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Kroa voxm MEDFORD MA1U TRIBUNE, arEPFORP, OREGON, TUESDAY. 'AUGUST G. !1012 1 I t T7 jF MbdtoM) mail tmbuni r3Ti5S5iBiMSS MiQiur'OTi& . mms WWMA1 JirrtRNnnM F RUNDAT, ST TUB FORD PKltfriftd CO. a i.TJi Pwoocrntld Tin Mail. Th Medronl Tribune, Th ttout urn urefmmn, AIM Tit MMferd L Tti ftautk AaMaM Tribw. , Of fie Mall TrllhiM Bulldln. Berth Fir streets t. Main nerni vo. , 35-S7-I 1(11 iBOHQB rUTNAM, JMIter an Maafcer i m i RnterM tedford. taroh 3, 1S7. Medford, OrpRon, ma 2H5E M-1aiM. matttr under U aot r of BP (Continued from page 1.) lent of a living wngo varies according to local conditions, but must include enough to securo tho elomonts of a normal standard of living a stand ard high enough to mako morality possible, to provide for education and recreation, to caro for liuaturo mem bers uof tho family, to maintain the family during periods of sickness, and jo permit of reasonable saving for old ago. A "Our aim should be to securo con ditions which will tend everywhere towards regular Industry, and will do avay with the necessity for rush nerloda, followed by out-of-work seasons, which put so severe a strain oa wage workers. MiMt Aid Farmers "The Government must co-operate with tho farmer to imako the farm more productive. Therq must be no skinning of the soil. Tho farm should be left to the farmer's son In jietter, and not worse, condition be cause or Its cultivation. Moreover, jvery Invention and Improvement, every discovery and economy, should )0 at the service of the farmer In the work of production; and, In addition, he should be helped to co-operate In business fashion with his follows, so that the money paid by the consumer for the product of tho soil shall to as largo a degreo as possible go Into ho pockets of tho roan who raised list product from the soil. -wJ'Our aim Is to control business, not to strangle It and, above allt not to continue a' policy of make-believe strangle toward big' concerns that do evil, and constant menace toward both 'big and little concerns that do well. .Our aim. Is to promote pros perity, and then see to Its proper di vision. Wo do not believe that any good comes to any one by a policy which means destruction of prosper ity; for In such cases it Is not possible to divide It because of the very ob vious fact that there is nothing to divide. t Control nig Easiness "Wo wish to control big business so as to securo among other things good wages for tho wage-workers and reasonable prices for tho con sumers. "Wherever in any business be prosperity of the business man Is obtained oy lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive prlco to tho consumers we wish to Interfero and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of pros perity any more than wo will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling (nvestors or getting unfair advan tages over business rivals, j "It Is utterly hopeless to attempt to control the trusts merely by the Anti-Trust Law, or by any law the same Jnprlnlcple, no matter what the modifications may be In detail. In tho first place, these great corpora tions counot possibly be controlled Diierely by a succession of lawsuits. Tho administrative branch of the Government must exercise such con trol. Tho preposterous failure of tho Coramerco Court has shown that only damage comes from the effort o substitute judicial for administra tive control of great corporatipns. In ho next place, a loosely drawn law which promises to do everything would reduce business to complete ruin If it wero not also so drawn as to accomplish almpst nothing. I Government Control "What Is needed is tho application to all Industrial concerns and all co operating Interests engaged in Inter state commerco in which there is either monopoly or control of tho market of the principles on which we havo gone In regulating transporta tion concerns engaged in such' com merco. The Anti-Trust Law should bo kept on tho Btatuta books and strengthened bo as to mako It gen ulnoly and thordughly effective against' overy big concern tending to