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About The Coos Bay times. (Marshfield, Or.) 1906-1957 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1907)
-svysj, THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES. MABSHFIELD, OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1907. 3 Coos Bay Times two members of tho legislature of one or two states. Even these vic tories were speedily lost and the pnrty has now no political represen tation anywhere It is not a politi cal factor at all, and there are no indications that it ever will he. The Socialist would proudly reply that he cured nothing fcr the oillces, and was moi'sly contending for principle. Of coui'3c, if he docs not scoK the ofilces he i3 not in politics at all, and he is therefore only an Idealist. Like all radicals he forgets that he is simply an advance agent of tho great mass of humanity and that, as such, he can not force that mass to follow him. He may think he can "blaze the way," but it is likely that many generations will come and go with out ever teaching a place sufficiently advanced to discover the "way that has been blazed." The whole world is ,certalnly advancing along social istic lines but so slowly and safely that they scarcely recognize it. Nor is it at all likely that the dream of Socialism, however vividly told, or brilliantly depicted, will hurry the slow march of tho ages. It lias taken many hundred years to get tho good we have and some of us would be glad if we had more and could get many times what we have, all at once. But the m.sus the power the army of humanity do not see it that way. There is no more danger that the Socialist party will win than that the streets of Marshflcld will pave themselves automatically. Works The Steamer . F.I AN INDEPENDENT BKPCPT "''? "wqnArEn pnnLniiED eVkuv day exceitin'o mox- DAT AND ALSO WEKKLY DY i cnltt'lt'iin fopiittoi. Sails from North Ben Tnc Coos Bay Times l'oni.isiiiNu Co. FKED PASLBY, Eiutoii. REX LARGE, Hcsinkss Manager. F.S D Oakley & Araold MARSHFIELD, : w : OREGON Tho policy of The Coos Bay Times Till be Republican in iolitics, with the independence of which 1'residont Roose velt is the leading exponent. yitajiillXrildiiAlUSMXMUIiltra - ....nil nuu-j tua.iragjjiMiCTgggnuniriJiv.liMiiMj ummoiamMManmanjuiiiiuina P-k m itjj, fcf&y 'fi 'hffiTnBttB Come Early to Make Selections of j CIVIL V Sntercd at the postofliee at Marshflcld, Ore son, for transmission through the inalU as second class mail.inattrr. WALD 2 Steam iUvffi I f St-JSr-L I tilicv'fcU'i ;ndrguil! e ur dyivJ, M Philipfijwr.BI dfWcUnesdflf ainoon. I Op AW&f I racatj!JJt.iiUit'.j:i.fjrit'l!'najtiDVi: ttlfWECHAMCAL EJfclNEEK&f S m I SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Single copy, daily, - - 5 cents Per month, daily, CO cents Threo months, daily, - - $1 25 8ix months, daily - - f 2 50 One year, daily, - 5 00 Weekly, per year - - $1 00 Address all communications to COOS BAY TIMES MarshficW. Oregon. TIIK DREDGING OP COOS DAY. The report of the committee of tho Chamber of Commerce in regard to dredging the Marshflcld harbor is well worth the careful perusal of ev ery citizen of Coos Bay and all others who may bo interested In Coos Bay and Its future. It Js a very encour aging report, too, for It shows that with a single dredge the private en terprise of citizens will Improve the harbor so that large boats can reach the head of the Bay and Isthmus In lto without delay. Already boats drawing fourteen feet pf water can reach any part of the Marshfleld wa ter front, but there is an Immediate necessity for accommodating boats drawing eighteen feet. One of the Interesting features of tho report is the estimated cheap ness of tho work proposed that is, one hundred and fifty thousand dol lars. This is reduced by forty thous and dollars which owners oi land la Railroad addition are willing and glad to pay to have their lands raised. The money to be raised is therefore only about one hundred and ten thousand. Tho cost Is merely nominal compared with the immense advantages which will accrue, not only to abutting owners, but to the public- at large. While it is esti mated that with a single dredge it will take some three years to com