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Ashland Tidings
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INITIATIVE AXI REFERENDUM.
ASTTLAVD TIDIXCS
PROGRESSIVE PARTY PLATFORM
The Home Circle a
Thoughts from the Editorial Ten jj
The editor has been again wading
through the Oregon political pam
phlet in an attempt to form an intel
ligent Judgment oh the forty-eight
proposed initiative bills. He finds it
absolutely impossible to do bo. It is
our opinion that not one per cent of
the voters at the polls in Oregon in
November will be able to cast an in
telligent ballot. Standing in the vot
ing booth with a general ticket as
big as a newspaper, containing the
names of all the candidates, from
presidential elector to dog catcher,
of six or seven separate political or
ganizations, and another, as big as
a blanket, containing the forty-eight
, measures proposed, he is bound to be
loHt in the endless mazes. If he at
tempts to vote on all candidates and
all measures it will take him two
hours to do it, and if he wants to
- exercise an intelligent vote on each
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Three Months 50
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THE INITIATIVE MILLAGE BILL. !he
' The initiative millage tax bill, pro
Tiding for a six-tenths of a mill tax,
four-sevenths for the use of the agri
cultural college, and three-sevenths
for the use of the university, and
providing ako for a single board of
regents, was prepared by a joint
committee from the governor's spec
ial commission appointed to solve
Oregon's higher educational prob-
in the name of common sense the
people of Oregon could so misunder
stand the proper uses of the initia
tive and referendum to the extent
of becoming so hopelessly entangled
in such mazes of initiated legislation.
The Initiative and referendum
does not supply an intelligent work-
ling system for legislation as a sub
Jstitute for the representative sys
tem. To attempt to so use it is but
A Home Snuggery.
There should always be one spot
in the home sacred to the best inter
ests of the family. A room full of
comfort, where the sofa is made to
lounge on, and the chairs to tilt
back, and the carpet to dig the toes
in; where bills and bickerings are
alike forbidden, and the straight-
laced propriety of the dining room
or parlor can be abandoned for
romps and story telling; where the
dust doesn't show and nothing is too
fine to use, and at whose door all the
burdens drop off as they will some
time at the gate of heaven a room
whose speech is silver and whose
silence is golden where the tran
quility of a summer Sabbath is brok
en only by sweet murmurs of love
and confidence where a happy cat
curls herself to repoEe in blissful af-
Ifinity with the peaceful house dog;
a place where the wicked cease from
troubling and the weary are at rest.
A sort of moral lean-to which ad
joins the house beautiful. Here
Jacob's ladder is planted, and angels
ascending and descending bring with
them endless measures of peace.
Every home should have this one
place of retreat.
It is no impossible place. Love is
the architect; content its atmos
phere. We find it in our friends'
homes, often where least expected,
and are surprised because it is n-ver
a show place. It is simply a golden
room in a wooden house.
lem. and from the boards of regents jtQ dlgcredIt it. Oregon has gone wild
of the two institutions working in i tf)e initlative. It ha8 forgotten
conjunction with the governor and that there i(J a gtate legisiature
with the presidents of the two insti-1 whoge function is t0 make jaw.
tutions, and is offered as a substitute i Th inlUative and referendum as
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for all the present legislative bills
for support and government of the
two Institutions.
This bill does not Increase the
average rate of taxation for the sup
port of the two Institutions as shown
during the last ten years.
The state of Washington is at pres
ent paying for the same purposes
serenteen-hundredths of a mill more
than the Oregon bill calls for: name
ly, forty-flve-hundredths of a mill
for the university and thirty-two-bundredths
of a mill for the agricul
tural college.
The growth of the two Institutions
will certainly keep pace with the
Krowth of wealth In the sttae, as has
"been shown by the experience of all
other states using the millage basis
of support.
This bill expressly repeals the
$500,000 appropriations of the legis
lative session of two years ago, now
submitted to the voters under the
referendum (official numbers on tho
ballot, 372, 373, 374, 375) for their
approval or rejection.
The present standing appropria
tions to be continued for one year
are most urgently needed to give the
Institutions a start in buildings and
to carry them through the period
while the mill tax Is being collected.
- The passage of this bill will take
the university and agricultural col
lege out of politics. The efficiency
and dignity of the institutions de
mand permanency of support and
YrfieuOn from political entangle
ments. ,7 Jhjrough the unified control of the
Blngle board, hearty co-operation of
tho two institutions will be insured.
The advantages of a combined insti
tution will be secured, and the ad
vantages which come from segrega
tion will not be sacrificed.
Since the millage bill Involves the
question of taxation, It should be
taken directly to the peope. It Is
therefore not an abuse but a proper
use of the initiative law, and the bill
should be voted upon its merits.
