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ROGUE RIVBR COURIER. GRANTS PASS, OREGON, DECEMBER 21, 1906. ON A ROCK FOUNDATION He builds on rock who owns his home and pays no rent to landlords, , How is it with you, are you a rent payer or a house owner? If the former, it will pay you to try to save a little and purchase a home. It does not take long when you once start, and lean help you wonderfully to get a home of your own free and clear. If interested come in and let me put some mutually beneficial propositions before you. JOSEPH MOSS, THE REAL ESTATE MAN. Office 516 E St. INTERPRETATIONS 0F ELECTION BY OUTLOOK Two Powers Haw Bn Grow- Ing Vp in tho Country Dmo- cravcy vnd Plutocracy. BIG DEFICIT IN POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Postal Rates Twice as High ss Pas senger and 44 Times as High freight Rates. A deficit of more than 110,000,000, according to Mr. Corteljou, ii the result of operating the postoffloe de partment the paat year. We are the only nation on the globe whose mails occasion a deflolt, says the Portland Journal. It la nheer nonsenee, as well established by the offer of a f- sponsible Chicago man to operate the department to rednoe all postal rates one-half, to eliminate the difloit and to 'pay the government all profits above 7 per cent on the necessary In vestment. Though there are other contributory Inflaenoes, the main soorce of the lackage is the extravagant sums paid railroads for transportation of the mails. Ibis item In ltXifi oost tbe government more than 137,000,000. Of this great sum, it has bean proven on the floor of oongress that bat 63 per cent went for actual oarrlage of mail matter, a proposition illuHtrative of onr wasteful methods. For carrying her malls England pays but 8.4 cents per pound ; we pay S.6 cents per pound. Though the aggregate of tons of malls dullvered is a thousandfold or more Increased there has been no redaction In tbe rate for 38 years. In that time passenger rates have been reduced SI per oeut, and freight rates 40 per cent, but mail rates have not shronk the thousandth part of a penny. What makes tbe statemont forceful la that postal rates are twice aa high as passenger rates and 44 times as great as freight rates per pound. Though the malls and express are carried on the same trains, require the same care aud involve the same responsibility, we pay no less than 10 times as much as the express com panies pay for the same mtrvlce. Xmas Gifts When selecting your Christmas Pre s e nt nothing coulJ bo more useful or acceptable than a pack ago of Folgcr's Golden Gate Coffee or a package of Folgcr's Golden Gate Tea., Your Grocer will supply you. J. A. Folger&Co. San Francisco More than this, all thi furnishings and equipment of tbe car, amounting to 48 per cent of the total weight of the mtils, are charged np and paM for by weight just as we pay for let ters by weight. In other words, 61.80 per cent only of tbe money we pay for carrying the mails is paid for carrying tbe mails. We do even worse than this. After paying for the weight of letters, paying for the weight of the mailbags and paying for all the weight of tbe equipment inside the oar at the same rate we pay for mails, we turn around and pay far tbe car In rent for one year more than it oosta to build the oar. If explanation is sought, tbe life record and moral standard of one man Is illuminative of this deficit Senator Depew of frenzied, Insuranoe fame, has always been a foremost de fender of 'this railroad graft of onr malls. Perhaps It Is but human, for he stepped from a railroad office iuto the senate. In 1800, effort was made in oongress to cut tbe graft by a re duction of five per cent in the rates, but Mr. Depew , fought tbe measure, and with the aid of this kind of sena tors slaughtered it. And thus it Is: frenzied insurance, Depewa and bis like in the senate, the postal deficits all of a kind, all typical and char acteristic one of the other. But they are passing. That's It 1 1 1 Cough yourself into a fit of spasms and then wonder why yon don't get well. If you will only try a bottle of Ballard's Horehonnd Sryup your oough will be a thing of the past. It is a positive cure for coombs, in fluenza, Bronchitis and all Pulmonary disease. One bottle will convince you at your druggist, 25c, 50c, $1.00 at Rotermund's and National Drug Oo. .Big Money in Poultry. There are many chances to make money In Oregon, but one source of fortune seems to have been overlooked by most of the men who come here frum the outside with money. This gold creator is best discovered by those who keep house. Eggs are now sell ing, as all housewives know, for about 80 cents a dozen. Now a good old hen can be bought for 50 cents and with proper treatment aud with the absence of cold weather in South ern Oregon she ought to lay one egg every other day. That would mean ISO eggs a year, allowing a fe vacations for holidays. Or, in othur' words, the lieu would lay 13 dozen eggs a year. These ael'iug at 30 cent a dozen would bring $4.50. One dollar a year will keep a hen nicely in feed, and with 3.o0 profit the lieu would not au income of 250 per oeut. What better ran you want? Why in the world some of the real estate men have not seen this chance and gone iuto the poultry business Is woudur. It is a better rate of in terest than can be derived by laying out a new towustte aud opening au addition. Ex. What worth doing is worth doing well. If you wish to be onred of Rheumatism usa Ballard's Snow Liniment and you wll be "well cured." A positive cure for Sprains, Neuralgia, Bruises, Contracted Muscles and all the ills that flesh is heir to. A. G.M. Will iams, Kavasnta. Texas, writ's: "I have usi'd Snow Liniment for sprained ankle and it gave the best of satisfact ion. I always keep it in the house " For sale by National Prog Co., and Roteruiuud, In recent issue of The Outlook, tbe elections are Interpreted thus: Politically the country haa been grow ing autocratic. The discovery of natural forces and the laws which govern them, the growing ability to use them in the service of