Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, April 10, 1908, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextROGUE RIVER COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON, APRIL 10, 1H)8.- y 11 WHEN YOUR MONEY BRINGS THE MOST We are offering special bargains just now on all lines of SPRING CLOTHING, UNDERWARE and SHOES. It will therefore pay you to call at our store if you want'anything in this line. We're also eiving a specisll discount on Raincoats and Overcoats Ask to see our bargain counter, closing one line of men's shoes at 33$ discount. Fine line of Tailoring in charge of J. A. Larson YOU CAN ALSO BUY 10UR GRAIN AND HAY AT OUR STORE We will from this time on buy Poultry and pay the highest market price in cash WHFN Yflll FAT Youof course wil1 anticipate the best there is, If 1 1 LI I I UU Lrl I and we are prepared to supply you with everything in this line, and at the same time save you money on your bill of goods, jln fact, We Carry the Largest Stock of Groceries in Grants Pass SOUTHERN OREGON SUPPLY GO. BU DS) EI Young Men's Clothes Ederheimer, Stein & Co. - Makers BETTER take a second look at these styles for Young Men. Absolutely defy one to find any thing common-place or ordinary about them. Brimful of style and good taste; with smart patterns and perfect fit. Also have others of the Eder . heimer-Stein make. All different. Can't put them before you on paper; you must see them to know. Ttv, three and four-tut ton suits; medium and long lapels; (tats 32 to 32 inches long with 2 -inch dip in front. Sizes up to 38. P. H. Harth & Son (Incorporated) WILLIAMS J Spring, "the beautiful' ii witli ng again, but where are the iprioir poets? Mrs. Johnson, who went to Califor nia iome time ago for tha benefit of her health, ii expected home Monday, April 6. She is considerably im prored. B. F. Moffit hai gone to Ashland to work on the city sewer. Sunday wax a bnsy day al theW. O. W. hall. Preaching services io the forenoon, a basket dinner and speak ing in the afternoon by Mr. Mnlkey. oandidate for district attorney. 'ihe new, creamery, Ibniit"'' by" Mr. Uraham audTothers, has been in op eration for some time and la now doing a nice business. It is a pri vate company and has selected the name Josephine Creamery Company. Such enterprises are to be com mended, as they are an encourage ment to farmers to improve their stock and devote more land to alfalfa and clover, rather than sowing to grain as formerly was the case. We understand Mr. Mnlkey war ac companied on his speakinog tour to the sooth eod of the county by Messrs. Spatlin and Herriot with their mov ing picture machine. It will perhaps be in order now for Mr. Newbury to employ a trass bana to accompany him. We wish to second the nomination of Mr. Leith for Connty Commis sioner. He is well fitted for the po sition, being a successful and yet conservative business man. This end of the county ought to have a commissioner again and all 'parties should unite for Mr. Leith. There is no politics in such an office, or at least should not be. BALTIMORE. TO INSTALL TEN STAMP MILL IN JUNE HARRIMAN, SIXTY WONT QUIT YET DUTY KEEPS HIM AT IT Still Too Many Moves, Ha Se.ya. to Fulfill Laat Yectr'e Declaration. Courier and Oregonian $2 Lester White, came over from his mines, iue American Girl and the L roy laft Friday to meet by appoint ment li. W. Hoshaw, an experienced mining mn of Los Angeles, who will join Mr. White io the operation of these properties this year. The American Girl and Leroy ad join each other and the two are iu close proximity to the Goldhug, one of the famous mines in that vicinity, from which there has already been taken 11,000,000 worth of splendid ore. These properties are on Reuben Creek, 12 miles below Lelaud. g Mr. White is now planning to put up a 10 stamp mill at his mioes this summer and in 'fact has already ar ranaged to begin on this mill in Jone. LMr also owns 'some good placer groond and it may be recalled by ouieofthe Courier'readers that it was ha who brought in a nngget from this ground two years ago, worth lu. It is a peculiar fact that the mineral r sources of Southern Oregon b"ave"thus far been only slightly d veloped and their, great valneisajT predated by but few. ;4i-J: Edward H. Harriman at 60 is ranch 1 too busy to think about retiring from the ra'lroad business. On hia last birthday a year ago next Tuesday, he thought that another twelve-month would find bina ready to quit the game, but yesterday he told a T.me reporter that there are still too many moves to be made. He doesn't pro pose to atop even to consider retirog nntil the complications on the Indus trial chessboard have bean resolved sufficiently to enable him to see dearly a little distance ahead. Un til then Mr. Harriman ibnks he owes it to 40,000 stockholders and 160,000 employes in hia system to stay ' 'on the job." This definition of his position Mr. Harriman made in the course of bia afternoon constitutional along Fifth avenne yesterday. Tbe reporter met him coming ont ef bit house, and asked how things looked frjm Mr. Hsrriman's viewpoint of 60 years, lacking only a oouple of days. It was tbe railroad man who spoke of the chess board : "I would 'nt undertake to say," said Mr. Harriman. "No sensible man wonld nndertake now to predict what is going to happen on to make a com prehensive statement or present con ditions. 