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.... . , Editorial Page of "Tjhe Capital Journal" THTRsP.VV KVKXIXO. October 2(i, liUti. - CHAELE8 H FISHEB, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY. SALEM, OREOON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. S. BABNKS, CHAS. II. FISHER, President. Vice-President. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily by carrier, per year $5.00 Per month 45c Dsily by mail, per yenr 3.00 Per month 35c . . Hill leased wire tkleokapii report eastern representatives New York, Ward-LewisWilliums Special Agency, Tribune Building . Chicago, W. II. fcStockwell, People's Gag Building The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. K the carrier duel not do this, mioses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the eirculutiou manager, as this is. tho only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone Main 81 before 7:110 o'clock and a pnper will be sent you by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. WHAT WILL When the Hughes party gets in power, if it does, will it pass a tariff law to increase prices? Will it place an embargo on wheat in order to reduce the price of bread? How will it make the cost of living less than it is now? Is it possible to reduce the cost of living and at the same time increase the incomes of the producers? In other words can Hughes and his advisers so frame laws as to make bread cheap to the consumer and wheat high for the producer? Can they set aside the law of. supply and demand and substitute something else, "just as good?" Most assuredly they cannot, therefore their talk of doing so is the veriest bunk. America is just now paying her portion of the cost of the European war because the demand tor all loodsturrs has been doubled by the war and prices have risen cor respondingly. It costs no more to make sugar now than it did two years ago, yet the price is double that of that date. It is so with everything else and the manufacturers are reaping a harvest. That is all there is to it. When the war ends prices will fall steadily as the war torn countries get back to their normal condition and then, as now, prices will be high or low as products are plentiful or scarce, and in proportion to the relation between sup ply and demand. The democrats remaining in power, or the republicans coming in cannot change this, nor will either. The law of supply and demand is as much beyond the control of law makers as is the law of gravitation. After November seventh there will be no more such silly assertions made, and the fact that they are made now but emphasizes the fact that the supporters of Mr. Hughes are hard driven for some argument in his favor, some reason why he should be elected, and they can find none. i I - WILL CARRANZA SKIP? According to the latest advices from Mexico Villa -gave the Carranza forces under General Ozuna, who was sent out to find him, a most thorough licking. The same dispatches say the reason Villa did not attack Chihuahua following the battle was that he feared it would cause the American army to get busy, and he wants no truck with Uncle Sam. There was also a rather persistent rumor for some days that Carranza has come to the con clusion that he never can get matters settled and fearing the rising of some leader who can, he has arranged to leave the country. This is a wise move on his part, for he understands the peculiarities of the Mexican system which leads to an unsuccessful politician taking a fare well of his native country with his back up against an adobe wall. It is stated Carranza has already sent his wife into the United States, and the rumor is that he will soon follow her. This report is strenuously denied by the Mexican officials on the commission to settle questions between the countries, but the denial would be made if the report was true just the same as if it was false. The Mexican politician never draws the distinction between the true and the false, in fact is not supposed to know there is any difference, or for that matter that there is any such thing as tuith. The Orogonian editor wants to have another inter view with his paragrapher. He runs counter to his chief and there is a hiatus in the editorial cadingus. The editor in chief says the prosperity in this country is due to the war instead of being born of poor and dishonest tariff parentage. The paragrapher says there "ain't no pros perity;" but that the good housewives will have the best wheat bread following the exodus of the poverty stalkers from this government in March next and as soon as af fairs can be put in shape for renewal of prosperous times." Senator Jones in his speech here Tuesday night in directly indorsed the Adamson