, one of the wealth iest sheepmen of the ctate, slipped over to Vancouver Thursday, and when he came back he brought a wife with him. The bride was Mrs. M. Orra Eckorsome, of 8alem, X. Y. ISIS, ill mm. l'tlW Gossip From Washington s SENATOR U'CUUBER. Fakes Roosevelt has discovered another river in South Am erica. And there is no part of the world where the people have as little use for water! ' i T MAY be interesting only as an historical fact, for gotten bv most reader?, that Vera Cruz is accus tomed to being captured, although not always by j so tolerant an enemy as the United States marines, i Some one who likes to dig into historical matters has given publicity to the following incidents' in the checkered' career of the Mexican seaport. It seems that the thing! started in 1G8:', when a band of buccaneers, numbering more than the entire army of most of the Latin-American countries, took the place. After days of pillage and murder they were driven out. Laurent and Van Horn, pirate kings, sacked the town for 10 days about 1712. Comparative peace was enjoyed by the Vera Cruz people until well along in the nineteenth century. At the outbreak of the war between this country and Mexico the first movement against Mexico City began at Vera Cruz. It was then, as today, regarded as "easy." Besides it was used to it. On March 7, 1847, a fleet bore General Scott and his army to Vera Cruz. Our troops were landed under a bombardment and succeeded in cap turing the city after 1:1 days' fighting. Scott then pro ceeded on his triumphant march to the capital. After the United States found troubles at home suf ficient to engross its exclusive attention Mexico became arrogant and President Buchanan in 1859 advocated in tervention, but the senate rejected the idea. Miramon, a constitutionalist, was president of Mexico at that time. The United States in 1859 by presidential treaty recog- THE ROUND UP. The fishing schooner Depornh put into the harbor at Newport Thursday; seeking protection fnni a heavy north-; wester that whs making trouble for lur outside the bar. Slip bad on hoard O.l'OO pounds of hnilbut. the re-! suit of six hours' fishing on the banks recently discovered. A. P. Pntrow, aged S". died at his home in Oregon tit v. Thursday, lie bad resided iu the stale 42 years. j Corporal Klempke nnd Private Trice, of the Coast artillery corps, were drowned near Astoria Thursday, when the launch they wero using in picking up mines m the liaibor foundered. Petitions" are being circulated at Mnrshfield asking for another bond isuue of $300,01)0 far port improve ments. It is being signed liberally, ii Oregon City is ts have if cannery, but it will not get ripe until next fall, when Kt'gene men will build it. Portland business shows a decided gain over the month of April of a year ago. Kstiniates made Thursday give Clackamas county about 12,500 votors. ' The crew of tho schooner Hogan, which went ashore 'at llorence sev eral days ago, was taken off Thur? There are so many fakes a mortal's bosom aches, and he to grief gives tongue, so often is he st,ung! lie buys a box of pills to cure his grievous ills, the which they fail to do, and hp is sad and blue, when conies the good old doc, and says they 're in ad e of chalk. He t a kes his roll atid goes to buy a suit of clothes; then 9BV9 the merchant wight, "These duds are strictly right! Of value they are full, and every thread is wool!" And then the poor galoot takes home the all wool suit, and when it's worn a weekr it has become a shriek. Tho trouser legs are shrunk, the coat nnd vest are punk, and all the cot ton shows throughout tho all wool clothes. Most everything he buys, from pickles 'down to pies, from juniper tc jam, from hominy to Jifim, from carmel to cake, is but a dizzy take. The ketch up's mrile of squash, the clothing will not wash, the hair dye's on the blink, and makes his whiskers pink, the horse he bought to drive imagines it's alive, but . it 'b been dead three years and so he sheds his tears, and sounds his bitter wail, which is of no avail. And when