T he C oquille H erald
VOL. 33,
NO. 22
CITY DIRECTORY FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Fraternal and Benevolent Order
A A. M.—Regular meeting ol
A F. . Chadwick
Lodge No. tt8 A. F. A A.
M. at Masonic Hail, every Saturday
ni^ht in each month on or liefore the
full moon.
I*. P. C h u c k , W. M.
R. H . M a s t , Secretary.
8 .—Regiuar meeting of Beulah
O K. . Chapter
No. ii, second and fourth
Events of Interest Reported
For The Herald
(By J. E Jones.)
T H E F ILIBU S TE R IN G S E N A T E
A lorm of entertainmeut has been
Friday e ve nin gs of each month, in Ma-
furnished by the Senate oi the Unit
•onic Hall.
eu States by filibusters that have
M a b y A. P ikbck , W . M.
A nna L awbkncu See.,
taken place of late. Several weeks
ago
Senator Burton of Ohio, led
f O. O. F.—Coquille I.odge No. 53, 1. 0.
1 . O. F., meets every Saturday night one of these endurance snuggles to
n Odd Fellows Hall.
success in opposition to the “ pork
0 . H. C l e a v e s , N. G.
J. S. L aw re n c e , Sec.
barrel” rivers and harbors bill.
There have recently been some real
a m i e r e b e k a h l o d g e . No. 20
I. O. O. F., meets every second and endurance tests since the shipping
fourth Wednesday nights in Odd Fellows bill came into the foreground of
Hall.
E mily H k u h k y , N. G,
national legislation. Most filibusters
A nn ie L a w kk sc k , Sec.
of la'e years have been conducted
/'»O Q U IL L E ENCAMPMENT. No. 25
v> I. O. O. F „ meets the lirstand third by two or three Senators. Senator
LaFollette, a man who has not been
Thursday nights in Odd Fellows Hall.
J. 8. B arton , C. V.
in
good health for several years,
J . S .L aw bcn cb , Sec.
once conducted a filibuster for three
\ r NIGHTS OF PY TH IAS.—Lycurgus days On another occasion he had
1\. Lodge No. 72, meets Tuesday nights
in W. O. W. Hall.
an arrangement with Senators Stone
R. R. W a tso n , K R. S.
and Gore. LaP'ollette talked a day
O. A. M in t on y e , C. C.
and then sought rest, turning the
O Y T H IA N .SISTERS—Justus Temple
After a few
1 No. 35, meets first and Third Mon­ floor over to Gore.
day nights in W. O. W. Hal!.
hours
the
latter
decided
to >eild
Mss. G kokuk D a v i s , M. E. C.
the floor to Stone.
Real chivalry
M b s . F hkd L ink gar , K. of R
ED MEN—Coauille Tribe No. 40, 1. should have induced some Senator
0 . R. M „ meets every Friday night to let Gore know that Stone was
I n W . O. W. Hall.
absent from the Chamber, since he
J. S. B arton , Sachem.
A. P. M ili . b r , C. of R.
is blind and could not see.
In­
W. A. —Regular meetings of Rea- stead, the enemy took advantage of
■ ver Camp No. 10.550 in M, W. A.
the infirmity, and when LaP'ollette
Hall, Front street, first ami third Sat-
came dashing back to the frav a
urdavs in each month.
C. D. H udson , onsu 1.
few minutes later it was to find that
Li. H. I rvine , le rk.
his filibuster had come to a bad end,
of
Laurel
N. A .—Regular meeting
■ amp No. 2972 at M. W . A . Hull, as the majority had snatched the
Fronti street, second and fourth Tues­ opportunity, and the bill whicn had
day n gilts in each month.
been filibustered against, was pas­
M ary K e r n , Oracle.
E dna K e l l e y , Rec.
sed. In 1901 Senator Carter of
W .— Myrtle
amp No. 197, Montana, talked a rivers and har­
. meets »very Wednesday at 7:30 bors bill to death
All night and
p. m. at W. O. Ir. Hall.
until noon the following day, he
Lee Cv.."*e, C. C.
J ohn L knkvb , C oc .
•»■ aged the incessant battle of speech-
VEN1NGTIPE CIRCLE No. 214, making, and the accomplishment
meets second and fourth Monday
stands out unique among all filibus­
nights in W. O. W. Hall.
