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THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 190S.
COOS BAY TIMES
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xt Address AH Communications to
OOS HAY DAILY TLMES
Marshfleld - Oregon
The policy of the Coos Bay TI.n
wl:l i Kepubiican In politics, with
the independence of which Presllunt
Rcosevelt Is the leading exponent.
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STATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President,
WILLIAM II. TAFT.
Of Ohio
For Vice President,
JAMES S. SHERMAN
Of New York.
Presidential Electors,
J. D. Lee, of Multnomah county.
F. J. Miller, -of Linn County.
A. C. Marsters, of Douglas county.
2. R. Butler, of Gilliam county.
WHAT MAKES A CITY?
From the landing of the Pilgrims
to this very day, no village has
srown Into a town, a town into a
city, and city Into a metropolis, with
out the presence of skeptics who
have spent their existence saying,
"the town will never be any big
ger," yet these very same towns have
grown and prospered and become
cities, known worldwide in spite of
the holdbacks.
What was Spokane 25 years ago?
Nothing but a struggling Inland
village, with cities like Seattle and
Tacoma and the Sound and Portland
on the Columbia, with all the ad
vantages as commercial centers to
combat. Spokane had not such great
and varied resources upon which to
draw as has Marshfleld, yet today
it Is a city of 75,000 population.
'What did It? Did Spokane become
a city in spite of Itself? Not at all.
The power that builds cities comes
from within and not from without.
The resources are here that can prod
jice one big city as well as a dozen
small ones, and the town that forges
to the front of its own volition Is to
he tho metropolis of Southern Ore
gon. Marslifleld has set the pace that
-will win it this much desired goal,
provided the work so well begun is
kept up.
Let the skeptic go by on the other
ide, but see to it that you keep on
tho right side of the highway; tho
side that leads to success and com
mercial prominence of tho city that
lias nil tho opportunity any city
could ask for In which to place itself
In tho lead a lead which cannot be
overcome.
PORTLAND AND THE COAST.
A coastwise trade Is a certain
ineans for tho enrichment of Port
3nnd and the west coast of Oregon.
"Whntover builds for these, builds for
sill Oregon. The article of Mr. Clark
of Coos Bay, In Tuesday's Journal,
'was full of substantial suggestions.
33xpcrlonco is eloquent with Instances
of a coastwise trade as a factor In
hrlnglng wealth and power. Cartha-i
BO nnd other cities on tho Mediter
ranean nro memorable examples with
-Trhlch tho student of history Is fam
iliar. Boston, cited in illustration by
3Ir. Clnrk, is a splendid monument
of the expansion of cities whore men
0 down to the sea In ships. Chi
cago is .another, and one that by her
distancing of St. Louis in their old
time rlvnlry exemplifies tho poten
tiality of tho consting trade as n city
-and wealth builder.
Tho Oregon coast from Humboldt
Oay to tho mouth of tho Columbia Is
.Bcarcoly moro than what nature
anado It. Tho hand of man has done
Tprnctlcally nothing to open nnd de
velop. Resources Ho there almost
untouched ( waiting to bo swung into
the nrtorlcs of industry and trndo.
Coos Bay has 150 thousand million
foot of standing timber, enough, at
tho rato Michigan cut down her for
ests, to last 75 years. Coos Bay has
400 squnro. miles of coal that Is tho
bnsls of nn enormous nnd profitable
-commerce. Tho Slletz, within im
mediate reach of Yaqulna Bay, has
13,000,000,000 feet of tho finest
standing timber in tho world, groat
firs nmong it standing IS foot In di
ameter nnd 200 feet high. Each
other port nlong tho const lino ha
Its Individual or common nssots for
whlch supplies, machinery nnd the
.many factorB of operation must bo '
furnish' d, el'ber by Portland or San
Francisco, whenever development be
gins. There is no limit, nor is theie
measure to the commerce that Port
land can create for herself in this
region by the sea. The thousands
who are dwelling and to dwell there
must be fed, must be clothed, must
be supplied with tools. The un
limited values that they are to dig
from the earth, to produce from the
soli, to cut from the forests must
have a market place. Exchange is
the beginning and the end of com
merce, and commerce is a means of
power. The exchange that is possible
between Portland and her neighbor
ing ports, like that of Boston and
her ports on the Atlantic, is an ave
nue, both for those ports and Port
land, to a permanent and abounding
prosperity. It is so inviting a field
that the wonder is that Portland did
not long ago invade it. It is a field
that is going to develop, and one in
which the developer will reap a
splendid benefit. Vigor and energy
in reaching for it, interest and sym
pathy in the aspirations and hearty
cooperation and support of the plans
of these ports by the sea are the in
strumentalities by which this sea
side empire and its commerce will be
won, and Portland ought to win it.
