The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-08-13

itorials are not the product Of attenuated
dosee Of dried Goldfish hashed up at some
cheap coffee-and-sinkers supply depot,
or furnished by some ten-dollar q
week clerk at the national committee
headquarters. There is probably no
way to copyright the editorials on a
daily paper, that treat on vital public
matters in such a way as TO make
scores Of politicians want TO get onto
cold-storage. But IL seems as though
the papers that do copy them and
make their papers bright and readable
thereby ought TO be made to pay for the
privilege, and II the courts will not pro.
tect brain.worker on One Cent
Daily as we'll as on a monthly magazine,
where articles are only copied by per
mission, there is something stale in our
egg basket. These editors, in place Of
copying 80 much, ought TO go to the
great Pacific ocean, catch or buy their
own 6shand clans, get their suppiles Of
phosphoric brain.stimulant on their oW n
hook, aud evolve their own supplies Of
gray matter and irridescent editorials
direct from nature herself. To get the
dow Of brain-current started at a voltage
chat wonld attract any attention might
require them to eat shark or two or a
young whale, but sticking TO the fsh-
diet would produce an effect in time,
An occasional ginning up your think
tank on box Of sardines can't be ex'
pected TO produce towers Of corruscat-
ing thought gittering with aphorlsms
and bible quotations and the latest
gems Of iargon and jewels Of slang.
e q q
n II were not Tor weeds humanity
would have died Of laIness long ago.
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II is no secret that the members OF the
Rivers ana Harbors congressional com
mittee, who iunketed about in this State
got a refrigerator car reception at seyera
places that was carefully concealed il
the columns Of the newspapers, Al sey
eral places where their train SLOWED
down TO make the usual gun-Ioll!
speeches, the enthusiastic citizens wer
prepared to side-irack them near tn
cattle pens instead,oi loading the ganl
, with bouquets, baskets aud booze. The
, congressional tramps were simply on
on bum and for an excuse to rim
In bills on congress for mileage and clerk
hire for political ebippies. How dear L
} my heart are free whiskey, cigars AN
sandwiches set up by suckers who wan
appropriations for commerce" was th
ouly eong they sang as they rallieC
around the luneh'pile and anythinl
, that would answer for free guzzle an,
belly wash contributed by disin
} gcSuous citizens. Chief lunoh'in
, speetor Rurton OF Neouw Howwick wa
+ always ready to slobber few million
for Improvements over some seaport lik
the one.horse cattle ferries on the Lonl
! Tom for which Tom Tongue has beel
) getting appropriations while a harbo
: that once carried half the commerce q
. the Willamette valley has been allowe,
/ 10 20 to ruins. An Alaska Editor hi
them right when he said OF these junk
eters and their small-legged clerks an,
chipping ohirpies that the booze an
muck-a-muok faded before them liz
dog biscuit In baud OF starving mala
mutea. and that was oil they were od
for. These iunketing, pumpkin-headed
sorghum-eating congressman lived OF
nothing but salmon bellies and cham
pagne from the time they crossed tn
Rockies until they disappeared home
ward bound oyer the Canadian Pacific
and there is'nt one OF them but woul'
sell out an the commerce on the Pacid
Coast for railroad pass. Represent
ing an administration that hired eheal
ikies in the senate to- strangle the las
river aud hsrbor bin, after IL had Writ
nally passed both houses and the pres
ident dared not veto II, they are for
tunate to have got away without goo
old-fasbioned lynohing.
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