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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-07-25
AGAINST IT'S OWN PRAcrlcE7

/. It is a well known principle of con
! STRUNG constitutions, that a state legis
lature has all the powers it is no
!, specifically inhibited from exercising
The Oregonian says the ouly pro
per way TO increase these salarie,
ib by amendment Of the constitution
They have been -outrageously and
IMPROPERLY increased at almost
every session of the legislature but
the legislature is ~powerless to increase
them PROPERLY.
The Onegonian knows that TO hold
a constitutional convention would
make the present system go owe an.
other four years, and cost the people
over 100000 additional taxes.
The Oregonian keeps talking about
the constitutional limit" but It is
very careful to % quote the constitu.
tion in full, for when you read it over
yourself, you will realize that the
words and no more" were stricken
out of the constitution and THE I'M.
Piled POWER OF FIXING sALAR.
les IN FUTURE DIRECTLY VESTED
IN THE LEGISLATURE.
The O~regonian finally admits that
the present subterfuge of paying fees
and allowing emoluments is indefen-
silbe, but says the only way Is to en-.
dure the evil until the constitution
can be changed, and the people refuse
to do that.
In spite of the benefciaries of the
fee system bulldozing the legislature
OF DaI sing a fair fiat salary law. in
spite of violation of platform pledges
by both the Republicans and the Demo
Gratis in the legislature there are a
things the people do understand
and understand plainly about this mat.
ter.
They know that constitution as il
stands absolutely forbids taking fees
perquisites aG part of the emolu. !
nen;s Of any official, but in spite of s
hat state officials take unknown s
amounts. .
The people do know and understand O
hese things:
l. The old constitutional salalU is
small and is a dead letter-iust Il
IS detad as the %proIlavery section. h
2 The Legislature has increased v
a'aries by fees and perquisites in di. q
violation Of the fundamental law f,
+ the state. -,
3 As 1t is merely a matter of Dol. is
IFS and Democracy, why can't the
institution be made to stand for
uslNEss and the TAXPAYER and
70 COMMON PEOPLE as well as for =,
only? \,
4. The legislature has directly in. =,
.eased THE SALARIES OF THE ne
OPREME COURT JUSTICES. from 7.
200 a year to $500 a year which is Of
va on no i~ndefensible pretense that NJ
Is fees or perquisites. n,
.. The legislature can fix the salar. p
OF the other state officials named
Ant. XIII just as well as it can the
a9ld of the justices of the suppeme
urt.
b As the legislature now orders all
III or The fees of state officials nut III
the state treasury 1T CAN JUST AS ~
ELL ORDER ALL THE FEES PUT ~,
THERE. -
~ poluical sk%ullduggery the people -
been cheated out Of this reform
them i'm the stare Mat.
ms OF all the parties in 1902
our yea1s, and the present plan
TO cheat them out OF it for four ri
~ more. uo,
'nat the people Of Oregon need and teri
going to demand is not a new con. o ony
ution but a little DISTINGUISHED mai
EXPECTATION OF THE ONE that
EV NOW HAVE. New
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-07-25
THE FLAT SALARY issue

Is V not wonderful that In the cours,
OF human events the blight OF evanes
oenoe has not struck the HAT salary
iSaueG But Il won't down.
That live issue has been repeatedly
sent 10 tho drydock Tor repairs but IL
Is soon ahoat again on the high polIti.
cal seas.
The Oregonian Of July ira discus.
Sos this dreadful nightmare called M
by the proposition to have state ON
oiais receive an exact ascertained
amount OF compensation land NO
MORE" (See Const.. debatesl
Like many citizens who have treated
hat salary reform In an ofhand a
Q y solves this most difficult prob.
lem OF statesmanship with a whoop
dodoo.
TIE orogonlau should remember
that hat salary reform was the hoodo
OF tho @st stale election Il was tho
issue that defeated VIM. J. Furnish
Tor goveupor, and the man who de
iea'ed him Is stil alive aud has not
gone back GA Flat salary Reform
WHAT GUARANTY HAS THE
oRseoNlAN TO OFFER THE RE.
PUBLICAN PARTY THAT The
OREGON POLITICAL Hoopo Will
NOT PRESENT ITSELF m t9o6P
This journal Wishes to remind all
GOOD Republicans that the last Re
lnbiioan state Platform distinctly
p'edsed the party 90 erac a DAT salary
ibe republican party cannot /. Just.
To Itself la fairness ia tho PEG !,
Pile eutolse Ge present system oil
sumo state officials three ar h
rmes what they should receive |,
ana othogs nat enough. Il
To got 81 tho truth and he mctslt
% pais matter OF aat salary reform \
nioro ugp 70 ecore agaius, the pros
't system The Journal viii print the 4
as H DOW siands and the CONT h
hS'sions ara Let THE PEoplgl
'uoes FOR THEMSELVES.
Inn OLD aaftnn 81 IN. o. Il.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-07-25

