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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1905)
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 7, ijoj.4. THE MORNING ASTOIUAX. ASTORIA. ORKC.ON. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1S73. published Daily by TBI, J. S. DELLINGER COMPAHY. t . SUBSCRIPTION SATES. Cy mail, per year . . By nail, per month. By carrier, per month .f7.00 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance.. $1.00 Entered seeond-ls mstter June SS 16, at the posmmr at Astoria, ur. bob, under Uie act of Congress ol Marvti J, nr Order for the drtlwin of Tas Moan ing urrosii to cithxr rwkteoov or placa of budMM oaf ba made by posul crd or .1 1. Lk kM. An IrnwillATItV ill dO- limy abould be Buuedistelj reported to tbe omot W puoucmuon. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. WEATHER REPORT. Portland, Pec. 6. Western Oregon, Western Washington, Occasional rain. Eastern Oregon: Fair. Eastern Washington: Prob ably fair, REGULAR REPUBLICAN TICKET. FOR MAYOR J. W. Suprenant FOR AUDITOR AND POLICE JUDGE A. B. Dalgity. FOR TREASURER John Nordstrom. FOR POLICE COMMISSIONERS John W. Babbidge, tix year term. Wf. a Laws, two year term. FOR SURVEYOR Alfred S. Tee. SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS James F. Kearney. FOR COUNCILMAN FIRST WARD Karl Knollock. FOR COUNCILMEN-SECOND WARD James J. Robinson. R. M. Leathers. FOR COUNCILMAN THIRD WARD C. A. Leinenweber. who congregated there: So sedulous were these moral agents in doing their humble, yet noble, duties that even the police of the city were prone to let them alone when their effort at "evan gvlUation made a rough-house of the "schools" presumably on the hypothesis that they could not, with any conscience whatever, stop the earnest and convinc ing processes toward "conversion." They were not open-seame to the life of misconduct, nasty pursuits, and un blushing vice and crime they were sup posed to be: Nay. They were refuges for the weary and sinning youth, and the vicious and perverted of middle-life, and a IjM peaceful reoit for the aged criminal who dcsiivd sun-ease from the demands incident to the life of wrong doing: They were havens for the tired sinners of Astoria, seeking to abandon courses of dissipation and worse and .,,..! inml" bv the presence of n t 1 v (--.- a women"' who added their allurements to the other strenuous agencies for the redemption f thj protliga: Tliqy were fitted up for the edification of t'.ie unwary and stumbliug brother and every sign and attribute of the premises was for the good of the weak and fall ing: No money was icpiired in the work of redemption they did: All was as free as water: -salvation" was dirt cheap and without 'price" of any sort: That's what these so-called 'Dance Halls" were, and how any community could be mis-led in such a grave mat ter is bevond understanding: The As torian was humbugged along with the rest of the world, at home and abroad and now hastens to offer its profound requital for the sad error. This is its apology, and it hos for pardon from every Chun-h and Sunday School in As toria. for its temerity in making it un der the guise it has. o- NO NEGLECT PERMISSABLE. "WHITER THAN SNOW." In Tuesday's issue of this paper there was an editorial arraignment of the Dance Halls that once flourished here, and which the Democrats are now get ting in line to "open up" again. No names were used but the facts referred to hit home with a force .hiimlant nouih to evoke a column creed of denial in the morning opposi tion paper of yesterday. It was signed too. Now the Atorian is not predis posed to mistakes, but they will occur in tbe great detail of daily business ; and having made an apparently mendacious blunder, there is nothing left to do but -nn1ri fur it: this the Astorian r ft - ' does with great good will, and only de plow its inability to make it quite adequate to tbe offense committed: All danceballs. and the one assumed to be attacked, in particular, were doing bus! nesa under a misnomer: they were not daneehilU in the sen-e ol the word as it is commonly applied; they -re -Sunday Schools" established in the slum centers of all towns to afford the erring, voung and old. an opportunity of abandoning their evil and vicious ways and instincts, and lupse ba.