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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1916)
Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" MONDAY KVKX1XO, .Tulv.24. 1910. . CHABLES H FISHEE, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON', BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. Ii. 8. BABX TS, President CUAS. II. FISHER, Vice-President DORA C. ANDRESEN. Sec. and Treas. SUBSCRU'TIOX RATES Dally by carrier, per year $3.00 Per month 45c Dally by mail, per year 3.00 Per month 33c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT GRADING OF LIVESTOCK. (Portland Livestock Reporter.) A few dayg ago a regular' shipper came out of the Willamette valley with a load of cows which would oe consid ered good iu this country, but when shown along side of cows from other sections it was very easy to see why a difference of a cent mid n miai-tpr n J pound was made between the two loads his cows cows went for $4.75, while the better lot -went at (i cents. This load EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York, Ward-Lewis-William Special Agency, Tribune Building Chicago, W. H. Stockwel 1, People's (Jus Building. The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porak. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or i.eglects gettitng the paper to yon on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phono Main 81 before 7:30 o'clock au d a puper will be sent you by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. TARIFF AND LAND GRANT While blaming President Wilson for the things they allege he has done that were injurious to Oregon, the principal ones named by those criticising him being "free wool" and "free lumber," why do not these critics if they would be perfectly frank also hand Mr. Hughes a little bouquet for that Oregon-California land grant decision? As for wool it is higher right now than for years, and as for the Canadian lumber interfering with the lumbering business of Oregon, the facts will not substantiate the statement. The markets of the east are shut off largely from Orecon bv the cost of transportation. They are also shut off from the Canadian mills my the same cause, and the Eastern market is supplied, not from Canada, but from Louisiana and the pine forests of Georgia and the south. At the same time lumbermen have had a hard deal be cause the war has made shipments by water impossible on account of record breaking charter prices, caused by the scarcity of ships. "Tariff for protection" of American lahnr has had its dav. It never did protect labor and never will. With a hieh tariff on everything manufac tured, labor, the one commodity the system was supposed to protect, has always been ot the tree trade variety. The American laborer was the object of tender solicitude by the eastern manufacturers, but they took all the bene fits of the system to themselves. In the matter of wool; here in the West the sheep are pastured on government range, herded by the very poor est paid labor. The sheep shearer was paid pretty good wages, but outside of that job the woolen worker has al ways been the poorest paid of almost any class. The Eastern factories paid the smallest wage and after the cloth was manufactured it was made up into clothing in the sweatshops of great cities at starvation wages, and mostly by foreigners. There is no more reason why a sheep or its product should be protected than any other domestic animal, but the real reason for the difference in favor of the sheep was that it was the manufacturer of woolens, not the growers of sheep that were the bene ficiaries of the law. We do not raise wool enough for home consumption, hence protection gave some revenue, but what the government got from this was a trifle to the profits made by the manufacturer. Out of it labor got but the smallest wage and the consumer paid practically the same price for the home manufactured article as he did for the foreign made. The difference was that the manu facturer collected the tax instead of the government doing so. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY TASSES so far as raising revenues is concerned has always been different from ours. Here, income taxes and taxes re quiring revenue stamps are always heralded as "war taxes." 'm In England it is just the opposite, and this kind of tax is the usual one while now she is resorting to the tariff as a war measure. England s necessities require her to tax everything that can be taxed in any shape, and this will be required fnf manv vooro aft'ov fVio in onc GVi in .nrn.;nr ..icw.j jum ui.,x uiv nm liiuo, kjlic lo 11UI ICSUIUilg Hi , ,1 ;,..,:,. -l, . to the tariff because she prefers that way of raising 'as show by the regular market paper. rauiu me snipper: never in tne world can go back home and tell the people from whom I bought theso Cows mat tney were not a good lot. Thev were the best that our valley farmer produces and the only standard nv which a valley raiser could compare." He further suid: "That the only way to convince his people would be to bring them to the stock yards where they could rendily see the difference and would have to admit that prices were right." This man was a jobber, who said that it would be almost impossible for him to go back home and buy any more cows on the basis on which this lot was sold, and he agreed he received all his cows were worth. This is a very good reason why livestock people should ar range to come to the stock yards a few times each year so that they may get some fair idea of the different grades of cattle, hogs and sheep which are of fered on this market. Perhaps a few head of top heifers come onto the mar ket and aro sold at, say, 7c, where as good cows might be worth Ik. . The newspaper report shows that tea head of heifers, averaging UOO lbs., sold at 7c, anil that a carload of cows, averag ing 1050 lbs., went at 6c. The market reporter may go to a great deal of trouble to indicate to the people that these were extra choice heifers; that they were very good cows and that fair to average stuff is selling at much oeiow those prices, but his words seem to have no effect on the average far mer. He feels that his stuff is iust as good as it i-s possible to make it and he has no way of vizualizins the sales as shown in the mbarket paper. unty yesterday a ma from