Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-29
SUFFERING ON THE SANTIAM
Governor PennOyer Called on BY
a Settler.
lib CAN DO NOTHING TO help THPM
Recommends Committee Be Ap-
pointed TO Investigate.

now the mills had shut down last sum-
ner, and the people were in want be-
:ause the Oregon PAaific had not paid
hem anything.
The Governor went with the man to
f. l.. Hodgkin, Secretary of the Salem
Board of Charities, who gave him q
letter to w. l.. Wade the president.
The letter suggested that Mr. Wade go
before County Judge Hubbard and asS
that committee be appointed to go up
there, investigate and report to the
county authorities.
DO NOT WANT COUNTY AID
The man who was before the govern
Or is still in the city and says he does
not think any number of the people up
there, who are destitute, want county
AID as paupers. They want to work for
what they get aud pay for it, aud want
their pay that is due them aud think
the state should help them get it. If
they had half what is due them there
would be no suffering on the Santiam.
They do not want to come upon the
county though some may have to be
cared for in that way.
WHAT PENNOYER SAID.
Governor Psnnoyer said the distress
of the people on the Santiam was n
matter the county court would have to
look after. He had given $50 to the
Sisters Of Charity at Portland and $50
to the Children's AID society. He
could do no more.
Following conversation took place
between the man from the Santiam and
Governor Pennoyer:
Q. Can you do anything to help
those people to get their pay?
A. can do nothing. 1t is in the
hands of the state courts.
Q. Is there any way that you can
help those people to get work 30 that
they can get supplies to keep from
starving?
A. No. That is the business of the
county.
Q. The people want to know If the
state could do something to make the
Oregon Pacific railroad company pay
the people, and keep them from starv-
ing?
A. Immediate steps will have to be
taken by some one to give them relief.
can do nothing. The matter rests
with the court and the county.
The governor said THE JOURNAL
had been seeking nOtOrlety by attack
ing him, and that 1t was doing 1t to
sell papers.
DENIAL FROM MILL CITY.
A letter is pub lished in the Albany
Herald of Saturday refuting the state
ment of w, b. Holmes that there is no
suffering on the Santiam. 1t is signed
by 80 citizens and says:
AZ to the facts, at least one-third of
our citizens are in destitute circum-
stances, Perhaps there are none actu-
ally starving, AS yet. Some have a
little flour left, some a little meat, and
a few some vegetables raised In small
gardens, but one-third at least are with
out the commonest necessaries of life.
While as yet no one has made COM
plant, the boys are dividing up with
one another, and within 80 days nobody
Will have anything to dIvy, and then
suffering will actually begin. Now
this is the condition of affairs, and the
possibility Of worse condition than
this exists further up the river.
Following fling at the JOURNAL is
hitched on, probably by some little
Pupulist politician who wants to curry
favor with the governor:
We would say to the CAPITAL JOUR.
NAL, Pennoyer may be liar as that
paper tntimates, but IL cannot make
him IA liar by lying, by garbling facts
or by stultifying dismal truths,
The JOURNAL was the first to write
a letter to Mil CITY 10 start the lnves-
tigation tina, has led to all the action
that followed. Mr. Holmes was rep.
resented to us as a reputable man and
we believe he Is. But his assertion
does not agree with the above, which
is not our fault. Pennoyer's opinion Of
Cleveland or ClevslAal's oplnlpn OF
free silver, have nothing to do with
the distress on the SAntialm. That
distress is due to the rascality practlced
In the Oregon Pacific management. As
soon as THR JOURNAL was sure of
that fact IL began TO expose the rotten
reolyerships aud will continue It's
fight whether the state government
or any one else jolus with It or not.
We Invite Governor Pennoyer aud the
rest Of the state officials and all honest
meu To assist the labores and settlers
on the Santiam TO get their just dues
and then they will not be forced on
the county for support.