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Bandon Recorder
Published Every Thursday by the
Recorder Fu-toialxing Compa.n. y.
O. JE. KOPT,
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Jvla.na.ging Editor
Subscription, $1 50 per Year in A Ivano. Advertising Kiitt-s Made
Known on Application. Job Printing a Specialty
Entered at the Bandon Poalottioe as Second (.'lass Matter.
November iS 1909
THURSDAY
j enactment of undesirable legislation
I to make any detailed discussion of
Abolished?
I the matter at all necessary. It
Are we to believe from the turn might be the contention of the West
that the agitation pertaining 10 in­ or the South that the preponderating
land waterways improvement has influence of the East would deprive
taken, that Congress is going to those sections of their proper share
knock the head out of the “pork j of Federal attention in the matter or
bar’l,” smash in the staves, and internal improvement But this con­
throw the wreck into the political tention will not boll. As it is the
scrap heap? Such a conclusion is : distribution of such Federal aid in
almost inconceivable.
the hands of a comp.u itively small
Yet that is clearly whit President 1 coterie of Eastern Congressman.
Taft has in mind as one of the chief I'hen chances of any section would
advantages to result from providing be as good under the bond issue as
for internal improvements by bond under the present arrangement:
issue, and in that it is a contemplated while the chief manipulators would
reform that is almost revolutionary be shorn of power that is now used
in character.
to the positive detriment of the
For the larger benefit of the Nation at large.
But will that
country the “busting” of the “p< rk power be wrested from the hands
bar’l” is a step to be desired. As of those men? That’s the important
its largeness is now distributed it is question.— Telegram
made the
conservator of undue
power in the hands < f the speaker,
Coos County Apples
and the basis oi trading among
Congressmen in matters where the
The Myrtle Point Enterise says:
interests of the whole country are “A marshfield newspaper, in stating
brought in conflict with the advan- that this is not an apple country
tags of a particular section, or where quotes a couple of buyers as stating
they are set at naught by catering 1 hat they were unab'e to purchase
to the personal ambition of a par­ from 1,700 to 2,ooo boxes of apples
ticular Cengressman.
m the county.
It is possible that
The general public is too familiar there are not many prize apples
with the method of “pork bat I" in the county, and it may be that
manipulation that operates to the the Marshfield editor is judging
Will the “Pork Bar’l” be
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tin- coimtrv by ifs «1 z • * «'. 1 Mlf* «isBipfli taJVy an! their
roundings,
to get. the Walt r Idestinali n M largely, the state »>♦
Sime may g > to Wash
straight so that outside people wil Oregon.
ington
and
California, but al aie
not think that we do not raise ap
pies here The Enterprise wants :o lo king tor the land ot great, st op­
state that one Myrtle Point firm is portunity . nd by inviotigating they
shipping 4.000 boxes of apples this find that to lie Oregon.
season and the fruit growers as* I As has been the case with the
social ton expects to ship at least I homeseekers movement during re
3,000 boxes if the weather will ptr ' cent years, the intending immigrants
mit ihe packers to finish their work. l are for the most part, wel to-do and
The motive for a
This will make a total of 7,000 I thrifty people.
boxes being shipped from this ’ change of residence is to . enter a
point, not to mention the boxes land of wider opportunity to estab
that are being kept for home con lish better homes and thus enjoy
sumption, and the packers and prosperity in a larger degree.
These pe> pie have done well in
shippers have been particular as to
die quality of fruit shipped, throw­ | the middle west, have raised big
ing aside apples that were as good I eroj s, marketed them well and con­
is any to use, but not perfect in sequently have money in their
They are coining rt if h
This for ini- pockets.
form or coloring
household goods
mediate- pi oof that this is an ap their families and
During the past few to settle in a land where greater op
pie country.
