MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDM)RD,
OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1910.
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Ubllshpil 1889; tlm Southern Orcpon
fea, eatobllahrd 1902: tho Dcnioorntio
Time. cRtnbllahed 1872: tho Ashland
Tribune, established. 1S9S nnd tho Med
Sord Tribune, ratnbllshod 1906.
OBOnOR PUTNAM. Editor and Manager
Kntered as second-class matter. No
TftBibcr 1, 1909 at the post offlco at
Medford. Oregon, under the act of
March 3, 1879.
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SWOBS CXBCTCAXXOB
Average Dally for
November, 1909
1.700
1.842
1.915
3.122
3.203
3.301
3.4S0
2,502
December, 1909 .
jaaaary, 1910 ..
February. 1910 .,
March. 1919 ....
April, 1910 ....
Say. 1910
Jut, 1910
!
TCJtT cxbcukaxxob;
1 ........ 2,252 r 17 ...... 2,535
m ... ..... 2,575 18 .... 2,5.5
4 3,500 19 1,615
I ........ 2,525 20 2,550
0 ........ 3,626 21 .. 2,550
7 2,535 22 2,600
........ 3,525 24 ........ 3,600
2,575 25 2.C50
XI 3,525 26 2,660
XI 2,525 27 2,650
34 ........ 2,525 28 . 2,550
IS 2,525 31 3,600
29 2,550
Total Gross 68,175
Dally average 2,622
Less deduction 98
Net average dally circulation 2.624
BTATE OF OREGON, County of Jack
On the 1st day of August, 1910. per
sonally appeared before me. George Put
mast, manager of the Medford Mall Trl
fesae, who upon oath, acknowledges that
tfee above figures are true and correct
(SEAL) i- N. YOCKEY.
Notary Public for Oregon.
aCBDFOBS, OBBfiOV
Metropolis of Southern Oregon and
Northern California, and the fasteat-tTowlng-city
in Oregon.
Population. 1910, 9.000
Bankr deposits, 32,750,000
150,600 Gravity Water system com
pleted In July 1910. giving finest supply
mre mountain water.
Sixteen miles cf street being paved at
cost ezcedlng $1,000,000, making a to
tal of twenty miles of pavement.
Poatofflce receipts for year ending
Jane 20, 1910, show gain of 36 per cent.
Banner fruit city In Oregon Rogue
Stiver apples won sweepstakes prize and
aad title of
"Apple Xing of tie World"
at the National Apple Show, Spokane,
1909. Rogue Ulvtr pears brought high
oat prices In all markets of the world
twine the past five years.
Write Commercial Club, enclosing 6
eeats for postage of the finest commu
nity pampntei ever wrmen.
Esperanto on the Diamond
(Esperantists propose, as a means
of popular education, to have the
umpire announce his decisions in
Esperanto.)
The pitcher throws with motion
Krand,
Tho hat swings in the sun,
But silence falls upon the stand
When the umpire hawls:
"Urythwcsr jmklff,'.".
Again the pitcher flings tho bal
The batsman swipes anew
But who shall rccognizo the call
In these strange werds:
"Bfshdlmscfl bmrdl."
Once more the sphere goes speed
ing past
Tho batsman whiffs, but gee!
Tho sound that greats the concourse
vast
Is simply this:
"Cynglh wacmg
Tho Espcrantist 'scaped the mob,
But 'twas u narrow opueeze,
And the umpire now upon the job
Ib talking bascballeso.
Arthur Chapman, in tho Denver
Republican.
All thoso who feel In duty bound
to crlevo over tho newc tl at Ameri
can "society" women are being snub
bed In England will ple:.so rise to
bo counted.
Tho high cost of living may rrovo
Boraowlmt of a blessing after all.Ono
man claims to havo discovered that
tho English cpiirrow Is good to eat.
Enumerators are still at work In
Alaska. Why not lot tho Guggen
helms tako Alaska's consus? There
re taking everything else up there.
After all that has been said about
that dramatic wireless cbaso, It Is
futllo to hope that wo will cscapo
dramatization of Doc Crlppen.
Spain never scorns to cot out of
ono trouble un:ll she gets Into anoth
sr ono.
