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PAGE FOUR. ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1904. CDc morning jmorian ESTABLISHED 1873 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 ASTOKIAX. By E)jil, per year, hi advance $1 00 WON fc.1H8EL THE NEW WOMAN. We desire to call the attention of Miss Anthony, Miss Shaw and Mrs. Catt to the doings of the new woman in the states where the ladies are iu all poli tical respect our fellow-citizens and vote and fight, cays the Call. The ouly warm state on electiou day was Colorado, where the ladies did their share of ml hot work at the polls and were as ready to fight as to vote. The record is such as to make us fear that woman suffrage, instead of taming and gentling politics, has overcome the calm manners of the gentler sex, and that our sister woman has no more scruples in out-tricking the opposition than we have. Women are by no means contented in the suffrage state to vote or scratch tickets nominated for them by men. They go to the primaries and do more than their share of persuading results in the conventions. One thing is noticeable: they are not inclined to plump for ladies who are candidates for office, but quarrel over men. In Wyoming women voted when it was a territory and, therefore, had the power to perpetuate their right in the state constitution. They do not as gen erally seek office there as they do in Colorado, Utah and Idaho, but they are in the show for all that. The latest news from Wyoming tells us of a duel between two ladies living on ranches near Fort Bridger. They had fought in the road several times and finally is sued to each other a warning that the next combat would be a gun fight. It was. They met armed with revolvers and fought and fired until both fell and one was killed. The survivor, with several serious wounds, is in jail, putting up the old masculine plea of self-defense. It is a far cry from knitting needle to a re- Tmlvpi fwrni si hmvimctiilr in a min in ih& linnla rtf lovely woman, and we are not prepared to say that society wm ue uie gamer irum me cuaiige oi instru ments and occupations. When the woman militant masters the manual of arms the tyrant man would ; better surrender his latch key and vacate his seat on the mackerel kit at the corner grocery, lest he get an indigestible dose of cold lead. We measure the distance to the caller while we ask, in anxiety t rv1TJi (I r 1 tiai rt nAmrtnnl 1nnrnw - n ui tuiiiu axiu jicai ui ciauiiai uauci, niiciucr nuuiau suffrage has advanced public virtue and morality and whether women have refined politics or politics has coarsed women. We are prepared to dodge mis siles and await the answer, but not calmly. tract wheat The price has beeu fixed iu this conn try, not abroad. A SELF-IMPOSED TYRANNY. what has become of the "comic spirit upon which George Meredith used to pride himself f Iu advocating marriages for a limited period only the period of bringing up a family he is voiding an idea as old as Plato. If the truth were known it woul probably be found to be quite as old again as Plato. And in these matters age does not lend dignity or au thority, says the Saturday Evomng Post. The trouble with all such propositions is that they ignore the essential principle of human institutions. If social laws were mere arbitrary enactments, em anating from Mars or from the moon, successful re bellion against them would, perhaps, be possible. But they are the deliberate and hard-won expression of the deepest necessities of man. In point of fact, monogamous marriages, as the latest authorities as sure us, are not merely a human arrangement they are found in the animal world, and were in all prob ability evolved aeons before the anthopoidal b'h'. It is, of course, inevitable that law should work wrong to many individuals, that the social ideal hould bear upon many men and women with crush mg tyranny. It is also true that certain well-recog nized motives urge men and women to live alone, to change partners, even to indulge in a grand right and left. But such motives are exceptional and aberrant. It is possible that in the past they have been unduly condemned; but it is not possible that i ntheir behalf the great institutions of life should ever be radical ly changed. As long as the human race remains what it is it will love, honor and live in mutual obedience to alt high impulses until death. Holmes somewhere remarks that if social anarchy were to reduce all property to ashes some promoter would arise and make a fortune out of potash. It is but varying the epigram to say that if marriage was abolished the severed couples would move heaven and earth to put their necks again under the con jugal yoke. In Mr. Meredith's earlier years nothing would have been more delightful to his comic spirit than to write the novel of an advanced, an Ibscene couple who attempte the social revolt in behalf of free love, only to find that their human hearts are human. THE WORLD'S WHEAT CROP. The New York Evening Post computes the world 's wheat crop for 1904 at 2,960,000,000 bushels, which is 233,556,000 bushels less than in 1903, and 140,181, 000 bushels less than in 1902. But with the ex ception of these years, the 1904 crop, if it amounts to the quantity stated, will be larger than for any year previous to 1902, fully 300,000,000 bushels larg er than the crop of 1900, and 725,000,000 larger than the crop of 1897, when "Joe" Leiter tried to cornet" wheat and forced the price up to $1.80 a bushel. In 1898, as now, there was a war, which always has a tendency to increase the demand for wheat and stiffen prices. It is also to be remembered that the con sumption of wheat the king of cereals increases from year to year. The United States crop is estimated by the Post at 551,000,000 bushels, or about 87,000,000 less than last year's. The European crop is estimated at 1,600,000,000 bushels, or nearly 200,000,00 less than the crop of 1903. Thus it appears that the shortage is in the sections where the demand is greatest. The United States has often had a large surplus of wheat for ex port. But neither last season nor this can any such quantity of wheat be spared, even at the attractive prices Europe will pay, as has been exported in grab or flour in many previous years. The consumption of wheat in this country increases more rapidly than the increase in population, and the American people will pay the top price for flour to keep it at home in sufficient quantieies. The strong demand of the millers