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ASHLAND TIDINGS
Moady, July 22, .1912.
Ashland Tidings
SEMMVEEKLY.
ESTABLISHED 1876. '
Issued Mondays and Thursdays
Bert R. Greer, - Editor and Owner
W. H. Gillis, ... City Editor
W. E. Ilarnes, Business' Manager
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Ashland, Ore., Monday, July 22, '12
WOODROW .WILSON AXI DEMO-
CRAT1C ItMJClES.
The writer has long been an ad
mirer of Woodrow Wilson. He is
big and brainy, honest and fearless,
cultured and forceful. Not so well
learned in the tricks of politics as in
the science of government, he stands
for what is best in private and na
tional life.
He is a free-trader, but what of
that? Every professor of economics
in America is a free-trader in theory,
and but one we know anything
about, the professor of economics in
the University of Pennsylvania, has
ever attempted to justify a protec
tive tariff. Therefore it is not
strange that Woodrow Wilson, pro
found economic student and scholar
that he is, should be a free-trader.
In fact, the tariff is still so much
.a mooted policy that no less an au
thority than Albert Shaw, discussing
the proposed expert tariff commis
sion, in the Review of Reviews, laid
as his premise in arguing for it that
not a single man in America really
knew whether protective tariff was
helpful or harmful to the proper de
velopment and life of the nation.
From this hypothesis he argued
strongly for a searching examination
of. the question by an expert commis
sion. It Is coming now to be understood
that the tariff is more a local than
national issue. The breaking down
of party tradition by democratic rep
resentatives coming from manufac
turing districts in the south when
high tariff schedules were at issue
affecting directly the manufacturing
enterprises of their districts, did
more than any other circumstance to
prove that the tariff is not so much
a party, or national issue, as it is
one affecting specific localities ac
cording to the nature of the enter
prises of its citizens.
Therefore, considering Woodrow
Wilson as a candidate for 'tiie presi
dency, carrying with it his policy of
tariff for revenue only, the writer
would look upon him with favor.
However, that is not the end. The
success of the democratic ticket car
ries with it the inauguration of dem
ocratic policies in line with the plat
form pledges. laid down at Balti
more. It has long been the claim
of the democratic party tlyit a pro
tective tariff is the father of trusts.
That party says "destroy the tariff
and you destroy the trusts." The
writer does not here agree with the
democratic claim. While protective
tariff may, and probably did, inspire
trust organization, trust life does not
depend upon it. Cut-throat competi
tion destroys. As soon as the mas
ters of industry were brought face to
face with that economic truth its
force was broken by organizing big
business into combinations and
trusts. Free-trade, or tariff-for-rev-en
ue-only policies, will not destroy
the trusts. Nor is trust destruction
' desirable. The dismemberment of
the trusts would badly cripple, if not
destroy, American commerce. The
economic law of competition is inex
orable an eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth even to the utter
destruction of the body. American
commerce is too complex, and devel
opment demands too great, to be suc
cessfully and economically forward
ed by individual' effort, under com
petitive rules. It Is not best for the
nation that trusts be destroyed.
However, human nature is so con
stituted that unlimited power tends
to Injustice and exploitation. When
the production, manufacture and dis
tribution of a commodity comes un
der the absolute control of a trust,
experience teaches, the selling price
is not fixed on the ground of cost of
production and distribution plus a
. reasonable profit, but rather arbi
trarily set, without regard to these,
and commonly at such a rate as to
produce exhorbitant profits, result-.
Jng In great private gain at the un
just expense of the consumer. The
general good demands that this injus
tice be remedied. This the Ameri
can people hope to accomplish
through their government. The
question now arises as to how best
to accomplish that without hindering
development or sacrificing economy
of production.
The democratic (Baltimore) plat
form declares for "laws that will
make it impossible for private mo
nopolies to exist in the United
States." We think, such laws are
neither practical or desirable. We
do not believe that competition can
be thus maintained.
In the first place there are enter
prises which are monopolistic by na
ture. Electric, gas, street car, tele
phone, and the like are natural mo
nopolies. Every effort In establish
ing and maintaining competition in
these lines has failed, except through
municipal ownership. True, rival
companies have from time to time
entered the same field and at first
gave evidence of competition, but ul-
j timately combination, or absorption,
has resulted, thus destroying compe
tition. The law of economics stands
fixed and fast against competition
and the ingenuity of man has thus
far failed to devise methods by
which such rivalry can be main
tained. Unhindered competition is
destruction. Private enterprise has
discovered that. It is time that the
government should recognize it.
