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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 19??-1917 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1917)
rifW i* th at sDoke their natural instinct, their tio as possible in our own preparation and in ths equipment of our own mili tary forces with the duty—for it will be n very practical duty—o f supplying ths nations already a t war with Ger many with the m aterials which they can obtain only from us or by our as sistance. They are in the field sad we should help them in every way to be effective there. I shaQ inks Urn liberty of suggest ing, through the several executive de partm ents of the government, for the consideration of your committees, for ths aecemplishmeat of the several ob jects I hsve mentioned. I hope th at it wUl be your pleasure to deal with them as having been framed after very careful thought by the branch at the guveram m t upon which the responsi bility of conducting the war safe guarding the nation will most directly fa ll Objects Are Ontiiaed. / While we de these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very d ear and make very' d ear to all the world w hat our motives and oar objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual aad nor mal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I de not be lieve th at the thought of the nation has been altered or clouded by them. I have exactly the same things in mind now th at I had in mind when I addressed the Senate on the 22d of January last, the same th at I had in habituel attitu de towards life. The autocracy th at crowned the summit of her political structure, long as It had stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character or purpose; and now it has been shaken off, and the great, generous Russian native m ajesty and m ight to the fore- os th at are fighting for freedom in the world, for Justice and for peace. Here is a fit partner fo r a league of honor. One of the things that, has'served to convince us th at the Prussian autoc racy was a s t aad could never be ear friend is th at from the very outset at the present w ar it has filled our un- suspeeting communities and even our oOcee of government with spies sad set criminal intrigues everywhere afoot against our national unity of council, our peace within and without, our industries and our commerce. * * ► . It will be all the easier for os to conduct ourselves as belligerents in a high sp irit of right end fairness be cause we act without animus, not in 1 enmity towards a people or with the 1 desire to bring any injury or disad ' vantage upon them, but only in armed ' opposition to an irresponsible govern ment which has thrown aside all con ' siderations of humanity and of right and is running amuck. Much Forbeara nce Shewn. We are, let me say again, the sin- cerest friends of the German people, the early re-establiehment of intim ate relations of m utual advantage be tween us—however hard it may be for them, for the time being, to believe th at this is spoken from our hearts. We have borne with their present government through all these bitter months because of th at friendship— exercising s patience and forbearance which would otherwise have been ha- I ’m not peddling hand-me-down m o lars. I’m not trying to run a five-and-ten-eent store w ith a few 1 gross of ssoond-rate incisors on the counter. I’m not in the business of foisting on the public shod dy, catch-penny goods--not in th is line o f work where vitally v au lab le human teeth are the price of unscrupuloufUMSS. No honest dentist can tell m s that he can give every patient the same job for the same tim e, cars and price. No two dental operations are identically alike. Human teeth are the same all over the world, but careless habits, indifference, neglect end, often bring about abnormal condi other physical tions. How, then, can I conscientiously promise you that a gold crown on your upper bisuapid w ill cost exactly what it will to put a gold crown on your neighbor’s lower molar? It’s cruel to tip off the professional secrets o f some of the merry maxillary mechanics o f my acquaint ance, but 1 can’t resist explaining th at the adver tising of fixed prices is merely a rude dodge to bait customers into the dental “parlor” and there talk them into contracting for work much more expensive than so glibly advertised. Dental operations that are cheap in price are too often cheap in workmanship. The Painless Parker offices are a unit in their insistence on the best of skilled work, all up to a fixed standard. The prices vary, of course, but w ith our perfected business organization, our corps of specialists and our ability to buy the best goods in bulk at a low rate, we can quote figures far below the Dental Trust fees—and still make our reasonable profit. Painless Parker, Dentist 324% W ashington street, corner Sixth, Portland, Ora. State aad Commercial Streets, Salem, Oregon. N eutrality is bo longer feasible or dssirwblo, where the peso) of the world is involved sad the freedom of its psoplss, and the menace to th at peace and freedom lies in the exis tence of so toe re tie governments back ed by organised force, which