The Coquille Valley sentinel., January 26, 1917, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

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BY H. W. YOUNG.
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tive, and tt is to ha
will be ee
h a t the
to th at
Tribuna.
I World says
a couple of i
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od its coast line south *fi
Hill Jonetion instat'd of from
Bend “does net coincide with
to ««P
Id* information received her*,
In n I *D®
their were* into prohibition S û tes
he* unquestiona bly retarded the pro­ that a surrey, abstracts or title and
hibition movement. # It is liqaor man­ some deeds for rights of way have
ufactured outside the SU te that bee been secured by the 8. P. between
scandalised the prohibition law in North Bend end Bandon and th at
Maine for more than half a century. work will commence within two
r
Under the assumed authority of a year».”
It continues: “The 8. P. owns a east
Federal license and of the interstate
Commerce Law, a New Hampshire mina a t Beaver Hill. That perhaps
brewing concern ran special trains is why they want to retain the right
carrying Ha product* into Maine for of way to th at point That mine is
a considerable period. The liquor in­ now being developed on a largar scale
terests, at one time, paid special at­ and the company eventually expects
tention to the shipments of liquor to supply the W illamette valley with
into Iowa, for the sole purpose of He product That Is good '
disgusting the law-abiding people of
th at and of other states with the ad­
m inistration and operation at the pro­
hibition law.”
Let’s see how tt wopld work for
[ Curry to try to aoeed* from the Cooe-
Curry district. With only one-eighth
the population of Cooe—2JM0 to our
20,000— Curry wouldn’t get any rep-
I ta tive a t all if tt wasn’t for the
consideration of Coos. The two coun­
in tbe earn* senatorial dis­
trict, tt has been tacitly agreed that
by foregoing all delate to the
torship Curry should be permitted to
the representative in the joint
representative dfctriet comprised of
the two counties. Ceos alone eoe
■ to being, entitled to t
on a population basis,
while Curry would bave to grow a
[lot to bo antitied to one. It looks as
\ if it would bo tbe part of wisdom for
the people down there to let well
I enough don*. Under no different ag­
it would tt be possible for
Misery, it is said, loves company;
so we may all get wfcat consolation we
can put of the feet th at late as tt is
when W« get our outside mall, Co­
quille comes in ahead of all other
points in the valley and down the
coast. * ^
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2,600 people to name e representative yet made for the cause of real pro-1 omiwi-rowers
w
in tbs Legislature.
i
hibition,” declares the Philadelphia work are up, th at company would
If the persistent rumor th at -the
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I Press, and the Brooklyn Eagle quotes °wn the present Southern Pacific line
Southern Pacific railroad has sold its
THEY ABB BECKONING WRONG, the statem ent of Dr. Ferdinand C. between Marshfield and M yrtle Point.
line through here between Beaver Hill
The liquor Internets of the eoaatry [igiehart, in the American Year-Book [ That a second railroad will be built
Junction and Myrtle Point should
seem
to think the recent Supreme for IMS, that the Webb-Kenyon Law, between those two points is not benig
prove^to be well founded, it can easily
be understood that our protests Court decision which lenders absolute if sustained, would destroy “from 1» token seriously by many people. The
against the new mall schedule will prohibition possible is a t the same to 20 per cent of the liquor business’' Coquill* story seems to lend credence
time going to make such prohibition I in the United States. “In the judg- to the foregoing,
probably fall on deaf ears.
very unpopular. The idea is that » an t of many,” says the Eagle, “this
* * !• generally believed th at the
Booze is reported to be flowing wealthy men end employers 'have I h an underestimate.’' In any case, I objeet it the Smith-Power» company
freely at Salem now in an attom pt found th at loboring men are a great I other editors remark, this ruling gives I ^ securing e franchise from the coun­
to induce the majority of tbe houe* deal more efficient if they are not eh I the advocates of prohibition a chance I tjr H te nee it as a club in getting
term» from the Southern Pa-
to vote againet the emergency clause lowed access to boss*; but th at they I to test their theory fairly and fully. I
wishing to see
ln the “Bon* Dry” *<i and so permit will by no means be willing to submit I "It effectually closes one of the larg- M * - T»«
a referendum and have Oregon wide
open for the liquor seller« for two
year* more. A recall should be
sounded for every representative who
fails us there .
