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PkMh
t'QSH
ffls
tSAYS
"Newt KrictWtisli'ft wife nearly
starves herself tor feed her husband
nnurishm' food, on th' theory that th'
man needs it. Then ho rides down
town to work in a bank nml she does
t)i' fnniily wash."
LAUGHS
Templing
'Tliis suite will cost you $300 per
dny."
"Do you find people willing to pay
such pricesf'
"Plenty of them."
"In Unit case, what will you take
for the hotel f " Juilj-c.
TIio Clita
Tho rhin it was made to raic trou-
JuV,
Either dimples or pimples or stubble.
Then Wno lihve the gall'
To not grow at nil,
While others come triple nnd double
Collier's Weekly.
Gloria us I
"ITovv's vncation, Johnnie!"
"Bully I Fell off a shed, most Rot
drownded, tipped over n beehive, was
hooked by n cow, Jim Spindles lieked
mo twiee, an I tot two stone bruises
an' a stiff neck." Zion's Herald.
Humdrum Folk
"I don't like thoo people at all.
They're too good."
"What's the trouble?"
"They'vo kent tho samo maid for
clejit -cars, and insist ia they've
never had n washerwoman disappoint
them." Detroit Free Press.
Shown Up
Married men are all bluffers. Af
ter Tom Jefferson had written the
Declaration of Independence he "went
homo nnd played dead nnd rolled over
and jumped through every time' Mr.
Tom mapped her fingers. Cincinnati
Knqnirer.
Community PiojicHy
Willie Paw, what is a henpecked
husband?
Paw A man whoso ne'rvo is in his
wife', name, mv son. Cincinnati En
quirer. A Daro
"Mrs. Gabby just loves to indulge
in cheap talk."
"Then let her try a littlo conversa
tion on tho new line between Now
York and Snn Francisco." Xew
York Times,
Juuly Signs
"What makes you think Uio bnbv
is going to ba a great politician?"
asked the young mother, anxiously.
"I'll tell you' answered the young
father, confidently, "ho can say more
things that sound well and mean
nothing at all than any kid I over
saw."
Taking Exception
That the 1015 figure
Is exceeding trim nnd trig you'io
Mndu aware by glancing ut the, fash
ion sheet;
And the damosels who wear all
This enticing new apparel
Aro attractive from their coiffures
to their feet.
Wc would not creato a schism
Nor indiilgo in criticism
Of the shapes far be the tusk from
)i umble men.
But we do not mind coufessiiu
That these changes keep us guessing-Tiey
have moved Jbo waist Hue some
where else again.
Peoria Journal,
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A FAKE
IT was n most lugubrious calamity howl thai brunt forth
from President Sproule of the Southern Paeifie Friday
evening at Chicago. Not, since the 1. V. AV.'s of the (.1. O.
P. desecrated the dead by chortling the wail of standpatism
at the Lincoln banquet, has such a tale of 'w been heard.
Optimism has no psychological effect upon business,
declares this doleful Jeremiah of transportation, who ut
ters tho cant of his calling:
"The booster lifts nothing higher than tho level of his
own teeth. The trumpeter of prosperity beguiles only his
own em's. Prosperity is real, or it does not exist. We do
not have to look for it; it comes to us. Tt grows within our
sight like a plant coming in flower."
What then creates prosperity f "What then will make
this beautiful and fragile flower bloom? Calamity howl
ing? If so, we ought to be surrounded by a veritable flow
ering garden, for it is all we have heard for several years.
Prosperity is real, says this philosopher of traffic. " it
omnes when the emnlover resumes employment," and it
will only come -when "people generally discover that tlieir
condition improves only as their employer is prosperous."
In other words, the cause of the business depression, Mr.
Sproule means to say, is regulation of railroads in their
process ot tu icing an rue rraine wm near ami iiiiimtiiihhui
of bijr business in its multitudinous operations of skinning
the people by special legislation for monopoly and
manipulation.
Political and financial doctors do not. agree in their di
agnosis of the ailment called business depression.
Poor crops and low prices
yet m the nation at large, we have nail rccoru crops aim
the highest prices known.
Shortage of money is usually blamed, yet there never
was a time when there was so much money on deposit in
the banks of the nation. There have been no bank failures,
other than those that are due to fraud and violation of bus
iness ethics. Moreover we now have a currency system
that provides an elastic currency and practically rendei's
bank failure, for rightlv conducted institutions impossi
ble. Inability of railroads to raise rates when traffic dimin
ished, was urged as the couse by the railroads, and a five
percent increase was urged as a sure cure for hard times.
