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Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-01

THE blessed patter of rain drops
fills the ears with music rs we write
these lines. The heavens have with
held their riches for awhile, the sun
and the wind have sucked the moist
ure from the earth, and vegetation
has been suffering. The grain fields
that We're winter killed have been
replanted, and a drouth of any in
tonsity would have been fatal to
these tender plants. But with the
humid airs blowing from the sea
coast, and the treasure-laden clouds
passing landward, the early rains
never fail to descend and the latter
rains visit us in their season. The
fears of the farmers are relieved, and
the replenished earth joins in the
general gladness. Surely our lines
have fallen in pleasant places.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-01
THEIR HEADS ARE not LEVEL.

Passing a neighbours spacious door
yard the other day, we noticed him
directing some w1rkmen in the erec-
ton Of a circular staging round a
massive fir tree. The defective car
pentering arrested our attention,
braces and supports being entirely
lacking. We paused and looked on
awhile, and then suggested the pos
sibility Of a collapse. Our neighbor
explained his purpose. "Levita-
tion,U he said, 1evis, light "is as
great mechanical force in nature
as gravitatiOn. Smoke ascends
through the atmosphere, vegetation
mounts upward. See this tree, $50
feet high, is that not "a controlling
force that can lift this immense
growth into the heavens? Noun
tains are thrown up in vast ranges,
and the whole created system, ira
versing space and suspended on
nothing, is an evidence that levita-
ton is the one great force"
Then coming down to the business
before him, he said: 81 am building
this staging on the correct scientific
principle. AS the tendency in mat
ter is to fly up and sustain itself in
mid air 1 want no props or supports
to this structure. The natural law
that holds this tree upright will sus-
tain my platform"
We sighed as we left this poor fel-
low Like the Apostle Paul, much
learning had made him mad. Yet
his lunacy was no worse than that
OF the Statesman editor, who fancies
a political party can be sustained
without the force of public senti-
ment, and that an election can be
won without votes. Both may be
ingenious and well meaning men,
but their heads are not level.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-01

THE Statesman quotes Thomas
Moore to the confusion of this edi-
tor, But he missed the proper pas
sage for quotation. This pleasing
bard tells of II French king being
troubled with insurrection among
his subjects, and he used his army
as eXtinguishers. But the extin-
guishers caught fire, that is, the
troops took part with the insurgents,
as French soldiers are very apt to
do, and then the monarch was in
dire perpleXity to find n way to put
out the eXtinguishers. The States
man editor is yelling out "for II
tongue" to curse somebody, but the
story Of Balaam and Balak is re-
peated. The king called on the
prophet to curse his enemies, and
three times he blessed them. By
the same token, hearty commenda-
ton comes to this writer from all
sides. Cursing is out Of date.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-01
WEALTH AND POVERTY.

We publish Mr. j. p. Robertson's
letter ON "the financial question" 4"
because II II profitable reading, he
holding well considered views on
the subject he discusses. But we
cannot devote space 10 the consider
alton Of this question until after the
election. The science offinance con-
sists in giving a people "A sound cur
cncy and securing its equitable Il -
trlbution. To allow idle millions to
gnther In the handsof a few, and the
mass 20 become 80 destitute as to
suffer for uecessarles, is not science
or craftsmanship, II is social war
where the strong trample ON the
weak, and law and custom sanction
oiienscs against the Brotherhood of
humanity, Again; to allow usur-
ious Interest to he taken for the
use of money loaned 10 the lmpccu-
neous, aud the energies Of the debtor
class panlyzod and their incum-
bered property absorbed by those
who profess TO help them in time Of
need, II but an adaptation of the
violent method of the rubbor haruns
of old 10 the mercantile uses Of pa-
Cihc era. Those mailed frcebootcrs
would sally num their strongholds
with hands of armed retainers, and
dospoil the merchants IA thoy car-
rcd their rich goods to some cmpor-
ium or fair; while our money kings
protier their surplus wealth 20 those
who aro suffering and in need aud
then by Proccss of painless ex-
tinction drain them ~ the last drop
~ hloOd. We hoast of our gruwth in
wealth and national prosperity, and
yet there arc thousands and tens VI
thousands ofthe yeonlanry Of the
land prostrato under boud and mort
gage and the pressure az this ds,ad
instrument, like the ''peinc forte ct
dun OF the fcudal days, when
they loath'd iron weights on MANS
chess 10 make him crimmate him.
self is ppssing pulsation and all
the ofilcvs of life out ~ his body. |
This is an issue which, rightly Ill. !
rcctcd, will win government control |
tor some political party YET to he
formed. The I'ople-the wealth.
producing pcople--must he pro
lccled mum spollAtion and impovVr.
Ishmont and Nc belioVe thu flnancs,s
u the country can h. M us,,d as 10
avert this menacingevl II
We agnc with Wir correspondent, \
hts h morc profitable political
inquiry than tho intefminable tar
n discussion II
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-01
MUST KHEr sORER

