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THE MORNING ASTOHIAN. 'ASTORIA. OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, i9ofl. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873. rublishcd Daily by TEL J. S. DELLINGER uOMPANY, SUBSCRIPTION RATES. fly mail, per year f'.OO By mail, per month 0 By carrier, per month C5 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in tulrano. . 1.00 Kntered as ktoik1-oIv mutter June . 1905, at the jHWtoffle Bt Astoria, (.ire- ?on, under ttie aolol (,'onsrvsx ot MriyIi S, Winlm far th dtvliwuie of Th Morx ins vrronus to mthr rwklww or place of hnama nv b md bT txIJ card or through tele hon. Any Irnyularity in tie liwj should be tnroetlutu-ly reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. OfTirial paptr of Clntaop county mid the City of Astoria. WEATHER. Western Orerin Fair, prob ably lij;ht snow south portion, slightly warmer. Eastern Oregon Continued cold. Vetern Washington Fair slightly warmer. A TRENCHANT SIGN. One of the trenchant mth of the over-beariny insolence of corporate wealth in this country, is the repeated, deliberate and conscienceless contumacy of the "industrial captains' in refusing to answer the interrogatories of the committees appointed by the great com munities to investigate their methods of doing business. The-e communities are acting in a three-fold capacity: they are not onlv the ourv from which the arrogant and supercilious concenw de rive their original franchises and funda mental advantages, they are. to an im men.se degree, the reirular patrons of the companies in th-ir current trade and finally they are the legal -ponsors and authoritative warders, -et up by the people, to do ju-t what they arc doing, and the defiant refusal of the representatives of the companies under investigation to respond to the pmper an salient questions put to them, is a pregnant sign of an early and tremen dous clash of power, that can have but one issue, the compl-te undoing of cor porate business existance in America. The people ate invincible at all times, how ever extraordinary their patience. cereh hoped the t'odeiMl authoiilies at the lt.iv City will make a thorough going cvnnple of the case in point, It would sent the Valencia honor might intliicnce the temper and disposition of tho.M- in charge of sea tiatlie and compel the observance of cery piivaution I'm (lie nfet of people and nMil-, mill th.it Mich boy' piny as is icpoitrd of the Roanoke and Iter oltiecis might not or cur to h.iii-.iss the business and diive away palU'imgc. o STRAIGHT TALK. Tlained politicians ,ne hardl gl.iielul in lidiciiliu,' the .mils 01 the methods of tin1 national confeicnee on primary and ballot reform and electoial corruption tiow in session in Manhattan, Such as they admit the present conditions, be cause they arc used to uoiking imdei them, lint it must be icmemb rcd that present conditions air an improvement over those which prvti!ed them. There wcic Ihis-cs and machine leaders who looked with disfavor on any change from the old freebooter system of conducting nominations and elections, mid with contempt upon the advocates of primary and tdection laws. The reason was mere ly that they had .1 different miiit of view from that of the ictormcls; but in time the reformers prevailed, and used party maeliineiy lor tic purpose of enacting reforms. The fm-t is, while political leadeiv and the mass of voter look upon the election system from dif ferent points of view, because thev utilize it for different puipos yet each is necessary for the other's pmpo-es The reformers ahvavs have found and always will find party machinery very handy indispensable -when they want to accomplish anything; and party workers ai' continually dependent upon a public b.-lief that party machinery is truly representative. Brooklyn t'nion. The Hon. .lainrs M. (iriggs. of (leorgia. Hawaii, I'oito ltlco, (01am anil the has Wit choen chairman of the I Vino ' l'hilippines the remark could be lileial cratie (VttjgrvHMimal Committee. Ht . 