WAR PROFITEER
PUBLIC NUISANCE
No Extortion to Be Tolerated, but
Liberal Disposition Toward
Business Needed.
rhe Western World
Owned and published by
FELSHE1M & HOWE
L D. FELSHEIM, Editor
JAS H. HOWE. Bus Mgr.
Shrinkage of Values Would Cur
tail Capacity to Provide
Sinews of War.
"Conscription of Men, Conscription of
Money," Analysed.
The rich man can spend only a rela-
— ' small sum of money nnproduc-
i tlvely
| tlvely or selfishly. The money that It Is
In ills power actually to waste Is ex-
ceedlngly limited. The bulk of what
he has must be spent and used for
productive purposes, just as would be
the case If It were spent by the gov
ernment, with this difference, however, 2 A Clean Tooth Never Decay»
that, generally speaking, the Individual
Is more painstaking and discriminating
If you want work that lasts;
In the use of his funds and at the same
if you want It done with no
time bolder, more Imaginative, enter
more pain than the prick of
prising and constructive than the gov
the needle; if you want your
ernment with Its necessarily bureau
Pyorrhea CURED, or If you
cratic und - routine regime possibly
want to KEEP FROM GET-
could be. Money in the hands of the
TING PYORRHEA, see
individual Is continuously and fever
ishly on the search for opportunities
—1 e., for creative and productive use.
In the bands of the government It Is apt
to lose a good deal of Its fructifying
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energy and ceaseless striving and to
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sink Instead Into placid and somnolent
repose.
There need net be and there should
not be any conflict between profits
and patriotism I am utterly opposed
to those who would utilize their coun
try's war as a means to enrich them
selves. The “war profiteer,” as the
term is generally understood. Is a pub
lic nuisance and an Ignominy. Extor
tionate profits must not be tolerated,
but, on the other hand, there should
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be a reasonably liberal disposition to
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ward business and a willingness to see
It make substantial earnings.
Daily Papers Magazines
For. taxation presupposes earnings.
All Current Publications
Our credit structure is based upon
values, and values are largely deter
mined by earnings.
Shrinkage of
value; necessarily affects our capacity
to provide the government with the
Saturday Evening Post
sinews of war
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: DO NOT NEGLECT
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Telephone Offices
are authorized Thrift Stamp selling
slaiiona. This profitable, simple ar.d
safe investment drawe four per cent
interest, compounded quarterly, with
the privilege of turning it into mon
ey upon ten day»’ notice. Save for
those xxho are lighting fur you. and
do ’’your bit" to xxin the war.
Coos & Curry Telephone Co.
Service First
By OTTO H. KAHN.
Entered as second-class matter at
Much la being said about the plau
the poat office at Bandon, Oregon,
January 2d. 1913, under the Act of sible sounding contention that be
March 3d. 1879.
cause a certain portion of the young
manhood of the nation has been con
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year (in advanoe)
$1.50 scripted, therefore money must also be
Six Months (in advance)-.
-75 conscripted. Why, that la the very
thing the government has been doing.
THE OFFICIAL CITY NEWSPAPER It has conscripted a portion—a rela
Phones Office, 901; Residence, 311 tively small portion—of the men of the
nation. It has conscripted a portion—
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a large portion— of the incomes of the
The United States did not enter nation. Capital and business pay more
Into this war unadvlsably, hastily, than four-fifths of our total war taxa
under stress of beat or passion, says tion directly and a large share of the
We
a government communique,
took the step calmly, soberly, reluc- remaining fifth Indirectly.
If the government went too far In
tantly, with a full sense of the awful
responsibilities involved, the sacrl- conscripting men the country would be
flees demanded, the magnitude of the crippled. If ft went too far In con
THE UNIVERSAL CAR]
task.
scripting Incomes and earnings the
President Wilson did not advise in country would likewise be crippled.
It's no longer necessary to go into the details describing
his war message, nor did Congress
the practical merits of the FORD CAR—everybody knows
act in declaring a state of war be
Results of Conscription of Capital.
all about ’¡The Universal Car." How it goes anil conies
tween the United States and Ger
day after day and year after year at an operating expense
1 would ask those who would go
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many without giving the most solemn
so small that it's wonderful. This advertisement is to urge
further
and
conscript
not
only
incomes,
consideration to what the action
prospective buyers to place orders without delay as Uie war
meant.
