Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-11-16
no THE VOTERS OF ASHLAND.

The fact that the opponents to the
5 charter amendment to be voted on
next Tuesday are acting on the asser.-
ton that the, money is not safeguard
ed, proves beyond question that their
purpose is to KILL the project.
First-It is plain that if the bonds
are not sold, no money will be spent
for it, will not be obtained and the
project will be dead.
Second. The hysterical effort
against this amendment is an admis-
sion that if it carries. the legal de-
fects that now prevent the sale will
be cured, the bonds be sold and the
enterprise put through.
If the amendment should be de-
feated, no bonds will be sold, no
money obtained, no safeguarding will
be needed and the project and the
city can be disposed of at the same
funeral, thus accomplishing further
saving OF money.
An adverse vote now would brand
the almost unanimous vote of last
June as the self-admitted act of peo-
pie who did not know what they
were doing; an overwhelming major
ity then convicting itself now of in
competence, incapacity to govern.
What, then, becomes of the principle
of majority rule?
The charter amendment creating
the springs commission last June has
been published at various times and
for weeks at time. 1t must be pre-
sumed that all the electors of this
city have read it and at the time of
the election understood it.
The campaign preceding the bond
election was one long to be remem-
bered; the majority for it the largest
up to that time ever given on any
proposition in this city, and the rati-
fication of that vote was memoir
able occasion for the very joy of it.
Nearly four-fifths of the people voted
for it, and all except the disgruntled
coterie that now oppose the legaliz-
ing amendment Joined in the celebra-
tion.
Every objection that could be
raised against the bond issue was
raised by these same objectors. The
safeguarding of the money, personal
prejudices and wild charges of cor
ruption and graft were hurled about
promiscuously by these same men,.
and the answer to it all was almost
a five to one vote in favor of the
project. Has anything happened
since that 23rd of June to justify
changing all this? The measure
voted on then is the one which they
say does not safeguard the money
now. 1t is now just as it was then,
and the one to be voted on next Tues
day makes no change whatever; sim
ply perfects your work of last June
so that the bonds that you voted for
with such enthusiasm may be sold
and your hopes realized. Do you
want to be advertised throughout the
length and breadth of the land as a
negative action now would do it?
Your action then and the purposes,
prospects and wonderful facilities for
building up one of the worlds great
est resorts have been sounded round
the world. Even letters from Europe
have been sent to us asking about it
People have even booked for mex
season at this resort. Shall we have
to cancel all that? Must we tel
these correspondents that our ardol
has so cooled in five months that We
take it all back? How could We
be more shamefully compromised
than to do so senseless, shameful
aye! so wicked thing?
But, is the money safeguarded
Let us see. The amendment as you