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VOL. II.
MEDFORD, OR., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1908.
NO. 26!)
VETERAN OF
STAGE REPLIES
TO PREACHER
Ed. Andrews Answers
the Rev. R e u t e r
Talks of Foot Lights
and Religion.
Sev. W. C. Reuter: 3o Dear ttir and
Friend I have read your article im Sat
urday's Tribnue in which you ask ine
tt answer your urguiueuta. 1 feel that
yaa have done this better than I could
da it myself, uud to attempt to add to
what you have said would be "gilding
rofiued gold aiid adding a hue unto the
rainbow. '
Tou make a charge uguiust the uiurul
ity of the stage and its followers and
then bring forth these same actor as
witnesses to prove your case ufter you
liuve already impeached their charac
ters. But granting that these actors
whom you cite are worthy of belief, it
is after ail only the opinion of the few
against the many. Suppose I were to
take the evidence of clergymen who
have forsaken their profession (and
tbey are many) as proof positive
against the entire christian fabric f As
to my slip up in history, regarding the
burning of witches, I humbly apologize
to the first American congress. It w&a
the orthodox churches of that time that1
clung with tenacity to the old superati-j
lions; but come, let us "leave this'
keen encounter of our wits and fall
mto a somewhat slower method." Let
us view this subject in a broader light
Where is the difference between your
views and mine! To answer this let
lis go back to the inception of the be
lief that the christian world now holds,
r Goes Back to Abraham.
The pxKhor of the spirit or invisible
God idea was Abraham. Dim history
tnfcbi us that his father was a maker of
idols , and the young Abraham worked
with his father at bis trade. W can
new easily understand how he reasoned
upon the subject as he worked at carv
ing wood or atone images. "What
power has this wooden idol that I have
wrought T In what way can it benefit
met From whence came I and whither
an T to gof" .
These thoughts daily perplexed the
brain of the youth until out of the dark
ness of idolatry came the concept of the
spirit Ood, the germ principle of relig
ion, the love of man for his fellow-man.
ht he was at onco confronted by ma
terialism, laughed at by those who be
lieved in senseless forms. He left the
eotntry of hiB nativity and gathered
about him followers whom be impressed
with hiB belief, bu tsoon they drifted
beJc to the material - and on down
through his descendants, the war be
tween Jehovah and Ball went on.
fuses led th echildren of Israel oot
f Egypt and through his long, weary
march through the wildorness, was up
hald and guided by Jehovah, his Ideal,
his spirit God; but he, too, was beset
by the materialism of his people, and
a bis return from the mountain where
he "had talked with God," he found
fake Israelites worshipping the golden
caff; and so on down to the christian
at the advent of Christ we find
Wi most- advanced people of the times
aleavoring to please rind with eaeri
fiiea and the burning of animals.
Growth of Religion.
Christ pave aeain to the world the
spirit religion and emphasized
fon the golden precepts, "Love thy
eighbor as thyself." "To unto others
as ye would that thev should dn unto
'.a," "Suffer the little children to
cme umt me. f.ir of such is the king
dam of heaven," and so on; and the
dis'-ipltH and th
enrly believers in t htH 1
trath, worshipped in a simple, priinj
tivi form. Tli'Tr were no creeds; even
he form of bapt ie:n that Christ favored
is in doubt.
Instead of lofty church's, (lie early
christians of Homo worshiped in the
sand pits outside the ivty. lighted by
torches. Their religion was "the fath
erhood of God and the brotherhood of
man." j
But again we see the chrit world
drift iiit; awnv frrn this r-liglmi of '
simplicity, waging wirs in defetue of j
P'ftty differences. 1
quisitien. of tle r-c '
and nil the torfuri
name of him who su
'.. rortd o" th- ill
, tile tl'UITlh HcreW
inflicted in the
I ' ' T.o e j.oir on
fies.
TrS cf Tr"h 'rvives.
But down tlif.'iiirh all the centuries
error and misdeeds ran the thread
C. H. PIERCE
This is C. II. Pierce & Son, reliable real estate denlers of Med ford. They are doing an extensivo business,
based on "square dealing." Tou ua n depend on them to give you reliable information ou investments in Med
ford and The Rogue River Valley. Located upstairs in the Miles building.