1 y applied, earii.'d the House for the lVmovracy in 0 l!Hy up to chvtiou night and even ; Fimt Fngland, us a result of obsciva for several nights after. Mr. !riggV 'tions of the Itimso .lapiiiiese War, began ret 11111 to leadership assure the country building an IS.IHH! ton battleship. Nest another vivid and optimistic campaign. j dapan laid the keels of two uch ven o- 1 cl. Then France decided that he I'lesident llimiievclt' mcagi on i would have three of them. Sow we are coast defence nvalls Kipling's remark told that (iermaiiy will incivae to thai some car ago about America being 1 mc two which she is about to Iniihl. "temptingly .spankablc," Since that As our leader will 1 ecu 1 1 our having time continental America has ceased to observed before, the era of big buttle Iv so templing in that iepcct. but to hip does not seem yet to be pat. Political Dnformation V i J The Harm Wrought By New York's Ultra Fashionable Set By Krv. MADISON C. P; New York I.R1 10 EDITORIAL SALAD. If they had known he was coming, they might have had an inspector at the pier to search Andrew Hamilton for ex ploive. and prevent this nervousness, Announcement of cnndlilutc for oltlot) will lie nilillicit In lhee eo!iiinn lit Ii'.iioii. ivlile mle Inr men of nil uu lle, REGISTRATION Itc u 1st nil lull liiNiko 0111 ned liy County I lerki, Tuendii v, .htllllur) J, 1 'U l(cultriitoii hiHika cbweil fur 1'rliimi v I declloii, Al ll In, ( p. til. Ilculxliitlloii liiHik opined niter i limu v elei'lloii, April Keiilslrulloli lioolts cloned for Keueiul ('lection, Mny ,1, ftp, lit. DIRECT PRIMARY ELECTION County Clerks ulve ui.llce ot I't liniiry IIitIIoii not lut.-i Ihun Muri li .1. lawl ilu loi IHIni! peililoiis for plneliiK iiiiinen on Initio! for ulule, roiiircloiini unit lOslrleliillleo. Miireh .'HI liist day Inr IIIIiik petlllon for County oitli-ern, April , DATE OK PRIMARY ELECTION, APRIL jo, iqoO. I'linviisslnu voe ot pi lunti y eleellont foiniute oltlleea Mav :i. GENERAL ELECTION I ut d) fur IIIIiik eeitltlealen id nomination for Mute oilier. iv imacuililv of el.- 'ol. April pi. latst du for IIIIiik uomliiiitlii petiltuni fur pilale ofltc e, Mliv , tlii.v for IIIIiik ccrlirlctUi' ol lioiillniillonii Im eoiinlv officer t io..iili; ul elector, Mny 4 ' bisl ilu.v tor Ilium iioiiiiinitiiiK peiiiliniii loremiiity eltlin, May l'.i. BUS l GENERAL ELECTION, JUNE 4 BE SURE AND REGISTER CANDIDATES ANNOUNCEMENTS The New York County Orand Jury is willing to wait and have the rules ex plained, but indicates it is mighty anx-ion- to get into the insurance game. SUSAN B. ANTHONY. Whatever of opposition there may have been, or still is, to the code of ethics championed by the late Susan B, Anthony, there is only a universal and kindly remembrance of the noble woman who devoted her whole life to the bet terment of her sex. There is something , magnificent in the character that can figure out a lofty purpose and fight for it against the insuperable prejudices of a nation for half a century. She had the comparative realization that comes with meagre success and the partial vin dication of her claims but intensified her ardent adherence to the plan of eman cipating her sex. She never relaxed her energies for an hour since the day she broached her plea to a mocking world, but clung to it, fostered it and fought for it, interminably and pride- fuiy until death itself intervented to still the brain and voice and hand that labored so splendidly for a cause so deeply impressed upon this people that its full and final adoption is among the probabilities of the not remote future. 0 MONEY AND SPORT. The chief engineer of the steamship Roanoke has been arrested in San Fran cisco for tampering with her engines during an ocean race with some other steamers lately, when, it is alleged, he plugged and weighted the safety valve to expedite the Roanoke's chances. It is bad enough that owners should im pose instructions on sea-going officers to make time and that the officers obey the mandate, often to the peril of the pas sengers and cargoes, without engineers butting in with reckless work of the sort to gratify their pride in their en gines or in their vessels; and 'it is sin- An exchange which keeps its reader po.sted reports a lumber dealer as ill with the -hingle-. What Xew York mo-t needs is an ordinance limiting the height of build ings to, sav. the cloud I-vel. Paris ha- put a ban on American pianos but what of the Aim-Heati piani-t-' They ale wasting good money out in Xebra-ka on talkfe-t to boom a gentle man named I'ryan on for the pre-idency They've got the habit. They have now- determined the date when Humpty Dumpty had his great fall: it was the day the egg tru-t collapsed. Chicago running home alter dark