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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,
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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Oklahoma's blind senator saw as
much of the ways of Wall Street as
any western lamb with two good eyes
could see.
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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.
When you feel "all tuckered out," these factor! of safety ira
nearly exhausted and you need to retort to ,Hi
IBAD'SP ILLS
to renew the lupply of energy, wherever it may te called for.
Indigestion, bilious attack, constipation, lot of deep, ner
vousness, ditty tpell, are warning that the factor of isfety In
the domach, liver, bowel or brain, I low, or nearing the danger
point and need to be replenished.
. Beecham' rill increase the supply of blood, strengthen
the stomach, operate the bowel, feed the nerve cell, build
tissue, and create a reserve supply of energy, which i the only
natural and effective way to
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tent on aoih side to accept provis
ional government at American hands:
under which government the island
is peaceful and prosperous.
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.
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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.
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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. "
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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.
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No one, Mr. Bryan says, is in a po
sition to predict what a Republican
Convention will do. It is easier with
Democratic conventions. Mr. Bryan
expects to be in the lecture field, with
conventions on the side, for eight
more presidential campaigns.
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