at last he dies he finds, to his surprise, his box, which should be oa!;. is pine nnother joke. 4. hp V A Efforts to Subordinate Our Courts to Hasty Vote of Electorate Radical and Dangerous Photo by American Press Association. By Former President WILLIAM H. TAFT Lapp & Bush; Bankers Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes Traveler's Checks t T E ARE AT A CRISIS WITH RESPECT TO THE FORM OF OUR POP VY ULAR GOVERNMENT. WE FIND A FORMIDABLE MOVEMENT . THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY TOWARD A DESTRUCTION OF ITS REPRESENTATIVE CHARACTER AND THE REVERSION TO AN OLD TYPE THAT IN THE HISTORY OF THE W0R4.D HAS PROVED A FAIL URE, CALLED PURE DEMOCRACY. -BUT MORE RADICAL AND DAN GEROUS THAN THIS IS THE EFFORT BEING MADE TO SUBORDINATE OUR COURTS IN THEIR ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE TO RULES OF DECISION AND STANDARDS OF EQUITY AND JUSTICE THAT ARE TO BE DETERMINED ARBITRARILY BY THE HASTY VOTE OF AN ELEC TORATE. There is a proposal to BRING TIIE COURTS TJSTDER THE DOMINATION OF A POLITICAL SOVEREIGN. The courts were subjected to similar dominations i; tbs iimej of the Stuarts and Tudors, aud that was one of the causes leading to the rebellion of 1630 and the C!WriM. 114 FORMER STUDENTS TENDES BANQUET "TO JUDGE McNARY Tn honor of Judge Charles L. Mc N'arv, members of the Willamette t'ni versify College of law during the tnie that ho was dean, will tender mm a banquet this evening in the grill of the Imperial Hotel in I'ortlnnd' at 6:30. .lodge McXarv was the most popular he! of the Willamette law school since it was founded and during his admin istration it grow by leaps and hounds1 until in attendance and quality of scholarship it was second to none in the It ENATOB BOItAH tn an argument about trust snid at a banquet: "These men protest too much. They protest eternally. They're like Mrs. Caudle. "lit. Caudle fell asleep one nlgbt In the midst of a curtain lecture. When be awoke the next morning there lay Ids wife, head oa the pillow beside him, scold ing away for dear life. I "Amid all that noise he looked confused for a mo ment Then, with a yawn, be asked: " 'Say, my love, are yea talking yet or agalnV " Senator Porter J. MaCumber of North Dakota k fond of antuiuobillng. Last summer he and his secretary, MrFarrar, took a tour thuough the northern port of their Btate. I One day, when about thirty miles from a town, the car was stalled by getting an four of Its wheels Into a rnt, thus leaving the body of the machine high and dry on the dirt in the center ot the road. Mr. Farrur went to a house near, borrowed a pick nnd dug the car out. i When he took the pick back the fnrmer asked them . to lunch. H consisted of bread, preserves and potatoes.; Wishing to donate something for the family, who seem ed to be very poor, McCuniber took out the only dollnr . bill be bnd-tho rest of bis money being in twenty dol lar notes nnd gave it to a bid of Bve. "No, sir." eielaimed the father; "we nln't going to low you to pay nothing for a bite to ent But If you is anxious to help in tbo community you might con tribute to -tho church we-are building." ! And, as there was nothing elxo to do, the senator hud to part with a nice, crisp twenty. t When Carter Glass ran for the Virginia senate nnd was beaten by what is known as the "machine" in the state his boy was n college student of greut achievement on the ntbletlc field. One day the lad went to Baltimore to at tend a track meet nud came home with a inednl, When he entered the dlnlug room in which his paternal ancestor sat dis cussing some old ham nud waffles the boy threw his trophy on the table la front of his father, snylng: - v. "Well, dad, you see there is some one in the family who can run if yoi can't!" i Glass has worn that medal on bis watch chain ever since. IU.'' Senator Overman was just finishing bis education while working for Gov ernor Vnnoe in the office. Governor Vance hnd been fostering ambitions for the United States senate nnd hnd Just about come U the conclusion that th'cy were not groundless. But