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ntra fcwx ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27. Che morning flstorian ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. By mail, per year $6 00 By mail, per month . 50 By carriers, per month 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAN. By mail, per year, in advance $1.00 "STAGGERING HUMANITY." Paul Kruger'8 phrase comes irresistibly to niiml again, says the New York Tribune. .He threatened to "stagger humanity" with the costliness of the Transvaal war. We can not say that he succeeded The world was shocked, but scarcely staggered. But in the present war there is cause for staggering. lhere are battles contrasted with which those m South Africa seem little more than skirmishes, and losses on a single field comparable in magnitude with all in the whole of that former war. No wonder the Japanese themselves are awed in solemn silence by the price of their own victories, so that they think more of making peace than of celebrating the tri uniph of their arms. It is a great thing to win a victory. It is an appalling thing to bury ten thou sand of the enemy's dead upon a single field of battle. Nor is that all of it, or the worst of it. The world does not begrudge a price, however great, so long as it receives adequate value in return. It does begrudge even a small price that is paid for naught Franklin Pierce once spoke of our "fearful, fruitless, fateful civil war," and its "harvest of woe" which brought with it "no recompense." That, by the irony of fate, was on the day that Yicksburg fell and the day after Gettysburg was fought But his then untimely phrases today recur with painful . force, as applicable to these titanic battles on the Manchurian plains. The' world has seen great hattles before, at Lepsic, at Waterloo, at Gettysburg, Tat Sedan. They accomplished some thing. They marked the ending of wars, or at least the definite turning points of campaigns. But at Liao Yang a few weeks ago we had a battle which was declared to have exceeded any of them in mag nitude and in destructiveness, and yet which was confessedly indeterminate, a mere 'drawn game, leaving the belligerents substantially where they were before. Now at Yentai we have had for the last ten days a battle probably greater still in de tructiveness and loss, and we are told that it, too, is indecisive, and will probably leave the combatants about as they were before. It 2s. that apparent fruitlessness of it that most "staggers humanity." We do not say the whole war b causeless or is going to be fruitless. But it is a litter disappointment to humanity that each of these tremendous battles should be indecisive and that these scores of thousands of soldiers should be sacri IcI to no immediate end. It compels us to revise all our preconceptions ofa modern war between two great powers. We had thought such a war would, lecaose of the terrible efficiency of the engines em ployed, necessarily be short, perhaps decided by a single great battle. Yet here is such a war running n indefinitely. Port Arthur is holding out month after month, just as Sebastopol and Plevna did, and eme gfneral engagement follows another without re tuft The Japanese seem, on the whole, to have been victorious, but their victories are barren of fruit The Russians are defeated, but they are not routed r destroyed. This, we may say, staggers humanity. We must say it, lest humanity be discredited. The world eau nut afford to look unmoved upon a slaughter at nee so great and so void of consequence. It could regard with some equanimity the striking . of the leanest blows, provided they were "knockdown" ilows and they brought the fight to an end. But for two antagonists to maul and maim each other atro iauffy and yet "get no forrarder," is unspeak ably repulsive. Such a process, if long continued, rast certainly arouse, a public sentiment throughout the world that even the belligerents themselves can ot withstand, a sentiment for peace and for the settlement of international differences by some other means that will indeed settle them, and not by an in determinate pouring out of lives without profit to either side and without bringing the quarrel any Bearer to an end. amounted to :l47.5iit,100 pounds, valued at $29,9;0, 813. Of the September shipments for 1904,' Great Britain took 222,278,037 pounds as against 57,90.V 779 pounds hfSeptemher, 1903.- ' - Only one conclusion ean be drawn from these statistics namely, that the foreign cotton spinner, especially those of Great Britain are apparently convinced that the cotton crop of this country for the present season will not reach any such proportion as some sanguine prophets have predicted that it would, and, accordingly, they are taking time by the forelock by providing themselves with ample sup plies of that staple, says the New York Commer cial. They plainly look for little fall in the price of raw cotton in the inunediate future, and, like manufacturers of practical sense and acumen, they are accommodating themselves to conditions as they actually exist. ' ' Their action in thus making haste to provide themselves with an adequate stock of American cot ton bears out the recent estimates of the Commercial to the effect that the new cotton crop will probably not exceed 10,9(50,000 bales, instead of its reaching 12,000,000 of more bales, as was confidently predict ed in some quarters earlier in the season. These British continental spinners have been particularly close students of cotton conditions in the United States for the last few mouths and, if they pos sessed any grave doubts as to the more optimistic view of the size of the new American cotton crop, they would hardly be so precipitate iu their pur chases of that staple as they now are. What effect this heavy volume of exports of raw cotton will have upon American spinners, especially those of New England, remains to be seen. Most of the New England cotton mills are running on part time or are still idle chiefly in consequence of labor troubles growing out of an attempt to reduce wages and the owners and managers appear to lie little inclined to stock up with raw cotton at the ruling price. It would seem, however, as if these recent large shipments of cotton to foreign spinners might put an entirely new phase on the matter. iy. A FATHER SAYS "AMEN!" 