THURSDAY, AUGUST ig, 1907.
THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA OREGON.
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Intend M KonA-Uum matter July
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TSLXPBOIIX MAUI Mi.
nntoiai nnr of ClaUon county and
the City of Anton.
TBY IT JUST OKCEI
There art host of people in Una city,
and there will be many more from
abroad, who will welcome the abolition
during the coating Regatta, of the usual
nuisancea that go with public festivals,
the confetti, the return-ball, the cracker
stick, and all other ready made noise
and atrocities that have nothing to
recommend them; and to this end, the
Aatorian reiterates its plea that the
Regatta committee and the city authori
se put their masterly feet on all of them
just for once; and see if the series of
germ-carrying, aggravating, useless de
vices cannot be stamped out, so far a
A start a in ponoerneH '
They are severally the means of
making overtures at once insolent and
unavoidable; and they are never used
without the extravagance that leads to
bad feeling, if not worse. The people
have no protest to enter against any
legitimate and acceptable phase of
enjoyment, especially at such a season
as the one approaching; but they have
seen so much of downright, deliberate
insolence passed in the use of the things
named above, that they are justified in
affirming their adverse sentiment.
The ill-bred, the reckless, the impu
dent, we have with us always; and in
the hands of any of this group the most
innocent toy becomes a menace and a
source of annoyance. People with due
regard for the feelings and comfort of
others are not given to the disuse of
these things, but they are the ones
who suffer most.
, SEED ROAD PROGRAM.
The business-like program inaugu
rated by the Chamber of Commerce will
commend itself to every lover of fair
dealing, and is likely to be entirely suc
cessful, to the genuine success of the
projector of the line and to all con
cerned, including the general public of
Astoria. We cannot have too many
roada in, nor out, of this city, and we
are amenable to every reasonable scheme
for the securing of the last possible one
of them; but we want them all on an
equitable footing; upon condition that
shall make for freedom from the convic
tion that we have been done, or rather
undone, in the getting of them.
The plan to buy direct from the pro
testing owners of right-of-way lands
at an advanced figure, our best people
putting up the money therefore, and
and filing it in escrow until Mr. Reid
and his colleagues shall have accom
plished enough to ensure the consumma
tion of the road and its operation, with
ample time given them to work out their
end of the proposition, could scarcely
be improved upon, and is a square bid
for the good faith of all involved.
It requires a goodly manifestation of
publio spirit on the one hand, and a
downright showing of honest energy oa
the other; qualities that are insepar
able from railroad building, whereso
ever it may be atempted. We shall
be glad to hear that the program has
been accepted and that the work is be
ing done in both camps.
OUK GLAD-HAHD IS OUT.
Astoria will have her Regatta-hand
out to welcome Mrs. Elizabeth Weather
ford and her bevy of Honolulu belles
when they shall arrive here; and that's
the gladdest hand she has at this par
ticular season. We are hoping they will
come in time to be the especial guests
of the Thirteenth Annual, but if they
ere a bit later, there will be no subsi
dence of cordiality, and the young ladies
will take home with them a patent con
aciousnesg of the real good-will of the
next and nearest American port to their
own beautiful sea-home, when Astoria
hall have bade them farewell ' But it
is most earnestly hoped they will get
here in time to feature the festival and
cap the climax of interest in the best
event of years. They will be the spec
ial charge of Queen Harriet, who will
represent the whole city and section in
the pleasant task of entertaining them.
The South Is the Best
Place For the Netfro.
Sy HENRY WATTER.SON, Editor of the loulevlllt CourWr-Jourotl.
CUE people of the United States and when I say the people of
, the United States I mean ALL tho people, black and white,
northern and southern have no greater issuo to meet, no
larger problem to solve, than that which goes by tho namo of
the race question. The institution of African slavery is gone let m
all thank God for that 1but the African wo have still' with us. lie is
with us in ever increasing numbers. HE IS HERE TO STAY.
THE INTEREST OF ONE RACE IS THE INTEREST OF THE
OTHER RACE, AND NEITHER CAN PROSPER IF EITHER SUFFERS.
