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POLITICS AND BOOZE.
A New York physician, discussing the prohibition
question, makes a comparison of booze and politics which
is even less complimentary to the latter than to the
former:
oeegon "Although the saloon mav be -looked uDon as an evil
influence in American civil life today," he says, "a careful
comparison of its history with that of American politics
?nd politicians of the same period will not credit it with
being the greater offender in this respect. Cant, hypoc
risy, sham morality and servility to power are the shin-
i ing sins of American politics. Bad, nay, even base as may
be the offenses permitted under the state license system
fia Dailr Capital Journal carrier boyt ara instruct to put the papon on the 'in SOme of the Saloons, these evils Were not of this Char-!
ix the erner at. ot ao tn, y, " ' ! ' ; ..w 'acier neitner am tney striKe at tne iounaation or our so-
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airier hat Biased yon.
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LABOR MELTING AWAY.
Aliens are leaving America today faster than they
are coming. Instead of the wild rush to our shores of
the "cheap foreign labor" that so many prophets expected
as soon as the war was over, the unskilled labor we had
is melting away, and considerable skilled labor with it.
One of the large steel plants of the East has taken
a census of its alien employees and reports that 61 per
cent of them purpose to return to the old country and
nine-tenths of them say they intend to remain when they
get there. Out of 6000 Poles in a Connecticut city, 2000
are going back to restored Poland. A Hungarian leader
in Chicago estimates that 50 per cent of the unnaturalized
Austro-IIungarians of that city will return to hurope.
The situation can be -regarded with equanimity at
present. As lone as times are rather dull and there is a
labor surplus clogging up the country's economic system,
it is a relief to get nd of the non-producing consumers.
It hastens the end of unemployment and makes easier and
quicker the transition to good times. It eases the Ameri
canization task, too, enabling the country to assimilate
the raw immigrant mass that came over before tne war.
But this satisfaction may not last. As soon as busi
ness picks up a little more there will be a demand for more
workers. Able-bodied and respectable immigrants may
then be appreciated more than they have been for decades.
We are informed that I. E. Stevens has sold his farm
of 1200 acres, northeast of Eugene, to J, M. Sears, of Tolk
county, for $7100. He also sold a fine lot of cattle for $18
a head. Eugene Register.
This item was clipped from a column reprinted from
the files of the Eugene paper for 1885. That was in the
good old days we hear so much about. Think of selling
1200 acres of fine vallev land for $7100 now, and a "fine
U of cattle" for $18 a head 1
RIPPLING RHYMES
By Walt Mason
TOMORROW.
Tomorrow is the grandest dayan antidote for sor
row! There's no despair for any jay who banks on his
tomorrow. Today may be a frost and crime, I'm ever
forward looking; I waste no portion of my time complain
ing and gadzooking. I've always had the pleasant gift
of banking on tomorrow; and so my old bald head I lift
abote the tides of sorrow. You say, "Tomorrow, if it
comes, will call forth sultry phrases; let's weep and gnash
our toothless gums, and cuss our luck like blazes." And
you are old, beyond your years, infirm throughout your
body; your eyes are boiled in- scalding tears, and I am
young and gaudy. I am as chippe r as a colt, no trouble will
I borrow; and if today gives me a jolt, I'm banking on to
morrow. Tomorrow is the blamedest day, the balm for
; 11 our bruises! When man shoos this belief away, all
hope and pep he loses. Oh, yesterday made people cry,
today we think is sadder; tomorrow's stacking up so high
we reach it with a ladder. So let us tin our tiresome
t"ars, and can our sobs and sorrow, and hang pink tassels
on our ears, and bank on our tomorrow.
cial organization as do those existing in places of power
in the political world today."
Perhaps this is not altogether fair. The evils of
American politics in the past have been associated very
largely, in the public mind at least, with the evils of the
saloon itself. It was the crooked and profitable alliance
between politics and saloons, particularly in municipal af
fairs, which produced the worst phase of American politi
cal history, a phase which has now nearly disappeared
but is still a bitter memory.
It must be admitted, however, that the elimination of
liquor as a power in politics 'does bring with .it an
amount of "cant, hypocrisy, sham morality and servility
to power" that is not pleasant to contemplate, not to men
tion other substitutes for real statesmanship observable
among legislators.
Possibly when the water regime is finally estab
lished for good throughout the country, and the liquor
question is forgotten with all its devious ramifications,
we may get more honest, sincere and straightforward pub
lic servants. It does seem, to an optimist at least, that the
present tendency " is in that direction, notwithsanding
many glaring instances to the contrary.
The Oregon Sinn Feiners hissed SenatorMcNary be
cause he did not come out squarely in favor of congress
declaring Ireland free and independent .of England
when the American congress has no more right to take
such action than the English parliament has to declare
any state in this nation an independent government. As
a matter of fact these hyphenated Americans are trying
to stir up trouble and use their American citizenship
solely for that purpose. They interpret liberty to mean
license and seek to make their friendly asylum in the new
world an incubator for the hatching of plots that have to
do solely with the fueds of the old world. Such citizens,
native or naturalized, should be given little consideration
by real Americans in the future and those politicians who
appeal to racial and religious prejudice for their support,
the men responsible very largely for hyphenated citizen
ship, should be repudiated at every opportunity by voters,
and be given to understand that they are not wanted here.