Gov Martin, of Kansas, has is
sued conditional pardou 10 con
vioi, namsd Charles n. Potrock
who hlled himself with h,mHin,
san'o yc''rs ago, and then quite nat.
uU'lN went home and killed his
wife He has behaved well Ia pris-
ON, and tho goyernor being con-
WINGED az the fact that the liquor
was homicidal and not the nlan. has
panioncd him on condition that ne
forcycr abstain from. the use ~ in
toNicating drinks Nsuch potations
he OWES the loss ~ a loving wife,
a conscicnce that mnkles like the
flames of hell and the mark of Cain
ON his hnow. One would think
that on hcing rystorcd 90 liberty he
would rsquire NO such condition 10
kccp him mum the flowing howl.
fhc attorney gcncnl advised Gov.
Martin that the condition imposed
In his IsAnion w0ald be sustained by
The court,
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-01

THE hen-and-a,half In day-and-
a-haif problem Is not troubling ar
ithmetioal eXpeTts any more They
arc now busy ngurng out the knotty
question, how 20 win an elcction
when the.volcu aw driven away
ffom the polla
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-01
uARloa COUNTY REPUBLICAN, TICKET.


nEPHEsENTArvEs.
J. d. WALDO, bAoleAJ.
r. T. oEER. silverton.
40. WILSON. Salem.
4. LAYMAH. woodburn.
WM. ARMSTRONG. South Salem,
suEHHT.
EN- CRoIsAN. Salem.
cLERH,
"a. BABCoCK, Salem.
HTcoHnKR.
J. d. STAIR, East Salem.
TREAsuREs.
A. o. CONDIT. Aumsvillo.
AspEssoH.
AF. BLACKERnY, silyerton.
CoNHissIoNEHa.
An. CORNELIUS. Marion.
w., r. GRIM, Hubbard.
soLSuL surHmUrESDHHT.
y. W. YODEK, silverton.
GUuyEYoA.
W.. CULVER, Eas, Salem,
CuHoNEn.
DA. d. q, BYLANp, woodburn.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-01
CAMPAIGN ADDRESSES.

The candidates GA the Marion o,nut,,
rvpublican uckct will addrvss the pslifs ~
the psdiucai issues of The day AZ the N,ilow-
ing times aud rlacsss and raspoctally -.
Nitc opn,Nn1g candidatss b. Iarti tirIpste n
the discussion
GeFVais, saturday lune Z ao'cloek
calcus, Saturday, lunaa : o'cllsk-
0EO "A. RURNKTr.
Chairnian RgpuonOAn 10 CCriTsl Cln
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-06-01

Jamaica Bananas, direct from New York.
Big fellows and very juicy.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-01-17
EDUCATION or the POORER GLASSES
IN GERMANY.

The Germans are rapidly develop
ing system of evening continue
ton classes which carry on educa-
ton for two or three years longer.
In SaXony, the boys who leave the
primary school, if they do not go TO
the higher schools, must attend for
three years longer-say, until they
are seventeen-continuation classes
for at least five hours per week. But
teaching is provided for them, and
they are encouraged to attend twelve
hours per week. So complete is this
system that even the walters at the
hotels up to the age of seventeen
attend afternoon classes, and are
taught one or two foreign languages.
take SaXonX as one of the most
advanced States, but the law is
much the same in Wurtemberg and
Baden, and the system is found to
work so well that 1t is in contem-
plation to extend it to all States in
the German Empire, and Austria
will probably follow suit. This is
confidently expected to happen In
the course of 1888. may state as
an undoubted fact that in Germany
or Switzerland, and | believe in
some other continental countries,
the opinion is ripening into con-
viction that the education, even of
the poorest class, should be con-
tinued in some form or other to the
age of sixteen or seventeen. They
find by experience that wherever
this is adopted it gives an enormous
advantage to the people in the COM
petition of life, and, above all,
trains them to habits of industry
and mental application. 1 believe
it is owing to this system of thorough
education that Germany has almost
eXtinguished the pauper and semi
pauper class which is the bane and
disgrace of our country.-TLondon
Times.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-01-17
HAWAIIAN SUPREME COURT REPORTS.