O ra X . M a u r v , G. N.
ters, as it was not a dull, statistical,
M a r y A. P ierce , C le rk.
and time killing affair; but on the
contrary, informative and interest­
f* ings second and fourth Saturdays in
ing Senator Quay once pulled off
eaclt month in W. O. W. Hall.
F rank B ur kh ol d e r , Pres. a fine filibuster, and when he grew
O. A. M int onye , Sec.
tired he sent a big book to the
'RATERN A L AID No. 398. meets the
second ami fourth Thursdays each clerk's desk, which he requested
be read to the Senate as a part of
month at W. O. W . Hall.
Mus. C hah . E v l a n d , Cres.
his speech.
About the only man
M rs . L ora H arrington , Sec.
ever shown any consideration in a
Educational Organizations and Clubs filibuster was old Senator Morgan
O Q U I L L E E D U C A T I O N A L who was permitted his resting spells
LEAGUE—Meets monthly at the while trying to defeat the Panama
High School Building during the school
Year for the purpose ot discussing edu­ caual bill. But the spirit of chivalry
cational topics.
has never been manifested toward
R ena A nderson , Pies.
any one else. The usual filibuster
E dna M inaho , Sec.
is a stand-up battle of endurance
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the old robber barons of the Rhine
Railway Association, and other or-1
and the old blackmailers of the
ganizalions, united in an address
Scottish Highlands.
to the public, asking them for co-1
Though there be no science of
operation.
Address Delivered Before the Cleveland Ben Franklin Club
taxation there is a science of public
The possibilities of electric rail­
Published by Request of a Prominent Citizen
revenues
The scientific core of
way control could hardly be better :
W h o Used to Take the Herald
public revenues is "quid pro quo.”
illustrated to these men in the busi-
It is the same at the science of com-
ness than right in the national cap­
merce. There are piratical possi-
There is an old saying, and a proceed to analyze it.
ital, where two parallel lines owned
Tbere are three essential points bilities in commerce, and in the
familiar one, that nothing in this
by different companies, do not in- j
world is certain but death and tax­ in the definition. It tells us in the past they were fostered. This was
tercbange transfers, and continue to
es.
May I distinguish the two? first place that taxes are enforced done according to “ the good old
operate year after year in defiance
Both may be certain; I won’t dis­ contributions; that is to say taxation plan that he shall get who has the
of the protests of the people of
pute that. But death is withiu the is confiscation. In the second place power and he shall keep who c.n ."
Washington. Government owner­
doraaiu of science, and taxes it it tells us that taxes are levied or But commerce has learned, and fis-
ship and other methods of changing
seems are not.
At any rate our collected by the sovereign power of cal students must learn, the natural
the situation have frequently been
present tax laws are a bewildering the State or nation; that is to say law ot "quid pro quo.” It is of the
urged, but the electric railway in­
omnium gatherum of fiscal odds and that the State or naticn is the con- essence of the science of public rev-
terests find it as simple a job to
bscator. In the third place it tells euues that the public shall be paid
ends.
handle Congress as though it were
An attempt to classify and define us that taxes are levied without ref- j for the pecuniary Ipjnefiis it gives;
a third rate city council.
taxes has beeu made by the Census erence to the special benefits which that it shall tie paid only for those
I N T E R E S T IN T H E " J I T N E Y ” SER- I
Bureau of the United States.
It the taxpayers severally derive from it does give; and that it shall be
VIC E
was a courageous undertaking and the expenditures ot taxes; that is paid by the persons who get what
The ‘‘jitney bus” has struck j a work conscientiously and intelli- to say, taxpayers who get no spec­ it gives. This is the benefit princi­
It is the
Baltimore which is less than an | gently done They say:
ial benefits from the public expen­ ple ol public revenues.
hour’s ride fiom Washington.
It
“ Taxes are enforced proportional ditures are robbed for the enrich­ principle of the honest merchant in
has been coming east for many contiibutions of wealth, levied and ment of those who do get special bis business, or the manufacturer or
months, and in the west it has long
since vindicated itself against ad­
verse criticism and warring electric
lines. It isa semi-taxicaband “ bus”
combined, only the fares are light
and they run everywhere, unre­
stricted by tracks, trolleys, police or
pull. The"jitney bus” will go a
long way toward relieving situations
like that found in Washington and
other parts of the country where
the representatives of this lour bil­
lion dollars of electric railway
"juice” and watered stock, monop­
olizes the public streets, and grows
richer as the strap-hangers increare
in number.
