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SUNDAY, JUNE t loofl. 2 THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873. Published Daily by TBI J. S. DELLINGER COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. By mail, per year 17.00 By mail, per month 10 By carrier, per month to WEEKLY ASTORIAN. 8, mail, per year, in advance.. L00 Katered m ocond-elaM matter June 83, IMt. at the poftofflre at Astoria, ore- on, wader Vat act of Conjrew ot March S, W Orton tar tke deUmnnjr ot TBI Moan mo unroaiAX to either rasidrac or plac ot buriaeae be mad by postal card or tkroogfc telethon. Any trreiruUrity tn de li Terr ahouM be immediately reported to the offloe of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. Official paper of Clatsop county and the City of Astoria. TEMBLOR, FIRE, STRIKE. It would seem as though Sn Fran cisco litl had enough to contend with, with her earthquake ami tire, ami the subsequent desolation that followed them; but now, to cap the climax of de sultory experiences, the only element of her commercial life that largely escaped the ruin that emiulfel all el.-. I tied hand and foot by a strike that wa as needles a it was inoportuiu The sailors ou the eoat steam schooners and kindred eraft, were, and are. among the best paid tradesmen on the coast, and drew on pay day, a sum equivalent to the Income of most of the lxt trained ami equipped business men in the same territory. They were will-fed and well housed. and their work was no harder, in time and kind, than tens of thousands of men are doing for one-half the com pensation in the mills and factories of the west. It looks very much like an other manifestation of the so-called "union cinch." a policy that is certain to cut the safe ground from beneath the organic feet of unions if it is permitted to go much farther. 4 WEAXHER. Western Oregon and Washing-, ton Fair. Eastern Oregon and Washing- ton Fair and warmer. ' THE COLUMBIA BAR. AS THE PEOPLE SAY. The Morning Astorian does not pose as an organ, nor asume the functions of a private herald, nor is it inspired by any selffish purpose when it demands the abatement and regulation of certain ob noxious lines of business, in this city: It simply expresses, as nearly as may be, the concensus of popular opinion on a popular subject. The people of Astoria, as a whole, have the sole say so in the matter, and whatsoever trend their dic tum shall take in this, or any other, ! large question of municipal import, this 'paper will announce it in plain terms a ; soon as it is made determinable. That 'is all! Astoria has her ambitions; she has a j right to them; nature has done much to ( inspire them and keep them alive. ! Among her yearnings, is that of becom ing a great sea-port. She lies upon a magnificent bay just within one of the noblest marine grateways upon this side of the Pacific, and her aspiration for com mercial pre-eminence is justifiable and wholly reasonable. In the past she has contended some what selfishly, perhaps, for this supreme ; advantage and always hopelessly. 000000000000000000 0 EDITORAL SALAD. 0 000000000000000000 The butter made annually in the United States somewhat exceeds 1,500, 000.000 pounds and requires the milk from 10,000,000 cows. These cows are kept on something like 4.000,000 farms and furnish occupation, wholly or in Her I part, for about 7.000,000, or nearly 10 per time has not yet arrived, however inevit- cent of the population. The total value able it may be; and now, to place her- !f the output of butter is nearly $300,- self in an attitude, less of selfish antago nism, and more of prideful effort for the great state she must always stand for, she will contend honestly, and strenuously, for a 40-foot channel over the Columbia river bar, for the immense and lasting good it will do the whole State of Oregon, its metropolis included. ; All she asks for is that a sensible, j effective, consecutive course of improve ment be undertaken, at once, for the es-! tablisbment and maintenance of that I deep channel on the sea barrier that shall open up the whok wide territory of Ore- i gon to the commerce of the world; that the mouth of the Columbia river and that great river itself (together with all the cities and towns that touch . upon it directly and indirectly), be made what it should have been long year3 ago, a safe, avail able, constant, and famous avenue to a line of ports that have something to receive from the world at large, and plenty to yield in return; that the men in interest, in Portland, and elsewhere throughout the state whatsoever their in terests may be, business, commercial, poli tics, official, unofficial, technical, lay or merely superficial, shall come down here and scan the