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THE COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16, 1911 EVENING EDITION. fc- ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Puro MAKES HOME BAKING EASY (&$ $&f more tasty, cieaniy wholesome than the ready- and made found at the flayml Cook Uook-DOO ftoomtptm-rret, Smntt Nmmm mnd Attdrmmu, nOYAL DAKIHQ POWDER Ca, NCW YORK. 4 4 " BUNCOMBE " . S BY A. S. Tho following 1b tho complcto ro port of thu nddress of A. S. Hum mond before thu Lincoln bnnquct: "Mr. Toa8tma8ter: "There was Introduced In tho Ore gon loglslnturo, recently, n resolution which solomnly declared that "Ore gon tins tho best system of govern mont In tho world." Tho resolution wns not ndoptod; which goes to show, 1 think, that tho Oregon loglslnturo la Improving. I Intend to submit to Mint loglalaturo a substttuto for that resolution which will rend as follows: Resolved, That tho pcoplo of Ore gon aro tho wisest pooplo in tho world nnd U'lten Is their prophet. If tho legislature rofuses to ndopt (IUh resolution I shall begin to bollovo Mint Mint body of nion In not ns fool ish iih soma pooplo Biipposo. I am not ono of thoso who bollovo Unit we, tho pcoplo of Oregon, havo absorbed nil tho wisdom In tho world, nor do I bollovo that our Bystom of government Is absolutely perfect. I think that there Is still a chanco for us to learn something. I bollovo that our forefathers, tho men who plan ned and bullded thu syHtem of gov ernment under which tho United Sta tes has grown to ho whnt It is, wero not, for tho most part, either fools or knaves. I bollovo that tho men who woro tho founders of tho State of Oregon, would compare favorably with U'lten and Jonathan Uourne. I bollovo Hint wisdom was as common n commodity In tho days of old aa, It is today. So bollovlng, I hnvo yet to bo con vinced that everything Unit has been , dono In the past was wrong, and that ovorythlng new Is right or oven an Improvement. I am always suspicious of a man who Is forever prntlng about his own honesty. Llkowlso I am Inclined to doubt tho sincerity of tho politician who Is forevor prntlng about the people with n big P. This Is n kind of bun combe Mint Is particularly denr to the IS YOUR SKIN ON FIRE? Does It seem to you Mint you can't stnnd nnother minute of that awful, burning Itch? That it .Ml'ST bo cooled? Thnt you Ml'ST hnvo relief? Oet a mixture of Oil of Winter green, Thymol, and other soothing Ingredients as compounded only in D. I. D. Prescription. The vory llrst drops STOP that awful burning Instantly! Tho first drops soothe nnd heal! D. D. I), gives you comfort clonu ses the skin of nil lmpurltlos and washes nway plmplos nnd blotches ovor night! Tnko our word on it as your locnl druggist. Got a $1.00 or a 25 cent bottlo today.--Rod Cross Drug Store. Light Biscuit Delicious Cake Dainty Pastries Fine Puddings Flaky Crusts and the food is finer, sliotf or grocery. HAMMOND self-styled reformer. Ho spenks of the people as of n mysterious God of whom ho Is the only prophet. Ho seems to think the people aro almost as wise iih ho Is himself. Ho tells you thnt If yon will lenvu thu malting of laws to "Mo" nnd the IH'ople, "everything will bo lovely. Under thu dtvliiu gulannce of this un coiiHclmiH Individual wo of Oregon hnvu already accomplished much. Tho political boss IniH been overthrown and In his place wo havo thu bunco- steerer. The boss Is dead; long llvo the bunco-steerer. In thu place of Dolph and Mitchell who woro at cross purposes wo hnvo tho Gold Dust twins, Hoiirnu and Chamberlnln who are of one nccord In ovorythlng. In place of Hurvoy Scot ns whip wo hnvu U'lten as Lookout. Who shall say that wo aro not advancing. To bo sure these Gold Dust twins have not accomplished anything for Ore gon except, perhaps, to help promote the development of Irrigation In Ida ho; but has not u great priuclplo been upheld. No mutter If thews men nre or no use to us nt least they were elected by tho puoplo. A corrupt nml servile legislature was compelled to do tho people's will. It may ciuiho you who know Jonathan Hourne to wink the other eye, when you read of him In the Ladles Homo Journal as the exponent of n great reform movement; but whon you re member that he was once engaged In corrupting a legislature with the very effective weapons wine mid wo men; mid you now beheld him as the pure patriot, standing as a bright mid shilling light exemplifying the purifying effects of "Statement No. 1." You will, If judge you correct ly, be compelled to wink both eyes to hide your tears for It Is, Indeed, a Hlght to make angels weep. Then consider the great things that have been accomplished In the way of re form legislation. Just think! Under