J port unities and more agreeable di
years tnere 1 has been a noticeable
developmei nt of the fruit gro 1 ing 1 mate are lo be found, so they can
enjoy life in its fullest extent.
industry, Thousands of new tree-,
. Wlide we do not desire to de­
have been set out and thousands >f
populate the east and middle west,
old trees have been pruneil into
yet we welcome all who come, and
sli.i >e anil I grafted .0 bring forth
better fruit, file upward tendency there will probably be enough left in
of prices for fruit now being m ir the eastern sections to monopolize
keted will be better argument for all the opportunities that are to be
hither advancement in th? biusness, picked up in that region.
an 1 it will not be a surprise if, with
in four or five years this valley
Lean Years Upon Us
will i>e marketing thousan Is of
James !. Hill, the gre.it railroad
boxes of apples that will equal those magnate is authority for the state­
produced in anv section on the ment that “thelean years aie upon
coast.’’
us.” He bases his conclusions on
the fact that there is going to be a
Westward Ho!
shortage in the nation’s food supply
Unless all signs fail one of the and in this connection Secretary
immigration James Wilson says it is because the
most
remarkable
history
of the farmers are not getting as much from
movements in the
country is about to begin. The the soil as could be obtained by
hosts are mobilizing in the Mis- more svstematic and intensified
farming, and Mr. Wilson is right
but there i« another way of putting
a sto 1 to the “lean years.” and that
is by getting a means of transpor­
tation to what are now remote sec
tions of the c >untry.
This is an
obstacle that Mr. Hill, and other
men of his class could materially
help if they so desired-
In these
sections
there are
thousands of ions ot foodstuffs going
to waste every year because the pro­
ducer cannot get them to the people
who would consume them, owing to
the lack of transportation facilities.
Southwestern Oregon alone could
feed a million people if they only
had a means of getting what they
produce to the people, There are
other remote sections in the very
same condition ami they are ex­
periencing the same trouble.
With proper means cf transpor­
tation to all sections of the country
there would be no trouble in sup
plying all the foodstuffs necessary
for all the people for generations to
come. We have not reached our
“lean years’’ so far as being able to
produce is concerned, it is only be­
cause the men who have the trans­
portation in control, are behind the
times.
lion than the jiost masters and post
imsstresses of the county, and others
who are directly associated with the
mail service, as they are compelled
to (rear the brunt ol attack from a
displeased public and have no
redress whatever.
Hearst and Gaynor
The Portland Journal says: “
big type the New
York - Journal
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of
_ November
----------- .• 1 said: ‘Hearst and
Gaynor both spoke last night.
Gaynor’s hall could seat 1500 peo­
ple. Less than 500 were there,
Sixteen thousand listened to M r
Hearst and 40,000 were turned
away at the door, Hearst will l>e
elected bv 325,000 votes.’ ‘The
next morning it was different.”
This is another evidence oi the
truth of the passage of scripture
which says, “Not everyone that
saith unto me Lord! Lord! shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven ”
It is also true that not everyone
who cried Hearst! Hearst! voted
tor the standing candidate
“Discontent,” says the Tacoma
Labor World.
“pervades the
whole social atmosphere.” You
may bet it does, and always will.
Sancho Panza, the great philosopher
described it as a contention be
tween the Have nots and the
Hav js.
Whenever this struggle
ceases you may depend there will
not be much doing in this world
The Mail Service
But as fast as men accumulate proj -
1 lie Coqu ille Valley Sentinel says: erty, as often as men pass from the
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They do say the entire blame for Have-nots to the Haves, the situa-
the present condition of mail service j tion from their point of view changes,
in Coos county lies with the howlers i Discontent, therefore is a variable
■ factor. It is on one side today on
or Marshfield.’’ We do not pro
! the other side tomorrow. Besides,
fess to know where it lies, but we there is little content among the
do know that the service is pretty ! Haves. Their vices often bother
rank at present.
We don’t get any them They get into the divorce
Sunday mail down at this end of courts. Di-.content, in one wav or
the county either, and it has missed another, is a condition of human
existence. They
have least of
in a few other dates as well.
No it who milk their cows and hoe
one is more grieved over the situa their cabbages.—Oregon ian
YEAR
1$ 1,5 00 A
Would that look good to you?|
man or woman who earns reasonable
wages can have it. Are you going to
drudge all your life or will you exercise a
little prudence and have an income that will
enable you to enjoy life. An orchard tract
which you can buy from the
Oregon Coast Co. Will Assure You This Income
You may not be able to plant and care for an orchard yourself as you may
have to earn your living, but this Company will plant and cultivate it for
four years and you can pay the small sum of S10 per month. If you fail to
make this provision for the future you will only have yourself to blame
For Further Information Apply to
OREGON COAST COMPANY
T. B. WHEELER, Vice-President and Local Manager, Bandon, Oregon
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