Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-30

Of the valley courses. Every new ac-
QUESTION of population, no matter
what town in jackson county ac-
quires it, helps Medford materially,
and every new industry located at
Medford helps the rest of the valley
correspondingly. If Ashland could
be fortunate enough to increase her
population fourfold the business of
Medford would be doubled by reason
of it. The towns of the valley must
hang together, or, during the pam
icky times sure to prevail until ma
tional policies are settled, they will
hang separately, for the healthy de-
velopment of one affects the pros
perity of all. and the depletion of
one works the shrinkage of all.
Medford is the, commercial heart
of the valley; Ashland is the home,
health and scenic resort. Their nat
ural development is and should be
along different lines. There is no
right cause for friction between
them. Let all of the citizens of both
cities concede that and quit their
baneful knocking. If people are
looking for retired life Ashland is
the natural place for them. If they
seek commercial activity, then rec
ommend them to Medford. One
thing is certain beyond cavil, the un-
favorable expressions of one city
against the other have already
worked great harm to both. There
is room in the valley for all of us
and resources enough to prosper us
all. The valley needs greater devel-
opment and it will take combined
effort to properly accomplish it. Ma
ture's vaults are full of wealth all
about us, but it takes people and
work to bring it forth. The milk
veins and udder of the Rogue river
Jersey are full and swollen; the but
terfat lies dormant waiting for the
ingenuity of man to transform it into
gold. We need people, honest,
thrifty, brawny people; those of
wealth and leisure as we'll as those
less happily circumstanced. There is
much work to be done, important
and profitable work. The occasion
is too great and the opportunities
too big to be hindered and dwarfed
by unwarranted and foolish enmity
and chickering's.
The Tidings believes it reflects the
sentiment of all the good people of
Ashland when it asserts this people
have no innate i'll feeling toward
Medford or it's legitimate interests
Whatever of bad feeling there may
be between Medfcrd and Ashland has
been engendered wholly by the un-
warranted attacks of a few adven-
turous buccaneers resident at Med.
ford and its narrow-policied neWsba-
per dealing with the people outside
of Medford. They have all but de.
stroyed the good name of that city
among its neighbors. The citizen.
ship of the Rogue River Valley has
high spirit and is of noble purpose
and it will not be spewed upon BY
any narrow and bigoted newspaper
without resentment.
Good feeling is desirable and i!
sincerely sought by the people O.
Ashland and we believe that is the
sentiment of large part of the peo.
pie of Medford. Friendly and help
full intercourse should be established
between every community in Jackson
county, in all of southern Oregon
for that matter, for our interests are
identical and the prosperity of all is
largely dependent upon the good will
of neighbors.
If Medford will put down, with 6
strong hand, it's band of banefu
bawlers, with its destructive misrep.
resentation of everything except thai
which contributes to it's selfish ends
put strong stiff bit in the
mouth of its local press, and ADOPT
broad and helpful policy, benefit
cent amity can be quickly estab
lished, but it can never be raised in
the opinion of it's neighbors as Ions
as they are illuminated and insulte6
by that band and it's publicity agency
It.. is but just to say that the Med.
ford Daily Sun has indulged in little
of misrepresentation and calumny.