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rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is
just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not
him who is houseless pull down the house of another,fl
but let him work diligently ami build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own shall lie safe (roin
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Doesn't the same logic apply to courts, laws, elective oi-
'ices, to duly appointed county commixaionera, huaineasmen
ind merchants? if you tear down the standing of a district
attorney or circuit judge, county commissioner or county judge,
o you suppose that the ones you would put in their place
votild be a hit more immune to such attacks?
If you disregard the property rights of those whom the
log wallow Blatter editor owes, do you suppose YOUR prop-
rty rights arc a bit safer? If he can beat his bills and get away
vitli it, isn’t it reasonable to auppose YOUR creditors can
eat YOU? Think it over—it’s always a different story when
t'OUR shoe gets a hole in it.
And don’t you suspect that the Hogwallow editor’s motives
n asking his followers to set aside ALL semblance of courts
nd justice in Jackson county is merely to beat his own cred-
tors? Who wouldn't wish for a discontinuance of courts when
hose courts contain about 15 individual suits claiming money
die? And remember this—if your champion can successfully
>et aside courts in Jackson county, by just what method will
/OU attempt to secure justice and that “square deal ’’ the
.{latter Bleater has been blithering about? If somebody skins
YOU. what are you going to do to get your money? doesn’t
»auce for the goose make a saucy gander?
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In yesterday’s paper the Hogwallow Blatter’s official
Wiper, when speaking of the “miscarriages” in the county,
discoursed thusly:
4ARMIN A WOODS DSU6 STO«
Rinn« «<
STATIC
By JOHN BYRNE
After the mercury got through
flirting with Madame Zero, the
farmers thought the backbone of
the winter was broken and were
stirring around with their spring
work, but now they are snowed
under. Well, things are not as dark
as they were, and would seem
lighter yet if all the niggers were
driven out of the various woodpiles.
♦ ♦ ♦
The farmers are the most opti
mistic class in the world, and given
half a chance, would pull this
country out of a bad hole and as
far as that goes, they may do It
yet We were reading Just the other
day about those farmers in North
“. . . when these officers constituted themselves as judge,
Dakota who went home to slop
jury and high executioners, they laid the foundation lor
the hogs. Among other reforms,
they established a state bank of
<ap\n<ht. W. X.
a dozen other crimes of a similar nature which have
their own and it is now in a strong
taken place since . . ."
financial condition and is earning
them a good revenue in spite of
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It
Now, to be fair to yourself, just what do you think he’s
the times.
The Editor Speaking
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doing
himself? If he doesn't declare himself judge, jury, exe
The Philosopher
Several times in the past the
cutioner
and blackmailer, what would you call it? Dozens,
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people living on the slopes of
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ieven hundreds, have investigated these cases which have
torney
George
Codding.
And.
to
cap
Mt. Vesuvius have gone back
By A MAN UP A TREE
aroused feeling in the county, but have been unable to arrive
it all oft, there sits little Earl Fehl cruel chief is still with them.
and reestablished their homes
in the center of the teapot clam Even though his body is out
at
any conclusion of guilt. Juries, grand juries, judges, prose
amid the lava and ashes. It is
oring. through his “friends of the there where they reverently
inherent in the human race.
cutors and bystanders have worked on the matters to no avail.
it,
he
was
plainly
seen
placed
Bob
Ruhl
of
the
Mall
Tribune
is
court,” for the resignation of Com
♦ ♦ ♦
in California Bonce de Leoning. Be And then along comes this llogwallow Miscarriage and sets
missioner Billings of Ashland, who in the camp.
Knowledge is power and every received a thousand MORE votes
Last night while our primitive tween times he is endeavoring to j himself up as a still HIGHER authority and. without even re
failure an asset. Make no mistake— than did His Nibs.
friend was asleep, the chief capture a Technocracy alive. He viewing the facts or questioning the alleged guilty ones him
the farmer is going to be heard
came to him as real as life and
has found a few fresh tracks and
■W
self. proceeds to try. convict ami persecute them in a few brief
from.
