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ASHLAND TIDINGS
MGI TWO
Thnrday, August 31, 101ft
Ashland Tidings
By
THE ASHLAXD PRIXTIXG CO.
(Incorporated)
ESTABLISHED) 1876
SEMI-WEEKLY
Bert R. Greer, Editor and Manager
Barrey R. Ling, Advertising. Manager
Lynn Mowat, . . City Editor
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The seasoned observer of political
battles can remember , methods, of
conducting political campaigns that
would seem very archaic in this fall
election.
The most typical feature of the
campaigns of thirty years ago was
the torchlight procession. A small
town might get nn,such a parade big
ger than its entire population. It
it had a well-drilled company it could
attract detachments from miles
around, on the understanding that it
was to send its company for a return
Advertising rates on application.
First-class job printing facilities.
Equipments second to none in the
interior.
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Ashland, Ore., Thursday, Ang. 31, '16
DO YOU FEAR HAPPINESS?
Remember 0. Henry's neuras
thenic? The one who, just as soon
as he began to feel normally content
with the world, said to himself,
"This won't do. I'm a sick man.
"What right have I to be happy?"
Well, be assured 0. Henry took
that character from real, life.
There's the business man who
pauses in the midst of unparalleled
prosperity to indulge fear of a slump
when the war ends. There's the
mother who, with her children rosy
cheeked and chubby-limbed, shudders
at the colds they are sure to have
text winter. There's the man with,
a good job who can't shake off the
thought that a younger chap will
push him out ten years hence.
There's the young wife who wonders
If John will love her when her hair
turns gray. And there's John him
self, who is convinced Young Wife
will be cheated out of his life Insur
ance in case of his death. The fear
of unhapplness is no more widespread
than the fear of happiness! Thou
sands and thousands of well-fed.
well-clothed, well-housed folk, for
tunate in their work and in their
friends, seem to regard their well
being as a sort of a charm that will
te broken If for but a moment they
give way to rejoicing. 'They are
afraid to be happy.
Now you can point out an elevator
shaft and say to a man, "Don't fall
down that shaft." But obviously It
isn't so eaty to say don't to a thought,
a habit of mind. Resolving not to
think a certain thought may serve
only to fix that thought all the deep
er In the mind. And so, if you would
erase fear thoughts from your mind,
you must reject the "don't" resolU'
tlon and adopt the "do." You must
entertain those positive thoughts
that, of themselves, contradict your
fears. You must resolve to have con
fidence In the future. You muBt re
solve to have faith, without which all
the good fortune In the world can not
make you happy! The deluge may
Indeed descend. If faith, has made
you brave you will build yourself an
ark. But If on the other hand lack
of faith has made you a coward, even
a ready built ark won't help you. In
the fear It will sink, you'll refuse to
board it!
Afraid or happiness? Faith, ac
tive, positive belief that the good of
the present is prophet to the good of
the future, alone can rid you of that
fear. '
Some terribly long marching jaunts
were taken. If a loyal party member
and contributor was not rewarded by
having the boys march past his house
In their flaring glory, he might get
sore on the ticket. The marchers
cheerfully tramped over the whole
town for the reward of doughnuts
and coffee and the general romp of
the thing.
Not the sllghest appeal to public
intelligence was made by this form
of campaigning. If the parade wound
up with a rally, as often occurred,
the speaking was mostly funny stor
ies. These could be supplied equally
well to the other side by changing
the name. Yet these parades made
votes. The side that produced the
longest line and the most skillful
marchers gave an Impression as win
ners.
If a fellow had drilled and paraded
with the republicans, 'he voted repub
lican, not merely that year but for
several years, and similarly with the
democrats. The political managers
understood perfectly how to use
these associations for political value.
That these parades have so largely
been given up is due to common
sense. It was a foolish expenditure
People became unwilling to burn up
money for something that added
nothing to education, gave no In
formation about Issues, and turned
out no more Intelligent voters. To
day the newspapers are the real po
litical educators, and campaign funds
spent in print go farthest.
of the state, and could never again
pass into private hands.
If that Isn't pure, unadulterated
single tax, what Is?
But that isn't all.
It is the tendency of renters to Im
prove land, or to let it deteriorate?
The latter, of course.
So our lands and farm buildings
would gradually deteriorate, would
become less productive, and we
would go backward, instead of for
ward.
Under this measure the full earn
ing capacity of the land goes to the
state for tax. Therefore, there is
nothing left with which to take up
the mortgage. The mortgagor could
not pay the mortgage, so the mort
gagee would have to take the land,
and the land would be worthless to
him, for its earnings would go to
the state.