I must tell yon, after forty years of experience and observation
and reflection, that I think we begun wrong. WE PUT THE CART
BEFORE THE IIOI1SE. Four millions of poor black peoplo, with
some centuries of abject slavery and many ages of barbaric night
behind them, were not equal to using the freedom that camo to them so
suddenly, and especially the ballot, with prudence or intelligence.
How could they ? I don't blame them in the least. On the contrary,
I sometimes wonder at their self restraint As, during the sectional
war, they were faithful servants, remaining at home and tilling the
fields and taking care of the women and children,
so, since the war, according to their lights, THEY
HAVE TRIED TO BE GOOD CITIZENS.
I glory in every step of progress they have made
and they have made many strides from that
day to this. My heart goes out to the black man
wherever I see him honestly struggling to raise
his children to a condition better than his own.
We may not escape our manifest destiny.
Neither of us can get rid of the other. Schemes
to that end, however ingenious, are wholly visionary.
THE WORLD HAS NEVER WITNESSED ANY SUCH PROGRESS
FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT AS THAT WHICH WE SEE IN THOSE
DISTRICTS OF THE SOUTH WHERE THE NEGRO HAS HAD A
DECENT OPPORTUNITY FOR 8ELF DEVELOPMENT.
Let the negro go to any New England community and try to get
employment. Barred on every hand. PLENTY OF SENTIMENT,
BUT NO WORK There are regions north and west which never
knew slavery and were a unit for the union where the negro is refused
admittance. Turn southward. Plenty of work and wages for all who
bring tranquil minds and willing hands. Nowhere on the habitable
globe has the liberated slave fared so well, nowhere has he so fair an
outlook, as in the southern states of North America.
Why ? Because we knpw one another and because, no matter what
anybody says to the contrary, there is a COMMON BOND OF AS
SOCIATION between us." , '
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In less than half a century the negro has done wonders. Before
the century we have just begun is half over he will have done greater
still. . -
he is a bad white man who will not help his neigh
bor black man when that neighbor black man shows
the spirit to help himself. he is a bad black man who
Cherishes hatred in his heart against the white man
because he is a white man. he is a foolish black man
who thinks because the mirage of social equality,
which would prove a curse rather than a blessing, it
denied him that the white man mates him.
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fTW FECHHEIMER FISKUCO.
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mis iJd7 rurin ruuriKBii
is all to the good when it comes to style. 1 1
The Semi-box back is a decided change from;!
the form fitting coats of the Spring season!!
This model and a number of other snappy!!
models in the
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CLOTHES
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inspection invited Prices $ 1 5.00 to $26.00 J
A SAD SOUVENIR.
Without being able to vouch for the
truth of the sad little story that conies
up from San Francisco, anent the find
ing of the name-board of the good old
steamship Columbia by the wife of a
veteran member of her earliest crew, on
the sands outside the bar of the Bay
City, we admit the probability of the
incident, the beauty of the story, and
hope that it is so. It would be too bad
to shatter such a tale by intimating
that it is a fake for which some clever
reporter down there is responsible; and
so, admitting the entire truth of the
yarn we are glad to know the flotsam
reached the hands of people who would
deeply appreciate the gift from the sea
and know how to treasure it.
The tale might have been infinitely
more interesting if, upon surface of this
hoard that hailed from the pilot-house
of the 'doomed ship, could have been
deciphered some last message from poor
Doran, the brave master who went
down with her and from whom no word
of any sort has ever been received. But
we cannot have everything as we would
like it; and the silence that all deplore
must be maintained for all time; the
simple fact of Doran's deliberate and
manly death at the supreme crisis of
his life and career, being all that is sure,
and quite enough, to kindle the ever
kindly thought of the genial gentleman
and clever seaman. He and his vessel
lie in their 60-fathom grave, but both
will live in the friendly memory of Pa
cifio Coast people as long at marine
records are kept alive.
to clip this item.
The plowshare and pruning-hook sup
ply is not evidently to be abnormally in
creased by Hague propositions for "Jia-armament.
