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X JFAGB TWO ASBXAXD TIDES CS Thursday, Octofxn- I, 191 4 Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert It. Greer, - Editor and Owner Cbaa. P. Greer, "Mgr. and City Editor .BilUe Briggs, News Reporter SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year j $2.00 Six Months 1.00 ; Three Months 50 j Payable in Advance. j ' TELEPHONE 39 Advertising rates on application, democratic administration and con-First-class job printing facilities. . . , us . " . r .-I cress he is absolutely nil. He nas Interior. No subscriptions for less than three months. All subscriptions dropped at expiration unless renewal is received. ; In ordering changes of the paper . . Ashlaml, Ore., Tliui-wlay, Oct. 1. I14 ABUSING THE INITIATIVE. The proper function of the initia tive is precisely the reverse of the referendum. That and nothing more. When the legislature attempts to enact unwise legislation the referen dum is called into action to keen it from going into effect. The converse. When needed and wholesome legislation is proposed and the legislature turns it down the in itiative is brougnt into requisition to force responsive action by the law making body. That is its proper function and only safe use. When applied to its proper use the initiative will prove a wise and wholesome power in the hands Of the people instead of an encumbrance on the ballot and the source of much illogical and foolish legislation as it now is. The trouble is that te initiative power is being exercised ? an ir.s'ru ment of original legislation instead of one by which wholesome legislaton can be forced in spite of an unrespon sive legislature. If the initiative is to continue to be abused as it is now it will soon usurp every preprogaJve ., 1 . J 1. , i .,6..u,c .uu ....ut. .t -- irco, luauiutj iiic Diaiuica n Jilt advised, immature' and Inconsistent laws. Now every porson with a pet notion, or a grudge, whether actuafM by malice or beneficen Intent, puts forward his measure, until the ballet is utterly encumbered by the multi plicity of proposals to the e'ectovite. Last year there were fort;, eight ot them and at the coming election the voter will be confronted with twenty- nine of them. To determine the de-1 gree of intelligent action possible in voting upon this hodgepodge it is j only necessary for each voter to &-k himself whether last year he was ab't, to exercise matured judgment on each initiative measure on his 1i:i'.1.j?. Un less he bad more time a id inclination than the writer he Is bound to an- j sweriie did not. Efficient, octnoini-1 cal government cannot be brought j hn,,t nH TnintoinH .,( hv rnr ful, honest, intelligent legislation. ! The initiative, applied as it Is now in unwleldly undlgtsted gobs, will not bring about Vholesome results. Great powers, those of initiative and referendum, in the hands of the people, carefully and inf!. 'gently ex ercised, but dangerous indeM Improp erly applpied or diverted from tii i: proper uses. Every legislative proposal should be first presented to the lesisl.iiu"; for action. If the legislature fails to respond and there exists a strong popular demand for the measure, let the initiative be brought to bear in its proper function. Let Oregon quit running wild vith a good thing quit abuting tfc- pow ers of Initiative or her statutes vi'l soon become so incongruous, rilicu loua and unfitting that who'cftne rovernment will be impossible unler them. PRAYER FOR PEACE. United prayer for world peace will be offered in every church. Sunday school and religious organization in America Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. President Wilson""has lssu"' a proclamation calling upon the American people to pray for peace, not alone in the war zone, but through the entire world. The Ashland ministers will respond to this request and offer prayer for the great cause of humanity. Every citizen in the home fireside should let his voice be beard. At this hour peace is the utmost desire of every one on' earth, be he in the ditch be hind the firing line or in the home of plenty and comfort. Worldwide peace, harmony an1 friendship, un ruffled by thoughts of war, is the derout desire of all. Therefore let us lend our voices as well as our best efforts in the great cause. always give tne old street address or : lereu, ue luejaiti u ,c "aa ------- postoffice as well as the new. 