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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30
Motor Car Insurance.

We write insurance on automobiles
and all kinds of power driven vehi-
cles at the lowest rates, and insure
against damages from fire under any
and all circumstances, whether in pri-
vate or public garage or on the road
or in accident More cars are de-
stroyed by fire than by all other
causes put together. Rates the low
est. E. Hofer & Sons, 2O1 U. S. Ma
tional Bank building. 5-22-tf
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30
UNDER THE. SHADE OF THE
CUCUMBER TREE

The man under the Cucumber Tree
does not buy any white paper. He
receives the daily Congressional
Record and there are always one or
two of the back pages blank. That
is the only good thing in the Record
The government buys the best kind
of paper and so you can see that
these notes are at least on good pa
per.
What is more perfect than a day in
June in 0regon-the white blue sky
that lifts the soul above sordid woe,
the bracing breeze from the north
that laps our faces like waves from
a clear cool lake-a delicate perfume
of millions of flowers bursting into
bloom-warm without heating, cool
without chilling-such is our perfect
summer!
AS / sit in the shade my eyes feast
on the worlds of verdure and are
there any greens as green as our
forests, or as green as our grass
Who would not forget care and just
30 OuL VI uUOTS anu uTluk IL III! AS
an old poet says: "Shall not the
fairies passing strow on us the dainty
petal-showers Come! to the woods,
love, let us CO."
A lady for whom the Man under
the Cucumber Tree has a profound
respect brings him practical sug-
gestion on the subject of pardoning
convicted bankers and other rich law
breakers, 1t is simply imposing the
condition of poverty. When such a
man is pardoned-and not so many
are pardoned as formerly-let him go
to work, This would imply that he
would have to surrender the last dol
lar of his wealth and property. His
wife's riches or rich relatives should
not avail to restore him to social po-
sition He should have to start new
and try the hard game of the penni-
less man. His freedom ought to be
enough for him. There is a great
deal of merit and justice in the sug-
gestion.
McClure's for June keeps hammer
ing away at j. Pierpont Morgan, the
arch-criminal Of capitalists With all
the politicians hammering capital
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30
Settles With Old Case.

Washington, May ga 25-year
controversy between the state of Cal
ifornia and several hundred of its
citizens over title to 100000 acres of
land in the Imperial valley ended at
the general land Office here today
with complete victory for the citi-
zens and defeat for the contention of
the state.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30
MILD LIQUID CURES ECZEMA
Skin Sufferers! Drop Greasy SaIye,
and Nasty Medicines,

That mild, soothing liquid, D. D. D..
Prescription, stops the awful itch
with the first drops. A prescription
of acknowledged value.
Get a trial bottle at 25 cents. It
VIII take away the itch right away
and you will sleep soundly. We as
sure you personally of the merits of
this remedy; for we KNOW. ]. G.
Perry, Druggist.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30

Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets will clear the sour stomach,
sweeten the breath and create heal
thy appetite. They promote the flow
Of gastric Juice, thereby inducing
good digestion. Sold by all dealers.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30

