Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-11-16


Daring the war of the rebellion
there was sentiment in the north
against the, grand fight that was be-
: ing made TO settle once and for all
that never again should one man be
the slave of another. There was n
great sentiment, | say. and Why
Because the war was hurting busi-
ness. But what did the real people
do? They risked their lives simply
to establish forever the fact that no
human being should live as another'e
slave.
, Established forever? No. Es-
tablished the fact for just so long as
you do not let any man or set of
men take away your liberty. The
people don't lose their liberty know
ingly. they lose It gradually. The
Colonies stood unjust taxation until
It became grinding and then they
rebelled.
= california Wears the Yoke.
I'm the United States at present
the people wear the yoke almost
continuously and permit men of
corruption to rule them and still
expect to have representative democ-
racy! Out here in California they
bear the yoke similingly. why?
Because they don't understand tha
cause of their undoing. Once in
while they get some spirit, the men
go TO the polls ana slightly better
things ana then think no more about
the matter until things become so
vile that they are driven by their
women folks to do the same thing
over again. (Applause)
1T Is all very simple to learn the
cause for the existing state OF af-
fairs. n you want TO understand.
will tell you how we learned In San
Francisco. when we started the i'm
yestigatlon there we knew the super
ylsors had been corrupt. exceeding
corrupt. They were not worse than
others, just about as bad as are sup
eryisors In all large cities. And they
were bad for the same causes; they
were controlled by the same iunu-
ences.
"I am affiliated with nearly all the
social clubs OF San Francisco and so
when | started In on this investlga-
tlon ! was acquainted with many OF
the men who were doing the brlbing.
! talk with these men; many were
my friends, some were my clients,
Not in the bribing business, but
clients In purely legal matters
tLaughter) thought all along |
they should furnish me with evil
dence. They did not see 1t that way
They preferred to be In Heney's IT,
l. C.-Under Indictment club-than |
To be members OF the S. C. b. c.
Self Confessed Boodlers' club.
(Laughter.)
Set Trap for BOOdlers.
There was not a man among
them all who thonght he owed II to ,
his city TO tell us that which would
indict Schmitz and Ruef and those,
who, with them, We're robbing San |
Francisco while she lay in ashes.
Well when We found we could not /
get the captains of industry to talk,
or found we could not get any in
formation from them, we decided to |
seok IL from the other end. But we
found the other end just as much op-
posed to talking. So we had to lay |
a trap. by giving some of our mon
ey TO the other end we sprung our |
trap.
I'VE wanted them to tell us all !
they knew, They did not seem TO
want to do that II took els ~ hours |
to convince one of them that he |
should speak. We appealed to his /
every sentiment. We appealed TO
shame and duty and to fear, AT last I
when he found that he could tell 4
without having to give up any of his
money he talked.
But he was no worse than the
fellows on the other end. They did
not want to talk because they fear
ed they would have to give up their
franchises; and franchises were as
good as money. And so one Jim
Gallagher was candidate for the
appellate bench. He narrowly miss
ed being elected. A cog slipped in
Herrin's wheel, however, and the
people escaped having him, tap
plause) do not know whether there
were any other Jim I,lllaghers who
did land throughout the state or
not. We cannot be too sure that