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. 5 "".' MONDAY, N0VEMBBE8 ee, 1905. THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. : THE MORMG ASTORIAN .letabliseed lift. Published Dally by TEX J. S. DELLI5GEK COMPACT. SUBSCKIPTIOIf BITES. By mIl, er pur .............17.00 Bt nait per noata.. ........... .60 By carrier, per monta. .. . JS . WEEKLY ASTOmN. I By mail, per year, in a.dranee..$1.00 Xntered as tpoond-lass matter Jane B. ls at ths poiitoflk at Astoria, urp ron, nader lb aoi of Coorea of March t. it&a. tOrbrt for Um detlrrruur of TBI Hoax" ma laroaiA to sttlMr nsfctoaos or otao of busiM oar aMda by postal card or through tele bona Anj tmtculartty ia fo il nrr abould ba miBltlT reported la tb ofloa of pnboatioav TELIPH0HK Hid 661. ' WEATHER REPORT. : . , - -.' - . Portland, Nov 19. Western Oregon: Monday fair, occasional rain. e 4 LICENSE AHD LICENTIOUSNESS There is the widest possible margin between license and HcentiouHness. It it the margin that exist between Astoria of old, the wild ribald, rotten, sea-coast .. town that was quoted to the uttermost end of the Earth by decent ship-masters and indecent crew "scrubs," and the Astoria of today, the habitable, hand some, cheery resort of ten of thousands ; of inland visitor; the safe and whole some port to which mariners of all con ditions and grades can come without fear of robbery, or shanghaing, of en forced debauchery, ' and "knock-out" policies of doing business: That is one of the differences. Rich and poor, high and low, the worker, the idler, the mer- ' chant, tailor and the commercial trav eler, all are safe now from the onus of the old fear of the crimp, the beach comber, the drugging syren and ' hff henchmen- the murderous thief. And if the sway of honest decency can keep her from a new invasion of crime and licentiousness, it will prevail.- The in herent pride of her citizens will see to it. - . as they will under the proorript ions of law and prevalent custom, but the flat cornea front the citiaenry at hut, bun- comb ; goes for nartght, ' truth too, at tice When- the people have spoken it l presumed they hare uttered the wisdom ,Uiat is theirs, and so they have until they reverse, their judgment and their edictv ;. . .; , 0 CANT STAND RESPONSIBILITY, "The Democrat, the LVmi-Demoerats and the Semi-Detni-Denutcrat, who ran the receni"Citiwns meeting are doing everything under high Heaven to repudi ate the responsibility they voluntarily and ably assumed on last Wednesday night It is too late. Gentlemen, you are in charge; you stepped ,iuto the breach, and there you'll remain until the issues are settled on the evening of December 13th next. If you do not want responsibility of that sort, why seek Ut. Why butt in? Why pick up the guage of strife! It is vour's. Do your whole duty by the borrowed lead ership, and the pecpfe will do their whole duty by you. If they stand by you and your "wide ojen city policy. well and good. If they dont endorse you, well and good, and better. Hut stand by your deliberate and eonspiou ous post of direction, and be certain you attain tor all the "honors" of success, for 'without it you are "indeed doubly damned." FOR INDIRECT TAXATION Valuable refused either to release Mm from his promise or to return the rings and k-t ters, and he visited her and asked for his releae and gave her fciO to pay for a wedding outfit she had pun-hasd Soon Frank WriibjUnai ui KM V aTie Proposition. The office of Secretary of State seema to be the only stale office that the Re-1 after this Hammeily married lift publicans of Marion County will make tie Moser of OakemlaW, with whom ha a struggle to capture in the Direct PrMis now living. 1 I mr at a uiarj nrrmm. tiammeriy claims, in his answer, One of the candidates for this nomi-whkh was filed In court some tlmego, nation, who came to Oregon at the age I that no dvfiiiite time for the wedding of 13 years, waa raised on a farm in I had ever been fixed and that the en. Marion county, and oana and operates gngetucnt was ouly conditional lis a large farm in Linn County. claims it was understood that if plain He has been a. stalwart Republican ttlr and defendant continued to likri at all limes, has held the office of sher- each other as wall as when the engage iff of Marion County, and haa been at ment waa made they should marry oth the head of the Corporation Tax De- erwlse the engagement should be can partment for the past three year. Me waa admitted to the bar in Salem Jd cho-e for his oration as ' valedic ton)aa of the large class, "Abraham Lincoln h 1 lawyer."