Medford daily tribune., May 25, 1909, Page 4, Image 4

THE MEDFORD BAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFOBD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1909.
Medford Daily Tribune
Official Paper of the City of Medford.
I'ultlislied everv evening except Sunday.
MEDFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
Geoboe Putnam, Editor and Manager.
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TODAY'S WEATHER PREDICTION.
Fair weather is promised for tonight and Tuesday.
A rare and salubrious climate uii 1 remarkable fertility
beautiful scenery mountains stored wilb coal, copper and gold
extensive forests streams stocked with speckled beauties game in
abundance a contented, progressive people such is 'Jie Rogue
Hiver Valley.
Averago rueau temperature 55 degrees
Average yearly precipitation 21 inches
A MUGK-ltAKE MOSES.
In another column Attorney MeMahan gives his argu
ments for his threatened injunction against the Crater
Lake road appropriation. The legal arguments ho makes
have heen fully answered by Judge Colvig. The very
decisions he cites will in themselves sustain this appro
priation. The bill was drawn to conform to these deci
sions, and passed upon by the attorney general before its
introduction. All Mr. MeMahan could do is to delay con
struction. -
In his communication, Mr. MeMahan makes some very
specious arguments, none more absurd than "the way to
build up Oregon best is to rut down taxes." The way to
build up any state or county or community is to increase
taxes, providing the money is wisely spent. The state that
does not spend money in developing itself is a dead slate,
and the community that does not do likewise is almost a
morgue. No progressive citizen halts at taxation, pro
viding it produces the results.
Mr. MeMahan has constituted himself a watchdog of
the slate treasury, presumably for the advertising there
is in it. Take Don (Quixote of old. he busies himself in
attacking windmills. In his bilious vision, the times are
sadly out of joint and mankind a pack of rogues. Office
holders are grafters, legislators are thieves, and the courts
composed of crooks.
It is a relief to find in the midst of this bedlam of
roguery one honest, disinterested, patriotic citizen a
muck-rake Moses, to lead us out of the land of outrageous
fortune into the bright sunshine of the milleniuni where;
graft and taxes and courts shall be no more and the moss
backs may vegetate undisturbed.
Diogenes' long search through the centuries is ended!
and he can douse the glim and go back to his bed in the
bathtub - he has fuiind MeMahan who, like Royal baking
powder, is absolutely pure. ;
rnr it vex siioi'U) ouuasize. ,
The necessity of fruit growers in the Rogue River val
ley organizing is made more apparent each day.
Uniformity of pack is absolutely essential, or the repu
tation of the fruit will suffer. It can only be secured
tliront;li oi'fanizal ion.
To get the highest prices for products, organization is
essential. Otherwise the grower is at the liierev of the
commission man.
California fruit growers long ago learned their lesson.
Mood River growers have learned theirs. Rogue River val
ley growers must follow in their steps or lose money.
An insight into the way the commission men 'rob the
hand that feeds is triven in the June number of Every
body's Magazine by l-Wrest Crissev. Hp details the graft
and robbery r.n ticcil by commission men and how all
hut tin' largest growers are deliberately pilfered.
"In everv honest heart.' savs Mr. Crissev. "is the ac
knowledgement of a first debt of gratitude to those who
grow things. The man of the garden, the orchard, and
the field, who sets his wits to aid his toil against the odds of
weather and weeds and pests, is a figure to whom all give
increasing honor. That peculiar homage which the civil
ized world pays to Luther Bnrbank. the 'wizard of the
plant world,' is a significant evidence of the almost uni
versal prevalence of this sentiment.
"Rut. there is one place in which it is smothered and I
outragiHl ; the market place to which the grower sends his
goods represents as consistently low nn order of commer
cial morals as may he found in the whole country."
Mr. Crissev then shows how growers and small ship
pew are defrauded of their profits by these "unspeakable.
prowlers in the garden." lie instances a woman cruelly
deprived of her all, of a grower who finally came to let
ting his crops rot on the 'ground rather than submit to the
devilish practices alleged against the dishonest commission
agent. Jt makes an interesting story, but if time a great
mam' apparently respectable business men deserve the re
straints of a prison.
Mr. Crissey concludes as follows:
" 'Knocking down' on the shipper, rejecting his ship
ment on the false ground of 'off quality' when the market is
on a decline, forcing sales at the hands of transportation
agents these are the familiar and stock devices of the
produce dealer and are in daily use in the market streets
of the country. They are not the glaring exceptions to
the common standard of practice, .not the variation,? from
the prevailing moral temperature of the place and the
business; they are its ordinary incidents, known by all in
the game, regretted by some who contrive to preserve-a
higher pitch of integrity, and winked at or actually prac
ticed by the many."
Only by thorough organization can the fruit grower
receive what he is entitled to, and the longer local organ
ization is delayed, the worse for the orchardists.
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