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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1907)
V.s..i.'fef'A1;",v .... . . - -- - - -t-mi.. j. .i --lli-ralr- Hirnw , m .-, ' -" ' - - .- af " , . " " . .L. " . . .u..lluiwisM'uu)ii.M'M,i'. --afcii j; jfowtnj' SjtiSb afacwE" f PUBUtHCt FULL ASSOCIATED PRCS. REPORT ' C0VER9THE MORNING FIELD ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA WO. 193. VOLUME LXIII, ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1907. v PRICE FIVE CENTS llf P 1 1 Til in nn iiiMimiiTil f jgaw t w cALin u wu innuNiii k rx r.Tn Avnin UKtWB'S POOR RECORD. 444 Theodore Roosevelt Will Fight Rich Malefactors Un til the End of His Term. V fit SPEECH AT PR0VINCET0WN IS HIS MASTERPIECE In Strong Characteristic Language He Tells People That Financial t ! . A L M 4k. ' a uisiuroances may nave ueen uccasionea oy Govern ment's Policy, But It Will Not Halt CERTAIN OFFENDERS OF WEALTH WILL BE PUNISHED THE PRESIDENT'S TONE IS NOT VINDICTIVE BUT HE PROMISES THE PEOPLE THAT FOR THE REMAINDER OF HIS TERM HE WILL CARRY OUT POLICY OF ADMINISTRATION REGARDLESS OF WHO IT STRIKES QUESTION IS WHETHER PEOPLE OR THE FEW RICH SHALL RULE PKOVIXCETOWX, M August 20. The laying today of the cornerstone of th Pilgrim nifntorial monument, commemorating the flret lauding, within a few fen of Its bats, 'of the Pilgrim father, occurred today. A big Beet of vel and yacht In th harbor had for background eight formidable warthlpt. Tli center of attraction wa Town Hill, whereupon wa lurched a wooden am pitheatre a.lj.urni i0 the iit of tin monument. Th Ms.vtfower- bearing the President and party, which was expected ai 11 odock rounded I in- ca an bour ahead of til"''. previous to landing tit President re ceived eonimander of all the warship and a committee of townsfolk. The crowd o' the wharf cheered when be landed, 'Die President entered a car riage and proceeded to the monument preceded by a band, over the route, through the town' main thoroughfare. All the way h received a continuous ovation. The excrele were opened by prayer ly the Kev. Samuel Nlliott, of Boston, president of the American I'nitarian As toelatlon. The Masonic ceremonies of laying the cornerstone were conducted by (irand Maater lUIke, of Musiwihu ett. President Rooevclt wi Introduoed by Governor Guild. A the Preaident tcp fed forward to begin hi addres the several thousands of people who ur rounded the speaker's grandstand greet ed him with prolonged applause. President Roosevelt said: "It, I not too much to "y that the vent commemorated by the nionuuient which we have come her to dedicate vre one of thoac rare event which can in good faith he called of world Impor tance. The coming hither of the Purl tan three centuries ago shaped the dee Oiile of thi continent and therefore profoundly affected the destiny of the -whole world. Men of other iwee, the frenchman and the Spaniard, the Dutch man, the (ierman, the Scotchman, and the Swede made tettlementt Within what Is now the United State, during the cnlimfcil period of 0111' hiatory and before the Declarations of Independence) and since then there bus been on ever welling Immigration from Ireland and from the mninlund of Europe; Tuit it wa the' Englishman who act tied in Virginia nd the Englishman who settled In Mas sachusetts who did most In shaping the line of our national development. , ,. The man la but n poor father who teaches Ms on that ease and pleasure should lie their chief object In life; the woman who li a mere petted toy, in apuble of eriou purpoee, shrinking from effort and duty, is more-pitnble than the veriest overworked drudge. So lie i but a. poor lenler of the noonlo. lmf. poor national advler who seeks to make the nation in any way subordi nate effort to ease, who would teach the people not to prize as the greatest blet lng the chence to do anv work, nn m.f. ter how hard, if it become their duty to do It. To the sonsof the Purttan it 1 almost needless to so, that the lei on above all others which Puritanism can tcarii ,thl nation is the nll-lmpor-tanee of the resolute perfornronee of duty. If we are men we will pass by with contemptuous disdain alike the ad viser who would seek to lead us into the path ot ignoble ease and those who would teach u to admire uoeessful wrongdoing. Our idealg should be high, nil yet they ahould be capable of ac hievement in practical fashion: ami we are at little to be excused if we permit our Weals to be tainted with what h sordid and mean and bate. if we allow our power of achievement to atrophy and become either Incapable o( effort or cap aide only of audi fantatic, effort e to aompu!i nothing of permanent good. The true doctrine to preach to this na tion, a to the Individual composing this nation, is not the life of eaae, but the life of effort. If it were in mv now er to promise the people of this land anything, I would not promise them plea" ure. I would, promise them that stern naiuiinen wh eh come