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Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" TUESDAY KVJ5NIX0, Oi tdl.or 17, 1SIU1. , CHAELE8 H FISHES, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. U S. BARNES, CHAS. II. FISHER, DORA C. ANDftESEN, President. Vice-President. Sec. and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES " Daily by carrier, per year .....$5.00 Per month 45c Daily by mail, per year 3.00 Per month 35c ' FULL LEASED W1RU TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES ! New York, Ward Lewix Williums Specinl Agency, Tribune Building Chicago, W. H. Stockwcll, People's Gits Building The Capital Journal carrier boys or instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulutiou uiunuger, as this is the only way we eau determine whether or not the curriers are following instructions. Phone Mn in 81 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. UNDER FALSE PRETENSES According to the morning paper in Portland those women on the Golden special did not come to Oregon to tell women how to vote but only to ask them to help those who did not yet have the ballot. What they did tell them, however, was how to vote and whom to vote for, and that was Candidate Hughes. If that was not what they came for why did they do it, and why did the republican "cam paign committee" pay the expenses of the trip? The Oregonian is simply telling what it knows is not so, and is deliberately doing so. Regardless of whether they are wealthy, or the train paid for by wealthy women, they came here to tell the Oregon women, who by their own efforts achieved the ballot, how to vote to help them by voting tor Mr. Hughes. A sense ot decency would have suggested that instead of coming here to instruct, they would have come to sit at the feet of the Oregon women voters and learn from them how to win the ballot. In stead, having failed in their own fight for suffrage, they come clear across the continent to tell the women who made a successful fight for the ballot what they should do with it. It is the barefaced assumption of superority of these eastern women that is galling to the sensible, soild Oregon woman voter. It is the assumption that the women of Oregon did not know enough to vote without instruction from these social and settlement workers, that galls. Yet here in Oregon was the leader of the suf frage movement. A woman so far above these eastern visitors mentally, as the sky is above the earth. A woman who was battling for suffrage when some of these would be advisers were in leading strings. And what could they tell our Oregon women, that they did not know? Could they give any reason for the women of this state support ing Hughes as far as the suffrage movement was con cerned other than that Mr. Hughes had repudiated his party's platform and had announced that personally he was for national suffrage? Was it necessary to travel clear across theconainent to deliver such a message? The truth is the party was sent here to work for Hughes and not for suffrage; and the members of that party are deliberately trying to deceive the women voters of the state when they make the assertion they are seeking help to get the suffrage for themselves. They are hired spell binders working for pay just like any other crowd of political word-mongers, and they are trying to obtain votes for Hughes under false pretenses. The excursion was the idea of Miss Ann Morgan. daughter of the late king of Wall street and sister of the reigning monarch. The treasurer is Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, heiress to the Harriman millions. Associated in the enterprise with her are Mrs. Robert Bacon, whose husband, as a partner of Morgan, was made assistant secretary of state by Roosevelt and later ambassador to France, and Mrs. W. H. Crocker, widow of the California bonanza king. On the train fund committee are: Mrs. Daniel Gug genheim of the smelter trust; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, representing inherited millions of railroad capital. Miss Maude Wetmore of the wealthy Rhode Island family; Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of k Theodore Roosevelt, whose husband, Nicholas Longworth, inherited a large fortune; Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, whose husband is a Philadelphia partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, wife of the sugar trust and Standard Oil magnate; Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, mother of William Randolph Hearst, owner of untold millions in American mines and Mexican plantations; Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont, who has undertaken to raise half a million dollars to de feat President Wilson; Mrs. John Hayes Hammond, wife of the multi-millionaire mining man; Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wealthy in her own right, whose husband with his inherited millions condoned "the crime of 1916" to follow T. R." into the republican fold; Mrs. William Ein stein, wife of the millionaire owner of the Raritan wool en mills; Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney and others. These social workers are part and parcel of organized charity, which is dependent upon wealth. Organized char ity always spends its efforts to ameliorate conditions as they are and opposes fundamental reforms which would eliminate the cause lest in eliminating poverty, pluto cracy be eliminated also. They tinker with the social disease due to social injustice, but are careful'to