THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1000.
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elected It will mean the revulsion tn
political and financial affairs that hna
Invariably followed Democratic asr
eendancy. From such a reaction may
the good sense of New York defend
ua,
WILL BURN THE DEAD
Rauma Singh, Hindoo, Will Be
Cremated Today.
TO SAVE CHILDREN.
The child labor evil Is fast reach
ing a degree of importance when na
tional legislation or at least national
recognition will become Imperative.
Laws designed to regulate or restrict
the evil have been passed by almost
every state legislature, but the Indif
ference or Ignorance of officials sup
posed to enforce the laws renders such Funeral Pyre Will Be Beyond the City
legislation - practically inoperative,
The trouble has come from a lack of
publio Interest. The people as a mass
have not understood or appreciated
the real danger to the nation and to
the Individual bound to result from
the working of mere chttdren for gain,
The subject hfta more In It than sen
tlment; It almost teaches the dignity arrived In thla city from up Seattle
of a grave national peril. way a group of four Hindoo They
For several years an organisation wer th, of th., tB Mn.h
Known as me National Child Labor
Die Hospital
MR. CHERRY LENDS THEM AID
Limit Rumor That Hume Slab
Furnace Will Be Utilised
First Event of Kind Her.
During the month of August there
Committee has been dolngv excellent
this city In the guise of workmen,
WEAMEB.
"Western Oregon and Wash
ington Rain.
Eastern Oregon, Washington
and Idaho Increasing cloudi
ness, followed by rain.
TURN OF THE TIDE.
It begins to look as if the ordinary
American is incapable of self-government;
as If the prescribed condi
tions were running away from the
prescriptive power; as If the freest
People On earth were abjectly dom
inated by the co&reat and boldest
systems and men possible to organize
and maintain. San Francisco Is an
apt illustration of the extremities to
which the evil has gone; Ruef is the
type of a tyranny that is infinitely
worse than anything the American
ever warred against In the open 'field,
and for the sake of the Pacific coast
and the country at large, it is hoped
that he and his methods may be
crushed out and down until the mem
ory of them shall be a galling re
proach and a bye-word of destatlon
In the mouth of man. Sao Francisco,
earthauake-strlcken, flre-rlven, strike
distracted, was honorable and honor'
ed, but San Francisco, Ruef-strlcken,
is disgraced beyond redemption, save
for an edict and application of law
that shall wipe the arch-thief and his
organization from the purview of man
kind. This has been her year of sor
row and shame and spoliation, and the
tide must turn sometime.
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ASTORIANS RESPONSIBLE.
In the columns of this paper will
be found the full text of the proposed
amendments to the charter of Astoria.
There are fifteen, of them, and they
are all significant and have a direct
and serious import for the people,
Therefore it is the duty of the voter.
and especially the tax-paying voter,
to scrutinize every word and line and
figure, and pass honest Judgment on
them, severally and collectively, for
his W the entire responsibility for
their adoption or rejection. If In the
days V come, they, or any of them,
shall prove blunders, or impediments
or mere vehicles for political manip
ulation, the man who voted for them
must shoulder his share of the trouble
whatever it may be. Now is the time
to pass Judgment. It is up to the
people. It is no mere question of men
or politics. But it is an issue of pol
icies upon which the credit and pros
perity of the city is predicated and
demands thoughtful and timely in
vestigation Let no) Astorlan shirk
his duty in the case. If there is any
detrimental element in the fifteen
new laws, he must detect it and vote
it down. ,
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work Influencing leriniatinn and thi. though many have been here and
committee of which former President I paased through at sailors on the for
urover uieveiana ana uarainai uio- elgn vessels that toucF here. Their
bons are members has to its credit
the nasalnr of manv laws.
u, iH&non singn ana u. Angaram, ana
they found work almost instantly at
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the Tongue Point mills and have
EDITOBAL SALAD. 0 worked ther ever since.