Wireless tolography Is the Sher
lock Holmes of this age.
Straw hats 50 cents, but tho 1909
Kodel looks good to some of us.
It will bo difficult to mako a fool
yroof automobile,
POLITICAL POWER OF BUSINESS.
B
USTNESS nnd politics and their relation are touched
upon by Lincoln Stoffins in a series of articles en
titled, "It Aii Exposition 'of tho Sovereign Political
Power of Organized Business," beginning in the Septem
ber Everybody's Magazine. It is almost superfluous to
sav that the "It" is J. Pierpont Morgan, of whom he says:
"If Mr. Morgan merges
mergers, he personifies the national organization of Am
erican business: Business, to which there is reason to be
lieve a business people pay more loyal allegiance than
they do to their political establishment. And, if that is
true, if this man represents the financial power which
controls the railroads and other public service corpora
tions; the trusts, banks, insurance companies, trust com
panies and other special interests, he represents those
powers which even before they were united supported,
defended and controlled political parties and bosses, and, (
therefore, rivaled the power of mayors and councils, gov-1
ernors and legislatures, the
the United States. In other words, if this "Wall street
rumor is true; if Mr, Morgan is supreme there; if he is the
boss of the bosses in "Wall street who boss the business
bosses back of the political bosses all over the United
States, then T. Pierpont Morgan is the boss of the United
States."
Discussing busiuess in politics, fr. Stcffens says:
"Business men are showiug a disposition to acknowl
edge and meet their obligations. Touched by the spirit
which is moving so deeply the rest of mankind, they are
going in for political and some other reforms. But they
are going in wrong. They come before us talking and act
ing as if, O cursed spite, they thought that they were born
to set us right. Their theory of reform for our commer
cialized politics is business: business administration by
business men of public business. They say, and they seem
to think, that business is better than politics; that busi
ness methods would be an improvement upon j)olitical
methods; that the management of 'private' business cor
porations, like life insurance, railroads, the sugar trust,
the Metropolitan Street railway, etc., etc., is upon a higher
plane than, for example, the Tammany administration of
New York or the labor government of San Francisco. In
spite of all the revelations (in politics and in business,
and in the copartnership of these two pals) of graft, cor
ruption, faithlessness and incompetence, business men
continue serenely to regard the business man, as such, as
less selfish, more trustworthy and much more efficient
than the politician, as such, or, indeed, than any other sort
c Ti. Li. c i n. .:..! ,,o.,.,1
of man. But as a matter of hard, cold, criminal record, j
the business man s new or himselr and ot business is a
bottomless conceit.
"Business is nearer the cause than it is to the cure of
politics. Business men are more often the 'carriers' of
the infection than thev are of the remedies for corruption.
"No?
"Wherever and whenever I have shadowed a corrupt
politician to the end of his crooked trail, I have been
brought to the back door of some corrupting business man.
Whenever any of us have watched anybody anywhere
strike and follow faithfully and fearlessly the course of
ourso-called political corruption, we have seen the
amazed investigator led by the evidence (and by the cries
of hurt business) beyond the 'bad' politician to the 'good'
business man, out of politics into business. And wherever
a reform movement has gone 'too far' 'higher irp' toward
the springs of the stream of pollution, business and busi
ness men have massed their sordid forces in the center of
the opposition."
IT SPOILS THE GRAFT.
'T HE average politician has no principles, except those
- of the grab bag.
Expediency takes the place of sincerity in his makeup.
He veers like a weather-cock in the breeze of popular
opinion to land a seat at the pie-counter. He is courage
ous only in battling to maintain his graft.
A few years ago politicians assisted in fastening the
direct primary law upon Oregon. This they did because
it was popular. They were not far-sighted enough to
realize what it meant their own undoing.
Nearly all those politicians who now oppose the direct
primary, secretly or openly, were shouting for it a few
years ago. A majority of the legislative candidates now
refusing to accept Statement One signed it a few years
ago.
The principle remains the same. If they are sincere
now in opposing Statement One they were insincere then
in championing it played hypocrite to secure office.
But a majority of the politicians are sincere in their
present opposition, simply because Statement One takes
away from legislators the right to sell their votes for
United States senator. It spoils the graft.