monopoly or guilty of anti-social practices, At the same time, a National Industrial commission should bo created which should havo ?'omplete power to regulqt.e and con rol all tho great Industrial concerns engaged in inter-stato business which practically m&uiB all of them In tlilo country. This commission should oxerclso over these industrial concerns like powers to those exor cised over the railways by tho inter state Commerce- Commission,, and ever the National banks by tho Comp troller of the Currency, and additional The Tariff "I bellovo In n protective tariff, but 1 bellovo In It as a principle, Ap proached from the standpoint of the interests of tho wholo people, and not as a htindlo of preferences to bo glvn to favored Individuals. In my opinion, tho American peoplo favqr tho principle of a protective tariff, but they dcslro such a tariff to bo established primarily In tho Interests of tho wage-worker and tho consum er. Tho chief opposition to our tariff at tho present moment comes from tho general conviction that certain Interests haTo been Improperly favor ed by over protection. I agree with this view. Tho first step should bo tho crea tion of a permanent commission of non-partisan experts whoso business shall bo to stud) scientifically nil phases of tariff-making and of tariff effects. This commission should bo largo enough to cover all the different and widely varying branches of American Industry. As a further means of disrupting tho old crooked, log-rolling method of tariff-making, all future revisions of tho tariff should bo mado schedule by schedulo as changing conditions may require. Currency "We believe that there exists nn Imperative, need for prompt legisla tion for the Improvement of our Na tional currency system. Tho exper ience of repeated financinl crises In tho last forty years has proved that tho present method of Issuing, through prlvato agencies, notes se cured by Government bonds is both harmful and unscientific. This meth od was adopted as a means of financ ing tho Government during tho Civil War through furnishing n domestic market for Government bonds. U wnn largely successful In fulfilling .that purpose; but that ncud la long past, and the system has outlived this feature, of Us usefulness. The Issuo of currency Is fundamentally a gov ernmental function, Tho system to bo adopted should have ns Its bnslo principles soundness and elasticity. Tho currency should flow forth read ily at tho demand of commercial ac tivity, and retire as promptly when tho demand diminishes. It should be automatically sufficient for all of tho legitimate needs of business In any section of tho country. Only by such menus can tho country bo freed from tho danger of recurring panics. Tho control should bo lodged with tho Government, and should bo safe guarded agnlnst manipulation by Wall Street or tho largo Interests. It should bo made Impossible to uso the machinery or perquisites of tho cur rency system for any speculative pur poses. Tho country must bo safe guarded against over-expansion or un just contraction of cither credit or circulating medium. Conservation There can bo no greater Issue than that of Conservation in this country. Just as wo must conserve our men, women, and children, so wo must con servo tho resources of tho land on which they live. We must conserve the soil so that our children shall havo a land that Is more and not less fertile than that our fathers dwelt In. Wo must conserve tho forests, not by disuse but by uso, making them mines. Moreover, vu must Insure aq far as poslblo tho use of certain types of great natural resource for tho benefit of tho people ns n wholo. Tito public should not nlloualo Its feo In tho wnter power which will ho of In calculable consequence nn a source of power In tho Immedlato future. In tho West, tho forests, tho rai- lug lands, tho reserves of every kind, should be so handled lis to bo In thu Interests of tho actual settlor, tho ac tual home-maker, Ho should bo on cournged to uso them at one, but In such a way as to preservo and not exhaust them. Wo do not Intend tbnt our