men, the recently developed ability to oo-oper-ate in organized industry, tbe inven tion of division of labor, the vast in crease of wealth an increase more rapid than tbe ' lncreare of moral in telligence properly ' to value and rightly to use it have combined to oreate great captains of industry, who have taxeu the place of the political commanders of the older epoch. We have abolished kings and substituted railway kings; have abolished lords and substituted ooal barons. Our in dustrial eyttems are founded on tbe principles of feudalism, with this diff erence : The industrial overlord owes no protection to bis men, and may discharge them when be will ; they owe no loyalty to their overlord, and may leave his service when tbey wilL But they bave no share in the direction of the industry, and only in cidentally and indirectly, if at all, any share in its profits over and above the necessary oost of production. These overlords are sometimes high minded, noble-spirited, generous men ; they are sometimes mean, niggardly, unscrupulous men; but whatever their character, tbey are overlords. Their prosperity often depends on legisla tion. Sometimes unscrupulous poll tioians threaten them with unjust legislation against which they must protect themselves; sometimes they desire special legislation to promote their industries. Hence the "boss' and the "machine." All political parties must have leaders; when the leader becomes a servant of the plu tocracy, be Is a "boas." All political parties mnat have organization. When the organization becomes tribu tary to the plutocracy, it is a "ma ohine." Thus there have been growing up in America simultaneously, neither really conscious of the growth of the otber, two powers Democracy aud Plutocracy. There is an Irrepressible controversy between them. One of them will eventually destroy the other. Shall government beoome autocratic, or shall industry become democratic? This is the fundamental question before the American people today. Observe: Ihe people do not object to kings merely when they misbehave. They object to kings good and bad. They do not object to plutocrats merely when they misbehave. They object to plutocrats good and bad. As they objected to the concentration of political power in an oligarchy, so they object to the concentration of in dustrial power in a plutocracy. Fruitgrowers of Rogue River Valley find the Courier of special interest. Weigh Carefully the questiou 0f where you will do your banking ! And we feel sure your filial judgment will be in favor of placing your money in the GranU Psu Banking & Trust Company's Bank where you will always re ceive courteous treatment; where your affairs will be handled in the most thoroughly business-like man ner, aud where you can have im plicit confidence iu the trustworthi ness of the institution. BssaBsatSSBOKmrnm Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic has stood the test 25 years. Average Annual Sales over One end a Half KT3on routes of n reccro ct rrcr" ccoai r vou7 wo Cure. n iw w. w . - , . v j awrvwa Q A MERRY CHRISTMAS Fqr tbe belated Xmas shopper we have a late shipment of Holi day China at ordinary everyday prices. Be sure to visit oar store before making final selections. Remember we DO EOT have a clearing sale after the holidays. PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR Smythe-Gamble Co. PHONE 431 KESTKRSON BLOCK 412 FRONT ST G It's Fuel that's Expensive Not the Stove A Cheap, putty-jointed stove will waste more than its Original Cost in Fuel every winter. As you know, all fuel, soft coal, hard coal, lignite, wood and cobs contains a large amount of gas-fully one-half the carbon available for heat in soft coal is gas-the entire gas supply used for fuel and illumination in many cities and towns being made from common soft coal The ordi nary stove in burning soft coal allows this gas-half of the fuel to pass up the chimney unburned, thus wasting it as a heat producer. ?rig",al ,"0t B,aS by means of the Patented Hot Blast draft and other !!r I f5aturf maklnS air-tight joints without the use of stove putty, distills this gas from the "Pf." .f the utl lzln xf a3 Producer along with the fixed carbon or coke in the coal, thus burning all the coal. Cole's Original Air-Tight Wood Stove on account of the patented , wimuui mc use oisiove putty noma back the eases in wood and lighter fuel until burned. This is why Cole's Original Heaters Save the Dollars and make a ton of common $3.00 soft coal or lignite or a cord of wood do twice the work of other stoves. t wJL nl imitation Stoves are not air-tight, do not save h "S Ks an,l do not give you a warm house at night, because they are made with putty joints. You cannot afford to savto vourself. tteWw . t0 d thi Winter-" The old stove i8 "ting up the ; f ,W tovey 7ear- only that, but on top of theSost the "''"factory result u gives. It is always out the coldest morning. Even Heat Day and Night Fire Never Out Cole's Hot Blast Coal Stoves and Air-Tight Wood Stoves are so ter- ktZwSh8?re kteP,9 811 nht- a"d tiS-ft opened iliTTf 8 lbu?Uoor three hours with the fuel put in the the Im.ther,St0?S dtllis- Fire- theref. "ever goes out, and the rooms are kept at an even temperature all the time! OUR COAL STOVE GUARANTEE '-KatoZLrj fud draft atove of the "".ISSIT lhC 'Ve W1" hold fire wuftci'A?ur.r without 1- We ESSme. w'SSJEU H "?d nl,Rht' wi,h '. hd co.1 or Unite. ir.lThi . l?Z f CO" "ove '""gour name to remain mbsofutely 7-we guarantee the feed door to be .moke and du,t proof. For Hard Coal Saves Half The extent of unburned gases in hard coal is shnm h ZXnler, f Use. burner when the exta oxygen m tTouTr WlUl fl"min Wood alson- rScss uU0dr.?""'c,.,0Hn,,a!;r y Wood Stove.. The ilow 21.i i ' Hot Blaat Coal Stove, and Air-Tight !,.. ' ,ne r!ow. con'l!cal corabHM on. and th. Isrn. .l.l...tl- The imitations lack the patented f,.,i., -j , , a great success. They do not stay tight, JTmAA"1' 'P' Co,e' 0rl Hete CWcki n "I11, which render them worthless as fit e keepers. ' SOLD BY HAIR-RIDDLE HARDWARE CO. E, WBkSL , 1 I. Ill III 11,1 II I n i Gd