Medford mail tribune., July 10, 1910, FIRST SECTION, Page 4, Image 4

4
:HEDroRD Mail Tribune
JMEjiieto
Series: Thirty-ninth Yenri
Dully, Fifth Year
JUt XNBErENDENT NEWSPAPER
J WJT.IBHEP DAIET EXCEPT SATVR-
SA.T ST THE MBDFORD
printixo oo.
A narmalldntlon of tho Medford Mull.
ttlUhcd 1SS9: tho Southern Orc-
croclaui, flUbUnliod 1902; tho Democratic
Ttraot, tnbllBhcJ 1872; tho Ashland
Ttifecn. established 1896, ami the Med-
Card. TCrlbuno, established 1906.
SISOnOE PUTNAM, Kdltor anil Manage
Kntortd as second-class matter No
vvnsfcer 1, 1909, at tho post-office at
Mrefrd. Orocon. under tho net or
-March J, 1879.
OToIjJ Paper of tho City of Mcdfonl
TTBBORnTIOH BATES.
flao vear by mall ??
.n rtinnth bv mall
CO
3?t month, delivered by carrier. In
Talent. Phoenix. Central
Point,
Gold H1U and Woodvuie.
.60
2.00
1.60
-Ctesdty only, my mall, per year. . . .
Wcvltly, per year i
XXL Xtaied
Wlrs United
patches.
Prss 91a-
Ttw Mall Tribune Is on sale at tho
JVery 'Nowa Stand. San Francisco.
IHrttanU Hotel Nows Stand, Portland.
fswnan Nws Co., Portland, Ore.
W. O. -Whitney. Seattle, Wash.
Zatl Spotamo Xevrs Stand. Spokane.
Fostaffc Sates.
B 'to 12-pnfro paper........... lc
J4 to 24-pagc paper ..:c
at Xa 3-naco paper 3c
SWOBS CTBCtTiATION
Average Dally for
Xvembr, 1909
30ssnmbcr, 1909
Hnimry, 1910
"Fwbruary, 1910
;Vnreh, 1910
1,700
i 1,5 4
1".5
2.122
2,203
2.301
xAprU, 1910
:3bbc
1910 2,450
.JUKE CZBOEXATXOK.
16 2,525
17 2,525
19 2,575
20 2,525
22 2,525
23 2,525
26 2,575
2S 2,525
29 2.52s
30 2,525
Total for month 65,700
ZVens deductions 650
65,050
Averapo not dally, 2,502.
tSTATE OF OREGON, County of Jack
can. 8s:
On this 1st day of July. 1910, per-
vaosaJiy appeared before me, O. Put-
mm, manager of the Medford Mall Trl-
;ena, who, upon oath, acknowledged that
-v36 above figures are true and correct.
SaaJ.) IT. N. YOCKEY.
, Notary Public for Oregon.
acEoroBS, obeooit.
Metropolis of Southern Oregon and
Tforttoern California and fastest-grow-'.
bbjt city In Orecon.
-Population, 1910. 9.000.
TBscric dcnostts.
$2,750,000.
ty of Orecon Rome
.Banner rruu city or
wvec nappies won sweepsiaKes prue ana
tlUe ot
"Apple Xing of the World"
'MS. National Apple Show, Spokane, 1909.
Baarue River pears brought highest
; fetoea In all markets of the world dur
bf the past five years.
Write. Commercial Club, enclosing 6
enta Tor postago on finest community
pamphlet ever written.
Days come
ftilL grows.
and go but Medford
Ashland wants the trolley after all
took a long time to find out.
So Medford bars tho Reno lght
Bfccures but not for fear of riots,
Southern Oregon needs a congress-
What's tho matter with R. O.
Smith?
A. steam shovel to dig a hotel base
ment. That's "the way to make the
dirt fly.
Tho weather Is warm, but no one
is dying of the heat. And tho nights
are cool. Tho warm weather Is need-
vied ror the fruit.
Portland Is to have a big apple fair
-la November. Tho Rogue River val
ley, Oregon's greatest fruit belt,
should be -there.
""Medford," declares a visitor, "is
tie most metropolitan town in Ore
son, outside of Portland." Yes, but
JCedford is only beginning. Wait a
lew years.
Roosevelt has elected his friend
PoLndextor to the Ananias club. Ted
4y is strenuously striving to keep
from joining Jeffries, Dee Cook and
Bryan In the Down and Out club.
. Don't worry about tho price of
stocks in Wall Btreet. Tho country
la prosperous. Even if crops fail in
the east, it means simply higher prices
jtnd more prosperity in tho northwest.