eight-hour bill. He did not mention it at all, but he did most warmly "commend Congressman Hawley. for his excellent work." As Congressman Hawley voted for the bill, of course the senator commended him for it. Still according to Colonel Roosevelt he along with all the others who voted for it were guilty of a "cowardly surrender." LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18G8 CAPITAL Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTBIENT DORA C. ANDKESEN, Sec. und Trens. THEY DO? $500,000.00 "THE NEW Samuel O. Dunn, who is editor of the Railway Age Gazette, is sending out pamphlets denouncing the eight nour law. inis is quite natural as . ne is the railroads mouthpiece, their hired man and has to sav what the road managers want him to say on. Objections from such a person as Mr. Dunn is the strongest kind of argument for the law. He calls it "the new tyranny." If he is correct, anyway "the new tyran ny" is an improvement on the tyranny of wealth and the arrogant assumption by that wealth that its owners were greater than the coun try. If it is tyranny, it is the tryanny of democracy as distinguished irom that of self appointed autocrats. It is the tyranny of the many over the few rather than the overbearing selfish dictation of the "Captains of indus try," grown fat by watering stocks and compelling all the producers and consumers of the country to pay them re turns on three dollars where they have invested one. Squeeze the water out of the railroad stocks as they are now and the dividends yearly of most of the roads would be from fifteen to twenty-five per cent on the actual capital invested.. The roads are kicking about the in creased wages they will have to pay, and this before they have learned they will have to pay any extra wage on ac count of the eight hour law. At the same time they demand returns on stock that is two-thirds water. They demand that the public pay three times what the service is actually worth. They do not ask "time and a half,", but instead want full pay for their money and instead of half pay more, for over capi talization, want double pay for money that is not in vested. The railroads are making a mistake in allowing the matter to become widely discussed for the rottenness of the stock system will be shown up, and it will not be 1 to the credit of the roads when this is done. The Oregonian thinks the solid south is now and will remain against suffrage. What does it think of Pennsyl vania and New York? What of Massachusetts and Con necticut? What of any other state where sweatshops prevail and where the employer is desirous of having only ignorant labor? In the final try out we predict that the solid south can be won over to suffrage, and will be, before any of the states mentioned adopt it. It is not probable the election of either Mr. Hughes or Mr. Wilson will .hasten suffrage, .but it is pretty sure to retard it, for the reason the action of the suffragettes will cause soreness. If Hughes is elected the south will probably resent the action of the women's party and if Wilson is elected the strongly republican states will jtie sore because the women's party did not deliver the" goods. As the Capital Journal pointed out at the time the women's party was organized it was destined to ruin the hopes of the friends of suffrage for the reasons just stated. Which ever side loses in this campaign will place more or less of the blame on this women's movement, and it will take years to overcome the ill feeling, the ill-advised at tempt to force the hands of both old parties has caused. The Railway Age, organ of the railroads of the coun try, is sending out pamphlets denouncing the Adamson eight hour law as an act of tyranny on part of union lbor and oppressive to the railroads. Evidently the editor of the Railway Age has not read the Oregonian which says that the Adamson law is a gold brick for the railway workers and will injure them more than it benefits, be cause they will have to work harder to earn the same amount of money. Funny that Hughes and Roosevelt and all the. lesser campaigners should be denouncing the bill as a hold-up when the Oregonian knew all the time that it was a fake measure enacted just to fool the brotherhoods ! The Portland Evening Telegram on its editorial page has the lumber industry of the Northwest paralyzed by the Underwood tariff law. On its market and financial page, howeevr, it reports lumber prices soaring skyward and orders far exceeding the mill output at the present time. The political and commercial editors of that paper ought to come together and fight it out. One or the other of them is the biggest liar in the Northwest. Each of the big parties is accusing the other of en deavoring to