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i & .1 u a iV h. A B ! . K i ,. 'I f; .ii i I- RGB' BWJR MEDFORD MATT) TRTBTINK MT3DFORJ), OflTJC.ON. FKTTVAY, OOTOimU i mj no, mir '!lii -L.I I MGDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE AN INDni'BNDKNT NEWSPAPER rUBUKHKD EVRUT AFTK11NOON BXCKPT BUNDAT DT TH1 uEorono printing co. Offle Mull Tribune Bulldlnr, JWMI WerUt Fir street; telephons Tt. Tka Dmocntlo Timet, Th Mcdford KjUL Tb Msdford Trlbun. Thfi South rn OrcconlOB, Tb Aahland Trlbun. vmcbxvtiov &atm Ob year, by mall.. fl.CO On month, dt man - . Par month, delivered by carrier In Mearora, Jacksonville ana cen tral Point .80 aturdar only, by mall, per year 1.00 Weekly, per year ... - -. 1.50 i per of the City or Msarorc Paper or Jackaon uounijr. Official Pa Official Bntered aa second-class matter Wed ford. Oregon, under U aet March I, 11T. it of A POLITICAL MORON IWOIX ClKCTJUkTlOir. Dally average for six months trifling December 31, 113. SJSOO. 10.000,000 AN FOR PO AS EOF W SUPPLIES NBW YORK, Oct. 30. The loan of $10,000,000 arranged by tha French government with the National City Dank and other Now York bank ing irisstlUittons, it was learned today Is tobe used In the purchnso of war supplies In this country. There will ben o public offering of tho notes, all of which will bo retained by the bankers making the loan. Tho loan, It Is reported, is to run nine months and tho collateral is to bo bIx per cent treasury notes of tho French government, issued for this period. The basis of tho loan is reported to bo about 5 M per cent in terest and it is said that the money will be advanced on tho understand ing that it is all to be spent In the United States. In this connection it became known that tho N noitatlalCtaoinh known that tho National City Dank had loaned $3,000,000 to Norway and that Switzerland also sought to obtain a loan here. "DONT COUNT ENEMY it LONDON, Oct. 30, 7:11 a. m. A I'ctrograd special to tho Keuter Telegram company says: "In tho recent fighting near Pree inysl two generals reported to their commander, tho Bulgarian general Iladko Dlmftrleff, who is leading the llusslan army investing Przemysl, that they were unablo to hold out owing to tho overwhelming numbers of tho enemy. General Dlmltrleft replied with an aphorism which will doubtless become historic. He said: "Don't count the enemy. Deal him.' " ADMIRAL OF FLEET LONDON, Oct. 30, 1:55 p. m. Tho appointment of Itaron Fisher, ad miral of the feet, to succeed Prlnco Louis of. Dattenbcrg, as first eea lord of tho admiralty, was announced officially by the press bureau today. GERMANS ARE MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR FLIGHT LONDON, Oct. 30, 3:22 a. m. A Dally Tclegrapii correspondent sends a dispatch from tho Belgian frontier that tho Germans are making prep arations to retreat from tholrjiresent pobltions in Belgium. They are re moving their wounded from Bruges to Brussels and aro throwing up en trenchments all the way along tho proposed line of retreat from Ostcnd. "All that has been said regarding tho severity of tho fighting around Dlxmudo," continues tho dispatch, ''has been too mild. Dlxmudo itsolf is in ruins and not a singlo liouso is standing In tho adjacent villages of Hearst, Keyom, Essen and Vladsloo. Al flvo places aro practically a sham lilus, tho streets heaped with German dead left behind in tho retreat forced by tho allies' artillery. ".Many German stragglers have boon found In a condition of hysteria, shuttered by tho ordeal through which they had passed. A sign of demoralization in tho German ranks is tho numbor of deserters and strag- , tilers seeking sanctuary beyond the ' Dutch border, Tho German author- .ities have eut out patrols especially to. prevent hebo rtowtlona." m ' " ' ' "" Tea Oct the Beat Thaw U when you amok Gov, Joub m fftrf u4 patroaU horn lndu T IKE a voice from tho forgotten past was the speech of J" Robert A. Booth at the Natatorium last night. It was a repetition of tho spell-binding ohieanery of the '80 's, a resurrection of the shattered idol of privilege the great god, Protective Tariff who in the partisan mythology of years gone by made the sun to shine, the seasons to rotate and prosperity to smile, and who, when sacrifices to his shrine ceased,' deluged the land with calamity. In his political beliefs, Mr. tiooth may fairly be called a moron that is, he has failed to mature, a case of arrested development. 3 limscl C a product of the golden age of priv ilege, lie sighs for a return of the days when the people's heritage can onco more be exploited in the creation of a few more millionaires like himself. According to Mr. Booth, the world-wide financial de pression is duo mainly to the Underwood tariff, which, he asserts, has prostrated the farmer and producer, banlc uupted the business man and closed down the factories. To prove it, lie quoted statistics concerning the output and commerce of flush years of business as due to republican protective tariff, as .against the record of this year, due to "democratic free trade." Free Australian wool, he asserted, was bankrupting the American wool-grower; Chinese eggs and butter, the American farmer, and Canad ian lumber, the Oregon lumberman. Such a little thing as a world-wide war and its effeet upon the commerce of the nation; the fact that