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PAGE TWO ASITLAX1 TIDINGS Thursday. June 20. 1012. Ashland Tidings . SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert R. Greer, Editor and Owner W. H. Gillis, - - - City Editor W. E. Karnes, - llusiness Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES." One Year $2.00 Biz Months 1.00 Three Months 50 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 39 Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mail mat ter. Advertising rates on application. First-class job printing facilities. Equipments second to none in the Interior,' , Ashland, Ore., Thursday, June 20, '12 ELECTRIC LIGHTS. Some folks are very, very foxy. Since the city council passed a reso lution to pay the electric light plant a reasonable sum for the current consumed in lighting the streets the Siskiyou company comes forward and offers to furnish the juice for about half that price. Why didn't the Sis kiyou company think of that sooner? Before the city plant was installed if that company had reduced its price for service, as it now proposes to do, instead of Increasing it 4 0 per cent over the then high rate, as it did do, there might have been some sense to it, and it might have overcome the demand for local competition in the form of a municipal plant. The Siskiyou company's proposi tion is not in good faith. It does not desire that the municipal plant be J made to pay. It wants the credit given the municipal plant so reduced that it will be made to appear to lose money, in the hope of eventually dis gusting the people and influencing them to discontinue the city plant. Mr. Siskiyou Company, you are on the wrong track. The municipal plant Is here to stay, if for no other reason, to keep your rates within bounds. If the city plant produced nothing it would 'still be a money-making proposition to keep it running in .or der to keep your company from hold ing up the people, as it' attempted to do Just before the municipal plant I was installed. "COMMON CLAY." It is said that a number of the richest and noblest lords and dukes of England are annoyed at the re cent conspicuous publication of the facts about their ancestors, who are not very remote, and who were mighty poor and humble yeomen, mechanics and petty tradesmen. It does take the edge off of 'em a bit, but it is encouraging for the rest of us. It is lucky Indeed that there is only one kind of clay, and that anything that ranks above is the production of education, environ ment, develpoment. Take two bableB born today. The tenement baby has all the potentiali ties that are wrapped up in the baby born in the home of wealth. They are made of tbe same stuff. One is as good as the other. The trouble Is that they don't have an equal chance. It is the business of civilization to see that we shall make the most of our common clay all of it and slowly, gradually, through the un folding years, we shall fiud the way to do It. Common clay Is the material from which we mold all shapes of beauty and of light in the world of human ity. MOTHER OF BIO MONEY. New York state Is collecting big money by means of its inheritance tax and it is Interesting to see how the very great fortunes were ac quired, every one of them growing out of conditions that did not exist a century ago. For instance, the big gest fortunes were made in railroads; the next biggest in gas, electric light and other public utilities, and the only manufacturers who piled up multi-millions were those engaged in mergers or trusts. Fortunes of mer chants and landlords were compara tively small. Joseph Pulitzer's for tune is at least $40,000,000 and pos sibly half as much again was made In metropolitan Journalism. That was exceptional. If you had to name lhe mother of these big fortunes in a word you would say Monopoly. Character is a fear destroyer. Guilt -rrooms fear. Fear conies quick audi overwhelms the public man conscious that his ulterior purpose hides be hind l)ut a show of public service. Character seeks light. Guilt cowers at the first intimation of publicity. HISTORY OF A DELUSION. Do you remember Peffer of Kan sas? If you do, probably you recau nothing except his whiskers, which waved hilariously in thousands of cartoons from the moment he came to prominence in the politics of his state to the moment of his retire ment from the United States senate. Peffer at 82 is in a hospital at Topeka, minus a leg to avert death from bone infection. He submitted to the amputation of the left leg, and this was only another sacrifice for the cause he holds dear the popu list cause. You see, he was in the midst of an elaborate article, "The Rise and Fall of the Farmers' Alliance," and was bound to finish it "If it takes a leg," which it actually did. Young citizens may be Interested to know what that wild-eyed populist movement of twenty odd years ago was all about. Well, they fought for a lot of halrbralned radical ideas. Here are some of them: Direct pri maries law, public utilities commis sion, direct vote for United States senators, prohibition of railroad re bates and discriminations, initiative and referendum, recall of judicial decisions. Were those populists insane? No. Just. dreamers who talked about "the rule of the people." They were laughed off the face of the earth. Of course, it was easy to answer them. All you had to do was to point at Peffer's whiskers'! Could you imagine anything more conclu sive in the way of an Intellectual clincher? Hardly. But even in his old age Peffer clings to these delu sions and thinks them worth writing about. But what can you expect of him? Look at his whiskers! THE BLIND WHO SEE. General William Booth, the vener able head of the Salvation Army, is declared ' by