These Sinn Fein Irishmen as a rule did nothing to help
this country during the recent war, they were lukewarm
or positively traitors in the main, and are mostly pro
fessional politicians. Now they are humiliating those
Americans of Irish descent who are good, loyal citizens,
for in this country it is not a question what part of tne
world a man or his parents was born in, but rather how
well is he living up to the ideals of American citizenship.
The men who want to fight for the independence of Ire
land should go over to that country and fight it out there
and not seek to embroil the United States in an alien dispute.
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Having failed to Russianize America through strikes!
and riots the Bolsheviks have now resorted to the fav-
orite Russian propaganda weapon the bomb. These
advocates of anarchy believe that its everybody for him
self, with no covernment to interfere, and the best bomb-
thrower to eet the lartrest Dile of loot. Even some off
these wild-eyed, crack-brained agitators who speak on,
stfoot nrtrnor nr in lllvnr itninii hills in f-iunr nf RnlsriPV-;
THE PROMOTER'S WIFE
BY JANE PHELPS
ONCE MORE BARBARA CONTIDES: replied in his peculiar wav. "I'd give
IN MR. FREDERICK. I, ga0i deai t1 him straight. But
I'm afrs-id he'll have to come a cropper
While I was glad of Blanche Ortou 'sfirst before he will listen to anvoue."
visit, it in a way made me very un- "Ton have talked with him!''
comfortable. More so perhaps tliau I "Yes, only yesterday. I called at his
had been since the day 1 had been so 'office. I had seen Scott, and Scott
snubbed by Scott. I tried to put my-i means mishcief. He claims that Mr.
self in a business man's place, but try , Forbes has misrepresented his properties
as I would I could see no reason whv a and so has induced him to invest. He
legitimate business should be carried ou didn 't say misrepresented, but that
in such a way; why it should be neees- sounds better. I tried to uacifT him.
Miry to use the uicnns Neil was using to but he wouldn't listen to me. Then 1,
interest them in his projects if thorn Vent to your husband, and he wouldn't
projects were perfectly legitimate ones.sten either. I guess I'm not a very
But I said nothing to Neil, although i con-vineiiig talker. Mr. Forbes thinks
told him of Mrs. Ortou's visit. He soeni- Scott is bluffing when he threatens. I
ed rather surprised 1 thought at first, n not 10 oure. Sometimes a snapping
but afterward I concluded I lisu uccy dog bites."
mistaken. He asked me no questions,) "I saw Mr. Scott, he ignored my
and seemed to take it for granted that greeting."
it was simply a social cull without anyl "Cm so he ean bite. We must try
ulterior object. ' land make his bite harmless but I can't
Yet while I said nothing to Neil, I did Ve how nnless your husband helps os."
not keep her visit the cause of it rath-1 (Tomorrow Bobert Falls and Breaks
er, a secret. Mr. Frederick called in His Arm.t
attcrnoon of the following day and
found me alone, althouch it was mv
afternoon at home. My afternoons were
not as well attended as fnrmcrlv. a
cause of chagrin to me.
1 poured him tea, then said:
"I had a caller yesterday; Mis. Or
tou. Yon know she wns so nice to me
the other night that J began to like her
again I used to think she wns really
charming when her huslinnd was allvi
she came to toll me why she recetven
thoBC womeu." I would not betiav her
in any way, but I felt I must nut the
questions which wore so bothering me to
someone. ".She said that men liko
Tearle and Connor weren't happy unless
tney wero entertained by liamlsomo wo
men who could play cards." I realised
as I finished that I hud not said what
I intended, and that it sounded rather
peurile.
"Yes, they aro rather fond of the la
dies." "Tell mo pelasc, Mr. Frederick, is it
neeessury to do business in that way
legitimate business I moan I It seems
so strange to me. Father always intend
ed to business at his office. I thought
that was what offices were for." I tried
to speak lightly. I did not want him to
think I was too much worried.
"I scarcely know how to answer -vou,
Barbara," he had hesitated over' my
name. He seldom addressed me so. "But
it is done sometimes. Men like Tearle
and ('minor are hard to handle some
times. They are hard drinkers, and
want their own way, especially when in
New York. Thev have the arrmxnnn
of men wh0 have made gre&.t fortunes
piicuy. "
But why mix business with rnril.
nnd Indies!" I asked. "Whv nnt lr.n
them separate. Can it not be done t"
"I perhaps " he slowly sipped his
ics, ann i anew he Wns trying to think
how to satisfy me without blaming Neil.