In the United States behind the
ostensible government sits enthroned
an Invisible government, owing no al
legiance and acknowledging no re-
Hponslliility to the people. That in
visible power working through both
the old parties for in democratic
communities that power is democ
ratic and in republican communities
it Is republican is In full control of
the government. Its method lias
been the control of parties through
the party boss and the control of
government through parties. Kqual
opportunity has been, displaced by
special privilege and industrial Jus
tce by legal commercial favors. Un
der Hiich circumstances a republic
cannot long endure, for equal oppor
tunity and Industrial Justice is the
(foundation of republican government.
.To destroy 111 Ih Invisible govern
ment, to dissolve the unholy alliance
between corrupt business and cor
rupt politics, is the duty of every
American citizen. Nor can It be ac
complished without changing the
system. It Ih absolutely foolhardy
to attempt it through the old parties,
for they are the main spokes in the
system, fashioned and moulded by
the invisible power, which now con
trols the government.
tools to force really representative
government are wholesome and will
prove effective measures, but as law
making instruments supplanting leg
islative function they will prove un
trustworthy and cumbersome.
The great good In the initiative is
not in its law-making power, to be
always substituted for the represen
tative system, but rather because of
its force in bringing the legislature
into a more responsive relation to
popular will.
In Its proper use It should only be
exercised after the legislature has
failed to respond to the popular de
mand for legislation in the interest
of the whole. So used it becomes at
once a restraint on misrepresenta
tion and a fit weapon in the hands of
the people when their representatives
fail to respond to a popular demand.
As a substitute for the representa
tive system it will prove a failure,
and no better Illustration could be
devised than will be afforded the
electorate in the November election
when it comes to wrestling with the
practical side of the question In the
voting booth.
It will prove altogether a danger
ous expedient to vote yes on meas
ures that are not understood, and the
goneral tendency will be and should
be to vote no when In doubt.
When the legislative body becomes
thoroughly responsive to the popu
lar will more wholesome legislation
can be enacted in one session than
Jlie initiative can produce in ten
years. Let the Initiative, referen
dum and recall be exercised in such
manner as to force the legislature to
properly respond to the public needs.
That Is the proper function of these
measures and when appliey only to
these uses they will prove salutary
and effective.
While the initiative Is too cumber
some to be practical as a medium for
the enactment of general legislation,
as is apparent in the number of meas
ures before the people this year, it
tuny be made highly useful In amend
ing the constitution so as to open the
way for needed legislation, and un
der particular circumstances, as
when the legislature fails to enact
measures for which there is a popu
lar need or attempts to pass a bill
against public interest.
Fashion.
Fashion kills more women than
toil and sorrow. Obedience to fash
ion is a greater transgression of the
laws of woman's nature, a greater
injury to her physical and mental
condition, than poverty and neglect.
The slave woman at her task will
live and grow old and see two or
three generations of her mistresses
fade and pass away. The washer
woman, with scarce a ray of hope to
cheer her in her toil, will live to see
her fashionable sisters die all around
her. The kitchen maid is hearty and
strong when her lady has to be
nursed like a sick baby. It is the
sad truth that fashion-pampered
women are almost worthless for all
the ends of human life; they have
but little force of character; they
have still less power of moral will,
and quite as little physical energy.
They live for no great purpose in
life, they accomplish no worthy ends.
They are only doll forms in the
hands of milliners and servants, to
be dressed and fed to order. They
write no books, they set no virtuous
examples of rich and womanly life.
If they rear children, nurses and
servants do all save give them birth,
and when reared, what are they?
What do they ever amount to but
weak scions of the old stock? . Who
ever heard of a fashionable woman's
child exhibiting any virtue of power
of mind for which it becomes emi
nent? Read the biographies of great
and good men and women. Not one
of them had a fashionable mother.
They nearly all sprung from strong
minded women, who had about as lit
tle to do with fashions as the chang
ing clouds. The trite saying, "A
man may say too much, even on the
best of subjects," will answer here.
We are again reminded that some
times It is a grand thing to be an
editor. Not to be a good editor, nor
yet a bad one, but Just to be an ed
itbr. During the fruit seuson, in as
grand place as tho Rogue River val
ley, It is especially so, for at such
seasons friends always remember the
poor editor, as we .have just been
remembered by H. II. Uachtell of
Talent in bringing us a full basket
of as fine peaches as ever a tooth
bore down on. Where in all the land
is to be found such peaches as the
granite soil produces? What equals
the size, color and delicious flavor?
Where so many- kind friends to be
stow such luscious gifts?
School Teaching.
