Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" KATTROA Y, F.YKXJXd, November is. lit 10- CHARLES H FISHER, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. S. BARNES, CHAS. H. FISHER, President. Vice-President. DORA C. ANDftESEN, Sec. and Trcas. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year . .$5.00 ler month . 3.00 Per month 45c 35c FULL LEASKD WIKE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York, Ward Lewis Williams Special Agency, Tribune Building Chicago, V. H. fctockwell, People's Gag Building The Capital Journal currier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. I the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindlv phone the circulation manuger, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instruction. I'hone Main 81 beforo 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. THE SUPREME BOSS The railroads are each and all bringing actions against the trainmen and United States district attorneys to prevent the Adamson law being made effective. In most of these cases the complaint sets up that the law is un constitutional. This law was passed by the two houses of congress, was signed by the president and- became a law thereby. It was passed by the people through their repre sentatives, and was, and is therefore, the act of the peo ple. Who then has a right to say it is unconstitutional, or for that matter say anything else about it that can in anyway affect it? In the formation of the government there were three distinct and co-ordinate branches of government established. The executive, the legislative and the judicial. At no time was the judicial branch given any authority over the others, and that it assumes that authority is in itself unconstitutional. There is no'branch of government above the people who compose the governed, and who under our system are the government, - Their will is law. They can change the constitution at any time and do away with the judicial branch entirely if they see fit to do so. When did the judges of the country become greater than the people? 'Can a creature become greater than its creator? Can a judge appointed by the people through their president tell the president where he must get off at? Can a judge or a supreme court override the will of the people and tell them they shall not have something they have voted to have? The legislators fresh from the jteople pass a law the voters demand; by what authority does anyone presume to question the right of the people to have what they want, and to tell them they cannot have it? If there is anywhere in any constitution this authority granted to the judiciary, it should be published to the world so that all may know that here in America where the people rule or are supposed to, there is a power greater than the legislature, greater than the president and higher than the people themselves. If this is the case then we are no longer a fie people but one over whom there is a power higher than all else except God. If this idea of the supremacy of the judiciary is right then the time is not far distant when the people will select a judiciary that will let them have something to say about what they want in the way of laws. . It is a great thing for just such cases as that now aris ing over the Adamson bill, and it suits the eight billion dollar organization exactly, to have a branch of the gov ernment above the people to which it can appeal, an all-. powerful brancn ot government uiai m us&im. mc in roads and the eight billion dollar gang to override con gress and the president, and snap their fingers at the people. The first thing the attorneys for the govern ment should do. is to test the constitutionality of the judge-made proposition that the judicial system is above the legislative and executive, and to show, if this is so, how it became so. Rev. Eli J. Forsvthe, an evangelist preaching in Mil waukee, Wisconsinlast Sunday, took as his subject "the modern dance." The report of his discourse says he lambasted the modern dance in so forceful a manner that women in the congregation held their fingers in their cars to avoid hearing him. He so vividly described what is his opinion of the emotions of the dancers that many men as well as women refused to stay through the ser mon. Among other things he said the modern dance was so degrading that "no girl could leave a dance hall with the same degree of modesty as before she enterd it." Many tried to escape the church but found the doors locked and guarded by ushers and entreaties to be per mitted to leave were unavailing. Only a threat to have a fire department enforce tho regulations at last opened the