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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1908)
THE MORNING ASTOIU AN. ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 150 J THE MORNING ASTORIAN Eatable il7 Published TxSij Except Monday 7 IES J. S. DELU5GEB COMPAHY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. WXSXXY ASTWOA1. By mrnfl, per J, to draw..'1- iwMtnffla At Aston, vn IS!S -. w AMrmm at Tl If OB to r or pta. ,o,oJpubUca. r TIUEPHOHK HAM . Oflfctal pr of Citep Oouaty nd tfe city 01 Ajtora. SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK HAS MONEY TO LOAN ON GOOD SECURITY WEATHER. Western Oregon and Wash ingtonRain and warmer. Eastern Oregon and Wash ington, Idaho Rain or snow. PEOPLE AND PRESIDENT. Never in all the years of our na tional life have we needed the cham pionship of a man like Roosevelt as we need it today. Great, progressive, assured as we are, as a nation, we were never so nearly undone in an ethical and moral sense as we are at this moment Every element of our political and commer cial organism is foully tinctured by the reckless and callous indifference that makes light of the truer stand ards npon which our government and popular career were founded. The law of the land itself has been perverted to the vicious and insane lust for money, place and power. Individual right, personal freedom, the doctrine of independence, and the specific amenities to which "the man," as an accountable factor in this Republic, " has subscribed since the first hour it was ordained, are sinking below the range of use, and are belittled on all sides. We need a Roosevelt for his strength, his courage, his example and for the saving grace of his pres ence; for his bold utterances in favor of those discredited standards and against the men and measures that are forcina them down and out It matters not that his name is Roose velt We have too few like him, and periliously too many without his dignity, poise and character. He is Anathema with the enemies that dwell in our midst, because he has un earthed and exposed their rankling and ruinous methods and has de manded a new and cleaner deal for the whole people. We are no hero-worshipper. But his heroic honesty calls for acclaim and is getting it through the length and breadth of the land, thank God! It is a sign that the people are not absolutely ridden under by the preda tory and unprincipled hosts that have set themselves up "in the places of the mighty" by the sheer, though transitory, force of inflated forunes. wrought by stupendous and delib erate theft The greatness of the man is magni fied by the vice of the hour; and the weaknesses that are developing, un der the duress of the national menace of graft and chicane, may be quali fied, re-inforced and made good through the revivifying influences he has set afoot in the country for de cency, honesty and the simpler pro grams of honor as applied to our political and commercial creeds. Never has our paucity of statesmen, and statesmanship, been so glaring as at this hour and, that this man comes nearest filling the call in this behalf, is an exception that should make us utterly ashamed while it leaves him unique and imposing, in the righteous and distinctive worth of a very rare position, - 6 ' "BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT!" , Imperative as is' the necessity for the Port of Astoria as a legal and actual essence of local government here, we would rather see the matter go over to the December elections, rather than rush it through for June and find it incomplete or defective after attaining to it Davy Crockett's old and homely saying "be sure you're riffht. then eo ahead" is peculiarly ap plicable in this cause and we hope the committee will' see it vermea oetore the question is submitted popularly. And while we are about it, i may not be amiss to say that the "laborer is worthy of his hire"; and that we should not expect too much from the business and professional men engag ed in this important work, without making provision to compensate them rationally for the time and labor they are devoting to the public in terests in this case. It is one thing to enlist a man's interest in some tentative or dubious program ot development where there is no spe cific expenditure of time, money and brains; but where the trained re sources of an individual are employ ed directly and strenuously, for the actual good of the community, com pensation, rational, yet ample, is in order. And in the "case at bar" it were well not to forget this. o A PAGAN POLICY. Report that nine acres planted in citron yielded $16,000 profit in n year may cause a run on the fruit beside which the ginseng crae would be small. o If New York abounded in authors, as Indiana docs, it would not require many days for the appearance of a sprightly romance concerning "The Rclucance of Gov. Hughes.' Last night at 12 o'clock, the Chinese New Year celebration ended in a tremendous blast of crackers and bombs, and this morning the Celes tials take up the new duties and en gagements of the year, much as the white world dispenses with its great holiday; but with this difference. The one essential attribute of their an niversary is that every Chinaman shall have paid his last cent of indeb tedness by the end of the four-day feast, or so definitely and securely arranged for its payment as to make the debt less a debt and more a pend ing negotiation. This is their relig ion and from it the white man may take a lesson that will serve him well for all time to come. If instead of a working principle of thrusting debt upon a man and bind' ing him heart and soul, for years, to the "chariot wheels" of the credit system, that system were so modified that he should be compelled to can eel his obligations once each year, it ould soon set up a radically dif ferent state of affairs and preclude an infinitude of recklessness all over the land; it would instill ideas of