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COOS BAY TIMES
An Independent Republican news
paper published every evening except
fiunday, and Weekly by
Tho Coos Kay Times Publishing Co.
Entered at the postoffl:e at Marsh
Eeld, Oregon, for tr nsmisslon
through the malls as second class
mall matter.
fti. O. MALONEY. . .Kdltor nnd Pub.
AN E. MALONEY News Editor
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Tho policy of the Coos Bay Tl-nos
will be Republican In politics, with
tho independence of which Fresl.lent
Rcosovelt is the leading exponent.
Address All Communications to
COOS HAY DAILY TIMES
MnrMsfleld ..... Oregon
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President,
WILLIAM H. TAFT.
Of Ohio
For Vice President,
JAMES S. SHERMAN
Of New York.
Presidential Electors,
J. D. Lee, of Multnomah county.
P. J. Miller, of Linn County.
A. C. Marsters, of Douglas county.
It. It. Butler, of Gilliam county.
KEEP AWAY FROM PERSOXALI
TIES. The unfortunate tendency toward
an indulgence In personalities during
"the presidential campaign which Mr.
Bryan seems to be developing may
give to the contest a coloring great
ly to lie regretted. Personally Mr.
"Bryan is held in high esteem by most
of his political opponents as well as
liis intimate friends. If the wishes
of Mr. Taft are regarded by Repub
lican speakers and writers there will
be no personal flings at the Demo
cratic leader.
In his tour through New York
state, Mr. Bryan is reported to have
"never lost an opportunity to flay
both President Roosevelt and Mr.
Taft." He tried to score a point by
referring to Mr. Taft as "President
Boosevclt's employe," and ho de
clared that Roosevelt's indorsement
of Taft was "the indorsement of the
bankrupt against whom one could
not collect," The latter statement
is a figure of speech not readily un
derstood, but the Intention to con
vey a sting by It is apparent.
Tho injection of personalities into
tho campaign is not what tho people
Jmve expected from Mr. Bryan, and
it Is hoped that his better nature
will prompt him to step aside from
Hhis path before ho goes too far, says
an exchange. There is abundance of
material in policies upon which to
lake Issue and make a square fight
jjvlthout adopting methods that can
not be commended.
It may confidently bo expected
that Mr. Taft will pursuo tho same
line he took In the nominating cam
paign. Then lie warned his mana
gers nnd friends against unwise at
tacks upon rival candidates, and ho
made hosts of friends for himself by
his attitude. The American people
hope to see both Mr. Taft and Mr.
Bryan go through this contest with
out n word reflecting on tho per
sonality of either, whntovor may bo
tho outcome of tho election.
Since tho nbovo 'was put in typo
Indications aro that after all there
is to bo somo ginger in tho campaign.
3Ir. Bryan has said that Mr. Roose
velt will have to remain at Washing
ton, in caso of Mr. Tnft's election,
tfo carry out "My Policies." Tho big
Republican candidato courteously
retorts that Mr. Bryan's policies aro
ais evanescent and fleeting as tho sea
sons. It is notnblo that neither
standard bearer attacks tho other's
personal pulchritude. Each, is hund
aomo, and knows that no cnpital can
he inado by bollttling tho other's
beauty. With raro foresight and
Judgment they havo agreod to shoot
.each othor's record to pieces. Tho
.spectacle- is reassuring. Those who
fijowniled tho dullness of tho cam
paign may dry their eyes. There's
&efjK to bo a scrap.
01ISTORIC FOREST FIRES.
Tho torrlblo work of tho flamos
which havo burnod over and de
stroyed hundreds of thousands of
acrcB of timber and property to tho
valuo of millions In tho Lnko States,
rocalls to DiMiiiory other great forest
HreB which have attained historic Im
portance One of the earliest of those was
tho great Mlramichi fire of 1S25. It
began Its greatest destruction about
one o'clock in tho nftornoon of Oo
tobor 7 of that yonr, at a placo about
CO miles abovo the town of Newcas
tle, on tho Mlramichi River, In Now
Brunswick. Before ten o'clock it
was 20 miles below Newcastle. In
nine hours it had destroyed a belt of
forest 80 miles long and 25 miles
wide. Over more than two and one
half million acres, almostevery liv
ing thing was killed. Even the fish
were afterwards found dead in heap3
on the river banks. Five hundred
and ninety buildings were burned,
and a number of towns, including
Newcastle, Chatham, and Douglas
town, were destroyed. One hundred
and sixty persons perished, and near
ly a thousand head of stock. The
loss from the Mlramichi fire is esti
mated at $300,000, not including
the value of the timber.
