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ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 Clic morning fistorian KSTAIILKSIILD 1873 eiid resources fnun which it would be harder for her to recover than it would be for Russia. ASTORIAN PUBLISHED BY PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. ' By mail, per year By mail, per month ; By rriers, rr pvwth. $6 00 60 THE SEMI-WKPKLY ASTOKIAN. By mmI, per year, in advance $1.00 FAR EAST "WAR LOANS. ? The Japanese government has decided to raise new domestic loan of $40,000,000. In addition New York and London bankers have been ap iproaehed recently as to the prosect of Japan being able to secure a loan of anywhere- from $100,000,000 to $250,000,000 within the course of another year. The replies to the proposition have not been satis - factory to the island empire. Neither in New York nor in London does there seem to be any spasmodic rush for Japanese government securities. . , f The reason thereof is not strange. Japan is not f a ricl nation. It has made marvelous and oommend 3 able progress industrially, socially and otherwise within the last 20 or 30 years, but the great mass of ?. its population still remains steeped in what, in this ? country, would be regarded as abject poverty. For ' several years the people of that country have been ennrmnTlslv tflXpH in flrrW tn nerfebt ' its' militnrv system, and the fact that it is now forced to look abroad for means to continue its present war with itussia indicates that the limit of taxation that the Japanese can andure has nearly been reached. This is borne out by the conditions under which the foreign Janflneslnnn nf Inst Rnn'nor trna flnnfwl xiSKs ior money, Dotn m tnis country ana in Eu rope, were,cojparati easy at that time; yet Japan was unable to float a 6 per "cent loan of $50, 000,000 except at a discount of about 6 percent be low par, and even then was compelled to mortgage Iter customs reecipts as collateral for the debt. She las other assets, such as her pyernmentrOwned rail ways and her monopoly of the tobacco traffie,' which ahe eairld put in pawn for , additional borrowings abroad; but should the present 'war 'continue ' for any material length of time, it is an open question, even thaogft Japan should be 'victorious over Riis ma whether' th Japanese government, with all of tfier enterprise- and push of the Japanese people would be able' to meet its national obligations. Count Gkaraa, a former premier of Japan, estimates that, the east of the present war to that country wHlf reach! one btjjpn dollars, and for a country of the Emited resources of Japan, that necessarily Beans a tremendous strain and burden. ' tTnriiniDifldly,. these considerations have had siucfi to fo with the recent decline in Japanese leersrilies in foreign markets. Although the liew 6 per cent bonds were floated last spring at about 54, they have been sold this week in London at as law a price as 90, ex-dividend-and that, too, al though Japan's custom receipts are pledged aa crl jateral for these bonds. What would happen to these securities, in case the Japanese army in Jlan thuria should meet with a succession of' reverses an easily be imagined. Unquestionably this contin f ency, together with the narrow resources of Japan and the heavy burden of taxation that is now. ira josed upon the people of that empire, accounts siainfy for the way that foreign financiers look askance at the proposition for a hew Japanese loan. It does not folw, of course, that there is no aouan tt isussia s national purse. While Kussia s icsouxces are vastly greater than Japan's, her na tional debt is nearly ten-fold greater; and the fact that the seat of the present war is near the ex treme astern boundaries of her vast dominions has frufoMj made that conflict immensely more costly to Iter than it has been tQ her adversary. In ad iti all accounts agree that the great mass of the Xussuam people are sunk to almost the last degree f poverty and that their situation ia such that it b next to impossible to wring from them another lopwefe is taxation. In an article in the September Xevww af Reviews Dr. E. J. Dillon, who is familiar withi Eossia, declares that the average Russian peas ant csh spend generally,' but not always, three ents- c day for food for himself and his wife and aiMrra' So far as ability to stand the. exactions f war is concerned, therefore, it would seem that . the Ecnskn people are little better off than the Japanese. The fact, however, that foreign financiers are efikpwsvd! to favor Russian securities without !ol jfeteracT as against Japanese securities backed by a lea vn 'Japanese revenues is significant. This may irot hrply that they believe that Russia will emerge Irons the present conflict a victor, but it does im jfjR apparently, that should Japan emerge as con- wiwir she will do so at the cost of shattered finan THE MATTER WITH OREGON. . '"John Pinney. in a letter published in the Jour nal yesterday, usks: "What is the matter with Or gtmf" We know out here that Oregon is all rilit but why is it that so few people Imek east know anything about Oregon, or if their attention has been drawn to this state at all, regard it with a vague suspicion that it is a poor state! The reasons for this have been often stated, says the Portland paper, but if what Mr. Pinney and others say is true, it seems that the stating of the reasons and all the urg ing of action to make Oregon knowu in