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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1907)
2 THE MORNING ASTORUN, ASTORIA, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, ijoj. THE MORNING ASTORIAN . - .h IeUeUshed ittj. Published Daily Except Monday by . J. S. SKLUKGES COXPAHT. SUBSCRIPTION KATI& By mail, per year ..... ..17.00 By carrier, per month. JO WIEILT ASTORIA. 8, &U P J', la advance. .11.00 Intered u atmood-oUuia matter Jnlv 3S, 1M, at tb poatoffice t Astoria, Or. 1r, andar Ui o of Cou-reaB oi Nareal, fiROrdM tw tt dellnraff ( TBI uut a uroi to aliisw ntduixm ar (Jam f riH"W 4m nade e waul mi a nniaimy raponec' to the t xzLXPJMmi auor i. ' ?1 Clatsop wuHr ana WEATHER. e Oregon ebowera and thunder atorma warmer in the east and southwest portions except aear the roast. ' A TEENCKA5T MESSAGE. fader ,the caption, of "The Mecca of the Vultures," tbe Oregonian o? Monday last brought a message to this city that it ww well ior Astoria to need. It was not palatable, of course, but that merVIy confirms the miserable truth of ' it and acentuatea the necessity for in stant and radical sot ion in reversing the WoditiOBs warranted, the stricture. We, of Astoria, mult give deeper and more .conm'ierftioua consideration to the moral status of the city, and act witii communal unity and wisdom in mining the moral tone and tendency of tbe town until such animadversion as the one referred, to will be undeserved. . Practically, wd m w "wpr off, in Oik regard, than tb metropolis and the ratio of criminal a is, perhaps, really in favor of Astoria, but tbt which we hive of the "vulture" class nd it normal acts, is to rank and 4naaifet by reason of the lack of terri tory In which to sequester it, that all attempt to deny, or disguise, it, art abortive and senseless. Thfc Oregoniaa very rarely makes such allusion to any Of its neighbors over Die rtate, however much it may take then to on commercial and other predicates; and that it has singled us tmtj in dignified and trenchant terms, or rebuke, tells very plainly, the vol ume of adverse comment thai mut be abroad concerning us. It has not said this thing in mere wantoneaa ot any de sire to really injure the City ot Aatoria, but, we believe, rather in the spirit of friendly warning against permitting the ungracious record to run any larther to our definite hurt; and thus concluding, it w up to Astoria, her officers and her citizens, to see to it that instant and thorough remedies are applied to the situation as shall completely cleanse and heal the "sore spot." .. THE CONSTITUTION WRST. " In speaking of the anticipated litigation over tbe enforcement of tie Port of Co lumbia law, which goe into effect under tbe code, on Friday next, the Oregonian makes the statement that in the event (Ohe contest shall end in the law being knocked out by the Supreme Court upon an? eiven phase of unconstitutionality the reservation ue with the people to revamp the edict by way of the initia tive and referendum, and prom tees that that process will certainly be invoked if the law is not sustained in the p pellate court; and, of course, knowing the overwhelming advantage the County of Multnomah would have in such case, rejoices in the aurety of shoving the shameful scheme down the throat of Clatsop and Columbia counties, whether we want it or not But. anticipating just such matter as this, we have sought, and received, a measure of comfort from tbe head of the state's legal department, Attorney General A. It Crawford,: Who has had occasion to look up matters of identical interest lately, who declares, in unquali fied term, that the same primal re quisite of constitutionality must attach to every law sought to be enacted by the people themselves through the referendum as i required at the hands of tie legislature in the .framing and passing of laws as the agents of the people in this behalf, nr Hrawforri believes this to be sound law and pure logio and intimated that the doctrine would be applied to ev"j constitutional question reaching the courts of Oregon in the future, as some euch' check was Imperative in guarding against the reckless invasion of the fundamental rights of the people even against their own misconception and TKe ill 1 . i..1 k I i NrA 4 fin ni till 4 "a"'im' . : 5 JIE regulation or consolidated and INCORPORATED CAPITAL is likelj to be the problem of American poli tics for the next few decades. No thoughtful man ac quainted, with the lessons of human history can sumj the; prospect which stretohet before us without DEEP ANXIETY. It took a great civil war extending over four Tears, with a sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of lives and an expenditure of millions of money, to dispose of the constitutional issue on which AaejriWiitlpoUtixw parties