Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-03-20
THE GOVERNOR SEEING THINGS

Our governor is intensely patriotic so much that he
deprecates the histories of the United Statessocaled
fused in our public schools He says they written
hy pacsts and molycoddes. These histories picture
the American armies of 1776 and 1912 being fighters
but the governor thinks they only in the pages
of the school histories aforesaid. Maybe So maybe so
and yet perhaps the early histories of his native country
that not written by moycoddes but only studied
by them may have something to do with the governors
rather pessimisc view of the Americans fighting quail
tiles He openly fouts Germany saying ne is afraid OF
her only commercially and asserts that she is exhausted
AT the same time he great danger from Japan and
calls attention to the administration having bill aimed
at the ownership Of land by the Japanese Withdrawn from
the Oregon legislature Besides be was at Fort Stevens
last summer and the guns there shoot eight miles, but
this he thinks amounts to nothing because the japanese
have guns that shoot twelve miles, which small bit OF
figuring will show gives the Japs chance to lay four
miles beyond gun range and just smell our ioftS,
shores or peanuts without danger to themselves This
bad enough in all conscience but the governor goes on to
state that Jap fleet could enter the Columbia and levy
S100000000 tribute Portland and the city could not
help itself Most asuredly not governor 4ou could
hardly expect the city of Portland and the Japs to be
helping themselves at the time; besides if Portland
saw it first there would be nothing for the Japs to help
themselves to. Again. governor do you not know that
it has been the dream of Portland for years to have real
bateship come up the Columbia and dock at Portland?
Why the city would turn out in body to welcome even
Jap warshp that would crafty this desire You over
look too the fact that Jap warshp once at Portland
would have to stay there She would discover her fuel
supply had leaked away before she there week. and
then too-there is Commissioner DAILY. He would attach
meter to their ships faucets and break the home
government
The governor makes another, and sad mistake when
he stated I'VE should have protested when Germany in
vaded Belgium but we had nothing to protest with.
protest. governor is made in language and in this com
modify no country can compete with us Language is
our best hold We have an nexhaustibe supply and the
munition factories are working over time. we nave
Harry Lane and the other eleven noble protesers still
the Job at Washington and righteousness is not an -
known quantity here in Oregon Witness that our good
governor himself is responsible for this protest against
his protest against the protesters The most unnd re-
mark he made was that I'VE living in fools
paradise" OF course all Oregonians realize the Will.
amette valley paradise all right and use up much OF
their time irving to make the fellows who do not live in
i believe they should However it is gratifying to know
the governor admits it paradise even though the title
deeds are in the name of the Fool family. The hoster
gave Luelas running mate feed out OF the wrong oat
bin and it did not agree with him.