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PAGE TWO ASH LAM) TIDIXGB Thiii-mlay, June 6, 1012. Ashland Tidings SKMMYKI.KLY. KSTA1SI.IMIK1) 1X70. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert It. tlreer, - Editor mid Owner W. H. Gillis, ... City Editor W. E. Ilarnes, - Business Manager Sl'HSCUlPTIOX KATES. One Year J2.00 Hlx Months 1.00 Three Months 50 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Po6to(fice as second-class mail mat ter. Advertising rates on application. First-class job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the Interior. Ahhlaml. Ore., Thursday, June , '12 CI T AND CLEAN. The Chautauqua assembly opens its session this year July 2. As is usual upon this occasion, thousands of valley visitors and strangers will le in Ashland. The city should be dressed in her best garb during these days. All of the weeds should be cut from vacant lots and burned. The streets generally should be scraped and the weeds cut along them. The lime is short for this accomplish ment if the city is put in shipshape before that time. Persons owning vacant lots along side of neighbors who have pride enough in the city to make their yards beautiful have no right to mar the neighborhood by allowing weeds to grow high on them. The city has an ordinance providing that notice shall be given all such owners to cut and clear their lots by a given time. If it is not done, the city has the right to cut the weeds and assess the expense against the lots the same ns regular taxes. This ordinance should be rigidly enforced. While we do not desire to criticise the council, yet there seems to be a kind of laxity in relation to the enforcement of several wholesome or dinances. For example, it seems to shy at the old bain nuisance, at the dog ordinance, and at the weed-cutting laws. In a home city like Ash land it is especially needful that such ordinances be enforced. Healthful ness, cleanliness and beauty are our greatest assets. It Is highly profit able to the city to expend the sums necessary to this accomplishment. Frivate lot owners cannot afford, un der any circumstances, to allow un sightly weeds nnd rubbish to mar the beauty of the city. Manv of the streets are in bad ! condition. Weeds are. growing along! wnHt delightful resort the park is. many of them, and some of them on j Glve ft broadcast invitation for val theslde hills are washed full of holes. ,ev Iople to come and enjoy it. It Every one of them should be cleaned ! wi" do Ashland good. The Tidings and leveled before the Chautauqua opens. The city now has about $3,500 cash in the street fund avail able for this purpose. The work should be undertaken at once and pushed to completion. CHEAP MOXKY. A number of years ago the Cos mopolitan Magazine gathered to gether all of the history of schemes that had been tried throughout the different nations of the world for the issuance of currency. The publica tion was called "Cheap Money," and is -still In some libraries. We would recommend to William 3. Scott, of People's Bank fame, that he give this work a careful perusal. His proposal is much like the John Laws French scheme. His circula tion was based on land values. If a Ierson had land valued at one thou sand dollars he could make applica tion to the government for currency in the sum of four hundred dollars, paying only for the cost of printing and maintaining it, and the govern ment would print the currency and issue it to him, his land standing good for the Issue. John Laws ar gued that as land, at forty per cent of its value, was considered the best security for money loans, it would afford the best basis for currency circulation. To those not familiar with the his tory of the French scheme it will be worth their while to study it, for it proved the most gigantic failure ever recorded. Mr. Scott's plan to issue bonds againBt taxable values to the county is much the same as that of John Laws' and would meet with the same disaster. We need a more flexible currency, but no system Is likely to be devised that will afford as sound basis for currency issue as gold and sliver. All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody, you are benefitting humanity; and the feeling of success comes from the consclousuem. (POLITICS INSTEAD OF lil'Sl.NESS. !l In u factory, if the boss increases;! : the vigilance of his supervision, it is!; 11,11 in at nil i iir vui 'iv v 3 1 1, ruunun their attention to the steel or iron ! it or cloth on which they work. L n- i Ihks thiTf is a nositive friction, a! closer inspection