The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-08-01
EDITORIALS.

EDITORIALS.
The Editorial page Of a newspaper il
the least read Of any part Of it, People
shun it az place where some stiff o.
crank airs his 'isms and barraDgues all
who don't agree with bin, where the0
can't kill him, or get back at him with
out going into print TO their everlasting
disadvantage. The average editorial
page is prosy rot, written by somefellow
who can grind with equal facility on all
sides OF q subject and has no conyic
tion on any. His articles at fifteen
dollars week are devoid Of ginger or
glue, snap or life, vim or go. Tie is not
AZ interesting a man as the hired man
hauling out manure on the farm or
following horses in the furrow that the
proprietor has laid down for him. Hence
the extraordinary methods Of the yellow
journal 10 compel people to notice the
editorial page. Take the Examiner. Ite
editorial page is on the cover Of the
paper. IL is set in wide columns, with a
box head, broken in little ierky para.
graphs, interlarded with black.faced
type, sandwiched with quotations, laid
up In black and white layers like cake
at a country wedding, striking head
lines for each change Of subject,
sprinkled with exclamation marks like
house on FIRE, one solid salad Of slang.
In the middle OF the page is double
column OF Police Gazette humor
with loud illustrations about Cholly
Rubberneck, the girl with goo goo eyes,
and the kid who says hully-gee. On the
other side IL the rankest kind OF low
necked society slop, about the iealousies
of the fast set, the schemes OF designing
mothers with padded dllies TO work off on
unsuspecting riders in the matrimonial
derby, Mrs. Gus Newells affair with a
restaurant millionaire, bow strapping
Hattie Crocker whose father kept n sea-
side Joint for the iashionables welded a
brassy French duke, where Miss
Montgomery is spoken Of as tall, grace
fdl, slender, stylish, talented and at
tractive. II tells how Miss Bliss led at
the most acute angle In all the PreSidio
hops, how stunning her mother looked
in stacks Of old point, how many glasses
Of mineral water the Duchess Of Higgin-
bottom took each day TO relieve her
costivity, and an ocean Of this kind Of
fllmbob all 10 make an editorial page
readable and attractiye--and 10 whom
A lot Of cheap guys who could not get a
sound idea through their Dogginpieces
10 save their souls. People Of this kind
are one Of the serious responsibilities Of
creation but the editorial page OF q
newspaper should not be prostituted To
their lowly intellects, that remind one OF
lot OF gnats buzzing afonnd an old
stump on warm evening. Such an
editorial page 10 very attractiveto anyone
but person Of brains, but II Is an all
around improvement on the fifteen
dollar a week product that can only be
likened 10 the output OF one Of those O.
bit sausage grin ders. The world Is full
Of people whose time is OF no particular
value and they might as well be chew
ing on that kind Of stuff, on the same
theory that fleas give a dog something
TO do and little 10 think about. The
Examiner editorial page has all the
attractive qualities Of grabbag at an
African church soclable. The paper
la,ks nothing but an editor.
What Oregon needs is not a new con
stitution or socialism or more railroad
or oil wells or sky-sorapers, but jus
more people. OF course, the oil we'll
might bring them. but anything els'
that will bring them is just as good an'
the next Legislature ought 10 offer
prize for the best scheme TO get peopl
10 OREGON. We are blowing in t25,0O
ON q Tin-PaD-American Exposition an,
ws will not get 26Oo people IS result o
Il, although they would be cheap At tina
price. You can't hardly raise a full
grown man or woman at that figure, ant
that was the average price OF a slave II
the palmy days OF that so-ealled diyin
institution. Oregon has 400 900 popula
tion At present, with over 100000 II
Portland. That leaves 100000 In th
rest Of the state on a territory twice =
big a. Iowa, that has nearly ten time
a. many. II Iowa had only five times a
many a. Oregon she'd have ten 10 on
one, because they are on half AS mucl
territory. Supposing Oregon woul'
double her population in two years
Iowa would still have five persons 10 th
square mile where We had one
But doubling our population woul
produce an immense amount OF bust
ness In Oregon. People are bot
consumers aud producers, They mus
consume or starve. They must labor 4
live and labor produces wealth in ou
soil and climate They must multipl
or get doty and there are too many O
that kind already. But 20 begin will
you have go. 10 have the people. Tn
nation is inll Of them that want 10 40 I
new state, The thing Is 10 get ther
here. No trouble about Portland-al
cities are growing too fast. We wan
them ia the interior OF Oregon and we'y
got a scheme 10 get them. It's lotter,
bat 80 ia life lottery, There is a lotter
or glft distribntioa running in conne'
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