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Pare 2 The Jacksonville Miner The Jacksonville Mine» “The REAL Good Government Congress“ A Lesson in Americana PwklltM WH»» »« JACKSONVILLE. OREGON ■Mrerd a> aaconri tiara «aliar rrbraan I». ISS” at Iha pual uttitt al Jatoa»"lll« i Ih» art at Marrk ». I»?» NALL [«(tar arW SaSInKr SOOL.. ., A n »«*» <*'<• LiOSXRD MAUOf Adilin» AU CuammlMllon t« Hol 111 SubxriHlmi RalH. Is **•>*• so an mmi U u .............. #0. ymt .............»i ll<*M»art m Till NVGCKT CUXt'KCTtOXKRT TataplK’iH K» Mtrfnrt Hexlgiurtivc JASMIN A WOODS ORUG STORE riauw ft The Editor Speaking (Continued from page one) We have been blaming our con temptuous contemporary, Llewel lyn A. Banks, for the trouble in Jackson county, and he is tne or iginal cause of it. Taking advant age of the unrest and unemploy ment, the west's champion dead beat has conducted an intensive three-year campaign to poison the minds ot the more uninto>uied citi zens. He has brought his followers around to the point where tney be lieve that the LIES he has been publishing are the absolute truth, and that tne 'I KU nt wai<_n is printed in other newspapers is a LIE! is it any wonder ne nas them ready to bear arms against the county government? and just whose fault do you sup pose it is that we have permitted such a situation to develop? Who has been sitting around idly on their cushioned anatomy while the opposition has formed one of the county's strongest political ma- chines—apparently bent on anar chy? Who has continued to let a raving lunatic run blufrs and get away with them? And, now that law and order just about KAo broken down in Jackson county, and property and life is threatened seriously by a group wnich refuses to recognize the courts and arrest warrants, what do you suppose this much more powerful—but totally unorganized—defense is going to do? I (CtpjrUhL W. X. U-> (Continued from page one) Banks has made the statement to persons that "1 hive led (lie people to the conrlhoii.se door and I can make them ’I^L mything else I want to” lie boast that he has absolute < oi^k rul of the congress and that at his bidding "blood will b~ ■pilled in Jackson county." Not only has lie dared to print uch statements, but Saturday one of his lieutenants openly masted that 30 men stood ready at that tunc to lynch ent ities. 1 lie s (nation developed to such a serious extent that one ) mp.il In. ci ol I’..inks actual!) ran to bis i.n, giabbcd a < "il »1 rope and started on a trot toward the Armory steps where tn argument was in progress. It was that very morning that tanks declared to members of the "gang" that "a noose dan- ’les close to your necks there is liable to he bloodshed.” Banks’ lieutenant, who so proudly announced the power at lis disposal, is believed to be an ex-convict, and his record is »eing scanned by authorities. Long an addict to more mild forms of extortion, blackmail and slander, it is no surprise to dose followers of the row hat Banks now has resorted to threats of actual violence and bloodshed to gain his ends. Just Tuesday of this week, when former counsel M. O. Wilkins was hailed before the grand ury to testify against the Daily News publisher lie was told that if he produced evidence against Banks he would not leave he courthouse alive. We have the spectacle of one man n,ot without the lying, deceitful help of an offeial threatening the entire county, challenging the sheriff to arrest him and attempting it throw a scare into his enemies who would tell the real motives behind the man. It would be to Llewellyn A. Banks’ credit if he could prove insanity as a defense for his actions, lie has been the most lishonest. the most deceitful, and the most designing man who has ever attacked the good people of Jackson county. To prove t, here is another example: Picking on a poor old man in Ashland who had been for tunate enough to lav away a few dollars years ago while ia he cattle business. Banks took advantage of the man’s weak ness to touch him for loans on totally worthless security—his personal note. This man. J. L. Thomas by name, loaned Banks the $1250 to pay his personal property taxes on the Daily News Banks, ‘Congress’ on plant, believing that the tax certificate thus secured would hold to the mortgage now being foreclosed It was Wilkins’ Danger Line, Found priority statement that such tax certificate was valueless that led to his split with Banks. (Continued from page one) mouth or writing, iidvocates, Then Thomas loaned to Banks $2CXX) at a later «late when affirmatively suggests or the publisher was sued by employes for wages. Waving the teaches the duty, necessity, currency cxultingly, he sneered in the face of county officials propriety or expediency of