secure the "hyphenated" vote. Each denies it, and yet neither is making any strenuous efforts to drive it away. This of course barring the colonel who ap parently would rather have Hughes beaten than elected by this vote. It might be diflerent if the colonel was the candidate. The colonel was enthusiastic during his trip through Colorado yesterday. He gleefully asserted that if he had not been elected sheriff, he could not have raised his regiment, and if he had not raised that he would never have been elected president. The only moral to be drawn from this is that communities should be more careful in selecting their sheriffs. President Carranza has issued a decree providing for compulsory military education. Had some of his pre decessors adopted this plan, Villa might not be able with a handful of bandits to lick all the Mexican armies. Car ranza is right, but a little late. The Oregonian says Mr. Hughes advocacy of suffrage "indicates he intends to be a leader of his party if elected president that he will try to guide the thought of the nation. "The love o' Mike!" and this after that Oregon California land grant decision. TYRANNY" or his provender will be shut the old tyranny for that was RipplingRhumos CANDIDATES shoes a-plenty. proving; I'd that, hams nnrl XYsf JTX A . So 1m not cordial to that smarty, that of UA,. .13 fice-hunting, windy party, who interrupts me when I'm toiling, to tell how politics is boiling, explaining how this jaded nation can never find its true salvation until to something he's elected, and his antagonist rejected. I'd never vote for any fellow who comes and shows his streak of yellow by boring me when I am earning the stuff to keep the furnace burning. When at the polls in bleak November, you bet I always will re member the candidates who did the spieling and I will help them hit the ceiling. ' . Neither Conscience Nor Conviction Mr. Iltiglies has no reason to feel proud of the way in whivh he is getting the support of the German propagan dists. With them it is now a matter of choice between the devil and the deep sen. They dislike Wilson, und they don like Hughes. That is the attitude Dr. C. J. Hexamer, the president of the lieriuan alliance, j taking m a public statement. After reiterating at some length all the stale raguments of theirs, being mnstlv in the nature ot personal hIjuho of Wilson, Dr. Hexamer goes ou to assert that "no liorninn-American with self respect can vote for Wilson." What are we going to do as Ameri can citizens?" Dr. Jlexamer asks. Some of our papers have advised us to refrain from voting altogether. Oth ers have advocated to concentrate tho strength of the German vote on a mi nority party that has no prospects of victory. That means throwing away our vote. "After long and serious thought 1 have arrived at the decision to give my vote to Hughes and Fairbanks. The present question is not, what is good for the central empires, or for tho al lies, but as good Americans we must solvo the quest inn what is good for our own dear country. What We need espe cially is a strong government, which holds on to a. firm, and not to a vacil lating pro-Aiiiencan policy." This means in plain Americun lan guage: "I hate like hades to voto for llughes.T know we made a mistake in getting in too deep with his crowd, but I and my fellow propagandists would stand committed of having trifled with national issues and acted the fool by admitting now that wo made a mistake in opposing Wilson. Hughes and Roose velt have told us Germans where to get off at, but wo propagandists must save our face. That 's why we 've got to stick to Hughes, though a Hughes gov ernment means trouble nhend." Now, this is not even half hearted support of Hughes it is a frank con fession that these men know Hughes to be anti-German, and that they ought to tight Hughes and his party as a dan ger to tho peace of the country, if they possessed the moral courage to acknowl edge in public what today is the convic tion of every thinking Gorman-American:. We have grossly misjudged Wil son; we have wantonly attacked tho president because he refused to be pro German, as he refused to be pro-British, but has never beeu anything but truly pro-American! Mr. Hexamer shows that he shares the same conviction with Mr. Kmil von Schleinitz, the editor of tho Milwaukee CHAPTER US. What had so disturbed Cliffordt How I wished he thought me worthy of his confidence. Father had always told mother everything, especially business worries, and 'they had talked them over together. I remembered hearing him say that her judgment was often better thnn his. Would mine be worth anything to Clifford I "I couldn't benr to throw -nera love ly roses awav ma'am, so I put them in the kitchen'" Kate