'A thousand cars of fancy apples
xnd pears from tho Rogue River val
ley this year or half the output of
all Oregon on apples and nine-tenths
Jthe output of pears.
Pity tho poor Pullman company.
They may have to cbargo a reason
able rate for thoir cubbyholes and
the public may tire of paying their
.conductors and porters.
'' If tho 'Southern Pacific can make
a round trip rato from Portland to
drater Lake via Klamath Falls for
.332, It surely ought to make some ro-
-1 action Jn tho lound trip via. Medford,
.when it savoB 500 miles of travel.
Tho upper Jacksonville road of-
Trs a conclusive demonstration at
'jpraant how nob to build roads. Dump-
tsSasvMod and fine dust In tho contor
f a highway is not scientific road
.Aulldlng any more than dumping cob-
fclefltoaes there and leaving thorn for
toaraB to avoid, aa on the Agate road,
3 2,500
3 2,500
.2... 2,500.
5 2.550
. 2,500
T 2,500
8 2,525
. 2,525
tO.. 2.525
IS... 2.575
XI 2,525
24 2,625
JLO ' an Dai 9
Q M'IW.WWIJ
aiEDFORD LVIL TRIBUNE, ftLED.EORP, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY .10, 1910.
THE MAKING OF LAWS.
VTIE Oregonian in its campaign for the assembly,
against tho direct primary law and the initiative and
referendum, exclaims as follews:
"Thirty-two measures have been filed at Salem under
the initiative or through the referendum to be voted on
by the people at large in November. Will anyone say that
a burden so stupendous should have been laid upon the
electorate as a whole? Will anyone dare say that a duty
so grave and so various can be performed intelligently or
conscientiously or adequately by the people acting in the
mass or by one-half of them or by one-tenth of them or by
one-hundredth part of them? It cannot be done. It is
impossible that it should be done."
The Oregonian s hysterics are due to the fact that the
people of Oregon are given a chance to make 32 laws, or
to defeat them. These proposed laws are placed before
the people upon petitions for each signed by from 10,000 to
25,000 legal voters. They are filed four months before
election. Each attracts a large amount of attention from
the press and the advocates and opponents are given from
now until November to make the public familiar with the
proposed law and its merits and demerits.
In addition, the state printer issues a pamphlet, con
taining arguments for and against each measure, as well as
the measure itself, which is sent to every registered voter,
thereby giving him ample opportunity to familiarize him
self with the law.
Given ordinary intelligence and appreciation, even ina
slight degree, of the duty and responsibility of the electo
rate, there is no reason why any voter should wait until
he gets into the election booth to determine the fate of these
bills. - iv '
continues the Oregenian: "Legislation is a solemn
public service requiring expert knowledge, careful deliber
ation, open and public discussion, frequent revision and
compromise, and intelligent insight into the purposes and
probable consequences of every act."
The legislature of Oregon is in session forty days. Over
500 proposed laws are introduced for consideration and
a couple of hundred new laws passed. All sorts of freak
measures become laws, which the sober sense of alhthe
people would snow under.
What "expert knowledge," what "careful delibera
tion," what "intelligent insight" enter into the considera
tion of these 500 bills by the legislature? The ordinary
legislator possesses no superior ability to the ordinary vot
er. He simply happens to be popular personally in his
district. If the legislator can duly weigh and consider
500 proposed laws in 40 days, with no preliminary enlight
enment, surely the average voter can duly weigh and con
sider 32 measures in four months.
Half the enactments of legislatures are secured, not
upon the merits of the measures, but through "log-rolling,"
wherein the father of the bill agrees to vote for certain'
other bills, in exchange for support for his own bill. A
measure placed before the people must stand upon its
merits.
It is easy for corporate or other influences, political,
social or business, to control and corrupt a legislature. It
is done in every state in the Union. United States sena
tors are elected and special legislation secured, none of
which could be wrung from the people who in the mass
are honest. How often are meritorious measures demand
ed by the people, killed in legislatures? How often do
legislators, puffed up with their little brief authority, im
agine themselves superior to those who elect them, and be
tray their constituents?
The initiative and referendum is an excellent law.
Through it the people have a chance to secure needed leg
islation which special interests defeat in the legislature,
such as the good roads bill, and the bill protecting fish
in the Rogue river. It also acts as a check upon the ac
tions of the legislature, for any bill passed inimical to
the public welfare can be held up until approved or killed
by the people.
