Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-27

more salary-more of the peoples
money; and then to again declare thew
had knowledge that the Kansas Offer
was made.
II the one statement is true the other
is false; which horn9
Does the grange, the plain people, the
farmers indorse such trickstering false
mood deception and extravaganza,
4 prefer to think that the grange
credulity has been worked ON by poll
ticians and tricksters relying upon the
fact that the people are easy and graft
efs are slick. That more suckers wear
bfeeches than swim in the creek.
And what are the conditions under
which his resolution was passed and
telegraphed red hot to the Oregonian.
This Pomona grange meeting was
with Oak Grove grange.
A Real I arIner. n
Mr. Hirshberg and (acting) Senator
Hawley are members of Oak Grove
grange. In the grange ritual of the 20 s.
was an obligation in the course Of ihi:
tiatlon, viz, 81 declare that my chief
pursuit and occupation is agriculture ,,
There was at that time an active grange
i'll independence. Mr.. Hirshberg was at
the time a money shaver and banker,
residing in and doing business in Inde-
pendence and Oak Grove is some nine
miles north of Independence. Well Mr..
worked in on Oak Grove
grange and was initiated a member TAX
ing the igation--Jerusalem This was
nine miles north from his home and
from the grange at that place. In the
early 80 IS when Oak Grove s grange
was reorganized members of that grange
urged me to join their grange. Mr.. j.
w. Edgar was insistant and / did not
consent to do so and said to Mr.. Edgar
that grange that would permit
money shaver and banker to go nine
miles away from his home and homo
to get into the grange and by
taking the farmer obligation did not
appeal to me. Mr.. Edgar felt indig'
nant and the grand old man said, "This
is wrong Sears; it is an outrage and
he viii be ousted and later | understood
Mr.. Edgar, that the grange ritual had
been changed and that the farmer obli-
CATION had been expurged and so he
,ould not change conditions.
Hawley a Granger.
Acting Senator Hawley is a member
If Oak Grove grange. Hawley was ae-
i've in the $4,000 deception conspiracy
md by appealing to the loyalty and
patriotism of the grange members, and
% the facts that in the year 1916 DR.. |
Kerr caused an increase in the farm
products of the state of 60 per cent over
he usual production, and to, the fact |
hat other oranges of the county and |
state being worked in like manner, |
worked this resolution through Oak |
Srove grange. This conspiracy to sys |
works the eredulity of the |
I'D farmers in obtaining these resolu.
ion evidently looks forward to and for |
Use in the next state grange meeting |
II Nav, when by the same .>ct1es they |
rope to obtain by that body an indorse- |
nent of the damnable fraud and con. !
piracy viii they sueeeedR NWill not |
he old grangers wake up and act to |
protect their honor and their interest |
md swat ward politicians and graft
ehemers who for eight to ten years in
he legislature, legal or otherwise have |
aeh year approved and caused an an.
lual increase of 81 per cent Of the |
AK burdens Of the people. Vigilance is
he price of liberty. Every legislative |
andidate should be sounded upon the !
aetory made Oak Grove resolution.
Sring them out.
JAMES X. SEARS,
Citizen and Taxpayer