Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal"
FRIDAY KVKXtXU,
October i!ll. liHl).
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IN SPITE OF "FREAK LAWS"
Purchase of a million dollars worth of property in
Portland by "the picked leaders of the real estate men of
the country," shows that the silly twaddle about big
corporations and business men being afraid to invest in
this state "because of our freak laws" is all buncombe,
peddled out for the purpose of having such legislation as
curbs the greed of big business removed from our statute
books. Certain influences would have the state turned
over to the corporations with full power to plunder it.
They would have the water powers of the state turned
over to these speculators to tie up until such time as the
people need them when they could buy back what they
gave away, or pay some company outrageous prices for
the privilege of using property that is now theirs, and
will still be theirs when it is needed if the laws are let
alone. Surely this country has had examples enough of
the utter foolishness of giving away its property and
' placing the people at the mercy of the recipients of its
bounty. The oil lands have made the only billionaire the
world has ever known, and how does he use this property
once belonging to the people and much of which he got
for a trifle? State after state has squandered its school
lands giving them or most of them to speculators at a
nominal price. The vast domain of timber once belong
ing to the people and almost given away by them have
made the Weyerhauser class worth countless millions.
The coal barons are another evidence of this "take care
of the poor corporation" cry. The water power is about
all there is left and in certain quarters there is worrying
lest the corporations are not allowed to get their clutches
on these. The fact that shrewd real estate men have
invested a million dollars in Portland is the best evidence
that our so called "freak laws" are not hurting anyone, or
scaring any away.
WHICH PLEDGE WILL HE KEPP?
Have you registered for the city election? If not you
still have time as the books will remain open until Satur
day night. It is announced that this is the last time we
will have to register, and that being the case it is better
to get in and on the books. It is a little trouble to register,
but if you don't do it the trouble, if you want to vote, will
be passed up to your friends whose time you will take
to enable you to cast your ballot.
The Mexican government is getting tolerable good
control of affairs in northern Mexico. General Bachomo,
an Indian general in the Mexican army, has been found
guilty of murdering josepn i ays, a young mining en
gineer taken prisoner by him and executed at Los Mochis
last November. He will be executed on the same spot
that young Tay met his death. This is convincing proof
that Carranza'is trying to play the game square.
California's cattle king, Henry Miller, who died a few
days ago, contrary to expectations made no gift to the
state of Mount Madonna, near Gilroy, as was expected.
Instead he ordered a tomb be built on it for his body. As
the state, under its inheritance tax law will get in the
neighborhood of $2,000,000, he probably felt it was no use
helping it when it was so abundantly able to help itself.
Congressman Hawley is to speak here soon and as
there seems to be an idea that the Adamson law did not
make an eight-hour day, an idea expressed by Mr. Hughes
and reiterated by the republican press, he will confer a
favor on his hearers by telling just what it was he and
the other sixty-nine republican congressmen voted for.
At San Mateo, California, the parent-teachers associa
tion left it to the pupils whether they should buy a piano
or invest the money in milk for the children. The taste
for milk was much more highly developed than that for
music, and the vote was a Wilson landslide substance
winning over sound.
The United States having adhered to strict neutrality
in the case of the German submarine U-53, England will
probably not try to make an issue of it. The whole pro
test was "brag and bluster."
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The Oregonian thinks the statement made by the
Capital Journal to the effect that "Candidate Wilson's
indorsement of equal suffrage was like many other of the
things he does, for the purpose of getting votes" is a
joke. It is not a joke but the truth. Mr. Hughes knows
his party platform is, so far as the equal suffrage plank
is concerned, practically the same as that of the demo
crats, and that it leaves the matter entirely to the states.
Mr. Hughes knows that his party is not bound by his per
sonal pledge and that he can make this pledge with safety
without being in danger of being called upon to do any
thing. Our big contemporary asks us to express an
opinion as to "what caused Woodrow Wilson to declare
for women suffrage-by states." Of course we cannot
look into President Wilson's mind, but it is more than
probable he took that course because he believed it was
the proper one. Because he believed that the quickest and
surest way for women to secure the ballot is through the
states rather than by federal enactment. Because he
knew that until enough states had been won over to suf
frage it would be an injury to the movement rather than
a help to have the constitutional amendment submitted,
with the chances in favor of it losing, until a sufficient
number of states had favored it to make its passage cer
tain. Mr. Hughes knows his personal pledge is worthless
as against his party's stand in convention only a few
months ago. Mr. Hughes indorsed that platform when
he accepted the nomination at the hands of the conven
tion nominating him. Will the Portland paper state
which pledge Candidate Hughes intends to keep, that he
made to his party or that he made to the women?
