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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1906. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873. Published Dally by III J. S. DIUINGMt COMPACT. SUBSCRIPTION SATES. By mail, per year .............17.00 By mail, per month..... .W By earrier, per month...... 65 WEEKLY ASTORIAH. B, mail, per year, in adrance.. 11.00 ' Bntered a swondkclMS mattr Jon 8S. 1806, at tbe poeloffloe at Attorls, Ore coo, node? ln act of Cougreas ol March S, I879L , larOrfen tor tha detlwiEjcof Thi Hoax mslsrotua toetthar reeWeix or plac of bwteeas may b made by portal card or through tetoohooe. Any Irregularity in da Urery should be immediately reported to Um office o publication. TELEPHONE MAE! 661. theCtty of Astoria. Official paper of Clatsop county and WEATHER. . . ' . . Oresron Fairs not so warm in- terior. Western Washington Fair. Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho Probably Bhowers and cooler. . SMOKE AND UPROAR. Astoria has had her season of smoke and uproar; her chance to show her en thusiasm as a live American town by paying the customary tribute to the great national holiday; she did it all, minus loss and accident, in good hearty fashion. She will now get down to busi ness,' and take up the loose ends of her commerce, knit them back into the web of her current activity, and go ahead with the many things that were under consideration when the "glorious Fourth" intervened. ' We are eager to report .finally and successfully upon the new charter, the seawall, the new hotel, the regatta, and such other live matters as may be for the good of Astoria, and these once concluded .there will be other nd no less valuable projects demanding her attention. ; I . 0 ' " ' THE JAP SAILORMAN. The Japanese, as sailors, will not be accepted by the white labor organiza tions intimately associated with the sea men of the coast. This is to be made ' fully and finally aparent to the shipping interests, and it is not asking very much, either; and may have a tendency to smooth up the edges of the strike, if it is conceded. To make this a fighting element of the presen strike is not good policy. The intervention of the Asiatic in the labor contentions of this country never did accomplish any good, and this case will be no exception. Tbis is a white man's country before all else, and this is said without any desire to de precate the Japanese, who in their pecul iar sphere, are all right, and deserving of friendly consideration; but when they are made an issue in, a scrap of the kind now involvng the whole coast, there will be serious trouble piled up for them and for all concerned. Give the white man the first chance. A RARE JUDGE, Judge Wofford, of Kansas,- refused to hang a convicted murderer the other day, on very wholesome ground that invite to th earnest attention of every thinking American The defendant wa a poor, ignorant, helpless negro, who had killed a bully of hi own race. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree, and the judge, in his final ar raignment of the poor wretch, withheld the extreme penalty, on the following humane, manly, and dignified hypo thesis: "You're guilty of murder, all right, but youVe a poor, ignorant black man, and I don't want to hang you. You have no friends- You have no one to plead that you were insane when you killed this man. If I sentence you to hang you will hang just aa sure as there' a God in heaven. There will not be a whole lot of women circulating petition to save your neck. There will not be a lot of fool nu n writing letera to-the governor to save you. Xo one will send you flowers. You'll just be forgotten until the day set for your hanging, and then they'll hang you. I'll sentence you to 30 years in the penitentiary.". A conclusion at once the very essence of complete justice, and a sting ing ship t in the face of those idiotic Americans who are so indiscriminate and vulgar in their slobbering over the in teresting criminals of the country. 0 000000000000000000 O EDITORAL SALAD. O 0 00 00 00 0 000 0000 0 00 Thi marked difference between the number of ministers and the number of churches is seen in very nearly all of the larger denominations. Baptists, for in stance, have 52.919 churches and only 37,000 ministers. Disciples of Christ have 11,033 churches and 6475 ministers; Lutherans, 13.373 churches and 75S5 min isters; Presbyterians, all bodies, have 15.702 churches and 12,659 min isters; Episcopalians with 7146 churches, have but 5109 clergymen. The Reformed churches have 1970 ministers to 2536 churches. L'nited Brethren have 4407 churches and but 2185 ministers. There are but few exceptions among American religious bodies to this disproportion be tween the number of churches the min isters. A notable one, however, is the Catholic church which has 11,637 churches and 14,104 clergymen. 