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Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" FRIDAY, lvexixg, October 13. 1!U0. CHARLES H FISHER, Editor and Manager. FUBLISIIED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUXDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. 8. BABXES, C1IAS. II. FISHER, President. Vice-President. SUBSCRIPTION KATES Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year . . TVl.h LEASED WillE TELEGRAPH REPORT , EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York, Ward Lewis-Williams Special Agency, Tribune Building Chicago, W. H. Stoekwell, People's Gils Building The Capital Jaurunl carrier boys nro instructed to put the papers oa tlio porch. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects jfottinji tlio paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation muiiuger, as this is the only nay we can determine whether or not the carriers nro following instruction!!. Fhone Main 81 before 7:1)0 O'clock and a paper will bo sent you by special messenger if the currier has missed you. MR. FAIRBANKS AND SUGAR Mr. Fairbanks on his recent visit here scored the democrats for taking the duty off sugar, and then putting it back, which he remarked "showed they were wrong." The democrats put sugar on the dutiable list simply be cause the importations due to the war had fallen off so greatly that the revenue was needed. It was a revenue measure entirely and not a protective one. Mr. Fair banks intimated that the republican administration of which, if elected, he would be a part would keep a high duty on sugar in order to encourage its production in this country. In yesterday's market reports of the Oregonian is a lengthy article on sugar, showing that it is scarce in Germany and Austria, which before the war exported large quantities of it. The article points out that it will be years before these countries are again in condition to make more than their own needs require. The article in question closes as follows: "This can but mean that it will be a very long time even after the end of the war before the sugar industry in these countries can be brought back to a position which will permit of heavy exportation. England has been making great efforts to encourage sugar raising in its dependencies, but thus far the effort has been a failure. In India, of which most was expected, the area planted in sugar cane this year is 7 per cent less than that of last year. "Taking a broad view of the situation, it is evident that the remarkable prosperity of the sugar industry in this country and Cuba rests upon a sound foundation and the end of the war will hardly see the decline in price of sugar and in the value of shares in sugar companies that some people have been predicting. "This week one refinery made a sale of :!0,000 tons, which goes to Switzerland. The allies will be forced to buy heavily in this country this Fall." The Oregonian says: "None know better than the old guard that the interests need hope for nothing from him, (Hughes.)" Against the assertion of the Oregonian it is noted that these same "interests" are solidly backing him. If they expect nothing from him why this unanimity? Big Business knows no politics other than self interest and where its interests lie there it will be found at work. This would be proper enough if its interests were always honest, but this is far from being the case. It is the special privilege it wants and generally gets, and that is what it is backing Hughes for. It may be Mr. Hughes is big enough to stand this gang of leeches off should he be elected, but whether he is or not it is plain to be seen that they "hope" for a great deal from him, and that is why they want him elected. It is a pretty safe rule in politics to first learn what, or who big business wants and then vote against both. The Oregonian is cheerfully pessimistic about some things. It says "There is an idea that if the spurious Land and Loan bill officially Full Rental Value Land Tax and Homemakers' Loan Amendment, is' this year overwhelmed with a tremendous vote, U'Ren will quit. ' We do not think he will quit so long as there is a dollar left in the Fels fund and the open door to single tax and similar hurtful agitations is left through the initiative." Oh, ye of little faith! Candidate Hughes wishes it understood that in speak ing of black listing he has no enmity toward England and talking of the Lusitania no ill feeling toward Germany. About all the reader can get out of those two statements is that Mr. Hughes does not mean what he says in dis cussing those events, but is "talking for Buncobme." If you care to know just what Teddy did to his friend Taft in 1912 open your Bible at second Samuel, chapter three and verse 27. When you have absorbed that turn to chapter twenty of same verses 9 and 10 and you will discover what the colonel did to his child, the progressive party, last June at Chicago. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18G3 CAPITAL Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT DORA C. ANDRESEX, Sec. und Tresis. $5.00 3.00 Fer month 4.1c Per month 35c $500,000.00 COOS BAY TRADE The Portland businessmen visiting Coos Bay have learned that that section is pretty solidly hooked up with San Francisco, and that it will take more than a friendly visit to change this order of things. Before the building of the Eugene-Coos Bay railroad, the whole southern coast of the state was isolated from the balance of it, and was nearer San Francisco, in every way, than Portland. The cities on Coos Bay are linked with San Francisco from the earlier days.. It has that has helped up-build them and it is San Francisco that furnished the market for the larger part of their products. When Portland backs that section with its money and furnishes a market for its products it will secure a portion of its trade but not until then. As Port land ships most of the things that the Coos country does, it offers a poor market for the products of that section-. About the only thing Portland can offer a market for is coal, and under present conditions the outlook for Coos Bay coal fields for a market days are run by electricity, be made much more cheaply coal. So far as fuel is concerned for household purposes, the city government of Portland is running its own wood pile and supplying that demand or some of it. On the other hand the Coos cities are bound to divert some of the trade from Southern Oregon that now goes to Portland and turn it toward San Francisco. Portland will lose more than it gains from Coos Senator Beveridge, so the returned to the republican i nation of Hughes, he felt the Progressive fight had been won." Wonder what especial fact so convinced him it was a victory? Was it the rose? Of Murray Crane? practically every big interest? was a hght won how would he describe a defeat I When the big fish swallows the little ones it takes the highest optimism to torture the fact into a vicory for the fish in side the other; yet that is exactly whal happened to the progressive party. The world's series is over their feat of last year and won the worlds championship. There were several records broken in the contest. A fourteen inning game, the longest in a world series was played, the attendance was the largest in history and the financial returns also the greatest. Now that it is over Americans will remember there is a war inJ Europe and begin to brighten up as to what has been doing the past week or two. They will also remember there is a presi dential campaign on and take some interest in that again. Mr. Hughes can explain possibly, that is if anyone can, just what the supreme court decided in the Oregon California land grant case; and he could do this without embarrassing the president or risking being misunder stood by foreign nations. Will you not Mr. Hughes, in the interest of the Oregon voter, throw some light on that decision which otherwise must always remain in a state of rayless gloom? Villa is reported as being in possession of a good por tion of the state of Chihuahua, and "getting along much better than could be expected under the circumstances." Carranza's troops seem to have a mortal fear of him and his peon followers, and can neither be coaxed or driven to attack them. Unless the hegira from the penitentiary is stopped some other arrangement will have to be made about pull ing the flax crop next year. The election has at least Oregon outside of Portland quarrel about railroad rates wfcn j ' THE ANOMALY While riding in my buzz-buzz cart, I hit Bill 1 Wax and spoiled his frame, and knocked his marrow-bones apart, and he remarked, "I was to blame!" I said, "This dark disaster, Bill,, to my sad life new sor row lends; I do mutilate my dearest friends. 