ANTI-TRUST
E
FederalSupremeCourt
Holds that Unions
Can be Held for Dam
ages Under Clause.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. That a ace
tion of the. anti-trust law awarding
complainants three times the amount of
damage sustained by a combination in
restraint of the interstate trade, can
be invoked to prevent a boycott by or
ganized labor, wus held today in a de
cision by the supreme court of the Unit
ed States in the case of Lowe and com
pany, hat manufacturers of Danbury,
Conn, vs. Martin Lawler and 200 other
members of the United Hatters of Union
City. The decision revised the holding
of the United States eircuit court of ap
peals. HEAVY SHIPMENTS CAUSE
BIG SLUMP IN WHEAT
CHICAGO, Feb. 3. Exceedingly
heavy shipments from Argentina caused
a slump in wheat today to the amount
of over 9,000,000 bushels. The market
opened with a flood of selling orders,
which continued throughout the day. At
itmcs the market was almost demoral
ized. Prices steadied somewhot just
before the close.
of truth, the spirit Ood idea that rest
ed upon no form, no creed nor ritual,
and the clergy hare clung with tenac
ity to the old superstitions and have
been the last to give ground. Tbey
were sincere and zealous, but the re
sults of their mistakes were none the
less terrible. They are the dark pages
in history.
Now, Brother Renter, we are here liv
ing in the 20th century, and in spite
of evil prophesv the world is growing
better. We are building asylums for (
1 ht- poor and unfortunate; we are more
humane to those nlin have broken the
law; we are viewing Ut datid Christian
ity in a broader and more comprehen
sive light. Does it not hark back
toward the middle ages to nay that the
er at or of the universe tie' od who
shap d the myriad worlds and holds
the waters in the hollow of his hands
is it not belittling thi d'-itv to snv
that He would bo offended nt a few
young people in Med ford moving in the
circling waltz to three fourths timet
Ymi would not condemn marching at
12 time. Why should this difference
'! teMl'.o offend th" IfM of tj uni
verse! And. to reproduce upon the stage
some act that has transpired in life
this, too, is an offonsof
Golden Rule Still Lives. ,
My brother, things are cnanging ,
at Jnif religion, but the material
LAW OUR
FOR STRIKES
& SON REAL ESTATE DEALERS
COMMERCIAL CLUB j
ELECTION TONIGHT!
The anjuul election of officers of the
Al I'd ford Commercial club will be held
tonight. The meeting was adjourned
last October to the tlrst .Monday iu
February. So far as kuowu, there is
no slate in the field, and no one is run
ning for office. President Perry is not
a candidate for re-electiou, and Profes
sor Nnrregau refuses a second term, as
secretary. Many new members are ex
pc-cted to eotno iu.
EXCURSION TO CALIFORNIA
ARRANGED FOR FIFTEENTH
Owing to the necessity of giving the
stnto ruilroad commission ten days' no
tice of the reduced rate, the excursion
will leave Mud ford Sunday February
16, at 10:35 a. m., instead of February
11, as planned. Enough have signified
their intention of going to in mi re the
excursion. Names should be left at
the depot.
. The low rate of (31.35 a round trip,
with stopovers as you please within the
limit of the ticket, which will be 30,
da vs. has been arranged for. Evervone '
desiring to go should advise the local
agent, so that sleeping space may be pro
vided for all.
See San Francisco rising from the
ruins, likewise San Jose; visit Del
Monte and Pacific Orove, Santa Br
bara, Lob Angeles, Pasadena, Riverside,
Rcdlands, Catalina islands; see the old j
wells, the ocean
the flying fibb ridt
in the glus sbottom boats: see the bot-
torn of the ocean, the stock farms
nround Bakersfleld, the great raisin belt ing of the Butte Creek company, a gov
at Fresno, the irrigated San Joaquin eminent exhibit, wns not the one re-
valley, all for u ver ylow rate of fare,
, I
Raisuli Promises to Free Caid McLean. J
LONDON, Feb. 3. A government to-: know nothing of the Tillamook enso un
egTnm from the British charge d'uf- til 'WHI, when he received instructions
faires at ftTngior is to the effect thut from Hull and special agent Oroen in
Raisuli. the bandit chief, has promised I regard to it. He did not remember a
to bring in Caid Sir Hurry McLean to
day, exactly seven months from the
ti up he was taken prisoner by Raisuli.
trnppinga. A few years ago our prede
cessor! believed in a devil with a
tail, but time has worn it off and the
ology baa now given us a very respectable-looking
devil (barring a little de
fect in the feet).
