Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-03-25

The plan of putting the convicts of the State
Prison at work road making is about to be tried
at Salem. A force of IS convcts, with four teams
began this week the construction OF permanent
highway between the Oregon Penitentiary and the
State Reform School. This work was authorized
by act of the legislature of 1903, but it has not
been convenient heretofore to begin the work. It
is expected that the road will be completed by this
Fall.
The practicabity Of using convict labor on
the roads will be tested by this experiment. If
successful, it is hoped that much more of it will
be utilized If our Circuit County and Police court
would take time by the forelock and set every pris
they may sentence, to the rock pile, we could
have material enough to build all the roads the
county may need. The plan works two ways 1t
has sufficient terror to it to prevent many persons
from committing any crime that will subject them
to the punishment. When they do get one dose of
this medicine they will be more careful about get
ting second. BY all means start rock pile and
see it grow. ,
The following item going the rounds of the
press, generally credited to the California Voice.
cit has developed that syndicate controlling
almost unlimited resources has been formed, and are
sending out agents and advertisements all the
world for girls for the worlds fair at St. Louis.
The object is to establish immense dem-monde
district where great traffic in girls and their vir
tue may be carried In other words, i'm
crib district, such we have in Los Angeles,
where all kinds of 1ewdness and vice may hold
high carnival. Will the people submit to it?'
1t this charge is true it strikes US that here is
chance for the clergymen of all denominations in
the country to make earnest fight. If all the
ministers who from their pulpits have the
ears of millions would take up the matter enthu-
sascaly, and give to it the same earnestness they
have expended in trying to close the gates of the
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work to the advantage of this very element), they
ought to be successful. Particularly the resident
clergy of St Louis.
No doubt many of their parshoners on
the boards that have granted these concessions.
Perhaps it might be good idea to start at the be-
ginning and see what they have to say, do,
in this matter.
Republican primaries will be held in this coun-
ty tomorrow. The representation from the various
precincts to the county convention will be based
upon the vote cast for Thos II. Tongue for con-
gress i'll 1902 By this arrangement more dele
gates from precincts outside of Corvallis will sit
the coming convention than in the conven-
ton of 1909, while the number of delegates from
Corvallis will be the same two years ago. Never
i'll the history of the party this county has there
been greater harmony than promises to prevail at
the polls tomorrow. Delegates to the coming con-
vention will represent the party as whole not a
wing or faction The great majority will be elect
ed unpledeed to any candidate, and all will unite
in selecting the strongest available for places
the county ticket. Voters will see TO it that
delegates elected who will take the pains to
determine what strength each aspirant for nom-
nation at the coming convention has in their pre-
cinc and who will vote in that convention for the
aspiraut who shows the greatest strength in the
county, irrespective of their personal likes dis
likes of the delegates themselves Of course, every
precinct has its favorite son. but the candidate with
the greatest strength in the county whole is