Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-11-21

the grocery stores and DuylnR ~ TO-
tail from day to DAY quantities OF the
finest brands Of coffees and teas, the
finest canned fruits, vegetables and
meats and choice delicacies and all
sorts OF luxuries and just telling the
grOcerymen TO send In their bills and
they will o. X. them and see that
they are paid. You cannot blame the
the grocerymeu or other merchants.
They want to sell their wares aud
merchandise. They furnish good
goods and can readily swear that they
did so and the bills must be paid.
Who Is TO blame? The law makers.
The laws are bad. The whole field OF
state institutions needs badly TO be
covered by detailed legislation. Needs
It Immediately.
Farmers and real tax payers are
sweating and laborlng at 81, day or
less TO get money TO pay their taxes,
ten or q dozen Thousand dollars Is
quickly dumped out at a state
school to educate few dozen poor
children and keep fat few officers.
Extended and careful laws should be
drawn covering all these institutions.
The laws regulating notaries public
should be amended and made more
strict. The qualifications Of notarles
should be better tested. At present
very large percent Of the notaries are
incompetent. A representative OF
the JOURNAL upon Investigating this
question has ascertaIned that as nigh
as four our OF six applicants for
notaries have failed 20 send In their
bonds correctly executed, Just think
OF IL, over sixty percent OF the no.
taries cannot make out and execute
correctly their own bonds, What can
they do for other people" There
should only be a limited number of
notaries Ia each precinct aud they
should be appointed solely on account
OF merit and their legal and business
ability should in some way be tested
before they are appointed The pres
ent law regulating notaries was en-
acted when conditions we're different.
Every notary should be required by
law TO have a petition OF fifty house,
holders for his appoIntment-should
give bond OF one thousand dollars
should hold ONCE for four years
should be compelled TO have engraved
upon his seal the date OF the expira-
tlons OF his commlsslon--and should
pay TO the state treasursr fee OF ten
dollars 10 be turned into the general
fund OF the state.
There should be some legislation
looking towards permanent goods.
Some PROVISION whereby the road
supervisor OF each district should be
compelled during his term OF Office Ia
construct at least certain number
OF rods or miles OF permanent roads OF
suitable description. II each super.
wiser was compelled TO construct one
mile OF real turnpike each year Il
would only be short time I'LL all the
roads would be In substantial con-
dltion. The present trouble Is that
the work Is not continuous or OF a
permanent nature. One supervisor
goes along and ILLS hole here and
dumps load OF gravel there and cuts
out root In another place and scat
ters his work all over the districts In
such a mauher that none of IL does any
good. Let each supervisor grade and
gravel properly and well-one mile OF
the most travelled road Ia his district
each year-the work 10 be inspected
aud approved by the court. In ten
years the worst roads OF the present
would be the best roads. Some bright
legislators could make his everlasting
fame by deylslng some plan for con
tlnuous, consecutive and permanent
improvement OF country roads
throughout the state-a plan that
would work out good system OF
roads within ten or fifteen years with.
out sending all the counties hope
lessly Ia debt for the improvements,
Good macadaml2ed roads cost about
e., 900 TO the mile but they are per-
maneDt when once built. The convlcts
In many States are worked in building
macadamized roads and there is no
reason under the sun why the cou ntry
roads around Salem should not be
kept In tip top order by the 500 or
400 convicts at the penltentiary.
Perhaps the most apparent case OF
the necessity OF repeating law is the
case OF the one requiring all county