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ASHLANU TIDINGS
Thursday. July 25, 1912".
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ENGLAND'S PROTEST.
England's protest against our use
of the Panama Canal in our own
sweet way is ridiculous. What is
the United States to have for its
four hundred million, dollars sunk
in the construction? American money
built the Panama canal and Ameri
can commerce should have the bene
fit of it.
No doubt England's incentive for
the protest came from the outside.
The transcontinental rai roads of the
United States will never allow the
Panama canal to be opened without
a fight on terms favorable enough to
independent shipping to materially
affect the present continental rates.
No doubt Britain is being used more
to forward that end than in the in
terest of English ship owners.
We do not know much about the
alleged treaty violation, but we do
know that unless the Panama canal
is used for the purpose of lowering
freight rates there has been a world
of waste treasure without material
benefit.
No words should be minced with
England on the Panama canal situa
tion. We built the canal. It is ours.
The American people dug the money
for its accomplishment. The Ameri
can people should have the benefits.
If European nations desired to
build the canal the opportunity stood
there for them from the failure of
France to the acquisition by the
United States. Why did they not
embrace it?
Among the financiers of the world
there is a strong bond community
of interest. Free use of the canal by
American ships means the lowering
of transcontinental rates and the cut
would affect the Canadian Pacific as
, well as the United States lines.
Through that circumstance no doubt
the intervention of England was
gained.
The Panama canal should be ab
solutely free to American ships car
rying coast to coast business.
TITat proposition will be fought
harder than any other that has ever
"arisen between the railroads and the
people. No doubt the intervention
jil nations will be further attempted
to block it. It will take statesman
ship and courage to win for the peo
ple. THE HEART.
The language of the heart is the
one best understood among men. He
who loves is the one loved.
The great thing to be desired is
more heart more heart in our work,
more heart in our play, more heart
in our intercourse with the world
about. There never can be too much
heart. There is, alas, too little.
The tendency of the age is to make
us hard-hearted. We live in a whirl.
We can find little interest in any
thing save our material advance
ment. Some men are so keen for money
making that they wilfully shut their
hearts to any emotion that might
stand in the way of business success.
Others are so hard pressed in the
struggle for existence that their
whole energy is taken up in the fight
for a livelihood. The world is so
hard to them that it makes them
hard to all. ,
The need of these days is not
greater opportunity for commerce
and trade so much as larger realiza
tion of the possibilities latent in the
fellowship of man.'
Believe in the heart. However ad
mirable a capable or brilliant mind
may be, however enviable a skilled
or art-touched hand, something still
more beautiful lies in a true and gen
eroug heart.
Owing to the tie-up of the Chicago
papers by the strike, the world was
left ignorant v hether the Gotroxes
served nablsco wafers or social teas
-at their "at home."
THE NEW PARTY.
It lacks good conscience to follow
party after it. abandons its princi
ples. To forsake organization when
it goes wrong and advocate another
with intent to forward Justice is not
desertion from, but adherence to
principle. Or to raise a new organ
ization, over the ashes of the old,
for the purpose of keeping alive and
enforcing long-established policies,
when the instrument before used
ceases to fulfill its proper ends, is
not to abandon, but to vindicate,
principle.
Roosevelt and his followers are
not subject to Just censure for aban
doning the republican party when it
became apparent that it had departed
from its original tenets, or when its
doctrines, or management, stood in
the way of healthful social develop
ment. Good government is the thing
greatest to be desired. Self-government
is the basic tenet of our system.
Every organization or person, bid
ding for popular support lays claims
to that intent. It would not exist
as a public factor unless it did.' But
to lay claim to a thing is different
from applying it in practice. It is
altogether possible for an organiza
tion to advocate Justice, but In prac
tice to subvert it. Exactly that, Mr.
Roosevelt contends, has happened in
the republican organization. Privi
lege has come to supercede equal op
portunity. Protective tariff, in many
instances, is diverted from fostering
home industry and is turned to pri
vate gain, at the expense of the na
tion. The rule of the people has
been inverted, through party manip
ulation, so that now it is boss rule.