a nearby town brought in a single heifer, which, in his eyes, was a prime bit of beef. When told that she would sell for about $3.50 a hundred he obiected strenuously, saying that the paper had suid that good heifers were selling at 7c, However, after seeing the 7c cat tle, he was perfectly willing to admit that his heifer wasn't beef. The only way a farmer can correctly interpret the prices in a market paper is to follow them carefully each day, or each issue, noting the prices on the different grades and the averago weights and prices from top to bottom. He should not stop after having read that ten hei fers sold at 7c, but should go on dow n the line and discover that ten more brought fic; that a carload of cows may have sold for $5.25 and another load at a still lower figure. The ereatest care is used by this reporter iu report ing sales, but it is utterly impossible to make cold type take the place of a man's eyesight, therefore, we say again one ot tne best investments a stucK.mno can make is a periodical visit to the stock yards for the purpose of studying tne aitterent grades or livestock, when lie will discover the weights of cattle, hogs ami -sheep which seem to be In de maud at the present time. Take a veal Calf, far instance: One weighing 250 lbs., might bring, say, $7.50 a hundred, while one just as fat, but maybe weigh ing 300 lbs., might be quoted as low as $5.00 or $5.5(1 a hundred. revenue but because she needs the money, and the -tariff win bring the returns, it is not a tariff for protection but tor revenue. This has been the democratic idea about the tariff, and its protective features were the result of the system in some cases, but were not the principal object. It is not a just tax, for the reason that it is a per capita tax, but it is the most easily collected tax ever invented. It is easy to collect for the reason that the tax is not separated from the cost of the article and the consumer generally does not realiae that in paying for his goods he is also paying a tax. When he puts a stamp on a note or' telegram or anything of that kind the tax is separated from the cost and the consumer sees it. He also pays it. On the face of things it is a tax levied on the banks, telegraph companies or whatever it is that requires the stamp, and they pass the tax along to the consumer or user, who thus has the tax brought to his notice. In the case of the tariff the con sumer pays it just the same, only he does not see it. Salem will be represented at the celebration at Marsh field next month. The Cherrians are perfecting arrange ments for taking their band and will go practically in full force. As at present planned the excursion will leave here Friday, August 25 and the trip will require three days and an outlay of $16.80. This according to the state ment made Saturday, covers berths, and meals on the train. Besides the Cherrians there will be a goodly num ber of Salemites who wi'l visit Oregon's new seaport just to say hello and get acquainted. It is claimed Marshfield has never had a circus, but when the excursion hits the town this can no longer be said of it. Portland and repre sentatives from all parts of the valley will be there and Marshfield will know there is something doing before they are there half an hour. In the passing of James Whitcomb Riley the world has lost one of its sweetest singers. He was, with his great love for the masses, the people who toil with their hands, the family, the home, the everyday life, the Lincoln of poets. A modern Bobbie Burns who sought not lofty themes and lengthy words for his gifted pen, but who in stead drew pictures, of the old swimming hole, the coun try school, the daily farm life, and drew them so truth fully that each and all of us, somehow, feel that for some of them he must have taken a snap shot of some things of our own lives. The world is better for his having lived. Can higher enconium be given any? America mourns his death. No, not that, but his leaving, for he is not dead who lives in the tenderest memories of a nation, and breathes in the deathless pages of immortal song. ENGLAND AS AN EXAMPLE England the greatest of free trade countries is along with the other warring nations resorting to the tariff. This is pointed to by some of our exchanges as an example worthy to be followed in this country which has long been a high protection country. It may be possible that Eng land's example is good to follow in all cases. If so, though, why was it not right to follow it when she was the great free trade country?' As a matter of fact England's course There can be but one explanation of that horrible af fair in San Francisco Saturday when six persons were killed and nearly forty injured by the exploding of a bomb among the crowds watching the preparedness parade, and that is that the deed was that of a person hopelessly in sane. The dispatches indicate the act was-that of a per son who had brooded over what he considered the evils of preparedness until his mind became unbalanced. No sane person, not even the most hardened anarchist, wTould have been guilty of the wanton killing of women and chil dren who had no part in the proceedings other than as onlookers. - While this country is getting mad at England and kicking because she has blacklisted some -thousands of our business firms or men, we are some of us at the same time insisting on blacklisting every business man and firm in every country, by proposing a high tariff that would prevent their doing business with us or our people patron izing any of them. The result is the same only they call it blacklisting and we give it the catchy title of a protec tive tariff. L. W. Hill and party passed through Salem Saturday and went up to Cascadia. His visit leads to the rumor that he will build a railroad from Albany to the splendid timber lands in that section. Still one never can tell. f 7 Your Check if hook k on li is one A check book a good bank I of the very best in vestments which the business man or woman, in fact, any one with a regular income, can make. It is an investment which costs nothing, and is the guardian of the income, the promoter of prosperity. The possessor of a check book on this bank is on the list of oreferred rjeo- ple whom the bank, its officers, in fact, its entire organization make it their busi ness to aid