Boiled down, the Oregonian fs argument is simply that
the people of Oregon are fools, incapable of knowing what
they want, and that there is as much sense in submitting
proposed laws to a lunatic asylum as to the people.
aiul their power to levy trlbiitoTrheir estate Is worso than
that; of the French nobility after the revolution, for they
lost not only thoir patrimony, but their iitlcs as well.
Tho primary law gives officials who are independent
and feel responsibility, not to bosses and hoolers, but to
the people. It was a long deferred reform, but it has eomoj
to stay. As soon expect the people to surrender the right j
of trial by jury, or free speech.
If there was no other argument in favor of the primary,
there is sufficient to be found in the charactor of the op
position to it, for it is mainly from those who cannot con
ceive a patriotic or high-minded motive. It 'is a sordid,
mean and selfish opposition, tho sordidness of boodlo and
graft, the selfishness of favoritism and personal vanity,
the meanness of wanting without fitness or requirement.
So long have these opponents of direct primaries moved
in this political atmosphere that they have come to believe
it to bo the fifth dimension of space. They havo believed
the direct primary could not survive. They havo expected
it to topple of its own weight, and are still waiting. But
their belief is born of stupidity that has over denied intelli
gence in tho mass of tho people, that knows not its own
ignorance.
It is the rule of tho lord ovor tho serf, but with unfavor
able conditions, for while there are those who would bo our
political lords, dukes and princes, there arc no serfs. Wo
have been emancipated.
Bright Shoes for Women
Ot'l patent leather shoes don't havo to be
yhined. ilust keep tho dust off quite an
advantage.
INr OU It "JOHN IClOliliY" low shoos tho
best patent leather is used.
ALSO the best oak leather solos -and
shanks and thread and everything.
VOlT can take our word for it those shoes
are good all through.
ASK to see our $3.50 patent kid Eclipse
tie.
DUFFIELD
East Main
BROS.
Medford
LANGFORD AND
BURNSATRENO
ON LABOR DAY
That Is Latest Card to Attract At
tention of Fight Fans Wolgast
May Possibly Meet Moran at Same
Time.
SAX FRANCISCO, Cnl., July D.
If Sam Laniiford and Tommy Burns
tie up for a set-to in tho Hcuo arena
on Labor day it is probable that Ad
Wolnnst will consent to ficht Owon
Mo ran at the Xcvadu metropolis on
tho same day.
Promoter Jim Coffroth is believed
to bo fiKiiriiiK on tho possibility of
drnwinir n good crowd to Reno, pro
viding a morniiiL' and afternoon card
can be offered tho fans. Witli jjood
preliminaries botwecn moraine d
tho afternoon fixhts, the middlo
woicht sparring exhibition, tho possi
bility of a paying nttendnneo i'h
bright.
Moran admitted that overtures
were mads to him by Coffroth, but
declared that the local promoter only
mentioned a ten-round bout witli
Wolgast, to be stnged in Sun Francisco.
HERE'S MAN WITH
NERVE INDEED !IS
EORNINST TEDDY
Los Anneles Man Out for Presidency
of United Spanish War Veterans
Will Meet In September In Den
ver, Colo.
THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT.
npHE opposition to the primary election law comes from
A the chosen few "the Lord's annointed," who be
lieve they should be permitted to select the public officers
and make the laws for the state of Oregon. For years
they had under the leadership of the Oregonian been per
mitted to do this. But the new legislation in Oregon cut
out thoir prerogatives, took away the scepter and over
turned the thrones.
No longer can they go sack in hand to the railroads and
get golden lubricant for the legislative machinery, for
their promises are ineffectual, their protection is nil.
Hence the yelping and snarling.
No one claims or pretends that primary election law
will always select the best men, but the public will know
that it will result in selecting men who are free from polit
ical parasites and corporation patriots who dominate con
ventions. The primary law destroyed their privileges
AVALANCHE SWEEPS
PARTY TO DEATH
GItlNEWALD. Switzerland, July
0. Five of a party of Alpine tour
ists are missing, following an nva
lanclie which yesterday overwhelmed
two parties near tho Bcrgli hut. Sev
en members, including three guides,
were rescued by a searching party.
Other parties nro today seeking tho
five missing. Two of tho five nre
said to bo women. Two men in tho
party were Germans.
The tourists were attempting to
cross tho Jungfrau glacier when the
avalanche carried them away.
FIGHT ON PICTURES
II
SAN FiiANCJSCO, July 9. rho in
ternational reform bureau will tdko
a hand la the inovomont against tho
JofrrloS'Joliijson fight pictures.
