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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1904)
T1IK M0UN1N0. ASTOKIAN ASTORIA, OKFXiON. TUESDAY, DKCIMIKR I, 1M4. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873. FeblUhed Pally (Kxeer Monday) by THE J. ft. OEV.UNGER' COMPANY, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail. per year '. 00 Br Mall, per month SO By carrier, per month THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mall per year. In advance ..St 00 ItnMm fr the oWl wine ot Tut o ArrwauH to HtJwr nwirinxv or plac of htuuort nu be mad by postal card nr throucfc We shoe. Ant InvfuUrity ta delivery should he (Mediate!? reported to the oOr ot puNicetioa Telephone Main 661. Teday'a Weather. Oregon and Washington. Tuesday. falr. except light rain near coast. Slightly warmer west portion except coast INSTRUMENTS OF TORTURE. Our esteemed evening contemporary, the News, take Issue with the Aeto rlan on the Sunday observance ques tion. This la a privilege all publicans, sinners and unregenerates have In a wide open city like Astoria. Toe argu ments adduced -by the evening paper can carry but little weight, but possibly -are soothing to the element who have Xheom so accustomed to Violating" the law. that they believe It a privilege granted to all residents of Astoria, t'pon the statute books of Oregon, page 692. we find the following: "If any person shall keep open any store, shop, grocery, bail -alley, billiard 'room or tippling house, for the purpose of labor or truffle or any place of amusement, on the first of the week, commonly called Sunday, or the lord's flay, such person upon conviction there of shall be punished by a fine of not less than 15 nor mora than $50. provid ed, that the above: provision shall not apply to the. keeper of drug stores, doctor shopsundertakers, etc, and all circumstances of necessity and mercy may be pleaded Jit defense, which shall be treated aa questions of fact for the Jury to determine." Section 174 page C$4 reads as follows: "No person shall keep open any house or room in which Intoxicating liquor Is kept for retail on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, or give or sell, or otherwise dispose of Intoxi cating liquors on that day." These are the laws of the state of Oregon, enacted by the legislature for the benefit and protection of society. It Is a mistaken Idea that saloonkeep ers are opposed to Sunday closing. If all saloons were closed on Sunday,. they j would not complain as it would afford the men engaged In this business an j opportunity to ,bfi with their families, I or- visit witn inends, or mey migni possibly be induced to attend divine worship. When one keeps open, others hate to. Not that they favor it, but as a matter of business. Closing sa loons and places of amusement on Sun day, would not affect the total gate re ceipts of the saloons at the end of the month. There is Just as much liquor manufactured and ,Just as much drank. There are 46 licensed saloons In Asto ria. They will average $20 a day each, or a total of $920 a day, $27,600 a month, $31,200 a yeaq which the liberal peo plf of Astoria" pay-out for booze. Time was m Oregon when a Sunday close season was provided for the sal mon industry, and fishermen were not allowed to fish from 6 o'clock Satur day night, uhtlfTirWock Sunday night. This was don to protect, the Industry and give flsh kn opportunity to reach spawning grounds. A Sunday closing law for salooni would give a large con tingent an opportunity to sober up and become acquainted with their families, and for thls'reasortf for Do other, Its enforcement would Wa benefit to man-: kind. :The law particularly specifies, places of Ajrmsement" shall, not be kept open on ftytaij,, It is possible, if the vaudeville theaters paid a license In proportion to the benefits derived. and would take those calliopes or hell lopes out to some sequestered spot in the Nehalem valley and place a liberal supply of dynamUe In them, and touch If; off, there might'' not be as much comDlalnt against 'theaters, but these diabolical Instrument of torture, with out any semblance to music, but re sembling more the roaring of a vol canic eruption, or the rattling of buck shot In a tin wash boiler, are becoming a nuisance per se. People take refuge in the theater-or go to a saloon and load up on coffin varnish to escape the hideous noises emitted from these in struments of torture. For this reason, the license of vaude ville theaters should be increased. They are paying 25 cents per day or about $8 a month as a license to run the theaters and, Incidentally, those infernal ma chines stationed at the front door. They demand police protection and are ac corded It. It costs the city $75 a month to furnish a policeman, and the the aters only pay $8. The license is too low. It certainly should be raised to (0 cents per day, and even $5 would not be commensurate with the advantages, financially, accruing to the owners of the theaters, and these rlp-roadlng In cased pianolas, which would drtvs a polecat Into convulsion. If they are to remain and keep on gettmg In their deadly work, the license ought to be $5 a day, but if they can be