The fifth volume of the Reports of
Decisions rendered by the Supreme
Court of the Hawaiian Islands, COM
piled by William Foster, (HonoIulu:
Haocaiian Gazette Co. has curious
matter in it. 1t includes cases from
July, 1883, to October, 1886, and
preserves in an Appendix the latest
Constitution of these Islands, pro-
mulgated in July of the present
year. This document is modelled
on those of our States, but has pro-
visions adapting it TO monarchy.
1t would please some of our people,
for it ''has God' in it, to use the
current phrase. 1t begins thus:
"God hath endowed all men," ETC.,
etc. Under Art. 70, the judges
may be required by the Executive
and the Legislature to give opinions
on important questions of law"
Several of these opinions are given,
of which one, on the "Segregation
of Lepers," answers the inquiring
Legislature (1) that it is not crime
to be afflicted with leprosy; but (2)
the confinement of lepers is not con-
trary to the Constitution; and (3)
the existing statute (lS65) to that
effect is constitutional. In one case
the court takes judicial notice "that
many Chinese are engaged
throughout the islands in CONNER
cial business in small way" The
interminable telephone litigation is
going on there, so that now they
may be said to have all the blessings
of the most favored nations. The
general law seems to be largely the
same as ours, and our State reports
are freely cited. Now and then one S
mind get, into pucker, much as if
he were reading the Scotch reports,
with their outlandish words; c. a.,
"The Iii of Piopio, being an iii ku-
pono, is not subservient to the Ahu-
puaa of Waiakea, by which it is
surrounded; and the lessee thereof |
has no right as a hoaaina
of the ahupuaa," etc. This particu-
lar proposition is not supported by
cases from Barber's Reports and
Howard's Practice and the like, but
only, perhaps, because it seemed an
obvious one, no authorities at all
being cited. There are instances of
search warrants for opium, issued
against Chinese. And by the way,
under the Constitution, it is only
"male residents of Ha-
waiian, American, or European birth
or descent" that can vote for
Representatives or "Nobles :" the
Asiatic is left out. In the case of
Ava VS.. Horner, it is for the first
time held that gift of land to two
or more persons creates tenancy in
common and not joint tenancy.
"The common law is not in force in
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-01-17

this kingdom, proprjo Uigore. E.
There are no feudal tenures." And
finally, at p. 573, is a case of con-
siderable interest-"In the matter
of John w. Mccarthy, in which
it is held that the Government may
rightfully surrender a fugitive from
justice from California, on the requi-
sition of the Governor of that State.
The obvious objection had been
made that the requisition should
have come from the Government at
Washington. To this the Court
says: "Iowever this may be, and
without binding the Court to decide
as we now do in any case which
may hereafter come before it, we
hold, in the case now before us,
that the Minister Resident of the
United States having requested the
intervention of His Majesty's Gov
ernment, the ground taken for the
petitioner is not sustainable." The
Arguelles case is cited in another
part of the opinion, and it is inti-
mated that the Government may
surrender fugitives, in the absence
of treaty, at its discretion The
Nation, Dec. 18th.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-01-17
LONG LIVE The CHlNAMAN,

