MED FORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORU, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1000.
Medford Daily Tribune
A Live Papeb in a Live Town.
Published every evening except Sunday.
MEDFORD PUBLISHING! COMPANY
Qbokob Putnam, Editor and Manager.
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BUSINESS MEN AND TAXPAYERS' TICKET
For Mayor, W. II. CANON .
For Councilman Second Ward, V. L. EMERICK.
For Councilman First Ward, E. A. WELCH.
For Councilman Third Ward, JOHN DEMER.
MR. PERRY'S STRADDLE.
Mr. Perry's position on the liquor question is a strad
dle, an evident attempt to carry water on bolh shoulders
and secure support from both wets and drys.
Either Mr. Perry is a believer in prohibition or a be
liever in high license. He cannot believe in both. He
refuses to state what ho favors, but says he will be bound
by the Btraw vote to the taken next Tuesday", and if the
people vote dry lie will be dry, but if they vote wet, he will
Of course he will, that goes without saying. But what
is he, wet or dry? The consideration of a few facts may
enlighten the situation.
Who circulated his petition?
Prohibitionists.
Who are making his campaign '(
Prohibitionists.
Who are his most ardest supporter?
Prohibitionists.
Who says he is pledged to them?
Prohibitionists.
The Medford Mail, prohibition organ, calls him "our
. ticket"; the Kev. Shields, field commander of prohibition
forces, calls him "our ticket"; Shortie Garnett and other
prohibition generals call him "our candidate."
If Mr. Perry is not a prohibitionist, his prohibition
friends are being deceived.
. The columns of the Tribune are open to Mr. Perry to
state his position on the liquou question, to tell his real
sentiments. . . ...
W1IA T IT RE A LEY MEANS.
cannot conceive of others doing it.
The Tribune advocates high license because it knows
that prohibition is a Sony farce. The editor has lived in
prohibition states and realizes fully the injustice, hypoc
racy, fraud and folly, as well as high taxation and fre
quently stagnation and ruin, that prohibition begets. As
long as the manufacture of liquor is permitted, so long will
it be drunk, if not openly, then clandestinely. And if it
wasn't liquor, .some other vice would supplant it, such is
the frailty of human nature. So the practical .way to han
dle the saloon evil is by regulation rather thai; attempted
suppression.
There is money in it for the prohibition agitator and
money in it for the prohibition newspaper. There is boy
cott from merchants and abuse from pulpits for the paper
that dares to oppose prohibition hence so many editors
have been coerced into stulifying their principles. And it
takes courage to fight prohibition as it does any popular
heresy.
wiiat's TiiirM'VnlrVvrrii medford?
APPLES AND PEARS AND ALL KINDS OF
FRUIT TREES
YAKIMA VALLEY NURSEPY
Largest Commercial Nursery in tne Pacific
Northwest. No', in the coinbine. Competes with
all first-class nurseries
L E. HOOVER, Agent
MEDFORD, OREGON.
Medford Iron Works
E. G. TROWBRIDGE, Proprietor.
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS
All kinds of Encores, Spraying Outfits, Pumps,
r'.;.'ei and Machinery.
Agents in S"rthcrn Oregon for
FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO.
Medford is prosperous. No city of its siza in Oregon
can compare with it. It is making needed improvements
on its streets. 1 1 is spending over $:i")0,000 for a water sys
tem. This has made taxes a little high. - Money is needed.
but people don't begrudge paying taxes if the money is j
wisely expended.
Medford has a good charter, ft gives her home rule.
Medford can, by an ordinance, at any time prohibit the sale
of Jiquor absolutely. But, not satisfied with that, some
gentlemen want to amend the .-barter so that people out
side of town can vote prohibition in the town. They keep
up a ceaseless agitation. With them it is ride if we can,
but if we cannot ride we will ruin by' ceaseless agitation.
What is the use of all this literature telling about the
prosperity of prohibition cities and all these imported agi
tators to tell us how to run Medford, when all any one has
lto do to find out the truth is to visit Grants Puss mid Ash
land and then compare them with Medford.
Medford is the most prosperous of all small Oregon
cities. Leave cond it .lollSl MM Hiev mi'.i nti.l 41... .. ii
aicuuy growill
of the past three years will be maintained. Chantce them1
a.i t. c-.-LuacK. win lonow it may he only temporary, but
it will be a setback, and before conditions have readjusted
themselves to the new regime, unmu other town will have
taken the lead.
The $800 license now in force means .tKOOO year rev
enue that will have to be raised by taxation if lost by pro
hibition. This, added to the already high rate of taxation
caused by heavy bonded indebtedness, practically means
confiscation, depreciation and bankruptcy.
t .
' W11Y AMEND THE CHARTER?
What benefit will accrue to any one if Med ford's char
ter is amended? None.
If the people want a dry town, thev can hnve it, under
the present charter. If they want it wet, they can have it.
Medford's charter gives the people of the city home
ride. Neither state nor county can interfere. I t is an ad
vantage few other cities have, and makes Medford an
object of envy in and out of Oregon.
It would be the height of folly to amend the charter
and lose home rule at the dictation of a few itinerant agi-'
tators and some resident appealers to sentiment.
There is no reason any prohibitionist should vote to'
surrender home government. He can vote the town dry!
as it is.
There is no reason any wet advocate should vote to give j
the farmers of Jackson county and the citiens of rival'
cities the right to dictate to Medford.
If Medford people vote to surrender their ri-dits l,vi
ninnnj;n. i 1. 1. , ........
-uiwjmuK toe cnaner u will make Medford the lauirliini:
stock of the state. h
DESERVING OF AN UGLIER WORD.
It seems hardly worth while to deny falsehoods pub
lished by the prohibition organ, anv mure than it is to
notice the flood of billingsgate nightly poured upon this
paper and its editor by those who, dreaming ,.f political
dictation, have forgotten that thev were ....,.,..... ...
teach brotherly love, but the printed statement that the
Armune opposes promotion and advocates high license
because it is naid to hv fhr
, 13 lie. 11 lSj
evidently as foreign to the nature of the writer of theS
-K'vu cauunny to advocate anything without pay, that he
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Office Fixtures and all klnda of Plan iug Mill Work, Including Turned Work
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Experience Xot Xeccsaary for
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1 1 I North D Street, Medford, Oregon
V K. ENVAKT President.
.1. A. HKKKY, Vice President.
.1011 N a. ORTtt, I'aahier.
W. B. JACKSON, Aaa't Cashier.
THE MEDFORD NATIONAL BANK
MEDFORD, OB.
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Clear Havana Cigru,
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Take the Tribune for News
Medford. Ore.. Jan. 6, 1909. I have
just received the following
Nursery Stock
2U00 Diuter Nellia Pear Trees.
UI00 Da Anjou.
25U0 Peach Treei.
I nlao liave on hand:
3000 Burtlett Pear Tieea.
The above ia good, olauu Jateck at
popular prices.
L. B. WARNER
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of McDonald
Never
Leak
Shoe Oil
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Your Feet
Dry
Pint Bottles - 20c
Quart - 35c
C. W. Mc DONALD
SucGeisor ti Smith & Nmy
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A. 3. B08KNBAUM, Agent.
Medford.
WM. McMUHKAT,
Oauaral Paaacng.r Ajeat,
PORTLAND, OR.