'There are too many moves yet to be mad before any degree of stability is reached to make sooh a survey possible. " "Who is going to make them?'.' "Ton know as well as I do," re turned Mr. Harriman sharply. "The ptople of this country have got to be brought to a proper appreciation of the inter-relation between the various faotors in indoairy. Theu they most see to it that the adimnistration of law is oenduoted in their interest and not as a matter of personal oaprloe." "And yon are going to stay io the game nntil this comes about, Mr. Harriman T" the reporter aiked. Too Busy to Retire. "I don't want to say how long I shall stay in harness. A year ago, when tbe Inter-State Commerce Com mission was at work, 1 said something about retiring ia another year. Well, it isn't a case of changing my mind, but of not having had time to think about retirement I looked then for some falling off In business, but for nothing like what has occurred. I didn't expect to see 60 per cent of the decrease that has been realized. Un der such conditions there is nothing to do but to stick nntil matters set into oompetent bands, at least, and nntil confidence has bsen restored. "Just now we are hearing about tbe wage problem. Bat do people appre ciate that, with given opportunity for the development of business, the more we have to pay for capital, the less there is to fay for wages? I am not refering to the scale of wages, but to the ainouBt that we can spend for wages. And in order to get capi tal on reasonable terms wa have got to have good creait, and credit must be maintained by surplus earnings. Thtre is the whole thing in a nut shell "A wrong idea prevails in a good many quarters about this re'lationsbip oi capital ana labor, we men wno j manage the roads are not the cap italists. The security holders from whom we borrow the money are tbe capitalists, and they are in f artner ship with the wage earners in trying to make a fuir profit out of serving the bublic. It is onr doty as managers of the roads to preserve the proper H'ttous between the different fact' rs so fur as we can. But what becomes of our efforts when unwli-e govern mental interference, resutling in such a condition of diitnrst. as prevail at present, jumbles op all the factors in oue conglomeration? "Be careful, now, cot to confuse the terms. By surplus earnings I do not mean the payment of divdends, but tbe ability to earn something beyoud what is required to meet bare charges and expenses. So In speaking of the dartnership between the wage earners and the stockholders, I do not limit myself to the relatons that exist or that may exist between the corporate organizations on the oue side and the labor organizations on the other. I refer to the fundamental relations be tween thoee who famish the funds'for investment and those bo give their services to make )the iovesmeut profit able. Jnduelry Upset by Itrkirlctlnn. "It is quite obvious that restrict ion of business brines about uneconomical conditions throughout the industrial structure. When men are workingTou part time, or under limitations as to hours and conditions, there la tre mendous waste io earnings capacity and productive energy. The whole fabrto of industry oorhracta. N There ia less money to be spent by the workers and consequently less busi ness to bs doue to supply the want they can afford. A family makes oue bag of flour go where two were used b-fore; the old cloihea are made over inktead of having sew ones bought. "Multiply thia by eighty million and you can see what it means to have tha nation economize. Add the distrust naturally produced among those who have the money to Invest, and there is a combination of forces at work with cumulative effect, the result of which it is hard to fore oast Earnings decrease becaus of the slackening volume of business; capital become timid -and rates for monev high, and there is correspond ingly lesk to be paid for the labor necessary to oarry out the work that we have before us. The question of whether wagea will decrease does not depend upon my attitude or the atti tude of aay other manager of Industry toward labor. It depends upon whether we are going to have the money to pay labor to do the work that we ought to do.' "I believe that thinga will right themselves when people have had a chance to understand the situation, provided that we eliminate the self seeker. What w have got to have In political and in business life is the man who Is willing to work for others and doesn't undertake to move the pieoes on the