In the majority of such forest
fires as this the destruction of the
timber is the more serious blow, by
far, than that of the cattle and build
ings, for it carries with It the im
provement of a whole region for tens
or even hundreds of years after
wards. The .loss of the stumpage
value of the timber at the time of
tho fire Is but a small part of the
damage to the neighborhood. The
wages that would have been earned
in lumbering, added to the value of
the produce that would have been
purchased to supply the lumber
camps, and the taxes that would have
been devoted to roads and other pub-.
lis improvements, furnish a much
truer measure of how much, sooner
or later, it costs a region when its
forests are destroyed by fire.
The Peshtlgo fire of October, 1S71,
was still more severe than the Mlr
amichi. It covered an area of more
than 2,000 square miles in Wiscon
sin, and involved In timber and other
property, millions of dollars. Be
tween 1,200 and 1,500 persons per
irhed, Including nearly half the pop
ulation of Peshtlgo, at that time a
town of 2,000 Inhabitants. Other
flres of about the same time were
most destructive In Michigan. A
strip about 40 miles wide and ISO
miles long, extending across the cen
tral part of the State, from Lake
Michigan to Lake Huron, was de
vastated. The estimated loss in tim
ber was about 4,000,000,000 feet
board measure, and in money over
U0, 000, 000. Several hundred per
sons perished.
In the 'early part of September,
18S1, great flres covered more than
1,800 square miles in various parts
of Michigan. The estimated loss, in
property, in addition to many hun
dred thousand acres of valuable tim
ber, was more than $2,300,000.
Over 5,000 persons were made desti
tute, and tho number of lives lost Is
variously estimated at from 150 to
500.
Tho most destructive fire of more
recent years was that which started
near Hinckley, Minnesota, September
1, 1894. Whllo the area burned over
was less than In some other great
fires, the loss of life and property
was very heavy. Hinckley and six
other towns were destroyed, about
500 lives were lost, moro than 2,000
persons wore left destitute, and the
estimated loss in property of various
kinds was $25,000,000. Except for
the heroic conduct of locomotive en
gineers and other railroad men tho
loss of lifo would have been much
greater.
This fire was all tho moro deplora
ble, because It was wholly unneces
sasry. For mnny days before the
high wind camo and drove It Into un
controllable fury, it was burning
slowly close to the town of Hinckley,
nnd could have been put out.
COOS HAY, OREGON.
Oh! leavo New England's
rocky
shore
And Kansas with Its cyclone's roar
And come to the Pacific coast
And to Coos Bay, Oregon.
There's where tho big red apples
grow
And tho land whore milk and honey
flow
And huckleberries blnck as sloes
Grows at Coos Bay, Oregon.
Whero Ilolablrd of noblo fame
Will bring tho railroad here from
Drain
With prosperity on every train
To Coos Bay, Oregon.
All yo, who wish to happy bo,
Como and resldo near the Sunset Sea
Whoro our church splre3 point by
heaven's decree
Our famous Coos Bay, Oregon
A BOOSTER.
NOTICE TO DEMOCRATS.
A" meeting of tho Coos county
Democratic Contral Committee will
bo hold Friday ovenlng, Octobor 2,
at 7:30 o'clock, at tho law ofllco of
C. F. McKnight. All Democrats,
whothor commltteo men or not, are
roqiiosted to bo prosont at this meet
ing. By ordor of '
J. T. HALL,
Chairman Democratic Contral
Commltteo.
DON'T MISS THE CHICKEN SUP-
PER, tomorrow night's the timo. The
whilom Smith Cafe, tho placo.
With
ARE YOU GETTING ANYWHERE?
You are rushing, you are straining, with a grim look on your face;
You are turning from all pleasures, in your breast peace has no place;
You have ceased to find contentment in the nooks you used to know;
You have ceased to care for others whom you clung to long ago;
You are straining, you are striving through the dark days and the fair;
But, oh, mirthless, eager brothers, are you getting' anywhere?
In your haste you have forgotten how to linger or to smile
When a child looks up and greets you or would claim your care awhile;
Though the wild rose sheds Its petals in the lonely pasture still,
And glad breezes sway the blossoms In the orchard on the hill,
You are too much in a hurry and too occupied to care;
But with all your grim endeavors, are you getting anywhere?
You have fled from sweet contentment, trouble haunts you in your
dreams;
It Is long since you have loitered on the banks of shaded streams
That go singing to the pebbles they have made so clean and white,
And havo polished at their leisure and their pleasure day and night;
You no longer know the solace that Is in a sweet old air;
But with all your ceaseless moiling, are you getting anywhere?
