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About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1916)
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Lincoln was once speaking about an attack made on him by the Com mittee on tho Conduct of the War for a certain allegod blunder, or some thing worse, in the southwest the matter Involved being one which had fallen directly under tho observation of the officer to whom he was talk ing, who possessed official evidence completely upsetting all the conclu sions of the committee. "Might It not bo well for me," oueried the officer, "to set this mat tor right In a letter to lome paper, stating the facts as they actually oc curred?" "Oh, no," replied the president; "at least, not now. If I were to try to read, much loss answer, all the at tacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other busi ness. I do the very best I know how the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right what Is said BKalniit me won't amount to any thing. If the end brings me out wrong ten angels swearing I was rlKbt would make no difference." ASHLAND SHOI LI) HE AMERI CA'S CARLSBAD. "Ashland should become tho Carls bad of America. Tho waters there lire the best I hnve ever eneoun tererl," nays A. A. Miller, manufac turer's auerit of Portland, who re turned yenienlay from a trip to the southern Oregon c'ty. He was ac companied by II. I.. Adams of Port land, and both are loud In their lvalues of Ashland as a health reKort. "Wo vent on a business trip, but we rewulried several days becauso we rnmpled the wnter, first as a matter of curiosity, and found It was toning us up," said Mr. Adams. "All that Ashland needs Is the proper kind of publicity," said Miller. "Why, If Los Anxeles had anything like Ashland has, you would be hear ing about It all the time." Portland Journal, April 25, 191(1. The national political dope written by that staunch old standpat "war hoss," Colonel Washburn, and ap pearing In the Medford Bun as edi torial, has some punch. It reads like the "echo of Hong ago." Its noise re aemblei the clamor of an old boss convention when It "deplores" and "point! with pride." Gas Range Week is being observed by every Gas URllCa Males, lllv UG3U1111X UUlllll) IAU.3 IIVVA QHU OUV UlV niuuvi U) mji avr uu wwmj - All nsc nnnlinnpoc will hp sold at a STlPPial reduced VvlUIVllliJ fill j UIAAtVVJ w f price and if will pay you to come and look them over. -:- -: A DISTINCTION SHOULD BE MADE. From now until the primary In May the Tidings will have more or less to say regarding "reactionary" and "progressive" republicanism. During the past few years there has developed two distinct wings in the republican party. One, the reac tionary, aland-pat, autocratical ele ment, composed of men like Rocke feller, the raRroad Interests, Cannon, Barnes and Burton; the other repre sented by such men as Hughes, La Follette, Cummins, Beverldge, Roose velt and the rank and file of the re publican party. Two years ago many progressive republicans supported the Bull Moose party and voted for Mr. Roosevelt. In fact, Roosevelt carried Jackson county by some twenty-five hundred plurality, showing conclusively that a large majority of Jackson county republicans were so tired of reaction ary party control that they chose to leave the party for the occasion to rebuke the old order of party meth ods and management. Republican registration this year set over against progressive party registration In Jackson county Indicates that most of such have returned to the republi can fold and will vote In the May primaries. We assume that the pro gressives returned because they had hope of reforming the party organiza tion from within. Not believing In democratic principles, they desired republican success If It were possible of accomplishment without utter ca pitulation to the old order of things. Registration In Jackson county In dicates that the party, united at the November election, will poll a large majority. Therefore, every voter In terested In republican supremacy should be favorable to such a course as will result In republican success. In discussing that Issue (and the supremacy of progressive principles and management of the republican organization In Jackson county Is, and should be made, the paramount party Issue In the May primary), the Tidings, In referring to "progress ives," will be undrestood to mean the progressive element of the republican party and not the "Bull Moobo" par ty, and when It refers to "reaction aries" it means that element of the republican party that pines to go back to the old boss days when olose corporation party rule was the or der, and to those who formed the local "close corporation." The Tidings believes the progress ive element comprises a large major ity of tho