THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHF1ELP, OREGON. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1907.,
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A BUSINESS 1JASIS.
At the Commercial Club Friday
evening so conservative and genuine
a man as Rev. Father Donnelly ad
vised the people of Marshfleld of his
opinion; hased on substantial facts,
that this city would within almost
twelvo months have Its population
increased by approximately ten
thousand people. Father Donnelly is
not tho only one who has proof of
the facts on which his judgment was
based. Railroad or no railroad, tho
future to that extent Is an open book.
But what condition Is Marshfleld, as
a municipality, In, to receive and as
Blmllato such a population? What
probability exists that it can bo reg
ulated under an Inelastic charter and
by tho same old customs and prac
tices which have been in voguo for
twenty years? Its financial system,
its official laxity, Its peculiar theory
that tho city pays a police officer to
use a club Instead of a cool head, do
not suggest much security for tho in
habitants, whether they have lived
in tho city twenty years or twenty
days.
Unless tho people of Marshfleld get
flown to real business, they will get
down and out of business In short
order, if tho signs of growth and
prosperity do not fail. It is not a
question of churches or saloons.
Neither of these institutions is in
politics, tho former because they have
or should have better business and
tho latter because no business inter
est as such should seek to influence
political selections. It is a business
proposition solely. It ,happons to
bo very serious business, too. Tho
first thing to bo done is to take tho
city hall and charter out of their
"twenty years' rut," modernizo
them, get a set of books, publish tho
ordinances, find out how much tho
city owes, doviso n way to keep tho
peoplo informed and tako tho people
into partnership. Tho flro depart
ment should bo liberally encouraged
and tho pollco forco should bo trained
and rules mado to guldo them in tho
use of clubs, billies and guns. If
ovon half tho peoplo expected horo
next year shall arrive, what a specta
c!o would tho city mako with tho
same mothods and practices which
dovolopcd in vlllago conditions.
Tho issue in tho present munici
pal campaign is one of mothods and
not of mon. If five thousand people
arrive next year most of tho people
nvlll bo strangers to one another and
If they find a few jovial men recall
ing and citing tho usages of twenty
years in Marshfleld, they will look
at such usages derisively and ask
some very pertinent and ugly ques
tions. The people of Marshfleld have
Invited them to come hero and be
citizens. They will have a right to
ask questions. They will ask abov.t
theso ordinances. ' Will they bo
amused when they find that one must
run all over town to find them? Will
they be surprised when they And that
hardly one of them has ever been
published in any paper except the
fire ordinance? Will they be in
structed when they ask to look at the
city books so they can study out the
city indebtedness? Nobody ques
tions the skill and honesty of each
official in his own line of private
business, but when It comes to put
ting this city in a state of preparation
for the iear future and for anticipat
ed growth, it will tako a business
man to do It. Who's afraid of busi
ness methods? Men who have ac
cepted the methods of twenty years
of quiet Isolation on the theoiy that
matters were so Insignificant that
they would run themselves, and who
admit that they do not know how
pise to run them, should feel ap
palled when they realize what a
chaos will overtake them, If tne city
doesn't scramble to the dry land of
system and business methods. It 13
in full recognition of the fact that
JIarshfleld's day of trial is at hand
and that Mr. Ira S. Smith has been
urged to enter the race for mayor by j
business men who are anxious to
have the city put on a business basis.
All classes are or should be inter
ested in that result. All forms of
business which are legitimate, need
the protection of a competent busi
ness system applied to the munici
pality. Live and let live, deconcy
aud liberality, breadth and exactness,
will characterize Mr. Smith's admin
istration and he will not be a prude
or a martinet In dealing with tho
problems of human frailty.
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REBELLION .
Oklahoma is a state which has
just been admitted Into tho Union as
number forty-six. That it is a won
derful commonwealth and has mado
the most remarkable record of any
state in many ways Is an undeniablo
historical fact. But like many new
states which have outstripped all
their competitors, Oklahoma has an
inclination to do a little speculating
in tho economic field. One of tho ob
jections which the staid old states
men of tho ancient states found
against admitting her into tho Union
was that sho had adopted tho initia
tive and referendum ns one of Its
constitutional provisions. It is also
charged that tho now state has some
socialistic features in its constitu
tion. Now Oklahoma, having been ad
mitted, is said to bo plotting another
form of treason. Sho Is not sub
missive as sho should bo to Wall
Street. Sho Is actually going so closo
to an overt act as to propose to build
and oporato a railroad on her own
hook. Sho will build It, own it and
oporato It. It will go through Okla
homa down toward tho Texas line.
What follows shows how necessary
It Is always to check treason la its
incoptlon, for It Is invariably con
tagious. As Oklahoma proposes to
build a stato road to tho Texas lino,
that Stato which has been In rebel
lion against Standard Oil and tho
Trusts for somo years, will build,
own and operate a lino from tho end
of tho Oklahoma's tracks straight to
Galveston and tho sea. How un
American! How pro-British! How
like New South Wales and Now Zea
land! Here are two states which will
bo so reckless aa to provldo for their
Inspect tlie New Arrivals in Our
Shoe Section
FOR LADIES
Scores of new styles are here, Original
models, many of them shown for the first time
this season, The Blucher and Button seem to
have the call and the popular leathers promise
to be gun metal, patent-colt and vici kid,
Some smart models in the classic shoe
in Button and Blucher; the new college shape
well represented, All widths and sizes,
FOR GENTS-
Our usual high standard of serviceable
shoes has been maintained,
The new styles are here in profusion we
can supply you with just what you want for
the kind of wear you intend to give your shoe,
High cuts and heavy goods a specialty with
We are showing a greater variety
of Styles this season than ever be
fore the noted Kenreign Craven
ettes, the Stein-Bloch and Kirsch
baum Models in Overcoats at a
range of prices
trom
$10 to $30
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Waterproof Goods I
For heavy wear and rough usage
we have a class of goods that can
not be duplicated on the Bay nor
excelled anywhere
Popular Prices for Standard Goods
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own wants notwithstanding the fact
that they have many miles of rail
road. Now Oregon needs railroads.
Sho Is not rebellious. Sho prefers to
get down on her knees and pray loud
lv across tho mountains, and prairies
and valleys until her voice is heard in
far away New York and her good
Harrlman answers her supplication.
Oregon knows sho can't do anything
herself. What a pity Oklahoma and
Texas do not know as much as Ore
gon on tho subject of railroads.
HALT IN SURVEY
WORIC AT KLAMATH.
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FIGHT TO SECURE
LAND FOR SETTLERS.
T. S. Minot, of San Francisco, loft
last night for Washington, D. O., to
represent certain claimants for lands
formerly belonging to the C003 Bay
Wagon Road company, now held by
the Southern Oregon company.
Thoro are about 110 applications
who are asking 160 acres, at J2.60
por acre under the net of congress ap
propriating theso lands to construct
a military wagon road from Rose
burs to Cooa Bay.
Klamath Falls, Ore., Nov 23
Teams and wagons used on tho Ore
gon Eastern to tho north have been
brought here and turned over to
Assistant Engineer J. D. Church, of
the California Northeastern, sta
tioned at this point.
Mr. Church has also received and
stored for futuro use a largo quantity
of supplies, turned over to him by
Engineer D. D. Griffiths, who has
been recalled from location work on
tho Oregon Eastern.
Tho feeling here is that this lull
in railroad activity is only for the
winter and that spring will bring
a largo forco and moro extensive
work.
See Geo. Goodrum for your
toegery.
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