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ASTORIA-OREGON:
FRIDAY
.....MARCH. 24, 1882
. F. UAIXOKAX..
.Editor.
An Economic Yicw.
And yet in a material point of
view the presence of Ohinesc in
our Pacific states has so far not
been so injurious as many assert.
True, Chinese labor has at times
pressed with some severity upon a
Class 01 our own population, dui
the evil effects of this competition
have always spemed to us greatly
exaggerated. So far in oar history
there has been small reason for any
industrious person amons us to be
idle, There has been enough for
all to do. Chinese included. It is
to be observed, too, that the Chi
nese among us have been chiefly
employed in work which, without
them would have been left undone
for years vet. "Where would the
labor have come from to build our
railroads, or olear our Unds? The
complaint, too, that ths send the
money they ci 11 oat, ut the coun
try, has little force. The money
they earn is well represented by
the permanent results of the labor
they perform If we limit our
view of the case to its more mate
rial aspects, we shall find small
reason to stop Chinese immigration
foryearsyet to come- Their labor
can be used, on the whole, with
advantage to the country, till such
time as immigration shall bring us
a sufficient working population of
a better class.
The above is a "garbled" excerpt
from an editorial in the Oregonian
on the Chinese question. The
qualifying adjective is quoted, as
we are in full recognition of the
fact that our Portland contempo
rary has that word patented as a
matter of self defense, and views
with distrust any infringement of
vested rights.
One of the main arguments ad
vanced by the eastern press in ad
vocacy of Chinese immigration is
that we need this kind of cheap la
bor to develop the new country of
the Pacific slope; tli.u,vitliout it
we could not have built our rail
roads; that wo require it in the es
tablishment of manufactures, and
in our large farming operations.
But it is something new to find an
Oregon- journal advocating such
immigration, and reiterating such
radical error. Probably the well
known attitude of our infallible
contemporary toward the railroad
company, hassomething to do with
it.
It might be a sufficient answer
to the argument of the OregonXan
to point out the fact that railroads
arc constructed on the eastern side
of the Rocky mountains without
Chinese labor, and that the manu
facturing and agricultural interests
of the older states appear to have
made substantial progress with
free white labor. But we will
concede that coolie labor cau be
very profitably employed in the
prosecution of many great enter
prises on this coast, and then we
shall insist that its employment
will be hurtful to every perman
ent interest of the state, that it
will impoverish the community,
and degrade the masses. To illus
trate, it is but necessary to cite the
development of the free and slave
states of this republic up to the pe
riod of "the civil war. Starting in
the race with every favoring ad
vantage of soil and climate, the
slave states were left far behind in
the march of progress. Slave la
bor was enormously profitable in
the cotton' and sugar producing
states; but it was precisely in those
states of the south where this labor
was the most profitable that the
least progress was made that
there were the greatest extremes
of opulence and poverty. The
wealth, education and culture of
those states were concentrated in
a smallminority of the populatien:
ah aristocratic class; indigence and
ignorance were diffused among the
masses. Let one contrast suffice:
Compare Mississippi with New
Jersey by the census of I860.
Now it is just what the institution
of slavery did for the" Southern
, states that coolie labor threatens
i to 'do For Oregon, and our people
know t. They know that it will
not be a good thing for this state
to ever 'have its agricultural and
manufacturing" interests .in the
hands of a very few great capital
ists, employing cheap coolie labor.
They do not want to see our soci
ety divided into three classes a
small aristocracy, a swarm of ser
vile laborers, and "poor white
trash." They would rather have a
hundred forty acre farms, each the
home of a thrifty American family,
than one fifty thousand acre plan
tation, owned by a millionaire and
worked by a thousand coolies.
They want our cities to contain
the numerous cottage homes of in
telligent, well paid American me
chanics and artisans", in place of
such myriads of -cheap" workmen
as pour out every morning in San
Francisco. And they are opposed
to itand are very much in earnest
about it. States are not made
by "cheap labor." The sturdy
men and women who reclaimed
the wilderness of the Far West,
and built up the grand common
wealths of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana.
Michigan, and Wisconsin, fighting
their way inch by inch, patiently
toiling through years of privation,
making their homes and rearing
their families on the outposts of
civilization, these are the men
who create states, and their costly
labor is the state's real wealth.
Oregon needs for her development
permanent citizens home buildeas
not temporary and alien wage
gatherers, the profit of whose toil
swells the coffers of the rich.
