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

ItHoIfoas Daps Nfne"y - Nff
forest reserves. Hermann reports
against them. Ormsby never recon-
mended one TO be enlarged. The whole
Oregon pdsf is against these big timber
land frauds, as anyone might know.
They always have been against anything
} that could be jumped mp by anybody
who had mind Of bis own and could
state the matter clearly enough for the
comprehension Of siwash politicians.
All you've got TO do is let these fellowe
know what you are against and II they
caa understand you they will agree
with you. But they are against forest
reserves like the lawyer who went TO
heaven enough TO interfere with
the steal going on. SO Cap. Ormsby
told the Oregonian reporter the other
day that he had never, recommended
the enlargement of the Cascade for
est reserve, and il he had, in accord
ance with his own printed reports,
Blnger Hermann never would have
endorsed it and would like as not
have discharged him instanter, But
IL seems the Oregonian reporter at sa-
/ lem has powers Of obse Tvation that are
strictly homemade, and dug up
Mr.. Ormsby's plain recommendation
that twenty-three townships be adj
ded 10 the western end of the reserve.
OF course, the report Of Herman, the
Wizard, wouldn't lie about a little
matter like 529, 800 acres Of public land,
and his superintendent Of forest
reserves at Salem wouldn't say be had
fought like tiger 10 keep that much
more Of the public domain from going
into the grand bunco game called "pro-
tecting the sources Of water supply, "
ia a country where there 10 water
enough 10 float Noah's ark q great share
Of the time, when be had written aletter
urging that it put into the grand jackpot
for the benefit on nonresident corpora
tions and cumberland thieves. For
twenty years this same gang Of federal
Office -holdera that elects senator's and
and manages the peoples politics In
Oregon have been stringing the suckers
in managing the public lands in the i'm
terest Of syndicates and have been a
kind Of an aid society 70 encourage
wholesale. perjury. Going down the
line mentally OF our dear saviours Of the
people, at from three the FIVE thousand
year per save, where ~
there one. that has ever laid a
straw, not one poor little old
last years. rotten straw even, that has
ever even registered the smallest baby
mosquito kick, at the whole robbery
Of our public landsY No one has ever
peeped effectively, but when you jump
them up where II don't count they are
dead with you, against the whole rotten
business aud their displays OF royal
flush indignation.nearly reaches the boil.
lug point until some newspaper mau
who isn't under the hypnotic influence
Of land notices calls their bluff. This
whole prickly proposition is kept out oi
the campaigns and all the tiddledewink
journalists bow their heads in silence
while the grand steal OF oregon's besI
timber lands goes on. Nothing but the
words Of the psalmist can do justice L
such public servants who forget all about
the people except when they are giyinI
them newspaper spiel and think the,
won't be caught. They are described IL
tho 9th and 7th Psalm; Fer there i
no faithiuness in their mouth thei
inward part Is very wicksdness thei
throat is an open sepulchrei they hatte
with their tongue" And again; "Be-
hold. he trayailsth With iniquity, ant
hath conceived mischief, and brough
forth ialsehood, Let the decen
newspapers keep mp their lick until th'
wind blows chill across the moor for the
whole aggregation Of do-little windmill
statesmen, and let the next senator
elected from Oregon be a man Will
brains and the courage 10 expose thii
triple robbery OF the state, the schoo
fund, aud the genuine homesteader.
0V9
many Of Us would grow a gourd OF
eOneelt over nlght blgger than Jonahs
n higher wisdom dldn't send worm
i 10 mic n In the bud