urer Of state shall receive an snnua
salary Of $500. The judges Of the gu
preme court shall receive an annua
salary Of $1,000. THEY SHALL RE
IcEIVE NO FEES OR PERoUIslTEs
WHATEVER FOR THE PERFORM
JANICE OF ANY DUTIES CONNECT
ED WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE OF.
FicEs; and the compensation of Of
icers. If not fixed by this constitution
SHALL BE PROVIDED BY LAW.
Article XII. Of the constitution, pre-.
ceding this, defines the duties of the
state printer, and defines his compen-
satIon thus: THE rates to be paid
him for such printing shall be fixed
by law and shall neither be increased
nor diminished during the term for
which ne shall have been elected"
The only decision Of the supreme
court of these salary clauses Of the
constitution was in the case where a
governor Of Oregon had resigned and
the secretary performed his duties,
when the court held:
THE secretary Of stare. while perform
ing the duties of governor, as provided
in sec. s Of ant. 5, is entitled to the
sajary of governor. Chadwick VS.. Ear
hart, II Ore. S99.
In case Of the death Of the governor,
the constitution provides that the
secretary of state shall perform his
dutieD, and If one official held the
two offices today the emoluments
have so increased that the income of
two offices would be over twenty
thousand dollars per year.
The fact that the legal salary of the
officials must be appropriated
1iennlaiy by the legislature is proof
the constitution In itself makes
no compef alton, BUT ONLY Az.
rHoRlZEs THAT THE SALARIES
'HALL BE PROVIDED BY LAW BY
THE LEGISLATURE.
The Legislature must PROVIDE BY
-AW every dollar Of salary that any l
ficial receives and officials are [
brictly forbidden to receive ANY 6
'EEs OR PERoUlslTEs WHAT.
They are not provided by law :
nd cannot be under the constitution,
state officials can not lawfully b
Jaw a doilar Of pay unless it is as a
Larry and has been specifically pro
ded by law BY THE LEGISLATURE. s.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-07-25

COregon.an editorial Of July II, 1904
The Salem Capital Journal has been
printing long articles in favor of fiat
salarief for state officers. That is. it
would have the legislature allow. say.
$4,000 a year each to the governor,
the secretary n the treasurer. and
require all fees fer service to be
turned into the treasury.
But the highest law of the state al
ready fixes the salaries Of these Off
clals and they ought not to have more
than the constitution distinctly al.
lows. There are fiat salaries" now.
For the governor, $500; for the score.
AIRY, $4,000; for the treasurer $500.
The limitation of these salaries is as
specific as the law-the fundamental
Of the state-can make It.
or course, It is said that these sal
'ries are not large enough. But the
lamers OF the constitution Thought
hey were; and the people, by express
'ote, ratified their action.
The only proper way to increase
hese salaries is by amendment of the
constitution Or, by a constitutional
invention, which may revise the in.
tfument. Many, and an Increasing
lumber, year by year think the time
growing ripe for such convention.
hitherto the legislature aas hesitated q
, violate the letter of the constitu.
ON, openly and directly. by an act
raise the salaries above the consti. I
Itonal limit, but has resorted To the
'pedlent of paying fees or allowing
nosuments ON the fiction OF special
This is indeGensible tool
ough an Old abuse.
The proper way would be To nav
iy the nat salaries authorized now
the consituuon-mul the @oonsti. n
Hon can be changed II individuals
b unwilling 10 serve for these salar o.,
they are al liberty 10 SO into other
s'neas than that OF seeking office.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-07-25

Tao Ola sNHion OF the ooson con.
sl'aaes which an Tho opponents %
fa@t SALARY cannot oyen,ome az s,s
ARTICLE NliL The governor shall
ARTICLE NiiL The governor snail
receive an annual salary o. $500
me secretary Of state shall receive
." annual salary o. $500. rhs treas.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-07-25
FoR YOUNG e

