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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
THE WHOLE STATE WINS.

The state at large against each one
of 81 districts-that was the real fight
whose climax came last Saturday and
whose elimination was reached the
first of this week when the road levies
of IL and l mill and ~ mills were
passed through the legislature. 1t was
great fight and great victory, and
while it was personal triumph for
Ernest Lister it was a greater victory
for the whole state.
No more stirring scenes have been
seen in the legislative halls of Wash
ington than were enacted last Satur-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14

many years, and people generally
speaking, regardless of their party at
fiilations of the past feel an abiding
faith in it. There is a sort of secure
and safe feeling that under the guild
ance of President Woodrow Wilson the
ship of state will be kept clear the
rocks with which 1t has been brought
in contact so frequently in recent
years.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
Citizens Welcome Wilson.
(Lynden Tribune.)


Our new president is a man devoted
to the highest ideals of public life; he
is a historian. student, economist and
a lawyer; profound thinker, a man OF
courage, who has the elements OF
statesman of high type. He is
thoroughly progressive and the citizens
Of our great republic have every reason
to believe that he will act for the best
interests Of the masses. Regardless
of party affiliation or personal prefer
ence, American citizenship welcomes
President Wilson.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
Address Marks New Epoch.
(Chewelah independently

At no time since the Inauguration
of Presidents Jackson and Lincoln, has
a president taken his place at the head
of the nation, with the good will and
confidence of the whole people, as did
President Wilson last Tuesday. His
inaugural speech marks a new epoch
in the office and awakens in the minds
of the people the ideal of true Demo
cracy.
In the selection of his cabinet he
shows true regard for the people, and
recognizes the United people beyond
the Mason and Dixon line on the south
and the Mississippi on the west, recog-
nizing the whole nation as it is.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
WHAT OF THIS LEGISL\TVRE.


nothing else, it most certainly must
have impressed upon the voters or
Washington the utter inutility and flu
tility of their present legislative sys-
TEN. Assuredly no body of men could
have been more misrepresentation If
they had been selected for the purpose,
no session more of farce, than this.
And we want to bear in mind 1t is
not SO much the fault of the legisla-
tors themselves as of the system. 1t
has been the pleasure-the opportun-
ity-- misfortune-call it what you will
of the writer to have witnessed the
legislatures of three states in action
He would not be frank if he did not
say that Washington's was the worst
of the lot.
This legislature is remarkable in
in that no one man or two men or
three stood out as commanding figur-
es as particularly capable, particularly
competent An astounding mediocity
of ability was displayed in both houses
and by the members Of all the parties.
1t was by no means confined to any
one of them.
Such things will continue as long
as the system continues. We may not
expect any better legislators, any bet
ter legislation, any better results from
the legislative branch of our state gov
eminent that we got in the session
just closed until we reform that sys-
tenn in some accord at least with mod
ern ways of doing business. At pres
ent It is too unwieldy, too mis-represen-
tative. too cumbersome to hope for any
good to come out Of it.
What we need is vastly smaller as
sembly. possibly one house, possibly
two, meeting more frequently and ap-
plying some little attention, some
little principle to the enactment Of
laws. A petition has been presented
to Governor Lister to call these legis-
lators together in constitutional con-
vention to revise laws. The best thing
Ernest Lister can do for Washington is
NOT to accede to that petition.
Here is one reason: the matter
which should receive the most serious
consideration at such convention
should be this matter Of revision OF
the legislative system. No body of leg.
islators in the United States, council
state or nation. will legislate them.
selves out Of job. Consequently we
could hope for no relief from this ag
gregation.
Let him limit the membership of q
constitutional convention to Is. If IL
is possible legally to do SO, rs able men
who would not be worrying about
whether they could be elected again
and Washington will get some good
out of a constitutional convention
Men who are free to act as their in
telligence and conscience dictates
they should act could do much in the
revising Of Washington's conflicting
unenforced and unenforceable statute.
and the reforming of it's Anticipated
legislative system, but men chosen a.
were these legislators will accomplish
nothing but harm.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
Deeds Illustrate Wilson's Position.
(Raymond Herald.)