'gained a few pensions for old sol-! go back' to the old method of caucus Entered at the Ashland. Oregon. ; die,s- That is commendable. But selection and election by state lesls Postoffice as second-class mail mat- j that told, the story ends. Put your j latures. ter. j finger on any great accomplishment, j In some of the counties of Oregon if vou can. where Hawlev has been the present campaign is assuming an HOLLISTER VS. HAWLEY. From all we are able to glean from his history, Hawley is an exemplary private citizen. As a congressman he is a flat failure. Oregon cannot hope to get on in national influence with a "ME TOO" representative. She needs congressmen with initia tive u-ith stamina with a DUTDOSe. . ... ni,rnnsB mMt b tQ DUt Dre .r 1 . , ,ici. BOQ va lue u'"v ,u ual'v"" .w- tion, influence and appropriations. In a republican congress, with a re- publican administration, Hawley was weak enough he accomplished no ! great good for Oregon but with a ;ot the punch to command respect j either from friend or foe. tie at - tracts only those who love monotony , who are content to slide nlong j and stop when obstacles are encoun- . . . .......11 t?rt tiac the power behind the result, during ; unwelcome aspec t in the eyes of the the past eight years while he has 1 citizens. The cry of the partisan encumbered an Oregon congressional j press deceives no one. Abuse of a seat. In accomplishment he is a flat ! republican candidate by a democratic failure. If he is elected this time i paper because he is a republican is it will be more because of his frank- a poor and unfair political policy, ing privileges than his performances. ; Tirades against democratic candi The Tidings thinks it is a fair dates by the opposition press were at judire o men. It knows the differ-; one time deemed essential to a party ence between a live and a dead one, ' campaign, but the ultra partisan and and, take our word for it, Hawley; his methods are no longer effective is a dead one as far as result get- ' in creating public sentiment. Times ting is concerned. Eight years con-; have changed and the people have tinuons trial without a result proves j changed. The voters can no longer it. On the other hand, Hollister is be herded into the polling place and very much alive. He has proven a the herders are no longer necessary, force in his own community. He is The people are independent of the a forceful citizen of the state. He is j machine, and being independent are putting the punch into his campaign, j guided more by their own judgment He is full of energy, of ambition, of j than they are influenced by the panic good judgment and ginger. He will ! of the political stampede, be elected, as he should be, will make ; Newspapers, like men, are begin a cracking good congressman, and,!ning to realize that their greatest being in harmony with the adminis- j power lies in political freedom. The tration. will get results. j newspaper which accepts all the can- All things being equal, the Tid-, didates of any party on the wholesale ings is inclined to the support of, party ticket principle destroys its republican candidates. In this case 1 greatest field for usefulness in a ' the match is uneven, too much dif ! ference in the men there is greater jdifference in the timber than is pos j Bible in the party. Therefore as be ! tween Hollister and Hawley a repub- j limn ran sunnnrt Hnllister without I fcciivicn. ,he ,east partv compunction, unless. , , , . . . party than the glory and welfare of his state. ORGANIZATION' FOR TION. LEG1SLA. In the August 20 issue of Life, at tention is called to the efforts of organized physicians to secure legis-'are lation such as they desire, ostensibly for the public interest. We quote from Life as follows: "At a recent meeting of the Amer ican Medical Association at Atlantic City, fifteen reasons were advanced for the establishment of a national department of health. Among these perhaps the best one from the med- ical standpoint is that which states, 'To influence state and city authori- j I1" 10 en8Cl reiorni legislation in relation t0 heakn n,at,er8-' The kind and quality of legislation to be en- acted would of course be determined by the doctors themselves. They would quite naturally not be willing to admit that anybody else is com-, petent. This is a beautiful system. It aims for nothing less than the direct control of the, health, the liberty, and the person of every American, whether male or female." As the bulk of medical leeislation a.sked for by the medical societies in the past has included a definition of the practice of medicine drawn in sin n terms as would include ail wno. heal the sick, whether by medical treatment or not. there can be but little doubt of the correctness of Life's conclusion. The intention of such proposed legislation is to make 1 it a crime for any person who is not : a physician, in