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VAQE FOUR. THE MORNING ASTORIAN, SATURDAY, MAY 28, iuw. THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ESTABLISHED 1873 V V PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. J. II. CARTER, GENERAL MANAGER. RATES. By frail, per year" $6 00 By mail, per month . 50 Iy carriers, per month ... , ..... CO THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOMAX. By mail, per year, in advance . . . $1 00 TIIE PROHIBITION BILL. Astoria, May 26. (Editor The Astorian.) -In today's issue of The Astorian you have a short edi torial in reference to the local option law. You say "There is a clause in the local option law which is, hardly fair, and which leaves an excellent opening for attack by opponents of the measure. The bill provides that if a county votes against prohibition any precinct that has cast a majority for prohibi tion shall be declared prohibition territory. On the other hand, however, if a county votes for prohibition any precinct which might vote against it will be. sub ject to the will of the majority of the voters of the entire county." . Kindly publish the section of the local option law which contains the clause to which you refer. I am fond of studying the "king's English," and will 6nsider it a favor to one of your subscribers. Mrs. C. A. Gearhabt, The section referred to is No. 10. It provides as follows : "Said court shall, on the 11th day after the election, or as soon thereafter as practicable, hold a special session; and if a majority of the voters here on (reference being made, of course, to the proposal for local option) in the county as a whole, or in any subdivisions in the county as a whole, or in any pre einct in the county are 'for prohibition,' said court shall immediately make an order declaring the re sult of said vote and absolutely prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within the prescribed limits, except for the purposes and under the regulatons specified herein, until such time as the qualified vbt ers therein, at a legal election held for that purpose, by a majority vote decide otherwise. . . . The eounty court shall issue an order of prohibition for each and every subdivision as a whole voting 'for prohibition,' notwithstanding the county as a whole voted 'against prohibition.' " Mrs. . Gearhart may well suggest that the law raises a nice point for the student of the king's Eng lish. The clause of the law is capable of the legal interpretation which has been placed upon it. On its face it seems innocent enough and quite fair, but the following construction will present it in a dif ferent light. We shall quote from section 10 as fol lows to show that the law is calculated to render all f the precincts of a county prohibition territory should the majority of the voters of the county vote for prohibition : "And if a majority of the votes hereon in the eounty as a whole (or in any subdivisions of the eounty as a whole, or in any precinct in the county) are for prohibition, said court shall immediately make an order declaring the result of said vote and abso lutely prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within the prescribed limits. " By eliminating that portion of the clause which appears in the foregoing paragraph in parentheses the real meaning of the clause becomes apparent. In other words, if a majority of the voters of the county are for prohibition the court shall declare the county prohibition territory. The law makes no such dis tinction the other way, merely declaring that, though the majority vote of the county may be against pro hibition, those precincts voting for it shall be de clared prohibition territory. The king's English, when woven into expressions by lawyers, is oftimes bewildering, but occasionally other lawyers who are versed in the art of literary deception hunt out these shrewdly hidden meanings and (for a competence, no doubt) show them up. The Astorian has no fight to make agaiast the local option law, in the first place for the reason that it has not the remotest idea the law will ever meet the approval of the voters of the state, and in the second place because the men directly interested can be depended upon, it is to be presumed, to make their own fight. Our reference to the deception of sec tion 10 was due only to a desire to call attention to the fact that the bill does not provide for "local op tion," except in the event that the majority of vot ers of all the precincts of a county are against it, but that it provides for absolute prohibition in the event of the majority of . voters supporting the measure. Laws ought to be called by their right names. This law was unquestionably framed for the purpose of deception, and it is only just that the voters should be acquainted with the fact. , The evident effort to secure' 'prohibition under the subterfuge that the bil is a local option measure is downright dishonest. To point out such matters as this is the sphere of the fair newspaper; and Mrs. Gearhart and other" women deeply interested in the welfare of city, eounty, state and nation will doubtless find The Astorian quite fair at all times. , STATE AID TO GOOD ROADS. Several of th eastern states are taking a practical part in road building. New Jersey, the first to make a state appropriation, passed a law in 1S91 by which thewtate pays one-third of the cost of improving tb roads. The counties furnish the other two-thirds, with the privilege of charging a part of this propor tion to the towns in which the mads are built. At first the farmers jyerc opposed to the measure, but now co-operate with it gladly. A state commissioner of highways f uruishes the plans. Nearly 1000 miles of roads in New Jersey have been macadamized since the law went into effect. In Massachusetts the state meets the entire eost, but requires the counties to pay back one-fourth. The state appropriations of $500,- 000 a year have reached a total of $.,0G0,000, and. as a result, Massachusetts has const ructed hundreds of miles of fine roads. Connecticut operates on much the same system, and its $1,500,000 in appropriations las produced 500 miles of excellent roads. On smaller scale Maine. New Hampshire. Vermont. hode Island