natural resources shall bo ex ploited by tho. few against tho In terests of the many, nor do wo Intend to turn them over to any jnnn who will wasteful!) uro thorn by destruc tion, and leave to hose who come after us a heritage damaged by just so much. Alaska Alaska should bo developed at onco, but In tho Interest of tho actual set tler. In Alaska tho Government has an opporuntty of starting In what Is almost a fresh field to work out var ious problems by actual experiment. The Government should at onco con tract, own, and operate tho railways In Alaska. Tho Government should keep tho fee of all tho coal-flolda and allow them to bo operated by lessees with the condition In tho loaso that none-use shall operate as n forfeit. Telegraph lines should bo operatod as the railways are. International Affairs In International affairs this coun try should behave toward other na- more valuable at tho samo tlmo that tlons exactly as au honorable prlvato we uso them. We must conservo the 'citizen behaves toward othor private cltUcns. We Hhoulil do no wrong to any nation, weak or at remit, and we should submit to no wrong. Above all, wo should novor In any treaty innko any promise which wo do not Intend In good faith to fulfill. Tho intention that has arisen over tho right of this Nation to charge tolls on tho Canal vlvltllly lllUMlnU tho folly and Iniquity of making trea ties which cannot and ought not to bo kopt. As n peoplo thero Is no lo. son we inoro need to learn than tho Isbkoii not In nn outburst of emotion alism to mako n treaty that ought not to be, niiil could not bo, kept; and tho further lesson that, when wo ilo make n treaty, wo must soberly live up to It as long as changed conditions do no warrant the serious step uf.do nounclng It. Conclusion "Now, friends, this Is my confes sion of faith. I have mado It rather long because I wish you to know just what my deepest convictions uro on the great questions of to-day, so that If you chooso to make mo your ataud-nrd-bearer In tho fight you shall mako your choice understanding ex actly how I feel and, If, after hear ing me, you think you ought to choose some one else, I shall loyally abide by your cjiolco. Tho convic tions to which I have como havo not been arrived at as the result or study !u tho closet or tho library, but from the kuowldego I havo gained through hard experience during the an any years In which, under many and var ied conditions, 1 have striven and with men. "I bellovo In a larger uso of tho governmental power to help rotnedy Industrial wrongs, because It has been homo In oti mo by nctunl ex perience that without tho qxerulrto of snub power many of tho wronus will go unremedied.. Appealing to tho l'eoplo V"I liullevn In n larger opportunity for tho peoplo theuiHolvnu directly to participate In government and to con trol their goverumenlnl agentH, be cause long experience has taught mo that without such control many of their agents wl) reprosout them bad ly, lly actual experience In office I have found that, as n rule, I could se curo tho triumph or tho causes lu whluh I most bellnved, not from tho politician and tho tueu who claim an exceptional right tq speak lu business .dud government, but by going over their heads and appealing directly to tho peoplo themselves. "Surely there never wan it fight bettor worth making than tho one In which wo uro eiiKattod. It little mitt, turn what befalls any one of us who for tho tlmo being stand In tho fore front of the battle. 1 hopo wo shall win. nut, win or lose, we shall not falter. Our causo la banod on the eternal principles of righteousness; and even though wo who now lend may for tho ,tliuo fall, In tho end the cause Itself shall triumph. Now to you men, who In your turn, have como together to spend and bo spent lu tho cndlosi erutado iigalnst wrong, to you who strlvo In n spirit of broth erhood for tho betterment of our Nation, to you who gird your selves for this great now fight In tho never ending warfare for tho good of humankind, I say In closing what In that speech 1 said In clesing: We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for