The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-08-02

| The JOURNAL does not approve Of all
these officials have done. In believes
the Governor should have vetoed a loi
Of the bad work done by the Legislature
but II the people send representative
who do things they said they never
would 10, and do other things no one
ever asked them to do. what can they
expect? The wisdom OF Solomon could
not keep from performing follies and nc
one has yet accused the Governor Of be-
ing Solomon. The State cannot get
perfect men in these offices and what
we are asking the people to do is to give
credit for what is done that is in the
line Of progress and where the general
average is to the good, let it be rec
ognized. When you come to politics,
Geer got bis first nomination against
the combined wisdom Of all the older
heads and he may get it again.
4 Q .
IL is solemnly announced, that, owing
to the timber land frauds discovered in
Montana and Idaho, Binger Hermann
oi the General Land Office, has suspend
ed all proofs made during the present
year under the timber and stone act,
pending "a full investigation" Many
large companies, it is stated, have had
dummies as agents making fraudulent
locations. This is one Of Hermann's per
ennial plays to the galleries, for, while
he is putting few small timber claim
people on the rack, big thieves will be
getting the benefit Of it. These wholesale
contests are worked up to scare the
Little homesteaders, and some of them
genuine home-makers, into throwing
away their claims for a song, to be
gobbled up by the big fish who will get
a move on while the waters are troubled
and swallow the little suckers, as one
u those blackfsh on the coast swallows
Thousands Of herring at a mouthful.
One Of the forest reserve officials at
salem, who draws down several thous-
and year for doing God knows what.
has big defence Of Bingcr Hermann
in Harvey Scott's paper, showing that
in his official Reports to the Secretary OF
the Interior he has predicted these
great land frauds, and by him they
we're submitted TO congress, and hasn't
Hermann the Wizard done bis duty
Harvey Scott, il he keeps up his lick az
these timber lands frauds, may be sent
to the Senate and the difference between
him and Hermann is that he might act
in addition to talking and that would
hurt some Of the big corporations like
the Northern Pacicfc, who care abou {
as much for Binger Hermann's
talk as they do for chipmunk
barking on the side OF log.
Binger has been talking in his reports,
that no one ever sees, aud where 1t does
not hurt, and 20 have Mitchell and
Tongue and the whole measley lot OF
cheap keys Oregon has kept in Wash
ngton, and all the valuable timber
lands have been going like hot cBkes
down the NAV of the metropolists.
When Ormsby is writing delences of
Binger Hermann he is at least revealing
some inscrutable purpose for which he
is holding his job and occupying a pub
lie office in the State House of COM
monwealth whose public domain is dis
appearing like bran running into rat
hole. Oregon should make Harvey
Scott senator and let him go back TO
Washington and expose the fraud there
on the ground, aud stop the loot OF the
boxer politicians while there is still
something 10 save. Such a man, il he
would go and do his duty and tell
the truth, and act as we'll as talk abont
the land frauds, could save the people
few homesteBds out OF the millions of
acres that have been grabbed and
squandered. But a man can't be made
Senator without standing in with all
these robheries and the result is that U.
5. Senators are an aristocIacy Of graiters
among whom an honest mau would be
as completely lost as needle in hay
stack, Binger Hermann's cries of wolf
at the school land frauds are a good deal
like Peunoyer's when he was on the
State Land Board-mGde a noise while
the stealing went on with greater Sc
curity. But Binger's greatest bluff is
his suspension Of proofs, that will com
pei each poor devil of claimant 10 go
into court and pay some lawyer as much
as the government would have got for
the land and in the end get left holding
the empty sack OF experience.
The Best Presehptlon for Malaria
Chils and fever isa bottle OF Groves Tasteless