THE MORNING ASTOItlAN. ASTORIA OREGON.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3l loot.
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WEATHER.
Western Oregon Partly cloudy
,wiUi probable occasional light
rain along coast and in Northern
portion.
. OUR THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR.
. Entering its thirty-fifth year of exist
ance, the Morning Astoran believes it
may justly claim a strength and influ
ence, as a communal factor, at least
thirty-five times greater than when 'it
sought out the field and started to work
for it It has never deviated a hair
from the title it assumed. It has al
ways been a faithful Astorian; and to
be that, consecutively and honestly, for
thirty-five years, lends warranty to the
claim of this paper, that it is first and
chief in its line and propaganda.
It has seen its vicissitudes and weath
ered many a storm and has energed, al
ways, renewed, and ready, for its one,
original task of boosting this city and
county to the forefront of considera
tion and success. It has always been
kindly and fairly treated, at home and
broad, and what of enemies it has
made it freely forgives and invites into
the "wide circle of its well-known friends.
None need remain beyond the pale of
the entire good-will of the Horning
Astorian.
For the year 1908 this paper has
made no formal resolutions nor laid out
any definite plans of operation, save an
unerring adherence to the pobcy of all
policies, the good of Astoria and Oat
op. With this for a predicate, we in
tend to pursue what lines shall com
mend themselves as next and nearest to
that fundamental idea. We expect to
differ, contend and fight before the year
has rounded out its history, but we shall
do so honestly, cleanly, and openly j
and what time is not expended in this
line will be devoted to making more
friends and cinching the cordial rela
tions we already enjoy. We want more
friends, patrons and readers, and are
not averse to honest critics; we want
business and are quite willing to share,
with any sort of competing field.
We want to see the commercial record
of Astoria extraordinarily outclassed
in 1908, and will do all that we can to
use it to the biggest possible estimate;
and to this end we will work hard with
all the friends of Astoria, night and day,
along such lines as shall prove best and
wisest. i
To our long list of subscribers, adver
tisers, readers and friends (including
those critics), we send the heartiest of
good wishes for a year of abundance far
beyond all previous realization, and the
earnest assurance that we may be de
pended on to do our share in the plant
ing and reaping of the commercial
harvest.
Scandinavian -American
Savings Bantt
300-508 Commercial St.
Organised under the State Laws.
LOCAL CAPITAL
COURTEOUS TREATMENT
EXPERIENCED MANAGEMENT
CONSERVATIVE METHODS
the larger equipment of the best har
bors here, with all the agencies that
contribute to assured safety, such as
navy-yards, arsenals, drydocks, ordnance
parks, machinery plants, depots, and
storehouses; and this, without over
looking Astoria. 1
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AN ARMY OF "TEDDYS."
There is a veritable army of baby
Americans bearing the name of "Theo
dore Roosevelt" this, that, or the other;
thousands on thousands of them, and
it constitutes one of the most distinct
compliments ever paid any man, that
the desire to perpetuate his name and
give distinctive appellation to the new
generation, should be so popularly mani
fest. If any noticeable ratio of the young
sters so named shall attain to anything
approaching the dignity of character
their names signify, it will be a pro
nounced advantage to all concerned, and
if but one of them shall but match the
man whose name he bears, the country
will be blessed by his citizenship and
service. The prototype has set a pace
not readily followed, yet possible of
emulation; it will always be a splendid
standard and should inspire the best
and hardest ejort toward achievement
SUCCESSOR
Roosevelt Eliminated Who
Next President
is
DEPENDSONLOGICOFPURPOSE'
SIGNIFICANT WAR ORDER.
The summoning of the adjutant
generals of the three Pacific Coast
states to Washington for conference
with the President and the officials of
the War Department, with a view of
merging and employing the National
Guard of Oregon, Washington, and Cali
fornia with the ordnance arm of the
regular service, is significant, not so
much of anticipated war, as of the wis
dom of the administration in putting
the state militia upon an infinitely bet
ter' footing of utility, adapting it to a
wider range of operations and increas
ing its efficacy along lines to which it
is, as yet, unfamiliar, but wholly amen
able under proper overtures.
We are glad to see this interest in
the defenses of the great stretch of
Pacific Coast. It means that the coun
try has awakened to a correct, if some
what late, estimate of the necessity of
hntter protection out here. And it were
well if this interest shll be extended to
INITIAL BUSINESS.
Next Monday will open the Initial
business week for the city and county
and during that period much will be
done by way of forecasting the year
for Astoria and Clatsop. The council
and courts will take up the year's work
and formulate the best plans possible
for both districts; and it is a safe pre
sumption that what is done officially
will be for the material interest of all.
