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blunders which have been'called worse
than crimes. It could hardly have
Come at a more untimely moment.—
Springfield Republican.
It is a common practice in this
county to sell land for taxes for the
smallest portion of the land the bidder
is willing to pay the taxes £gr. In
this case the auction bids run down
instead of up, the. taxes meanwhile
remaining a fixed" quantity. The small­
est bid we ever heard of in that line
was recently made at a tax sple at
Riverhead, Lopg Island., The tax on
one-eighthr of an acre of land at Port
Jefferson were $1369 and the owners
were competing with parties who Il-
ready had a tax deed on the property,
but .when the latter offered to pay the
taxes for a deed giving them one
millionth of that eighth of an acre
they won out
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SAVE THE WORLD
There is—there can be now—no ef­
Entered at the Coquille Postoffice as fective patriotism against world pat­
Second Class Mail Matter.
riotism. No nation can longer set up
its own selfish interests ggainst the
Does one-third of the state of Ore­ interest of all other nations and hope
gon weigh more than two-thirds?
to get away with it. We are fill mem­
bers one of another and no country
The question now seems to be, is can be hurt without the twinge being
Portland a part of Oregon or is Ore­ felt by the whole earth.
gon'a part of Portland.
,
President Wilson and the advocates
of a league of nations—a super-gov­
It’s beginning to look as if Oregon ernment if you .will— were everlast­ 000 required fpr the fair?
we would have liked to do what he
taxpayers would be a good deal better ingly rigiit. For any nation to be as-
Much property.is being abandoned had been doing. Indeed, much of the
off if the state’s metropolis were surrred peace the whole world must either through inability to pay taxes pleasure in reading such stories has
twins.
have peace. This has grown clearer on it or because it pays the owner Come from imagining ourselves in his
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every day since Harding became pres­ to let it go rather than continue to shoes. And that may very likely be
. The judges disagree. Judge Bing­
ident. He wanted to tackle pur own pAy the high taxes. In such instances the reasqp why we have been so much
ham, of Salem, now holds that road
little economic problems, sucn as tar­ the owner loses his entire investment. of a rolling stone and have made a
districts don’t have to make - out a
iff and taxes, first; but he speedily Many owners of property have not trail from the Atlantic to the Pacific
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budget before levying road taxes.
found that only they could be settled sufficient incomes“ to enable them to in finding our present haven.
Were it possible that we could have,
.
President Harding has signed the by settling world problems and insur­ retain their property without griev­
ous sacrifices in order to pay the instead of one or tWo,several chances
Sheppard-Towner maternity bill, pro­ ing world peace first.
Unless we can put an end to mob taxes.
for a new start it is probable that we
viding for the distribution of $10,000
By taxing incomes, the Btate will might choose for one of our incarna-
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- to each state which complies with its rule in Europe, mob rule will bb inevi­
terms, which include insuring proper table in America. One of the first les­ reach taxpayers who can pay, /or the tons the line we came so near ventur­
Some
day
the
backing
of
a
good
strong
bank
will
stand
medical attention and instruction for sons impressed upon man by his Mak­ tax is on the net income.- Will it ing fifty or more yparsago.that of a
yon in good stead.
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mothers. It is not an interference but er was that,we are our brothers’ keep­ not be better to finance this fair, if civil engineer, which only the sudden
a co-operation with progressive states ers. And that thia is as true national­ it must be financed by taxpayers, by death of a relative prevented.
In the meantime it is for you to become KNOWN at
But independently of the line of
and tends to remove the old stigma ly as it is individually we are now taxing net incomes rather than load­
your bank—at this bank.1' Personality, or character, is
that the nation cared more for the learning in the fool’s school of experi­ ing such an unnecessary government­ work we might undertake with a clean
a big asset in business today.
al undertaking onto property-own­ slate to start again, there are some
health of ito livestock than for its ence.