way for escape. This is something entirely new in the way of "holding an audience spellbound." The British Press as well as the people are unanimous in favoring food regulation. They have not tried it yet, and perhaps when they do thoy will not be so strongly for it. THEY MIGHT BOYCOTT IT The prisoners at the penitentiary have asked the board of control to meet a delegation from the prisoners to discuss tne management 01 tne prison, it is a nappy thought, tor surely the prisoners know more of the hard ships of the place than even the officers. Who is better qualified to pass upon the management of the institution than those who have made a life study of it or are doing sor It is well enough tor the board to hear any com plaints the prisoners may have to make, humanity, de mands that; but in the management of the prison there should be some outside of it capable of handling the job without consulting those inside. No doubt the prisoners find many things they would like to change, for their work is "confining," but they should remember the place was not originally intended as a summer resort or pleas ure palace, although many of our social workers seem to labor under that impression. If they do not like the board and lodging or are dissatisfied with the service. the best thing they can do is to hereafter avoid the place and refuse to patronize it in any form. Of course, if our regular boarders at the penitentiary should refuse to commit infractions of the law in order to keep out of the institution in the future, because they dislike the way it is conducted, it would work a radical change in many things outside the penitentiary. For instance, our supply of reformed convicts who make such , successful revivalists and temperance lecturers would be cut off, and many professional social up-Jift reformers might have to go to work in order to earn a living. Quite likely there are other and far-reaching effects which would follow the refusal of crooks and thugs to do things that would land them in a penitentiary where the em ployes are not attentive to their every want and there is a lack of private baths in connection with the first-class cells. Possibly the prison board might find 'it possible to engage the services of an experienced hotel manager who would better understand the art of catering to the wants of particular guests than , the ordinary superin tendent, too frequently selected as a man accustomed to dealing with criminals. ' The board, in considering the petition of the lady and gentlemen convicts, should get entirely away from the idea that the penitentiary is a place of punishment and remember that it is only the law-abiding citizen who is never considered by the long-haired prison reformers. The taxpayers who are paying the bills for the enter tainment of this choice assortment of law-breakers might consider their petition from a different angle but nobody except the tax collector ever . thinks of them anyway. ' ' "v - ' ' THE DOWN-TRODDEN RAILROADS lint while all these conditions are contributing fat-tors, it must not be forgotten that one of the prime causes of the ear shortage and general lack oi transportation facilities that is being, relt throughout the country is the public Inutility toward the railroads that has been so openly manifested for so many years. The railroads have been opposed at almost -every point and have faced a hostile public sentiment. They have been starved for years, anil us a result have not .been able to keep puce in the way of improvements new lines nnd new rolling stock with the development of the country. The nat ural result is a shortage of transportation facilities no wthat the country has begun to move forward rapidly in response to the stimulus of the war. Kugeuc Register. - Just plain rot! The railroads last year made more money thao ever before in the history of the country. THE WHOLE BODY ! NEEDS PURE BLOOD I Tlio bones, the muscles, anrl all flis ! organs of the body depend for their I strength and tone and healthy-action j on pure blood. If the blood is very impnre, tb bono become diseased; the musclea become enfeebled, the step loses il elasticity, and there is inability t perform the usual amount of labor. The skin loses its clearness, and pimples, blotches nndithor eruption feeling. Be sure to get Hood's nnd get it today. All druggists. LATE IIOP NOTES. Discussion of our methods of electio n has been renewed by the close vote for president and of the defeat of the party which had large pluralities in the populous northeastern stutes by the party which had small pluralities in tlnv less populous western und southern states. Though it