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ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1904.
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THE SHIP SUBSIDY MATTER.
The Astorian is in rewipt of a letter from the Con
memal Club of Topeka, Kan., inclosing a copy of a
report rendered by the club '8 committee on state and
national legislation with reference to American ship
ping interests. The report is in part as follows:
"An investigation shows that the merchant marine
instead of keeping pace with commercial development
has actually declined. Our registered ocean fleet
in 1810 was 108,000 tons larger than it is now.
comparison of the tonnage of fleet registered for deep
sea commerce of several nations shows the inexcus
able weakness of our merchant marine.
United States. r... I.. 873,000
Italy 1,180,000
France v 1".... 1,430,000
Norway 1,660,000
Germany 2,960,000
British Empire 14,800,000
"The United Statea has dveloped the most marvel
ous foreign commerce of any nation in the world. We
are sending into other lands nearly $5,000,000 worth
of American products and commodities every day,
but iti s a significant fact that American ships carry
less than 9 per cent of our exports and inmorts. The
tribute paid to foreign ships for conveying mer
chandise to and from the United States amounted to
over $100,000,000 last year. Our county is fore
most in all lines of industrial and commercial de
velopment, but it is lagging behind even the smaller
t foreign nations in its merchant marine. The patii
otic pride and the commercial instinct of our people
, suggest the improvement of our fleet commensurate
with our commercial needs. -. ,u, v ,, ,
"Without committing ourselves to any definite
plan, we urge upon congress the commercial neces
sity of prompt and decisive action to, the end that all
.American , .commerce , may . Jbe carried, in . A menean
Vessels.- A patriotic and self-reliant people will be
Satisfied with nothing less than this." , ,
41 The showing is certainly not a flattering one so
;far as our merchant marine is concerned. We ought
ito have more merchant ts&wls, bty jast why the ton-
JW yll5iAsn.au ana just wnat .stcpp snail
D taken to Increase it are" problems of great moment.
rIt Ls very evident that the American people have not
fgonc in for shipbuilding. They 'are-devoting their
. attention to other lines of commerce are putting
l their money into' manufacturing enterorises .and
providing the surplus that is sent away in 'foreign
bottoms.
4 The American people are, not slow, but, to the con
jtrary, are the best developers in the world. They
perhaps have not gone into the shipbuilding business
on a more extensive scale because they Jnd better use
for their money. We hav ean idea the Topeka club
. is sending out its circular in the interests of the ship
8ubdy 'bill,ibuf it Jiiwt plain that the proposed
hunsiay would ncip matters to any material extent.
fit tbt buium,of building ships jg not profitable-
and the poor showing of our country indicates that
our investors find better opportunities-subsidies
would apt pirt W permanent, 1taCW8xfulba.sii
Whatever5 imrkns.'tkmiM Wt Uula lje dne
to the , desire of ; speculators to earn the subsidy.
There wonld be no genuine commercial activity be
hind it. In view of the showing it would seem best
to permit the foreigners to continue to carry "our
surplus products, as our money will net better re
turns m other lines of trade.. When' shipbuilding
becomes legitimately profitable, the thrifty Yankee
will go into the business.
ROOSEVELT'S PROSPECTS.
While present indications seem to point to Presi
dent Roosevelt as the republican standard-bearer in
the approaching campaign, it is to be kept in mind
that political nominating conventions in this country
often have a way of suddenly crushing the most
promising booms.
Polk, the democratic , nominee for president in
1844, didn't receive a solitary vote on the first ballot
in the democratic national convention of that year,
and the same thin j is true of Pierce, the democratic
presiuetuiai nominee in isttz. Seymour a mim was
not mentioned on the first ballot in the democratic
national convention iu 18118. , t ;
Hays was near the bottom of the list on the first
ballot in the republican convention that nominate
him for president in 1876, while Uarfleld, np to the
fourth ballot in the republican national, convention
in 1880, received only one vote for president. Until
the fourth ballot in. the republican convention of
1S88 Harrison received less than 100 votes for piWt
dent, while in the democrat io convention that nom
inated Bryan in 1896 Bland was far in the lead of
all other presidential candidates on the first ballot.