irom fear of (he " lioogers " would be very funny if it were not so serious. It's getting risky to leave a policeman out after nightfall. General Bingham's phrase, "deader than Ifector," may offend the purists, but it has at least one conspicuous mer itit gives the phrase, " Dead as Julius Cae-ar," a ret. 0 Pure Vermont maple syrup is now be ing made in the Vermont sugar camps, and also in various manufactories which have fine cuts of the Vermont wood on their labels. Merely as a general observation, the bearing of which lies in its application, it may safely be asserted that no great party ever originated in a week end " house party " where the guests arriv ed in automobiles. 0 Which are we, to believe? Here is a bricklayer-geologist at, work in lower liioadu.iy who tells us that Xevv York City K'-ts on a foundation of "ordinary gneiss." Some of the tiimn orators last fall declined that it was sleeping on a volcano. The '' Daily Kennebec .Journal " finds matter for congratulation in the sus pension, even though temporary, of the proposed I.ippincott dictionary, "of 'si ecu volumes or more." The publish er- had spent 4i),i)0() and onlv L'ot down to the word "dog", after many years of expert labor. Surely, as the Scrip tures have it: "Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh." Let's stick to the book attributed by an orator to Daniel Webster, and wait awhile till the language gets sort 0' settled down. HAVE Ihvii into tin call's ul' the .sir, tht WiiMurf, Jslicr rv's and other l'ii.liituial'!c lintels, ntul nine women nut of ten will enter drinks of the same kind that their escorts order ! AND oniK AS MANY OF TIIK.M. I have watched these women and 1 have wondered if thev realized what thone same men thminht "f them deeji down in their hearts. They think (mark you, I ntti voicing, the sentiments of the until ahout town when I say it) - thev think these same v onng; women are all I'ijlht for a time, hut they would imt MAk'UY such women. And thi brings mtturallv to mind the thought, Why 11 re there in Xew York city today thousand of men in their thirties and forties, men of means or of excellent hiiliirie. and incomes, who arc imt mar ried f" And why are there so many instances of men marrying, us no ciety i-utsit, "BEX HAT II TI1E.M t" The answer is because so many of the daughters of their own fa.shionable set are given to drink, cigarette snmking, tumbling (for that is what bridge whist has resolved itself into) and to kindred viws. It is because men of the world and of society realize thai SUCH WOMKX AUK NOT FIT To HKCO.MK THE MOTH ERS OF CHILDKEX, not tit to preside at their tables and over their households. Xot many of these men, finding the women of their own circle given over to these vicious habits, go "lieneath it" and find honest voting women whose names are not in the social register as their help meet. The cause of these conditions is largely due to the fact that the women of society have nothing to do. They are deprived of the atten tion and society of their husband; thev are without children and housekeeping cares, and they become MERE PI. EASE HE SEEK ERS, and before thev know it they are brought to that state of mind where all of their faculties are engaged in discovering modes of selfish enjoyment. If there were MOKE ( llll.DKEX in the homes of the rich there would be less dissipation. Think of it, on Fifth avenue from Washington square to Xinetv-tifth street there ''.ere only fourteen children bom last vear. On .Madison avenue from Tuontv third to Xinety-iifth street there were only fifty four births during' the pt year. These figures are eloquent. THE ONLY REMEDY FOR THESE TRUY GRAVE CONDITIONS IS FOR THE WOMEN TO FIND AN AIM THAT 15 WORTHY CF THE DEEPEST AND STRONGEST IN THEIR NATURES. ANY SERIOUS PURPOSE WILL SAVE WOMEN FROM FRIVOLITY. We find that these women seldom read; thev have no thirst for knowledge; they .seldom cultivate their minds by study. Only the other day I was going up in the elevator of one of the most fashionable hotels of the city when I heard a young woman say to another, and it was then 9 o'clock, "I haven't done a thing all day hut play bridge." That is only an example of what women do with their time. I am told that the gambling whist habit has become so prevalent that women dozens and dozens of them go from house to house, from fashiona ble hotel to hotel day