boards of trade and stock exchanges all over tho world were indefi nitely closed, preventing the sale or exchange of securities; the proclamation ot moratoriums by most ot the non-belligerent nations, whereby payment of debts was indefi nitely postponed all these trifles were not worthy of Mr. Booth's attention cast into shadow by his idolatry of tho republican totem-pole of protection. Had Mr. Booth wanted to treat the tariff issue justly, he would, like ex-President Taft, have pleaded a fair trial for the measure. lie would have admitted that it was de signed to lower the cost of living, he would have called at tention to the fact that the first six months of 1914, and until the declaration of war in Europe; business records of all kinds, including lumber manufacture, indicated a steady growth and revival and surpassed those for the same time in the previous year, lie would have observed that farmers, woolmeu, stock raisers and producers were receiving record prices for products of the soil. He would have admitted the truth that the business depression in the lumber industry, in fact. in all industry, is greater in British Columbia and Canada than in the United States. He would have congratulated the nation upon its sound business conditions and prospects for prosperity, instead of shouting calamity and disaster for the selfish purpose of securing an office. But no, Mr. Booth's snecch was simply a plea for plutocracy. Mr. Booth at one stroke removed from the administra tion all credit for all legislation enacted except the tariff, on the grounds that the currency, anti-trust and other measures were.vojed for by .some republicans as well as democrats. But so was the tariff bill. La Toilette audi other republicans voted for it. Mr. Booth, with the usual heartfelt throbs of the mil lionaire candidate at election time, paid a sob-sister tribute to the poor working man. He nearly shed tears in behalf of the lumberjacks he charges 12V cents a night out of a $2 wage for sleeping in a wooden bunk. It will surprise most of them to know that to better their condition is the source of his philanthropic determination to sacrifice him self in their behalf by going as United States senator to Washington to help the lumber trust get the forest re serves from Uncle Sam and the O. & C. grant timber lands. But if Mr. Booth's political speech was a sad iumble of glittering falsities, his personal defense of his timber rec ord was worse. Most of the serious charges he ignored. On others he asserted as truths, statements contradicted by the sworn evidence of witnesses, and he asked the public to believe his own denials as against the records of state and federal land officers and the judgment of courts. He submitted no evidence to offset that filed against him by Governor West at the debate of a week ago, when the lis teners declared the governor had woven his indictment, of xjoom as a "pious lrauu. good, just as the interstate eonnnorco connnisston directs and controls the railroads of tho country. The day of grafting and plundering tho people by tho misuse and abuse of the people's money will soon be a thing of the past. The next congress will deal with tho question of rural credits and farm loans. Again wo will hear tho dismal yawp of tho-jbankiug clement, prophesying disaster, be cause a reduction of interest means reduction of dividends. Hut this time they will be without list oners. The public knows now from their own lips that their protests against the reserve bank measure were the hypo critical bowlings prompted by their bosses in Wall street. The battle for the "NI3W JWltiDOM" is on and only the death of Wood row Wilson or the disloyalty of the American people can stop it. I low stand you, voters of Oregon' Are you for him or against, hiin'f Do you appreciate the work ol this master mind who has sought out the weaknesses in our political and 'fin ancial systems and is devising the remedies for their cor rection, that even from his political opponents has called forth such admiration as to make unwilling partisan tongues to speak words of praise ami approval. It is our day of triumph. The voice of the American people is once again finding expression in the halls of con gress. Woodrow Wilson has made it possible. Do you wish the progress to continue, or do you wish to return to the rule of Cannon, Aldrich and Penrose, where the laws of this land were made outside of congress by those who plundered and stole? .It is up to you, voters of Oregon, to help or hinder to march on or, retreat. Watchman, what of the night ? GIVE THE WOMEN A CHANCE. vr PAGE THEATER ONK NIGHT MONDAY, NOV. 2 WOMEN of Oregon clamored twenty years yes, thirty years, for tho ballot some of them fifty veal's. Now ucnee will bo watched with in- if i tit moy nave it, aim tneir m terest. One of the defects in our system of government, it has been claimed, is because, of the fact, that our laws arc all man made. A few have been enacted in recent years upon demand of the women, but the bulk were originated bv men as well as enacted by men. The women of Jackson county have an opportunity this year to assist in the sending of a Jackson county woman to the legislature, to place some women coneeiveil laws upon Oregon statute books. They should avail them selves of the opportunity. Miss Mollio