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PAGE FOUR. ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1904. CMPtofl flstorian ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. : By mail, per year $6 00 By mail, per month 50 By carriers, per pmtth. 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAX. fiyiuU, per year, in advance $1 00 A NON-PARTISAN DEMAND. . There is t. growing deinamt that neither party make either !'iinite or inilofinite promise of future independence lor the Filipinos, says the Post Intelli gencer. This teeling is absolutely independent of party. It is a result of the tendency of the. times. And that tendency is toward aggregation. Asa matter of fact that has been the t-ndency of all times, from the day that primitive men began banding themselves into tribes for better protect agaiast a omuion enemy. And the higher tii tyjK' of social ami commercial life the more marked is the tendency to aggregation. And the farther this tend ency is carried, too, the greater and more powerful the aggregated product becomes. As an nieu'p?iulent nation the Philippic s would always be .vea!;. The command!!; jivsi'i iu and the wealth of the aiehipelago would mni iu very e istencc as an independent nation a temptatKii t Europe and a menace to the peac? oL the world. .Vs a portion of a great power, the Philippine are pro tected from ted from without v. 1 from ignorance and its accompanying dangers t'nn within. In the face of conditions and of laws which were made fur man instead of by man the independence of the Philippines would not long continue. Left to themselves they would sooner or later fall into Russian, German or Japanese hands. Centralization, consolidation, aggregation call it what you vill are modifications of evolution's stupendous orwess of integration by which com pletness, orgnn!?ation, the relatiyeTy'-Bimplc' arid the homogeneous were wrought from the one time uni versal chaos, A little over a century ago we were thirteen colonies, a little strip along one coast of this continent. The yielding to the tendency toward aggregation built a nation of common people, a com mon country, of common impulse and common thought from sea to sea. Had the voice that is loud est in demand of Philippine independence, now, to day, been obeyed 100 years ago, the western borders of thi? nation at this time would be the crest of the Alleghanios, if, indeed, it had not been swallowed up by some ether state establi-shed in some other part of the American continent. late last year to revise the Philippines tariff is now in the hands of the war department at 'Washington. The rates and schedules that the committee has adopted are merely tentative, and the war department in vites suggestio'ss and recommendations thereon fron everybody interested in ctMnmeree in the Philippine islands. The most noteworthy changes that ore reportul are in the direction of substituting, in part or in whole, ad valorem for specific duties on certain arti cles, the object being to correct " inequalities" in preseut duties on such articles. This apparently ir a step in the right direction, but whether it will re sult in giving an impulse to trade and industry in the Philippines can be better eletermined when th) gov- rnment Judl have acted on the matter. The progress of the Philippines in this respect has Ixvn somewhat of a disappointment While, it has been iu favorable contrast with that which was maK under Spanish rule, it has not Ueen ns rapid as was to have been expected under Amerioui rule. I Ins has been elue m considerable measure to the tariff policy that we have imposed ou these islands a policy that has bevn dictated to some extent by re- gurd for industrial interests of our own country rather than those of the Philippines. This is a mis taken policy, if our object is to make the Filipinos ontented tinder the American flag. It is to be hoped that the war department's in vitatien for suggestions and recommendations in con nection with the Philippines commission's report wil meet with a response suitable to the importance o the subject. Fair treatment of the Filipinos in th way of helping them to make the most of their ma tcral resources will probably contribute more than anything else toward doing away with the need o maintaining t large1 armed force in that archipelago QOlOSOOSOSOSOJOiO$OO$OGOSOtO0jDa! o Home of Swell Togs For Men. P. A. STOKES ..r THE PROBLEM OF RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. . Writing in the North Aemrican Review of the appalling number of fatalities on American rail roads, Congressman John J. Esch asks if this casualty list cannot be reduced by legislation. His