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PEACE RECESSIONAL
(Apologies To Kipling)
Goddess of Fortune, known of old,
Fate of our thin brown battle lint
Beneath whoso kindly hand we hold
The lova of Peace from palm to pine;
Goddess of Peace, make us aware
Should we prepare? Should we pre
pare? The tumult and the shouting dies
The pcaco ship sails to foreign shores
We hear the thundering protests rise
We watch the flag which proudly soars
Goddess of Peace, hear thou our pray
er,
Should wo prepare? Should we pre
pare ?
If deaf with din of war wo lose
All thoughts of bitter sacrifice,
Or miss the greater good and choose
A golden calf to canonize,
Goddess of Peace, do thou declare,
Should wo prepare? Should we pre.
pare ?
which will win the first prize as the bore
town grouch. If you talked with thein Around with her from store to store
they knocked the town, they knocked While on a shopping tour, to see
businer3, they knocked the mail order The many pretty things which she
house. They were continually com- Would love to buy if she but had
plaining tint ether pcoplo d'd busi- The cash, and with a smile so glad
ness and made money but that they It almost made the copper sneeze
didn't seem to be able to sell anything She thanked him, and with sprightly
They guescd it was the town. es, ease
that was it, the town. If you asked Tripped on to seel; another store
tlmt tnorrhnni if he advertised, he Or two where she coultl shop gome
innk-il :it von with nma-, more.
zement. What was the use of adver-, Editor Utoorder: Again referring
, , to the art uk- on mail order talk noue-
tising when business was so bail. C V V T i in the lust Western World, wish to
People who had money to sjiend, he Ngiyg Ql EflrllPlf iflVS hUtte thut 1 sti" takt" sol,u? uxcoptfi.is
would tell you, were sending it to the , J regarding the matter wherein the odi-
mail order house. No, he would say ! From the Recorder. Jan. 3, 1890 IJShr1 (1S
he did or. auveuisc: n-- , 'selling price) which in the first case,
throw good money after bad. On the The Parkersburg saw mill started makes millionaires out of the iudivid
nilu.r hum), i'o into a live town and',,,, t,nr i,u Vnli.lnv vnmitnn tuni stockholders of tho mail order eon-
what will you see? The merchants' i "" ,,u,,us "!', .
w'"1 ' ' . . i i nasi: in tlu iriisn or homo Irnditnr
Another Talk on Mail Orders
'And Taxes by John Kielson
have attractive displays hi uic-ir stores cap. it. v. uiinhnm of Marshficid : mains in the
ipecial salon or low priced goods. They
are not afraid of the mail order houses
THE DEAD TOWN
Did you ever go into a town and, as
you stepped from the trnin, have it
strike you suddenly that the town was
dead? Have you over had a town
described to you as a "dead" town ?
Have you ever stopped to analyze just
what is meant by theso words "dead
town?" In tho last analysis they
mean just onethingr-nnd that is that
tho merchants of tho town dor.", ndvor
tise. A dead town has certain positive
aspects of demise which arc as bald
as a pieco of crepe hanging on the
door of a private house. Tho stores
seem to bo merely existing. Their
helve9 aro covered with apparently
unsaleable goods. The merchnnts seem
to be vying with each other to see
tho
rc-
cnmiinlnilv iinil iiiiv
The daily or weekly newjp-ipcrs was in town looking after his business I rents, clork hire, taxes, support
are filled with big announcements of interests. I churches, schools, libraries, etc.