Those bound to substance ratfier
than form are Justified in forsaking
it.. Nay, it is the paramount duty
of a good citizen to abandon an or
ganization the purposes of which
have been thus subverted.
Mr. Roosevelt and his followers
are perfectly Justified in organizing
a new party.
A call has been issued for a con
vention to meet in Chicago on Au
gust 5 to organize a new party. Fol
lows a. full text of the call:
"To the people of the United
States without regard to past politi
cal differences, who through repeat
ed betrayals realize that today, the
power of the crooked political bosses
and of the privileged classes behind
them Is so strong In the two old party
organizations that no helpful move
ment in the real interest of our coun
try can come out of either; ,
"Who believe that the time has
come for a national progressive
movement a nation-wide movement
on nonsectional lines,' so that the
people may be served in sincerity
and truth by an organization unfet
tered by obligation to conflicting in
terests; "Who believe in the right and ca
pacity, of the people to rule them
selves, and effectively to control all
the agencies of their government,
and who hold that only through so
cial and industrial justice, tnus se
cured, tan honest property find per
manent protection;
''Who believe that government by
the few tends to become, and has In
fact become, government by the sor
did Influences thai control the few;
"Who believe that only through
the movement proposed can we ob
tain in the nation and the several
states the legislation demanded by
the modern industrial evolution;
legislation which shall favor honest
business and yet control the great
agencies of modern business so as to
insure their being In the Interest of
the whole people; legislation which
shall promote prosperity and at the
same time secure the better and
more equitable diffusion of prosper
ity; legislation which shall promote
the economic wellbeing of the hon
est farmer, wage worker, profession
al "man and business man alike, but
which shall at the same time strike
in efficient fashion and not merely
pretend to strike at the roots of
privilege in the world of industry no
less than In the world of politics; ,
"Who believe that only this type
of wise industrial evolution will
avert industrial revolution;
"Who believe that wholesome
party government can come only if
there is wholesome party manage
ment in a spirit of service to the
whole country, and who hold that the
commandment delivered at Sinai,
'Thou shalt not steal,' applies to pol
itics as well as to business.
"To all In accord with these views
a call is hereby issued by the pro
vincial vommittee under the resold
tion of the mass meeting held in Chi
cago on June 22 last, to send from
each state a number of delegates
whose votes in the convention shall
count for as many votes as the states
Bhall have senators and representa
tives In congress, to meet in conven
tion at Chicago on the Dth day of
August, 1912, for the purpose of
nominating candidates to be support
ed for the positions of president and
vice-president of the United States."
COMMISSION" GOVERNMENT.
The fault under the councilmanic
system lies in the impossibility of
practically applying sound economic
principles to municipal government.
For exampe: A person is elected
mayor of Ashland who has made a
deep study of economic science as
applied to municipal government and
is qualified in every way to Apply It.
At the same time six persons, none
of whom has ever given scientific
municipal government a thought, are
members of the council. Each coun
cilman has equal power with the
mayor, and the council as a body has
power over every act of the mayor.
Before the mayor can apply these
principles he must have the consent
and concurrence of the council; he
must educate his council in econom
ics make them to see the beneficent
effect of his proposals before they
are put into effect. That applies as
well to any individual member of the
council, and, at best, is a hard task
and takes much time.
The reason private business is con
ducted more economically than that
of a municipality is because every
business concern has a single mana
gerial head with power to act, the
directors constituting merely an ad
visory board which decides and sug
gests certain general principles to
be carried out in the business. The
manager administers the details oi
the business without let or hin
drance. Municipal failure comes from con
glomerated power in administering
details. Conglomerated power means
scattered responsibility. When every
detailment is submitted to the arbi
trament of six individuals, with dif
ferent judgment and ideas, the end
is usually the result of compromise
and is ineffectual and lax. 'When the
thing is accomplished not only no
individual of the body is responsible,
but each is in a position to offer the
excuse for bad administration that
he was unable to bring his colleagues
to see the thing in his light and that
the matter was adopted against his
judgment and desire, even thougn
his vote was recorded in favor of it,
hiding that act behind the excuse
that there was "no use to cause fric
tion in the body by fighting. He
could not have defeated the measure
if He had.
