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IW TliriiSIMV KVK.NIXO, October 21, 1!H . CHARLES H. FlT Editor and Maq. Editorial Page of "The Capital Journa PUBLISHED EVF.8V KVEXIXO EXCEI'T SCNDAY, SALEM, OBEGOX, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. U S. BARNES, l'resident CH AS. H. FISHER. Vice-President DORA C. ANDHEKEN, See. and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Ttiv hv pnrrinr. tiT vcar 15.00 Per month. Daily by mail, per year 1.00 Per month.. ..45c ..35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York Chicago Ward Lewis-Williams Special Agency Hnrry R. Fisher Co. Tribune Building 30 N. Dearborn St. The Ciipitul Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If th carrier does not do thin, mimes you, or neglects getting the j.aper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this in the only way we can determine whether or riot the carriers are following inst juctions. Phone Main 81. IF THEY UNDERSTOOD While the war in Europe rages and men go to their death daily by thousands, one is forced to wonder howl many if any really understand what they are lighting tor or about. While the masses do the fighting, it is distinct ly a war of the classes. The German farmers and labor ing men had no quarrel with their, fellows in France, Belgium, Russia or England, yet they are pouring out their blood in desperate battle with them. The converse of the proposition is equally true, and those fighting Ger many, that is the private, soldiers, have little or any knowledge as to what they are doing it for. It can safely be asserted that had the whole situation been thoroughly explained to, and understood by the masses of each of the warring countries, the war would not have taken place, for the masses would have refused to go to the front to slaughter their fellow men or to be .slaughtered by them. Indeed if those now at each others throats really un derstood the situation, it is doubtful if the war would last another week, for they would understand that when the harvest of death had been gathered, that such of them as ! 1.1 lw... n l,,.. P 1n!4 nnnn fViniv.1 iui vive wuiuu uuvc u uuiuun ui ucui. imu ujjuu uiui shoulders, that would bear heavily not only upon them but on generation after generation yet to be born. How many of them know that the daily cost of the war is eighty-five million dollars, or at the rate of thirty billion, thirty thousand millions of dollars a year, with an interest burden of one billion five hundred million dol lars a year, and that the indirect loss is fully as much more? How many of them know that if the war is prolonged until February, and the death and loss rate continues as it lias during the war there will have been killed in battle more than five million men, the flower of the manhood of the waiving countries? How many of them know that the deaths from sick ness up to that time will be at least two million five hun dred thousand, a total of seven million five hundred thousand deaths in eighteen months? How many of them realize that of the vast armies that have been, or are now in the field, more than five million will be permanent cripples, by the time the war is eighteen months old? How many of them realize that of those who survive the bloody field and deadly exposure seventy-five per appealed to the people to turn in their hoarded gold for the good of the country. In that time the people in re sponse to this appeal have turned in $182,000,000 and the end is not vet. For ntteen weeks the thrifty middle classes, and the really poor, have taken their little sav ings of gold, and placed it, as it were, ah offering on tne altars of patriotism at the rate of $12,000,000 a week. As stated this vast sum has been turned in by the poor, and in small individual amounts. When it is con sidered that a million dollars in gold will weigh about a ton and two-thirds, and that the deposits of $12,000,000 a week means a turning in of twenty ton's of gold coin, the number that has answered the call, it will be seen is large. Here in America during the civil war, a similar call scared tne gold into hiding so far that it could only be coaxed out to invest in greenbacks at forty cents on the dollar. Americans are probably as patriotic as other folks, sometimes, but when it comes to rubbing up against the American eagle on the American- coin, patriotism, well anyway, it has to be given time to stutter. The slides in the Panama canal are not slides at all in the common acceptation of the term. The formation is clay and earth, and this owing to the weight of the earth on each side of the deep cut in the canal squeezes the soft ground out side wise from under the hills and fills the canal, not by a slide from above, but with mud pressed out and up until the canal is filled. General Goethals has, as will be seen