Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-01-30

number OF women that are property
owners and pay taxes, and have t
abide by such laws as are now exist
ing, big salaried officers to incur al
the unnecessary expenditures they see
ft. and the women have to abide by
such doings year after year. And wo
men have 40 say in politics, and this
is unfair and unjust in the extreme
All drunkards IL they are not SO
drunk they do not know what they
are doing, can vote; all low down
hoodlums and criminals at heart, and
all hoodlums not caring anything for
laws that are right, If enforced, and
the negroes can vote. Some are in
favor Of such a class of individuals
voting, and not in favor OF their
mothers, wives and daughters having
the privilege. l am sure that my sex
would have a vote beside these.
You say the home is the place for
woman; so it is. and IL they have done
so much to mold the lives of all
noble men and women of this age, and
the past ages, how much more good
might they not do If we could get the
existing evils out Of their way. we
could have purer homes to train cur
children, and may God hasten the
time You say that 40 years ought
to convince people that the river grav.
ell will not do on the streets. II has
been more than 40 years that we have
had corrupt politics, and we are get.
ting convinced that these places of
evil will not do, on top Of good gravel
or in the streets. believe the
change will work as we'll for one as
for the other.
Yours for justice in the cause Of
common sense
The Journal prints below the ar.
tlcle from the Portland paper referred
TO, and which II must apologize for
having 1t appear In this paper, as 1t
Is hardly ht to print The girl, Ina
Lee. is one Of those unfortunate pro
ducts Of loose marriages, and not the
child Of decent American home. and
then was the victim Of an unbalanced
religious sect. Probably the young
men had no better preparation for
life. The story Mrs. Reynolds asks us
to print is as follows:
Colfax, Wash, Jan. 23.-shocked to
the utmost degree is this community
over the diabolical crime committed
here last night by seven young men.
some OF whim have hitherto borne
good regulations, and whose parents
are well-to-do and highly respected
citizens, In rooms over the Oxford
saloon young woman, Ina Lee VAS
drugged and terribly maltreated. and
was then left lying in stupor. to re.
viye as best she could. p. La Fran.
els Jr., Charles Jacobson and Pat
Burke are under arrest in the county
JAIL and officers are searching for
william Hogan, "Speck" Palmer. Asa
Adams and Charles Lyons. all OF
whom, witnesses say, were implicated
In the nofarious work. The young
woman too. is at the county Jail. in
precarious condition, but the at.
tending physician believes she will
recover from the effects OF the TOR.
rlole ordeal. disgraceful feature in
the case is the indifferent part plaved
oy the police, and there is tall, NJ
calling a special session OF the conn.
ell to Investigate the alleged miscon.
duct OF these officers.
Charles Jacobson, son OF one OF The
prominent families here. met the gir,
on The street, and took her to the OK.
iord saloon, There he ordered drinks
and II is alleged that Pleasant Ia
francis proprietor Of the saloon sent |
w uoped drink for the girl Al
the same time the bartender sent ont |
word TO several OF his young mon
friends regarding what was transmit.
ing In the saloon.
After young jacobson tired Of the
s'rL young La Francis accompapied
by PAT Burke, another bartender ana
'he four other young men whose
names are given above went 10 The
room, and the seven proceeded 70
ho'a drunken orgy. The girl was
to undergo all sorts Of IN.
disnlues, Finally one OF the vouns
men took up the supplied Girl ana
carried her down stairs into the har
room. '' oai'
Police Refuse to Act
Alexander Kindness. who is man.
aser OF the Oxford saloon. during The
absence OF the owner, compelled mem
70 carry her back up to the room ana
Neht Tor the police. He met Chiet %
fNllee J. b, Mackey on the s,roo,s