his physicians to be hopelessly blind. We think that they put it wrongly. Booth is not hope lessly blind. He has but lost his eyesight. Blindness Is the most terrible of all man's physical afflictions, ordi narily, but It is not so in the case of this man. Booth has spent the larger part of his lifetime and nearly ninety years in trying to do good to others. He has not needed eyes to see where help was needed. Eyesight has not deter- mined how to help. Luxury, worldly ambition, have passed by unseen by hlni, for his sight was wholly it- ual. i In our mental musings, in our dreams, in our best ambitions, we have visioif without the aid of eyes. The spiritual sight is strong and never hopeless. To Booth the ma terial things of this earth have long been dim and to him whose existence has been so strongly spiritual the total eclipse of physical vision can not mean much of a change. "Hope lessly blind?" Nay, the good old man is one of the blind who really see! BRYAN. Sixteen years ago he leaped into national prominence with a speech which carried the deep insurgency of the hour. He led, not once but thrice, to glorious defeat. Each time he was followed by the minds, the hearts and the votes of millions of his countrymen. Today he is but 52, which Is early noontide in. the day of Intellect, of politics, of statecraft. It is marvelous that a man who leads only to defeat could retain his I hold upon the minds and the imagi nation of men over so long a period. The explanation lies neither in his eloquence nor in his political princi ples, whatever may be said of the quality of the one or the soundness of the other. The explanation of Bryan is character integrity, sin cerity, fidelity, courage. True moral grandeur Is so rare, especially among politicians, that the world takes off its hat whenever it appears. REAL UNKIND. It Is amusing to note that the mat- j ter most w orrying the bankers in the so-called money trust investigation, is probable disclosure of the names of stockholders and directors bor rowing from their own Institutions and the character of the securities put up for such loans. Of course, the courteous, genial, kindly way to deal with the bankers is to merely publish a list of the officials after a sort of "who's who" fashion. To dig down Into the use of money of banks for uplift of bank I officers and stockholders is dowri- right muckraking and no wonder the bankers squeal. . What's the use in starting a bank if you can't borrow the depositors' money without public exposure of the securities you put up and pass upon? LO, THE POOR WHITE MAN. It seems the American Indian has decided not to die out, a decision that amounts to almost a breach of faith with our white civilization. We supposed, of course, that the "Red man" was going, but in 1900 there were 24 8,253 of him and in 1910, b'gosh, he turns up with 265, Ct3. After we have kindly relieved him of his ancient hunting grounds and even of the graves of his ances tors, and enforced a "move-on ordi nance" for about two centuries. It's another instance of the per nicious influence of Teddy Roose velt. Those Indians have been read ing his speeches about race suicide. As they have 50.9 per cent of males to 49.1 per cent of females, they are likely to keep right on multiplying. In a few thousand years they may be moving their white benefactors back to Europe. THE SHACKLED UNIVERSITY. The big business men of the United States saw from afar the struggle now in progress between the right of property and the rights of men. They went shrewdly to work to control the educated men of the day in which the battle would be fought. The method was to pile their money into colleges and universities and thus to color the thought and moiu the philosophy of the future. The consequence is that a strug gle must be made to free the uni versity from the Influence of money. The remedy is public education at public expense for public benefit. And the first condition of success for this movement is a state of public opinion that scorns the boughten col lege with all its boughten facts and theories.- It is time to begin in earnest. BROW-BEATING UNCLE. Note how they brow beat your Uncle Sam. Uncle is trying to dis solve the sugar trust. President Morey of the Great Western Sugar Company testifies that the refineries are refusing sugar beets because of the' suit and will build no more fac tories until things are right, which means until the trust's right to squeeeze both consumer and producer is undisputed. The producer's beets must, tnere fore, spoil while the courts slowly grind. Now, what would almost any nation on earth, save ours, do under such conditions? Put up ntalonal re- fineries and save those beets. That's what! But our private busints in- terests that." are too powerful to allow The great woman suffrage parade which took place in New York on May 4 will go down in history as one of the most representative anil demo cratic demonstrations this country has ever known. Thousands upon thousands of women of every class and occupation multi-millionaires, college professors, doctors, lawyers, authors, artists, nurses, stenogra phers, dressmakers, cooks, laun dresses marched shoulder to shoul der, united by their common cause, with a dignity and seriousness oi purpose born of profound faith in a great principle. At the close of the parade a mass meeting was held, in Carnegie hall, at which $2,500 was collected. The Men's Equal Suffrage League of New York, which formed a conspicuous part of the parade, numbers among its members some of the most prominent men of the state, including politicians, lawyers, college professors, philanthropists, clergy men, editors and financiers. It has located branches in Buffalo, Roches