Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal"
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October 13. 1!U0.
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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.
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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
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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.)