Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-02-28
SALEM, PORTLAND AND OTHER HOGS

Some grandmotherly old woman once when the matter
of naming the animals by Adam was being discussed
said she Thought it must have been awful hard job to
think of all the and make them fit the animals
well, but any blamed fool OF a man could have named
a hog,
Maybe it is because of the ease with which that
be sadded onto any person. place or thing that it is
done so frequently Here in Oregon the first to try his
hand this kind of metaphor selected Salem and the
Salem hog at got reputation for greedness that
extended over the entire state
The term was applied by someone outside Of Salem
who wanted office as descriptive OF some other one living
in located at Salem who wanted the Office There
is wide difference between the terms Giving in" and
located at but it is difference that the assduOus Of
fice-seeker seldom draws.
Let man be elected to any state office which requires
his presence here should he again to succeed himself
he is at once credited to Saem and Salem is at
candidate for the hogpen If there is appropriation
asked to make necessary extension repairs to state
property located at the capital "the Salem hog is
cused Of saddng this cost onto the state and of devOu
ing the appropriation at gulp just to satisfy nord
nate craving. Salem is credited however with being
political hog principally, and only piget otherwise.
She isn't in it with Portland when it comes to being
the whole hog. According to some our metropolis is the
boss Berkshire of the coast To others she is the Poland
China for ham, the Chester White for side-meat, the
Duroc for color and the razorback for briSteS tall
snout, speed and appetite
There are others that it would seem had as much right
to get into the porcne pen Salem and Portland but
somehow they manage to avoid the name. No ever
hears of the Corvallis hog; yet nearly oneseventh of all
the taxes collected by the state 90 to the Agricultural
College
We not objecting to this but merely pointing out
that of the nomenclature folks overlooking an
opportunity.
About $15000O year goes to the branch asylum at
Pendeton which should make shote of the Let er
buck community
About $2S0000 year goes to the University of Ore
gon which makes Eugene big enough to have a ring in
her nose.
Then there are the soldiers home normal schools and
other institutions scattered over the state.
The circuit judges get $100000 the district attorneys
$6S0O0 and the Oregon National Guard $4,000 yearly
This should make every judicial district, every county
and every town that has militia company eligible to be
classed at least pigs
Now each and every of these charges and eXpend-
lures are legitimate and proper just as the expenditures
at Salem Why then "the Salem hog?" We are each
and all interested in seeing our home town grow and
getting all it in the way Of factories and payos Of
any kind
Portland gets more than any of the balance for the
that she is bigger and is therefore entitled
more as her proportion Her location gives her the adj
vantage of lots of the rest of u.s. but that is her good
fortune and not fault We in turn are better situated
than many smaller places If were not they instead
would be the bigger, and have the more business
The simple fact is that the cities and towns of the
state all in the boat each and every of them
working for its own bettement; and each in that
trough together without crowdng and each grab for his
share in as gentemany manner as a collection of
municipal hogs can, without grnting or sQueaing if
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