Doesn’t it ever occur to this min was as cruel as ever. He awak- has shipped us back some of them
ened
badly
scared
and
was
more
but
as
yet
has
not
got
close
enough
♦ ♦ ♦
issues
of his daily column.
ority of voters that other officials
NO, WE ARE NOT RUNNING A besides their own candidate got scared than ever when, upon to one ot the critters to toss h«s
Then down a few more paragraphs in the same paper he
ROOMING HOUSE. SAID THE into office on a campaign promise going out to the burynig place, lasso over its horns.
declares;
JUDGE, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE and pledge? And do they realize he found him Just as they had
♦ ♦ ♦
Perhaps due to the purity of the
PLENTY OF RUMORS FLOAT that the county went two-to-one left him.
Here, indeed, was a fine mess. atmosphere the Applegate country
"An old miner is arrested, cast in jail and banished
ING AROUND.
against Little Earl, who is not wil
from the state of Oregon by conspirators who had but
♦ ♦ ♦
ling to be judged as he has judged How could he be out there with seems not to have become con
the dead and back in camp at taminated with the germs of skin-
others?
one purpose, namely, to steal the valuable property
A DAY ABOUT TOWN
the same time? What answer rophobia. However, Judging from
OC
owned by Mr. F. A. Bates.”
One of those delightfully
could
we
expect
from
our
poor
press reports, one of their highly
The deeper one gets into this
cold days last week we got an
mess, the worse it gets, and so we! primitive to what is as yet an esteemed citizens seems brussled
early start, and reluctantly
And therein lies the ONLY TRUTH that Blatter distorter
conclude again that the sooner unsolved riddle to our modern up to the extent that he wisUes to
wandered into a dentist's of
Jackson county voters, taxpayers, scientists? Surely there must tangle horns, verbally, with anyone EVER uttered. Bates certainly WAS banished. And efforts to
fice. A sign, prominently dis
indigents and aliens realize what have been two of him—one died, in any fo* in, how, when or where. lleece him ot his mining property WERE made. But did you
played. advertised painless
We woulu hardly wish to pass our
a circus they have been witnessing the other still here.
dentistry. Won a two-round
This conviction must have selves off for skinrophobia special ever take the trouble to learn just WHO demanded that he
and get a good laugh out of it the I
decision over the dentist
better off they’ll all be—and the been strengthened by other ists, but we consider, to use a daiiy leave the county? And WHO attempted to mine the gold on
“Thought you advertised pain
cow express.on, he is a favorable his property ? No one else but the very man who seeks to
sooner the spring plowing will get dreams in which he figured:
less extractions here," we re
Sleeping under a tree, he would ’ reactor. Kind neighbors are keep
done.
monstrated. “It didn’t hurt
roam the hills, kill game, ae ing a watchful eye on him and if cleanse his own black soul by splashing mud on reputations
me,” he said with a grin, as he
Question of the Week: W’hat company the tribe—In fact do he starts running a temperature of those who know the truth the Hogwallow Blatter editor,
extracted $2.50 from my fast
woman in Jackson county insists anything he might do In his around the farm or attempts to wet nurse to ALL the miscarriages of justice in Jackson
vanishing bank roll and ush
on telling what a great guy
| her waking hours—perhaps as the boat his best pair of overalls Into county!
ered me out the door.
grandfather was every time three chase became very exciting he golf pants they are going to chose
Look up the court k cok I- he INSIS1 ED that Bates lcavl
Found ourselves in the vi
or more people gather? Does a dis- awakened. There he was in the him for some public office.
upon purchase of the Black Channel mine by himself and asso
cinity of the new court house.
tant relative who hobnobbed (80 same place he had fallen asleep,
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Snow and fog all about, it look
she says) with presidents make her yet he had been far away just
The holy war, which owes ciates. And today, poor old nutty Bates H/\S been fleeced, but
ed rather bleak, but comfort
citizenship hallowed Should she a moment before. Must be two
its existence to the aioremeu-
not by some mysterious power ot the gang, no mdeedy—no
able inside. Court was in ses
be allowed TWO votes because her of him also!
tioned disease, is getting along
one else but the llogwallow Paranoiac has caused the property
sion and we mingled with some
To get back to our cruel chief.