Oregon Journal.
MEN AT WASHINGTON.
The expensive work being under
taken at the bay toward dredging
out the harbor and that of building
an inner jetty at Bandon should be
an Influence toward securing liber
al appropriations from congress to
further develop the harbors at Coos
Bay and on the Coqullle. It may be
necessary, however, to have the two
places represented at Washington to
look after the needed appropriations.
and it has been suggested that Orvll
Dodge, be sent to look after this
work. Mr. Dodge was influential in
securing the dredge now at work in
C003 Bay as well as getting the ap
propriation for the Bandon jetty just
completed and would undoubtedly be
able to Interest the proper author
ities In additional work. Whatever
is done for these two harbors, bene
fits all of Coos county and the entire
county should contribute toward
having proper representation at
Washington outside of the congres
sional delegation which has been
found in the right place when It
came to furthering the Interests of
Coos. It would be of Inestimable
benefit, for Instance, to have the Co
qullle opened for navigation as far
up as Myrtle Point, and it Is under
stood that the work necessary could
be done without a large expense to
the government. Certainly the prop
er representation should be made to
congress at the proper time. Myrtle
Point Enterprise.
The American electorate Is not dlvkl
rl Into groups to bo handed over to
candidates bodily by masters. That Is
true of the labor vote, the capitalist
vote, tho Jewish vote, the Christian
vote, tile negro vote, the white vote.
There is no Pruijiinn guard on the
quarter deck of our ship of state.
The explorations of Traveler Bryan
Into the enemy's country are giving
him vivid impressions of Its extent and
hostility.
Bryan will be convinced for the third
time ip November that this country has
got the habit.
"One step uon another and tho
longest walk Is ended." Tho steady
progress of Mr. Taf t toward tho White
House, however, is quickening beyond
tho speed of n walk.
Georgians should vote for Bryan,
even though they do not favor him per
sonally, for tho sake of tho Integrity of
the Democratic party in tills state.
Macon (Gn.) Telegraph. Thero Is faint
Democratic support for you! v
Bryan cries out for tho organization
of Democratic clubs. There are pre
cincts where they could not ofiieer,
much less man, such nn organization.
A congressman returned to President
Roosevelt a hat Inndveitontly borrow
ed, but Mr. Roosevelt Is content, as Is
tho country, that Mr. Taft shall step
In his shoes.
Speech la silver, but tho golden
truths uttered by Judge Tnft will
maintnlu parity nnd maintain Repub
lican doctrine as the sound basis of
political value.
It is Instructive to observe thousnnds
of wngo earners whoso votes Gonipers
has assumed to "throw" to Brynu
march in tho Tnft processions.
A murdering Filipino lins been sen
tenced to pny a flno nnd to bo execut
ed. Ills feelings much resemble- thoso
of n Democrat nsked for n campaign
contribution.
Political revolutions cast shadows
before. Tho Republican west, golden
with Bunshlno nnd fat with harvests,
throws no sinister portent of departure
from its happy union with Ohio nnd
Now York.
Bryan is as shy about his abandoned
Issuer as aro some stars In tho theat
rical firmament about tho matrimonial
nlllancea they have severed,
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V,VVVVVVVVVVVVVV
GOOD EVENING. X
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' He serves thee best who loveth it
it most ii
it His brothers and thy own. ii
it WHITTIER. it
AVhy Is It?
O, haven't you stood at the tele
phone, , jjg
The receiver in your hand,
And pleaded with "Central" In
humble tone,
Persuasive, and meek, and bland:
"Please ring 'em again; I can't stand
here
From now till the crack of doom!"
And hasn't the thing then buzzed in
your ear?