is responsible for the high prices that have prevailed in the Chicago wheat pit and at the milling centers rather than the price at Liverpool. Thus it happens that the old saying that Liverpool fixes the prices the American farmer or southern planter shall receive for his wheat or cotton is exploded. That is illustrated, says the Ledger, by the fact that the Ta coma millers have bid higher for wheat at this port than the exporters during the present season. Liver pool has had to raise her quotations in order to at- THE NEW CHINESE TREATY. During the campaign there was some loose and wild talk about the new treaty with China, made necessary by the denunciation of the existing conven tion. It was stated, for political effect, that the new treaty would terminate the exclusion policy of the United States. It is known now as it was then, by all who chose to be fair, that the new treaty does no such thing. Secretary Hay has taken advantage of the opportunity to improve our trade relations with China, in the interest of this coast. There will be liberal treatment of Chinese merchants and some of the obstructive definitions will be abolished. This is approved by sentiment throughout the country. Our trade exchanges w ith China depend now nnd will always depend upon the domestication of Chinese merchants and bankers in our commercial centers. They seek to do just what all commercial people prac tice. Since China first gave open wrts, European and American merchants have established themselves there to promote trade. They are in Shanghai, Can ton and other Chinese ports. If the trade of China is worth seeking, Chinese merchants are entitled to equality of treatment. This will be secured in the new treaty, and following our many acts of friend ship for that empire it will have a wholesome effect upon our oriental commerce. All the world considers Chinese trade as the great prize of future commerce. Our fair share of it hiay well reach stupendous proportions, but we cannot get it by treating Chinese merchants and bankers with contempt and devoting them to out- lawTy. Secretary Hay knows the sentiment of our merchants in the matter and simply proposes to re spect it. It has been stated by our commercial bodies time and again, and was instrumental in modifying some of the merely fanatical features that were pro posed in the present exclusion law. It will be neces sary for our merchants to watch the new treaty when it reaches the senate, for influences may appear there seeking to amend it so as to treat merchants as coolies are treated, which will be unjust to them and, like all injustice, will react upon those who permit it. OOSO000000ilO00$003)OW0 I P. A. STAKES I Hom! ' J For Men. I 1 A well Togs o o Overcoats! Remember we are offering special values in OVERCOATS, not alone in 8 ere- Copyright 1904 by Hart Schaffner fc? Marx price but in overcoats that are ations" from the best tailors of America. In this vast assortment of swell garments we can "fit the hard to fit," "please the hard to please," at about one-half your tailor's price, OVERCOATS $7.50 to $30.00 Money back If dissatisfied. o o P. A. STOKES Home of Swell Togs OSOOSOSOSOO$O$OS.OO$OOOOOOOOO0Ci Swell Togs For Men. 9 35 3 Mexico real estate, city and suburban, has gone up from 200 to 500 per cent in the last few years. The city is being rebuilt with American capital. business and residential sections alike; trolleys run to all the suburban towns, and these are being re built also in costly and substantial style. The city shows all up to date improvements in construction and equipment, and the signs likewise of abundant prosperity. It is every year becoming a more at tractive and delightful place for permanent resi dence, and more and more foreigners, attracted by its beauty and healthfulness, are taking up their abode there. The country at large shows the good effects of a wise administration going over the full period of a generation; it builds more railroads, opens' more mines and gets richer year by year, keeping out of the revolutions in which most of the Latin-American republics fritter away the little prosperity that comes to them. LANE COUNTY 8ETS THE PACE. New Collecting Material for Fine Ex hibit at Fair. Eugene Register. F. M. Warren wa named Friday by the Commercial Club committee ni ed it etjr of the Lane county exh'olt for t ie Lewi and Chirk (air. Kmnlly the county court fit i.nlde f 500 toward thU exhibit, and t ie fair b.-mid hue given a like amount, making tile Initial fund S1000. Mr. Wurren already ha It. fine grain. frasse and fruit fully $500 worth of product unj by the time the fair oim Lare will te on deck with a fine a display ot product a can be found In ih Iale Mr. Warren, through hi two yours' experience In getting together Lane' exhibit for the atate fair. U thoroughly e-iulpped for the work, having done ell by the county heretofore, thouxh handicapped for luck of fund. For this great national occasion tne people of Lane should apure wliher 'me nor money In a supreme effort to pur before the hundred of thousands of visitor to Oregon next year a mag nificent demonstration ot the richness and productiveness of this section; of the progress and enterprise of her tit iztnshlp; of the stability and noitJHy nt her business Interests and of the ambition of Lane and her peoole to he luown fur and wide as the cn c of activity In every line known to western '.levelopment. j Should Add Our Courn. Commercial New. 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V doubt if any other display can be found con taining so many style to which the word In Its truest sens may be so fittingly applied. Do not fall to call on Dickinson A Allen, 435 Commercial street, and see th many hundreds of pattern for yourself. The original Jno. A. Moler has opened one ot his famous barber col lege at 644 Clay street, Ban Fran cisco. Special Inducement this month; positions guaranteed; tuition earned while learning. Write correct num ber, 644 Clay itreet, San Francisco. CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT. Reopened Under New Management. John Blaslch ha leased the Califor nia Restaurant and Oyster House and la now prepared to serve the public. The best oysters and meal In the city. Family trade supplied. Oood cooks, polite waiter and prompt service. &fie STAR THEATER ASTORIA'S FASHIONABLE VAUDC- viae house in connection WITH STAR AND ARCADE THEA TERS OF PORTLAND ..Nun Chsnjt ol Program Mondsy. 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