: iKiiniMij; hub iiiuucr, wish iu suuu
,...,.. ,, , , , , (that tlie people who send their money
Material for the light house- fog,awav. ,'t t'heil. ,,00(i8 nt al)out th
heccud.1 they have the same means to iignai had arrived and was transport- same price that the merchants pay for
... . i - .ti ' .1 1 1. .. , 1 l I., tlwii,. iriinda lilivinfi nf wliiil nun in
reach the people advertising mat i-u uuiuas mu nvcr io u pm in jiui-, fy" "-v.. .... .......,...,
u- . ii ..-i. i. reftTTi,.. ,lnn . quantities, consequently about the
IllUriUS HIU lll.lli wwwi h"-11'
merchants have their local association
for mutual help, and behind the asso
ciation the local newspaper is pushing
pushing pushing. Everybody is work
ing and everybody is happy and boost
ing. If you wa-il a live lovn get be
hind the newspaper and the newspaper
will do the rest. Forget the timo
.vorrn arguments that the paper is a
lead one. The paper is alive enough
f the people are alive. The surest
iest of a live town is a live newspaper
Hid a newspaper can't be .ilive unless
.he town boosters do th. ir six.- c.
tion. . .., :
(twine tiiiiuuiiL VI UHiui' luijn uui, iia
... . stated in my former article; whether
Will Langlom of Cape Itlanco wan the merchant sends it out or the peo
in the city on his way to Heckoty ' pie, and the difference between the
heads where he was to be assistant . fos' ""' tl' sul,l,i,nR1 rrico' (-'ni:ioVr1
. by the Western World, remains in the
Keeper. . nockots of the consumers, instead of
The young ladies of liandon were
give a leap year ball on tho 20th of
January.
I the merchants, which is the only dif
to ferenee thut I can see. And, in fact,
SHOPPING
She screamed iu terror when her purse
Was snatched from out her jeweled
hand,
And hurled a modest semi-curse
Toward the fleeing, bold brigand;
And when the copper caught the thief t
She seized the purse with anxious ,
I do not see how it can be figured out
, tiiat it will make nny difference us far
as the going out is concerned
, . 1 My editor friend seems to have on
.1. L. Coke of Empire city was in ,j8 mjn,i that the merchants make the
town a few days this week on his way, town. How would a merchant live if
from Curry county whore he' went to ora were no people? This in itseir
- . , ... .. ' goes to prove that the people make the
look after matters connected with the itjus Iln(, towns he mmlton
wreck or the 1'nwnmore. i that count. Therefore it depends upon
I tho number of producers that build a
A landslide occurred at Prosper town when their business as a whole
...i.:i. i. i h. .,i. i,, ,ir.um is centralized.
. i If we had five times ns many mills
close to l'crshiiaKer s. 1U1( fact0ries together with other in
dustries and they were all within tho
The black sand miners of the Lane limits of llutidon, the business that
mine were moling with good success, would be centralized and created here
( would be a great deal more than what
. . . , . . c- it now is. it itr.ndou hud live limes as
u. ii. uosa, iiMi.t.
air,
And breathed a sign of sweet relief
To find her treasures all were thero.
A penciled note
Her fellow wrote,
A sugar plum,
A wad of gum,
A hair-pin (bent),
A copper cent, .
A button hook
With broken crook,
A safety-pin,
A curling tin,
A powder rag,,
A sachet bag.
These were the trcasurca which she
Lolig and S.
j Danielson sold their interests in the
i schooner R. .1. Long and Mr. Rosa
started for San Francisco to close the
many people there would undoubtedly
be a far greater number of houses" and
consequently the value in property
would be higher but I can not see how
vnll I'nn irivit llir. tnmvhn ill 111,, r.rnilil
transaction. for the (inference there would lie in
' the value of the property or the iu
A New Years evening evsnt was a creased - bushiest- that the (inference in
quiet wedding at the home of Thomas the number of producers would make
1 . . rind crnn! 11.
Lewis by which their daughter iMii.ua menhanUt who, t.omniiro(1
became tho wife of Hurt Harrington. wjUl tl(, popuiatj,,,, 0f a cily Would bo
The latter came here some time ago a small percentage. If Handon had
Iu. wnnlon mill. This is five times the population and there
. .1.. were enough indiiHtrics to support this
urn mix person wonung m u.o ,mri!rcnco j,, tho population; and this
mill who has found a wife or a bus- population sent their money away for
band since tho mills woro built,
event was celebrated New Year
by a social dance.
