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" SfEDTORTf ITTTT, TRTlttTWE. JITTVFOTm. OttF.f.OV. MONT) AY. OC'TOTiFJ? 2. KELLY SUGGESTS E E To tlio Editor: Kvcry time Mr. ltulil f tin? Sun tfi't into tli-p water in his editorial controversies with tlie .Mail Tribune hn charm's V. H. C'linim, 1'orter J. Xi'fT, Kviiii lieiiines and myself willi furnibhinir some of tlm ammunition. While I feel KOinruhnt fintti-rctl by a elinrie of iiiiiif responsible for the really bright anil intelligent matter that adorns the pages of the Mail Tribune, I must, in jnstiee to its edi tor, decline responsibility therefor. 1 have inntle two contributions to the. campaign, one of $10 and the other un offer to jointly discuss the issues. You know, Mr. Iluhl, we have discussed the matter of a joint de bate, you and I. You said ymi thought it was all right from the Wilson htandpolut, which you said was a sort of u holy-rollor, new Messiah hysterical issue that made people get down and roll on the floor, whereas the Hughes side of the question was a matter of reason and common sense, that the people of Jackson county couldn't understand. You didn't pub lish that viewpoint, but il is generally understood that you entertain the old (itandpat theory that the peo le arc not fit to govern themselves. It has been u long time sine you tried any common sense on the read ers uf your paper. Four years ago you came near it when you supported a progressive platform, but ever since the war broke out you have been see ing red. Yon have trie, I to make us believe that the war was forced onto (iermauy and that her invasion of lieliriuiii was a holy and proper mis sion; you have been building railways to Mars and nbusing those of us who hail an honest difference of opinion ns to the merits of the scheme, and now you want your readers to be lieve that we uve all born liars and thugs. If you don't keep an eye on the thermometer, first thing you know your blood will he boiling, too. I nm n fisherman, and as such don't allow my blood to boil over occas ionally being called n liar, hut I do object to the written appellation by those who are stone blind, deaf and dumb mid totally eclipsed with writ er's cramps when it conies to writing the truth. Honestly, Hubert, if a railroad baggageman could see you handling the truth in politics he'd die with envy. Ilon't feel so bad about Jackson county the worst is vet to eome. You might help matters a little by sup pressing that new form of political blackmail inriicurnted by Mr. Tuozcs: ''Any one registered as a republican that votes for Wilson is committing perjury." Say it twice, and say it slow; you might lay off editorially on the kaiser's kaiididate, llerr Hughes, nnd get hack to that inspir ing thenici of the hyphenates, "Why did rielgiinn invade the Fatherland V or, better yet, try a little common sense on vour renders. Yours truly. K. I'.. IvELLY. Medford, October 2. OLNEY ENDORSES WILSON'S WORK PRESIDENT (Continued from pk ones Samuel Ko.m-nliorK. own r of tho Hear Crook orrhunls, and one of tho lx'xt known orcbanlistH of tlio valley, rtird at Surn-d llinrt ho&pUnl Sunday nftoinoon, October 1, after a brief Ill ness, nf pneumonia, awed . years. Ills renialnH will be shipped to Seattle lor burial. il r. KohonberR was born in 1M! nt Now Hnven. Conn., but for many yoant mode li Ik home at Seattle, where lie successfully conducted various business enterprises, nmassluR u com fortable fortune. He owned n la rue clothing store, the Motel Sorrento and M'vrml business blocks. Vpuu his re llrement from an active business rareer, fivt years ap,a, he purchased tbo Hear Creek orchards. romprlnin 00 acres of choice, fruit row near Jledford, nnd since then has spent his summer in Medford and bis win ters at Seattle. Mr. Hoseuhert; was one of the moM proprcssivo cttieus of the valley and Jlis loss Is deeply regretted by the community. Ho was one of the first to champion irrigation and other pub. Jic, moves and his loss ir. a public one. fo leaves, hrpide his widow, two ,nons. Pavid and Harry, who are en gaged in furtnim: on Kngue rivet. to nil-: rrm.ir It is not considered safe to it--water from the wells about the ch Kince many of them have not been cleaned or used fur spwm.i1 month or years. K. i. TitAVKli. City Health Officer. Oct. 2, If K- strike oifcr no exception. What the opposition cum pawners object to, in eluding repuhiiepu senators and Can didate if Holies liiiiielt', is not an averted Mrike, hut the mode of its ac complishment to wit, by the threat of n strike with in a time too