Uncle Elmer once shook hands
as well as could be expected.
to become involved m court. And here’s something else you
150 downtrodden taxpayers,
Here was another element to be
with President McKinley
It seems the insurgents have
might
not know- Bates NEVER DID buy outright the Black
mostly married men we would
considered in the magic ritual.
not aB yet resorted to the
judge, from their scanty locks
At last we have discovered Just He too must be served in some
trench method of warfare, but
Channel mine. His method oi securing it STILL rests under
and worried expressions.
who comprises this "gang" which pleasing manner or he would re
are hiding behind Banks and
a shadow of suspicion and distrust.
has had southern Oregon by the turn to continue the abuses to
It was difficult to hear the
mud fences. When the fracas
True, there IS a vicious, vindictive, wicked gang operating
throat for several years. They are which he subjected them when
replies of the witnesses in the
started we climbed a tree to
in southern Oregon—operating in an effort to choke, strangle,
a fraction of the county voters who be was alive.
chair. We would recommend
avoid the mud and the select*
want to set aside election laws,
the installation of an amplifier,
Surely the best plan suggested
ive draft. As we watch the
bleed and prostitute the county into bankruptcy. There HAYE
precedent and law and order to was to give him what he liked
but
the
lawyers’
mighty
monkey-shines down at Med
BEEN miscarriages of justice in this lertile valley of the
oust those with whom they dis best—food. Of this, his choice
stentorian tones could be heard
ford while we swing by our tail
Rogue,
but the ones who turned in the alarm also set the fire.
agree. Talk about “gang” rule, was meat. How he had gorged
all over the court room. We
and jump from limb to limb,
Those who yelled “robbers, thieves, liars" certainly knew such
rule, Jackson county would cer himself after the hunt when the
wonder if their vocal chords
we conclude that Darwin must
tainly be suffering from an over game had been roasted to a
are developed from long prac
have been right.
acts had been committed, but carelessly forgot to inform the
dose of it if the “thousands” of crisp brown. Maybe that was
tice or is it just natural? This
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startled taxpayer just WHO had been robbing and lying.
taxpayers who gathered to applaud what he came back for. They
must have been an off-day for
From our elevated position we
You doubtless have noticed that the Hogwallow scribe has
L.
A.
Banks
and
his
tools
had
their
we did not hear the words im
would try it, anyway. So meat can clearly see both sides. We be
way.
material, irrevelant, superflous
was secured and a suitable place lieve it would be a pregnant idea never been able to answer ANY oi the questions propounded
and such.
was arranged on which to cook for a lot more of JackBon county in this column. His only defense has been the wail, “The Miner
In their search for Law and Or- it. Stones were grouped in a citizens to climb a tree and take is owned and controlled by the Mail Tribune, the power in
The only thing we could see
der, which allegedly absconded mound, crude at first, but grad- notice. Of course we can plainly
wrong about the court house
with Prosperity, this ____
group _______
of mis- ually becoming more elaborate. see the lea« era of the insu gents terests and the gang.” At least this paper can claim the dis
was the absence of a soup kit
informed folk overlooked the fact Excavations in ancient primitive have selfish motives in view and tinction oi being owned by SOMEONE! And if the 1 ribunc did
chen on the ground floor.
that their platform, if followed im settlements clearly show the not the welfare of the public at control The Miner—which it certainly docs not—what differ
Medford’s $500 civic expert
plicitly, is going to expose their' evolution of the sacrificial heart. The fat salaries these offices
must have overlooked this im
leaders. Or maybe they meant to mound Into a highly ornate al pay look good to them and to their ence would that make? If the charges printed herein were
portant detail.