" Van Buren in 1844, Cass in 1852, Pendleton in
1868 and Bland in 1896, although they outstripped
all rivals ou the first ballot for president in the demo
cratic conventions of the years mentioned, were de
feated in the end. Blaine lacked only 88 votes of be
ing nominated on the first ballot for president in the
republican convention of, 1876, but Hayes got away
with the ' coveted prixe. Only 72 votes were needed
in the republican convention of 1880 to nominate
Grant on the first ballot for president for a thin!
term; and Sherman hi the republican eonvention-of
1888, had over twice aa many votes on the first bal
lot for president as either of his closest competitors,'
Greshant and Depew. , , j
It is to be noted, however, that whenever leading
candidates for the presidential nomination have been
thus defeated they have ben confrontd with a stub
born opposition, with usually several "dark horses"
in the background. Whether this is likely to be the
situation that President Roosevelt will have to face
next June remains for time to develop. Such a ait-
nation does not, the New York Commercial thinks,
now appear to be probable. J ' '
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IAHCZST SELLER IN Ilk WGZU
THE SNOWBALLING PASTIME.
With the coming of the snow, even in limited
quantities, there, will be a general recurrence of
snowballing. Men and boys will throw snowball at
each other," and, as is the case every year, some one
will be badly injured. Discussion of the subject,
then, ia not untimely.
As is the case of every other question of public
import, there are two aides to this snowballing prop
osition. Tha men and boys who delight in the pas
time cling to the opinion that it is only a little recre
ation. They believe there is no harm in it and mar
vel "at the complaint offered by others. They enter
enthusiastically into the play, and quite naturally
believe that every one else should feel the same way
about it. Those who are opposed to promiscuous
snowballing do not fancy being struck with the hard
ened balls of ice and snow. When they go upon the
street they are nervous, fearful always that a well-
uirecieu juiowuHu may spena us iorce on mc neca
or perhaps the eye. Some men do not like to have
guns pointed at them, even if the guns arcnt loaded
and for a similar reason some men do not like to be
made targets for snowballs hurled by reckless en
thusiasts. ' ' v
Generally speaking promiscuous snowballing is bad
business.. .If is all right for those who enjoy it, but
aaf,ortunaty, for the rest of us, they do not confine
their attention to those who seem to entertain a lik
ing for the sport. All is fish that conies to their nets.
and all are pelted alike. Last winter several Astor-
ians were quite severely, injured by snowballs. ' One
gentleman was struck by a missle and injured so
severely that be was compelled to remain at his home
for a week or 10 days; another young man was
struck on the5 head and knocked down. Both gen
tlemen were walking along the streets, attending to
their own affairs, when the enthusiastically inclined
commenced the fusilade. For a time snowballing
became so general that one actually took a chance
when passing the moirt frequented corner in the city.
Women and children were likewise subjected to the
marksmanship of the fun-lovers, and in one instance
a child was struck with a water-soaked snowball and
rendered unconscious. The matter' was not. made
public "on account of the prominence of the parents
of the lad" who hurled the snowball
Those who do not go in far the sport ought to be
protected from the antics of those who nave a liking
for ifc"rThe one class is entitled to equally as much
consideration as the other. Above all. snowballinar
should not e permitted on the crowded streets, not
alone on account of the danger 'thereby created for
passcrsby, but also because of the likelyhood 'of
trouble following the injury of some one who might
resent it in forcible manner. To strike a person with
a snowball constitutes the crime of assault, the pen
alty for which is fixed by the civil law, and not in
frequently imposed under the moral law.
rices Tali
I have but few expenses and can
sell lower than the lowest. t &
While it js interesting to note that the total vol
ume of money in circulation in this country on Janu
ary 1 was $117,000,000 more than it was on the corre
sponding date of last year, the gratifying thing about
the matter is that $75,000,000 of this increase consists
of gol(i ;: Wlmt is more, almost half of the amount
of mcaiey now in circulation in the United States con
sists of the yellow metal. There is nearly double the
amount of gold in circulation than there are silver
dollars, and the volume of gold to that of greenbacks
is as three to one. The monery system of this re
public today i in spite of some minor defects, is as
solid, financially, says the New York Commercial, as
Gibraltar.'" ' .
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