forartjr. divided... Now that the contest of our parties' is waged over economic ques tions with corporations, indeed, in the foreground, but with, the demand for A MORE EQUAL DISTRIBUTION of worldly goods in the distance and the specter of socialism hovering Just beyond the prison,; what eye but the;. eye, of t Omniscience can' divine whither nd tFhit we si drifting t' W " I' .' .r..' .' " ' "Yet "we carmot idly fold our hands or, like cowards, rtreat. Whether we wiU or not,' we MUST face and solve the poUticoco- nomifl, problems Jhjr upo YvJ inhiwe attempt the task ana liLb td'LtUi in wbJoh we go abouT it. The saJct of MJiej fehe jisdomthe justice, the moderation and the civic righteousness of their citizens. IF THESE PAIL US, THE DOOM OF OUR REPUBLIC It WRIT JEN IN THE HISTORY OF ROME. M.-ff t In all the vast and varied panoramA of the history of mankind I know nothing so full of interest AND INSTRUCTION for this generation of American people as the later days of the Roman re publk theentury of the Gracchi, of Marius and Sulla, of Crassua and Cato, of Pompey and Julius Caesar. When the older Gracchus appeared on the scene, Rome was still a republic which had undergone transformation from the earlier city-state, with its centuries of courage, civic virtue and GREAT ACHIEVEMENT. Rome had become a world power and was bear ing the responsibilities and .the burdens of empire. Her population was no longer a race of fanners; her citizens left j the soil and crowded into the cities. The blood of the native stock had become diluted with a foreign tracted bv a contest between the oligarchy in which each olaimed SOVEREIGNTY. - Unhappily for Rome, a self constituted savior of society appeared who had eyes to see that the times were out of joint and conceit to believe that he was born to set them right He was a man of impul sive temperament, who brooked no opposition to his will and who could not even appreciate a SINCERE DIFFERENCE OF OPIN ION in an honest opponent Vain, self confident, reckless, autocratic, ho was also THOR OUGHLY HONEST and deeply persuaded of his own good inten tions. And, as fate would have it, he possessed the gift of eloquent speech. This man, who thought himself foreordained by the gods to be the regenerator of Rome, was Tiberius Gracchus. His reforms resulted in riot and massacre, in which the reformer himself miserably perished. But his policy of confiscation without compensation launched the state upon a century of civil war and ruth less proscription, which ended in the overthrow of the republic and the soulless despotism of the Caesars. t st Thus ended the first historic attempt of political parties to solve great economic problems. Yet Tiberius Gracchus is not to be blamed for recognizing and facing these problems. THE AGRARIAN QUESTION, INVOLVING THE PROPER RELA TION8 OF THE SMALL CULTIVAT0R8 AND THE BIO CAPITAL ISTS, HAD' TO BE FOUGHT OUT IN THE ROME OF THAT DAY At THE RELATI0N8 OF PUBLIC 8ERVICE CORPORATIONS TO CON SUMERS AND THE PUBLIC MU8Tv BE, 8ETTLED, HERE AND NOW. The historical results would have been entirely different had, not Tiberius Gracchus lacked a just sense of reality, a knowledge of busi ness and a perception of the dominance of NATURAL' LAW in Jhe sequence of economic phenomena and had he not injected into a grave and complex question of Roman politics a personality of boundless elf confidence, equally impatient of opposition and incapable of JTJ DICIAL INVESTIGATION and. consideration. misapplication of tbe great power that liee in their -hands. The' Oregonian and the Portland poiwons of the Port of Columbia law may make the most of this warning. There is more to come and none of it bears cheerful Wgniflcance for the au thors of tihe bunko bill, wbicn, by Jthe way, tbe Oregonian, has not, a yet, dared to give explicit editorial 'coun tenance, o S EDITORIAL SALAD. In bie forced retirement from the stage Richard Mansfield takes with him the country's wishes for his speedy ts oovery, . ; 0 ' Now is a good time for the farmer to unload on the speculator. 30 Regulation Of Incorporated avav jr a a av ,, , Bjr President JACOB COULD SCHURMAN of Cornell Untvanlty. " ' V 0 depends on S strain. The state itself was div popular Comitia and a senatonal and strove to secure SUPREME - - They had to call in the police almost to suppress the violence in the uprise of the wheat market in Chicago yeater day. Enthusiasm is bred of bad s well as good news. An uptown club, of New York, with 300 members, has ordered 300 little gyroscopes. If that isn't a mark of level head it will mean level heads in future. -o Again, the man who lays in enough wheat at this price to last him several years may find himself confronted by wunny weather from now on. o It to observed that the heated con troversv about eerm in