untrue, wouldn't that make it all the more desirable for His
unearth the truth only as they wish
After listening In on various
tar. As the altar evoluted the friends and relatives. One of the
to
believe
it.
groups about town we came to
ritual doubtless kept pace. most important of the advantages Royal Lowness to sue for damages? His complaint has been
the conclusion that Jackson
Dreams have played an import is the fact that you get to select that the Mail Tribune has been hiding behind this little paper,
county has plenty of transmit
ant role in human affairs. Bad I jurors. It can readily be seen how which is not financially responsible. Well, if such deductions
ters but is badly in need of a
dreams first suggesting evil handy this might be. Most people are true, and the Tribune IS using us as a cat’s paw, what
receiver.
spirits; pleasant ones suggest think Jurymen are taken just the
way they run through a gate, like better case could the Truth Chopper have in court?
Wound up In a grocery store
ing
good.
To the Editor
We’ll let you in on a little secret between the llogwallow
and parted with the rest of my
Who knows but that the a bunch of sheep. This is not so;
money for groceries, among
dream—a riddle to science—was they are sorted like spuds, We scribe and ourselves—we both know the statements (and many
which was some $1.09 flour,
intended to introduce man to know a man who was discarded 15 more unprinted as yet) are entirely true, and would incriminate
YES, PARANOIACI
years ago on account of his pollti-
milled out of 25-cent wheat. We
the spirit world?
cal faith and he is still in the cull him in a courtroom—any courtroom. THAT is why he velH
asked the clerk what caused
To the Editor:
"gang,“ “invisible government” and “corrupt courts ’ instead
sack.
the discrepancy and he said it
Next Week: The Mythical
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Nothing I have read in years
Golden Age
was to protect the farmer. No
of DOING something about it. He can either make further
Then there are other advantiges,
Editor’s Note—If you disagree,
has made such a profound
doubt it was.
too. We can’t see them ho clearly allegations, admit the truth of these attacks upon his character,
Here we met "Shorty,” an
impression on me as your quota or wish to query the author of but we know they are thorn, other- or go into court and have them proven true. Is it any wonder
these articles, address The Phil
old pal of ours, who has four
tions, in your issue of January 20, osopher, care this paper. Your wise the "gang” would have let he chose the first course?
of the finest little youngsters
from scientific authorities which views and reactions are solici Phipps and Fehl fight it out In
Does a liar ever hesitate at telling another glaring dis
we ever saw. "Yes, I was laid
stead of shoving big "Pop” Gates
off. Two days work in Novem
prove beyond question that your ted.
tortion?
in and have him wreck the raft.
ber and nothing since.” "How
poor raving contemporary is ut ________ ________________________ I Clairivoyantly
And if the Hogwallow Butcher isn’t a liar he’s something
speaking, we seem
do you make it. Shorty?” “We
terly insane.
conspiracy to prevent him from
to
see
a
nigger
in
the
woodpile.
It
worse
—a paranoiacal maniac. Do you suppose he could prove
have a cow and chickens,” was
For months such has been the
obtaining Justice.”
appears to be only a small nigger, his sanity at ANOTHER hearing and be discharged AGAIN
the laconic answer. But we
opinion of hundreds of citizens to
nerhans Just a piccaninny. Another
know there is a brave struggle
whom I have talked—they all say
What a perfect picture of your reason we think so. we consider as sane ?
going on in many an American
that nothing else could explain his contemporary!
More about that later.