tho Lord." -i ' -. - j WHERE TO 00 TONIGHT THEATRE Advanced Vaudeville Mcenieil Photoplay (JICOIUJi; a ml OTT Hlackfnco sliming, talking and danc ing. Beo tlit'tio jolly Iiovh, Au A ItKCONHTItUCTKI) IIKIIKIi Internal war diuma during tin tlmo of tho Civil Wtir. JIKIl GUT A Iltllu married life ronmnuo faith fully portnoed by tho fiivuilton, Mr. Arthur Joliimou mid MIhn Hrlnco. HMPPKIIY rrOM A comedy ' I Money We Must Have $2 1 ,000 is Needed by Sept. , to Pay Eastern Bills 1st OI.IMPHIX OK IIKMJIIIM Hi-ettlo iieii: .making 11v iianii in ki:nt, i:ngi,ani Industrial u COMING KHIIIAV "Till: FIGHTING IIKHVIHIIIM OI' TIIK DIvNCUr' ' TIiIh picture' wait obtained by the miiutiKoiuent of this theatre at an additional heavy uxintu for tho benefit of Itw patrons, and In tho first production that was iiitulu on the burning sands nt tho Sahara Denett, by thu Kulein Co. Kvery nee no matin lu Kgypt. Watch for tho big fentureu that an coming. GOOD MUUIU We are Certainly going some at this storefor instance a runaway team yesterday attracted by the crowds at this store tried to break its way in' too--We are making merchandise history for MedfordEverything in the store is reduced. Lots of goods at 40c and 50c on the dollar. BEAD THESE BARGAINS FOB INSTANCE THESE ABE THOUSANDS OF 0THEBS fr- Evening performance. 7:30 Admission 10 and ID cents. Special matinees UnturdAy and Hun day nt 3 p. in. STAR THEATRE Under direction People's Amusement Company. ' AIAVWK I.N TIIK LKA1) . Hpcclnl Added Atlrnrllon TIIK GUANO IILKH I'AltADK Portland Ore., July, 1UIS Portraying all imporlniit events. Another Itollanco 2 reel feature "VlltGINIUS", HtiipoudntiH cast, superby stnged HlKgor better brighter "ALMOST A'TUACinilY" A lively comedy drums Women's $6 and $7.50 Black Silk Petticoats 2.98 Women's $2 Lawn Kimonas $1.19 Women's $2 - $3 - $4 Shirt Waists , 98 Children's 75b and $1.00 Wash Dresses 49d - H u . ) Ladies' 50c Union Suits 19d i ' ' 200 Pairs Lace Curtains at Half Price . Women's $7.50 Pure Linen Tailored Suits $2.00 All Portiers and Couch Covers Half Price $2.50 Heavy Blankets $1.89 12c Dress Ginghams .. .". 8$ 20c Table Oil Cloth n 100 Men's All Wool Suits .' Half Price Men's 25c Black and Tan Socks 13 $5 and $6 Gossard and Bon Ton Corsets .'...$3.50 $3.50 Nemo and Bon 3Jpn Corsets .'. .. $1.50 Women's $2.50 and $3.00 Musln Underwear. $1.59 Women's $4.00 and $5.00 Muslin Underwear .......": $2.79 $5.00 and $6.00 All Silk Umbrellas $2.98 $1.50 Long Silk Gloves, Black, White and Colors 89 i, 300 Pairs Children's $2.00 Shoes 9S I2y2c Best Bleached Muslin .".::.?....?.. '. 8 $1.25 and $1.50 Leather Hand Bags .-. 89 i . - 21 NEW PALL TAILORED SUITS CAME IN YESTERDAY, THEY ARE 22.50 and $25.00 QUALITIES WE NEED THE MONEY SO YOU CANBUY THEM THE SAME AS OTHERS AT $12.75 "'' ' ' ' These suits are New York's latest edict in tailored suits for women,. They are made of soft chevoits, scotch mixtures and blue serges, guaranteed all wool, lined with dependable satin linings and the newest length coats and skirt styles. Better buy now whije we, need .the money.- 1 THIS SALE IS FOR j -iiS j CASH ONLY l-tfT-T W1IKIIK 'NIKIWH A IIL'AHT' A genuine thriller U.NOM: HKUIIK.N (lOKrf TO TOWN Our feat uro laugh producer A?i HATIIMIt, The Singer HoallsIJa miiilcnl "effects MATINKBS Admission 10c. DAILY Children fie. ..( '!... fi..-ilfWsJJ ri3P(rr-W Kentners THIS SALE IS FOR CASH ONLY f It- MORTGAGE LOANS Money on lmnd at nil times to loan on improved ranches and city property at lowest rates with "on or boforo privilege " JAMES CAMPBELL Phone 3231 320G-O.Bldg. A SNAP 00 ncroH, six miles from Medford. good urnded road crosnoa tho tract, all froo eoll, nt $50 per aero. $1000 will handle, onny torma on balance. Pn,rt Ih crook bottom land, inltable for alfalfa. Bovoral uprlnga on the plnco. Timber onoueh to pay for tho tract. No bulldluga. In tho arlffin crook district, W. T. York S Co. f Clark 6c WrlghT LAWYERS WASHINGTON, I), O. Publlo Laud Mattern: Fluul Proof, Douort Lnnda, Contoat and Mining ,,., Cnaou, Scrip. 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