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THE MORNING ASTOWAN, ASTORIA, OREGON,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY i, 190!.
THE
MORNING ASTORIAN
Established 1873.
PiiblUW DaJlj Expt Monday bj
IEE J. S. DELLINGEH COMPAHY.
SUBSCRIPTION SATES.
By wmO, pr jx......
By etnfer, per monuu.
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WEEKLY ASTOSIAS.
Fy mafl, per yewr, In aivaao..--
tnterwl M iecon-las '
n 190. at the poslofliw Aftar a. ore-
th. of Contra ol Alrob ,
WOrdsfS tor Dm drUwni ol TBI Bowl
ixsTiToiuiH to elthw rwMeo.t or ptacj of
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Unry should b tmn.3itelr rejit4to th
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OAekl mow of CkuoT Oouaty at
th. (Sty of Astoria.
Scandinavian -American
Savings BanK
500-508 Commercial St.
Organiied under the State Laws.
.WEATHER.
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: Western Oregon Partly cloudy
with probable occasional light
rain along coast and in Northern
portion.
Western Washington Partly
cloudy with possibly occasional
4 light rain.
ASTORIA'S NEW YEAR.
LOCAL CAPITAL
COURTEOUS TREATMENT
EXPERIENCED MANAGEMENT
CONSERVATIVE METHODS
IN THE PORTLAND "POND."
Along with every loyal Astorian and
Clatsopian, we are hoping that 1908 is
to prove the greatest of all our century
of existence. But we want to say right
here, in the very dawn of the day that
Wl1 fho nossible UD-Hft. that the
year 1908 will be just what the citizens j
of this city and county make of it, and
no more.
We believe in no dream-stuff and
deprecate all attempts to work spells;
concrete results are not coined from "ho1
air" nor from filmy. webs of gossamer
promise; the sooner this people get
down to bedrock conviction that they j
themselves have got to move for their
own salvation, the better and quicker
and mor positive those results will be.
And what is more to the point, As
toria has got to go into the market of
the world and bid for business. Among
the businesses she is best adapted for
is that of shipping. She has simply no
road open just now but the commercial
line, and she must put on a ship or biro,
and make a beginning; and those ves
sels must have the last limit of local
good-will and patronage to the utter
exclusion of everything in competition
with them. It is going to take money
and business sense and close application,
all of which ia here in abundance, if it
will but loosen up and apply itself to
the point of ownership and real direc
tion. What is done must be done by
Astoria, fop Astoria, and in Astoria.
One small steamer in ocastwise trade
between this port and San Diego, touch
ing at Port Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Eureka, Coos and Tillamook Bays; and J
another, running northward to Juneau1
with intermediate calls, would, in a 1
couple of years' time, resolve themselves
into a fleet that would be a credit and
a certain advantage. But they must be
long here, aud take their orders here;
load and discharge here, and be regis
tered out of this port. Trans-shipment,
hence, can be easily arranged with the
railway out of here, and by the aame
agency, from the interior markets to
the docks of this port,
Of course, it cannot be done, if we
are quite unified in such a negative; and
it will never be done, nor even attempt
ed, so long as we sit still and wait for
someone else to saunter in here and dic
tate impossible terms, hedged in with
hypothetical assurances. There is no
chance of our gaining a thing that we do
not go after; and the doing of it, by
ourselves, for ourselves, will make it
ours; a status at once prolific of en
couragement and all the energizing in
fluences of ownership and control. This
city has built a fine railway. Sli can
float a steamer line just aa well, reserv
ing the cardinal element of entire pos
session and direction to herself, Instead
of "passing it up" to the outsider.
We should like 'to see the attempt
made, at any rate! "Let the dead past
bury its dead." and remember we have
a brand new record to make for 1908!