preserve the cause of the malady hence are for Hughes. OREGON PRODUCTS REACH RECORD PRICES Hughes speakers open up on a calamity howl the min- uie iney striise uregon, coached by the local party man ager. They help, along with the Portland Oregonian, to advertise Oregon as the pauper state of the Union. Thev say the Underwood tariff law has crippled our industries until our producers are suffering, and yet wool, one of the products placed on the free list, is selling at 35 and 40 cents a pound ; wheat brings Irom $1.12 to $1.18 a bushel in the Willamette valley; eggs 40 cents a dozen; butter jyc; potatoes $i.io a hundred; onions $2.00; hay $16 to $18; hogs $9 to $9.50 on foot, and practically everything else the farmer has to sell in proportion the highest prices to producers of this section have known in years. The largest crop of prunes ever harvested has sold at the highest price received by growers in twenty years. It is contended that the lumber industrv has heen hit by the Underwood tariff law, but the facts do not bear out this assertion. The industry is suffering more from car-shortage than any other cause at the present time. Lumber was placed on the free list in the Underwood law in the hope that the menace of Canadian competition would cause the mills to reduce prices to a reasonable level. The man who wants to build a house or make other improvements finds the price of lumber in the retail markets practically prohibitive, due apparently to an un derstanding among the millmen. When the demand was slack they closed their plants rather than reduce prices and the repeal of the tariff duty on lumber, it must be confessed, has brought no relief to the consumer. Canadian competition has not materialized because of its higher cost of production, and the retail price of lumber throughout the Northwest is still unreasonably high. Thomas C. Burke, collector of customs in Portland, is authority for the statement that "no lumber of any kind, or shingles, have been imported into Oregon from Canada at any time during the past 10 years." This statement does not say that no Canadian lumber has been imported into other territory in competition with American mills, yet it reveals that any such shipments have been very limited, or Oregon cities with direct transportation from the Canadian mills would have been invaded. Lumber that cost $7 per thousand four years ago, before the Un derowod tariff bill was enacted, now sells at $15. An amendment to the constitution is proposed that will exempt all shipping of fifty tons or more capacity whose home ports of registry are in the state of Oregon, from taxation other than that for state purposes. - As this would in no manner affect places in the state no on tide water, and as there are but two or three such places, and these desire it, there is no reason why the balance of the state should object. Portland, Astoria and Coos Bay would be about the only ports affected, and these counties would lose the local tax. As they are willing to lose this and do not ask the state to surrender any of its rights they should be permitted to do without the tax if they want so to do. Of course they look at it that they will get more returns trom the shipping than they would from the tax. If you agree with them vou can heto the- cause along by voting yes atter number 302. The Oregonian paragrapher says that "from any angle the baby carriage has the right of way over the automo bile on a crossing." He overlooks the fact that an auto has the right of way over a baby wagon or anything else at a crossing. To be correct he should have stated that the baby carriage has the right of way under an auto at a crossing. There is a saying among railroadmen that: "You can't railroad on suppositions." This applies also to. the driving of an auto. "You can't rely on suppositions being correct, in mat uniortunate accident last week in which Mrs. Matlock lost her life, the man driving the car that caused the wreck and death, supposed the car he met would continue on its course, it being on the right side of the road, and so turned out to pass it. His supposition was wrong and death and disaster followed. On the ocean, with unlimited sea room, the big vessels run under a slow bell when the fog is dense, and sound warnings al most continuously. The autoist with a certainty of meet ing others runs at full speed gives no warnings and yet has. a strip of roadway but fifteen or twenty feet wide in which to ass such others as he meets. One would think with this narrow leewav and the certaintv of meeting other autos every little while that the auto driver would use at least as much caution as a big liner on the limitless ocean. Not a Bite of Breakfast Until You Drink Water Says a glass of hot water and phosphate prevent Illness and keep us fit, A pecularity of the prohibition campaign is the tribute paid by Ira Landrith, candidate for vice president, to the drinking man. He says of him : "He is never a tight wad. He who worships the eagle on the dollar seldom worships the bottle on the shelf. The man who becomes a drunkard likes men: the miser has no social instinct. Prohibition of the liquor traffic will save to us a generation of men who would give blessing to- their time." Evidently Mr. Landrith understands somewhat about the drinking man, which most prohibition orators do not. There is a great deal of truth in his sizing up of the situation. Three weeks and it will all be over but the shouting. It is probably all over now if we only knew which