economy that are never entertained in this era of extravagance wrought by far too liberal credit on every hand, and make for a solidity of indi vidual standing never dreamed of in America, that is,' not within the memory of the present day man. It ought to be tried, just to prove its rare efficacy. o Oklahoma's blind senator saw as much of the ways of Wall Street as any western lamb with two good eyes could see. o Who wrote the "Heir to the Hoorahr asked one. "Don't even know who wrote the words," answer ed the other. Russia talks of a ship canal seventy-five miles long to connect the Black and the Baltic seas, at an esti mated cost of $225,000,000. Thl European idea of waterways is that they are worth any expenditure with in the bounds of reason. South America has 1,000,000 more habitable square miles than North America possesses. The prospect that the Southern Continent will catch up is small, but its resources give it a fine chance to be a good second. WHY PEOPLE WANT TAFT. The people want William Howard Taft for President because he is an American through and through. The people want Taft because, when he is called upon to face a pub lic question or a public duty, he doe not ask, "Will it pay me politically to do this or not to do thai?" but, on the contrary, hih guiding thought i "What shall I do with this question, or this duty, in the best intercut of my country?"' Finding for himself the answer to that self-sacrificing, patri otic question, he acts accordingly. The people want Taft because he has successfully performed every pub lic duty which has been intrusted to hi charge, since- that day in January, 1881, when he received his first public appointment, as assistant prosecuting attorney for Cincinnati, O. The people want Taft because of his successful organisation of the Philippine Civil Commission; his ad ministration ot the MwiHi aim m adoption thereto of American forms of government; his missions in those islands to various divisions of natives and their pacification; his vigorous upholding of the flag and the submis sion thereto of the insurrectionists; his support of American education for the people of nil ranks, classes, con ditions and creeds; his fearless advoc acy then and since and now of the rights of the Fillipino to equal treat ment under our law. The people want Taft because they realize that the slices of his mission to the Vatican regarding our purchase of the friars' land in the I'hilipines, is all th evidence required to prove that he possesses diplomatic ability of the highest order tuch diplomatic ability, strengthened by experience, as will be needed by whoever shall be President of this great nation of ours, in the years of international anxiety and American responsibility which are before us. The people want Taft because when but recently, revolution threatened our great trade and investment inter ests in Cuba, he hurried down there, and by diplomacy and candor averted the catastrophe, inducing the malcon Factors of Safety The human body I wonderful machine, provided with muscular, nervous. and mental energy far In excen of normal need. In health, the organ and tistuei can do doubla their usual amount of work without itrain or friction, bscausa they have stored energy to meet the extra demand. 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The people want Taft because, though vigorously urged by President Roosevelt to accept a eat for life on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United State the most highly respected judicial body in the world he remained true to his promise to the people of the Phillipincs that he would not leave them until civil gov ernment wis firmly established. The people want Taft because when the need arose, mainly in the Interest of speedy construction of the Ameri can Panama Canal, he accepted the great office of Secretary of War, and by personal visit to Panama, by the cutting of "red tape," by care in let ting contract and buying supplies, pletion nt a considerably earlier date than appeared possible before the work came under his charge. The people want Taft because he Is a man in. every sense of the word; man whose word it hi bond; a nun who impresses hi virile manhood up on other men; a man whose work is never done while there 1 any of hit country's work to do; a man whose watchword is duty; a man whose sim ple creed i "My God, my country, my party, and my neighbor;" a man who I a true husband, a good father, and a patriotic citixen; a man who i loved by nil who know him, feared by all who oppose hi rightou act, and praised by alt who have watched and studied hi work. be MM! II Cures Coughs, Cold3, Croup, La Grippe, Asthma, Throat and Lung Troubles. Prevents Pneumonia and Consumption IK THE ORIGINAL LAXATIVE HONEY and TAR in die VEU.pW PACKAOH F. T. Laurln, Owl Drug Store. EDITORIAL SALAD A London paper praises King Ed ward VII. for his model farming at Windsor, and says he king "has done as much for cattle as Edward III. for the warhorse." A monarch who can run a farm successfully will be apt to stand well with historians. o . Mr. Beckham of Kentucky is trying to prove that a crooked state pri mary is binding on a Legislature in the choice of a senator. His failure in this job is probable, and will be instructive to other politicians who tamper with the fairness of a popular vote. Senator Baily of Texas has been made chairman of the committee to dispose of useless papers. If the sen ator is allowed to include all the docu ments and congressional manuscripts that should come under this head he will create a great sensation in Wash ington. " o ' Those suffragists' raids over in London are cerainly amusing, but they probably would seem more so to us if we didn't have our Jerome raid here at home. o ' No one, Mr. Bryan says, is in a po sition to predict what a Republican Convention will do. It is easier with Democratic conventions. 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