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Ashland tidings Thursday, October IP.. 1012. Ashland Tidings SEMI-WEEKLY. ESTABLISHED 1876. Issued Mondays and Thursdays Bert II. Greer, - Editor and Owner 11. V. Taloott, .-- City Editor SUBSCRIPTION KATES. One Year $2.00 Six Months I-00 Three Months 50 Payable in Advance. TELEPHONE 33 Advertising rates on application. First-class job printing facilities. Equipments secpnd to none in the Interior. Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, Postoffice as second-class mall mat ter. Asldand, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 10, '12 BUSINESS AND WORLD PEACE. bUHTDE HERE AND IN THE ORIENT. If President Taft should die, and if at the hour of his funeral Major- General Leonard Wood should pro ceed to cut his throat, as a deed of patriotic devotion or recognition of the man who had passed on, the American people would say that it was too bad he had not been locked up in a good lunatic asylum before he had hurt himself. , Similarly, if the Japanese people Buffered so great a loss by the death of their emperor, it was the duty of General Nogi and all other loyal fol lowers to remain on earth and do the best they could to carry on the ends of civilization and progress for which their master worked, instead of quit ting the fight and committing hari kari. This incomprehensible Oriental practice is much as if a man, having lost his home by fire, should at once proceed to go out and burn his barn, to show how badly he felt about the loss of the house. There is only this to be said in favor of the Japanese attitude: It escapes the abnormal and morbid fear of death existing among the white races.- The Oriental mind, more spiritual than the Occidental, feels by instinct that the great forces of the universe are kindly to man. He sees that there is bread for the hungry man, and water for the thirsty. He doubts not that into whatever form the human bouI may be transformed after death, its legitimate longings Ehall be satisfied. In our American life, suicides are rapidly increasing. To commit that act for the Japanese motive of ex pressing a fanatical patriotism, is never dreamed of here. It is sim ply the act of a coward who shirks his share of life's burdens or the pun ishments for his misdeeds. Considering the stain which a suicide leaves upon a family name, it may seem about the climax of cad dishness to quit by giving your fam ily and friends this last kick. The first emphasis of the Interna tional Chamber of Commerce meet ing held the past week at Boston was given to the subject of world peace. If the foreign policies of the nations of the world were in the hands of the business men, instead of kings, em perors, nobles and politicians, the forts could all be sold for summer resorts and the warships used for Sunday school excursions. The incessant friction between European powers keeps the entire world stirred up, it leads to enor mous expenditures for the latest frills in armament, not merely across the water, but in this country. The standard of our naval expenditure is closely determined by what England and Germany are doing. Foreign wars have always been a favorite political trick of the old world rulers. When social discon- tent reached a high level, the people out of work and not enough bread for the hungry, the patriotic fervor of a war against a hated traditional foe would always convert political agita tors Into soldiers. If the police choke down free speech among revolutionaries and street corner demagogues, the spirit rebellion and anarchy is multiplied If you send them abroad with the troops, they may be killed off, and anyway they fprget all about their political wrongs. Of late years the enormous cost of war and growing sentiment against it as an act of folly, have usually led to the substitution of diplomacy for fighting. But the cost of armaments has become a staggering burden on the working man, in this country an well as abroad, and in spite of diplo macy it increases each year. The power of business has for sev- eral years been the best preventive of war. Many times when kings and diplomats would have found war the solution that would have cost them least, the bankers have stepped in with their refusal to finance any such destructive proposition. In 'every department of govern' ment the one problem of the day in the United States and Europe is to reduce government to a business in stead of a political basis. When that time comes, two nations will no more think of going to war than the gro cer will think of collecting his pay by threshing a delinquent customer FALL ADVERTISING. The month of October is peculiarly favorable to enterprise in advertising. The buying public is looking for new clothes and new house furnish ings after the wear and tear of sum mer. All other times of the