the most limited sense i of that term, to attempt to heal the sick; but inasmuch as the only per- son who ever healed all manner of disease and never failed to heal those who applied to him, was not a phy sician, and did not practice the sys tem whlrh the American Medical As sociation stands for, it would certain ly seem that to create a monopoly In favor of and at the behest of phy- i ilan "ho have never equaled this record, is not In the Interest of the people. The Tidings editor had the pleas ure of going through the high school building with Professor Briscoe Mon day morning. It is a plant for which citizens can' well feel proud. Mr. Briscoe has organized it with the view of bringing it close to the needs of the people. He is giving attention not only to academic education, but to the practical as well. When girls and boys finish In the Ashland high school they will be equipped for the duties of life as well as have the elements of academic knowledge. SELECTING A CANDIDATE. (Eugene Guard.) For the second time in the history of the .state of Oregon the people will this fall elect a United States senator. George E. Chamberlain, the present incumbent, a democrat; Wil liam Hanley of Burns, a progressive, and R. A. Booth of Eugene, a repub lican, are the candidates. By an amendment to the federal constitu tion a new obligation has been im posed upon the voters and the posi tion brought closer to the people. It is to be their will who shall be elect ed, and in making the selection it is a duty of every man and woman to consider this matter carefully. Their decision should be above the piam partisan pumics. micas iue. follow such a course the purpose of tne constitutional amendment pro ! viding for a direct vote will have hnoii HofoatDn q n n r a miwhr ac wf.ll community. It stamps indelibly upon its editorials the marks of prejudice which the voter recognizesyat sight, but which, a few years ago, were in harmony .with the attitude of voters in r.ni Something more is ex pected of the newspapers than un qualified support of any political ma chine at a time when the people are forcing the adoption of laws provid ing for the direct election of all pub lic officials. The Guard under the present man agement has been independent in po litical matters. The editor is regis- tered as a republican, but his politics absolute! yindependent. He has been an ardent admirer and support er of Woodrow Wilson, president of these United States, and his policies. He has watched the college professor grow into the diplomat of nations. and the conduct of the country's af fairs, under his guiding hand in time of crisis, has revealed to him a man whose service has been a godsenl to 'the nation. The Guard has repeated- ly emphasfzed its position and it has supported tne administration not be- cause it was democratic, but because of the power of this great and sin- cere man and of actual services per formed. ; The Guard has urged the eelction of Frederick Hollister of Coos Bay a democrat, as a candidate for con- 1 gress and, today, announces that it will support R. A. Booth of Eugene i a republican, as a candidate for United States senator. In Mr. Hoi j lister it recognizes a man of ability. j fully qualified to fill a position in which W. C. Hawley, the present In icunibent, a republican, has made an , utter failure. in political matters there is no j middle ground. A newspaper should ! make its position known and not J seek to dodge an issue or offer a pre- tended support. A thing is either : right or wrong, and it must be either for or against a candidate. It has ascertained the views of the candl dates upon Important Issues. It has studied their fitness for the position and in announcing its decision does so with the conviction that beBt re sults, so far as the people ot Oregon are concerned, are to be attained through the election of Mr. Booth. The Guard has not been influenced by partisan politics. This decision is the result of independent considera tton of the candidates and those things which have been paramount in determining the course of the pa per in this matter will be urged dur ing the remaining weeks of the cam paign as reasons why Lane county's candidate should be elected to the United States senate. The political backers of Mr. Haw ley are hereby requested to show up and "point with pride" to his record Why art they so silent? Fifty cents invested in a Tidings For Sale" ad often sells a $5,000 property. Did you ever try it? "IXXOCUOCS DESUETUDE." Heretofore Hawley has won by de fault. Nobody has ever thought of looking into his record into the things he has accomplished, or, rath er, the