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PAGfl TOVK ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15. i)C morning Jlstorian ESTABLISH EI 187:1 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. By mail, per year . . $6 00 By mail, per month . '. 50 By carriers, per p'onth 00 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAX. By dimI, per year, in advance f 1 00 PROGRESS OF ARBITRATION. Secretary Hay's announcement that this gov ernment is negotiating arbitration treaties with Tarious European powers is gratifying from everal points of view; among them from this, that it shows America is inclined to "keep up with the procession." Credit has generallly been given to this country for starting the arbitration movement, r at least for giving it its chief impetus, says the New York Commercial. But a good many things lave happened since 1872. Other nations have taken op the beneficient principle then so notably estab lished, and, while no other nation has probably so often or so effectively made appeal to arbitration in special cases as the United States, at least one ther has shown a tendency to surpass us in the txtent of its permanent arrangements for arbitration. We refer, of course, to the United Kingdom, which has recently made permanent arbitration treaties .with Prance, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden and Norway. It may be that America will pres ently have a longer list to its credit If not, it will not be the fault of the administration, which las done and is doing so much for the cause of in ternational peace based upon the only secure foun dation of international justice. Arbitration is also showing progress in character as well as in geographical extent The scope as well as the number of treaties is increasing. There is a marked inclination to include more and more among the subjects of arbitration. Two nations Denmark and Norway, have gone to the unprece dented length of sweeping away all restriction and declaring that all disputes between them, no matter of what character or what they involve, shall be submitted to arbitration. The close' relationship be tween those countries and their peculiar status among the powers may make such an arrangement satisfactory to them. It is doubtful if any other powers, or, at any rate, any of the great powers, will for many a year to come consent to declare all ubjects arbitrable. Nevertheless, the progress, of events makes steadily in that direction by remov ing from the field of practical or conceivable debate audfc subjects as are regarded as unfit for arbitra tion "We should not, for example, submit to foreign-arbitration a question involving oar terri torial integrity; but every year lessens the p-s?i fiility that such a question will ever be raised. We ahould not submit to an alien tribune a question affecting our national honor. But the better es tablishment of justice among the nations decreases the possibility that such a question will be raised. The trend is, therefore', toward the practicl elimination of non-arbitral questions from the cate gory of questions that are likely to arise, and to leave practically only such as all are agreed may properly be submitted to arbitration. The strong est advocates of arbitration and peace maj in time le quite willing that questions of national integrity and honor shall be excluded from arbitration, be cause they will be questions that never will be raised. It would speak poorly for international law and justice if it were not making directly toward that end. There, indeed, is one great point of su perior value of arbitration over war. It settles things. A war within a nation may settle seaiethiiig. One between two sovereign powers does not. The very next year a war may be started over the very ame issue to undo the effects of the fcrm-T one, just as France began planning immediately after 1871 for her "revanche" and for the reversal (if the verdict of the "Terrible Year." But there is no such planning to undo the work of arbitration. The verdict of an arbitral tribune stands. It sets a precedent by which not only the nations concerned but others are thereafter guided, and which serves to determine the settlement of subsequent disputes. It is in that sense that the. progress of arbitration is most real and most substantial and is most fraught with the promise of peace and justice for the world. is' not permitted to be sold in many com inanities. The Post's article, which follows, will prove interesting reading, even to those who may differ from it in conclusion: For a decade a remarkable change has been 'going on in the south. The manifestations have been local but the results bear the semblance of a great move ment. After the war the south had almost as many drinking places as it had stores. Today more than one-half of the counties below Mason aud Dixon's line prohibit the sale of liquor. For instance, al most sixty per cent of Texas, nearly eighty per cent of Georgia, ninety per cent of Mississippi and nil of Tennessee except eight cities have voted out the saloon, while eveu in Kentucky forty-seven counties are under prohibition