Nothing
can
save
our
modern
civili-
ers?
changes in detail we should like, to
So get acquainted with he officers of your bank. Let
babies. ' S
sation but to follow the teachings of
Of course there will be a great make. We should do less experiment-
them know you by something more than the money
Many well lyiown women in New Jesus Christ: “If thine enemy hunger outcry of opposition to an income taxiing and more team work. The time
.
YOU
have to your credit.
York have been telling the reportan feed him; if he thirst give him drink.” on thé part of those whose property past woilld have Sufficed us to make
We
have
got
to
play
the'part
of
the
how long a woman’s skirt should be
taxes are trifling in proportion to many individual experiments, where it
Then some day, if you should want credit extended,
Nearly all of them say it should be good Samaritan in the pare of nations their incomes and who will resent was easy to have availed ourselves of
your
bank will be in a much better position to serve
We are having to report and pay to the state the wisdom of others and we certainly
so many inches from the ground—sev­ like Russia and Austria.
you.
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en or eight, for instance. But that taught to forgive our debtors as we government on top of having to re­ should jump next time at the
hope
to
be
forgiven
our
trespasses.
leaves entirely out of the question
port and pay to the federal govern­ opportunity we had to secure a higher
Let's get acquainted. It will be * pleasure to meet
hotf tall the woman is; one of them, |So nationally there are poor debtors ment. And to raise $6,000.000 by in­ education.
And we' should surely
you
and to explain our service methods to you. ■ <
however, suggests a more natqral rule whom our country will hav to for­ come taxation within three years- in give far less time and energy than we
a
when she advisee that they reach half give for the sake of peace and order Oregon would involve something like once did to partisan politics or mining
way from the knee to the ankle. This apd sanity in the world. Beyond that a flat tax of per cent on net incomes ventures. '»
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is almobt as simple, if not as obvious, we must in some cases feed and clothe that are taxable, allowing exemptions
MUCH AS IT IS NOW
as Lincoln’. suggestion that every them until they are able to stand on Of $1,000 for single persons, $2,000
man’s legs ought to be long enough their feet and help themselves.
for heads of families and $200 for
In his autobiographical sketches in
This is no time for recriminations each dependent.
of Coquille, Oregon
to reach from fois body to the ground.’
the December Scribner’s, Chauncey M.
amlong ourselves nor for proclaiming
Depew
tells
the
following
story
he
The average stenographer, clerk,
By the time Fatty Arbuckle’s trial who is to blame for the chaotic condi­ and single worker who votes so cheer­ heard General Grant'tell after he had
for manslaughter began at San Fran­ tion in which so much of the world fully to place a tax on property in or­ told the general about being served
cisco he and the motion picture mag-, finds itself. The house of our civili- der to have a fair would under some with champagne and ice at a Connec­
nates, with two million dollars’worth xatto nis on fire. No matter who set such plan of income tax.be under the ticut hotel at 5 o’clock in the morning
of motion picture film« at .talt. bed it, the thing to do is to turn on the necessity of paying a small percent when he was called for an early train:
see
secured testimony to gloss over the hose and put it out." The tragedy to­ on net income over $1,000 a year—
worst events of that orgy in St. day .is the result of the world war, it not a large amount tp be paid, but
“Well, there aresome places in Con­
Francis hotel at San Francisco, hop­ is true. But we have got to throw ev­ enough to make him or her come to necticut where that could not be done,
energy into the. work of salvaging
ing to get a unanimous verdict of “not ery
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the unsuspected realisation that vot­ as local option prevails and the towns
with the same self denial ing taxes means that someone has to .have gone dry.
guilty’’ and give him a triumphant humanity
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For instance, my
vindications as having in no wise con- '■ and self forgetfulness with which we pay them. This would be a good thing friend, Senator Nye, of Neyada, spoke
on when German “kultur”
tributed to the death of Virgina carried
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for the state, as well as for salaried through Connecticut in myHnterest in
threatened
world disaster.