means more work done. The American people are the boss of their civic workshop of govern ment, and every once in four years they begin to look after their com mon business interest. There is pre vailing today an exceptional political tiniest, due to high cost of living and the unsettled relations between thei government and the big corporations. The result is that peoplpe a;-e watch ing the doings of their servants in congress with a very keen attention. A redoubled vigilance and an in creased output might reasonably be expected on the part of our lawmak ers, let the dispatches from Wash ington indicate that the product of I , , , .... , wuuiu experience coum ll uui cnanue useful legislation since congress gotits nietnod and expand, until it final-1 to work December 1 is small, as is ! ly would burst into full bloom in a. always the case during presidential j years. The problems of our great and : growing country are increasing ! acuteness day oy day. A great many of these problemsm are nonpolitical. They do not divide congress on party lines. If congress could ever get , . , , , . j. around to them, useful laws tending to remove obstacles from honest in - dustry could be passed. The abuses in our patent system are a cause in I point, made particularly clear since the decision in the mimeograph case, Congress is about as likely to bother its head over musty pfttent cases while delegates are being chosen, as the boys are to study compound In terest while a ball game is being . played in the school yard. Yet the! proper control of patent rights is ab-1 ..... ...... ' , . ! suiuieiy iieeuiui 10 our iree ousiness , , . ,. . , ., the bowed shoulders of her old fath developnient. j er9 How shall we get orderly, efficient I And there is the little boy who consideration of tariffs and revenue ' delivers the Saturday Evening Post and trusts, comparable to the consid-1 ixriy uuaj uuj, uui, llliuuuuieui lie! eration that a business problem gets Would take enough time to tell her , from the directors of a corporation, I his hopes of going through college, j when our public servants are busy 'and making something of himself. ! mailing copies of political sneeches I were she t0 take sufficient interest ; maiiniK opus or poiituai spceihesto ulk wUh hjm a iule j to constituents, and hasting away! ,, ,,,,,,,, ,. . , ,. I from Washington to sreet the farm- ..... "l"11 f. .l"0 ! ers at the crossroads? OI K I'AKIv. The suggestion of Brother Wolf that societies and picnic parties throughout the valley be invited to use our city park for their gatherings is a good one and should be carried out by the city and the park board. The city park is one of the best ad vertising assets we have. Every body in the valley should be induced to discover by personal experience joins the Record in offering to ad- vertise the matter as far as in it lies. Our park has the greatest natural beauty to be found anywhere on earth, and the artificial development Is beginning to count. The park board has been busy this year. The underbrush has been cut out far up the canyon, new shrubbery and trees have been set, so that another season of growth will develop it to a spot of exquisite beauty. The park board is to be congratu lated on its accomplishments. And this splendid development has been accomplished only by large sacrifice of time and labor on the part of the park board. Enders and So far this season Mr Mr. Badger have given about hair of their time to the work, without compensation. The com munity should appreciate their self sacrificing efforts. These gentlemen exemplify a public spirit, much need- 1 ed in Ashland, and one which if gen erally followed will result in large and speedy material development of this community. TO HELP ALASKA. One step In the direction of self government for Alaska has been tak en in the passage through the house of Delegate Wickershain's bill pro viding for an elective legislature for Alaska. The delegate hopes for fa vorable action in the senate, but all good legislation is now threatened by the plan of the republican and democratic combination to adjourn congress and leave questions like the tariff for political discussion rather (than have them settled by legislative acton. I Live for something, have a defi nite aim In view, but remember your greatest usefulness in this world is to make others with whom you come in contact, happier. This is a great country and a great world. Both are growing better as the days mount Into years. We are not going backward. We must go on. The Home Circle Thoughts