1 11 pay the surgeon if he'll fix the bones I've broken, rent and bowed: and if vou iournev o'er the tiSy A Styx, I'll see U&LCJtf shroud." "It was my fault," I heard him say, "and you don't have to pay a cent, for I was walking like a jay, and wasn't looking where I went. I busted every rule, I think, which ought to govern gents on foot, and now you've put me on the blink, I think a while J should stay put." Bill Wax shines brighter than a star; Bill Wax deserves immortal fame; he says the owner of a car is not in every case to blame! Hereafter, as I tour the town, in my always try to run him down NOT FOR PORTLAND been San Francisco capital there is slim. Factories these and this, here in Oregon, can from water power than from Bay. Oregonian says, joined or lold because with the nom falling into line of Boise Pen Of William , Barnes? Of If the senator thinks that and the Red Sox duplicated served to give the people of a rest from that interminable and a water level haul. reason not run my car to kill or you have a Palm Beach new car that swiftly hies, I'll m preference to other guys. OPEN FORUM . The Vote of the Four Million. To the Oregon woman voter, who, I like the writer, has given of time,.! thought, strength and money to the' work of securing the franchise for! Oregon women, writing, speakling, de bating for the cause, and, having : helped to secure it, content to devote i further energy to the tudv of the! problems we craved the urivihxrn nf i helping to solve, the spectacle of our i eastern sisters (whether suffragists or antis) coming pell mell across the con- j tinent into 'tho wild and woollv west " to tell us how to vote, is as amazing as it is unwelcome. Current! litcrnture, their source of information, j is also available to us, and most of us can "rend an' write and figger." I We declined to join a national wo-j man's party, and we do not favor I crocking the political whip over the ' presidential candidates heads, to force ' them into line iu the matter of the Susan li. Anthony amendment, even ! though we greatly desire to sen this ! simple matter of justice done to all American women, and feel the humili ation of having that highest and finest act, the privilege of which American citizenship tnntali.iiigly passed above the heads of our less fortunate, un recognized sisters, and dropped, un solicited into the hands of the illiter ate, half civilized Indian, and for the asking, into the hands of the for eigners, imliseriinintely to the deserv ing, find tho vicious, the loyal or the spy. While President Wilson's stubborn policy of state-liy-state granting of the ballot to woman (the mercifully ( f) i iiiuug on or ine nogs -urn, an inrn i at a time) man's life-lone monopoly of votinir naturallv has left mciud ce to some, gives us that tired feeliue. We are, we hope, broad minded enough to set down that idioevcrasv to the president's early his life-long southern traditions, and pockotink onr pardonable resentment, we do him sim ple justice to acknowledge that he is our foremost Ainerictin citizen; a truly christian gentleman; loyal, humane, patriotic, ot wine culture, deep learn iiiL'. of uurinht nrincinles. nnnuesrinn. ably honorable, modest and kindly, vet ... ' 1 . filling the highest office within the power of Americans to give with dig nity, and best of all and a bo vie all, conducting international affairs with rare tact and wisdom. A man-sized man for what is surely a man-sized job, tiding over these hours of crisis, truly a combination of qualifications leaving little room to be desired; a character, which should and does ap peal alike to men and women, but how especially to woman whose greatest concern, after all, is the welfare of her household her husband, her sons, whom he has kept out of war; her daughter whose honor has perhaps bc'ii preserved becnuile he kept us out of war. The hard earned and slowly saved sum. laid up for the "rainy day" or for old age, is still safe, because he has kept us out of war. And so, we predict that the great majority of our enfranchised women will feel no ham pering by party or big business con siderations, no coersion into support of the muilslinging candidate, but will gratefully cast their ballots for the man who now stands at the helm of our shin of state and who has guided it so wisely and so safely through the breakers into our heaven of pence. (M1!S.) PEARL Si. BARTLETT, R. F. t. Xo. 2, Salem. (Mrs. Bnrtlett, formerly of