... All who re member that oration know that Mr, Wright nun, if nominated, will be able to take a full hand in the speaking campaign for the Republican ticket. Mr. WritfMman has been a student of the subject of indirect taxation, and haa made that his politkal hobby. He brieves IT IS POSSIBLE TO CARRY ON THE STATE GOVERNMENT BY INDIRECT TAXATION. He believes that the counties should be left free of all burdens of state tax ationand thus be -able to ppty their revenues , for their and development. celled at any time either party became dissatisfied, ) . . Ilammerly is a. well to do farmer liv ing near Oakesdale. Miss Harris is the daughter of a , farmer living near St John.' Wood! Wood! Wood! Wood! Wood! For choice dry box-wood, telephone 2004 Black, or leave orders at the As tori Grocery, a Nelson, "The Wood Man." Beat Llnlmint on Earth. ' IMPOSSIBLY IMPERSONAL. "Probably the reconstructed French cabinet will hold together until the forthcoming presidential election, not be cause it is a strong one, but because to make another stronger just at this .mo ment would be difficult ' M. Rouvier, who appears to be incapable of good faith in his dealings with his colleagues, Henry D. Baldwin, Sunt City Water wnjmprovemenl I Works, Shullaburg, Wia. writes 1 "I have tried manv kinda of llnl Tlie people will enjoyarnlng that 'L tui t B1-t MTer .ucB t al. . a . . . . aw I " .w.r o. u.e a.p.r.ni ,or a siae omoe .flt untU j UMj JM Snow yj. has positive views on this important Lent for rheumatism and naina. I think question. Mr. tnghtman propiea to lt the Ut Unlraent 0 e,rth 25,( 60Ci make nis campaign on ima issue, ana ,nJ i.oa Sold by Hart's drug store. win ue ururu in.nn m iui aircciKHi. COMMERCE AND TACTICS. Cored Consumption. Mrs. B. W. Evans, Clearwater, Kans writes: "Mr husband lav sick for three On October 15 the last .rails of the months. The doctora aaid that he had has thrown over nis minister or war and railway connecting Berber, on the Nils, j quick consumption. una uiiue a uuuiurr ii buiki vi pirv-1 wiwi ouMn, on wie nea sea, were ism, I We procured bottle of Ballard's folios in consequence. But great bittr- thus completing a project much discuss- riorehound Syrup, and it cured Urn uto u urrn uispinjrru in lue unwin mi mrnil jrrrs jro, wnen Vionion was I That WSS Six years BgO. Since in the chamoer, ami the former minister, shut up in Khartoum. Strategic con-1 then we have always kept a bottls in hke M. Delcasse, doubtless has friends siderat ion were uppermost in 18H5, but Le hoUM w nmoi do witnout ,t who wui aaait their opportunity for I economic interests now Dressil. Tm r.. ...it. .j . . ., C! 1 -1 I ' 1. . -A t , I 1 0uM.u.-iriKT nut- is uuus io wveiop 25c, 60c, and 11.00. Sold by Hart's inaustries in the ooutian anording trans- (jru2 tore portauon cheaper than that by the DIFFERENCES. There are people in this eity engaged just now in foisting upon the saloon keepers of Astoria the cry and purpose of the harpy. Warning them against the demand of the "Ring," the Repabli - can Ring," the "Ring Orgon" ete., for taropalgn ntaff, otherwieJ mcner. This - Waa born in iU rightful habitat, -where that kind of bolstering is sorely needed; but, interwoven In the tirade, is an at tempt to ridicule this'paper for classi fjing the saloons of this city, as re epectable, and otherwise: The man to k whom all places of 'resort are alike is indeed ai a low ebb.' The Astorlan has no hesitancy in proclaiming the1 differ ence between a dive and' a decent sa loon: Tlie distinction is obvious to any' one, even to a gutter-snipe who is not permitted to do business in the latter-, while he has free access, the necessary . "free lunch" and free protection, in the . former. It is the difference between the "proscribed town" and upper Commer cial street. This paper has the moral right to ask that the respectability of these places be maintained by keeping t the roster of saloons in that category of decency, and it will insist tion this until tho last dive is forced to seek other fields and custom. revenge. Al. Kouvier eared himself chiefly by:hi appeal to the deuiies to save the bill for. the separation of the church and state from failure. It is not' likely that he cares much fothe meas lire himself, but it makes a useful stick to beat the Radical dog with. The real object ion. of patriotic Frenchmen'to his government is its cowardly surrender to German dictation. There never was any any reason to believe that they would accept that, however they might seem to submit for the time. Our Great Removal Sale of High Grade Wall Paper Is a Phenomenal Success; . . . 