is con trolled wholly by their will, not by the will of their people. We have aeen the laat at neutrality la auch circumstanc- the United States; th at It formally ac cept the status of belligerent which has thus bean thrust upon it, and th at H taka immediate steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state at defense, but also to exert all its power aad employ all its resources to bring the government of the Gor man empire to term s and and ths war. What this will involve is clear. It will involve the utm ost practical co operation in counsel and action which the governments new a t war with Germany, and, aa incident to that, the extension to those governments of the moat liberal financial credits, in order th a t our resources may, to fa r as pos sible, bo added to theirs. Use at AO Im sa rn s. It wiD involve the organization »«<1 mobilization of all the m aterial ro- sourees of the country to supply the m aterials of war aad serve the inci dental needs at th s nation in the most abundant and yet the most economical larly in supplyiag H with tha best m esas of doaUng with ths eaem y'i submarinos. It will involve th s im- mediate additisu to tho armad forees of the United States, alraady provid- sd for by law in rasa of war, a t Isast W0.000 roen. who should, in my opin ión, be choaen upon the principie of aniverm l Uability to servica, and aleo tho autborisation of subsequent addi- We are a t the beginning at an age in which it will be insisted th at the same standards of conduct and of re sponsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations aad thair gov ernments th at are observed among the individual citizens of civilised states. We have no quarrel with the Ger man people. We have no feeling toward them but one of sympathy ,lu< friendship. It was not upon their im pulse th at their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined on in the old, unhappy days when peoples wore nowhere consulted by their rulers and w an w en provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groupe of ambitious man who w on ac customed to use their fellow men as Rasaia’s Example Cited. Cunningly contrived plans at de ception or aggression, carried, it may K from generation to generation, can bo worked out and kept from the light only within the privacy of courts or behind the carefully guarded confl- deneue of a narrow aad privileged clam. Thüy l'ara happily impossible where public opinion commands aad tha right of thoae who submit to au- thority to bare a voice in thair own goveminente, for tha rights and liber tim of small nations, fo r a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples aa (hall bring peaee T H E SE N T IN E L TO YOUR th at we a n and everything th at we ITS WEEKLY VISITS German peoples included; for the rights of nations, groat and small, and the privilege of man everywhere to choooe their way of life and of obedience. The world must be mads for democracy. Its peace m ust be planted upon the trusted founda tions of political liberty. C o ^aest Mat Desired. We have no selfish ends to servo. We desire no conquest, no dominion We seek no indemnities for ourselves no m aterial compensation for the sac- riflcee we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as m c u k ss the faith and the freedom of the nations can aaake Ju st because we fight without ran- eor end without selfish objects, amk- iag nothing for ourselves big th atv re shall wish to share as free p~-nlss w# shall, I feel confident, conduct our operations as belligerents without passion and ourselves observe with proud punctilio the principle, of right and of fa ir play we praftea to be fighting for. I have mid nothing of the govern- allied with the imperial govern- •■•nt of Germany because they 'h av e not made war upon ns or challenged ue to defend our right and our honor BOUND TO INTEREST THEM IN THIS COUNTR Y through the U. S. poteoffices is being weighed “by the postoAcee during a thirty-five days’ period recently be gun.” Before reprinting it we in quired of postm aster Lestev# if this report was correct. Ha says he hasn’t received any instructions to weigh mails and ew taialy hopes be wont; but th at th a n are two man bow em ployed on the railway going through hors whore th a n traa one before, tat order to do the weighing on the trains, where it is eostonuury to do th at work. - . ?;■-* SHOW THE PAPER TO YOUR FRIENDS WHO ARE NOT THEY WILL BECOME INTERESTED IN IT TOO. THE PAPER THAT IT IS IS DIFFERENT. ADOtBSS THE SENTINEL, COQUILLE, ORE. Warrts to Go Saok to Cell. Ia n Francisco.—If Sally Nickel, the yrar-oM great-grandchild of Henry MlDer, shall bo alive a t tho death at the late cattle king's three grandchil dren she will become the richest wo man In California. She wUl Inherit an estate valued a t flß.OOOJWO. On the other band, according to the will at the late cattle baron, should Oakland. Ca».—"7'ot me b a ritju jolt, where I^ran be decent, before I do something I’ll be sorry for." begged WUUam Lamatvans the other A y a t tha dank act-grant at the central police station. “* - e r since I left (ten Q uito - tta the brand of prison has been npon ■M. and I ran t get s Join"