davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-07-23
For Sale.

Five room house, good well, hen
house and stable, lot 125x400 feet.
north part Of town, just outside Of
city limits. II sold soon $1,000. O.
buys it 5000 down, balance easy
paymenh J. n. ROSlEk'
8A Owner:
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
PROPER USE OF INITIATIVE.

No measure should be initiated un-
til it has been first brought before
the legislature. If the Legislature
fails to enact it and it is a matter of
Importance enough to the people to
amount to a popular demand, then
let the measure be submitted to the
electors.
No measure passed by an initiative
vote should be repealed by the legis-
lature. To do so is like allowing an
inferior court to set aside the find
ings of a superior court. 1t is like
allowing the employe to set aside the
hules of the employer in the conduct
of his business.
AS the initiative is now being
abused the result is i'll advised, un
digested, lily formed and unconsti-
tutional legislation. Every measure
should be given proper legal form
and careful consideration before be-
ing submitted to a vote.
The initiative should be applied
just as the referendum is applied
to force popular action in spite of an
unresponsive legislature That is its
proper function and nothing more
When it is thus applied the state
statutes will be less of a hodgepodge
Continued abuse will result in Ore
gon laws becoming a conglomerate
mess of legal hash.
Twenty-nine measures to be sub
mitted at the coming election. Some
mere spite legislation; some foolish;
some ridiculous and many in contra
vention of the constitution. Who, of
all the voters, are able to determine
and act upon all of them according
to their merit?
We confess it is beyond our power.
We are compelled, from Inability to
digest and understand them, to vote
no on most all of them.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
A Trick of Oratory.

Victor Murdoch says that the best
advice he ever received in regard to
public speaking was from a hack dri-
ver After making one of his maiden
speeches in Kansas he was being driv-
Ell to the railway station by the polite
liveryman.
Like the speech?" asked Victor.
"Yeh." answered the driver, "only
you'd get more hand claps if you'd al
ways put the names at the last when
you say anything"
Victor didn't understand, so the .dri-
yer eXplained:
You spoke of Henry Clay and
Grant and James G. Blaine and then
went on to tell about what they did.
You ought to go over the things they
did and then say, That's what was
done by Clay and Grant and James G..
Blaine! Always put the names last,
and the crowdll take more interest,"
New York Sun.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
KILLING THEIR BUSINESS.

Most of the arguments put forward
by the vets in this campaign are
clearly beyond our understanding.
The state is being flooded with sta
tistics attempting to show that prohi-
bition does not prohibit in dry states.
And these statistics are being circu-
lated at the instance and expense of
'distillers and brewers-by those who
have liquor to sell and profit most
by selling most. If prohibition does
not prohibit in dry territory, If more
liquor is being consumed under pro-
hibition than license, in the name of
common sense what l. the matter
with them? Why are they not con-
tented? Do they not manufacture
liquor to sell? Are they not always
alert for better markets? If prohi-
bition states afford a livelfer market
for the manufacturer why do they
fight prohibition? BY every circum-
stance known to good business meth
ods they should support 1t, If that is
the case.
Something wrong with their a-gu-
ment. Something rotten in their sta
tistics, or there is something the mat
ter with their business ideas Maybe
they are trying to fool somebody
The voters of Oregon are not FOOLS
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
THE CHANGING TIDES.
Causes That Contribute to the Rise
and Fall of the Ocean.

and Fall of the Ocean.
Many people regard the rise and fall
of the ocean as profound and battling
mystery.
The mystery really is not very hard
to understand. AS we all know, the
surface Of the ocean rises and falls
twice in every lunar day, this rise APP
pearing along coast to be horizon
tai motion-always ebbing or flowing.
Now, the lunar day consists of about
twenty-five hours. Thus. of course. the
time" of the tides varies each day.
The tides, moreover. do not always rise
to. the same height. Every fortnight,
with the new and full moon, they rise
very much higher than at other times.
These high tides are called "spring"
tides, the alternating low tides being
termed "neap." When the moon is
nearest to the earth the rise and fall
of the ocean are markedly increased.
Thus the spring tides are greatest at
the equinoXes-i e.. at the end of March
and the end of September.
Yes, you say, but what has the moon
to do with it at all? Surely it is the
sun which attracts the earth.
That is so. But. although the suns
attraction on the earth is far greater
than the moons. the moon is so very
much nearer to the earth that the diff
ference between its attraction at the
center ard on the surface is three
times as great as the suns. And it is
this difference which causes tides
London Answers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
Ashland, Ore. Thursday, Oct. 8, 1911
ESSENTIALLY PROGRESSIVE.

