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fPXOT! STX ' MEDFORD MATT TRTBWE. MEDFORD. OREfiOX. TTTTTTRSDAY. AT'OFST 24. TOlfi PRINCIPAL ISSUE OF CAMPAIGN IS MEXICAN CRISIS Question to Be Decided at Polls Is Whether Voter Wants Hughes and "War With Mexico or Wilson and Peace Political Situation Summed U hy Expert. Ily II. X. lUckey. . WASHINGTON', Aim. 24 It Is evi dent Candidate JhiK)ien coiisidern Mexico the weukeat mot In tlio Wll hoii deienae for he han devoted more wonlK to it than to any oilier kiiIi jeet Klnce he opened 111." campaign. A Mexican crlHl faced President WIlRon the day ho was InauRiinited. CrlU has followed crlsln and each one has called for a decision hy the president, Involving the question of jieare and war. '. The president has had to malic these ileclnlnns without regard to their popularity or unpopularity. He lias had to consider their effect on the relations between this nation and forolRii nations, especially those of South and Central America. lie has had to consider the future as well as the presont welfare of his people, and last, hut not least, tho righto of Mex ico. Keystone of INdicy, 1 am betraying no confidence when I say President, Wilson's determina tion to lieep this nation out of war, ;,t any price short of absolute sacri fice of national honor, has been the Iceystono of the urch of his Mexican policy. It Is churned In Ihe Republican platform, and the chai'Ke Is being re peated in every speech by Hushes, that Wilson has neither kept us from war with Mexico nor saved our na tional honor: that ns the direct re sult of the vacillating Wilson policy, conditions In .Mexico lire worse to day tli mi when he took office; that hundreds of Americans have been killed and millions of American properly destroyed III Mexico In de fiance of our right JtcpiiWIciiiiN Limit Kclve. I'urorlunntel.v, bnth the Itepuhli ean plaii'jrm and ti'r republican candidate- limit thenisclvLS to a bitter and swcvlng criticism of tho Wilton'! Alexin in policy, without miKBestinK what Kl.ni'i;! have hetn done or promlsltiT svliat will be done if they net control of tho on rnincnt. Ilii'4h s has expi":i e.l a high re Rani fi,t the lute lluerta, hut lia.i ijot sai l thai had ho been, presUciil ho woi'M have r?ej',i:ized him as president of Mexico. 'onsl''i-rlnB the well-known pnli'i. Mid private character of lluertu, thai lie uttaiucd whatever power he hid in Mexico by the cowardly asslsltiu tlon of I'tleutl oud fnt; Hint no con siderable number of tho Mexican people believed in III in or wanted him for president; that ho represented the salne clique of unifiers that for years without number, under Dim, had looted Mexico and kept the great liiilk of its people In ignorance and virtual slavery, it is not strange Hughes has hesitated to say that he would have recognized his right to govern. , People Against lluertu. The simple fact Is, that aside from any question of inoruls, the recogni tion of lluertu by this country would not have solved tho Mexican problem. The Mexican revolution would have, continued ami lluerta would have been killed or driven from the conn Jry. No one who knows Mexico nnd has studied lis problems with an open mind has the slightest Idea that llu ertu nnd Ills methods would have lieen tolerated by the Mexican people very long. Ills recognition would have been notice to every cut-throat brigand In every South and Central American couutry that the Pulled States stood for government by nsslsslnutlon. Tho "easiest way" for President Wilson would have been to recognise Huerta. It would huve saved a lot of trouble, much criticism, and It may have been good politics. Put it would have been wrong and President Wil-f-on Is not the hiun to purchase po litical prestige at such a price. Having determined not to recog nie lluerta, the president begun to apply the "pressure of moral Torres" which finally pushed Hnerta from his Root of power arj nru.o hhn from Mexico. ' It was iluilng this pressure that Admiral Mayo demanded that lluertu salute our flog. This was u perfectly nslulne thiug to do and President Wilson knew It Just ns well as any body else. Wilson IHsnsrwi. ' The president was at While .Sul phur Springs trying to gel A little rest when Admiral Mayo's artlou was reported to him. It la an .open secret that he was disgusteo and his first impulse probably was to repudiate the admiral's demand and reprimand him tor lack of Jndgmeut. Had such a demand under like circumstances been made of Kngland, Trance or (lermany or any oilier na tion with an organized government, whoso people could understand that Its repudiation did not necessarily mean cowardice on our part, there Is no doubt President Wilson would hnvo promptly repudiated It. Hut Mexico was different. For years the Mexican people have been fed on the Idea that the grlngoes are cowards and bluffers. President Wilson hacked up Ad miral Mayo's "salute