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EM-TEES
Did IIo fclmnKo Jils Sllml?
It 1b rumored that tho causo of
the death of W. J. Evans, who died
here last fall, -will be .Inver.tlgntod.
Mr, fevans was Fhought to havo kill
ed himself at the tltno, biit was later
undecided, Arklnda Cor. Llttlo
Itivcr (Ark.) News.
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Literally SlwahlnK.
Toaeheiw-Wllilam, which (ravola
tho fastor -heat or cold
Willie Heat, Anybody can catch
cold.
I'lty tho Pnrtoni.
Want ononjotlc "woman, call on
mlnatorflj good talker llboral cdm
poiWlon. 2 J 83 O-st. (Call foro
noons, San Diego (Cal.) Union.
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lliuth?
Albert Zabala ot Solodad was horo
Thursday and nccompnnlod Martin
Iorminl to San Paltno to purchaso a
irinlo cow. Tho San Jtinn (Cal.)
Mission Nows.
i:icrlloit I 'oinhiK.
John Timothy Anthony Jonos has
bet a hundred and fifty bones that
tho darkest dark homo from tho so
crete3t Btall will win tho president's
chair noxt fall. And John Timothy
Hits In his shop and talks till tho
shadows pt evonlnu drop, al)out -what
a bonutjrul bot bo has mndo, nnd
how that tho other guy's sotting
afraid,
Prom now till election day Johnny
will talk to tho folkB hi tho ntoro
nnd tho buino on tho walk, nnd peo
plo will pass him. nnd buslnosB will
lag, mid Johnny, -will talk till his
shoulders will bos.
Johnny will ho n "polltcal fan,"
nnd novor a woman, a boy, or a man
will atop at lila shack for to purchaso
n stump, n bundle of cum, or ti
two-penny lamp.
J think I'll o down to John Tim
othy Jones and spoil lila comploxlon
or broak halt his hones, and oay to
him, "Why doh't you tend to your
atoro JtiBtpart of becoming a silly old
boro? Why dtu'B olectlon mako
crawfish run wild? What makes
your foggy old' brain set bo rllod?
Why can't you lot tho oloctlon nlono,
toad to your cookies nnd answer
your phonoT" CharJca II. Drlscoll.
Our Own TmwloKWW,
Brooklyn Everybody -who
Uvea In Drooktyn elthor has bahles
or bronchitis! both are In the air.
llrooklyn Is ri part of Now York, but
It Is farther from Broadway to
Smith atreot thail U is from Forty
second atrcet to Port Bald. You
never roalluo this till you begin to
live In Brooklyn. Ilrooklyu Is a
rathor quiet Village. Fords aro al
lowed In tho samo atroetB with nuto
mobiles and saloons closo on Sun
days. Brooklyn Ijbb 788 churchos
and only 46 cabarets.
TUEVIH0 ARRIVES TO
COMMAND MEXICANS
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CHIHUAHUA, Mux., May 10, Ia
El Paso Junction, Mtiy 20,Clonoral
Jacinto Trovlno, lu supremo ooiuinaml
of tho troops delegated to wipe out
the bandit nionneo of Chihuahua and
Coahulln, nrrivnl horo today.
General Trovino fidid that ho wojild
hd very enroful not to ououpy towns
until after tho Amoricnna ncnto so
ns to nvolil nil possible elmimo of
friction JIo has oslablisbed henil
(matters here,
Why SMka k Om
m wwwm i i i 1 1 1 1 i i n
JOHK A. PERL
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IN these days tlic editorial writei-s on many ot the repub
lican organs are working overtime in penning satirical
criticisms of President Wilson's foreign policy.
2?rom the Hearst papers which lead the fight clear down
the line to such as the OregOnian, it is one degenerate
yawp that Mi. Wilson is a spineless jelly-fish, with little
sentiment and devoid of reason, who Whiles away his hours
munching peanuts while Americans are being murdered
in Mexico and oil the high geas, without a sense of respon
sibility or twinge of conscience ovei" his own inefficiency.
It is but fitting that these journals so busily engaged
in painting the man chosen by the people to the highest
office in their gift as one who has dishonored and is dis
honoring and disgracing the flag of our country, should
be led by one whom a few years ago they denounced as
being the cause of tho murder of President McKinley by
the same methods they aro daily pursuing as to President
Wilson.
Tho fact that these .journals are following the lead of
ono whom they denounced as beyond the pale ol decent
journalism and an abettor ot assassination ought to prove
conclusively that the inspiring causo of their attacks upon
tho president is something lar lrom patriotism.
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A favored method of attack of those dobaiichers of pub
lic opinion is to make invidious comparisons between Mr.
Wilson and a strong man in the white house, like Mr.
Roosevelt, or a dignified man like Mr. Hughes Gathering
courage from their own audacious falsehoods, they now
assert that had a republican occupied the presidency the
Lusitania would not havo been torpedoed and Belgium
would not have been invaded.
Mr. Roosovelt is pictured as sending for the German
ambassador, reading the riot act to him, and Von Kluck's
army halts at the Belgium boundary.
