MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1907,
THE
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WEATHER.
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Western Oregon Rain; cooler
south portion; high southwest
-rinds.
Western Washington Rain;
winds shifting to westerly be-"4
coming high.
Eastern Oregon and Washing-
ton; Idaho Rain; high souther-
ly winds. ,
"WE TOLD YOU SO!"
The Morning Astorian has always held
that Theodore Roosevelt would not allow
the use of his name as a candidate for
the Presidency in 1908, because it be
lieved he was a man of his word, and now
the final word has been spoken in the
important relation and the Astorian's
prediction made good.
The highest quality of a sound char
acter is its reliability, its adherence to
truth and faith under all circumstances,
nd the keeping of its word, especial lj
when that word has been given broadcast
to many people. Had Mr. Roosevelt yield
ed to the pressure that has been brought
to bear on him in this connection, he
would have weakened himself in the eves
of the nation; the people would know
their first doubt of the man they have
trusted implicitly; and what is more,, he
would have sacrificed his own sense of
rectitude and cheapened himself con
sciously for all time. We are glad he
has made the announcement confirming
his original declaration, though it was
not needed, and has simply been forced
from him in deference to a very popular
demand for re-consideration snd reversal.
In the language of the Oregonian he
will become an "observer," though it
is more than hkely he will cling very re
ligiously to politics and Republican poli
tics at that; he is not the sort to
relinquish any great purpose or abandon
cherished plans and remain quiescent be
cause he is not to be in the center of
things as they shall develop after his re
tirement. He has lived so long in the
limelight and done so much and won so
much, he is sure to be always ready to
spring into any breach that invites his
trained and ardent interest. Even as a
private citizen Roosevelt will be an earn
est advocate and champion of good gov
ernment; and until he becomes just that,
the country, may rely absolutely upon his
standing by his splendid program and
working strenuously for the man, and
men, who are to perpetuate it, whether
it be Taft, or Hughes, or whosoever els
the people may choose with the wisdom
he has imparted.
THE SIGHT SPIRIT.
A ringing petition has been filed with
the) Common Council of the City of As
toria denying that anything approaching
"hard times" prevails here; that it is
essential that the Council cut this out
of public consideration and go ahead with
its projected and pending improvements
lest the threat of "hard times" be made
good; and urging that body to so admin
ister civic affairs that the dismal idea
may be negatived entirely. This it al
right and shows that Astoria, at least,
is conscious of the good things she en
joys. Facts and forebodings are widely dif
ferent things. A person, or a people, may
convince themselves of almost any condi
tion if they will cherish the governing
idea long enough and ersistantly
enough, be it for good or ill. Reiteration,
cheery, or doleful, is a keynote to which 1
the ordinary public quickly attunes its
humors; and since the choice of sound
rests with the ' people, common-sense
dictates tlie use of the happier and more
resonant note. As long as the masses
remain patient and animated and pass
the jolly up to their representatives,
there is a fair chance of recovering and
We solicit your business and offer our
management and directorate as evidence
of the sat and careful handling of your
banking iu whatever line it may be.
Scandinavian-American
Savings Bank,
ASTORIA. OREGON.
C F. lleudrickscn Aug, Panielson
Dr. Henry W. Coe John Mattson
Erick Maunula C. 0. Falmberg
Gust Holmes
Andrew Young
J. M. Anderson
holding that which else might be lost.
You cannot down the man or commun
ity that wont admit it is downed!
CHRISTMAS, ALL THE SAME1
It may be that economy will charae-
teriie the expenditures of the coming
holiday season in Astoria; that the
usual generous limits that mark the
choice and cost of gifts will be abated,
and moW people conform to the exac
tions of the "late, lamented" stringency;
but the Christmas spirit will be there,
all the same; the love and friendliness
nni good-w,ll will be just as plain and
pontaieus, even though its manifesta
tions shall be a bit abridged; the legacy
of gentle inspiration, the prompting to
human fellowship, the expression ot
universal kindliness, are rich with life
and always ardent for the hour set for
their cpciation. Christmas U Christinas,
whatever the times may be, andnothmg
may obliterate or deny the festival and
all that goes with it.
It is a supremely good thing that
these days return to us with their les
sons and duties; and it matters nothing
that, once in a while, the hand is com
paratively empty; the heart never yields
an iota of its heritage of bounty and
gives its little with the same old glad
ness that marked its richer expression.
"Damned be he" who would disparage
Christmas because of tightened purse
strings 1
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THE COMMISSION FIRST.
iPresident Roosevelt has named a spec
ial commission of three eminent and ex
cellent men, Messrs. Murray, Knox and
Xeill, all department leaders at the na
tional capital, to proceed to Goldfield and
investigate the actual conditions of af
fairs there and report to him. This com
mission should have preceded the federal
troops, since the rule governing most of
Mr. Roosevelt's commissions in such cases
has been that they go forth with more or
less executive authority to compass the
peaceful adjustment of the matters un
der investigation when that function
proves available; and it may be that the
present emisarries may be in time to so
influence the situation as to bring about
the contemporaneous departure of both
federal groups without any more serious
to record than the formal and morally
effective presence of both. The country
is weary of these excitements and will
be glad of a quiet issue from the Gold
field squabbles.
