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______________ GOLD H IL L JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 13,1912
NO. 49
Jim HiSI Don’t Go Up Hill to Get Down Hill; He’s Coming to Gold Hill
LaFollette Popular Choice for President
Speaks at J
^^rd Thursday 10 a. m. Ashland Thursday 2
HOUSER TELLS GOLD HILL
A UDIENCE OFROOSEVEL T’S
TRE A CHER Y TO THE CA USE
Teddy the Trustbuster
F ro m N aw epap er A c c o u n t o f Speech
D e liv e re d a t P en d leto n
nKFF.RKING (o 1( u > m vi 'U' n record
• * iw a tnulbuiiter, l a FuUuttu de­
clared thn fonm r president wan re­
sponsible lor the present Industrial
Ixnidagi* »I the American people, by
bin failure to act decisively. “ I know
that what I am irelng to auy of a pop­
ular Idol may lone me bin Votes," he
shouted, “ but I care not if I luse
every vote that I have. I am going
to n il you the plain unvarnished
truth ami I »take my reputation that
Il 1» tha truth. When Roosevelt t«*>k
hl» seat there were 140 trusts with a
capitalization of 83,000,000. Wh n 1«
finish'd hl» last term there were 10,020
trusts with a U upitalUutlon of 831,-
000,000."
Openly charging that Colonel R oom
velt'a oandldaey waa Iraiiguratcd by
Dan Hanna, of Ohio, aon of (be la te
Mark Hanna, and la backed by the
steel trust, beenuse of It» gratitude
for services rendered by Roosevelt
when president. In allowing it to gob­
ble Tenne»»ee Coal ti Iron, Walter
Houser, National campaign manager
for LaFollette. who opened the pres­
idential campaign for southern Oregon
with a speech from the steps of the
Oold Hill hotel Tuesday, gave the true
Inwardness of the present political
situation and a clear definition of the
progressive movement.
Houser designated Roosevelt as a
false progressive, one who waa a trait­
or In the progressive camp and In­
cluded Olfford Plnchot, his brother
Amos, and other leading Roosevelt
man In the Indictment.
"Ood pity the progressive move­
ment, If It Is ever kidnaped by the
steel trust,'' declared the speaker.
"Whatever may be said of President
ft, the man Is up In front of us. We
.ow where he stands. He Is an hon-
rable enemy and not so hard to fight
a he who, professing friendship to
the cause, seeks to stab us In the
hack."
Houser's Remedy fo r Peeks
In Grants Pass the next day Mr.
Houser, In conversation with progres.
elves there, stated that In his opinion
the financial panic of 1907 was wholly
unnecessary, and that he did not be­
lieve the people would tolerate such
again. The Wisconsin man declared
that if the people In 1907 had applied
for receivers of the New York banks
and banka elsewhere over the country
when they refused to pay out to the
->eople the people's own money, the
uik vaults would have been quickly
alocked. the coin poured forth and
he panic ended. Mr. Houser stated
hat he came near doing that Rame In
'• own town, and he left the impress-
that he would adopt such a course
’.he future If another panic Is
night about.
LaPenette's Letter le Spreckels
Tli«» following letter, written by la -
Folletto to Rudolf Spreckels of San Fran­
cisco, follows the same lines in regard to
Rixisevclt's double-dealing as did Houser
in his Hold Hill sp.>ecli:
‘ ‘The attempt of anv of my former sup­
porter» to Justify their desertion of my
campaign manager, Walter Houser, is a
cowardly perversion of the facts. They
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LaFOLLETTE ADDRESSES
OREGON VOTERS ON BIG
ISSUES OF PRESENT FIGHT
Rols-rt M. I.a Follh-tte of Wisconsin,
prognwslve republican candidate for tha
presidency, will speak at llie Mixtfnrd
Nalutorium next Thursday at 10 a. in.,
and at Ashland at 3 p. m. He will speak
at Hrants I ‘ass llm evening of the same
■lay, thus closing ids campaign for the
nomination in this stale hi aoutla-rn Ore­
gon, where lie is confidently cx|»-rtrd to
recalve the biggest majorities that he will
nswive in uuy part of tin- Ilusvur com­
monwealth.
know that no |s-r*ma authorised the with­
drawal of my candidacy and no poraon
i ver prof, - s d to have such authority.
Persistently Refused to Withdraw
“ They know that 1 have |a'rxish'Ully
iefu «<1 to withdraw in favor of Roosevelt
r Buyout I • a m i I told them again and
again that, once having entered into the
contest 1 would not back out.
“ Tiit y know tli I refused to permit
RiSt-eVi I l's e u l . ‘ lid. ley to I«' Coll pits I with
icy >>wu '.i ...
u tth him In any way.