As to my five essentials, on which
you seem to havo rested your case, does
not instruction include religious us well
ng secular knowledge!
In the cemetery of the past lie buried
the nivriad gods that ruled through the
long
enturies of night. In the forest's
shade is heard no more t he Dryad s
solemn chant. The stream sripple down
their ouiet wooily way to the sea, but
no Naiads bathe. Thor and din no
longer rule the realms of the north. The,
gods have gone from high Olvmpin. and ,
Venus, whose heart beat with love f, ?
a thousand years, now sleeps in dull, j
coll marble. Along the baftWs of the;
Nib. Ills nn lri;."T wind -ring, weeps j
for the dead Osiris. Th- throne of I
Monition is deerted: hushed are tin!
thunders of Sinai. The nivth ;ind sn
prstit ions that chin; to sweet rili.;
ion rind made it a rhuo.odv of wrd
are a No of the past; but truth jfill live
and from the din and tumult of th
past wo still hear a gentle voico
A
ing: " Inasmuch as ve hav
ilme it
nnto one of the least of these mv
brethren, ye have done it nnto me. "
KD A NDKE'.V?.
TILLAMOOK
LAND FRAUDS
RESURRECTED
Heney Introduces
Evidence to Prove
that Hall Favored
Wealthy Defendants
PORTLAND, Feb. a. Tbe Tillamook
luud grabbing case wus resurrected by
the prosecution in the John. 11. Iloll
caie for the purpose, Francis J, Heney
explains, of showing that Hall us Unit
ed States district attorney, tried to pro
tect tbe influential defendants, us he
i alleged to have in the case of the
Butte Crook Lood, Livestock k Lum
ber company, for which he is now on
trial, charged with conspiracy.
Kdwtn Mays, who was co-defendant
with Hall, but who wus discharged for
lnck of evidence against him, testified
today to a map showing the illegal fenc-
ceived by Hall, who was his former
chief, iluys testified favorably to Hall
in other ways today, and said that be
U-onversntion with Chnrles K. Hays.
Heney introduced Charles K. Hnyn,
Kdwurd X. Dcudy and S. C. Spencer.
Hays testified that he wns introduced
to Mays and Spencer in 1901, and pre
sented data nnd nsked that information
be file dngainst the men concerned in
the alleged Tillamook conspiracy and
that after a conference with Hays, be
wns referred to Hall,
Heney announced during the recess
that In would have the indictment pend
ing against Hays dismissed. Heady also
testified to facts which tend to show
that Mays and Hall had been advised
of conditions in Tillamook.
Loft Bride in Six Days.
K tSKMUHd. Or.. Teh. X Lulu and
Walter Smith lived together just six
days tifter tlnr ninrnag-- in Josephine
county. July 'SA, lit'"!, according to the
ci'inplaint of the former, who has been
t.'rant'il a divorce in the Circuit court
here. Mr. Sintih alleged that her hus
band de-e rted loT Jlllv 'MK lt'H. at
Wend) i eg. I-.mic county.
Firt- Pnow in Portland.
POWTLAND. P b. X Th" first real
-now of the winter is falling here to
day
Mrnv Tnlurcd in Collision.
PITTSftriMI. Peli. 3.- Many wnr in
juri'd, s'-veral erioufly, when two street
cars collide! on the Hinithfield bridge,
A score iiuirM merlicnl attention. A
J. fectite braTia wf tbe eaoa.
KING CARLOS
OF PORTUGAL
ASSASSINATED
Premier Franco Re
signs and Man u el
Becomes King
Crown Prince Killed.
LISBON, Fib. :t. King Carlos uud
tho crown prince were unsaasiiiated Sat
urday. Three of the regicides who par
ticipated iu the deed were themselves
instantly killed by the soldiers guard
ing the royal carriage, while one who
was placed under arrest committed sui
cide in prison. The king's second son,
mauuel, became king.