from the eiut or naving done in practical fashion a difficult work which wa worth doing. ' "The utterly changed conditions of our national lie necessitate change In cer tain of our law, of our irovernmental method. Our federal system of gov ernment I based uon the theory of community, to leaving to each com munity to each state, the control over those thing which affect only. Its own menrbers and which the neonie of the 'ocallty themselves can best grapple with, while providing for national re gulation in thoe matter which neces sarily affect the nation a a whole. It cnm to me that such nuestions as mtl. oiuU eoverignty and state'a right need to be treated not enmlrkaHv nor aca demically, but from theyitandpoint of ine interests or the people as a whole. National sovereignty is to be uoheld in o far a it mean the sovereignty of the people used for the real and ulti, mate good of the people) and Mate's right are to lie upheld in far as they mean the people's right. Especially i thi true in de.illi with the relation oi me people a a who le to the o-reat .... . . . ... corporation which are the distinguish mg feature or modern businea con .litiont. Explerencc has shown that It I nee. esjiary to exercise a far nior.. edieienf control tlian at present over the husl ne use of those Wet' fortunes, chiefly i-oi poraie, wiiicii are iisetl a un.Ier mivl. ern eomlitlons they almost invariablv are) in rntentnte hnsinc. '"m,.n tl, Constitution was created none of the eonditioiis tf modern busiuces. existed. They are wholly new and we mut create new agencies to deal effectively with "7" " e i no ohjeetion in" the minds of this people to any, men's earn inir any amount of nmnov'tf l. it holiest ly and fairly, if he gets it as the result of special skill and enteiyrlse, ii i en nru 01 nmiiio service aetii,, dered. Hut there is a orowln iWi,-n,t -..it ii.i . ... union mm no man shall amass a great fortune by special privilege, tin nhtenn. ery and wrotrg-doing, so far as it I In me power or legislation to prevent j and that the fortune when emasned shall not have a business USA that In Hntt.aninl I Most large corporations do a business mat is not confined to any one state. Kxperlenee hag shown that the effort, tn control these corporations by mere state uciiung can not produce wholesome re ult. In most cases auch effort, fail to correct tlie real abuses of which th corporation is or may be guilty; while ... uimi twi uie enort is apt-to cause cither hanlshiD self, or else hardship to neighboring "tales which nave not tried to grapple with the problem In the Snme ninnnnr, and of course we must lie as scrupulous "i aregura tne rights of the corpora- WASHINGTON' Aumist 20 Oregon has but five representa tive on the list of officer in the United State navy, a mighty small number- when it i eon. sidered that tho list aifirreirste 3432 officers in active service. The flve Oregon officer are Lieutenant Percey X. Olmsted, on duty on the Boston and Franklin Wayne Ostium Jr., oa special duty. Bureau of Steam Engineering; Midshipmen Raleigh It Hughe of Portland, on duty on the Missouri; Frederick M. Perkins, of Salem, on th V. traka, and Ernet Durr, of Baker City, on the Yorktown. vnen the great naval fleet as sembles on the Pacific station four of the five Oregon officers in the navy will be with it, flamely. Lieutenant Olmsted and Midshipmen Hughes, Perkins and Durr. AS THE RUSH HOME FROM EUROPE BEGINS. The Returning Native-Cosh! I'm glad we have our return tickets at leat.' More money but been spent abroad this SUIIIinei' bv American than over r. corded. News Item. BROTHER IS RULER 'rench Colony Leaves for Tan gier Tomorrow. TRIP CONSIDERED DANGEROUS Sultan Ha Declared Hit Intention to Send Deputation of Notable Moors to Tangier Object of Mission it Unldnown. PARIS. Auust 20. The eoveroment has received confirmation of the report that the Sultan of Morocco's brother hat been proclaimed Sultan, and also that the Sultan hat declared his intention to send a deputation of notable Moors to Tangier, but the object of the mission 1 unknown, the trench colony st Fet, fearing an explosion of fanaticism, leaves for Tangier tomorrow. The Moroccan government hot agreed to furnish an es cort, but the five days' trip is consid ered dangerou. DISTRICT ATTORNEY HERE. Gilbert Hedges Arrive From Portland Will Spend Week at Worth Beach. District Attorney ''Gilbert L. nedce of the Fifth District of Oregon, arrived in tne city last night on the late train from Portland. He will leave todav for North Beach where he will pend a few daya visiting mends and resting up. 5 I have never been over to the beach." he said, last night, "and feel like takinu a little outiujf before the summer is over, i will pnrtmbly 1 over there about a week. No. the iraniblinir aitua- lion is about the same. The Milwaukee t nib house la closed and will remain closed. We nave had two supreme court ilecinions on the matter and I guess it sticks tfcis time." He had nothing to sy regarding the closing of gambling in Astoria. TOO FAST FOR PRINCE HENRY. KIEL, Germany), Aumist 20 M.nr Americans wno are to be guest of German yacht clubs the coming, week iwiay aaw we emperor'f cup won by the Wansse Yacht Club's yacht Wans see. which defeated Prince Henry's yacht i my v., by 20 seconds. IS FIMIH DECIDED CM MINE Supreme Court Decides in Favor of Jacob Kamm. IN THE KAMM-NORMAND CASE Case Has Been in the Court for the Past Three Year and Wa Finailv Decided Yesterday by Judge Bean involved Logging oa Appellants Land TAFT MAY CHANGE PLANS. COLUMBUS. 