Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, April 19, 1916, DAILY EDITION, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextIAILX JMXUR IUYEtt COVRIKIl wj:nyiiiv, ai-nil i. PAGE TWO. Daily Roue River Courier. An Independent "Republican Newt paper. United Press Leased Wire Teleiraph Service A. E. VOORHIE3, Pub. and Prop. WILTORB ALLEN. Edltof "Ti CI Entered at the Grants Pass, Ore gon, Poatofflce as second-class mall matter. - - r- t, - SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear J.-.. J $5 00 6tx Months ; 8.00 Three Months 1-50 One Month . .60 Payable la Advance WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1M. OREGON WEATHER . Fair tonight and Thursday, 4 heavy troet tonight, winds be- -f coming easterly. "DON'T BE A QUITTER." (The Fruit-Grower, St Joseph, Mo.) 'Hindsight Is better t than fore sight," says an old proverb. And how true it is. Usually, alter an event has taken place, we are able to see how our own affairs could have been Improved It we had acted In some other way. . We plant an orch ard and frost takes the fruit Then we realize that If we had provided orchard heaters the fruit would have been saved and our profit increased. But there is no use in crying over spilled milk, notwithstanding the fact that a fellow sometimes can't help doing so. And when a fellow drops all of his money in a venture, no matter whether It Js fruit-growing, mining, merchandising or specula tion, he frequently feels Itke -cuss ing" the whole world for his loss. Just read this letter that comes from a western subscriber: L . "No, thanks; awfully. I don't AND THE BAND PLAYED ON ( STANDARD CANNED PEACHES, 2 for 21o GKM't.NK, ORIGINAL L, AD. 8111UMP, a (or. 2.V FANCY SEEDLESS RAISINS, 2 pks for IMo SHAKER SALT, large iwaagee, 3 tor ...S3u OI R M'MllKR 18 SPECIAL ROAST COFFEE IS THE BEST NEW TOST TOASTIES, S pkga, for fflk) FRESH NORWAY. -MACKEREL, Urge can ... -.liUc LUtnVS SAVERKRAUT, large can .. lOo RI SINESS IS GOOD,' BIT WE WILL NOT RE SATIS FIED VNT1L WE GET ALL OF YOURS STRAWBERRIES FRESH. DAILY KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY Quality First OTNVtNIN Omaha, NYb.. April 18. Meager the writer of this letter is not alone! be many orchardists In the PacIUc northwest who will reap a fortune through the Intelligent application of modern business methods to their occupation. "Don't be a in hia losses, nor Is he the only one who will ever be taken in on the same kind of a proposition. But it orchards are being cut down .chosen and other crops planted, isn't it to be 'quitter.! believed that now is a good time ta stick tight to your own orchard, and to give it better care than ever? Is anything worth while in this world to be gained without a struggle? No business of any magnitude has ever government, it has manifestly proved Wn HPvplnnp-lfhonth.vInirtn-n.'iniPOM Or it to keep Up SUch I PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS (Continued from pae 1.) ; methods of attack upon the commerce of its enemies within the bounds set dure hardships that would break the courage of any bnt a man of !ron.by eItner the reason or the heart of and while bankruptcy has faced many : mankind. a man, those who come out on top "In February of the present year are the ones who stick to the fight the imperial German government in formed this government ana the otn- snd never know when they are whlp- er neutral governments of the world Dea- (that It had reason to believe that the Many difficulties confront the orch- j government of Great " Britain had ardists of the Pacific northwest and ! ed " merchant vessels of British in the struggle for existence the weak-hearted are certain to fall by the wayside. But fruit will be grown In the northwest tor all time to come. and the men who stick through the, present struggle are the ones who ownership and had given them secret orders to attack any submarine of the enemy they might encounter upon the seas, and that the imperial German government felt Justified in the cir cumstances in treating all armed merchantmen of belligerent owner ship as auxiliary vessels of war, reproach of thrusting all neutral rights aside In pursuit of Us Imme diate objects. "The government of the United States has been very patient. At ev ery stage of this distressing expert enco of tragedy after tragedy in which Its own eltlsena were Involved any extreme course of action or of ""turns from the Nebraska preeldon-l protest by a thoughtful considers- tlal preference primary election to-', tlon of the extraordinary droum- day showed that W. J. Bryan was lauctw hi hub iiu(.n'n'ui'inru - running iieiuuu ihv wuftr "u and actuated In all that it said or did possibly been beaten for delegate-at- by the sentiments of genuine friend- Urge to the democratic national con- ship which the people of the United veutlon. , , States