crime, criminal syndicalism, or i and assumed the air of importance so flattering to his vanity. sabotage, or who shall advo But the manner in which he secured this money from Thomas, cate. affirmatively suggest or I a man in his seventies, will bear inspection. teach the duty, necessity, pro Banks, knowing that Thomas had a weakness for strong priety or expediency of doing any act of violence, the de- , Irink, advised his friends and Fehl to proceed to Ashland with •tructlon of or damage to any I liquor, intoxicate the man and then obtain a loan, giving only property, the bodily injury to Banks' personal paper as sucrity—value of which, or lack of it, any person or persons, or the i is well known in southern Oregon. Banks, the man who has I commission of any crime or un lawful act as a means of ac : been spouting about the wickedness of others who employ the complishing or effecting any I use of alcoholics, carried liquor in his own car the tan Cadil- industrial or political ends, ' lac—to Ashland for the above purpose several times. change or revolution, or for Fehl, when he enticed Thomas to advance him $3500 for profit; or who prints, publish the reclaiming of his building from Niedermeyer, Inc., gave es, edits, issues or knowingly circulates, sells, distributes, or the property as security. Ted Ileimroth furnished the balance publicly displays any books, of the money due on the mortgage. Drinking parties such as pamphlets. paper, handbill, Banks has accused the bar association of staging have been poster, document, or written or the Open Sesame to the purse of J. L. Thomas, as practiced printed matter in any form by the Daily News publisher and Earl Fehl. whatsoever, containing matter advocating syndicalism, sabo Banks, who employed his counsel. Attorney M. O. Wilkins, tage. the diong ot any act of by representing his entire indebtedness as "less than $2500," physical violence, the destruc rxnla’ned, when the actual total exceeded $60.000 in CON tion of or dmaage to any prop erty. the injury to any person, TRACT indebtedness alone, that "I purposely misrepresented - or the commission of any the situation to you because I knew no lawyer would get into crime or unlawful act as a such a mess knowingly." means of accomplishing, ef Banks, the self-styled reincarnation of Moses, Fredric the fecting or bringing about any industrial or political ends, or Great. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, is the same change, or as a means of ac man who owes his carriers months' salaries, who practically complishing, effecting or bring starved out a crippled employe and who so underpaid another ing about any Industrial or po of his linotype operators that he had to seek aid from the dis litical revolution, or for profit, or who shall openly or at all trict attorney’s office to feed his expectant wife and himself, attempt to justify by word of ft is Banks who has been accusing everyone who opposes him mouth or writing the commis of every hineous crime under the sun and who has defied the sion or the attempt to commit laws of Oregon and of decency for three long years. sabotage, any act of physical Is there anv wonder that The Miner- entirely without sub violence, the destruction of or damage to any property, the sidy of any kind -took up the fight of telling the TRUTH injury of any person or the about such a public menace PUBLIC ENEMY No. ONE? commission of any crime or un All the statements contained in this week’s paper—-or for lawful act, with the intent to anv week—arc based on actual knowledge and facts, not sur exemplify, spread, or teach, or affirmatively suggest criminal mises. guesses or wishes. We have prepared a defense for syndicalism, or who shall be or cverv article published to date and believe our immunity from become a member of. or organ attempts at prosecution at the hands of Llewellyn A. Banks ize or help to organize, or so has been due to the high percentage of truth contained in ac licit or accept any person to become a member of, or volun cusations and revelations. tartly assemble with any so It is plainly evident that anv citizen of Jackson county who ciety or assemblage of persons so desires can in 15 minutes’ investigation determine just which teaches, advocates, or WHO has been responsible for the “breakdown of law and affirmatively suggests the doc trine of criminal syndicalism, order." It is a pity that tho«c who would overthrow the coun « sabotage, or the necessity, pro ty’s stable government will not even take the trouble to priety or expediency of doing acquaint themselves with the true situation before taking rabid any act of physical violence or and dangerous action. the commission of any crime or unlawful act as a means of There are