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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1920)
r: - kT, AUGUST IS. in a year where it had in l a w fair to the o f the Volstead act the lari tw o groat iVl i a world • o o o j e se e s m a opoi TO* * than b offm . The «o a t curioua affi fought, historic, unproco- BY H. W. YOUNG. y , many montea, For davit o f the kind waa one in which civilisation hung ip the balance. In that boose waa aeed- the despair o f dark hours, it . . . . g u e od “• r '* « « " * « • -* aa though a world dictator was inevi The writer used to prin t.th ose affi 1.00 table, and that henceforth men and davit form s fo r the oonnty dark 20,- 5 £ u à * Month« a e e e e e e • women who haul lived in 000 at a time and bind than in books Na oubocriptSM taken We have before adverted to the would stand at attention, in p i « j w o in— imi ail f r o « ono to one fat la advance. Thia ru l« H hondrod. The amoant received fo r fact that the Powers district school o f tho drawn sword o f aeilitary autoc this pristin e woe not a negligible gets $819 p4» pupil tuition for high racy. The very soul at Am erica waa school students from outside the dis touched as never before with a fear pari- o f the printer*« income. It certainly isn’t fa easy to ca t li trict while Coquille gets only $90. that our lilurties worn to bo ta as it waa in those days. ■* This is on account o f the very inequi away. What America did needs table law which provides that a dis reiteration here. It is known o f tall trict with only ten high school pupils meo- History win acclaim il PACIFIC COMMERCE^ commerce on the Pacific ia to shall receive from the county the to will find it an inspiration throughout the aces. And yet there is not a lino all the commerce on the A t- tal cost o f maintaining a high school fo r those first ten pupils. There in the republican platform that laatic. 'f t , -J ems to be no doubt that this law bre.. Jies an emotion o f pride, or re That ia the statement o f Robert In will be changed when the legislature cites our national achievement. Dollar, sp a a in g o f the poesibiUtiee fact, if a man from Mars were to de h) China. Mr. Dollar is probably the meets again. pend upon the republican platform or beet inform ed man in America on its spoken interpretation, by the can CANDIDATE COX’ IDEALS. China and the commercial and indus didate o f that party, as his first The follow ing are among the im trial conditions in that country. When at the portant and significant statements means o f inform ation, he would not the purchasing power o f the Chinese CU people is increased sufficiently, he » » d e by James M. C o* in his speech And a syllable telling him -that the war had been won, and that America says, tea Oriental country w ill be last Saturday accepting the demo * LfiW W O N T AFFECT IT. had saved the world. How ungerer- come the greatest industrial center cratic nomination fo r president: There Is a good deal o f talk new in ousq, how ungracious all o f this is; and the greatest now market in the the Oregon papers about tho MB to A forbearing policy is not the projf- how unfair that a mere group o f lead world. He con tin use: redoes the rate o f interest in this era should so demean themsalves in Do American business men ever er one fo r Xhe deliberate enemy o f our state to four or five por cent, aa the the name o f the party o f Lincoln and instHutions. He is o f the kind that cape might be, perm itting contracts stop to think that the Pacific Coast knows conditions abroad and here. McKinley and Roosevelt. fo r five but making it four whore the looks across at a billion o f people? The difference between autocracy and The discourtesy to tho president ia rate ia not mantionod in tho contract. In China elope there are between democracy is well marked in his mind. an affair o f political intrigua. History W e propose to approach tho «object 400,000,000 and 500,000,000 people He is opposed to government in any will make it odious. A s well m ight from a aow angle and not any over who are ripe fo r advancing beyond form , and he hates ours because H it be directed st a wounded soldier o f again the things that a n being sold their present stage—a stage which is appeals to those whom he would con the war. One fell in the trench; the exactly the same as it wee before the b y other papers. strength o f the other was broken in Christian era? .T h e Chinese are vert to his creed. Any policy o f ter the enormous labors o f his office. But Those who have money and spend rorism is fuel to hie flame o f anar ready to Join the march o f industrial others were ignored— the men It fo r food, clothing or alm ost any progress. Those 500,000,000 people