ter, Syracuse, Albany and other cit ies, and has been carrying on active organization for-the last two years. Success does not begin and end with the dollar mark. He is a piti able failure who barters away a clean conscience that he may for a while accumulate a few dollars; for the great and enduring success la the keeping of a good name, a clear con science and a lofty and unsullied character amid all circumstances and despite all the allurements and temp tations of commercial and political life. There can be no enduring suc cess without character. Success with out it is but a gilded bauble, which tarnishes with the coming of the light. You are entitled in the world to an equal opportunity. Everything else tnat comes to yol will be through your own efforts. It is a world of contest and friction. Use polishes the instrument; disuse rusts it. The Rogue river valley needs to fix values on a fair and equable ba sis, then prosperity will follow de velopment. The Rogue river valley needs less speculation and more development. OUR PARTNERS IX NEKS. TOWN BUSI- Ashland is a partnership. All of us here are in business together. We have our own individual ownership of property, but our prosperity as a whole is very closely bound up with each other. If you have a house to rent, goods to sell, labor to sell, your success in getting a good price for such services depends wholly on the prosperity of your neighbors. If they are doing a good business they will pay you good prices, and as times go the urlces uald will tend to increase from year to year. On the other hand. If your neigh bors Are rtnt nrnuiwrniiK thpv will ungate urr me iuhi . cem lor juur : x house, your goods, your labor, and' the prices for these services will tend !T to fall. When you buy goods away from i home you work to reduce the pros-! perlty of your neighbors, making: them both less able and less willing I to do anything to advance your pros- j perity. When you buy goods at home j you increase the prosperity of your neighbors and they become better j able to advance your interests and i entertain a kindly feeling toward you that makes them want to do so. It would be interesting to trace in detail some time the actual result of buying goods at home that you pre viously bought somewhere outside. Suppose your wife orders a $25 bill of clothing at A's dry goods store, instead of buying it on some trip to I' another city. The merchant of course has to send a large portion of that $25 out of town to pay the jobber for the goods. But a large share of the expense of any business j rightful privilege that democracy has i victorious, is in labor, rent, taxes, etc., spent at gained for her. No longer a mere i MRS. JA.MES F. MEIKLE. home. It would not surprise us if j household chattel, she is recognized $10 of that $25 stuck right at home, j as man's fellow worker and help- Tw Study Labor Conditions. In some lines more than that would ! mate, and credited with public spirit! Ottawa, Ontario. Hon T. W. Cro do so- -nd intelligence." As a mother she!ther3, minister of labor, has left for This portion that remains at home ! has a special interest in the Ieglsla- an extensive trip through western spreads out in a circle of usefulness, In this case it would pay the wages of a clerk for' a week, enable the clerk to pay house rent for two or three weeks, permit the landlord to pay the carpenter to put his property in better repair, allow the carpenter to pay interest on his mortgage at the bank, help the bank to lend money to a mechanic to build a new house, and so on. Think it over! THE CHORUS GIRL. The chorus girl is a movable ad junct to the modern stage, who makes nine changes of toilet in the first act, without missing a hook or eye. Chorus girls make ideal wives, as they never keep a man waiting out in the touring car until he can feel the chilblains taking possession of his person. In order to be a success ful chorus girl, one must have a fig ure which cannot be confused with a stand-pipe. The rest can be ac-1 men about the booths show them quired. Several of our leading eho- j every courtesy, the officials are rus girls have abandoned the stage, ' anxious to make things easy for at the request of men who wanted to j them, and the whole business of vot get rid of their small change, minus i luS does not occupy more than five a modest alimony, and none of these gentlemen has been surfeited with ennui or pocket money since. The chief occupation of the chorus girl is shooing chappy boys away from the stage entrance, which they infest in silk hats and palpitation of the heart. She is also kept busy being photo graphed for the Sunday papers in her stage complexion. It takes a chorus girl some time to adjust her complex- ion so that she won t look like the headlight on an interurban car as she generally carries it around in her trunk. Some chorus girls use a com plexion which would trip - a fire alarm, while others affect the gen teel pallor of a man who is awakened by the noise in the cellar. There is no more popular institution on the stage than the chorus girl whose beauty has not begun to sugar off, and she is the recipient of many en comiums and oral offerings from el derly gentlemen, whose hair has gone where the woodbine twineth.. The life of a chorus girl Is full of offers of marriage, and rehearsals, during which the stage manager Indulges in a very low order of remarks relative to the decline of skirt dancing and the Inviting qualities of a brimstone future. She Isn't half so bad as she is painted, and without her the first seven rows of the orchestra circle would be as empty as a bathing beach in January. ARMY BILL VETOED. President Assigns HeHNons jectinj? Measure, for Re- Washington, D. C. President