The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-05-23
HOFER
SPOKE FOR
HERMANN
Portland Telegram has
Following Report
on Speech
Discussed The Issues of the
Campaign Rather
Than the Candi-
dates

Oakland. Or. May 23.-Colonel f.
Hofer. of Salem. entertained a large
audience this evening, advocating sup
mort of the national administration
ana the election Of Hon. Binger Her
mann 10 congress- He argued that In
its foreign and domestic policies the
Republican party had been highly sue
cessful the past six or seven years,
and had beyond reasonable expecta-
tions redeemed its promises to create
general prosperity. The Democrats
and the Socialists admitted this, and
could not present any plan for better
ing the conditions of the farmer. the
wage Garner or the business man.
They simply asked the voter 10 cast
a negative ballot for untried theories,
and to produce unknown conditions.
On the question OF the revision OF the
tariff. the voters. he argued, should
elect a man who would act on the
principle OF protection and with the
majority party, and thus be able 10
protect Oregon industries. Our fruit
crops. our lumber industries. our wool
products. we're at the mercy OF the
Eastern tariff thinkers and manufactur.
ers. So were 400 other industries and
products. and the Democratic cry OF
tear down the tariff barriers had new.
or been listened to and acted upon
without paralysis Of commerce. and
rendering millions OF workmen idle.
Discussing the labor and capital Is
sue In this campaign the speaker
pleaded for fairness and consldera
tion. and eulogiZed the great triumph
OF arbitration in the settlement OF the
coal strike by Roosevelts commission.
II was a great victory along lines Of
peaceable adjustment, and an object
lesson TO the whole world. The first
blow had just been struck against
trusts. under the operation OF the Elk
ins law. forced through congress by
our brave President, and under Judge
Grosscup's decision. six OF the largest
railways In the East had been forbid
den TO discriminate against some IT.
tie towns In Kansas on corn rates.
Roosevelt stood for the producer and
consumer In demanding equal en-
forcement OF laws against the indiyid'
ual or the corporation. The poorest
laborer would in the end be fully pro-
tected against the most powerful
trust. because under free institutions
when there arose an inevitable con
fiict between wealth and intelligence,
wealth was always subordinated. He
referred TO the shareholders Of the
South having the greatest and most
lucrative trust in history. greater than
any OF today, with more wealth and
influence. with great states. and con
gress and the supreme court back OF
them. The Republican party, backed
by the mighty army OF free labor at
the North. wiped out the siaye-holding
oligarchy like a bubble and insofar as
trusts were oppressive and unjust, God
would give the people, through the
Republican party. wisdom and enlight-
enment 20 deal with the trust prob
lem of today, and II the party did not
employ that wisdom for the masses.
he would wip the party out OF exist
ence.
Colonel Hofer defended iBnger Her
mann In his ntroversy with Secre-
tary Hitchcock. and said his official
reports as commissioner OF the land
once showed that the had opposed the
creation OF many forest reserves. and
had repeatedly recommended chang
ing the laws so as 10 cut out the lieu
land swindle, had rep, atedly shown
his loyalty 20 the miner and settler
by his rulings in the land department.
and had opposed the creation OF the
forest reserves in Southern Oregon
that had been hastily created since he
resigned his Office. The people should
return him back by their own votes,
and In harmony with the Oregon dele
cation; the question would not be
whether Hermann was in harmony
with Hitchcock. but whether Hitch
cock was In harmony with Western
ideas. and with the interests of West
ern people. which was 10 have as few
forest reserves as possible. Forest
reserves were promoted first by Pres
ident Cleveland. and the agitation was
kept up by Eastern college professors
and plaoe-hunters OF the educated
classes. who wanted civil service Of
hces There YVES no use for them in
the Western part OF Oregon. where
thousands OF square miles OF forest
We're growing up under the care and
protection OF the settlers. the natural
guardian OF the forests