Medicine Crow, one of the
Crow chiefs who last year signed
a treaty permitting the Northern
Pacific railroad to run its line
through the reservation belonging
to that tribe, was evidently right
when he said he knew what a rail
road was. According to the full
report of his remarks he added to
to that observatien: "If we say
yes. the whites will bring the rail
way across our lands, and it will
be good. If we say no, the whites,
will bring it just the same. "We
had better say yes." If Medicine
Crow had been brought up in a
Metropolis and had all the advan
tages of the higher education he
could not have stated the case
more clearly, and he would only
have to substitute some other word
for "whites" to make it fit some
cases of railroad extension a good
long way,'west of the Rocky moun
tains. The plan3 for the foundation of
our new navy which havo been
agreed upon by the House Com
mittee having charge of the sub
ject are excellent. They provide
for the building of two fast steel
cruisers of about six thousand tons
each, four smaller crafts of the
highest attainable speed together
with a number of torpedo boats to
be used as cruisers, and of vessels
of a similar character for the pur
poses of harbor defense. The cost
of these ships is not to exceed ten
million dollars. It is to be hoped
the House will have the wisdom to
indorse the rccomra"endations of
the committee. Amendments will
of course suggest themselves when
the bill comes up for debate, but
as a begining in the way of build
ing a navy, a better scheme than
that of the committee would be
difficult to devise.
It is with regret wenoticc the
Portland Standard joins with the
rest of the gang in throwing mud
upon the grave of Garfield. True,
it is hard for a paper lhat advo
cates the doctrines the Standard
does to avoid such work, but wo
had hoped for better things, after
reading the late dignified and
6enV.ble political articles that ap
peared in its columns. It must be
cither the air or the whisky, prob
ably both that would permit such a
letting down as the mean little lie
that appeared.in its issue of the
22nd inst headed "Another Idol
Smashed."
The story is travelinjj around
that Brigham Young is not dead,
but in a sort of trance, from which
he is about to be resurrected. It
is probably the anti-polygamy bill
that started the old man. He was
needed in the lobby, but was
too late.
Another and important use for
the eucalyptus tree, besides that
of counteracting malaria, is said
to have been discovered. Reports
from Australia say that its leaves.!
arc the special abhorrence of all
insects which prey upon fruit
trees, against whe-e depredationfc
they furnish complete protection
if only the ground beneath be
strewn with them. These are the
reports, and experiments now
going on in Australia and South
Africa will soon determine whether
they arc true or not.
The entire French coast is to be
lighted with electricity, which as
far back as 1875 was employed in
the lighthouses near Havre. It is
now thought that the development
of the new system, warrants its
geneial use on the French coast.
Forty-two lighthouses are to be
provided with electiic lights and
with steam trumpet'' for fog-signals,
at a first cost f about
$1,500,000 and an annual expendi
ture of about $60,000 for mainten
ance. According to the new appor
tionment a Congressman will have
in 188?) more than treble the im
portance of one who served in
the days of Andrew Jackson, as
judged by the constituency repre
sented, and more than five times
that of the men who adopted the
Constitution. The House of Rep
resentatives will be treble the size
of that in the first Adam's term,
and exactly five times that in
Washington's.
Tun Mobile Register says that
"the fact that the Southern states
enjoy local self-government is due
to the stalwart men who have
stood true to the principles of gov
ernment as enunciated so often
and so well by Jefferson Davis."
DIED.
Ill Astoria. Oreson. March 5&I. Mrs
Sarah Fox, wife ot P. H. Fox, aged 47
vears.
Funeral will take place to-morrow at
10 o'clock A. :.r. Friends are invited to
attend.
NEW TO-DAY,
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
AUCTION SALE.
Thursday, March 30, 11 A.M.
In Front of the Lots,
Instructed bv the Ti ustces of the estate of
gi.ti.iiiiiiic)', j.hi., i win sen, as aoove, at
Public Auction, those three Valuable
Business Lots Known on the onicial
Man of the City ot Astoria, as Lots 11. 12 and
13, m Block 5s. lu McClure "s, Astoria, siluttcd
ou the north side of Snuemonua Street, and
opposite the City Hall.
Lot 13 will he offered first and positively
sold to the highest bidder therefor, but the
rUht la reserved after dSposuu of slid lot,
either to sell or withdraw from public auc
tion the other two lots.
By order of r. L. Chcrrv, Eo,. aient for
the Trustees.
H. O. IIOLDEN,
Auctioneer.
To the Public.
NOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN. THAT
the undersigned Is alone authoilzed to
collect any and all debts due the scuw In
dustry." or which m.iy hereafter become
due said scow : and that all debts due snlrt
scow, orto become due inu-t be paid to the
undersigned alone. All bills against said
scow Mill bo paid upon prespntation to the
uimerbigneu. i. SllEKKY.
Astoria. March 23, 1882'
Barbour's
CORK MB LEAD LIKES,
SEINE TWINES.
WcluTC Just iccclvcda complete as-ort-ment
of above goods, and arc prepared to
fill oiders promptly.
HENRY DOYLE & CO..
511 Market Street. Snn Francisco
The Pioneer Restaurant.
