The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-07-01

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vacations Of congress. Their bile toi
mileage and expenses and clerkhire--
and most Of them take along some
relative TO get purchase on tie treas
ury-oosi more than many imPortan,
harbOrs ever see expended. Bot 10 the
people themselves. The few email boys
who honored them with their presence
on arrival declared they we're quite
ordinary common plug people. Some Of
them looked dowdy and dusty and wore
store clothes, and we're not dressed to
meet the quality even such as shine in
cities Of the second class. The hayseed
and race track politician gets to congress
quite ss frequently as people Of educa-
iion and the alleged cultured class, much
r. the credit Of Democratic institutions.
So Il is jnst az well the swells and
sWellest Of the capital city did not storm
the state house, feed them on cream and
chocolate cake and fll their car seats
with roses. Chances are they would
have forgotten them at the next free
feed, when probably every meal aud
lunch and even the flowers will be found
on the bills presented 10 the sergeant.
alarms when the next congress meets.
When we consider the performance
OF one man Hartman, Of Wall street,
being practically in control Of three great
Trans Continental lines, the antics OF a
little handful Of politicians coming out
West and inspecting our rivers and har-
bors, 10 see what can be done 10 improve
them, and make them more effective
competitors Of Hartman et al, are
enough to make the angels weep. When
IL is grasped that the shinplaster filch.
ing statesmen who throng the Washing
ton boarding houses, when they are not
desdbeating about the country on some
iunketing tour, are riding on special
trains furnished them 70 go about the
country and lay awake nights 10 see how
they can devise ways and means 10 cut
down the dividends Of tie plutocrats
whose temporary lackeys they are, IL is
enough 70 make the people Of this earth
shed the briny tear at being such ever
lasting damphools. OF course, the
leather-lunged howlers who fill the con.
gressiOnal record with spoutings on ex-
pansion and tariff for rural consumption
must laugh in their sleeves at the gull.
bility OF the sucker voters who drive
miles 10 get chance 10 drop ballot for
the continuation Of this farce. But our
government survives in spite Of these
processes. Like a gigantic megatherm
Of the neolithic ages, the American po-
litical mastadon plunges on, his fanks
dangling with parasites and leeches
living on his life bloc /, but strong
enough 10 support them all aud still
hold his place In the jungle Of nations.
But the wolves Of aggregated capital are
at his throat, and unless some
way is found 10 cut their tangs or divert
their attention TO other game, this gov.
eminent will become weakened by their
rapacity, and the old Republican ele-
phant 20 down in the mire. In the
meantime some one ought take a stick
and beat off the parasites, at least dur
ing the vacation Of congress.
q q q
The whole matter Of free feeds and
flowers IL thrown away on these people
who are out 10 have good time, unless
We could have gorged them fuller and
beilowered them more than some other
gullible community, because the ap-
propriatons in the rivers and harbors
bill are not the result Of intelligent ac-
tion, but OF barter, grab, cheek, force
and aggregated capacity for plumber on
the part OF state delegations. The
Washington congressman exposed how
the members OF the committee sunk the
last bill by grabbing more for their
seventeen states than all the rest OF
the 2s states got, and TO paciiy them the
committee aud their ladies aud on
hangers are TO spend twice as much time
in Washington as they do in Oregon
which has the only Pacific coast member
Of the committee. They will lallygag
and soitsoap the windy populations Of
those political centers on the Sound by
day and night, when they hadn't
minute 10 spend on the great Columbia
basin.
Poor old Doty Dosoh, he is the head
and TAIL 90 far as the males are con
cerned, OF the Oregon exhibit at the
Buffalo exposition. lilo is writing rot
for the papers that print the liquid
manure with which their brains are
iertilized and produce editorials 20 make
their readers believe that We are really
tho greatest state on the earth TO exhibit
in the hshing village on Lake Erie. No
one should blame him, hut ~ a matter
OF fact tho Oregon exhibit h failure in
90 far as having the support of the busi-
ness men OF the state Tor instance, there
Is no lruit display when II IL is the ono |
thing 10 be advertised, aud the Oregon
products will remain unknown 80 FAR as
the Pan-Amerioan exposition ia con.
oerned. With two.thirds OF the last
years California prune crop unsold, with |
the finest crop in our history coming ON |
In this state, this tin-pan-A American fake |