tho flag" de mand because It seemed Impossible to inuko the Mexican people understand that any other course was not due to our fear of them. To be sure, tho flag was not sa luted and this has been tho cause of much caustic comment and muny flippant remarks. Hid Not. Want Salute. President Wilson never cared a rap whether tho flag was saluted or not. He certainly did not propose to have war with Mexico if It could be avoided, whether or not the flag was saluted. The naval and military demonstrations which followed were Just sufficient , to impress tho Mexi cans with the fact that we had teeth if we cured to use them. There may be an honest difference of 'pinion as to whether the presi dent used good Judgment In hark lug lip Mayo's demand, but there cun be no doubt that Wilson believed at the tlmo Hint tho necessities of the situ ation demanded the action, which lie took. The worst that run be said of I lie salute the flag" Incident Is that sev eral American marines and quite a number of Mexicans wore killed and I hat the flag was not saluted. The best that can he said of it Is that it increased the pressure against the assassin, Huerta w ho verv soon fled tho country. The more recent events in Mexico are familiar to all newspaper readers. r .lresident I.s Hinceiv.. Wlintcvor action the president has taken,- or fulled to take, has been based upon his sincere desire to give the common people, of Mexico every possible chunce to guln for them selves, the political and Industrial freedom which they never hud but which Is their right. There havo been many times when the president's pnllence has heen I ti led almost to the breaking point ; when less wise, less determined, less patient men would have weakened. Only (hose very close to the presi dent know of tho tremendous pres suro which those financially Inter ested In Mexico have exerted on him directly and indirectly to force him to send a great American army into Mexico, ostensibly to pacify the country in the Interest of humanity, hut In reality, to prevent tho common people of Mexico from working out their own salvation In the only way In which the common people of any nation hnvo been able to work It out by the sword. ' Tho ltlg; Question. In the final analysis, when the voter considers Ihe president's Mexi can policy in lonni'iiloii with how no snail vote in .vovemiier. ho must there has been, or Is likely to be, an ask himself this question: "Does affront to our honor by revolullou Amcrlcn wiint war or peace with I torn Mexico, which would justify It. Tiki. Iu R.-l.rV (Buy F..U TODAY IS HOTTEST T The ludlesl wc.it her of tin .vnr pri'Vdils iivcr the northwest tho first hwil wave .since June Hi. The ther mometer rejieheil H)0 Wednesday nnd stood t lO'J's lit 'J o'clock Thursday, with ro.-pectH of gu'miz still higher. The percentile of humidity, however, is lihl, so thiit the hint is not op. pressive. The iiilil continue conl, witli 11 -Ji-dc;i'ee drop in temperature. There hits heen little hot weather during the summer, whieh has been the coolest experienced (or several vein's. On June Iti the maximum of KM was reached, but the lint spell was of short duration. The weather bureau predicts con tinued fair and warm, with chances fnvorinji cooler weather Friday. lOI(TLAX!, Or., Aim. 2-1. The hihcM temperature of the year was recorded here today. The mercury at I p, ni. stood lit flti decrees, three de crees hiyher lhan yesterday. E SAX l-'RANCIHf'O, Aug. 2-1. The open shop was Inaugurated here to day by IIS firms ufflllated Willi tho Petal! Lumber Dealer's AbsocI.HI in :nn" ,lie HI"P owner b Association 01 (the Pacific Coast, with the result that more than 300 stevedores, according to union offlcluls went on strl'io In the lumber yards, with a promise that .StiO would be out by night. Secretary Kiton of tho Itlggecn MM Stevedores' union said the union hud no argument With the lumbermen. The lumbermen and the lumber schooner operators declared open j"'oi yesterday wben union stevedores 'I'llt two lumber yards, refusing '.o work with non-union stevedores Mexico?" lie must answer that ques- don lor himself and should bring to bear on It, all that, lie bus of reason, heart and conscience. lie should not answer until he has calmly considered what war with Mexico would mean that it would mean an army of at least ROD, 000 men, tens of thousands of whom would be killed and wounded anil the expenditure of hundreds of mil lions of dollars. llo should realize that Intervention In Mexico would mean war against a united people, a war which might lust for years und which would even tually result in the. spoliation and probable annexation of the country. illo should ask himself whether such a war would be worthy of the great American nation and whether Buy a reputation or tno Fisk Rubber Com- pamj -And. thoii seventeen uoarf of experi ence in lnanurActurin onlu the highest "rade pneumatic tires Fisk Tire j For Sale By Med ford Vulc. Works Me, I ford E CRATER LAKE I'ive represent at iveMviv- the flnz zlies, namely, Mr. ami Mrs. Hunce, Rescue Jnhnsnn, Miith Ilurd nrpl -fr. Xoren, recently motored lo Crn ler lake for n two weeks' stay. Camp was established nenr the lake und several inlcro.