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ASHLAND TIDINGS
Monday, September 0. 1912.
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CAMPAIGN LYING.
Every day the newspaper para
graphers grind out some ne'w crack
on the Ananias club. Charges of
falsehood fill the headlines and put
ginger into the speeches.
Do all these charges of mendacity
signify that campaign lying is on the
increase?
To get at an answer let. us ask the
question what the voters think of
the typical slam-whanging partisan
speech that characterized the stump
oratory of a former generation.
The typical political oratory to
which we have become accustomed
is purely that of the advocate, the
hired attorney. It is a lawyer's bus
iness to present only his client's case.
If there is a hole in the argument, it
is not his business to show it to the
court and jury.
This has been the political contro
versy of the past. There is no court
on the bench to call the liars, down.
Judging from the arm swingers and
platform stampers, all the good men
are on our side, all the bad men on
yours, and vice versa.
Few of cur public men can be
caught in the squarely false state
ment. As the horsemen say, they
know this is the quickest way to
"get their tall in the crack."
The trouble is that the politician
becomes so aflame with the lust of
the game that he can no more see a
situation as a whole than a base run
ner can tell judicially whether he
was put out at first.
This is an age of demand for busi
ness government. Our people are
sick of political speeches that are
full of half truths. They would like
the orator to treat them as a bank
director would treat the stockholders
of the corporation.
They want facts rather than opin
ions. They want facts that are se
lected with the spirit of the scien
tific investigator, not with the spirit
of the hired advocate. When facts
exist that seem to controvert the
theory of the speaker, they don't
want those facts ignored. They want
them taken up, given all due weight,
and the bigger facts brought on that
controvert and overpowei them.
Any other kind of speaking may
not be intentional falsehood, but it
won't win elections in the year 1912.
THE COMMUNITY SPIRIT. .
Jhe remark was made by one of
the patriots of the Revolutionary
"War, "If we don't hang together, we
shall all hang separately."
How true this Is in the business
field!
The buyer of any commercial
house finds a great advantage in
making his purchases with some con
tinuity and regularity. If he buys
first in one city and then in another,
no one gets interested to give him
any trade advantages, no one looks
out to see that he is well cared for.
If he "hangs" to no one, no one
"hangs" to him, and as a mere drift
er he "hangs" separately in business
life.
Precisely the same thing is true of
every family in the purchasing of
supplies for the same. If certain
supplies are bought by mail order,
others on trips to some more or less
distant city, no one gets interested
in attending to that family's needs.
If the family buys everything possi
ble of its home merchants, ti makes
business friends In its home stores
who will protect it from deceptions
and see that it gets it's money's
worth.
The whole business life of a city
like ours depends on the develop
ment of a community spirit. If a
feeling pervades our people that in
the long run we get the most
through the spirit or co-operating,
money will stay at home, and all our
enterprises will advance. If this
spirit does not prevail, all our enter
prises will languish.
In the five months from May to
October, 1911, the French army in
Morocco lost 18 per cent of its forces.
SENATOK CTMMIXS SUPPORTS
ROOSEVELT.
"I shall vote for Roosevelt be
cause I believe he desires to promote
the common welfare." Senator
Cummins.
Senator Cummins participated in
the great fight of 1903 to 1906; in
which fight Roosevelt ad the pro
gressive ' senators and congressmen
were pitted against the great trusts
of the country. He is thoroughly fa
miliar with every detail of that fight.
He is familiar with the fearless and
commendable attitude of President
Roosevelt through that fight. That
is one big reason why Senator Cum
mins believed it the desire of Roose
velt to promote the common welfare.
Senator Cummins in common wits
many progressive office holders, who
are responsible to the regular repub
lican organization for their position,
is loath to abandon the regular re
publican state organizzatlon which
has proven itself progressive, and
follow the progressive party in a
fight for state control which will
result in much local friction and lit
tle good. And in doing that. Sen
ator Cummins but carries out the
wish of Roosevelt that where the
party organization is already in the
hands of the progressives, no state
tickets should be put in the field by
the new organizations. Mr. Cum
mins takes the broad and correct
view.
Governor Hadley has not yet
adopted this view because he shrinks
from destroying an organization, al
ready progressive, in the state of
Missouri, and from which he has
been the beneficiary of great honors.
He fails to grasp the broader plan
whereby he is justified in the sup
port of Roosevelt without abandon
ing the old organization in his state.
