Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-12-17


number Of things 10 Oregon that need
abolishiug.
Nearly everybody seems TO want To
be on both sides OF the expansion
question.
For sale cheap. several regulations
that have been rated high as city
politicians in the past.
TIT
III haye done a satisfactory business
the past year. / did my ADVERTISING
In THE JOURNAL. ."-Salem Merchant.
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Every line OF reading matter 10 the
Christmas JOURNAL won't be poetry.
There will be some at ten cents line.
And now the organ OF the gang
praises the new councilmen. ThaG's
one way Of injuring good mems reptG-
tions.
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Ye gods, what did we ever do that
the Rev. j. Hogarth Lozier should
follow US TO Oregon He Il, a cyclone
On the lecture stage though.
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What's the matter with every club
room, cigar store, or place where
games arc kept or spirltuous liquors
paying good round license?
A man like County Clerk Hall
would make good man To put 10
charge OF a state institution But
such men are not wanted ln current
politics.
Mr.. Mulkey OF Polk county is men
toned as probable successor to Presl-
dent Taylor in the senate, as chair
man of the Ways and Means commit
tee. Mulkey would be all right.
There is no one will complain II
Mr.. Geer applies the broom right hard
and right soon. There are too many
men drawing big salaries aLd doing
little but roll ten pins and talk poll
tics.
The citizens committee are at
work revising the new city charter.
Suburban citizens are circulating
petitions TO not be "taken In." Better
government and greater Salem will oe
the result.
Spain has owned the Philippines for
377 years and the islands are still un-
civilized, unprogreSslye aud almost
unexplored. Gold Hill News.
The average American feels as
though IL was time they we're eX-
plored at least.
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Salem seems TO have a socialist
weekly newspaper and another news
paper that kept writer on It's stan
ak years aud never told the peo-
pie he was a socialist until he
became "A successful candidate for Of
tice. And Rev. John Parsons talks
Christian socialism, and yet all these
gentlemen are men OF culture and
conscience.
"Charge them that are rich In this
world, that they be not high minded,
nor trust In uncertain riches, but In
the Lying God, who glveth us richly
all things TO enjoy, that they do good,
that they be rich IN good works, ready
TO distribute, willing TO communicate;
laying up In store for themselves a
good foundation against the time
TO come, that they may lay hold on
eternal life. III Tim. 6; 1919.
Albany Herald Miss Schafer, a
Red Cross nurse, who went from Hon
ulu, II Is said has returned from Ma
nlla, and comes out with the harrow
ing story OF suffering and death among
the volunteers there. The thought
ful person will desire to know why
the Red Cross nurse did not stay
there and help TO relleye that suffer
Ing aud death? These stories bear too
great an evidence Of being told under
the impulse OF making a sensation,
The beet sugar bounty bill, as pro.
posed, Is simply scheme to loot the
state treasury OF $4,000 or slO0, 900 a
year, IL lis In opposition TO every
principle OF good government, aud
morally as wrong as highway robbery.
IL will lay heavier the burden Of taxa
tiOn upon the mass OF our population
In order that the people OF a small
community may prosper at their eI-
pense. II the beet sugar Industry Is