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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1907)
THURSDAY, JULY it, 1907. 2 THE MORNING ASTORIAN ItUbUaM ilr j nn F M PsblUhd Daily Ew.pt Mooter by ri. J. S. DILLLNGER COMPAJTY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By nail, p yr..... By earrier, psr month. .17.00 . M WXESIY AST0SU1.. . ,.t mail, per ytw, in adrsncs. .1100 THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. if; Kntsmd M iouA-eua matter Jly m. I. ft portofflo t Astorta. Or JTKdi th. ES (Xwnws ol March t, Uuutf t nad br postal eard throe WW Ay lnflartw Kryiookl b BUMlWir reported 10 ths oeVpubttouioa. v li TXLSPBOHX MATH Mu OffltW PP of Clatsop ooudIj and tatCatroAstoria... v ...it 2 A - TV? rz? . WEATHER. e , Western Washington Fair, x- eept showers ia extreme north- wast. Eastern Oregon and Washing- ton and Idaho Probably fair. ' ANOTHER PORTLAND ERROR. The press of Portland seems to en tertain a contemptuous indifference about what it reports of, and from. Astoria, on the general principle, per haps, that anything raw or wrong it can tay of ua will react favorably, in some occult fashion, for the metropolis. Its latest fool deduction i that the Astoria Ministerial Association has entered into an agreement, or league, with the Royal Arch (or such body as U representing the liquor interests here) whereby the saloon of the city are to be kept closed on Sundays during what are known as church hours and in deference to this concession on their part, the ministers will not exact any further observance of the Sunday prohibition. The conclusion is ab-turd on the face of it, both as to the ministerial people and the men in charge of the other end of the ocritroversy. No such compromise was ever agreed upon, and what of con cession the saloon men have made along this line, haa been purely volun tary on their part, and has no bearing vpon the attitude or demands of the other group oi interested citizens, and the matter of Sunday elosir.g is still an undetermined issue. It is hoped the papers at Portland, being advi?d of their blunder will be as prompt to correct it as they were to make it; unless the effort shall deprive them of too much, and too good, an opportunity to lambaste the town they are notoriously willing to disparage upon every conceivable pretext. : 0 GET DOWH TO BUSINESS! "Astoria is the Seaport of Oregon. Nature Haa so Ordered it that this State Can Have Xo Other Great Seaport!" Will Mr. Harvey W. Scott, editor- of the Portland Daily Oregonian, person ally dictate an editorial in the columns of his great paper, explaining what he meant when he said these words in the course of his speech delivered in this dty on the 13th day of October, J894T It had a meaning then, or Mr. Scott would never have given voice to it; and we would like to know, from the same responsible source, what moved him to such a pregnant conclusion. W have repeatedly invited an explanation of tbia straightaway and cogent declaration, but it haa been studiously denied w, by those who are doing editorial work on those columns; and we quote it, this . time, detached from its equally signifi cant collateral argument, as it stands, pre-eminently, the crucial statement of that hour and that speech. We insist upon . this, because it is rrievant and timely; because such an argument is vital and available now, and we desire to use it for the end we believe Mr. Scott had in view when he uttered it; because ,if it is not appli cable now, we should have the benefit of hia reversed opinion to justify us in abandoning so weighty an item of proof as we have always deemed it; because, in the Hht of what the Oregonian is now contending for, such a plea must be disproved or explained in justice to its own course; so long as this declara tion stands the doctrine Ixdiiml is as plausible as it ever was, and believing it to he so, vie desire to be told, with the (ame authority, why it is not! We have plenty of other, equally po tent quotations from the same trust worthy source, upon this same subject, but if Mr. Scott will kindly answer this particular inquiry, with his customary, A (JUMPSB INTO When John D. and Mf. Subpoena Til1! FUTVRK. g.'t really acquainted with each other. honest ability, wa shall be disposed to let up on the rest of them. So far, there has been no sort of attention paid to our presentation of the matter for which this foremost editor and citizen is wholly answerable, and this may be ignored, as well, but we hope not. THE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND. It were well that our representative in the state and federal governments be gin to realize that the people now have fairlv clear understanding of the trust situation and are prepared to exact certain specific legislation in the early future that shall cure the evils thrust upon them in the past and head off any access of imposition 0 the sort. The knowledge will do them good when they go up to the legislatures and to con- iress, and the fact that the popular eye is practically wide open may have a tendency to check the reckless practices by which corporate domination has been 0 easily acquired. The Americans are a long suffering set and it takes a vast teal to arouse them to clamor and ac tion of a defensive sort, but when they know things as they know them now by reason of the fierce exposures wrought through the press of the country and verified bv public analysis and or dained investigation, it will be all a legislator's or a congressman's head is worth to try to load the people down again with such n burden. The clever representative is going to stand pat for people and leave syndicated skull duggery to work its own course, or he :'s going to get a lesson in the school of national censure and reprisal that will last him and his kin forever. The people will never be as indifferent as they have been; there will be an intelligent over night and a sleepless watchfulness never known before, and the man with the constituency will be in the limelight as he never was before. , The pres of the country has been freed from all obligation to the knaves of the "protected interest' class, by the universal disclosures that have been made during the past two years, and it will do its duty all the better for the wide and extraordinary publicity that has been given to those things that might have been hidden, in part, and there will be no necessity for duplic ity nor the submergence of news in this relation; and the paper that does not give that news will be a marked sheet in its community. There have been venal papers all over the country that have waxed fat and rich from this source and they will be glad to abandon tba rack and get back to open condi tions, just as their readers will be glad to have them. The people understand a whole lot more than they ever did and they will know their friends to & man and to a paper, from now on. . RAILROAD SURVEY ALMOST DONE. Parties From Seaside End and Elsie Within Two Miles of One Another. Superintendent 0!" Construction, Davis of the Pacific Railway A Navigation Company's new road, known a the l.ytle Road in town Tuesday. Mr. Davis was at the Court House looking up titles and other matters pertaining to the right-of-way required by the road. The survey parties from either end are now a!mot within two miles of one another. The party starting from the Seaside end are only two miles from the tunnel and those starting from F.lsie and working we-t are practically at the tunnel. To people with whom Mr. Davis talked he said that the road 'would lie built through to Astoria and Warrenton as fast as poodle after the survey 1 was completed and checked up. Con-' tracts will then be let for the construe- j tion of the road from here to Xehalem J where it will connect with the line now under construction from Tillamook to HillsboM ! -1 EDITORIAL SALAD. Secretary Metcalf going to Hawaii! How many battleships will he promise 1 Fastidious Mr. Schmitz does not mind the lockstep so much, but plague take that Rogue's March. Bill Ward says: "Whatever else a man wants, he doesn't want his wife to tell others what he says in his sleep." Two of the new battleships lack the requisite number of men. The govern ment can not recruit sailors while harv est hands are getting $3 a day. The admission by the Filipinos thai they prefer American to Japanese su pervision will at least serve the purpose of showing that Uncle Ram is an indul gent relative. The bites and stings of Insects, sun burn, cut, burns and bruises relieved st once with Pinesalv CarbolUed. Acts like a poultice. Draws out inflamma tion. Try it Pries 23c. Sold by Frank Hart'a Drug Stora. 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