0.. Auirust 20,-Secre- tary Taft is much concerned over the condition of his mother, and mav chamre all his Philippine trip plans. TALKS INCORPORATION. RIDGEFIELD. Wash.. Aumist 20. Incorporation, of this village is looked lor in the near future, as the crowth th last three months has awakened the leading citixen to this action. A num ber of modern houses have been erected the last month, and contracts let for many more. Lot are being told rapidly at $100 each. TRAIN WRECKED; NO ONE HURT. NEWPORT, Ark., August! 20t-The Iron Mountain's fast train from Tex arkana to St. Louia was thrown from the track last night near Alicia by a broken rail. It is reported that no one w.a Injured. Only the engine, a vacant mail car and a vacant coach left the tiacJs. tlon as to exact from them in return a full measure of jutlce to the public. I believe in a national incorporation law for corporations enirajicd in interstate business, I believe, furthermore that tho need for action is most iiressiiii as regard those corporations which, be- 'cause they are common carrier, exercise a quasi-public function; and which can be completely controlled, in all resnecU by the federal government, by the exer cise of the 'power conferred under the interstate commerce clause, and. if necessji-y, under the post-mad clause; of the constitution. During the last few year we have taken marked strides in advance alone the mad of nrnnr mi. 'lation of these, railroad corporations; but we must not top in the work. The national government should exercise over iiiem a similar supervision aud control to that which jt exercises over national banks. We can do this only ng farther alomr the line mailre.l nnf by the recent national legislation. "In dentins with anv total! n .t of conditions there must at the outset be ihesitatlun and experiment. Such has cen our experience in dealing with the enormous concentration of cjii.ltl . ployed in interstate commerce, Not only the legislatures but the courts and the people need gradually to be educated so that they mny see what the real vmnm are and what the real remedies. Almost very big business concern is engaged In interstate commerce, and such a concern must not be allowed by a dexterous shifting 0f position, as' lias been too oft en the ca?e in the past, to escape there by all resnonsibilitv nation. Tho AmericAn firmly, convinced of the need of control over these great aggregations of capital, especially where they had a monopolistic tendency, before hey became quite clear as to the proper way of achieving the contiol. Through their representa tives in congress they tried two reme dies which were to . la least as interpreted bv the courts, con tmdictory. - On the other hand, under th .auti-trut kv the effort. to prohibit all combination, whether it ss or was not hurtful or beneficial to the public. On the other hand, thi'oiich the interstate commerce law a beginning was made in 'exercising such supervision and control over combinations as to prevent their doinit anvth!nr li.,,.,fi the bod politic, The 'first law, the o- cauea onennan law, has filled a useful place for it bridges over the trniisifmn penod ,-. until the American people shall definitely make up its mind that it will excrciae over' the great corporations that im.rougii.gomg nd radical control which it is certain ultimately to find necessary. The principle of the Sherman law so far as it prohibit which -whether because of their extent or of their character, are harmful to the publio , must nlwa.Yi K .i Ultimately, and I hope with reasonable "peea. tne national government miiRt pass laws which, while increasing the supervisory and reaulatorv nower nf th government, also permits' such useful combination as are made with' absolute openness and as the renreswitnti.... f the government may pieviously approve. But it will ii. .t K ., . ... ..,-v c j..,,ulu , H'inut "During the nresent trnnM iti. i. w , - ,.v ,,, I 11V stock market I of course received count tea requests and suggestion that I should SALEM, Autrust 20. Amonw the number of supreme court cases decided is the following one from Clatson coun ty: Jacob Kamm. appellant, vs. Aler Xormand and Fred Normand, respond ents; from Clatsop county; T. A. Mc- uriue, judge; reversed. Opinion by Chief lustice Bean. In the case just settled bv the snnreme coun juage r. j. Taylor, of this city appeared