Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-01-13
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.

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Gle brings which makes for profit, it
is the amount above what it costs.
The only thing damaged by the
late cold snap in southern Oregon
seems to have been the weather rec
Ords and the statements in the boom
pamphlets.
The man who gets SO per day for
six days in the week is better off
than the man who gets 81 per day
for three days. Those three days
spent on the streets often cost the
man a portion of the money earned
the other days.
The man with a grievance may be
a good workman, but he is never a
profitable one to have on the pay
roll. No man can serve two masters.
He will give his grievance time and
thought which should go to his en-
ployer.
Labor has been called "the curse
of Cain" In truth it is the greatest
blessing of a beneficent Father to
his children. If you do not believe
it ask man who has been confined
in prison idleness or an invalid who
is unable to work.
The loss from the frosts in Cali
fornia seems to be shrinking. There
is no doubt that it is great, but the
California orange crop, it is hoped,
will have as many lives as the Della
ware peach crop, which is killed sew
eral times every spring, yet gets mar
keted just the same.
Albion w Tourgee, in speaking of
Lincoln, says that the liberators of
the race have always come from the
middle class, below the abject poor,
above the soul-dwarfed rich" This
is eminently true. Roosevelt is to-
day almost the only figure prominent
in the emancipation of the people
from the interests, who was born in
conditions of affluance. He is the
exception which proves the rule, and
his training in the west in his youth
put him in touch with the common
people in way lifetime in the east
could not have done.
The Dunsmuir Plain Dealer in a
recent issue swipes an advertisement
from the Tidings headed "A Word
About Printing" The advertisement
came back to the Tidings as reading
matter in the Plain Dealer, and
while this paper does not object to
furnishing the gray matter for other
papers, the writer does object to hav-
ing his mental children come home
in such garb as the Plain Dealer
clothes them in. The sheet was APP
parently printed on discarded wrap
ping paper and was so badly offset
that 1t was hard work to tell what
the article really was. If the Plain
Dealer wants sits exchanges to ever
find out what it contains it better
get enough white paper so it can use
it for this purpose.
The Mail Tribune sens to be after
Sheriff Singler's goat" three big
heads on one page being devoted to
him, his office and his family in a
recent issue. Special attention is
given to remark of the new sheriff
that the coroner was the only one
having authority over him, the in
ference of the Mail Tribune being
that he claimed that the county court
had no authority over the sheriff's
office. The remark was made in an
swer to query of the writer and
he did not take the remark TO have
any reference to the county court.
nor does he believe Sheriff Singler
so intended. The court was inform
ally considering the bonds of county
officials and one of the court eX-
pressed wonder at the size of the cor
oner's bond. Sheriff Singler hap
pened in and the writer asked him
in an aside if the coroner was not
the Official authorized to serve pa
pers upon the sheriff. Mr.. Singler
replied jocosely that the coroner was
the only man who had any authority
over him.