Therefore, this measure would rob
all those holding mortgages of all
the money thus invested.
Is it any wonder that with such
freak laws coming up at every elec
tion people hesitate to put their
money into Oregon lands or to loan
money on Oregon lands ? Elbert
Bede in Cottage Grove Sentinel.
DISHONEST JOURNALISM.
VICIOUS MEASURE
VIOLET RAYS PURIFY WATER
USED IN BATHING POOL
There will be found upon the bal
lot this year the most vicious single
tax measure ever presented to the
voters of Oregon.
It will appear under the title, "Full
Rental Value Land Tax and Home
steader's Loan Fund Amendment."
While the wording of the meas
ure is Bomewuat indefinite, its en
actment would undoubtedly mean
the substitution of a full rental tax
on all land in lieu of all other taxes.
It would make no difference wheth
er or not such a tax raised twice as
much money as was needed, or wheth
er it produced only one-quarter the
necessary fund.
What would be the results of such
a tax?
Suppose you own 160 acres.
Under this measure you would pay
to the state the full earning capacity
of the land.
Therefore, the land would be worth
not a cent to you. The man who
rented a piece of equal value would
earn just as much from his rented
land and would have no investment.
If you should rent your land, the
full rental would go to the state.
If the full rental tax was not paid
the land would become the property
Ultravlojet rays are being employ
ed to purify the water used in a large
satatorlum at a St. Louis amuse
ment park. The September Popular
Mechanics magazine describes this
unusual method of water purifica
tion. The water is taken from the
deepest part of the pool, passed 41 East Main
through a series of filters that re
move the suspended matter, and then
subjected to the bacterldal influence
of the light.
Theoretically at least, all germ life
is destroyed by this process. As the
water passes the source of illumina
tion It falls in a cascade, so that
1t is thoroughly aerated before reach
ing the Umk below.
The swimming pool contains some
400,000 gallons of water, which Is
continually being drawn from one
end, cleansed and returned at the
other extremity.
IDXD
Yon wont a good, desirable piece of
improved business property for an
investment? Pays 7 per cent above
taxes and Insurance. Only $6,000.
Do you want a home of your own?
Can sell you a nice one cheap, and
give easy terms on payment.
Do you want to dispose of a piece
of property you now own? That's a
part of our business. -
Do you want to rent a farm or a
house, furnished or unfurnished?
If you want anything In these lines
see
Billing's Agency
Real Katate and Real Insurance
k Phone 211
(From Oregon Messenger, Salem.)
Staggered by the terrific indict
ment of the Wilson administration
drawn by James E. Watson of In
diana in his speech at the Baker
Theatre, the Portland Journal resorts
to its usual tactics to save its face
and bolster its cause.
It selects from Mr. Watson's speech
a single, detached and relatively un
important sentence and builds around
it a column of sophistry, misrepre
sentation and hypocrisy, and sprin
kles down the whole mess with a can
of crocodile tears.
It quotes Mr. Watson as follows:
"If after we took possession of
Vera Cruz and soaked its streets with
American blood we had followed It
up, that would have settled the Mexi
can question."
From this premise the Journal pro
ceeds to paint a blood-bespattered
chromo of our laborious progress to
Mexico City and the subsequent con
quest of the southern republic. Of
course if the Journal had been honest
it would have said that Mr. Wratson
made it evident throughout his bril
liant address that he 13 not in favor
of war except as a last resort, and
that he is distinctly of the opinion
that "a firm and fixed policy, with
someone In the White House with
backbone enough to work it out to
its logical conclusion," would have
prevented in Mexico the long series
of bloody outrages and events that
constitute intervention and a state of
war between the two countries, the
hysterical denials of the democratic
press and' politicians to the contrary
notwithstanding.
We gather from Mr. Watson's re
marks which, by the way, made i
tremendous hit with the big audience
that' he would have recognized
Huerta whose title to the office,
though defective, was as good as that
of most presidents of Mexico that
he would not have flirted with one
bandit leader after another; that he
would have insisted from the first
that American lives and property be
held inviolate; that he would have
exhausted the resources of diplomacy
before Invading Mexico and that as a
last resort he would have blockaded
the country and brought it to terms,
as AVllson Is now trying to do with
the National Guard on the border af
ter three and one-half years of watch
ful waiting watchful waiting by the
administration for a miracle to trans
form several millions of Indians and
peons into college professors, and
watchful waiting bfthe Indians for
opportunities to lift more American
scalps and loot more and still more
American properties. ,
In fact, Watson made It plain that
after seizing Vera Cruz he would
have blockaded the country, prevent
ing the landing there or elsewhere
of the shipload of munitions wTiich
was the excuse for the battle of Vers
Cruz and. the loss of more than a
hundred lives, and from that position
on Mexican soil he would no doubt
have dictated the terms of withdraw
al, which no doubt would have in
cluded guarantees of a decent respect
for the lives and property of Ameri
cans and other foreigners.