Ice has lost all interest. The anthracite bad these days. man doesn't look so SHORT TALKS UY L.T. COOPER, LACK OF ENERGY, No man or woman can be successful or happy if they lack energy. If they set up In the inorulntrdread inr the days work ahead they will so. compll.h very little. A (rrest many people are this way. The cause Is lackofvttallty. Vitality or en errr Is tbe power to f oi and keep on us. A.e,iToYe folnr without becom t corn a just urn than healthily tired. It comes front a perfectly working system juat as power cornea from a P rieotiy v eetly working; en. riot. If you lack this power somalhlnf ( out of order. Tea to one tt'a tour stomach. Take two bottles of Cooser 'a New Discovery. It wilt jet the stomach la shape. Bee if enerry and ambition donx come back before the two bottle are goae. " !! ;- ' iC!-""-- This letter is from a man who tried Kt "After suffering- for some time f root stomach troable, i lose of appetite, headaches and a kind of 'all tuckered out' feeling I decided to try Cooper's New Discovery." - "I need to ret no In the moraine? with my tongue coated and alck at my stomach; I would feel aa thourh ft was almost Impossible to drag- myself to work. Lota of tlmee I had dluy speUs and backaches. After I need several bottles all these symptoms be en to oisappear ana soon I begin to eellllte ny old self arain. Now I feel like 8 new man, It is a pleasure to work, for I always feel like it I eat well, and sleep weU and am sore I wiU have no farther tronble with my Hornsea." X. C. fcatubys, 167 Porter; St., Detroit, Mich. It la estimated that nearly half a million bottles of the famous Cooper medicines were sold daring- Mi. Coop er'e recent demonstration in Chicago. We are agents. diaries Rogers The salve that acta like a poultice Is Pine Salve Carbotlied. No other salve so good for cuts, burns, boils arU chapped skin. Ask about It. Price Set. Sold by Frank Harfa Drug Store. "Our Shoes" Means Standard of Merit. . . c Uur Service and our methods 'of business are of the highest excellence as well as all of our Footwear Everything is of the highest except our prices, and they are always the lowest Our Specialties Are Loggers and long hand made boots for Fishermen. S. A. G1MRE Ml iend It, opposite Fisher Bros- Lowneys Candies Ice Cream Soft Drinks Tagg's Parlors 483 Commercial Will cure any 'case :w Ai! beyond the reach of medicine. No medicine ,can dp , more. T. F. Lauren.Owl Drti Store. !.;GA;rGE,R-i.i! Cured to Stay Cured. Without Knife or Operations Rudbut little pain Cancer growth killed in 21 hours. Cancer removed in 7 to 10 days. Orifice healed and a permanent cure in 4 to 8 weeks. No Pay until Cured. ,, ' . .... ..A. ....AA. ....... t - TTtTTTTTT TTTtTTTTTtVtTTtTTTT w . The Clias. F. Beebe; ; Company WiU open up in the Flaval Brick (as soon at the Stock arrivei) on or before June lit, withja Complete; Stocky of f hip Chr.ndlcry Marino Hardware, Can nery and, Fishermen's Supplies (Wholesale Save Your orders for F. J, Carney, Manager A Good Workman is Known by His Tools A bad workman quarrels with his tools, but even a good workman quarrels with bad tools. , No workma n ever quarrels with tools bought of Astoria Hardware Co Nor will he quarrel with us for havln - Our reputation Is made by sale or break us; but the continued reputation of selling such good goods as we do, you cannot afford to despise. ; ' " Astoria Hardware Co., ASTORIA IRON WORKS JOHN POX, President P. I BISHOP, Secretary. Designers and Manofatfareri oi ;TIE LATLrfT IMPROVED) Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers Complete Cannery Outfits Furnislui. CORRCSPONDCNCB "SOtiaTCO. Foot of Fourth Hirmt- Sherman Transler Goi i HENKY BHKRMAN, Muwti iJaeks, Carriages Paggage Checked and Transierred Trucks ard Puraitnra' Wagobs Pianos Moved. Boied and Skipped, 433 Commercial Street nnnw n iv innw ouuir Dili lnuii A8TOUIA, IRON AKD BRASS FCUNCEP Op-tDsU Bw Mill Maelilntry 18th and Franklin Ave, FiRt National Bank f Astorija, 0fi HESTAULISIIED 18HO-1 Capital 1. Q. A. BOWLBY, President. 0. L PETEIISON, Vloe-Presldept Astoria Sayings Bank Capital Paid in llOOMi Surplus and Cndlvldsd ProflU IM,OU). TranssoUi a General Banking Buatneas. Interest Paid on Tims uepwlu, S3 T-ntn bet, of Kidney or Bladder Disease hot and. Retail), us and.Savelloney g sold them to him. added to sale. No one sale will maker 113 12th St. Kelson Troyer, Vice-Free, and Bupt. ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK, Tree Main Phone 121 si.uxjius.-at-j 9 ddipp wnDro, i ot DMdd. iiunivi) ORGOOST UKD AND MARiKE EKCIKEERS Prompt attention given to al repair work Tel. Main MM. $100,000 HANK PATT0N, Oaskler. J. W. GARNER, AssisUnt OasMsr. A8T0MA, OREGON Cures Backache ' v Corrects . Irregularitlea,, Do not risk having. Bright's Diseaaa .! or Diabetes ' K