way it was all over, VVe make the prediction that some politicians are going to be badly surprised. Colonel Roosevelt referred to Jane Addams as the "first citizen of the United States." And now Miss Addams repudiates the colonel's leadership and says she will vote and work for the re-election of Woodrow Wilson. Those episcopal delegates who are discussing the shortening of the Lord's prayer and the ten command ments, had better see Mr. Hughes about it first so as to be certain that it is done right. An eastern shoe manufacturer says shoes will go higher. They will have to if skirts get any shorter, or leave an interrognum below the genuflection. The penitentiary has not lost a boarder for three or four days. This is almost as remarkable as the 40 day dry spell at this season of the year. Seventy republican congressmen including Uncle Joe Cannon voted for the Adamson bill. According to Candi date Hughes "they made a cowardly surrender to force," and are unworthy of the confidence of the American peo ple. By the way our own Congressman Mr. Hawley was one of the seventy. RipplmgRhipnos waRMafon Wis mum i lfBSslSl 13 FOOL DRIVERS LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18GS CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT The man who drives a motor car where crowds of human beings are, should have his wits as bright and keen as is the spark ling gasoline. A motor is a deadly thing, that's sure to slay and wound and wing, unless the driver's safe and sane, possessed of clear and active brain. How sinful, then, the sodden skate, who says, "Before I pull my freight, along the crowded streets to fly, I'll drink four fingers of old rye." With tanglefoot beneath his belt, he goes as fast as 'he can nelt: his pvps Hiarnrtorl Kv nA booze, the course of safety he won't choose. In haste to get to other bars, he knocks the wheels from passing cars, and makes the dodging walker swear, and kills' "a lawyer here and there. He is a messenger of death ; and any man whose dark blue breath suggests long sessions at the bar, should never run a motor car. If "Safety First" is what you mean, you can't mix gin and gasoline. ' ' 1 MISS MARY M 'DO WELL CITE REASONS FOR SUPPORTING WILSON Chicago. Oct. 17. "T am going to oast my first presidential vote for Mr. Wilsoij, not because 1 am a democrat, lint because I am an independent and this is n time to forget parties," is the way Mary McDowell of the Uni versity Settlement, Chicago, declared herself for the coining election. Miss McDowell is 0110 of those who have been leading the fight for hu manity for many years. She is going to vote for the president upon his rec ord in tlx1 interest of humanity. Her work at the University Settlement has given her a national reputation. She is peculiarly qualified to pass judgment upon the value of the achievements of the democratic administration, and her judgment is, "Mr. Wilson's legis lative program is remarkable." Supported Roosevelt in 1912 In the campaign of 1!12, Miss Mc Dowell was one of the most energetic workers for Colonel Roosevelt. The declaration that she will support Pres ident Wilson was made in a letter to Colonel George K. Cole, Chicago's most militant worker for real reform, who is president of the Woodrow Wilson Independent league. After stating her intention to vote for President Wilson, Miss McDowell wrote: "I have come to this eodusion after lung consideration, consultation, aud reading of papers mostly critical of Wilsons policies. o president Lincoln has had Btich tremendous prob leins thrust at him from every angle; many decisions had to be made without precedents, lie made some mistakes. He proved himself human. Approves of Foreign Policies "Hut there was one supreme and irrevocable mistake Mr. Wilson did not make, aud for this I give him my vote. Mr. Wilson did not 'pick' Mexico wheu it was 'ripe for our picking.' South America, Europe and Mexico needed to have proof given them that as a na tion we were not for aggression, al though a group among us is working all the time for prepa redness for this purpose. Mr. Wilson stood the test in the face of aggressive, organized and commercialized public opinion, in his Mexican policy with all its question able mistakes, he stood always against a 'war for aggression' and a ' war for Just as coal, when it burns, leave behind a certain amount of incom bustible material in the form of ashes, so the food and drink taken day after day leaves in the aliineutury canal a, certain amount of indigestible ma terial, which if not completely elimina ted from the system each "day, ' be comes food for the millions of bacteria which infest the bowels, Prom tins muss of left over waste, toxins and ptomaine-like poisons are .formed and sucked into the blood. Men and women who can 't get f'ecl ing right must begin to take inside baths. Before eating breakfast each morning dring a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of lime stone phosphate in it to wash out oC the thirty feet of bowels the previous day's accumulation of poisons and toxius and to keep the entire alimen tary canal clean, pure and fresh. Those who are subject to sick head ache, colds, biliousness, constipation, others who wake up with bad taste, foul breath, backache, rheumatic stiff ness, or have a sour, gassy stomuch, after meals, are urged to get u quarter pound of limestone phosphate from the drug store, and begin practicing internal sanitation. This will cost very little, but is sufficient to make anyone an enthusiast on the