The thing then is not to destroy
monopoly but to regulate it. While
competition cannot be maintained by
law, regulation is purely within the
province of law.
Practically all of the trusts are
employed in interstate traffic and
the powers of the federal govern
ment over such should be enlarged,
while the power of the states over
them should be abridged. Here,
again, is where we part company
with democratic policies. The Bal
timore platform declares: "We de
nounce as usurpation the efforts of
our opponents to deprive the states
of any of the rights reserved to
them, a A to enlarge and magnify
by indirection the powers of the fed
eral government." - This is what
we call "states rights" doctrine.
Most of the conditions which im
pelled our fathers to zealously guard
the powers of the several states, as
against extended powers of the fed
eral government, have entirely
passed away. The war of revo
lution had just been fought to break
the power of an extraneous central
government. The several cplonies
were widely dispersed over the east
ern half of the continent, modes of
transportation, and communication
were undeveloped slow and labori
ous and communities one hundred
miles distant were more widely sep
arated than is the Atlantic and Pa
cific seacoasts now- The "states
rights" notion was based on the prin
ciple of keeping the powers of gov
ernment close to the people. First
the colonies refused to give the cen
tral government even the taxing
power. Experience soon proved this
expedient to be loose and ineffectual
and necessity called for a stronger
central government. Out of that our
present constitution developed in the
hope of forming a more perfect
union. But our statesmen had not
yet come to that prophetic state of
mind which enabled them to' cast the
development of the near future.
They did not know that within the
span of a life the now widely, sepa
rated colonies would be drawn to
gether and bound with hoops of steel
into composite relations more inti
mate than existed between' the in
habitants of the state. That the fed
eral government would, within a few
decades, be drawn closer to the most
remote citizen than the state govern-'
met was then to any. But all of
this has come to pass. Then com
merce was all intrastate and properly
a subject for state control; now it is
mostly interstate and can only be
economically and effectively regula
ted by the federal government.
To attempt to subject transporta
tion companies, doing business in
many states, to both the control of
the several Btates through which
they pass, each with different laws
and rules, and to the federal govern
ment as well, is but to harass, not
regulate them. Such policy cannot
result in the best and most economi
cal service. .Insofar as it falls short
of that it fails in being the proper
solution of the question. i
The power of the federal govern
ment over interstate commerce
should be absolute. There should be
no conglomerated power, leaving
room for a "twilight zone between
the nation and the state, in which
exploiting interests can take refuge
from both." We do not see how
that can be done and maintain the
integrity of states rights.
The spirit of the following declar
ation is commendable: "Our plat
form Is one of principles which we
believe to be essential to our na
tional welfare. Our pledges are
made to be kept In office, as well as
to be relied upon in the campaign."
That paragraph is refreshing and
departs squarely from the rule of
past party performances. Neverthe
less, bearing as it does the stamp of
the peerless leader and the approval
of Mr. Wilson, we are bound to ac
cept it as sincere.
And herein lies our trouble. If
the solution of the trust problem is
of paramount concern, and the meth
ods proposed by the democratic plat
form, though sincere, are impracti
cable, we are bound to look else
where for the proper solution, and
are justified Jn accepting this only
as an alternative when nothing bet
ter is found.
To us "laws that make it impossi
ble for private monopolies to exist
in the United States," is not a proper
solution of the problem. You can
not maintaincompetltlon by law.
We believe that combinations, mo
nopolies and trusts, under our pres
ent commercial development, are
generally beneficial, because through
them the cost of production is low
ered, and because great volume un
der one general management can be
more equitably and economically
distributed than less under manyJ
heads.
The trouble lies, not in the exist
ence of trusts and monopolies, but
in their ability to arbitrarily fix
prices of raw materials', manufac
tured products and distribution, with
regard only to exhorbitant private
gains instead of economical' and
equitable public service.
The point is rightly to distribute
the benefits without sacrificing them.