'With all my heart I congratulate the writer of that editorial on 'A Poor Example in Wednesday's Astorian," said a man of prominence in public af fairs who called at The Astorian office for the pur pose yesterday. "It is not only the evil inclination of the boy which 'the parent has to guard against. It is the temptation to which he is subjected by care less or designing men. The 'kids' know every man of prominence in the city at sight. What these-men do is just what the boys are bound to do, except that the boy always wants to go his exemplar one bet ter. If the 'old man' smokes a cigar the boy will take license to smoke anything even cigarettes. If the doctor utters an oath, the young hopeful wallows in proianuy. n tne lawyer takes a drink, the boy feels justified in tippling. You are right It is not even the gatherings of so-called high-class men who congregate nightly within two blocks of this office and whose wagers are only limited by the size of their 'pile' or the influence of the habitues of. the lower dens, which- renders the training of virtuous and honest boys so difficult in Astoria, though that is bad enough. i "It is the baneful examples of men who are pub licly disregardful.of the proprieties of true gentle manliness and are either not good enough at heart to care for the future of the young people, or do not stop to consider that they might better lend their influence for morality and good citizenship which is true patriotism. Yes, from a moral and from a business standpoint you are right, and we should have more of such utterances." O00000000 P.A.Stohes "Swell Togs for Men" TUIS IS A CUT OF our swell Belted Back Overcoat fifty two inches long and a favorito with tlio "know how to dress man." It is a coat that wo have in all patterns, meter ials and weights. $io. TO $30. o I " Of course we have the $ ever popular "topkote" 9 and Chesterfields, in O Melton's, Beavers, Cj Thibets, Coverts and 0 unfinished worsteds. -Why spend time and aggravation in going to a tailor's when vou can step in here and be fitted with garments that equal the produc tion of a swell city tai lor at half the cost. M&f mm f M Jr ml 1 ran mil mmmLm. ml Ipswii $ 9 so 1 1 1 IfaWsafcwfblMtfl 8 ...rHJ JL 1 ain Goats o o 9) o o o CD o CO O HIS IS A OAR- S n wnt that every O - . - ' ' gentleman ' needs and q wo think wo have the swellest liuo of Rain g Coats that ever came o Iuto 'Astoria. Every ratrrt Jkitt In (Vila fXJ ft t Aiul w to shod water, and they lit, look and take tne place of an overcoat. We fcel certain that should you need a gar mentor tins kind you will do well to inspect our stock, llicv are tailored right and priced right. P. A. Stokes Swell Togs for Men" 000000000003;00000!SOe0OOCvOOiOiO(AO;0a? Copyright 1904 by ' Hart Schaffner fcf Marx w v9 KC0 ttixtmt EXPORTS OF COTTON. The exports of raw cotton from the United States for the month of September constitute a record Weaker. In no September in the history of this eomrtry have these exports either in the matter of quantity or of value been equaled. In volume they amounted to 410,940,894 pounds, valued at $43,742, 325. The nearest approach to these figures was in September, 1902, when the volume of exports SHOES That is our subject. " ' '.' We can interest you in shoes. We have shoes . 1 ,1 i : : For Everybody and no house in As toria can sell better FOOTWEAR or at lower prices. : : J S. A. GIFilBE ' 543-545 Bond St ABSOLUTELY IMPARTIAL. The accusation of valley papers that the, Asso ciated Press is supporting the republican candidates this fall is absolutely without truth. The Astorian daily receives full reports of political progress in all parts of the country, and they are as utterly unbiased as they possibly could be. The Associated Press exercises the greatest care to refrain from ex pression of opinion. It is distinctly a news-gather ing institution, and as such, supplying service to papers of every political faith, it could not favor the candidacy of either Mr. Roosevelt or Judge Parker and fulfill its mission. It records events and trans mits the statements of speakers, treating republicans and democrats alike with absolute fairness. Nor is it fair of the. valley papers to charge the Oregonian with publication of one-sided news matter. The Ore gonian 's special service has been quite fair, and our Portland contemporary has very frankly stated both sides of the question in its news columns. The quotations from eastern journals which are repro duced in the Oregonian may at times strike us as in consistent and full of prejudice, but the Oregonian is not responsible for this. It pays out considerable sums for telegraphic tolls to print the statements of democratic and republican organs, and ought to be commended for its enterprise, instead of unjustly censured. ' The political faith of men carry them too far, and we have an idea such enthusiasts have scored the Associated Press and the Oregonian. We have heard no complaint because of the publication of political news in The Astorian, which depends en tirely upon the Associated Press, and we know there is no occasion . for complaint. -s- . sn mil J33fift ft v:'- ft-? r.T. ,r 11 iJnmumi nbk'd her to reach Wei llul WtMo dtiy whfre h now lies. FUmoval Notlo. Dr. J. A. Fulton has moved from hU old offlc to room 4. I and 6 In th BUr theater building, corner Elev enth and Commercial atreete. on, thf second floor. ' " j . GREAT TUNNEL NOW CLEAR. Workmen Conneet Two Seotlone of Momter Shaft a Seattle.' Seattle, Oct : 21 WoMtmen" at 'II oVIock tonight broke: the wM botweett the north. ajid. aouth aoctlona of ytit Great S'ortjhero tulmel.yuru)lncuid!t thV buKlnwee" aectlorv ef th.5rtty. h'M ahaft la now. clear (rnt end-to.end, , The tunnel, la the targeat In area In the Unfted SUtia. i ' l'f' GO fried rRg nnd drink an eighth of a keg of beer within an hour. The gaatrononilo tent la to be made the evening of November t. " , A Lev Letter. Would not Interest you If you're looking, iot a guaranteed aalva tfor Ponder, flK ,wrltta: 1 Buffered with an ugly acre for a year, but a box of Bucklen'a Arnica Salve cured me. It's the beat ealve on tarth. I Jo at Chaa. 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