Oregon is essentially progressive
in political sentiment. Not, possibly,
in the sense of voting the progressive
ticket But men of progressive ideas
are popular at elections
There are some old line republicans
who have not yet realized it, although
the people have proclaimed from the
house tops that no others need ap-
ply. These politicians 80 right on
advocating reactionary doctrines and
standing for election. or course. they
lose. For them to win would be
illogical. Oregon voters. under the
present election law, do not need to
follow time-worn party paths and
they are not doing it. Only those
of known progressive ideas are gain
ing majorities. The Tidings woull
ask those who do not see it to an
swer by what token they account for
the election of prcgressiv democrats
like West, like Chamrellain and
Lane, instead of reactiondry repu'Ii-
cans like the candidates they defeat
ed in an overwhelming republican
state, unless the result comes from a
fixed determination upon the part Of
the electorate to clear the slate of
reactionaries wherever found, II
doubling Thomases will keep their
ear to the ground at the coming cleo
tion they will hear the rumble more
plainly than ever. The Oregon cleo
tion law is so framed as to get eX-
actly such results. Congressman Haw-
ley will go down this yea: with The
old stand-pat punch. And he should.
Progressive voters will not elect
reactionaries to misrepresent them
for to do so would be like endorsine
their reactionary view on govern
ment.
Every man has an absolute right tC
hold to his views, but he cannot hope
that voters holding the opposite will
support him at an election where tn,
issue is clearly joined.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
Mr.. HawIey's Record.

A recent issue of the Pacific Pa
triot. a prohibition paper published
at Portland, says:
We are sometimes, not often,
asked why we should oppose the re-
election of so good a man as Mr..
Howley." Until we began to inquire
into his official record the chief
reason was that he had never done
any active work in favor of prohibit
tion.
We find, however, some other rea-
sons why Mr.. Hawley does not serve
the best interests of Oregon people,
according to our belief.
LaFollette's Magazine of Septem-
ber II, 1910, is authority for the fol-
lowing statement of votes on public
measures:
Mr.. Hawley voted for Cannon as
speaker, for the continuance of Can
non czar rule, and for Tammany-Can-
non combine against revision of
house rules.
He voted for the emergency cur
rency bill, which strengthened the
Wall street hold on finance, and es-
tablished as security railroad and cor
poration bonds so that the United
States would have financial interest
| in maintenance of prices thereof.
Without question or suggestion,
within twenty minutes of it's being
offered to the house, he supported a
senate amendment of the appropria-
tion bills increasing the ocean mail
subsidy $1,100,000 and the costs of
the railroad mail service $2,700,000.
He voted with the system" pro-
hibiting the government to use secret
service men except in the treasury
department, because some had caught
land grabbers" of high repute red
handed.
He also voted to table" the Roose-
velt protest against that prohibition.
Voted for upward revision of the
tariff Against a committee elected
by the house and in favor of a Cannon
packed committee in the Ballinger-
Pinchot investigation.
Voted for postal bank bill favoring
Wall street, and against the Appala-
chan forest reserve, which provided
for the reforestation of denuded, bar
rem hills.
Lafollette's Magazine calls Mr.
Hawley a ME too" system man.
Such policy is diametrically op,
posed to the platform of the prohibit
tion party, which declares for econ.
omy in administration and for the
best interests of the people.
Illinois tired of Cannon and reject.
ed him. Other system" leaders have
been retired, and Mr.. Hawley?-well
we shall see if Oregon, where the peo'
pie rule, like such representation.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08

Hawley is not a republican con-
gresham. He is a reactionary. He
stood solidly with Cannon through
out the entire struggle of progressive
members to wrench control of the
house from reactionaries and place II
in the hands of its members. Not
a single vote did he ever cast in that
fight in the interest of fair play.
When Cannon voted Hawley said
me TOO" He stood for the Can
non czar rule and with the Tammany-
Cannon combination against revision
OF house rules whereby the power
would be lodged in the members. Not
only is Hawley a do-nothing, he is an
extreme type of standpatter.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
Calls One of the Wet Lies.
Portland, Ore, Oct. 2, 1914.