Sir. Merrimon of North Carolina loom! up ns a candidate. Vance was elected, but refused a seat through his alleged lnck of qualifications. Meantime he was re elected governor nnd returned home to take up the rein of state again, while Merrimon was sent on to the senate. In the meantime the present Seuator Overman bad been between two fires. He was devoted to Miss Mer rimon, daughter of the newly elected senator nnd foe of his governor-employer, and the governor-employer began again his fight for the sent in the senate for the next term. Young Mr. Overmnn then went to Mr. Vance nni snid: "Well, governor, I've about finished my educatlos now." TTou've been very kind to me, sir, but you know I'm engaged to the daughter of your enemy in politics, the two bouses are bitter against each other, nnd so I well, since I'm going to be married I reckon, sir, I'U have to resign." j t i -1 i by American Press Association. SENATOR OVERJIAX. "Have you any money, Overman?" "No, sir." j "Any other job?"- . "No, sir." ! ' . "Well, son, I guess if Merrimon can stand you for a son-in-lavr I can stnnd you for n secretary." . Northwest. Quite a number of former law students in this city will go down to attend the banquet. Others fronC different parts of the stnie will be present. i m i Many voters are for prohibition who don't and won't belong to the pro hibition party. "Rackward" spring seems to" be be coming normal. Wanted to correspond with .Banker, Attorney or Business Mnn, retired or active, must be well known in Salem and throughout Marion county to act as Financial Agent for an In corporated company, organized under Oregon Laws; must be will ing to assist' in placing a stated amount of stock, with the under standing that one-half of the stock sold will be invested in first Mortgages, City, County or School District Bonds through out Marion county. Remunera tion in proportion to work done. Address P. O. Box 290, Portland, Oregon. IN THEY COME AND OUT THEY GO. They como into our office nt Room 11, -Busu Bank Bldg., and get a copy of "Out of the But," and go out and buy real estate from our advertisers nnd pay no commission. Household Worry Is 99 Per Cent Wash Day Good Riddance by the Laundry Remedy. Linen, blankets, curtains ap parelall come back beautiful when'vre do your work. Salem Steam Laundry 136 South Liberty Street Phone 25 Dry Cleaning. Ask the DriTei Land Credit Company i Has Mortgages for Sale First Beal Estate Mortgages J well secured and bearing a high rate of interest. Titles perfect and interest collected free of cost to the investor. phone Main 383 aiid we will send a representative with list of giltedge investments for your inspection. Or call on Oregon Title & Land Credit Co. 209 U. S. National Bank Bid, Salem, Oregon. T GOLD DUST FLOUR Made by the SYDNEY POWEE COMPANY X Sydney, Oregon X Made for Family Use. t Ask your grocer for It Bran X and ahorta always on hand. ' t X P. B. WALLACE, Agent SalemFence Works B. B. FLEMING, Prop. Headquarters American Win Fence, Moriey's Patent Hop Bas ket Send your orders in now. Big stock of bop and loganbery wire. Bobber roofing, $1.60 op per square. Elaatio roof paint, cant' be beat Stock of paints and Tarnishes at 20 per cent (taction, three brands. Cedar feace posta and wood and iron walk and drlvs gataa. 2SO Court 8t Phone 124 P. O. Bex 555. Back af OhiM4 8ti House of Half a Million Bargains Come and see the biggest wonder in the history of Salem. We buv nnd sell everything from a needle to a piece of gold. We pav the highest cash price for everything. Monster stock of all kinds of grain sacks. H. Steinbock Junk Co. 233 State Street. Salem, Oregon. Phone Main 24 f Marion Second Hand Sfnre f Kew location. Enlarged spaee. Greater! variety of new and eecond- uan cunning, inoes, musical in ; strumeits. all kinds of - tools, bona hold furmshinga, trunks, suit cases, - ""S6 mon' fanga, gaakn tools, etc. We also sell a41 . . kinds of goods oa eomusteMUn. Marion Second Hand Store ' ' Terry and Liberty staaets. Phone Main 2329. revolution of 1633. M'tMMtMttlM