have always entertained and Henry Ford polled a large vote continue to entertain toward the Ger- here and was dose to Senator Cum man nation. mini In the state balloting for the "It has, of course, aocopted the republican presidential preference, successive explanations and assur- Many Inserted the name of Justice ances of the Imperial German govern- Hughes on the ballot. ment as given in entire sincerity and PROFITBY THIS Don't Wt Another Day yon are worried by back- stnil urinary dls- When ache: liy lameness orders Don t experiment with an untried medicine, Follow Grants Pass people's, ex- ample. . , t'se Dunn's Kidney I'llls. Here's Grants Pass teatlmotiV. Verify It If you wish: William Harvoy, 631 N. Eighth St., Grants Pass, says: "I hare never found a medicine for backache and kidney disorder as reliable as Doan'i Kidney Pills. They have done one of my family so much good, who a few years ago went through a terrible sleae of kidney disorders, that I iud them. I have always taken JDonn'a Kidney Pills since whenever 1 1 have felt tho need of a kidney mo- good faith, and haa hoped, even Lincoln. Neb., April 19.The dlclne and have received Just as good against hope, that It would prove to slowness of election returns In com-, ",,,,,,r," 6nil tt ucalom. Don't be possible for the German govern- in in today rendered the outcome mi,y f'or B kidney remedy get ment so to order and control 0f the Nebraska preference primary . poan's Kidney Pillsthe same that the acta of Its naval commanders aa rather uncertain. It will take sev-'Mr. llarvey had. Foster-Mllburn Co., to square Its policy with the prln- eral daya to count tho ballots. j Props.. Huiralo, N. Y. clples of humanity as embodied In tho Iteporta'that Henry Ford was lead-1 iil- t ,).i,. iuSyCOTT laws of nations. It has been willing tri In the republican presidential: OF JAPANE SHIPS to wait until the significance of the preference vote proved unfounded be- J acts became absolutely unmlstakablo eause no attempt Is being made to, j.'rUn(.H,.0 April 19. The an and susceptible of but one Interpro- tabulate tho presidential ballots J tle!patl boycott of Japanese steam tatlon. Interest centering upon the senator- ,lUfS by chnoHo has apparently "That point has now unhappily Hhlp ami gubernatorial contests. been called off. been reached. The facts are suscep-' Gilbert M. Hitchcock, demorrat. Is . pRreg ,,f immigration Commls tlble of but one Interpretation. The running strong for tho senatorshlp. ),.,. c(Wnrd White show that for Imperial German government has j Keith Neville. C. W. llryan's oppon-' (om mft xollowlnag the end of the been unable to put any limits or re- ent, aptwar to be making a formld-1 Mnlj operations to the orient straints upon Its warfare BftlnHt able fluht for the governorship, but'tho CnnP(l, oamft on the Japntiw. either freight or passenger snips, a the Rryan supporters say that the has therefore become painfully cvl- country districts are yet to bo heard dent that the position which this gov-1 from. eminent took at the very outset Is' inevitable, nameiy, tnai mo ubo oi submarine for the destruction of an , will reap the reward. The ones who' Wch ,t wouM have the rJgnt t0 de. win are the onea who are putting j str0 without warning. The law of brains as well as brawn Into their! nations has long recognized the right want your paper any more. If I ndjflgntSi and wno are wlnlng to suffer of merchantmen to carry arms for never seen it. nor nursery litera- the embarrassments of the present Protection to use them to repei at- ture that reads like a circus blU, I ,for the reward, that are 8urft t0 come wouldn't be broke by having stuck ,f tney wm Dnt rtlci to tne flgM an of thirty-five years of accumula tlon into a fool would-be fruit farm over In Rogue River valley. ' ".There should be a law made whereby anyone who publishes a fruit paper or prints a nursery advertise ment, or has any fruit land exploita tions like Morrisania, for instance, should be sentenced to hard labor for life. But they should be well fed and housed, so they would live a long time to enjoy It. "Talk about growing better fruit bah! The more you grow the more you lose, as none pay the cost of pro duction and transportation. Wben one sees his lifetime' savings go 'to - smssh, one can't have a kindly feel tag for people who make their living by statements contrary to the real facts. Old orchards are being grub bed out over In the Rogue River val ley now, and the land put to other sensible crops. You can't find a fruit man in Med ford now that's got a dollar. "I put $7,000 in land and improve ments close to Grants Pass in 1909. It cost $45 an acre to clear It In ten months ? , was broke and bad to to back to work at my trade. I have earned $9,000 since, and it has all gone Into the place. Now I cant get 30 cents for each dollar that I have put