the corrupt rule of tho old bosses we used to see men openly walking the streets on election day with hor rid campaign buttons, brazenly ills played on the lapels of their coats. Now mi)' one caught so demeaning himself would bo clapped Into Jail. Then we used to have a constitution which said that all property must hear Its equal burden of taxation, hi other words that a man who owned 10 thousand dollars worth of prop erty should pay 10 times ns much tax ns a man who owns only 1 thousand dollars worth of property. Hut now that all has been douo nway with, and the several counties in the state may designate what property shall bo taxed mid what not; so It Is now lawful for Coos county to provide that only nlfalfn shall bo taxod In Coos county whilo Jnckson county may provide that only clams be tax od In Jackson county. Quito likely such n law would ruin tho clam In dustry lu Jacksou county aud tho nl- fnlfn Industry In Coos county; but, ns nil other property would cscnpe tnxntlon It would result In n most j Ideal condition of nffnlrs. These nre 'only n few of the beautiful results of our beautiful system. Of course. i there are some drawbacks; for In stance In the general scramble to 'change everything. Including the con- stitutliiii of tho stnte, wo hnvo got the wires crossed In several places. We I hnve even abolished tho constitution of the United States or tried to do so. It used to be provided In nil .consti tutions that "Tho right of trial by Jury shall remain inviolate." In the history of tho world millions of men hnvo given their lives to get thnt pro vision Into tho 1)111 of nights. Every government In every civilized country In the world has adopted It; hut wo of Oregon, with our reform broom, hnvo brushed this provision nsldo ns though It were n cob-web or nt least, such Is the opinion of ninny lnwyers; nnd tho Inw Is left In such a Jumble thnt thu supreme court hns Just sent out n distress cnl) asking tho lawyers of the state to come to Its relief by Ming briefs or making ornl arguments In cortnln enses now ponding, to the end thnt thnt co'iU may ho enabled to come to soiuo con clusion, as to what our constitution does mean, as It Is now amended. The fact Is that our constitution litis been operated on so often, nnd In such n clumsy manner that no ono knows whether It Is n constitution or n loose-lcnf scrap-book. If not only has had Its vermiform appendix ro moved inn It has lost both hend nnd tall nnd ninny of Its intestines; so Mint it Is now extremely doubtful whether tho pntlont will survive. It Is believed In some quarters thnt this cutting nnd slashing by unskilled hnnds Is likely to pro'duco a miscar riage of Justice. TImo was when wo rovored tho Constitution nnd thu flng. lu tho great march of progress, how times chnuge. Who reveres tho constitution now? TImo wns whon nil palatum who madc claim to decency respected tho Inw. Who respects tho lnw now? Once tho constitution was a boncon light set upon n llrni monument In tended to withstand tho onslaughts of tho chuiiglng waves of popular cla mor. It could then only hu changed or extinguished after mature delibera tion and by concerted action of 2-3 of the peoplo. Now tho constitution Is a "wlll-o-tho-wisp" In tho fog, Bet upon a wavering reed, swayed by every cranky breeze, it can bo snuffed out jC(l ,,y tll0 C0Htnntly Increasing nuni In n day by a small minority of tho)))or of crnny mJ f0llali laws. A poople. government llko ours Is, aud must be, Once tho laws woro conparatlvely f0mlc,i ,, respect for law. Every few and woro acquiesced In by every ! foolish Inw Is n stopping stono to body Mint wns nnyhody. nnnrchy. Leglslntlon Is dangerous at Now tho laws uro so nuniorous, so't,10 ,,eat Kvoll ft K00d ,nw ia ikoly compllented nnd so at cross purposes j to Imvo onom08 nnd every enemy of that no ono knows what they all ,uw Ih ft ,,inBOr to society, mean and no ono has nny respect for J ono fault Mint I lliul with tho Inl thoso thnt don't suit him. jtlatlvo Is that It mnkes leglslntlon too My father mid your father rospect- om)y, Tho tnlk nbout tho people ed tho law because It wis tho law. f nmilng tho laws under this system as We obey tho law when wo hnvo to. ( t now exists, Is buncombe, puro nnd Tho reason Is not for to seek, haw simple. limiting has become tho fad of tho! Thero has nevor been nnd never hour. Wo mako laws upon overy j WU ho n lnw niadu by thu peoplo un conceivable subject nnd through "llio,,ior this systoiu. Tho laws which Initiative" wo havo thrown tho doors hnvo been adopted by tho Inltlntlvo wide opon to every crank and fana-, method woro nuule by ono or two or tie. lorinerly n crank had to get nt most by half a doen nion. The olectod to