You have given up old fancies, you have left old friends behind;
You are getting rich In pocket, but are poor In heart and mind;
You have lost your sense of beauty in your haste to push ahead,
And along the ways you travel bitterness and grief are spread;
You have ceased to care how others bend beneath the woes they bear;
But with all your cruel striving, are you getting anywhere?
Out beyond there Is silence that no man may ever wake;
In the distance there is darkness that no morning's light may break;
At the journey's end dishonor Is for those who day by day
Cheat their souls and dull their senses as you rush upon the way;
You are passing many pleasures which you have the right to share,
As you rush to All the hollow men will dig for you somewhere.
S. E. KISER.
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GOOD EVENING.
X The man who is worthy of
X being a leader of men will never
X complain of the stupidity of his
' helpers, of the ingratitude of
X mankind nor of the inapprecia
X tion of the public. These things
i are all a part of the great ame
X of life, and to meet them and
i not go down before them in dis
i couragement and defeat is the
H final proof of power.
FRA ELBERTUS.
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FACE IT DOWN WITH A GRIN.
Meet the days with a smile, for it'
Isn't worth while
To grumble and mumble and
growl.
Tho world pays its dues in such coin
as you choose,
And it answers a scowl with a
scowl.
When Fortune, the beldame, Is some
what remiss,
In giving the prize you would win,
And deals out her blows In the stylo
that she knows,
Why, just face her down with a
grin.
When fate does her worst, and you're
like one accursed,
Don't cower and cringe from her
blows,
But smile on the foe and deal blow
for blow
And tho rue will give way to the
rose.
If the girl that you love, as an angel
abovo
Proves false as a god made of tin;
Don't get in a flurry and give up to
worry,
But just face it down with a grin.
Oh, Trouble's a phantom that looms
very large,
But laughter tho monster will rout,
And the Goblin Dospalr seems fierce
in his lair
But a heart of good cheer draws
him out;
And care is a demon that masters
us all
If we list to his voice in the din,
But ho skulks out of sight in tho
gloom of tho nlgh't,
If we just faco him down with a
grin.
Tho little red demons, the little blue
imps,
May chase us nnd jeer us, and
floor
But a smile draws them out in a
whimsical rout
And they'ro only recalled by a
tear.
And bore's to tho man who Is greater
than Pain
And Worry, its petulant twin!
For ho stands llko a god as tho caro
demons nod
And faces them down with a grin.
Did you ever stop to think that
whllo lots of mon romnln single thnt
there aro as many mon who marry
as there aro women.
A California girl is oarnlng hor
way through colloge by raising heee.
Some mon work thoir way through
collogo by raising tho dovil.
Thoro is a man on Coos Bay who
when ho can find nothing olso to dis
the Toast and Teal
turb him, worries because he can
find no worry to worry about.
Up in the Poet's Corner last night
the rhymsters were rehearsing a new
campaign yell which may be sprung
on the Coos county populace any
day. One of Its features lies in the
fact that it can be adopted for either
Mr. Taft or Bryan's use. It goes as
follows:
Who will, who will?
Bill will,
Which Bill? Which Bill?
Big Bill, -Rah.
A Coos River man says his wife
scolded him for disturbing the
cream. It seems a foregns conclu
sion the cream didn't rise on the milk
of human kindness.
Some Coos Bay men are convinced
that the world is growing better
every time they see how much good
others' are doing.
The Chicago News suggests: "Why
not have an additional portfolio
devoted to investigation of the Har
riman interests added to the presi
dent's cabinet?"
A girl and a second baseman
picked up each other's suit cases on
a train. The exchange was not so
disastrous, for she got a ball suit and
he a ball gown. .
A lC-year-old girl walks along tho
street as though she owned the
world, and Is going to get It, but as
a rule she is going after five cents'
worth of thread for her mother.
The other day I printed a foolish
little doggerel in this column as fol
lows: Although leap year Is nearly gone,
'Tls very plain to see
Nobody's made an effort yet
To
Kidnap
Me.
Today I received the following
anonymous communication through
the mall:
"Wo hope with all our hearts you
won't
Take this as an affront,
But somehow we havo got a hunch
No
Body
Won't."
Tho writing is disguised and no
name signed, but I strongly suspect
that John Goss could give informa
tion that would lead to the identifica
tion of tho author of this near poe
try. "You loved her very much?"
"So much that when her first hus
band died I married her that I
might share her grief and so lessen
it."
"And how did it work?"
"Fine! I'm sorrier now for his
death than she is."