Miss Katherine Day of New York, who owns two
shares of "Illinois Central stock, attended the stockholders'
meeting yesterday and advanced some new ideas about
railroading. She wants "to humanize and modernize the
railroads" and to make traveling attractive and pleasant.
To this end she would have cretonne curtains and drap
eries, individual wash rooms, and trimmings in lavender
or pink to suit miladies, taste. This is a valuable sugges
tion, and if nut in force should be followed up with pink
silk uniforms for conductors, and knee pants and
powdered wigs. Appropriate artistic uniforms for brake
men and porters would be a necessary adjunct to properly
cater to the esthetic taste.
Mr. Hughes says: "A surrender can never be re
pealed." Quite true; and it may be added that you can't
unring a bell, or recover a lost umbrella, or explain an
Oregon-California land grant decision j There are .in
deed many things that cannot be repealed. "; One of these
is a veto of a bill allowing equal pay to women for the
same work as that paid men. Neither can the Danbury
hatters' case be repealed it having been decided by the
supreme court of the United States when Candidate
Hughes was a member of that court. As a Portland
paper remarks: "Mr. Hughes says some things which
stick in people's memories."
Professor Lowell who has made a study of the planet
Mars says it is inhabited by intelligent beings and that
the lines showing on it are not canals but strips of vegeta
tion, grown he thinks, by irrigation. He bases his state
ment on the fact that the smallest object distinguishable
on Mars would be ten miles in diameter, and that conse
quently the lines cannot be canals. The professor can
have the satisfaction of knowing that even if his theory
is wrong nobody can so prove it.
A Newport school teacher going home in the dusk
thinking a friend was just ahead of her hurried her foot
steps and caught up with a bear. Had the conditions been
reversed it is dollars to the hole in a doughnut that the
bear would have to have speeded up on high before he
caught up with the school teacher.
-The house of-deputies of the Protestant Episcopal
church yesterday appointed a committee to consult his
torians and remove from their minds any idea that King
Henry VIII was the' founder of the church. The joint
commission of text books reported that the church was
founded long before King Henry XIII reigned, but failed
to state who founded it.
The farmers' products compete with those of the
whole world in a free-trade market. The manufactured
goods which they consume are subject to a protective
tariff, so they buy in a protected market. Oregonian.
This being the case, why not take the tariff off the
manufactured goods and give the fanner an equal show?
The Oregonian says "to complain is to play the baby
act." If that is the case someone should buy it a bottle
and a doll for it has done nothing but complain since
about June 8. However its complaint may run its course
by the seventh of next month. It seems to have taken a
fatal turn.
Mrs. George W. Brown of San Mateo, Calif omia,
wants a divorce from her step-father who is also her hus
band. She says she married him to prevent him commit
ting suicide. She admits that she make a grievous
mistake.
Sugar is 24 cents a pound in Italy made so by govern
ment decree to decrease its use. The sugar trust can be
depended to follow this royal example to the best of its
ability, and it has lots of talent in that line.
Michael Guska, of Detroit, Michigan, has had the larg
est private bath on record. Others have had their dip in
the ocean, but this was just a natural swim. Guska on
his part went into the city reservoir for a bath and when
he was through, the city acting as his especial attendant
emptied this bath tub, the city reservoir, letting 2,000,000
gallons of bath water go to waste. The price of the bath
was $100, and if it is not paid Mr. Guska must languish
90 days in jail, by which time he will in all probability
need another bath. The chances are if he does, and takes
if, it will be in a smaller tub.
Mr. Hughes says President Wilson got us into war
with Mexico. "This charge, which is of course a mere
oratorical expedient .of a failing cause, and has no single
element of fact in it, is echoed everywhere by the cuckoo
press."
Sam Hill is in California to help in the campaign for
raising $15,000,000 for roads in California. He also ad
vocates co-operation of the three coast states in building
a fine highway from Canada to Mexico.