Tho
night
3k
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ADMISSION IOC AfVf) tfc
their necessities, I can not ueo whore
it would make very much difference
to the town us far as increasing its
improvement:-, schools, etc. Of courue,
1 will have to admit that every bu.si-
M':s !idl.s to the growth of a place:
but the profit that the merchant puts
:.. I.:.. .1 ... i ...I. it...j i.
Ill Mill MllKei JIJML l.lhCH 111,11 UIIICII
away from the producer which evi
dently will make him poorer and the
merchant richer, nnd if the proilucer
i.ouid l.eop more ot his money to spend
on himself, it is evident flint he would
have more money to spend on luxur
ies for himself, and the ino'-omonoy
the people of the town or conimuiiily
mal.o the beltur their living conditions
nnd schools, lilirurics, houses and nu
merous other things. If a Tew mer
chants extracted all tho money for
profits and tho masses had barely e-
nough to live on. could better living
conditions he expected? Let the mas-
oh earn more money and olhor condi
tions will take care of themselves,
which has liocn proven time and time
again. If a man woro able to earn
per day, it is evident that he would
have more of tho comforts and lux
uries of good living but if he earns
only two dollars a day how in the
world at the present time can he have
thoNo comforts?
Whenever the homo merchant
nuikos prices wherein there is too
much dilferonce the consumer natural
ly will buy whore his dollar will buv
the most. This is human nature, taken
fiXiia ' front n business standpoint, and any
3;fJ reasonable person will undoutodly
Jf"! admit this.
Another thing to consider in tho
making of towns or cities wherein
there aro high taxes. This is rot con
ducive to tho building of towm;. Iu
voslors usually look where tho taxes
aro lowest. In order for us to make
conditions favorublg for inve-.tors, it
depends prbicipolly upon the citizens
to Iihvp such n governmont whireby
their taxes nro far cheaper than wo
have or wo will have to o.tteh them on
the run. What have we to ou"e- to in
dustries here? Industries can save a
bout one third of their taxes by build
ing oii'fiido of tho city limits, conse
quently how n you cxMot them to
nunc kikI boar an excessive burden
when it should not bo ne'-essary to
have nueh conditions. When wo ex
pect to interest investment, lot us
make it attroetivo by kooping down
our taxes instead of increasing them
continually.
Why iH it that California and Wush
int'ton linve a larger population tlinn
.vc have. Ono of the most miiUhle an-
. . i . t : t . .t. .Hi,..
Hfdsitin tuxMtion. principally. Our .worst
,;-rp- iwuii in trying in iiioko ciui-s out in
! towns and trying to run tii'-m on tn
u!iw m-mIo. If your Ini-ouie U a dollar
don't try to xpeud five and oxpocl to
keep "ut of debt. No on hit Un able
to work this method succcrmfully yel
nnd I do not o- why wt rhould atnrt
in.
If our y'' m of town tfoverruncrit l
n ("mfilin ii f ttd by thit rditor o(
'th- Wh urn World why ntt makn it
thut H citn !- roddiiv hi 'l i f'Mt4
l-y nil? Thx lwt wv i 11 i inv
by il i'iif and pot try t ' H i lv
unlit' i,ini' that mi IX ii' klui w!,t II
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7?m
lj"'Tlty
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cent interest on the cost of the prop
erly together with insurance, I figure
that it costs me about ?2fi to $20 to
live in my own home whereas I can
rent what 1 connider good enough for
me for S15 a month. Is this nny in
ducement to own city property? The
IMfi taxes will evidently amount to
cbout GO mills a-id the occupation tax
on the r.sseasNl valuation of my prop
erty will amount to nearly lb mills
and I have somo property bonded on
which the interest amounts to ten
mills and this will bring the total up
to about l.'tO mills that I am charged
on some propery that 1 own in this
town in order to own it. Is this any in
ducement to own property and have to
pny 1!1 percent in order to have the
priviledge of keeping it. Can one ex
pect u city or a town to grow when
such conditions exist?
