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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1fl, 1904, THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. THE MORNING ASTORIAN laUbliahed 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by Hi J. S. DELLINGEB COMPART. SBBSCRIPTIOTt KATIS. By mail, per year $7.00 By carrier, per month 10 WXEKLY ASTORIAN. B; mail, per year, in advance.. 11.00 Katared aa itond-U matter Jnly IB. 1M. t the potfofflee at Aitorta. ure goi, asder the aet of Coo-reu ot ftUrcii S, ajr-Ontan far tke deHmnn otTBl Mom munvu to rilhrr mUan or place ot Inula 1 m mmf be made by postal card or Upouga Mecaooa. Any trrtirularitj to de limy ahoold be 'mnxriilatolT reported to tbe offloe of publication. TSLEPBOiri MATH 6C1. Officii! paper of CtuUop county and tkeCityofAetoria, ) e WEATHER. e) Eastern and Western Ore- ton Rain. Eastern and "Western Wash- lngton and Idaho Rain. A WORLD MATTER NOW. The suspicion that over one million of the money1 contributed to the earthquake sufferers of San Francis co, has been stolen by the boodlers of that city, makes the question one of world-wide significance, and centers the thought of all men upon America In a most uncomfortable fashion. That there are people here. In place and power, low enough to rob the stricken, homeless, hungering thous ands at the very climax of their de spair and misery, is bitterly humili ating and calls for the unflinching rig or of redress by law, by every phase and degree of reprisal within the ga mut of civilized human use. If it is proven true, such an example should be made of the thieves as will con rlnce all mankind of the extraordlna ry rarity of the crime and accentu ate the unspeakable destination of the people of this country for the dreadful work. With such crimes confronting and condemning us, there is little use in contending against the growth of socialism or any other ex pedient that promises any degree of change In the life of the nation. Am erican pride will have a fall taken out of It, If Heney makes good In this miserable quest, and we hope, for the sake of the common decency and com mon honor of the country, that the fact will never be proven. o THE A, 8. I. E. R. R, WHAT? Will someone tell us what has be come of the Astoria-Seaside Inter urban Electric Railroad? For some months it has been receding gradually from public view and today It Is al most as remote as it was before W. L. Dudley arrived on the scene with his hopes and purposes. Has it been absorbed? Is It part and parcel of the Hammond extension to the south? Does the fault He with Astoria or Seaside? Is It another paper propo sition, or is it merely waiting for the weather to moderate? If It has any substance to it, it were time to mani fest It, if the summer of 1307 Is to witness Its completion and use. BUILD THAT ENGINE HOUSE. The Council has no right to Ignore Its original purpose to build the new engine house for fire purposes at the O. R. & N. gangway on Commercial street. It Is a crying necessity and warranted by every argument favor ing the public safety. The people ex pect it, and the city needs it, We have an excellent department as far as It goes, but the day Is likely to arrive in which its utmost utility will be exhausted and loss and disaster will follow In instant testimony of the blunder of delaying or abandoning this essential advantage. Spend what Is necessary on the real requirements and choke off a few of the non-essentials. , 0 POOR OLD JOE. various attractive Allowances and prerogatives. And when) the holder retires or Is retired, he drops Into a comfortable pension of 120,000 a year for the remainder of his life and a peerage. William Gully, the speaker who has Just retired grandson, by the way, of ft boxing expert, bookma ker and Drby winner celebrated In his day now enters upon the enjoy ment of these pleasant things, Thoy treat their ex-statesmen more gener ously over there than we do ours, 0 DUBIOUS 1906. The records of crime, disaster and loss Incidental to the year Is of qual ity and quantity calculated to make one wish for New Years Eve, on the whimsical hypothesis that the essence of history will take a turn for the better. 0 000000000000000000 0 EDITORAL SALAD. 