Grants Pass, now of the Willamette valley, was chairman of the suffrage work for Josephine county during the campaign. Has been affiliated with the progros-" sive party which is now supposed (by the republicans) to be back in the fold, but by the above article, it will be seen some of the women voters are, so far, nonpartisan,' when it conies to anything so Vital as tho ckoice of a president.) Says Watch Out for Germs. Editor Capital Journal: While we aTC all interested ia Bundle Day and CHAPTEB XLVI "What wonderful weather we are having!" I responded, in a vain effort to turu the conversation. "Yes, isa't it ? That woman with Leonard Brooke was probably a married woman. I. for one. don't see what wo men are thinking of nowadays." JIv heart almost stopped beating, and I fell that all the blood in my body had gone into my face. Just then. Kate nine in with candles, as she always did at dusk. "Don't light them yet, Kate! It's pleasant to sit iu the dusk," I told her, glad that the growing dimness of the room hid my blushes. "I always like to sit in the dusk, too, dear Mrs. Hammond!" my visitor gush ed again, "it is such a couify way to gossip. Let me see, we were talking of Mr. Brooke. Have you any idea who was w ith himf She was about your sire 1 should judge, and wore a snuff-brown coat aud veil." "I know very few of Mr. Brooke's friends," I evaded, "you know I have lived here so short n time, and on ac count of baby have been out very little until lately." "That's so. Well perhaps Muriel will know. But I realy must be going. I have so enjoyed seeing yon again. Do call soon ! " Alone at Last. As the door closed upon my visitor I The Nation's Favorite otter Nut There Is wish this charitable undcrtakling full SUCCesS. we should lint. nvnrlKilr tlio j possible peril to which recipients of inese cast-ott clothing may uc ex posed. Medical science has fully demon strated that germs, or the bacilli of several of serious contagious diseases, may survive tor a long period ot timeiary, plus .oo traveling expenses. C'u in clothing worn by patients during jit to $3,000. His private secretary geta their period of illness. An instance $3,000; cut to $l,nU0. is on record showing the genus of 1 scarl,'t ,VYer "v"'g survived durin . " 1 c" "' khuhi-ius or vic tim, which had been stored away; and when worn again by a child communi cated the contagion to the little in lAieent wearer. It will be remembered that when was proposed by the American people in semi secoud iiniui cunning to t no victims of war in Belgium the health authorities in that stricken country gave notice that such apparel could not ! bo allowed entrance into Belgium be : a i. j.. ' ii.i tUllBU UL IUO VITJ glUVC UUUgtT 111UI some of the garments may carry germs of contagious diseases. For public safety every article re ceived by the committee iu this city on the so-called "'Bundle Day" should be first thoroughly fumigated under the supervision of the authorized of ficers of the Hoard of Health and any one to whom such apparel may be of fered should be given assurance that the garment has been properly treated to prevent possible infection or con tagiou. This is clearly in the interest of public health. VIGILANCE Southern Oregon To Have New Line San Francisco, Oct. 13. The opening of the huge section of richly productive country between Grnnta Phss niiil Wnl. do, Ore., is now assured, according to a report toclav that Joha Twohv and his son, Robert' Twohv, of the railroad con - tracting firm of Twohy Bros, company, of this citv, had succeeded iu arrang - mi; the sale ot J.OOO.OOO of bonils of1. the old proposed (..alitornin & Coast rail road. Mr. Twohy has long been active in promoting the railroad which originnlly was projected to run between urnuts Pass, Ore., on the line of the Southern Pacific, to Crescent City, Cal., a dis tance of approximately 00 miles. The city of (irants Pass raised $200, 000, ami completed, more than a year ago, 10 miles of the proposed rail road from Giants Pass to Wilderville, iu Oregon. Later the road was taken over by Mr. Twohy. It is the present intention to extend the road from Wilderville to Waldo, a distance of 4"i miles from Grants Pass, and it is estimated that $2,000,000 will lie required for this construction. At Waldo are a number of productive cop- EVADING THE QUESTION sank weakly upon a chair. What an es cape. How thankful I was that Leonard hod told me she