In. I planted, among other trees, 250 Bing and Lambert cher ries. Tbey all died from Oummosls. Nothing can stop it. "Those letters of Louis Meyer In the November and December issues tell some noble truths. I am aston ished at your fairness to print them, but take away hie 'josh' of restored health, $10,000; and experience, $2,000) and you find a deficit of $11,442. He could have got his health by growing alfalfa, pigs and chickens Just as well, and which he finally bad to do, anyway." This is a real letter, full of the irony that comes with failure, and the pity of It Is, that it la true. It Is bitter in the extreme to lose the sav ings of thirty-five years of toll, and few Indeed are the men who can suffer such a Ions and smile. And the unfortunate part of It all Is that What would have been the condition of all agriculture today if Cyrus Mc Cormlck bad given np his reaper be cause he failed to find people falling over themselves to buy the first one he made? what would have been the condition of transportation If George Westlnghouse had yielded to the discouragements that faced the marketing of bis airbrake? What would have been the position of the United States if our forefathers had submitted to the dictates of British rule? What would be the condition of orcharding In these United States if fruit-growers did not have to fight and fight continually to produce and to market their crops? Take courage, Mr. Man, for while life mar he dark and dreary, and bankruptcy may come, there Is a fu ture of unbounded opportunity in the orcharding in the northwest, and the big rewards will come only to those who are willing to Stay with the busi ness to the bitter end. Another seven years may seem like a long time to wait, but in that Interval there will - Too Inqultltlv. A voitnir limn who litis tlientiicnl enemy's commerco Is or necessity, be- plrBtloim ,ovwl t0 H)rttit or nl, cout,eo cause or the very character ot the t)lm lu, HUt0 I,,,),,,., vessels employed and the very meth-: e,i,imny with some traveling per ods or attack which their employ- ,formow n, Iouuko of a hotel uol ment of course Involves. Incompatible H,lct tm ymin, uuiu carelessly with the principles of humanity, the observed: long established and Incontrovertible oh. yes: I took n show out once." rlKhts of neutrals and the sacred 4m- tut the wind was knocked out f his munltles of noncombatanta. sails when one of the actum asked I have deemed It my duty, there- him: . . . . ei... .a., a. a t. nit..lki.,,k fore, to sav to the imperial German' "p uroum u mwu -i iuuu. Quid I'll J.O . p ,v i fur it i taster hggs For the kiddies 10c, 15c, 25c, 50c at CLEMENS SelisDrug! ..'I ' 77i0 $&ttaSJL Store tack, though to use them In such cir cumstances at their own risk; but the imperial government claimed the right to set these understandings aside in circumstances which it deem ed extraordinary. Even the terma in which it announced its purpose show ed that its futnre plans were even more inexorable than Its earlier methods of nndersea warfare. "Again and again the Imperial Ger man government has given this gov ernment Its solemn assurances that at least passenger ships would not be thus dealt with, and yet it has again and again permitted its under sea commanders to disregard those asurances with entire impunity. Great liners like the Lusltania and Arabic and mere ferry boats like the Sussex have been attacked without a mo ment's warning, sometimes before they had even become aware that they were In the presence of an arm ed vessel of the enemy, and the lives of noncombatants, passengers and crews, have been sacrificed wholesale In a manner which the government of the United States cannot but re gard as wanton and without the slightest color or Justification. No limit of any kind has, in fact, been set to the indiscriminate pursuit and destruction of merchant ships of all kinds and nationalities within ; the waters, constantly extending In area, where these operations have been carried on; end the roll of Americans who have lost their lives on ships thus attacked and destroyed has grown month by month,' until' the ominous toll has mounted into the hundreds. One of, the latest and most shocking instances of this pnethod, pt warfare was that of the destruction oj.tbe. French crosschannel steamer Sussex! It must stand forth as the sinking of the steamer Lusltania did as so singularly tragical and unjusti fiable as to constitute a truly terrible example of the Inhumanity of sub marine warfare as the commanders of German vessels have for the past twelve months been conducting it. If this Issue stood alone, some ex planation, " some disavowal by the German government, 'some evidence of criminal mistake or wilful dis obedience on the part of the com mander of the vessel that fired the torpedo, might be sought or enter tained; but unhappily