the eastern states have had but little effect. Early last spring the Journal urged that com plete, coucise, tastefully arranged and attractively dressed information about Oregon be systematically distributed at St. Louis and elsewhere in great quan- j titles, but visitors to eastern cities keep repeating the story that they can find plenty of such literature about California and Washington, but none about Oregon. And this seems to be the main matter with Oregon. v Nearly everybody perceives that Oregon's priu cipal need, in order to progress and become the great state that nature so richly fitted it to become, is more people, more home-makers, workers, producers, de velopers, taxpayers. But to get these people here, they must be told about Oregon ; their attention must be attracted, their .interest aroused. This can lu done only , by literature of the kind indicated, dis tributed judiciously. A little work of this kind has been desultorily doue, and the O. R. & N. railroad has accomplished much along this line; but not one tenth enough has been done. If Oregon is going to achieve her proper destiny, and keep up with the procession in this age of rapid and large movements. she must toot her horn loudly and continuously, and do it so that millions of eastern people will hear. , ; " In proportion to size, this state, in an all-round view excels California, so famed throughout , the eastern states, and is fully the equal of Washington, that has left this state behind in population, wealth arid development. But it counts for nothing for us to know these facts. They must be made known throughout the land. But how, and by whom? The next legislature ought to take tip this matter, and deal with it liber ally. And Portland, as the state's chief city, ought to do more than it has done in the past. Here is work, too, for the development league, for the expo sition management, and for every kind' of organiza tion, and even' for individuals. . ' . Within thg' next few months five million people living- east of the Rocky mountains -ought tor-be made, to hear about Oregon, to believe the truth that Oregon is the best state in the union. ' ' P.A.StoKes for Swell Togs Men" o o o ( 0 () o s o i' o HIS IS A OAK inont that ' cvorv 0 gentleman needs and q wo think wo have the co -vwr,sse-"-- Tins IS A CUT OF our swell He! ted Mack Overcoat fifty two inches long and a favorite with tlio "know how to dress man." It is a coat that wo have in all patterns, mater ials and weights. $io. TO $30. Of courso we have tho ever popular "topkotu" and Chesterfields, in Melton's, Beavers, Thibets, Coverts and unfinished worsteds. Why spend time and aggravation in going to a tailor's whon you can step in here and be fitted with garments that equal the produc tion of a swell city tai lor at half the cost. mmk if f 5tetejE34f til swelled line of Hnin Couta jthat ever camo Into Atftoria. Every garment is guaranteed to shod water, and they fit, look and take the place of an overcoat. We fecl certain that should you need a gar ment of this kind you will do well to inspect our stock. They are tailored right and priced right. CRTIO 50.1 TO I $25 A Copyright 1904 by Hart Schaffner (J Marx P. A. Stokes i 'Swell Togs for Men" SHOULD REGULARS HAVE HIGHER PJtfl General Funston, in order to raise the general standard of the men in the army, recommends an increase in the pay of army men, 50 per cent for non-commissioned officers and 30 per cent for pri vates. He says that at least half of the army tdday is composed of inferior men, and that so much money is wasted in efforts to make soldiers out of them that an increase of pay, and consequently better men to train, would not prove more expensive to the government. t 1 Army officers have been somewhat at a loss to explain and find remedy for the small number of enlistments, and doubtless such an increase in rec ompense would tend considerably to lessen thjs trouble, but while it might be the means of increas ing the number of desirable applicants for service would enlistments on account of mercenary ends result in a better class of men generally than those now in service? While men in service in this coun try are better paid than in any other, probably even a material increase in their pay would be of use to them. Still they must surely be a better class of men than if remuneration were to be the sole inducement and excuse for enlistment. And what if Uncle Sam'n subjects are not generally desirous of giving up the many interests of private life in order to help main tain a large army! As in times past, if emergency should arise and their services be needed, there would be no lack of volunteers from among the in telligent and patriotic men that are most wanted. Until there is a much greater need and demand for an increase in the number, and for better re cruits for other than the given reasons, this recom mendation will probably not be generally approved by the majority of people. ' ',. ' We have been asked to publish the popular vote cast for McKinley and Bryan in 1896 and 1900. In 1896 McKinley 's popular vote was 7,111,607, while Bryan's was 6,509,052, McKinley 's plurality being 602,102. In 1900 McKinley received 7,218,: 353 votes, to' 6,357,807 cast for Bryan. McKinley V plurality was 860,546. McKinley received 271 elec toral votes in 1896, while Bryan received 176; in 1900 McKinley received 292, to 155 for Bryan. 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