MAIN 8TBEET,
ASTORIA, OCX,
Formerly kept by Sirs, Arrlgoni)
Has Keen FlUcil up and Ue-npcned IJ-
SIRS. F. W. IM.SIXY.
The tables are Jtcnt neat and rlenn nn.i
are supplied with the veryliest the market
affords.
--" ,'--"" wwni,iU, it.uti:i-t me ill
constant attendance.
Sl-Prntnill And ftlllltrllir. n-ni.nM. ,.-
W. B. PAINTER.
DEALER IX
OL20ST, - - - OREGOK
MISCELLANEOUS.
A. V. AUen,JGeo.W.Biime:
(.ucsBsoitTorAnu&AitBN.)
Wholesale and leuil dealer in
Giass and Plated Ware,
TUOP1CAL AND DOMIVHC
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Together Willi
iaes,Lipors,-Tol!a(;coCiprs
The largest and most corapU'io stock of
good in their line to be found In Dip city.
Corner ofCass and Squemneih" Sheets.
ASTORIA. OitreOX,
B. B. FRANKLIN,
UNDERTAKER,
Corner Cass and Sauc-moo'"' vtie. ts
ASTORIA, - - - - ORECON
' dealt::: IN
WALL PAPER
AND
WINDOW SHADES
AXD
UXDERTAKEES GOODS.
Leinenweber & Co.
C. r.niNKXWEBER. ' II. I'UOIVV
KSTABUSHED 1J.
ASTOKIA, OREO ON,
TAMEBS AID CURRIERS,
Manufacturers and Tinjwirtc r of
A I.I. KINDS Or
A1TD FINDINGS',
"Wholcsalo Dealers in
OIL AND TALLOW.
nirHighcst rash price paid for Hides :uid
Tallow.
Ste-ohans Varieties !
GRAND OPENING.
A j.IVEIcY ESTERTAiattir.Vr
Ilavc a new bonling allev. the largest and
oesi in town. Admittance iree.
W
jr. iiowe.
BOAT BUILDER,
,AT TIIE OLD STAND, OKAY'S I1UII.WNC
flBST CLASS WORK A SPECIALTY.
M'GMM
MOOT'S
-AfD
ARE THE BEST.
And cost no more than otlier brands ; and It
the Merchant with whom jon trade doc?
not keep our Ooods.it H because it pais
better to sell a pair of Boots or Shoes every
tuo months than every four or five. AVE
GUAHAXTEE EVERY PAIR WE MAKE.
All Merchants In good cicdit can piocure
these Goods at our Warehouses In Portland
or San Francisco.
Try our "HERCULES"' Patent Boots
HECHT BROS. & CO.
SHOES
-.ir. .'F-1 jrrrpaiM
MISCELLANEOUS.
i
I Wholesale and Rolail Dealer'
GROCERIES.!
f
Provisions, Lumber.)
ETC.. ETC.. ETC.
CfwfeiFisliepIllcllaaildmira.yWhO sells clothing -the cheapest?
1 s I TT5H 4H 1sO e CH J m
SUPPLIES
A SPECIALTY.
AGENT TOR THE
San Jose Fruit Packing Company.
AND THE
San Francisco Gnomical
worses,
ASTORIA - - - OREGON.
VARTIX l'OAltP.
.t. j. sToirr.s,
FOARD & STOKES,
V hnlpvrto and retail ileal?r; in
Wood and Willow-ware,
GROCERIES.
Tobacco. Cigars, Wines and Liquors
rOUKION AXi) DOMESTIC.
Fruits and Vegetables,
3? EaOXJT, CESSER,
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
sn:
General Commission Merchants
ASTOKIA. OiiCliON.
N'ext to Otvpo'i Jtadwaj s. Nav ro's Pncfc
ilitt
sou wtrrnir.
MASKS IIVr.KH,
TAILORING ESTABLISHMENT.
STEAM DYEI.NC AJ,1 CLEANING.
Shipper & Rybko. - Proprietors,
No. n Oak Street,
rORTIuVND, ... - or.ECON.
THICK LIST
ranis made toordei from - - S fi po
Oveiroats "--- n oo
hiilf? matto " " ' - - - i"5 oo
Dress suits " - - - S3 CO
Alargoassoitnicnt ot Suiting; nluaj-i on
hand.
Repairing clone uilh Neatness and dis
patch. Cutting done free fur Puichascrs
Sail made la Order from .H3 on nifd
l'piiaids.
Perfect I'll Guaranteed or 110 Sale.
M0Y & KELLER..
Dealers in all Kinds nf
Fresh and Cured meats,
Fine Sausage a Specialty.
, . EVERY DAY FKI'.SII
BEST QUALITY at the LOWEST TRICE.
main Street, Astoria, Orecon.
WAR I IKCIiAItED WITHOUT
FritTHEU xotici;
,v. ji And no term? of peace nntll
-?iJt ....
