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pacts roun ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1904. Ok morning JMorian ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. By mail, per year $6 00 By mail, per month ' 50 By carriers, per month 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAX. By mail, per year, in advance $1 00 A MAN AMONG MEN. ' Even at the advanced age of 78, the United States could ill afford to lose George Frisbie Hoar, senior senator from Massachusetts. Few men were his equal and his passing takes from us one of our most bril liant and upright statesmen. For nearly half a cen tury Senator Hoar had been conspicuous in public life, and, while at times he may have assumed po sitions which did not meet with the approval of the majority, no one could question his honesty of pur posewhich, after all, is the greatest qualification f life. Senator's Hoar's persistent sense of right oc casionally led him to extremes. AH of us well re member the "Washington city incident in which the senator turned his back upon Editor Scott of the Oregonian. Mr. Scott had spoken very unkindly of 'the United States senate, and the Massachusetts statesman regarded the attacks of the Oregonian as a personal assault upon every member of that ex alted body. Most politicians would have overlooked the editor's unkindly reference to the senate, out of a desire to promote friendly relations with a man of influence. Btit Senator noar was no such man. He was thoroughly and at all times honest, and "pol icy" was never a consideration with him. "When his party in congress announced a Philippine atti tude with which he could not agree, he promptly joined the democrats in their attacks upon that pol icy, and to the time of his last illness used his ut most endeavors to bring about what he believed to he the proper condition of affairs. Men of this caliber are few. Most of us are tactful, willing to concede our opinions and forsake our principles for temporary self-advancement. But no such consideration ever moved Senator Hoar, whose devotion to what he believed to be right was un faltering, ne lived for the people whom he so ably represented and for the republic he loved so well. He was a man among men, and his memory will long be cherished, not alone by the people of his own state, but as well by those of the entire nation. the same persons and interests that are engaged in this task strenuously fight every effort that is made to extend our trade with our next-door neighbor Canada, says the New York Commercial. We make a great hue and cry about the "open door" in semi eivilized China, thousands of miles across the sAv and then discourage every effort to open wide the door to trade with a progressive and prosperous country that lies just across our northern border. Although Canada possesses a population of less than 6,000,000 a smaller number than the state of New York has or Pennsylvania she is, nest to Great Britain and Germany, the largest consumer on the globe of the products of this couutry. Our exports to the dominion for the fiscal year 1004 amounted tc $131,275,000 in value, while those to Mexico and to Central and South America combined amounted to only $105,300,000. We sold more products and goods to Canada in the last fiscal year than Ave sold to the whole of Asia, Africa and Oeeanica. And all this happened in the face of the existence of high tar iff duties in this country and of a stiff protective tariff in Canada. The dominion's imports amounted to $241,200,000 in value-$65,400,0O0 worth of which was furnished by Great Britain and about $000,- 000 by Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Holland and Switzerland. There is no reason in the work; why the great bulk' of these imports should not have been furnished by the United States, except the fact that we are unwilling to liberalize our trade relations with our northern neighbor. Canada buys from us absolutely nothing that she is not compelled to buy; while, on the other hand, by means of her prefer ential tariff, she virtually offers a premium or bonus on Canadian purchases made in Great Britain. All talk about extending our foreign markets in the face of the maintenance of such a policy with Canada savors largely of cant, and it is not surpris ing that the common sense of the nation is beginning to rebel thereat 0000000OSO0Oi5!0000 aiO JO iX OiO 'XX -X) iXJtOittSaiSO 0 . o 4f "The Store That Does Things.",. O o o P. A. STOKES MEN'S OUTFITTERS OVERCOATS ; MISDIRECTED ENERGY. Carrie Nation has again been thrown into jail for destroying property. With three other women, she attacked a liquor warehouse at Wichita, Kan., and proceeded to smash in some plate glass windows. In jail she knelt down and prayed, the while demand ing the return of her hatchet, which she is reputed to "cherish." Mrs. Nation is correct in her Anew that the liquor traffic is a bad thing. Few persons would undertake to, deny her belief. As a rule and rules "go" in this country the man who uses intoxicating liquor is not as well off as the man who does not use