from Uie Editorial Pen Most of us feel sympathy for the abjectly poor, and we sometimes send out a thought of pity for the rancid ly rich, with their burden of respons ibility. But there is one class usual ly overlooked when the sympathy i being dealt out, and that is the class referred to by a modern writer as the "Eggsloosives." The reason why we should pity an exclusive person may not be appar ent to the casual observer. But if saw a flower seed that knew not by instinct or education how to ex pand, but whose daily effort was in the opposite direction, toward con traction, we would feel sorry for the poor little ignorant thing, because it could never reach the sunshine, and blossom into beauty and usefulness. True, it would be exclusive, in its own particular little place, and it might not even have any knowledg of freer , air and the joy that it veritable wilderness of flowers aiul iiiuo nun 1 1 ica aim ,i aoa aiiu Ijlill a own sunshine Sn it i with nnnr M ra W cd nrwi vn ghe ,s so ,)lK.ail8e m,ihin- wr ! j hody" ever told her she would be ! happier if she expanded and readied !out an(1 t"''eJ her "ow beings. I , Y"u ?un 8ee ,h(Jr any day, riding ! in lonely grandeur in her autonio- j be wi(h unly her (.hautteur. s,lU. j occupies the tonneati alone. For the only persons she would think worthy j to ride with her are the other "ev lnriulvnu " 11 II d tVliv , 1 1 linvfl mn.Mim,' j()f bcr' own an(,- re olU (,oing ,;, j same exclusive stunt. j The young girl who waits upon ' her in the shop where she buys many of her gew-gaws how can Mrs. Eggs- loosive learn a inucn-neeueu lesson in renunciation, unless she looks into the brave eyes of this young girl who has given up a hope of an education. n order that she ...ay help to lilt the I burden of the family sumiort from S'u.' . :.V...V " u" I to Mrs. Eggsloosive.. True, he is a i ciiicinuri uia mutual , nut; liawilK died when he was a baby. But 1 an. isure he would have been mute about the tragedy of his little life, that his father is a periodical drunkard. Yet if M"s. Eggsloosive would show a human interest in him, it would help him, and it wuld be still more bene ficial to her. For, warmed by the sunshine of love, the seed of her heart would burst its bands of con striction and would push its way up ward and outward . into a world of beauty of which she has not dreamed, while she remains underground in her small area of exclusiveness. Then would she know the benediction that exclusiveness brings to its apos tles. As for the others, let 'em walk, they're used to it! But to return to poor, lonely Mrs. Eggsloosive. She has no way of knowing the joy she could confer upon herself, to say nothing of the poor, old, rustily clad woman who steps to the side of the road to es cape being run down, should she stop i her machine and invite the humble old soul to ride with her. Not from her lofty height of exclusiveness oh, dear no but as woman to wom an, sister to sister. But the stars would pause in their courses before Mrs. Eggsloosive would think to do such a thing. The poor woman can't help it. She prob ably would do It, if some one should tell her to that is, she would after a few cycles of time had shown her that exclusiveness does not pay, does not produce or bestow happiness, and that the man was right who said, "Any one can be exclusive, but it takes a big person to be inclusive," or words to that effect. The pitiable thing about it is. Mrs. Eggsloosive is missing the very best part of life. Why, there is not a day that the inclusive person does not find mental stimulus by coining In contact with the rich and the poor, the high and the mighty, the meek and the lowly, The dear little old lady who lives in the funny little house with the old-fashioned yard fenced in, who has never in her life attended a Real Function, whose daughter works down-town, and comes home at night with her budget of news for the lit tle mother, receiving the tender min istrations of a pair of wrinkled old hands in return how can Mrs. Eggs loosive know that the old lady's mind is as sweet and fresh as one of her own posies? And the old man who keeps the little bakery at the corner, who served all through the Civil War, and gave his only boy during the Spanish-American War how can Mrs. Eggsloosive know the soul thrilling history of those early strug gles contained in his mental store house? JONES IS PAUDOXEU. Man Convicted of Iuid Frauds Ko leased by President. Washington, D. C. President Taft has granted an unconditional pardon to Willard Jones of Portland, Ore. Jones