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PAGE FOUR. ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY. 31, 1904. rnornino Jlstorinii ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. J. H. CARTER, GENERAL MANAGER. RATES. By mail, per year .......... By mail, per month By carriers, per rwnth ...... $6 00 50 CO THE SOI I-WEEKLY ASTOHIAX. By mail, per year, in advance f 1 00 iWOXiffcyi LABEL tfbi WHY NOT CURB NiniLISMJ , Five thousand howling nihilists or nihilist syni pathizers crowded Cooper union, New York, Friday night to celebrate the fiendish deed of the assassin who hurled the bomb that caused the death of Min ister of the Interior von Plehve of Russia. Every mention of the name of the. assassin, the dispatches tell us, was the signal for an enthusiastic outburst on the part of the mob. America as the United States is called is a free country, and all that sort of thing, but isn't it about time, in the ligh of our recent experience, to put a stop to public meetings of nihilists and bomb-throwers in general! The death of President McKinley was the direct outcome of just such gatherings as that held at New York Friday night, the assassin having been a weakling who proved a pliant tool in the hands of the leading conspirators. ,v ,e t, . Yet, notwithstanding that the assassination of the president is still fresh in the public mind, 5000 howling nihilists are permitted to congregate in one of the American metropolis' most prominent halls and there shout themselves more frantic in exulta tion at the terrible achievement of the St. Peters burg dynamiter. That no effort was made to pre vent the meeting is indeed a sorry commentary upon our boasted civilization, and bespeaks sympathy, with the madmen who seek to destroy all authority. Cer tainly the officials of New York city have permitted a blot to come upon the name of the republic. " The nihilist has no aim in life other than to kill. He rebels against authority, no matter in whom it is vested. He would as gladly dynamite the presi dent as the czarj footing to "reach, the highest of ficial, would gleefully hurl his death-dealing missle at the first member of the cabinet who came in his way. His acute mania for murder is encouraged' by his fellows, who go to extreme ends in laudation of his accomplishments. He joyously accepts death if he can but kill some one in whom authority is vested, lie is a low creature who constitutes a permanent menace to all government, and therefore to society, Advocacy of nihilism or of any of its branches should be punished with death. No measure would be too severe to employ in dealing with the bomb- thrower. . All of us know that poor Finland is bleeding under the Russian knout, ners is a fate that calls up the genuine sympathy of the whole civilized world. Her people are downtrodden and as unhappy as a race possibly could be. The Russian government may be tyrannical, her official brutal, and her prisons veritable hell-holes, but no condition of affairs could justify nihilism. There must be authority, else all nations will perish. The man who seeks to destroy government, who hurls bombs at public officials, is an enemy not alone to himself, but to all other peo ple as well. He should be shot like a dog. If nihilists are to be permitted to hold their ghastly senaces in our great cities, without the slightest ef fort on the part of the police to prevent the gather ings, it will not be long until the republic is overrun with bomb-throwers. The spectacle of 5000 men celebrating the assassination of a public official is revolting, and the severest condemnation should be called down upon the authorities who permitted the gathering. ! were accepting a big risk. They knew no reasonable ground for complaint at the capture of their vessel, and the state department will take only such action as will "insure recognition of the international code governing seizures. The exporters who are sending stuff to the bel ligerents are doing so in direct violation of the law. They are just as amenable to the law as highway men. The idea that the United States government will protect them in what is at best a nefarious traf fic is absurd. The sympathy of the people of this country may be with Japan, but this circumstance does not mean that our exporters are to be allowed to violate international law. The charterers merely took a chance that the Arabia would escape capture. They have lost. This may be regarded by some of us as cause to bring the government into the far eastern muss, but right-thinking people will consider it a fitting finale to what at best is disreputable busi ness. LET US BE FAIR. A great cry has gone up because the Russian Vladivostok squadron has captured a few vessels which sailed from coast ports with cargoes! for Japan. The case of the Arabia, sailing from,' this port, has evoked much adverse comment, and there is widespread demand for "reparation." The char terers of the steamship have called upon the state department to "take action." 