chy. Those whom he seeks to arouse, the women who labored at home with thing that ministers to luxury art in time, realise the difference between are all industrious; children begin to now getting no m m fo r a dollar than an industry and a skill that words work from the age o f five o r six. Tho his and their mental attitude, so that cannot recount! What o f tho hands they used to got fo r 46 cents. Those when the law lays hands upon his mind cannot picture the fu ll moaning that moved th e lathe by day and the who buy V ictory Lean bond» new can w ilful menace to government, tee o f the com ing development in China realise six and a h alf par cant on thorn, needle by night? What o f the or purpose o f it becomes plain to them. —a development that is already sot ganisalions, superbly effective, that which is n good deal better than loan Official contempt fo r the law is a ting in most encouragingly. ing the moaoy to Tom, Dick and Har harm ful exhibition to our people. It conserved food and fed the world— ry fo r seven or eight per cen t TJtoee $ difficult to follow the reasoning of that carried nourishment to* tho very MORE LAW MAKERS. who buy Now Y ork Central railroad anyone who would seek to make an front trench in tho face o f hell’s fu r Tho census brings up tbs same old bonds now fo r $62.50, at $100 par val issue o f the question o f law -enforce ies— that nursed the wounded back to W ith tbs ue^ w han in 101$ they w o n soiling trouble at W ashington. ment. The executive obligation, both life— that buried the dead in the dark fo r $111 on *$100 par value, can not increase in population it is necessary national and state, on assuming tee shelter o f the night— that inspired only realise five and n h alf per cent either to make the congressional dis oath o f office is to “ preserve, protect business men and artisans o f all par on tho investment but are m orally tricts bigger or provide fo r m ore eon arid defend the constitution o f the ties to work in harm ony? What o f S gtaia to aaa thorn sailing at $111 greeamen. The house has 485 mem United States.” The constitution, the millions o f men, women and chil again in the next tea or fifteen years, here now and if every state is to re on its essence, is the license and lim i dren o f all creeds, religious and oth so that they w ili alm ost double their tain at least aa many representatives tation given to and placed upon the erwise, who stood in the ranks aa firm money on the investment in add Hi on as H has now, and the basis o f rep- law-making) body. The legislative as soldiers overseas, undivided by sentation is to remain tee sen to tee interest. That ia, in tea yean branch o f government is subjected to things they once quarreled about ? their $0240 will pay team $15 ia in the number will have to be increaed the rule o f the m ajority. The public What o f the government itself— con terest and probably $48.60 in inereae- to 600. official who fails to enforce the law firming the faith o f our fathers as od value at the principal—« total o f The house ia already too unwieldy is an enemy both to the constitution sufficient to meet the storm s o f tim e? $82.60, an average of 13 per sent a to be a deliberative body and ought and to the American principle o f ma Why tile sneer at labor with tho veil year, even If the interest ia not uaod to be made smaller rather than larg jority rule. It would seem quite un •d charge that it was a mere slacker?. to carp more money. • or, but no state is willing to lose a necessary fo r any candidate fo r the Senator Harding’s theory o f tho The reader will note that this bond representative, and so the number presidency to say that he does not in great office to which ho aspiree, put wfli probably ha increased. E vents tend to violate his oath o f office. A ny ting a thoroughly fa ir interpretation boars only 8 ^ pen cent interest, But lot’s look Into this subject a ally the capital will have to be bigger one who is false to that oath is more on hie own words, is that tho govern unworthy than the law violator him ment o f this country, so fa r as H is little fhrthor. A 8tt per cent rail and the time is probably comii embodied in the executive, should bo road bond that can bo bought fo r 62 ^ when a thousand members will have self. to be provided with telephones to en what he is pleased to call “ govern Morals cannot easily be produced cents an tho dollar actually pays five ment by party,” aa in contrast with and six-tenths par cent interest. able them to hear the proceedings. by statute. Oregon, however, will have no more the exercise by the president o f his Those bonds (the N. Y. Central ones The w rit o f injunction should-not run for alm ost ono hundred years) and no