At' a teachers' examination they
were asked by the superintendent,
"Why do you teach school?" Near
ly all of them taught from a desire
to do good, and one or two were hon
est enough to confess they wanted
the money. To teach for the sake of
doing good is noble, and there is no
harm in working for money, provid
ing yon do your very best to earn
youf money. Whoever expects to
teach school on "flowery beds of
ease" might as well abandon the field
at the outset. There is no need for
a teacher to be eternally grumbling
about small salaries, school direct
ors and superintendents, and unnec
essary work. A teacher must make
up her mind to work hard and to be
found fault with. She must noj be
over-sensitive. Let her conscien
tiously strive to do her work and let
a worrying, trying-to-please-every-
body spirit depart. Above all things,
don't be forever grumbling. Accept
the situation and extract all the sun
shine and sweetness out of it you
can. We believe there is much en
joyment in plain, prosaic school
teaching. Fathers and mothers are
apt to express their opinion in a way
that you will hear of it, if you bap
pen to cross John or Mary, but that
is only the bitter with the sweet.
There are parents who appreciate
your earnest work; you are sowing
seed that will ripen into grand men
and women if you are doing the best
you can, working cheerfully, and not
continually grumbling about your
salary, the lack of appreciation, and
your social standing. Dignify your
labor, be gentle and patient, and,
above all, be earnest in your work.
The conscience of the people, in a
time of grave national problems, has
called into being a new party, born
of the nation's awakened sense of
Justice. We of the progressive party i
here dedicate ourselves to i the ful
fillment of the duty laid upon us by
our fathers to maintain that govern
ment of the people, by the people
and for the people whose founda
tions they laid.
We hold with Thomas Jefferson
and Abraham Lincoln that the peo
ple are the masters of their consti'
tutlon, to fulfill its purposes and to
safeguard it from those who, by per
version of its intent, would convert
it into an instrument of injustice.
In accordance with the needs of each
generation the people must use their
sovereign powers to establish and
maintain equal opportunity and In
dustrial jubtice, to secure which this
government was founded and with
out which no republic can endure.
This country belongs to the peo
ple who inhabit it. Its resources, its
business, its institutions and its laws
should be utilized, maintained or al
tered in whatever manner will best
promote the general interest.
It Is time to set the public welfare
in the first place.
The Old Parties.
Political parties exist to secure re
sponsible government and to execute
the will of the people.
Krom these great tasks both of the
old parties have turned aside. In
stead of instruments to promote the
general -welfare, they have become
the tools of corrupt interests which
use them impartially to serve their
selfish purposes. Behind the osten
sible government sits enthroned an
invisible government, owing no alle
giance and acknowledging no respon
sibility to the people.
To destroy this invisible govern
ment, to dissolve the unholy alliance
between corrupt business and cor
rupt politics is the first task of the
statesmanship of the day.
The deliberate betrayal of its trust
by the republican party, and the fa
tal incapacity of the democratic par
ty to deal with the new issues of the
new time, have compelled the people
to forge a new instrument of govern
ment through which to give effect to
their will in laws and institutions.
Unhampered by tradition, uncor-
rupted by power, undismayed by the
magnitude of the task, the new party
offers itself as the instrument of the
people to sweep away old abuses, to
build a new and nobler common
wealth.
A Covenant With the People.
This declaration is our covenant
with the people, and we hereby bind
the party and its candidates in state
and nation to tue pledges made here
The Rule of the People."
The progressive party, committed
to the principle of government by a
self-controled democracy expressing
its will through representatives of
the people, pledges itself to secure
such alterations in the fundamental
law of the several states and of the
United States as shall insure the rep
resentative character of the govern
ment. In particular, the party declares
for direct primaries for the nomina
tion of Btate and national officers,
for nation-wide preferential prima
ries for candidates for the presi
dency, for the direct election of
United States senators by the people;
and we urge on the states the policy
of the short ballot, with responsi-
FureMoMtainWatcrlcc
Reduced Prices on Ice
FOR SEASON OF 1912
Save money by purchasing coupon, books. Issued for
500, 1,000, 2,000 up to 5,000 pounds.
This is the cheapest way to buy your ice.
Delivery every day except Sundays.
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bility to the people secured by the
initiative, referendum and recal.
Amendment of Constitution.
The progressive party, believing
that a free people should have the
power from time to time to amend
their fundamental law so as to adapt
it progressively to the changing
needs of the people, pledges itself
to provide a more easy and expedi
tious method of amending the fed
eral constitution.
Nation and State.
Up to the limit of the constitution,
and later by amendment of the con
stitution, ir found necessary, we ad
vocate bringing under effective na
tional jurisdiction thoae problems
The prohibition of night work for
women and the establishment of an
eight-hour day for women and young
persons.