The Interstate Commerce Commission granted the increas
ed rates, and that cure proved a fake.
Reduction of the tariff is blamed by stand-putters and
protected privilege. The theory of the protective tariff is
that it prevents competition from foreign lands. Since the
European war began, there has been no competition from
abroad, and prices have soared, so this theory is smashed.
Had a higher tariff been in effect, the deficiency in nation
al revenues would have been still greater.
The old familiar balance of trade theory doesn't work
either. During the past year, exports have vastly exceed-,
ed imports. The balance is all in favor of the United
States and growing greater daily.
The United States is the most prosperous nation of the
world today. The financial depression is nothing like as
acute in other nations. It is on the verge of an era of its
greatest prosperity, because of the destruction of wealth
and civilization and consequent exhaustion of other coun
tries, due to war. At the same time, there can be no great
instruction of wealth in aiiy part of the world without,
temporarily at least, affecting tho other 'parts, so com
plexed and interwoven are the commercial relations of the
civilized nations.
Mr. Sproule's Southern Pacific stock is not selling rap
idly. "What is sold is at a bargain price. Why? STot so
much because revelations of high finance have made the
investors shy of railroads, as because five billion dollars of
American securities arc held abroad and aro being dumped
on the American market as fast as the need of the owners
and the artificial restrictions on the stock exchange will
permit.
Capital is not invested in industrial development not
only because better opportunities are offered in the stock
market in the purchase of s. table securities held abroad,
but because the dread of what the future may bring forth,
the fear that in spite of a neutral policy, the nation may it
self be drawn into war through the persistent efforts of
hyphenated Americans in sympathy with their hyphens.
Until this fear is removed,
standing the fact that every
ity, big crops, war prices and unlimited markets lor man
ufactured products.
Mr. Sproule pleads for a better feeling on tho part of
the people for the transportation lines and large employ
ers. Jiaiiroaus tncmscivcs aro
tude. For half a century they
out restraint, the people and
the saloon, they have brought upon themselves the legisla
tion they complain of.
The railroads have beep doing business upon an inflat
ed basis. Even while Mr. Sproule was talking, details of
the financing of the Rock Island system .werp being bared
at Washington. Upon a $60,000,000 operating company,
$350,000,000 in capitalization was loaded. The, watered
securities were unloaded on the innocent public and the
proceeds made multi-millionaires out of the Wall street
manipulators, who wrecked
selfish ends. And tho chief
financcering, who thinks .$3000 a year exorbitant for an
engineer, says $100,000 a year salaries for officials a mod
est compensation, fully earned, and joins Mr. Sproule in
his clamor for less railroad regulation.
A few days before Mr, Sproule howled calamity at Chi-.
cago, the Louisville and Nashville was shown to have di
verted millions of its earnings into creating and maintain
ing a corrupt political machine that dominated a common
wealth ior crooked purposes,
STTCDFORT) MATH TRIBUNE.
FLOWER.
tock
generally cause hard times
capital will be timid, notwith
effort is making for prosper
10 niame ior me pumic alti
have been exploiting, with
resources of the nation. Like
a great railroad system lor
beneficiary of this fraudulent
much as Mr. bprouie'g ownj
MKDFORD, ORKapy, SATURDAY, -FIWRFATvY 27,
railroad had dominated California and other western
states for its own unholy purposes for many years.
With the memory of the Now Haven scandal fresh in
the public mind, with similar transactions in other systems
being uncovered daily, the railroads have only themselves
to blame for the public esteem or dis-esteetu in which they
are held- l'-ven a reformed sinner must sit on the mourners
bench and that is where the railroads, who are striving
to be good are, while their presidents aro shouting calam
ity. Hut the people are not going to restore the good old
days of railroad looting even to fertilize the flower Mr.
Sproule labels prosperity a fake l'loVr woi'ii a (lie lapels
of railroad wreckers.
PROSECUTOR TELLS
REASON FOR DELAY
To the Editer:
An nuoit.MiioiM clitic writes asking
me to explain the reason for Hie de
lay iu bringing the Aledford saloon
keepers to trial on ehanje of selling
liquor to minor.
A a public servant 1 feel that the
citizens are entitled to know why
these case were not sooner tried
and while 1 have no tespect for the
individual who has not the moral
courage to sij:it his niiiiic to such an
inquiry 1 am going to explain the
delay in these cases.
At the time these indictment were
returned by the grand jury an in esti
mation of this question was made cov
ering a considerable period of tune
and in many instance-) the witnesses
did not know tho names of the bar
tenders makinir the snles.
