Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-03-02


tIes on materials that enter into man.
ufactures for export Landlord A. l.
Wagner won the first fight made here
by the unions They demanded that
he buy hotel supplies from union firms
only. He declined on the ground that
it was an unfair aud unjust demand
bid the unlons defiance. and won out
He employs only white help, pays
good wages and keeps good hotels.
always take advantage of any op-
portunity to talk with a barber and
always get information about social
industrial and political conditions not
obtainable elsewhere In California
the BARRIERS are not helped much by
state legislation. The law requires
three years service from apprentices
before they can get license, and this
makes it almost impossible to secure
young men or boys to learn the trade
As a result many a small shop that
could work a boy as an apprentice has
70 go without, and has not enough
work for two full hands So the one
barber can barely make a living. The
Mohler barber colleges turn out bar
bers in four weeks or a few months
This is only an Illustration of how fool
ish legislation interferes with individ.
ual liberty with making a living, and
Is really a restraint upon trade, a dam.
age to property and a detriment to bus. |
mess. Why should there be any spe. |
cial laws to regulate barberng any
more than blacksmithing or plastenng /
or printing. cannot see. Every.
where | find the BARRIERS are benefited
by their own labor unions, where they
are almost uniformly hurt by state leg.
lation. Especially have the co-opera
tive effects of unions to shorten hours
and make uniform standards Of prices
been beneficial. Better pay, less fric.
ion and better hours are results of
Inionism.
IL Is not many years since BARRIERS,
more particularly in large cities. were
he slaves of long hours, working un.
Il 3. 10, II and even 12 o'clock. As
esult, about half of them were inva. I
ids, and many confirmed consump.
ives Better hours gives the BARRIERS
chance for his life, and to see some.
hing Of his family.
In California one hears more of so.
lal standards and race distinctions.
here are more marked lines of social
aste, and bitter feelings against in.
between the white. red
lack and yellow races. Still one sees d
ore half-castes than elsewhere
here are marriages between national.
les quite unlocked for. Mexican and b
merlcan mixtures are most common
the weakness Of the Yankee for a q
cry beauty Of the Spanish blood be. 9
ig almost proyerbial, the grngoes 3
arning TO make love to the senoritas Y
etore they can address them politely
their own language, love having 3
alect altogether It's own. z
German and Spanish is a fayorite "
'and Of interracial alliance while -.
ish and Italian is common. and Scan. ..
naylan and American not infreuuent :
ut negro and white, or Caucaslon and 9
ongolian is everywhere tabooed un. =
SIS 1t be one Of the fourhundred wei. 3
ng a japanese or Chinese prince or <
ncess.
While love breaks down racial bar. :
srs, high society seems to DESTROY z
ste and race considerations. In 2
'lifornia town the other day a stern 3
4 judge ordered a young negro 3
lbbed out Of town, because he per. (
'ted in publicly going buggy riding !
tn white woman. He was a work, I
sman. He could not be vagged He
d committed no offense, but invaded J
unwrtten social code that prohib. q
miscegenation, and he was hence. 3
''h SET upon and beaten unmerciful. 3
and driven ont of town And this in (
name of law order and Justice. I
We left Stockton Sunday at 12.Ot o.
Fresno. Bakersfield and Los Ange. -
VIII write you a letter about agrl.
ture and fruit interests Of the San .
lQuln valley E HOFFP {