, This is a wonderful cinema of what would never havo
happened, and it is a wonderful lot of liars that write it
up uiid aiiect to believe it.
It is sweetly assiniue to believe that had Teddy been on
tho job he had but to soy "Stop, kaiser I" and he would
stand; "go to, Villa," and ho would go to, and no doubt
there aro pale gray asses in numbers who believe these
nicotine vaporhigs of the political copy-makers.
But there is ono point of view that neai'st and his re
publican disciples in their wild erics for war from their
cellar windows havo cntii'o forgotten, and that is that tins
is a republic. Their view seefns to bo that tho United
States of America is an oligarchy ruled by a dictator whose
chief functions aro to protect tho Hearst investments in
Mexico, and Morgan's munition dealings with lEhirope.
To them there are no questions of eliminating poverty
among our own people, or making lifo bettor for the youth
of this land, except to fit them for soldiers, against tho
timo they may be useful in looting sonic weaker nation for
the benefit of the financial despots of Wall street.
They prate knowingly and falsely about the president's
neglect to break off diplomatic relations with Germany,
or Jiio failure to sond a large army to Mexico to clean it up.
It is possible tlicso penny-liner provoricators havo never
heard of the constitution of tho United States of America?
But then again, one might ask, "What is a constitution
botween thioves and murderers, or those who seek to'
profit by a war of aggression, or a war of defense, oven
though it enucd in tlio nation's doleatr '
But whatever tho view of those who find a royal road
to wealth through tho blood of their countrymen, tho peo
ple look upon this as a government of law undor tho con
stitution. And under the constitution tho president can
not dcelaro war, cannot mako war, an dif ho should do so,
should bo impeached. The declaration of war must bo by
congress,
But theso loyalists say tho prcsidont could break off
diplomatic relations. IIo could, it is true, but if his doing
so would bring us into a war with onothor country ho
should novor do so, for that would bo simply ono way of
assuming authority and power not granted tho president.
It would ho usurpation on his part, jind President Wilson
has rofraiucd and refused, as was his duty, to consider it
a personal privilege to plungo this nation into war.
Tho prcsidont desorves the highest commondation of
tho pcoplo for his steadfast adherence to tho constitution,
for tho reason that tho great, important question before
tho American pcoplo is to maintain this as a government
of law, responsible to tho pcoplo of Amorlco.
This is not only important to tho American people, but
to tho world, for tho reason that if wo ouco vest our prcsi
dont with tho right to make war, then this ceases to bo a
republic, and whon tho pcoplo of this country admit such
authority in tho chief executive it will moan that the lovo
of liberty is dying in the hoarts of tho people that thoy
havo surrendered tho ideals of frco institutions to their
economic lords and masters,
Tho question is not what a Teddy in tho white house
would havo dono to the kaiser, or Villa, or.Carranza, but
what ho would have dono with tho American peoplo and
their constitution. It is not a question of how big a bluff
ho put up against the Uorlnans, but how union authority
no woum usurp unaor tne stress ot war.
Wo know that in a timo of noaco Roosevolt oxpressly
assisted the steel trust in violation of law to gobblo up tho
Tonncsseo Coal & Iron company, because tho gontlomon of
the stool trust told him that it thoy woro pornuttod to grab
it thoy would stop a lmaneial pamo. What such a presi
dent would do in tho face of a worldwide war tho gods
thomsolves would not hazard to guess.
Woodrow Wilson has kept tho nation out of war, not
alone to saYo tho lives of otir peoplo, uot alono to escape
tho hardshipsj'burdons and cruelties that war insures ovon
to tho victors, Ho has had a purpose oven beyond tho
avoidance of oil that war means, in bloodshed and oppres
sion, in tears and wnr. His high and noblo aim has been
to keep alivo in Amorica the traditions and principles o a
government of the people, ns tho only hope of tho world,
to some day become a world without a war "-a world of
nations of free people. His purpose has been to keep this
nation out oHhe maelstrom, that it may to the sorely tried
peoples of Europe bo a beacon light of hope that may yet
point the way for them out of the darkness of aristocratic
and military government and hasten the dethronement of
all kings, czars and emperors.
WoodrOw Wilson knows and understands that the en
try of this country into tho war means that the example
of this republic for a hundred years would be sullied in the
eyes of the world. We would be drawn down to the level
of the military oligarchies of Europe for having embarked
on rt military embroilment.
Tlic end of the war would leave a fear of reprisal that
would compel us to become a military nation. But remain
ing at peace with all, enduring saerif ices, perhaps, oiir very
patience will in the final end bring tho warring nations to
us as the counsellor and friend of all, the enemy of none.
In that hoiir the role that America will assume will be
sliblinier and nobler by far than the part that any Victor
ever knew.
We have fed the starving of all their bleeding nations.
