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PAGE FOUR. ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY. AUGUST 27, 19)4. Cbe morning flstorian KST.VKLISIIt:i 1S7. PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. e, By mail, per year $0 0 By mail, per month "0 By carriers, per vnnih '-0 THK SEMI-WKKKI.Y ASTOK1.YX. By mail, per year, in advance $1 00 RUSSIA'S TREATMENT OF THE FINNS. As an incident of the crushing of Finland by Czar Nicholas II over 300,000 Finns have left the father land in a little over two years. Previous to Febru ary. 1899. the Finns were a people unknown to the world except through the tales of travelers, and, in a seneral wav. to readers of history. Today there are 200,000 of them in the United States alone. Up to that date they were content to remain in their own bleak and inhospitable land, where they had become almost universally prosperous and contented. Today the tide of emigration that is carrying them out from under the yoke of oppression seems destined to , create a wilderness where a few years ago was a peaceful, happy and prosperous state. It would k a fitting rebuke to the perfidy of a weak and evilly counseled czar. In 1809 Finland was ceded by Sweden to Russia. For 90 years Russian monarchs permitted and even guaranteed the existence of conditions solemnly agreed to when that now unhappy land became sub ject to the Russian crown. The people of Finland had adopted a constitu tion in 1792. They had a religion of their own. Russia guaranteed to guard and respect that re ligion forever, and promised that the constitution of 1792 should be forever upheld. And for 90 years the trust was kept. It has remained for Nicholas II to violate every honored promise of his fathers and to invoke by a single degree the destruction of a state, together with all its institutions of language, church, government and literature, and the banish nient of a people from a land they had inhabited for centuries. History records few more pathetic , national tragedies. A few years ago the Finns were a self-governed people. And, it is openly alleged, because Russia feared the influence of the spectacle, the czar issued a manifesto February 15, 1899, suspending the Fin nish constitution, reducing the people to the level of the poorest Russian subjects;' making them subject to obligatory military service and killing even their literature by establishing the Russian language. Out of 2,700,000 people, but 8000 could speak Russian at all. During the years they were left to govern them selves the people of Finland had made great prog ress. They had left far behind them the gloom of ignorance in which Russia is destined to grope for further generations. Illiteracy was practicilly nn ; known. They had become a moral, intelligent people, who governed themselves so wisely and well as to elicit the admiration of students of statecraft every where. They were farmers who owned their own lands; artificers who owned their own shops; fisher men who controlled their own interests, and as a nation the Finns had established and were main taining schools and academies of a high order. By their own efforts they had carved out their own state and created the conditions that made them happy and prosperous. By one stroke of his pen the czar robbed them of all he had promised to hold in sacred trust for them. He destroyed their whole fabric of state and society and reduced them from the pinnacle of independence to which they had raised themselves to the most humiliating depths of despondency and beggary. It was an act unworthy of a great ruler, even though that ruler be the czar of the Russias. The Finns have the sympathy of the whole world; Nicholas II has only its scorn. possibilities f Hudson's bay as a summer grain route. The alleged purpose of the Neptune expedi tion when it left Newfoundland was a further in vestigation of this mooted question. But if the British lay claims to the great bay and attempt to make it a closed sea new issues will lie raised W tween the United States and Canada. For the better nan ot a country American whalers - I have tishod those seas. It is due to the inactivity t the Canadians that the industry is practically moil opolixed by the Americans. The avennre return per vovage are in excess of $27.0tHt. making it an im iHirtant industry. To raise a question now that ha never even been a matter of discussion between tb two countries is attempting a short cut toward Canadian monopoly of a trade America has create If the question is raised by attempts to oxpc merican whalers from those waters under tl 'headland to headland" theory by which the Can adians laid claim to portions of Southeastern Alaska there will be vet another matter to arbitrate; for America will contend for the "three-mile limit" fo lowing the coast. It is also held, and in all apparent fairness, that Americans have been permitted to nsi these seas so long that a "right has boon establish which Great Britain is bound to respect." WILL BENEFIT THK ISLANDS. lhe aneouvcr-Uellinirham telephone-caolo con nection win luing one oi tne inosi important ami some respects least known communities of l'uget sound into direct communication with the rest of tin world. We refer to the islands of the San Juan sbout 100,(XX). It will touch Vancouver, San .Juan group, the seat of an important and growing pop ulation and of several industries of more or less magnitude. The cable will be GO miles in leugth and will cost Orcas, Shaw and Lunnni islands, reaching the main and on Bellingham bay. The islands mentioned are the larger and more important of this group. Diver sified farming, fruit growing, horticulture and sheep raising, together with dairying, are the principal oc cunations of the inhabitants. On San Juan lime is made in large quantities and among all the islands fishing is an important item. Some of the greatest catches of