interrupted my reverie. "All right, Kate. Mr. Hammond does doesn't care for the odor." I explain ed, a bit ashamed of myself that I con sidered it necessary. His auger because of the flowers was, I felt sirre, assumed to cover some real disturbing condition. Consequently I was not as miserable as I should otherwise have been because of his disapproval. When Clifford came down to diuner he still wore a worried, anxious look. , "Are vou sure I ean do nothing to help yon!" I asked. "t lease tlo noi. Domer me. ur -ir-plied impatiently. "I have enough to worry me just now." "I didn't mean to bother I only wanted to help." lilA.l..n. ajinitt tnnA ft? Til TOtCe. something in my face proved my earn-. estness, tor ne answereu u un. mvir pleasantly: "I staud to lose a lot of money! more than I can afford to lose. Now that 1V1 1 My whole attention I am giving, to meet the rising cost of living. It keeps me hustling like the dickens to buy the liver, spuds and chickens to feed the wife and children twenty, and see that they have The transient hours are swiftly moving, and all of them I'd be im keep on humping, ever harder, nipe mnr ernL- tho how-lav Herman-Herald' who has stated: "1 am convinced that the sympathies of Mr. Hughes are more on the side of the allies than they are with the Ger mans. " And these men, who dine to call the president of their country a "hypo crite", .are trying today, against -their own conviction, to influence their German-American fellow citizens to east their vote for llutjhcs. tho anti-German candidate, in order to save their face! lint Dr. Hexamer pretends to consid er only "what is good for our own dear country!" According to Hughes and Roosevelt that would have been n war with Germany! according to Wilson, the "good of the country" is peace and honor. Who, then, arc the "hypo crites" Wilson and his 'government, standing by their convictions in storms of pro-German and pro-British abuse, or these propagandists, who ere ready to sell their conviction, their country and their fellow citizens who believe in them, in order to save their faces If they know Hughes to be pro-allied in his sympathies, as they do if they know, the fatherland,, for which they wanted to get a "square deal," as they pretended, cannot get it at the hands of Roosevelt's party they, individual ly, may vote for whom they please, but they should refuse to give publicly their support to Hughes. That's what' would be an honest man's way. Instead of that, they, against conscience and con viction, fill German language papers with panegyrics of Hughes, attempt anxiously to explain away what may justly excite the suspicion of their coun trymen against this candidate, and use ajl their influence to make the German citizens swallow the unhealthy Hughes proposition. That's the contemptible way of political henchmen with neither conscience, nor sense of honor. DR. W. HE1XCKE. HOW CATARRH IS CONTRACTED Mothers are sometimes bo thoughtless as to neglect the colds which their chil dren contract. The inflammation of the mucus membrane, at first acute, be comes chronic and the child has chronic catnrrb, a disease that is seldom cured and that may prove a life's burden. Many persons who have this loathsome disease will remember having had fre quent colds at the time it was con tracted. A little forethought, a bottle of Chamberlain 'a Cough Remedy judi ciously used, and all this trouble might have been avoided. Obtainable everywhere. HUSBAND BUSINESS TROUBLES you know, please do not annoy mo with! questions," again his voice held a rasp ing note Times Hare Changed. "Father always said that mother's judgment was as good or better than his. Perhaps if you would tell " "For heaven's sake, Mildred, can't you let me alonef Times have cbnnged. Men don't go to their wives with their business nowadays. Tou have a lot of old-fashioned ideas that you mar as well get rid of." "If to be courteous to a women is an old-fashioned idea I'm glad I am old fashioned," I returned, then paused frightened at my temerity in "answer ing back." "If you think I shall take your fath er for an example either in my actions toward you or in my business methods you are mistaken. The old gentleman is all right down there on a plantation. He wouldn 't be one, two, six in business up here. He 's too soft. " "Thank God for that! " I said so low I thought he didn't hear, but he evi dently did, for he gave me a scowling look and went out, calling to me the old formula: "Don't sit up! I shnll be late " An Approving Word. "Clifford had been gone but a few moments when Kate ushered in Muriel and Burton Franklyn and Leonard Brooke. I was delighted to see them, and apologized for Clifford's absence.' Well, we've come to spend