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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1916)
Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" FRIDAY EVKXIXG, August IS, 1S10. CHAELE8 H FISHES, Editor and ManagT. PCBIJSHED EVEBY EVEXINO EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. SUBSCRIPTION KATES . ... rw.r $100 Per month rmj . - - w r IHUy by mail, per year , , 3.00 Per month .45c 35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH BKPQRT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York Ward-Lewis-Williams Special Agency, Tribune Building CUeago, W. H. Stockwel 1, People ' Oas Building. . Fh. CapiUl Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the WV. If the carrier d.es not do this, misses you, or LCglecU gett. tug the aWto yeu on time, kindly phone the circulation manager as this .s the on ly JTwiS l determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. VkZ Mata 81 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the earrier has missed you. . THE "ETERNAL TRIANGLE" OF BUSINESS Mr Hughes says "there is no concern of labor that is not also the concern of capital." He is badly mistaken One of the great concerns of Labor is to have a home and to provide food and shelter for its women and children, and Capital is not concerned about it, or losing any sleep, because the wage earner is wakeful over his prob ems There is no employment of labor, if that is v. hat Mr. Hughes meant, but that capital is interested in it, for it is out of the employment of labor in some form that most capital is able to find profitable investment. As to this interest the two are diametrically opposed to each other. Labor seeking to get all it can and capital trying to give as little as it can. It is a condition s Sural as Ufe itself, for it is each looking out f or himse f It is n the business world, "the eternal i triangle" in which Wage is the woman in the case, the third corner of the triangle over which the other two quarrel. Back of the question between the two is a much larger one that has never been solved and perhaps never will be, and that is the question of interest. How much interest shou d money be allovved to earn? Different countries havSifferent rates just as they have different wage Ss so there is no universal rule governing the matter. Who should fix this rate? The states have a maximum Se above whkh it is unlawful to go; but by what process do the law makers arrive at a fixed rate as the most ranital should be allowed to charge H capita is placed at work there is in most cases no limit ofPthe amount it is permitted to make An invest ment in business is permitted to make 100 or o00 per nt if it can and no questions are asked by the law. Why' 1 banker lending money to a manufacturer can ww v seven per cent, but the manufacturer may teimwSte or any other sum for there S no limit It is claimed the manufacturer runs all the risk? but if he should fail the lender may also lose. The banker takes some chance.- . Here is where the wage triangle comes in. The manu facturer employing say a thousand men, due to war con Sttns as at pesent, or to any other, is able to make his capital produce 50 per cent. The laborer gets no part of thSe gf eat earnings other than his usual wage the manufacturer absorbing all the increased earnings of this Sand men He feels he is entitled to some share in rusual prosperity in .the way of increased wagej Not getting 1 Tny wonders why the profit of labor do not bear some relation to those of 2?1 The Bible tells us "the laborer is worthy of his S " but that hire is an indefinite amount and govern areelv by the law of supply and demand. hen the sup nlvTs large and the demand is light it is of great concern to labo? but capital is not concerned about, it for capital floes not eat nor does it have many hungry little mouths t0 N"'MrbIIughes, Labor has many things that concern it that do not concern Capital. New York may have a renewal of her street car strike. The employs claim that President Shonts has not kept M and that those he .P-m sed iinsta e hav Wn turned clown ana mat iw is. aiou r"6 i Ste uSiS. Shonts should remember that proverb about "letting sleeping dogs lie." . The open season for deer and hunters is on, and while the limit for deer is fixed that of-the number of hunters that mav be mistaken for a deer, and plugged, is un limited It is to be hoped, however, that hunters will be satisfied with one buck, of this variety. The latest bread suggestion made by the bakers of the ;u nnt ha mndc dearer, but tnat me loaves will be made smaller. This is what you often hear about, "A distinction without a ainereuw. The railroad strike still looms, and now it seems to be up to the railroad side of the controversy. President Wilson has summoned the railroad presidents to Wash ington, and a large portion of them are on the way there. Until they can be consulted nothing further will be done, which means that it may be Saturday before anything whatever will be known as to the probable outcome. A Chicago paper, "The Manufacturers' News," has directed an appeal to manufacturers to wire the president uphold ing the position of the railroads, and intimating that the strike must come sometime and we might as well have it now. This is presumed to be the position the railroads would like to take, but they fear public sentiment should they do so. It is probably an inspired article for the pur pose of feeling out the business element's pulse. It is also an intimation that sooner or later the roads will force the fighting, and that they are determined to do away with union labor, to destroy unionism if they can. Speaking of "pork" a lady reader asked us a few days ago what was meant by the term. The story is rather old, but some may not know its source, so with proper apologies we repeat it. Many years ago a certain man was arrested down in Kentucky for stealing a hog. He employed a lawyer and after stating his case and telling his attorney that they would undoubtedly prove it on him, the latter advised him to plead guilty and get the lightest sentence possible. This he refused to do and as the jury was selected he kept advising his attorney to keep this and that juryman. When the jury was at last completed