Tommlo was having his hair cut
and tho barber got the shears pretty
close to tho boy's head, so Tommlo
began to cry.
"Oh, fie! Tomraio!" said his moth
er; "you don't cry when I'm cutting
you a piece of pie!"
"Well, I do if you cut It too
short."
ci II LDR EX ATTENTION, grapho
phono given away. Call at Coos Bay
Cash Store.
THE ISSUE AND PARTY RECORD.
I Will tho Peojjle Tru9t Experiment-
I allsts and Theorists?
J (From Sherman's Speech of Accept
ance.)
The overshadowing issue of the cam
paign really la: Shall the administra
tion of President Roosevelt be ap
proved, shall a party of demonstrated
rapacity In administrative affairs be
XMitluued in power, shall tho reins of
government be placed in experienced
lands, or do the people prefer to trust
their destinies to an aggregation of
!Mrlmeutal malcontents and theor
ists, whoso only claim to a history is
l parry name they pilfered?
With a record of four decades of
nise legislation; two score years of
faithful administration; offering its
fulfilled pledges as a guaranty of Its
promises for the future, tho Republl
:un party appeals to tho people and,
ivltb full confidence in their wisdom
ind patriotism, awnlts the rendition of
the November verdict
DENIES THAT BRYAN
"COULD DO NO HARM."
Congressman Burko Says Office of
President Is Infinitely More Pow
erful Than Congress.
Congressman James Francis Burke,
af Pittsburg, In nu address on "The
Powers of the President," bays:
"The American people can make no
irenter mistake than to elect Mr.
Bryan on the assumption that ho can
io no harm in the face of an adverse
Senate. As between tho executive and
legislative departments of the govern
ment, the former has infinitely greater
power to rule and ruin thnn the lat
ter. "Mr. Taft and Mr. Bryan are wholly
different types of men. Each pos
sesses a strong individual character,
which would certainly assort Itself In
the White House. What either of
these men would do during a four
years' term in the White House is
:uus,lng as much nnxloty among
thoughtful Anifi leans as the 'mere
! matter of election alone.
"As a disturber of moneys the Pres
ident Is without a rival In the world.
Through the agencies under his con
trol he will this year disburse a billion
dollars, showing tho great things we
are doing In adding to tho unparalleled
list of the world's achievements.
"In view of the fnct that during
the fifteen year? of Bryan leadership
the States controlled by his party have
decreased from 23 to 12, the number
of Senators from 4S to 31, the number
f Representatives In Congress from
220 to 104, and in that time the Demo
cratic party was in control of the
ground, whereas It is now, as a conse
quence of his teachings, a hopelessly
heterogeneous mass of Popullstlc ele
monts, the American people can see
little prospects of a constructive policy
If Mr. Bryan should succeed."
LABOR WORLD FOR TAPT.
Characterizes Him aa True Priend
of the Worklngman.
(From tho Concord (N. H.) Monitor.)
The Labor World conies out strongly
In its advocacy of Mr. Taft. It charac
terizes him a true friend of labor and
declares that the unfair attacks of Mr.
Gompers will have little or no effect In
nllennting from him the labor world.
It says: "That Secretary Taft is a true
friei'd of labor Is certain, and all the
untrue, ungenerous, vicious attacks
Ibjit President Gompers or any one else
may make on him cannot prevent him
from continuing to be the friend of the
wage worker. Organized labor cannot
nfSord to havo Itseif split up into fac
tions on this political Issue. That Pres
ident Gompers Is wrong In forcing this
mo3t ominous fight Is certain, and In
telligent wage workers will certainly
eouie to this conclusion."
IIARRIMAN ROADS
MAKE BIG PROFITS
Saving In Operating Expenses of the
Southern and Union Pacific Is
Responsible.
CHICAGO, Sept. 28. The net
earnings of the Union Pacific and the
Southern Pacific railroads for the
month of, July were tho largest that
either of these roads has reported for
that month in their history. In the
cases of both, however, tho gross
earnings showed a material decrease
as compared with last year. A good
showing in net earnings was brought
about by a material reduction in
operating expenses.
In July of last year, the operating
ratio of the Union Pacific was 55. C
per cent of tho gross earnings. This
year it was brought down to 47.2
per cent. In the caso way tho oper
ating ratio of the Southern Pacific
was brought down from 67.4 per
cent of the gross earnings in July of
last year to 59 per cent for the same
month this year.
While the gross earnings did not
make a comparative showing so good
as tho net, when thoy are analyzed
tho showing loses much of its unsa
tisfactory character, when It is con
sidered that this is due solely to tho
fact that July last year was a ban
ner month in tho history of thoso
roads.