Out of n delte to treat the defend
ants all alike the grand jury return
ed all the indictment against the
proprietor. This notion tm again!
my ndviec mid again, my wish in
the matter, as it raised a question
a to whether the proprietor could
be held responsible for the net of
hi servant, committed without his
knowledge and nginnst hi instruc
tions. The lute Judge lluntin had
held to the contrary and the supreme
court of the state in an opinion which
hnd been withdrawn, had denied the
criminal responsibility of the pro
pnetor for the tiuiiuthorm'd act of
Ins agent. The only way in which
this question could be settled was
by presenting the legal questions to
the circuit court nnd then appealing.
Judge Calkins in deciding the matter
took the only course open to him by
following the dictum of the Oregon
supreme Cnuit. I then appealed the
ease to the supremo court and that
tribunal reversed itself nnd Judge
Qnficin. The cases were then set
downfor trial at the earliest pos-I-blC(p!omcut,
in fact, before the man
date-bud been returned from the su
pnmic court.
In criminal cnes where an ac
quittal has been had before n jury,
the state has no right of appeal, nnd
had tho cases gone to trial in the
first instance the court would hnvc
been legally bound to instruct against
the responsibility of the principal for
tho unauthorized nets of the agent,
acquittals would have resulted and
tho law still be mi open question. I
took the only course by which the Inw
could bo definitely established.
If appeals to the higher court nrc
dilatory it is an fault of mine. The
result obtained in effectively and
definitely settling (his important
question is a sufficient vindication
of my conduct and judgment in tho
mntlJr. E. E. KELLY.
YY Theatre
l'UIDAY AXI1 SATURDAY
Matinee anil Kieolng
"ZUDORA"
Tho Twenty Million Mystery
In Episode No. 8 Jnmcse Cruxo Is
shown in threo different characters.
Ho in tranafarmnil from tho villain
into tho horo. Ho furnishes spec
tacular scene!) In tho new rolo that
will arouso moving'' picture fnns
everywhere of Tlianliouser's greatest
photoplay "Zdora".
The Rebellion of
Kitty Bell
"Two Itcel Mnjcatlc
Mutual Weekly News
Mabel's Busy Pay
Koystono Comedy
G and 10c Any Scut 5 ''and 10c
Jphn A. Perl
'UNDERTAKER
I.ady AsHlfltaur,
28 s. HAiiTJiirrr
Phones M. 47 and 47-J.S
Ambulance Bcrvko Deputy Coroner
SALOON
CASES
rtr , r
ITALIANS
PROHIBIT
RIOTOUS
MEETINGS
TO KEEP NEUTRAL
KOMI', Fell. 'J7. -Vehement lit
tack on the government were made
in the chamber of deputies ,eteiday
b ytho Kxtremist because of in
structions given prefect to ptohilnt
meeting even when they uro describ
ed us private if theio i ictison in
believe those who would be iu disor
der. The order vvn designed to pio
veut clashes hetwecu those who favor
Itnlv's intervention iu the War mid
those who advocate strict neutrality.
A tumult arose when the l.lrcm
ists declared the prohibition of Mich
meeting was n suppression of liber
ty and iu violation of law. I'lcmlcr
Salaiidru replied to criticism of the
government. He declared the instruc
tion to the prefect were designed
to protect liberty which was thicnt
ened by violence, raise the dignity of
the country which had been injured
bv dissensions and cement a moral
unity which would lead to triilmph.
A the Kxtrcinixts showed that it
was n plan to prevent llal.v' inter
vention in the war, the picinier de
clared nnililst applause:
"I do not know whether our nation
is destined to march to war, but If
tin shall he the case we must all
unaiiimousK obey the ordei of the
tatlieilaud and the King."
Reported by Jackson County Abs
tract Co., Sixth and Fir Htt. '
OIlTllIt
Win. S. Crowell vs. Joseph A.
Newell ut n. Summons, complaint,
affidavit of Attachment, undertaking
for attachment.
W. II. Kvcrhnrd vs. United Fire
man's I linn ranee Co. Stipulation,
A. C. Adams vs. I.ognn Woolrldge.
Appeal from Juatlco court, Medford
district.
Itcal IXnto Transfers
Tom IliiHliong to Joseph S.
.Miner ot u.x, N1J of NU'.i of
nbm sec. ns-ao-s W S.
v II
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Llltfo J. Anderson to 1'. 11.
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applications will destroy every bit of
dandruff; stop scalp Itching and fall-
Ing hair
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