tho legislature before ho people had nothing to do with It, ex could do any damngo. Now every .copt to answer yes or no when their crank in tho stnto Is at liberty to lul-jnaines were cullod. It Is star chniu tlate ns many fool bills as ho pleases; ; bur proceedings. One man gets up a and as only a few misleading words j bill to suit himself. Tho denr poo nbout these bills nmy bo on tho bnl-'plo aro not consulted nt nil nbout tho lot, ninny of these fool bills uro bound drafting of tho bill. .Mr. U'lten or to becomo laws. 1 do not clnlm that, Mr. Iiourno nttends to thnt. When all tho fool laws havo been enncted.ho hns this lilli noii m. t. s..w i,i,. through tho Inltlntlvo; but Mint tho Initiative, ns nt present constituted, lla enabled every crank to become , n legislator. , Now the profound mlstnko inndo y iraiihs ami so canon reformers generally is this. They tnko it for j number of nnmes If tho prico offored granted Mint nil laws nro going to bo' canvassers Is high enough, obeyed. If this woro true, you would I Whero do the people come In up only have to pass a law ngnlnst It tojto Mils point? Tho bill now goos oradlcato every evil on tho world. ' unon the ballot nml is nut ........ it These buuconibo reformers forget that "government dorlves Its Just powers from tho consent ot the gov erned." hi other words, laws aro enforced by public opinion. Moreover, ns thoso opposed to n law havo to bo compel- led, to obey; that Is their personal wlshos and Inclinations must be ovor- couio In some way before the lnw can bo enforced, therefore the public opinion that will onforco u law must ,,a8sed nt tho Inst oloctlon which pro be overwhelming. Tho force of pub-aes for n verdict bv three-fourths lie opinion must be greater Minn the 0f njury. This hill provides thnt n iwrce in resisiauce; mm ns tnoso who resist are always active because they don't want to do what they don't Last Week We Advertised a Three-Day Suit and Overcoat Special IK rA 1 11 i a ) Bandon Hub Clothing Olid SKOe CO. Marshfield want to do, nnd as public opinion Is only active when It Is aroused and because public opinion menus the opi nion of the public not half the public, but a very lnrgo ninjority of thu pub lic so all Inws that arouse thu ac tive antagonism of n largu minority of tho peoplo are bound to full. To lllustrnto 09 pur cent of the people aro In fnvor of the law against highway robbery and tho result Is thnt this lnw Is au well enforced ns any merely liiimnn Inw enn bo. On the other hand tnko the case of prohi bition. A few years ago Tillamook county voted dry by n small ninjority, and tho law was so openly nnd fre quently vlolnted Mint nt the Inst elec tion the disgusted citizens voted Til lnmook wet again. One of thu Cir cuit Judges who Is now n supromo Judge of this state told me thnt nt thu lcndlnc hotel lu Tillamook, dur- ng th(J (,ry 80n80ll ll0 chased thu vilest whiskey ho over drnnk. And so It goes. To hnvo u lnw abiding pcoplo you must hnvo a law lespectlng peoplo; mid If half of the pcoplo think half of thu laws aro fool ish mid If some of the peoplo think all of tho laws nre foolish nnd nil of thu pcoplu think somo of tho laws are foolish, how can wo expect to hnvo a law respecting pcoplo. I want to say to you, In nil seri ousness and earnestness, Mint this growing contempt for Inw Is a dan gerous tendency, and that It is cans ho hires somo boys and girls to 'stand on tho street corners nnd se cure nniues to his Inltlntlvo petition, for which ho pays so much nor nnnio. one rends theso petitions nnd any petition will securo tho requisite final passage. There Is no chnnco for tho peoplo to niuend It by adding to or taking from; but they can swallow It whole 'or reject It. ,w, how much of n chnnco do tho pooplo have to tlnd out what Is In this dose. How aro they to doter- mine whether It Is n physle or mi em- (.,.? u ennnot be dono from whnt appears on the ballot. Take ti, l.in ,n,blic odlcer may bo tried for mil. feasance in office nnd if found guilty may bo dismissed fro,,, nftwn., Tin: rkspoxsk proved that tiii: vai.uhs vi: oki.i.ui:i wkiu: apprhciatkr. Again Take Your Choice the Last 3 Days of This Week for $12.00 LAST CALL IT ALSO PROVES TO US THAT IT PAYS TO HAVE Till: COODS AND THEN TELL IT TO THE PEOPLE TllltOUCII Til "TIMES." See Window Display MONEY TALKS- yet thero wns not a word nbout this provision upon the ballot. If this provision could bo sllppud through without any reference to it on tho bnllot, why not any sort of a Jokor. Thero Is every opportunity for the se cretion of a Senegnmblnn lu this wood pile. Hut thero Is n pamphlet which Is Issued before election which contains nil the bills to bo voted upon, nnd It Is a wonder. At tho last elec tion this pnmphlct contained -OS pnges printed In small typo mid con taining 32 sepurnto bills. Somo ot those hills weru so complicated that there has not yet been found two law-' yers or Judges who agree as to whnt they menu. Tho three-fourths Jury verdict bill has been referred to already. Thu supremo court wero so nonplussed by '.ts cunlllct'lng provisions that they called upon the lawyers of the statu (o assist them In trying to determine iv lint It means. 