Towne of Phoenix, is a oA-didate for the legislature, blio is a young woman who lYIs made good. For several years she was chief deputy in the count v clerk's office and has had an extended business exper ience. This she has supplemented by a lliorougb study of the law. ller qualifications are excellent. dCvery woman should vote, for Mi.ss Towue and every man who wants to give the fair sex an opportunity to makegood.AVill .vote lor Jior. KLAW & ERLANGER Present the Reigning Success of England and America By Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblach 1860-1885-1912 lulHfrJHKIW Tho Masterpieco of Dramatic Art of tho Qonoration. One year in New York, two years in London. Inter preted by a specially selected cast of actors from London. PRICES, $2.00, $l.fiO, $1.00, 75c, COc Mail orders filled now... Mako chocks payablo Page Theater. Seatsalo opomfthoator box offico Friday a. m., 10 o'clock. Tol. 418. UNDER WHICH FLAG? WHEN the secretary of the treasury recently pub lished a list of banks guilty of hoarding money, and threatened the withdrawal of public moneys from banks charging high rates of interest, he gave a shock to our money lords that left them almost speechless with indig nation. The audacity of a public official daring to question the right of private capital to use public funds to suit them selves, was something "new under the sun" to our party rulers and president makers. But, having opposed the reserve bank measure with all their main and might, only to meet with ignominous defeat, they thought twice before engaging in a second condmt with one who cannot only "watch and wait," but who is also ready and willing to light to the end. The action and words of the secretary of the treasury would not bo possible under a different leader, and under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson it means more than a passing comment on present conditions. It is part of the program for the emancipation of Americans from their enslavement to antiquated and in competent economic and financial systems. It is notice to the banks that banking is not a private business, but that banks perform a public function, and that hereafter they must perform it for the public benefit as well as for private gain. It is notice that exhorbitant rates of interest must go the way of oxhorbitant freight rates. It is notice that tho borrower must not be oppressed to pay dividends upon bank stock. It means that sonio day in the near future tho people's sorvauts will direct and control tho banks for tho public Club 'Women Endorse Normal I "Oswej-o, Or., Out. 11). To the Oliil Women of Oregon i A resolution una introduced.!! our state convention held nl IIoodttivvr' hint jear, indorsing the effort to re ojm'ii the XonnnjKoIiool at Ashland. Feeling Hint this wuh n matter of im portunci', it was referred to tlio edti eationn committee for thorough in vestigation nml n report. Sueh in vestigation was made with tlio resultl that our committee reported to the convention just held at Kitcnc, ear nestly urging a support of tlii.s mens uro in the belief that its sueceHH would contribute materially to help, ing nn urgent edueational need of Hie Mute. Tho convention adopted tho follow ing resolutien: "JtcHohcd, (lint the Oregon Feder ation of Women's Clubs not only in dorho tho measure providing for the reopening of tho Southern Oiegon State Normal fiejiool, hut pledge our selves to work for tho same iu our re spective communities." 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I'KTTINdKIl, Chairman educational committee, O. V. W. ('. STAR Theatre Friday nml Sntiirtlny The Viking Queen Two Heel I.MInon Hearst Selig Weekly Uto Current Kvenfs In Pictures For Repairs PAGE THEATRE Friday and Saturday NihtH,7 P.M. Matinee Sahirilny Only, li lo .:.,() P. M. 'The All-Siar hValuro Corporation Presents "Miss Ethel Barrymore" Ina'Kive-Varl KNuniinee "The Nightengale" An original work by Angus! ns Thomas. I.uliln Drama you vrr your vvtrtu ruunk. Um Bl.tk silk M.I.I fotlth rWdlrtr. nUktJ ortoaM. It li iiuxiual for umw miUimUUm. John A. jPerl UNDERTAKE Ldjr AMlitant M 8. IIAltTLKTT PbOBM M. 47 m4 7Ja s3.1M faVrtM Love, Loot & Liquor Bluebeard the Second On Samo Itcol, Illogrnph ComedleH 1 Oe AiIiiiImhIoii I Oo IT Theatre TODAY Million Dollar Mystery 13th KplHodo, 'IVo Itool Thrlllor Mutual Weekly War News The Smugglers of SliGo Two Itool Itollmico, IrlHli Foaturo Love and Gasoline . IOC ALWAYS IOC Miss Ethel Harrymoro, the star in the motion picture drama, "Tho Nightingale," has tho distinc tion of being the most, popular actress on the Ameri can stage. Not. alone is Miss Harrymoro a star in the photo play, but also in tho legitimate drama and in vaudeville. Miss Harrymoro has been under tho management of Mr. Charles I'Yoliman for many years and it was with great difficulty (hat tho All-Star 'Fea ture Corporation gained the consent ol'Mr. IYohman for Miss llarrymore's appearance. Selig: "The House That Went Crazy" 'A Comedy of Laughter, Yitagraph: "Officer Kate" r bho becomes a policewoman. ITer husband gets a good-looking hired girl to run tho home. Kato ro- signs from tho force. I Friday and Saturday Nights I Matinee Saturday, 2 to 4:30 P, M, si t&JtfXSIffi & (i I 0 7 Jim r litfsisWin iiiiiiwnpiHiniiiiis'-jiiMiii'rrllitfiiT.ii'ibd.i,t, .iwirti,ivjij..iw.,..lfc4ujwj'