IOTIldHu, OTe., OcL. Z, ISL T.
Abigail Scott>Duniway,
President Taxpayers and Wage
Farmers League, P. o. Box $50,
Portland, Ore.
Madame In paid advertisement
in the Oregonian of this morning,
signed by your organization, Lincoln's
picture is featured and he is quoted
as saying:
Prohibition will work great injury
to the cause of temperance. 1t is
species of intemperance within itself,
for it goes beyond the bounds of
reason in that it attempts to control
a mans appetite by legislation, and
in making crimes out of things that
are not crimes.
"A prohibition law strikes a blow
at the very principles on which our
government was founded. l have al
ways been found laboring to protect
the weaker classes from the stronger,
anu L hCNCl Sdl SlNC my W
such law as you propose to enact.
Until my tongue shall be silenced
in death | will continue to fight for
the rights of man"
The above utterance is pure fabri-
cation and forgery. Abraham Lin
coin never made such a statement,
or anything similar to it.
/ will give one hundred dollars in
gold to any charity that you may
name. provided you will furnish proof
of the genuineness of the above al
legged utterance from Lincoln that
will satisfy the librarian of any repu-
table library in Portland of its genu-
inesness as an historical fact.
now call upon you to produce this
proof and get this money, or publicly
acknowledge that you have been
made the victim of literary forgery
by unscrupulous plotters.
In invite your attention to the fact
that your league" of one member is
posting bills all over Portland repre-
senting Theodore Roosevelt as being
against the dry statewide policy,
when, within a week, Mr.. Roosevelt
made campaign speetch at Toledo,
Ohio, emphatically espousing the
cause of statewide prohibition in that
state, and denouncing the brewers
your allies and hackers, for their ef-
forts to defeat woman's suffrage.
/ invite your attention to the fact
that your alleged League" of one
member is placarding the billboardS
of Portland, representing President
Woodrow Wilson as geing against the
dry statewide policy when, in letter
to E. w. Grogan of Byers, Texas, Mr.
Wilson specifically recommended
statewide prohibition for the state
that were ready for that step.
invite your attention TO the fac
that your alleged league" of on,
} member is placarding the billboard
OF Portland with libelous statement
, against our neighbor, Oregon City
3 falsely representing that city to b
bankrupt when the city official
I themselves declare that the city ha
{ prospered under the dry policy a
.. never before. ] am addressing yoI
1 in person for the reason that, &C
: cording to the statement of DR.. Cor
: Talbot, the retiring secretary OF tn
n Taxpayers and Wage Farmers
r League, you are the only person lef
t in that organization, there never hav
n ing been but two members.
In addressing this letter to 20
at the address given on your officia
IS letterheads. BOX $50, Portland, Ore
0 gon," which is also the official ad
dress Of A. NJ. Eppstein, the importe
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08

The other day stand-pat republi-
can asked sneeringly, who is Hollis
ter?" We answered he is live one.
He is the man that will receive the
endorsement of the people of this
district for congress. He is the man
who will wallop do-nothing Hawley.
He is a southern Oregon man and
will get solid southern Oregon vote
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
County Surveyor-DemOcratic Candi-

County Surveyor-Democratic Candi-
date Subject to Election, Nov. 3.
respectfully refer you to my past
record as a basis upon which to judge
my qualifications for the above
named office.
During the present term L have
been chief deputy county surveyor,
and have been actively engaged in
the practice of civil engineering and
surveying in the county fof the past
six years.
II elected, will endeavor to serve
the public in a manner that will re-
fleet credit upon the office.
A. T. BROWN.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08

Parents, if you wish your chill
dren to receive individual instruction
you should arrange to place them in
Mrs. Hardy's private school. Call be-
tween A and o'clock. School will
permit visitors after October g. 13O
East Main street. 37-tf
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08