Anyone favoring popular election of senators' must
favor Statement One, which accomplishes it. Those who
oppose Statement One oppose popular election of sena
tors, and if they talk otherwise are playing the part of
hypocrites.
Those who oppose Statement Ono, at heart oppose all
direct legislation, the initiative and referendum, the re
in his person the mergers of
president and the congress of
call, tho direct, primary. It ihoy don't nmiounco it;, it, is
because they haven't tho courage. Tho attack upon State
ment One "tho war to the knife and tho kilit'e to tho hilt"
promised by the Oregonian on behalf of the assembly,
is simply the opening wedge to undo all direct legislation.
The main issue before the voters of Oregon is whether
they will abdicate their rights and turn their owor over
I to an oligarchy of reactionary
porations, making thomselvcs the servants and their of
ficials the masters, or whether they will maintain their
rights and keep themselves masters of their public ser
vants. Asseinblyisnt is to Oregon what Cannonism and Ald
riehism and staiid-pattism arc to the nation at large tho
one is trying to butt in while tho other is being kickod out
and the butter-in should bo made to walk tho same
plank with the other Republican .Tonahs.
INSURGENCY A POLITICAL UPHEAVAL
(From tho Portland Spectator.)
Tho Speolutor once said the in
surgent movement was nothing hut
nu ineffective kick and u loud noise,
which definition mut with some fa
vor. We are wrong; the insurgent
movement looks like a new party. A
third party is necessary The people
long ago ceased to trust tho Democ
racy; they are becoming suspicious
of the Republican party. Insurgency
is not merely a kick; it is a protest;
not .a mere neie, hut a detonation,
which means that every time you
henr it you know something has hap
pened. The stand-pat, sit-tight and hold
fast politicians will do well to in
vestigate the insurgent movement; it
might distress them if they nwoko
some morning and found nothing on
which they could stand pat or sit
tight or hold fast.
That was said in the.-e eoluui'is
three weeks no; it may bo worth tho
politicians' while to re-read it. In
surgency is spreading. New York,
Ohio, Kansas, Iowa and California
are insurgent; Miles I'oiiuloxter will
carry Washington. The movement i
n protest ngninst high tariff that en
riches the siwcial privilege holder-
HOW ONE YOUNG
(From tho Portland Oregoalan.)
Oswnld West, formerly state land
mnt and no a member of the raii-
road commission by virtue of np-
,ntmont b, Ul0 KOVOrnor. is recog
nized all orer tho state as a young
man who has "mado good" In public
Bervlco. This recognition ho has at
tained by tho nggresalvo spirit ho
displays In taking up any work that
may bo assigned to him. Whoro many
others In official position would have
been content to let affairs drift along j
In well-worn ruts nnd In accordance
with out-of-dato customs, ho has beon
prompt and persistent In effortn to
establish a hotter ordor of things. Be
cause ho found practices In forco was
not tho slightest reason why ho
should contlnuo them. If they woro
good, very well; but If not good, thoy
must make WR7 for tho bettor.
Whether tho deslrablo thing can bo
done ho seldom, If cvor, stops to In
quire. He proceeds upon tho theory
that a thing can't bo dono without
trying, and ho makes tho effort. Kv
orybody told him ho couldn't socuro
convictions In tho stato land fraud
cases, and ho didn't, but ho mndo a
try at It and at least broucht to light
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COMMUNICATIONS.
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Candidates .Should State Position on
Public Questions.
