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PAGE FOUR. ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, li04. Clic morning JMorian ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. By mail, per year ..... By mail, per month... By carriers, per rwnth. fG 00 50 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTUKIAS. By mail, per year, in advance $1 00 SENATOR COCKRELL'S CHOICE. The satisfaction produced by the discovery that a Republican legislature had been elected in Missouri was tempered wily by the reflection that the surpris ing victory would result in the retirement of Senator Cockrell from the place which he had filled so long and creditably. The feelinir was not less strong among his political opponents than in his own party that his prospective disappearance from public life was to be regretted, and the present expectation that he will continue to serve the country in another ca pacity is sure to please his fellow citizens of every political faith. In offering to Senator Cockrell the vacant isth mian canal commissionership the presilent has paid him an unusual compliment, for he informs him at the same time that, if considerations of health con strain him to decline it, an appointment to the inter state commerce commission awaits his acceptance, In one of those two important posts, therefore, it may be hoped that the senator will find a congenial opportunity to employ his excellent talents and sound judgment for the general benefit. This practical ex pression of the president's high regard for the Mis souri statesman, fully according with the estimate in which he is everywhere held, is a gratifying incident of political life. THE CHIVALROUS AMERICAN "WOMAN. That leader in the woman's club movement in Chicago who lately declared the American man to be the superior of the American woman marks an era in modern progress. It is not that for a moment we agree with her. We merely applaud a long step for ward in the matter of advanced thinking, says the Saturday Eveping Post. Years ago an after dinner speaker and it need scarcely be added, A man-ironically apostrophized the New Woman (she was new then) as "once our superior, now our equal." A president of the Oxford union, in grave, undergraduate debate, hit off the case more aptly in declaring that though the New .Woman had ceased to be a lady she had not yet become a gentleman. The signal fact about the present dictum is that it proves that the speaker has become a gentleman. We should not be surprised to find that the remark was post-prandial, and made with a wineglass tilted aloft in a patronizing toast to "the better sex, God bless them." The spirit of chivalry has its root in the sense of greater strength. When all women are conscious of the superiority they have so long been proclaiming they will unite in a toast to even such a poor, down trodden being as the American man. They will have become gentlemen all. Is it not up to the American man to look to his laurels! Let him proclaim from the housetops that it is a most superior woman who thus acknowledges his superiority. Meantime the question of the relative merits of the sexes remains about where it was. A generation ago rural debaters used to fall about one another's ears discussing what would happen if an irresistible force met an immovable body. The modern question of the superior sex is a fitting substitute. It is allur ing because it is elusive; it is possible to discuss it with delighted acrimony because no solution is at tainable. For a scheme of nature in which one sex is more necessary, more useful, more able or more virtuous than the other is as inconceivable as a scheme of nature in which there are irresistible forces in conflict with immovable bodies. If, in the past, man has shown a certain superiority in character by being satisfied with his place in the realm of nature, woman has shown an equal share of the divine gift by a spiritual discontent that was sublime. And yet the remark from Chicago shows progress. OUR STYLE AND TITLE. At the Thanksgiving dinner of the American col ony in London Sir Edward Clark took occasion to ob ject to the people of the United States adopting for themselves the name "Americans" and calling their country "America." The subject has been discussed before. Many years ago, at a Fourth of July celebration by Americans and foreign guests in Geneva, an emi nent Frenchman made the same criticism, and pro ceeded to an elaborate analysis of the origin and con struction of national names, says the Call. He pro ceeded from thia analysis to derive for a citizen of this republic the name "United Statesian." When this is examined, it is seen to lack entirely the quality of distinctness and exclusive application. We have in this hemisphere the united states of Mexico ami the united states of Brail. On the isthmus, since Boli var's day, there has been cherished a dream of the united states of Central Amriea. So, seen from the outide the bare term uuited states would require explanation. The Frenchman found his analogy in the name of France and French. Both terms are understood and are limited. Our name, the United States of America, is older than the constitution. In the articles of confederation adopted in 1777, confederat ing the original thirteen separate colonies, article 1 said: "The at vie of this confederacy shall be the United States of America." This was followed in the preamble to the constitution of 1789, in which the convention wrote that we "do ordain and estab lish this constitution for the United States of Amer ica. It will be observed that the article "the" serves other than its merely grammatical purpose. It means that there may be other united states, but this is 'the" united states. At the time it was adopted this was the only United States of America. It is, there fore, the senior and its juniors have only copied it style. We have, it will be seen, the prior right to call ourselves Americans. When we adopted th name all the rest of the hemisphere was in a eolinia condition. The Canadas were English, the rest o the hemisphere was mainly divided between Spain and Portugal and the jieoplo were Spaniards am Portuguese. We were the only Americans, adopting the name of the continent as our name. When th revolution began we called ourselves "Continentals,' because we wished to be differentiated from the peo ples who owed a foreign allegiance beyond the con inent. The transition of "American" was perfect ly natural and in accordance with the principle gov erning selection of style and title. So we were the first Americans and have become the greatest, ani will remain to the end the greatest Americans, meas ured by our personal characteristics and our national power. Our style and title are well understood by the whole world. Sir Edward Clark's criticism was called out by an evolution of our style required by brevity nd dictated by the rule of exact description and designation. In view of the existence of other unit ed states, junior to us, in this hemisphere, our gov. ernment has dropped "United States" as the desig nation of our foreign embassies, and our diplomatic representative is now called briefly and descriptively "the American ambassador." The title is simple and dignified, and belongs to us by prescriptive right. Other nations adopt their names and bear them for reasons sufficient unto themselves. For a long time after the fall of Calais broke poor Mary's heart the English sovereigns styled themselves "king of Great Britain, France and Ireland." In our first treaty with Sweden the sovereign called himself "the king of Sweden, of the Goths and Vandals." So also we have had treaties with "his most Catholic ma jesty and "his most Christian majesty. These sovereigns chose the name that seemed best to ex press their power or their pretensions. The people of this country are also sovereign, and have the same right to choose the national name by which they will be known. Our fathers called themselves Americans and this America, and the union they formed became logically the United States of America. These styles will endure. Sir Edward Clark proposed to rechrist- en us "Unona." But Mr. Choate, American am bassador, simply and with dignity dismissed the subject by saying that "we are quite satisfied with our name." t Swell Togs For Men. P. A. 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