all the newspapers, and the maya
zines exposing all their doings, it is a
wonder there is any capital to do
anything with. A man can live as |
do, sit in the shade, raise my own
garden stuff and buy a pound of ba-
con once a week, but how are you 60
ing to build railroads?
l do not buy New York Life any
more While it still carries on a few
noble ideals, it has become highly
cOmmercialized It's streams of fun
and humor go trickling off through
jungles of advertising and you feel
that your love of its beauty and origi-
nality are being coined into dollars.
| would rather listen to a robin
scolding my pet cats on the lawn.
There is no subterfuge in that.
Il; \ X
Col. C. e. S. Wood and the Cucum-
ber Man are probably the only two
writer's in Oregon who say what they
please and print it, His monthly
Impressions" in the Pacific Monthly
are worth reading if for nothing else.
Col. Wood is an artist which | am
not But what he says is honest and
readable with few of the affectations
of culture.
The best thing in the Pacific Month
ly for May is a little poem-by Ben
ton Braley. He is a close observer of
nature, beautiful, ever-freshening Ma
ture. He had to study the clouds, the
shadows the breezes, as a painter
studies his landscape and his artless
poem is an art work-a picture, an
impression, perfectly transcribing
a page from Nature-"Just Laying,
that's all"
Money Makers, Swine Raising in
the Pacific Northwest" is sent us by
R. B. Miller, traffic manager of the o.
r. & N. Co., Portland. 1t is a PAM
phlet for free distribution on swine
husbandry written by d. o. Liveley,
manager of the Portland Union Stock
yards, What Mr.. Liveley don't know
about hog raising is not worth speak
ing of. He was raised in hog coun-
try and has been among hogs all his
life. Call at The Journal office and
get one of these books free. We
have sent for several hundred to dis
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30
What Foley Kidney Pills VIII Do for
You.

Foley Kidney Pills are a true med
icine. They are healing, strengthen
ing, antiseptic and tonic. Foley Kid
ney Pills take hold Of your system
and help you to rid yourself of your
dragging backache, dull headache,
nervousness impaired eyesight, and
of all the miserable feelings that re-
suit from the impaired action of
your kidneys and bladder. Remem-
ber 1t is Foley Kidney Pills that do
this for you. Red Cross Pharmacy.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30
PURE FOOD LAW
GETS A HARD JOLT
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. l

UNITED PRESS LEASED wIRB.l
Washington May 29.-The United
States supreme court today struck a
blow at the pure food and drug cam
paign by holding that the lJw does
not apply in cases where the ques-
tion is only whether a patent medi-
cine is efficacious or worthless to
effect the cure claimed.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30

This new book is what will be
called a great seller. There is a
great deal of fighting between men
there is a hero who has a neck and
arms like blacksmith, and a william
who deserves all he gets in tine way
OF punishment. The heroine is beau
tiful and has an imperious temper.
She comes to the man in terrible
thunder storm and there is more
trouble than you can shake a stick at.
We could stand all this if the writer
who is an Englishman, would leave
out the pages. of the gibbish dialect
conversations between what are sup
posed to be the lower classes in that
country. In this country rich and
poor, high and low speak pretty much
the same kind of English and can un-
derstand each other unless they hap
pen to want to borrow money in
tight times when a man is sometimes
hard of hearing. But true English
mans book is not complete unless he
can disclose the differences between
the "hupper" and the lower classes
by having his lords and ladies and
people of birth and breeding use one
kind of yernacular and the clodhop-
pers something far away different.
An American would write this same
story and never have to resort to sew
eral kinds of bastard English that
nobody can understand. Why "Black
George" should have been a blonde
man with red whiskers only the ini-
tiated can tell the reason. There is
no excuse for having men who are
cousins look exactly alike except in a
country where cousins marry and
where the high-brows are all related
to each other.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30

A woman with a charge account
often forgets that the first of the
month has way of coming round.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30

The small boy who has to wheel
the baby around the block while the
team is practicing in the park may
never have heard of race suicide, but
he believes in it.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30

John d. Rockefeller would go broke
If he should spend his entire income
trying to prepare a better medicine
than Chamberlain's Collie Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy for diarrhoea,
dysentery or bowel complaints. 1t is
simply impossible, and so says every
one that has used it. Sold by all
dealers.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30

Some of those who took part in
the Mexican opera bouffe" war are
as dead as though they had engaged
in the real thing.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30

People who think that money will
buy anything are the ones who
haven't got the price of anything.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BRoMo Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money II
1t fails to cure. e. W. Groves sigma
ture is on each box. twenty-five
cents.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30

tribute among our readers who grow
swine.
Oh yes. We can stand a little
reciprocity with Canada. They are
our political half-brothers and half
brothers should not rob each other in
the name Of law. So the Cucumber
Man dismisses the matter and will
read no more on the subject.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-05-30