It does not stand alone. Recent events make the conclusion inevitable that It Is only one Instance, even though It be one of the most extreme and dis tressing Instances, of the spirit and method of warfare which the Im perial German government has mis- government that If It Is still Its pur pose to prosecute relentless and In discriminate warfare against vessels' of commerce by the use of submar ines, notwithstanding the now dem onstrated Impossibility of conducting that warfare In accordance with what the government of the United States must consider the sacred and Indis putable rules of lnternstlonal law and the universally recognlied dictates of humanity, the government of the United States Is at last forced to the j conclusion that there Is but one; course it can pursue; and that unless , the Imperial German government should now Immediately declare and effect an abandonment of Us present methods ot warfare acalnst passenger . and treight vessels, this government',' can have no choice but sever diplo matic relations with the government or the German empire .altogether , "This decision I foave arrived at with the keenest regret; the possi bility oi the action contemplated. I am sure, all thoughtful Americans will look forward to with unaffected reluctance. But we can not forget that we are In some sort and by the force or circumstances the responsible spokesman or the rights or humanity and that we can not remain silent while those rights seem In process or being swept utterly away In the maelstrom or this terrible war. We owe it to a due regard for our own rights as a nation, to our sense of duty as a representative of the rights of neutrals the world over, and to a Just conception of the rlgM of man kind to take this stand now with the utmost solemnity and firmness. ' "I have' taken It, and taken it in the confidence that it will meet your approval and support. ' All sober minded men' must unite In' hoping that the imperial German govern ment which has, in other circum stances, stood as the champion of all we are now contending for In the In terest of humanity, may recognize ithe Justice of out demands and meet them In the spirit In which they are made." The president was grave and earn est as he spoke.' Members bf con gress and those In the crowded gal leries scarcely stirred until he had finished. No applause Interrupted him. . 1 , ' v. , . . A full minute after he had ceased a brief storm of applause broke out, members on the floor and the gallery spectators participating. At the height of the cheering President Wil son stepped from the speaker's plat form and departed from the cham ber. He entered an automobile and was driven directly to the White House. The executive made no request of congress. He simply fulfilled his promlso to advise congress In case he took action such as he was re- Telegraph liners In scant numbers. Word was received todsy that com ing on the Anyo Maru and Seattle Marti are hundreds of Chinese. About 400 are said to be on one of the ships. Job printing of every description at the Courier offlce, Wq Sell and Guarantee mtiiamtR TOOLS and CUTLERY IN Kil l.' ItlVKK HAHDWAIltu The His Ked Front You will find with the Dodge Brothers Motor Car ninny features scarcely to be exKH tel at so moderate a price. Qunlltle which the eye cannot neo tine adjustment of part and fine balance- reveal themselves In the May tho car Ntlckt to the road at high speed. HHO p. O. It. Grant pass MYKIW MOTOIl CAR CO., Grants Peas, Ore. Pbone 80S or 00 Car on display at Grants Pans Garage. takenly adopted, and which from the first exposed that government to the ( ported to have taken GOLDEN GATE SPECIAL TO CALIFORNIA Leaves 9:00 P. M. instead of 1:00 A. M. Arrives 8an PrancIsco 6:30 P. M.. U 0 ' t .'v 'r , THURSDAY, APRIL 20th Is the date this change la effective. Other changes as follows: ' No'. 13 ' I 'No. 63 1 T STATIONS ,. , No. fj"". 8 : 1 6 p.' m. 8 : 3 0 a. m. Lv Portland ..............Ar. 1TJ o a. m. 0:OB p. m. fl',13 a. m. .: . Oregon City 7:85 a.m. c 10:J0 p. m. 10:82 a.m. , Salem 6:11a.m. 11:23 p. m. 11; 08 a. m Albany 5:20 a. m. ', 12:48 a.m. 12:30 p. m Eugene ., 1:60 a. m. 4:16a. ra. 4:15 p. m Roseburg 1:00a.m. 8:64 a. m. 9:00 p, m. .: Grants Pass ,. 8:80 p. m. ' 10:15 a. m. 10il5 p. m. ..'....(. Med ford ;:. ' 7:28 p. oi. 11:00 a. ra. UiOOp. m. Ar.......... " Ashland t. ......Lv. 7:00p.m. N 7:30 a.m. 6:30 p.m. Ar......... San Francisco Lv. 11:40 p.m. Motor car will make two round trips Albany to Corvallls and return ' ' as follows! i Motor Motor TtTTION8 ' i MtoT Motor " ITT3 (TaTm: 'fTOTiTm: CvCTAlbany ...Ar. rOTBHrrit STUXTpT. 12:06 p. m. 9:40 a. m.Ar Corvallls ... Lv. 10:20 a. m. 8:18 p.m. , Ask your local agent or write John M. Scott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon i .i SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES