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'Rntcrcd nx second .elass matter nt
Medford, Oregon, nJr tho act of
March 3, JS7S.
OfflnUl Papr of the City of MedforA.
vQfflolal Paper of Jackson Countr.
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( MBUrOHI). ORKGOX.
Metropolla of Southern Oregon and
Korthom California, and thq fastest
Krowlne elty In Oreiron.
Population 17. a census 1910 8810;
estimated, 1911 10,000.
Five hundred inouoniui uouar uravuy
water System completed, Klvlnir finest
supply pure mountain water, and 11.3
mlins or xtrcota navetl.
Poatoffiro receipts for year ending
Kovcmoer so, isii. snow increase oi is
per cent.
GRANTS PASS YOUTH
MYS1IRI0USLY SHOT
GRANTS PASS, Sept 27. Don
Holding, rnorabor of the junior clos
of the public school, lies in the Good
Samaritan hospital suffering with n
ijullet wound in tho left thigh, the
wound having been received Wednes
day night while lidding and sir oth
er, of his schoolmates were out for
an automobile ride in earner's big
Cadillac car, the machine being driv
en by Tyrrel Gamer.
The senior class of the high
school was picnicing at the Fruit
Grange hall in the afternoon, and it is
reported that tho juniors mado up
this party to go to the scene of the
picnic, and make a raid on the com
lhis'.ary denartraent. The automo
bile with the seven juniors left town
just after dark, Belding riding on,
the running board .of the machine, A
32-calibre revolver was in the party
and shots were taken at scurrying
jack rabbits along the highway, the
liight being brightly moonlight. When
near the last turn in the road befo'e
reaching the grange hall tho bovs
say they passed a pedestrian, ano
immediately thereafter fired two
shots, at rabbits. A third shot ?5
fired and young; Belding cried out
that lie had been shot, those in the
car not at first taking the remark
seriously. When the driver saw that
Helding IibcI really been wounded, the
car was at once turned back and a
hunt made for the man by the road
side, so members of tho pnrty state,
though he could not be found.
45DAYSJAM100
FOR ONE BOHLE BOOZE
GRANTS PASS, Sept. 27. Forty
five duys in jail und a fine of $100
is what it cost Lee York to sell oie
bottle of "booze." Judge Calkins of
the circuit court has affirmed .ho
sentence imposed on York when !i;
was convicted in tho police court,
York having been a second' time con
victed when his case was appealed
from tho lower tribunal.
In passing sentence Judge Calkins
said that this was the third time tho
convicted man Intel been found guilty
of violation of the law in selling li
quor in prohibition territory and that
he was not inclined to deal leniently
tinder such circumstances. He said
it was either for of ficiula to wink nt
the violations of the liquor Iawst or
to sentence adequately in cases like
this. He therefore affirmed tho
judgment of the police court, sen
(encing'York to 45 days in tho city
jail mid to pay it fine of $100, tho
City t(i have judgment against him for
the costs of tho prosecution.
MYork lud previously been oo'nvict-
od of u like case at Merlin,
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OWENS' HAY BARN
AT BARRON BURNED
Ma liny barn oil' the ranch of Geo,
Owens, on (ho Barron road, about
two and one-half miles from Ashlund
was destroyed by firo curly Tuesday
jjiorn'mg. The firo was discovered
about 5 o'clock, at which time the
entire bam wus nblne.
!J Thorp is estimated to havo boon
from 140 tons of hay upwards, in the
barn, tho hay being purl grain and
part alfalfa, und was worth from
$12 to J5 per ton. Tho burn was
built six en,rs ago and was worth
1000i There Was $500 insurance
upon the barn but none upon tho
cutouts. Tho cause is unknown.
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MMDrOMD FHINTINd CO.
TH1 ORACLE
HARRY Lane might as well drophiatoandidaev. Tho
oracle has spoken. Tho Mcdford Sun litis solemnly
passed judgment upon him
Iir. Lsnn nlalnlv shows he lacks
Impression In tho senate' than a. cold
perienced, more confident, more tnclslvo man la needed. Ho should bo in
harmony with tho progressive Ideas ot tho day, but nhovo all ho should
bo a lrian ot spirit'.
If you see it in the Sun, it must he so. As a journalistic
Solomon come to judgment it. divides honors only with its
Bull Moose twin, tho Ashland Tidings.
The Sun is of eourso, a. progressive oracle. Until quite
recently it was not only convinced itself, hut tried to make
its rentiers believe that Taft was the only siiuon-pure pro
gressive in the field. Even the policies of Jjji Iollotto
were a subject of ridicule in its columns and his progros
sivoness derided. But like Saul of Tarsus, the Sun
saw a great light when humped by the primaries the love
light of Teddy's glass-rimmed eyes. Since then it has
aimlessly wandered about in the hypnotic trance of the
hero-worshipper.
The people of Oregon did not find Harry Lane kicking
in the punch, when ho reorganized and modernized the
state insane asylum, ended the reign of gratt, lessoned its
post and improved its conditions.
The people of Portland did not find Harry Lane lack
ing the punch, when, deserted by his executive hoard aud
fought by a corporation dominated city council, ho single
handedlv stopped the steal of citv streets and valuable
franchises, the paving steal and the grafting contractors.
The vicious and criminal elements of Portland who tire
now so bitterly opposing Governor West's vice crusade,
did not find that Harry Lane lacked punch enough to clean
up the eity, stop open gambling, cut out saloon and res
taurant boxes and side entrances, close bawd houses
and force liquor dealers to ,obpy the law, and for this
reason these elements are todayNDpposing his candidacy.
Lack of nerve or courage, lack of stamina, lack of back
bone, lack of decision cannot be truthfully charged to
Harry Lane. He has them itll in abouudance, and in addi
tion is a progressive democrat in all that the words imply.
Poverty is not a reason for electing any man senator,
but it is a better reason than the possession of wealth;
and that is the chief reason advanced by Ben Selling for
his own election. Mr, Selling boasts of being a successful
business man who has honestly acquired great wealth.
Mr. Selling has the acquisitive instinct of his race, he has
made money on every pair of pants sold, but this is no
qualification for representing the people in making laws
for their benefit. If it was the senate would be filled
With pawnbrokers. There ,is an historical instance of
money changers being scourged out of the temple and
history is repeating itself.
Harry Lane is not the ordinary campaign orator. The
j ounding brass and tinkling cymbal and the strained catch
phrases, the forced epigrams that so long fooled the people
arc lacking. But the people are quick distinguish between
sincerity and hollow pretense and they appreciate sin
cerity. But as an orator Harry Lane is a veritable -Paniel
Webster when compared with Ben Selling.
The senatorial situation in Oregon is still in the air.
So great is the dissatisfaction with Mr. Selling, that ef
forts are being made to run Senator Bourne as an inde
pendent his defeat at the primaries being due to money
illegally spent. Mr. Bourne has not yet indicated, hfs
course. When he does, the final lincs'of battle will be
drawn.
At present the struggle is between Lane and Selling.
Of the two, Harry Lane, whose nomination was forced
upon him without solicitation upon his part, is infinately
to be preferred to Ben Selling, for whose nomination large
sums of money were illegally expended.
Aldrich Money Plan
By E. L. MqCliire
Alfred Owen Crozier of Cincinnati
has written a series of 38 articles
on the "new money question," which
constitutes a most comprehensive
arraignment of the Aldrich plan; but
fails to supply any remedy for the
defects of the gold standard, which
hi tho .fundamental evil pf money;
and no financial system can estab
lish stability of value in anything
until the standard of value is made
fixed and unchangeable.
The vast power of the Aldrich cen
tral bunk is given under three hendt
as follews: (1) It can inflate or con
tract money circulation by issuing
one, five or ten billions of paper
money, to be loaned to tho people at
six per cent or more for its own
profit, and when it finally depreciate
in n punio it will demoralize ull busi
ness and u ruinous loss will fall on
tho people
(2) Inflation of currency makes
money cheap and mixes the cost of
living. When prices are high busi
ness is prosperous aud creates an in
creased demand for labor. Contrac
tion of currency produces tho oppo
site effect, and tho bnnk having the
power to inflate or contract tho cir
culationof money, at will, tho finan
ciers on' tho inside of the central
bunk cuu speculate with certainty,
and take tho wealth of tho country
from those who have created it by
toil and effort, by producing a punio
which will make them powerless to
oppose, their ruthless demands.
(II) It has tho power to fix tho
interest rato and ruiso or lower 'its
general discount rate. Reduction of
interest rates stimulates speculation,
raises prices and creates1 prosperity.
Inorcuso in the interest rate checks!
prosperity and falling prices crento
panics, Thus tho' central- bank by
manipulating its interest, rates will
MEDFORD MAIL' TRIBUNE.
HAS SPOKEN
as follews:
tho punch. Ho would mako no more
nritftln In a bakoahop. A moro ex
vs. Scientific Money
have power to make or break pros
perity.
Under "elasticity" Crozier shows
something of the stupendous profits
of banking the aggregate credit
loans of the banks of the United
States is ten times the total cash
they possess. Ninety per cent of ull
bank deposits is simply inflated
credit, Their total cash reserves are
about one and one-half billion dol
lars, but their aggregate Joans ox
coed fifteen billions. Six per cent on
over $13,000,000,000 of debits that
cost them nothing is "specinl priv
ilege" of priceless value. It amounts
to $780,000,000 every year.
The proposed plan is to require the
government tp exchungo now 50 year
3 per c-ent b&nds For $774,000,000 of
2 per cent bonds, un immediato in
crease of HO per cent in tho annual
interest burden of the government on
such bonds. If they run to muturity
it will cost the government $372,000,
000' more for tho extra interest on
tho $774,000,000 of 3 per cent bonds
than it would have paid on tho 2 per
cent bonds.
The control of the central bank is
placed in the hands of fivo irrespon
sible men operating in secret without
uny effective public regulation or re
straint, They nr a majority of tho
executive committee of nitio of the
national reserve association. They
havo all power between meetings of
the board.
Under "absoluto power" Crozier
says "the power to iucronso mid dc
oroaHO the supply or quantity of
money and bank credit, mid tho inter
est or price churged for same, is tho
power of absoluto life and death ovor
24,302 banks and tho business of
every individual and corporation in
the United States."
"Wo havo shown that if this dan
gerous 'elasticity' should be carried 10
tho extreme, it would cause general
panic, disaster, bankruptcy und ruin.
MEDFORP. OttEQON, JTODAY. SEPTEMBER 27, .10.12.
By tliU mom tho central bank could
at w(ll,ifii nml owtr U,l Vrl '.,f
all Rftmrltle.q, propeily iul human
labor."
The foregoing fuMs stntod hy Mr.
Crrtnior arc- well known to nil expert
financiers. Tito AlM'li llU
praotlenl a plan as cult be devised un
der tho gold standard for the protec
tion of tho hank from tho present
ettuulto system tltnt umsl resort to
clearing housu certifieales in times of
panic. All tho powers Mi'. Croslor
describes so Hrftpliieiillv arts eon
slantly exercised by suleot few who
rule tho money vorld today with
more absoluto power than the com
mittee of five he K11.V8 would control
the ixiliey r tho central bunk.
Mr. J. 1 Morgan i tho recognlnml
money king of America. When Mr.
K. II. Ilarrimnn called hint to hi
death bed Morgan readily fixed tho
terms which saved a pending catas
trophe, whilst a werd from Morgan
after Mr. llarrimnn's death would
havo caused tho ruin of the estate
and associates of ltnrriman. Tho
adoption of the Aldrich plan would
not take the crown away from Mor
gan. It would merely place, tho hanks
in a iKisition to protect themselves
front the demands of their depositors
in n tauic But Mr. Morgan would
eo to It that tho panics recurred
ovcrv so often to fluctuate the value
of wealth for the purMso of ruVnrh
ing it into the n-ets of tho money
kings; the bnnks would be in peril
just tho sumo when inonny disnp
pen red from eitvulnlion, for tho sup
ply and demand of gold coin being
the greatest debtor of nil would bo
tho most vulnerable in a pniiic.ftud
would have to tnke orders from the
gold king, or suffer the penalty of
any depreciation he might fix on
paper money.
Tho pild standard makes the
money power absolutely invincible,
it cannot bo regulated or minlrolled,
because there is no jovcr on earth
to equal it wo live, move and have
our lH'ing by value, und the power
that can fix value is supreme above
nil aud every other power. There is
no other remedy but to destroy
money owcr by demontetining gold
and adopting scientific money. A
super-abundanco of sound legal ten
der pnper moncjr in circulation, intcr
cltangeublo wlthj bonds, would auto
matically maintain equilibrium, be
tween tho supply and demand for
money. It would plneo mtlney in
reach of everyone with wealth to ex
change ns posititely as weights and
measures (ho panacea of sound cre
dit that would moke credit and pros
perity as constant as, gravity. The
bond rate of interest would bo the
Saturday
Specials
yA Off Men's Dress . $5.00 Silk Petticoats
Pants Plain and changeable
$8.00 values $6.00 ... $3.00
$4.00 values $3.00
$2.00 values $1.50 w '
All sizes. - Kimonas ,
t For fall nnd winter, new
and novel styles1 v
Big assortment Shoes j0 0
just received Sc0 window.
1 $2.50 pair" ' '
All sizes.
Bunch of 1
Children's Coats
Carharttj Overalls 2 to 6 years, to dose out
Special Saturday One-third to One-half
$1.00 pair regular prices.
Department
Store
Successors to Mockers '
uTqv Good Goods"
THE LONG ST0P.2 WITH SHORT PRICKS
I'
minimum rate, mid tho vast iliullt.
tude of limtdliohlers would ufonle. on'
ttullmMod demand Ifor 'the current,
Interest rale offered ly borrowers
with security, which would end the
porpehilillnn of usury and render It
us Impossible art the Hale of hir to
breath.
,l.i . ..U-kB.'li.XAi.UUJi-'.-t.llllg.'iW
Good, Sound, Teftth
msmi
accentuate tho beauty of' a face ul.
Ways. 'KometinU's they fiVeii Nholp
out a plain fare; tint olio thing lit
cortnln, they nro nover a detriment
to any faro. We tilakn a special
study of tho teeth In old and young,
and havo achieved an envlitblu repu
tation tor performing first-class Don
tat work In all Its branches. Wq
Rhould bo glad to havo your patron
age, nnd promise ydu that you wlU
ho well untuned with oar work, our
methods, and our prices.
DR. BARBER
XRH DENTIST
Over Daateta tor Duii. Pacific
Phoa SKIS, lion Foh J6K
A SNAP
60 acres, six miles from Medford.
good graded road crosses the trtet,
all free soli, at f 50 per acre. 11009
will handle, easy terms on bmlaaeev
Part la creek bottom land, callable
for alfalfa. Sovorsl springe oa Ue
place. Timber enough to pay for the
tract No bultdlnf. Is the Qrlffla
creek district,
W. T. York ft Co.
PLUMBING
8team and Hot Wattr
Heating
II Work Ouarat-4
Prtcee Reoabls
oorrasK prick
Mwr sife, atrM eea 1
Mettle eeei. Ihh eeo,
utw-aw sit
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mmamaamammmmsn.
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& New
We are moving East and of
fering a now Bungalow home
that is cheap at $3fl00.00.
Carries $2,C00 insurance,
which is only 80 per cent of
tho cost.
You will havo to sec this
swell little home to appreci
ate its actual value. When
you nro looking ovor tho city
you will hoc houses of this
quality and location listed at
$1,000.00.
We offer this homo lit the
extremely low prico of
$2,500.00
Inquiro
H. E. GATES Owner
33 Rose Avenue
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MORTGAGE
LOANS
Money on, hand at all timea
to loan on improved ranehea
and city property at lowest
rates with "on, or before
ptfvilefcV,'
JAMI OAMPBKU,
Phont Mat M0 Q ,0. Bldf
Watch pur
Addition Grow
WSSS etJ OTeoy'J
Msdford JUaHy an4,
Improytmsnt Company
M, V, A K Os). BMlS
1 mil i in mi hhii
Bargain in
Bungafow
wsmnsBrsssspsss1. L-- Ljsrsns
WBXXl TO eo
TONIGHT
THEATRE
VAumcviMita,
PHOTO l'liAYH.
1 , AIIK.N. & OllltlHTKNHU.V
In tltetr deatliMlofyliiR lO'innutit tiiii
oto act, Hon Mr. OhrlstuitHcu walk
011 thu culling
PHOTOPLAY PltOOHAM
Friday aud Saturday
TIIK llAIUUWt THAT WAH
HUIlNKIt"
Especially written for Iho Vltnnrupli
company by
REX BEACH
"TUB UKUKI' OP IilKMNOW"
(Tho Indian Mutiny of lKr.7)
This (treat story stands out In the
history of the world as one of the
most burrowing, terrible and heroic
events In tho annuls of war, In pro
'ntlng this wonderful picture tho
Rdlson company bits taken particular
pains to eliminate all that Is harrow
ing and repulsive und only show that
which Is lilstorlcnl and cnublltiK In
deed.
'Mil, TIHIW CINOKltni.l.A""
IllK Comedy Hit
QOOD MUHIO
Matinees Saturday aud Suuday 2 p.m.
Matluao prices Co and lOo
Evening Porforin&nco 7 p. in.
Admission evenings lOn and ICa
STAR
THEATRE
The placj where you got your mou
cy'a worth on both side of tho dlmu.
An unusually strong program
TIIK DAWN OK PAHMION"
A strange study of human life In
half-vllvl hill white people, who
haven't taught themselves to con
cost tholr passion.
"PHANTOM PAHADISK"
Truly abiorblng Interest
'Till? DIHPUTKD CLAIM"
A powerful western
V ,
"NOW WATCH THU PllOKKHHOH"
A Tuauliausor comedy, brimful of
fun.
AL HATH Kit In Now Song
IL D. Korrcit nml II. L. Woohvorlh
Pianist Drummer.
Thoy nro second to none.
COMING FEATUHK3:
"KKHUItltKCriON"
In four roots,
Taken from Count Tolstoy's greatest
book. Lead played by Blanche
Wnlslt,
Sept. 30 and Oct, 1.
AT THE
UGO
A POLITICAL KIDNAPPING
A story of today Kalom
TIIK TKAIL OP TIIK OKBMH
A serious educational story pro
duced under tho auspices ot tho Chi
cago Tuberculosis Institute. A plr
lure that ovory ono should see So
llg. A DIVINK SOLUTION
Lubln
thi: rmouoH
Comedy Dramu Kdlson
Hong by Miss Katliorluo Murphy
Musla by Mrs, WoolwortU
Change of Program Ttiemluy, Thurs.
day, Hatiirday ami Hundny
Draperies
We carry a very oomnUte llae.of
draperies. lace ourlatns, flvtur, eta,
uul do ull alamos at UDlioUtarlna. A
spaolal mun to look after this work
xoluslvoly snd will slvs ss good
servlco us Is nuanlble to got la evsn
the Isrgest olttes.
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