McClure's for June keeps hammer
ing away at ]. Pierpont Morgan, the
arch-criminal of capitalists. With all
the politicians hammering capital,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
THE FIRST SINGER

we heard a bluehird singing, the song
was magic sweet;
ne swung upon the lilac, the snow
was round his feet;
The wind blew roughly DER him, the
sky. was steely-gray,
But yet he perched there, singing the
chilling gloom away.
Brave traveller from the southland,
perhaps you came too soon;
For ice still binds the streamlets, the
sun is wan at noon;
The violets are sleeping close in their
earthly bed,
And not a greening blade of grass has
dared to show it's head.
But. oh. we've glad to greet you, sweet
harbinger Of spring;
NO sound was e'er so welcome as
your gay caroling:
Courageous little songster upon the
1eafless spray,
A-sinsing and a-singing our wearin-
ness away! ra~..~.
From March Farm Journal.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
DOLLAR DIPLOMACY.

That the diplomatic policy of
the United States, under the Taft
administration, is conducted bv
Wall street and in the interests
OF Wall street, is the plain mean
ing given in the leading editorial
OF Senator La Toilette S weekly
magazine. The senator declares
that our navy secrets have been
traded for contracts with the
Schwab ship building company
and that the Taft-Knox "dollar
diplomacy is more Interested in
Morgan concessions in Manchuria
than in Japanese exclusion at
home.''
1.-The Taft-Knox dollar diplo.
macy has scored again." writes
Senator La Toilette. "This time
it is a trade with Japan.
"The United States has given
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
TRIBUTE TO GOMPERS

At the annual dinner of the
knights Of Momus( an organiza-
ton Of printers on the lines of
the Gridiron club) in Washington
recently, Speaker Joseph G.. Can
non Of the house of representa-
tives said: While I am not in
the good books of Sam Gompers.
| want to say that he is one grand
man. That he is an able and
forceful man goes without saving ;
otherwise he could not continue
the leadership Of that great
American Federation of Labor. If
| had to live over again the activi-
ties of my life during it's first
thirty odd years I should belong
to union.' Mr.. Gompers was not
present.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
EXTRA SESSION.

An extra session Of congress is
now called. During the session
just closed the president made a
sturdy effort to get the reciprocity
agreement, the first real attempt
to break the high tariff wall,
through congress and. thanks to
the patriotic stand taken by the
Democrats under the lead Of their
next speaker, Champ Clark, got it
through the house. But between
the standpatism Of the Hales and
the inconsistency and selfish inter-
ests Of the Cumminses it failed in
the senate.
So the congress is to meet in
extra session April 4 to again con-
slider this important measure. It
will also take up the tariff com
mission bill.
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er, proclaiming the sturdiness and
manliness Of the intelligent and
competent craftsman; this peace
full little emissary should CON-
mand the respect and enlist the
sympathy of all fair-minded peo-
pie, and particularly of those who
have interests in common with
the toilers whose lives are in part
bound up in the finished product
upon which it appears.
Especially upon the members of
organized labor should be i'm
pressed the value of the union la
bel and the necessity for it's earn
est support.
While we are to be sincerely
congratulated upon the steadily
growing consciousness in this
direction, there are still far too
many instances in which the OBJ
legation Of union men in this re-
spect is disregarded. This must
be ascribed to either thoughtless-
ness or Indifference; for it is in
deed hard to conceive that a true
union man, struggling for i'm
proved conditions in his own
trade, would wilfully assail a
brother unionist by the purchase
Of non-union goods.
The purchaser is the ultimate
employer, for he must create the
market for the product of the
worker. Every cent spent by a
union man is therefore spent in
the employment of some kind OF
labor. If non-union goods be pur
chased, "scab' labor is therefore
~ =
employed.
Not only that, but by this pro
cess the union man retards the
building up Of a force in other
crafts that will prove of immense
benefit to him in the securing OF
his own demands.
It is believed that when these
facts are impressed with sufficient
force upon the minds Of trade.
unionists we shall see the last of
the union man in the role of the
employer Of the "scab,' and the
union label will receive it's great.
est impetus.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
TUBERCULOSIS CONGRESS
AT ROME IN SEPTEMBER