the even San Felice Cigars' FIVE CENTS STRAIGHT AND WORTH IT' Owing to the greatly increased cost of quality tobaccos, in fact everything pertaining to high grade cigars, the makers of the an Felice cigar, Tho Deisel -Wemmer Company, have advanc ed the selling price to the jobbers and dealers, and henceforth this cigar will positively be sold to tho consumer at cents straight instead of six for a. qunrter as previously. The SAX -FELICK is national in it scope and character, having justly at tained this eminence through its un excelled excellence. To maintain this uncqualed standard of Quality, the advance in question is absolutely un avoidable. The generous support of all men using quality cigars is earn estly desired. ORDERS AND SHIPMENTS NOW PASS PRODUCTION , IN LUMBER INDUSTRY (Portland Telegram, Oct. 25) ': Shipments of lumber 23 per cent be low orders and orders exceeding pro duction by 7.211 per cent all coincident with a horizontal advance of $1 in prices feature the weekly trade bar ometer ot the West Coast Lumbermen ' association, compiled from reports cov ering 85 per cent of the. mill capacity in the Pacific northwest. With the exception of the mid-sum mer close down when production was abnormally curtailed, this week's bar ometer is the first to show orders i excess of production for a period ot six months. Car shortage increasing in severity is the assigned cause of the sudden, hange in lumber manufacturing eon litions. Kastern and middle west lin yards holding for lower values are said to have been caught with short stocks m the face of the most severe car - shortage in recent years, and their ef forts to get lumber for fall trade re quirements has resulted in a very heavy volume of inquiries. . v est coast nulls are saut to be ae- cepting only such part of the business offering as may be shipped in a reas onably short time: and are generally re ported fighting shv of londing up on contracts culling for delivery a month or two hence. The week's advance of $1 right through the list, while not taking up the sag that has occurred in the values since Mnv, is looked upon as the possible beginning of a 'drive" which may add much to the general prosperity of the Pacific northwest. Orders, last week, booked for trans continental rail delivery exceeded ship ments by rail 20,070,000 feet, or 33.34 per cent, a condition in this particular branch of the trade that is without parallel this year. Production tor the week was 6!, 434,649 feet, which was P.40 per cent below normal, the curtailment ben" also attributed to the shortage of. rail shipping facilities. the total of all orders rail, local and cargo for the week amounted to 74.898,074 feet. The total of all ship ments, r7.li20,:"ti0 feet. The balance of unshipped orders in. the rail trade is 7807 cars and the bal ance of unshipped cargo orders is 41., 7S4,7:)8 feet in the coastwise trade and 42,"97,t20 feet in the export trade. Australia Derives Tax On Boxing Contests San Francisco, Oct. 26 "If yon must see a fight, go to the trenches," seems to be tie attitude of the Austra lian government in regard to boxing. Late arrivals from the Antipodes to day state that a new war tax of one sixth of the value of a prizefight ad mission has been imposed. In this way. titty cents of each J.i admission goes to help Britania's cause in Europe. A raise in admission is contemplated by "Snowy" Baker and other promoters. Ausirauan papers jusi receivea ieav-1 no doubt but what George Chip lost to a better man when he was knocked out bv Leo Darev. ingthat is if you have no engage- .muoci luirc me, ana I thought I detected a wistful look in Leonard's eyes. I had not seen him for several days and was pleased indeed that ther had brought him along. "I haven't a thing to do, and shall be saved from boring mvself to death " I replied laughingly to Muriel. "Good! Why can 'jt we have a gam of bridge? There are just four of us. Cone on, Leonard, we'll beat Mildred, and Burton." "I'd like to see youl " I countered, as I excused myself for a moment to tell Kate to bring in the table and cards, and to inform Mandy that her favorite was to spend the evening and to fix us a little supper. Nothing was too much work for her if Muriel was to. partake of her efforts. The cards from the beginning raa my way. I held the winning hand, rath er the bidding hand, right along. Poor Burton hadn't a chance to show what he could do, he was so busy being dum my. As Mandy brought- in a steaming chafing dish, Leonard Brooke remark ed: "It seems that you do manr thing equally well, Mrs. Hammond. May we have a little music before we got" "Certainly. But now we mnst eat Mandy 's chicken and mushrooms before they get cold." (Tomorrow I'll Be Guided By Too.)