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BRIDGE DESTROYED IN FRANCE.
M A K E I T IN T H E UN ITE D S TA TE S
Having failed to talk manufact­
urers into the idea ot producing arti­
cles in common use, the Bureau of
Standards at Washington resotted
to another way of reaching results.
Two years ago the Bureau employ­
ed experts to solve the problem of
making optical glasses in the Uni­
ted States, and now it is announced
that if any American institution
wishes to engage in the business
that Uncle Sam will tell them all
about how things should be done.
The same Bureau has solved the
problems of manufacturing porce­
lain, which heretofore practically
all came trom Germany. Since the
the war a great many aiticles in
common use in this country have
been difficult to procure, and the
government is taking advantage of
the conditions to drive home the
necessity of producing everything
Photos oopyrlght, 1914, by Ajnerican Press Association.
American contractors have already been asked to figure on replacing structures wrecked during the war.
collected in the general interest of a
community ;rom individuals and
corporations by virtue of the sover­
eignty of the nation or State for the
support of governments and for the
defrayal of expenses growing out of
the public need, which are levied
without reference to the special ben­
efits which the contributors may
severally derive from the public
purposes for which the taxes are re­
quired.”
That is a remarkably close ap-
proximatiou to a perfect definition.
Let us analyze it.
The Census Bureau tells us that
taxes are “ contributions.”
Well
they are contributions in the sense
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benefits from public expendituies.
But the Census Bureau goes fur­
ther than to give us a definition.
It gives us also the multifarious ma­
terial which it had to wrestle with.
There is a '‘general property tax”
which is planned to snatch wherev­
er it can be found. Then there are
“ special property taxes’’ which
snatch at what the general property
tax has not succeeded in snatching
Then come poll taxes which tax a
man for being alive, and occupation
taxes which lax him if he tries to
keep alive by his own useful work.
Of the same ilk are business and in­
come taxes. These reach out for a
different class. But like the others
social organization. Hall in Laird’ s
they make no distinction between
building, Second street.
profits and incomes that are earned
A. J. S h e r w o o d . P.es.
F red S i . aî . l k , Se,.
and profits and incomes that are not
earned.
There are several other
o m m e r c ia l t l u e
l .H .H a u m >
President ; C. A. H ow a rd , Secretary
kinds of taxes in the Census classi-
fications.but with almost negligible
Transportation Facilities
exceptions all are levied and collec-
ted without reference to whether
»R A IN S—Leave, south bound 8:10 a.
m. and 2:40 p. m. North hound
the taxpayer gets any special bene-
9:211 a. m. ami 4:20 p. m.
fits in return for his tax or not.
As a matter of fact some people
B quille river afford ample accoramo-
do and some people don’t. Of two
dalion lor carrying freight and p.asan
gers to Bandon and way points. Boats
persons who pay the same amount
eave at 7 :30, 8 :30, 9:20 and 9 :C0 a. m.
of tax, for instance, for the building
and at 1:00, 3 :30 and 4 :45 p. rr.
of a city hall or to maintain police
l'AGE—J. L. Laird, proprietor. Tie-
parts 5:3 0 p. m. for liiseburg via
guardianship or for fire protection,
Myrtle Point,csrrving the United Slates
both persons will benefit alike in a
mail and pasengers.
certain personal sense of safety and
IjO STO FFIO E .— A. F. Linegar, post-
in a certain fact of safety; but one
1 master. The mails close as follows:
Myrtle Point 8:40 a. m. and 2:35 p. in. i
of them will be able to get a higher
Marshfield 10:15 a. ni. and 4:15 p. in.
price or more ground rent for his
Bandon and way points,7 a m. Norway I Photo by American Press Association.
and Aragol2:45 p.m. Eastern mail 4:15
building-lot and the other will have
England's ruler and Queen Mary are here shown Inspecting troops from India In camp at New Forest.
a. m. Eastern mail arrives 10: p. ni. ,
to pay the higher price or ground
City and County Officers
with plain talk and speech making possible within the United States, the Census Bureau means and says; rent if he buys or leases that lot.
So there you have our present
for
weapons.