shrimp of last season were made near Orcas island. This region has heretofore been somewhat out of the world. It has been reached only by steamer and has had no means of communication other than that afforded by boat service. The trade of San Juan county1 has been growing in importance for a Ion time. The proposed telephone-cable when laid brings the archipelago at once in touch with the large and important coast centers. The project is recognition of the importance of island trade that has long boon due that section. WANTS HUDSON'S BAY. The Hudson's bay question promises to be the next to agitate the public relations of the United States ami Canada, says the Post-Intelligencer. Published accounts of the purpose of the Nep tune's voyage into Hudson's bay and adjacent waters generally credit the expedition with having estab lished forts, ports of entry and custom houses, all of which is to be machinery for extending British sovereignty over those seas. The Era, an American ship, has already acknowledged the authority of Canada by paying duty-on goods intended for use in trading with the natives. For years there has been speculation as to the FAKE EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES. The Panama canal commission has taken occasion to warn labor unions, employment bureaus and the public in genral against a fraudulent eastern con cern which guarantees positions on the isthmus dur ing the construction of the canal, and offers, for a fee, to send a list of the places open and the require, ments. The commission states that such positions can be procured only through the commission, that very few are now open, and that there are thousands if applications on hand. The public is advised not nly to pay no attention to such advertisements, but above all not to make a trip to the isthmus in search of work. The fraud concern in question is enly one of a number that advertise in American and Canadian aily papers and, perhaps, use the mails as well. Many such fakirs are doing business, and although they are run down as fast as discovered by the postal inspectors, they do untold harm. They will guarantee positions in any line of business at any salary. Their alluring advertisements are cunningly worded and often the fleeced are without loiral redress. Thev arc specially contemptible, in that thev usually defraud the idle man, who most needs his money. They have been known to cause thousands to move many miles, only to find on arriving at cities where they expected to find work that they have been duped and are stranded. High Class Clothing NOT "HOW MUCH" BUT "HOW GOOD" Look for the manufacturers label on the gar ments and satisfy yourself as to the genuine ness of its claim to being first class Hart, iSchaffner Marx Grouse, Brandeg'ee Co. Clothing Is Tailor Made, Union Made, is Sty lish and Up-to-date, and will keep their shape and Color. :: :: :: :: It costs more than shoddy goods but it is far cheaper in the end. V7 p Your money back if not satisfied is our way P. A, 5 FIGURE IT OUT In the recent land lottery in which 25,000 pieces of property in the Rosebud reservation were raffled off, Nebraska had 24 per cent of the lucky ones, Iowa 22 and South Dakota 1&. There were 100,000 regis tered applications. It ips an odd feature of the affair that women were amazingly favored by fort une; school teachers, stenographers and other work ing girls were successful in a long list of instances. Now that they own farms, the unmarried possessors of land can easily acquire husbands, if they care to resort to annexation of that kind. Russia is certainly wise to dismantle her fugitive ships rather than send them out to certain destruc tion. It is to be hoped apan can claim and get them as a moiety in the post-bellum settlement. Unless Russia establishes a special tracing depart ment, when the war ends she will never be able to pick up all her scattered cruisers. If You Cm et a Thoroughly (iooil I'iano, Well Made, Sub. staiitlal and Sweet Toned, tor Wliat Is (ienerally Asked for the Cheaply Made Commercial Pianos, What Are Yon iolng to Save V You ure K"I"K to Have yaurtuOf a lot nf illxiippoliitment to beif In with. You are KoiiiK to wive yourttelf the xpeim of hiivlng your phi no tlnkweil up frequently, broken HtrlrigH replaced, sticking keys fixed, re-tuirliiK anil many other annoyanceH. You are going to Nave yourself the neceMlty of buying a new piano when you become fully dlHgunted with your bad bargain. The piano bargains that we are now offering in thlH wind-up are rare. Re member, they are neither out-of-date nor necond-hand goods, but new and conHlgned tttock. We advertl.se the truth; our goixlM hear the closest Inspection, even down to the minutest detail, and we save you money. Purchaiert Numerous. Your neighbors who. did not already possess pianos have bought In thin Special Bale, You can afford a piano. Why not buy now? You know them; people from out of town and in are the purchasers. Music In the house makes life worth living. Why not have a piano? The Clot. Wednesday, Aug. 31, Is our closing day. This Is time enough for those who have delayed to purchase one of our bargain pianos, but too short a time to procrastinate. Come at once. In this wind-up $270 buys a special art colonial case piano of reliable make, the kind that has been held by former dealers at $550. The best value for your money now In stock. Who will be the lucky purchaser? Is it you? Remember, the gale closes Aug. 31. "Do It now." Eilers Piano House 422-424 Commercial Street ' Permanently established In Astoria since January, 1901. A. R. CYRUS, Local Agent. F. N. 8MITH, Salesman. Scow Bay Iron 8 Brass Works Manufacturers or Iron, Steel, Brass and Bronze Castings. General Found rytnen ' and Patternmakers. Absolutely firstclass work. Prices lowest. Phone 2451. Comer Eighteenth and Franklin. 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