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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1904)
PAQS FOUft. ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14. l)c morning flstorian ESTABLISH EI 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. ' RATES. By mail, per year $6 00 By mail, per month 50 By carriers, per onuth 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOltlAX. By mail, per year, in advance $1 00 i MAYOR WILLIAMS AWAKENS. Mayor Williams, of Portland, has evidently at last awakened to the fact that he has been "handled" by his friends in the past. The venerable mayor has put his foot down upon this sort of business, and in vetoing the poolroom ordinance has thrown a bomb into the camp of those who supposedly be . lieved they had the mayor under their political thumbs. In June of this year poolrooms were closed at Portland by ordinance. In October the council pass ed an ordinance reopening them. This ordinance was submitted to Mayor Williams, who very properly and promptly returned it without his approval. It is not so much a question of the moral advisability of permitting poolrooms to be operated as one of the council perverting itself to suit the convenience of political manipulators. The idea that poolrooms Bhould have been closed by the council in June and that the selfsame council should have determined to reopen them in October is painfully significant that all is not as it should be, and Mayor Williams will strengthen public confidence in thus turning down his erratic advisers. Slowly, but surely, to go into the matter, gam bling of all sorts is being forced to the wall. In the older communities of the country it has proved it self to be so great a curse that it is no longer coun tenanced. in tne west tne sentiment against it is latent. Westerners are slow to reform, but even they are banishing the evil. Portland took a very long step in the right direction when it closed the vicious slot machine, which is perhaps the most pernicious of all gambling evils. Portland's example has had its . influence, and many other Oregon towns have likewise banished the device. It has been said that slot machines would soon again be permitted in Portland, but Mayor Williams' stand on the pool room proposition indicates a determination on his part to do what is right. Perhaps the most significant statement contained in the mayor's veto is his declaration that the plea for licensing poolrooms on the ground that the city needs the money is absurd. The mayor very prop erly concludes that the city must look for its money to legitimate sources, which is a sample of munici pal logic that will appeal to all right-thinking per sons. For many months schemers have made the mayor of Portland somewhat ridiculous, but Mr. Williams has now declared himself. The experience through which Portland is now paing may well be observed by other Oregon cities, for it is one through which all mast pass very shortly. of such gold is annually lost, in one way and an other, is beyond doubt. Probably not much of it is buried, as was the case in former generations; bit unquestionably no little proportion of it takes the form of tokens, ornaments and the like, and thus disappears from circulation. Such dispositions 'of gold coin make it extremely difficult to estimate with any measure of accuracy the amount of gold coin that may be in actual circulation or available for cumulation. The amount of gold coinage has increased so rapidly in recent years, however, that a diversion of comparatively a small part of it, either by loss through fire, flood or shipwreck, can have little ef fect on the value of the remaining mass. This is shown by the fact that the clusiug of the prolilic South African mines during the Boer war appears not to have enhanced the value of the yellow metal perceptibly; and now that those mines are again in operation there is still less danger of an effect of thisj kind. 0003000000000000 EOSOiOiOiXXiXXiOiOiXX THE PROFANITY HABIT. The profanity habit, common enough, and more than enough, almost everywhere, is quite too preva lent in Astoria. Swearing is a peculiar thing. If you don't swear, you arc likely to be considered a cad; if you do swear, you become, in the eyes of church people and ministers, at least, a reprobate of darkest stain. So much for profanity proper. But as to the use of obscene language that is quite a different thing. No man who uses such filthy terms as are commonly heard on the streets of Astoria is deserving of respect. Such language has little ex cuse for existence. In most cases it is used to no pur pose, with no meaning. The cigar store is the natural loafing place of men and boys, and Astoria cigar stores are not ex ceptional. It is in the fact that the stores are open to the street that there lies, however, the principal affinity of cigar stores and the use of profane ami obscene language. The conversation of those in the cigar stors is plainly audible to people on the street Women, on shopping tours, are compelled to pass these loafing places every day. They overhear what is being said, whether or not they wish to. An it is safe to say that if a woman waked by 10 cigar stores in the course of a stroll, she would be com pelled to hear, issuing from 10 of them, language that none should use. This is an insult to womanhood. Standing at the counters, with their backs to the street, men do not notice the passing of a woman with her child. Hence the volley of oaths and gutter talk that strikes their ears. It is degrading, vile, inexcusable. Reform your language, boys. Take a fresh start tomorrow. If you must use the language o? the gutter snipe, and curse in the words of the degen erate inhabitant of brothels, be circumspect in choos ing more becoming places. Don't let it be said that a woman can not walk the streets of Astoria without being insulted at every hand. Wash out your mouths. O o () o o o o . to o o o o o o o o o o o o o 0 ' 0 6 P. A. STOKES "The Store That Does Things." If you want know what smartly dressed people will wear this sea son ask STOKES Overcoats l $7.50 to $30.00 When y o u see a man (that q looks as though q he must patron 6 izotho swelled of tailors, chances arc he $ buys his clothes S of STOKES. 8 HtnMuffacr want Vf pltu IM Hut inn It you to know what smartly dressed pooplo will wear tliissoason hsk STOKES Suits $10.00 to $30.00 Our custom ers have that " different a p ponranco from othcrmon" that that appeals (o men of good taste. All al terations mado cheerfully and n o questions asked. Twill pay you to seo GOLD PRODUCTION. It is officially stated that at the beginning of the present callendar year the stock of gold in the world at large, in the form of money, amounted to five and a half billion dollars, a gain of one billion and a half dollars since January 1, 196. In the same period the monetary stock of gold in the United States is estimated to have increased from six hun dred million dollars to over thirteen hundred mil lion dollars. Nearly one-half of the world's increase in monetary gold in the eight years in question stands to the credit of the United States. One of the perplexing things about the produc tion of gold is the question of what becomes of the entire output from the mines. For example, it is calculated that during the last two decades the world's production of gold amounted to $3,750, 000,000. Statisticians assume that during this period $70,000,000 of gold on the average has been annually used in the arts a sum that would amount to $1,400,000,000 for the two decades in question. This, seemingly, would show that $2,350,000,000 had gone into the form of money. According to recent statements, however, the increase in gold coinage for the period mentioned was only about $l,50O,. 000,000-or approximately $850,000,000 less than the amount that it is estimated was coined into money. Where has the rest of this gold gone! Or statisticians made a bad guess as to the quantity of gold that is annually used in the arts? Certain it is, at any rate, that statements as to the amount of monetary gold in existence consist largely of conjecture. That a considerable amomn In view of the very general statement of Oregon- lans wno have returned trom ht. Louis that the Lewis and Clark fair has been improperly adver tised, it does seem the central body should take some action in the matter. Those gentlemen have evi dently forgotten that the money appropriated for the Oregon exposition was made available bv the people and that it belongs to them. It is an out rage that this money should be squandered. Evi dently the funds have been improperly applied or misappropriated, else the Lewis and Clark fair would not have been allowed to go without adver tising. Either the Oregon exposition must be prop erly handled, or the legislature must decline to lend any further assistance. This may be taken in the nature of a threat, but the circumstances justify it. Portland does not own all of Oregon, and Jhe people never intended that incompetent men should be given custody of their funds. To waste this money is disgraceful, and it is indeed time the com missioners took a hand in the matter. The success of our fair, for which all of us are so anxious, de mands it. Furnisher mum Clothier 000OSOSO0000000000OSO000?0600?X0 Jl H ki r wuwuwumtmm For Wet Weather Purchase your footwear from a practical shoemaker. , We sell better goods and at lower prices than any other store in the city. 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