They knew It rneeut the but capital, to answer the riddle not
The Conscription of Men.
has produced conditions which may interfere with normal
death of thousands of brave Ameri only In what equitable and practicable
production. Buy a Ford car when yon can get one. We’ll
the
Reverting
now
to
the
subject
of
cans; they knew it meant suffering manner they would do It, but what the
take good care of your order—get your Ford to you soon
conscription of men, I know 1 s^ieak
and wounds and the disabling for life nation would gain by It?
as possible—and give the best in “after-service" »»hen re-
the sentiment of all those beyond the
of hundreds of thousands of out
quired.
It Is true that a few years ago a
young men They counted to the full
years of young manhood when I say
the human cost and the material cost. capital levy was made In Germany, but that there Is not one of us worthy of
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Every development since has justi the percentage of that levy was so
the name of a man who would not
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fied and proved the wisdom and Im small as to actually umount to no more
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perative necessity of America's par than an additional Income tax and that willingly go to fight If the country
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the
needed
or
wanted
us
to
fight.
But
ticipation
Every .German success
and every German failure have at a time when the regular Income tax country does not want or call Its en-
shown how necessary to our own In Germany was very moderate as tire manhood to fight. It does not
welfare and peace, how necessary to measured by*the present standards of
even call anywhere near Its entire
"Distinctively for Gentlemen”
the safety and peace of the wurld the Income taxation.
young manhood, It tins called or la
defeat of Germany la. Every foot of
Only a trifling fraction qf a man’s tends to call in the immediate future
ground Germany has been forced to
give up, every foot of land she has property Is held In cash. If they con perhaps 2S per cent, of Its men be
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slezed, have demonstrated the im script a certain percentage of his pos tween twenty and thirty years of age,
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perative necessity of defeating that sessions tn stocks und bonds, what which means probably about 4 per
DISPLAY.
sinister thing called Germanism.
would the government do with them?
cent, of Its total male population of all
Germanism 1» 3,000 miles away. It
Keep
them?
That
would
not
answer
ages But It has called from Incomes,
must come no nearer. Let this war
result In anything but the defeat of Its purpose, because the government business profits and other Imposts fall
Germany, let her emerge with her wants cash, not securities.
ing principally on the well to do. ap
power unbroken and her kultur still
Sell them? Who Is to buy them when proximately ninety per cent of our
dominant and It is but a question of every one's funds would be depleted?
war taxation, not to mention the con
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time until we ulono will be fighting
If they conscript a certain percent tributions to the Red Cross, the Y. M.
Germany Instead of warring against
We have a request from our tax collector asking
age of a man's real estate or mine or C. A. and other war relief activities.
her with our Allies on our side.
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Lincoln »aid that this country farm or factory, how Is that to be ex
tliut
taxpayers
co-operate in cutting down the expense of
Let me add In passing that the chll-
could not exist half slave end half pressed and converted Into cash?
'ren cf the well to do have been taken
his office by sending for their statements at once.
free, All Americans now recognize
Are conscripted assets to tie used ns for the war in proportionately greater
The eVents of the last
that truth
If oent for now the present office help can get these
fow years have shown equally clear a basis for the Issue of Federal lie numbers than the children of the poor,
statements out. thereby saving expense of extra help and
that this world can not exist half serve bank notes? That would mean because those young men who are
rush of work toward the last of M itch.
free and half autocratic There I n no gross Inflation, with all Its attendant needed at home to support dependents
peace for America except a just evils, dangers and deceptions.
/
nr to maintain essential war Industries
Send your statement now. S at»' If you wish to pay
I eace, a piste« that means a world fit
Would
they
repudiate
n
percentage
are
exempted
from
the
draft.
half
or
all
your
taxes.
—
Pay
your
taxes
linn
us
and
help
for free people to live in. German
your home town and community.
Ideals, Gurniun purposes, unil Ger of the national debt? Repudiation Is
Our Laws Favor Sons of the Poor
man practices are the antitheses of no less dishonorable In a people than
The draft exemption regulations dis
A'nerlcautsm. The beliefs we love In an Individual, and the |>ennlt.v for
and honor und uphold ure contemp failure to respect the sanctity of olili criminate not. as In former wars. In
REAL ESTATE
tible to them, the objects for which
favor of the rich man’s son, but in
they will to iliuith millions of their gallons Is no different.
favor of the poor woman's son.
