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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1904)
ASTORIA, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1904. PAGE FOUR. Cbcmornind flstorian ESTABLISHED 18T3 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. ' By mail, per year 16 00 By mail, per month.... 60 By carriers, per owuth. 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAX. By nisul, per year, iu advance n 00 THE FATE OF THE "SPELLBINDER." The St Louis Post Dispatch, oommentinsr on the liberal use by the national Republican committee of the advertising eoliuiins of newspapers and maga zines, and on the advertsing campaign of Mr. Doug las in Massachusetts, reaches the conclusion that "these advertising experiments presage the passing of the spellbinder." There is, the New York Tribune adds, room here certainly for interesting speculation. "Whether the popular demand for campaign educa tion is supplied by political arvertisements or by the news and editorial comment of the press, or has lost some of its oldtime keenness, all observers notice a change in the attitude of voters. The recent cam paign was in general regarded as dulL Politicians were puzzled to know what it meant. The vote showed that it did not mean any lack of interest. The people were alive to teh issues, and knew what they wanted, but had no use for processions and little use for spellbinders whose stereotyped speeches they knew beforehand, though they were everywhere eager to listen to men of importance who could discuss pub lic questions with authority. They likewise paid lit tle attention to the conventional campaign document, but everywhere the newspaper discussion which made a real point attracted attention. The change is the sign of a more rational atti tude on the part of voters. Their political ideas are formed more as their business ideas are formed, by the sane and sober consideration of the question in volved. They read more newspapers than ever be fore, and, while no one newspaper exercises the au thority that a few did half a century ago, those news papers furnish the materials for independent polit ical thinking to thousands who were formerly reached only by extraordinary stimulant to enthusiasm and political action. In many rural communities, where in former presidential campaigns torchlight proces sions and "spreadeagle" speeches held sway, nothing of the kind occurred this year. But the rural free de livery was taking into every farmhouse the political news and the political editorial. The voter needed no brass band to teach him that election was coming. Parton gives a sample of political argument in 1832 in a story of a Staten island shoemaker called upon to make his first speech. He indulged in a fiery denunciation of Adams for having let the em peror of Brazil seize and hold some American war vessels, and told how when Jackson became president and demanded the ships the emperor had learned who he was and said: "I guess we'd better send those ships back right away." This crazy tale of a seizure which never occurred was a more useful cam paign talk to that audience than a reasonable discus sion of the issues. But nothing like it would be done today except in rare instances. The average voter knows claptrap when he sees it, and cheap and inde cent campaign methods are less and less influential. The people want, and it is to be hoped always will want, to hear senators and cabinet officers give an ac 'count of their stewardship and an outline of their proposed policies. Perhaps we may see a general re vival of the old habit of joint debating, which seems to enjoy renewed favor in some states. Maybe the English habit of "heckling," which keeps candidates from talking "buncombe" and makes them face the issues about which the people are really thinking, may be naturalized here. Political discussion in some form or other which brings people and politicians into actual contact and understanding is sure to per sist. But political discussion which is merely noise is likely to go out of fashion, like log cabins and hard cider, because popular intelligence has outgrown them. the high rate of interest that it is to boar and the price at which it is to be floated a reasonably safe investment. The uncertain factor is whether the present war with Russia may not be prolonged to such an extent as seriously to cripple the volume of Japans dutiable imports. That government hite been borrowing heavily of its own people; and, as the resources of the Japanese are limited, the point may soon be reached where the consuming power of Japan in the way of imported products will be ma terially curtailed. That the island empire is approaching such a con tingency is indicated by its proposal to increase old and to impose new taxes for the purpose of providing for war expenses. This scheme includes the doubling of taxes on incomes and business and an increase in the land tax, in the tax on "rice-beer" and in other domestic taxes, and the imposition of taxes on in heritances, railroad tickets, freight bills, textile goods and the salt monopoly.' It is impassible that the en forcement of such a wholesale plan of taxation should i not constitute a serious drain on the resources of the Japanese people. The growing need of Japan for additional finan cial means is apparently one reason why she is eager to bring her war with Russia to a swift conclusion. In this she is probably wise, for every day that the couflict is prolonged the heavier becomes the financial burden that her people are compelled to bear. 00$00$00$0!$00$0S00$00$0$0$O3O$Oi o g Swell Togs o . For Men. P. A. STOKES Home of o o Swell Togs o O O o ; A PREMIUM GIVING IN TRADE. When the president of one of the most prominent ...... : ... it cs cereal manuiaciunug companies m m? v. o. nanim-a the secretary -of the National Association of Retail Grocers that he and his company have from the out set been opposed to the giving of premiums and prizes in order to attract trade, and that his concern was really driven into the system through the acute dan ger of losing its position in the trade if it stayed out. it is plain enough that the whole scheme is a club that in no wise lessens the keenness of competition and one that is used by the ceubbers most unwillingly, says the New York Commercial. And when again the same manufacturer assures the same grocery-trade official that he will promptly and gladly abandon the whole premium business, from top to bottom, if only "all of the manufactur ers, distributors and wholesale 'dealers in cereal goods in the United States will do likewise," that proposi tion gives fresh emphasis to the fact that thousands of manufacturers and dealers