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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1905)
THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA. OREGON. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER n, 1905. :? v. f i THE MORNING ASTOMAN Established 1I73. Published Daily by TEX J. & BELLINGER COKPAHT. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 7 mail, per year 17.00 By mail, per month.. .60 By carrier, per month .75 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in adranc..1.00 Kntered aa sscond-elass matter Jane X. 1W6, at the pontortlo at Antotia. urp ion. under lb act of Congress of Marcn t, tyOntos for tbe dtUTmnx of Tbi Hour era ivroais to either nskieaos or place of bualnew nay be msde by portal card or tkrouftft teie.'faova. Any ImguUrity ia de livery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. WEATHER TODAY. Portland, Nov. 10. Western Oregon and Western Washing- ton: Saturday, cloudy to partly cloudy, with probable shower. Eastern Oregon, Fair. 0 HARMONY NEEDED. Harmony ia needed in Astoria. Xot altogether in a political way, either, but in the matter of muisc. There are some splendid pianists Jiere, a few rarely good soloists' in other branches of instrumen tation, but there is no composite scheme of rendering good popular music so that the public shall hare the benefit of it. Astoria needs a good band. One that tJiall do credit to the profession of mus ic and to the city as well. A stranger in th city was deploring the absent of a real good band here, yesterday, and said he had been three months waiting for the strains of music lie was used to hearing in the city he came from, and added that he would do anything one lone man might d, to project . and maintain a fine band in the City by the Sea. Thus is it missed, and thus is it needed. A good band is part and parrel of .the life of an up-to-date town. It is said the citizens will not support a band in Astoria. We do not believe it. There most be something radically wrong in the musical situation. There is said to be ajiy amount of individual talent here. If this i" so, let them get to gether, hire their own leader, train themselves! to a point of proficiency that shall make their organization a thing to be desired. There are people in this city who will gladly help to defray the cost of equipment, if it is only pre sented to them in the right way, and once started, there need be no lapse in the movement until it perfected, and Astoria is in possesion of as fine a band as is in the State of Oregon, but it requires the initiative of musicians themselves. Pvople are not going to contribute to something they cannot see the definite beginning of, they must Lave an assurance that busi ness is meant, hen they will do their part and do it quickly and generously. 0 -BEWARE OF JUNE. It behooves t,V Republicans of this eity to beware the Mes of June. If the situation is given over to the D -mot-rat-ic-Citizens at the forth coming election, the possibilities of June are not com fcrtfng ( any sense. Tim situation demand (he nt3nt and individual in terest of every inemW of the Kepubli tn party in this city. Personal sacri toe must be tntit U put the city in ad ministrative shape, financially, and along lines of control that shall er petuate its present moral status, and beyond this is the Imperative duty ol aligning it for success at the polls in June net, for Ve larger trpos of placing CUt sop County, In, the Republi can phalanx on the Illative, guber natorial, and nofi'administrative is sue. Don't look behind you; look for ward to tbe crucial moment of county domination and tbe restoration of the Republican party to power at all point in tbe territory of governmental sway. Unlet there is a prompt, cohesive, and progresaiTt movement throughout thj entire party, irrespective of personal de sire, there is danger of ita swinging further from the mark of supremacy than it i at present. Get down to businesa, gentlemen! 0 WHO SHALL BUILD IT? I Astoria to ihave a new siiJ modem hotel? Is she to stay on record as the poorvst equipped city on the ttper coast in this line Is there no pride, no money, no profit, no future, no in nate spirit of push in the community? There will come a day when the chance will pass front local hands to hand that are foreign, from it bring a mat ter of home interest to the uncomfort able conclusion that we are too slow and must give up our best tihannels of local investment and proprietorship to alien hands. It ought to 1 settled, one way, or the other, and at once! o HUGE TASK, SLOW WORK. The Panama Canal Commission ha spent almost all of the money provided in the original appropriation, ami Con gress will be aArd soon after it con venes for additional funds. This i nec essary in order t!at the work in the tone inay be ranted on withoit inter ruption. It appears from tlte accounts of the commission that much of the ten millions with which it begun business has been spent in preparing to dig the ditch. When it became a recognized fact that nothing could be done until quar ters had been prepared for the men and all reasonable dangvr of disease had bt-en eliminated effort were directed to that end. The result is seen in the dis appearance of yellow fever and a mate rial decrease in malarial affections. Hospitals have b-t-A construct 11 and medical forces ihave been organized. Swamps have been drained, and the waste places of the zone have lost much of the dangvr they held when the Amer cans began to change the face of the 1st hums. Water works and sewers have been constructed and enormous amounts of supplies and machinery have been purchased, leaving ti'ie inference that the commission is almost, if not quite ready to begin actual construction on a large scale. Whalt Conjnvss will Jo with the request for the appropriation remains to be seen, but it is plainly the part of good business sense to continue the work if we are to have the canal at the appointed time. Suspension of work will mean a greater loss than mere loss of time. who commands the British squadron, is fraught with fifcitdly significance, for he brings a special message of good will from King Kdward to President Roose velt. Many diplomats and many thou sand of travelers, one unison in lan guage, art, letters and the drama have served to cement and strengthen the syutalhic of the two great Knglish speaking people until the ancient an tithies are celebrated only by history and monument. The welcome to King Kdward's representatives will be a wel come by the American people to a peo ple with whom an identity of interests in international affairs is recognized. The ties of rate, bhod and language are strong. . o PUGS IN UNIFORM. As the result of a personal encounter between cadets, an Annapolis hoy has been killed by a fellow student A pre arranged bout at fisticuffs despite the faculty was in itself evidence of a de plorable lack of discipline; now some one mu-t lie held for manslaughter, if Annpaolis boys are not taught to oley their superiors they will make a poor success when midshipmen in forcing their inferiors to oliey them. Official rcpoibi have it that haxing has been abolished at the academy. It would eern that a practice far worse has lectt substituted. Kils are good things to defend oneself with, in an eiiKrgency 1 but a prixefight is a poor way to settle jersonal differences. 0 In Time of Peace. In the first months of the lluian Japanese war we had a striking ex ample of the necessity for preparation and the early advantage of those who, so to sp.uk, "have shingled their roofs in dry weather." The virtue of prepara tion has made history and given to us our great.-st men. 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