0 ; . Ten millions for a battleship! Con gress gives it out of taxes wrung from the poor, for the poor are the final payera of all taxfs. That would have erected 10,000 cottages costing $1000 each. What a boon that would have been to the poor slum population of any great city. But to ask congress to do that and rent them at $5 a month (6 per cent on the investment) would have been the worst kind of paternalism, so it would! Yet the people are educated to believe that the government is to protect them! 0 One of the largest department stores in Pittsburg, is crippled badly by the resignation of 36 young women, all of whom said they were to be married this month. ' , The Deadly Monotony of Men's Attire By HENRY HOLIDAY, famous Enfllih Art lit HE deadly gloom and monotony of inon'g dress -ono of tbe scandals of the nge U traceable to CLASS INEQUAL ITY and the scramble for wealth. Thero teas a time when sumptuary laws regulated the dress of the different classes, but free men did not tolerate this, and there are now no longer any sharp distinctions between tho dress of tho different grades of society. John Stuart Mill declared that it was tho chief aim of people to get out of one rank of society INTO THE CLASS ABOVE IT, and it follows, therefore, that each class endeavors to dress like the one above it Tho aristocrat wears a top hat, a black tubular coat and light stove pipe trousers. The wealthy merchant or bankor is compelled to dress EXACTLY THE SAME. To introduce the smallest mark of individuality or to indicate by one's dress one's calling in life would be to lose caste. Thero is a ridic ulous understanding in society that a gentleman is a man who does not earn his own living and it is therefore incumbent on every one "in society" to wear a dress which looks as though its owner could not do any work in it In the same way the larger trader copies the merchant, .and the smaller tradesman apes the man above him, AND SO ON RIGHT DOWN THE SCALE, until even the workingman turns out on Sun days in the top hat, black coat and stovepipe trousers. If there were no classes no one would be afraid of losing caste, and consequently every one would consult his own comfort and conven ience in his dress. ' " , WE CAN HOPE FOR ' NO RADICAL CHANGE IN OUR DRESS UNTIL WE HAVE ALTERED OUR SOCIAL 8YSTEM. 80 LONQ AS THE GREED FOR PROFIT CONTINUES, SO LONQ WILL OUR DRESS BE VULGAR. Shape counts for something. Miss Dona L. May of Michigan is almostper feet in mental tests but because she was short and stout he could not get a position from Uncle Sam at Washington. GEORGE MITCHELL. Public sentiment in the States of Ore gon and Washington is wholly on the side of George Mitchell, the slayer of Creffield. He is on trial for a killing, that, by every law of ethics, of con sanguinity, of moral reason, and public benefit, should be condoned by the court of review, if for no other cause than the apprising all successors of such as Creffield that they cannot follow their hideous and dangerous cults in this coun try with impunity. And if the law wants to justify itself in its future deal ings with men and cases of this sort, it will not delay its investigations until the crisis of murder has arisen to in voke its intervention, but will push ita restraining hand amid the earlier de velopment of the new creeds that are currently reported vile and baneful, as this one wa, long before George Mit chell demonstrated its frightful exoesses. The law is prone to wait too long before it scrutinizes the things it is called on to punish; and it is a fault that cries out for instant correction, which, if attend ed to, will obviate the necessity for jut euch extremities a this poor young fellow is up against, to the utter ruin of his life and hopes. RECEIVER'S NOTICE. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Multnomah. Eleanor Olmsted, plaintiff, v. The Traders' Insurance Company, et al, defendants. Notice is hereby given that the under signed has been appointed by tbe above- entitled court in the above-entitled cause receiver for the State of Oregon, of the defendant, The Traders' Insurance Com pany of Chicago, Illinois, and that by order of the said court, all persons hav ing claims against the said defendant, The Traders' Insurance Company, arising on policies issued in Oregon, are required to present the same to the undersigned, at the address below given on or before the 31st day of October, 1906, and if not so presented, the same will not partici pate in the distribution of the funds of the said defendant company, in the hands of the receiver. Notice is further given, that all re turn premiums will be computed from the 6th day of May, 1906, the date of the insolvency of the said The Traders Insurance Company .and all policyhold ers of the said defendant company are urged to reinsure, if they have not al ready done so, and to present their claims properly verified promptly to the receiver with the surrender f their policies. Forms for proof of claims may be had from the receiver of from the former agents of the company. 