short for ilue consideration of necessary legis lation. Hut twent v-eiL'ht republican senatorH voted against il there is no cloture in tlie senate and it filibuster aauist HI'jfctionnMc legislation us u recognized senatorial weapon. Why No Objection Why did not tlio republican sena tors resort to it and net all the time for deliberation they wanted? What was candidate Huelies doing that, he did nut make the wires hot with mes sages to Washington warning against the law the seventy-four re publican representatives who voted for it and urging the twenty-eight re publican senators to filibuster to the last ditch? Hut neither he nor the republican leaders generally had the nerve to face the situation. With ample means in their hands to prevent legislation until after its due consideration, they deliberately elected thht it should ftp pen r to be enacted under 'coercion in order that, after the great national deliverance had been effected, they might object to the mode nf its ac complishment. A pettier and more ig noble game of politics never was con ceived. In comparison and in view of the sudden and extraordinary exig ency sprung upon the country, Presi dent Wilson's course was characteriz ed by both courage and common sense. Takes Measure of Hughes Finding the ndmiuislrntion's record of domestic affairs uncommonly dif ficult of attack, the opposition con centrates iis energies upon the con duct of foreign relations. That sub ject matter being largely in charge of the president himself, the ordinary opposition politician naturally resorts to personalities -and finds such epi thets as "weak," aeillal ing," "fntii ims," "insincere," "inconsistent," ami "un-Amcricau" only too feeble (o do justice to his real sentiments. If more and better were rightly ex pected of a presidential candidate taken from the bench of the I'uited States supreme court, whoever took that view must have been treated to u rude awakening. No sooner wus the nomination as sured than the robes and ermine of the judge fell from the candidate as if by maic, and there appeared in their place the motley wear of the or dinary of f ice-seeker a t ransfonna tion as sudden as that made by the wnnd of Harlequin in tlie pantomime, and a transformation showing how thin is tin-judicial veneer and forever discrediting tlie United Stales su preme court as n t mining camp for high political office. It must he plain, however, that as regards the merits of the ndminiMrn t ion's foreign policy, strictures upon the personal qualities of the president I'uunt for very little, if at all. De tails and minor and iu-dguil ieant fea tures being omitted, an examination of its controlling principles ami ob jects shows, it is believed, that in the conduct of foreign relations the ad ministration has kept its rudder true and has won and deserved the respect ami gratitude of the country. Principle? of Policy These principles and objects have been : Kiist -To keep the country out of the great Kuropeau war. Second -To insist upon tlie exis. teuce and vitality of international law as determiniuti it own status as a neutral, and defining ii-, rights ami obligation as such. Third -To deal with the Mexican situation in a spirit of perfect fair ucsn and friendliness to the Mexican people, ii.nv suffering from civil dis sension and rewdulion to an extent which leave- a large part of the coun try in a Mate of anaichv. If. ieved on broad line-, the threat sinis and purposes oi the administra tion conduct of our foreign relations aie as jti-t staled, it i- pertinent to inquire how far thev hae been ac-compli-Mied. The supreme court can didate and ceu the iute-t hellieo-e of his followers will hardly deny that war ha- ln-cu aertcd and that the country i- now at peace with all the world. The ei p let-m i- that our peace is a pea e is a peace without honor, and that, it' national honor li.ot been coii-uHcd, tin- I nil". I Mate- would to day be lighting. With what emtev and on what i-. 'te? 'i"bahl the cneuiv in mind i1 tlcrniany. and the i-.u,- tieiman 1 1 n:hl I nine-.