It may be well to remind all in charge
of the public finances, that in the light
of the immediate past and its panicky
conditions and effects, that no more be
attempted by way of public improve
ment than is absolutely essential anl
that broadcast expense be curbed to the
point of requisites generally. We do
not know that anything else is antici
pated; but we venture the suggestion
because we know the doctrine is popu
lar just now; and the general spirit of
things is an excellent medium to use
at junctures that justify it.
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GOTHAM CELEBRATES.
New Yorkers Spend Millions and a
Half for Pleasure.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Men who are
fond of figure aay that New York's
New Year celebration cost $1,750,000.
It is estimated that 100,000 people took
supper at one hundred hotels and resta
urants. At one restaurant that night
receipt weifc over! $20,000. At tNis
restaurant 2000 quarts of champagne
were drunk. It is estimated that the
diners around town made away with
42,000 quarts of champagne and 66,000
quarts of claret, not to mention the bar
rels of other drinkables consumed.
Souvenir hunters were out in force and
every hotel and restaurant lost great
quantities of glass and silverware, the
guests carrying away everything from
small coffee spoons to silver wine cool
ers.
Morning Astorian, 60 cents per month
Read the Morning Astorian.
COFFEE
is perishable, it ought to
be kept in tight packages,
not exposed to air.
Your grocer returns yonr money if TO doi'l
like Sckillinsr'n Best; we pay him
Protection of the People Against Unre
strained Aggrandizement and Regula
tion of Corporate Activity in the Pub
lie Interest Must be His Work.
Who is the logical successor of Presi
dent Rooeveltt With the President
himself eliminated, this question is
everywhere asked. Is he Secretary
Taft, as is often said! Is he Vice-President
Fairbanks? Is he Governor
Hughes f Is he Senator Knox J 1
The logic of the succession depends on
the logic of purpose. What is the object
to be subserved in the choice of the next
President? If President Roosevelt were
not ruled out by the third term principle
and if he were to be re-elected, wh.it
would he be re-elected for? Manifestly
to carry on the great regenerative work
which he has inaugurated and to con
tinue the spicial policies with wkich he
is pre-eminently identified. That is the
supreme thought in the public mind.
What are the distinctive Roosevelt
policies? Yvliat is the work of the Presi
dent that sove,all else has given him
his WN) the popular support and that
the country desires to see steadily and
reasonably pursued? Plainly it is the
protection of the people against the un
restrained aggrandizement and uncheck
ed abiis of corporations and the regu
lation of corporate activity in the public
interest. Plainly it is the work which
has pointed to the prosecution of inju
rious trusts and unlawful combinations,
and which has brought the railroad rate
legislation.
The President is laureled 'with other
trophies, but it is as the Hewiles who
has grappled with the trust hydra and
with the railroad discriminations that
he has gained his great place in th
popular heart. It is this work which 1
to be upheld; it is this high purpose
which in its essential spirit and rational
action is to be preserved; it is the
reform policies wisely directed whic'fl
are to be the transcendent issue of the
coming President contest; and) it' is
the statesman who next to the President
Is more directly, sympathetically and re
sponsibly associated with them than any
other man or than all other men who
Is the logical successor.
Secretary Taift is just arriving from a
tour around the world, loaded with great
and 'deserved honors. He is an able.
versatile and brilliant administrator. H
would make a worthy President, and if
he was nominated he would command
cordial support. He has been peculiarly
identified with the President, in somi
things. He has been thy Presidents
alter ego in the Philippines, in Cuba
and on the Panama. Canal. If the
"Roosevelt policies" which are the pre
eminent issue, were the Philippine, the
Cuban or the Panama policies Secretarv
Taft would be the logical successor. But
ft happens that the real Roosevelt
policies" did not come within the cop!
of his Department, and though doubt
less in Ml accord, he had no more to do
with them than a hundred other men.
Not even Secretary Rott ifacile prin
who would make a Teally great Presi
dent whose breadth and insight and
eeps among all Administration leaders,
constructive genius art of the Hamll.
Ionian order not even Secretary Root is
specially identified with the distinctive
'Roosevelt policl," mid. if they are to
be the tout, not even he would be the
logical successor. The one man who be
yond all other so far beyond as to be
Vllpe Jirst and the rct nowhere"
Is associated with the origin, evolution
execution and success of the "Roosevelt
policies is Philander Chase Knox of
Pennsylvania,
Wo do not say this Inconsiderately,
The iveord proves 1 it. Nothing can
derogate from the greatness of Prl
dent Roosevelt's service In this direction.
