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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1904)
Clic morning flsiorian ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. By mail, per year $6 00 By mail, per month 50 Bv carriers, per onnth CO THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAX. i By mail, per year, in advance $1 00 ONE IDEA OF FAIRNESS. Ami now comes our virtuous friend the Oregonian. teeming over with pure sentiment, appealing for fair trial of the direct primary law. "No attempt to repeal or nullify the law should be countenanced until it has had a fair trial," declares our upright contemporary, after first having imputed question able motives to those who have opposed the abortive measure. The opponents of the direct primary law are quite willing to be fair, but they are decidedly adverse to being duped. The direct primary law is just as clearly unconstitutional as any law ever was, and we have the decision of the supreme court of our own state for it. Why, then, do we find the Ore goniau asking "fair play" for the measure! If the law is void, why not have it declared so at the earliest possible date! "Why prolong a muddle that will cause more trouble than was ever before caused in Oregon because of bad legislation? Is there any thing to be gained by this sort of thing? If so, we would be obliged to the Oregonian if it would set forth the benefits. The advocates of the direct primary law have all along been strikingly unfair. They knew the title of their pet measure would appeal to the cupidity of the masses, and they worked the situation for all it was worm, jtven during tne campaign, and ever since the law was enacted, they have been kept busy defending it. Never once have the exponents of the measure pointed out one beneficial result which could possibly accrue, except that democrats would, under the operation of the law, be prevented in a measure from interfering with the republican primaries. If there is any merit in the law worthy the designation, why doesn't the Oregonian or the Salem Statesman ; point it out 1 Why do these and other journals in sist that the unconstitutional law shall be forced upon us? The spectacle of influential newspapers striving to bolster up a law which is plainly at vari ance with the constitution is indeed a ridiculous one. It is also worth the while to consider the Oregon ian 's declaration that Senator Fulton has opposed the law because it would operate to his disadvantage. Perhaps only about one voter in 50 knows anything about the law, so we will explain that it provides for the nomination of United States senators by direct vote of the people. Now, it is conceded that Senator Fulton is by far the most popular man in Oregon, and in view of this circumstance it is difficult to under stand by what process of reasoning the Oregonian arrives at the conclusion that the law would operate to the political detriment of Oregon's junior repre Bentative in the upper branch of the congress. This bit of argument on the part of our respectable Port land contemporary is quite in line with the argu ment which has been put forth generally in defense of the new law. The Oregonian suggests for the benefit of the su preme court that the law must not be declared un constitutional unless it is "absolutely clear'' that its ' provisions render it void, adding that its constitu tionality is not doubted outside of Clatsop county. We believe the supreme court would not unnecessar ily declare void any law, and the intimation that our highest tribunal might render a decision based on sentiment rather than on constitutional principles is, to state the situation very mildly, rather poor defense of the measure. The registration law was quite as important to voters as the direct primary law, yet the measure was declared void because it failed in identically the same manner that the pri mary law. fails. And when the supreme court put its stamp of disapproval upon the registration law our Portland friend did not intimate that the decision was questionable. So it will be seen that the Oregonian 's idea of fair ness differs very materially from the idea which is generally entertained by men who appreciate the meaning of the term. from $14,800,000 to $38,100,000. Those to Hawaii and Porto Rico alone increased from $(5,000,000 to $23,000,000-a highly gratifying fact, when it is re membered that the combined population of these two territories is less than 1,000,(100 and that a large portion of it consists of working people whose wages are meager. The principal part of our shipments to Porto Rico and Hawaii was made up of cotton man ufactures, brcadstttiVs and provisions and manufac tures of iron and steel, which indicates the nature of the market for American products that these ter ritories atl'ord. If the Tinted States has profited by exports to these non-contiguous territories, however, the latter have profited still more by the enlarged market for their products which