-k to the decencies and virtues of life: They were presided over by men who were known to have uo eye for the nimble 'and elusive dollar, and who sole in terest In their "schools" was to head ff the "career of vice" that are so ap parent In those neighborhoods and placesy Ti prefdira? officers were backed by a corps of musicians and un eri and other aids, to force the saintly doctrines these balls stood for, down the throats of unwilling alares to rice The Republican of Astoria, on next Wednesday, owes a complete duty to the whole ticket, from top to bottom, ana it is presumed he will do it without this sutriwstion. but there is one thing that must not be overlooked, and that U the. Oouncilmen. It may appear to some that because they are not in the fit nlace on the ballot they are not as essential as the officers who lead them in r-laee. but this will be a wretched blunder and if it shall be made to the extent of defeating a single one of these wntlemen. the work of the campaign ft is neutralized to a point of hopelessness ml leaves the party without the pow er to effect the reform that are to 1 enforced if the victory is given it Whatever happens, stick by the Com mnn Council nominees in order 10 se cure to the party the first prestige in the work of controlling the moral and financial status of this community. The wnrk cut out by the Republicans will be difficult enough without having to com bat opposition in the very heart ol their official camp. Don't forget the Coun cil men. 0 not the first time Mich a thing has happened. A really important develop ment would be a reMlion headed l uti ii.iMe olricer or member of the covernin class. The luckless Schmitt at any rate, succeeded in making thine unite interesting for the army and tuny anil his revolt lasted. His demonstra tion of the ability of mutineers to make a respectable resistance inurht nroue the inteiest of some olliccr of reat mili tary genius, who would manage future operations oil military principles. for the sake of jrloi v or ambition. At pre ent, if the incoherent revolts are invari ably put down, they at least seem to succeed in spreading the spirit of di content. o STA1E OWNERSHIP. W. M. Acwoith, the well known Hiit- ish railway expert, in a recent lecture at Manohaster, Eng.. said that paetual- ly there were only three exceptions in the world to the rule that railway aie not onlv controlled, but owned by the state. These three countries are Eng land, France and the Tinted States. These are rather important exceptions. because tlx-se three, countries include half the mileage and half the capital and half the traffic of the world, but it is certainly an impressive fact that nearly every other country has adopted Liivernmciit ownership. Mr. Acwoith says, and this is th most significant utterance that he made. that in no country have the railways been delilierately taken by the state. because the people, on the abstract ,.-,! ;,n .if state ownership U-linved, that state ownership was preferable to .rivate u iiershii). It was rather that each country was forced into state own ership, believing that 'state ownership was pieferablc to difficulties in w'.iich it found itself. This declaration has a significant bearin upon the situation in this coun try The people of the tinted Mate on the abstract question of government ownership would, it is safe to say, vote overwhelmingly against such a proposi tion. Nevertheless, 11 is easy m that conditions might exi-4 that would eA in imvornment ownership. It is a nowerful argument for government r , . ifculatloti of rates that uni-f "s a... control of the railways is auopieu oj the federal government there would in evitably be a movement for government ownership so powerful that it could not Im checked. Wall Street Journal. am 4. . 7 ff 4 7 7Mm. Sf-k; r TRIBUTE TO JAPAN. Vltlfll is fast 8uPersedin2 old-fashioned cod liver oil and V inUl emuisions bccatiHC, without a drop of oil or .i.are.aMe! feature, it contains all the medicinal elements of cod liver oil, actually taken from frcHh coda1 livers. By our process the oil, having no value either as a medicine or food, is separated from the medicinal elements and thrown away. Unlike old-fashioned cod liver on ana emuisions, . Vinol is delidously palatable, agreeable to the weakest stom orV, and therefore uneaualed as a body builder and strength creator for old people, puny children, weak, run-down men and women, after sickness, and for all pulmonary aiseases. Everythlnir Vinol contains is named on the label OUR OUARANTEE W bay such faith In VINOL that U yoo wffl taka It wt promise if It does not bsnefit or curs you wa will return yvtJ your moot without question. Wa taka all the risk. Charles Rogers, I. Druggist, Astoria, Orogon.J Sherman Transier Co. HENHY HHKKMAN. M-naur. Hacks, Carriages I'.aggagc Checked and Transferred Trucks and ru niturc Wagons nanus Moved, noxcu ami nippcu I'ctHTI.ANn. OKKI50S. If you are thinking of attending bus- inrss college you can not afford U Ig nore the best In tha northwest, uur equipment Is unsurpsssed west of Chi cago. On account of our rapidly lucreaa ing attendance L WE WILL MOVE October First to our elegant new quar- ters in the Elks Building now being completed at Seventh and Stsrk streets. Our grsduates ate all employed, llaced 207 pupils In lucra tive positions during the past year. Si-nd for our handsomely lllulrate cstalogue. Kr-e. Aldress all communi cations to our presrnt quarters in the Mrerns lUiildlng, Portland. ft Bladder troubles. Cures In 40H0urs URINARY DISCHARGES f.ch