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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTOU1A, OREGON. SATURDAY, MARCH 1fl, 1007. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Eattbliabed il; Published Daily Except Monday by XWk J. S. DKLLIKGEB COMPAHT. SUBSCRIPTION SATIS. By mall, p yr By carrier, per month 7.00 0 WEEKLY ASTORIAJI. mail, per year, in advance.. 1.00 Sntered u Kond-lui matter July 8S, lW.Jt th poatoffice at Attorla, Or roo, aider th act of Coafreaa ol March I, tyOrAen for Uu deUwmnc- of Tas Mom mtSToauu toettbw rwiflouoe or plra of baupem ay mad by postal card or Uyoujch taterbone. any frrejjularity In d Dfcry shouM b wuMdiaUiy reported to the efflceof pubUoMJoo. TZIBPBOin MIIR Mi. Official paper of Clatsop county and ths City of Astoria. A Great Industrial Crisis Is at Hand Br STUYVESANT FISH. E-Prldnt llllnoia Central Railroad. NT point of time a grout INDUSTRIAL CRISIS is duo, and I WEASHH. Oregon, Wahln-ton, Idaho, Fair. INCONGRUITY OF STRIKE. ' We wish for the sake of con&rulty and good sense, that every community In Oregon, Portland Included, had giv en the peremptory and negative"mlt" to the "I. W. W." organisers It Is reporter that Rainier gave them. They were told there. In plain terms, to "move on;" that the workers and business men of that place were run ning their own affairs, and needed no coaching in industrial matters. As toria might better have done this than to give them a foot-hold here. Condi tions in the local laboring world here may need amendment, but it is not in the province of aliens to furnish it; and the mere boast they bring with them, that "they are affiliated with the Western Federation of Miners," should stand sponsor for any disavow al that IS handed out to them. That organization has a record too black to whiten any of Its affiliates, since it cannot purge Itself of the fearful crimes posted on Its own doors these last five years or more. ' We would like to see the millmen and all Industrial workers paid the best ale pwshle, commensurate with the handsome profits alleged to prevail In that line of business; and we believe that bad the men gone to work on the proposition in due season eight or ten months ago, they would have got what they are now seeking at the behest of these outsiders; but they dallied with the situation and accepted the current scales with such complacency, and for so long a period of non-resistance, that they have practically committed themselves to the limitation, for the existing sea son, at least The strike at Portland is wretchedly inopportune in view of the immense movement now on foot to bring out to the coast thousands of Eastern peo ple, to whom the best lines of "colo nist rates" ever devised by the rail ways, has been offered. They are are coming in great hordes, and It is shameful that they must go up against the reactionary conditions set up by the prevailing strike; and unless the coast workman wants to see his strike broken upon terms that will mean crulcal disaster to him, he had best call off the "butters-ln" that are pri marily responpible for It. It were the part of wisdom to turn this movement down at once ant "save our faces' for the invasion we have evoked from the East; keep our selves in position to avoid the sting ing attacks of the mechanic, the tradesman, the farmer, the laborer, we have so cordially asked to, come to us, and who will have some bitter que ries for us when they arrive to face the false position we have raised for them. A hit of sheer fore-thought will save a vast deal of reproach just at this time and In this relation. there are many indications of its being IMMINENT. Despite tho unprecedented output of gold, money is dear the world over, and dear because of high priced and activity in trade. Nor are other causes for dear money wanting. Great Britain has not fully made up its losses in tho Roer war ; Japan and Russia, particularly tho latter, have scarcely RKtiUN TO Rlv COVER from the effects of their recent war. Indeed, it would look as if Russia had fully financed tho cost thereof and may be on tho verge of a CIVIL WAR. Within the past year there have been tremendous losses of capital in the destruction of San Francisco and in the less awful calamity at Valparaiso, and at its close we have famine in China. Looked at Til K WORLD OVER, the volume of tho crops of 1906 was NOT ABOVE AN AVERAGE, despite the phenomenal yield in the United States. Prices of commodities are above tho normal and rising. Labor all over the world is dearer thanVver before, and the tendency is toward higher wages and shorter hours, conditions which are ECO NOMICALLY WASTEFUL as regards product, whatever their effect may be on the laboring class. , Turning now to our own country, New York, especially that part of it known as Wall street, has absorbed and is absorbing MORE THAN ITS SHARE of the loanable fund. While our western and southern banks indeed, all banks which are "out of town" to New York ave lending more freely than usual at this season, that which they lend is instantly and persistently ABSORBED BY WALL STREET. The investing public are, and remain, out of the market not bo cause of ventures in industrials, in electric railways or in suburban real estate the speculation