La Follette, still unable to grasp
the truth of the impossibility of his
nomination against the Taft ma:
chine, repines in the belief that the
candidacy of Roosevelt was responsi
ble for his defeat. Both Cummins
and La Follette were in such rela
tion with Roosevelt during the great
progressive fights in the senate1 that
both can but recognize the cour
ageous, honest and successful fight
put up by Roosevelt against privi
lege. The difference is simply this:
Cummins accepts Roosevelt as the
strongest and most logical candidate
with which to promote the common
welfare, while La Follette still re
sents his candidacy because he
thinks the candidacy of Roosevelt
unjustly resulted in his defeat for
the nomination.
The people are ' more interested in
firmly establishing progressive prin
ciples in administration than in any
individual ambition. The 'plan for
stopping trust abuses, as set down
by Roosevelt, is practical and will
prove effective, and they have no
doubt of the ability and disposition
of Roosevelt to accomplish the de
sired end.
JUDICIAL FRIENDS.
If anything were wanting to indi
cate the advisability of kicking that
Judge Hanford from the federal
bench at Seattle, he has furnished it
himself, in explaining his resigna
tion while that congressional fire-
less cooker was doing its duty.
"A personal controversy involving
a judge, his friends and his ene
mies." says Hanford. "must neces
sarily seriously impair his useful
ness as an incumbent of a judicial of
fice."
The self-started, non-bucking
j Cousin Bill Taft would at once say
or this, that a judge has no friends
or enemies. This would be fine
theory, and dignified and not derog
atory to the sanctity of t,he courts
But it would not be fact. Judges are
but human beings, and not the vice
regents- of the Almighty, as Taft,
perhaps, honestly believes.
It being true that judges .do have
friends and enemies, it follows that
it is right and sensible that the ma-
jority see to it that judges friendly
to them are selected and that pro
vision be made to recall judges who
prove to be Inimical.
Judicially, Hanford is a dead duck,
but his. last squawk is really a boost
for a cardinal progressive doctrine
Some of the Yale secret society
men were locked out of their rooms
at night, but the common experience
with college men is that the only
thing that would bother them would
be to lock them out in the daytime
when they wanted to sleep.
The man who kicks for what he
wants, and has the facts to back up
his kick, usually gets what he wants.
Vhe man who kicks to be kicking,
and never tries to get at the facts,
works himself into a chronic grouch
and never gets anything.
Enthusiasm Is the keynote of big
success; it is the beginning and the
culmination of all things worth
while.
The Home Circle i
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In the art gallery of the World's
Fair at Chicago there was a picture
before which a crowd usually stood
spellbound. On every side there were
works of art, many of them more
pretentious, yet no other picture ap
pealed to the masses as did this one.
The subject was "Breaking Home
Ties." Doubtless you have all seen
it, or reprints of it. It emphasized
an experience that comes into the life
of every mother when her boy leaves
home to seek what fortune has in !
store for him in a strange place.
The strongest instinct of the hu
man race is the parental one. The
love which more nearly approaches
the Divine than any other is the
mother love. It is primeval instinct.
It is the instinct which modern wom
an shares with the clitT dwellers,
and with every species of animal.
Yet it is still more nearly divine than
that of any other instinct.
The time comes when the mother
bird teaches her young how to use
their wings. Every female creature
puts in a few days or weeks or
months or years in training her
young for the part they must take
in life. It is the human parent alone
who is unequal to the task, because
selfishness enters so largely into the
composition of every human being.
What if the mother bird should
say, hovering fluttering!)' over her
birdlings, "You must not try to fly.
Stay under the shelter of "my wings
yet a little longer and father will
grub for you and bring you all the
fattest, juicient worms in the gar
den." Every beast of the field and eyerv
fowl of the air knows that it is wis
dom to teach self-protection to their
young, that they may defend them
selves against any foe, whether it be
that of hunger, of hatred, of malice
or lust of blood.
It is the human mother alone that
says to her young, "Stay yet a while
in the old nest. Do not leave me. I
will shield you from harm."
It is a heart-breaking task teach
ing our young to use the wings
which will take them away from us.
Yet it is all a part of a wise plan,
and to go contrary to it is an in
fringement of law that will bring a
world of sorrow and regret in its
train.
There are, perhaps, few things a
mother is called upon to suffer more
painful than that of cutting the
apron strings that have bound her
children to her. Yet the joy of find
ing that a child has learned to stand
alone, mingled as it is with a vague
sense of loss, is sufficient reward to
the mother who has put self behind
her and considered only the best
good of the child.
