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ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 1004.
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LACK OP HOME PRIDE.
fr F. 0. Reed, formerly fish commissioner of the
state of Oregon, has taken it upon himself to ven
tilate through the columns of the Portland Ore
an th situation with reference to salmon fish-
in Because of the backward season, and out of a
desire to allow fishermen and packers to reap th
hrW. that is rightfully theirs, it was mutually
agreed that the closed season law should be disre
garded and that operations would be permitted for
a few davs. The condition this season demonstrated
that the law was standing in the way of the pros
perity of the people, and its terms were therefore
mildly violated.
Mr. Reed's letter comes with mighty poor grace
Ira nncA fish commissioner, and it has been
pretty generally agreed that his conduct of the of
fice was not unusually sucessf ul. He charges in the
Oregonian that C. W. Fulton "legislated hun out
of office," which leads to the logical conclusion
that, out of a spirit to even accounts with Mr. Fulton,
Mr. Reed was prompted to write his letter. When
he determined to give publicity to his protest against
violation of the law will result in ruination of the
patriotic desire to protect the interests of the fish
eries, else he would have sent his letter to one of
the Astoria papers. Mr. Reed knows just how the
Oregonian feels toward Astoria, and he knew his
knock would be gleefully produced by the Portland
paper. Apparently, then, Mr. Reed was moved by
a spirit of malice. He threatened the state hoard
that he would send a letter to the Oregonian, and,
the board declining to be bluffed, Mr. Reed's com
munication appears.
The salmon fishing law ought to be lived up to
just so long as it reasonably regulates the industry.
"When Mr. Reed was fish commissioner he depended
upon nature for his supply of fish. Since then, how
ever, we have ben able to depend upon our propa
gation plants. When Mr. Reed was fish commis
sioner there was need for rigid enforcement of the
law, but this season, fortunately for the salmon in
dustry, it is quite within the bounds of reason that
operations should have been permitted for a few days
in excess of the time stipulated by statute for the
close of the season.
Astoria is largely dependent upon the salmon in
dustry. The Oregonian 's assertion that the present
violation of the law will result in rpination of the
industry is, like everything else the Oregonian has
to say concerning Astoria, the sheerest rot. Tht
people of Astoria know upon what side their bread
is buttered, and may be depended upon to protect the
industry which sustains business in their city. This
year the salmon season was backward. Female fish
caught yesterday were far from maturity, and the
quality of the fish now being taken is eual to that
of salmon usually caught in July. Nature has delayed
the fish; the season is peculiarly backward.
For what purpose, let us ask, was the fishing law
framed? Surely not with the idea in view of de
priving the people of the state of the benefits that
accrue from the industry. Then, if the salmon sea
son proved to be backward, what moral offense has
been committed because the fishermen have con
tinued operations a few days longer than the time
fixed for suspension? The fish now being caught
jnsually come into the river in July. Nature in
tended these fish for the use of Tnan. Application
of the law would defeat nature's aim, and the state
board has accepted the reasonable view of the mat
ter by ignoring the protest of the former fish com
missioner, whose lack of home pride is lamentable.
of the great problems of statecraft. How to govern
these peoples to a respect for the mother country,
which many of them never knew and most of them
do not understand, may well appall the imagination
of the most sanguine. How to impel olH'dieuee to
measures in which the preponderating weight of the
empire has no vital interest and how to enlist sup
lort in campaigns in which it has no selfish coixvni
are tasks that may well win the admiration of na
tions less unwieldy and more compact.
When England first dared to suggest, one hun
dred and fifty years ago, the idea of a census of the
British' empire. Jho proposal met with a storm of
parliamentary protest, based upon a fear of condi
tions far different and infinitely less serious than
those that now face the empire. The .-scheme of an
imperial census was denounced as presumptuous, s
subversive of liberty, as a weapon to inspire new
governmental rapacity, oppression, taxation and in
creased conscription. Further than this, the plan
was condemned as a foolish measure, which would
expose to other nations the weakness of the British
empire.