The new executive has shown
came prominent in the public eye to
make clear his position by Deeds
rather than by words. and that he in
tends to pursue this policy may be IN
ferred from his inaugural address
which is very general in it's scope. and
leaves the methods by which he hopes
to accomplish the changes he deems
desirable to be determined later.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
Uurruh for Colonel Hank.

ISUlilV|TVF 'TTTFF TNtTI
We note with real pleasure that Col
orel Hank Jory whose Northwest For
am has been alternating like any old
grizzly bear during the cold winter
months. has got the red roarin' rag O
raction on its cloyen hoofs again and
is coming down the line after us bloat-
ed bond-holders with the enthusiasm
of a chicken picking corn. Colonel
Hank has been saving the Yakima Val
ley along with the rest of the country
so long that the ding-basted place
wouldn't be anything like home with
out him
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
Full of Promise and HOpefulness.
(Asotin County Sentinel)

(ASOtln county SentlneI)
President Wilson's inaugural address
was one full of promise and hopeful
tenure of Office in carrying his ideas
out in every day practical use, without
disturbing the business of the country,
which he hopes to do, he will have &C.
complished much; and many all over
the country who are now more or less
skeptical as concerns some of Mr.. Will
sons ideas, will acknowledge his great
ness in practice, as well as in theory.
Mr.. Wilson's address was model one
in many ways, and not so long but that
all people can take the time to read it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14

stamps the man as an intellectual ideal
list and the country now has chance
to try ruler of different caliber from
the impetuous and forcible Roosevelt
or the sane and conservative Taft
When we have tried all kinds we may
reach the conclusion that some faults
lie with the people themselves.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
Good President IL Verdict.
bridgeport Republican,

(BridgepOrt TopUDIIcan.I
President Wilson's inaugural address
was a masterpiece and no citizen can
read it without getting many good
thoughts and having more admiration
for him. He will make a good presi-
dent" seems to be the verdict of friend
and foe
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
Four Years of Prosperity,
(Pasco Progress.)

For the first time in sixteen years
the Democrats have president and
control of both houses of Congress-
There is general feeling of confidence
in the wisdom and ability of President
Wilson and well founded belief that
his administration will be successful in
working out needed and necessary
economic changes in the program of
our national life. Neither does bust
ness seem to be alarmed and every in
dication is that these United States
VIII have four years of fair clean adj
ministration coupled with commercial
prosperity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
Wilson Has Both, Brother.

(POrt Orchard independently
President Wilson's inaugural address
sounds like the honest outpourings of
a heart that loves the people. The
presidents heart is right; but to make
a successful president, man has much
backbone, than a soft heart.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14

(Kittitas Spok esman.)

With Woodrow Wilson's Inaugural
ton on Tuesday a new type of states
man takes hold of the executive branch
Of the government. Enigmatic and
sphynx-like, he has kept the politicians
guessing as to his position on the i'm
portant issues that will confront his
administration. His silence, his habit
of keeping his own counsel, his inde-
pendence of thought, his aloofness have
increased the inability of the leaders
of even his own party to size up his
future moves. They are in the posi-
ton of the small boy who knows he is
going some place with his father, but
doesn't know just where
President Wilson has the confidence
of the people in marked degree and
the traits that puzzle the politicians
are to great extent the cause of it.
He is man who looks before he leaps.
who thinks before he talks and plans
before he acts.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
A Prophetic Message.
(Spokesman-Review.)