republican party In Jack son county In the state of Oregon, for that matter and believing In the American principle of majority rulo, thinks 't advisable that the strength of the two elements bo tested out In the coming primary and whichever has tho majority should, by rights, dominate the party machinery. Tho old machine has hand-picked a full ticket of party committeemen who will appear on the primary bal lot. Also, wo are Informed, the pro gressive wing of the party has noml nated committeemen and will contest tho places with the reactionaries. The Tidings unhesitatingly takes Its stand for progressive party control, believing when the party organiza tion Is brought Into harmony with tho majority sentiment of the party, democratic supremacy In Jackson county will be speedily brought to an end. Contracts for building two large stool ships have been awarded to Port land firms. Newport has donated a lite for a kelp factory. , lias lUI CUUKUiy ffiic iironl onrl 09 SIN ENTERS GENERAL DENIAL The Medford Sun In a douWe-coI-umn editorial spews Putnam out. They say Putnam does not boss the Sun. Well, well, well. We do not blame the Sun for running from a dwindling master. The repub:ican organization ought to do likewise. The voters of Jackson county wlli un questionably do that the next time they got a swipe at his "democratic" candidates. Now, gentlemen, please explain to the people whether Mr. S. 8. Smith, manager of the MAIL-TRIBUNE. Ib not the same Smith who manages the republican machine of Jackson coun ty. Also, whether his said manage ment Is In the Interest of the "her maphrodite twins," the great "catch 'em coming and going" Medford newspaper combination, or In the In terest of the dear p-e-o-p-l-e. AUbo explain, please, whether George, In wet-nursing the machine, uses a bottle, or does it a la old southern nigger mammy style. To us It looke like he feeds it from his bulging breast, be gets close to It so often. WHO SHOULD PAY FOR BIG ARMY? "Let every man enjoy the game of moneymaklng, but let blm realize that for every stage he rises In play ing the game successfully, his respon sibility increases," says Samuel Mc Cune Lindsay, professor of social leg islation at Columbia University. Pay ing for the army and navy is in the end the chief responsibility for the very rich, Lindsay believes. "It is the sort of thing," he Bald recently before a New York political club, "that should be wholly paid for out of large fortunes. The large hold ings of property represent the great est need for preparedness. They have the most at stake and they should bear the cost." Radical thought Is as old as Job, therefore it seldom has an original sound; but old or new, reactlonUm always star tles somebody, and Professor Lind say's theory Is sure to arouse consid erable discussion among the thou sands who are convinced that man has not yet arrived at the best possi ble social system. The trouble is that quite regardless of the theory, the farmer and wage-earner will pay for a big army If we have one. NOT TAKING SIDES. I - The report has reached the Tidings office that it is being generally cir culated that the Tidings, being re quested by the railroad men to do so, absolutely refused to print their side of the railroad controversy, even for pay. The Tidings made no such refusal. It was approached by a representa tive of the railroad men and asked upon what terms It would handle their side of the case. They were told that It was not the Tidings' fight. That wastebaskets full of literature from the other side had been refused and that the only part the Tidings would take in the affair was to handle their side, or both sides, purely as advertising mat ter. The Tidings knows nothing of the merits of the case and does not care to assume responsibility either for or against the railroads or the men, un less It has an intelligent opinion on the Issue. We think that attitude proper and fair. The Tiding advertising col umns are open to either side, or both. A company at Eugene Is turning out ready-cut knock-down houses. is saie dim txuiiumicai. mim w cod Iho mnrfprn im.fn-riafp iVflV ftf 7 MdDo Mm Uo People's Forum Doesn't Like the Doctrine. Editor Tidings. So far as I know, It is a well-known and thoroughly established principle, when an article appears In the public press, or words pass from the lips of the public orator, they are no longer private property, but become the property of the public, which they can accept or reject, com mend or conJemn. Therefore, may I not reasonably expect the "People's Forum" column of your valued paper to give that which appears to me to be a Just crit icism of the methods pursued by the evangelist, Mr. Mathis? But first In Justice to the ministers of our city I wish to say, I have learned to love and respect them