DID YOU ever hear OF John Henry
BIoadribb?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-21
If the prodfgal son had lived in these
times the story might have been spoil
ed by the refusal Of the butcher to kill
the calf.
BLUE RIBBON Butter

First honofs have been won by
Louis. The fact is of great Importance
to the buttermakers of the state be-
cause it will serve to emphasize to the
world the high quality of the product
of the dairies of the North Star state.
This will presently bring substantial
return, for although it is understood
generally in the larger markets that
Minnesota butter is the finest made,
that fact is not so firmly impressed on
throughout the country as to cause
him to pay premium on the price Of
his butter. Presently Minnesota but
ter, like Minnesota flour, will be in a
class by itself, commanding a highar
and exceptional price.
The scoring at st. Louis has been
carried on in such manner and with
such scientific exactitude that the re-
suits must be of value to butterfnaker
oiAo SOi1oodiiCE dIfhC. IucTG call UG ilO
doubt about the justice of the scoring.
The tests are not restricted to petty
samples. Great quantities of the prod
uct are handled in scoring. The judges
have no knowledge whatever of the
source of the samples submitted. The
decisions are absolutely on the merits
of the samples.
Aside from the commercial advan-
I tage to be gained from the attainment
of first place in buttermaking, there is
sentimental satisfaction in the results
attained. A few years ago Minnesota
| butter was not reckoned with in the
markets of the world. In very brief
space of time the intelligence of the
Minnesota man and the cheerful and
well fed Minnesota COW have created
| an industry and made new mari, in
/ the purity and quality of butter. That
is worth striving for, putting aside all
thought of the millions it win bring to
| the state.
What need we care who makes the
| laws if we can furnish the world the
| best bread and the best butter to
! spread ON it?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-21
REPUBLICAN PARTY NOT READY

The first thing the Republicans did
when they had returned to power
through the aid of the sound-money
Democrats was to pass a sweeping
tariff in the interest of the great COM
binations and monopolies They made
it more comprehensive and far more
oppressive than any previous law so
that the rates even of the war tariff
were more moderate. Year after year
they have resisted every appeal for re-
lief even from their own party; they
have scoffed at the petitions for reel
procity and thrust aside the advocates
of reform in Massachusetts, in Iowa in
Wisconsin and elsewhere. They have
buried the treaties which Mckinley ne
gotidted and repudiated with Scorn the
doctrines he sought to impress on the
party. This they have done within the
secure camp where they were guard
ed by the sound money Democrats who
would not and could not dislodge them
while the gold standard was in danger.
1t has been the dearest hope of the
Republican leaders that the Democratic
party would enter the national cam
paign with "a platform and under a
leader making possible another appeal
to sound-money Democrats to sustain
the Republican ticket.
Will 4 lew pain ana honest WOfQS
Judge Parker has destroyed that hope,
and the Republican leaders see that at
last they must render an account of the
manner in which they have used the
power intrusted to them IN the interest
of financial safety and honor. 1t is not
surprising that they are distressed
and Warmed at the prospect. r 1t is not
surprising that they resort to every
mean and tortuous method of meeting
the situation forced upon them. They
have seen the defense behind which
they have practiced their ignoble de-
vices thrown down. They stand ex-
posed to the keen gaze of the nation,
and will be compelled to try to justify
themselves. And the seyerest, the most
eager and vigifant of their critics win
be the gold Democrats who for eight
years have rendered them compulsory
support. These have suffered mortifi-
cation unspeakable, and suffered in ST.
lenee because the welfare of the coun-
try demanded it. Now they are free.
free to speak and to act, and they have
a leader worthy of their loyalty No
wonder the Republican organs are dis
mayed, enraged, desperate. The time
of reckoning has come They had not
expected it. They are not ready for IL.
New York Times.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-21
TWO GREAT PAPERS ON PARKER
DEMOCRATIC SUCCESSES