President Wilson's inaugural address
is the prophetic message of states
man who has in him something of the
seer.
1t is not in the least political mani
festo in the sense of proclamation of
the principles or policies of party or
of a paean in glorification of partizan
triumph.
1t is utterly free from the oldtime
cant and rant of party politics.
1t is declaration of the political
principles that should actuate the gov
eminent of the American people.
This brief address for it has the rare
virtue of brevity, is the message of a
thinker on the philosophy of modern
government and the American demo
cracy to the sovereign people.
1t Is superb in the bredth of moral
sympathy and depth of ethical lang
uage and lofty accent of Pericles, Lin
coin and Gladstone.
1t reveals the pressure of social con-
ditions and moral forces on our newer
understanding of the purpose and
methods of government.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14

Even a slipper may bring its wearer
fame. Not the way father used to use
it, however.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
An Era Of Progress.
(Benton independently

(Benton independently
A progressive Democrat sits in the
presidential chair and he has surround
ed himself with progressive advisors.
And the nation says that it is we'll.
The hopes of the people are high and
Woodrow Wilson will not disappoint
them Perhaps never before in the
history of the country did president
assume Office under more suspicious
circumstances. Backed by the good
will of ninety million citizens, he
comes to his great task with a clear
head and with lofty purpose. Forti-
fed by his own sterling honesty, he
will be able to Withstand the assaults
of the INSCRIPTIONS men who will try
to make him subservient to their
wishes. The Democratic party has
promised the country many needed re-
forms. That Woodrow Wilson will
earnestly endeavor to carry out these
reforms goes without question. That
he will be able to accomplish every
thing, no one will claim. That he will
do much, those who believe in him
are certain. The country is in line for
an era of progress.
Wilson Best Educated President.
(Elma Chronicle.)
The new president is one of the best
educated men in America. He is a
scholar of rare qualifications, none can
surpass him as a ready speaker, and
he is writer of considerable note.
Woodrow Wilson is probably the best
educated man who ever sat in the
presidents chair. He knows enough
about the history of other nations and
of our own government to make an eX-
cellent president providing he has the
ability to make his vast knowledge
bear upon present problems of govern
ment.
Wilson has shown himself to be an
unaffected, democratic, American. He
has no frills, no blue blood, and lot
of sound sense. Here is wishing him
the same good fortune that President
Taft so generously and heartily wished
him; and may he be of great aid in de-
Gliding correctly the great questions
that are now before the government!
| Noble Concept Of Government.
| columbia River SUM
Woodrow Wilson's inaugural address
! is a noble concept of government. 1t
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
Address Should Be Carefully Read.

(Big Bend Outlook)
President Wilson's inaugural address
should be carefully read by every citi-
zen of the United States. 1t is one of
the most notable utterances made by a
public man since the time of Lincoln.
1t shows that our new president fully
appreciates the responsibilities of his
Office and that with the support and
council of all patriotic people he will
endeavor to carry out his task.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
President Keeps His Own Counsel.

yakima independently
The inaugural address of President
Wilson is recognized as a classic in
form and diction. an ideal worthy of
the man and winning universal in
dorsement There are many to say
that it is ideal rather than practical,
and they are waiting to see what he
will do about it. One thing at least he
has done with great success, and that
is to talk beautifully while saying
nothing. No man has better kept his
own council before taking the oath Of
office, and those nearest to him seem
to be still guessing as to what he will
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
(Big Bend Cutloo

(8ig Bend Cutlook)
We are now living under a real
Democratic administration the first in
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14

ICOIumDId 1tIVtT SUTII
Woodrow Wilson's inaugural address
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-21
RUMORS ARE RIFE.
Mysterious Surveying Crew Working
in and Around Ashland.