It cannot be unalloyed pleasure
that causes the mother bird to perch
on a bough and carol joyously, when
she sees that her birdlings .have
learned to fly successfully and need
no longer depend upon her. t She
knows that it is the beginning of the
end. She realizes that they will soon
be building their own nests, and that
she will never again have them in
the old nest, in just the same old
way.
Yet she carols, because she has
been obedient to the law -which de
mands the sacrifice of self. She has
not yielded to the temptation to de
lay the necessary instruction. In
stead, she has done her full duty to
her young. She has taught them to
do without her.
One sometimes hears young moth
ers complain of being tied down by
the care of their children. To one
upon whom has devolved the im
mense sacrifice of teaching her
young to use their wings, the blessed
period of being tied down seems the
most precious time of life.
As the day approaches for breaak
ing home ties, the most Spartan of
mothers feels like drawing her
young within the shelter of her arms
and holding them there.
Indeed, not to do so, requires an
unselfishness that lifts a mother
higher in the scale which weighs
mortals to determine whether the
balance is on the side of the human
or the divine.
WILL PROBE COST OF LIVING.
Portland Citizens Would Find What
Makes Beefsteak So High.
Portland, Ore. At the last meet
ing of the special survey committee
of the Consumers' League it was an
nounced that through the energies of
Major Henry C. .Cabell $2,650 of the
required $3,000 necessary for a sur
vey of the cost of living among wage
earning women and children in this
state had been collected and that the
remainder of the amount had been
pledged in small sums. The work
has been carried on six weeks, Major
Cabell making the canvass among
well-known philanthropic persons
who are interested in the establish
ment of a minimum wage in Oregon.
The report of Miss Gleason, in
charge of the survey, showed that
conditions in many of the factories
and laundries, etc., were atrocious
both as to 'sanitation and wage,
pointing toward a direct relation to
the vice conditions revealed by the
commission. Schedules covering all
branches of work in which women
are employed will be secured by the
middle of October and the informa
tion thus gained will be usea to back
the proposed bill adjusting the wage
to the cost of living.
Suggestions of various sorts were
given by members of the committee
regarding the nature of the proposed
bill and it was decided to query in
vestigators and social workers all
over the country, the aim being to
avoid if possible the cumbersomeness
of the Massachusetts law which pro
vides for minimum wage boards and
to attain something of the directness
of the Wisconsin plan which is car
ried on through expert and high sal
aried men of the industrial commis
sion.
ROOSEVELT'S "CONFESSION OF
FAITH."
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(Sixth Installment.)
Judicial Control Called Failure.
It is utterly hopeless to attempt to
control the trusts merely by the anti
trust law, or by any law the same
in principle, no matter what the
modifications may be in detail. In
the first place, these great corpora
tions cannot possibly be controlled
merely by a succession of lawsuits.
The administrative branch of the
government must exercise such con
trol. The preposterous failure of the
Commerce Court has shown that only
damage comes from the effort to
substitute judicial for administrative
control of great corporations. In
the next place, a loosely drawn law
which promises to do everything
would reduce business to complete
ruin if it were not also drawn so as
to accomplish almost nothing.'
As construed by the democratic
platform the anti-trust law would,
if it could be enforced, abolish kit
business of any size or any effi
ciency. The promise thus to apply
and construe the law would undoubt
edly be broken, but the mere fitful
effort thus to apply it would do no
good whatever, would accomplisn
widespread harm, andi would bring
all trust legislation Into contempt.
Contrast what has actually been ac
complished under thenterstate com
merce law with what has actually
been accomplished under the anti
trust law. The first has, on the
whole, worked in a highly efficient
manner and achieved real and great
results, and it promises to achieve
even greater results (although I
firmly believe that if the power of
the commissioners grows greater, it
will be necessary to make them and
their superior, the president, even
more completely responsible to the
people for their acts). The second
has occasionally done good, has usu
ally accomplished nothing, has gen
erally left the worst conditions whol
ly unchanged, and has been responsi
ble for a considerahl amount nf
downright and positive evil.
Administrative Plan Favored.