"R-r-r-f-r-r-r-r-! Zoo-oo-oo-oom !
R-r-r-r-r-r-r-! Zoo-oo-oo-oom!
R-r-r-r-r-r-r-! Zoo-oo-oo-oom!
R-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-! Zoo-oo-oo-oom!"
"Say, Central, I'm waiting; try 'em
again.
I called one 4 double 4!"
It stops for a second or two, and then
You hear the buzzing some more.
What Is the telephone trying to say,
With its "R-r-r-r-r-r! Zoo-oo-oom!
And what does it mean when it talks
that way?
"R-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-! Zoo-oo-oo-oom!
R-r-r-r-r-r-r-! Zoo-oo-oo-oom!
R-r-r-r-r-r-r-! Zoo-oo-oo-oom!
R-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-! Zoo-oo-oo-oom ! "
Perhaps 'tis meant to amuse you unt'l
You get the number you call,
Or mayhap It is just to keep you still
and peaceable that is all.
If not, what's the reason you have
to hear
That muffled rattle and boom,
As you hold the thingumbob to your
ear:
"R-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-! Zoo-oo-oo-oom!
R-r-r-r-r-r-r-! Zoo-oo-oo-oom!
R-r-r-r-r-r-r-! Zoo-oo-oo-oom!
R-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-! Zoo-oo-oo-oom ! "
Selected.
Many a man Imagine he's done
something for the church when he
buys a cushion for his pew.
There is a touch of sentiment in
anyone who will underscore with a
pencil a favorite passage in a book.
Of course, you would not confess
it, but when someone gives you a
postal card to mail, don't you always
read It?
Children take the place of a fad
with women. A woman who has no
children is sure to have a fad of
some kind.
Occasionally a man gets the re
putation of being "deep" by saying
things neither he nor anyone else un
dorstands.
The people always catch it. The
poor man says "the people snub
him;" the rich man says "the people
are toadies."
"Battling" Nelson got $7,5CS for
whipping a man. Some people have
received thirty days for doing the
same thing.
When we call a man on the tele
phone and he snaps wildy at us, it
is a sure sign that the telephone girl
has done something to him.
Captain I see you're not seasick
yet.
Hobbs Oh, no. I'm still holding
my own.
People let their sink spouts empty
on tho ground near their wells, and
then wonder where they or their chil
dren "could have caught diphtheria
or typhoid fever."
In aiming to follow the good ad
vice to seek the society of cheerful
people, wo do well to remember that
tho cheerful people will not care to
have us around unless we chirp up a
bit ourselves.
"Ho proposed to a deaf mute."
"What for?"
"Ho wanted to bo sure of propos
ing to some one who couldn't say
'No.' "
Mae Our pastor preached a ser
mon on marriage last Sunday."
Edytho Did it seem to have a sti
mulating effect?
Mne On tho contrnry, it was bo
solemn nnd conveyed so many warn
ings that two engagements wero
broken.
A Missouri orator Is said to have
perpetrated the following: "We live
in a land of high mountains and high
taxes; low valleys and low wages; big
Road tho Times' Want Ads.
crooked rivers and big crooked
statesmen; big lakes, big strikes, big
drunks and big pumpkinheads, silver
streams that gambol in the moun-
tains and pious politicians who gam
ble in the night; fast young men and
faster girls; sharp financiers and
sharp-toed shoes; fertile plains that
He like sheets of water and thousands
of newspapers whose sheets lie like
thunder.!'
"When we are married," said the
girl, "of course you will shave every
morning. That's one of the rules of
our club. We all agreed not to mar
ry any man who couldn't shave every
morning."
"Well, what about the mornings I
don't get home in time?" responded
the young man. "I belong to a club,
too."
I said as I walked through the cool
evening air:
"She will not answer tonight I
know;
She will put me off with a woman's
care;
Some women are too reserved, I
trow."
The river, of course, ran smooth and
quiet
Twixt its summer banks, deep
dark and clear
"Ah, better," I thought as passing by
it,
"To plunge and so end the matter
here!"
"Better far down in the dull, dark
slime
Unvexed by the vanity misnamed
life
Than to be put off for the thousandth
time
With all his waiting and doubt and
strife.
