ROGUE RIVER COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON, APRIL 10, 1H)8.-
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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.
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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
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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.
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