For that Dull Feeling After Eating.
THE VERMIN IN THE DARK.
I have used ChamDerlaln's Stomach
and Liver Tablet for some time, and
can testify that they have done me more
good than any tablets I have ever used.
My trouble was a heavy dull feeling
after eating. David Freeman, Kempt,
Nov Scotia. These tablets strengthen
the stomach and improve the digestion,
They also regulate the liver and bowls.
They are far superior to pills but cost
no more. Get a free sample at Frank
Hart the Leading Druggist, and see
what a splendid medicine it is.
NO SIGHT TO TAKE MEASUREMENT
NEW YORK, Dec. 12. Justice Burr,
of the Supreme Court of Kings County,
decided yesterday that the police have
no right to take photographs and meas
urements of a man under arrest but not
convicted.
By Edwin Markham.
(Written for the Meeting of The Civic
Forum, December 11. 1007.)
In storied Venice, down whose rippling
streets
The stars go hurrying, and the white
moon beats,
Stood the great Bell Tower, fronting sea
and skies
Fronting the ages, drawing all men's
eyes;
Rooted like Teneriffe, aloft and proud,
Taunting the lightning, tearing the flying
cloud.
I
It marked the hours for Venice: all men
said
Time cannot reach to bow that lofty
head : '
Time that shall touch all else with ruin,
must
Forbear to make this shaft confess it
dust.
Yet all the while, in secret, without
sound,
The fat worms gnawed 'he timbers un
derground. The twisting worm whose epoch is an
hour,
Caverned its way into the mighty tower;
And suddenly it shook, it swayed, it
broke.
And fell in darkening thunder at one
stroke.
The strong shaft, with an angel on the
crown,
Fell ruining; a thousand years went
downl
And so I fear, my country, not the hand
That shall hurl night and whirlwind on
the land:
I fear not Titan Traitors, who shall rise
To stride like Brocken shadows on our
skies:
These we can face in open fight, with
stand With reddening rampart and the (worded
hand.
I fear the vermin that shall undermine
Senate and citadel and school and shrine:
The Worm of Greed, the fatted Worm
of Ease
And all the crawling progeny of these
The vermin that shall honeycomb the
towers
And walls of state, in unsuspecting hours.
. COFFEE
The goodness of every
thing else at breakfast de
pends on the coffee.
Your grocer returns your money if yss dost
like Schilling's Beit; we pay him.
AST WORKS STOLEN. ,'
Valuable Picture and Coins Taken From
" ' Musee de Picardie.
AMIENS, France, Dec 12. Five of the
most' valuable pictures, the works of
Fragonard, Boucher and Vanlee, have
been stolen from the Musee de Picardie,
together with a collection of coins and
art objects, valued at about $50,000. The
thieves did the work so skillfully that
the police are convinced that tbey are
members of an international gang, which
it is thought is responsible for the theft
of Vandyke's masterpiece, "The Erection
of the Cross" from the Church of Notre
Dame at Courtrai recently, and valuable
enamels from the National Museum at
Rouen.
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RACY
GRAFT- DEM
Powerful Speech by District At- J
torney Langdon.
PUBLIC PRESS IS BEST ASSET
IF. E. Getly, of Hammond, was In this
city yesterday.
In the Moral Upbuilding of Nation a
Decent Press System li Essential to
Carry Truth and Ideas from the
Sources of Supply.
N'HW YORK, Dec., 12,-Willlam 11.
Langdon, district attorney for San Fran
cisco, who with llcuey has directed prose
cution in iiuimlml torritution in that
city addressed Civic Forum last night
upon "Struggle Between Graft and Demo
cracy." He said among other things:
"No moral issue can be supported by
leaders alone. No cause can be trusted
to just the talented lew. Great principles
must 1 independent of the coming and
the going of particular men. They must
become part and parcel of the mass, of
the race, of the nation. Let the strong
and derated of earth go about their
ohivalrie business of public service. Tlicy
will make their own supporting public
opinion as they go along, however they
are misunderstood at llrst by common
men. The majority of men are honest,
and they will respond to every uplift in
the long run.
The need is that the men who reform
shall so conduct themselves at to be all
that their cause is. The over-worsbipof th
bauble of personal reputation, the con
stant presence, of overweening egotism,
the personal prosecution of men in the
impersonal prosecution of offenders, the
lack of conservatism in tearing down the
reputations of the once great, the main
tenance of more secrecy in the public
business than is required for efficiency
all these tend to alienate, as they rightly
should, the public opinion upon which any
great work must rest. The general char
acter of a movement is us well revealed
by Its small acts as the general character
of an Individual. It can create public
confidence or it can wreck it.