Dr. Wilbur T. Crafts of Washing
ton, founder r.nd superintendent of
tho bureau, 13 In San Francisco today
to organlzo a California branch and
to formulate plans for fighting tho
plcturo exhibitions.
Dr. Crnfts was In Hono during tho
big fight to form a commlttoo to co
operate with tho bureau and secure
Information about tho plans of tho
moving plcturo Intoroats. IIo was ono
of tho lenders In tho movement to
drlvo (he fight out of California.
LOS AN'GELKS, Cnl., July 0. I!
I. McLaughlin of Los Angeles, a sur
geon with tho rank of major-general
in the Spanish-American war, tuny
oppose Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
for tho presidency of the United
Spanish War Veterans before the
convention of tho organization, which
meets in Denver. September 5, 0 and
7. McLaughlin is junior vice-com-mnndcr-in-chicf
of the Pacific di
vision. IIo is being urged for the
presidency by the western divisions
and will go to San Francisco tonight
to confer with his adherents there.
Colonel Roosovolt's enndidncy has
been demanded by the eastern divis
ions. IIo lias not announced whether
he will enter the field.
THREE ARE KILLED
IN TRAIN WRECK
WINNII'KG, Man, July I). Three
porsons were killed and mnny in
jured when u local train collided with
a streetcar in an outlying section of
Winnipeg.
The dead are: Mrs. John Law
rence, Toronto; John Urquhnrt and
John Lawrence, a 3-year-old hoy.
Flagman McCloy, who was sta
tioned at the crossing, was arrested.
I can put you wiso to tho host
real estate investment on tho const.
Address "Advisor," Box '190, Mod-
ford. Or. tf.
BIJO'J THEATRE
TONIGHT
ALBERTA HADLEY, Moat beautiful woman in vau
deville, in her big features of CHARACTER
CHANGES, gorgeous costumes and olaborato elec
tric effects. "DON'T MISS IT."
2 - - REEL5 - - 2
Unexcelled Motion Pictures
RITAKKSPEARB'S "THE "WINTER'S TALE."
ROOSEVELT'S TRIP TN AFRTOA Safari of the
uiTnt American Hunter.
T1IK .STARK AND STRN'HS IN AFRICA.
Special Prices 10 and 20 cents
TOWN SAVED AFTER
DESPERATE FIGHT
CHIPPEWA FALLS,, Wis., July 9.
-After a dost.orato all night fight
with forest flrca tho village of Hol-
combo, 20 :rlon nnrlhoaat of hero,
was saved from destruction, accord
ing to reports rocotved horo today.
Fires nro raging today In tho tim
ber lands of Chlppowa, Husk and
Sawyor countlos, along tho coureo of
tho Flambeau rlvor. Tho Iobhch In
standing timber and In mill products
Is enormous.
For a city of dotnornllzod ntroota,
Medford, torn up for paving, heads
tho list.
BODY OF PROSPECTOR
IS FOUND ON DESERT
SAN HFKNAItDINO, Cal., JulyO.
N'akod and dlorr.omboreil by eoyotou,
iho unldentflod body of a pronpoctor
wntT"found todpy on tho desert noar
Amboy, by W.linnui Month, manager
of tho (Irect (loid Dolt Mlno.
A hundred yards from tho body
Heath found nu amply enntoon nnd
a minors outfit under tho sagebrush,
where tho wandoror had scrapod a
hole In tho sand. IIo had ntrotchd
his 'oat acrosit r brush to provldo a
sholtor from tho sun.
Hoath searched tho scraps of clothoa
noar the body without finding any
thing which :.'i;ht.lond to tho Identi
fication. IIo In rlod tho body nnd
wont to Amboy nnd telegraphed tho'
news of his grownomo flnj to the
coronor horo.
HERE IS A 22 REPEATING
Winche&erRifle
THAT WILL SURPRISE YOU.
Many Elks in Detroit.
DKTH01T. Mich., July 9. Mom-
bora of tho llonovolont and Protoctlvo
Ordor of Kllcu aro Jamming tho hotels
and rooming houses horo today prior
to tho oponlng of tho annual conven
tion of the grand lodgo Monday. It Is
estimated that 10,000 Elks aro horo.
Takes short, long and long rifle cartridges without any adjustment
of carrier block. Conic in and see it and we will toll you more about it.
'We also have Remington, Savage and Stevens 22s. Wo carry a lino of
campers' outfits, touts, camp stoves, Dutch ovens, ammunition and
fishing tackle.
Humphry's Gun Store
112 WEST MAIN STREET
PHONE 4351
v
J