plete the woik, yet It Is very prob able that tho conditions will change so rapidly In the near future that other aid will be invoked whereby tho work can be accelerated. Tho widening of the channel by moving tho lino of tho harbor east four hun dred feet will constitute an improve ment which will double the value of all water front both in Marshfleld and East Marshfleld for commercial jiui-ioses. This proposition to dredge the bay is tho most Important which the citi zens of Marshfleld have to consider and all other questions are of minor consequence compared with it. Ev ery improvement which is made on or In connection with Coos Bay ma terially Increases tho prospects and importance ot this port. Other mat ters should not, of course, be neg lected, but every energy should bo directed to making a great harbor where nature has made It possible to make one at very small cost, and where commerce demands one at any cost. Coos Bay Is such a harbor. It is gratifying to observe that the com mittee of tho Chamber of Commerce, composed as It was of responsible citizens and some who, from their position and expert knowledge of such matters, wero able to ascertain tacts with exactitude, have investi gated the subject with conscientious and scientific attention to details. It Is the duty of the Chamber to con tiiiuu tho great work undertaken and of the citizens to give every possible aid to its prosecution nnd success. SOCIALISM. Tho belief that political socialism Is becoming moro and moro powerful as tho days and years pass does not scum to bo borno out by tho fact, in tho United States. Thero has always boon a radical party In this country and it may well bo supposed that thero always will bo one. Never has a. radical party succeeded in becom ing dominant. Tho Free Soil party did not succeed. Tho Greonback party did not succeed Tho Populist or Pooplo's party did not succeed. Tho Domocrntic-Republlcnn party of Thomas Jefferson was not radical. It merely advocnted Democratic tendencies and n strict construction of the constitution. Tho Whig party was inoroly a protectlvo tariff com mercial party. Tho Republican pnrty did not insist on the abolition of slavery, but proposod to check It. Tho Socialist party lias never elected a governor, a senator, a mem ber of congress or any important exe cutive. Its only political victories aeeiu. to havo been scored in Haver hill, Mass., nnd Anaconda, Montana, wuero It electee mayors anu one or Circle ; i If completejisya rule, only ajf even tide when the artificial jfght is X necessary, in order to seejby. For this reason isn't it reallw Important that the light in your Home should be the n ost healthful.ahe brightest, the mos . charmful, ie safest, the cleapeflfjand theafcst convenient you cinlprocure? J Wilt Is that Halt? Youlktow it's fflLECTHIC LIGHT. WhyVbt havejfit? Don't sv "cimdlesjfre cheaper." You w'oulob-Wra In a wigwam. Tha's cheaE1 than a house. . Is your house wired? That's tho quesion. Come and settle it with 'us. 1 lie Coos Bay Gas &. ic Co. Marshfield and North Bend. r GUNS 311(1 AMMUMTION Our stocpyf aitinunition is Mfreh We carrvWcomoletl line of . MARBLE HCHETS, KNIVES, SIGHTS, CARTRIDj&E BELTS, GUN CASES, etc. North Bend, Ore. Pbooel2I0 Office In MytM Bid;. Our stnek is goi: Paints will convince that th rag iasi. iriai eMVauii I,r -iX lUoSkfat - v .y-v of our ishes on the market Coos Bay Paint&Wallpaper Co. 2nd neSrtT Street Launch Express , Will makernTrrps between tf rn-diM" y MM,'M ''F South Coosriver afltf Marshfleld I I'l'l'" ' ' ' ml Leaving tlfe MazaJ 7.00 a. m. J" , T and Marslflfldt4:30 p. m. f TADTPO DEIiTft She will leloSenlior charter l IK I H Kr.nllf between 9a!Ai.nd 4 p. ui. JLlwJLlk 1 11 JLPJLMll wvattcofelt- hardware store If DTTancroftj I EYEandrWEsWst 1 A COIftpletLLlIie I Room 1 1 Central Hotel I N, I AFTEIAUG.yth I yf pun the I Hardware I beTtPd 0 Builders' Hardware Wet Your thlstfe Thin Blow I g I j. r. hi&rn, oP. I Hoisehold Gdbd Front Street, : MarsJUleld, Orceon 1 jf I , Vgy ;r j 1 Flumbing aopeoAlty J Bank of Oregon RelWTO dlllith $5faidup North Bend Transacula CcAraJi Banking I I B I m Itn r I r, Hi, W. J. SMITH - - P. N. 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