for the Kamm side of the con troversy. white Fulton Bros., also of this city, defended the claim of Kormand Bros., the logging company. Judee wi.. . . ...... -ucDnae ueciaed in ravor of the Fulton Brothers' client but his decision doe not hold good on appeal. The case is one which involved th right of loggers to log on streams and through other property than their own. In this instance the lowrinir wa betas 1 , w" o o aone in such a way that it was alleged to oe iniurinc the Kamm nrooertv near Olneyv The Clatskanie is too narrow at that place and resort was made to darn ing tip the creek and when water enough had accumulated to let the pond go and the logs would be carried a considerable distance. But this method, "swash" W. ging, is said to have torn into th bank and carried away portions of it, hence the cause of 4he suit, which has been in the courts for the past three years. STRIKES PARALYZING THE NORTH. BELLINGHAM, Wash.. Aumist 20. t .i ... .-MriKes in fairoanKs and Nome are par alyzing mat district according to Cap tain Croskey, of the steamer Olympia, which arrived here today from the North to load lumber of Alaska. The minera are demanding $0 a day and eight hours a daw work. As the season is so short in Alaska the employers are demanding that the men work more than eight hours a day. " . Heads of Hantaan Sys tems Meet. ) oiwtasa jr. 0 DISCUSSES DEMURRAGE Will Try and Provide 125 Cars .a Day to Handle the Wheat Crop. ARE SECURING FOREIGN CARS Meeting Was Held to Take Step For Avoiding the Reciprocal Demurrage Laws Which Have Cone Into Effect II Movement of Wheat Stars at Once Companies Will Suffer. MARQUIS ITO HONORED. Receives by Receipt of Imperial Re script, PORTLAND, Auirast 20. To avoid complications likely to arise out of the reciprocal demurrage law. which bees me effective August 18 a meeting of the head of departments of the northwest Harriman lines wa held this moraine. The object ' of the meeting waa to ar range lor a genewi movement of rolling stock, to the end that the car shortage ol last year be not repeated this year: "We hope to avoid a shortage of ears this year," said General Manager .1. P. O'Brien, after the meeting "To that end we will haw arranged for a large number of foreign cars to be brought around this way on their return east. and by thi means we hope to prevent a congestion of traffic. "Of course, the fact must be taken into consideration that there is an im mense wheat croo to be moved, and it will depend largely upon conditions at tending the movement of this cron whether we shall be able to avoid a shortage in cars. If there is a disposition to move the cron all at once, we shall be unable to cope with the situation but if things move along as they have In years past, we hope to handle the wheat yield at the rate of 100 or 123 cars a day. Now that the car are, as a general rule, of a much greater capacity than in formei' years, this would amount to a large movement of wheat each day and ought, I think, to meet the demands of the season." The fact that today's meeting waa held immediately followinir th 'talc-infy ffsot of ths reciprocal demurrage law indicates that the Harriman line am preparing to avoid the necessity at la. voking the provisions of the act, If pos sible. At the present time there wonM seem to be no occasion for calling the law into action for there is at nresent a lull between the heavy shipping sea sons The trouble will come, if it comes at all, later in the year, when the enor mous wheat yield of Eastern Oreann and Washington liegiiia to sect th ir. ter level. Today's meeting was held with a view to stirring up the different departments and getting the equipment of the various roans into action, so that when the heavy shipping season arrives th svs. tem will be in a better position to meet the situation. Arrangements for for eign cars from the south indicate that the Harriman interests are early taking; measures looking to prevention of a con" gestion. .(Continue on paj, j j" TOKIO. August 20. Marnni Tin has been honored by the receipt of tho fol lowing imperial rescript: "We being solicitous of the mainten ance of peace in the Far East, entrusted you with the management of Corean affairs and are satisfied with the new convention which was concluded bv vonr earnest efforts." WORK BEGUN ON NEW RAILROAD. BOISE, August 20. Great interest was awakened here yesterday afternoon when it was definitely learned that work was begun yesterdaw on the new that will place Boise on the main linn of the Oregon Short Line. Two cars of material were unloaded and engineers and men began work at Mora Siding, 23 miles east of Namoa to build direct, tn Boise, 20 miles distant. BOY SENT TO REFORM SCHOOL. FREEWATER, Or.. Aumist 20 Louis Clarke, aged 14 years, son of Wil liam A. Clarke, living near thi eitv. vi. sent to the Reform School at Salem vea- terday by. Judge Gilliland. Deputy Sheriff Joe Blakely accompanied the boy to the institution.