things he should have, but has not. Mr. Hollister is the first opposing Candidate that hoc tnrr.a U...ln'a hand. He demands of Hawley that j he give an account of his steward ship. Hawley replies: "No interest to serve but the people's interest." A fine enough platitude, indeed, but the record shows beyond doubt that he has served no interest except Haw ley's interest, and only that by draw ing his Balary as congressman,, and mileage, amounting to about $9,000 per year, and his salary as member of the executive board of the Modern Woodmen of about $1,200 per year. ii xne records snow true and our source is, the Congressional Record he has given the people of this dis trict absolutely nothing for their money. He has done nothing. True, he claims credit for some of the ap propriations Bourne got for Oregon, but the records do not bear him out. The only real fight he ever put up n congress was against a resolution o cut down the mileage of congress men to the actual traveling expenses. Against that he made a lively fight. If he had been as aggressive for fhe 170 bills he introduced during the past eight years, and let die for want of force, as he was against redo ing his own mileage allowance, no doubt he would have had some legislation to his credit, but, alas, when the mile- e resolution was defeated he sank at once into a state of hopeless desue- ude, where he has remained ever since, at least until Hollister got af ter him. ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH. Of late we have examined Into the record of Congressman Hawley. He has introduced 175 bills in congress and 170 of them were killed while he slept at the switch, and the other five were private pension bills. The pension bills arc all right. We are n favor of liberal pensions, but there must have been a lively sentiment n favor of pensions or Hawley would never even have landed these, for he has succeeded in getting nothing else, as far as we can judge by the rec ords. Hawley's record will not stand the strain of a campaign. He will have to make his run on something more tangible, for the record is flaccid as! a spider web. The Tidings has been scrutinizing the Congressional Record carefully. Hawley has persistently stood pat and slept while he stood pat. Haw ley is a "ME TOO" congressman, that and nothing more. The Tidings is opposed to reactionary do-nothings i wherever fojind. STANDING FOR SOMETHING. This is what Frederick Hollister stands for as expressed Jn his peti tion for nomination: River and har bor appropriations; public lands for home builders; national equal suf frage and prohibition. All of which looks good. Besides. Hollister is a man of stamina of good red blood and ability, energy and courage enough to Inject his ideas favorably into congressional ac tion. We are a little tired of soft dough backbones and jelly fish con - stitutions. Hollister's moral back is built of strong bone and muscle and be is ; constitutionally a hustler. j That's why he will be elected to congress. Mr. Prohibitionist, look up the rec- j ord and answer this: What practical j support has Hawley ever given to j either state or national prohibition? He has straddled the fence been j asleep on the job all round. Hawley Is a splendid specimen of jelly fish He lacks stamina. Hollister went on record on prohibition the first pop. He was not afraid to tell where he stood on that vital issue. Whether popular or unpopular, he stood for th right. And that is why the Tid ings is for Hollister. He has back bone enough to take a stand on vital issues and energy and ability enough to vitalize them. Hawley Is a reactionary elected from one of the most progressive dis-1 tricts In this Union. He has, been indeed fortunate. Until this cam paign opened he has not before had a formidable opponent. He has here tofore been elected by default. The Tidings has failed to find in the Ore- gon press, either before the primary or since, one single argument why Hawley should be returned to con-j Kress. The Oregonlan put forth the best argument we have yet heard ! when It said, "Of coirse Hawley will be elected." If measured by his rec ord Hawley falls at once into the do nothing class. Phone news Items to the Tidings. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMHIIIIIIIMIIIIMMIHIIIIIIHniii The Oldest National Bank in Jackson County Member Federal FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital and Surplus $120,OOOAO DEPOSITORY OF City of Ashland County of Jackson State of Oregon United States of America I I tilt M H I I H H Hawley Has Two Jobs and Salaries W. C. Hawley has served four terms in congress from the state of Oregon, says the Eugene Guard. He now seeks a fifth term. As a rule a man begins to show some' signs of life after eight years in the national legislative body, but Mr. Hawley has failed to create a stir sufficient to attract attention even among his own constituents. Possibly Mr. Hawley does not measure up to the position. Perhaps he has been devoting too much time to private business or to a fraternal insurance organization by which he is employed and from which he receives a salary, and has been compelled to neglect the affairs of the people. The Guard considers Mr. Hawley by what his services to tlie state and district have been worth. It is not a pleasant task to condemn a man, but it is sometimes necessary if we are to apply the same sound principles to governmental affairs as we invoke In business. An employer pays his em ployes a certain sum for the perform ance of certain work. Results must be accomplished or new hands will take their places. The just man gives every other man a reasonable chance, but the man who does not measure up to the required standard, or who neglects his work in seeking to serve two masters, by handling a side line, sooner or later is dismissed. There is a time when forbearance ceases to be a virtue and the man in business is forced to act for the preservation of his Interests. When that time comes, no matter whether the em ploye is a republican or a democrat, that fact will not, and should ont, hold him in his position. The people are awakening to the fact that the public servant is not unlike the employe. They have a right to expect that he shall perform a certain service, and when that ser vice is not performed they should dis miss him, rega dless of political en tanglements. The people havebeen reasonable with Mr. Hawley. The hou rof judgment has arrived. Has he made gopd, or has he neglected the business of his district, the state and nation in an effort to earn a few4 hundred dollars additional over and Good Work Done Promptly AT THE Rough Dry at Reasonable J. N. NISDET, Mgr. i0fflce and Laundry 31 Wate. St ire You Stock Ranch Cheap. Ask About It House and lot leased for $180 for one year. For sale for $1,500. Where can you Invest money to beat that? 320 acres good farm land worth $75 an acre offered at $50 for quick sale. A $3,500 modern residence offered at great discount. Inquire. Houses Rented Staples Realty Agency HOTEL ASniiAXD BUILDING. Reserve System "M"H"H"l- rm I i 4 A above his salary of $7,500 a year a a member of the managing board of an insurance organization? A few days ago the people of Ore gon read with humiliation an account of the fact that Mr. Hawley has been appointed as a member of the com mittee of forty-eight, representing the various states of the Union, to attend the funeral of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president of these United States, but that he was not in Washington at the time. The Congressional Record of Aug ust 8, page 14,699, quotes Speaker Clark saying: "Yesterday morning the chair ap- : pointed the gentleman from Oregon, ! Mr. Hawley, on the committee of j forty-eight to attend the funeral of i JIrs- Wilson. The chair has Just re- i celved a telegrtm saying that he had just gone to Oregon and cannot be there. The gentleman from Oregon. 1Jr- Lafferty, has not been here for two or three months, so the chair will appoint the gentleman from Oregon, Mr. Sinnott." This is a deplorable record for the state of Oregon to hold forth to the people of the country at such a time, if true. Mr. Hawley did not come to Oregon. He has not been here. There was at about that time a meet- 'ng of the insurance board of which he is a member. We do not know that he was in attendance, but the salary of $75 a month which ha draws from the organization make ! attendance at such meetings incum- of managers of which he is one and provides additional compensation for all meetings attended. It is not to be assumed that Mr. Hawley receives such a sum of money fo rnothing. He must perform some service and such a service requires time. Mr. Hawley, It cannot be dis puted, has a side line. Think it over. You have a few weeks to make up your mind. Are you going to assist in the re-election of a man to the congress of the United States for a fifth term, solely because he is a republican? Is there no other consideration? One thins that America needs more than any thing else is political independence in the individual, here and in Wash ington, and as this develops more men like Mr. Hawley will be devotin all their time to side lines. N.&M. Home Laundry Prices. New Machinery. TELEPHONE 165 Awake ? Autos Insured