What is needed is the annliratinn
to all industrial concerns and all co
operating interests engaged in inter
state commerce in wnich there is
either ' mononolv or control nf the
market of the principles on which
we nave gone in regulating transpor
tation concerns engaged in such
commerce. The anti-trust law should,
be kept on the statute books and
strengthened so as to make it genu
inely and thoroughly effective
against every big concern tending to
monopoly or guilty or anti-social
practices. At the same time, a na
tional industrial commission should
be created which should have com
plete power to regulate and control
all the great industrial concerns en
gaged in interstate business which
practically means all of them in this
country. This commission should
exercise over these industrial con
cerns like powers to those exercised
over tne railways by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, and over the
national banks by the controller of
the -currency, and additional powers
if found necessary. The establish
ment of such a commission would
enable us to punish the individual
rather .than merely the corporation,
just as we now do' with banks, where
the aim of the government is, not to
close the bank, but to bring to jus
tice personally any bank official who
has gone wrong. This commission
should deal with all the abuses of
the trusts all the abuses such as
those developed by the government
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suit against the Standard Oil and
Tobacco trusts as the Interstate
Commerce Commission now deals
with rebates. It should have com
plete power to make the capitaliza
tion absolutely honest and put a stop
to all stock watering. Such super
vision over the issuance of corporate
securities would put a stop to ex
ploitation of the people by dishonest
capitalists desiring to declare divi
dends on watered securities, and
would open this kind of industrial
property to ownership by the people
at large. It should have free access
to the books of each corporation and
power to find out exactly how it
treats its employes, its rivals, and
the general public. It should have
power to compel the unsparing pub
licity of all the acts of any corpora
tion which goes wrong. The regu
lation should be primarily under the
administrative branch of the govern
ment, and not by lawsuit. It should
prohibit and effectually punish mo
nopoly achieved through wrong, and
also actual wrongs done by indus
trial corporations which are not mo
nopolies, such as the artificial rais
ing'of prices, the artificial restriction
on productivity, the elimination of
competition by unfair or predatory
practices, and the like; leaving in
dustrial organizations free ' within
the limits of fair and honest dealing
to promote through the inherent ef
ficiency of organization the power
of the United States as a competitive
nation among nations, and the great
er abundance at home that will come
to our people from that power wisely
exercised. Any corporation volun
tarily coming under the commission
should not be prosecuted under the
anti-trust law as long as it obeys in
good faith the orders of the commis
sion. The commission would be able
to interpret in advance, to any hon
est man asking the interpretation,
what he may do and what he may
not do in carrying on a legitimate
business. Any corporation not com
ing under the commission should be
exposed to prosecution under the
anti-trust law, and any corporation
violating the orders of the commis
sion should also at once become ex
posed to such prosecution; and when
such a prosecution is successful, it
should be the duty of the commission
to see that the decree of the court is
ect to Attend the Fair?
If yon want to appear at your
best, it would be a good idea
to come here and see what
we have to ofler in stylish,
serviceable big value coats
and suits.
If you have been rending our ad
vertisements, if you are acquainted
i with this store, you know that we're
not contented with "ordinary" mer
chandise. We believe that our pa
trons deserve the very best, both in
style and quality. That's why we
handle
The Palmer Garment
It is iniK)ssible to find coats and
suits of bettor value. We know, be
cause we've tried . Examine any
"Palmer Garment" in our stock. Look
at it for style, for fabric, for lining,
for ornamentation, for design, for
workmanship, for fit and the more
you inspect, the more you'Jl think of
the "Palmer Garment." Come here
and let us serve you acceptably. We
have a great collection of seasonable
merchandise that you'll like.
We are also showing many new
styles in Silk Waists and Skirts.'
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put into effect completely and in
good faith, so that the combination
is absolutely broken up, and is not
allowed to come together again, nor.
the constituent parts thereof permit
ted to do business save under the
conditions laid down by the commis
sion. This last provision would pre
vent the repetition of such gross
scandals as those attendant upon the
present administration's prosecution
of the Standard Oil and the Tobacco
trusts. The supreme court of the
United States In condemning these
two trusts to dissolution used lan
guage of unsparing severity concern
ing their actions. But the decree
was carried out in such a manner as
to turn into a farce this bitter, con
demnation of the criminals by the
highest court in the country. Not
one particle of benefit to the com
munity at large was gained; on the
contrary, the prices went up to con
sumers, independent competitors
were placed in greater jeopardy than
ever before, and the possessions of
the wrong-doers greatly appreciated
in value. There never was a more
flagrant travesty of justice, never an
instance in which wealthy wrong
doers benefited more conspicuously
by a law which was supposed to be
aimed at them, and which undoubt
edly would have brought about se
vere punishment of less wealthy
wrong-doers.
Oarsmen do indoor practice work
before a mirror in order that they
may see their own shortcomings.
Scale receipts at Tidings office.
Attention, Wood Consumers
Sound dry red fir and yel
low pine, 16-inch block body
wood, delivered in your wood
shed in orders for not lees
than 10 tiers to a place, at
$2.25 per tier.
E. J. MAIIAN
Leave orders at office, 290
East Main St., or phone 108.
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