TUB COQUILL* VALL*Y SBNTINEL, CÔ0ÜÎLLE OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 18 1682.
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FRANCB THE WEL8HER
While it is sincerely to be hoped
that the action of France, in repudiat
ing its debts to the United States, will
not lead to war, and this oountry has
never engaged tn moral combat with
any nation on earth over the question
of aggrandisement, or the payments
of money, it cannot be denied that
seeds of discord and bitter feeling
have been sowed and that there can
not be cordial relations henceforth be
tween the United States and the
welsher.
France, the richest nation in Eu
rope, the one that has the most gold,
the one whieh begged for loans and
the support of man-power during the
dark days of the world war, is so be
reft of sanity, manhood and courage,
that its Chamber of Deputies has
overthrown the government of Pre
mier Harriott because he favored
meeting their obligatioiw.
What a pitiful spectacle!
Verily their hatred of this country
for helping them crush the German
menace is stronger than their senae
of duty, honor or Justiee.
Poor
France; she deserves the condemna
tion and scorn of every civilized na
tion on earth. Not becasue «he can't
pay, but because she can and won’t.
What penalty . the French will
have to pay and the means the United
States might use in retaliation for
thia- most despicable evasion of its
duty ia very ably set forth in an edi
torial in yesterday’s Oregonian from
which the following except is taken:
“When passion has cooled and rea
son again rules, those who voted for
repudiation will have cause to con
sider the injury they have done to
French credit. It will suffer in every
country.
Securities of the French
government and French corporations
will be depreciated. France could not
raise a loan in any foreign country
except at a heavy discount and high
interest. These penalties are incurred
without any action of the United
States government.
“Power exists in the American gov
ernment to confiscate or impound all
funds of the Fresh government or
French eitisens on deposit in Ameri
can banka, to seise all Amer-an se-
currties held by Frenchmen or the in
come therefrom, to place an embargo
on trade with France and «n pay
ments to be made in France, to ex
clude French ships from Ameriacn
ports or to impose a special tax on
them and their cargoes.
We shall
probably
not
resort to
these
measures, but be content with what
ever befalls France as a natural con
sequence of ’ its act.
TABLOIDS
' By W. 8. Bickels
La, the Poor Indian
The Osage Indians, whose business
address is Pawhuska, OklaM are the
world’s richest people per capita.
Their wealth is held communally, dis
tributed and guarded by the United
States government, thereby making a
conspicuous success of communism—
In an involuntary form, however. If
these Indians were left to their own
devices the free exercise of individ
ualism among them would simply re
sult In ths same old story. The ma
jority of them wouldn’t have a dime.
A few, perhaps would be rich, but
the others would be victims of the
predatory white man. ,
The incomes doled to them by the
government, while limited, are quite
sizeable, and are wasted ridiculously.
While living in Bartlesville, Okla
homa, which ia located at the eastern
edge of the Osage reservation, I had
an opportunity to observe much of
this waste of money.
Many of these Indians still live
primitively, but pianos and phono
graphs in a tepee were not unusual
sights,' together with an expensive
automobile standing on the lot As
to automobiles, I know of this hap
pening: A buck came into Bartles-
ville and bought a new Csdillac. He
got drunk, smashed the can in a ool-
Itsion with a telephone pole, return-
sd to town, bought another car and
left the wreck .unclaimed by the road
side.
The wealth of the Osages comes
from oil and gas royalties derived
8rom the leasing of their lands. The
■enervation is almost worthless agri
culturally.
When the Indians were
moved from Kansas to Indian Terri
tory (now Oklahoma) it was the gen-
>ral opinion they had been handed a
>mon and 'that the treaty made on
’hat occasion Waa unfair to them. The
srea ie so rich in oil and gas that it
is a matter of record that in compe-
‘itivs bidding the Prairie Oil A Gao
'tompany, of Independence. Kansas,
laid one million dollars for a lease
hold of only M0 acres on which a
well had not been drilled. This was
ibout ten yean ago. Money thua re
ceived waa a bonus and went into
-he tribkl treasury.
