The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-08-06


pox vaccine business is about played out
among intelligent people and new spiel
for the pccketbooks must be invented tv
catch rich and poor, and flliug the
newspapers with the DR.. Koch specials
from Germany paves the way TO filling
our systems with new micrJb and the
doctors pockets with new handles OF the
long green.
There is one idea that is blessing
and curse tn the American people, and
that is that every American can do
everything under the sun, whether he
knows how or has ever had a chance TO
learn or not. II is good thing because
il makes everyone self confident and be-
lieve himself capable Of filling any Office
from president TO road supervisor, but it
gives the country the poorest roads on
earth for the amount OF labor and
money spent on them. AS every child
knows a road is q piece Of mechanical
engineering, involving a knowledge OF
materials and the art Of construction
that requires technical education and
mental training. Now it makes no'ap-
parent difference to us whether the man
we elect TO stir up mud by the mile and
work out our taxes knows a continental
d-n about any OF the above matters OF
not, he qualities. flls the Office spd
draws his pay while people stay at
home and 90 crazy or acquire lifelong
habits Of profanity. The simple fact
remains that a man may be able to get
Office and yet have no more brains than
the short stop Of a foolish-house baee.
ball club, and men get power and au-
thority to build public highways who
haye no more gray matter in that direc.
tion than a sliced cucumber. As road
architects they lead the taxpayer a mad
chase straight to the padded cell. We
are not so soft in other ways. As a
matter Of cold calculation, there is
money and work enough spent on the
roads now to build and maintain graded,
graveled and sand papered automobile
boueyalds il we could only queer the
system that man can gin up
his thinktank TO the capacity OF
civil engineer aud competent
constructor Of highways while turning
under dog iennel and weaving calves,
You might as we'll expect an editor tc
k,nss t,,.- a., ruu a anan factory "a honl
black to steer a ship, as expect the av.
erage farmer. or country store keeper OF
jack lawyer TO be scientific road build
err. We haven't any good road-builders
in the country, but il we'd get rid Of our
mollycoddling system Of hattering every
yahoo crossroads politician with the idea
that by giving him our votes he will
know something he did not know before,
we would develop a demand for road
building aud have some good roads built
for our money. We'd better not build
any roads in the meantime and try and
use enough artificial fertilizer on our
own brains or jack our intellect up Ia
the point where it can grasp the es.
sential proposition that you cannot get
blood out OF rutabaga. The present sys.
tenn OF making roads has been tried
out TO finish and ought 10 be barred
from the ripg. Under good scientific
engineering and horse-sense hnancier.
ing the present tax and labor funds
will build roads on the contract plan,
and that is no dream. 1t has been tried
and proven good game in other
countries and in various parts OF our
own dear native land We are not the
only smart people in the world and we
are at the tail end OF the funeral procession
in this matter, when We ought to be
riding up next to the hearse for the
money we pay. For people who have
quit living In dipouts We need swift
slap with wet dishrag TO bring us TO
our senses on this road business, and
the underpinning OF the present system
that would be discreditable TO the
statesmanship Of Central Africa consists
in our everlasting .coneeit and swelled
up false belief that We are able to do
things when We don't begin to touch
one corner Of them. We've got TO bump
tie swelling out Of onr imaginations
before We eau have anything but goose
puddle and beaver-damn road building.
Try Graln-ol Try Grain-ol
Ask your Grocer today to show Iou
sHNa A a
drink that takes the place OF coffee.
( The children may drink Il without
injury as well as the adult. All who
try IL, like Il. GRAIN-O has that
rich seal brown OF Mocha or Java.
J but il is made from Dure grains. and