MflUFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, .19.10. Medford Mail Tribune Cettiploto Series: Thirty-ninth Year: Dally. Fifth Tear. RACE PREJUDICE AN ESSENTIAL. AM INDEPENDENT NEWSPATEB X.ISXED DAXX.Y EXCEPT SATUR BAT BT XER MBDrORD PKIHTINa CO. A consolidation of the Mcdford Malt tUbllMipt! 1889; tho Southern OrcRon ten, catnbllnhcd 1803: the Democratic Times, established 1872: tho Ashland Tribune, established, 1896 and the Med ford Tribune, established 1908. 08011013 PUTNAM. Kdltor nr.d Manager Kntercd as second-class rnattar. No Ttmbor 1, 1909 at the post offlco at Mdford, Oregon, under tho act of March , 18T. Official Taper of the City of Mcdofrd STTBSCBXPTXOH XATBH Oa ycAr by mail $5.00 One month by mall 60 JPer month delivered by carrier, In Medford, Aal.land, Jacksonville and Central Point .SO Candny, only by mall, per year ... i.00 Weekly, per year 1.E0 JTall Xitaied Wire TJnltd Ptm 91a. patches. Tho Mall Tribune Is on solo at the Ferry News Stand, San Francisco. Portland Hotel News Stand, Portland. Bowman News Co., Portland, Ore. W. O. Whitney, Seattle, Wash. Betel Spokane News Stand, Spokane. FosUff Bates 3 to 12-paso paper lo II to 34-page paper 2c 34 to 36-page paper 3o tnroiur czmoxrzjLTion Averaee Daily for Xewembor, 1909 . . December, 1909 ... January , 1910 .... February. 1910 .... March, 1910 April. 1910 May, 1910 , June, 1910 XDT.T CXBOXT3Uk.St03r 2.252 1,675 3,600 2.626 3,625 2,525 2.52S 2,576 H 2,625 IS 2,625 X 2,525 X 2,525 17 18 19 20 21 22 24 25 6 27 28 31 29 1.700 1,843 1,925 2.122 2,303 2,301 3,450 3,(03 2,535 2,576 2.525 2,650 2.650 2.600 3,660 2,550 2,550 2.550 2,650 2,(00 2.550 68.175 2,623 98 Total Gross Dally averaee Xcbs deduction Net averaee dally circulation 2.524 BTATK OF OREGON, County of Jack son. ss : On the 1st day of August, 1910. per sonally appeared before me. George Put aaa, manager of the Medford Mail Trl tme, who upon oath, acknowledges that Ike above figures are true and correct (SEAL) x N. TOCKET. Notary Public for Oregon. SCESrOBD, OBSOOS Metropolis of Southern Oregon and Northern California, and the fastest-sewlng-city in Oregon. Population. 1910. 9,000 Bank deposits. $2,760,000 $600,000 Gravity Water system com peted In July 1910. giving finest supply frnre mountain water. Sixteen miles if street being paved at ft cost excedlng $1,000,000, making a to tal of twenty mites of pavement. Postofflce receipts for year ending Jane 30, 1910, show gain of 36 per cent. Banner fruit city in Oregon Rogue JUvcr apples won sweepstakes prize and ad title of "Apple Xing of the World" at the National Apple Show, Spokane, H09. Rogue Rivtr pears brought high act prices In all markets of the world earing the past five years. Write Commercial Club, enclosing 6 eents for postage of the finest commu nity pamphlet ever written. OTHER SECTIONS BURNED. (Continued from page 1) battling with a big firo near Grants Pass. Associate Forester Cecil telegraph ed to Huntington, Oregon, today for fifty additional men to fight tho tires along tho Snako river. Half a hun dred troops have been fighting fire within the reserve for two weeks. Many Culls For nelp Tho local forestry office la del- Hged with telegrams appealing for aid. In reply Cecil wired all for esters in tho northwest to employ as many men as they could secure to fight fire. Practically all available troops are on tho flrc-lines now. General Maus at American lako telegraphed that he bad anly 250 regulars available for duty. At the Vancouver, Wash ington, barracks only 75 men, just enough to do guard duty, are left, tho remainder are on the firo lines. A regiment of troops returning to Vancouver from tho Philippines is expected to arrive soon. If the sold iers are In fit condition they will be rushed to the scones of the various conflagrations as soon as thoy land. Firo At Rainier Another fire Is report d to have brogen out In tho Rainier forest re servo in Washington today. Tho big blazo on tho south fork of spreading and advices from Montana say that conditions as grave as those in southern Oregon obtain in the timber belt of that state. Tbo forestry officials are los ing hope of being able to control tho flames and declare that nothing can stop the fires but rain. BETTER AT MOUNT PITT Wind Dying Down Assist Forest Rangers in