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struslve set, but with nothing espe-
Barter is the basis of all trade. If dally friendly about them. They have
If we would sell, we must also buy. an '"telligent look and their odd cos
This is .true of a lnlations and men. tume invariably made them consplc
A tariff Is "protective" only to the WVI ,n "" 8rt of a crowd. They
same extent to which it Is prohibitive 1,av'e worked faithfully and well In
of trade, and is Injurious to both the lines set for them by the man-
buyer and seller to the extent to agement of the mills, and no fault
which It Is prohibitive. It gives an "" Deen rouna with tnem in any
unjust advantage to one class, that way.
Rauma Singh was a consumptive.
This developed lately In such a fash-
r
)r Mill . I
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iMnttful aro Tfoy
Who Escape Tho
Surgeon Knife
AS NEW YORK GOES.
The country looks eagerly for the
election results in New York State
on Tuesday next. The old saying
that "as New Tork goes, so goes the
country," means something this year.
It is the President's State, and the
triumph of democracy there will be
bitterly suggestive of a denial and
repudiation of the magnificent work
done by the last congress, and a stul
tification of Mr. Roosevelt's own pro
gram, and service to the country. We,
of the extreme west, are as deeply
interested in the outcome there, as
her ' nearest neighbor state for her
declaration at the polls next week is
a national matter in its significance.
We believe that Mr. Hughes will win
out In unequivocal style and that the
Empire state will stand by the na
tional power that has manifested so
high a purpose in behalf of the com
monalty. If Mr. Hearst shall be I
Is to those who have a monopoly in
the exclusive market product by It
It discriminates against all who buy
In that market, and against all who
use houses or commodities within the
"protected" zone. It is the very quint
essence of dishonesty; and to advocate
such a policy in the name of labor is
the very quintessence of hypocrisy.
The fact that W. R. Goldschmldtj
has Just been appointed chancery reg'
istrar of the royal courts of Justice
of England recalls an interesting ro
mance. There are not perhaps many
persons who know he is a son of the
famous songstress of the last century.
Jenny Llnd, nor is it perhaps widely
known outside the family circle that
his father, Ott6 Goldschmldt, will, on
Tuesday, enter on his seventy-eighth
birthday. It is Just a little more than
half a century since the famous mu
sical professor accompanied the Swed
ish nightingale on her tour of the
United States and fell in love with
her in the course of her successful
engagement. ,
The American man is an ideal lover,
as he is an Ideal husband. The Eng
lishman has a 'firm belief In the su
periority of man, the American man
In the spiritual superiority of; wo:
man. The English woman does not
pull her husband about by the nose,
not if he is big enough to remonstrate
and pull back. The German is much
like the Englishman in this respect.
The "frau" Is the housewife, not the
supreme dictator of the family, as Is
most usually the case In this part of
the globe. The Frenchman has more
gallantry than faithfulness, of which
fact the French woman is fully aware.
Besides, the French woman doesn't
want to boss; she'd rather indulge In
coquetry on which she thrives and
stays young and beautiful.
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A really poor figure can be made
graceful; the secret is in a splendid
soldierly carriage. Large hips are not
desirable. If you will learn to hold
the head erect, in a straight line with
the spine, if you will keep the chest
uplifted, the hips back, abdomen
held in in fact, if you will adapt
yourself to a modified "kangaroo
walk," you will be surprised to And
how very much your figure will
change for the better. A good corset,
made especially to fit you, will be a
tremendous aid. A corset should fit
snugly about the hips, with such lines
that hold the abdomen in place and
send the hips back. The waist must
be large and the corset must fit tight-
only about the hips. The well-
fitting corset Is the cause of most
good figures. Walking will enlarge
th hips.
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EMPANNELLING JURY.
Examination of San Francisco Grand
Jury in Progress.
SAN FRANCISCO, . Nov. 1. The
only incident out of the ordinary in
the examination of the grand Jurors
today was the challenging of James
E. Brltt, father of Jimmy Brltt, the
pugilist, by Heney, because Brltt's
name was not on the last year's as
name was not on the assessment roll.
A. Shortfldge contended that as Brltt's
name was on last year's roll he would
be, competent to serve. The argu
ment on this point consumed most of
the afternoon's session.
ion as to compel him to seek the aid
of the authorities. He was without
funds to support himself In his ex
tremity and at once became a county
charge and was sent to St. Mary's
hospital for treatment. He died on
Wednesday morning Inst at t o'clock
and 1ils remains were turned over to
Coroner W, C, Pohl for burial at the
public expense.