1 Now is the best opportunity to secure bargains as we will move to our new location January 1st, and in the meanwhile we are selling wajl paper tit prices lower than you have ever seen it before. Call and inspect our elegant lines. B. F. Allen Son, c,o3S7i st r MORE TO COME. Having fixed tlie partisan responsi bility for the "wide open town" policy, now underway, just where it belong, ; and having met the issue with a declar ; ation in favor of keeping the city in condition of decent and righteous regu lation, this paper will have a word 'to say about finances in a few days that will bear reading by the citizens and " 'taxpayers. It is not wholly an issue ' of police and police court, this time; there are other matters that demand the - acrutinty of the men and women w ho are supporting the treasury of this munici pality. They will be submitted in simple and sequent form, and the rot ' ing taxpayer may giva what answer he or she will to the questions . they com pel. The leaders in a campaign may Lave their say and make it as strong BASIC METAL. A total output of 22,500,0(0 tons of pig iron is estimated for this year in the Voited .States. For the first six months of 1905 the output was 11,105,- 173 tons. The total for the year will be five times greater than the total out put in 1883. The blast furnaces of the country are over-taxed to supply orders, and the rolling mills and steel-works are running to their utmost capacity. The index of business conditions is the demand for pig iron. When times are prosperous the demand is large. ' When business falls off the demand it lessen- ed. .. . ' : Pig iron is tbe basis of structural ma terials for building, and it is the raw material for all kinds of iron and steel manufacture entering into thousands of articles turned out by the industries of the land. Immense orders' by the rail roads for engines, freight cars and steel rails have helped stimulate the produc tion of pig iron, and these order are themselves a conclusive evidence of great buxiness prosperity, and a sure indication that it is a permanent pros perity. - 0 HIS FRIENDS SPENT IT. 0 District Attorney Jerome of New York has filed a statement to the effect that his election cost him nothing. He did not,spend one cent to secure his seat again according to his. report of elect- tion expenses. Since the New York law requiring such statements went into ef fect, we have had amusing examples of credulity and mendacity. . Mayor Mc- Clellan'a election cost him nothing, he ssys. Governor Higgins spent nothing. S'obody haa spent anything, if tlie re ports filed are to bo believed. As a mat ter of fact, no man has been elected to the most unimportant office, when seek ing it, without expense. When Mr. Je rome declares that he did not spend one cent," h is subservient to .the pervading transient rage for ostenU tious righteousness. Kx. . . . . ' Cairo-Khartoum line. The cotton, date Vid gum arab'c trade are expected to expand under the stimulus of higher prices for exports, while new industries will be called into being. At the same time the new railway will be handy for military purposes in case a rebellion in the Soudan should cause a "rush" call for troojis. 0 SOVEREIGN ANYHOW. It seem wo have an American king, of Norwegian linease, among us, out in Bessemer, Minn., in the perosn of Louis MunUe, who, it is said, is a de scendant of Haakon V., the last inde- pendent king of Norway, who died in 1319. The so-called legitimate wing of the Storthing haa invited him to come back to Norway and prove his claim of long descent from royalty, as they demand the throne shall be filled by a ! descendant of the ancient royal line. Mr. Muntae, who left Norway on account of political trouble, haa been a resident of Minnesota for ten years and has repre sented his district in the State Legisla ture, ne has declined tlie crown, party because of his advanced age, and partly no doubt, because he is an American sovereign. . 0 BAMMERSLY'S LOVE COOLED The Astoria Restaurant. GOOD, CLEAN MEALS EXCELLENT SERVICE OPEN ALL MOHT 399 Bond St., cor. Ninth Now He Answers to Breach of Prom ise Suit Colfax, Wash, Nov. 1!). The case of Miss Eva P. Harris against Edward C. Hammersly for alleged breach of prom- to wed occupied the time of the Superior Court and jury today and will probably take all day tomorrow. The girl went on the stand at 10 o'clock this forenoon and was still on the stand when court adjourned this evening. The testimony introduced to day consisted largely of letters the plaintiff had received from the defen dant during their long courtship at the rate of two each week. The letters ars not as sentimental as many shown in court, but tend strongly to show that the couple were engaged to marry and that Hammersly had postponed the date of the wedding on several occasions. One date agreed for the wedding was in November, 1904, and Miss Harris got her trousseau ready whan Hammersly igain postponed the date and then ask ed in several letters, wihich were shown, Co be released from his promise io mar- ry and for the return of rings he had iven her of. which there were six. She A Fine Display of Cloisone Vases Ranging in price from $1.25 to $2.00 can be seen at the Yokohama Bazar eat Commercial Street, As tori BEHNKE-WALKER BUSINESS COLLEGE PORTLAND, ORE. If 70a are thinking of attending Business College, you cannot afford to ignore the best one in the North west, , , . Our equipment is vnenrpeesel . The proprietor! ut teachers. , 'Our graduates ere U employed. 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