The man whose vim has gained
business success without resort to
suspicious methods, and whose en-
ergy and ability will gain advantage
for the First District of Oregon from
the halls of the United States con-
gress.
He is Southern Oregon Man,
and worthy, as he is, should have a
solid vote, regardless of politics, from
southern Oregon electors.
(This is NOT paid advertisement.
The Tidings prints it for the good of
southern Oregon.)
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08

For County Recorder of Jackson
County, Oregon.
l hereby announce myself as the
democratic candidate for the office OF
County Recorder, to be voted on al
the general election on November 8,
1914. If elected, 1 will do my duty
as l have in other responsible posi-
tions that l have held.
LEE L. JACOBS.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
County Recorder.

I hereby announce myself as can
didate on the republican ticket for
county recorder. If elected 1 will
give my undivided attention to the
duties of the office. Election No
vember 8, 1914.
CHAUNCEY FLOREY.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
For Sheriff. -

Hereby announcing myself as re-
publican candidate for sheriff at the
coming election, l stand on my past
record of efficient service in the in
terest of the taxpayer, and respect
fully solicit the support of all voters.
w. H. SINGLER.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
For Sheriff.

I hereby announce myself as the
democratic nominee for sheriff of
Jackson county to be voted on at the
general election, November 8, ,f1914.
]. F. HITTSON.
present chief of police Of Med
ford.)
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
County Coroner.

am candidate for coroner of Jack
son county, subject to the will of the
electors at the November election. If
successful at the polls / pledge my
best efforts. w. w. USHER.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
Political Announcements
For County Clerk.
[Paid. Adv.1,

1 am a candidate for county clerk,
subject to the will of the voters at
the polls on November 8. My service
in this capacity during the last two
years is the sole basis of seeking your
support. G. A. GARDNER,
Jacksonville, Ore.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08
County Treasurer.

hereby announce that am the
republican candidate and nominee for
the office of County Treasurer.
FRED L. CoLVIG.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08

Fifty cents invested in Tidings
"For Sale" ad often sells a $1,000
property. Did you ever try It?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08

The Tidings is on sale at Poley's
drug store, II East Main street.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-10-08

manager of the eastern liquor corpo-
rations conducting the liquor cam
paign' in this state against the dry
amendment initiated by the people.
Respectfully,
E. A. BAKER,
Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League of Oregon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-27
GUARD AGAINST FIRE
IN PATENT OFFICE
Contract Signed for the In
stanation of Automatic
Sprinkler System.

With view to giving every protection
possible to the valuable records stored in
the patent Office in wooden file cases, with
only narrow aisles between, a contract to-
day was signed by the Interior Depart
ment officials for the construction of an
automatic water-sprinkling system at
points where the danger from fire would
be greatest.
For some years efforts have been made
to have Congress appropriate for build
ing for the patent office. where the rec
ords could be given good protection from
fire. However. that body has ignored
the request. although officials of the Of
fee pointed out that the destruction of
the patent Office records would mean the
the only proofs of patent cases are con-
tanned in these files.
Precautions Taken.
The strictest precautions have been
taken by the patent Office officials and en-
ployes to prevent fire in the patent office
files. and some time ago Secretary Lane
denied admission to the building to a
young man who struck match on one
of the file cases. 1t has always been
necessary to keep a double force OF
watchmen in the vicinity of the office
files SO that any fire might be caught in
it's incipiency.>
1t is believed that the introduction OF
the sprinkler system will greatly decrease
the danger of great destruction from fire,
although efforts will be continued to have
Congress appropriate for another building.
The sprinkler has been approved over the
chemical system. which some time. ago
the department proposed to establish. AT
that time plans were drawn for the install
laton of two large tanks for chemicals in
different parts Of the building. with hose
lines leading to the files. This. however,
was given up for the automatic water
system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-27
NEW WATER PLANES
FOR A|RB0AT AMERICA
Improved Style of Propeller May
Also Be Used on Trans
atlantic Flight.