Rappe, the victim of that boose revel. ’
workers in helping them feel a sense the last campaign. Nye was a free
Ijo single nation can alone escape of responsibility for public* expendi­ liver, though “hot a dissipated than,
But there was a woman on the jury
from the economic catastro­
who couldn’t be induced to help save unscathed
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and, as you know, a very excellent
tures.
those films, and she hunjgthe jury— phe that threatens the world today.
speaker. He told me that when he
WOULD DO THE SAME
. one of the men voting with her at the We can only save ourselves by sav­
arrived at one of the principal manu­
others; and it looks now as if we ' Among questions now being dis­
end making it 10 to 2. So there will ing
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facturing towns he was entertained
' be another trial January ninth and an­ w^re confronted by another Calvary cussed in the press today is, “What by the leading manufacturer at his
other attempt to apply the whitewash 1 and could only save others by sacrific­ would you do if you had to live your Hg louse and in magnificent Btyle.
ing ourselves. Unless we are willing
to this disgusting afftir.
life ovir again?” Thia is a purely The dinner was everything that could
to put out the world conflagration
aeademic question, as much so for be desired, except that the only fluid
Ex-Kaiser William Hohenxollem with our very blood if need be, the most of us as the more common one, was ice-water. After a long speech
has managed, to get mentioned in the question may for long be whether we “What would do with it if you had a Nye, on returning to the house, had
press dispatches by becoming engaged are'willing to make the sacrifice and million dollars?”
For the chances a reception, and the supper was still
to a war widow.
Imagine what a pbt it out, but whether we can do it, that any one who reads these lines will dry, except plenty of ice-water.
story his second nuptials would have try we never so earnestly. ,
ever had a million dollars to dispose
“^iye, completely exhausted-,- wmit
made, though,» if instead of being a
of, authough not nil, ore pretty near to bed but could not sleep, nor could
INCOME TAX WANTED
prisoner at Doorn he were still on the
It, while the living over again of a he find any stimulants. So, about six
Oregon Voter ’
throne at Berlin. As time passes and
life here on earth is something that o’clock in the morning he dressed and
If Oregon is determined to follow has never yet happened and probably
the days of kings and kaisers recede
Wandered down to the _dining-ft>om.
into the limbo of the forgotten past the bolaheviki, North Dakota method never willi.
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The head of the house came in and,
it is evident that no good would have of voting huge expenditures for un­
But* when one has lived here nearly seeing him, exclaimed: ’Why, senator,
been done by hanging Bill; as a vir­ necessary governmental purposes on­ three-quarters of a century, as is the you are up early.’ Nye replied: 'Yes,
tual prisoner with no one paying any to taxpayers, why not vote the whole case with the writer, he ought to find you know, out in Nevada we have a
attention to him he furnishes a much $60,000,000 tax for the 1926 Fair«up- little difficulty is deciding whether he great deal of malaria, and I could not
more impressive object leeson of the on such taxpayers as can afford to would go into the same business he sleep.’ ‘Well,’ said the host, ’this is
futility of monarchy than if he were pay it?
has -followed this heat, if he were go­ a temperance town. We find it X
dead and buried. He might possibly
Portland Voters have voted $2,000,- ing to make another start as a young excellent thing for the working peo-
be considered a martyr in some circles 000 of the fair tax onto property-own­ man.
(While we haven’t found the ple, and especially for the young men,
then, but now he bids fair tojpo down ers, contingent upon the state voting printing business as lucrative as many but we have some malaria here, also,
in history as the chump who tried to $8,000,000 on taxpayers of some kind others might have been, taking it al­ and for that I have a private remedy.*
make the whole world Gel-man and and $1,000,000 more being raised by together we don’t believe we could Whereupon he went to a closet and
got what was coming to him.
private subscription. Why not vote choose a more satisfactory one. It pulled out a bottle of brandy.
the whole $8,000,000 onto incomes and has its drawbacks, of course, as every
“After his host had left, Nye con­
How the shocking affair of the by so doing relieve property and raise occupation in this world has: but it tinued there in a refreshed and more
Moplah prisoners will affect India the whole amount by compulsion from suits us so well that if we are for­ enjoyable spirit.