0 000000000000000000 "In considerable fear." said a New Tork millionaire. "I once consulted Andrew Carnegie about a venture. The business looked as If It ought to be profitable: there seemed to be a public need for It. Still, there was some risk Involved and I was afraid But Mr. Carnegie laughed at my fears. "If it is a good thing plunge In, he said. "Fear Is old womanish; fear is what keeps untold millions from mak ing fortunes. When Benjamin Frstik lln thought of starting a paper In Philadelphia his mother, greatly alar med, tried to dissuade him. She point ed out that there were already two newspapers In America." 0 After Feb. 1. the American Bank Note company will manufacture all United States postage stamps. Un der a contract made public the con cern must deliver 27.000,000 stamps dally six times a week. The Ameri can Bank Note company made the first postage stamps for the govern ment and held the contract up to thir teen years ago. At that the time the government went Into business itself by manufacturing the Columbian Is sue, and down to this day the bureau of printing and engraving has turned out all stamps. m Here are some nuts for farmers to crack: Almost every sort of nut can be grown In some part of the United States, yet last year we imported nuts to the value of $7,373,435, more than a third of the sum being for wal nuts; while the almond Importations reached $1,750,000. In the same per iod we exported, all told, nuts to the value of 1415.896. mostly peanuts. The United States should not only grow all tbe nuts needed for home consump tion, but should also be able to export largely. 0 Farmers shuld not expect too much at first, of the denatured alcohol law which goes Into effect on the first of Jajnuatfc. 'Cojnvering potatoes into power" may materialize In time, but meanwhile turn as much farm power Into potatoes, and other crops, as pos sible. However as there are more than 70,000 alcohol distilleries, It gives one the impression that free alcohol may have some rather Immense pos sibilities for the farmers of the Unit ed States. It Is a surprising fact that Cuba, with all of Its fertility and its tropical climate, does not raise enough poul try for Its own demands. The Cu bans annualy import from 50,000 to 60. 000 cases of eggs from the United Sta tes, besides large quantities of live and dressed poultry. Poultry raising Is not profitable on the Island because of the prevalence of a certain poultry disease which the natives term small pox. 0 After attaining the highest position In society and surrounding themselves with all the comforts afforded by the European markets, the Marlborough ought to have found a more appealing excuse for divorce than mere incom patibility of temper. o An American girl who marries a duke ca,n get rid of him by paying $100,- ' 000 a year. The value of this Invest-; ment depends on the individual view j of what an alleged luxury Is worth, ) but there are plenty of American girls j who are too smart to throw their mon- j ey at birds of that sort. 0 ! The Unreasonable Demands Of Labor Organizations By J. W. VAN CLEAVE, Prldnt of the Nitlonil A wk-la Hon of Manufacturer E have scon that many attempts by organized labor to pro euro CLASS riUVlLKliK, wheuor by peaceful nego tiation with regard to matter trbitn.blb or by coercion or violence Rptinst principle which cannot be abandoned, have failed in the last few years, owing, naturally, to the ever present fact that what is fair and right FOli ONE must in the very naturl of things he fair and right FOtt ALL We now see that it is proposed by one of the organizations of labor to seelt to secure these ends by political activity. It is even defiantly announced that those public mon who have sim ply dared to do THEIR PLAIN' DUTY in resisting tho demands of one of the organizations of labor are to be retired to private life on ac count of their contumacy. TKE ABSURDITY AND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THIS PR0P0SE0 COURSE OF ACTION ARE PATENT UPON THEIR FACE. Moreover, a moral wrong as well as a political impossibility is in volved in supposing that we shall tolerate in this kind of country the proposition that a government wktiin a government AND SUPE RIOR TO IT is an easy and a pleasant tiling to contemplate. Take another instance, bolder even thau tho other. It naturally takes a lawyer to appreciate fully the FUNDAMENTAL change whioh would be involved in our