Battle With the Flames KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Aug.20. The flrea in tho Mt. McLoughlin region aro reported dying down ow ing to failure of a high wind that has beon blowing for several days Rangers say that thoy havo hopes of smothering tho flamoa soon. Tho belt of firo there Is roportod 18 miles long and six miles wide. In tho Clover creek region, 30 900,000 feet of timber havo beon destroyed, Many men aro needed to Id In flghthg tho fires and asslst- TIIE purchase of a large tract of land on the Willam ette near Portland last week for the purpose of es tablishing n furniture factory by a Japanese company. which will employ Japencsc labor, brings to mind the question of Asiatic immigration, which in the past has been provocative of much political discussion and trouble. It brings to mind that ever recurring question of protec tion for the laborer through a tariff that protects his employer's goods, but gives the employer free trade in labor. This question is one that is not to be settled by mobs or violence. It calls for statesmanship. All eco nomic writers aro of one mind on this proposition that competition in the labor field with an inferior race must necessarily lower the standard of living of the laboriug class of the superior race, and consequently an inferior standard of citizenship. Wherever such competition has been permitted to eoutinue for a long time it has resulted in the amalgamation of the two races, and a resultant inferior race. The influx of laborers from India and Japan if permitted to continue beyond the absolute needs, is bound to give rise to disturbed labor conditions, and, especially m view ot the tact that the Japanese m Cali fornia aro absorbing many of the smaller lines of busi ness. Such competition is bound to increase the race pre judice, and before it does, the questions should be adjust ed by treaties and regulated by legislation. To this the protected manufacturer will always be opposed in the future as in the past. For his wares he demands the highest tariff to enable him to cinch the American consumer, and also the right to get his labor from any part of the world. With him is allied the polit ical sentimentalist, who ascribes it all to race prejudice, and sees no reason why the American laborer should not work side by side with the peaceful Chinese, the craf ty Japanese and the patient Hindu, and learn from them. But these nastolgian statesmen are unable to compre hend that race prejudice has made the white race the riding power. It has kept the American people irom be coming a negroid race, and is the one prejudice that should and must be encouraged along intelligent lines to keep us from becoming so in the future. It is prejudice that must have been implanted in the white race 03' divine power, so essential and necessary it is for the civilization of the world. But poverty, squalor and want among American la borers would in time break down that prejudice, and make us a nation of castes with a fixed laboring population, without patriotism that would fall prey to power. iH ."T'si . sH IV A- I Fa$ SUITS for NOW I viTfei wJt " I I VJSC'"" VImx" XhT ' mo rom.v rcmly 1 show an assortment of suits I I 5s o! W I ()l 'n an( "Wml1, m 'ippuulH to men of tusto. 0 I ts. rl V L Now Fall Models of high degree not made of common I I ) J i v ll T hi stuff not tho samo you find ovorywhoro, but a bit I r (b ImWW" foottor in fabric and choicor in stylo. Thcso garmonts I I y j y!jN striko a now note in good clothes-making. I Uy -y I SliJ Come in and sco tho style show and get tho prices. H L ""7 V V IsTmsw XXn4n tf C ii H U I r W V xiiua iiaia yu.yjxj m 0JJ seei I Lnv Mr n) VocOTHING CoO .. I H "" I II 1 V XVI kLf oxJLlr Corra-b GlobKxrir H B J II ill Cprcl4. luio Vk HJ 1 L 1 '1 -" - Wilson Brothers' Shirts $1.25 to $3 I some great Hon. Nick Longworth declares that Cannon must be shelved. This is simply corroborative evidence of the truth of the saying that ""Rats desert a sinking ship." From the returns from Kansas, California and else where it looks as though, the Aldrich gang in their cam paitm to wine LaFollette from the map of Wisconsin would probably meet with the same success that crowned I the efforts of the bull pup to stop the locomotive, lie left a grease