Soon his hostess
nffiy be surmised from the deep and those who can afford to pay?
tunate enough to “climb dem golden I came in and, much surprised, said:
lasting impression made in England
Property is already taxed to the stairs” when we bid farewell to earth, ‘Why, senator, you are up early.*
by the tragedy of the Black Hole in limit in Oregoiy Taxes on property we can’t imagine anything in the next ’Yes,’ hje said, ‘out in Nevada we have we hear that you are an expert on
at the present time, in side
Calcutta iff 176«. Of 14« British pri­ should go no higlwr if any sale value life that would suit us better than a
a great deal of malaria, and while I live stock, horses, cattle, etc. Won’t prohibition laws.
soners thrust into a small guardroom is to be left in it’as an attraction to position on
Paradise Press—for am on these speaking tours I have you come out in the barb so we can
after their surrender on June 20, 1768. investors or settlers.
Surely the we are sure that wo couldn't succeed sharp attacks nd cannot sleep. I had show you some we regard as very fine
What the Cat Was Doing
only 23 were taken out alive the next time has been reached that property as a singer.
one last night.*
specimens?’ The boys took him out
A
Bonner
Springs little girl t
morning, ¿iuclf the same fate over­ taxes should be increased no further,
Although after our school teaching
“ ‘Well,’ she remarked, this is a to the barn, shut the dooj, locked it, great pride in a recently acqu
took the «4 Moplah prisoners who unless for the most essentially neces­ days were over, we entered a printing
temperance town, and it is a good it, and whispered: ‘Senator, we have kitten. The kitten accepted its
were confthed in a railway prison van, sary governmental purposes, such as office and have never since been far
thing for the working people and the no live stock, but we have a bottle mistress with satisfaction, and
the perforated metal of which had schools and permanent public im­ away form the clatter of a press and
young men, but I have a touch of ma­ here in the haymow which we think gan to purr. “Oh, mamma!” exc!
been painted over so as to prevent the provements.
the pmeK of that combination of oil laria now and then myself.’ Then she will do you good.’ And the senator
entrance of fresh air; only eight of the
There is a source of taxable revenue and lampblack known as printer’s ink, went to the tea-caddy and pulled out would up his narrative by saying: cd the delighted little maid:
«4 survived, and the terrible’ story which, while heavily' drained by the < we have felt scores of times when a bottle of brandy.' The senator by •The wettest place that I know of is a kitty is percolating ” — Ca
Weekly.
they have to tell will do much to offset United States Government, has not we read of the story of the success this time was in perfect harmony with dry town in Connecticut.’ ”
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the good results hoped for from the been touched by Oregon. That source the writer or narrator had made in himself and the whole world,
Auto repairing a specialty at
visit of the prince of Wales. It was is the net income. Why not a state some different section or in some oc­
“When the boys came in (sons of
This shows that much the same ham’s Garage. flatisfactien g®
of course s blunder, but one of those income tax to raise the whole $8,00,- i cupation entirely foreign to ours that
the entertainer) they said: ‘Senator, practices prevailed fifty yean ago as teed.
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Office Corner Second and Taylor Sta.
Mountain States Power Co. mwul
Your Credit and
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Sixty Acre Farm
For Sale
Forty acres clear of stumps and
level according to county cruise.
Fair house, barn, orchard, ber­
ries; 3-4 mile to standard school;
mail three times a week on Mar­
ket Road; 30 tons hay, 13 head
of cattle, team and tools.
$6,000
Some terms if needed
O. G. Bunch
McKihley, Ore. '
Phone 396 Myrtle