Why should it be assumed to be i'm
probable that the Democrats should
carry the election? The party's sue
cesses at the polls are not so few and
far between that victory ought to
seem marvellous. 1t is true that it has
lost steadily since it deserted it's own
standards and adopted the Populist
folly, but it has discarded that, and,
free from that pestilential nonsense,
the party has a noble series of vic
tories to point to.
In the last five presidential elections
the Democracy was successful twice,
and third time 1t secured a plurality
sive presidential elections there were
more Democratic than Republican votes.
To talk about the party's prospects
now as if there weren't any, and as IL
the party stood about where the Pro-
hibition or the Socialist parties stand
is ridiculous.
In the last thirty years fifteen houses
of representatives have been chosen.
OF these the Democrats controlled
eight and the Republicans seven. But
the advantage of the Democrats free
from Populfsm is far greater than that
Between 1874 and 1894 ten houses Of
representatives were chosen, and of
these eight were Democratic and only
two We're Republican. The popular
branch of congress was Democratic
four years cut of five. Nearly all the
time the senate remained Republican
because of the number of small Re-
publican states. But the Democrats
had a majority of the people.
In the last ten years five houses Of
representatives have been elected and
every one was Republican. But this
ten years is the period of Organism,
PepuHsm, Silverism, everything that is
un-Democratic. The party has now
sloughed these off, and is back in the
position in which it outvoted the Re-
publican party three times out of five
on the presidency and eight times out
OF ten. in the congressional elections.
The odds are on its side.Ph Philadelphia
Record.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-21
Personal MENTION

Windsor-H N. Seeley, FIT. Dodge.
Iowa; J. E. Moore. Mason City, Iowa:
j. T. McCleary and son, Mankato Frank
A. Kerns, Wyoming, ILL.,: Cecil E. Taylor,
Saco, Mont Thomas R.. Aston Fair
mont; c. j.. Buxton, Owatonna; w. E.
Young. Mankato.
Merchants-E E. Taylor, Fargo; Nicho-
las Times, Saginaw, N. D.; w. L. Hef-
ferman, Coates; A. E. Shines, Belle
Plaine; George Mcdonald and wife, Glen
wood; Wa. Kifer and wife Sioux City;
A. T. Hoffman Fargo; w. E. Egan,
Sioux City; A.. Feishbein. Ironwood, Mich !;
F. H. Willard, Crookston; r. E. Webster
and wife, Kalispell, Mont
Ryan-Edward Jones, st. Cloud; R. A.
Heesen. Tecunsef. Mo-; Edward Ballard,
West Baden, Ind; James Bardon, Supe-
Robertson and wife, st. Pierre s. D.:
Thomas A. Noble, Pittsburg.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-21
NfBRASkANS SEEK
PLEASANT OUTING
Pelican Club, of Lincoln, Is
Strong, Passes Through
TO Pequot

The Pelican Outing club, of Lincoln,
Neb., consisting of rs of the prominent
people of that city, passed through St.
Paul yesterday afternoon on the way
TO Pequot, wild little neck of the
woods lying 157 miles northwest of this
city on the line of the international.
Most of the members of the party
plan TO remain out in the country at
least 80 days, fishing and resting until
the terrific heat of Nebraska is some
what toned down late in the season.
Ihe club is in charge of r. w. Nc
elhnIs, passenger agent of the Chicago
81. Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha road
at Lincoln. The party was delivered to
the Northern Pacific road by the On4a
ma late yesterday afternoon and will be
rushed through Brainerd and landed at
Pequot this morning via the Northern
racine. Special arrangements have
peen made to make the trip an easy
and enjoyable one.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-21
ASK INFORMATION OF
DEVILS LAKE OPENING
Hundreds of Inquiries Come to Off
Gals of Great Northern Road

The passenger department of the
Great Northern railroad receives an
eVef-lnereasing amount of inquiry
gacn day concerning the opening of the
Devils Lake reserve. which takes nlare
next month.
The land to be opened lies north and
east OF the center of the state, on the
south side of Devils lake, which is
the largest body of water in either of
the Dakotas. The reservation amounts
TO about 10000 acres of what is said
to be the best land in North Dakota.
From the number and character OF
the inquiries sent to the Great North
ern the officials of that road believe
that there will be quite as large a reg
lstrauon for the lands of the Devils
lake reserve as has been made for the
Rosebud lands.
registration can be made at Devils
Lake from Aug. 8 to 20, both inclusive.
The drawing takes place Aug. "a, and
mai entry must be made by Sept 6.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-21
TODAYS WEATHER

WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 2o.-Fore-
cast:
Minneseta-Fair. warmer Thursday;
Friday fair; light variable winds.
Wisconsin-Fair Thursday and Friday;
light variable winds.
Iowa-Oecasional showers and thun-
derstorms Thursday; Friday fair.
Montana-Fair in east, showers and
thunderstorms in the west portion
Thursday; Friday thundefstorms
Upper Michigan-Fair and warmer
Thursday and Friday; light variable
winds.
South Dakota-Fair, warmer Thursday:
Friday fair.
North Dakota-Fair Thursday; warmer
in the south portion; Friday fair.
st. Paul Yesterdays observations,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul, W. E. Oliver, observer, for
the twenty-four hours ended at o'clock
last aight-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation. Highest tempera-
ture, 70; lowest temperature, 62; average
temperature, 30; daily range, II; baron
eter, 30.10s humidity, IS; precipitation.
@; p. M Temperature, 76; p. m. wind,
northwest
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-21
THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1904.
The STRIKE SETTLED


The strike of employees of the pack
ing house interests has been settled, in
the only way that disagreements on
large scale between labor and capital
ever can be settled-by arbitration.
This is now so true that the wonder
is how either side can permit a diff
ference to go to the extent of a strike,
with all it's attendant losses, without
resorting in the beginning to what
they are sure to come to in the end.
BY the terms of the agreement such
of the men as can be taken back re-
turn to work Immediately, and every
issue involved will be threshed out by
the arbitrator later
This settlement will be received by
all parties with the greatest satisfac-
tion The packing concerns will have
a competent instead of a crippled
force, the men will have work and
wages, and the public, always the
sufficient food supply and protected
against a continuous rise of prices
What for a time threatened to become
a great industrial calamity has been
averted.
This strike has had some features
especially worthy of note Public
sympathy has been largely with
the demands of the strikers. The beef
trust is one of the most offensive in
this country. 1t has put down the price
of cattle notch after notch until the
ranchmen are in despair. 1t has raised
the price of dressed meats notch after
notch, until the consumer finds the
enhanced cost of living a serious item.
Buying cheap and selling dear, it has
appropriated to its own profit the diff
ference. 1t is small wonder that the
employees of such concern should de-
mand that it at least pay them good
wages.
The existence of the beef trust and
It's power to Cypress the people is
chargeable directly to the administra
tlon at Washington. The facts about
this combination have never been omen
to the smallest doubt. From tbe mo-
ment that the beef trust was formed if
was an outcast and an outlaw accord
ing to the antitrust act From that
moment it was in the power of tbe
federal government to crush it by lift
ing finger.
The striking employees at South Sr
Faul adopted, tactics unique and, fol
the time, certainly battling. They
blocked egress and ingress at the pack
ing house plant by a compact mass q,
bodies; not resorting to direct force
themselves, but requiring the use nj
force by the other side before the linz
coulo be broken. As girl strikers were
among the number, and entered entbn-
siastlcally into the plan, it was sub.
stantiaIly impossible to raise the
pioekaoe without show of force or
the part of the authorities which the,
hesftated to exert. And while thi.
policy by the men, as they were fna1l,
brought to see, was clearly not onl,
outside of their rights but illegal, ii
nevertheless marks a long advance
upon the conduct of similar struggle.
under like conditions.
Hasty persons on both sides have
condemned roundly all parties con-
cerned for the way in which the strike
was handled. 1t seems to us< that to
have passed through such crisis with
out any serious outbreak, any loss OF
life or serious injury to person Or prop
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-21
RATE QUESTION WILL
BE DISCUSSED TODAY
Maecabees Make Matter Special Or.
der of Business

DETROIT, July 20.-The question of
advancing the rates of the order was
taken up at today's session of the SUI
preme tent, Knights of the Maccabees
of the World.
After preliminary statements of the
various arguments advanced for and
against change and an outline of
proposed new systems of rating, the
matter was made a special order of
business for tomorrow.
OF 750 proposed amendments to the
laws of the order, thirty relating to
minor details were acted upon and
adopted today. This evening the Wis
ting Knights enjoyed a trolley car
ride around the city as guests of the
supreme hive, Ladies of the Macca-
bees, which is also holding it's trien-
NAL session in Detroit
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-21
American Public the Sufferers

But why should the whole American
PUBIC be made the victim and sufferer
in contest between a few meat pack
ing hrms and their workmen in the
west! That query was propounded
when the anthracite coal strike was on
ana when the coal famine threatened a
natIonal disaster, and there was no sat
1sfactory answer. The only reply is
That such condition should not be,
and should not be permitted to arise.
But where is the remedy? Where is
the craftsmanship that can suggest a
practical plan of combining the effects
OF a labor strike to the parties imrne-
dlately interested or of doing away
with all labor differences that involve
the general welfare ?-Newark Adver-
tiSer