Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal"
SATIMIIUV EVKXIXU,
December 11, 1915.
CHARLES H. FISHES,
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THE O. & C. LAND GRANT
Under the decree of the supreme court which was
filed in the federal court at Portland Thursday, the
Southern Pacific must pay all the costs in the suits over
the granted railroad lands in this state. The bill will be
a big one. At the same time the company is restrained
from selling any of these lands in greater quantities than
1G0 acres to one person and must not charge more than
$2.50 an acre for these tracts. The decree further pro
vides that the company cannot sell at all until congress
takes action in the matter. .
There is one matter that seems to be left somewhat in
doubt.
The supreme court held that the grant was absolute
and that the company need not sell until it got ready to
do so. The question is, that as under this ruling the com
pany can never be forced to sell, can it use the lands it
self? Can it cut the timber off them, or remove the
mineral therefrom?
The company claims it has this right. As owners in
fee of the lands, which the court says the S. P. is, subject
only to the proviso that the lands when sold must be sold
in a certain manner, why is not the contention of the
road correct? We submit that it looks that way to a
layman. If this is the case is there any way in which the
company can be compelled to finally dispose of the lands
as provided in the grant? That is the question the land
grant conference has been discussing, and so far has not
arrived at -any conclusion. .
It strikes us the Southern Pacific is amply trying to
drive a shrewd bargain, and that if just let alone will be
glad enough to let go of the lands when its bluff is called.
It cannot go into the lumber manufacturing business for
the simple reason that that is beyond the privileges
granted it in its incorporation. It cannot create a sub
sidiary company and turn the lands over to it because
that would be a violation of the conditions under which
the lands can be sold.
In the meantime the taxes on the lands would make
them a very poor investment if they were appraised at
what the timber lands are worth in the market. If the
company chooses to hold them and pay taxes on the first
class timber lands on a valuation of $G0 an acre, the state
could have no objection for it is interested in the taxes
really more just now than it is in getting the lands
settled.
As a matter of fact the S. P. would have made more
money by giving away, all its agricultural lands on a
proviso that they be brought under cultivation within a
reasonable time, than to have kept them. The freight on
their produce would long ago have paid for the whole
grant.
TOVERTY A DISEASE
irreconcilable with preventable poverty. Self reliance
and independence are foundation' stones in strong
characters.
We sometimes find these high qualities in the man who
is poor because he is the victim of misfortunes and dis
asters he could not control. But the man who is poor
because he has no courage, no faith in himself, no higher
iaeai man a nana-io-nana existence wuiuiiy lacKs tne
stuff that progress is made of and is so much less a man.
He is voluntarily a quitter, compared with the man who,
day by day, develops powerful mental and moral fibre
in energetic, persistent efforts to gain a competency and
make the-most of himself.
The Oregon Journal has been insisting for some days
that it had inside information that was reliable to the
effect that the Washington supreme court had reached a
decision on the prohibition contest in that state and that
it would hold the law unconstitutional or at least of no
force. Friday the supreme court unanimously decided
this case exactly the opposite way, and sustained the law.
From this we judge the Journal must have got its pointer
from some mining stock broker.
The discovery of trichinae in a lot of pork in Portland,
and the death of several persons from trichinosis caused
by eating of this diseased meat was responsible for a sud
den falling off in the demand for it and left pork products
almost a drug in the market. It is not an appetizing
thing to think about, but the meat is harmless if well
cooked, the trichinae being killed only by having the meat
extra well done.
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THE STORE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY,
The Hawley Pulp and Paper company of Oregon City'
announces that it will begin early next year an addition
to its plant that will increase its capacity 60 per cent. It
will be, when this unit is completed, the largest paper
plant on the coast, and will employ 1,000 men. Oregon
City can be congratulated on the size and character of
her Christmas gift.
Just when the corn crop was showing" up and hoc
owners ueguimng io ieei cneenui about the outlook for
the industry along comes those measly little bugs, the
trichinae, and knock the pork market silly. As the poet
sang about the dear gazelle: "Tis ever thus," and thon
some.
Pendleton, home of the round-up, the last ditch stand
oi tne oia iar west, must depend on coffee clubs for
warmth and inspiration after January 1. The moral
well draw your own.