Taft on Monday sent to congress a veto I of the nrmv nnnvonriatlon bill I Among the reasons given by the fl CDIUClll I KJ I Ilia -lr CX 1 v: . That the army bill contained a body of legislation which would sub stantially reorganize and change the existing army establishment. That the bill would render Inelig ible after March 5, 1913, for service iil'fii'l.i Ant Ttl PllcJ Vot - o rt ' in the most important position of thejT army uie cniei oi bihii ana many others of the most efficient officers of the army. He said that in cases of urgency, when the president and congress were agreed, legislation had been included In appropriation bills, but no condi tion of urgency is here disclosed, nor can it be claimed that there is any reason for attaching the present leg islation to this bill. "Taken as a whole," the president said, "it would be hard to conceive of a clearer instance of an attempt to force upon the executive legisla tion well known to be disapproved by him. There can be no constitu tional defense for such a practice." To Indict. Johnson. Chicago. A federal grand jury will be asked to return an Indictment against Champion Jack Johnson, on a charge of 'smuggling. A midnight raid on Johnson's home several weeks ago by federal authorities re sulted in the finding of a necklace valued at $3,000 which the pugilist is said to have smuggled into this country. Celebrate the Fourth in Ashland. 1 PureMounlainWaterlce Reduced Prices on Ice FOR SEASON OF 1912 1 J iT Save money by purchasing coupon books. Issued for 500, 1,000, 2,000 up to 5,000 pounds. This is the cheapest way to buy your ice. Deliver' every day except Sundays. ASHLAND ICE AND STORAGE CO. TELEPHONE 108 rTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTi THE BALLOT FOR WOMEN. Mrs. Meikle (Jives Arguments Favor of Suffrage. in What does voting mean to a worn- an? Does she sacrifice any dignity semsh motives. lhe cause Is just, by going to the polls? The woman j It has been defeated but never con who votes only avails herself of a ' l"el'e'l. -d 'n November it will be j tion of her country, for upon it Je- pends the welfare of her children. ne Knows what is good for them Winnipeg, Saskatoon. Edmonton, just as much as the father, and the Calgary, Vancouver, Rossland and unselfishness of maternity should I other important industrial center make her interest ever keener. She I will be visited. should deem it one of tbe grandest privileges of her sex that she can now help to choose the men who will make the laws under which her chil dren must live, and exert her purer ' influence upon the political atmos phere of her time. How can she sac rifice any dignity by putting on her bonnet and walking down to the poll ing booth? Woman thinks nothing 01 transacting ordinary commercial business, of working alongside men, of playing her part In the practical business of life. They do not mind going to the box office of a theatre to purchase tickets for the play. There is very little dif ference between doing that and put ting their vote in a ballot box. The minutes. ihe woman who thinks she is making herself unwomanly when she has a vote and won't use it is a silly creature. There are no duties or obligations attached to our American franchise that women are not capable of per-, forming. For citizenship they pos sess all the patriotism, virtue and intelligence that the law requires, a"d a great deal more. w no, especially, are the women who demand for themselves and their sex this political equality? From my own observation, they are those whose standards of intelligence, mor ality and social position are the very highest. They are foremost in every good work for God and country, to help the orphan and widow, to aid the poor and comfort .the sick. You will find such noble women, wives, moth ers, daughters in all our cities and towns, united and unceasing in their efforts for temperance, public de cency and morality. I believe that the doors of politi cal freedom and equalfty, at which they are knocking louder and louder, should be opened to them. And why? In order that their special knowledge and experience In regard to their own sex and in regard to children may influence legislation for the physical, moral and social protection of girls, rich as well as poor, and for guard ing the child's natural home from evils that cany with them criminal poverty and disease. The opposition to equal suffrage is a matter of course. All great social j T Spmy STOP THE WORMS Better Spray Zinc Arsenite 20 CENTS This new Arsenite Compound kills the Codling Moth without damage to the foliage or fruit. Better Spray Neutral Arsenate of 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 12c per It., PROVOST MO! i .1 --.L A J. A tTTTtTTTTTTTTTttTTTT X X X I X X X X X X X X and political reforms, as well as re ligious ones, have always been resist- red by prejudice, customs and the old cry, "Inopportune." So it is with this. It is a battle reason and jus- I tice opposed by senseless fears and j Canada, for the purpose of investigat- I Ing labor conditions in that section. V. V. IIAWLEY Contractor and Builder Remodeling andrepairing. etc. 25 years' experience. Address P. O. Box ,174 or TELEPHONE 39. Phone I2g 2? Main St. C. II. GILLETTE Real Estate, Loans, Rentals, Conveyancing SEE ME BEFORE BUYING. FOR SEWING MACHINES AND SEWINC MACHINE SUPPLIES SEE E.J.MKHHN Independent Dealer 286 E. Main St. Phone 113 HOUSE OF COMFORT Hotel Manx Powell Street at O'Farrell SAN FRANCISCO Best located and most popular hotel in the city. Headquarters for Oregonlans; commodious lob by; running Ice water in each room; metropolitan service. Bus at train. A la carte service. 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