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ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A Chicago w'iman secured a divorce in twenty
minutes. As long as records of that kind are pos
sible, there will be no general uprising for novelist
Meredith's proposition for ten-year marriage contracts.
We are all grieved at the dereliction of those
hens that usually begin laying eggs about this time
of the year bearing the initials of the presidential
candidates.
The up-to-date young man appears to think that
his importance is heightened in proportion to the
badness of his manners.
"What will come after the trolley t" asked the
electrical expert. The man who missed it, more than
likely.
There are two kinds of fools in the world, male
and female.'
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