gene before and in preference to a I opinion is expressed th at States like
direct line from Marshfield to Boee- Kansas, which have abolished the aa-
burg via the Middle Fork.
loon, but allow every on* who wants
Surprised in the first place th at I it to ship in liquor will think a long
they should make a Lane County road I time before they will absolutely cut
away across the west sad of Doug- I off all chances to get it in and do
las county their first choice for a I without tbe stuff,
connection with the Pacific highway Jedging from what we have seen
in tbe valley counties; and in tha see-1 during recant years of the steadily
ond place th at they should prefer to growing sentiment to do away with
wait for a road that will cost a mil- liquors as beverages, tbe experiment
lion end a half and will probably | of making prohibition actually pro­
take a dozen years to build, in prefer- hibit, and the success of such pro-
ence to one already in use during most I hibition experiments ea Russia «wads
w t
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the Books
HAS BEEN UPHELD.
will tal
O rferdl
m is
OREGON
COQUILLE
In Hie Sick Room
Nothing is more convenient for the sick room, or for
that matter, the hone in general
than a
THERMOS
Its no trouble to have a hot drink a t any
time, day or n ig h t
War on the Coyote». %
Over in Douglas county tt is “war
to tbe knife and tha knife to the hilt”
against the coyotes, to judg* from the
! following which we d ip from the
Gardiner Index:
“On account of the depredations
committed by the pack of coyotes,
which have recently invaded the coun­
first cinse road in a couple of years I pi* are not forecasting the future transportation and receipt of liquo* try, the county court has paasod aa
for an expenditure only one-fifteenth [wisely.
[in the State. Both the Webb-Kenyon
as great. Of course both roads will
It is our. opinion th at the States | Act and West Virginia’« jaw were 'to be paid for then* animals from |1#
eventually be built, but tt seems to us | that go “Bone Dry” and render it brought before the Supreme Court in to »20 per hid*. It ia believed that
the nearer rout* we can get so much impossible for their people to gut al-1 two tost cases of the James Clark ia this manner more residents will
more cheaply end quickly is tha one to | coholie borer ages, will saa so wonder- Distilling Company, of Cumberland, pay attention to the killing of the vi-
finish first.
| ful an Improvement in tha condition Md., against the American Express cious and thriving animals and will
| of their citizen* end the standard of | Company and W estern Maryland
[th eir citizenship that they would no I Railroad. Both laws were sustained undesirable presence
MEXICANS AND CHINESE
During tbe past four months tt had
We remember when ear correspon­ | more think of going heck to the ea-1 in the Supreme Court’s decision, to been estimated by one who Is
loon
era
than
they
would
of
doing
which
Justice
Holmes
and
Van
De-
dent, M. J. Brown, four or five years
Chief Justice with the m atter th at between |7.00»
ago affirmed his full conviction that wttbout railroads and telegraphs and van tar dissented.
motor
ears.
[W
hite,
who
announced
the decision, and 910,000 worth of property has
the original settlers of the American
Indeed tt Is inconceivable to tha I emphasised its sweeping nature in the been destroyed, in spite of the efforts
continent were Chinese immigrants by
| of the residents of the outlying dis­
[w
riter
th at a community which has I following words:
way of Bering’s S trait’s and their de­
tricts to protect themselves.
The
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scendants. Ha had seen the oldest | once enjoyed the blessings of an en j
greatest loss came about Thanksgiv­
tirely
sober
citizenship
should
ever
"The
all-reaching
power
of
gevera-
Indian races of the eoaatry and the
ing ton#, when hundreds of turkeys
recently arrived Chinamen down In Iagain go back to wallowing in th * |» * n t over Uquor is settled. There were killed.
[
mire.
On
the
other
hand
we
believe
was
no
intention
of
Congress
to
for-
our southwestern states and could not
resist the connection th at they were, | that the benefits of complete abstin- bid individual us* of liquor. The pur-
Carrying Coals TP Newcastle. -
| ence from boose will be so m anifest | P°e* of this act was .to cut out by
aa races, vary nearly akin,
Lots
of wealth ia being wasted now
It It interesting to find the same and so unquestionable th at no State I the roots the practise of perm itting
in shipping Coos county potatoes to
that
ia
neighbor
to
on*
with
the
b
a
n
violation
of
State
liquor
lews.