and Delaware assist in the building of good roads. By the New York plan the state pays one-half the cost of building roads, the counties 35 per cent and the townships 15 per cent. Appropriations have reached a total of over $2,000,000, last ycar'g install ment being $600,000. Pennsylvania, at the last ses sion of the legislature, appropriated a lump sum of 6,500,000 for good roads, the state to pay two-thirds and the counties and townships one-sixth each. But there seems to be a loophole in the law in the matter of determining routes, and the rivalry, or jealousy, of neighborhoods ha3 prevented much headway thus ar. The principle of state aid to improved roads has been firmly established, on the ground that the whole people arenterested in the best highwaysuid that all citizens should bear a fair proportion of their cost. Already the roads built on this basis in Massa chusetts, New York, New JSrsey and Connecticut are an impressive lesson on the value of the good roads movement. JUST FOR INSTANCE. If t Us a Curl 'Nstsad. ace! 1 wish Imi gurl 'nstwtil t?v nmnt They're In th' whirl, I'n lt nil th' nice thlii that's mmlc thow iluys, lost 'cause they lis up their hair dlltor tnt ways Un try tu Huk sweet: un tlrkl fil lers under th' thin Until they make n klllln'-un thin Tlu-y Kit to ko tu nil th' show lu have cnmly un Ice v renin tt'l their iliiys. tost Vuuse they spread th' salve on Kail, ;V Dick, or Tim. or Kill, or Ktl, tJee! I wlh I ux n irurl 'imteml I'v a man! ;! I wlnh I u n gurl, 'nuteaj I'v a man! Thin I could ro A-llahln' nil' wouldn't hey tu row, N'er bait th' lunik jcMt (lull un fluh I'n make a grub for th' pickle Minn Kire dinner-time, un whistle un sing Un hoo bull-frogii lib my bow, 'Thout jut yellln' fer ma to keep wt 111 r I'd scare th' flh yu bed I know 'Taint no fun to flfh like that yu bed I'd like to be it gurl 'iistend I'v n man! Anxious Inquirer No: Semttor Kul ton In not the man who Invented the steamboat. EXTRA!. JUST OUTI Dr. VAUOHAN, Dkntist. rytlUn Building, Astoria, Oregon. The American Spanking 'Machine. Warranted To B Better Than Nature Speeial Terma To Paltered Mothera UNEEOA SPANKI e In spite of local option laws we re apectfully submit the statement that i Astoria will retain the Columbia bar! "whether or nx" We glean from an oinclnj aourve that the aea serpent hna been pouted at Seaside aa overdue. The aweet gurl grad will now pro ceed to hitch her wagon to a star and remind an that Italy Ilea Just beyond the Alps. Dr. T. L. HAI L s DKNTIHT &! 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Then we have an elegant line ol mlliUiy and flesh brushes at greaty reduced prices- JIEUE'S A CHANCE FOU YOtM Our llu,of fins 8oas, Toilet Water am) IVrfumea i the largest in the cily ami we can nlcnao the moet fiwlidiona and wiml.i IIVh t,. .i,... . - I , - . .r.i. tri WIHI e owe. CollNEK Uth and COM .tlKHClAL HTltKi'iM The TROY Laundry U tho only White Labor Uundry in tho City. Doo tho Hct of Work at very reasonable Vriecn, nnd in in every way worthy of your patronage. Cor. 10th ami DUANK STS. Phono ID'Jl RUSSIA'S GRAVE PROBLEM. The most serious problem Russia ha.1 to solve is! Also the fond father who has to pay And the dresHinuker la working over time. the problem of transportation for men and supplies to the seat of war, says the Tacoma Ledger. The Trans-Siberian railway is completely monopolized by the government, to the discomfiture and ruin of commercial interests along the route, but the railroad facilities are wholly inadequate to the handling of the government traffic. It has been said that the railroad would be able to transport something like 150,000 men to the far east monthly. The military correspondent of the London Times, who is familiar with actual conditioas, declares that this is ridiculous, and expresses the belief that Russia cannot send 20, 000 men a month to the east in condition to take the field, and regards it as an impossibility to transport provisions enough to feed the Russian force in the east by this route. To transport a full Russian army corps, consist ing of 41,000 men, 124 guns, 3717 carriages and 17,- 000 horses, including the cavalry division, from Mos cow to Mukden, would completely monopolize the traffic facilities of the Trans-Siberian railway for two months and a half, according to the calculations of this military expert. The infantry divisions of the Tenth, and Seventeenth Russian army corps are already at the front, and the residue of both corps was to arrive at Harbin April 15, but is more than a month overdue, while the Fourth Siberian army corps is also scattered all along the route. If this is a true report of existing conditions along the Trans-Siber ian railway, theer is nothing surprising in General Kuropatkin's retreat and concentration of forces at Mukden. The Trans-Siberian railway is a single track- nar row gauge affair, and the crossing of Lake BaikaJ creats an exasperating delay. The equipment of rolling stock is limited, and it is to be remembered that before the outbreak of the war one through train a week was all that was being sent over the road. The railway upon which the Russians must depend is not to be compared with an American trans-continental line. Japan, on the other hand, is near her base, and can send two men into Manchuria, and an abundance of supplies, while Russia is sending one to the front. The conditions are unequal, with a decided advantage resting with the Japanese. - President Roosevelt wants the republicans to nominate a strong candidate for governor of Illi nois. That's a diplomatic way of declaring against the renomination of Governor Yates. Japan expects to have no difficulty in securing all the money needed in her business, as she plans to soon offer Port Arthur and Manchuria as collateral for any load she may seek. for the drens. Diogenes had Just found an honest man and blew out his lantern. , "I'm glad I have you," said the Immortal, "because Itockefeler has Jut made a donation to the university of Chicago and oil has rained 2 cents per." It wna after the battle of Waterloo "I only auk one thing," said Napoleon, and that la that, you will not let the Topeka school directors tamperwlihmy fame." 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