sold to the government and used for fog horns on the Columbia river bar, the council would undoubtedly be magnanimous enough to place the license at $1 a day. First class theaters, where only one performance Is given In a night, and not an average of one show a week. pay Just the same license as the vaude ville that gives four performances every day, Including Sunday. This Is not Just. It Is not equitable. Vaudeville theaters should pay In proport'on to first-class theaters. We are not oppos- Ing vaudeville theaters, for they afford a place of amusement for the public, but as long as the city needs the money; as long as it costs the city J.i a month for Mice protection, they cer. talnly cannot object to paying rt least half of this amount as a license. The talk of their bliig compelled -o gi out of business If the license is ra'sed. is all nonsense. They will continue to do business and pay $100 a quarter. Just the same as they do and pay $2rk These reasons are not urged to drive the theaters out of business. We want them to remain, but believe they should pay a fair proportion entailed upon the city for police protection. It is a legiti mate business: the shows ore i fitted and the managers perfect gentlemen. It Is simply a matter ot business, xnd as the city needs the money, no doubt an ordinance wilt be Introduced In th. council raising the license to a Just and equitable basis. 0 PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY. There is an apparent Indifference In Astoria among a large nUivWr of on his way to the catch-pennies of the pie. as to what duty each owes to the In Portland, there would be a how that would wake the dead, and po wlbly induce the hotel committee to make a report. These are facts that are deserving of the careful considera tion of the public as well aa tht mer chant The newspapers are doing all within their power to encourage home Industrie and foster enterprises, but they cannot succeed If the people con tlnue to follow the habit of trading away from home. Patronise home In dustrie and home merchants should be the watchword ot every resident of As torla, and when this Is done, there will be a wonderful Increase In all lines of buslnes 0 OLD LIBERTY HELL, Old Liberty Hell, after being stared at by admiring thousands of eyes and poked at by an equal number of vanes and umbrella has been returned from the St. Louis exposition to Its resting place In Independence hall, there to re main until the ladles' church fair at Bird Center or the semi-centennial ex position at Weehawken-on-Hudson re quires Its presence. Then the precious relic will be crated and battened down to a flat car and sent skimming across the country with a beribboned guard of honor in attendance. May the fates grant that It will ride light. It Is to be hoped that In the near future a more conservative sentiment will arise concerning the migrations of the Liberty Bell. This making of an object of patriotic sentiment a pln-a poppy show with the advent of every International exposition held In America tends to cheapen the sacred sentiment that tradition has Invested In It. besides laying It exposed to Im minent destruction by a wreck on the rails. When young America can stop public. There are as many kinds of business represented In Astoria as sny city of Its slxe on the Pacific roust. Diversified Industries have been estab lished, and more are needeiL How to protect these Industries a'.id stimulate business Is a question tha. 3 majority of the people of Astoria do not seem to be familiar with. There tj no reason or excuse why anyone should go away from Astoria to trade. Tlwrj is not un article of merchandise manufactured that Is not sold as cheap In Astoria as in Portland or any other city. While the stocks are not as large, yet with the exception of a few fastidious peo ple, who Imagine that . because ari arti cle has been purchased In Portland It possesses more Intrinsic worth, than though purchased of the home mer chant, the stocks carried are sufficient to supply all the wants and require ments of the people. The habit of going to Portland V) trade, it not confined alone to those not engaged in business, but to all classes of people. Many people go to Portland on a visit or on business and avail themselves of the opportunity of mak ing many purchases, and In many In stances pay more for the goods pur chased than they can be bousth'. for in Astoria. The result is that a lar, amount of money is annually .lent out of the city and the circulating nidlura decreased proportionately. Portlan 1 people never come to Astoria to trade. They are firm believers in patronizing home merchants and home Industries, and this Is what has added materially to the growth and prosperity of Port land. No city can prosper unless there Is unanimity of sentiment, . among all classes of people. It is not right. It is not business, to divert the trade of any one branch of business and throw It to a city that has no community of Inter est who are advocates of patronizing home-Industries . and all their efforts are In that direction. There Is a wonderful difference be tween the people of Astoria and the sound cities. No one ever hears of any one