We
theory more than hinted by Gregory
San Francisco a t the earn* time that
Mason in his recent Mexican articles up and alcohol shut oat bat th at will can have no doubt th at Congress has'
California
potato## are being shipped
|soon
decide
to
im
itate
its
exempt*,
[complete
authority
to
prevent
jmrm-
in the Outlook. He says:
.......
lyzing of SUte authority. Congress up to Coos Bay. Coos county im­
“There ia a riddle beneath the rela­
LIKE THE MILLENNIUM.
¡exacted . power to «ordinate toe ports a great many vegetables of oth­
tion of China to Mexico which no sa­
vant has yet satisfactorily explained, I President Wilson tells the warring national with the State authority. . . . er Unde th at might be grown here
“It is decided th at the W*bb-K*n- ju st as well as not, but shipping ear
although many learned heads have nations of Europe the way in which
wagged over the problem.
Bom* he thinks they should make pees*. In yon Act, to us* the words of the act, potatoes out to Frisco to buy tha—
members of Indian tribes from com­ asking th at they lay aside all thought applies to shipments of liquor ‘in-I back from tha wholesalers there is
munities far from the usual ha ante of of victory, leave each nation V> gov- [ tended to bo received, y m n seil. »old, going the limit.
the immigrant Chinaoe look aa much era itself, make Poland free, give | or in any manner used’ in viola ties of
like Celestials as if they bad just everyone a right of way to the sea, the laws of the State. As this con-
wafted across the Pacific ia a junk. end make the ocean* unrestricted elusion ceases every prohibition of the
There ia strong evidence th at this highway», he certainly strikes e high West Virginia law to be embraced end
sim ilarity ia an ancient one. Many of keynote. It is, however, «imply ask- come under the right conferred by
the little stone gods which the Astoce ing that international law shall bo Congress by tbe Webb-Kenyon Act,
or pre-Astoca worshiped have the made to conform with the golden it is decided that the West Virginia
tam e unmistakable silt eyes that rule. He says th at unless the bellig- law was not to conflict with (he com-
Americans associate with the Orient. erent nations stake their peace treat- I marc* clause of the Constitution and
Still more remarkable, perhaps, ia tha lee along such lines, they need not ex- the power of Congress to regulate
ease with which the Chines* who go pact us to unite in any league to ea- commerce, if Congress had power to
¡enact the Webb-Kenyon law.
to Yucatan acquire the language of form peace after the war.
If the President's ideas could be
“Diapoomg of th at question, it is I
the native Maya Indians. The Maya
civilization is much older than the crytallixed in a peas* treaty,-it would ¡decided th at Congress had the power
Aztec—in fact, it is on* the oldest be the greatest forward ,step the under the Constitution to adopt the |
civilisations known—end the Chinese world has seen sines the Declaration | Webh-Kenyoa Law, whether consider- [
________
^ __of
Independence, and
and if if the the civilised
civilised *d from the point of view of original
who
go to _________________
Yucatan team Maya
far of Independence,
world would
np to th at standard, | reasoning or ia tha lig h t of the ere-1
more easily than they learn Spanish, JworW
WDO,d live
Iiv* «P
although Spanish among European U
cw tainly mean the dawn of
and Anglo-Saxon people is consto- ■
mU1
c red on* of the easiest of modani la n -, __
to learn.”
| When a strew vqto was taken at
tha city election May 11, 1914, ea the |
qaeotion whether to purchase Patter-1
CUREY WANTS TO 8BCEBB.
sea’s Grove on the east side- of
Petitions will appear throughout
the county within a few days asking
the Legislature to «w et a law giving
to Curry the right to elect a rep­
resentative of its own to th a t body.
Aa it new steads this county places
in nomination a BMW, but tt is only a
joint affair, as he most get the eat-
doraeaeent of the voters of Coos coun­
ty before he is sleeted. Coes county
is much larger than Curry, aad a man
may be very unpopular ia his own
county, where he is known, and »till
MAY PROVE FATAL.
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