PAGE SDC ... n aiEDFORT) MAIL TRTBTTNR MDFOUD', OREOON. THURSDAY, 'AUGUST 17. 1011. 'i H i l.3i I! l ; I: n M 1 6 ,!1 HILL NUB FOR GOOD HIGHWAYS Greatest Menace to Northwest Is Politician Who Seeks Use of Road Funds for Political Purposes Asks Support for Gov. West. Samuel Hill of Mnrvliiti, Wash., ilio, widely known good roads ml vo cal o of tho northwest, dolivctvd n scholarly address at the Oregon De velopment league convention anil will deliver two speeches here to assist flic roo1 roads campaign. He sai.l in purl : "To eurh the trend of nopulatioo toward tlift cities and to divert it to the hind is n wise procedure, hut to pul the people on the land and keep them then permanently I hey nuiM uo I'linlileil io Mioiwrt life with just as much safely, certainty and ease as in the city. The fact that our food lands nro tilled by less than one third of the imputation is n striking com ment on our present methods of gov ernment and indicates our lack of civilization. Tlio Mistakes of Congress. "Washington, D. C, is not the cen ter of the agricultural population of the United States. ir the money x which the congressmen of the west ern' slates nro appropriating for what thev believe to be good roads was divided among the several ngn cultural colleges of the United States and a proper chair of roadbnilding established in each of those collets and the students given practical in struction in building roads, these roads would Berve us models for the several states and could be examiii"d and appreciated because in America we must rely on a campaign of edu cation. "Think what there would be if there were 50 schools of roadbnilding in the United States; all adopting uni form standards adapted to soils and climates of the several communities which these roads must serve. Fine ltoad at Miu-jrhlll. "Everyone wants good roads. Few understand what the words mean and only a handful of men in the country know how to const met them. The roads around the national capital are n joke. It may seem to you like a far t-ry, but I believe S. C. Lancas ter is constructing at Mnryhill, Wash., what will be, regard being had to cost of construction and durabil ity, tho best type of road in the United Stntes- and which will serve as a model for California, Oregon, and Washington. "Oregon has as yet a clean page but the directing power of this great state comprising OG'OOO square miles in area is in the hands of a governor and if the people support him as I believe they will, there is no rea son why Oregon should not join hands witlj California in the forward march of progress. "With a sad face I turn to the state of Washington, from which so much has been expected the first of all the states to establifch a chair of roadbuildiug in its university; the first of all communities in the history of the world to build a building and inscribe on its portals 'Good Roads.' Homo .Methods or 18U1. "As the snows of the mountains melted by the cliinook become a rag ing tide which no barrier can with btand, so the tido of ignorance fo mented by tho politician who saw in cdueution a menace to his cherished hchemes of using the road fund for imlitical purposes swept everything away and Washington lius the same methods of road building which she laid 150 years ago. The employment of convict tabor on the roads which had proved so beneficial to the con vict himself and which produced such great economic results for the state was stopped. But whether the poli tician can permanently mislead the people of this stato tho election next year will determine. Kxamplo of Initlt.li Columbia. "To the north of us lies tho prov inco of British Columbia. Its desti nies have been .placed in the hands cf a man of marked ability, with u crc ativo mind and I venture tho predic tion that his appropriation this year of Bix millions of dollars (for u pop ulation of four hundred thousand; for the botterment of tho highways, will btump British Columbia as the most progressive of all tho provinces and will reMilt in giving it greater piospcrity thun in any other portion of tho Pacific coast. "Tho cost per ton per milo for hauling freight ovor the railroads oi tho United States lust year 'was little more than three-fourths of a cent ,Q07r9 and yet tho cost of trans portation is H7li times as great?" SAN FHANCISCO, Oil., Aug. 17. Tho International Typographical union cpnvcntion today rejected the proposition that (ho headquarters of tho union bo ohuuged from Indian lipolis to Washington. NO APOLOGIES. FROM TEDDY Former President Roosevelt Assumes Ali Responsibility for Steel Trust Merger In Current Issue of the OutlookSays Move Necessary. WILL TtiLL ABOUT SUGAR. J NKW YOKIC, Aug. 17. KmpluiMit iug his desire to assume all ivsia Mbility for allowing the .steel trust ,o gobble up the Tennessee Coal and Iron company in the panic day$ of 1S107, Thfodoiv Koosevelt, in a signed editorial in the Outlook today, de clares he has no apologies to offer for his action. The article says: "Nobody need feel either concern or hope as to whether anything lone in my administration will be 'discov ered' for the excellent reason th tt nothing was hidden. It wa not my privilege or in my power to search in the hidden domain of motive. My action was not conditioned tuwii what I believed to be the motives actuat ing the !tce conwration, but upon the belief that the action they pro Hised would enormously benefit the general community at that particular moment. To