it. There is no question, either, that absolute prohibi tion would, so far as the moral and financial status of the whole people is concerned, result in a higher standard all around. But it is impossible to see wherein Mrs. Nation helping the cause for which she claims to be work ing. Indeed, it is difficult to understand that she u not injuring it irreparably. Her crusades are made the laughing stock of the country and bring into rid icule and contempt the earnest efforts of those tem perance people whose well-directed efforts have ac complished much good. The ordinary mortal will be unable to realize in what possible manner Mrs. Nation's course in smashing the plate glass win dows at the warehouse can assist the prohibition cause. Nor is there any apparent reason in her sys tem of smashing the heads of barkeepers and sa Ioonmen generally. The individual man or woman who resorts to such methods as those which have characterized the career of Mrs. Nation puts himself on an equal with ther wrongdoers. The law very explicitly provides that one person shall not destroy the property of an other, and Mrs. Nation is much more in the wrong than the men upon whom her wrath has fallen. For the benefit of the temperance cause, such women as Mrs. Nation should be immediately and effectually restrained, and subjected to treatment for mental disorder. A DESIRABLE CUSTOMER. It is a curious thing to observe the attempts that are being made to extend our foreign, markets by means of subsidies and otherwise, and to note that -OPPOSITION IS NECESSARY. In a country where the rulers are chosen by pop ular elections there must always be parties or, at least, factions that dispute the offices, says the San Francisco Bulletin. Whenever in the United States one party is so strong that a nomination from its con vention is tantamount to election the real election is the primary, and a candidate must fight as hard for the nomination as in other places he fights for election. In the southern states, for example, where the democrats have an overwhelming majority, thou sands of citizens neglect to vote because they know that the democrat nominee will be inevitably elected. But they do turn out at the primaries because there their votes may affect the result. When Richmond Pearson Hobson contested with Congressman Bank- head of South Carolina for the nomination, just 11,319 votes were cast at the primary in the dis trict, while at the subsequent election only 6981 per sons voted. Parties make a republic. Without parties, this government would be a despotism ruled by the men in control of the nominating machinery. If the peo ple were offered no choice, if one all-powerful polit ical organization were in control of the nation, if there were no organized opposition, the forms of popular government might as well be abolished. But the presence of an opposition, even though weak, keeps the party in power on its good behavior. The ruling party dare not arouse the anger of the people, lest in their wrath the people put the opposition into the offices. THE SULTAN AND THE POPE. The sultan is profoundly interested in the strained relations between France and the Vatican, says the Saturday Evening Post. He hopes that the pope will take away from France the protectorate over Catholics in Turkey and will either distribute it among the Powers, letting each power protect its own subjects of the Catholic faith in Turkey, or, better still, will establish direct diplomatic relations an embassy of the sublime porte at the Vatican, an embassy of the pope at Constantinople. As the pope is without army or navy, and is surrounded by Ital ian diplomats of the old school who are as fond of unwinding interminable diplomatic correspondences as is the old brown wolf of the Bosphorus, the reason for this longing for direct diplomatic relations is obvious. Thanks to the quarrels and jealousies among the powers, the sultan's soldiers have been able to pursue their favorite pastime of pot-hunting "infidel dogs" without much fear of interruption or punishment. If now pope and sultan were in direct touch, and the pope were undertaking the protection of Turkish Catholics, not only would the "pot-hunting" go for ward more vigorously, but also the sultan could en large the activity of his chief passion dictating diplomatic notes and receiving harmless "ultimatums." 8 u,ar breasted We have 'em from the o short top coat to the pop- belted-back, double fifty-two inch q ivnuio, muuv. ii win hi, til, catchy patterns, such as will appeal to all good tlressors, co and price is a secondary yi matter. 1 $7.50 1 TO 1 $30.00 0 9 r t if r-.r i iHutSchafliKr 1 I V Mini h 1H.4T..1.I Bw a' n Hit nm. H-ltJ -5 Hen's Suits f This is the department wc take especial pride in calling your attention to. Hero we have everything that is worth mentioning in the "Sartorial" world. We are showing some hand some suitings In browns and grays, both in the homespun and worsted effects. To buy a suit hero is to be fashionably dressed. One Price to All $IO.OO to $30.00 P. A. 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