The ^royalties
from
production,
generally
ono-
ighth, were paid in addition.
The older Indians do not under-
tand our- civilisation and have no
desire to learn its way. Many mem-
>eiH of the succeeding generations,
iven after being educated tn govern
ment schools giving every advantage,
revert to type.
I know of a young
Osage who graduated with honors
from Carlisle university, became a
brilliant lawyer and practised sue-
•sasfully for many years. He after
wards returned to the blanket, as
they say, and refused to talk English.
So much for these wards of our be
nign government
What do you
think of the system? What is the
future of the Indian as a race? The
answer is obliteration through amal
gamation. The law of “survival of
the Attest” eannot be set aside, be
the subject man, beast or vegetable.
Secretary of State Hal E. Hoas has
announced himself as favoring the
tt.00 flat fee for automobile licenses,
but that they shall be subject to
property tax by the counties. One
objection to this plan, concurrently
mentioned, is that much of the prop
erty tax would not be collected. How
ever, if the car owner is required to
‘how a receipt for payment of prop-
•rty tax before he is issued a state
license there would be no loss. It ie
reported California loses 26 per cant
rf its property tax on automobiles,
while Washington loses 48 per cent.
Mr. Hoax says the average tax on
"France has less excuse for repu
Oregon’s can would be $7.22. To
diation than has any other of the
gether with other features of his plan
debtor nations. While she was plead
he claims that the . state’s revenues
ing for cancellation of her debt, wm
will be increased thereby.
striving to aqueexe reparations out
of Germany and had a depreciated
In the current issue of Saturday
currency, she presented an appear
ance of poverty to the world. After Evening Post a fellow tells a story of
the debt contract was signed, the in how he performed a come-back at,
ternal debt was refunded and new sixty. In the first part of the narra
bonds were issued which drew vast tive he made the statement that the
sums from hoards, the franc was tepremion reduced him from afflu
stabilised and a groat gold reserve ence to absolute poverty and that he
gathered in the Bank of Frahce, she was considering suicide as the only
was revealed as the richest nation in possible way he could have his life
Europe. By movement of gold she Insurance for his wife. Before the
was th« chief factor in driving Brit story is finished we discover he had
ain off the gold standard and she even several thousand dollars with which
ventured an attack on the dollar, but to purchase a business in which he
it failed.
She has made loans to had had no previous experience and
her allies—-Pbland and the three little made a success of it. So it appears to
entente states—at the same time that be easy to come back if you haven’t
♦;
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the air of Paris was full of plaints gone.
about inability to pay the United
States. Paris now talks of French
support to Japan in Mancuria, to bo
evidenced by a loan. France did net
foal the first year of the depression,
had no unemployment problems until
then, and none of any gravity in the
last two yearn."
True Oregonians, whether native or
by adoption, rejoiced yesterday when
the rain put an end to the most un
usual arctic weather whipi prevailed
here for the past week. Nothing like
it is recalled by old time residents
sines IBM.
1 ~
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a
covered by the Metropolitan Grand '
Opera Company and prrfved a re
markable And, <*o far as voice was con
cerned. But his name was all wrong.
He had to be fixed up with an unpro-
nouneable foreign cognomen in order
to draw at the box oAc|.
Are we
ashamed of our own tongue and na
tionality in matters musical? I under
stand that in some European countries
the rendition of opera in other than
the language of the country is prohi
bited. That is an admirable way to
show patriotism.
In our country
there is a lamentable tendency toward
pretending we prefer our opera in a
foreign tengve.
Also we purchase
foreign-made merchandise. It would
seem that the only way to arouse pa
triotism in this country is to get into
somebody else’s war.’ We permit our
vulgar rich people to Visit European
countries and leave behind them
wrong impressions of our country.
Hence the trouble we ate having
about the war debts and other things.
Onteide of these things we are OK.
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Counties which fail to include pro
vision for a state levy in the 1938
budget, aa Marion county has threat
ened to do, may find themselves, rath
er than the state, holding ,the sack
next June if the proposed new tax
measures fail to materialise as an
offset to the property tax.