TTntrTioo rnnv Vip no emtio rf hie sunnnvtpva rlnim fnr
him, a great friend of labor, but he has to say the least a ;
very peculiar way of showing 'that friendship. j
Forty-two days without rain is the record established!
so far for this season of the year, by the present
"drouth." .
RippirnRiiqmos
EXPENSIVE SICKNESS
The cost of dying still increases; the price
of pills and salves and greases goes higher
every day. "Results of war are noxious,
very," I hear the learned apothecary, in ex
planation, say. "We can't import the barks
and bitters we need for healing human crit
ters, the leaves and roots and buds; and so
the delegate who's lying upon a couch of
sickness, dying, must swallow home-made
suds. Imported dope the kind that cures
you," the girted pharmacist assures you,
"costs more than precious stones; those
pills, that poor dyspeptics swaller, sold by the box for
half a dollar; they now fetch seven bones." I'm not a
kicker or a roarer, but when I buy my hair restorer for
three times last year's price, and when I'm busted buying
rations, I feel that all the warring nations should put
their swords on ice. The cost of living keeps us sighing,
and now they've raised the price of dying, the cost of be
ing sick; we're stung when buying porous plasters, and
every day brings new disasters that jar us to the quick.
As I See It
1. A graduated land-tax (by consti
tutional amendment, if necessary) that!
will life a measure of the burden front
small cultivated holdings and place it
on the big land speculators. Let them
pay for the dog-in -the-munger net.
2. (Jtate employment for unemployed
citizens. Employ them in developing
swamp lands, stump lunds, desert lands,
then lease these lands, and from tho
proceeds create and maintain an em
ployment fund. Develop water-powet
plants and handle iu the same way.
Thus aid the needy, develop the State,
and create a periwtuul source of incomo
for employment purposes.
3. Text-book, state printed, at cost
to public schools. The school-book
trust hold-up is inexcusable.
4. Prohibit teachers wearing; sectar
ian garbs in public schools. All publis
functions should bo nou-sectnrinn. This
principle is violated in several plncj
in Marion county.
5. Only former public school stuv
dents eligible to teach in publia
schools. The public school is n nursery.
of patriotism, a maker of democracy.
It transforms our diverse feelings and
sentiments and racial prejudices into ai
homogeneous Americanism. Those who
arc educated apart, having only sec
tarian instruction and association, ar
unfit. They havlp not tho spirit of tha
public school.
0. Official inspection. I.t all insti
tutions be under the eye of the State.
Permit no private or sectarian penal
servitude.
7. Xo public money to private of
sectarian institutions,
Levi D. Ratliff
Candidate for the Legislature
Paid Adv.
advanced ten cents n barrel. Kaglaad
advanced five cents. New prices arc:
Pennsylvania $-.1'"; Mercer, New
Castle nnd Corning .TO; Cabell JlMji-.
Somerset $1.S.", ami Hnglnud .1)0. "
CLASS OF SALTS IF
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Eat Less Meat If You Feel
Backachy or Have Bladder
Trouble Salts Fine
for Kidneys
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OPEN FORUM
LIKE OLD SOUTHERN DAYS
Capital Journal The republican par
ty offering the ludies of our country
the right to vote reminds me of the
C ASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
the
Signature of
first, few years after the war when the
republicans urged the negroes to use
their new rights, some didn't want to
so the politicians told the negroes if
they would vote the republican ticket
each negro would receive a hundred
and sixty acres and a mule. Unless they
voted the republican ticket tho demo
crats would become the ruling power
ami all negroes would be made slaves
again; some negroes believe that to
this day nnd in states where they arc
encouraged they vote the republican
ticket, I wonder if the republican par
ty thinks wo are as simple and shallow
miuded ns the negro f
A BOCTIIKHX ETi.
CRUDE OIL GOES TJP
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 0. Pennsyl
vania crude oil went to record prices
today when nil grades except Bngland
Meat forms uric acid which excites
unci overworks the kidneys in their ef
forts to filler it from the system- Reg
ular enters of meat must flush the kid
neys occasionally. You must relievo
them like you relieve your bowels; re
moving all the acids, waste nnd poison,
else you feel a dull misery in the kid
ney region, -sharp pnins in the back or
sick headache, dizziness, your stomach. V"
sours, tongue is coated and when tho
weather is bad you have rheumatic
twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of
sediment; the chnuneU ofteu git irritut
ed, obliging you to get up two or threo
times during the night. -
To neptrnlize these irritating acid
nnd flush off the body's urinous wasto
get about four ounces of Jad Units frost
uny pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in,
a glass of water before breakfast for a,
few days and your kidneys will then neb
fine nnd bladder disorders disappear.
