THE SIORNIXG ASTOHIAN, ASTORIA. OREGON. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 19034 THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established itjy, Published Daily by TEI J. S. DELUHGER COMPAHY. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. 8 mtO, per year 97.00 Bt mail per month 60 Bt carrier, iter month.......... .73 t WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per 7r, in adraac. .$1-00 tntered m tecond-fUM matter Junt SB.19U&, t the pmtornce -at Astorl. ure on, nder the act of Con fees ol March S, Onto for UwdefrwruktorTas loan weisroaiAS toskhiw resfckoo or place of IimIiiiim ur bo made by postal card or throng Me boaa. Any trmffuUrKy ia d brarj should ba auaadlaMy reported to la orpuoucauoav TELEPHONE MAIN Mi. WEATHER REPORT. Western Oregon (Veasional rain, part snow or 6leet. Western Washington Owa 6ional rain. BONDS BONDS!! BONDS!!! "here are none to deny that a fine eca-wall would be a splendid and sec viceable thing for Astoria. But Wie question of paying for it is quite an other matter. The cry is for "bonds" the cry for bonds i a dangerous and ruinous thing. There is not money enough in the broad world today to pay one-half the interest etyirge on the bonds now extant. They are the curse of Uie commercial .world and of the poor man. They beget interest dcbiU that - fall on the ordinary wage earner like an eternal shadow; they affect the price of erery morsel he ats, every garment he 5 tars; they increase hi rent and ex- jwuu 111s iwi 01 living in every airec tion; they are a menace to the future of every child iu the land, sare those who escape the peril, for the time being, by being the children of the bond holder, and even in their case, the peril is but averted for a reason. The absorbent mastery of the bond will assert itself in the end to the undoing of humane society. Every little cheap Foul that looks to the easiest way out of public or private obligation is howl ing for "bonds," as though they were 1 mere pawing incident in the transaction' There was a time inhe history of the business world when the bond, as such, carried its own sinking fund and was treated like an honest debt of an honest man or nation, but that era is past; not one bond issue in a hundred thou sand today carries it own sinking fund. Why should they? The rule is for new bond to replace the old; any banker will tell you this. The fact of the mat ter is Astoria is carrying all the bonds she knows what to do with and is "skinning her teeth" to safely handle her existing obligation. It is not safe, nor prudent nor is there a single element of coniumiiul wisdom in the plan.. Some day when she has grown to be a great terminal port, with fleets o' her qm n and some cause for the iiiiinifl- tent provision exists, with projierty both real and -roiiul to tux. gn at it. At present it is a dream. All this may found iinnmiiuc, wocisilistic. vliut vou will, but it U 'straight and true. 0 KEEP FAITH, GENTLEMEN! dillaUtry tactic and are raising hade by war of protest. We dont blame them; they are but asking the priv lege they paid for, and were promised If the bosses desire to carry water on bote shoulders," to placate the sport ing world and jolly the decent element at one ami the same time t'tey will find it uphill work and down hill results. Keep faith, gentlemen, kee faith! EDITORIAL SALAD. Of course the mail carriers in the approach of Christmas. delight The abolishment of the press bureau is ft good advertisement for tin; canal, . o ' Maybe the revolution tn 1 annua ny is modeled . after the South American variety. 0 That school of codfish struck the Long Island roast just in time to play in the ball game. There will be a, job for some distin guished American in syndicating those new Russian republics. 0 Oar Nicholas is in the position of the man who, having put his hand to the ploughshare, turns back. o They have suppressed all the comic papers la Russia, perhaps .as the last attempt of a despairing autocracy to convince the world absolutism can do some good. 0 ' They are trying to gvt Charles M. Schwab to accept ft seat in the fitted States Senate from Xevada just so. they can repeat the cry, "Another good man gone wrong 0 - Then again, perhaps the Brooklyn Municipal Ownership people will assent to the idea that it is for them to get the small end of it so far as between elections is concerned. 1 0 Having to go to church, sing the Mar-eillai-e and attend meetings regu larly, man must expect a strenuous time when he accepts a job as one of the unemployed of London . 0 Xor is it at all out of place -for Mr". Shaw to call attention to the merits of AKlexander Hamilton, who will lie re membered as the first of a long line of illustrious Secretaries of the Treasury. 0 Another scheme has been unearthed for utilizing the water in the lower gorge of Niagara Falla by a writer in Cassicr's Magazine." key wit! the Falls; enough a they are. Better not mon ty are wejl There is grumbling and growling in the nether-world of Astoria. 1 he snts want to open up right now. ns they were given to understand they might J, if they stood behind he Democrats in the late lection, but the bosses don't think It quite expedient. They want to wait iinil they have made the June winning, after which there will be none to dis pute their will and it will 1 phlm -ailing; but the men who put their time and money on the Democratic' mule in the recent race, are resisting the The atib-treaury is providing bright new coins anil crisp new bills for Christmas use say the local renorts. Glad to hear that. It bctran to look as we couldn't afford to ' pay Santa Commitee of the House of Represent live. Mr. Dwight does not come front the metropolitan district, but he is man of breadth and intelligence, iden tided with its interests, and may be expected to be influential in securing proper facilities for the city vhk-h eon tribute more than any other to the postal revenues. , It is a welcome and not altogether unexiicctcd announcement that the President of Vcnerucla nas withdraw the note which give offence to the Frenc government and that thus that Uiplo matte incident, huu at on time seemed to portend grave complications, is amicably cheJ. Mr. Castro probably came to ft realiiatkni . of his having acted hastily, or with ovcr-ensiUwne. ami it I to his credit that he has made honorable ameuds. It is also psrtk-u larly gratifying to he a Me to ftstume that this happy ending of the incident is in a measure due to the friendly In Auence of the United State, exerted through its Minister at Caracas. A JOLLY AMERICAN TRAMP COMING 'A Jolly American Tramp," a comedy drama replete with striking sensations and startling situations, will be the New Year attraction at Fisher's Monday evening, January 1st. The piece is from the pen of the author of "A Poor Rek tion" and "Peaceful Valley," two plays that have made Sol Smith Russell famous. In it Mr. Kidder portrays an American tramp, not as a repulsive ever-to-oe-ahunneii. outcast, but as a man who through misfortune was com pelled to wander "upon the face of the earth, but whose heart, well knowing his own distress, still bleeds for others' woes and who offer even his life to help right the wrongs of others eveu more unfortunate than he. 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