One day's rest In seven for all
wage-workers.
The eight-hour day in continuous
24-hour industries.
The abolition of the convict con
tract labor system; substituting a
system of prison production for gov
ernmental consumption only; and the
application of prisoners' earnings to
the support of their dependent fam
ilies. Publicity as to wages, hours and
conditions of labor; full reports upon
industrial accidents and diseases, and
!the opening to public inspection of
which have expanded beyond reach I all tallies, weights, measures and
of the individual states. check systems on labor products.
It is as grotesque as it is lntoler- Standards of compensation for
able that the several states should death by industrial accident and in
by unequal laws in matters of com-1 jury and trade diseases which will
inon concern become competing com-1 transfer the burden of lost earnings
mercial agencies, barter the lives or from the families of working people
their children, the heaith of their j to the industry, and thus to the coin
women and the safety and well-being munity.
of their working people for the profit I The protection of home life against
of their financial interests
The extreme insistence on states'
rights by the democratic party in the
Baltimore platform demonstrates
anew its inability to understand the
world into which it has survived or
to administer the affairs of a union
of states which have in all essential
respects become one people.
Social and Industrial Justice.
The supreme duty of the nation is
the conservation of human resources
through an enlightened measure of
social and industrial justice. We
pledge ourselves to work unceasingly
in state and nation for:
Effective legislation looking to the
prevention of industrial accidents,
occupational diseases, overwork, in
voluntary unemployment, and other
injurious effects incident to modern
industry.
The fixing of minimum safety and
health standards for the various oc
cupations, and the exercise of the
public authority of state and nation,
including the lederal control over in
terstate commerce and the taxing
power, to maintain such standards.
The prohibition of child labor.
Minimum wage standards for
working women, to provide a living
scale in all industrial occupations.
the hazards of sickness1, irregular em
ployment and old age through the
adoption of a system of social insur
ance adapted to American use.
The development of the creative
labor power of America by lifting
the last load of illiteracy from Amer
ican youth and establishing continu
ation schools for industrial education
under public control and encourag
ing agricultural education and dem
onstration in rural schools.
The establishment of industrial
research laboratories to put the
methods and discoveries of science
at the service of American produc-
ers.
We favor the organization of the
workers, men and women, as a
means of protecting their interests,
and of promoting their progress.
To be continued.
SUNSET MAGAZINE and Ashland
Tidings one year $2.75 to old or new
subscribers. Regular price of Sunset
Magazine is 1.50 per year.
Independence will install a steel
bell tower and new hose house.
Gresham is to have a soda and ice
plant.
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There, will be 30 per cent more
apples than last year, but owing to
the higher costs of the orchardists'
rubber tires, apples will have to go
up too.
Move to loH'n Willamette River,
Salem and Albany are interested
In the movement on foot to have the
government deepen tho cnannel in
the Willamette river from Portland
to Eugene. The commercial bodies
will bring the matter to the attention
of congress and it is hoped to In
crease the depth of the channel six
feet bv nroner management of the
water by building wing damtj and
dredging.
Don't you see a good many pale
girls in your stores, girls with blood
less, half-baked sort of faces, whose
walk, whose voice, whose whole ex
pression is void of spirit and force?
Those girls are In the green state.
Send them out In the country; let
them throw away their parasols and
live out in the sunshine for three
months, and we would give more for
one of them in any . work requiring
spirit than for a dozen of the pale
things who live in the shade. The
only girls with red cheeks and sweet
breaths, the only girls who become
fully ripe and sweet, are those who
baptize themselves fully in the sunshine.
Remember that the Tidings want
ads bring results.
A woman's influence is very great
for good or evil. A kind word from
a wife or a mother may stay a man
from untold evil, and one sharp, bit
ter, thoughtless word may drive him
to desperation.
Men, Womee and CliMree
In this important sale are a splendid quality and a big va
riety ot sweaters in every size lor men, women and chil
dren. Styles are high and low neck; colors blue, red,
gray, black and white. Every person should take advan
tage oi the prices at which we are oiiering these sweaters.
Sec window display of sweaters and prices.
Blankets aed Comfwte
Now is the time you will need heavier bed coverings. Just
now we are showing an immense line in cotton and wool
blankets, colors gray, tan and white. Prices of cotton are
75c up to $3.50. Wool blankets $4.00 up to $10.00.
Comforts for full size beds, silkoline covered, in hand
some patterns, at $1.50 up to $3.25.
Comforts, sateen covered, and others silk in beautiful
patterns, at $3.50 up to $7.50.
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