1 1 A.E BIRRELL, Receiver. Address McKay Building, Portland, Oregon. Dated June 25, 1906. BEAOH & SIMON, Attorney for Receiver. The Menacing Future of Europe By LORD AVEBURY (Sir John Lubbock) of England HE enormous and wasteful military expenditure of Europe means lower wages, higher prices of tho necessaries of life and HARDER WORK. It makes life a heavier and for millions an almost intolerable burden. Who that knows any thing of the condition of the Russian serfs and artisans can wonder that they rise in revolution! They are OVERWORKED, UNDER PAID AND UNDERFED. Recent events, moreover, must leave bitter memories and furious feeling. The Russian armies have caused more misery to Russia than all the forces of Japan. Insurrection may be suppressed by force, but UNLESS THE CAUSES ARE RE MOVED it will inevitably break out again. t Bayonets are good as weapons, but not to sit on. , The case of Germany is not so bad, but there also the sufferings and hard condition of the working classes, sufferings which cannot be reduced as long as tho present expenditure is maintained, are leading to a rapid development of socialism. . Socialism, I fear, would only AGGRAVATE THE EVIL, but it is the protest of the masses against their hard lot Unless something is done the condition of the poor in Europe will grow worse and worse. It is no use shutting our eyes. Revolution may not come soon, not probably in my time, BUT COME IT WILL AND WHEN IT DOES COME THERE WILL BE AN EXPLOSION 8UCH A8 THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN. If the monarchs of Europe .are to retain their thrones and if we are to maintain peace, European statesmen must devise some means of fostering better feelings and DIMINISHING THE BURDENS which now press so heavily on the springs of industry and aggravate so terribly the unavoidable troubles of life. Life insurance companies are to a great extent the savings banns of the people and should by legislation be placed under as strict sur veillance as national banks, and the misappropriation or embezzlement of funds by their officials should be declared to be a felony PUNISH ABLE BY IMPRISONMENT in the penitentiary. IF WARRANT CAN BE FOUND IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED 8TATE8 FOR 8UCH LEGISLATION BY THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, OF WHICH THERE IS GRAVE DOUBT, IT SHALL RECEIVE MY SUPPORT. ' The Wonderful Qualities Of the Japanese By President CHARLES W. ELIOT of Harvard nAT shall we say of the yellow race ? Recently in New York an attempt was made to draw a clear cut distinction. The labor orators denounced the Chinese and Japanese, implying that these races were physically, mentally and morally differentiated from us in such a degree that THEY COULD NOT BE LIVED WITH, and all we want to know about a race is, Can we live with it ? A minister who had long lived in China replied that that nation had produced a high civilization when the ancestors of every man in the room were living in fur clothing in the wilder ness. , . . . t . . We have had an excellent opportunity to see what the Japanese are like, and I wonder if there is any one who, will venture to assert that they are inferior to us MENTALLY, PHYSICALLY OR MOR ALLY. See what an exhibition they have given us in physical strength and power in their mastery of the art of war. They actually taught the English how Jo fight a naval battle,. No fleet in tho world ever made such INTELLIGENT. PREPARATIONS for battle as the surgeons of Togo's fleet. And witness the intellectual insight in the conduct of the struggle and the moral qualities in its conclusion. Yet we have the insolenee to conceive of exaludin Japanese from this, country because of their inferiority. 77TT v JSeilefrcparatlonTor As similating tbCToodondRefiuta ting UifeS tamachs andljowds of rrcmolcsTJ?sHoaChetrful- was am imconuu ns nomer OjmimMorpaina nor Mineral. Not Nahcotic. UaU JH,4mim SMOT Smd- A perfect Remedy forConstlfwi- J Hon. Sour Stomath.Diarrhoca. VVbrmSAonvulsionsJevcrish Ds end Loss or Slur facsimile Signature of KKW "YORK. exact conro? vsama. IMS For Infant! and Children. The Kind You Havo Always Boiigh! Bears Signature tie jfiiiL fifi Use V rui uvui Thirtv YflarR II I W M W PflWPlU til MMrtv HfH fl i J. Q. A. BOWLBY, Prwldint. rTlAXK PATTON, CmMm. 0. I. rETEJISO.V. Vlos-IWdtot. J. 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