year you have the dead weight of the buyer's indifference to. work against. Now the buyers are coming your way, their attention and interest are ex cited, and the merchant merely has to persuade them that he has the goods and the values. It is a time too when buyers do not expect quite the low prices that can be had at off seasons. A dollar spent in advertising now should save the loss of many dollars on goods that must be disposed of at a sacri fice later to get ready for another season. If you have any exceptionally good values for the money, they will be more likely to attract attention now than at an off season, because there is less price-cutting now to compete with. The merchant who has bought goods at the right prices will find them exceptionally welcome at this season before special sales have be gun. Tell the public about them! They'll respond! iiilUilllil.Iillllll.ilSiUliliilliiltiUliiliiUU I 1 The Home Circle j n Thoughts from the Editorial Pen WnillllMllllHWI 1HMIHW UNCLE WILL LIKELY DUCK. TO SELF BE TRUE. To thine own self THEODORE ROOSEVELT. (Eugene Guard.) Whether or not we believe as Theodore Roosevelt believeB, wheth er or not we would wish him to be the next president of the United States, there are certain qualities in the man that make him easily one of the foremost figures- in American history. Yesterday he testified before the senate committee which is investigat ing campaign contributions. The world's greatest financier and the head of the world's greatest cor poration had testified previously, but the appearance of neither of these men created the sensation that did the appearance of Roosevelt, the man. ' Whether or not his testimony is compatible with the testiiii6ny of others who claim they know, or whether we believe that it is im probable for a man to be in Mr. Roosevelt's position and remain ig norant of enormous money contribu tions to ' a campaign fund to elect him, we must admire the versatility and power of the man. True to his character, yesterday he dominated the committee he set the fctage to suit himself and testi fied just as he desired. He talked for over four hours, and after he got through more than 12,000 papers in the United States printed almost every word of his testimony for their readers. What other man in con temporary public life can you think of who would receive such consider ation and attention? Roosevelt is undoubtedly the most enthusiastically admired, the most hated, and at the same time the most feared individual' in our public life. This above all be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou can'st not then be false to any man." Polonius in Hamlet. In thinking of truth and in acting it in our daily lives we are apt to fall into a false way or regarding it as an attribute of great things,, a com panions to great causes and works. The small lie, we argue, can do none any harm and may make the road sweeter or pleasanter to someone. The little exaggeration, which will add interest and point to our telling of this or that happening, is harm less, we are pleased to think. It is true that as far as others are concerned .these little infringements may not entail any of the penalties of falsehood. But what of ourselves? What would men think of our com forting and our wit if they knew both were born of falsehood? What have the centuries thought of the men and women who were true to themselves and in that way, through scorn and assault, finally proved their truth to the best that was in men and matters? The truth that counts is that which is faithful to little things. It realizes the fact that before we can give anything we must in some way get it. So before we can be truthful to others we must be to ourselves. When we have achieved that, we have achieved a great work in the building of character, So John Bull is going to try to hale Uncle Sam before The Hague tribunal for that Panama matter. Well, we guess not. We suspect that Uncle will take to the underbrush, or ignore the summons, after the fashion set by good Deacon Rockefel ler. It is true that President Taft has borne down heavily on the beauty and blessedness of arbitration, but it is also true that in the treaty of 1908 Uncle agreed to refer all his differ ences with John to The Hague court, provided that they did not "affect the vital interests, the independence or the honor of the two countries," and this proviso surely lets Uncle out. What is Uncle Sam's interest in that canal? Commercial, without a doubt, and every Britisher knows that a nation's commercial interests are most vital. Uncle Sam's deter mination to give his coastwise vessels some advantage surely involves his vital interests, his commerce. Three cheers for independence and honor, but the proposition involved in this matter is simply that business is bus iness, and the whole world