hail supported the winning candidate, the New York World opened the discussion by propos ing that the constitution be amended by ubolishing the electoral coilege and by providing that the president and vice president be elected by direct pop ular vote without regard to state lines. ' . The Oregonian is as hard a loser as it was an unfair campaigner. If it thinks the West is of so little conse quence why doesn't it move back East, the dumping ground of the scum of the old world, and print its paper in a more congenial atmosphere. Wilson would have been elected under any old plan of election. He has a large majority in the electoral college, and a popular majority of over 400,000. All the real Hughes strength was con centrated in the three states of New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Most of the other states on his list were carried by very narrow margins. No possible system of electing a president would have made his chances any better than the present plan. That doesn't look like thev were suffering much from i appear. anything. There was not the slightest excuse for their ',.n'!od'Tst Snrsnriiu mates pt.r. J? . j j if j. j i i blood. It is positively ttneqiinled m refusing to expend a few millions to provide ample i tIie treatment of sen.fi.ia n'.d other facilities for taking care of the business of the country, j humors, catarrh, rheumatism, dys- nt thn nmncnnniira fliarrnn mi f on. ff nni III- .Ma, ! Hi. u.i il-llie, mill, lin-a these plaintive wails on behalf of the railroad corpor ations, and we begin to elect representatives of the peo ple instead of the railroads to state offices and the legis lature will there he anv tan pi hie nrosnect of relief from . . . .. . i t .; k-;m -u -io i,.,i., e the present intolerable transportation conditions, lhe t0 Buiion of Meiiunviiie at 11 ecitZ Northwest is short on cars and its railroads lack terminal wn,t 't of prime to choice hops. facilities and shops in many places where they ought toT-Vniyuto have them, and newspapers like the Register blame the this week at jo 3-4 cents, nd i shipping people for this condition instead of bringing to account Getting cars o that' imT i"" the dividend gluttons who control the railroad corpor-j ;"''," vv uncertain, jt required over .: t T t-U ,1 4- 4.U:.. 1 1 10 l,l'-VH to secure the two Mr.. Dent ctuuiia. xeu me iiuuucius cut uii uicn pam legislative , shipped out. lobbyists, their newspaper organs, their politician em-:, Ymi .H,"t,,s lm" sol(1 his ll,t of n 1 J j i- u j 1 a 1 4. j 4? i.1 ' bales ot hops to L. L. (nibble, for the ployes and high-priced lawyers retained to defeat laws;wif nop company at 11 cents. - tlu passed for the protection of the public, getting down to a i as one of the i.est lots in the Aura , . 1 -. ii - i 1 1 ; section, it is said. business basis, and tne saving m a single year would oe Buck Hutchinson has contracted 2(1, sufficient to provide all the facilities necessary to take !,00i'n,n"lH."'f l!,l7'HiiiS from the guv c 4.1. 4. cc c 4-U 4. ibeitou yards near Fargo to L. I Grib- Care OI the traffic OI the COUntry. hie lor the Seavey Hop company at 11 I cents. The 101(1 hops from this yard mi. iii . in- i. r i. n i l in ; Wl'"" contracted to the same firm. The blatant voice dwelling at Oyster Bay made itself; Most hop growers nre agreed that heard again in an address before the American Academy i,,Ue'loa8t "p iH be eatjy Te- c a 4. i t -4. 4. 4. xt ir i t-i 4. 4. i j i ,u"'i next year- The spread of pro of Arts and Literature at New York. . For once it told kibitbm is discouraging to the hop in- the truth, quite liKely by accident, when it said: "The" '7', th" llc -iy voted dry J-X 4.-- i 1. !"!,,,'s d nt become actually dry until eitort to oe original Dy Deing iantastic is always cheap. una. The trend of that many growera In this case his address was illustrated by his presence. VTnJZLlYna Mhe bufue?" TT . ... n .1 , i. i 4. 4, :anl W1" prepnro for something else t He is a living evidence of the truth of his statement. -follow it, though few of them know I what it will be. ., ,, .... , . ' I-ast week showed considerable move- The weather as well as politics is doing some queer .ment in hops on the .oast, some a.nutj stunts this year. Reports from Alaska are to the effect I n t'" that it has been raining there since the 10th of the month : highest price reported paid in 6rco and the weather is warm. Here in Oregon it has:beenj!r.Br clear and cold with the thermometer lower than at any , California brought as high na ji .1-2 f!v,fl ;n fl otta,.o,v- -nuora. i.oserver. Liiuc; in nit; avciac iuid TAX LIMITATION BULL, Dr. Aked, who resigned a $10,000 pastorate to go