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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. WIDNI8DAY, APRIL. , 1907. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Establish. ilTS. Psbluhea Daily txctpi Monfliy by WW J. S, DKLLINGKR cOMPAITr. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. By nail, pr yr VM ?y currier, pr month W WEEKLY ASTORIA. 8, mail, per year, la utanc.. 11.00 '"Kntered letoad-eliuis bumw Jaly n,UM. t the pctaffioe t AilorUfcOrj. toa,BOdrtbMto(Cou(rMol March, TOr1w fw tb dettrcrag r TntMoaa MMttui !PtUMr ractOaac r ple of laMi b nad by poaul card or r7 tlwuld b un2ll7 reported lo Ux rtflm tf pubHwMim ' TXLIPPOSI MAIH i. sit '. . Official Mper of Clatsop county ud UMCMjofAivorla. 4 WEATHER. Western Oregon and Wash- Ington Showers north portion; fair south. POLITICAL EARLY BIRDS. If long-drawn preparation, early announcement, far-reaching alignment and unusual excitement and Interest are to be taken as indicative of tre mendous issues and a great political battle, then the campaign of 1908 for the presidency is to be one of the hugest episodes of national history. It ts not often such stress is la.rJ at so early a period and it may be count ed a virtue In this particular relation, since the culling will all be done the sooner and the final choices made In ample season to give the people plenty of time In which to weigh the xact merits of men who shall be named at last. There is one thing fast developing Into fixed assurance with the common people, and that Is, that the question of the presidency has ceased to be primarily a partisan matter. It will not be, ever, wholly free from this important bearing, but the issue Is becoming more and more intimately related to the man than to the party he represents, because the office it self is becoming so immense as to preclude such dependence. The man is to be the great desideratum here after, and he must be man clear through and have the confidence of the whole people. It Is well that this exaction Is grow lng, because of the deeper intelligence that will be invested in the campaign work precedent to the choice at the polls. It will not hurt the American people to do a vast deal more thinking than they have done In the past, and may result In Infinitely better selec tloa At all events, If the outcome In No vember of next year Is not wise and gratifying, it will not be because there was not time enough to make a choice. THE ABORIGINAL BRUTE. Are we, as Americans, becoming coarser and lower, in our general esti mation and treatment of womankind? The question is worth raising because It is vital to the future of the home end family life of the nation? The testimony of the public press is gainst us, and we are always free to arraign ourselves if we sea fit There is a story that comes up from Ban Fran cisco; sanctioned by the Associated Press, so fearfully significant that It cannot be passed by In silence unless tbat silence Is wrought by the sense of acuta self-conviction. It la the story of a young girl, Ethel Hegerton, who, late at night, returning home from an enforced delay in the factory in which ahe was employed, and being mystified by the new thoroughfares she had to traverse to find the new home-her people had that day moved into, asks assistance of a passerby, and is pleas antly greeted, then misled, snared, beaten, and left for dead, and only recovers to fall into more desperate circumstances before she at last finds the haven of her new home. It is a tale one might look for in the horribly true expositions of Russian life told by Maxim Gorky, and has no parallel for sheer brutality in current Ameri can press news of the day. ' There was a time when even an habitually bad man in this country was willing to lay aside his tendencies and do the manly thing In behalf of Innocent girlhood or childhood, but it seems that there is no safety for the young and Innocent anywhere; that the trend of thought and action Is to the vile and vicious and venal always and everywhere ,and that the defence less must have rigid and specific pro tection or suffer Incalculable shame and hurt at the hands of ell men. We are not attempting to account for what om to b a traratmlou doparturo from the older and tetter standard. It 1 enough to rwllii that we re formikln thm and Ik comtiur deeply rponlbl for condi tions that ara a, dUgrac to manhood, The foar Justified t!at'. ' ar re verting io aboriginal bruUshnea and must mun renounce the otie-ltme fn for tiue and honorable com-cptUm of our duty toward the helnleaa, tno Ui nocent that m ur boaat ntul oui pride. o THE ASIATIC CURRENTS. , It Is an extraordinary circumstance that the locale of ull the great mannc disasters of the. present year has been, almost without ptKn, In Asiatic waters. It would seem that none of the great trana-Pclflc liners are safe, once they have entered the dlstored currents and ahlftlng channels of the Far East Ship after shift the big cest and best, the most magnificently equipped and manned of all the fleet of the world, are going down, or ushor. over there almost dally. It t surely, no fault of the splendidly trained mariners who for years have carried thesa same fine vessels In and m.r Oinu water without so much as a scar to tell even of carelessness. 1 It can be attributed only to natural causes and mainly the tremendous vol canic and seismic troubles that have son on record In tho latitude late ly; and unless the new conditions are met bv scrupulous re-survey and re- charting It will te In order to keep the American fleets clear and lose less In commerce' than more In fearful disaster. . EDITORIAL. SALAD. Youn ladles visiting West Point are Impressed with the Idea that war is awfully impolite, to say the least. If Colonel Howxe had a whole pocket full of small change he coulden't get a soul to eat Ice cream with him. A heading in an afternoon New York paper read: "Smother Bryan's pet peace plan Resolution against lending of money to belligerents kllleJ In peace congress." Truly, the sit uation grows critical. Of the 139,118 Immigrants that ar rived In this country In March 111.405 come Into the port of New York. To the West and South: There they are: go and get them. Winter wheat Is said to be In dan geron the' exchanges. It is feared they will produce a very small crop and that the farmers will have to make up the deficiency. Woman at the peace conference viol ently shouted "No! No!" to the ad vice to keep our powder dry. Can It be that there's a new sort rubbed on damp? We call the immediate attention of the peace conference to the Daughters of the American Revolution, who are preparing for another. J. P. Morgan, who is traveling In Italy, was 70 years old yesterday, and his taste for art Is growing right along. Some people sing about a life on the ocean wave, but a life on the cold wave for ours. We're more used to It. Albeit Mr. Carnegie has a bigger Job on his hands promoting peace than he had In promoting the steel Industry. o Crop news at this stage of the game partakes of all the elements of clair voyance. o ; The police round-up shows that Sicily handed us much more than lemons. , " ' " ' - We don't bear the Sicilians using slang and saying, "You can search me." o- . He who Is always thinking of the morrow doesn't get much done today. ' 0 '" - That loud noise you hear is merely a boom for Bryan. Surely Mr. Bryan will not permit himself to be misled a third time. Where there's a wind there's a tust. o Curd of Rheumatism. Mr, Win. Henry of Cbatanooga, Tenn., had rheumatism In hi left arm. "The strength seemed to have gone out of the muscles so that It Is useless for work," he says. "I applied Cham berlain's Pain Balm and wrapped the arm In flannel at night, and to my re lief I found that the pain gradually left me and the strength returned. 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General Vara del Rey wa i wounded several times, but refused to leave the Held and directed the move ments of his troops from a streteher which was placed lmot upilght by his orders. Ho died on the battlefield. Gentl and Effactlv. A well known Manitoba editor write: "A an Inside worker I find Chamberlain' Stomach and Liver Tablet Invaluable for th touches of bllllousnes natural to sedentary tlfe, their action being gentl and enective. clearing the dlgertiv tract, and the heart." Price. 2BcenU. Samrjle free. at Frank Hart' and leading druggist. ' 1 Whooping Cough. -1 hav used Chamberlain' Cough Remedy In my family In cases of whonntn eotoh . and want to tall TOU that It 1 the best medicine I have ever Ded.W. F. Gaston, Fosco, Oa. , Tal remedy is sf and sure. For sale by Frank Bart ana Leading uruggu. TROLLEY CAR WRECK. 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