When the international con-
gress on tuberculosis meets at
Rome next September, representa-
tlves of over thirty national and
provincial associations organized
to fight tuberculosis will be pres
ent. Among the associations which
will be represented are the United
States, Canada, Cuba, trinidad,
England, Wales. Ireland. Norway.
Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Ger.
many, Belgium, Holland, France,
Switzerland, Portugal, Italv,
Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Aus.
trla, New Zealand, Japan, Cape
Colony. Argentina, Brazil, Chile
Newfoundland, Roumania, Uru.
quay and Venezuela.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11

The initiative and referendum is
the keynote Of the arch of popu-
lar government, for by means of
this the people may accomplish
such other reforms as they de-
sire. The initiative develops the
electorate because it encourages
study Of principles and policies
Of government, and affords the
orr ginator Of new ideas in gov
eminent an opportunity to secure
popular Judgment upon his meas
ure if 8 per cent Of the voters Of
his state deem the same worthy Of
submission to popular vote. The
referendum prevents misuse of the
power temporarily centralized in
the legislature.-Hon. Jonathan
Bourne Jr.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11

up it's treaty right to exclude JAP
anese laborers, leaving in its place
a "Gentleman's agreement
which with the treaty provision
is nothing.
"In return, if there is any con-
sideration given in time then, it
must be found in the likelihood
that certain New York bankers
maybe permitted to participate in
concessions for the construction Of
railways in Manchuria. "The dol
lar diplomacy is more interested
in Morgan concessions in Man.
churia than in Japanese exclusion
at home.
"The dollar diplomacy has
traded our navy's secrets for con-
tracts for the Schwab ship build
ing company.
*The dollar diplomacy is med
ding in Turkey in an effort to
get some railroad concession for
American financiers.
"What next? Is there anything
more; anything which Mr.. Knox
and President Taft will not give
to foreign nations in exchange
for business desired by their
| friends in Wall street?'
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11

ecutive, legislative and judicial re-
ferenda are self-explanatory forms,
the last esta blishing the people in an
appellate position relative to the su-
preme court.
The Recall.
The recall is a piece of govern
mental machinery by which when
ever any of the constituents of a
public officer do not like his actions
they can, by signing and filing a
petition for his recall, suspend him
from office. If he is an elective o.
ficer, a new election is held for the
unexpired term, and he must ether
be a candidate Or expressly decline.
The foregoing definitions are de
rived from the work of EtlWeed
' Pomeroy in the Encyclopedia of So
cial Reform in which the subject
Of direct legislation is very broadly
discussed.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
USEFULNESS AND OLD AGE

At what age are men at their
best? The pessimistic theory at
tributed to DR.. Osler, which he
afterward repudiated, that the
golden age is IS or whereabouts.
that it is followed inevitably bv
waning powers, and that there
should be provision for chloro-
forming all who threaten to sur
vive the age of 60, has never had
many serious adherents.
1t is generally conceded that 80
is rather the beginning than the
end of the prime Of life, and that
the vigorous human individual
who lives sanely and cheerfully
may do more in some important
fields of activity after he has &C.
qulred the ripe Judgment that
comes with experience than in
the hey-day Of the thirties and
forties.
DR.. T. NJ. Crothers Of Hartford
Conn.,, has come forward with a
declaration that is quite as inter-
estlng as the one DR.. Osler dis
owned, and that ought to attract
equally wide attention.
He says that 'there are many
reasons for believing that we car
ry around with us great reserve
powers and unknown energies
which are seldom used, and that
IN old age appeal to these powers
may give a certain vigor entirely
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11


unexpected which lengthens out
life and practically overcomes
disease. "
He also says that "the man past
60 and from that on to 80 ought
to be at his very best, because life
is then no experiment, and he has
attained a position where he can
use all his powers to the best adj
vantage. -
DR.. Crothers insists that there
is no theory in this, but that it
is sustained by great variety
Of facts which fortunately are
becoming more realized as the
years go BY Labor Leader.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
CONCISE DEFINITIONS
OF IMPORTANT TERMS
The Initiative, Referendum and Re-
call as Defined in Late
Encyclopedia.