Under commission government
conglomerated power is done away
with, and responsibility is absolutely
fixed. One person is put at the head
of the city, in some cases, and at the
head of a department of the city in
others, but always with absolute au
thority to conduct all of the affairs
of the department under him. If he
fails he alone is responsible. If he
practices corruption the' disgrace
falls alone on him. If he is incom
petent his failure proves him so. The
responsibility for failure, from what
ever cause, cannot be dodged, it is
his and his alone.
The Tidings would suggest a com
mission government for Ashland
with a single commissioner a city
manager well paid and with power
to act. He should make his own ap
pointments according to his own
judgment. He should be allowed to
work out his own business system for
the conduct of city affairs, subject
only to the charter, the laws, and the,
city ordinances.
There might be ft councilmanic
body purely legislative with pow
er only td pass ordinances, to be
called together from time to time as
occasion demanded, giving only such
time as such meetings required and
being paid a reasonable sum for each
meeting 'attended.
The commissioner should be elect
ed, not for a term, but subject to
the recall. The recall should be so
conditioned as that he may be easily
recalled when public interest de
manded it, but offering security to
him against unfounded clamour.
The city should be protected by an
ample bond.
A commissioner should be the only
elective officer of the city, all sub
ordinates being appointed by the
commissioner and relieved by him at
will, thus putting all of the responsi
bility on. the commissioner. . He
should be protected from the public
in the matter of these appointments,
by a provision not permitting per
sons or flOOWties to petition for ap
pointments. He should- be elected,
installed, and let alone, to work out
his own administration. Then If he
fails to deliver the goods it will be
apparent, and no excuse, save his
own indisposition or inability, can be
put forward as a defense against bad
results.
The Tidings hopes to work out a
charter along these lines, in detail,
and submit it through these columns
for the consideration of the people
in. the future. In the meantime we
will attempt from time to time to
elucidate the fundamental proposi
tions herein set forth as the basis
for the proposed charter.
We will welcome communications
from those who differ with us on the
proposals here suggested. We will
argue the case with, them througn
these columns, in the hope of making
the matter clear, and showing the
safety to the city, the beneficent re
sults aimed at, and the general reas
onableness of the plan.
VPHOLDS PROGRESSIVES.
California Attorney General Gives
Sweeping Opinion on Election,.
San Francisco. Should President
Taft be defeated in the contest for
control, in the September California
primaries, it would eliminate his
electors, as republicans, from the
general election ballot in November,
according to an opinion issued, Mon
day by State Attorney General U, S.
Webb, in which he upholds the pro
gressive republicans and maintains
that repuglar republicans who desire
to support Taft may secure places on
general election ballots, but may not
use the name "republican."
Webb holds that the Taft republi
cans must either win the contest
with administration organization for
control of the republican party in the
state or have no chance to vote for
their candidate in November. The
principal points in the opinion fol
low: 1. Broad and liberal Interpreta
tions of direct primary law necessary
in order to make it constitutional.
2. State administration ticket may
take the name "republican," al
though its nominees are pledged to
support Roosevelt. ,
3. Regular republicans who de
sire to support President Taft may
secure places on the general election
ballot, but may not use the name
"republican."
. 4. Xo voters participating in pri
mary election in September may sign
nominating petitions for any candi
date at November election.
5. Candidates for presidential
electors may be voted on in groups,
provided they are designated on the
ballot under some party heading.
6. Prohibitionists, socialists, or
any other party may secure place on
the ballot in November election
through nominating, petitions with
out holding party primaries.
CONTRABAND CAPTURED.