The work of mysterious survey
ing crew in the Ashland yards is
causing considerable comment in
railroad circles and renewing rumors
of shops in Ashland. There have
been rumors the past year that in
the event of the Sacramento shops
being taken from the Southern Pa
cific railway by the unmerger, Ash
land would>be the site of railroad
shops which would employ about 200
men. AS to the truth of these ru-
mors it was and is impossible to get
anything definite. Past experience
has shown it to be the policy of rail-
road companies to deny the intention
OF making such moves, even after
they were definitely decided upon,
but whether or not this is the case
now no one knows.
The rumors that come to the It'd
ings are that surveyors have been
setting stakes on the forty-acre tract
owned by the Southern Pacific ad-
joining the round-house and Yards.
and from remarks between the men
the inference has been drawn that
the site of shop buildings is being
laid. Local officials declare utter
ignorance as to the intent of the sur
vey and the proverbial clam is
loquacious as compared with the
members of a railroad surveying
party.
If this is the forerunner of shops.
Ashland will make mighty strides in
the near future. Two hundred fami-
lies will not only make business for
our merchants, but will make mar
ket for fruit and vegetables. Here's
hoping the rumors may be true.
while by no means sure that they
have any more basis than hundreds
OF such rumors in the past. It be-
hooves the citizens of Ashland not
to get excited over the matter as
even should it be true, it would he a
poor basis for an attempt to boost
values.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-21
INTRODUCES PLATFORM.
Democratic Promises Recalled-in the
U. S. Senate.

Washington, July 19.-Senator A.
B. Fall, republican, of New Mexico,
introduced in the senate today the
plank of the democratic national
platform adopted at Baltimore last
year which declares that "The con-
stitutional rights of American citi-
zens should protect them on our bor-
ders and go with them throughout
the world. Every American citizen
residing or having property in any
foreign country is entitled to and
should he given full protection of the
American government, both for him
self and his property"
The resolution, while it did not
specifically mention Mexico, obvious
ly referred to the present situation
in that country.
Senator Kern of Indiana, demo-
cratic leader, objected to considera-
ton of the resolution, because it
was offered under suspicious circum-
stances"
The matter went over without fur
ther comment.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-21
TO DEPORT AGITATOR
Portland Officials Give DIR. Marie
Equi Choice of That or the
Penitentiary.

Portland, July 1S.-As the result
of last nights street uproar and riot
ing in which probably so heads were
cracked and 16 persons arrested, the
authorities have ordered DR.. Marie
Equi, one of the most violent of the
rioters, out of the state; Sheriff
Word has dispatched squad of dep
uties into the North End to arrest
as vagrants all who cannot explain
their presence there; the sheriff has
sworn in a large number of special
deputies to assist in quelling any flu
ture disturbances; also has held four
loiterers near the Oregon Packing
Company's plant on the East Side
and threatened to arrest all those
who loafed around there another day.
Word and the police are handling
the aggravated situation with a firm
hand. If the rioting in the streets
at night cannot be suppressed in any
other way the fire department will
be asked to hose down the mob.
Such heroic treatment will not be
resorted to until less drastic meas
ures have failed. But, according to
both the mayor and the sheriff, one
thing is going to happen, and that
is: There will be no street speaking
and no use of vicious and indecent
language.
The mayor issued a statement this
morning warning all citizens to keep
Off the streets at night and by all
means not to congregate around cor
ners where disturbances are likely
to occur.
The most startling development of
the present I. w. w. turmoil came
when Sheriff Word, after a confer
ence with Chief of Police Clark, noti-
fled friends of DR.. Marie Equi that
they could have the choice of re-
straining her in sanitarium, having
her committed to the insane asylum,
sent to the penitentiary or removed
from the, state, permanently. DR..
Equi was one of the ten rioting wom-
en- arrested at Sixth and Washington
streets last night and one of the four
who were kept in the county Jail
overnight. She was held under $3.50
bail with four specific charges
against her, disorderly conduct, incit-
ing a riot, carrying concealed weap-
ons and assault with a deadly
weapon. When she was overpow-
cred by Sheriff Word and Chief Dep
uty Frank Curtis she carried big
section of gaspipe in one hand, a
heavy club in the other, and when
she was landed at the city Jail she
stabbed Policeman Larry Evans in
'he wrist with long hatpin.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-21
Some Tall Grain,