Just at this point the rest of the
Hindoos step in with a request that
th body of their dead comrade shall
be turned over to them for burial In
accordance with the customs and the
religion of their country, which In
volves the burning of the remains
upon a pyre and the scattering of his
ashes to the wide winds of Heaven.
They preferred their request and Cor
oner Pohl, however willing he might
have been to accord them the favor,
was without the authority of law In
the premises and was compelled to
deny them.
At this point they realized that they
were subjects of the British crown
and Immediately Invoked the assist
ance of British Vice Consul P. L.
Cherry, who, being Intimately ac
quainted with the Hindoo faith and Its
practices and knowing how dear it Is
to the nature of the faithful, at once
gave his- aid in securing the release
of the body for the purposes of bur
ial and upon this adequate endorse
ment. the three were successful, as
the following letters will Indicate,
The funeral will be held some time
today, and the body of Rauma Singh
will be burned to atoms, but Just
where no one has been able to find
out, except that It will occur beyond
the limits of the city A report was
current late last night, that the Hume
mill people had granted them per
mission to use the huge slab furnace
at the mills for ' the ceremony, and
that Its use was sought because it
would spare the three friends the pub
Hetty that might attend an open bur
Ial In the country. At all events,
they will dispatch the remains by fire
today and with all the unction and
ceremony of which they have com
mand. i
Following Is the correspondence
leading up to the release of the body
for this sacred purpose:
From the three Hindoos to Coro
ner Pohl:
"Astoria, Ore., Nov. 1, 1906.
"To Wm. C. ,A. Pohl:
"We, the undersigned, hereby ask
you to surrender to us the remains
of Rauma Singh, who died at As
toria, Oregon, on the 31st day of Oc
tober, 1906, for the purpose of dis
posing of the same with the customs
of his country and his religion.
"We are and he also was a native
of British India and the customs re
ferred to are that he be burned on
a pyre and his remains converted
Into ashes, under the rituals of his
religion
"We would prefer to do this even
to having him cremated In a crema
tory and we have not the means to
take him to a crematory. We are
friends of the deceased, he having no
known relatives In this, country.
"g. l. saigel,
"d. nana singh,
"g. angaram;
"I, P. L. Cherry, ' British Vice Con
sul, most respectfully request that
the above demand be granted.
"P. L. CHERRT,
"British Vice Consul."
1 From Coroner Pohl to Judge Thos.
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1, 1906.
A. McBrlde:
"Astoria, Ore.. Nov,
"Rauma Singh Is dead.
"He died on October 31. 1906, at St
Mary's Hospital of tuberculosis.
"He has so far as I know no rel
atlves In this country.
"I have taken charge of his remain
and hold the same.
mere nave appeared before me
several persons who claim to be his
friends and countrymen as well as co
religionists who have asked me to
surrender to them the remains, for
the purpose of disposing of the same
in accordance with the cutoms of
their religion and country.
"AH of them, a well as the deceased,
claim, or are claimed, to be natives of
British India. The disposal of the
remains consists of, I am told, burn
Ing the same on a pyre until they
are converted Into ashes. They pre
fer and ask that this be done under
their auspices In Clatsop county.
"They further allege that they have
not the means to take them to the
crematorium In Portland and do not
want to do that, anyway.
'I do not see my way cl"ar to grant
their demand as this manner of dls
posing of the dead Is contrary to the
customs of this country, and In my
opinion against public policy.
"I therefore most respectfully pe
tltlon the court to issue an ordor In
this matter. Most respectfully sub
mitted, "WM. C. A. POHL,
"Coroner of Clatsop County, Oregon
"To the Honorable Circuit Judge,
T. A. McBrlde."
From Judge McBrlde to Coroner
Pohl:
"To the Coroner of Clatsop County:
"I see no reason to refuse the re
quest of the friends of the above de
ceased and with the agreed case sub
mitted I order that you surrender the
body of deceased to his countrymen
for cremation according to the rites
of his and their religion..
"THOMAS A- M'BHIDE,
"Circuit Judge."
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