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PAGE FOUR ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1D04. Cbe morning flstorian KSTAIILISIIED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. J. H. CARTER, GENERAL MANAGER. RATES. By mail, per year $6 00 By mail, per month 50 By carriers, per mouth..... 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOUIAX. By mail, per year, in advance $1 00 IMMIGRANTS IN OTHER LANDS. ' The abandonment, at least for the present, of the bill for the exclusion of undesirable immigrants from Great Britain is a reminder that the alien problem is not confined to America alone, says the New York Tribune. "We are so accustomed here to the coming of multitudes of strangers from the ends of the earth that we might almost think America to be the only land enjoying or suffering immigra tion. That is not the case. The United Kingdom yearly receives a large number of aliens. Most of these probably do not stay. They visit Great Britain on their way to America or Australia. But some do stay, and, while these are few in number, they are said to be particularly undesirable in quality. Per haps not more than from 55,000 to 60,00 a year settle in the United Kingdom. But if all, or nearly all, of these are incapables, paupers or criminals, their coming may well be regarded with disfavor. They are said to settle chiefly in London, where those of them who are able to work come into com petition with British laborers, and the rest, the ma jority, have to be dealt with by the police or by the poor boards. It may be that the United Kingdom will one day have to take a leaf out of some colonial book. The British colonies in Australia and South Africa have long been struggling with the immigration problem, and seem to be settling it to their own satisfaction. In Australia the influx of Chinese began as early as 1848, and in 1855 it was thought necessary to adopt a measure for excluding them, or at least for re stricting their numbers. Despite restriction, how ever, there continued to pour into the Australian colonies a considerable stream of aliens, yellow, brown and black. In -1888 there arose a veritable panic upon this subject, and some extreme measures were arbitrarily applied. At the present time the tendency is to judge immigrants by quality rather than by race, though the quality tests in some par ticulars amount practically to a race test. The laws now in force in Australia are chiefly modifications of the law enacted in Natal in 1879. That law mentioned no race or color. It provided for the exclusion of paupers, idiots, lunatics, per sons suffering from loathsome or contagious disease, professionally immoral women, persons who had within two years been convicted of a non-political felony, and the most important point of all all persons unable to write in some European language an application for admission to the colony. The last provision was, of course, intended to bar out Asiatics, and it did so pretty effectively. The Natal example has been followed in the Australian col onies, though its terms have generally been relaxed All the colonies retained in a European language. One of them New South Wales was content with that alone. Another West Australia adopted all the Natal prohibitions, and even increased the penal ties provided for their violation. It is interesting to note-that the penalties are chiefly imposed upon the owners and masters of the ships in which the unde sirable immigrants are imported. I It is, from some points of view, an unpleasant thing to shut the doors of a nation against any who seek its hospitality. Nevertheless, there is logical ground for so doing, and there are practical reasons for it, as more than one nation is finding out. UNCLE SAM'S PURSE. ; There is nothing particularly startling or signifi cant in the circumstance that the government's ex penditures for the past month heavily exceeded its receipts. The deficit in the government's revenue for July was about $21,000,000; and, of course, if ex penditures were to continue . very long to outstrip receipts at this rate, the day would not be far away when the federal treasury would be totally barren of available cash. ' But July is always a month when government dis bursements are exceedingly large. It constitutes the first month of a new fiscal year, and during it heavy appropriations that have been made by congress be come available, and larger and more numerous drafts are made on the treasury than during any other month of the year. In addition, July is a month when interest payments are made on government bonds. Last July, before the decline in customs be came so marked as it has since, the government's ex penditures exceeded its receipts nearly $7,000,000. The treasury officials confidently believe that, with the close of August at the latest, the government's income will once more exceed its disbursoments and that the amouut of available cash in the treasury wii increase. In the meantime there is no likelihood that the government will be .straightened in the near fu ture for means to meet current obligations. While the available cash in the treasury has now" reached the extremely low point of $26,000,000, the govern ment has to its credit in national banks over $120,' 000,000. At the same time nothing is to be gained by closing one '8 eyes to tho fact that the tendency of customs receipts is still downward and that, unless these re ceipts take a sharp opposite turn in the next half year or so, the next congress will probably be com pelled to use the pruning knife unsparingly on ep propriations or adopt measures of some sort for in creasing the government's revenues. iJL w - A SECRETARY OP MINES. The miners of