would leugh should Great Britain maintain that such proposition is not vital. There is one overshadowing ad vantage to the American people in the present political mixup. It is as impossible for the expert political statistician to figure out the prob able result as it is for the common voter. Nobody can tell how the elec tion is going. Under the old system a clever state manager could get a fairly accurate line on the situation. With such reliable information the state committee knew where work was most needed to carry its point, The political boss did the work and reaped the reward. Possibly out of a condition where the common voter knows as much .about affairs as the political manager the common voter may reap some benefits. A St. Couis doctor says the use of boxing gloves is good for the eyes. That might depend considerably on the other fellow who is wearing them at the same time. The people cannot afford to allow the issues of the national campaign to distract their attention from the county judgeship fight. It is of as much importance to the voters of this community that George Dunn be elected county judge as that their favorite candidate be elected presi dent. The citizens may differ on na tional Issues and candidate, but there should be no difference on their vote for county judge. Taxes are out of sight in Jackson county The community cannot prosper while taxes are exorbitant. The high tax levy has been brought about through the manipulation of the same gang which is fighting George Dunn Those who want the business of the county run on business principles, who want a dollar's worth of bene fits to the whole county for every dollar spent from the county treas ury, should work as well as vote for the election of George Dunn for county judge and W. C. Leever for county commissioner. Where does the Mail-rTribune stand on the county judge fight? It says not a word. It is plainly to be seen where George Putnam stands. He ds for TouVelle and he and TouVelle have their heads together half the time figuring out schemes to elect him. By keeping the Mail-Tribune silent the people have been fooled. Putnam and the Medford politicians are a slick bunch. In the past they have succeeded in putting it over on all the rest of the county, but their days are now numbered. They are behind the candidacy of TouVelle and that will defeat him. It was a big mistake for TouVelle to go into a deal with that gang. a She appears before me now, in thought, in the bright light of youth. She is young and beautiful so beau tiful, indeed, that one is filled with a sense of joy that anything so lovely walks the earth, The pansy has loaned some of its purplish depth of color to her large, dark-lashed eyes. No rich, red rose was ever sweeter than her lips and cheeks. Her brow and throat have the lily's whiteness, her hair is soft ly, darkly, glossily brown, and her beauty is topped off with a dimple in her chin, which gives complete ness to her loveliness. She is bright, too, and possesses unusual charm of manner. But the marble has a flaw. With all her love liness, when she could so well afford to be tender, she is hard hard in her judgment of people, unyielding in her hatred of those who offend. It is the cold judgment of youth. She has an ideal, and she has neither pity nor sympathy for those who fall below her standard. Her ideals are lofty and fine, which is as it should be. But one who has failed to at tain their height once, is not given a second trial. So far as this lovely creature is concerned, they are wiped off the slate. They have been weigh ed in the balance and found wanting. Therefore, the burial service has been read for them, and they have been laid away, with not even a flower of regret. But she is young in the very blossoming of her youth and fresh ness an dimpeccable purity. There is the chance that the years that try, may also soften her. There is the hope, that when she lays her youth away in a corner of the closet of life. wrapped in tissue paper, dampened with her tears, she may substitute, in its place charity. She is so young, so sweet, so abounding in promise, that it must be so. Suerly the guardian angel that watches over her destiny will whisper thoughts of love to her, so that her charity will reach out and envelop everyone who comes within the radius of her thought those in need of it especially, those in need of it! And this is the reason for the wish. I have in mind another woman, who sits in the shadow of evening. This one is not beautiful. Love has not painted depth to her eyes, nor given sweetness to brow and lips. She is an old, old woman, though her years alone do not justify her wrinkles. Yet they say, those who know, that she was exceedingly fair and good to look upon once. They say that her eyes were bright and her cheeks pink and her hair glossy and