- iu in-thods ,if wi'i'tarc. vliollv nuleletiMlde I'loiil the McWpollll of A met i-an i ml; I - and America n lives. Hill whitt w.i- a pearcl ul, con phtc- ly unarmed and neutral nation to do about the matter? It was in no posi tion to put up ultimatums or to rat tle the sabre and to plunge the coun try into war with ("rriumv would have been a piece, of insanity sure tu be followed by national humiliation and disaster. There was nothing for il but to proclaim our neutrality, to be honestly neutral and to be always insistent upon our rights as a neutral and upon methods of warfare con sistent with the dictates of humanity. Hole of -Neiitial Trying The role of a neutral in any war is always most trying. Its interests are sure to be disregarded by all the bel ligerents. I )u ring the excitement and under the pressure of the exigencies of the fight, no belligerent is likely to stop to consider neutral claims or satisfy them, and the more obviously powerless the neutral through inher ent weakness or military uuprepared ness, the surer all accountability will be nost poned until after the war. President Wilson is not the only president who, while quite alive to wrongs done the country or ii citi zens, has felt that redress must wait until it could be enforced ns well as demanded. The voiue of Lincoln has lately been much in evidence and ex presidents and others have not been averse to finding resemblances be tween him nnd themselves. Yet, pend ing the civil war, Lincoln did not go to war with Kngland over the depre dations of the confederate cruisers fitted out in Kngland; nor, pending the civil war, was Louis Napoleon re nucstt d to withdraw his soldiers from Mexico. In view of the extraordinary diffi culties of the situation, the adminis tration is to he credited with a pru dence and patience which has kept our naturally warlike people out of the great Kuropean struggle, as well as with n diplomacy which has halt ed, iu part at least, the ip-c of one ol' the imet barbarous modes of warfare that even this war has developed. Nil nation as to Mexico Perhaps il is not so nun-h our re lations with Kurope as those with Mexico that the opposition desires to hold up to public condemnation. Ap parently if the views of the opposi tion had been entertained by the ad ministration we should now he in Mexico occupying its territory and its ports, and, by means of a necessarily large military force, repressing dis order and maintaining a strong gm crumenl of our own creation. As a practical operation, that would mean, of course, the conquest of Mexico, the subjugation of its peo ple and the making of the country in effect a possession of the I'uited States. Our utter unreadiness for any such adventure is vividly empha sized by our difficulties in perform ing what should be the comparatively simple task of policing our frontier. Apart, however, from the difficul ties and the enormous cost in life and property of such an undertaking, such a policy of war and conquest i at complete variance with the principles and ideals of our constitutional gov ernment. They require us to admit that Mexico is entitled to govern her self; that her people, like the other peoples of South and Central Amer ica, are entitled to go through all the processes ilud experiences necessary for their education nnd intelligent participation iu free government; while the proper role of the United States is to abstain from interference itself, to permit no interference from liny other quarter, and to insure the solidarity of the two Americas by se curing for our purposes and policies the approbation and support of the La tin-American countries. I phcUl Inlet mitioiuil l aw Of these principles the Mexican jMilicv of the administration has been founded. Its claim that it has been correct and just ami in the inierCst of boih countries, notwithstanding possible mi-takes as respects particu lar measures, cannot be reasonably controverted. In thus steadily beating aloft the banner of international law as the standaid under which all civilized peoples mihl eventually gather, the I'nited States has rendered an ines timable sen ice lo belligerents and neutrals and to all mankind. It has forced upon the attention of the world the truth that the proeress nf the race depend- upon the supremacy of law. It- attitude is now lending all civil ized countrie- to he considering how, on the close of the war, that suprem acy ma be re-eMnhhshcfl n prin ciple and made good in practice by the application id' such adequate phy-icai force a may be nece--arv. Finally, in the conduct of our rela tions uuh the count tii's of South and Central America, the administration has initiated a policy who-e aim and purpose i- well conceived and well adapted to modern condition- and requirement-. That the championship of neut v rights, a justified by international law, ha.- bi-en conducted with ureal ability and zeal bv the present admin istiation cannot laitlv be questioned, bat Himbes Miuhl INi What is only too likely to happen if as the result of the cominc election the preMdi-miafl tiller pass,-. into new hand-? As the -upreme court can didate iicce-sanly cannot siv what he ROILY WATER 10 BE EXPECTED FOR NEXT TEN DAYS City Kugineer Arnspiger state.