To find something upon which to
hang another series of its blood-and-tears
editorials, the Journal must
needs give to Mr. W'atson's language'
a meaning which he never intended
It should have and which the Journal
knew he never intended to convey.
But such is politics. Perhaps we
should not complain that the Journal
employs in defense of the party with
which it is affiliated, and to which it
owes its sustenance and its place in
the sun, the scalping knife, the pois
oned dart and the other weapons
with which it is so familiar and
which, after all, may be the best
means of defending a party that must
rely upon something other than logic
and a straightforward exposition of
its principles to maintain itself In
power.
Friday, Sept. 15 To
Be Ashland Day
On Friday, September 15, Ashland
should send down an immense crowd
to the county fair at Medford. Fri
day has been set aside as Ashland
day at the fair. The stores of Med
ford will close on that afternoon.
Plans for the fair are going for
ward with a momentum which as
sures Jackson county of the greatest
affair ever held. -
The merchants displays will be
located in the second story of the
Vawter-Davls building, Just north oi
Schieffelin's grocery in Medford.
There will be 20 or 25 booths with
all lines of trade represented.
The ladies departments will be
located on the first floor of this
bulding and there will be orchestra
music, style show on living models,
and an entertainment every even
ing on the second, floor.
The committee in charge of the
entertainment is W. F. Isaacs, Jonas
WTold, C. W. Whillock, W. A. Gates,
C. Meeker, E. F. Schmidt and Mr.
Hubbs.
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C. E. Gales, Medford, Ore.
Spratt Wells, of Bly, Klamath
county, prominent stockman of that
region, was here the last of the week
visiting his father, John Wells, and
other relatives. As a matter of busi
ness he invested In a new Ford car
through the local agency.
Classification Crew
Moves to New Camp
The last of the land grant classi
fication crew camps is being moved
to the new location this week. Head
quarters camp has been established
on Lake creek, about 25 miles east
of Medford.
The cruisers state that the new
headquarters is a little bit too full
of mosquitos to compare with the
high mountain camps on the Klam
ath Falls road. They were located
at an average elevation of about
3500 prior to moving camp. The
new camp is no higher than Ash
land. 1
Mrs. E. F. Smith, Bert Smith,
Leonard Smith and little son, Em
erson, Mr 8. E. W. Flackus and baby,
Dorothy, left Ashland Tuesday morn
ing of last week In Smith Studebaker
car and made the trip of 1?0 miles
to Yoncalla in 10 hours. They re
turned to Ashland last Thursday ev
ening and Miss Muriel Gibson came
with them.
E. R. Grieve and Spratt Wells left
Saturday for Klamath Falls, making
the trip in the latter's car.
At The
5-10-15C STORE
The little necessities for the
camping and canning season at
The 5-10-15C STORE
The Bon Ton bakery, on Fourth
street, has Installed an up-to-date de
livery car. Proprietor Muller Is to
be commended fo his progressive-sess.
BY. MILES THE BEST
Because ifs a re- i- J0tS
fined gasoline not " 4 rS'tv'ffl' ,
a mixture. XI mff
STANDARD OIL VCV
COMPANY fuM An I
(Clifornl.) f 1-3 I
The Occasion of Occasions
county mm
to be held at
Ml
BFRB
September 13,14.15,16
Largest premiums offered in the state on
Horticultural and Agricultural Products
LIBERAL premiums on Stock, Poultry, Flowers, Minerals,
products of Kitchen and Pantry, Embroidery and Fancy
Work, FiDe Arts, Children's Exhibits, School Exhibits, etc. Get
a premium list and make some exhibits.
Big Free Barbecue and
Community Day Thursday
- Sports and Races of all kinds, including roping and bucking
contests, bulldogging, ladies' and men's relay races, running
raceswild horse races, goat roping contest.
Ashland Day Friday 1 5th
Full particulars regarding this next week.
The Biggest and Best Fair Ever Held in the County
S. I. BROWN, Secretary
A. J. VANCE, President