in all lines of goods regard the premium system not only as wholly un necessary, but as positively vicious iu its influence and effects. It is a chain of their own forging, however, and it is easily within their power to break the shackles, if only they will, by concemted action. Had this offer to break away from a system that imposes such an absolutely unnecessary burden on business come from an obscure quarter, it might well pass unnoticed. As it is, however, the proposition seems to hold out a hope that trade in this country may in the near future be freed of a thing that its prose cutors heartily hate but endure. JAPAN'S NEW LOAN. The Japanese foreign loan for $00,000,000, now being negotiated, with interest at the rate of 6 per cent, is to be floated, it is announced, at 90 1-2 and is to constitute a second lien on Japan's customs re ceipts. It will be recalled that Japan mortgaged these sa emreceipts last May in order to raise a for eign 6 per cent loan of $30,000,000. The subscrip tion price of the Ixmds that were negotiated at that time was 93 1-2, but they have since sold as low as 90. Japan's customs revenue of late has averaged about $7,500,000 per annum, but quite recently that government increased its customs taxes, so that the latter are now expected to yield considerably more revenue than they formerly did. This would seem to render the new loan consideration being taken of Pretty nearly everybody in the United States has figured out just how it happened that Theodore Roosevelt got so awfully many votes. But where is David Bennett II ill f When last heard from he was sitting on a public platform in West Virginia and listening to Henry G. Davis' half consciously pathetic declaration that he was the cause of all the vice presidential candidate's trouble. Since that moment he has been lost to view. Yet he is wont to 1m vocal on insufficient provocation. Can it be that he has sought oblivion at Esopusf Or is it the true expla nation of a seeming mystery that no human being cares to know what 21 ill thinks about the awful slaughter of his old friend that he has been wait ing many long and weary days for an inqury that has never comet In the old stormy old but always young the Irish judge said to the prisoner at the bar: "I want nothing from you but silence, and 1 d little of that." o 1 1 ifPvtt tap Overcoats! Copyright 1904 by Hart Schaffner &f Marx 0 a1 0 0 0 0 6 Home of 0 0 Remember we are offering special values In OVERCOATS, not alone In price, hut In overcoats that are "cre 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 onchalf your tailor's price, OVERCOATS $7.50 to $30.00 Money back if dissatisfied. o CD O o o a o o a o o o Swell Togs P. A. STOKES 0S030S00000000S00000fc0S00ftS0SSOi!0(SOS!0( Swell Togs For Men. J. B. BLOOMINGDALE DEAD. Prominent Retail Merchant and Pub-' lie Citixtn. New York, Nov. 2I.-Joseph II. Moomlngilny. a well-known dry goods merchant and capitalist, who re tired from active business Home time -o, 1 dead nt hla home here from r -art affection. He went went In hla )iuih and began business In Leaven worth. Kim- going from there to Call f.irnln. In I860. He wn prominently luentlnod with numerous Hebrew edu cational and financial Institutions. Return from El Psso. San Francisco, Nov, 22. A party of prominent Oregimlans nrrlved today fiom the national Irrigation congress held recently at El Pa ho. Included In the number were: E. L. Smith, J. M. Wllllumson. E. M. Uraimlck, A. King Wilson, secretary of the Oregon asso ciation; A. H. Devers, Judge 8. A. Low ell and Tom Richardson. Prinet Lin.r I Floated. New York. Nov. 22. After lying fast In the sand off Long Island shore since easly Sunday, the Prince line aflldavlts that she resided on certain at high tide tonight. According to marine observers, the liner was not damaged to any great extent. It Is thought she will proceed Immediately to her dock at Hrooklyn. Would Seem That Way. It strikes an American as a useless precaution to send Russian dispatch In cipher. Kansas City Times. Save the I Imperial band and get tht diamond stud. Hansen McCanna, who occupy the hey formerly used by T. 8. Simpson, adjoining the city water office, sre prepared to do all kinds Of sign and carriage painting. They will makt a specialty of work of this class and guarantee satisfaction. Our all-wool patterns In full suit ings and overcoatings Include a wide range of beautiful things. That Is the correct word beautiful. We doubt If any other display can be found con taining so many styles to which the word In Its truest sense may be so fittingly applied. Do not fall to call on Dickinson & Allen, 435 Commercial street, and see the many hundreds of pattern for yourself. Farmer Burn Beat, Barr. Davenport, la., Nov. 22. Fanner Burns of Ulg Itock, la., and Jim Tarr, of London, wrestled tonight. Hums won the first fall In 21 minutes and the second in 19 minutes. Ex-Governor Black, who, before his flection to the governorship, was a practicing lawyer nt Troy with a slender income, went to New York after his re tirement in 1899 and built up a practice which is worth $100,000 a year. He does not feel disposed to relinquish this to accept an $8000 salary as a mem ber of the cabinet. If the government expects the services of the ablest men in the cabinet, it should pay them at least $25,000 a year, says the Ledger. A cabinet officer cannot live in Washington and en tertain as he is expected to for less than this amount, and some cabinet ministers spend much more. The salaries paid to the department chiefs and president's counselors are ridiculously low. Sir William McEwen, a professor of Glasgow uni versity, is an authority for the view that "the quick lunch" is a health destroyer. In an address to the Charing Cross medical school of London he said that people seemed to act as though "food should bt thrown into the stomach as a sandwich into the pocket." He complains that "mastication is not taught in the schools," and says it is time that "certi ficates should be given in schools for sound digestion. Instead of doing that we appoint royal commissions to inquire into the causes of physical deterioration of the race." kbbbi Next Time You uccd a pair of Men's, Women's or Children's SHOES Honest, Durable Shoes) For less money than you have been paying try S. A. GIMRE 543-545 Bond St The original Jno. A, Moler has opened one of his famous barber col lege at (44 Clay street, San Fran cisco. Special Inducement this month; positions guaranteed; tuition earned while learning. Write correct num ber, 644 Clay street, San Francisco. CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT. Reopened Under New Msnaooment. 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