Now when (Treat Britain dazzles the world with
an empire of twelve million square miles and more
than four hundred millions of people the fear is not
one of weakness in relation to others, but of a crumb
ling and disintegration from within. Some idea of
the gravity of this fear may be obtained when we
realize that of the empire there are four million
square miles in North, Central and South America,
three million square miles in Australasia, three mil
lion square miles in Africa, more than one and
three-quarter million square miles in Asia and only
125,995 square miles in the United Kingdom.
Where the consent of the governed and not the
command of the king dictates the progress of the
empire the serious duty of English statesmen cannot
be underestimated nor their difficulties misunder
stood. A few pertinent facts in the census report
just issued will show the character of these duties
and difficulties in the marvelous development of the
empire almost within the period of a generation. In
1861 the population of the British empire was one
hundred and seventy-five millions; in 1871 it was
two hundred and thirty-five millions; in 1881 it was
three hundred and ten millions; in 1891 it was
three hundred and fifty-one millions. With more
than this vast horde of many races and varied civ
ilizations London must deal carefully, diplomatically
and triumphantly.
Hiad Tutored
POSSIBILITIES OF MODERN WARFARE.
PROBLEMS OF AN EMPIRE.
The final report of the census of 1901 of the British
empire has just been issued. Not merely to the
student of modern politics, who watches the progress
of nations and speculates upon the marvelous po
tentialities of colonization and national solidarity,
nor to the directing spirit of racial intercourse, but
to the statesmen of England this report, staggering
in its array of facts and figures, presents problems
of tremendous moment, says the Call.
Great Britain has grown until now she controls
one-fifth of the area of the globe and includes in her
dominion four hundred million people. How to pre
serve this splendid empire composed of innumerable
races, inspired by diverse traditions, and impelled
by antagonistic ideals, may well be considered one
With the expiration of the five years limit of the
prohibition of the use of aerial warships for the ex
press purpose of dropping high explosives upon an
enemy beneath, which was provided for by The
Hague tribunal, at the instance, by the way, of an
mencan military officer, new and dread possibil
ities are opened in modem warfare, and the world
is watching, as with bated breath, to see what will
eome next, says the Standard Union. While the
employment of these possible means of warfare have
been in abeyance, the nations have been diligently,
f quietly and unostentatiously, experimenting with
them. Attention is, of course,. first of all directed
to the belligerents in the far east, where a peculiarly
interesting situation exists for the proving of the
efficacy of this sort cf warfare. Port Arthur has
thus far resisted all the efforts of the Japanese to
take it, by storm or by siege; it has proved impreg
nable, in fact, to any existing methods of capture.
In case aerial warfare should lie available now, of
course the victory will rest with the power that gets
in its work first, for no second discharge of the new
explosives will be needed, either for fort or fleet,
according to the testimony of experts. It is argued
that a fort would have a better chance to save itself
by. destroying the destroyer than would a ship at
sea, as it is not easy to get the range of an object
high in the air from a deck, while it is compara
tively easy to do so from the land, in the very na
ture of things. If the Japanese, acknowledged to be
a wonderfully alert people, as well as a secretive one
as to their plans and resources, have aerial ships
ready (and they are known to have been experi
menting with them, as have also the Russians), and
can get them to Port Arthur before the Russians can
getjhdrflyingdeyikthere
told. And the same is true as to the Russians
But the question is, has either nation so far per
fected aerial navigation as to make this probable?
The chances are that they have not, and that we
will be spared for a time, at least, this additional
horror to war. In the mean time some new agree
ment between the nations will probably be made in
regard to these new methods of wholesale murder.
Ernest Crosby prophesies that the universal
adoption of a vegetarian diet will abolish vice. Come
to think of it, it would be rather surprising to see
a man running a faro bank or a burglary business
on a string of beans and cracked wheat, but there
are men who would be perfectly willing to live on
vegetable food in the form of rye for the rest of their
lives, if they could.
Senator Elkins says that West Virginia is wedded
to protection. lie should look thoughtfully at Henry
G. Davis and reflect that fathers-in-law have been
known to break up families.
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