This famous salts is made from tho acid
of grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia, and has been used for gen
erations to clean and stimulate sluggish,
kidneys and stop bladder irritation. Jad
Salts is inexpensive; harmless and
makes a delightful effervescent lithia-,
water drink which millions of men and
women take now and then, thus avoid
ing serious kidney and bladder diseases.
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A REQUEST TO CALL
CHAPTKK I.IY.
Mr. Loekwood had very politely
acknowledged the introduction to
Muriel, but had simply nodded careless
ly to Leonard. I wondered why. Per
haps he was like Clifford and didn't
like young men.
As we moved away from the table I
had glanced toward Clifford. He had
turned deliberately around and was
watching us. Even from that distance
I thought I detected a scowl, but I
laughed at something Mr. I.ockwood
had said and pretended to be entirely
engrossed in my partner. I think I
succeeded fairly well
After the dance and Mr. I.ockwood
had returned with me to my friends, he
lingered a few moments and chatted
with Burton He had complimented me
most fulsotnely on my appearance, ad
miring my eyes, and my hair, also my
taste in dress.
Before he left us he remarked:
"I shall do myself the honor of call
ing upon you very soon, Mrs. Ham
mond." "I shall be delighted," I murmured.
Clifford Is Very Late.
It was nearly 2 o'clock when we left
the restaurant. Leonard Brooke rode
home with os, and I was very gay
seemingly. But as soon as I had undress
ed and "hud dismissed Mandy with a
promise to tell her all about it in the
morning the reaction fame.
I couJdut go to bed, and slipped a
warm wrapper over my night dress and
sat down by the Window to wait .for
Clifford, and for what might happen.
I trembled as I remembered his angry
scowl; and wondered at his assumption
of surprise when he saw me. I had for
gotten to ask Mandy if 6he had given
him my message, and I wouldn't waken
ner.
The clock -struck three, four, then
J five. Still Clifford had not eome. Final
ly, smvering, unhappy, frightened, 1
crept into bed, but not to sleep- It was
about half past five when he came in,
and too nervous to pretend to sleep I
spoke.
"I'm so glad you've come, Clifford."
"I'll talk to you in the morning. Now
I'll get some sleep," was his reply as
he switched off the light.
In a very few minutes his even, reg
ular breathing showed that he slept.
How could he sleep so easily when I
could not sleep at all f
Fear and Trembling.
I lay quietly until the servants were
astir, then crept noiselessly iuto the
bath room and took a hot bath. It might
quiet my nerves. If I had been fright
ened before Clifford came home, I was
doubly so nfter he had spoken so harsh
ly to me- What would he say when he
wakened f Would he send me awav as
it once uai tureaieneo ioi l baa read
I and heard of men beating their wives
I when they were angry with them ,and I
'thought with a shudder that perhaps
even a beating was preferable to soma
things.
I dressed quickly, and went into tho
kitchen and drank a strong cup of cof
fee. Then I waited.
Clifford came down to breakfast, and
until it was served buried him-self in.
his paper as usual. He had made nt
response when I wished him good-mora-ug,
and I had ventured no further re
marks. Finally after Kate had left the room
he put down his paper and lookinr
sternly at me, asked:
"I want to know what vou meant br
your performance last night I"
"I don't know what vou meant" t
answered, quite calmly," although mr
heart was beating fast with 'fear.
"Don't beat about the bushf TOr
did you go to a public place without
my permission, without consoltinc
DIP! '
"Tou did not come home to dinner,
l he note was tho best I could do " f
"What note?"
"Why the one T left telling yon I
had gone with the Frnnklyn'. Ther i
vited us both, and when you didn't
come home I thought you wouldn't mind
if I went without you. Didn't Mandy
give you the note 1 "
"I didn't com home, so how could I
get any note!"
(Tomorrow A Dress Suit Kept at th
Club.)