subject. Remember inside bathing is more important than outside bathing, be cause the skin pores do not absorb impurities into the blood, causing poor health, while the bowel pores do. Just as soap and hot water cleanses, sweetens and freshens the skin, si hot water and limestone phosphate act on the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels. Secretary of Labor Knows Nothing Of It Sttn Francisco, Oct. l(i. Secretary of Labor William II. .Wilson denied to day that he is here on any business connected with the government immi gration service, as declared in report recently circulated. He will address a Wilson mass meeting here tomorrow night. "I have been campaigning for Pres ident Wilson and know nothing of re ports that Senator Mielau and I will envestipate the immigration bureau here," he said. Tomorrow morning Secretary Wilson will go to Sacramento, returning in time for his night speech. the protection of private interests.' "In his painful and difficult nego tiations with the European belliger ents he has not adopted the cheap pol- sinceiicy of 'bluffing' nor hns he invnlvnii us in war. He has endeavored through out to stand for constructive interna tionalism. His declaration at the meet ing of the League to Enforce Peace that he believes it to be America's ob ligation to lead in the establishment of an international organization for the preservation of the world's peace marks a new departure in American diplomacy, "Mr. Wilson's legislative program ia remarkable. The child labor law, which Mr. Beveridge urged a republi can congress to pass five or six years ago, should win for Mr. Wilson the support of all women who have worked for its passage in state and nation for many years, it is the entering wedge, in national legislation looking toward the establishment of 'social aud indus trial justice' for which we progressive labored in 1912." Hp CHAPTER 1.1. We had nearly finished our dinner when I heard Muriel gasp. I turned in the direction slit- was looking, and there, just coining in, was Clifford with two ladies. I had never seen either of them before. I felt myself grow pale and cold then a fierce wave of indignation swept over me. and niv cheeks burned like fire. Clifford, evidently, had not seen us. He piloted the ladies to a table some distance away on the other side of the mom. A table for lour which had been reserved. As they seated themselves Clifford's back was toward us; but both women were where I could see them. They were women of about 30 or 35 years, as far as I could judge. Both were ex quisitely dressed, and wore wonderful lew els. One or them was medium in colotiug and had on a gown of midnight blue tulle with a hat to matcu. me other omi was very dark, almost gypsy like, a fascinating creature in flame col or, with an immense black hat, but worn to that it did not hide the masses of her hair tae blackest hair I had ever seer Clifford was in eveniug clothes, aud looked x oh. so distinsmjicl nd handsome! My foolish heart swelled with pride, ivin though I wis s dii tressed. Mr. Franklyn is Embarrassed. After sundry uods and grimaces from Muriel, when she thought I was not looking, Mr. Franklyn's attention was A SURPRISE gained, and she motioned toward Clif ford. "Shall I ask Mr. Hammond and his party to join usf " he turned to me. "That is very thoughtful of you," I returned, by an effort keeping my voice steady, "but I would rather not." "Just as you say!" he replied, but he showed his embarrassment so plainly embarrassment for me that I deter mined not to allow the contretemps to spoil their evening, "No, indeed! it would be a pity to add to our party," and I flattered myself that I laughed quite naturally. "Mr. Hammond had probablv made up his ! party-or accepted his invitation before ihe knew I was coming " I stopped suddenly. DID he know I was there t I He must have gone home to dress. Mandy had forgotten to give him the note I left. He will be as surprised iu see uiv as i am 10 see mm, i inougni, then blushed as I realized how lame any explanation I could make would sound. Clifford naturally would ask Mandy where I was, and that would remind her of the message. It was too compli-. cated for me- I When I again looked at Clifford thej fourth chair at the tuble was occupied bv a man about Clif font's age and type, although I did not think him as good-! looking as my husband. "Who is 'the other man?" I asked' Burton. I felt that a safe question. "Oh, that is Hul Lockwood, a mil lionaire bachelor. I am surprised you haven't met him. He's keen to know every pretty woman." Leonard Brooke Joins Them. "Thank you!" I bowed, mockingly, just as Muriel exclaimed: "This It) nice bf you Leonard. I had given you up.-" Muriel had said nothing about ex pecting Leonard, so after greeting him I remarked: "This is a very unexpected pleas ure!" "To me also," he returned gravely. "I was out when Muriel telephoned me, that it was onlv by the veriest good luck that I got her message about half an hour ago. Now that I am here I'll have coffee with you, if I am not to late." "Have the new professionals danced!" he asked after the coffee had been ordered. ".Y"; tue.v going ta danea again," I replied as a stir at all ths tables drew my attention to the couple. ' "Will you dance with met" Leon ard asked. "Oh, not while they are dancing. I want t.;,watch them. You and Muriel dance." "All right Muriel, come along! Well leave Burton and Mrs. Hammond t "hTd ,he,"",,d us" ne l"ghingly (Tomorrow Mr. Franklva Offers te Take Mildred Home)