(djl'i.rl Idle I, ‘ ,i cl others professing to
I- my-tipp re is, but wlio, in fact, am
R Hi-evelt hUplsirterw, became insistent
when my candidacy liegan to show its
strength in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois ami
11 will re that RiHMeVelt's liana' I»'joined
with iiiiuc In hwolntions of indorsement
ami of combinations to I»* mode on dele­
gates by placing the name of Roosevelt
men on my ticket.
Tills, too, while
C olonel R is e , veil was protesting that lie
was not a candidate.
Wouldn't Play Double Game
“ I refused, directing my headquarters
in Washington, in Ohio, Michigan amt
Illinois to be strictly lot Follette head­
quarters, telling Plnchot and his friends
that I would not play a double game or lx*
a st.s lpigeon for Roosewlt or anyone
•I sb .
“ Idnchot, therefore, called conferences
la follette
A n A tte m p te d A p p re c ia tio n
B y Rex H . Lam pm an
To you the umlimmed vision,
To you the lion heart:
Unvexed by all derision,
You do your given part.
No higher-sooted crusader
E'er wore more perfect moil;
The truth your strong |wrsuader,
The right your holy grail.
among iny supporters in Washington ami
sought to force me into such a combina­
tion. Failing in this, be called a final
conference wladi he ami bis associates put
np to me the alternative: 'First, that lot
Follette should withdraw in favor of
Roosevelt wit h reservations as todifferen-
ees of opinion, amt continue to stump;
second, that Io Follette should withdraw
fait not in fsvor of anyone and continue
to wtiunp, having individuals or groups
to take wlialewr course they might
choose.'
D M Not Recognize Roosevelt
" I answered that I had never played
that kind of politics, and never would—
that I had become a candidate at the
earnest soNcrtation n l progressive repub­
licans because I stood for certain well-de-
flned prfaofpfes; that I did not recognize
Roosevelt as »lauding for those principles;
that I refused absolutely to be a stalking
hone for the candidacy of any m an;that
I never turned hack or surrendered and
that if I had such a record as a progn*»-
sive as they were urging me to make I
would never have been selected as a can­
didate to lead the present contest, and
that. If I were to make such a record I
would never be able to hold up my head
or look an honest man in the face.
Goodbye, Gifford
"Plnchot knows that January 2« end-
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ROBERT MARION LA FOLLETTE.
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Born Primes»«, D« u m oovsty,
Wl»., Jons 14, ISM .
Graduated Stats Unlvseslty sf
Wisssnsin, 1*7*.
A dm itted ts tbs bar, 1***.
K ls o ts d dlstrist a tts m s y Dans
ssunty 1**0 and rs-slsstsd IM S.
K ls o ts d ts esnersss 1**4 and
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bar w ays and means osmmittss.
Chosen gsvsrnsr s f Wisssnsin
In 1*00 and rs-slsstsd In 100*
and 1*04.
Mads Unitsd Otatss ssnatsr In
January, 1905, but did nst taka
bis ssat till January, 1000. Rs-
slsstsd In 1011.
Wisconsin Way Brings Business Security
T T IS N O T C LA IM ED for the progressive cause
in Wisconsin that it has attained its final destiny;
that it has settled all of the questions that vex and
trouble thoughtful people everywhere, and cause un­
rest even among the poor rich. But we do know that
we have achieved certain things.
We know that government has been made repre­
sentative—truly representative. W e do know that the
dire predictions which alarmed honest business in
Wisconsin have proven false; that capital has not fled
from the state, but is more secure than elsewhere; that
state hanks, subject to state regulation, are safe, and
failure is unknown; that the street car, the interurban,
the gas, electric light and water rates are undergoing
regulation and reduction, and yet, because we have
stability, the bonds of all our public utilities are selling
higher in the markets than in other states; that railroad
rates have been reduced, the services regulated, the
complaints of shippers adjusted, and yet the railroads
of Wisconsin are more prosperous than in other states,
because a sense of security prevails everywhere and
every producer, knows that his competitors within the
scope of state regulation enjoy no secret favor or ad­
vantage.
1 he old feeling of class antagonism and distrust is
fast giving place to peace, confidence and prosperity.