no secrets of the “gang.” There is no "gang.” accomplishing or effecting any Don’t take our word alone. Do some sleuthing of your own! 1 * and mere putty in their selfish t hands. And for that matter, if you A HOT SHOT FROM looked back through the pages of I THE OREGON VOTER history and found parallel cases of anarchy, wherein the people even-' The "Oregon Voter” is recog tually paid for their tolly, do you nized as the last word in eco suppose you would find that those nomic. financial, taxation and communists at the time realized PUBLIC AFFAIRS in Oregon they were tearing down the very ; Its great influence is largely things they hoped to gain? due to the fact that everyone knows The Voter has no axe to The task ahead of Jackson coun- grind, that it is strictly non ty is a very difficult and ticklish partisan and Independent, and one. Hundreds of good, honest peo that the good of Oregon as a Save for two or three individuals pie must be made to believe some whole is its goal. —working entirely independently thing they have been taught for One paragraph in this effec and with almost no assistance— three long years to disbelieve. tive but highly condensed maga nothing except windjamming in Their minds must be reversed, and zine means more than a column wholesale lots has been done. Jack- j they must be given confidence tn in most newspapers. IJsten to son county's intelligent, thinking a government which has been un- its paragraph on the Jackson citizens have sat idly by watching dermined by a designing news- ville Miner and its patriotic the monster grow and grow, all the paper editor tor three seasons, service to Jackson county: while salving their conscience ■ They must be made to realize that with the thought that if it is ig the very man whom they think is Jacksonville Miner’s cour nored, it will die of itself. Yet, for the greatest, most honest man in ageous denunciation of Edi three long years the monster has Jackson county is an out and-out tors Banks and Fehl is continued to grow in size and pow scoundrel, crooked, scheming and helping redeem Jackson er, and now. despite having been insane. They must realize that county from the disgrace ignored, it is going to demand at they cut their own throats when into which those publicists tention. and in no uncertain terms, they demanded that all county of have involved it by their ficials be thrown out and replaced maniacal assassinations ot Why is it that a man's OWN with insincere "reformers” who decency in character. family and purse have to be had been yelling “robber, cheat, ______ ______________ -J singed before he’ll do anything thief” so long they believed (bat toward putting the fire out? Is it was what constituted politics when ing ridiculous plans for a state wide organization and expansion because thinking people are yellow they got in. and. after suffering defeat in his and cowardly? -vT: Jackson county's Good Govern effort to ascend the senatorial We really don’t think inactivity ment congress members must be throne a few years back, himself of the defensive forces of Jackson shown that, although their ambi declared that "the best place to county has been due to a caaary- tions are lofty and worthy, their start is right here in his own back colored stripe. We believe the efforts are directed against those yard." You now see the near-ful- overthrow monster has been al very ideals; that the Constitution filment of his first step. lowed to grow simply because all of the United States applies to Sounds silly, doesn’t it? Yet we thinking people realized that it was them too, and that even nations wrong and wicked—striving for go to war with one another believ sincerely believe cur interpreta purely selfish and dishonest pur ing they a^? fighting to reestablish! tion of the situation is not what poses. We believe honest, upright right and fodness, when the very makes it sound silly—it is because citizens who have taken tue things they are slaying one another of the oueer workings of an am trouble to become informed and i for are being crucified by their ac bitious, insane mind. «up-o-t d by learn just who IS lying in this tion. They must be shown the dis another scheming brain which ap strife, have felt that Banks and his appointing truth that the best way pears to be its complement. plans were so dishonest, so schem to establish and guarantee law and Yet mere realization of the exis- Ing and bo mentally unbalanced order is for THEM to observe law ' tense of the trouble will not cure that they would defeat themselves. and order. I Jackson county’s difficulties. If 'W'S Of course it is pleasant to think Those who would educate unwit Ranks were closed up tomorrow in that God marks the fall of every ting anarchists (who haven’t the his Daily News plant, we believe, sparrow, and sends the sunshine slightest idea they really are an he will continue to lead his flock, and rain. But we had better get archists, but repeat, parrot-like, simply landing in another shop— down to brass tacks and realize quotations from Lincoln, Washing | -'robably that formerly belonging that such disgraceful and harmful ton, Fredric the Great and Napo- \ to Earl Fehl, where the two of would-be powers as Llewellyn A. 1 leon, which have been twisted them will continue to shame the Banks, Earl H. Fehl and their i around to appear to fit the idea of name and reputation of southern henchmen will continue to expand the moment and then fed to their Oregon—formerly considered one in power and ambition until SOME guillible minds) must realize that of the garden spots of the entire BODY DOES SOMETHING TO ALREADY agencies which have Pacific coast. STOP THEM! striven to turn the tide back And Jackson county residents, toward sanity and good govern never ment have been notified that they who would like to see their home Jackson county will emerge from its present deplorable' are marked, that ALREADY THE land retu n to that peaceful, en mess simply because it SHOULD; NOOSE DANGLES AROUND viable state enjoyed for years, will have to realize that the present be stopped. It will recover only THEIR NECK3. trouble will nM be stopped until when someone STOPS it. All the industrial or political ends, altruism and hopes in the state If you think the situation is not someone STOPS IT! change or revolution or for won’t clear up this mess until it is fast becoming serious, swallow profit, is guilty of a felony, and Are you people who believe Jack- deliberately cleared up. And those this pill: An effort is being made upon conviction thereof shall son county ’ s government is wo th- religious people who know God is to organize 20 ARMED men in be punished by Imprisonment in His heaven and all is right with Rogue River, and another group on whlle and deserves to stand going in the state penitentiary for a of OTHER PEOPLE the world, bad better turn to the | the Greensnring mountain to come to be a party to its downfall by term of not less than one year sentence which reminds them that at a moment's notice prepared for «tending idly by waiting for nor more than 10 years, or by “He helps those who help them-1 anything. Our county Judge, Earl "George” to do something a e y . • a fine of not more than $1000, BITE OF THE BITTEN BITER selves.” Fehl, has been heard to advise a going to waft until the first allot or by both such imprisonment A reserved discussion, yes a group of followers that ANY TIME ment of human beings is swinging and fine. (L. 1921, ch. 34, para most reserved discussion, of the Under the guise of a "better gov tb^v want to forcibly enter the from t ees? Are you going to wait graph 3, p. 45.) Medford newspaper war appears ernment” congress we have an or courthouse and remove George until the mob threatens YOUR this morning in the Portland Ore home before you rise up to be ganization ADMITTEDLY seeking I Codding, George Carter and Com Ing in Medford, according to E. gonian and it Is a gem of purest to overthrow courts and consti missioners Nealon and Billings he counted? tuted authority in Jackson county. will see that a door is opened for Reiser, formerly a Eugene mer- ray serene. We hone not. We have faith in Consistency Is a virtue that is chant. And if those who still believe this I them. He further stated, according isn’t such a bad form of govern I to our information, that if they are southern Oregon, and bellete it de- "We believe we have the lowest- more difficult to preserve in a ment after all don’t get busy and ■ unarmed, he will see to It that they «r.rves to have its fair name cost system of operation possible, newspaper, possibly, than in al organize themselves into an adu- are furnished with Implements of cleared for ail time. Rut we also which saving we are passing on to most any other human endeavor. be’feve it will never have a clear the public,” continued Reiser. "The Ro comnlex are the situations that cationa). forceful group, the min- war. name until someone CLEARS it! store name itself suggests the new human beings can manufacture to ority will soon have control. ------------ s,------------- involve themselves and their Idea, ‘Pick-Rite and Save’.” On the other hand. Banks has The new-type store has Inserted friends in, that a general rule to Those of you who think we’re declared, in the presence of wit SEEDSTER REAPS CROP a display advertisement on page govern a day-by-day and year-by- just spouting to be sensational had nesses, that HIS was the "mailed year report of it all in the news What? Cigars