The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-12-26
JOURNAL X RAYS,

Political necessity KNOWS no h"'
The Chinese must go.
One Oregon editor at least seems to
dine on swapping turtle soup.
Everybody has had enough OF schley
and Dewey, Sampson included.
Mark Hanna for President as a Labor
candidate in 1904 is rare possibility
Roosevelt should get more Rough
Riders into his Cabinet and fewer polit-
cal hacks.
Save a dollar and cast vote for a
State Salary System on voting blank in
this paper.
The indications are that Postmaster
General Payne will cause some people
some pain.
No state--not even Oregon--would pay
in salaries for service what it pays in
fees to state offic al.
As Roosevelt has been done brown,
the magazines will please dish up Glad
stone and Bismarck few more times.
Il Is an old established principle
among politicians that II you can't get
the Office you want you can fight the
party.
This Is the winter OF our discomfort,
writes subscriber from Iowa,v here the
thermometer has been 30 below zero for
a week.
La Crosse, Wis, is bidding for fame.
An elephant was chloroformed there,
and a TO-. .year-old squaw died there re-
Gently.
Heayensl Are we never TO have the
end Of rate carrying about the bubonic
plague. 1t must haunt the inventor
Of that fake.
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Uncle Sam is in hard lines with Cuba.
The people say no tariff tinkering. With
out lite tinkering we mayhave war
with Cuba.
Historian Macleay has been made a
Jonah Of. The people would enjoy see.
inc RooeeveIt fire the whole Washington
society clique.
For real humor nothing equals the al
manac blizzard forecasts made for east
ern latitudes when read in Oregon at
this time Of year.
No one can blame the fellows who
want TO be state printer for not wanting
that office put on salary, but they will
not refuse on q salary.
Who would not be anxious to be worth
5000 ,OOO, 900 like Rockefeller and not be
able TO eat a square meal, smoke a ci'
gar, or to take bit Of pleasure in life?
Payne OF Wisconsin is a waiered stock
street-car millionaire, and his addition
TO the cabinet is slight recognition Of
the impoverished and much'abused
trusts.
The theory OF putting Gov. Shaw Of
Iowa in the cabinet to get him out Of the
way for president is a case Of premature
ly removing obstacles TO overestimated
possibilities.
A Salem firm that last year did all it's
Christmas delivering with its regular
one-horse delivery wagon, this year
hired three extra teams TO deliver all Of
the day before Christmas.
Gov. Crane OF Massachusetts, declined
the treasury portfolio because his
mother is an invalid at his home and he
does not like TO leave her. There is
one politician not devoid of humane
sentiment.
The busted Metropolitan bank at Ia
coma will pay the school children and
laboring men, Of that city, their deposits
In full OF course. that is what Judge
Bellinger will finally order the Gilbert
bank, al Salem, TO do.
Q q q
China Is to admit wheat and wheat
-four free OF duty. But there will be a
tax OF 80 cents bushel on -four enter
ing the Philippines. The Oregon mem
bers should oppose this item aud secure,
II possible, an open market for our Ore
gon wheat -four in the islands.
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Iowa has cabinet position, also the
Director Of the Mint. the Speaker OF the
House, many other positions in the ma
tionAl government, and now gets the
secretaryship of the Treasury. lows
has an united Harmonious delegation il
Congress and the Senate. 0regon-bui
what's the user
A lawyer in a court room may call /
man a lara scoundrel, villain or thief
and no one will make complaint when
court adjourns. II newspaper print
such reflections on a mans character
there is libel suit or a dead editor. Il
not this evidence TO the fact that thu
naonla helieva what an editor aavR2