from today's telegraph news, ordered the mountains removed on each side of the canal in order to relieve the pressure. In this respect Goethals is like Faith, but it is presumed that moving mountains is a slow job for either of them. . Rev. Clarence-True Wilson has two jobs of reform mixed. While sending out much literature on the drink evil, he also makes that literature comply with the de mands of those who are trying to teach the American peo ple to spell by ear. He will find that many papers will not handle hi stuff on account of the spelling as the editors will not take the time to go through his copy and respell it. Mrs. Gait is having her wedding outfit made in Balti more. It is always that way. "Cows far off wear long horns" and "Far fetched and dear bought, pleases the ladies." If Mrs. Gait was to be married in Baltimore she would probably have her gowns made in Washington, New York or any old place except Baltimore. There are some Salem folks that are possessed of the same ideas. At the bottom of the tremendous movement in stocks is just one thing optimism. When the war is over the bottom will drop out and there will not be any optimism. In its place will be a panic caused by a lot of wrecked and "busted" speculators, from which the business of the country will suffer, though in no wise responsible for the senseless speculation. Assistant State Engineer Points Out Availability of Forfeited Lands Ripp.ingRhijmos cent will never recover physically or morally from the ellect of thou service and association.' If the masses realized that their countries were rush- IT THE WINTER STUNT Thf fiivnnm ic vnwnintr thn pr.nl Inola'o fjwnln(r mg headlong into bankruptcy, and must necessarily ior, aroun(j for a share of my trade; and soon I'll be spending many years be at a hopeless disadvantage in the race with ninstp,.s-,npndinfr for p.nnl nf whiph plinWa mnrlp other nations for progress and success, do you think they would still seek to assassinate each other without cause and without reason? If the leaders, the monarchs, the little handful who plan and control and command, who know in advance and in detail what is to be done, what is intended for the future, were to enlighten the masses, take them into their confidence, and let them see clearly the plans, would not both those in the ranks as well as those at home rise up and compel the men in control to find some way of bring ing the senseless conflict to an end? It is not too much to demand that the people should know the reasons for the commencement and continuance of pending wars, and they should understand the awful piasters unending, for coal of which clinkers are made. Last April how gladly, how merrily, madly,1 1 shut the old furnaces door, and cried, j "For a season there will be no reason to gorge you, you rusty old bore! No more must I, daily," I said to it, gayly, "comei here with a scoop in my hand, and fill your! steel belly with coal that is smelly, diluted' with sulphur and sand!" But now to the cellar I go like a feller whose spirit is brok-j en and crushed, a soul-weary toiler, to see that the boiler is blackened and polished and brushed; to clean up the damper and fix and revamp her, and tinker a while with the grate, the I mica door spongin', and sweeping the dungeon, where1 shortly they'll dump in the slate. The furnace is yawning; consequences Those who are directly affected and who must bear; and soon I'll be pawning my watch for the price of the the burdens are in a large measure ignorant of the facts coal; ah, winter is bitter, it putteth a critter so deep in the which have been suppressed, partly at least, and prob- dodgasted hole! amy almost entirely, oocause knowledge ot these tacts would prevent a continuance of the most stupendous, the; rrranv Ic Kn most unreasonable, the most causeless destruction of life wrrdnz 1S and property the world has ever witnessed AN EXAMPLE OF PATRIOTISM r ' France has set an example in patriotism that is re markable. I'lfteen weeks ago the Affected by Embargo LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1863 Capital ....... $.-)00,000.00 Traniact a general banking business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT thoso along the international border in Chihuahua and Sonera, ami Lower Cali fornia ports." For the present, however, Carrauza will not bo allotted to have arm ship- Washington. Oet. 20. In a letter to,1"1 """ '" prewritten. Mecretnrv of the Treasury MeAdoo, di- v , , .,, ",' . , , , reeling the enforcement of the embargo ".vV';.v admit be ia fallible, by eastern officials, the president suir- "0,',t VU ,nit of ,,,u- I nested, however, nil execution in fnvnr a"-"MMWMaMMMM-MM.B. -i i . i .. . . - - v rencn government i u I "I have found that there exists in I .Mexico conditions of domestic violence promoted by the use of arms and mil