The time had come when In the Interest
of general business morality, In defense
of the equal rights of shippers, produc
ers and consumer!, in protection of the
people against corporate power, it ws
necessary to call a halt upon evils which
going on unchecked would have pro.
duced social revolutions. To grapple
with ihr-e evils needed the moral en
ergy and the aggressive forci of
Roosvelt. He made himself the Incar
nation of the national conscience. This
ii his incomparable distinction, and no
criticUms, not even any faults, ran ob
scure It. But President Roosevelt, with
all his courage and all his determination.
could not have accomplished what he
did without the legal acumen and thj
masterful generalship of a Knox. In '
his very able Attorney General the '
President found a sincere sympathiser'
and a legal pioneer of remarkable grasp, i
penetration an1 skill.
Mr, Knox became at once the expo
nent and -executive of the President's
policies. Where all others stood mysti
fied and uncertain at the complexities
and doubts of untried, unconslrued and
supposedly inadequate law, he struck
out new paths of Interpretation and
triumphantly carried before the Su
preme Court a new and enlarjred chart
of governmental powers. HI great
speech at rittsburg in 1M2 was the first
beacon which threw Its Illuminating
rays along the new course. Confident of
the principles thtroin first clearly de
fined he entered on the battle ifor na
tional control nnd regulation of cor
porations engaged in interstate com
merce, and his judgment was speedily
vindicated by notable victories which
changed the whole face of the situation
in the relation of the government to the
great agencies of trade.
Within a few monthi four Importan.
lines of attack had been successfully
opened agint combinations in re
straint of trade the injunctions on rail
roads against rebates; the overthrow of
railroad traffic pooling In the cotton
cases; the indictment and defeat of tho
beef trust; and the dissolution of the
Northern Securities merger for the
combination of parallel and competing
lines. These triumphs established th
reputation of At'omey General Knox as
the most consummate master of the
whole subject of the powers of tho gov-J
ernment under the interstate commerce;
claue and of the most effective method
of their application. So high became
the estimate of his authority that the 1 i
Judiciary Committees of the Senate and
House under the leadership of Senator
Hour and Mr. Uttlejfield fiemsclvee
legislators of great experience fnd abil
ityasked him to point the way to the
new legislation required. And his an
swer wa accepted and became the basil
of what is known as. the Elkins law
against rebates
Nor was this all. Mr. Knox was a
pioneer on railroad rate legislation. In
1!K)5 he had left the office of Attorney
General nnd 'become Senator from
Pennsylvania. As such he stood forth
as the first and .foremost champion of
the President's policy of railroad rat?
regulation. In his speech at Pittsburg
in November, W05, before Congress
met, he gave a clear elucidation of the
principles on which legislation should
be based and said: "I am sincerely con
vinced that the time has come when
Congress must, In justice to the publls
exercise more fully its power in respect
to railroad rates and regulation,"
This was the first distinct pronounce
ment from any public man which de
fined and clarified the essential features
of the problem, and Senator Dolllver
of Iowa who was active in pushing the
rate bill said: '"In drafting this bill
the framers of it were guided very
largely by the speech delivered at Pitts
burg by the Honorable Senator from
Pennsylvania (Mr. Knox), a spe.'eh
which reads almost like a judgment
from the Supreme Bench." The whole
record of Mr. Knox on these vital ques
tions stands unique and nlono. Secre
tary Root in his menorable speech as
President of the Chicago Convention in
1004 paid tribute to it and President
Roosevelt himself recognized in remark
able terms the great work of his
coadjutor when he said at Harnisbnrg,
October 4, 1900:
"During the last few years the Nation
al Government has taken very long
strides in the direction of exercising and
securing this adequate controljover the
great corporations, and it Was Under
The Leadership of one of the most hon-
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Our entire stock consisting of Diamonds. Jewelry, Watches, Silver,
ware, Clocks, Cutlery, Musical Goods, Guns, Pistols and Suit Caie. must
lit sold within the next 30 days below antunl cost.
We have bargains too numerous to mention.
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$10.00 solid leather Suit Cse. Sate price $4 25
All musical eases at, each . ... , , QQg
$12.00 Columbia Guitars. Sale price . . $575
Fine toned Mandolins, Sale price... , $250
Stradlvailus model violin, perfect tone. Bale price $( 50
18 site Elgin A Waltham Witches In dust and water proof
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$15.00 Honor double reed, 0 bxu Acoordian, Sale price $8.75-
iligh Power Field Glases. Sale price 5..... $300
Dollar Clocks end Watches. Sale price ggg
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