Last year taxes hit the prople pret
ty hard in the county as well na in the
towns, and many of them hud to pay
their taxes in two iustnllmeuts mid a
number did rot pay their taxes at all.
This year the earnings of a majori
ty of the taxpayers is far loh than it
was last year nnd owing to Hits fact
do you blunv? a good tunny of t'H'iu for
kicking about their taxes? I frol that
1 am better siturted than a groat many
but I do not have the money to pay my
taxes unless 1 can borrow it and' if I
am situated iu thiii way, how about
the majority? As r.tated in my former
aiticle, tuxes usually go up when tho
conditions aro bad. There nuifit lie a
reason for this. At least I should think
so. It is evident that if our towns and
counties did not try to do too much
business in "ood imes with tho expec
tation that tho limes woro to continue
indefinitely and tho officials were fore
sighted enough to begin to curtail ex
penses when Use hard times began to
bo evident, taxes would bo loss. In oth
er words, if our muiiicip.tlitii-s and
counties ran their business us any
other private business should ho con
ducted, our taxes would be in propor
tion to the conditions; but a majority
of tho odicii.ls appear to believe that
hard titne.i aro never coining while
they are handling the people's busi
ness and seem to not to bo able to real
ize what the conditions are ii'itil the
people begin to kick. It is evident al
so that tliev aro in better position to
know hose fads than the ordinary
layman.
As an example the town just recent
ly advertised bonds for sale to tho a
mount of $K0,0()(l fW.OOO to tal:o up
general find warrants and ? 10,000 to
bo used for tho improvement of the
water r.yst-m. The $10,0110 to take up
the general fui.d warrants 1 would
consider all right as wo aro paying the
same interest on the warrants, but in
stead of having the bonds lm.Uiro in
oiie, two, throe or four years, wo have
to pay interest on them for twenty
years and if they were r.o that a cer
tain percent could be takon np every
year, wc could make a big saying on
the interest. What you save is what
'ouuts and not what you spend. Ke-
riling the water bonds, would have
thought that the city would have ad
vertised $10,000 bonds and when they
wurc .used up, advertise for more, and
by doing this we would bo saved tho
payment of interest on what we do not
use. If the money is on hand for say
I wo years, wo would have to pay two
years interest for tho pleasure of
knowing thut wo have tho money. I'er
.oually, I consider this very great bus
iness judgement. This is un example
of why taxes increase and presume
more could be cited.
It puis mo iu mind of the $1 10,000
that somo of the business men of the
county wanted the county bunded for
to build roads, and in order to get the
use of thin money had to pay $528,(1(10
inlci est. In other words had to pay
$L20 to use $1,00 of borrowed money.
Some people seem to thi.ik that af
ter your property and mine are mort
gaged and i get the money, our
troubles are all over witlr. There is
where they aro mistaken. That is just
the time the trouble commences. When
you mortgage your property yourself
you begin to realize the fact that your
trouble haw just commenced. .Such is
the case when wo bond a municipality'
nr 'county. It moans more taxes to
take care of a sinking fund to pay
these bonds together with tho accru-
ng interest.
I don't want it understood that I
onilemii the building of good roads.
Knr from it, as any ronsoiinhlo citizen
realizes that good roads rao the best
investment that can be made, but let
us get the most for the money to got
tho use of more money than the roads
osl. I presume that the county Is
pending upward of $200,000 each
year on ro;ul:i and what have they to
diow for tins expenditure? It is evi
lont that if we used more of Ibis mon--y
for piTiuanont loads we would get
far bettor results and eventually
would begin to have something to
diow; but as it is, wo have no more to
ihow this year than last, and con.se
piently what aro we getting for the
money .'
When conditions get to this point.
my editor friend, there is something
wrong and it iw about time to find out
what it is. Whitewashing accomplish'
es nothing and we had hotter have the
facts and find out what is the matter
mil the sooner tho bettor.