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own men and millions of their enemy
The Thrifty Would Be Penalized.
I realize but too well that the bur
are abhorrent to our Ideas of light
The fact Is that the government den of the abnormally high cost of
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and justice, their methods and prnc
tlcrs In Hiirfuri are an aboiniuatlon would gain nothing In the process of living, caused largely by the war.
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capital conscription and the country weighs heavily Indeed upon wage earn
and horror to us.
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The American who now advocates would be thrown Into chaos for the
era and still more upon men und wo
or wiahee for peace, except :v J'ls* time being. The man who has saved
men with inoderute salaries. 1 yield
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peace, Is either < oefully mlsgulle I
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or a traitor to America - future and would t>e penalized, lie who tins wnsied to no one In my desire to see every
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America's p»-i to all things Amer! would lie favored. Thrift and construe thing done tlmt Is practicable to have
can the things wh'ch have made our five effort, resulting In the needful and that burden lightened, Bui excessive
country great and free which liund- fructifying accumulation of capital, luxation on capital will not aceotn-
reA« of II ioukuiii I h of Amo i< nt. i have would be arrested and lastingly dis
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died to maintain, and for wliteh
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tend to Intensify the troubla.
Americana now are lv> ig In Fi'u ice
I can understand the crude notion of
There can tie n > peace v it'» limn r
Taxation must be sound and wise
or safety to ourselves or to posterity, the man wtio would divide »ill posses ami scientific and cannot be laid In n
Large Two Berth Outside State
except a just peace, and there can •Ions equally. There would be mighty hnphaxnrd way or on Impulse or ac
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and will be no other peace Work little coming to any one by such ilistrl
rooms with running water.
cording to considerations of politics,
f >r peace accomplishes nothing hut
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billion, and It Is. of course, an utterly otherwise the whole country will suf
the hamstringing of the Nation's ef
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lni|H>asllde thing to do, hut It Is an tin fer. History has shown over and over
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Icrstatidable notion I’ut by the. con again that the laws of economics can
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tlscHtlon of capltul fot government use not be defied with Impunity and that
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bit I f patriotic poetry «
which
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I' re neither the government nor any Indi the resulting penalty falls upon all
firsts It Is unable to publish until the vldunl would be benefited
sections and classes.
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writer dlscloie* h's Idmtltx. not D im -
A vigorously progressive Income tax
The question of the Individual Is not
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rsaarlh for publication It Is one of Is both economically and so. tally
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the linages of newspapers everywhere sound A capital tax Is wholly nil the one that counts. Tho question la
n Sjiecialty
not what sacrifices capital should and
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that communications from unknown
lenihcr of All tirades
would be willing to bear If called upon,
a-viirces are to be consigned to the sound and economically destructive
It may nevertheless become ntees tmt what taxes It Is to the public ad
waste banket. partly as s matter of
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protection to the paper's Interests
sary In the case of some of the bclllger vantage to Impose.
ers, 24 Caiif. SL. San Francisco.
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rxrtly because the average communi ent countries to resort to this exp. dl
I do not any all this to plead for a
cation the writer of which desires to
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remain unl<no«n. la hardlv worth ent, but 1 can ctmevhr of no sliuaihiu reduction of the taxation on wealth or
likely
to
urlse
wki.h
would
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In order to urge that no additional
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want to see In print don't be super necessary or advisable In tin« iMHint ry. taxes be imposed on wealth If need he. z*
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More than ever would such h tnx bv There Is no limit to the burden which
harmful In times of wur und post bl l in Ilina of stress and atraln those
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>n view of the fact that the Coos ■ .urn reconstruction, w lien bey on la most must be willing to bear who inn af-
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J Armstrong as county commissioner late production and promote thrift an I Imp.-«i d by the consideration tlmi tax
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during hl" entire eight yrars Incum
when everything which tend« to have at Ion must net reach a point where
bency. * sounds rather Inconsistent
Real Estate
to hear tl -it paper say: “In all those the oppoalte effect should be rig r.>u<> the buslneas activity of the country
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rejected
as
detrimental
to
the
halon's
becomes crippled and its economic
years he I. s not shown any evidence
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of eiljicr efficiency or mmohijf " strength and well-being,
equllibrluiu Is thrown out of gear. t»e-
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There la an astonishing lot of l,t\ cause that would harm every element
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Col Leaders review was a much- thinking on the subject of the uses of of th» commonwealth and diminish
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