Wllhelmina leaves WEDNESDAY,
P. M., for Bandon and Port Orford.
FRYING TO HOOD
WINK NEGROES
Democrats Pursuing Their Usual
Double Faced Policy.
Upholding Disfranchisement In the
South Whllo Forming Colored
Bryan Clubs In We3t.
(From the Baltimore Sun, Dcm.)
General WInfield S. Hancock, who
was tho Democratic nominee for Presi
dent in 1SS0, declared the tariff was
principally a "local question" that Is
to say, a Pennsylvania Democrat might
be a protectionist for protection's sake,
while a Democrat In Georgia or In
Iowa might hold fast to the doctrine
of n tariff for revenue only. The Massa
chusetts Democrat might bo a free
trader without reservation of any kind,
while the West Virginia Donntrrut
might be a freo trader only with re
spect to commodities which were not
produced by his own State. Gencr.il
Hancock's pronouncement was coirM
ered an Ingenious evasion of the tariff
Issue, but it did not produce harmony
In the Democratic party, and the gen
eral was defeated.
Twenty-eight years have parsed since
General Hancock defined the tariff as
a local question upon which the Demo
crats of each State were free to act
nltli regard chiefly to local Interests.
The principle which ho then formu
lated seems to have been adopted by
Democrats In the West in respect to
the relation of the Democratic party
to the negro. Lnst week the West Vir
ginia Democratic convention embodied
in its platform planks demanding cer
tain qualifications for voters, designed
to disfranchise many negroes. Their
platform nlco contains a declaration in
favor of separate coaches for white
and negro passengers on railroads. The
West Virginia Democrats not only re
fuse to hold out the olive branch to
the negro and Invite him into their
fold, but they nre determined to limit
his political activity by a disfranchis
ing law and to bring him under the
operation of a "Jim Crow" law when he
travels on the railroads of that State.
What are the Promises?
Out In Nebraska and In Kansas the
Democratic campaign managers are
organizing negro voters luto Bryan
clubs. In Ohio no effort will bo spared
to secure tho tsupport of the negro
rotors for the Democratic national
ticket What pledges have beeu given
nnd what inducements have been of- .
fored does not appear. But It 1 a fair
Inference that the managers havo
promised to do "somothlng for the ne
gro," perhnps to recognize him In the
distribution of offices, if Mr. Bryan
should bo elected, and also to take
such action as tho negroes may de
mand In respect to the reinstatement
of the negro battalion dismissed from
the army by President Roosevelt for
tho attack on Brownsville. Last week
when the West Virginia Democrats
were declaring for a disfranchisement
law and for a "Jim Crow" law, the
Democratic convention in tho Twelfth
Congressional district of Ohio adopted
a platform favoring "tho enactment
of laws which shall accord to all men
accused of wrongdoing, whether sol
diers or civilians, a fair and Impartial
trial and an opportunity to be heard
before conviction or punishment."
This apparently refers to the Browns
ville Incident. It may also have a
broader meaning and a more extended
application and may be susceptible of
an Interpretation which will make
Southern Democrats open their eyes
with amazement and possibly with ap-
urcheuslou.
Race Question "Local Issue P"
There sec-ms to be no ground for rea
sonable doubt that the Democratic
campaign managors In the West, In the
sffort to secure negro support for their
national ticket, are acting upon tho
prluciplo that the race question is only
a "local isMic." It is evident that tho
South does not approve this plan of
campaign, but Is powerless to check it.
The Democracy of the South Is In full
accord with the position taken by the
West Vlrglnln Democrats last week.
And yet It Is assumed by those who
are trying to get negroes to support
Mr. Bryan that the South will act In
hearty co-operation with the Ohio, Ne
braska, Kansas and Illinois Democrats,
who are welcoming the negro Into free
fellowship in the Democratic party
and probably promising to annul the
decision of President Roosevelt In the
Brownsvllle matter. The theory of
Western Democrats that tho raeo prob
lem Is merely a local Issue Is calou
lati'd to give the South much concern.
Many Democrats In that section may
question whether it Is worth whllo to
elect a Democratic president who nray
open wide the door of political oppor
tunity to the negro.
Mr. Bryan criticises Mr. Taft for
adding to the Republican platform. In
tho meantime the number of "para
mount Issues" which Mr. Bryan sub-
traeted from tho Democratic platform
would fill several large volumes
Omaha lice.
Honors are easy again. Every ilia
Mr. Taft buys a new horse Mr. Bryan
mounts a new hobby. Omaha Bee. .
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