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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1935)
Friday, August 23, 1935 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER ♦ LETTERS ASHLAND to the Editor GROCETERIA MEAT MR. CARL Our new Butcher—one of the best on the Pacific Coast- (Jet acquainted with his fine courtesy ... he knows meat, how to cut it. and his explanation of what each cut contains will make your meat buying a pleasure—Look over his specials! HENDERSON FROM ASHLAND’S FINEST MEAT MARKET FOR SATURDAY S THRIFTY BUYERS- STEER BEEF ROAST 121C pound TENDER SUGAR PURE CANE Fancy Home-Grown Per Basket 10 pounds 49c Sirloin or Round 20c pound ISUNKIST ORANGES SELECTED SHORT RIBS / For Baking Baker’s Premium CHOCOLATE NEW LOW PRICE— I 12c pound STEER BEEF BOIL lie per pound iMA COFFEE 2 SPECIAL ASK TO SEE Ol'R Pounds For...... .11 ST TRY THIS COFFEE LIFTER STEAKS NEW YORK STEAKS CLUB MARKET STEAKS and BEEF TENDERLOINS ALL OF THESE CUTS AKE FROM Ol’R CHOICE STEERS DEL KAY I Ì SPAGHETTI « hip i g Spaniola Sauce BiK W* I 23c H A BIG BUY IN CHILI ( HI SAUCE! 11 Salad Dressing pints 25c FOR SATURDAY YOU CAN HAVE SANDWICH SPREAD AT THE SAME. PRICE! HAMBURGER F 21/: Founds STAR BEST EVER MACARONI - - 23C EGG NOODLES - 23c A Large Pound Package Made from Hard Wheat ____ OLD ENGLISH 15c OREGON MILK 6 Cans For... 29c 2 pounds 27c VEAL AND HAM LOAF FISHER’S BLEND SUNBEAM FLOUR, 49’s - $1.65 FLOUR, 49’s - $1.35 Fresh Ground 15c per pound SPONSORED BY THE GRANGE EASTERN SUGAR CURED LADINO CHEESE, lb. 19C BROOMS, each BACON GRAPE-NUTS By the Piece 37c per pound POUND ...... 42c COMPO 5-TIE 19c No. 1 COMB FLAKES, 2 pkgs. - 21C HONEY FISHERS LARGE 17c IIB. PACKAGE WHOLE WHEAT, 10s 39c RAISINS 25c SHORTENING OUR BAKERY DEPARTMENT 4 pounds 45c LARGE FROM ASSORTED WITH OR WITHOLT SEED COOKIES, per dozen 10c RYE BREAD, loaf - 10c PURE LARD 13-EGG—PLAIN 3 pounds 49c PIES, all kinds, each 20c Angel Food CAKES 37c FOR THRIFTY SHOPPERS— Try Our Fine ASSORTED LUNCH MEATS 30c per pound SPECIAL To the Editor: to having set some half dozen Can anything be more abhorrent fires near the south end of Moun or revolting to the average ra tain avenue. tional human than a lynching ? Riley recently served five months Can there bo a mure disglisting in the state training schisd for apeetaele than that of a mob of petty larceny. He stated that ho •enaeleu and unscrupulous men. had tossed the match into the tin too cowardly to show their faces der-like grass, "just to SV«- the in daylight, hanging a fellow creu fires," ture in the darkness of night, their The confession follows u much facial concealed by black inaska? confused and bewildered Hie und la there anything more dishciirt- police department who kept con ening to a progressive nation tinual vigil in order to put an which haa strenuously striven to to tin* activities of the Ji attain a condition of civilization “fire-bug." than to see their efforts mocked Chief Talent indicated that he and defeated by a band of frenzied would turn the lad over to the rioters, who have suddenly shed all proper authorities for the hand pretense of culture and reverted ling of the case. to the savage ways of the barbar ians of the bark Ages? lynchers a taslc of a law like that is there anything to admire or re and lynching would automatically spect in men who. apparently cease. without shame, exhibit their in Not for a moment do 1 uphold nermost, beastly characteristics to the world at large by joining to the shooting of a police officer, gether to murder a fellow citizen even though we all know that who, by our Constitution, is en many officers lake advantage of titled to a fair trlul, regardless of their authority to insult auu ar what his offense may have been ? rogantly abuse citizens in a way Have we arrived at a pass where hat makes the blood of an ave our laws must I m * administered by rage person boll But 1 do uphold a gang of ruffians, devoid of sense our Constitution that guaranty-— to .v.uv man u t.m tnal for and conscience, instead of by the misdeeds and I uphold to the ll proper authorities? the efforts made by exjxmcnts^^w If the dilatory tactics of our civilization to I cscupe trinii the ber courts are the cause for such a baritles of I th«1 I >ai k Ages and to hideous outrage against society, keep from eliding back late U m whose fault is it in the first place ' foul slime of those hideous and Were not the Judges of our courts brutal days elected to office by these very The majority of these lynchers murderers who now make com plaint against them ? Who do these profess to some religion They be lawbreakers vote for at election lieve that some day they must face times? Do they not vote for the ■i just Lord and be judged accord first smooth-tongued Individual ing to their merits. What tor who comes around and hands them ments of mind they will suffer a line of "bull" and a couple of is they lie on their dying beds and