Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-11-02

as W. Lawson, IN writing to the
mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of
Oregon, says: The women of Oregon can
elect the next senator If they earnestly SET
out to do it.
Keep the terrific seriousness of this SEN
atorlal election before you. If this page
is sound to you your state, your country.
needs Mr. Hanley in Washington before
things get worse; things are getting worse
every day-you women folk know that be-
cause your butcher, your grocery, your
clothing, your fuel and your rent bills
show it. Your daily paper, your women's
journal, your magazine tell you, in Shrek
ing language, that things-rum. white
slavery, factory slavery store slavery, i'm
morality of all kinds-are getting worse,
and their getting worse has big, big
bearing on the big, big question of the
hour; "Will high cost living bring revolu-
tion?"
They may tell you that Mr.. Hanley is
not perfect. Don't let that trouble you.
none of us are; but you can put it down
as gospel truth that he is much better than
most of us. wish l was as good as Mr..
Hanley, and I bet that Senator Chamber
lain and Mr.. Booth do, too; if we were we
would be worrying less about our future
residence.
Do not let them" tell you that Mr..
Hanley is not sufficiently polished" to
represent Oregon in the senate. No one
doffs his bonnet to polish lower than /
do, and when / tell you women of Oregon
who do not know Bill Hanley that he is as
polished" as a thousand-year-old crown
jewel inside, it is safe wager that he is
polished" enough for the United States
senate. Abraham Lincoln had no more
outside polish" than Bill Hanley. and vet
history speaks of him as the most pol
ished" public man of his time.
L assure you that make this plea for
Mr.. Hanley only because | know thar his
election at this time will be another spike
in the Systems coffin of the brand Presi-
entsWison has been driving, and give you
my'word that neither Mr. Hanley nor any
of his people have any hand in this page
or even know Of my intention to write.
My space forbids me to give the entire
letter of fearful-of-the-future honest. in
dustrious citizen of Oregon, whom | am
morally responsible for BRINGING TO
OREGON AND THE CLUTCHES OF THE
OREGON END OF THE sYsTEM-the
system which is so fast driving our nation
on the rocks of dissolution and destruc-
tion.
i receive annually hundreds of thou
sands Of letters and inquiries from all
parts of the country, letters and inquiries
wherein the very bloom of American man
and womanhood plead with me for answer
to the question:: WHY IN THIS LAND
OF GLORIOUS PLENTY MUST WE. WHO
LABOR-AND LABOR SUCCESSFULLY
BE ROBBED OF THE FRUIT OF OUR
LABOR BY THOSE WHO DO NOT LA
BOR?"
II it were possible at election time for
me to put one out of each thousand of my
inquiries into the hands of every voter of
the United States, the next senate and con-
gress would be composed almost entirely
of MEN OF THE MIND, HEART AND
SOUL CALDER OF WILLIAM HANLEY,
with the rusult that writers of such let
ters as the above would in the next ten
years, with the proceeds of their efforts.
free their ranches and farms from all mort
gage. Believe me,
Most sincerely yours.
THOMAS w. LAWSON.