after day and night after night, reviving them selves by drinks of various sorts. Of course there are thoce who would criticise a man of the cloth for offending his fashionable pew rent ers, perhaps, by telling the truth about these alarming conditions. The conditions are all the more grave when one considers that the ENTIRE COUNTRY is influenced by the doings of members of the ultra fashionable circle of New York. Their every movement is her alded in the society columns and their amusements are taken AS A PATTERN by other silly women all over the land. When Mrs. Astor slums she has a thousand followers ; if Mrs. Fish plays bridge the smaller fry will follow suit, and if all of fashionable society drink and smoke the entire country will feel its vicious in fluence. THAT 18 WHERE THE MOST HARM IS DONE. FOR GOVERNOR. Republican! of Orgon are hereby Informed that I mil candidate for the nomination of Governor t the print riei to be held April 20th JAM KM WITHYCOMIIK. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE. I hereby announce myiinlf a cindi date for the utllee of Kwrtarjr of Ktatp, and ak the mipport of all Republi can, t. T WHUJMTMAN. FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL. FOR STATE PRINTER. The undented miouiicr hlmirlf a a Republican candidate for renotnuja Ibm for KtaU l'rlnter, subject to tlS d'ellon of the Republican vutera at the primary election, April 20. Now nerving ftrt term. Tha miic courtney that ban been accorded to KUIn olllifru (Piieially, that of a reiiomina tion, would be greatly appreciated. J. R. WHITNEY. 1 Albany, Uiegon. iFOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC 1 INSTRUCTION. The undrraijfncd hereby announce I hereby announce myelf aa a cn himoelf an a candidate for re election didate for renomlnatlon for th olfn-n to the office of Attorney -Ceneral, aub-iof superintendent of Public lnalruc- ject to tho approval of Republican Hon, and aollrlt the support of all Re- votera at the prlniarle. !publlen at tha primaries, April 201',. A. M. CRAWFORD. J. II. Al'KKRMA.V. r NOW IN OUR NEW STORE COR- BOND AND llth. STREET WE ARE BUSY GETTING SETTLED BUT CAN FIND TIME TO SU0W YOU HOW COMPLETE AND EXTENSIVE IS OUR STOCK OF WALL PAF.R, PAINTS, OIL, GLASS, MATTINGS, MOULDINGS, ETC. COME IN AND SEE OUR NEW LOCATION AND LET US FIGURE WITH YOU ON ANY WORK N OUR LINE, B. F. Allen a Son, andCo;enntdh s, First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. The Federal Supervision of R jiilfnirl; thomas p. fowler. XXAX - J President N. Y.. O. ind W. Rallwiy HE possible effect of federal rate supervision on traffic condi tions will depend almost entirely upon T1JK 80KT OF SUJ'EKVLSIOX the government provides. The question of railroad rates, like the digging of interoeeanic canals, is a serious problem and eannot be mastered IN FOUK YFIARS by the most talented and erudite of mankind. The effect is likely to be disastrous to the railroads and calamitous to any government that assumes the responsibility of placing the lim itations or regulation of railroad rates IN THE HANDS OF DKKAMERS and amateurs. The problem of eliminating wrongful rebates and any sort of discrimination is another and a comparatively simple matter and could safely be left WITH THE COURTS if those who are now seeking to usurp extraordinary authority and RATE MAKING powers were willing to leave it there. !i:.NTAIW,ISHi:i IHH41. Capital and Surplus $100,000 Sherman Transfer Co. IUENKY HJIRRMAN.Mi.naiw Hacks, Carriages Jiaggajie Checked and TransferredTrucks and Pur niture Wagons Pianos Moved, lioxed and Shipped. 433 Commercial Street; Phone Main 121 J. Q. A. BOWLBY, Preaidant. 0. I. PETERSON, Vlce Prealdent. RANK PATTON, Caahter. J. W. GARNER, Aaalatant Caihl.r. Astoria Savings Bank Capital Paid Id $100,OU, Hurplun and Undivided Profit WUHd Tranaacta a General Banking Huiilneaa. InUireat Paid on Time tapoalUi 168 Tanth 8traet, That AH Important Bath Room You have often heard people remark "If I were ever to build, I would plan my bath room first and would not put all my money into the parlor with all its finery." That is good common sense sentiment, for the bath room Is the nost Important of all the household. We would like to help you plan your hath room and will gladly quote you prcea on "SHarHLxtxi Ware, the best ai( Jiiost sanitary fixtures made. J, A. Montgomery, Astoria. ASTORIA, OREGON 1 0 i