MEDEORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1909.
M r:,rd Daily Tribune
A Live Papeu in a Live Town.
Published every evening except Sunday.
MEDFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Geokoe Putnam, Editor and Manager.
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BUSINESS 'MEN AND TAXPAYERS' TICKET
For Mayor, W. 1L CANON.
.For Councilman First Vard,-E. A. WELCH.
, For Councilman Second Ward, V. L. EilERICK.
' For Councilman Third Ward, JOHN DEMER.
PROHIBITION THAT PROHIBITS.
Can a law be made to stop u man Ironi drinking if No,
it cannot. Therein only one law that can that does: "Don't
drink." Turn back the pages of history long before this
republic was instituted and all records show that every
compulsory law enacted has been a failure. Not a single
state in the Union can contradict it or any truthful man.
"Education" against this evil influence of drink alone can
Stop it. . j
Compulsion sinrply whets the desire to protect individ
ual rights. If a man is told by his fellow-men, " We will
'compel you,' " he revolts. That is "human nature." Agi
tation by paid agitators simply aggravates the case, and is
the cause of untold evil. Harrowing tales deftly told by
traveling agitators put money in the pocket of the agitator
and excite good meaning people into passing harmful
measures. ... , ... '
Moreover, no town with a cosmopolitan population like'
Medford ever advanced by prohibition. It simply de
scends from the "metropolis to the necropolis." No am-'
ount of boosting can change the beaten patli of figures.
The same story business dead, rents fallen, empty build-j
ings, drug stores increased, blind pigs rampant, drunken-'
ness increased not only Oregon's story, the same in every
state in the Union, from Maine to California.
What does the paid agitator care I He has furnished
the agitation, got his money and deftly pursues some new
"scheme." Moreover, no business man or capitalist will
invest his money in any community that is subject or will
be subjected to sensational agitation where laws can be
enacted that will endanger the earning of his interest. That
also is human nature. Touch the pocketbooks of even a
"prohibitionist" and he will howl long and loud. Yet a
large majority of them think it their duty to do as they
please with other people's pocketbooks.
Vote Medford "dry" and the taxes will appeal to the
most rabid agitators. Taxes will increase, and not a foot
of property can escape ils just share, which will be heavy.
It will simply put a ban on I he town, and not only keep out
side capital from investing, but take out of the city a vast
sum that must be made good from the taxpayers.
jfthd those people from other communities who visit
and pass through will simply locate where they are free
moral agents and can do as they see fit.
The right way is to make the saloons pay a "high
license," with strict polict surveillance. It is the only so
lution so far that has ever been found practical in any
country under the sun. .11' the "agitators" would feed the
hungry, clothe the naked and help the unfortunate, teach
them the evil effects of drink, they would accomplish some
thing lasting, but, they don't do anything of the kind. "Sen
sation" is the chief object, and the natural sequence, the
dollar for the "agitator."
Vote iMedford dry and she will branch out with "near
beer," a new crop of drug stores, more sly drinking and
immense increase in taxes, with no moral improvement.
MORE APPLES NEEDED.
A THORN IN THE FLESH.
The prosperity of Medford is a thorn in the flesh of
prohibitionists. That such an oasis should exist in the
desert of dryness and outstrip all rival comnnuiities is ex
asperating to the last degree, as it is a conrplete refutation
of the argument that prohibition brings prosperity and
self-evident proof of its falsity.
Every one can see for himself the workings of prohi
bition in Ashland and Grants Pass. Ashland's tax levy
has been doubled and there is a deficiency of .ftiOOO in city
revenues and no public improvements. Grants Pass has
business stagnation. Taxation has really doubled and no
public improvements. There are many va-ant store
rooms. In either city it is easy to secure a drink. A few
weeks ago a drunken man committed a wanton niurdef
in Grants Pass and last Saturday four Ashlauu schoolboys
were arrested for drunkenness.
Taxation has increased and business decreased in
other towns voted dry by the farmer vote, while in all there
is plenty of booze. At Pendleton there are 19 vacant store
rooms, where there were none before the June election, and
many costly prosecutions have not resulted in convictions.
At Klamath Falls liquor is sold as openly as before the city
went dry. It is easily secured at Rosehurg, Eugene and
other towns. At Rosehurg the total tax has soared to 32
mills. - !;
Because Medford is distancing neighboring cities,
every effort is being put forth by radicals to change the
charter and bring Medford into the same class as other
cities and deprive her of home rule. Hence nou-tax'pay-ing
speakers and itinerant agitators have been rushed here
and papers printd elsewhere distributed, telling the people
of Medford how to manage their affairs by srrrendering
control of their citv.
BOYCOTTING THE TRIBUNL.
Advertising is a business proposition.
It pays, or people wouldn't advertise.
Given circulation and the knowledge of writing adver
tisements so that they are read, and results become a prob
lem in arithmetic.
A business man does not advertise for sentimental
reasons except, perhaps, a good-will card or some such
courtesy. When big space is used and new mat.tor fur
nished daily, it. is for results.
The fact that a merchant uses space in a paper does not
give him the right to dictate the policy of that paper. The
paper is run to suit the editor, not the advertiser. N two
advertisers think alike and it would be impossible to print
a paper satisfactory to all.
One of the Tribune's largest advertisers has recently
violated its contract and boycotted it because it did not fa
vor prohibition. Many former advertisers followed the
same course. It was their privilege. But none of them
found it necessary before to rush into print with abuse of
the paper because they could not control it.
Ride or ruin is not a new policy for prohibit i-vnists to
(pursue. Wvery one mat does not agree witu mem is deemed
corrupt.
The Tribune has the largest circulation of any daily in
Southern Oregon and has advertising space to sell at rates
justified by its circulation, but advertisers buy advertising
space, not editorial policy.
"Horticulture" a fruit periodical, shows the impossibil
ity of overdoing the fruit business in the following article:
.'Radical changes are necessary in the culture of ap
ples on this continent or the United States and Canada
will be forced in a few vears to minor! aimles insd-ail of
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exporting them. If it had not been for the enormous
crops in the orchards of the Pacific and in rth western
states and provinces this year an apple famine would have
resulted.
Many of the middle western and eastern states reported
small yields this season, due to failure in numerous in
stances, but generally because of pests. Orchards have
been neglected, and in scores of daces the trees have been
permitted to die because of the lack of even ( rdinarv at
tention. In JSitti the total product of the crop of the count rv was
(i!),070,()UO barrels, or 177,(i7;,000 bushels. Since then' hun
dreds of thousands of acres have been added and methods
oi fruit growing have improved, yet the government re
ports show that the aggregate crop in all the states in
the Union was not more than ''."),( 100,000 battels or li" -500,000
bushels in 1!H)S.
There will always be markets for apples. There never
can be an overproduction of first -class stock. It is in fact
impossible at the present time to produce the quantity of
good .apples requisite to meet the demand. Tnis is evid
enced by the fact that Kngland, Germany, Krai ice, Den
mark, Australia and the Orient are already drawing upon
the orchards in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and British
Columbia."
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Medford, Ore., Jan. 6, 1909. I have
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Nursery Stock
2000 Diater Nellw Pear Treei.
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2500 Peach Trees.
I also have on hand:
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