"The public press, next to the actual
conduct of the proecutio:i itself. Is the
best asset in the establishment of a sup
porting psblic opinion. Against the penny-liner
in the weekly pres, and the
petty correspondents of the outside
press, too-frequently purchased outright
by the grafters, the daily press of San
Francisco, giving information te the peo
ple twice a day, supported the graft
prosecution loyally, and made it ponsibls
for the people and the leaders to work
together. In the moral upbuilding of a
nation a decent press system is an es
sential in carrying truth and ideas from
the sources of supply to the remotest
centers of distribution, ns is a system of
railroads in the industrial development
of a country .
"But there is another need. Willing
leaders and faithful public are funda
mental, but the government work of to
day also requires expert service. No one
man elected to public office can lie expert
enough these days to meet every task
which comes within his domain. Partic
ularly true is this at a time of crisis.
The work of the modern public officer i
mainly executive. He should know his
dirty, know how to get it done, and then
see that it gets done. The notion that
a man has betrayed his office Into private
hande because he has dared to seek and
accept expert seiviee other than those
normally at his command, is a false
notion, which must be banished if demo
crapy is to be efficient
"In the city of San Francisco we were
confronted with some of the worst crim
inal conditions of the century. Behind
those conditions were the shrewdest
minds of the business world, the most
unscrupulous manipulators in the field
of politics and limitless wealth, which
purchased the best legal talent of the
nation, and a horde of private detectives
and professional jury fixers. They went
about the city spreading fale reports
and innuendo, prejudicing the minds of
men. They refused to vote expense funds,
and cut down the salary appropriations
of the District Attorney's office. They
shadowed the movements of each member
of the prosecution's staff. They stalked
into the courts of justice with their re
tinues of legal talent, and used every
technicality to defy the law. They tried
the prosecution, the judges, the juries,
every one in fact but the criminal of the
case in question. They tried to fix the
juries. They poured moneys Into the
political campaign to defeat officers who
were trying to enforce the law,
"But we were not faced down. We had
stood up in the popular assemblies and
pledged ourselves solemnly to the law J
And we were resolved to stand by our
Holiday Greetings
The happy CHRISTMAS time is fast approaching and I take
great pleasure in Inviting you to inspect my new and wsll teleoted
line of Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, Jews lry, Solid Sliver and plated
ware, Out Glass, Umbrsllu, and Gold and Sliver novelties. I have
the largest and finest stock this year to aaleot from that I nave
ever shown In Astoria. TRICKS art RIGHT) QUALITY UNSUR
PAFSED. Come tarly and make your solutions. 1 will lay them
way until you want them,
J;H. SEYMOUR
The Store of Qunlty,
466 Commercial St., Astoria, Ore.
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THE TRENTON
First-Class Liquors and Cigars
60s Commercial Street
I Comer Commercial and 14th. , ASTORIA, 0SIOOI f
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That Xmas Dinner
WILL NOT BS COMPLETE WITHOUT SOMS OF OUR SELECT TABU
WINES A PARTIAL LIST TO CHOOSE FROM.
SWEJU WINES Sparkling Sec Dry Fragrant, sffer-
Old Port-Tawny, rich, light and veeceiit
color. BED WINES
Old Sherry Pale, clean, nutty.
Angelica Soft, agreeable, fulL
Muscatel Very fruity, aweet
WHITE WINES
Zinfandel Clean, light table win.
Burgundy Medium bodied, mellow.
Sparkling Burgundy Brilliant, pita,
ant
Riesling Medium light table wine. Crape Juice, Maraschino ohsrrica, troll
Sauterne Natural mallow, pronounced and Cognac Brandies, and 1 full
flavor. "a of Cordials.
Chateau Yqucm Full bodied Creme
0' Sauternea.
PHONE ill! PROMPT DELIVERY TT
AMERICAN IMPORTING CO.
589 Commercial Street,
'. Q. A. BOWLBT, President. rtlANK PATTON, Oaenier.
i. L PETERSON, Vice -President J. W. GARNER, Aaetut Ceahlet.
Astoria Savings Bank
Capitol raid in II00J00 earpia and Ondlvldsd rroflts VttfiCO
Transacts a Otosral Banking floalnsss. Interest raid on Tims btposlla
FOUR PER CENT FEB ANNUM
Eleventh and Dnane streets. ASTORIA, OREGON.
First National Bank of Astoria, Ore
ESTABLISHED
Capital $100,000
Sherman Transier Co.
HENRY 8dB MAN, Manager
Hacks, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred Trucks
Wagons Pianos Moved. Boxed and Shipped.
433Conunrclal Street
and FmkiH
Kali Pkewe tsi
JOHN FOX. Pre. F. I BISHOP, Bee. ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK, Treee.
- - ?"! NELSON TROYER, Vioe-Prea. anil Bupt '
ASTORIA IRON WORKS
DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
OF THE LATEST DaTROVKB , ;. .
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Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers
COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED,
Carretpondence Solid te. FeOt of Fourth. Street. 1
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