4 A We may just as well be fair in this matter, for the state department can be depended to. proceed with full consideration for the rights of the bellig erents. The Arabia sailed for the far east with cargo, that was unquestionably contraband. She had' a large quantity of flour for Hongkong, but she also carried much stuff for Japan. Her charterers knew well enough what was and -what was not contraband, and when they sent away the cargo they knew they BUILDING UP OUR MARINE. Tacoma is deeply interested in the inquiry as to what can be done to re-establish the American mer chant marine on the high seas, says the Ledger. It i a matter of pride to every citizen of the country that we have a foreign commerce, and are the largest exporting nation on earth. But it is a source of humiliation that less than 10 per cent of foreign trade is handled in American bottoms. This means that we are paying tribute to the nations whose ves sels carry our traffic It also means that we are sub ject to their whim or caprice. Suppose there should be war or international complications that diverted the foreign ships that we patronize from their pres ent routes. Our foreign trade would be taralvzed w 4 or the time being. We are not masters of our own commerce when we handle but a small proportion of it in American, ships. . One of the methods proposed to remedy the situa tion is to allow a drawback or reduction of duty on imports brought to this country in American ships. This would not work. Our total imports for 1902-3 were valued at $1,025,719,237, of which $406,180,979 were free of duty. Some ports handle a larger share of imports that are free of duty than others. For instance, the leading imports from the Orient at Ta coma are raw silk, tea, hemp and matting. Raw silk, tea and hemp enter free of duty. Matting pays a tax. The imports of the Puget Sound district for the year 1902-3 were valued at $12,177,243, of which only $2,689,154 worth was dutiable. A larger pro portion of the merchandise sent through to interior ports without appraisement was dutiable, but not enough to bring the average anywhere near up to the ratio of dutiable to total imports for the country to large. The best form; of encouragement is for the gov ernment to grant liberal contracts for carrying the mails, transporting government troops and supplies and for the privilege of taking over the vessels as auxiliary cruisers or transports if required in case of war. The government was terribly "soaked" when it needed vesels for the Spanish war or for the insurrection in the Philippines. The millions of dollars paid for old foreign ships then would have gone a long way toward supplying a merchant ma rine that would have been of timely service to the government in its emergency. o o o Our great odds-and-end sale of Men's Suits started off with t rush. Many people came just to see what we had, and others who were af raid it was a fake sale looked at the goods, bought them and left the store fully satisfied that we were doing just what we advertised, vizt Closing out about lOO odd suits, sizes 34 to 40, wgnn up w Bl it tt it IS it tt We emphasize the fact that we do not expect to make any profit on this sale. Our sole object is to make room for our new fall stock which will soon arrive. Our reputation for reliability leaves no chance for doubt as to the genuineness of this sale. :: :: :: :: t .? t t: P. One Price to Everybody Stokes 4P- vjn t 7, IS -STOMACH Sitters Wben the tongneis coated, appetite poot and aleepe rwt- lees, you will find a fow Armom of the bittera ifrfK i lo you a onu oi goou. ft . i. atomacti and cures lodlgtilloa, Dyspepsia, Vomltlnj, Cramps and Liver Trouble!. Try a bottle. BIG GUN3 IN OPERATION. World', Fair Visitors Watch Handling of Coast Defense Rifles. THE RETURN TO NATURE. . 1 t t t it t. io man who wornea out a plan ior living a hundred years ever carried out his program, because death cut short his experiments. Thousands of per- soas who had no plans have lived over the century mark. Some of the most eminent of the health theorists went to early graves, says the Saturday . ou. Innorntlnn inat aa tt la Unna In ih What wonder, then, that SO little attention is paid coast defense fortifications, where no to the increasing multiplicity of rules about food civilians are allowed. Exhibition and exercise, and how prone are we to enjoy the Mn" are lven dalIy w,th a new 12" mot. of T!vrta whn wno DOwi tt ? f ;nmca oreecn-toaaing nne on a aisap .v v v - M vw if y " UVU U7IlVVa aV Jl If TT CI V UVV U" Scow Bay Iron 8 Brass Ms Manufacturers of . Iron, Steel, Brass and Bronze Castings. General Foundryuien and Patternmakers. Absolutely firstclass work. Trices lowest Phone 2451. Corner Eighteenth and Franklin. mxxxxxxiirniuixinTigimmxxTTTTiiiii, T. St Louis, July 30. One of the rare opportunities offered visitors to the World's Fair is the privilege of seeing Uncle Sam's big ordnance guns in junous to drink so many different wines at banquets bullt MpedaIly ,or tw- exhlblt retorted, "It is the indifferent wines I fear." It is the government building. No rea breecn -loading rifle on a pearlng carriage, In the fortifications near real fir- folly, of course, to turn a deaf ear to the voice of ling la done, aa the concussion from experience, and every wise man benefits by the thl" n would cause great havoc wealth of information that science has placed before amon the Worl1'" Fa,r bulldln"' but v. a. i. r i-ee u , . i . percussion caps are used to show the us; but there u real difficulty in choosing between complete proce of loadlng and flrlng the abounding contradictions. Hardly two sets of The gun is one of the newest of its rules agre,e, and the various fads are always at war. class and is an exact counterpart of Good, plain food, however, needs no prescription: the latest dl"PPearln" w installed temperance in eating and drinking means safety; by the Un,te1 state" Army ,n ,u i ., . .. , . . , , . coaat defense fortifications. It Is regularity, justifies itself; constant employment is , v . . , - . 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