was convicted of land frauds in the famous cases in which the late Senator Mitchell of Oregon and Bin ger Hermann, former commissioner of the general land office, were al leged to be implicated. Tne pardon is based on the grounds that im proper methods were pursued in fill ing the jury box from which the Junes jury was drawn. WHY va(;e-eakxin(J should vote. WOMEX More than seven million women in the I'nited States daily leave their homes to go out in the world and fight beside men for their living. They work under greater disadvan tages and temptations than men, they work for longer hours and low er wages, they bear the greater bur dens of our industrial system, yet they have not the protection which men have of the ballot. Good laws are even more necessary j to the woman, for she is the mother of the next generation, and upon the i conditions under which she works1 depends largely the health of herself' and of her children. The stunted ! growth and impaired vitality of the j English working people today are the I direct results of lack of legislation I in their behalf when the Introduction ' of machinery made possible the great ' exploitation of labor. j It is of the utmost importance that i I that a woman should work under iZ sanitary conditions with protection,? for life and limb, that she should not 1 J work long hours, nor late at night,'? etc. Yet she has no representatives,, to make or enforce the laws so neces sary to her and the community. Working women have gained Lverythiiig themselves, inch by inch (through the union. Without a voice I in the government, they turn to the ! union for protection. They give it j their allegiance. But the union can-; not do everything. They need good j laws to protect them at home as well i as, at work. And they need good : laws far more than the rich. If food Is impure, trust prices txhorbitant, dwelling houses unsanitaiy, public schools bad, public hospitals poor. street cars abominable, police protec- tion inadequate, the rich can pay for j private services. The poor have no i choice. I All these things directly concern women. Her home, her children, are her especial province, but she cannot demand the laws necessary for their protection. Formerly women did not have sep arate interests. Everytmng now made in the factory was then made e no e i nere matena.s were woven, clothes, rugs, candles, soap. matches, untter, cheese, etc., were made. There women did the work. They did not come in contact with the outside world nor share its re snonsibilities. That wns left tn the men. and men n.arie the laws t., ,- , 1 te(:t their own interests. Women had none- Tney were not even taxpay- ?rs- Everything they had belonged to their husbands. A man could even away his unborn child. But when the introduction of machinery removed work to the factories, wo,..- en were forced to follow. They no longer made at home the things they needed; they had to go into the world and earn tl money with which to buy them. The status of women was entirely changed. The form of any government and society depends upon economic con ditions. A change in industrial life brinus in laws and customs. Condi- nulla uuiltri n 1111.11 n uuicll .. Jl ft UIIU live are constantly changing and laws must be changed to meet them. Women are now in daily contact with the world; they do their work in the 1 world and share its responsibilities with men. It is not their choice. It has been forced upon them. The pro portion of self-supporting women is rapidly increasing. Self-protection requires that they should vote. Prog ress demands it. The grounds on which men have obtained an extension of the fran chise are. First, government must rest on the consent of the governed; second; taxation without representa tion is tyranny. These arguments apply equally to women. There can be no democracy where half the pop ulation is governed without its con sent. It is said that all the women will not vote. Well, neither do all the men. But it would be unjust to dis franchise all men because a portion of them do not use the ballot. It is said that "women's sphere is in the home," but this does not apply to the seven million women in America who must leave their homes in order to live. Besides, no woman can keep her home pure in evil sur roundings. A corrupt city taints every home in it. Where women vote, the home-ioving women are among the strongest advocates or suffrage. And this has not been found to make them less womanlv. of TEDDY MAY HOLT. Supi)it'is of Colonel Any Emergency. Chicago. That the Roosevelt sup