, Another steamer out in two and a fine
ship more or less Injured by the collis
ion, through the vain attempt of the
former to navigate- safely the meagre
limits of Portland' pond like "harbor.1
There are at least 30 ships docked aud
anchored there now, and the congestion
reacts on the current of the Willamette
until It Is almost inmallo fop the local
steamers; hence, such tunv a this or
the loss of the Annie dimming. Of
com, the "harbor" is, at best, but the
wider reaches of an inland river p
preaching Its mouth, fairly dredged to
barely adequate depths, and does decent
servloc so lot as too ninny vessels are
not towed la there at any one time. If
the commerce of Portland grows to any
thing more than Its present abnormal
sco(c, we cannot we, for the life of us,
where she is going to dispose of the out
tide fleet, unless her home boats tie up
and cease moving about the long, nar
,' row, pond like estuary, ! ,
We would be glad to relieve the pro
, sure now, or at any time in the future,
j WW have world's of room down here, and
i Portland could easily ship her cargo-
stuff down the river by rail, steamer or
barges, and thus avoid the continuous
line of accidents occurring by reason of
her lack of room. For a small fleet she
Is adequately prepared, and usually dis
poses of It very successfully, but she 1
certainly not in shape to take car of
more than two score ship of any size;
while we can handle an even thousand
without congestion, save for dockttge,
and that of course, would come In time,
if Portland took the notion to use this
port, whit h', by the way, belong to her
quite as much as to any place In the
State, and even more so, since she J the
commanding commercial center for the
basin of the Columbia.
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ENTITLED TO NONE OF IT.
One of th absurdest things iu the cur
rent record of the day, was the refusal
of the Pennsylvania clergyman to accept
five twenty-dollar gold pieces, tendered
him along with liO more in other
phases of currency, on the ground that
the new coins did not bear the custom
ary inscription "In God W Trust," a
type of expression he has been taught
to reverence by his mother in his boy
hood days, etc., etc.
If this man was a poor man, a, un
happily, most country clergymen are
(and fc!20 purses are not often tendered
to rich preachers), he was a llrslelasa
chump for deellulng coin of the "realm"
when he, and hi family nun thin he,
needed every dollar of the gwrmi gift.
If h was well-to-do, then his declination
was no 1 asultilne, sine It wis, not
only extremely bad manners, and a. lap
In th face to hi donors, but a raw.
And groundless, discrimination against
th money of the land; done wholly for
effect, a cheap and chlMUh bid for no
toriety, lie Is the laughing stock of
the country mid mill not hear the last
of It until It has palled upon the Inven
tive humor of the American pnragtapher.
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VINDICATES HIS HONOR. '
It strikes us that William M. l.uild.
of Portland, ha done a very honorable
thing In assuming the liulebtetlne of
th Title, Trust H Cuaraiitee Cumpuiiy
to Its depositor. That hi name, a a
one time olllovr of th defunct Institu
tion, diould have 1ml many a man and
woman to trust their savings with Its
hank, goe without saying) and that
that name should have been retained on
the stationery of the house after he had
severed all connection with It, and still
indirectly lured the rontldvnce of many
people, I quit a palpable a th dis
honest subterfuge involved In It, and
employed by the religion humbug that
guided it erstwhile dcstlnle.
(Mr. Ladd' assumption of this phase
of the big Indebtedness, on this particu
lar score, counts very strongly for hi
sense of moral obligation and docs him
distiiii-t credit In these time of "plpng"
elusiveues and general repudiation of
far honcster debts than this. We con-
(rratulat the Portland community on
the possession of a man with inch pro
i.ounced idea of personal honor and the
higher quality than put them Into prac
tical expression.
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Domt Tike the Risk.
When you have a bad cough or cold
do not l-t it drag along until it becomes
chronic bronchitis or develops into, an
attack of pneumonia, but give H the
attention it deserves and get rid of It,
Take Chamberlain's Cough ltemcdy and
ymi are sure of prompt relief. From a
small beginning the sale and use of this
preparation has extruded to all parts of
the Called Mate and to many foreign
countries. It many remarkable cure
of coughs and cold have won for It this
wide reputation and extensive uset Sold
by Frank Hart ami leading druggist.