abundant; that her brow was white and her throat round and fair. But SHE was hard, too, with the hard judgment of youth. And she did not cet over it. The hard ness of youth became the hardness of age. She never broke herself of the hab it of judging people. She never formed the habit of loving. She never laid away her youth in dainty wrappings, in the closet of life, dampened with her tears. Instead, she grasped it tight, and tried to hold it by force. So, in stead of a sweet package of memor ies, fragrant with lavender and rose, it withered in her grasp, and dried up, and became as dust to her and she had nothing. She was empty handed for youth was gone yet she had not charity in its place! And today, look at her, poor, old, hooru-Qvil ii (i-l v wrotnhprl wnmnn! "B'JI ' " Upon her painted cheeks are furrows of hatred, around her mouth are lines of bitterness. She loves no body, and nobody loves her. She sits all alone. She is lonely, with the most pitiable kind of loneliness, for it is of her own creating. And so I would have the sweet- lovely young thing I have described, should this meet her eye, give pause. I would have her learn to love. I would have her seek out and find the good in every one. I would have her cease saying, "I can forgive, but I cannot forget" for if she has not forgotten, she has not forgiven. I would have her try to put her self in the position of the one she is judging. 1 would remind her that there is One who admonishes us, "Judge not." I would have her form the habit of loving. Then, indeed, might she laugh at the years and say, "Come on. You cannot harm me or rob- me of one good thing, nor will "your touch banish my beauty, for I have found a precious secret which makes me immune from harm of any sort!" m. WWT 4 IT T PurcMoumainwaiericc Reduced Prices on Ice FOR SEASON OF 1912 books. Issued for j cave money vy pun-ua"'B -r J " 500,. 1,000, 2,000 up to 5,000 pounds. 1 This is the cheapest way to buy your ice. X Delivery every day except Sundays. I ASHLAND ICE AND STORAGE CO. f t I . TELEPHONE 108 MMM"HfH1 I !! IUHHIIIIttMllllH THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM. (Fourth Installment.) The Courts. without discrimination against or for any one set of therapeutic meth ods, school of medicine, or school or healing with such additional powers as may be necessary to enable it to rfnrm offir ipntlv such duties In the The progressive party demands 1 ,, inn of the Dublic from pre such restriction of the power of tneVentable diseases as may be properly courts as snail leave, to me peoi i llniprtaken bv the federal autnori- the ultimate authority to determine fundamental questions of social wel fare and public policy. To secure this end, it pledges itself to provide ties, including the executing of exist in laws reuarding pure food; quar antine and cognate subjects; the promotion of appropriate action for 1. That when an act, passed un- the improvement of vital statistics der the police power of the state, isan( the extension of the registration held unconstitutional under the i area of such statistics, and co-opera-state constitution, by the courts, thejtion with the health activities of the people, after an ample interval for various states and cities of tne na- deliberation, shall have an opportun- tion. ity to vote on the question whether they desire the act to become a law, notwithstanding such decision. 2. That every decision of the highest appellate court of a state de claring an act of the legislature un Patents. We pledge ourselves to the enact ment of a patent law which will make it impossible for patents to be I sunuressed or used against the public me icBicittiuic un- I . ,,, i,Droc, f iniiirimiK constitutional on the ground of its m w. - Violation of the federal constitution monopolies. shall be subject to the same review Interstate Commerce Commission, by the supreme court of the United i 'e pledge our party to secure to States as is now accorded to decisions J the interstate commerce commission sustaining such legislation. the power to value the physical prop- Administration of Justice. jerty of railroads. In order that the Th nrneresRive nartv. in order to I power Ol me comiiiuuiij iu p.utu secure to the people a better admin istration of justice and by that means to bring about a more general re spect for the law and the courts, pledges itself to work unceasingly for the reform of legal procedure and ju dicial methods. We believe that the issuance of injunctions in cases arising out of labor disputes should be prohibited when such injunctions would not ap ply when no labor disputes existed. We also believe that a person cited for contempt in labor disputes, ex cept when such contempt was com mitted in the actual presence of the court or so near thereto as to inter fere with the proper administration of justice, should