Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-09-13
He Joins the POpulisis in Bit
ter Abuse
or The LAST LEGISLATURE
To Screen the Evil DOings Of His
Own Pets.

Under the heading lessons from
the hop fields" and "They should en-
force economy 10 our public AFFAIRS"
the Portland OregoniaD copies the fol-
lowing article on its editorial page
from the Salem Evening Post;
THE POST AR1ICLE
When the neat legislature meets, we
hope that every member Of IL viii rot
fail to remember the hopyards as they
nreseut themselves to him this year.
In every hopyard he will see men es
rood as himself, aud women too, a.
we'll educated, as we'll qualified ioF
clerical work, 40 moral, as Intelligent,
working for 81. 20 day and boarding
themse Ives, trying To make money ald
nav taxes. When the gorgeously
dressed women aud girls from Il
cities present themselves asking Tor
clerkships at SO and S4 day for WORK
TINT can he done at 80 cents day, ht
them not forget that this is country
where arislocrAcy should he unknown,
aud where the poor girls who are now
ia the hop fields should have an sqnal
chance with those In the cities.
Let them remember that in the fall
of 1896, big, honest, educated men
stood by the side OF little children In
the hop fields, from morning till night,
trying to clear 80 cents day to pay the
aalaries of men, no better than them
selves, who expect from S5 to $40 day
for clerkships In n season OF the year
when they haYe nothing else to do.
Let our big salaried officials who can
buIld themselves tine houses after
being In OH 90 two or three years, think
of the poor women and children who
are trying to keep body aud soul to-
gether In the hop yards and who have
to contribute Of their scanty earnings
toward those lordly mansions which
never fail to appear after a term oil
Office. We want no useless
ommlsslons, no spongers, no parasites,
no leeches any longer sucking the life
blood out OF the people.
And what will the hop pickers them
selves do when the time comes TO elect
men to the legislature? Lay back, and
allow every hypocrltical pretender,
every Shiny demagogue, to again pull
the wool over your eyes by telling you
how he feels for you, and when he
takes his seat gives his first vote for
clerkship at $40 day? Probably that
is what they will do. But that is not
what they ought TO do. They ought
TO give their support to no man whom
they cannot trust; to no man who will
not pledge himself to cut down the APP
preparations TO all our state institutions
10 the lowest possible notch; to no man
who will not clean out the Augean
stables and admit purer and better
breed OF animals. This Is what they
ought TO do, and what they must do II
ever they are to retain their homes,
educate their little ones, and take their
rightful place In society.
We desire to call attention to the
Hypocrisy OF the oregonian in quoting
the above from our esteemed Populist
contemporary.
We do not say Popullst In any often
sive way, because there are some AZ
good men as we ever knew In that
party. But we say Popullst because
the editorials In the Evening Post art
written 10 he afterwards used In the
Weekly Independent, which Is the
Populist state organ. We wish TO EN-
phasize the political mendacity OF al
alleged Republican paper, for uniting
as II does with the POpulists to blscker
the whole legislature, when the only
ring that was recklessly extravagan'
with the peoples money was the ole
element faction that alone. met the: ap
probation of the oregonian newspaper
That legislature was not the wors
Oregon ever had. IL did some REALLY
good work for economy and reform, a
the record will show. IL might hay'
done q great deal worse. A great dea