the west are moving for a mining officer in the cabinet a department of mines with a secretary at its head, says the Call. It is doubte whether congress will soon move in such a matter, The addition of cabinet departments is a deliberate ppicess, and a long time is apt to elapse between events. The interior department was created about 1845, and Thomas Ewing was its first secretary No addition was made to the cabinet after that unti 1889, when a secretary of agriculture was provided and Mr. Coleman of St. Louis was appointed. Then there was a skip until 1903, when Mr. Cortelyou be came secretary of the new department of commerce. We would advise the miners to be mindful of the law of evolution as applied to the cabinet depart ments. The interior department sprouted out of the patent office. The department of agriculture sprang from the bureau of agriculture in the interior de partment. The department of commerce issued from several strong bureaus that had risen under the aus pices of the treasury. The miners should go on talking about and urging a department of mines, but they should see to it that a strong bureau of mines is at once attached to the department of com merce. The growth of such a bureau, if it grow, will demonstrate the need of a department quicker than all the speeches and petitions on the subject. The west should organize now for such a bureau. DO VACATIONS PAY! Russell Sage is out flat-footed against vaeat'ons; but everybody laughs, because he is generally re garded as an awful example of thrift and industry gone mad. Still,1 are there not many young men who profess serious intentions in the matter of success and not mere flirtation who might profitably fsk themselves, Can 1 afford to take a vacation ? says the Saturday Evening Post. To the young man whose thoughts are on vacation all the year round this is of jio importance ; but to the young man whose work is his main, his para mount interest, a two weeks' break of the continuity may be a hurtful set-back. The excitement about vacations arises chiefly from the delusion that it is work that impairs the health. The truth is, of coarse, that work affects the health only of him who upends most of his energy in some form of self-indnlgenee: and if it weren't for the healthful regularity of work he would break down altogether. A great many very wise and long-lived men have taken vacations in order that they might be free to work harder than ever. It is the pride of every American that this country is today the leader in the world's civilization, prog ress and power. It is worth while for the voter and the student of politics to give a moment's thought to what portion of this progress has been achieved nnder democratic administrations. The republican party found an empty treasury and a financial discredited government in 1897. These have given place to a larger accumulation of gold than has been seen elsewhere in any age and a financial standing that ranks first in t!ie world's money markets. - The Blue Mountain Eagle is a paper of which the people of Canyon City should be proud. It would do credit to almost any town of 5000 people. It is, all in all, one of the best country weeklies published in the coast. " , Edmund Creffield, the "holy roller" who is locked up in jail at Portland, says God will take care of him. It is our impression, however, the courts will get the first rap at him. Prices are again tending toward the normal level; there is work for every man at good wages, with a margin for saving, and prosperity for all legitimate industries. Stand pat. - Democrats all admit that the money question ''s not paramount this year. But it is no fau)t of theirs that it it' not. (Br 0 0 0 Our great odds-and-end sale of Men's Suits started off with a 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, vizs Closing out about lOO odd suits, sizes 34 to40, worth up to $3500 at tt , u tt it tt n 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. ti t: tt toSles One Price to Everybody THE MODERN WAY To cure a weak stomach Is to take Hostetter'a Stomach Bitter at the very first symptom. It does away with starving and dieting yourself because it put's the stomach In proper condi tion to digest the food. In this way It cures Indigestion, Dyspepsia, SonstU pation, Biliousness, Heartburn, In omnia, Headache, Cramps or Diar. rho.a. .Nervous and sickly women also And the Bitters uneiualed as a regula tor and tonic. We urge a fair trial. HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS PRIVATE PLANT C03T8 MORE. John D. Rockefeller Will Get His Else- trio Lights From Company. Tarrytown, N. Y., Aug. 2. After spending $10,000 and considerable time experimenting, John D. Rockefeller has decided that, so far as he is con cerned, the operation of a private elec tric lighting plant Is a failure and he signed the contract with the local lighting company to light his estate : Pocantlco Hills. As soon as the new, service Is ber gun the private plant will be for sale a bargain price. : It requires about 800 large Incandescent lamps to light the mansion grounds and private park and they will be Installed at once. The private plant was put in a year ago. The dynamos were set up In the end ; the barn.' , , , r,, After operating It a ahort time, Mr, Rockefeller discovered that the - new system was costing more than the elec tricity formerly supplied by the light ing company. There was also the constant danger .of .burning the barns, which cost about $200,000. Scow Bay Iron 8 Brass Works Manufacturers of Iron, Steel, Brass and Bronze Castings. General Found rynien and Patternmakers. Absolutely firstclass work. Prices lowest. Ph ens 2431. 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