Evidently Dr. Von Bethenann-Hollweg failed to con
sult Henry Ford before making his defiant address to
the Reichstag.
The air is full of peace talk recently, and come to think
of it the Atlantic ocean is pretty well filled with the same
material.
A large part of the poverty of the world is a disease,
the result of centuries of bad living, bad thinking and
sinning.
We know poverty is an abnormal condition because it ,'
does not fit any human beings constitution or give him
happiness. It contradicts the promise and the prophecy
of the divine in man.
There is plenty of evidence that abundance of all that
in good was man's inheritance and if he claims it stoutly
he will have it.
If it were possible for all poverty stricken people in
the world to firmly turn their backs on their dark and
discouraging environment and bravely face the light and
cheer, and resolve that they have done with poverty and
a slip-shod existence this very resolution, persistently
kept up, would soon revolutionize civilization.
Many think they are doing their level best to get away
from poverty1, when they are making not one-tenth the
effort possible.
The love of ease has wrecked more careers than any
thing else except dissipation; and laziness and dissipation
usually go together.
In a strong character there are certain traits that are
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THE PAUPER '
The sad and seedy pauper has no one for a friend; his
lite has been improper, and now it nears the end. Some
cold and frosty morning will see him borne away, another
awful warning, to sleeD till Jnr.tm.prir. TW
And once he was as gilded as any blithe
some swain, and palaces he builded among
the hills of Spain. He had his golden
vision, when he was young, like you; the
future was elysian, in his ecstatic view.
When they have laid the pauper behind the
old gray kirk, they'll say, "He came a crop
per, because he wouldn't work. Fair visions
he was viewing, of fortune and renown,
but when it came to doing, he wouldn't
Duckie down. He took it out in dreaming
of wealth in vast amounts, while t'other lads were schem
ing to swell their bank accounts. And so we plant his
system behind this old stone barn, and not a soul has
missed him, and no one cares a darn." Oh, golden youth
get busy, while you possess the years, and labor till you're
dizzy, like granddad's brindled steers. Yield not to
visions iruitiess, out make the kettle boil; for visions all
are bootless which are not backed by toil.
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Library Tables priced from
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Our great buying power enibles us to save you moneyWe have stores in Oregon,
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THE MARKETS
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The wheat story is about the same,
local mills paving from 80 to 82 cents.
Salem dealers are of tho opinion (hat
prices will change but little this winter
and if there is a change, it will be to
wards lower prices, lint in the pres
ent conditions, one man's opinion is
about as near right as another. Port
land markets are weak today from the
continued peace talk.
Eggs are weak, several stores retail
ing at 40 cents a dozen which seems to
indicate that supplies nro coming in
and the prices paid locally will not per
mit shipment to the Portlnud markets.
Prccr&'ifin&tior)
is the hieF of
tedb-r
Grains.
Hay, timothy, per ton $14.00
Oats, vetch $10.00
Cheat $9.0010.00
Wheat 8U(a8ac
Oats 35c
Rolled barloy $32.00
Cora $40.00
Cracked corn $41.50
Bran $25.00
.Shorts, per ton $27.00
Butter.
Butterfat 33c
Croamery butter, por pound 35c
Country butter 30o
Eggs and Poultry.
Eggs, candled, No. 1, oaeh 38c
Eggs, cuBe count, cash 30(3 38c
Eggs, trade 3739c
Eggs, storago 28c
Hens, pound ' 10llc
Roosters, old, per pound 7c
Spring chickens, pound 10llc
Turkoys, live 1510c
Turkeys, dressed 1819c
Fork, Veal and Mutton.
Veal, drossed 78c
Pork, dressed .' 7 l-2c
Pork, on foot 5 l-4c
Spring lambs 6 l-2c
Steers S5 l-2c
Cows 34c
Bulls 3c
Ewes 8c
Wethers 44 l-2c
Vegetables.
Cabbage 40c
Tomatoes, California $1.251.50
String garlic 15c
Potatoos, cwt 75c
Brussels sprouts 10c
Sweet potatoes $2.75
Bcot . 40c
Carrots 40c
Turnips 40c
Celory 4070c
Onions $1.25
I'ulifornia head lettuce, ease $2.73(3.00
Green beans 12 l-2c
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Calves, $7.007.50,
Spring lambs, $7.50.