Our men and women have healed ahd nursed the soldiers
of all tho stricken countries. So when the hour comes,
that the leaders grow aweary of sending their all too docile
citizens to stay and be slain, when imperial pride is stran
gled with human bloo,d, the eyes of the valiant millions
will turn to America as tho hope of tho world as a gov
ernment where men cannot bo driven to tho shambles of
war as a land where men at last are free. And Woodrow
"Wilson in those days will be hailed os the leader of tho
world as one who saved the cause of human liberty from
destruction.
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Medynski's Views on Railroad Bondingl
As many of the conservative pco
plo of Medford who are opopsod to
tho bonding of tho city of Medford
for 1 railroad to tho Blue Lcdgo,
havo naked md to glvo my vlows on
this quostiou, I herewith append
Bomo ot tho principal reasons why I
also oppose this bonding measure.
1. Tho Pnclfc & Eastern rail
road as It now standB cost over 10,
0d0 per mllo; and a conservative es
timation Of tho cost of this projectod
railroad -would bo at least $20,000
per mllo. Now as tho Ijluo Lcdgo
railroad survey Is forty miles, It
woUld mean $800,000 to completo
the railroad to tho mlno. Throe hun
dred thousand dollars would not
roach half way.
2. If It would bo profltablo to 6p
crate tho Blue Ledge nnd other mines
adjacent thereto why should not tho
owners bo wiling to put up an oqliat
amount -with Medford?
3. If It Is tho Intention ot tho
road to go to tho coast, why should
not tho whblo of tho(Roguo rlvor
valloy contribute to ,thls proloct? As
Aicuroru is not a manufacturing town
silo has nothing, to chip, tho sur
rounding country -will be tho ship
per, honco why should thoy not con
tribute towards tho oxponso of tho
construction ot a railroad?
A. Tho nrescnt nronoslton Is very
Indofrttto for tho this reason. There
Is no poalttvo assUreanco that tho
mines wll operato permanently oven
it & branch Hno was run to It.
It has bcon Inferred that tho mil
company or tho Groat Northern is
back of this project. I Can say posi
tively they are not.
I would llko to Boo a railroad
from Medford to tho coast, and It
Medford Bhould contrlbuto $300,000
It Is only prudoncd and good busi
ness that she should ho safeguraded
In everyway. Thoro aro but few
hooplo who realize what it means for
Medford to glvo away $300,000.00.
To bond for this umount at C percent
Irttorcst for 20 years nloans $18,000
per year Interest and $15,000 por
yenr sinking fund, a yearly total ot
$33,000 to bo paid thru taxation. Our
present assessed valuation Is $4,104,-
127 at these figures this would In
crease our present taxes n llttlo ovor
8 mills por year. Do wd want to put
this extra burden on tho poople with
out a guarantee of sufficient returns
to warrant tho Investment? No In
dividual with good business judgment
dablos In uncertain speculation,
nolthor should a City.
What assurance havo wo that this
railroad If constructed will not In a
short timo fall Into tho hands of tho
Southern Pacific and becomo a feeder
for thorn? Should this tnko plnCo,
thoy would novor pormlt It to go to
tho coast, for thd simple reason that
it would rob their present trunk lino
of jthru freightage
Tho Pacific and Hastorn railroad
doofl hot pay Interest on Its bondd,
how can you oxepect this prdjobtod
road to do It? Romombor this, "tho
Pacific and Eastern road oxtonds In
to a vast timber bolt, with amplo ton-
nngo to keop that railroad busy for
tho noxt fifty years, yot our local
nsumption of lumbor nnd fruit
boxes Is "being shipped Hi from tho
Wlllamctto valley and othor much
moro romoto points, while our local
timber Is bogging dovolopmont. Can
you tell mo why?- Hero Is your
answer, tho "Lumber TrUst."
Tho "Copper Trust" can also, If
thoy wish, prevent tho operation ot
tho Bluo Lodge, This Is ono of tho
vital reasons for Medford to havo pos
itive assuranco before saddling her
self with moro burdens.
It tho mlno owonrs In tho Bluo
Lcdgo district deslro to operate their
mines, and It will pay them to do so,
It Is really up to them to mako tho
first start to build a railroad, for
thoy aro most directly Interested and
would dorlvo tho moat honoflt.
Should thoy do this I have no
doubt but what Medford would then
be willing td assist.
P. MEDYNSKI.
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A porter on a Pullman coming from Grants Pass
the othor day, when asked to got a table for a travel
ing man, said: "My goodness! It just keeps me busy
getting tables for these little Corona Typewriters."
Whether you are a stay-at-home or a gad-about,
the CORONA Typewriter will serve you better than
most standard machines or a pen.
A Medford owner has had his machine three
years, used it for weeks at a time three to soven hours
a day, yot it has had but ono adjustment and runs
poi'fectly and in perfect alignment. The same story
from 24 Corona owners in Medford.
MEDFORD BOOKSTORE
MEDFORD, MAY 22
89th ANNUAL TOUR
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With sovornl hundred makers of automobiles In
America, tho Ford factory turns out moro tiinn
one-half of the entire finished produot. Because
tho worth jf Ford cars na depehdnblo, money
savlnc; utilities has been demonstrated beyond
nil question, tho demand is constantly increas
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Town Car $G4Q;.
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