And If she refuse mc well there are
ways:
Wheels ready to spin and sails
soon set.
Unwise it would he near despair to
stay
If the world be wide enough to
forget."
I crost the meadow; o'er mountain
crest
The sun his wings all golden furl
ed As he settled down, like a bird to its
nest,
Far, far in the void beyond the
world.
The twilight already had gathered
deep
Where under the broad shade tree
I. found her
Lapped in her hammock and half
asleep
With a dozen gay cushions around
her
And something, oh who shall say
what It was
Like a sense of shackles upon me
came
And linked to a saddened effect, the
cause
That burned In my bosom with
viewless flame.
And something, an eve's-dropplng
star, alas,
Or near by the dropping of wind
picked fruit
Or the breeze playing leap-frog over
the grass
Kept me back from my purpose
and held me mute
So, faltering, I spoke of the beaute
ous eve
And praised the song that drifting
down
Through the lisping leaves seemed to
sweetly weave
For the wind waked songster a
starlike crown.
In tho near-by lot, unstained by blood
The wind with their uniforms
green at play
The tasseled ranks of the cornfield
stood
- Pointing their lances all one way.
And scents from the garden her own
haunts tended
Came floating-floating adown the
lawn
And ever, with wavering hopes were
blended
Moving my faint heart on and on.
And on to the purpose, on, on to the
goal.
"Earth's drawn toward heaven,"
the fixed stars say,
"When a woman loves with her
heart and soul."
And homeward I went by tho Milky
Way.
RAYMOND " ARTHUR BATES.
Use The Coos Bay Times Want Adi
. LIB IN
fin the following article, written
for The Journal by Francis H. Clarke
of Marshfleld, Or., the great import
ance of the upbuilding of the coast
wise trade, as a leading factor In the
future growth of Portland, is pre
sented with unusual force. Mr.
Clarke, who came to Oregon two
years ago to make his home on Coos
Bay, has had wide opportunities for
observation and his views should be
of much interest to the merchants
and shippers of this city as well as
to the people of Oregon's coast
towns.) '
The coast of Oregon has been call
ed a neglected area. Until recently
it might well have been regarded as
forgotten. It would be unfair to say
that Portland or any other city was
responsible for this condition, but it
is not too much to say that this neg
lected coast will be for Portland the
purse of Fortunatus if she chooses
to make it so.
Two years ago I was In this city
and was greatly impressed with its
beautiful location and its opportunity
for becoming one of the most beau
tiful cities in the world. Since then
I have studied the country to the
south and along the coast from the
mouth of the Columbia to the Golden
Gate. Knowing the history of the
United States, I am not surprised
that Portland has become indifferent
to her tributary district, but am rath
er amazed at the prospect of her
massive commercial future when she
awakes from that indifference and
realizes that her true greatness is not
north of the Columbia river, but in
the undeveloped areas south of that
stream.
Whether she will realize it in suf
ficient season to take full advantage
of it is a question, for south of that
district Portland has a competition
in the very country which nature and
political affinity gave to Portland,
namely, the city of the Golden Gate.
The coast of Oregon Is what will
make Portland the greatest of Paci
fic ports if anything ever does. The
forgotten coast, the neglected coast,
must be remembered and developed
by Portland, or San Francisco, recov
ering from her Injuries and mistakes,
will have the glory and the wealth
of it, It will not be a reflection on
Portland, the rose of Oregon, if I say
that, the little fringe of velvet along
the Columbia and Willamette rivers,
meeting in an acute angle at Port
land, never made Portland what she
Is, but only suggested It. The state
of Washington, with her coast and
interior development and the North
Bank road, have transformed Port
land In two years, from a beautiful
provincial city to a city of the world.
When will the activity which is so
brilliant and accomplishes so much,
cease?
Do the people of Portland know
that every seaport, big or little,
along the coast of Oregon is a sta
tion at which Portland has a vast
amount of undeveloped and reserve
power? In the proportion that these
ports are opened and commercial re
lations established with them by
Portland this reserve and undevelop
ed power will pour these products
and fruits into this city. What has
surprised me Is the fact that this
city contains a latge population
whose business has been so active
and whose minds are so occupied that
their Inclination is to pay little at
tention to the Oregon ports.