cheap, stinking, campaign cigars? painful memories of their past Do they ever make any effort to lives assail them. How they will elect to office a man who can writhe and twist and squirm and qualify in all respects, or do they pray "Oh Lord,” they will cry, bother to make provision to recall ■great, compassionate Lord, have any official who falls down on his mercy on my guilty soul and save job? But if our court officials do me." What answer they will receive, I fall down by reason of being too slow, indolent or inefficient, all have no means of knowing, but it these nitwits can think of is to Is more than probable they will lynch someone, which they con be sternly told, "The mercy you sider as the only answer to the receive will be exactly and pre cisely the same as you dealt out to problem. Men who are harsh and bitter your fellow creatures while on to their wives and children, cruel earth." What a colossal nerve a man to dumb animals, poisoners of dogs, perpetrators of secret mean must have who would dare to face nesses can always be found among his Maker and beg tor mercy for the members of a lynching |>arty himself after denying mercy to Characteristics of that kind lend others during his life. These destroyers of human life the ms«1 Ives readily to the murder of a defenseless human being. Oth will find that the excuses that ers. governed by uncontrollable have {Missed as legal tender with tempers, or possessed by the herd the inhabitants of this earth will instinct, which induces them to be of small avail at the judgment join in any crowd they see. or day J. C. REYNOLDS. those drawn by morbid curiosity, make up the remainder. When one man slays another, it is called murder. Then when a mon slays the killer, they endeavor to give it another name, but it is murder just the same. And instead of re lieving the situation, they make it worm-. Two wrongs do not make one right, never did and never will. If it is permitted by society for AT THE a mob to form, destroy property and commit murder without pun ishment. it is just as pcrmissable, or ought to be, for any gang of hoodlums, gangsters or brigands to form a gathering large enough and vicious enough to intimidate 25c and 10c the authorities and proceed to murder at will, destroy and plun der property not their own and raise hell generally, without fear of reprisal. The cowardly murderers (cam ouflaged by the name of lynchers) do not seem to realize they are committing a crime, the memory of which will haunt them to their dying day, to say nothing of losing Headquarters for the respect of their neighbors and BUYING AND SELLING OF of even their own families. Any FRUITS AND VEGETABLES woman will develop a secret loath ing for a man who falls so far short of being a man. A man can CANNING 4 no longer pose as a hero to his TOMATOES, pound It children, once they have learned CANNING « 1 the fact that he has descended from his pedestal to the level of a | PEACHES, pound >2V common murderer. If he wishes to Tomato and Peach Shook retain his standing in society, he must keep his guilty secret hid In Stock den beneath a mass of lies and At A Right Price alibis, for there are plenty of right thinking people everywhere who We Deliver would not hesitate to turn him down flat, if they knew. Since the day Billy the Kid, at Las Vegas, New Mexico, stam peded a mob of several hundred who clamored for his life by say ing, "Sheriff, give me a gun and I’ll scatter these so and so's quick er than hell could scorch a feath er," I have regarded a mob as simply a gathering of cowards. And this opinion has been con firmed by several occasions when one determined man has faced a crowd of lynchers and dispersed them. What becomes of the al leged courage of a mob when a few tear gas bombs are tossed among them ? They are not facing an un A Diesel Engine Factory armed, helpless victim then. Expert Reports Ours the What is the reason there are no lynchings in Canada? Because the British government can squash the angry passions of a mob so quickly that it is positively ridiculous. When the riot act Is read to a mob in Canada it means that every man who refuses to obey must of Four Tests Made from pay for his madness by many long Distributors’ Samples! months of walking the treadmill for eight hours a day in the peni tentiary, if it takes the whole British army to put him there. And should he escape for a time, they follow him as long as he is TRANSFER CO. known to be alive, through every PHONE 117 Saturday Night EAGLES HALL F BEEF SAUSAGE Robert Riley, 13, of Mountain 4 avenue, confessed last Saturday w TOMATOES STEER STEAKS ROBERT RILEY CONFESSES TO FIRE SETTING RAISIN ROLLS per dozen 9c THEY ARE FINE FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH OR DINNER ORDERS $1.00 OR MORE DELIVERED FREE IN CITY LIMITS HARDY and WOLTERS Southern Oregon’s Leading Food Merchants HERBERT’S TWO STORES SERVICE CLEANEST FUEL OIL WHITTLE country in the world. Give our