this country has otVered. In the decale ended with the fiscal year 11-04. our pur chases from these territorial wards increased in value from $-,3,-.H),(HXl to $:!.! oO.OOO. More than half of these imports in value last year consisted of sugar $2.",1(H,0(K worth coming from Hawaii alone," am $;,100,(XX worth coming from Porto Rico. Of tin $10,200,000 of imports from Alaska in 1004 over $8, 000,000 consisted of canned salmon figures that fur nish some idea of the extent of this industry. The value of the canned salmon that Alaska sold to the United States last year was over $2,200,000 more than the value of the gold produced from her own mine which she shipped to this country. This growth in our trade with our non-eontiguou territories shows the wisdom of maintaining liberal trade relations with them. As they expand in wealth they become better customers for our products; while, on the other hand, their own chief products iavc become necessaries to us; ami the easier the terms are under which they can be procured the more the material welfare of the masses of the re public will be promoted. P. A. STOKES "The Store That Does Things." MEN'S OUTFITTERS OVERCOATS TAXAMA "SOONERS." The rumors of trouble in Panama between the Pan ama government on the one side and the canal build ers and the American representatives on the other need cause no grave concern, says the Post-Intelligencer. There is nothing to it. It is a manufactured incident designed to do dutv in the campaign.' The Panamau people desired the presence of the mericans. In fact, they invited all that has oc curred. Panama would have gone further and would undoubtedly have accepted annexation outright had that idea found favor with 'this country. Panama has 10 millions of dollars so invested as to practically assure, the necessary revenues of government. This is the result of American control of the canal zone. When a government reservation is to be opened the border lines are thronged for weeks in advance with men who are looking for a chance to get some thing good. A few of the more restless ones some times get over the border before the appointed day. These fellows are "the sooners." All westerners are familiar with them. "The sooners" are in Panama now. lhey are on the isthmus in advance ot the new era. there isn t much doing and the sooners are restless. They get into mischief. The chances of in cidental profit are not what they soon will be. The Panama authorities are holding the sooners in cheek, and to relieve their feelings the latter do more or less talking. This talk is magnified by the democrat ie press and used for partisan purposes. The Panama people are not going to resent Amer ican government of the canal zone in harmony with American ideas of government and American pur poses, lne treaty provides tor that, no more, no less. When the campaign is over there will be a dearth of news and of editorial comment concerning rumors of disquieting conditions on the isthmus. We have 'em from the short top coat to the pop- ular belted-back, double breasted fifty-two inch lengths. Made from neat, catchy patterns, such as will appeal to all good dressers, and price is a secondary matter. o o o o 'J O 0 O i 0 9 3 o 0 O 0 0 9 9 o O 1 tad mJM m- m mu $7.50 TO $30.00 A II I T, V Vf, HinSctuffncr V Mini Men's Suits Uaafrltat IH kf MM This is the department we take especial pride in calling your attention to. Here wc have everything that is worth mentioning O in the "Sartorial" world. ? 0 Wc are showing some hand- p some suitings in browns and ,9 gray, both in the homcppun and worsted effects To 0 (i buy a suit here is to be ?, fashionably dressed. One Price' to All $IO.OO to $30,00 P. A. STOKES "The Store That Does Things." MEN'S OUTFITTERS '03030303030 30$000 3 O 3 O O 00 Ot.0 3 O 0 3 0 O O O O? O O'O 00 O'Oi OiO $ THE MARKETS. Uverpml, 8i-it. : 7'J. -IVri'tntuT wheat, New Ynrk, S--jit. I'nlon ParlHe. 1UI; 2l. Sllv-r. r.6e prcfcrrcil, !t,1lj. ChlcuKo, Sept. 2S. Wheut Dif-t'intM-r opened tl.ltfc: eltwed, tl.Uli ; barley, 41((H9c; Max, $1.07 1,15; .North western, $1.15'(i MS. San rranelHcn, S")t. 2H.- -faun wiii'At Portland, Sept. i!S. Wheiit for ex portWalla Walla, SO'uM'jr: hlui-Mti-m, 85c; valley, 88c; fur eantcrn niarkcin -Walla Walla, Mo; blui-nti-m, STc. ' The Oregonian still clings to the fallacy that dem ocrats have no "right" to vote at republican pri maries. What man of common sense will undertake to say that democrats have not the same right to vote for republican candidates for nomination as for republican candidates for office? If anything, they have less right to vote for candidates for office. Thv democrat who is anxious to interfere at a republican primary will register as a republican and interfere under the primary law with more success than under the old method of procedure. In this respect, per haps, the law is even more gigantically a frost than in any other. Tucoma. Sept. 28. 86c; club, 82c. 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