Customs Insjectoi-8 Take Opium
From Oceanic Liner.
San Francisco. Customs inspect
ors captured a $5,000 lot of contra
band opium from the Pacific Mail
liner Korea recently after a rain of
bullets from the officers' revolvers
had brought the smugglers, Charles
May, ship's carpenter, and Otto
Langfeld, a waterfront bartender, to
a halt. The men were rowing away
from the steamer in the dark and
did not stop until a bullet smashed
Lengfeld's hand. May leaped over
board and was picked up more dead
than alive from the water he had
swallowed.
Inspectors Enlow and Head had
received a tip that the attempt to
land the drug would be made. They
hid aboard a schooner tied up on the
off-shore side of the liner. As the
i smugglers dropped from the Korea
into their boat and pulled away En-
iow called to, them to halt. The men
rowed frantically for the shelter of
the dock, but a bullet struck Leng
feld's hand and he dropped his oar.
The inspectors lowered one of the
schooner's boats, and after Mav had
been picked up found the tine of
opium in the rowboat and in the wa
ter alongside.
In connection with the repeated
daring efforts to land opium from
Pacific Mail steamers, United States
District Attorney McNab said that
the government would call on the of
ficials and ships' officers of the Pa
cific Mail Company to aid in stopping
the traffic.
WILL FORM LEAGUE.
Senator Bourne tit Head of National
Progressive Movemeut.
Washington, D. C. That a nation
al progressive republican league will
be formed to urge the precepts of
popular government in the coming
campaign, was the statement issued
here by United States Senator Jona
than Bourne, Jr, of Oregon. He
said:
"It is our purpose to continue the
campaign for popular government.
We will urge fn the coming campaign
the election of the advocates of pop
ular government. It is our purpose
to question candidates for the legis
latures regarding their attitude upon
the principles for which we stand,
notifying the candidates that they
will not receive our support unless
they pledge themselves in writing to
support these measures if elected.
The five principles of our league are
as follows: Popular elections of
United States senators; direct pri
maries; presidential primaries; the
initiative, referendum and recall; a
thorough-going corrupt practices
act."
. JAPANESE PROTEST.
Favors to American Vessels Resented
By Islanders.
Japan's press is protesting vigor
ously against the United States
granting its own vessels favors in
passing through the Panama canal.
When the house of representatives
passed the bill exempting coastwise
shipping from tolls, alarm was creat
ed throughout Japan over the effect
on its shipping. The Japanese
planned to operate a steamship line
through the canal to the Atlantic sea
board, and perhaps to the eastern
coast of South America. Just why,
if America should exempt merely its
coastwise shipping, in competition
with which no foreign craft can op
erate, and leave its shipping engaged
on foreign trade charged with the
duty of paying the tolls, Japan has
ground for protest, is not statedby
the press editorials which have been
received.
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A PARODY ON LOVE'S APPEAL.
(By Elizabeth Yockey.)
Men of our state and country, men
of our heart and home,
Fired with God-sent purpose, and
faith in you, we come.
Prompted by love and duty and
steadfast loyalty,
We ask for anti-suffrage, for love
and sympathy.
You know our hearts beat constant,
our lives ring ever true.
We face stern death unflinching for
the love we bear to you.
Our country's hope and promise lie
deeply in our breast.
Tis motherhood appealing to the
manhood of the West.
We know our loved homes need us
the might of woman's hand
In shaping up the destiny of our
beloved land.
The pure white souls, God-given, re
quire us day and night,
To find the best that's in them, to
mold them for the right.
We know our limitations our duty's
in the home;
'Till our work there's perfected, We
dare not outward roam.
Our duty lies in wedlock, in love and
purity.
No broader field can open home's
our security.
We hear again the slogan, "Women
and children first,"
From men's true hearts so loyal, on
the still night air it burst.
And "first" they ever will be, in the
office they hold now,
As queens of hearts and firesides, in
holy love all bow.
If it is Tidings work It fs the best.
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