Saw Situation. "Whether the chief motive for the steel corporation's action was to ab sorb the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co.. or whether it was to save a threat ened New York firm from failure and thereby stop the panic, did not concern me. That both motixes were m their mind and thought, I still think is possible. My concern was that action should be taken and the situation saved. "Most people have short memories, but if they will consider the situation carefully, they will understand that it was not a question of saving anv bank or trust company, but of saving the plain, common people in all part of the country from dreadful misery and suffering. This my action did. Only Action Possible. "One question which has been put to me indicated a misbelief that my action wns really effeclive in stop ping the panic. At that time and for mouths thereafter, no man would have ventured to express such di-.be-lief unless he were prepared by the derision of every man knowing any thing of the actual facts. The ac tion taken was, in my judgement1 the only action that would stop the panic, and it certainly was an enormous, and in al human probability, the decisive influence in actually stopping it. "The purchase of the Tennessee company did not by itself affect the status of the steel corporation so far os the Sherman law was concerned. My idea was to meet the facts as they were, not the facts as they might afterwnrd become." Haaklns for Health. REPAIR BRIDGE .wfiryAtTuW j rjyfstt Mr. Wu-himton B. Thomas, chair man of the executive hoard of the American Sugar Helming company. will be out of the several witnees called before the llartlwick sugar in vestigating committee when th.it hod meets in New York next week. NEW STATEHOOD BILL CENIRAL POINT Structuro Over Romto On Old Jack son, PIqco Nearly Complete Will Havo Bear Creek Brlilp Ready Before Fall. The bridge ncros Hogue Hiyer on tho old .luekson place near Kagle I'oint has been nearly completed and a gang of workmen have been tak'tn from that bridge mid put at work re constructing tho bridge over Hear creek near Central Point which wi heavily damaged bv !' fir I t'lood last winter. A carload of piling ar rived ThurMluy for iim in the repair work. It is expected that the county will have the bridge near Central Point ready for traffic before the firt fall rains swell the water in Bear r oreok. LA FOLLETTE STARTS TjO CAPTURE NEW YORK NKW YORK, Aug. 17. A quar ter of a million copies of Senator 1..1 Kollette's anti-reciprocity speech. 100,000 copies of the speech by Sen ator Borah and a similar number of copies of the remarks uttered by Sen ator Bourne of Oregon have been dis tributed among the voters of New WASHINGTON, C. Aug. 17.--Senntor William Aldeu Smith of Michigan, chairman of the senate committee on territories, announced today that I're.-idcnt Tuft approved of the compromise bill framed by the sinnti Hint hous lirriliiiiw iiiinmtt. tees, admitting New Mexico and An- Y,1t,k " ,ho ,,,,lw of ;lv'u,'-' ' zona and climinatinu the recall of ;"'"?" ciumcc.s im- pn-.,,,,.,,. the judiciary mciiMire from the pro- ,ml ""munition. The remarks or imsed Arirona constitution. He' said slr I0"0 that are bcuiR dis. the president promised to sign the tnlmttM genernlly arc against Can bill if it were nas.scd bv both honc-.. n,,,mi reriprooily, showing why such a treaty would be detrimental XOTICR TO JAM CONTRACTORS. Sealed proposals will bo received by the county court of JackRon county at his office lu the county court house at Jacksonville to be opened August 2S, 1911, at 10 o'clock for tho con struction of tho cell work in tho new county jail at Jacksonville, Jackson county, Oregon. Plans and specifi cations are on filo In tho office of the county court, also in W. W. Harmons office in tho court houso In Jackson ville, Oregon. A certified check of 10 per cent of tho amount of tho bid must accompany Fame. Tho court preserves the right to reject any or all bids. Signed . J. R. NEIL, County Judge 1)1 Ell. DEMMER At her home In Med ford, Or., at 2:30 a. m. August 17, 1911, Mrs. Amelia Demmer, aged 57 years, 3 months and 23 days. She was the wife of Paul Demmer of this city apd resided in this city nine years. She came to Oregon in 1872. Funeral services will be held at tho Lutheran church Saturday after noon nt 1:30 o'clock, Rev. Wllker officiating. Haaklns for Healtn. a treaty would be detrimental to Acmncau farmers. This is admitted by Bela Toknji, who has hold of the organizing of Lit Kollette's campaign here. He ha admitted that he lias charge of l.a Follette's interests in New York. Hnnklns for Healtn. 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Mr. Armstrong esti mates about three weeks to make the changes. Al Salher, the popular sii.ger and entertainer, will take charge of tho play house when open and en deavor to please tho theatregoers of Medford. Printing of nil kinds nt Portland prices. Mail Tribnnu offico. 9-Pp-i4 Our Cold Storage Service Means an additipn to your purchase when you buy a melon or bottle of grape juice, for you get an ice cold one IT ALSO MEANS OUR MEATS ARE KEPT IN THE BEST POSSIBLE MAN NER. IT IS ADDED SERVICE Warner, Wortman S Gore Hanktni for H.valtn. 4 !'''' a IB Fruit Growers We have just received a shipment of Ogburn's Fruit Picking Buckets. The Palmer Bucket is on the way. Use them and save money. Send in your order now. 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