to Europe with the Ford party, and who later resigned and returned to America, was not re-elected td his old posi tion a few days ago, and the result is a regular war among his church s congregation. He should take heart of grace and consider the condition of a gentleman oc cupying a much higher position than he, who resigned in order to take a hand in the political game and who finds just as does Dr. Aked that he cannot resume his old position. RippltngRhiimGS t ' ' r 1 f tt ti ., reU Salem, Ore., N'ov. 17, 1910. - To the Kditor: Inasmuch us there has been considerable discusion per taining to the Six Per Cent Tax Limi tation Bill, which was lately passed, I desire to make known my position on this measure. 1 opposed this bill before the elec tion on the ground that it did not np- Iply as was intended by its makers and under its provisions the stnte could not raise within $j.S.'l,000 as much next year as they thought it could. .The object of the bill was to pre vent the state or any tax levying dis trict in the state from spending more money one year than it had spent the preceding year, plus six per cent, but the bill was made to read that neither the state nor any tax levying district in the state can raise more money one yearJhnn it raised the preceding year, plinc ix per cent, which is quite a dif ferent proposition. Tor instance, the State of Oregon required to pay the. running expenses of its departments and institutions for the year 1010, &!, 100,000, in addition to money raised from indirect sources. The state car ried over an unexpended balance from 1!l.-, of $.V)0.000, and after deducting this amount from the amount required, iiamelv ;t, 100,(100. it raised but $2,"50, 000 for 1010. although it spent $.1,100, 000. Xow, under the proviisions of this constitutional amendment the state cannot raise but six per ceut more than f 2,500,000 next year, or"' $i',7U3,00), MONEY BACK IADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18G3 CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking: Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT CHAPTER I.XXIX. "Muysou has asked us out to the club to dinner," Clifford remarked the next morning at breakfast. It was very late the night before when he 'came in, and I had pretended to be asleep. "That will be nice!" I answered. I realized that my tone was rather forced in spite of na effort to act natural. I had been hurt because Clifford had left me alone so late, and naturally won dered with whom he had been. "Has that motor coat come yet?" he asked. There had been some trifling alterations to the coat, and it had only been delivered Into the day before. "Yes. it came last night." "Thafi good? Is it all right t" "It's perfect." "I expect we will have a tine dinner and a pleasant evening, but remember, this is s business trip and if I can get Mnyson to talking, be careful you do not interrupt." "Why, I never do! ".exclaimed. "But I have noticed he doesn't seem very keen to talk business when he's with "Well, he has got to tonight! And I trust you not to distract hi attention after you see me commence to talk." "I surely shnll not!" I replied, and man's as good as gold, and name your infant after him.'S "Your money back if things don't suit," our grocer says, in all his ads; but when I bought some wormy fruit, for which I paid my hard-earned scads, he did not cheer fully refund; his whiskers he began to comb, and tightened up his cummerbund, and talked until the cows came home. "Those prunes," he said, in heated terms, "were fresh when taken from the shelf," implying that I put the worms into the doggone prunes myself. I pulled his ears and tweaked his nose, and said. "We'll iust ; forget those prunes, but never more, tell life shall close, ; will I spend here my picayunes." A lot of merchants ; make that bluff, "Your money back, if things don't ; please," but when you call to get the stuff, they hand you ! out the same old wheeze. But now and then a merchant I bold makes good and never bats a glim ; you say that! . ' i u j ... NEW CHEESE FACTORY. which is $100,000 less than the amount expended ill lttlll. . j Tllc neighboring dairymen of South Mr. Kobert Smith, secretary of the ''verton and tho Waldo Hills, mot at Tax Pavers' League, which bodv ' Iv j'"I,w,0 IWm- K,",fma." HturdV , , ' . .... ,." .Mining tor the purpose ot organizing drafted this bill, admitted, in a dis-; n cooperative cheese association. Or eussion with nie, before the Chamber , gnni.ation was perfected by clectiiuj of Commerce iu Portland, Monday, i "cfollowing officers: October 2!lth. that the committee did m. Ring chairman, not know, when drafting this measure.! '' f Hnberly, secretary, the state carried over a balance of',.'1- H- lyeiizi, Alfred Kueuzi, S. V, 3.)0,(I0U into tnis year's budget. There- r?"'1- ""f' ;Tlcob Zuieher, directors, fore, they thought thev were placing ! l,,tl'rs ,v-'" be xuken to organize under the state' on an equality with other; no. '""P'Tntive enactment of the last miMiipinnlitiea m.i-mitfintr it fn vi iue ! JOglSlat UTC. . 1 - . 1 . . -. . . T in honwl C .11 .. for litl subse- i ns n iici. ns ir sne.tr in im ., - - v and six per cent more, which would be , " " !ue' u,, (,0('""'" f "egm building $3,100,000 plus six per cent, or H,L'sH.-1 "l,l,rIlt'""-s utoi.ee and expect to com- 000. which is .-s.000 more than it!m;"'',e V"' ""'k for the factorJr ,H, .. ; ,i, k .,., ; ;.... I -'lurch 1st. this. Mr.1 The factory will be located fntir m if M u.i,,H,, .-.,.. ..c j:i , . . . Tax Payers',".,"1;;1.. , , V"""n "n" ,s ll"0" l.e,.,. i,l hw r.rm,,m in flio 'l'Cul) U. 1,. t of the bill. As proof of Smith, secretary of the the voters pamphlet, referring to the bill, ''It means that Oregon can continue to spend all the money she is now ex pending nnd can increase it six per cent; but if our public officials wish to increase it at a faster rate they must get the authority of the voters." Xow, as a matter of fact, this meas ure does not mean anything of the kind, but in the way it applies, it means thnt the state can raise $2.3."0, 000 plus six per ceut, or $400,000 less that it is now spending and that it can not raise within if.")S:t,00O of what Mr. Smith and others thought it could raise nnd intended it could raise when drafting the bill. Therefore, instead of permitting the Four thousand founds of milk .., H., has already been assured. This organization is promoted by men of enterprise and the factory wilt afford a new and ready market for the dairymen 's product. ft'ilverton Tribune- state to spend ns much us it has spent heretofore, and six per cent more, the bill, on account of being improperly drawn, through lack of knowledge oa the part of the committee drafting same, prohibits the state from spending seventeen per cent of what it spent last year, and of course will seriously embarrass the state or other municipal ities who may be caught in the same condition. Very respectfully, T. B. K AT. y4luMI V I 1 1 I. SBAND AND1 BUSINESS VERSUS PLEASURE On the Way. It was a delightful ride out to the club. As I leaned back in the luxurious limousine nud listened to Clifford and Mr. Mnyson talk not business, but of sports, motor cars, etc.. I felt very com fortable and happy. I said Tory" little, and they both rallied me on my taciturn ity. "I am altogether too comfortable to talk! " 1 declared. "And you make such a charming pic ture in that rose-colored coat, you ought not to be expected to," Mr. Mayson rejoined. "It is rn.her fetching against the gray of the car," Clifford added. "It is brand new; Mr. Hammond bought it for me the other day. and this is the first time I have worn it. Don't you think he has good tastet" I asked Mr. Mayson. "He certainly has in other things as well as in coats." he replied, with a meaning glance which brought the color flaming in my cheeks. To my relief we just then drove up to the entrance of the club, so I was not obliged to notice his remark. The Country Club. I was delighted with the club. It was beautifully npopinted, and the service excellent. We had a wonderful dinner evidently ordered befor nnr arnv.l' and, met several people, friends of Mr! Mayson. One couple we met I particularly iiaea a .Mr. and Mrs. fnrris. R a burly, gruff sort of a man, but s good-natured. And his wife was so sweet, so dainty, one could not but won der in spito of liking him what brought them together. After we finished our coffee, Mrs. Curtis asked me if I wouldn't like t see the rooms in the club set apart for the ladies. So we excused ourselves and chatted, in the quaintest little room, for nearly an hour. Mrs. Curtis asked me to drive and take tea with her the next afternoon, and I gladlv accepted th invitation. When we returned to the table the gentlemen were talking most animateJ lv, and I could easily see that Clifford had had his way, and that the business he was so anxious to discuss with Bums Mayson was their subject. I knew, too. by his expression, that he was pleased with me because we had left them, and so given him his chance. But Mr. Mnr son chided us upon our absence, and pretended to be inconsolable. About 11 o'clock Mr. Curttis sont his chauffeur ahead with his car, and they rode home in the limousine with ns. There was plenty of room and tve were 0 very gay little partv. (Monday The Next Day.) -1