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Daily Roue River Courier.
An Independent "Republican Newt
paper. United Press Leased
Wire Teleiraph Service
A. E. VOORHIE3, Pub. and Prop.
WILTORB ALLEN. Edltof
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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
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taster hggs
For the kiddies
10c, 15c, 25c, 50c
at
CLEMENS SelisDrug!
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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.
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at the Courier offlce,
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' No'. 13 ' I 'No. 63 1 T STATIONS ,. , No. fj"".
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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.
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