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THE RENAISSANCE OF AMERICAN SHIPPING
The indications are that the war in Europe has settled
the question of America's place among the nations who
"go down to the sea in ships."
At one time her great clippers were the envy of the
world and her flag was in evidence in every great ship
ping port. Then from causes it is not necessary now to
go into her shipping steadily declined and her flag al
most disappeared from the places where it was once so
familiar.
We seemed to drop out of the contest for the world's
carrying trade, and were content to let others carry our
products across the oceans and carry back such things
as we wanted.
One of the main reasons of this decline in our shipping
trade was that our country was new and its exploitation
offered chances for the investment of our money where
it brought quicker and much larger returns.
Certain politicians are prone to lay our abandonment
carry for others to all ports their freights as well as our
own, and in the language of that great American, Joe
Gans: "Bring home the bacon."
Here is another sample of the utter silliness of court
procedure. At Seattle Judge Smith, passing sentence on
an ex-policeman, used the word "penitentiary" when he
intended to say "reformatory." As a result the prisoner
was sentenced to serve six months in the penitentiary.
The judge went before the supreme court stating the
case, and asked permission cf that august body to make
the sentence six months in the reformatory, as he intend
ed to make it. The supreme judges got their heads to
gether, although it infringed on Nicholsen's patent for
pavement in so doing, and solemnly decided that the
judge haying used the word penitentiary on the bench
could not elsewhere substitute some other word. That
bunch of judges are an honor to the bench, and would
take first prize at a bench show.
A pamphlet entitled "All Around Preparedness" got
ten up by George W. Perkins, and ostensibly ordered
printed by the Illinois bankers association, is devoted
principally to roasting President Wilson and the demo
cratic party. It compares this country under democratic
rule to Germany and conditions there. To have been!
perfectly fair the comparison should have been made of it
this countrv as between democratic and renublican ad-it
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ministrations. However, since Mr. Perkins and the
Illinois bankers association preter to compare America
under democratic administration witn tne way uermany
is managing things, there will be but little hesitation in
showing preference for the American plan even though
democratic.
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Spring Housecleaning t
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We have the most beautiful designs in:
French Taffeta
Mercerized Rep.
May Flower Chintz
Eureka Cretone
Radium Cloth
Dresden Cloth
Calais Cloth
Geneva Cloth
Prices from 23c to $2.25 per Yard
WEARIER
Since hearing the testimony of the prosecuting wit
ness 15-year-old Gertrude Lamson, there has been a de
cided change of sentiment as to the minister's innocence,
of the sea carrying business to what they are pleased to! and many of the younger members of the church have
call our "fool laws," but the real reason was that we had deserted him. The defense put the girl through a three
better things to invest our money in. days' grilling cross-examination but was unable to get
Wn fcnH lutlo wm-1,1 nf miv own that was all we could; her to contradict herself. Her story repeated many
take care of. We had half a million miles of railroads to times, and under trying conditions, was always the same, ,
build. We had millions of acres ot virgin land to bring
under cultivation. We had great iron mines to open and
coal deposits to develop and use in manufacturing. We
had great forests, veritable mines of wealth to send to
the markets of the world. We had countless other
things, all offering more flattering investments than the
shipping business, and we turned to them leaving the
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which is at least a strong indication that it is true. Truth
can be told over and over again without varying, but
falsehood cannot.
The Oregonian can take more absurd positions when
it wants to make a political point than any paper in the
state. Yesterday it solemnly stated that "Mexico has
carrying business'to England and the nations of the old; been at war with us since the first American was killed
world that already had accomplished in their own lands by Mexicans because he was an American." If this is
all that was still before us n ue au inai ls necessary ior any one w siari a war oe-
Now this is changed. While we still have many new' tween America and any nation is to kill a citizen of that
things to occupy our attention the bulk of the work of nation because he was such citizen. It would keep Presi
subduihg the wilderness, the bringing under cultivation! dent Wilson busier than he has been, trying to avoid
our great prairies and the other great tasks that con- j trouble if such actions constitute war,
fronted us are largely taken care of, and naturally we, , ,
again turn back to regain our place on the high seas that There have been four cases before Governor Johnson
we so long neglected. The war has hurried this moef California within the past three days, m all of which
ment along, for it increased freight charges so that the; extradition has been asked for gentlemen who are want
carrying business offered greaterreturns than things we ed m the east for abandoning then; wives It would seem
were enguged in (from this that the Pasadena minister who took for his
Not only that but the scarcity of ships to carry our, text "Good bye God, I'm going to California," was mis
nm,lnrts to market comnelled us to this course. For a 'taken about the personnel of the hurried farewells, and
year or more we have been at the mercy of ship owner?
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the increase in California's population.
...U. ,i,.t n,irvl.irr),l tn ni-iWn lie tl!tv (ilV nil)' npP' irt til
provide our own deep-sea carriers. ' L prosperity has struck the lumber industry at Marsh-
We lnve been paying two three, even four or more! field, a dispatch from there yesterday saying several old
times for getting our products to the worlds markets! mills would be overhauled and set at work helping fill an
than we paid under normal .conditions. Self protection order for fifty million feet of spruce lumber for the Rus
demanded that we own our own ships and we are in a fair; sum government AtlO per thousand this will bring
to do this soon From all the sea coast sections o.l nau a numon uonars into me luarsiuiem secuon.
OPEN FORUM
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the country conies the same story of activity in ship
building.
The Delaware river always the leader in the ship
building industry yesterday announced the completing of
.-mother shin vard. Its president announced that before
the yard was 'finished the company had contracts signed,
for the building of six freight steamships of 15.000 tons
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The poet says: "All capacities can't climb
To comprehend the true sublime."
The same remark applies to the steps of Salem's
street cars.
Salem. Or., Mnreh Hi, lOlli.
Kditor t'ni'itiil .lotirmil: In the Daily
Oregon Statesman, under tlie date of
Mareh loth, appeared a story entitled
"If Company M Cues to Mexico Would
Your Son Have to Oo."' This .irtiele,
one would infer from its heading, was
i addresseil to the mothers of tiie men
I who no to make up the roster of Com
! pany -M. 'J'hoy uie men who are aide,
j ready and willing to gn to .Mexieo, or
any other country, should the call of
duty tahe them there.
In toe event that it is necessary for
I the men in Company M to no to the
trout .iml assist the others in a tight
for common interests anninst a common
foe, it would lie fully hard enough for
the men to hoi " good-live ' ' to their
loved ones without their haviui; to Ijear
the added lundou of the seeil planted in
the hearts of t ie wives mid mothers ly
nu article headed as tins one was and
Beet Sugar Industry
Profitable To Farmers
II. I'!. liolinaer hands
Journal a clipping from
patier whirh tells of th
ami profit from the lieet sugar indus
try. He thinks an itolustry of this na
ture would lie of incaleulalile value to
the Willamette valley ami that it in is; h
he secured with proper effort. The
urtiele from the Nebraska paper is in
the form of a letter as follows:
Goring, Xeb.. .March 1. lull!.
Ivlitiif Stiir-Knterprise:
1 wish to renew my subscription
to your most welcome paper. We
hnve taken it too long to do without
if, for some of the Pollocks have tak
en the Afton paper over lid years. The
first paper I can remember was the Af
ton paper ami we expect to take it as
long as we can see to rend.
We had a fine wimer note fur farm
ers. Have commenced plowing for
beets. There will be 40.HnO acres of
beets put out here this season. That
means about if:i,lliifl,lilin scattered out t.)
the farmers ami laborers. The sug; r
company is putting up another factory
1 at l.ering, just across the river from tint
the Capital . T'f'Wt one. The sugar industry is the
a Xebraskii greatest thing in existence. It is a sure
advantages ('1'"ll yi'U know what vou are goiii'f
to get for them before they are planted.
Unclosed find check for 1 to thi-1l
my subscription ahead another year,
W, V. l'OI.I.OCK.
RECRUITING BILL SIGNED
Washington, Mar. 17. President Wil
son tit 1H:;I0 a. m. today signed th
joint house and senate resolution pro
viding that the army bo recruited to in
full strength. The provisions of lh
resolution are iri'ective inimediateiv.
each for the trans-Atlantic trade at
each. Uesides it had other contract
company six years to complete and on top of this the com
pany is flooded with inquiries from those who want ships
built.
On Puget Sound and on the Columbia new ship yavds
are springing into existence like mushrooms. On this
coast there will be many of the good old wooden ships
built, and it may be this type will be much more common
than of late years, as the high price of steel, due to the
i i ill ii. - L e it.., Hl-A.d ....-,.,1.-,
war. nas uouoieii uie cosi ol me mvl-i rtM.-i:
!viicli contained interrog.itious like the
If Villa shows a yellow streak today some Irishman following: couu yon stay behind
i ;i tii l see moi g" ,i.i no Hutu vu
sic
You can make money by
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THE
NNUAL TAINTFEST
The time's at hand, O sons of toil, to buy eieht ouarts',!T;
It will take some time to relieve the stringency, and, of linseed oil, and half a peck of lead and zinc, and paintl'orts of hom
have an abundance of ships, but it will not lie longer tnan the House tnats on the blink. O, wield the brush with
it takes to build them under rush orders. It means much)
to the United States, for it moans we will no longer be r
1 ..1 L ... .lt.A..n AHAA II', IwAI'.V 1. oKllS Cl,l ll-.l Will l'.
(lCUemUMlt Oil UUieiS OUtrC f uaf Hit- oma ami i
know might be his last journey: ,
The part in the role that must be,
borne by the others nnd other loved
ones, is' not light. They, too, must i
bear their share of the load. Hut I
take such insinuations as the above, to
be direct sl.uolers upon the patriotism
and sense of doty and responsibility
of the wives and mothers o the men
who belong to Company M and who
would go if necessary, though tiiey
knew it was "their hist journey."
Would they ask the husband or son of
another to do what they would not ask
their own husband or son to do? Would
hnve their husband, brother or sou
idlv liv tne tire, witn an tne com-
I'lieuds And associations.
while thev demanded that some other
the ships and we will
not only carry our own products to market but we will
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
Established 18GS
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Safety Deposit Boxes
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liiistoin.l father, son or brother po in
e"ladsOme Shoilt. till nnintpr'a pnlip knnrks1 order to protect and insure the contin-
you out. there s nothing sadder than a
shack that's gone to ruin and to rack be
cause the owner is too tight to buy some
paint and make it bright. I buy
ued eniovment ot that home and fire- u PAI orr
side.'
If the nrliele refered to contains the!
sentiments of a few of the citizens who1
would be disposed to shirk their respon-
SOme sibility, such statements should be
pigment every spring, and paint the smoke-TTu Tlt.rZ
house and the swing, and if no pigment is!w,niM hav, ,0 u"i,riV0, themselves an i
e i ' t i i Aii 'suffer lurdships because of their tn-l
tor sale, I buy some hogment with my kale, iH.rn sense of -iutv ud patriotism. w
and paint the chimney, tall and broad, the ; :,!"," if ,0 i9 ,.om;,l;V
. 1 , , i- i . . i i ii U oini'.'inv M will go and those w .10 have
cistern and the lightning rod. I buy shellac: not the'disposition to go ami bear their
mi, I tiiriMntinn nn.i mol-, V,, .,.t,l.-, KIo.m.-.,-! shaie ot the burden of demoeiatie gov
, . ' i"'"-""" iumc iuv: utile unuii 'u ,,,,,.., ,,,,,, , !.,.,,, ,,,,,,
uiuuinir snuie, anu uius i fjiaauen uu tne their good fortune mm nuke me
lim.f.- nf n.ini1.A ! .-. fl-.!.. nl-i Vi ,,1 t ...U .,U s ensy as possible for those who
mrani. I'uioiciu imii uiou-uiua .m u. vmiu MUltu diuiit; , disposition to bear and share their
tne dusty road, and ruouer at my gay anode, uee wniz,
they cry, "that old fat bard must buy his shoatment by
the yard! A fine example he has set to all the world,
already yet!"
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Iron for both roofs and buildings. Roofing paper and aeeond hand
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