because each ex tends to the other the same kind, Christian, courtesies that we desire for ourselves, and therefore no Jars have ever occurred, to my knowledge. But when this so-called evangelist, Mr. Mathis, comes to our city and commences to throw out his ecclesi astical "challenges," and his declara tions that he "stands as the champion of a national Sunday law," and that when this law is thoroughly estab lished men and women that are now good, conscientious, law-abiding citi zens muBt be "branded as un-American, un-ChrlBtlan and unfit for decent society or American citizenship," and, In his own language, they must be "kicked across the pond," that Is, if they do not bow down to the legal Image which I, the twentieth-century Nebuchadnezzar, hath set up. Of course Mr. Mathis has not got the rack and thumbscrew installed as yet, and since our grand old-time honored constitution provides that "all can worship God according to their own conscience," and because of these con stitutional principles congress has not seen fit to provide Mr. Mathis with a Russian Siberia to cast his subjects, therefore his only recourse at present is to "kick them across the pond." Now if Mr. Mathis will give one command from that Man of Calvary, or example of the Apostles, where they created sufficient public senti ment to secure a law to promote any ferture of the Christian faith, like Paul bowing before Gamaliel, for In struction, so I will humbly bow at his knee and be taught more perfectly and if he cannot do this, cannot a dis criminating and deserving public plainly see that this man is perpetuat Ing the principles of the mystery of iniquity, which did finally in 538 A. D. secure the power of the state to further their so-called "Christian faith," which power history and the blood of millions of martyrs prove? They continued until 1776, when Maria Theresa, queen of Austria, pro nounced her celebrated edict of toler ation, which prohibited any more be ing "kicked across the pond" by the toe of the legal boot. In conclusion, It does not take the discernment of a prophet to deter mine the fruitage of such teaching in a community, because water can not rise higher than its source. Therefore, converts produced as the result of such a spirit sooner or later will be found perpetuating these cch ercive principles in their work, un less God by his spirit working through the local ministry elevate all such to a proper standard and con ception of true Christian faith and loving service. I understood he was an evangelist of the Moody sort, and did not an tagonize any one's faith, and I thought It wonld be a treat for our community to hear a man that had a message of salvation and that was Company in the MMHMM The Oldest National Member Federal FIRST NATIONAL BANK Capital and Surplua $120,00040 DEPOSITORY OF City of Ashland County of Jackson State of Oregon United States of America MMMHMMMMtMMMIHIIIMMMMMMMMMH removed from the fighting and vau deville type. So fully realizing that a meeting even of this sort would not advance my faith, yet for the moral betterment of our beautiful city, I heartily endorsed him at the meeting called to consider the feasibility of securing his services, and my en dorsement is scattered broadcast, but because of the reasons compiled above, and others I might give, I hereby withdraw my endorsement. ELDER B. C. TABOR. Willow Springs Canals Finished Water was turned Into the Willow Springs laterals of the Rogue River Canal Company's system Saturday, this section of the company's work being completed yesterday. A large crew of men has been working on the ditches for the past two months. This section of the company's net work of canals covers an Immense and rich agricultural section. The Coos county court has awarded a $64,000 road contract between Co- quille and Marshfleld. Free Trial Of the Wonderful Cleaner, The Frantz Premier "9 a. m. and the day's work done" This electric Vacuum Cleaner is now within the reach of everyone whose home is wired. It is the sanitary way to keep your home clean. t Ask us for FREE TRIAL in your own home. Paul's Electric Store The Big Electrical Supply House of Southern Oregon 212 West Main Street Medford Qrejjqn ( S Vtf- ' HHMHIMI Bank in Jackson County Reserve System j HOW DID HE GET IT? The question agitating Ashland Is, "Where did Greer get It." Mail Tribune. Wrong again, George. THERE IS A LOUDER AGITA. TION THAN THAT. It is county wide. It Is this: "How long will Putnam be allowed to keep it?" NEAREST TO EVERYTHING Hotel' Manx SanR-ancisco Oregomans Head quarters while in San Francisco "Meet me at the Manx'! rates Running dlillllfd Mintrcment of Cheater W. Kelley ic water in every room. Special altm (ton given to ladies traveling unweor- led.' A la carle dining room. moderate- flSiiiit