They are terms designating sue
cessive processes in popular self-gov-
eminent by direct legislation, all be-
ing a revival of the ancient right of
petition with such modification as will
better adapt it to the complication
Of modern communities. The primo
iple Of direct legislation has been
more or less completely put into
operation in several municipalities
and in few of the states, principal
ly in the west
The Initiative.
The initiative is classed as pos
tive and constructive measure, in be-
half of which its advocates boast that
it enables the people to get what
they want and an active minority to
educate the masses. BY it reason
able minority of voters-5 per cent
has been suggested as reasonable
file a petition for law. In the legis-
lature a measure thus petitioned takes
precedence. the legislature retaining
it's right to pass, amend or reject.
But If the measure does not pass as
petitioned for, the people vote on it
at the next election, and their decl-
sion determines it's fate independent
ly of governor or legislature.
The Referendum.
The referendum is negative, pre-
ventive of unpopular legislation. BY
this device no law passed by the
legislature shall take effect until a
determined and reasonable time has
elapsed. During this interval a rea-
soma BILE number of voters may BY
petition secure the suspension of the
| operation of the law until it may be
submitted to popular vote at the next
election. This is optional referer-
dunn and is the form in which the
device has been introduced into the
United States. Obligatory referen-
dunn is In partial use in Switzerland
no law going into effect until it has
been accepted by popular vote. Elk
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11

IT every union man should consti-
tute himself an organizer and should
give one evening of each week to or
gan1zation, If he should single out one
non-union neighbor or acquaintance
and persist In an effort to organize
that man, what short time it would
take to unionize all the workers of
our country! And If all were organ
lied how much less difficult it would
be to- secure higher wages, shorter
hours and better conditions Of life
and labor!--John Mitchell "a
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-03-11
sIXTY-FIRsT CONGRESS

The Sixty-first congress is num-
bered with the institutions that
were. Its record is not specially
enviable.
1t was first called in extra ses-
sion by the president to take ac-
ton on the party's pledge for a
downward revision of the tariff
and in response to that call passed
the famous, or Infamous, Payne
Aldrich bill.
The deception Of the people and
the arbitrary manner in which
certain high schedules were
written into that bill broke the
power Of the Republicans and
caused the landslide of last fall.
Among the accomplishments of
this congress may be cited the
postal savings banks bills, which
limiting as it did the usefulness
Of the banks, at least give the
people the start in matter for
which they have as ked repeatedly
strengthened the Interstate COM
MERGE commission by the railway
bills. 1t created the Appalach-
ian forest reserve, which is ex-
pected to preserve the eastern
mountain watersheds, and it spent
something over $1,0OO,OOO,O OO-a
thousand million dollars.
One Of the most important
measures was passed by the senate
shortly before adjournment when
the tariff commission bill received
a. majority vote, but it failed at
the last moment in the house.
A great part Of the time of the
second session was taken up with
the Ballinger investigation, a mat.
ter still unfinished, and the sen.
ate gave a generous share of its
times during this last session tc
the Lorimer case. to the exclu
sion of other business. The last
session was also marked by many
filibusters, much blockading anc
useless talk.
But reciprocity failed, and ar
extra session Of the new congress
is now called to take up that mat
ter. The presidents proclamation
appears in another column. Will
Democratic house and an almos
Democratic senate there is hope
that something besides talk anc
dog-in-the-mangerism will be tn,
rule. t