JOHN NIKLSON
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HANDON, OKHdOV
DR. H. L. HOUSTON
Physician & Surgeon
Office, in First National Until, build
ing. Hours, '.) to 12 a. m; I'M) to 4 p
in; 7 to 8 in the evening
HANDON. OHKGON
DR SMITH ,1. MANN
Physician & Surgeon
Ofli?e in Kllingsou lluilding llou'-
o 12 n, in; 1 to 5 p. m
UANUON. OUIUION
L. P. SOKUNSHN
Dentist
UIIUm in First National Hunk
Inn'.!
ollUe
ing- Telephone at house i nd
HANI ION OltF(JO
Vi. K. V. LEI'iP
'Physician &, Surgeon
OnUvx in lOllin.-Miu building, l'lioi
HANDON, OKKCON
TM. ARTHUR GALE
Physician & Surgeon
lillildli ir (Mil, t
Kcsidcucc phono, .to
HANJON. OltlUiO -
OOicu iu FNingsou
phone, 1152
DR. 3. C. ENUIC0TT
Dentist
Oluce in Flliugs"n building OllK
nhone 1211. Residence phone, llnl
HANDON. OUHOO 1
.JR. I. L. SCO FIELD
Dentist
Ollico iu KlllngKou Jliiililiiu in rooiiH
lutely occupied bj Attorney Feeit
Phono 1141
HANDON. OltliOON
CHATBURN & GARDNLR
Attorneys at Lnw
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M a Mini c.
Bundon Lodge, No. I.'IO, A F &
A. M. Stated communications Hut
Friduy after the full moon of
each month. Special coiiimunicatioiu
Master Masons coidially inited.
W. A. LeOOUi:, W. M
C K IIOWMAN, Sec.
ICaslcrn Star.
Occidental Chapter, No. 45, O iff
S. moots Friday evenings nolor"
and after stated communications or
Masonic lodge. Visiting member",
cordially invited to attend
JULIA VAVE, W M
MARY OALLIICU, Secret! ry
I .(). (. F.
Jlmtdoii Lodge, No. 13a, i O.
P., meets every Wednesday ovenln'
Visiting brothers in good standlim
-ordiully invited.
GF.O. II. SMITH, Secretary.
l. i. wiii:i:li:h n
livery IIoih.i hold in Ibindoii Should
IVIIOH llllrt In ItcMist It.
If your back ih-Iicn becauso tho kid
neys aro blockaded,
Will Nhou'd help the klduevw with
thoir woil..
Doiin'i Kidney I'll m hid uMPocially
fur weak klihwya.
l!eciiiinie.i.ii by tboiuaniU here
twhtiinonoy fioin this vicinity.
Mia, W. A. Tiofiuii.TUI llighhuid
Ave , (iranl , I'tti.n, Oih., auyii: "My
inilm and miklof mn nwolloii mi lunl
ly that I wuhl hardly h1 hiouikI. My
back mmi nut ruiiatuilly. I lumw
m uw iriaKuiiii neuun of inv h d
my Uial Uwy wra at fault. Dnnn'n
Kifltiny rill rmu-M iiw awwliug in
my limln and an' U uial Ml my lal
in y. arlliiir M ' bliMuU,"
Tir IM4 , al all Ui al i J Wl im
t ai tut u ( iiliu y immmJv ui
ttmit't li'ln' M' id. nairii- I Imi
Kclukiih
ycean Hubukah lxlge, No 1211, i
O. O. V., meets second an I 'ui 'i
TuduyM at I. (). O. F h.ill fri'i
ciiit inemberH cordially Invito.
MAUY C. HAHItOWS. Sitnt.ir
MAUI AM WILSON
H M"H- HI'4H-
I Hotel Bandon
A.MLHH'AN I'LSN $1.(10
1 und 1.50 per d.i
I'.liropcdll Plilll, inoiii-
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