in a seed store? three of this week’s Miner. better remember this: Those peo fist” controlling the Good Govern ------------ %------------- paper is out ot the question. Not only hempen smokes, but ple who are clamoring for support ment congress and that the con Yet a certain conslstency is be- of Banks and Fehl really are sin gress would do "what I tell It to.” also a profusion of smiles gree ed MEDFORD ATTORNEY MOVE8 coming even to the press I>"1 y u cere in their belief that the only Have you ever read, in the wildest customers of the Monarch Seed J. F. Fifegel, one of Medford’s •vould say that any newspaper de- way they can reestablish the myth of history books, ot more brazen and Feed company store last Mon leal law and order they seek is by ■ittempts to gain and wield auto- day morning when they accosted prominent attorneys, announces voting much of its time to calling taking government into their own i cratic power? And the pity of It is Raymond A. Miksche, president, that he will move to new quarters prominent men almost everything hands. They really belTeve they are ! that followers of the pair really after the arrival of an 8>4-pound next week. Hiegel has been asso I scandalous In the dictionary under a democratic, inspired organization believe th»t t-ue democracy would son Sundav morning to the well ciated with O. C. Hoggs in law I the supposed license of “free nractice for the past 10 years and speech’’ would of necessity acco~d destined to do the county good, be established by helping Banks known Medford couple. The birth was at the Sacred has built up a substantial practice similar "rights” to any other rep and fail to realize the menace of 1 and Fehl to Just such a dictator Heart hospital, and Squire Wig- His new offices will be In the same resentative of the Journalistic gathering about them all the coun ship. glesby. brother of the proud poppa, «uite with H. K. Hanna, located on world. ty’s lawless element. Rut it is not so. The sheet that Of course many of the readers sez “I’ll be goldurned if I haint a the second floor of the Davis build Most members of the Good Gov of this column will declare we have '•ncle four times now -looks like ing on North Central. The Miner defames people the most is fre- ernment congress don't realize been overemphasizing the serious as how this here business'll be extends its best wishes for contin '•imntlv the very one which takes 'fore long. ued success to him. offense at the defamation of others. that. Instead of being democratic ness of the situation; that we are well manned ------------ «.------------- ------------ %------------ And so It is that n mild, yes, a most; and American in spirit, they are ■oung and jump at conclusions. • Mrs. Harley Agee of Roseburg mild, remonstrance appears in the under an absolute dictatorship and But perhaps they have not been in NEW lie* GROCFPY STORE OPENS IN MEDFORD SAT. is spending two weeks visiting rel Oregonian as we have said, and are undermining the very Consti ! a position to observe the startling atives and friends on Applegate, here it is: tution they seek to uphold. They fact that none other than Llewel- A grocery store with an entirely among whom are her father. Burl aren’t aware of the fact they are ! ivn A. Banks aspl-es to a NATION The Medford Nows, noted the fall guys for Banks and Fehl, AL power; that already he is lay- new idea will open Saturday morn- Miller, and Mrs. John Pernoil. VIEWS % for the versatility nnd f-oq'ien- cy of H r charges of public cor- motion In its community, hotly complains that "an effort han been made to destroy the free dom of the press In Jackson county": that one newansper plant hns boon closed by hor rid official consnfrncy. Rut In almost the next breath the News avers that another news paper, the unfriendly Jackson ville Miner, is a "acanslal sheet” and should bo removed from the county, and that the local radio station ought to bo thrown o’f the air for unthruth- fill broadcasting. We are aware that here and there the theory seems to exist that freedom of the speech consists of the right to shut the other fellow's mouth, and to say whatever you wish on your own part. Not often Is the theory so frankly present ed as it Is in the Medford News. Than that, little more need be said, except that the sight and sound of some hundreds of people led by crfmlnnl Innuendo to so sus pect the Integrity of a man and a lodge such as we and all of Jose phine county know .nidge No-ton to be, that they cheer and shout when his name Is defamed is one that makes our rlslbles boll. That mistaken leadership has wrongfully convinced these hun dreds of demonstrntorg that Judge Norton is unjust, is an outcome to make one sick at heart.—Grants Pass Courier.