gossiped. Had he not I should probably have at once acknowl edged that I was riding with Leonard, and she would have made something out of it, while really it amounted to noth ing. ! One thing I decided. That telltale ; brown veil should be destroyed at once. 1 would not even give it to Kate who usually got such things when I was through with them, but I would burn it. So I wrapped it in a piece of paper and put it into the kitchen stove. Just then Mnndy came out of the pantry. "Fo' tho lan's sake chile, what yo doia' makin' such a sraudeef Yo iriv j tings fo burnin' to Mandy." But there was a not tir and the veil was soon destroyed. Shall Clifford Enow of Ride? When Clifford came iu I had not yet decided to speak of mv ride with Brooke. I at first thought I would tell jhim; but the longer I considered it the jless inclined I was to speak to him about IT. Clifford had told me I was old enough to know with whom I wanted to "play," and had sneered at me. Whv should I continually subject myself to his sarcasm! Had' he objected, and I then had gone. I surely should have told him. But as he had virtually given his a No Better TO The governor gets $r,oo0 a year sal- The secretary of state $4,."00; cut to 2,'IOU. His chief deputy $3,000; cut to $1,."00. The treasurer $4,500; cut to $2,400. His chief deputy $3,000; t.ut to $,500. The constitution fixes the salary of tin- xernur and secref.-trv nf vtntn it;$l.'i0O each, and the treasurer ni twin i In 1003 the legislature smashed. the eon.- stitution and raised these The attorney general $3,000; cut to $2,400. His three assistants $.".."00; cut to $4100, ' ' State engineer $3,000'. cut to $2,000. His assistant $3,000; cut to $l,S00. Labor commissioner $3,000: cut to $l,soo. Circuit judges (25 of them) $4,000 each; cut to $2,000. Supreme court justices (7 of them) $4,"0O each; cut to $2,400. Art. Xll of the constitution fixes this sulary at $2,000. Iu 1007 the legislature raised it to $4,no0. Three years later Art. Vit of the constitution was amended leav ing this salary open. Now which holds. Art. XIII! or Art. VII.' or the uncon stitutional act of the legislature? The public service commissioners (three) $4,000 each; cut to $2,000. Their secretary and thirteen others get $20, 000; cut to $14,200. Industial accident ' commissioner (three) $3,000 each: cut to $1,S00. Here is a saving of $101,000 a year on salaries. The margin would still bs high enough to tempt brainy men now in office to seek re-election. The . last legislature appropriated $20,000 for a sectarian institution. This "!, of ,m? 'nxlnR power violates our I "cmi.crncy. ! , lh. ts" n"(1 Pame institution calls f(,r ".i00 a year, and is of but littl 1 ,'"eral benefit. Cut it out. rl" '"" '"""muui srnooi costs $119,000 a year. They should be mado inter-self supporting. From all which we could save oa taxes $320,300 a your. Is it. worth, while? Taxes last year amounted to ! .so for every voc ''a8t at the last elee tion. LEVI D. MIFF, Candidate for the Legislature. (Ptl. Adv.) Oct.H per mines, one of which is owned by Mr. Twohy. According to George W. Boschke, vice-president of the Twohr Bros, company, it is not the Dresent inteution to build on to Crescent.Citr, which is 45 miles from Waldo. permission, had told me to do as I pleased, why should I discuss my actions with himf Xo, I decided, just as ha came in,"I would say nothing. If he ask- ea me wnat 1 had been doing I would icu mm, uiuern ise x wonta Keep mj vnu uuuncil. "Mrs. Jonlon called today," vol umeerea at dinner. "Xell Jordonf" "Yes, I believe that's her name.' ''What did she have to offerl" "Xothing much! It was her first can you Know, aitnough I met her soma time ago. She apologized because aha ..ou uui luueu oeiore, ana wished Would romn in ix-h!la al.A L yom - ' ' - - ' "ua one. di said She hnd knnwn rnn r, II.. long time, and was well acquainted witk many of yonr friends. I can't sav I care much for her. she gushes too much. Then. too. sh ni1)..ri m i...t i . - --- ". .iT-ai VUKV or I twice, and that I rnn't i,.i, .... . ; stranger." "I don't like such familiarity self." Cliffn,,) ,,.j i... i. rnr- ns tha telephone raiiu'. an.) K'nto hi HOW BEGIN AND m Who could it be? Was he going out again and leave m alonef When he returned to the table he gar me no information, although he had talked for some time. Neither dia I ask him any questions. (Tomorrow Clifford Objects to NeB Jordon.)