Butter: City creamery, 32c.
Eggs: Selected local ex., 42e.
Hens, ll14c.
Broilers, 12(! 13c.
Geese, 7(5 Sc.
SPOKANE HAS EARTHQUAKE
OPEN FORUM
WATER ON SIDEWALKS.
Spokane, Wash.. Dec. 11. Spokane
was excited today when it learned
that the slight enrthquake shock felt
yesterday afternoon, origiuated 'within
lU'J miles of the city. This was report
ed by father V. J. Adams, of Cionzngaj
umvei-i-ity, after consulting tho uni
versity seismograph.
SLEET IN ILLINOIS
Chicago, Dec. 11, Interurban traffic
in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa was tied !
up, and communication with central j
Illinois was cut off for several hours
todpy a? a result of the season's first i
sleet storm. Later, .the sleet began to j
turn to snow.
Lake shipping ,in nearby ports was!
practically abandoned. j
Editor Journal: Just a few words in
regard to water on the sidewalks.
Would it not be a good thing to dig
trenches along the low placeB so that
the great puddles of water that stand
on tho wnlks could be drained off It
seems to me that a little work ou the
part of the city or the property owner
would call forth words of commendatio
from the pedestrians if such were done,
it sure is trying on one to walk down
t tie streets and step in water nearly to
the shoe toiis. Some action will be
duly appreciated by hundreds of peoplo
who nre compelled to nso the sidewalks
every day through n lack of money to
use the street cars or a lack of other
conveyance to bring them to their plac
es of work.
VOX rOPULI.
Prosperity Sweeping
the Entire Country
New York, Dec, II. ltenl prosperity
is sweeping (he entire country in the
opinion of presidents of six big insur
ance euiupnnies expressed today in op
timistic interviews with the ' United
Press,
Prosperity In the east, they said, is
luo to war orders. Elsewhere tiiey
credited it to the reaction from depres
sion following the outbreak of the war.
All u nn n i mou sly declared "prosperity
. nere.
Those Interviewed are here attend
tho annual convention of the Associa
tion of Life Insurance presidents.
After describing the unprecedented
prosperity of the Pacific coast, Presi
dent tleorge. I'ochian of the Pacific
Mutual company of San Francisco
scouted the suggestion that a slump
will follow the closing of the exposition
there. He declared (lint the result of
the exposition would he that niunv of
its visitors will invest in western lands.
Moreover, he declared that the San
Diego extinction, still continuing would
serve to "ease down" me coast should
there be tiny decline in present prosper
ity, by preventing anv abruptness in
such a slump.
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SHERIDAN HAD A BREEZE.
San Pruneiseo, Ieo. 11. Af
ter escaping from the grip of
the most terrific tvphoon that
ever hit the Philippines, the
United States transport Sheri
dan is Hearing San Eraneiseo.
1'or .several hourB the trans
port was" lashed about by a
wind which ranged between
200 and 2."t miles an hour.
The Sheridan will arrive
Monday with the 7ti U. S. cavalry.
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Fruits.
Oranges, Valencia $5,
Oranges, Navels $3.75((f4,
.Tapiinese oranges $1.
Lemons, per box $4.25(74.
Biuiiinas, pound 61-
California grape fruit .... $5.00(111).
Dates, dromedary, case $3.
Pard dates $1,
Ornpes, barrels $5.
Cranberries ..! $10.0012.
Pineapples 7 1-
Honey $3.
Retail Prices.
Eggs, por dozen, frosh ranch ,.4045c
Eggs, storage 30c
Sugar, cane $7.15
Sugar, D. O $0.95
Croamery butter 40c
Flour, hard wheat $1.50(cl'2.40
Flour, valley $1.201.51
PORTLAND MAREXT
Portland, Ore., Dec. 11 Whent: Club,
91(rffl4o.
Bluestem, Pitfi?
Oats: No. 1 white feed, $24.00(7? 24.
50. Barlev: Feed, 2fl.0O(fr'2S.00.
Browing, $2S.00fli 29.50.
Hogs: Best live, $5.(10(0 (1.00.
l'rimo steers, $i).50fT7.00.
Fancy cows, $5.00 5.50.
A poor or inferior butter will make the best
bread distasteful
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