1 cannot tnko up your time by trying to dissect It; but It ts apparent that the people who voted for this bill could not hnvo un derstood It. Vory fow peoplo read tho pamphlet nnd fewer understood It; mid who, uftor reading this book containing 32 nets could remember which wns which when ho cmlio to vote. In the legislature a man has to consider only ono bill at n time, mid thnt after days of discussion. Hero the voter Is expected to consider aud decldo upon 32 nt once without even having thu bills boforo him. I nm sure of ono thing tho nvurngo voter must hu n good deal more Intelligent Mmn tho avorngo lawyer or. ho can not vote understand Ingly In this way. 1 nm perfectly willing to admit Mint tho average voter Is ns Intelligent ns tho nverngu legislator; but It Is tho system that Is at fault. The Bystem Is n humbug. Tho peoplo do not mako tho laws undur this plan. The peoplo hnvo nothing to do with form ing these laws, and no ndequato op portunity to consider them. It would bo as reasonable to expect tho peoplo of a great state to Jointly construct n threshing machine or a locomotive as to expect thorn to Jointly construct a complicated pleco of leglslntlon. The Inltlntlvo law us nt present con structed, Is a gigantic pleco of bun combe, gotten up lu tho Interest of n clique with tho lntont to fool tho peoplo Into tho lden Mint they nro mnkhig their own laws when lu fact thuso laws aro made by a fow men who represent nobody. It Is as truo todny ns It over was Mint "tho peoplo llko to bo humbugged," but lu tho long run tho people always got right and they will get right on this sub Ject after n whilo. "The Mills of tho Gods grind slowly" but 1 expect to Hvo long enough to seo tho inltlntlvo In its present form, nbollshed. nnd In Us placo a law which provides for submitting to tho vote of tho peoplo spoclal questions -lllce this: Shall women be allow cnl to vote? Shall the Mile of Intoxicating liquors for drink lug purposes be prohibited'.' Shall all taxes be levied on real estate; and tho like. Such questions can bo an swered by yes or no and the voters would understand what thoy were doing. Then the law will provide Mint the next loglslnturo must frame n lnw In accordance with tho vote of tho people. The voto will advise tho ! lusisiauiro as to what tho peoplo want dono nnd the legislature will construct tho mnchlnery to do It. Tho peoplo will Issue tho orders nnd the loglslnturo will do th'o work. This Jaw will glvo the people an opportunity tp sny what thoy want done and to elect men to arry o thnir .,b,...m,0 ,, VL ? " tnxes levied on laud values they will Bny so, and tho legislature will nmko tho law, with all Its necessary machi nery to carry hls order" Into effect. You would consider It foolish for tho people of Mnrshlleld to undcrtako collectively to construct a stoma rol ler. Tho proper wny Is to order a steam roller from Mayor Strnw nnd ho will doltver the goods. Hut I suppose it Is hardly to bo expected that the time will ever corao when huncombo will not bo at n pre mium. Men llko to bo told that they nro wlso nnd women llko to bo told thnt they aro handsome. It takes a bravo man, or n fool to speak tho truth ono of whom I am: which? Whon your foot nro wot and cold, nnd your body chilled through and through from oxposuro, tnko n blj doso of Chnmborlnln'rt Cough Reme dy, bntho your feet in hot water be foro going to bed, and you aro al most cortnln to ward oft a severe cold. For snlo by all dealers. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY D' It. 0. W. 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Careful drivers, good rigs and everytblnf that will mean satisfactory service to tho public. Phono us for a drlvUf horse, a rig or anything needed l tho livery lino. We also do trucking business ot all kinds. nLANCITARD RROTIIERS. Livery, Feed and Sales Service 141 First and Alder Streets. Phone 138-J . LIBBY COAL I havo secured tho last two months run of tho high grade coal fr0 tho old Lihhv mlno nnrt am able t sell and deliver it now for $3 vW jl TON. Send In your orders at on Orders promptly filled. Remember I nm still glvlnS 'w best Hvory service possible. W. L. CONDRON'S LIVERY AND FEED STAM rilONE 273-J. X ., .. . i.vii,, it W1ey wani an