11UIT
man Chart
last tilgl
WOOD PULP TARIFF, H
'LAND, Me.. Dee. 31.-Wres,.l
K, J.ltlWMd In . snse.lf
it on "Forest and tho tariff dJ
wood, pulp," took Issue with Prldtrsv '
Roosevelt ou the president' effort
reduce the tariff ou wood pulp, clalmlir
that inch action would tend to lnoreaS
rather than diminish the tlralu 011 Ameri
can forest. Itu nrutied (lint the Canal
Ian 1 tiovwimeiit would uiwly Impoit
an export duty aa agitation to that nJI
already Imd been started. The American
mamifii.tiircr of paper, he deolaid-
would theq be forced to eek their pulp
wholly in American forests on a.wntfl
"i mo mgiier pric me Canadian pnxinot
would command. Regarding the pc
tectlve tariff ia general. Ciiirreman
LlttlefU-ld said p,rt i (
"rher will Ink a general revision of tl
tariff lit the war future, but Ui.ro wife
I nor is there any nclty of a ml
slim f ny particular schedule at Hi
time. 1 hat ai. of the country In wlilck
you and 1 now exarcis a dti-rmlui'ii
iiuim-iice 111 um revision, The augjeats
ion which will come from the oommit'i-t
of way and menus will be submitted to
a caucus of the Id-publlcan member ((
the House and Senate. In that oueu
those state west of Pennsylvania will
hav a majority of 00 over those tat
east of Pennsylvania. When you reallm
what that majority of 90 mean yoi
will realise that Lhera noviir will z
other tariff schedule that will treat th
Industries of New Kngland with th
consideration thai they now enjoy,
PILES CURED IN TO 14 DAYS.
PAZO.OINTMENT Is inarauUed to curr
any cast of Itching, Wind, Hireling orl
rrolruding Pile in 0 to 14 day or
money refunded. 60c.
JUST RECEIVED
a fresh shipment of
Lowncy's Candies
Pound Boxes 50c'
and up.
Boxes 15c to,'$2.50
Tags Parlors
41 Commercial iC
jEvery thing
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Thursday Morning Every Department in Our Entire Stock
Reduced a Sensaticmal Ja
article in this store at 25 to 50 per cent, less than regular value. Your unrestricted
choice from the cleanest and best selected stock of its size td be fblihd anywhere.
The shrewd buyers have been eagarly awaiting this annual event and recognize at a glance the superi
ority of our assortment and standard qualities in every department. Whatever your needs may be they
nnn hfi purchased here at the very lowest price that will be quoted anywhere. We have nlanned for thfi
greatest selling ; event this store has ever attempted. Arrange to be here early on the mornin'of
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d Supply. Yor Wonts for MottiHs to Come;- , .. Mall Orders Filled Same Day as Received
Dress Goods, Trimmings.
Silks, Linings,'
Muslin Underwear,
V Laces, Embroideries,
Knit Goods, Notions,
Table Linens,
Napkins, Towels; ; , ;
Bed Spreads,' .,' , .
Caipet Wraps,
Hosiery, Knit Underwear,
Muslin, Sheets, !
Pillow, Cases, .
Outing Flannel,
Flannelettes,
Women's Coats,
; Woman's Suits,
Misses' Coats,
Women's Furs, "
Lace Curtains,
Comforters, Pillows, .
Women's Waists, '
Silk anc Sateen Petticoats,
Heatherloom Petticoats,
Neckwear, Corsets. 1
iTI. ",t ,, (h.'ftfi'JO'
Ribbons, Gloves, Umbrellas'"!
Children's Bear Skin Coats,: . I !j
bilk Raincoats,' (' !
Walking Skirts, ' '
Lhijidren's White 'Dresses.-
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