The need is for a master with pow
er to regulate trust operations, nor
can the trusts successfully serve
two or four masters. The solution
lies in adequate government regula
tion. This, we think, can be best ac
complished by a federal statute a
coercive statute forcing every cor
poration engaged in interstate busi
ness to take out a charter under it.
This statute would be formed with
the view of compelling equity be
tween the corporation and the peo
ple and t,he corporation would be re
quired to submit to federal regula
tion. If it failed to abide by gov
ernment rules it would forfeit its
right to do business and cease to
exist.
That method would conflict with
the doctrine of states rights and
could hardly be accomplished with
out violating the democratic plat
form. As between Taft and his policies
and Wilson and the democratic plat
form the Tidings would not hesitate
to support Wilson. But, there is
another proposed solution to be con
sidered. A third party is in course
of formation. When it has spoken
we can better judge which party of
fers the best methods by which the
desired oal can be reached. Which
ever party does that, according to
our way of thinking, for we hope to
be guided by judgment, not preju
dice, will receive the support of the
Tidings in the coming national cam
paign. THOUGHT SPHERES.
The most potent influence in the
shaping of one's life is what some
philosophers call "atmosphere"
influence of association and environ
ment. "Atmosphere," in this sense, is a
condition of thought. Thought
makes it what it is, and thought
alone can change it.
If . other people have the power to
create'an atmosphere that influences
you, why cannot you create one for
yourself?
You can, for we all have that pow
er. Few fully realize it.
You can, if you will, create an at
mosphere In which you move that
will compel others to feel it. Some
times you do it unconsciously and
move in a thought sphere which re
pels, or harms, those with whom you
come in contact.
Cu.tivate the thought sphere which
develops and brings out the highest
and best in yourself and let that at
mosphere permeate those about you.
In doing this your environment
and conditions will soon be bent to
your touch.
Those who best recognize this
power of well-directed thought suc
ceed best. Failure conies from doubt
and fear and discouragement. Suc
cess comes from confidence and
courage.
Thought creates either atmos
phere. Keep this one thought always In
your mind and you won't worry
much: The man who talks about
you generally has several window
lights out In his own house, and his
yardstick Is short measure.
While the swatting is going on how
would it do to swat some of the im
ported reformers who are passing
the hat all over the countrv trvlng
to inject their lonesome theories into
bo many different subjects?
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
"Love Thy Enemies."
It appears to be considered the
duty of newspapers to boost and
keep on boosting for the town and
its business men, its institutions,
schools, churches, theatres, etc., but
how orten do the residents of a town
or community let themselves be
heard boosting for the local paper?
A local paper should boost for its
town and its business men. It is its
editor's duty, because the paper de
rives at least 75 per cent of its sup
port from home people of which it
Is a part. It is the duty of every
man, woman and child within the
city .limits to stand stalwarts to their
town and say a good word and do a
good act whenever an opportunity
presents itself, and In this a news
paper should ever be founa in the
front ranks with such a oand of town
boosters. As has been said, a news
paper gets much of its support from
the town and the community and
thus In return owes its support to the
town, but what can be said of the
printer may be said of the grocer,
the butcher, the dry goods man, the
tailor, the miller and any other who
may come to mind. You owe a debt
of gratitude to your fellow merchant
for being here, for what would the
place amount to with only one busi
ness house? What would there be
here to attract people and induce
them to build comfortable homes,
pay taxes for town improvements,
etc.? On the other hand, people
from the country realize that the
town is a great boon to them and
adds greatly to the price of their
products and to the land on which
the product was grown, whether
their stock is consumed here or
shipped to other places.
The merchant has much of his
stock shipped in, yet a great portion
of his trade is in that which he has
purchased at home from the farmer
or the villager, thus deriving the pa
tronage of everyone. The farmer
gives his patronage to the merchant
and the merchant to the farmer.
Each is enabled to make a profit ana
all is serene.
Yet there are merchants who will
not patronize each other, who will
send away for their printing, hard
ware, groceries, furniture, harness,
drugs, etc. Some even 'use safety
razors rather than patronize- the bar
ber, will walk or go by train rather
than give the local liveryman his fee,
and will ship in potatoes, cabbages,
onions, apples, etc., rather than buy
from the local gardeners and farm
ers. This is not all, though, for the
merchant complains that the farmer
buys goods in some large city and
will not spend the cash he has earned
here with local people. It's a sad
condition of affairs with a cure hard
to find. One merchant states that
the trouble is an easy one .to over
come if. all will unite in a deter
mined effort to make their country
ideal; co-operate in good roads work
and ever boost and work for one an
other. Let us one and all make it
a resolve to help our neighbor, ad
vertise our country, boost our town,
build new roads and, in fact, co
operate in every manner possible.