Somebody has discovered the cause of
Colonel Pope's automobile failure; he
ran a factory instead of a repair shop.
It is now asserted Unit whistling will
prevent a rattlesnake attacking the
whistler. That's too bad I
Popular , sympathy generally goes to
the underdog, unless he has "nothing to
arbitrate."
Foraker criticises Taft's Columbus
speech. Funny how the expected often
happens.
Ri-i Vnlh-a ia to cstnhlikh Jiij new "Zinn
City" in New Mexico. Why not further
away T
The Oyster Bay silence can almost be
heard round the world.
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EDITORIAL SALAD. .
A Pennsylvania milkman was arrest
ed the other day, charged with watering
his milk. He got off because his son,
when pumped, claimed that he had done
it by mistake and without malice. All's
well that ends welll
It is rather suggestive, when one
comes to think of it, that no one cares
t hang how hot the fight may wax be
tween Bryan and Hearst.
Ten thousand men are said to be
wanted immediately to get in the Ne
braska crops. Strikers might do well
Must The Professor's Wives Get Out And
Work?
A woman who is connected with a
prominent college in the middle west
has written a remarkable letter in the
September American Magazine about the
rise to the cost of living. In the college
with which she is connected (is it Ober
lin?) the professors now receive (1,800
a year, which, after ten year'i service is
increased to $2,000 a year. According
to the author of the letter the income
of the professors has remained nearly
tationary for twenty years, while the
cost of living has immensely increased.
Hard coal which used to seem high
enough at $5 or $5.25 a ton now ranges
from $6 to $7 a ton. Soft coal and
wood hare followed in its upward flight.
Such staples of- family consumption as
meat, milk, butter, eggs, fruit and vege
tables have all taken on price which
makes one sigh for the old days of cheap
and lavish living.
Going on the writer says: "People
used generally to have dinned at noon.
Then they invited guests to a six o'clock
tea instead of to dinner. Two or three
courses wene ample for the meal. Within
the last few years we have all discov
ered that human beings were never in-
Shirts
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Cluctt and Monarch $1.00 to $1.60
Collars
X Arrow Brand Two for 25c
Hats
: Men's Soft and Derby hats in many shades and blocks, f( $3 00 f
LUUKINEN & HARRISON
CLOTHIERS
FURNISHERS
HATTERS
390 Commercial (Street) Corner Ninth.
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tended to dine at noon. Like the rest
of the world, we dine at night, and now
when we entertain our friends, we In
vite them to a six o'clock dinner of six
or more courses.
"Less than ten years ago there were
so few social events among us that no
one thought it necessary to have an ev
ening gown. The plain gown worn to
church and for calling answered for all
social occasions. Then a man did not
feel obliged to have a suit of evening
clothes. Now there is not a woman that
docs not make an attempt at an even
ing gown, nor a man that doe not ap
pear in regulation evening garo at me
proper times.
All these conoesHions make a larger
demand upon the pure. Under such
condition,, it is evident that something
is bound to hnppen. The something in
this cae is the transition of the wives
of soma of the professors into the money
earning class. "Thus among the col
lege families in a number of instances
married women are teaching In the con
servatory of music, the academy, the
publio schools, or privately' says the
writer "Two or three are engaged In
newspaper or literary work. A few are
taking boarders. Several are quietly
earning a little money in different ways.
Altogether there are few cases in which
a family living on the salary of a college
professor, and of course many of the
men add to their salaries by extra work,
the income from books, and in other
waya,"
Altogether the letter- is very Interest
ing and illuminating.
A chambermaid for a hotel Addrasa
"J," Aatorian office. MS-tf.
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NORWEGIAN :
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ASTORIA THEATER
Sunday, Sept. 1, '07
Afternoon and Evening 1
Grand Concert
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300 VOICES IN THE CHORUS
Carlo A. Speratti,
Director
SOLOISTS
Mmme. Jennie Norelli
CarlVendt,Violinist
Emil Anna, Pianoist.
Admission
$1.00
Tickets can be had at the stores of
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