in each of which was checked months ago nor yet because of the more recently pricked bubble in mining sharesbut SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THE DISTRUST which even those possessed of ample means have of the methods of the corpo rate finance now in vogue in New York. THAT EUROPE SHARES THIS DISTRU8T OF THOSE METHODS IS SHOWN BY IT8 OUTCRY AGAINST THE MISUSE OF AMERICAN FINANCE BILLS. KttUllli till! OI'lloill Will. Tllt tfflH'tlVt i'Otot lion of tilO Willi llfl of tllt NtlltO h.i- intuit' to trt,V. It 1 Mttitcit (hut (441 new lnliM-trli-n wiM'o nlnrUM In tht Moutti IiimI your. That Mctltm hrtm In th imm piTlty wuvu In mUo "f It Inviirliiblo vot MKUlimt tho ptu'ty that hus eon trolli'tl nil purls of tho artwornuiout for tho Iiini tin yiuim. ' o A W isconsin man ripim to k to' tlm North pli mi! return In n week. If ho -tin do (his Just ln-foro (ho International balloon ma's In St, Louis he will bo this star of tho oooniiloii, uuloxii tin font call tie urpnkikd wniiti m not itniMiHDitin in nnn a tournament. The bottom of tjike Huporlor Is 73 foot below noh level, of Lake Michi gan 383 foot and of Lake Ontario m feet Talk of depleting the lakes by hip canals la not likely to be hoard except from thono who want to block waterway Improvement In the Ml isalppl valley. An Iowa pnper figure thai tho corn stalk i' rop In that State tan be worked up Into 1,844,000,000 gallons of nlc-ohol, br more than enough to supply all Io wa wltb power, light and heat. If the great expectations about dena tured , alcohol are reallsud the big brown jug will bring forth more won ders than Alladln'N lamp. sponsorship for what of strain and stress Is to come. He Is In his logical place when it comes to the realm of reprisal In railroad circles since he holds undisputed pre-eminence there and can work what measure of retali ation he, and his confreres, shall deem to fit the occasion. Happily the people have a Presi dent at Washington who is not feared by ugly suggestion or covert threat, and who will continue to stand for the fullment of the law, by the railway, and the man. There is no difference betwixt the two, for him. - EDITORIAL ALAD. Senator Tillman will now proceed to show that a brainstorm may be salable at S200 per night. Uncle Sam's engineers are free from bumptiousness, and consequently Pa nama Is about to enjoy a novel experience, The country Is cordially reconciled to the announcement that the govern- That Mr. Harrlman Is among thejment engineers will take hold of the disturbing agencies now operating In Wall street to the disruption and un certainty of the stock market, espec ially In raijwaj securities, no one with a grain of familiarity with the situation, doubts for one instant; nor is it to be doubted that the last of his dismal prophecies will come to pass just as fast as he deems It expedient After years of autocratic, almost un questioned sway over the traffic world of America, it does come with a blight ing discomfiture, to have a mere Pres ident of the country, take up the cud gels of the people, and literally com mand, where the roads have hereto fore commanded, a due observance of the law, so long and so broadly Ig nored. We do not discount Mr. Harrl- man's' deep vexation; nor do we dis count his purpose, nor ability to get even. But he will learn, In time, that a the greatest thing In the category of human possessions, to day Is the LAW, and that no man, no company, trust, combine nor amalgamation of these are above It. The sooner, the bettrr, for Mr. Harrlman and everybody else. SAVED HER SON'S LIFE. The happiest mother la the town of Ava, Mo, Is Mrs. 8. Ruppee. She writes: "One year ago my son was down with such serious lung trouble that our physician was unable to help him; when by our druggist's advice I began giving him Dr. King's New Discovery, and I aoon noticed Im provement I kept this treatment up for a few weeks when he was per fectly well He has worked steadily since at c&rpvnter work. Dr. King's New Discovery saved his life." Guar anteed best cough and cold cure by Chas. Rogers, Druggist. 60c and 11.00. Trial bottle fre. rienneiVs Toilet Powder is the Shining Hark of Success wliloh every liuitiilor uliimiit, flut Menneti's Unruled Tslmim Toilet l'owiltir retiming lit. Unliable droplte u( all (nine Ihhmu "as good as MemmriV" Mnnnou'a Toilet I'owiliir mmln Its fmuiliy IIS Tiiri. It liolilllUfnintiby llilmnntlt liiimltallettiatlt v, There In not lung like Men tion'. There eould not be, liooniliiolinoiiotilM know tlieiiooroi of the Moiintm jioniler ami itinproeeiMf mitimfft"iirit. 'I lieroCom no "tmliutlAn" hit been morn thnu in7.iiT ini Hut ion, miix-rlli'lnl, aptirlnii ami rrainluletit. tiiidrr tlm troviluu nl Hit ir (hI ami clni uw livery Ims of Mtiiut ii tiin the ritl nuinlwr riV'lvuiitKil tv llir invrriimi miumu. W uf purity nml nflirntirliuli In vvr) uih !irr , kinl unor uf Mmiii 'I mini l'ipilf ill tlTltfOW&ifl IValiiillii tf Hoi Piotinilln of Ho i In ! Hi.. till inuln-lluli III til UM-ll ft ll-nhn'l, I ha piitiMn hu Nil miml mm ii.nnni.ii. tn - "ik Ikul Iiwidvii ilimwu' tin ywit own luiiiiwiiiin .... Iliow jfuii inwl Mniit' Vmlrl HuKlf.1 Tuli-imi Tuil rw.l,? tM-t imfiUt ji' itlnwl tlnmr ill llml Meniwn leln 1l.-uiti fiaviani ih lit oilur u( frwli cm. k.