HAMMONDSPORT, n. Y. June -
The Rodman- Wanamaker transatlantic
airboat is being equipped with new water
planes which, in the opinion of her build
ers, will make the hull plane with as
great load on the water as the wings
can carry through the air.
A new propeller is also to be tried on
the America. The blade is the invention
of a Buffalo man. who claims more ef-
ficiency for his propeller than can be
obtained from any now in use. Inc
blade will be tested on other machines,
and the two propellers designed for use
on the America will be attached on their
arrival from Buffalo, probably Monday
If the new blades give fifty pounds
more thrust than the propellers now on
the America as their maker asserts Will
be the case, they will be used on the
transatlantic fight. They are made en-
tirelv of metal and-weish thirty-two
pounds each.
Work is being rushed on the alterations
and another trial flight is planned Tor
today, when tests will be made to de
termine If the America can carry enough
fuel for transatlantic flight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-27
SAVES PASSENGER TRAIN
Pennsylvania Engineman Prevents
Thirteen Tons of Steel From
Falling on Carrier.

PITTSBURGH, June 27.-Stopping
fast passenger train in time to save it
from thirteen tons of solid steel. fall
ing from a height of 125 feet. Was the
feat of c. Ripley, Pennsylvania en-
gineman. of which his friends and rail-
road men were talking today. Ripley
was bringing his train into the city
under a bridge being built high above
the railroad tracks. AS he rounded a
curve he saw a car loaded with steel
beams get beyond control on the finish
ed portion of the bridge. and dash
down grade to the uncompleted end
directly over the track on which his
train was running. Ripley applied the
emergency brakes and brought his en-
CINE to a standstill just as the heavy
beam and car hit the track ten feet
in front of him. The beam was buried
in the roadbed and the track torn up
Passengers were shaken, but no one
was hurt. 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-27
IN MEMORY OF THE DEAD.
Tribute to Illinois Troops Who Died
in Battle in Georgia.

ATLANTA, Ca June 27-Gov Dunno
of Illinois and members of his staff to-
day at Marietta, near here, attended the
Gnveilins of a monument erected by the
state of Illinois to its soldiers who took
part in the battle of kenesaw mountain
during the civil war
The monument is of silver gray Geor-
gia marble, mounted on marble plat
form approached by a series of steps
Twentysix feet high and nineteen feet
wide at the base. it carries seven-foot
bronze statue of soldier. interposed be-
tween TWO categorical figures. For its
erection an appropriation of $4,000 was
made by the Illinois legislature
Gov. Dunno arrived in Atlanta last
night and was received b. Gov John NJ
Siaton. Members of the party will leave
tonight for Illinois
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-27
Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued 10
the following:
La Four l.. Raymond and Florence l..
Foster.
Harry c. Oberholser and Mary F.
Smith,.
Morton B. Mercer and Mabel V Kyle.
jeremiah D. Mackessy and Ethel NJ.
Hebbard
Agamemnon Floratos of this city and
Pauline Benin of Baltimore. Md
Denver B. Weller OF Charles Town. W.
Va. and Jessie Thomson of this city.
Charles l.. Cover of Covington. Va. ant
Nell E. Brimberry of Albany. Ga.
Leonard c. Redmond and Pauline Nc
Elroy
Frank A. PETER and Mary NJ. Bowles
Carl A. Mapes and Edna G. Rover.
William H Paul. jr.. and Lillian \
Helstein, both of Baltimore, Md
David w. Talbot and Clara E. Conner
Ernest Funder and Margaret f. Lusby
John J. Williams and Winona X
Schaefer.
Dalton E. Brady of French Creek, W
Va. and Rinald Duncan of Wilmington
n. c.
Neison L. proctor and Suella Finch
both of Alexandria, Va.
Samuel c. Mann and Mayme IL An.
thony. both of Baltimore Md
Marion l.. Harvey OF Corbett. Md. ano
l.. Genevieve Bryan of Baltimore Md
Harry c. Ashby and Clara f. Hall
both of Philomont. Pa.
Herbert w. Lynch and Ethel G. Sim.
mons.
Harry SchweitZ of Cleveland, Ohio ano
Cecilia Goldman of this city.
John H. Gehret Of Bridgeport, Pa. anc
Emogene Bear of this city.
Clare o. Ewing of this city and
Marie Murphy of Columbus, Ohio
Joseph Starry. jr., and Elizabeth ko
rab. both of South Richmond, Va.