It is charged that, one of the inur
dirers was a Spnninrd named Cordo
va. The names uf the others are un
known. The royal family were return
ing from Villa Vicosa, where they hud
been sojourning. The carriage had ar
rived at the I'oruer of the Brndo d
Commereio and Kuado nrseiuil, when
the assassination took place. The ns-
sessiiis suddenly sprang toward the car
riage ami, leveling carbines, which they
had concealed upon them, fired, mor
tally wounding the king and crown
prince ami slightly wounding the. king's
second sou, Prince Manuel.
The king and crown prince, upon
whom the attack wns directed, were
each shot three times and they lived
only lung enough to be curried to the
mariue arsenal near by, where they ex
pired. Almost at the first shot the king fell
back ou the ciiHhious, uud at tint same
mo incut the crown prince wns seen
to half rise and then sing back on the
seat, (ueen Amelia attempted to shield
tier sou, out. railed, and had a narrow
escape.
Premier Franco has relinquished pow
er, and u new cabinet litis b i formed
with Admirul IVrriera Do Amaril as
president in place of the late dictator
Franco. He has agreed to a step calcu
lated to pacify hostile public opinion
at the time when only a spark is nced-
d to inflame the whole country and
hurl it headlong to revolution. Nev
ertheless, it in" believed that Frnrico
will still be the'"inau of jmwer" but
bis official prerogatives, ut least, are
shorn of real authority.
At the opening sension of the new
council held today King Kmantiel II
appeared before the ministers and In
a voice vibrant with emotion said: "1
nine yet without experience, either in
science or in politics. I place myself
entirely iu your hands, needing and
believing in your patriotism and wis-,
dom."
Arrests are being made by the whole
sale of nil suspicious persons under po-
-
f 2
W . t .) V,-:t
GLORIA DABB,
PUBLICITY
IS CURE FOR
TRUST ILLS
Commissioner Smith
Says Public Opinion
Corrects Corporate
Abuses at Once.
WASHINGTON, Keb. 3. Public at
tention has been prompt and efficient
iu the correction of commercial evils,
when those evils are stated spescifically
This is one conclusion readied by Her
bert. Knox Smith, commissioner of cor
porations, us expressed in his annual
report of the operations of tho bureau
of corporations made public today.
"Thus," says Commissioner Smith,
"tlie experience of tho bureau seems
to point logically to the need fur exten
sion of siihc results by the creation of
i a general administrative system of su
j pervision of interstate corporations,,
iwhich shall give in substant iallv the
same fore as is furnished now fur a f in
corporations the essential facts relating
to all great interstate corporations."
The repor.t says that the time ts ripe
for such a system for corporate combin
ation, as tin economic necessity, and
that it is not the existence of industrial
power, but its misuse that is the veal
problem.
TWO KILLED, MANY HUET
IN WRECK IN MICHIGAN
DKTItOlT, l-'eb. X A Wabash pasMen-ger-eiistbound
and a Consolidated Chi
cago & Ht. Louis were wrecked near
Britton, a station 47 miles from here,.
Inst night, probably by a broken raiL
Two women passengers were killed and
:t4 persons injured, including a number
of theatrical people. The injured were
brought to hospitals hero by a relief
train.
KirNBUItV, Pa., Keb. 3. Heveu were
killed and a hul fa do.en injured by
the explosion of a boiler in the rolling;
mill of-Van Allen & Co. at North I'm
berland, nunr here.
POUT LAND, I'Vb. 3. Fire this morn
inn In the hiiihliiiu' nt 01 mA U'A Prmit
street damaged Pease lee Brothers print
ing plant, P. Xirnmermun, wholesale
liounrs. nnd id (mm. anil tmunrfil nl hi.i-
smuller establishments, and the building,
$30,000. Tho building was owned by ft.
H. Huston.
lice surveillance. Up to 4:30 o'clock
this afternoon there was no recurrencn
of disorders in Lisbon. The Portuguese
frfontier is being closely guarded to
prevont tho escape of suspects. There
is a strict eonsorsbip upon all outgoing
telegraph messages.
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