in Legitimate Ways in the Battle for Success How difficult it is, how full of risk, and what a waste of time and effort to carry one's income about with him, paying debts and obligations, distant and near, in coin or currency. An error In making change, failure to get a receipt, the temptation to spend from the too handv Docketbook, the chance of robberv or loss all these hazards and more make it hard to believe that there are still many who fail to avail themselves of the modern convenience, the check book. Why not conserve your Income and pro mote your success through the use of a check book on this bank? UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK Member Federal Reserve Bank Salem, Oregon LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT By S. W. STRAUS PreiiJcnl American Hociely for Thriji sr.. v German Crown Prince Tackles An Aeroplane Amsterdam, July 24. The German frown prince made his debut last week an a military flier, Recording to word reaching here from Berlin today. For 15 minutes, the heir to the German throne risked his life in a German aero plane over the French lines surround The neces sitics ot till: generation were the lux uries of the last, and un less a halt v. called on ex travagance, it ii fair to as sume that tin luxuries o f this genera tion will be the neces-i- ties of the next. So that instead of inheriting economy, children will inherit thriftlessness, as they constantly see extravagance in tne home. It is hoped to check the tendency toward spending in the children by teaching them how and why they should save. It is quite time that some such step were taken, for it has been found that each of the 40,000,000 workers in the United States loses on an average of about nine days every year on account of sickness, Yet many of these work ers are so thriftless, that they are totally unprepared to take care of themselves at such a time. Their money has been .spent as fast as it was earned, and sometimes faster, so that instead of being able tJ command the best medical atten tion or the most modern hospital treatment when sickness falls upon them, they conic face to face witli poverty. Statistics atso show that at 45 years. 97 per cent of men meet with reverses and lose their entire ac cumulations or source of income, and that of those who -fail at 45 years only 2 per cent ever recover their financial standing. So it is to the youth of the land, just starting out on their careers, and to the prospective workers, that we must appeal, to grasp the opportunity which work and youth alone offer. Sir Walter Raleigh gave soma' excellent advice along this line some three centuries ago, which is no less timely today, when he saidj "Use tby youth so that thou may est have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof; use it as the springtime which soon departeth and wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all revision tor a long and haoDV t fro ife.' t j- j. J :t :ui iir ling erdun ascauia is a mie summer result aim iu is ijussiuie ivn. wllUe nimhing tllU fnA f of mil is only taKing a iew aays on ana enjoying ine scenery and water. The psalmist said, "Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwe'l together in unity." In these days he would have added : "provided they are abundant ly prepared to lick the other fellow if occasion requires it. RipplihiRhumQSt jwartriasori If the senate naval bill gets by both houses, the United States in three years will have a navy second only to that of England, and if Germany gets busy with the English squadrons a few more times, as she did on the North Sea not long ago, we will have a navy second to none. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1S6S CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT I i3 i SAM AND JIM When old Sam Johnson sat in state, that man of learn ing, wise and great, with Burke and Goldsmith and the rest, Jim Boswell was the butt and jest. They all must have their flings at Jim, and none had much respect for him. Methinks, had some propretic dub appeared before them at their club, and said, "This man who is your goat, at whom you laugh, with scornful note, will by the multitudes be read, when all your junk is stale and dead," old Sam would then have raised a roar: "Begone, false prophet there's the door!" And yet great Johnson, mighty sage, the shining marvel of his age, lives only in the book that Jim so reverently wrote of him. Jim's immortality is sure;; down to the Judgment 'twill endure, while those who jeered his little games, have left but half-forgotten names. And it may be men now on earth, whose work we think has little worth, will leave a deathless fame behind when they have quit their humble grind, while pompous prodigies lie down, and, dying, kill off the crown prince's courage, consider able adverse comment was heard in Ber lin, the Germans holding that as heir to flic emperor, Prince Frederick Wil helm should not needlessly risk his life in such dangerous exhibitions of cour age. It was pointed out thnt before! the war the kaiser had always prohib- j iled his eldest son from assuming such ! riks. j Ail Tinned Milk in j Northwest Purchased r-ortland. Or. July 22. Allied gov-! ernmeuts of Kurope within the last few weeks have purchased more than 3.0110,01)0 worth of tinned milk from! producers of the Pacific Northwest, j This fact became known today. It was' also learned thnt foreign agents of-j fered more than the market price.! Several big companies are said to have! neeepted only a portion of the profer-j red business, and the allies' represen- j 'ativeg are still eager tc place orders. One eompauy in the Willamette Val lev received an order for S.OOO.000 special labels to be placed on tli milk cans. New Today ads in the Journal i will be read in all live Marion county homes. Eczema Is Conquered Greasy salves and ointments should Dot be applied if good clear skin is wanted. From any druggist for 5c or $1.00 for est large size, get a bottle of lemo. When applied a directed, it effectively removes eesema, quickly stops itching, and beals skin troubles, also sores, burns, wounds and chafing. It penetrates, cleanses and soothes. Zemo is dependable and inexpensive. Try It. as we believe nothing you have ever used u as effective and satisfying. . 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