Reports to the effect that the state
tax commission was contemplating
mandamus proceedings to compel the
Marion county court to include the
state levy in its budget have been'
made without consulting that com
mission.
It can be definitely stated that the
tax commission will not bring any
mandamus action against Marion
county or any other county in this [
connection.
The commission takes
the position that ite responsibility |
ends with the promulgation of the
levy according to the statutory re-'
quirements and the circunMtances and
notification of the counties as to their |
respective quotas.
Collection of the tax is up to the
state treasurer and the law which im
poses responsibility for collection of
the tax from the individual taxpayers
upon the county also requires that
the state’* portion must be paid in
full and promptly in two equal install
ments, June 1 and December 1.
Should any county fail to come
through with the state’s quota next
June it is entirely probable that the
state treasurer would then bring man
damus action to compel payment and
any county which faila to safeguard
its interests against such a contin
gency by including provision for a
state levy might And it necessary to
strip ite regular county fund, inelud
ing the general road fund, in order to
meet the state’s bill since the state ia
not at all particular where the money
comes from, just so that It ia paid. I
The tax commission will meet with
in the next week or ten days to make
the annual levy. It is confidently ex- '
peoted that thia levy will restore ap
proximately 83,500,000 to the should
ers of property owners. Any relief
from this added burden most come
from the legislature in the form of a ■
sales tax, an amendment to the per- J
sonal income tax or some other new
source of revenue.
Property in the city of Coquille ie
shouldered with a public debt burden
equivalent to 835.15 for every 8100
of assessed valuation, according to a
tabulation by Rufus Holman, state
treasurer. Of this amount 828.45 per
8100 of valuation is indebtednem of
the city itself which has been in
creased by nearly 10 percent in the
past two years. Coquille’s total debt,'
including bonds and warranto unpaid
as of July 1, last, totalled 8288,95Q,
against which there was an offset in
the form of a sinking fund of 85.471.-
23 leaving a net debt of 8283,478.77.
At that Coquille’s debt burden is
not nearly so heavy as that of many
other Oregon cities.
Prineville, for
instance, has a public debt burden of
887.94 per 8100 of assessed valuation;
in Warrenton the groea debt ratio is
92.71 and in Aatoria, 61-87. Baker,
Bandon, Beaverton, Bums, Caayon-
viHs,
Cottage Grove, Enterprise,
Hines. Milton,
Newport,
Ontario,
Reedsport, Seaside. Vale and Wmton,
all show heavier debt ratio than does
the Coos county seat.
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surprising if the sales taxers and the
income taxers got together on a com
promise program and brought out
two new revenue measures for the
voters to shoot at in a special election
to be held some tíme in May.,
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sands of Oregon motoriste, it is be
lieved, evade payment of the Oregon
registration fee in this manner. Al
though the state police are constantly
'Governor Meier’s decision to call.______
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ures came aa no surprise. Even the who resort to this evasion of the law.
date of the session had been antici- Penalties meted out by the courts for
pated for the past two weeks. The ' this offense, also, are so light as to
governor’s announcement,
however,j constitute little or no deterrent and
has served to put a atop to further to greatly nullify efforts of the palfa*,
speculation as to the poasibility and to put a stop to this practice,
to center attention on the tax pro-
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gram.
While discussion of the see- * Reports filed with the state trees-
sion so far has emphasised a salea urer show that but little progress has
tax based on that recently put into been made during the past two years
effect in Mississippi there is also in unloadfag the heavy debt burden
strong sentiment for a new income under which moot of thd cities of th«.
standing net debt of Oregon cities,
. $88,000,000
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, 1,
-,
approximately
on July
1930, had been reduced by only 8500,-
000 to July 1, thia year. While some
cities paid off large blocks of bonds
or
added
materially
to
their
part by the rating of new bond is
sues, by other cities.
Sixty-two lawyers have served as
membet» of the Oregon supreme court
since statehood in 1859. according to
tax with increased rates in th« higher state are struggling. to fact the ouV sinking funds thia was offset in targe records, of that department. .