situation, on the ground, and decide for themselves, the momen tous question of expedients and the value of their instant application. It is no issue to be cavalierly disposed of at the dictum of some newspaper, nor upon the hypothesis put forward in a maga zine article; it is a matter of huge sig nificance and worthy the deliberate and faithful scrutiny of the best and brain iest men in the commonwealth, for it is a commonwealth matter and not the segregated nor disassociated problem of any one city or section. Therefore, we ask that it be ignored no longer; that the best talent and the larg est interests in wide Oregon, be invoked for the saving of the tremendous elements of trade and traffic, with which it is pregnant, to the state at large. We believe, that for temporary pur poses ,the engagement of the dredger Chinook upon the bar during the next four or five months, will do what is immediately necessary, while the larger schemes for its final and permanent de velopment are being formulated and to be gut in immediate practice when they are wrought out. What the ultimate idea may be for preserving the great sea channel for all time to come, we know not, nor care, 10 long as it shall be absolutely effective. The completion of the souh jetty and the installation of the north sen well and the subsequent attrltive force of the tides, or the regular maintenance of tar dredger at all time and seasons j whatever uity come, and come to -ley, ( tUtt I'.H wJtli Itnnmise HUtU-Won, od with the r4 of Drf 00, (Wry In the Ijdeudld rsiulti. j 000,000, which is a little more than 5 per cent of all the agricultural products of the United States. Considered as a crop, it is exceeded in valuation only by corn, wheat, hay, forage and cotton. And up-to-date twentieth century farmer reads his local paper. He wants to know what his neighbors are doing, what is happening in the world around him and he wants in many cases to study the advertisements and find w'jere he can buy goods the cheapest. He don't say much about it perhaps when he goes to the store to do his trading, but just let a merchant advertise a special bar gain and see if the up-to-date farmer don't find it out and take advantage of it. The farmer's work at this time of the year is hard. It wrings the sweit from the brow. Night finds our bodies weary and longing for rest but how soundly we sleep! And the new garden stuff, fresh and crisp, gives us an appetite. To be able to work, eat, sleep, look up and enjoy this glorious June weather, are all things for which to be thankful. 0 Alexander Berkman anarchist, says he is going to write a look about his prison life to be called "To Hell and Back." It should be appropriately bound in full calf with "guilt" edges. o Mr. Iry9ti is a good politician and knows well how to grow in strength with the people. He has already made his plans to spend another year out of the country. 0 There are some things that not only spoii bit became rar.gerous by being kept too long on ice; pure food bills for instance. Congressmen take note. The American Habit of Extravagance By STUYVESANT F1JH, Prtldnt llllnoli Central Railroad :0 r Judging from the trustees' report, New York's new library is in less danger from the book-worm than from the lazy bug and the red-tape worm. 0 It was noisier at old Bunker Hill yesterday and the day berfore than it was is 1773, People who are clean inside will look like it and act it They will work with energy, think clearly, act clearly and have healthy thoughts. HollIsUr's Rocky Mountain Tea. It makes clean neoDle. 36 cents. Tea or Tablets. Frank r Hart, druggist. "James, my wn. did you take (hut let t'-r t the polollle mid puy the pontage 011 ill" "J'allier, 1 lot of men put ling Mtm Iti a little la ami when n on ms locking I kllpi"''! In yours for iwth X the household no ono will question that our pcoplo aro spend- thrifts, earning money freely and wasting it to such an extent as to make it proverbial that what ia thrown out of our kitch ens would support FRUGAL PEOPLE in almost any coun try in Europe. While we have in recent years becomo in no small measure manufacturers, we aro still essentially an agricultural people, producing from the soil more than wo consume and exporting the surplus ; hence, any sum, however small, which on the average is saved by each citizen redounds to the benefit of all by increasing our ACCUMULATED capital. n at Turning to our general or public economy, no one can examine ap propriations made by congress, by the state legislatures and by our municipal governments without appreciating that thero is in each a conspicuous AND GROWING lack of economy. There aro not only waste and extravagance in administration and what is now commonly called