'io the voters of Oregon:
The Kept Press
In twenty-five years of political i
For Example: The P e r, la n d O n » o n ia p
struggle I have found one great is- S
B y R o b ert Marion LaFoUatt»
sue overshadowing and Including all
others— the encroachment of th e ' ^ U H AT ‘In we find ba» occurred in
' ’ the past f< w year.- since the money
powerful few on the rights of the
many. All the issues of today are power has gained control of onr in­
but phases of this one great ques­ dustry and government? It controls
tion. How shall the individual, the the ncws]>af»*r press. Tlx- people
farmer, the worker and all those who 1 know this. Their confidence is wi ak-
pay tribute, be set free from the un- j ened and destroyed. No longer are
just exactions of the tariff, the rail­ the editorial columns of new-pa|ers a
roads, the money power and other potent force in educating public opin­
forms of oppression by special Inter­ ion. The newspB|» rs, o f course, are
still patronized for news. Huteven as
ests?
The combinations have unlawfully to news, the public is fast coming to
taken possession of the whole coun­ understand that wherever news items
try. They control transportation, bear in any way njsin the control of
manufacturing, mining, capital and government by business, the news is
credit, the market price of every­ colored; so confidence in the news­
thing the farmer sells, the wages of paper as a newspaj» r is being iinder-
men, women and children in the fac­ niined.
tories and mines and the market
price of everything the consumer the supreme issue. ^Can the people
must buy. They have achieved this free themselves from this power?
control— except as to a few of the Can the nnjnst burden t>r fraudulent
older trusts—almost entirely under capitalization be lifted from them?
The trusts and combinations, the
the last two administrations, not­
withstanding the prosecutions for railroads, the steel trust, the coal
trust, all are scheming to secure
which so much has been claimed.
some action by the government,
In crea se In C ap ita liza tio n
When Roosevelt became president which will legalize their proceeding«-,
the total amount of the stock and and sanction their fictitious capitc.il-
bond Issue of all combinations and I zation. The situation Is critical. It
trusts. Including the railways then In may be expected from the attitude of
combination, was only 13,784,000,- the supreme court as shown In the
000. When he turned the country Standard Oil and Tobacco cases, that
over to Taft whom he had selected any act on the part of the executive
as his successor, the total capitaliza­ or the legislative branch of govern­
tion of the trusts and combinations ment, giving countenance to a trust
amounted to the enormous sum of or combination will be construed as
*31,872,000,000, more than 70 per an approval of the thousands of mil­
cent of which was water. Prices lions of watered stocks and bonds is­
were put up on transportation and on sued. and will fasten upon the people
the products of the mines and fac- for all time the speculative capitali­
zation of our public service and busi­
ness corporations.
C H IL D LABOR
B y C h arlott» Parhine Gilman
4» L aF »R »tt»'e td e » » x im
No fledgling feeds the father bird,
No chicken feeds the hen,
No kitten mouses for the cat—
This glory is for men.
We are tile wisest, strongest race,
Long may our praise be sung!
The only animal alive
That lives upon its young.
tories to pay interest and dividends
on the fraudulent capitalization.
The organization of these combi­
nations In transportation, mining,
manufacturing, money, credit and
the control of the markets was a
criminal conspiracy. It was In vio­
lation of the common law and fed­
eral statute. It was subject to pan-
IzBment by both fine and Imprison
went. Moreover, under the provis­
ions of the statue, every such combi­
nation could have been enjoined and
a violation of such Injunctive federal
statute specifically made It the duty
of the government to execute the law
E xecutive to Blam e
If, In the earlier stages of trust
formation the executive had used all
the power of this great government
to enforce the anti-trust law, it
would have saved the people the pay­
ment of hundreds of millions of dol­
lars wrongfully taken from them In
excessive transportation rates and in
exorbitant trust prices which they
have had to pay for the necessaries
of life. Had this been done before
these combined monopolies acquired
such absolute mastery, the people
would not now be confronted with
this momentous question: Are these
trusts and combinations ¿stronger
than tha government Itself? That Is
Nci-d New S tatu te
The time is at hand to declare for
a statute which shall make It ever­
lastingly Impossible for any presi­
dent, or any congress, or any court,
to legalize spurious capitalization as
a basis of extortionate prices.
The progressive republican plat­
form must take advance ground upon
this question. It must declare for
the speedy abolition of all privilege.
It must deal rationally but firmly
with the complex problems which
have been permitted to develop main­
ly in the last dozen years. It must
be to the last degree a constructive
platform.
But a platform, however strong
and progressive. Is not enough. For
example, the platform of 1998 was a
plain declaration for a revision of
the tariff on the basis of the differ­
ence In the cost of production. Re­
vision In compliance with that pledge
would have enormously reduced the
Din gley duties, but the president
elected on that platform approved
the Payne-Aldrich bill, increasing
the Dlngley duties.
Lesson is Obvious
The lesson Is obvious. It* teaching
must not be forgotten. The citizen
should ask what the candidate has
actually done toward solving the
problems that confront us; whether
hla course of action gives assuranoe
of profound conviction; whether he
is equipped with patience, determina­
tion and experience to deal with
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