porters will bolt the republican na tional convention here if the Taft men secure control of the convention by any means which they consider unfair, was indicated in a statement 11c; 111. hair - L'oni - issued by Alexander H. Revell, chair man of the Roosevelt national com mlttee. "If the decision of these contests is flagrantly wrong, manifestly un-! just or unfair," declared Revell, 1 "nobody would respect a candidate I discriminated against in this way if I tamely submitted." j "You may put your own construe-: tion on that. Such a situation is one j wnicn win nave to ne met wnen n arises. This is the people's move ment. The people have plainly indi cated whom they want. If the con test decisions are not fair, the people will not sit Idly by and see robbery by any political organization when it frustrates the popular will which has already been expressed. "We hone that evervthine will come out all right, but we are pre- pared for any emergency. Whatever the situation is, we will meet it with the proper action." It was rumored that the Roosevelt followers have obtained an option on 1 the first regiment armory here, an action which Is believed to Indicate that the colonel's supporters are pre pared to bolt the national convention if necessary. If it is Tidings work it is the best, "I - tl'' - I - F AINT will not be this season. Oils have an upward tendency. Now is the time t to buy. We can furnish you paint at almost any price from $1.25 up. A full line of the latest patterns in wall paper WE WILL CONTRACT YOUR PAINTING AND DECORATING LET US FIGURE YOUR WORK WWI. O. DICKERSON .f.J. J.. Jt J. .9. J. H'V 'F 4" V V W 4" F 'V F V 9r 9F9ir V 'F 4 F I ' F 'IP 'I' FRANK L FRUGONE. New York Italian Editor Op posed to Immigration Bill. of eisel hays 'I)oe" Room. San Francisco. Among other ap pointments for comfort of passengers on the liner Siberia is an opium room, in which Chinese smoke, so testified Charles B. Kenney, lately third officer of the vessel, in a hear ing last Monday before Francis Krull, United States commissioner. "The room Is marked 'Hospital,' " Kenney said, but so far as he knew only opium smokers used it. The records produced show that 1,928 tins of opium, valued at $26, 025, have been taken from the Si beria on her last five voyages. Other Pacific Mail liners which have brought opium during the same per iod are the Mongolia, 317 tins; the Corea, 117 tins; the Manchuria, 153 tins, and the China, 129 tins. The figures speak only for the seizures. Much undetected opium was smug gled ashore, say customs officers. Kenney was caught with opium on his person. More of it was found behind a secret panel in his state room. He is serving three months in the Alameda county jail. In view of the magnitude of the traffic, the United States attorney i has announced that the government I "as announced i.nat uie sovr rnmeni. ! wi'l ii'H'ose the limit of the law 011, "n masters of ships on which contra- j band opium is found. 1- I w' 1 9 by Fulber I I.) IIL4IIK K.VI'UM'.II I Shiu Has ! 4 Spray Jioml STOP THE WORMS "j" ! f ! $ Better Spray 20 CENTS This new Arsenite Compound kills the Codling Moth without damage to the foliage or fruit. Better Spray Neutral Arsenate ot Lead 8 to 10c lb, according to size of package. TOBACCO EXTRACT BLACK LEAF 40 85c to $12.50 per can. Garden Hose 7 to V,c per ft., i 4..,..t4 - 'llf - ' - 1'4'4" had at a lower price and turpentine both X .1. A. -9- J.-- J. .- J. -. -- S - -M -A. V 'I1 V V V I T V F I F F 4 '4' I 4 F F F F V V 'r Granite City Express A. F. Abbott, Prop. Handles Freight, Household (oods and (ieneral Dray Work Office with Rose Bros., Ashland, Ore. Office phone 213R. Res. phone 2 52 It V. V. IIAWLEY Contractor and Builder Remodeling and repairing, etc. 1 years' experience. Address P. O. Box 174 or TELEPHONE 3. Phone 129 27 Jfai?i St. C. II. GILLETTE Real Estate, Loans, Rentals, Conveyancing REE ME ISKFOKE nt'VIXG. FOR SEWING MACHINES AND SEWING MACHINE SUPPLIES SEE E.J.MHHRN Indefkxdent Dealer 280 E. Main St. Phone 112 IH I W. W. WILSON Ashland's Leading X X Blacksmith Is again doing business at ftie old stand, Cor. First Ave. and C Streets t In his new shop. He has all the latest improved machinery J for turning out work with J neatness and dispatch. The shop is up to date in all de- T partments. None but I Employed H"1"1-!"H"I-I"I"H"I-Hi.i.Hmiii ueiuen uooice, me aviator, is working this way from Eugene. He will give a number of flights in Al- bany on Saturday and Sunday next. Zinc Arsenite A POUXI guaranteed, rubber and cotton t t It f4 - V.4.