To tho Krilter: As tho tlmo again
approaches whon political aspirants
for official positions will bo asking
tho support of tho public by way of
support at tho primaries, It Is portl
nont that tho public bo furnished
with tho aspirants' position on tho
loading questions ot tho day. Such
declarations bocomo nocoHsary on tho
part of our loglslatlvo candidates to
tho end that tho will of tho public
may bo carried out, Tho present
cnmpalgn Is as much a campaign of
Issues as It Is of men and whllo wo
should send nblo mon' to tho loglsln
turo, wo should know that tholr abil
ity will ho exerted to support or ud
vanco the policies of tholr cpnstltu
oncy. No man la largo onough for" tho
lcglslaturo that does not havo flxod
Ideas upon tho loading questions' ot
tho day. Neither Is ho largo onough
If ho has fixed Ideas and lacks tho
stamina to declaro thorn. Thoroforo,
It Is oncumbont upon tho aspirants
In making tholr announcomonts nu
such, that thoy at tho same tlmo dq
claro tholr position. Tho public Is
entitled to know how thoy stand on
tho quoBtlons of "direct primary," of
"fltatomont No, Ono" and on tho
"Corrupt Practices Act," and will ap
preciate an open declaration from all
politicians, financed by cor
and confers no benefit on the con
sumer, which is Alilriehism; agaiu.M
the Mvors that rofusu to euuet pro
gressive legislation themselves and
will not permit 01110114 to enact i
which is supposed to he Cauuoiusm;
against leaders who, having come to
the end of their road, can lend no
farther and are idly marking tiuis
which is called staud-pattism. Tho
people desire change, action, excite
ment : they think they can get tin,
through insurgency. Very likely they
can; at any rale, they will try.
We are on the eve of a great polit
ical upheaval, and wo believe it will
be piod for the country. Some time
ago the Spectator thought the sigiiH
public suspicion of party leaders,
chafing at bureaucratic extrava
gance, dissatisfaction with tariff
fixing meant Democratic success.
We now believe the signs point to a
reorganization of the Republican
party with the continued success of
that party on the basts of a modi
fication of its principles, which will
inuro to the safeguarding of the in
terests of the people rather than to
the defence of infant industries
which have grown so great that they
need cnrliiiiL' rather than protection.
MAN MADE GOOD
the facts as to the manner In which
the stato lands had been purchased.
Tho only reason ho didn't secure con
vIctloiiB wns that tho criminal InwH
did not cover tho violations of tho
land laws. Ills aggressiveness dlHcloH
cd the laxity of tho crlmlunl laws.
West Is an nggresslvo member of
the railroad commission. Ho does
not worry hlniHelf over tho question
whothor the commission linn tho pow
er to tako proposed action for tho
benefit of patrons of n railroad. If It
Is something that ought to bo dono,
he believes In doing It, and lotting
tho other fellow do tho worrying.
Legal obstructions havo no terror for
Mm, If shippers mnko a complaint
ho bolloves In trying It on tho mer
its first leaving tho railroads to
raise the quostlon of law If It bo
found that n causo for complaint ox
tstod. Thoro nro Hcoros of young
men In official positions in Orogon
city, county and stnto offlcos who
could win rescognltlon nH WoHt has If
they woro willing to undortnko ro
forms which they admit should bo
Inaugurated, but which thoy hosltato
to attompt becauso thoy doubt wheth
er anything can bo dono.
COAST STEAMER BURNS:
EFFORTS TO SAVE HER FAIL
. SAN I'ltANC'ISCO, Aug. 22.
Seething with flumes, the sloamer V,
A. Kilhuru is ml rift in Han KranciMco ,
liny today. Kirohoats nro lying; cIom
to tho burning vosfeol, playing power
ful st renins of wnler on her from till
hides, She will probably he 11 to'al
loss.
Tho Kilhuru, which plied between
Sun Francisco nnd Humboldt bay
ports, cume into Hum harbor ut th
orn! of tho week. Shu lauded her
passengers in Han Francisco nnd
then went lo tho long wharf ill Oak
laud to discharge cargo. File broke
out early today. So sudden was the
hliitto that the few men on board the
Kilburn were forced to flee for their
lives ufter cutting the burning steam
er from tho wliiiri'. Fire tugs wore
culled and hurried to the distressed
vessel.
The Kilburn was owned by the
Charles P. Poo compniiv nnd sailed
under iho Hag of tho North Pueifio
Steamship company. Tho loss is es
timated at $175,000, (lie value of the
boat, and $15,000 additional, the
value of her 800,000 feet of shingles
cargo.
If your advertising Ib 110 unimpor
tant that It makes pooplo nupposo
your store to bo unimportant work
hard to corroct tho impression,
upon these questions nt tho tlmo of
making their iiiinnuncomont.
0. tO. WHISLBR.
John Purroy Mitchel, Young
Acting Mayor of New York City.