-.tiiig- (rips were taken. The one main event was a hike ttriminl the lake, which deserves mention since it was ' accomplished l'nr thc'i'il-st lime this season, and ns far as in known to .Mr. Sleel, Mr. i'nrkliiirst, owner of the hotel n! Ihe lake, npil the, Kovemiiieiil engineers, it" is the first lime that any women have pp in formed I ho font. The trip was made in tlfi'ee days nnd the necessary blanket;- nnl grub were packed. The route taken followed to n jjreiit extent Ihe survey for the pro posed liijrhwny nround the lake, r'roui camp the rim of the lake was followed to, Victor Idiek. then the route leading, nround the back of if. thchce iilnnjr the rim to Ihe Walcli inaii, over its face, then over (llu cier I'eak, l.lao Kock, Itugt-ctl Crest, lionnd Top, Cloud Cap (ihe highest point reached). From here the con structed highway was followed In Sun Mendows, then I lie way led across Vidua Ridge and alon Ihe rim lo Katjle Ciiirs, nnd then-skirted the out nide of Castle Crest, this being- the finish nnd by fur Jhe roiijili est part of the trip,' on account of the loose rock formation. During the greater pari of the trip the lake was in plain view. Variety was mill ed hy mountain ieaks looming; up and valleys nnd, lakes appearing soine liincs nt great dislanees, as Mimnl Jefferson, 1-10 miles to the north; the Three Sisters, nlouiit TiidKrln, Diamond lake, Mount Sent I, Mount Shasln, 110 miles (p the south; Mount Pitt, upper Klamath lake anil large forested ' regions sometimes broken by large pumice 'tints ' anil winding streams. North of Cilneier Peak u snow field about four miles wide was encoun tered, iu the erossin"; of which the party found ' that j'upid progress could often be made fiy"'sliiliiie'dowii Ihe steep slopes and dinging lo the pucks. Crossing- the snow i-h.-iugcil the complexion of eai-lj-onc4-ns-mi liurii which was none too comfort able. And al night it seemed -nsr if the e.xtreniesl Arctic cjjlds were upon us. A ruin the last night made it impossible to climb Mount Scott, ns originally ''planned. Melted 'snow furnished the water for drinking- n nil cooking and when the fiireign tastes were too noticeable Ihe coffee was made extra strong. The first night out camp was made on the north slope of l.lao Rock. A large bonfire built on the rim of tho lake was seen al the hotel, on I lie oilier side of the lake, and was'ans wcred hv signals with auto heinl lighls. The second day rain forced early camp on top of Cloud Cap. A second bonfire was built and was answered as before. The pnrlv pronounced Ibis the most wonderful ns well ns pleasurable MeJiUeeini; trip ever taken. The grandeur of the lake and Htirround in' country eaunot bo appreciated hot ore tak'nc a similar lrip. The highway, when pompleted tin Mind the lake, besides heinr an engineering fent, will unfUcstiinaMy he the most wonderful drive in the world. -und hould of itself he n ntlrnetion to touriMs. It follows the rim most of the way, often erosm- precipitous elifj., wide banks of piuniee, winds through forests nnd over niendovvK. Much credit is due Mr. Steel for his untiring' efforts in securing f:ivor- BARGAIN BALCONY BARGAINS M.I. DEPARTMENT STORE RELIABLE MERCHANDISE WAISTS 1 lot Waists 19 1 lot Waists 29 1 lot Waists 39 Values to .:!."0 CHILDREN'S DRESSES 1 lot $1.19 1 lot 98 Values to 2.00 BOYS' BLOUSES 1 lot, 50c values, specinl Saturday 25 CORSETS i i.t : 29 1 lot 59 1 lot 79 IT WILL HAPPEN M at The Biggest and Greatest Sale of Men's Clothing Ever Held in Medford The Daniels Stock Going on Sale Watch Tomorrow's Papers. Store Is Closed iil.ln IniMI'ilii.n unit tin iiiini'iinrilition ! whti'h is makiiivr this highwny pos sibln. Prof86or Wheeler of Kagle Point spnt Wednesday tn Medford. FOR THROAT AND LUNw aTCttuoitN loimis and tot-im Eckman's Alterative oij ii v ai.i. i.::aiiivii ujicucis.n SHOES 1 lot Cliildi-eii's Shoes at 49 1 lot ( 'liildi'cn's Shoes at 89 1 lot riiildren's Shoes at : $1.39 Values to 2.")0 MEN'S SHOES 1 lot $1.98 1 lot $2.19 Values to ,t4.")0 LADIES' SHOES 1 lot $1.39 1 lot ...$1.98 llotStnii)Sandals....98 Values to-HOO BOYS' SHOES 1 lot $1.49 COSTS NOTHING TO LOOK SaVes You Money When You Buy aturday ornin 1 0 a.in After Vacations MARINELLO Itelter Thau tiie IUit, Are Our Toilet preparations. ; MARINELLO HAIR SHOP, 107 fiaiTielt-Coi-ej- IHiIk, RELIABLE METHODS SKIRTS 1 lot 98 1 lot $1.98 1 lot $2.98 Values to 10.00 LADIES' COATS All prices. $1.98, $2.98, $3.9S, $4.98 SATURDAY NOTIONS BARGAINS fie Pins 3 fie Hunks ami F.yes... 3 rc Buttons ! 3 10c Two-in-Onc Blaek- inff : : W m- Shineola 8 ,10c Menilins Twine ....5 P.astiiiff Thread :.3