he whispered to his attorney: "Now fight em, there are three men on the jury that got some of the pork." The Oregonian says the foremost publicists and liter ary men, including the muckrakers will be found to be Democrats when their backs are scratched. This being accepted as true, in the interests of peace among our Republican friends, we suggest that a bit of armor on the back of Candidate Hughes until the campaign is over, is a much needed thing. What's the use pardoning or paroling prisoners any way? No sooner are a lot of them turned loose than the governor issues requisitions on some other governor to return some criminal to the state. We can never get rid of the supply so long as we insist on keeping up the de mand for home consumption, and importing the goods to satisfy it. Americans do not like the military life, and nothing shows this more forcibly than the slowness of recruiting now as compared to that when war with Mexico was imminent. American youth has an abundance of patriot ism, but doing army service in time of peace is not attrac tive to him. The Canadian provinces are emphatic in their denial that there will be a short wheat crop this year and insist the yield will be at least up to the average. . Was this one of those stories gotten up by the Chicago grain pit, or was it a cunningly concocted scheme of the Master Bakers? Only a week until that Eugene-Coos Bay,wedding and the big celebration down Marshfield way on account of it. Salem should be well represented and everyone who can, should make the trip and get acquainted with the good people of our new seaport. It is reported that W. J. Bryan will move to Asheville, North Carolina, and in time make the race for United States senator from that state. It is claimed the native Carolina politicians are not enthusiastic in their encour agement of the plan. Georgia has changed her laws to such an extent that women are now allowed to practice law in that state, Georgia must be getting shy of legal talent. This may not be ideal weather for pulling flax but it would do first rate for retting it. Take our hunch, Mr. Crawford, and get busy. RioDlinhuniQ 1DB1I LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1868 CAPITAL $300,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT IT WILL HELP THE CROPS lrcn. Me EVEN-NO A. Twt wYtylbU M'lI fc: largest 4 ' J THE TATTLER : in Kiowa county, having 32 1 rooms. At all times he employed a large uumber of men in his cattle business. Tiie Iowa picnic seems to be a rain maker. Owing to the wet, things were dry yesterday at- the town swimming hole. It lias been noted that the average person's appetite for eggs increases with the price. That wet weather at this season is good for hops is an opinion held almost entirely by fror;s. There is a suspicion prevalent here abouts that red will be much worn by street cars this season. The weather Inst night was cool, but it was not distant, not a bit of it. An exchange over across the river sayg that "folks are painting up." There seems little excuse for it in this glow-of health-producing climate. Why the Journal is popular it prints the world's news to BULL ELK IN CLOVER North Yakima, Wash., Aug. IS. Vol unteers arc wanted today to 8hoo a bull elk ont of a clover patch on the Naches Valley ranch. The elk has been there a week. He escaped from a herd import ed from Yellowstone Park. The farmer on whose land he is trespassing wants $25 from the county commissioner. The Journal Does Job Printing. AN INSURANCE AGAINST SUDDEN DEATH For Sufferers From Backache, Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble THE DEAD ONES We have grown up in the belief that all the geniuses are dead; the living writers run to beef, instead of brains, within the head. W e talk of Addison and Steele, and grow excited o'er their charms: and as we talk of them we feel that modern scribes are false alarms. The other day, dis traught and tired, I took Joe Addison, his book. and. honine that I'd be insDired. I read it, in the ingTenook. Oh, yes, he has a graceful style as Goldsmith had, and all that bunch but you must read about a mile before you come across a punch. And Joseph's morals were O. K., the output of a thoughtful dome; but he would preach for naii a day, to drive one little lesson home. If I should make my screeds so long, vou'd close vour eyes i and gently snore, or else, impelled by sense of wrong, ! you'd shoot me for a turgid bore.. I don't believe that he j or Steele, or any other old time bard, could sell the stuff I they used to reel, today, and get five cents a yard. Kansas Man Bequeaths Fortune to His Bank T. J. Browning, of Salem, was es pecially interested in the following dispatch which appeared in the papers recently. Jlr. Roluuette was an old and esteemed friend of his before he came to this city three years ago, and the unusual disposition of his estate was characteristic of the man who ap preciated the source from which most of his wealth came, and who wished to see the institution in which he was deeply interested in his lifetime proper after his death. Tho dispatch reads: Hutchinson. Aue. 8. Remembering all his relatives with bequests, many of his business associates and friends and others whom he had befriended, S. D. Robinette. a lireensburg. Kans., banker and stockman who died Monday morn- resilue of his estate to the surplus fand of the bank of which he was president, the Home State bank ef Greeusburg. In this way he returned to the institution that hail made much money for him the bulk of his estate valued eonervative ly at 150.000. The bank will receive at least 00.000, it is estimated. Mr. Fobiuette was born in Clark county, Indiana, August IS. 1850. He came to Kiowa county in 18S4 and for 32 years was one of the big stock men of the southwest. In 1903 he estab lished the Home State bank and became president. He grew wealthy but had hundreds of friends and he had the reputation of taking care of those whom he knew. A week ago he made his wiU and it provides for everyone who had any claim on him. To maty farmers and renters of properties owned by him he leaves deeds to their places as gifts. As a democrat Mr. Kobmette was wen known and he held many offices. 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