rule. There is nothing of particular political import ance in these facts, but there is in them a vast deal of social and personal significance. In literature pre tending to represent the life of the south the mint: julep figures as conspicuously as the genial sunshine or the climbing roses, when, as a matter, of fac ice water or lemonade might be more realistic. The southern "majah, sail" with some of his old manner. till hangs on, but the southern man of today is quite another kind of person. . This may be a loss to romance, for, even to the abstainer, there is fra grance in the mention of mint which lemonade' fails to suggest, and the major with his large manner and contempt for statistics fills more of the atmos phere than the quiet, agile worker who thinks of erops, cotton mills and stock quotations instead of the lost cause and its battles. But the same qualities of grit, endurance and fidelity and cheerfulness which made spleudid rec ords in war are bravely at work soving the prob ems of peace. In most cases the liquor question lias been handled as a plain business proposition. The saloon balked enterprise, reduced the labor supply, increased lawlessness and kept communities poor; worse still, it played havoc with the individual. In more than four hundred counties the good citizen ship of all parties arose and banished it. Behold the benefits I This year the south has more money than it has ever known, more money for spending; so much of it in fact that three of the great cities of the north have formed special busi ness organizations to secure southern trade, while the cities of the west have met the competition by the most alluring inducements. But the larger gain is in the general uplift of the population. Despite the occasional outbreaks of crime in most-cases where the saloons still exist the whole trend of the south is steadily toward wise and safe conservatism, and the evolution of southern personality is pro ducing broad-minded Americans who live clean lives, do good work and carry no chips on their shdulders. It has been said that had it not been for whisky there would have been no civil war. Hard drinking, both north and south, inflamed tie passions en gendered by slavery. It follows as c most hopeful fact that in the consideration of the race question, which lingers lone after the abolition of human bondage, the work of conciliation and adjustment will be done by men of temperate habits and tem perate minds. In the new conditions being wrought by the south itself there must come higher character and achievement than its oldest and finest chivalry could show. . OOSO$000000000000 EOOiOKOOi!0$ 0 P. A STOKES "The Store fnat Does Things." If you want ( to know what smartly dressot people will wear tins sea son ask STOKES Overcoats ? $7.50 to $30.00 When you see a' man that looks as though he must patron ize the swelie t of tailors, , chances are he s buys his clothes HmSdiiffMr V Mm Iliad TuVmd O want 09 what If you to know smartly dressed people will wear o thkiousou hstk o CTAWTC O Suits $10.00 to $30.00 Our custom ers have that " difl'eront a p pearanco from other-men" that that appeals to men of good tusto. 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Probably no- one will dispute the statement that Astoria needs a new hospital, but there may be some who will question the advisability of having the hospital built by the St. Mary's association aad conducted as a Roman Catholic institution. It is for this, reason this edit&rial ia, written. The Astorian believes that in a case such as has arisen, the people of 'Astoria Bhould forget "ttiffjer- ences in religious belief and pull together for the accomplishment of a most deserving end. Peoples of all nations have, almost from time immemorial, persecuted one another on account of differences in religious belief. The early puritans, who came to America to escape persecution, turned about when other colonists arrived on the New England coast and persecuted these because of minor, differences in doctrine. Persecution in olden days was a bar barous thing. Men no longer torture fellow mortals as they did, but a certain kind of persecution has continued nevertheless. Whether or not Christ spoke with literal mean ing when He said, "Upon this rock will I build my church," is of no moment to the people of Astoria when they are considering the need of a new hos pital We have every reason to believe that the proposed Catholic hospital will be run on humani tarian, non-sectarian, principles. The' Catholics stand ready to build a hospital; the protestants have made ; no move in that direction. Astoria needs one hospital, but only one. Let Catholic and protestint pull together and build the hospital. Shoes for men, and children. women The Pacific Logging Shoe is the BEST in the world. 543-545 Bond St GlflRE AN ASTORIA PRODUCT Palo Bohemian Beer Best In The Northwest North Pacific Brewing Co. U'tHir 2 Pacifc Lutheran Academy and L Business College Offers the following courses: 1. The Preparatory Course years) corresponding to the 6t! 7th and 8th grades in the public school. 2. 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