THE MED FORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1909.
Medford Daily Tribune
Official Paper of the City of Medford.
Published ever-v evening except Sunday.
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TODAY'S WEATHER PREDICTION.
Fair and cool tonight. Warm
A rare and salubrious climat wiii ot remarkable fertility
beautiful (.rettery mountains aton-.l with tfoal, copper and gold
exIniiKive forests streams stocked with speckled beauties gam n
abmidanoe a contented progressive people such is '.he Rogue
Hiver Valley.
Averae mean temperature 56 degrees
Average yearly precipitation 21
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"TO MAKE A RECORD."
THE TARIFF.
"To make a record," is the first effort of every worthy
employe or salaried num. Upon his record depends his
future. . i'W
"Wall street magnates, who control railroads and multi
tudinous corporations, only look for one thing from their
empoyes and assistants dividends. All else is sacrificed.
Knowing the rapacity of Wall street, knowing the nar
rowness with which business is conducted viz.: immediate
profits, development of large areas are retarded and there
by far greater dividends in Ihc future prevented, in the
Bcramble for the penny in sight.
Upon dividends produced under their management de
pend the positions of railroad chieftains. Tf a proposi
tion for expenditure is left to the subordinate, self-protection
requires it rejection, lie cannot afford to take a
chance, and he is always safe erring upon the side of con
servatism. Once in a while there is a far-seeing genius in command,
of a railroad system, who fully realizes that every bit of
territory lapped must eventually yield golden returns.
Such a man is .lames .!. Hill, lie himself shoulders the
responsibility for extensive extensions a responsibility
too great for subordinates and hence his name of " Km
pire I'uildcr." I!ut empire builders are rare.
Every individual manager desires to make a record tor
economy. Kxlcnsions swell the expenditures, without im
mediately increasing receipts. Therefore self-protection
causes their rejection. The fact that next year's earnings
will be greater because of this year's expenditures doesn't
help the man whose position depends upon this year's re
sults. M r. Ilarriman takes no chances affecting the dividends
of his system. lie has spent millions in rebuilding old
lines, which tapped a developed section, where the divi
dends were already in sight. Hut extensions into new ter
ritory, which had the element of chance, have been re
jected. He builds into a developed section, like Puget
Sound, where a certain tonnage is ready, but tabooes a line
into such a region as central Oregon, where the tonnage
is problematical.
Ilarriuiau's system is a safe and sure one for divi
dends. 1 y it he has worked wonders in making money-j
losers profit-payers. Hut Ilarriman is not a pioneer, and
what their chief dare not risk, no subordinate in his employ
will venture. So we have the desire to ''make a record"!
in dividend paying retarding the development of a state.
If others will not act as pioneers in Oregon's develop
ment, the people themselves must. If private corporations
will not build railroads, which make possible the opening
up of large areas of productive territory, then the people
of Oregon themselves must.
The proposition of state aided railroads and district
owned railroads is entirely feasible. The road once built.
can be leased at a profit and operated either by Ilarriman ;
or others, only too glad to avoid the initial investment and
its element of chance.
Tf the district plan had been in operation, the Rogue
River valley could long ago have built the road to the tim
ber bell and the wealth and prosperity of the valley have
been materially increased. And there is no reason why
such a plan should not be made possible to open up re
gions rich in resources, upon which those now in charge
of railroad destinies, dare not take a chance in their desire
to "make a record."
Probably no tariff bill ever enacted has aroused so;
little interest as the present bill now before congress. Peo-j
pie, at least in the west, are absolutely indifferent to the
result. Nine-tenths of them don't even read the news:
concerning the progress of the bill.
Why should people be apathetic regarding a measure j
that concerns the pocketbook of every individual? The
truth is they have become so used to being robbed to en-j
rich special interests that they look upon it is a matter of
course only hoping that the tariff robbers will consider
ately not take more than the traffic will bear. .
The tariff discussion in the senate is a sickening farce.!
It is known beforehand what the result will be.' 'The de
bates arc only grandstand plays to strengthen the posi-i
tion of certain statesmen in their localities to befuddle!
constituencies and to hornswoggle the multitude.
The protective tariff is nothing more nor less than a
gigantic graft, whereby the rich are made richer and the
poor poorer. It is a diversion of the earnings of the many
into the pockets of the few. It is the poor consumer that
always pays the tax and each revision sees the protected
manufacturer growing still richer.
The old slogan of protection and prosperity has been
discarded the panic of 1907 showing how much of a sham
it was. Prosperity does not rest upon taxation, and the
man who would tax himself rich is like the man pulling at
his bootstraps to lift himself over a fence.
The tariff sandwich is a strip of fat, juicy meat for the
special interests between the dry crusts of breath for the
many. Poverty, not wealth, is taxed by it. The spread
eagle flub-dub about protection for American industries
and workingmen, thrown out to lull the ears of the unthink
ing multiude, is but sounding brass and tinkling cymbal
the tintinabulations of old tin pans.
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FOR SALE
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right to water. Two miles from railroad station, quar
ter mile from schoolhouse, on rural delivery rout.
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