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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1905)
THE MORNING ASTOR IAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1903. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1(73. Published Daily by TEX J. S. DELLINGER COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION SATES. 87 mail, per year $7 DO By mail per month 60 By carrier, per month .73 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance.. $1.00 Entered as cpeond-claM matter Jnne IS. 18U6, at the postuftk at AMorl. on iron. under Ui act of Cong new of March J, IS!. WOnlm for the (Mi win of Tut Moas" ma mroaua to eithar midaoce or place uf buoinra nay be made by postal card or through tele .-'bona. Any Irregularity in de livery thou Id be immediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. TODAY'S WEATHER. Portland Oct. 15. Western Oregon and Western Washington Sunady, rain. Eastern Oregon: Pain and wanner. Eastern Washington: Rain, warmer, in northern portion. ASTORIA AND THE BAR. The Portland Oreconiun seems to think the barrier that lies across the mouth of the Columbia river was put there by the Almighty to impede the commerce and curb the expansion of that city alone. This is the tone it takes whenever it touches upon the subject of the bar. With this supreme ly selfish view constantly uppermost, its vicious blunders of the past ten days can, in a measure, be accounted for But the accounting does not relieve it of one atom of the responsibility of ar ousing a question that had far better been kept dormant, at least until the south jetty had been completed. The fact is, the State of Oregon, the city of Astoria and a hundred other poinfs outside the metropolis, are in timately involved in the present and future status of the sea-gate here, to say nothing of the state on the north shore. It may be conceded that this city has peculiar and preponderant in interest in its development, and the maintenance of that development; in deed other judges than the Oregon ian have allowed this important claim due place in the history of the work done for its development. And it is not im probable the local concern of Astoria will be recognized and given some tolera tion, even by the Oregonian, in the very near future. That paper, despite Its first place and power in the state, knows no other policy than that of the utter suppression of every Interest beyond the municipal confines of Portland; instead of era ploying its tremendous prestige, to help the cities tributary to it in a thousand ways of usefulnefs and confirm that tribute in perpetuity by evoking the gratitude and pride of the lesser com munities, it invariably thrusts its de barring hand before every project put forth by its neighbors, simply because it can see no immediate benefit in the proposition for Portland. The first idea of a jetty on the south era peninsula of the Columbia found utterance in this city; the first effort to organize and establish definite plans for working out the great purpose of the jetty, was of Astoria birth and was pushed to operation by the enterprise of this city embodied in, and earned out by the Astoria Chamber of Conr merce. And when the work had pro gressed to a point where it was in shape to go before the government of the country for the appropriations neces sary to launch it, the lordly Oregonian, afraid of the bugabo of the jittle city by the sea suddenly springing into a - degree of commercial pmmintnea that might arret, for the moment, the pro grew nd potency of Portland, organ .ized its anti-Astoria lobby and sent it -to Washington to kill the scheme; and though it failed, its failure has but in tensified its malicious hatred of this jdaee, a hatred that finds expression at every moment, opportune or inoppor tune, and upon every pretext, wise or unwise. Hence, its ridiculous blunder in giv ing to the world the private correspond ence that lately passed between Captain Pemberthy of the British steamship Imaum, and the Pilots asoeiatkn of this city, anent the depth of water available on the Columbia river bar, has nothing novel about it. except the extraordinary folly of it. Its publica tions since, in frightened effort to miti gate the mess and its consequences, only add to the depth of the primary ab surdity, and not an inch to the water on the bar. It has invited the jubilant crow of the Puget Sound press and the just criti cism of the Oregon papers, and must gitg down it medicine to the accom panying relish of a conviction of its own responsibility for the whole thing. Astoria wants the Jetty finished, and wants it badly, in order that its large achievement may prove a tangible pre- iliitA nttin vtiii-ti it fiinnil a ufoa fnr its fellow on the northern peninsula, j the north jetty that is to perfect and , perpetuate the work of the one now I underway. Astoria wants the service of the dredger Chinook on the bar: it wants any ami every thing that will put and maintain a forty-foot channel between its docks, the Portland dock, too, and the blue water that lies beyond the bar. It wants these things, and will strive for them now, and eternal ly, without ceasing, and, we hope, without disappointment, but there is no thought in the mind of any sane As- torian Unit the Oregonian will ever give a fraction of aid to the wants of Astoria, here expressed, even though the final and abundant success of it all, shall bring fruitition to the dearest hojies of Portland, and an immense vol ume of broadcast improvement to the state. and would have towered far above all the others, lie now announces that he will arrange a telephone in his churvh so that those who ai unable to attend will be able to hear his sermons. How about passing the plate ? CREED AND SCREED. True to its vicious tendency to belit tle this city, the Oregoiiian. in herald ing the newa of the launching of the new Lytle road through the Nehalem country, says, in its caption: '"Work will commence Immediately upon the survey of the railroad which will be built by E. E. Lytle, of Port land,, and associates, to lap the rich Xehalern country, with Tillamook for a terminus and 'with a branch running north to Astoria.' " And then, in the same article, for one brief moment it forgot its spleen. and definitely routing the new road, savs: "From Portland it will extend along the Willamette valley to a Hint at or near Oswego, in township 2 south, range 1 east, in Clackamas county; thence westerly along the valley of the Tuala tin river to HilNboro or Forct Grove. in Washington county; 'thence in a northwesterly direction from either HilUboro or Forest Grove to Astoria. via the most direct and practicable route, following the valley of Dairy creek tie Xebalem river and Lewis and Clark river.'" 0 Can. .dates for the various state of fices at the general election in June, 1906, are to confront elect ive conditions that are potential as to the pocket. The direct primaries are likely to act as bar riers to the old convention system of lining up at a given spot and time, and he must go out among the people and do business' In a thousand directions. The successful candidate for the big of fice next year will have to hypothecate his first year's f alary to make good on his campaign costs. 1 " 0 . . ... .. . - . r . ; .. ' 4" note and Comment. ' A San Francisco firm is manufactur ing a machine to aid dishonest street car men in knocking down. There is nothing surprising in this. An honest man in San Francisco feels terribly lonesome. We know this to be a fact. We visited the city. Employes of the Southern Pacific have banded together to smuggle Chin ese over the border from Mexico. They made a few dollars out of the busi ness, but stand a eood show to lose their' jobs', and in that case they will be unable to enter the service of any other line in the country. J. K. Moore of Summerland, Cel., claims that he has a speaking acpuain tanee'with 'a 'number of spirits and through them he learned that money that he had loaned to a man years ago was' due him and that it amounted to small fortune, owing to the aceumu-4 lated interest. Moore had forgoten all about II loaa. . Now, spirits, of thaV kind are mighty convenient people to have on one's visiting list. If 1W. B. ft. Llaynes pastor of the First Baptist church at 8eattle had hot entered the) ministry he would have made a press agent for a theatrical star . lav o COFFEE.TEA DAinuOFOYDER, Fir;cn:;sEXTWCT5 tethftftrty. flntsrflivtr. cLassn a divers r PORTLAND, ORISON, f V !' IN PORTLAND THE MORNING ASTORIAN , ' Is for ale at the nwa stands of : THE OREGON MEWS COMPANY. situated at . . HOTEL PORTLAND. ' 4 - 147 Sixth Street, mSlitn Street ' i.. ; -. ,i ....... r., . The MORNING ASTORIAN 75 CTS. 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