The filibuster can h a v e n e w s p a p e r s a n y i n f l u e n c e that is, they are enforced contribu­
Mayor................................ A. T. Morrison
R ecorder.......................... J. s. Lawrence yield to one of his “ partners,” if he
system of taxation as the Census
Treasurer
... R. H. Mast
Secretary of Stale Bryan told the tions. But enforced contributions Bureau has truly shown it to be
Engineer
P. M. Hall-I^ewis has one; but he must hold the floor,
National
Press Club at Washington are what the hold-up man gets from There is no scientific principal about
Marshal
... A. P. Miller lor should he surrender it for a mo­
Night Marshal ........
Oscar WicKham
that he got more votes when he was you on the street at midnight with it, unless you count legalization of
Water Superintendent 8. V. Epperson ment the enemy will sweep into
Fire Ohie!.......
W. C. Chase control, and as a filibuster is almost opposed by all the great newspapers both of your hands raised and one robbery as a science. Some students
Councilmen—Jesse Byers, O. T. Hkeels
of the country than in any of his of his toying with a pistol while the of taxation, perhaps most of them,
C. I. Kinie, Ned C.Kelley, W . H. Ly­ always a minority tactic, the loss of
He reasoned other searches your pockets.
ons, O. C. Sanford. Regular meetings control of the floor is usually fol- other campaigns.
go so far as to say that not only is
first and third Mondays each month.
lowed by defeat of the filibusters. |,hat ‘ he great newspapers are owned
Then the Census Bureau describes there no scientific taxation now but
Filibusters have
have many objects, or controlled by business interests these enforced contributions as“ pro- that no scientific taxation is possible.
Justice of the Peace.......... J. J. Stanley
........ Ned C. Kelley among which are the torcing ol that care more for themselves and portional.”
But you know that If you read their books you will bo
their affairs than they do for their our taxes are not proportional inclined to agree with them on that
compromises, and in case of one
| country, and that the people know However, as the sponsers for them point if on nothing else,
County Judge
At least
occurirng just before adjournment |
Commissioners—W T. Dement, Geo. J.
it. His idea of the right kind ot a pretend that thev are proportional you W'H concede that they tbem-
Armstrong
of a session, bills may he “ talked
newspaper was one in which the we may disregard this part of the selves don’l know of any science of
Clerk
Alfred Johnson. Jr. to death.
editorials are all written by the own­ Census definition on the ground taxation. But even if there can be
..... T. M. Dimmick
T H E E L E C T R I C S PA R K
er of the paper,instead of employees. that the definers were trying to no science of taxation that does not
T. J. Thrift
If
one’s
daddy happens to be
School Supt. ......... Raymond E. Baker
He described the kind of papers state, and properly, not what taxes dispose of the subject in its scien-
C. F. McCtilloek more than middle-aged he will tell
Surveyor
that use the Jones Washington let­ are but what they profess lobe. For tific aspects.
F. E. Wilson
Taxation is not an
Dr. Walter Culin you that there were no electric rail­ ter.
Health Officer
the same reason we may drop from end; it is only a means.
The end
roads in his boyhood days.
And
W O U L D DIV ID E CA LIF O R N IA
the Census definition the idea that is public revenues.
The means
yet 400 men met at a railway con­
Societies will get the very best
Californians have been “ feeling taxes are levied and collected in the may be taxation or it may be some-
vention in Washington a few days
thing else. It had better be aome-
ago, and they represented $4.000, their way” in Washington as to the general interest.
Having now reduced the defioi- thing else it the world’s preceptors
000,000 worth of property.
These proposal to divide the long, big
at the office o f Coquille Herald
tion to its substantialities, we may in taxation are to. be everlastingly
{■ ^people of the American Electric1
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PER YEAR $1.50
COQUILLE, COOS COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1915.
Compiled by State Bureau of
Industries and Statistics
Drain co-operative cannery closes
successful year.
Dallas may issue bonds to buy
the waterworks.
Salem -Act of legislature insures
$230,000 bridge.
Bandon laundry and ice plant
have consolidated.
Independence— Fruit growers are
organizing a cannery.
Coos Bay Iron Works will man­
ufacture gas engines.
Newberg-Ca^aery business for
1914 totalled $53.305.
Klamath Falls— Electric line to
Eureka being promoted.
Eugene people are lookiug after
a lace factory proposition,
Marshfield— Contract let for Cath­
olic church, 25 by 50 feet.
A Duluth corporation is after
iron mines on Rogue River.
Albany— Resolutions adopted to
raise"$25,ooo for a cannery.
Forest Grove— State fish hatchery
to be located ou Clear creek.