system of administering tho law if the power of tho courts to grant injunctions were removed. If it were removed I might go and dig a trench under the wall of your $100,000 building and NOTHING could disuade me ot stop me. You might do an almost irreparable damage to my business, which, let us say for the sake of argument, pays its bilL, including wages, aad, so far as the statute and the moral law aro concerned, may bo per mitted to continue You might do it by preventing mo from employing men who wish to work for me. YOU MIGHT DO IT BY SURROUNDING THE MILL OR THE WORKSHOP BY "PEACEFUL" PICKET LINES AND BY ASSAULTING OR FRIGHTENING THOSE WHOSE PERFECT RIGHT IT WAS TO COME TO ME TO WORK. V A N T Kl -8T K A t Y MAN OV AD-vtuu-ed yi'ii for ululit wntchmiin, 0 Lit IUM. JONKft wn down and out Aocordlim to tlio toj.l Awultlii for Urn chUmi'h boll A-MIIiik In Hi" tepl, News from Want Adville "lie nln't itury 'count ftt nil," Hnld MH'xt of HHI Jom' neighbors, 'Toti It tiff." wtld ruddy I.ani, "H' crowlmlt now, bo-Jiilibort!' Old IUII Jonex objected to Hu-h prejudiced opinion, "I'm n, limit, for nil of that! Ml never be ft minion!" Ho quth Hill, ttn1 mndo It koq, Fly moving to Want-Adville. Out Job nil watrhmiut (her; And all any now, "Good boy, HHI!" MORAL. Read tho nowt from Wnnt-AJvlll. Where Our Universities Fail of Their Purpose The Art of Fine Plumbing tuu progrctted with the development of the telenet of initnioo ind we bare kept pare with the Improvement!. you I Or U your bathroom one of tM ok) tuhlooed, nnhctlthy lind f If jroo Mt R t)!ng the "cloted In" fixture of ten jretn tgo, it woulj be well to remove ihem ind Wall in their traJ, inowy white '&iaT Porcelain Enam eled Ware, of which we have imr!n (0 diipltyeJ In our showroom. 1-ct ui quote you prices. lUuitritcd catalogue free. I, A. Montgomery, Astoria VJ ! 1 By Professor W. W. FOLWELL. University of Minnesota is highlv questionable if our modern schools aro doing u.- I much FOR CULTURE as did those of a generation ago. ft The little American college, with iU unadulterated classical course, tho "female seminary," the select sch'l, and even tho common school of earlier days did LITTI.K FOR LKAKXIX. but much for tate aud manners. The American university in its present estate, being merely the j American rnlWe mult'mlie 1 bv ten or twetitv, c:tn make little da:: to superior advantages for culture. T'nt t!n outlook is horn-fid. It can be seen that the American university is SLOWLY ascending t 8 higher level. Whon it shall have relegated to the secondary "h"o! the mentarr studies of its first two years it will b liberated for its prop work. IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS, THUS EMLARGED AND VAT ED, CULTURAL STUDIES MAY HAVE AMPLE SCOPE. l. t i 1 Z 12 & ; w t. p t . a i. i l i , , x i- - !r"- 4!-i Good Sample Room on the Ground Floor for Commercial Men II. It. PA It KER. E. P. PARKER, Proprietor Manager PARKER HOUSE EUROPEAN PLAN FIRST CUSS IS EVERY RESPECT Fr Coach to th Boum Bar and Billiard Room Good Check ReaUurant ASTORIA, OSECON Asia is far too populous to amlt of any American 1'loa of aRsimilatlnfr itr hundreds r,f millions. The Japanese are a remarkably fine people In many respects, but their Iminigrratlon try the United States if it threatened to be come immense would unquestionably be restricted. No wonder our good Uncle Joe Can- j non, Speaker of the house at washing ton, considers himRelf underpaid. While his Job is fully as arduous as that of the speaker of the British House of Commons, the latter gets, In the first place, a salary of $25,000 a year, and It carries the use of a magnificent residence in the palace of 'Westmin ister, overlooking the Themes, and Oklahoma calls attention to its 50 pound melons and 18-foot cornstalks. Its population will be on the same scale when It is admitted as a state. Every effort is being made to keep 1 Japan and the United States from war ring with each other over the San Fran cisco Incident. Even the czar of all tho Russians Is inclined to tender his good offices. ' IS THE CITY THEATERS. The house that greeted Theodore Lorch and his capable company at the Astoria last night, was large, measured by the tempestuous weath er, but wholly meigre, measured by the merit of play and players. The presentation was thoroughly well re ceived and goes on