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jl iSQHN PURROY WTCHEL fl
Joint Purroy Mltchd, New York's uttlti? 'iniyor, thirty-one yvarn old, Is n
tnil. lean, iixccllc looking man who has no (treat respect fur traditions, cn
oin or (Mimical leaders. He was born in Ponltintn, N, V of Irish Scotch
ancestry and ionic from a family that has been prominent In Now York poll
tic. He ! married and llvct at .')." West Nliicty-Hovcuth street. Tint acting
mayor wn born .Inly XV, is'lf When twelve years old he entered St. JoIiu'h
'ollcgi, I'oidlmm, and In 1MC went to Columbia. During IiIm sophomore year
he calncd repute at a debater XXi wat graduated In 1MK) and lit 11H)1 re-
clved a dlploMm '.nun the New York Xmw school, He wni admitted to the bar
In that year t'p to thivc ycurt ngo, when Mr. Kittson, corMiratlon. rouuxcl, itc
levied him an tpctinl inniHiniit .0 prosecute the charges against Itorotigh Pres
ident Ahenm. tie was practically unknown to the public, Pollowlng the Inves
tigation Coventor Hughe removed Mr. Alienrn. Mr. Mitchel did not stop
there. He was Instrumental lit the removal of Ilorough President Ilnffon
of tho Itrons Mayor M-C'cllnn mndo him comnilfodonor of nrronnt April
LI. 1(K)7 M.t hel luviMtigntcd the water dopnrtmont, the night court, tho de
partment of taxes and nitucMmont. tho department of education, tho pollco
department training farm, the bureau of licomioii, tho wntor reaUter's oillco
nnd the ncrminb of tho lioanl of elty rocord and tho municipal courts.
MRS. PUTNAM'S SISTER
CROSSES GREAT DIVIDE
A telegram announces tho death
Saturday evening of Mrs. Sarah K.
Ilurnhnm, sister of Mrs. Mary M.
Putnam of Medford, at tho Itoosevelt
hospital, Hcrkcloy, Oil,, as tho re
sult of an operation performed tho
week previous, from which sho never
recovered. Mrs. Htiruhum was u na
tive of Vermont, aged 72 yeurs. She
had been in poor health for 11 num
ber of years nnd was operated upon
111 the hope ot prolonging her lite.
She wns the widow of Loavitt Hum-
TURN EXPENSE
INTO INVESTMENT
If it's merely a question of
what you can "get along
with," use an ordinary paper
for your business stationery.
If, however, you are seek
ing to turn expense into in
vestment, use
75 tt.wi.irt fitrar liiiiutii it.itjHtrjr
OLD HABHRSHIRE MB
"Look for thi Wtttr Urk
The added influence given
your messages by the clean,
crisp sheets will wipe out the
expense item and leave a bal
ance on the other side.
A little Journey Into tlm working! of
your own inlml will itrnnidlicnnur iiruu
ini'iii 1'n lici, ink 111 fur 11 c iinitii
liiiok r tho piprr liowtni; leltrrlicuil
mnl ullitir liiiiincn form., printed, lltliu.
flMpliml mnl engraved 011 the whim mnl
Diutetin lulori ofOl 11 IIamikiiivk IIuhii.
ll' wullli having
Marie tiyllAMMHiRK
I'AI'KM ClJM HAN V, Ihu
only p.ipcr iiiukom in
tho world in.illnu bond
pupor exclusively,
Medford Printing
H
ms&
If r f
hum, for many years general laud
eouiuiissiouor of the Union I'ucifio
railroad, with headquarters at Ohio
ha. She is survived liy two sous,
Carl M. Hurnhaui and Wilbur I).
Muiuhaui, wlio. are in InisiueHs at
Berkeley, and by a daughter, .Mar
garet Hurnhaui.
Mr. Putnam left for Herkeley u
week ago and remains for the fu
neral. If thoro's a good store In tbis city
lluit'n not well ndvortlHcd, it desorves
to havo a more progressive manage
ment. PINE JOB
PRINTING
IS OUR
SPECIALTY
WE CAN
AND DO
MAKE QUICK
DELIVERIES
GET OUR
PRICES
Co. ? s. ontra. av
s