If we will but love our enemies
they will soon cease to be such and
We Offer Men's Straw Hats at Radical
Reductions
P Eyerytrjw in the
next" 30T days, and4to do this we are cutting
the prices right down to the lowest possible
notch. Three months to wear a strawand
this is a grand opportunity to buy one at
bargain prices. They are all this season's
goods. Styles made by the Longley Hat
Company. Come pick your style while the
selection is good.
Children's Wash Suits and Blouse
Waists at Very Low Prices
Boys' washable suits, many patterns and
styles to select from in sizes 2 to 10 years,
prices 65c to $2.50. Boys' blouse waists in
dark and light patterns, sizes 5 to 16, 35c
value at 25c.
MEN'S SUITS
The Store with
a Rest Room
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Reduced Prices on Ice
FOR SEASON OF 1912
500, 1,000, 2,000 up to 5,000 pounds. ' ' '
This is the cheapest way to buy your ice.
Delivery every day except Sundays.
ASHLAND ICE AND STORAGE CO.
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in the end prove our most faithful
friend.
Getting Married.
Matrimony is always a subject of
great interest and importance for
the . single. .Several young men of
the section seem to be all worked
up on this matter. They are mak
ing goo goo eyes at the girls, even
in church; and the pomade they use
on their hair would be enough to
grease a .bandwagon. They are ex
tremely anxious, so' we are told, to
get married for better or for worse.
That's the point. It will be one or
the other, and all the silly goo goo
ing and the brainless plastering of
the hair cannot change it.
Wre do not advocate a continuous
honeymoon. That is all tomfoolery,
and the sooner our young folks see
that either before or after the wed
ding, the better it will be for their
future domestic welfare.
The wedded union should be
among other advantages for the pro
viding of a pleasant home, where the
husband loves to spend his leisure
hours and the wife finds pleasure to
work. In order to provide such a
haven of contentment more is need
ed than sentimental cares and a rich
father-in-law. What is needed is
common sense in both parties, and a
lot of that.
But some young men are fools and
imagine that the foolishness of calf
love makes a paradise within any
four walls. They become bewitched
with some giddy butterfly of society
and marry her. Then expect her to
go home, wash off the powder and
rouge from her face, and fry a beef
steak, mend his socks and sew on
his buttons. Most living representa
tions of fashion plates don't like
household duties and they prefer
reading a love story. Be wise.
The good book says that a man
who does not care for or looH after
the welfare of his family "is worse
than an infidel." This may be ap
plied with equal force to the man
who takes no interest in the town
in which he lives, for in a very real
sense the town is his home, which
he shares with the other people liv
ing in it. Therefore to speak ad
versely of one's town, to say no
word In its favor, to habitually go
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We take orders and measures for men's suits.
Trousers made up in any style you desire.
Fit guaranteed.
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elsewhere to trade and be Indiffer
ent to home business all this is not
only unpatriotic, but it is very much
the same as if a man should go
around to his neighbors and find
fault with his domestic home and
every member in it.
j OPERA HOUSE BILLIARD PARLOR
Cigars, Tobacco, Candy and Soft
j Drinks
J. P. Sayle & Son
Successors to Kuger & Sayle.
Practical Shoe Repairing
Done promptly, with the best ma-i-
terials obtainable, by
1 Cor. Fourth and Main Streets.
Phone 12 27 Main St.
C. II. GILLETTE
Real Estate, Loans, Rentals,
Conveyancing
SEE ME BEFORE BUYING.
Attention, Wood Consumers
Sound dry red fir and yel
low pine, 10-inch block body
wood, delivered in your wood
shed in orders for not legs
than 10 tiers to a place, at
$2.25 per tier. .
E. J. MAIIAN
Leave orders at ofTice,290
East Main St., or phone 168.
Scale receipts at Tidings office.
The Store with
a Rest Room,
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