CapwU lheosm.arP1 THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL, trat to the eaat and south. Making fiou connections wl'h trams or an transcontinental lines, passengers are gtvin their choice of routes to Chtcsgo, Louisville, Memphis and New Orlrsns. snd through the polnte to the far east. respective travelere desiring nfor matlon aa to -h lowest rat--s and best routes are Invlte4 to correspond with the following representatives: 11. II. THUMIlUl.I Commercial Agent, 141 Third Bt.. portund. Ore The address of Grover Cleveland at the Jewish anniversary celebration was clear and moderate exposition and re iew of the life and work of a race that 433 Commercial Street Phone Main 121 A Fearful Fate. It is a fearful fate to have to endure the terrible totture of Piles. "I can InilhfuUy say," writ Harry folson, of Musonvllle, la,, "that fr Wind, Ith-ed-ing, lulling and 1'rotruilinjr 1'ilos, Kin ky h-n's Arnic Halve, U the lt cui4 ttMsstt. Als liest fr cuts, burn and injuiie. 2.1c at (liarks Itoj-rs, drug- t'lst. vinu' nT lids, I1IA Brill nuik ui aa its . - urn v -- i mc has leen, and is becoming more and J more, an important factor in the life WUS LITTLE JOKE. A Washington man recalls how Min ister Wu once talked at a mothers congress. He told now moimi--i '" rn.ru reverenced in China, men ne id that all the mothers before him would be mothers-in-law some day, and therefore he would tell them something that they niiht remember and profit bv. A "parlor maid," he began, "ans- . rinif st the doorbell one morn- injr, and a few moments later ascended t W mistress. 'If you please, ma am, she said, 'the st rankest lady is down- .tairs She won't irive her name, ana she has taken off her coat and hat; and he opened the two closets snd rum- them, and then she 'looked at the windows and shook her head, and she rubbed her finper over the and Diano and then slie held n , . . 1 mwA nnur all up to see tne ausi on - . i a l iV-dtut the mistress interrupted caim i ifc.r me!' she said. My husband'- ..... , mother wa-n't expectea wua iro... Texas till Dei-ember."' RUSSIAN REBELLIOUS. TiiPi-e iave been a cowl many bloody rebellions in Russian history, and there ti.vn been several assassination ol Cwrs. often by palace plots. Except for the Polish unrisiiiKs, however, reln-liion have been more frequent during the Iomi fw irpnerations. while two Cars -re ss-assinated in the nineteenth ten t.irr Cold bhKKlcl as the thought may seem, the rumored plots for the murder ,J tl. wesent Citar are reelly less sijf nificant than the mutinies and rioting which have already reached the stage ,.volt If. indeed, some of the rela tives of Nicholas are Implicated, it is of the nation. "If we ever have favors to ak of them," he said, "we can do it without the shame faced remem brance of humiliations and presecution." He called attention to the impre-a that the Jew has made upon the life of the nation, his industry, ol)edienoe to th laws end easy assimilation of the spir it of freedom. Nor is there a lagging in any of those virtues of citizenship The immigrant population impresses more powerfully upon their children g the force of arguments of knowledge. & civic pride and blameless lives, while taking utmost advantage of the ecu liar opportunities offered under this gov ernment for education, advancement and ti, m.iiftinir nf the citizen and the race. I St m. r.r PraJr1nt has made a study I 5 A IIC II. a ' I & of the Jew, and he marked his good J . . . I v points not too strongly nor nrew mio g i the cslcium bis frailties not too critical ly. o- Harner of the University of .Chicago, stricken by a fatal disease, but g still keeping the direction 01 university i y affairs in bis hands and even hearing .s reports of a football game by telephone, g is an excellent illustration of the saying i of Vancenarges: "To do great things, a man must live as though he had never to die." -o .... i In Praise of Chamberlain's uujni Semedy. There La no other medicine manufact ure that baa received so much prac and many expressions of gratitude as Chamber Uin'a cough remedy. H effective, and prompt relief follows its use. Grateful parents everywncr uo not ;UU U teall t l merits for the benefit of others. It s a certain ni-t for croup and will privenl tie ai- tsrk if given at Ihs first rijcirr..c .1 disease. It is especially adapted to children as it is pleaaant to Uke and contains nothing injurious. Mr. E. A. HumDhries. a well known resident and clerk In the store of Mr. E. Lock, of Alios, Ckpa Colony, South Africa, says: "I hfase uwd OiambeiV'n-' Cough Remedy to ward off croup and colds In my family. I found it to be very satis factory and it gives me pleasure to recommend iL" For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. JUST A MOMENT! di dt We Want to f tilk to You ABOUT BOOK BINDING We do it in All the Latest and Best Styles of the Art. . . . 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