nitions of war proeured from tlio Tail ed Mates," the letter said. I hereby admonish all eituons of the Vailed Mutes and every person to abstniu from violation of the joint .resolution of emigres, and I hereby warn them that all violations will be rigorously prosecuted." In a letter from Secretary Lansing to the president, permission for Varrana to receive anna wns requested. "Information befo.ro this depart meat," Hie letter said, "leads me to believe that the rt'cognir.ed de facto government of Mexico tins now effected control of all porta of eutry except Give Your Stomach A Chance i Help it, when it lacks tone or strength, by the use or I HOSTETTER'S Stomach Bitters . Editor Capital Journal: I was pres ent at the conference held some time ago at the Commercial club to discuss tne matter of disposing of the Oregon & California Road Grant Lands. I was much surprised at the unchallenged as sertions of many of the speakers that only a very small part of the lands in this grant is susceptible of agricultural development after the timber lias been removed. While I am not as fumiliar with the lands in the Oregon & Cali fornia grant as some of those who spoke at tue conference, jo judging trom what I do know of the lands in par ticular and the Willamette valley and the country to the south in general, it is incomprehensible to mo that a large proportion of these lands are unfit for agricultural purposes. Many elements must be considered in determining waetner or not land is tillable; topog raphy alone does not govern. Land that is very steep in the Willamette valley, for example,. may pny better to farm than level land in the arid part of the state. Climato, fertility of the soil and market facilities are important factors in determining tho suitability of the land for agricultural purposes. Lands, which twenty-five years ago wero regarded as valuable for pasture only, are being eagerly sought today. Much of tho thousand dollar an acre Hood Eiver lands in the early nineties, would doubtless have been classed us non-tillublo. With excellent climate, fer tile soil and adequate transportation fa cilities in favor of a largo part of these lands, 1 am convinced that too much weight has been given their somewhat adverso topograpic conditions and their Rgriculturul possibilities grossly under estimated. That this question is of grent import ance is borne out by ilic fact that the department of justice has seen fit to send its representatives out to inspect the lands, it is probablo that congres sional actioa will hinge on this point. If valuable for agriculture, duo considera tion will be given the states' claim that this land should remain on the tax roll. On the other hand if they are valuable only for timber and grazing, they will make a fine addition to the forest re serves. We may expect action by congress, depending upon tho representations mado to it with reference to the char acter of the lands, as follows: including the lands under tho forest reservo or requiring the lauds to be disposed -of according to the terms of the original grant to actual settlers in not to exceed 100 acre tracts at $2.50 per acre; or providing that the covenant be removed and the land turned over to the railroad company to dispose of in the mnnner and at the time and price it sees fit. In exchnngo for sfate's support of this plan, a few dollars might be ex tracted to fatten the stute's exchequer. The lands would be sold at their value, greatly to the benefit of the company, to tho detriment of the prospective set tler and the Btuto would be in the posi tion of having sold its birthright for a mess of pottage. While the right of congress to remove any restrictions on the sale of the laud Fin posed by the original grunt is generally admitted, it is generally conceded that it is not within the power of congress to impose other restrictions, such us the payment of money to the stute. it is therefore questionable whether the state would secure even a slight financial advant age through an alliance with the South ern l'ucific. Oregon needs more settlers, more land under cultivation, and if the Ore gon & California lands are made to serve this purpose, thev must be dis posed of in accordance with the terms' of the original grnnt. ri:iu'Y a. crri'KR. No Trace Is Found of Jlenton Robbers Seattle. Wash., Oct. 20. Kfforts to capture two heavily armed men, who held up and robbed' tho Citizens' bank of Kenton yesterday afternoon and es caped id an automobile with $1,110 in gold and currency has utterly failed, 50 far today. In spite of the fact that several posses of citizens started after the rob bers almost within a minute after they fled from Kenton, all trace of them is lost at the point nenr liryn .Mnwr, where they lenped from the' car driven by Hurry Anderson, ordering the etr- ror stricken chauffeur to