- that following the advice of the state health officer he has instructed the Kogue liivcr Canal company to drain Fish take as quickly as possible. A full head has been turned on and muddy water can be expected for the next ten days, iJuring the next two days the city will be supplied from tlie city reservoir, and the public is re quested to use as little as possible for irrigation. Fish lake will he drained at once, and the city will use. the natural flow from the springs instead of stored water. A large force of men will he put at work cleaning up the reservoir site ami the removal of the debris and dead trees from the lake bed will probably prevent the experience of the present year beint' repeated. The peculiar odor and taste of the water is due tit decomposed vegetable growth and is common in nil stored water. It is not, however, dangerous to health. This is the first year any water has been stored in Fish lake, and tlie con dition is worse than will again occur. RUSSIANS SCORE SUCCESS (Continued from Page One.) "In adition to the heavy casualties Inflicted on tho enemy, the number of prlfloners taken has been Increas ed to 1200. Our casualties were com paratively small. Three machine guns were raptured.' PARIS, Oct. 2. Following up the advantage gained over the Bulgarians nt Kalmakeulan height on the west ern end or the Macedonian front, the Serbians advanced 1 VI miles north of the height and occupied the village of Kotchovin, the war office announc ed today. would have done if iu President Wil son's place, or what he will do if he succeeds him as the only thing he is certain about is the wrongfulness of everything the present administration has done his inducement to r nature the existing foreign policies of the country will be very great. Will it be a change to suit CJcr- many and the ultra-pacifists design ed, tor example, to prevent the Ameri can sale and export of munitions and to keep American travelers off enemy merchant ships.' Or will the change bo one to suit the militaristic end of the Hughes political combination. which would have the country get into some sort of fight without loss of t ime i The Cnrranza government of Mex ico is now recognized by the C.nited States and all other powers interest ed. Will it be deemed necessary tit antagonize the existing hopeful status by placing the Tinted States on the side of some rival Carran.a ! It is plain that sonic such changes of foreign policy are the logical result of the republican candidate's pre-, election utterances, and may be re-j quired bv the exigencies of the situa-! tion responsible for his candidacy.! The American people can hardly fail I to realize the danger ami to refuse to i put at risk the continuance of a for-1 gu policy which, as a whole, must ive their hearty approval, because clearly demanded bv the country's true interests. MRS. MAY'S LETTER to WOMEN More Proof that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- i poundRelievesSuffcring. ' I ? fff .ill Chicapo. 111. ' X sutTeretl from a bad cusoof fi-mulcilld. l.yilia E.l'inkham's e gc t u b 1 e Com puund was recom mended and I took about six bottles. It lived me up all ripht. The eommon symptoms of such a condition pain when walkinp. irri tation, bearindown pains and backache, nervousness and dis ordered digestion noon passed away. 1 look much better now than I did before, and I recommend the Compound every time for female troubles, as it did for me nil it is claimed to do. You have my permission to pub lish this letter. " Mrs. J. May. 354S S. Lincoln St., Chicago, III, If you have any of the symptoms men tioned in Mrs. May's letter, remember what I.ydia K. i'mkham's Vegetable Compound did for her, nnd try' it your self. It -s n good oM-fa-diioned medi cine, made from roots and hi rbs, and it ha helped countless numbers of women. If ynn need sprcmhh li rite to I.ydia I', l-iiikliuni Mi-tlii'lne Co. (Kiiil'uU'liliiill, Lynn, Mass. 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Have you callouses corns bunions sore, tired, aching feethot, tender, per spiring feet pains in the heels, ankles and limbs any foot troubles at all? If you have, you should not fail to avail yourself of this opportunity to learn how to overcome your foot ailments and have perfect comfort. Watch the papers for fur ther particulars and come in early. C. M. KIDD & CO. MEDFORD, OREGON