Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-10-29
OLD MACHINE JUMPS A COG.
1t seems funny to say the least to read the following
editorial in last evenings Telegram:
GOOD TIMES ARE HERE.

knt ougesled business beginning predict
that this country on the of the est era of prosperity has ever
turn The confronted with Iocatens
e i1 know They we're obliged o make % provision for business that at was
Of the outcome Now every mill the countu Oregon as well as ee
W. g S H H 3 ai bow @ To % @ n p ho % V % % Fol 10 % 70 % "
received five years contract supply the cabinets
for the Victor talking machine People Of Portland do not realize that this
states The scr Grand Rapids has long held inevitably
imported ] 1 Our Our % Tow osG & GG1d & & the sog,eptn of the average
to turn There manufacturers in these lines here who actually
Is time optimism to begin reign, Go
See the marvellous results there shown and join the surprise and cOngaua
and optmim The country is beginning to adjust Itself to e wor Somd
facred articles which they longer produce for themselves which
great things rb9Iotn nearly they not
And to think of such utterances coming from the side
partner of the 0regonian the only real accredited organ
OF the calamity howers which prints starvation cartoon
on its first page daily
Its candidate Booth is making 'bread and butter"
campaign and the headquarters in the Imperial hotel pre-
sided over by that friend of the workngman B. Moores
is pastered all with legends that tell of Oregon ruin
ed bankrupt and financially worse off than downtrOdden
Belgium. There isn't gmmer of hope or optimism in
evidence anywhere except at the end Of the we-worn
trail that leads down the stairway from the committee
room to che famous bar below where cinlng cut glass
oftmes browns the walls OF poverty and particles Of ice
in the glowing ruby of the draught that sparkle
like diamonds Not in spirit of criticism is this exception
to general conditions noted far from these friends Of
the horny aborer and hardy of the soil are
entitled to some diversion; cannot deny it, Calamity
bowling full stomach, amply and frequently replen-
ished in glded grill room with plehoric bank account
behind it, is hard work even for as unsefsh patriot as
Charley Moors 1t sort of vcarous sacrifice and the
victims who offer themselves the altar of political
tremity are entitled to halo as wide as Bill Hanleys
cattle range as broad Bob Booths of timber
land.
The point we are driving is How did the telegram
happen to print that prosperity editorial at this stage of
the game? Next week. after the returns are in we may
except the 0regonan and its evening edition will begin
telling their readers what great state have how its
present is filled with gadness and its future bright with
roseae promise They will talk prosperity just
getcaly as they are engaged in knocking every re-
vvng interest and discouragng investment and enter
prise in order that the people may be fooled into voting
Che old gang back into office again.
But when the Telegram printed that editorial yester-
day the old machine jumped a cog and Charley Moores
will have to get busy with the oil can 1t is certain the
Telegram is running too dry"