]. w. Millner, residing near the
normal, presents the Exhibit Build
ing with samples of extra thrifty oats
and timothy, six feet and ten inches
in height. Mr. Millner is also to fur
nish specimens Of grain for the east
ern land shows.
G. M. Granger furnishes samples
of alsike clover which tip the bean"
nine feet high. This was grown on
his premises on Granite street, and
Mr.. Granger throws in a sunflower
for good measure which is nearly as
high as the clover.
Bert Freeman has left at the Com
mercial Club rooms a cauliflower
equal in circumference to a fair-sized
umbrella.
Tom Praytor, living on Granite
street, donates a Spanish radsh a
foot in length by II inches in cir
cumference.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-21
WILL FIGHT WHISKEY
Millionaire 'Timberman Gives Twen-
ty-five Fountains to City of
Portland.

Portland, Ore, July 16.-First
having provided an adequate substi-
tute for whiskey in the form of a
gift of 20 bubbling fountains for
Portland, S. Benson, millionaire tim
herman, is fairly launched on his
project to wipe out, by constitutional
amendment, every distillery in the
United States.
Although he is a total abstainer
himself, Mr.. Benson does not propose
to place this constitutional amend
ment restriction upon the manufac-
ture of beer or wines, because of the
honest difference of opinion prevail
ing among medical experts as to the
harmful nature of these beverages
But declaring whiskey and kindred
spirituous fluid poisons, he would
stamp them out 'as one would stamp
out poisonous serpent in the lane"
For the preliminary work of wiping
out whiskey Mr.. Benson has made an
appropriation of $4,000 which he
will draw on as heavily as is neces-
sary.
II have the money" said Benson,
"and l believe it my duty to use it
for humanity. We have entered into
this fight from the standpoint of eco
nomics. Religion does not enter into
it at all. Our fight is a strictly bust
ness proposition, and will be conduct
ed strictly on business lines. The
fight may take two years or ten.
l personally have nothing to win or
lose, but have seen the misery
which whiskey produces. have seen
bright, energetic men in my lumber
camps become worthless simply
through the appetite for drink.
Information l have gathered
shows that a billion dollars is annu-
ally spent over saloon bars for liquor
bearing high percentage of alcohol
Seventy million dollars is invested
in the manufacturing end of this So
called industry. This is a sore that
should be removed from our national
economic life. State legislatures can
not do it. 1t rests upon the govern
ment to take the step"
Benson believes the plan he has
tentatively mapped out will not prove
too great a financial catastrophe
upon the men engaged in the busi-
ness. He proposes to allow them five
years to go out of business after the
amendment becomes a law.
For more than a year he has had
this idea in view His counsel, E. E.
Coovert, of Portland, has been in
Washington comforting with legisla-
tors and investigating further into
the liquor question.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-21

very spirited. No one seemed to
yearn for office. The following final
ly consented to do the honors and
were unanimously elected Mrs.
Elizabeth Van SAINT, president; Mrs.
Harry Andrews, vice-president; Mrs.
Sylvester Patterson, second vice-pres-
ident; Mrs. Jennie Greer, secretary;
Mrs. E. E. Miller, treasurer.
The outlook for the coming year is
hopeful.
The club is anxious to build a re-
tanning wall above the city park, as
it is much needed.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-07-21
Gave Birthday Dinner.

Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Pohland enter
tanned at dinner last Wednesday
evening at their beautiful home on
the Boulevard, in honor of Mrs. Poh-
lands birthday. A delightful dinner
was served to the following relatives
and friends: Mr.. and Mrs. H. c.
Stock, Mr. and Mrs ]. H. Rocho, Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Walker, Mr. and Mrs.
A. j. Biegel, Mrs. Schilling and Mrs
Buerstatte of Ashland, ana Mrs. Reh-
bein of Manitowoc. Mich. Mrs
Buerstatte is Mrs. Pohland's mother
Mrs. Rehbein and Mrs. Biegel are sis.
ters, and Mrs. Walker and Mrs
Schilling her daughters.