Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-07-13

Notes on the Dnft Of Current Newspa
per Thought East and West.


per Thought East and West.
Had the Union ticket won 10 Ore
gon the monopoly organs would now
be making a great roar over the big
fall in the price OF wheat. As It is
they are as mum asoysters.-Roseburg
Review.
Oregon has gone Republican, and
once more It is asserted that "the
silver issue has been killed." We are
not sure whether this is the thou
sandth or the mlllionth time that
this claim has been made, but we do
know that II is just as falsely alb
surd now as IL has been In the past.
The silver issue will never be killed In
this country. except by killing the
single gold standard, for the simple
reason that no issue is ever fioally set.
tied until IL is settled right.
The silver Issue las not been ellmi-
mated from American politics. 1t will
not be IL every state in tile Union
should go Republican this fall. A
just cause can never die.-Hat;Onal
Bimetallist.
The New York World which oL
posed Bryan in 1896 has the following
TO say now OF the silver champion:
"Mr. Bryan, 'prehaps better thai
any other Democrat, is fitted to lead
the new revolt against Republican,
falthlessness and failure.
"He has IL In him TO become ma
tioral Henry George, giving expires
sion TO what is slumberlng In the
minds OF the masses.
"His hold upon the Democratic
party 10 the nation Is str, niger than
ever"
II Lincoln were president today, the
members of the Goldfish arisLOcracy OF
the effete east would be playing golf
and hunting the elusive anise seed
bag, Instead of drawing salaries as
commissaries Of subsistence. Rose
ourg Review.
Nobody will deny that the Spanish
fought brayely. They did the best
they knew, and they died with an en-
thusiastic energy. IL Is too bad that
to people of such courage there has
been denied the gift Of common sense.
Oregon State Journal.
When Investors are so eager to buy
per cent bonds, what does 1t mean
II means that legitimate industry
cannot thrive because money invested
In bonds at per cent is better than
money invested 10 any legitimate bus
mess. Express Advance,
Eugene has "Women's Republican
Patriotic League" No "traitOrs" need
apply.
With all the dash Of military coup
de efat the express companies have
solved the war tax problem. The
people pay the tax.
For time tie express companies
staggered under the heavy load OF one
cent per package. ] seemed as II the
poor but honest u struggling COM
panles could not 'uryive,
Happy solution. They would not
use the tax as n pretext for raising
their prices 10 or 70 cents. They would
simply make the shipper pay the tax.
Patriotic express companies! --Des
Molnes, Ia, News
When we ARE pro6ting by
the paralyzlng effects OF Spain's
Imperialism ought we not to
have intelligence enough TO avoid re-
peating 10 our history that record Of
greed, Injustice and plunder, with the
penalties that ineyltabl follow thUse
offenses9-Pittsburg Dispatch, Rer.
On May 10 In the city of st. Louis,
there was young man serving as a
cigar counter salesman ia hotel who
felt and responded TO the impulse OF
war. On May IL he was u soldier in
the ranks Two days later he was
made corporal, aud i've days later he
received HE commission as a lleuten.
aut In the Missouri volunteers. With
In two weeks he had shown such ca
paclty for military affairs that he
was made battalion adjutant and In
that position is winning praise on all
sides.
About the time the cigar counter
man was arranging TO enlist Ia the
ranks the son OF ex-Presldent Harrl-
son, the son OF Vice President Hobart
and the grandson OF President Grant
were exerting their influence at WASH
ingtOn 20 obtain assignments TO showy
positions on the staff Of General Lee.
They were successful. The Cigar man
has been promoted and intrusted with
important duties, while Major Russell
Harrison, Major Hobart, aud LieuteI.
ant Algernon Sartorls, at last reports
were detailed by General Lee 10 In
spect potatoes at Tampa.-Astoria
News.
This Is encouraging for every one
but the political "Brigadler Generals. -
General Lee Is distinctly "all right"
Republican papers are beginning 10
enter complaint against our Aus
trallan ballot system OF voting. IL
seems that many OF the members Of
that party -according 10 their various
rtV croans-ara sn illitarata that