graft, which is a combination of bribery and larceny, but what is economically worse, the laws are so framed as not to get the best use out of the taxes paid by the people. WHAT WE HAVE TO FEAR IS NOT 80 MUCH THE MAGNI TUDE OF THE APPROPRIATIONS AS THAT OUR LAWS REQUIRE THAT UNECONOMICAL AND, THEREFORE, BAD U8E BE MADE OF THEM. I need not repeat that the count ry is prosperous and likely to so continue. While fully appreciating these facts, wo cannot shut our eyes to the trouble that has been going on in tho CENTER of our financial system. Much has been said in the press, not only at the west, but even in conservative Boston, which reminds us of the old fable of the quarrel which the various members of the human body had with the stomach, for, after all, we must admit that it is in Wall street that securities are DIGESTED. With most of what has been said in violent denunciation of any thing and everything in Wall street I can have no sympathy, although, on tho other hand, we must admit that MUCH IS WRONG there. The situation may be illustrated by a rather unpleasant simile. Throughout all time men have had trouble with their digestive proc esses until in our day much from which our fathers had ignorantly suf fered as pain or inflammation in these parts has been distinctly ding nosed as coming from the vermiform appendix, and modern surgery has in thousands of cases succeeded in SAFELY REMOVING that rudimentary and useless organ, to the great relief of the race. Having looked into the matter myself somewhat carefully of late, I say in all seriousness that not only in the insurance companies, but in many other corporations, there is need of the advice and probably of THE KNIFE of the TRAINED surgeon. K H K There is wrong in the management of many corporations, and it should be removed, cost what it may, for the benefit alike of the pa tient and of the community. Without pretending to any superior knowledge on the subject, but having given to it thought not only of late, but for years past, with respect to corporations generally, I think that THE ROOT OF THE EVIL lies in too few men having un dertaken to manage TOO MANY corporations; that in so doing they have perverted the powers granted under corporate charters in their hurry to do a vast business. t H X While the evil applies to corporations generally throughout the whole country, my meaning can perhaps be best illustrated by taking the case of the three great life insurance companies in New York the Mutual, the New York Life and the Equitable. A year ago these three companies had, as shown in the 'Directory of Directors' published by tho Audit Company of New York, ninety-two trustees or directors WTIIO LIVED IN NEW YORK. Of them ono was a member of seventy-three boards, another of fifty-eight, another of fifty-four, an other of fifty-three, another of forty-nine, another of forty-seven, an other of forty-three and another of forty-one. AND TO SUM UP, TH08E NINETY-TWO GENTLEMEN HELD FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE DIRECTORSHIPS IN CORPORATIONS WHICH WERE SUFFICIENTLY WELL KNOWN TO BE RECORDED IN THE DIRECTORY ABOVE REFERRED TO. First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. Chollv Pushimr sort of fellah, that. Miss Knox How thoutlitlui 01 rum 1 He has been twying to cultivate my A little cultivation wouldn't hurt you society lately a bit. Philadelphia Ledger. i:mtaiimniii:i ihnu. Capital $100,000 ASTORIA IRON WORKS JOHNi FOX, Tree. K L BISllOP, Secretary Nelaon Tmyt-r, Vlt-e-Pres. and Hunt. AHT0K1A HAVINOH JUNK, Treat Designers and Manufacturers of ZtUE LATEST IMPItOVKD Z Canning Machinery. Marine Engines and Boilers Complete Cannery Outfits Furnished CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Foot of Fourth Bin!. 3. Q. A. BOWLBY, President. 0. I. PETERSON, Vice-President rHAXK PATTON, Cashier. J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier. Astoria. Savings Bank (wplial Paid In HOODOO, Surplus and Cudlrldtd J'ronu IM.OUQ. TranucU a Gtueral Hanking Bunion. Intermit I'sld on Time DoikmIU 168 Tenth Street, A STOMA, OREGON SCO! BAY IBOH & BRASS MB AKTOHIA, OltKUOX IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS LAND AND MARINE ENGINEERS I t'p-lo tme Paw Mill Mscltlnrry.E " s"i(t;i ii 11,10 el. rlr wuk lKth and I'rniiklln Ate.XT Tel. Muin IMrtl Sherman Transter Co. 13ENRY 811 ERM AN, Manager Hack, Carriage Beggsge Checked and Transferred Truck, and Furniture Wsgons Planoe Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 433 Commercial Street Phone Main 121 coooocococcooocooqccooc WANTED IHRTCJT: Saw Mill Men, $2.25 per day. Yard Men,$2.00 per day. Ten Boys, Over J6 Years Old to Work In Box Factory. 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