less than three representatives be abused. Intended as a safeguard own best final judgm ent under the will not only pay between five and Whichever way tea question is decid to person and property, it could easi responsibility assumed by his solemn oath o f office, talcing into considers six por cent on tho money they cost ed. ly by abuse cease to bo the protective tion the views o f others, o f course, in to the man who bays thorn today, hut device it was intended to bo. A DOZEN YEARS MORE. arriving, at that final judgm ent, but to his children, his grandchildren and Capital develops into largo units recognising no group o f any kind, not Financial authorities any that H his g n a t grandchildren. without violence to public sentiment sworn, as he is, in case o f serious mal W hy should anyone loan his money took fourteen years fo r prices to re or injury to public interest— the same to the Oregon rancher at 8 per cent turn to normal after the civil war. principle should not be denied to la feasance in the performance o f those duties. The latter ia the conception fo r a year and run the risk o f having Tho way things art running in this bor. C ollective bargaining through the expanse o f a salt la court to col country now H looks as if it might the means o f representatives selected o f the presidency held by W ashington, lect, when ho can invest ia something take us fu lly as long to settle down by the employer and employe, re John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in Still, while spectively, will be helpful, rather than initiating our great experiment in po like a government bond that will nev- after the world war. coU ectingf Does the reader some commodities like paper have harmful to tho general interest. Be litical and personal freedom under gone up more in the past twelve sides there is no ethical objection that the constitution. It is the conception held by Lincoln and Roosevelt, by inveri his surplus fonds in months than during any year since can be raised to H. We should not, curitiee as these is going to any the world war began, there are plenty by law, abridge a man’s right either Cleveland and W ilson, and all other presidents o f tee p u t to whom histo money in Oregon at 6 per cent? o f indications that tho coot o f food to labor or quit his employment. ry has assigned a significant place in and clothing has posed its peak and Temporary loans at the banks However, neither capital nor labor mand 814 per cent now. How in the is receding. So fa r as things we can should at any time or in any circum the normal growth o f our free institu It ia the conception o f the world could the man who is pinched do without are concerned the people stances, take action that would put in tions. presidency to which, in c o m o f suc and wants a little money fo r a short have it in their own hands to compel jeopardy the public welfare. cess o f tee democratic party in the time suppose he is going to get it at a reduction o f prices. We can wear We need a definite and precise com ing election, my own b u t efforts our old clothes awhile yet—almost h alf that rata. statement o f policy as to whet busi shall be dedicated, with a solemn A law o f the kind we are going to •very one o f us can get along with ness men and workingmen may do sens« o f responsibility to the power vote on in November is just aa ab what we have fo r some months— and and may not do by way o f combina above, to the people o f the United if we will abstain from baying priedk surd as one fixing the price o f eggs tion and collective action. The law States u a whole, and to the sacred at a dime a dosen or o f potatoes at 2 certainly have to fall. It looks ab« surd, anyhow, with wool down to 20 is now so nebulous that it almost oath o f allegiance to the constitution bits £ bushel turns upon the economic predelictions and the laws. Only within very narrow limite can cents where it has been 60 test any a" the judge or jury. This does not laws affect the rates o f interest when body should be able to keep clothing make fo r confidence in the courts nor Remember when renewing fo r the m osey is seeking investm ent When prices up, but it is being don « respect fo r the laws, nor for a healthy Sentinel that it costa' only 16 cents H isn’t, all tea laws in tee world won’t activity in production and distribu more a year to get the Oregon Farm W ANT NO CHINESE W ALL. affect the rate. tion. There surely will be found er, an excellent agricultural weekly, You will find the speakers o f both wnys by which co-operation may be for a year. BOOSE FOR MEDICINE. political parties as a rule putting the encouraged without the destruction soft pedal on tariff talk this fall. o f enterprise. The rules o