. ctcrj man m.Ajiim. uasanew
W y jil'-uu 1)1 CiUlllcs
i-sJJ$g? Mnn ay iieaxy.
Look at the prices :
Pants to ordc-i frcini - - - 43 Ou
Pants, Genuine FiPiichCivumere - i:so
Suits trom - - - - - - 25 oo
Tho finest line of viniples on the coat to
select from. I". .1. MEANY.
Mahi street, opjiosilo Parker House. Astoria.
Wfl ES, XX. 5 BE 25 XT 3?,
Hi ASTOI1IA. OUEfiO.V sf
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS..
Toilet and Fancy Articles,
PATENT MEDICINES, ETC.
eyFre?cnptlons carefully eomnounded!at
all hours.
STTlIomeonatlilc Tinctures and Pellet1?.
and Ilumphrey 'a Specifics alsojept.
m i.fl
s&ari
'tbv m "' LemaimAUt-
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Q
mi utL xr& n s j .
srfefc i&zsb' tV'
TtrC--r -
-7 KTJftw,
- j.iy
iiie Liauiorma siere:
Who sells "Cape Ann'" oil clothing the
cheapest?
The California Stoue.
Who sells G-um Boots the cheapest?
The California Store.
Who sells Blanket Shirts the cheapest?
The California Store.
Who has the Largest and Best Selected
Stock in town?
The California Store.
Who gives, the Most Qoods for the Least
Money? The California Store.
Who has Ladies' Hose for 10 cents a pair,
worth 25 cents.
The California Store
P. S. We wish to impress on the minds of the Fisher
men that we were the only one-price store in town that
protected the seamen the past winter, and did not take
advantage of them for the benefit of the sailor boarding
houses, as we could- not do so and stick to our motto of
5
CALIFORNIA STORE,
P.O. Box 24S. Corner opposite Postoffice, , Storjj Or.
-. . ,. -,... , .,- - - .. 'lura
TheBossGoffee and Tea Pot
W.
B H.a MM. W
TWO BOORS EAST OF OCCIDENT,
MISCELLANEOUS.
LOEB & CO.,
JOBDEI1S VS.
WINES, . -
LIQUOKS.
AND
CIG-AES.
AGENTS TOK THE
Best San Francisco Houses. and
Eastern Distilleries.
J3T"AH good? sold at San rrawlvo Prices.
MAIN STREET.
Opposite Parker nouse, Astoria, Oreson.
A. G. STINSON &VO.,
BLACKSiVilTHING, '
At Capt. I'ogers old stand, corner of Cass
and Court Street'.
Shit) and Cannery work. Horseshoeing.
Wagons made and repaired. Good work
guaranteed.
L. B, 1(
)
PKACTICAT. WATCH3IAKEB
Ci'ftsrp Ifaing p6rnianntly located
&C7 in ,h5 city. would solicit the
JctJ ?,$ goiieral patronage of the
"saafiSfofr public.
Repairing Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
A SPECIALTY.
iMS-ALL WORK YAKRANTED.-aa
On Squemocqha Street, west of Bell Tower.
gfeflM.ftCTliHWS
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x.7rwi,7y .
.rawl S
a&r -
"Tm3
ALL!
MAY OF, HAD or
E.E.HAW1S
SOLE AGENT.
AKo. Agent for the celebrated
Iiiirli Patent Coolt SI ore.
MEDALLION RMGK
STEAM riTTlNCS A SPECIALTY.
N'ono but the best workmen employed.
All work guaranteed or no charge.
ASTOKIA, OKEGON
MISCELLANEOUS
THE OLYMPIC SALOON
Opposite the Parker House.
THE FINEST BRANDS OF
LIQTJOKS and CIGARS
Kept constantly on hand.
No pains v. ill be spared to give my custo
mers, satisfaction.
2JGic us a call.
E. W. SEIILIN.
CITY
BOOK STORE.
AVe arc constantly receiving cow additions
fo our stock and have tho finest and
largest assortment of variety
goods in tho city.
Combs, Brushes,
Stationery, Frames
Celluloid Goods.
AH our goods are marked in plain figures
Call and examine quality and note prices.
CHAS. STEVENS & SON
Cannery Supplies
Imported and for sale by
WBS. KITKEE,
ASTOEIA, .... OREGON.
Itar Copper,
Liverpool Snlt,
JPngcs Oars, etc.
Agent for HariocU's Soldering Machine ;
Johnston's Improved Soldering apparatus;
rotary table fur soldering seams; Blood's
net floats.
City Treasurer's Notice.
NOTICE IS nEP.EBY GIVES TTIAT aU
outstanding warrants or orders due by
the City ot Astoria, will be paid on presen
tation to the undersigned at his office. In
terest will cease on and after this date.
. , ,, J. p. HUSTLEK, Treasurer.
Astoria, March T, 1S32.
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