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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."
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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.
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PAGE THEATER
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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
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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."
Wo nro taking this means of in
forming you of the notion of tho fed-
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furlhering'this measure, in' the hope
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educational uplift of the state.
KMKAIIKTII K. I'KTTINdKIl,
Chairman educational committee, O.
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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.
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Love, Loot & Liquor
Bluebeard the Second
On Samo Itcol, Illogrnph ComedleH
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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.
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