Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-11-12

ito comply with the demands of this
league.
What 1t will do in future re-
mains to be seen. But all the other
immense holdings show no signs of
ever letting go. These holdings will
make other men multimillionaries
BY OUR LABORs FOR DEVELOP
MENT.
Backed by The Capital Journal.
THE League will try to secure the
cooperation of all the commercial
bodies of the state in its fight to
open up these vast tracts of lands to
settlement.
It will demand that congression-
al action shut off the extension of the
lieu land CRAFTS and the gigantic
CRAFTS of public lands MADE POS
SIBLE by THE FOREST RESERVE
POLICIES.
I'VE shall ask the help of the
newspapers and public men of the
oAdA0 VI
"The Capital Journal will make
this matter a speciality, and will pub
lish the fundamental facts and condi-
tions on land congestion over and
over.
THAT was done by this little
newspaper in the matter OF the fat
salary campaign, and the fight to
whip the great American textbook
monopoly
What a Little Paper Can DO.
When The Capital Journal took
up the fight of the fiat salary reform !
It was alone. It dug up the funda-
mental facts and stuck to them, pub
fishing them over and over.
THE oregonian threw cold water
on the proposition. the politicians
fought shy of Il, the platforms bare
ly mentioned It and a Republican
candidate was advised TO SPIT
UPON FLAT SALARIES.
But the little newspaper kept
hammering away, and the people
elected a Democratic Governor who
had the courage of conviction to at
least condemn the system and say II
should be destroyed root and branch.
Then the legislature failed to en-
act the law, and The Capital Journal
published the records OF the men !
who trified with the proposition. /
Against all oposition the law was
inally enacted and GOES INTO EF- /
Feet NEXT JANUARY.
"The Capital Journal was able to l
orce the enactment of a law TO Sc I
ure the textbook reform, and a COM
mission that made a clean sweep OF
american Book company monopoly
Il the school book business In Ore
ION.
RidicuIe Cannot Avert IL.
"Ridicule and abuse and indiffer-
nee cannot avert the determination
4 land monopoly root and branch
n Oregon.
"A good cause with even one
newspaper back OF II. and free
people, with an honest ballot. and
'ou can win any battle that is scien-
iheally programmed and persistent
y fought.
There is no crime so grave from
he standpoint OF self-government
.S ROBBING THE PEOPLE OF
PUBLIC LANDS.
"These land robbers are the very
worst form of plutoeraey. because
here is not a word said for progress
~ a public spirited citizen, there
5 not dollar spent by a citizen or
he state that is not enriching the
holders of these lands.
God did not store the mineral
wealth for millions of years, he did
lot let sunshine and rain propagate .
he lordly forest wealth of Oregon
or thousand years. merely To EN-
RICH SOME CALLOUS-CON.
CAPITALIST RESIDING
n EUROPE, or Wisconsin or some
'ther foreign country.
Let those who will ridicule this
'attle to restore the lands TO the
'eople who create the real wealth ,
4 the world. but in the end IL viii, (
'e found divided up among actual
lome seekers and tillers OF the soil
Initiative VIII BE Used.
The great fundamental change
n the public land policies OF this ,
tate can only be brought about by Z
he Initiative and Referendum. No
'se appealing to the legislature or TO