EDToR BULLETIN Il cannot help
but being surprised at the terrible,
dangerous and unpatriotic express
sions of Mr.. A. Marques in your
issue Of January 18th last. l am
sorry to say further, that his opin-
ions and his expressions are also ex-
trcmely unchristian-likc; they are
unbecoming man who is living
among us, because we, above all
men, who inhabit this globe, arc and
always will be the children of God
and-the devil. Permit me to point
out this vital error which our friend
has committed. Is it right, l will
ask him, to grow by the diminution,
to rise by the depression, to shine
by the eclipse, in fact, to build n
fortune upon the ruins of our neigh
bors' reputation, when this neighbor
is the means of giving us our all in
all, our happiness, and thus our
almighty, all-powerful and beloved
dollar? Does this gentleman forget
that our country is run on the prin-
ciple of squeezing all the money we
can out of it, and gathering it after
each successful squeeze into the
pockets of our rich brethren, who |
am forced to say, join several times
n week in prayer and supplication
to further the gaining of this indie
pendent CD wealth? Has it per-
haps escaped the intellect of Mr.. A.
M. who, apparently not with his
brains but with his fingers is feel
ing for Hawaii that the superiors
of the men who are to-day their
masters are and always will be
Cinnamon?
Is it not reasonable to conclude
what just few years hence John
still sit on the throne of Hawaii,
pigtail and all, to rule those who to-
day in their intelligent and far
sighted wisdom think to further
their own interests by promoting
that Of the vomit of the flowery
kingdom.
Thus the man, who "a mark is'
for the Sandwich Isles forgets that
we, the men, the original self
thought aristocrats among the
heathens and who are to-day all
powerful in our self-acquired right
of our wealth and sin, are inferior to
him whom we accuse of lying, cheat
ng, gambling and opium dealing, be-
cause his greed for money is less
than ours which he, the Chinaman,
satisfies?
Does not Mr.. Marques willfully
disremember the fact of the follow
ing algebraic proposition?
Our god is money,
Money is the Chinaman,
Therefore our god is the Chinaman.
Let us therefore nurse this idol of
ours, let us favor him, and do all in
our power to increase his number,
even though we might hurt our own
flesh and color.
Let us nightly join and hold up
our hands in orison at the Central
Union while saying prayer for
John. Let all the world, and es-
pecially the monarch of the fowery
kingdom, be told that we as a 'de-
formed" nation are generous enough
to substitute the cry that "Chinese
must CO." by "Long Live the
Chinaman!" JOHN F. SMITH.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-01-17
RE R1iESGTON
STANDARD TYPEWRITER

THE Remington Typewriter is the
Il Standard writing machine of the
world. 1t prints T6 Characters, or with
certain combination about 80 charac ers,
with the operation of only 80 keys. The
machine is SO simple that any one can
write wi h it, and its manipulation is so
easily understood, that but little prac
tcc is required to enable the operator 10
acquire facility in its use. The average
speed of the pen is from 10 to 20
words pcr minute, and he average speed
of the type wrt,ri' from 30 to so olds
per minute. Time srent in writing
with the pen is at least. Two thi DIS
wasted.
Orders for the Above nstrument may
be left with The undersigned at the of
flee of w. G. Irwin & Co, and will re.
ccive prompt attention. The urdtrsign
ed is also prepared to give purchasers
full Instructions as to the use of the
mGchiuc.
For fur her particulars apply to
w. M. GIFFARD,
Sole Agent for the Hawaiian Isllnds.
1892 I'm
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1888-01-17
It IL Il
ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION.

In the weekly "Gazette'' Mr.. S.
N. Castle has an article headed, ga
few thoughts on the Veto and Con-
stitution," which terminates thus:-
"Some believe that twelve senators
or mobiles, and twelve elected COM
moners, for legislators, would be as
efficient, do the work as well, and
be more economical than the pres
ent assembly, and that it will be well
to so amend the present constitution
as to have it represent the princi-
pies of the admirable platform of
the people which it does not unQues-
tionably do" The suggestion that
House of "a members would be as
efficient, etc., as one of AZ men,
bers, merits consideration. With a
Legislature reduced one half in
numbers, there would certainly be q
better chance of securing capable
men as Mobiles and Representatives.
That is, "a men qualified for the
duties of law makers would not be
so difficult to select from our small
population as is double that number.
AS to the duties of the Legislature,
the smaller number would undoubt-
edly be quite equal to the task of
performing them. We think it will
be pretty generally admitted that
Mr.. Castle is sound in the conclu-
sion that ''it will be well to so amend
the present Constitution as to have
it represent the principles of the
admirable platform of the people
which it does not unqueStiOndbiy
do" Whilst accepting the Consti-
tuition as it is, we, in common with
many others, have not and do not
regard it as clearly and fully repre-
senting the platform of the people.
IL was and is, in some of its feat
ures, q disappointment to many. Its
ambiguity, as Mr.. Castle intimates,
is one of its Objectionable traits.
But having accepted the instrument,
we are willing to stand by it until it
is changed or amended in the regu-
lar way. There appears to be a
strong impression, with which we
agree, that it needs some amend
ments. But no such changes should
be made without careful considera-
ton and thorough ventilation.