f business W e note a report in tee ... IN COQUILLE o f diseases fo r which seme With probably 16 billions due us by should be made more certain so that voaniW ng intoxicat the notions o f Europe, which can bo on a stable basis men may move with Statements o f Cottage Grove Ci tisane ing liquors on Ike government forma. paid in no other way except in goods, confidence. A re Always o f latereat te Oar ‘ It’s meetly bronchitis, hut also in nobody with a thimbleful o f brains I believe that a better form o f tax cludes eyestrain, fever, nasal catarrh, will want to raise the tariff wall any To many o f our readers the streets ation than the ao-called excess p rof d general debiiKy. A higher than is necessary fo r purposes its tax may be found, and I ’ suggest o f Cottage Grove are alm ost aa fam o f prescribing tntoxi- o f revenue. And if we wish to have a enroll tax, probably one to one and iliar u those o f our own town, and wo are naturally interested to road o f to prevail ia Kansas, only the European nations pay even Ahe in one-half per cent on the total busi- happenings there. The follow ing re terest on the vast debts they Owe us need to bo his own o f every going concern. It is to port from a well-known and respected resident will be helpful to numbers o f physician and (hs drdggiots had books it behooves us to encourage im porta be understood that the term “busi- men and women here in Coquille. in which they filled out affidavit tions from the old world by every i” as used does not include income A . Rogers, retired fan n er, 407 forma and administered oaths i o the means in our power. received by wage-earnert, salaried North G. Street, Cottage Grove, Ora-, applicants for liquor. AU a pian had - In order to pay our own debts, or men, agriculturists and (he small ears: “ I have taken Doan’s Kidney to t o to got a casa o f hoi even to make a good beginning on business man, who should be exempt Pills off and on fo r several years and they have always done me good. I to make oath that ho or that Job, we must have a customs this tax. The profiteer and havo boon subject to attacks o f kid bar o f Me fam ily was sick revenue, feat it needs mast be a “ tar o f the highly capitalised unite ney trouble which made H hard far it as a medlcino - iff for revenue only” and not for pre- have used the excess profits tax as a me to control the passage o f the kid ney secretions. I have found that a f much matter what. The county clerk favorite excuse fo r loading on the ter I have taken a b o x .of Doan's Kid issued these hooka, often several at a consumer by means o f highly inflated ney Pills, my kidneys have become time to the druggists, hot when they Candida te Cox .could very easily •oiling prices many times the amoant normal.” w o n filled the stubs mast be returned .have secured the vote o f tho Sentinel Price 60c at all dealers. Don’t actually paid the government. A •imply u k for a kidney/rem edy— got to tho probate Judge who received a ¡man fo r president but he didn’t. A ll necessary condition __ _________ the national Doan's Kidney Pills— the m m ’ that nickle fea, aa wo w H, fo r he would have had to da was to add a contentment and sound »— ■------ u . Mr. Rogers had. Fo -Milburn •ash affidavit filed. It teen that few Unas to his speech la ri Saturday, just proportion between fa ir profits Co* M ira* Buffalo. N. Y . for any increase above tee one-half o f to por act allow s." But we suppose teat M r. Cox could not havo made such At statement con scientiously, and that ha also u p * vary desirous o f securing the wot vote o f Now York and other big cities. ‘ K i t / Â U tX M & W c want your banking business and when you g iv e it to ua we will give you SE R V IC E . It is.a pleasure to us to consult with our cus- tomero on their financial m atters and to advise them if they wish advice. F ed free to come in and see ua whether or not we now handle your account. W e shall he glad to you and make you “feel a t home.” W e invite YO U R Banking Business. Fanners & Merchants Bank of Coquille, Orefou Com fort and E fficiency go hand in hand \ rOUR office force w ill turn *■ ou t m ore w ork in a given tim e and m ake few er m istak es i f t^ ey are com forta b le. Fane pay fo r them selves in increased accu racy and volum e o f w ork. See you r * Local Dealer For full inforauttion call ✓ Mountain States Power Co. t C oquille O re g o n 'L e t M e T e ll Y o u T h is ” •ays the G ood Judge M ore m en every day are find ing th at It costs less to use th e Real To« bacco Chew . T h e fu ll rich taste lasts so lon g, a sm a ll chew satis fies; It’s ju s t w hat vou havo been looking fo r. It coats you the will c u t to b a c t o Does Yoor Subscription Date Need Changing