record as among the best of the season's offerings. There is no unengaged moment while the curtain Is up It is all go and snap and successful surprise from be ginning to end and Mr. I.orch car ried the central energies of the play with abundant and pleasing skill; nor was his support lacking In any par ticular, save that "Inspector Jones" by Mr. Morris, is a bit vociferous, while Mr. Long's "Jonathan Small" is a trifle too much on the recitative order to be lifelike. Miss Marsky, Miss DerTry, Miss Lewis, In her dual work; Mr. Graves, In his: Mr. Loftus, as "Dr. Watson," were true and sin cere in every line, with honors equal ly divided between Mr. Earl and Mr. Smith for the fun-making. The whole thing was enjoyed, thoroughly, and will be long remembered as a genuinely good play well played. 'THE INSIDE TRACK." At the Astoria theater tonight, the Mack Swain Theater company will present "The Inside Track,' 'a sen sational comedy-drama, filled with exciting soenes and situations, aji laughable comedy. Briefly told, the story of the play is as follows; "Har ry Denbigh," a careless, pleasure loving young fellow, and "Samuel Slade a man of wealth and position but utterly without principle, are both in love with "VInnie Foster," the charming daughter of "John Foster," the miller. Harry is the accepted suitor, and Slade determines upon revenge. With the aid of two con federates, "Tim," a worthless char acter from the slums of London, and "Kitty," Tim's wife, he causes Harry to be accused of robbing his uncle, the "Rev. Mr. Denbigh," and iim the stolen money Is found in his posses sion, Harry Is arrested, t-onvlt d-d and sent to prison. Slade then abducts VInnie, but Harry, having served Ms sentence, tracks him to his retreat, the girl Is rescued and Slade and Jim pay the penalty of their crime". Cora King Swain will appear as "VInnie Foster," Mack Swain as "Jim," ami the other characters will be In com petent hands. Special scenery will be provlded for the production, which will be complete In every detail. GRAND OPERA AT THE STAR. The Nellie Andrews Company of Grand Opera soloists are creating n sensation at the Star this week In The Bolv-mlan Girl. Nothing more entertaining has ever been presented In Astoria and those who have not seen the production are missing a rare treat. The original and only Charley Harris, "The Inspector of the Maid, 'is one of the biggest Incidental hits the Star has on Its bill. West & Davis, comedians, dancers and singers. The pictured melodies, and amusing motion pictures close one of the best shows the Star has given. ASTORIA IRON WORKS JOHN' FOX. I'rra. Nil.n Trou, Yfo.tVt. ami Sunt. I. BIHHOP. Kecrt-tar AHTORIA HAVINOM 1IANK1 rrna Designers and Manufacturers of THE LAlhl'T IMI'KOVKD Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers Complete Cannery Outnts FurniskJ. CORRESPONDENCE SOUCITED, Foot of Fourth Mmf. . ALWAYS WAS 8ICK. When a man says he Is always sick, troubled with a cough that lasted nil winter what would you think if he should say he never was sick since using Ballard's Horehound Syrup. Such a man exists: Mr. J. C. Clark, Denver, Colorado, writes; "For years I was troubled with a severe cough that would last all winter. This cough left me in a miserable condition. I tried Ballard's Horehound Syrup and have not had a sick day since. That's what It did for me." Hart's Drug Store THE LAST RACE. NEWYORK, Nov. 15. The last day of the racing In New York for the season of 1906, will be held at the Aqueduct Race Course today, when under the State Racing Law, the time limit for the running of races will ex pire. After seven months of the sport which had its beginning for the season at the same course on April 16 last. APPEARANCES Often a person is sized up by his appear ance; by the tone that surrounds him. And more often a business house is sized up by the stationary it uses. A cheap letter head or a poor bill head jrivcs a mighty poor first impression and makes business harder to transact. Good printing costs no more than poor printing. The first im pression is half the battle in business. You wouldn't employ a "sloppy" sales man; why put up with "sloppy" station ery, that gives a wrong impression of tho importance of your business. Let us do your printing and help you to make that ten strike. The J. S. DellingerGo. ASTORIA, OREGON