unhesitat ing answer is in the affirmative. He buttresses his argument with an interesting array of figures. He recalls that in 13S9 congress took up the' matter of providing better protection for trainmen, the result being the legislation of 1893 and 1903, which has had the expected effect of largely reducing the casualties among this class of railway operatives. Mr. Esch urges laws extending additional protec tion to all railway employes. He points but the large number of accidents last year that were due to exces sive hours that men were kept on duty, to the em ployment of young and inexperienced men. These ojerworked and incompetent men were the ones, as a rule, who misread or disobeyed orders and ignored signals. Mr. Eselr thinks that laws forbid ding the employment of boys and incompetents and making a misreaduig or ignoring 6f orders a punish able offense would remedy matters. Recalling that passengers in Pullman cars are practically immune from danger in case of collision, while the ordinary coaches are smashed into kindling wood, he also re commends national legislation- on. car construction, and by the same means would compel the 'universal adoption of double tracks and the block system. This latter recommendation re-enforces that already made by the itnerstate commerce commission, and congress will be asked to act on it this winter. The Chicago Inter-Ocean, commenting on Mr. Esch's suggestions, truly remarks that better disci pline and more intelligent direction on the-railways weuld remedy many of the evils without resorting to new legislation. SOME REMARKABLE SIEGES. If t ort Arthur talis today or holds out unti Juuuary, the story of the siege, when compared with others, will be dull and commonplace. Stoessel mav tight until he and his last man are elead, but such has been the ending of other sieges. The Japanese nay carry the forts by assault, but that will estab lish no new record in the history of sieges, declares the Examiner. Port Arthur has been invested by sea and land since June 7. The siege of Jerusalem, under Titus and Ves pasian, lasted two years, and the besieged Jews fought one another within the walls, and beat off the Romans without, this length of time before the final assault. If Stoessel and his men die fighting, our own Al amo will not be eclipsed. The inscription over the old mission in the San Antonio plaza is "Thermopy lae had one survivor; the Alamo, none." Hannibal, at the close of the siege of Saguntum, killed all the defending garrison and destroyed the city. Homer's mythical (?) siege of Troy lasted 10 years. 1 lie Lnglish defended uibraltar three years against a French and Spanish army, and then the siege was raised. Sevastopol was defended by the Russians 11 months. The French lost 43,000 men in the assaults and the English 15,000. The Russians never sur rendered, but evacuated the place. The siege of Petersburg began on June 9, 1864 and Grant's army was beaten off by the confederates for nine minths. The garrison withdrew on April 2. Petersburg is almost without a parallel in history. The siege of Paris lasted 132 days. One of the remarkable sieges was that of Fort Erie, in our war of 1812. The English surrounded the fort and assaulted it at intervals for 30 days. At the end of this time the Americans got their fight ing clothes on, came out of the fort and broke up the English army. Stoessel may hold on until the Russians come down next summer and relieve him, or he may die with all of his garrison, but the history of the siege oT Port Arthur will present no new feature. It will be merely another record of blood and death, and of the folly of man showing him to be a savage, like his forbears at Saguntum, Jerusalem. 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Overwhelming a has be u President KooKevelt's victory in the last campnign, it is just as well to keep in mind that a lot of things are likely to occur in the course of the next four years to change the current of political sentiment in this country. What has become of David Bennett Hill! Mr. Swallow remains on the water wagon. Next Time You need a pair of Men's, WomenVor Children's SHOES ; Honest, Durable Shoes) For less money than you have been paying try S. A. GIKIRE 543-545 Bond St. Ballet Girls! Look liKe genuine Pastel work 15c. See the show window. J. N. GRIFFIN B uuuuuuuuuuuuu HHonaannnsnttv Our Drugs Are Pure We compound prescriptions with great cure from a complete stock of fresh- j&nd pure drugs. We also ' sell all the standard home remedies and all kinds of Proprietary Articles, Combs, Brushes, Rassors, Soaps, all kinds of Toilet Articles, Etc. 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