Mary E. Clarke is building an
apartment house at Marshfield.
St. Helens— Local quarry has a
contract for 80,000 belgian blocks.
Springfield— S. P. Co. is macad­
amizing Seventh street to the depot.
St. Johns —A United Evangelical
church is to be built, to cost $6000.
Springfield Planing Mill will es­
tablish a box and furniture factory.
Gresham— $25,000 union high
school will be erected on four acre
tract.
Dallas may get the unemployed
Great Western sawmill near Black
Rock.
Forest Grove— Building pros­
pects are best in the history of the
city.
A placer on Lobster creek, Coos
county, yielded $3000 in a few
weeks.
Frazer & Sou, Eugene, have es­
tablished manufacture of fire hy­
drants.
Eugene— Water board will call for
bids on $20,000 reservoir on College
Crest.
The Oregon Power Co. is install­
ing a new lighting system for Mon­
mouth.
Portland — East Side Business
Men’s Club will erect two story
building.
Bandon— An engineer has arriv­
ed and work will soon begin on the
new jetty.
State Employment Bureau will
give employment to unemployed
politicians.
Pendleton— Umatilla c o u n t y
court is moving for a $25,000 coun­
ty library.
The Rogue River Public Service
Corporation is building a power
dam at Ament.
North Plains— Haulenbeck mill
and planer have been leased and
will be operated.
Springfield Creamery Co. will
erect $5000 concrete building and
refrigerating plat.
Camps are being established and
men are employed on the new Sa-
lem-Stayton railroad.
Brookings— It is reported that
the Brookings Lumber Co. will
erect a $2,000,000 dock.
More split-log drags and less
splitting profits with road contract­
ors will make better toads.
Baker— City Commissioners and
citizens committee unanimously
turn down proposition to bond the
city lor a lighting plant.
Polk, Yamhill and Tillamook of­
fer to put in $45,000 on Grande
Ronde road to Tillamook if the
State Highway Commission puts up
an equal sum.
the printer. It stands out in strong
contrast with the ability to pay
principle, which is piratical. It is
scientific.
What do we mean by scientific?
Doesn’t science refer to natural re­
lationships?
Isn’ t it scientific to
work in harmony with natural laws?
If that is so, then robbery is un­
scientific. for robbery is in conflict
with natural law. Robbery conflicts
with natural economic law because
robbery is unproductive. Robbery
conflicts with natural economic law
and natural moral law because rob­
bery is obstructive of the property
tights of producers.
Perhaps the
unscientific character of robbery
may be summed up in the oue con­
clusion that it conflicts with natural
political laws because it is anti-so-
cial. A community of mutual pluud-
erers is unthinkable. A community
only partly so is thinkable only in
-,0 far as 's no* so- Social life
depends upon production «nd ex-
change; the more universal the pro­
duction and the freer the exchange
*he more perfect the social life,
And if taxation is what its students
so often say it is and must be, theu
it is robbery and therefore outside
the domain of science
But public revenues are within
the domain ot science whether tax­
ation is or not.
Public revenues
have a scientific basis; that is, they
are natural. This is certainly so if
human association is natural. And
who can deny it? Isn’t man asocial
animal by nature? Isn’t he a co­
operative animal by nature? Doesn't
he specialize, and doesn’t he trade
— both from a natural impluse and
witli naturally beneficial results?
Ol course that is true. And out of
those characteristics and from nat­
ural necessity human s o c i e t y
springs.
We may agree that human society
is only the expression of an inter­
mingling of desires and powers that
are individual. Nevertheless, that
intermingling develops common
needs, social needs, needs of the
social solidarity. One social need,
for instauce, is roads or streets for
common use.
Another may be
guardianship against disorder, fire
or calamity of one kind or another
There are many other common
needs, and they multiply as the
social organism becomes more com­
plex.
Now how shall we provide for
those common needs?
Must we
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F ra nk Abou t It.
Shoe Store Salesman — What size
would you like, madam. Miss Larjun—
Fd like a No. 2, but there's no use talk­
ing shout that. You may ns well show
me your No. 5's.—London Telegraph.
No Rocall For Him.
Mike—Do you believe in the recall o f
Judges. Tat?” Pat—That I do not. The
Inst time I was up before his honor he
sez; “ I recall that fnoe. Sixty days.'
I’ m agin the recall o f Judge»."—Life.