The several bays or inlets on Ore
gon's coast Tillamook, Yaqulna, the
mouth of the Sluslaw, Winchester
bay, Coos Bay, Port Orford and tho
mouth of the Rogue all have great
undeveloped wealth, and Coos Bay
particularly has a harbor capable of
being improved at small expense so
as to make It one of the great har
bors of the Pacific coast. If Portland
would make a special effort to devel
op these ports and particularly to
open up southwestern Oregon by
exerting her Influence and investigat
ing her capital so as to obtain a great
seaport at Coos Bay, the continued
growth of this metropolis would be
assured.
It Is not foreign commerce which
makes a city great. Foreign com
merce magnifies the importance of a
city, but its domestic commerce
makes it substantial and enduring.
The city of Boston makes more
wealth year by year out of its coast
wise trade Its coast steamers to
Portland, Bangor, St. Johns, Halifax,
Newfoundland and Its water traffic
with New Bedford, New York, Phila
delphia and southern parts than with
foreign countries. Portland's trade
with Puget Sound cities, San Fran
cisco, San Pedro and San Diego, not
to say Eureka and Coos Bay, Is what
Is solidifying this city and making
her foreign commerce possible,
bUMblWIDt fflAUt
It Is only necessary to call atten
tion to the fact that a small steamer
like the Breakwater which plies be
tween C003 Bay and Portland carries
on an average about 100 passengers
twice a week between the ports and
then to multiply that by 52, to sub
stantiate the statement that one
coastwise steamer arriving in and de
parting from the city many times Is
more beneficial than a great ocean
liner which makes only a few trips
a year. The big boats are the city's
pride, but the little ones aro the
city's substance.
But, It is plain enough that San
Francisco capital, always cosmopoli
tan, commercial, courageous and en
terprising is turning again to tho
fields which Portland has cultivated
somewhat Indifferently since San
Francisco became temporarily crip
pled. The merchants of the southern
city are again sending their agents
Into that field and the prospects are
that much capital, which Portland
does not influence, may become in
vested there.
This capital which comes from the
east is not hostile to Portland, but
is now in touch with it. It is Impor
tant for Portland people and Port
land capital that they put themselves
In such a relation with Coos Bay that
the latter place will be able to rely
on the help of the greater city for its
progress.
This brings me to call attention to
the fact that the coast of Oregon, in
order to be placed in a position where
it can help Itself nnd open its purse
of Fortunatus for this city as well as
itself, needs to have some very im
portant legislation enacted at the
next session of the state legislature.
The people of Coos Bay are discuss
ing this matter and are anxious that
a general law be placed on the sta
tute books, whereby the several sea
ports of the state, may become ports
within certain natural lines, with
powers similar to those now exercised
by the Port of Portland and particu
larly with power to levy taxes for tho
improvement and regulation of the
harbor.
The constitution of the state is now
opposed to such general legislation
and there Is no reason why every na
tural harbor should not be in a posi
tion to immediately organize a port
if it complies with certain provisions
of the law. Neither is there any rea
son why such matters should be sub
mitted to the people as a whole, since
the legislature may pass general laws
which will abundantly meet the de
mand. At any rate, these southern ports
are bound to open and fill a large
place in the world's activities and
Portland's appreciation of her oppor
tunity to help them will be the meas
ure of her ability to fill the great des
tiny which she may enjoy if she will.
Secretary Root on tho Guaranty of
Deposits.
If the sound and honest banks of
the country guarantee the debts of
every bank, a well earned reputation
for honesty and business judgment
will no longer be necessary as a part
of the banker's capital.
Bryan proposes to give a mnle to tho
Democrat who does most for him in
tho campaign, ne would have to givo
away about a million mules to do all
the kicking his supporters will want to
give themselves after tho campaign Is
over.
"U" Are In the Middle
of a discussion perhaps, as to wheth
er the average druggist, making up
a prescription, is not really "com
pounding a felony" when he mixes
the Ingredients. Don't run any such
risk when you have any medicines to
be put up. Come here and get your
drugs fresh, accurately and quickly
compounded, and at less cost than
olsewhere.
mum
Red Cross Drugstore
"
1M J.J.J