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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1904)
PAdfi FOUK ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18. CIk morning flstorian i:stahi.ishi;i) i8-:i PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. By mail, per year : $6 00 By mail, per month 50 By carriers, per pnnth. 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOlllAX. By mail, per year, iu advance $1 00 A RECENT CONVERT. Editorially, on Sunday, our esteemed contempo rary, the Oregonian, gave the gamblers its very straightforward opinion of them. Commenting on the decision of the circuit court that the charter of the city of Portland does not countenance the crime of gambling, the Oregonian savs that the "gambler is lucky to be on earth;" that "gambling is wrong doing of the most palpable, unmitigated nature without standing in any court;" that "it has no lodgment or refuge anywhere except in the dock, where it belongs:" that a gambler has "no more right to hold up his head as a business man that a prostitute has at a mothers' prayenneeting;" that the city has been stirred to its depths against open gambling by the "ostentation shown by boss gamb lers in investment of their ill-gotten gains and in a complacent swagger which indicated that they own ed the town." Incidentally, the Oregonian predicts a hard winter for the knight of the green cloth. Well! ' As we look back over the events which have led to this rather severe arraignment of the Oregonian 's erstwhile friends, we pause to marvel at the very decided change of sentiment which has eome over our Portland contemporary. It appears to us the Oregonian has been rather slow in arriving at con elusions which have been a source of constant irri tation to other people for many, many years. We naturally wonder what particular difference there is between the present-day gambler and the gambler who plied his vocation three or four years ago. As far as our information goes, we are satisfied the men engaged in the gambling "business" are the same who have operated for several years past Surely, they are no worse now than then. Then the Oregonian had no such arraignment for them, nor did it put its black mark upon the outrageous saloon box. Now it brands them criminals1 and says they are lucky to be on earth. We have always given the Oregonian credit for its ability to arrive within a reasonable time at sensible conclusions, but it has exceeded the time limit in the matter of gambling and gamblers. For once, our Portland friend has been laboriously slow. It has been sure, it is true, but its readers will prob ably consider it remarkable that the representative journal had not long ago voiced this sentiment. j The saloon box, fell before the onslaught of the Portland' Daily Journal, and that newspaper "has put the quietus on gambling. The Journal, acting independently while still struggling for prestige, has accomplished more for true reform than the Ore gonian has accomplished in the half-century of its existence. The Journal has not been influenced, and its success only serves to demonstrate the un wavering utility of an independent publication. After the death struggle and the triumph of decency the Oregonian steps to the front to damn the van quished. The showing is not a flattering one for the morn ing paper, but it is gratifying to know the Oregonian has at last acknowledged the evil of gambling. To the merciless it has been merciful in the past, when it alone reflected public sentiment, but now it cries "No quarter!" The cry is pitifully late, for the period during which quarter might have been im plored has passed. It is a bitter parting of old friends. Had it been anticipated, perhaps the swag ger indicating ownership of the town would never have been taken on. But Portland is to be congraulated. It has taken a long step forward and will be better and more prosperous for it. victory ot tact ana bravery, lliey are proving themselves quite the equals of the warriors of the older and more enlightened nations, and are demon strating that they are to become worthy people, of credit to the world. The fighting of the past few days around Muk don lias been a series of battles in which generalshi litis counted. Oyama's victory was gained in an hour. The Japanese general took advantage of an effort on the part of the Russian commander to change the position ot his lorces, MM in the oriel period mentioned, after terrific lighting of undecis ive character, the day was won for the mikado's men. Had Oyania been of inferior ability, he would have been defeated. Concisely stated, be outgener aled Kuropatkin and the other distinguished com manders with whom he is associated. There must bo some reason for the continued Japanese successes. The defeat of the Russians has beeu excused all along, but never reasonably. The J Japanese commanaers nave irieu conclusions wmi g ftlutut nil ttltl ir,m.)1ll? mill tilt) ftlnve llnv0 ' v """""" f" " ' (,) been invariably defeated. Considering that the o posing forces are numerically equal, there, is but one explanation of the success of the brown men thev have displayed superior mental strength. War w a game of science and the most intellectual men win. we nave vet to near that tne nussians navo hown cowardice. They are, the dispatches from Tokio and St, Petersburg tell us, quite as "fanati cal" as the Japanese. The Japs are a new people, in a way, and they 9 are evidently a canable wonle. Thev nlan and thev 0 - r i k i , O00000000000000 KXiXfc'XW o o P. A. STOKES "The Store That Does Things." If you want & to know what smartly dressed people will this sea son ask o (?) o o wear ,1 0 o o o STOKES s Over coats $7.50 to $30.00 o 9 o t 10 When y o u see a!man Jthat looks us thou ic must patron- act, and both in planning and action show marked izotho swello t intelligence. If the Japs expand, the world will be 9 tailors, the better for it. The .fittest will not perish; natuii lecreed that they should survive, Y chances are he 7 buvs his clothes " of STOKES. THE "YELLOW-PERIL" ABSURDITY. , As the far eastern war progresses the utter ab mrdity of the "yellow-peril" scare is more and more apparent. It has been insisted by the pro Russian element that victory for the Japanese would so strengthen the position of the brown men as to justify alarm for the safety of the white races, which would be promptly overrun by the "yellow" hordes. The "yellow" cry is calculated only to arouse sentiment against the Japanese, and, so far as is apparent at present, has absolutely no basis. The Japanese are showing themselves to be of superior intellect, and we of the western world have nothing to fear from intelligence. If the Japs triumph in the present war, as seems likely, they will have won the THAT RELIC OF DESPOTISM. One of the latest victims of that barbarous aw which permits imprisonment for debt in New York under certain circumstances is to seek damages in a suit against his persecutors an installment- plan furniture company, says the New York Com mercial. Briefly, the only offense of Thomas Zablowsky, just released from Ludlow street jail through the intervention of Sheriff Erlanger, was that he intro duced a prospective customer to the company, and that, later on, when this customer had defaulted in part on his payment for a purchase, he helped the company to recover the goods. Had this installment house managed to collect practically the whole of the selling price and then gotten the goods back, too, it might possibly have been satisfied As it was, it proceeded deliberately to put the introducer of the customer behind the bars. s Zablowsky makes affidavit that he was locked up on an order of arrest in a civil action brought by the company against him as a co-defendant with the purchaser of the goods this, although he was in no way responsible for the bill of goods, had never been served with a summons and knew nothing whatever about any such suit until after he had been thrust into jail. He might still be languishing there, hat; not the sheriff discovered his predicament and se cured his release. It is quite probable that in this instance the vic tim's grievance does not lie so much with the law that permits the imprisonment of debtors as it does against those who are responsible for the failure to properly summons him to the court at the outset But the outrage would have been impossible of per petration did not a vicious statute furnish a conven ient club for such persecution. The imposition of heavy damages in this case would help materially to put the law into popular contempt and thus lead to its ultimate repeal. U v M mm. - jftav . O o to If you want to know what smartly dressed people will wear O tliisseusoii Ksk o o O STOKES Suits $10.00 to $30.00 Our custom ers liavo that " different u p- pearanoo from other-men" Hint flf that appals to O men of good O tanlo. Ail al. g terutioim mndo cheerfully and n o questions asked. Twill pay you to bco Furnisher mum Clothier 00000000000000000000OOMQOiCitt SHOES 6 or Wet Weather Purchase your footwear from a practical shoemaker. 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