It humanly fmnossfble for anvone.
home. What will youngsters
astounding actions and published
AN IMPARTIAL OBSERVER.
even yours truly, to make up out
like these Inherit? Will there
ravings. However, your scientific
of whole cloth all the rot the Pa
WARDEN LAWE8 SUPERVISED
don't believe anything you
be a $280,000,000 debt resting
quotations PROVE it—one cannot
cific Discord Herald and the Dally
read or hear and only half
on their shoulders? The des
SCRIPT FOR FILM, ‘8IN0 8ING’
read down that column without be Alice Hoefs Appointed Noose have told us. Wo actually
what you see—even if you see
tiny of America lies with the
ing struck how it applies to that
there was a fellow by the
It from a tree.
coming generation. We have
To Postoffice Position believe
Waldon Lewis E. Lawes, author
man, WORD FOR WORD.
name of Dahack who was shot by
made a mess of things and are
of "Twenty Thousnnd Years in
an officer of the lnw without just
But the next to last paragraph
handing it on to posterity.
Word was received a few days cause nr provocation. We know it ZANE GREY WE8TERN WITH
Sing Sing,” the book from which
applies most forcibly, especially in
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GEORGE O’BRIEN COMING the First National picture which
the light of his last Monday’s per ago by Alice Hoefs, local postmas Is contrary to political table man
We give it up . . . glad to get formance—using as cat’s paws a ter, of her reappointment by Presi ners to admit an officer did wrong,
comes to the Oaterlan theater for
back over the hill. See you later. group of misguided persons to join
less to punish him But the
A Zane Grey picture, especially n three-day run Sunday, was drama
dent Hoover, upon the recommen much
tized, personally supervised and re
btrv migM have been instructed at
him in his announced seditious in
dation of the Oregon senator, W. C. least to hit him with a rotten club. one with George O’Brien playing vised the motion picture script.
• The Applegate Home Extension tentions to overthrow our estab
That wouid have made it look bet the leading role, always is wel- After finishing, he wrote to the
unit will meet at the home of Mrs. lished courts of justice. Therefore Hawley.
ter. It would also hnve destroyed corned by lovers of outdoor dramas. Warner Brothers—First National
Confirmation
by
the
legislature
I
think
that
you
should
reprint
in
Fred Benedict this Tuesday for re
one of the hand-hold«, that dema- Such a picture is "Robbers’ Roost," officials:
In
Washington,
due
to
political
de
bold
face
type,
so
that
all
who
run
lief purposes, according to plans
will not be made until gogues cllmb into office with.
"I am very happy to say I am
at the Rialto theater Sunday and
made at a business meeting at the may read, that significant para velopments,
the new congress convenes after
more than pleased with it. It Is
♦ ♦ ♦
home of Mrs. Fred Offenbacher a graph:
Monday, in this picture O’Brien has a mnsterly presentation of the facta
March 4. However, it is expected
So we will close now, hoping
few days ago. The women will
that
her
appointment
will
hold,
as
s
new leading lady, Maureen O’ of the hook. I am personally co
"The
paranoiac
...
la
always
everyone
wilt
make
the
best
of
devote their time to completing a
both legislators from this state
Sullivan, who made such a hit in operating with your men on the
In court, always being defeated
a had mess, swallow their med
woolen quilt, and each person will
were reelected last fall.
but stubborn and extremely
"Tarran.” It is a picture full of lob here and 1 am quite sure you
icine and instead of trying to
contribute to a donation shower of
Miss Hoefs, who has held the
critical of the courts at all
thrilling action, hard-riding, shoot are going to be agreeably surprised
charivari the new courthouse,
groceries. The next regular meet
post for the past four years suc
times. He accuses the Judges of
ing and fighting, enough action to with the results obtained by them
go home and do a little think
ing day, which will be the first
corruption, the lawyers of be
ceeding Florence Thompson com ing on the side. There's anoth
please everyone and with Just the at Sing Sing.”
Tuesday in February, will be the
ing In the pay of his enemies,
pleted her term January 1 of this
right amount of romance thrown
er election day lust around the
last of a series of clothing meetings
year.
and Imagines the existence of a
corner. And above all things,
In to make things Interesting.
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