spot. "Mr. Hawley has composed his campaign slogan, to-wit: "No interests to serve but the public's." We congratu late him on his change of heart, even though it cometh a little late. MAUS HAS NO TROOPS !Mr. Bowerman's friends will tiy to sing him into the governor's office. Poor fellow! He was born too late. That kind of a campaign might have won twenty years ago. Tlie prohibitionists seem rather quiet up to date, but wait till the beer season passes. Jeff Myers' friends are howling because Mr. West at one time said he would not be a candidate. Great Scott 1 is that the only qualification Air. Myers has for the governorship? Montana forestry officials by wire that ho will sond those two compan ies to Montana Immediately. Half the troops will be sent to Coram and tho romalndor will go to Kallspell. TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 20. A call I A company of colored troops from was received by Goneral Maua, In Fort George Wright probably will command at American lake, today reach Borax this afternoon, from Portland requesting 500 addl- A pack train of 30 horses was ro tlonal troops to fight tho forest fires colved from C.".nip Sparta yo3tonlay. In southern Oro-on but It was stated With "80 men, tho horses were sent at headquarters at American lake over tho Pugot Sound road for Iroon early today that the war department mountain and whero great forest con at Washington Had not yet author-! flagratlons aro raging. Izod tho further movement of troops Two companies of troops are fight to Oregon and pending tho receipt jDg the fires In wqstern Montana to of such authorization, tho officers quell the Lolo firo, Tho fire's front hero can take no action In tho matter, oxtends ovor six miles in heavily Says It Is Impossible for Him to Send Any 3Ioro Regulars nere How It will bo Impossible, according to General Maus, to send tho number of men called fo-, as only about 200 regulars aro left In the maneuver camp. MONTANA FIRES BAD Situation said to bo Desperate Only Few Soldiers Aro Available timbered country, Tho firo at Borax la also rapidly spreading. CATTLE BURN TO DEATn Wallowa National Reservo Swept by Flames and CatUo Perish LE GRANDE, Ore,, Aug. 20. A largo number of cattle that ranged in tho Wallowa National rosorvo havo boon burned In the Snako river firo, according to dispatches received hero today. " 'T"F Forest Supervisor Harris was re cruited men from Wallowa and Jos eph to go out to tho scono of tho blazo The firo has gained consld- MISSOULA, Mant., Apg. 20. The forest fire situation in Montana is desperate. If tho present hot weather prevails much longor It is practic ally certain that tho conflagrations will become so comprehensive that no human agoncy will bo able to ; erablo headway and much timber hold tho progress of tho flrea In ' and grazing land has beon destroyed, check, Tho local forestry oiflco has I it ia hopod that tho conflagration appealed to tho war department for can bo extinguished without calling ton companies of soldiers, but only ! for troops, two companies aro available, ' Brigadier Gonoral Howo at Camp ' Half - hearted advertising can't Sparta, Wyoming, today notified the mako a buuy store never I 'S3& , te&F L!-'''t3- -JJz& ..FSgs Srflfcv, a yfc r A Rouge River Beauty Caught on One of Our Special Rogue River Trout Flies Local devotees claim that right now is tho height of the fishing season. We are pro pared with tho finest assortment of tackle and can supply your needs in Flics, Rods, Reels, Lines, Nets, etc., to the very best advantage. THREE BIG PRIZES FIRST PRIZE We will give a $50.00 Fly Rod to tho person catching the largest stoclhoad on ono of our Special Roguo River Flies during this season. SECOND PRIZE We will give a $20.00 Hardy Reel to the second largest fish caught during this season. THIRD PRIZE We will give a $10.00 Fly Rod to the third largest fish caught during this season. Rules of Centest: The fish must bo caught on ono of our Special Roguo River Trout Flies and weighed after being dressed. If possiblo tho fish must bo dolivored to our store and weighed; otherwise the party catching tho fish must have two roliablo witnesses to testify that tho fish was caught on one of our flies. MEDFORD HARDWARE COMPANY A N A ? -i. j i r 'l . ""il It rf . i (,.-.A ",. A