from Aberdeen, South Bend, Hou- quhn or any of the smaller, cities of Washington going to Seattle or Tacoma to do their trading. They preach pat rontzlng borne Industries and practice what 'they preach. This Is one reason why the merchants of these Washing ton towns are prosperous, when busl ness is dull In Astoria, the direct cause can be traced by too many people going to Portland to trade. A city of approx imately 14,000 Inhabitants, with every branch "of Industry represented, with an Industry second to the largest In the state, with no Id,? men and plenty of employment for everyone, should never complain of a lack of business. But as long as the prominent men and their wives do their trading in Portland, large number of others soon- become convinced that better bargains are to be obtained and they transfer.' a large portion of their trade to Portland mer chants. As has been stated, the fault does not lie with the laboring element. but with all classes of people. When a policy is adopted in Astoria of .patronizing home merchants and home Industries, and the contingent Is led by the merchants, then will Astoria prosper, Its business be Increased and thousands of dollars now Rent out of the city, remain at home and be circu lated among Its people. Then can the merchants build handsome homes, lend their financial aid to the establishment of local Industries and build up home Institutions. This theory has been the prime caues of the building up of Seat tle, Tacoma, Spokane and other pro gressive Washington cities. Local merchants advertise their business to catch the trade of the suburban and outlying districts, but If these people were to follow the example of some of the Astoria people and do their trading midway or the pike to view for one hurried Instant the bell that pro claimed liberty to the land he will probablly reckon the loop-the-loop or the hula dance that subsequently gluddens his eyes much the better at traction. Independence Hall, fondly known as "the cradle of liberty." Is likewise the only logical cradle for old Liberty Hell in Us honored age. Separated from the environs where once It spelt In braxen measures the story of American lib erty, the ancient relic loses the dignity of assoclatlbn and becomes for the time being very near old Junk. In Inde pendence Hall It belongs and there It should remain, the object of reverent pilgrimage and not possible for mate rial for enterprising managers. 0 ' The Albany Argus, although demo cratic, declares for the re-election of Senator Depew as the only possible means of staving off those after-dinner reminiscences beginning "When I was United States senator." o Even the democratic papers of Mis sissippi condemn Governor Yardman for his discourteous letter to President Francis at St. Louis. The election of old rebels to office Is not conducive to the welfare of any state, particularly in the south. o The annual meeting of the cltlzPns of Astoria will be held next week at 2 o'clock, to appoint the annual hotel committee, for the purpose of building a new hotel in Astoria. Friends of the deceased cordially Invited to attend. 0 Whom Elks Thank. Owing to an accident Sunday morn ing to the linotype machine, a portion of the program of the Elk's memorial service was cut out. In the portion cut out was mention of those who had died, I also complimenting Mrs. Charles L Houston, who had charge of the pro gram, for its excellence. Several num bers were also omitted. The fault was with the Astorlan office and not with any Individual. That the program was the best ever produced at u me morial service, and the especial credit was due to Mrs. Houston, everyone who attended the services will con cede. No one has ever worke I more faithfully or taken such an Interest In behalf of the Elks as Mrs. Houston, and she Is deserving of the cred:t for its success. This statement was I'dded to the program In Sunday's Issue, which was Inadvertently cut off, and an ac count of the service appears in another column. 00SO0OSO$0000Ov50iO0OWS u o Swell Togs For Men. P. A. STOKES Home of Swell Togs o wmm m ) s TIME o o o 0 8 o o o 0 SlWSNtlknMufMlIM you were seeing us about your Winter Suit or Overcoat If you expect to be in the "runninff'Swlth thegfashionably dressed men around town. These garments are "chock full" of good quality, and style tnat is only pro duced by a first class City Tailor. To buy your clothes here is to be well dressed, and to be well dressed is half the battle of life. We Fit Anyone P. A. STOKES Money Back iff Dissatisfied 03000000$00OSOSO000$0&0e0EO 0u0;Oa' UNDER TAMMANY. To the Public Notice is hereby given that the office of the Auditor and Police Judge will be open between the hours of 7 and 9 o'clock p. m. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings of this week to accommodate any who may de sire to register for the coming election. The registration books will be closed Saturday at 4 o'clock p. m the 10th day of December, 1904. OLOF ANDERSON. Auditor and Police Judge of the city of Astoria. (Continued from Page 1.) by Mr. Carnegie and indorsed by C. L. Chadwick, and his secretary gave out the following statement for Carnegie: Mr. Carnegie says it has been years since he has given a note of any kind or Indorsed any, and there are none In his name now outstanding; more over Mr. Carnegie has no knowledge of Mrs. Chadwick." It is added on behalf of Mrs. Chad wick by her attorney: Mrs. Chadwick not only denies that she Is a relative of Carnegie, but she denies she ever received financial as sistance from him." New York the Most Expensively Gov erned City In the World. New York under a Tammuny Hall mayor has the most expensive city government on record. According to Mayor McClellan's first budget. It will cost New York City $110,500,000 to con duct Us munli'iial affairs In 1905. There are In the neighborhood of 4. 000.000 Inhabitants in New York City at this moment, allowing liberally for the gain which has been made In these iluys of republican prosperity, the population in 1900 bi'lng 3,437,000. No other people In the world pay anything 'Ike this sum. per capita, for the ex penses of their government. Canada's 8.000,000 people pay $52, 000,000 for the running of their govern ment for 1904, Mexico's H.000,000 pay $68,000,000 for a like service, ami lira zll's 18,000,000 disburse ISO.OOO.OOO for this object. None' of the other coun tries In the western hemisphere come anywhere near Mexico's total. Bel gium, -the Netherlands, Swltierland. Sweden-Norway und Portugal occupy places of considerable prominence on the world's map. All of them have a larger population than New York City All of them, on account of the neces sities of defense, have to place them-! selves under heavy tux burdens, yet none of them pays as much for govern ment as do the people of the Ameri can metropolis. In her various trlbu tary states and colonial possessions Turkey has about 40,000,000 people, and some of these have aspirations for liberty which lead the home gov ernment a pretty strenuous life: yet Abdul Hamld does not exact quite so much tribute for the expense of gov ernment as does Mayor George B. Mc- Clellun's regime. The mikado reigns over 44,000,000 people who have been preparing for war for many years, and with a good deal of effectiveness, as Is shown by their achievements In Manchuria In the past nine or ten months; yet their government cost them only $122,000,000 in 190J; or at our recent rate of In crease, what New York city win cosi In 1908. Back In Jackson's days this county began to attract considerable attention from the world at large, but the cost of running New York City's government at the present moment Is three times as great as that of man aging the government of the United States In old Hickory's time. At the time that Buchanan stepped out of power In 1861 the cost of the United States government with Its 32,000,000 of people was $66,000,000 ns compared with the 1110,500.000 which New York City's 4,000,000 will pay In 1905. Les lie's Weekly. Same Freight Rates. Portland, Dec. 5. Frelnht rates nf fectlng exhibits for the Lewis and Clurk exposition are to be substantially the same us those given to the St. Louis exposition. The rates will be published In . the near future. As soon as the rates are In effect, the state commis sion will commence the work of as sembling the Oregon exhibits for stor age until time for Installation. Unclaimed Letters. List of letters remaining unclaimed for 30 days at Astoria poalofhVe, De cember 6, 1904: Aljula, Heiml Miss. Anderson Astora A. Heal. Orrel Miss. Harnett, J. A. Mr. Hurnett, O. F. Mr. Hunhnrt, R. Casey, J. V. Mr, Carlson, John E. Mr. fori und. A pel. Curriers, Edith, Davis. Robt. Mr. Davis, V. II. Derby, W. II. Mr. Deludes, ollle. Delaney, William Mr. Only, Oeo. Mrs. Oren. Andrew Mr. Hurkman, James. Home, W. It. lllliler, Oeo. Hammond, D. McOulre. II. W. Mr. Meglofltln, Mack. Merrell Lumber Co. Moore, Itoy Mr. Morse, R. H. Ksq. Nelson, Peter Mr. Nuonur, Oeorge Mr. fillooth, K. Mr. . Poison, Louis, ' Peck, C. C. Mrs. Peelty, David Mrs. Relnlkka. Aldrlch. . Schoueldt, Capt. Sullivan, Harry Mr. . Whelmm, Qua, Wood, a. B. Mrs. Wohn, 8. Foreign. Ballln, C. M. Bullen, C. Mr. , Hoeln, Andrews J, Mr, Hansen, Ole Mr. Jones, E. K. Mr. Karvaiien, K. Mr. Nolloe to Stockholder. Notice Is hereby glven,U)thf regit Inr annual meeting the stockholders ef tbt Columbia River Parkers Associa tion will be held at the offices of the company at Astoria, Oregon, on De cember 12th. 1904, at 11 o'clock. A. M for the purpose of eleotln Directors, and the transaction of such other business as may properly U considered, Astoria, Or., Nov. 21. 1904. OKO. II. OEOROE, Sec'y. ', The voters who do not register are usually the ones that do the' most kicking about the administration of city affairs. mnsmtutmtwmutmmmtiKiraitmn Next Time You need a jmir of Men', Women's or, Children's SHOES Honest, Durable Shoes For less money than you have ; ' been paying try S. A. GIR3RE : 543-545 Bond St Fisher's L, E. SELIG, ipera House - Lessee and Manager Week Commencing flonday, Dec. 5 : ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY ! JAMES KEANE And his entire company, presenting a new lino of plays. High class Vaudeville Specialties between the acta. Popular Prices Reserved Seats, COc; Gallery, ,25c' Seat sale opens Saturday morning at Griffin's Book, ffyire.,v , ... o 0