chess board aolely with a view to what he thinks to be hia own interest If you ask ma when I believe an equilibrium will be reached and confidence restored, I say frankly that I don't know. The patient is now nadeubtedly under treatment that will prove efficacious in the end, but the question still remains whether tha disease may not prove very serioss before the corrective treatment gets the upper hand. Where Railroad Men Have Failed. "Mind. I do not lay all the blame on the pnbiio, or even on the politi cians. Tbe ralroad men themselves are to blame for a great deal of what has happened and they ought to reoog nlie it at this time, when they have their own worries with them. ' If Ihe railroad men of the United State had learned to trost each other years ago great deal of what haa been suffered wonld have been avoided. There was time when they had the right to make agreements covering trafflo and rates, bat what waa the result? An agreement was hardly made before somebody whom it bound issued an order violating Its provisions. That sort of thing was the root of destine tlve competition, and subjected the railroads to much of tbe trouble that they have suffered since in being made the victims cf any one wbo wanted to build an unnecessary com petitive line for the purpose of sell ing it ont. "I am not opposed to railroad regulation, provided it is coorled with railroad protection. Long ago I expressed the view that regulation even to the point of allowing the, Inter-State Commerce Commission to fix the rates, was not to be oombattad, provided the govern mout would allow the roads to make agreements with each other through tbe repeal of the ' Qti.nn.n law Tk. AL pnbiio in the making of snob agree ments is the degree of publicity now insisted upon in respect of other rail road affairs, and of, that I am heartily in favor. Sensible regulation, pro tection of the railroad! against un necessary compel ition, and peb iioily ar in my mind the three thinga that will set . the railroads right with the people in the end. But, mean while, ihe meu who have the respon sibilities of the railroads on their shoulders asuet keep to their task and not give them over , into incompetent hands. There'll be bo trouble ahoot training up tbe men to ran the rail roads in the next generation' if the) proper con Id it ions and discipline are) established. "And will there be the work to do. , If confidence ia restored and tb proper relationship established t Of course ; there will. There is as great a possibility of growth ahead of the railroad in the next ;10 years if only we go at it rightly. Within the life time of some of our children the popu lation of this country no doubt will have reached 200,000,000 and tbe sys tem of American railroading thai haa developed to meet the needs of 80,000,0u0 of people is in Its infancy. But, as I have said, the self-seeker baa got to be eliminated and tha people at large have got to come to an appreciation of the underlying re lationships of the factors in the prob lem. When those two things are in process of accomplishment it will be time enough to talk about retiring." New York Times. COFFEE Good coifce is partly in buying and partly in making:; like everything- else. Tor trocsr nhrras roar mmt If vea it Wk ScMlticc's Bnt: par kia Kennedy's Laxative Oongh Syrup aota promptly yet gently on the bowels, through whiob the sold ia foroed out of the system, and at the same time it allays inflammation. Sold by Model Drag Store, 4-8 lBt Convention Rales. On the following occasions ticket will be sold on the certificate plan at Oraats Pass for one and one-third fare for tbe ronnd trip : W. T. O. A. Bute Convention a Eugene, April 8, 4, and 5. ' Weodment of the World, Log Rolling Contest, Roeebnrg, April 14ta. Woodmen of the World, Log Rolling Contest, Medforfl, April 18th. Grand Encampment, Rebekah As sembly and Grand Lodge L O. O. F. at Salem May 19th to May Slst. Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M., and Grand Chapter R A Masons of Oregon, Portland, Jane 8th to Jane 13th. Fleet Celebration at San Francisco, straight round trip tickets sold May and May 4, only for 118.10 good to re turn within 2 days from date of sale. No stopovers given on above tickets. For the conventions tickets may be purchased three days prior to or on the orenlng day, and are good to return any time within two days after meet ings close. For further ., information call at the depot. R. K. MONTGOMERY. Agent. Confidence when eating:, that your food is of highest wholesomeness that it has nothing in it that can injure or distress you makes the repast doubly comfortable and satisfactory. This supreme confidence you have when the food is raised with The only baking powder made with Royal Grape Cream of Tartar There can be no comforting confi dence when eating alum baking pow der food. Chemists say that more or less of the alum powder in unchanged alum or alum salts remains in the food.