"1'lenso Mr. Frederick don't treat
me ns child. Neil won't tell mo any
thing about his affairs. I hear things,
nnd I can't stand being kept in the
dark any logger. Yon nre mv good
friend, aren't you? If you are," please
n il ui want to no To get Neil away
from those people and from t h r.-l busi
ness. ' '
I was so ignorant, so absolutely un
versed in Neil's affairs that he. nnv one
could see at oneo how little I knew of
luudness. 1 think that was whv he was
sorry for me and tried to help mo. I
had shown him I wanted to help Neil.
It made no difference that he cared for
mo, reiJIv I think it made him more
anximu to help Neil. He knew that I
loved my huslmnd passionately, and
that I would be true to him nhvnvs
no nmtter what happened.
"I wish I could. I honestly do," he
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Open Forum.
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: !Ai i im. ti. n . i :e ;a i
ism migni noi iiko 11 so wen as iney imagine n u nt'cumcs;
thoroutrhlv rnotpd here: somp of thp homhs. for instance!
like that aimed at Attorney General Palmer last night,iTo'h;: E',',or'c,l',,iI J,ouruBl:
... . ,.' ... .. . " '11 it be a gond iilen for the Fili-
might go wrong occasionally and blow the wrong fellow ,.; in fnw thp rn,,,,; iUll,.wll1.
into atoms. ii-mco is declared to make Governor Hon-
'erst Harristia the first provisional ures-
jiilont of 'the l'hilippii repul.lirt it is'
There are some mighty queer things in the world. j? Lg j
rur instance, one newspaper recently priniea pictures oi iciwiiiuv of the l'hiiippine automon
m. Jennings Bryan and Governor Henry J. Allen, of '7
ivansas, as me prooaoie presidential canuiaar.es wno
would head the democratic and republican tickets re
spectively.
THINK 4 A!
MINUTE
WHAT is your doctor's firstf
question? Why does he ;u.
pect constipation? I
Because 90 of hi patients iro
suffering from ailments caused di
rectly or indirectly by the action of
poisons formed in a sluggish intes
final tract
These body poisons are absorbed by
the blood and carried all over the
body until the weakest organ, unable
to withstand the poisonous contact,
become infected and refuses to act
properly. Unfortunately it is usually
not until then that the doctor is con
sulted and asked to treat the diseased
orpin. 1
The surest way of purifying the
blood and preventing the (urination
of these destructive body poisons is
to prevent stagnation of food wast.:
in the intestinal tract to prevent
constipation.
Constipation is not a matter to be
taken lightly or neglected. Nor is
it either sufficient or safe to take
castor oil, pills, salts, mineral waters,
etc., in order to "force" bowel
action.,.. Such action docs not cure
cons.ipxtion, it makes constipation
a habit. '
Nujol i entirely different from drvf?, u
;it don'not force or irritate the bowcl.
' Nujol prevents stignatio by softening
the food waste and encouraging the in
tctieul ;noM-lri to art naturally, thus re
moving the cause of constipation and seif
poisnmng. It is absolutely harmless Jnd
plciisan to take. '
Nujol helps Nature establish es5V, thor
ough bowel evacuation at regular interva's
the healthiest habit in the world. Get
a bottle from your dniggiu today.
1lrj r ih rf Nujol is sold in sealed
" ''', bottles bearing the
Nujol Trade Mark. All drupfists. 1 n
'.t on Nujol. You miy H'Jftr frur.i
substitutes.
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Undoubtedly the punishment of Tom Mooney is al
most unendurable. With this bomb-throwing going on all
around think how the champion murderer of them all
must suffer shut up in prison and barred from participa
tion in the carnival of bloodshed and torture!
runnlkilit ... nf tl.n li.:i:..: I
by rewarding the Filipino
ltl,i s iH-st friend, best governor and
best lerder they ever have such an hon
or, (iuvernor General Harrison's act
and ideas in the islands is hundred per
cent Filipinos. It is said that every
step lownrd the progress and properity
of the Thiiippines in industry, in econ
omy and in olilic and military effi
ciency the governor undertook earnestly
in accordance with the Filipino people's
volition for the betterment of the Fili-i
pinos and the American Filipinos ts a
hole. While I am writing this I can1
only mr that I am very much inspired
that Amerieftna and Kiiiitinn. mn, h..1
come brothers and that Americans shall ?
For Constipation
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Congress needs a time budeet more than anvthing
i tn ncci.vr. tVinf it i.-III 1 1 ., 1 always ttuard their small brothers from
iii., tu awuic ui.iv, it v in not itric; in vv i uiiuiiiiu utcti,,. 1 . . i-.- .v t t
, . ,. . . , . I'lie pitHlstorv ambition of the Japanese !
Mitpire for land grabbing sake. If '
! publish this for we I will send clip
pings of this to the private secretary
f 1'rendcnt Wilson, J. P. Tumulty, sad
all tfce lejiling penple in the Ulai-Jf so
that Filipino nay know.
the peace treaty, time which should be spent for domestic
reconstruction legislation.
Talk about devastated France! The French fashion
: models are going with bare legs on account of the high
cost of silk hosier. Another of war's legacies.
I.UOl'OLl) U THKOWKO.
Student I'nivcrsity of Oregon.
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