-. I'mum Iph "i ftai,mer ImI ftU. i mull, pvtuwiil, mi itiiil ol Min t nit(t (HtRHARf) MRNNHN CHEMICAL CO.. Newark. N.J. Otttnuilmi snilr llw food ml lm-t Ail, JumKi, tl lurim Kn, IUI C a m WORKED LIKE A CHARM. Mr. D. N. Walker, editor of that spi cy Journal, the Enterprise, Louisa, Va-, says: "I ran a nail Into my foot last week and at once applied Bucklen'a Arnica Salve. No Inflamation follow ed: The salve simply healed the wound." Heals every tore, burn and skin disease. Guaranteed at Chas. Rogers, Druggist. 1 5c. The Kind You IIavo Always Bought, tutd which hiui boen Jo use tot over 30 yearn, hn Ixirno tho slixiuituro of and hrt born miulo under ItU per-'SJ-t-t- Honol mervlflon ln'o It Infancy. JSjsXimJ . .. .i f0 - Allow no nno w uwwivo jruu iu una All Counterfeit, Imitation flntd Jtut-na-u;o4Ml"nre but ExptirlnieuU that trifle with and cndonirer tlto health of Infanta and Children Expcriouce agnlnat Kiperiiuent, What is CASTOR I A Casta Ha It a harmles snlwtltuto for Cantor OH, Pare-g-orli. Drop and Soothlnir Syrup. It i ricoiuuit. It contain neither Opium, Morphine nor other Nareotlc ubatanc. It affe la It piartuiteo. It destroy Wornt and allays FererUhncwi. It cure Diarrhwa and Wind Colic It relieve Teething Trouble, cure Constipation and Flatulency. It alniilate tho JFood, rrgulate tl Stomach and Ilowel, giving healthy and natural leep The Children' Panacea Tho Mother' Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Sears the Signature of Panama Job. Both Honduras and Nicaragua are putting up a game fight. It will un doubtedly be the best bantam contest of the .eaon. It would be a queer sort of country that could grow as fast as the United States witout a steady Increase In the public expenditures. Missouri's game law has been under legislative fire for two months and SHORT TALKS BY L. T. COOPER. MR. HARROVIAN'S HINTS. Hardly a day passes' that the coun try Is not treated to some .dissertation from the authoritative lip ,or pen, of E. H. Harrlman, on what he fears will be the outcome of the antl- railway legislation so pronounced in this coun try this year. There Is nothing cheer ful In the current run of his prognos tications; they are 'of the dubious threatening sort that accentuates his OUT OF THE RUNNING. Every once In a while some college professor, or president, with all the assurance of a confirmed arbiter of the nation's destinies, comes out with a statement of what President Roose velt will, or will not, do, In the matter of the executive succession. The la test eruption In this line is from some scholarly recluse, Inspired by the right people, who proclaims that Mr. Roose velt will not, under any conceiv able conditions, accept a nomination or lection, In succession of himself. This is followed, far too swiftly by the further declaration that with Root In ihe presidential chair and Taft on the Supreme bench, the ideal of perfect governmental conditions would be at last attained In the United States. The contest Is too near, too quickly applied, too self-evident, as an alter native, to deceive anybody; and it passcss for 'just what it is, a cheap championship of these particular gen tlemen, and doubtless without their knowledge or consent. The question of the Roosevelt suc cession lies squarely between the peo pie of this country and Mr. Rossevelt himself. We can pay him no higher compliment than this, and are. quite willing to abide by the decision that simply must be made In the great premise. DEBILITY. I. MC DACE, Many people who talk to me say: "1 feel half sick all the time. I dont jusl know, what's th matter with me." This is genera; debility. It's very common. People who get in this shape have my sympathy. They arn't sick enough for bed so they drag around and their families get exasperated with them. There are two causes tor this condition; bad habits and a weak stomach. By bad habits I mean eating irregularly and too fast and not chew ing the food thoroughly. The stom ach gives out and loss of appetite, billiousness, constipation, and general debility result. First get the stomach in shape and then be more careful in the future, and the worn out, despond ent, half tic feeling will be a thing of the past. Two bottles of Cooper's New Dis covery will put the stomach in shape. Common sense will do the rest. There are fifty thousand people in this country who know this to be true be cause they've tried it. Here "a a letter from one of them: "I was all run down from overwork, lost ambition and energy and could not sleep. It was difficult for me to attend to my work owing to that tired out feeling. I secured two bottles of the New Discovery medicine and de termined to try it. The result de lighted me for renewed strength and vigor and energy came with the first few doses. It's effect was different from anything I had ever taken. I finished the two bottles now and fee well and strong again. ' ' E. McDade, 839 Dix Ave., Detroit, Mich. We hear favorable reports of these famous medicines every day. Ask as about them. Charles Sogers G There is only one "Bromo Quinine" That is Laxative Bromo Quinine The Kind You Haye Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. tmi ecu MonuK, miaiuv mir, rr. 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