have a right to trial by jury. Department of Lalwr. . We pledge our party to establish a department of labor with a seat in the cabinet, and with wide juris diction over matters affecting the conditions of -labor and living. Country Life. The development and prosperity of country life are as important to the people who live in the cities as they are to the farmers. Increase of prosperity on the farm will favor ably affect the cost of living and pro mote the interests of all who dwell in the country, and all who depend upon its products for clothing, shel ter and food. We pledge our party to foster the development of agricultural credit and co-operation, the teaching of ag riculture in schools, agricultural col lege extension, the use of mechanical power on the farm, and to re-establish the country life commission, thus directly promoting the welfare of the farmers, and bringing the ben efits of better farming, better busi ness and better living within their reach. Health. We favor the union of all the ex isting agencies of the federal govern ment dealing with the public health into a single national health service the people may not be impaired or destroyed, we demand the abolition of the commerce court. Good Rouds. We recognize the vital importance of good roads and we pledge our par ty to foster their extension in every proper way, and we favor the early construction of national highways. We also favor the extension of the rural free delivery service. Inheritance and Income Tax. We believe in a graduated inherit ance tax as a national means of equalizing the obligations of holders of property to government, and we hereby pledge our party to enact such a federal law as will tax large inheritances, returning to the states an equitable percentage of all amounts collected. .We favor the ratification of the pending amendment to the constitu tion giving the government power to levy an income tax. To be continued. I ! RESCUE YANKEES. Three Vnder Compulsion Were Reg- King Ransom When Saved. Mexico City. Three American cit izens were rescued by rurales from the rebels, just as they were being compelled, at the muzzle of rifles, to write letters to friends in the capi tal, asking for money for their ran som. The men were A. B. Skolen, L. J. Slattery and C. J. Miller. They are civil engineers and were engaged on railway Biirvey work when they were captured by rebels and taken to a camp near Amecameca, 30 miles southeast of here. Their captors in sisted that tuey were probably spies or newspaper men, and in either case they should be shot. A body of rurales made an oppor tune attack on the rebel camp and the prisoners were abandoned by -the rebels. DYNAMITE SAVES DOG. Explosive Thrown Down to Opens Way to Freedom. KM Chico, Cal. "A dog's life might not be so bad, after all," meditated William Meek recently as he dodged the muddy caresses of a valuable hunting dog which had juBt rescued himself from a 75-foot well. When the dog fell into an abandoned well. Meek despaired of rescuing him, so he threw three' sticks of dynamite down the shaft to end his misery. When the n !se of the explosion died away the dog was still whining and paddling around in the water. Meek started home for a gun. As he approached the house the dog ran out to meet him. Investigation showed that the dynamite had opened up an old tunnel running into the well, and the dog had escaped with the rush of water. Scale receipts at Tidings office Bread No Longer Free in New York Hotels. New York. With butter selling at 41 cents a pound and flour at $6 a barrel, the hotel men of New York have decided that their patrons will have to "come across" and pay for their bread and butter now by the portion, just as thought it were an entree. So if you want bread and butter with your meals now it will cost 'you 10 cents extra, that being the price agreed upon by members of the Ho tel Association. Moreover, no more single portions of anything are to be served any longer to two persons. From now on, only one plate and one set of knives and forks go with a single or der. By these little economies hotel men figure that they can save im mense sums. The hotels that have actually put tne "ten-cent bread and butter plan" into effect include the Plaza, Imperial, Park Avenue, Wal dorf, Breslin, Astor, Manhattan, St. Regis, Prince George, Victoria, Mar tinique and Louis Martin's. Telephone your . social items to Miss Hawley between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. each day. Call phone 39. La Follette's Weekly Magazine and the Tidings one year for ?2.60. Mrs. E. J. Murray of Klamath Falls has sweet peas so tall that it requires a stepladder to gather them. Old papers for sale at the Tidings office. leatiifj Stovesi Before you buy that heater, call and inspect our stock, now on display ALL SIZES ALL PRICES P rovos Bmo