drive on with- i out siimmnmng the police, under pen alty of death. Stanley Keen. 20 years old, who was shot in the leg by one of the robbers as they wero fleeing from Kenton, is re covering from a painful wound. The shots of the bandits were pro voked when (). P. Stone, proprietor of a laundry opened fire nt them with a rifle, Instantly one of the men stood up in the automobile and fired directly at Recce and another man who was tnndinjj on a corner. Inside the bank they covered Cashier R. W. tiillism and Miss Kusnii Wn,U bookkeeper, with revolvers and ordered milium io give ineni "11181 money" or be killed. A poor or inferior butter will make the best bread distasteful THEREFORE ASK YOUR GROCER FOR Marion Creamery Butter "Meadow Brook" Tt costs no more and you Get the Best PEATUM NOTES. (Capital Journal Special Service.) Pratitm, Or., Oct. 20. Mr. and Mrs. I Mark McAllister, of Salem, visited with; Mr.- McAllister's parents Sunday; Miss Alicia Welty, of Pratiim, will leave for Florence, Oregon, this week where she will keep house for her brothers. j Miss Anna Schrooder left for Salem several weeks ago where she will re main for some time. Miss Esther Schaap spent the week end at home. I Miss Alicia Welty visited with Miss Mary Gerig last Sunday afternoon. ; Mrs. C. A. Williams, of Silverton,1 spent last Sunday with the Ceo. Schaap family, - A graveled road is being put through from the county road to the warehouse, the work being done by the men who volunteered their services. Miss Vema Ludi, of -this place is staying in Salem. Miss Priscilla Otterbein is visiting with friends in this neighborhood. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Schrocder and son, Al bert, had a fnc auto ride Sunday af ternoon with Mr. Otto Butler. j A parent-teachers meeting will be, held next Friday afternoon at tiie Prat iim sctiool building. GORED TO DEATH BY BULL Leavenworth, Wash., Oct. 20. The! body of Charles Hove, aged 60, a stock raiser, gored to death yesterday by a Holstein bull, will be shipped to the family nt Everett, it was announced to day. Ho was driving the cattlo home on his ranch when the bull rushed upon him, SHOT WITH HIS OWN GUN. Dr. W. A. COX PAINLESS DENTIST 303 State Street SALEM, ORE. The Milestones of Life are indicated by the Teeth. By preserving the teeth you help prolong life at the same time enjoy life as you go along. Let me attend to your tooth troubles. Examination free. Lady attendant always present. PHONE 926. Everett. Wash.,' Oct. 20. Lloyd J. Southard, 14, is at the city hospital here with a badly lacerated "arm and other injuries. n9 a result of a hunting accideilf near Crnnit-a Fnllo Tl,. Krtv - - - ...... UUJ was sitting on a log when the gun fell! nu msciiurneii, JENSEN GOT HIS. Portland. Or., Oct. 20. Convicted on a statutory charge, J. Jensen, a masseur is under sentence today from 3 to 20 years in the penitentiary. Jensen, it was olinrged, took advantage of his po sition as physician, , Where is the old-fashioned boy who called a man a "guinea" instead of a guyf" I Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury as mercury will aurely destroy the m of smell and completely deranire in whole system when entering- It throw" the mucous surfaces. Such articles inouW never be used except on prescription! from reputable physicians, as the dumw they will do ia ten fold to the good o can possibly derive from them. Hani Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F- Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.. contains M mercury, and is taken Internally, ictim directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. In buying Hani Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gen Ine. It Is taken Internally one! made M Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & CO..TW timonlal8 free. .,u Sold by DruKKlsts. Price 7c Pwwj' Take Hall's Family Mill for conillKUe You'll find it very helpful A MERCURIAL DISPOSITION. Taeoma, Wash., (Vt. 20. When ac siised by his wife of conduct unbecom ing a good and faithful husband, F W Vomer swallowed three mereurv tablets n is in uungerou condition in a1 hospital today from the effects of the! poison. raster is an employe of the Northern' t H t . 1 Special Round Trip Fares I to the I Manufacturers' and Land Products Show to i)e held In PORTLAND, OREGON October 25th to November 13th These low round-trip fares will apply from all stations SALE DATES AND LIMITS . From Kugene nnd nil points Xorth Oct. 20, 2S, Xov. 2, 9, 11, return limit of o days. 1'roiu all points south of Kugene in cluding Klamath Falls branch and I'oos Bay and Oakridge branches Oct. 2fi, 31, .Nov. 5, S. Return limit " of 7 days. Full particulars as to fares, train sihedules, etc., ran be obtained from nearest Agent of the SOUTHERN PACIFIC John M. Scott, General Passtnter Aeent Portland. Oregon. --M-mm t